ACTIVITY AMONG THE SPIRIT ULISTS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1368, 29 February 1884, Page 2

ACTIVITY AMONG THE SPIRIT ULISTS.

For misrepresentation about numbers and abont converts our American Spiritualists be<*t the world. Almost every man of note in Europe or America has been claimed by them. Since their miserable failure to hold the Bey. Joseph Cook, General U. S. Grant is the last man of note claimed by them. In a card in the ' New York Tribune' he brands the rumor as a most contemptible falsehood. He says that he has never attended a seance in his life, and that he regards Spiritualism as a system of jugglery and fraud. Dr Charles Slade, the famous mcd iura, who came so near deceiving the Eev. J. Cook, was completely exposed in Dpnver (Colorado), not long since, and he is now in gaol. " Dr" or " Professor" J. M. Shea, a long-haired genius, said to have just returned from a successful tour in Australia as a " spirit materialiser," has been arrested in this city, and with his assistant is held to bail. He was taking in large sums of money at exhibitions, in which he professed to materialise the spirits of the dead. Officers brought into Court his equiqment, comprising wigs, false face, laces, petticoats, flowing robes, white plumes, and a bespangled girdle, which this "White Prince, of oriental fame,". wears when he comes from the spirit world. This is the kind of stuff that en-

trapped such Americans as Judge Edmonds and Robert Dale Owen. It ! will not do to say that Spirirtualism is ; all jugglery and fraud. Credulity and partial lunacy are involved. How , priceless a boon is common sense !