THE SPIRITS IN TROUBLE.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 63, 12 January 1877, Page 2

THE SPIRITS IN TROUBLE.

' [globe.] The spirits apt ear to be taring rather a bad time of it all orer the world. Do what they may the poor tilings fail to uive satisfaction. Even the most melodious banjo-thrumming is heard with a nasty suspieiousness,; and we have re- 1 cently seen the disrespect with wh'ch messages from the other world are re* cpived when written with slate and ppn« eil. No less disngreeable is the treatment accorded at present to the unhappy spirits in tbe United States. At Rochester, the j otbe? day, they were almost as vilely used as an, Irish Nationalist would be at a Home Rule meeting. At fiSt everything went pleasantly enou«h. Daniel Webster obliged the company by reciting a spepeb about nothing in particular, which gave great satisfaction. After Daniel bad made his bow, the doors of the cabinet in which Mrs Markee, the medium, h«d previously taken her place, opened of their accord and out stalked a materialised spirit, named Lizzie. As there wa3 only a single kerosene lamp in the room, and that had been darkened, the spectators rould distinguish little more of this interesting visitor than she was in white, wore a 1 ng veil, end had neither shoes nor stocking's on her feet. Altogether, a mo^t satisfactory spirit, as tlrcgs go, and the people of Rochester ought to hrirp been content; with the np pari'ion. Unfortunately a terrible sceptic named Cruni happened to lie present, who had evidently attended for the cxpre-s |inrj-osi« of creating a disturbance. Jivnoin;» suddenly froni I»is sp»t, this pro'ane person Hutched Lizzie io h's arms and in a second there was as sweet a little row as ever chanced it a sauce. The insulted spirit wriggled «nt of he- assailants unmtip'y grasp, and fl d hack shrieking to the cabinet, Mr Markee, the husband of the medium, hit ('ruin on tha head with the leg of a chair? everyone else followed this good example by striking his neigh* hour, and t lie room took the appparanee of D >us> b?ook IJair in its prime. At last a voice was hpard coining fiom the cabinet, begging the audience to sing lest the medium should die ; and tiny sang ac c'ordingly out of respect lor Mr Markee's agonised feelings.