The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 30, 1884, Page 3

pime Table M R. R. GTox & SouruerN Beancu. patos leave Butler daily as follows = GOING NORTH. Express (daily) -- in & K.C. Express -- Freight - oes GOING Express (daily )----- Irotia K. C. Express --- fect Freight ------'---- Texas opin +-y:lo P 140 A. “O30 4. M Me FE. x. Caknes, Agent. Secret Societres MADONIL. Butler Lodge, No. 254, meets the first saturday in each Meee ere Chapter Royal Arch Masons, 76, meeis second Thursday in each | oath, ae Gouley (ommandery Knights Templar | meets the first Tuesday in each month. FE 1,0. 0. r 180 meets every Bates Lodge No. day night. . Butler Encampment No. 76 meets the | ind and ath Wednesdays in each month | Lawyers, Mon- ; $. B. LASHBROOK. THOS. 1. SMITH. ASHROOK & SMITH, Attorneys at Law Butler, Mo. Will practice in the courts of Bates and adjoining coun- ties, Collections promptly attended to and Taxes Paid tor Non-residents. Office, front room over Bates county N tional Bank. n2 tf. —— |. S. FRANCISCO. . P. FRANCISCO. RANCISCO BRC . Attorneys at Law, Butler, Mo., will practice in the courts of Bates and adjoining counties. Prompt attention given to col- jections, Office over Wright & Glorius’ hardware store 2a ARKINSON & ABERNATIHITY, At- torneys at Law, Butler, Mo. Office west side of the square HENRY, Attorney at Law, Butier, ake Mo. Will attend to cases in any | court of record in Missouri, and do gener- al collecting business. W. OAC KSON, attorney at law, will e practice in the State aad Fedral courts. Office at Southwest corner of the square in tront room of Fhompson Brick, oposite Opera House, Butler Mo. D V. BROWN, Notary Public | But- e ler Mo. Wili draw and acknowledge deeds, contracts, leases and all papers re- quiring the acknowledgment or Jurat an officer. t ot Physic | a CHRISTY, Phy anand ention given to fe Mo. Office, North M. D., Special at- Butler square front ses, side room overBernhardt’s Jewelry store i st C. BOULWARE, Physician and e Surgeon. Office north’side square, Butler, Mo. Diseasesof women | en a specialty. } eS — 1 from last week.) | How Watcn Eases are Made. | ‘initation alwa follows ‘de, and in ion is one of the be 8 of real honest merit; and thus it t the James Boss’ Gold Watch Case :tors. Buyers can always tell the. ne by the trade-mark of a crown, from h is suspended a pair of not Swern Le surenotH crownand 5S i * ues are stamped in the cap of the watch sc* Jewelers are very cautious about rsing an article unless they not only tt it is good, but that the character of ‘.¢ manufacturers is such that the qua - the goods will be kept fully up to standard. hi Pa., Feb. 13, 1883. oe James Boss’ Gold Watch’ Cases go like hot : Each one I sell sells another. ‘Don't nocd ‘astomers has had a James Bose’ Gold Watch Ca: suse for 2) years, and it is as good asever. With ths swe I donot hesitate to give ny own guarantee, cs vcial'y with the === improved cases, which ww peat . LITTLE, Jeweler. a success it an ~ ena ae condition shows th:t out-worn the movement, which is t Martin A. Howe, ‘Of Board of Directors N.J.R.R.& Trans. Co. 2 vent stamp to Keystone Watch Case Factories, Phila- :3, Pa, for handsome Illustrated Pamphlet showing how ‘nice Bom! and Keystone Watch Casce are made. (Tobe Continued.) e MeREYNOLDS. & SCHWENK Ec Boo. g& Shoe Makers: BUTLER, sO. Roots and shoes made to orger The : best ot leader used. Shop nerth side of square. agu oRIDGEFURD & HUPY. Ornamental Heuse | --AND— Sign Painters ining. Paper-Hanging, Decora ting, Sign and Buggy Work 2 SPECIALTY la eracking and popping, Falthough [ sin THE GEORGIA GIRL. Crowds Witn ssing Unaccountabie Manifestations of Her Sliraen- ious Powe. From the Atjaata Constitution Ced- name, A handsome white girl Ga., Lula Hurst by is said to possess n ot artewn, raculous powers, on of the State interested and the entire popula ha the matter that del ia all | pilgrimages s become so deeply gations from sections are An making Atlanta thither. Constitution , | correspondent has undertaken to un- ravel the mystery, and his experi- ences are detailed as tollows in a iet- | | ‘ ter to his paper: THE MYSTERY BEGINS. This is what Miss Lula toid about the begining of the mystery: me “One mght about two months ago | 1 was sleeping with my mother in my | We retired about 9 o'clock, amd were just getting off to | sleep when suddenly the bed set the like which I heard The cracking was in all parts ot the | My mother scold- room. had up of | before. had never bed—all over it. ed me tor making a noise, but I was it. | The noise. however, ceased, and we went to sleep.”’ “When was the innocent. 1 knew nothing of next’ manifesta- tion? “The next night I was sleeping in the same bed with my cousin, Miss Wimberly, when the same noises \ were repeated with even greater torce. My cousin called my mother into the 100m and we took the bed- | clothes and bedding off the bed. We | examined them carefully and tound | nothing the matter as far as we could | see although we noticed that the | pieces that [took oft continued to! erack as Twas handling them. My mother seid the noises were caused | by electricity, but 1. ot course. knew nothing of that. Immediately my father and the family all decided that sone odd powers were at work in! me. Mother said: ‘Lula, put your hands on this chair.’ Ldid so and | the chair began to move around. It amused the little children and T kept jitup for half an our. My father thought it was a ioke we were play- ine on him, and took hold of the chair, but he couid not hold it down, : oly had the weight of mv fingers on father then began to experiment and soon de- cided that there was no Jimit to it, as five men could not hold a chair upon which Is Iv laid my bands. Fin- ally the force became so great that my fether told my mother never to | let me experiment wi he w: yot liable to there, as the fur re was move around at such a rate as to do possibly great damage.” DEVELOPING THE MYSTERY. The tollowing story is told by the ; family and Mr. Hurst, and 1s vouch- ed tor by people who are ready to | affidavits make the most iron bound to its tuth: Miss Lula found that placing her hand on the foot of by simply the room. with bed it would roll around § the One night she was sleeping Miss Wimberl when the bed b ss Wimber- an this Command ‘Lula, vou make anywhere you want to. it to pop at the headboard,”” The command was given, and rap A similar der was given tor the footboard, and | the Then the other parts of the bed, and n pop went the headboard. or- rapping was renewed there. even on Miss Wimberly’s face. Miss Wimberly said: Hen ee da, voucan move this bed. Teil o move.*” “Move, bed!”” said’ Miss Lula; and the bed moved across the room. And now let Mr. Hurst tell the next thin He is an intelligent planter, a deacon in the Baptist church, and stands among the best | cttizens et his county. Sard he: The next morning I was taken | inte the reom and shewed how the bed was moved the night betore ; He Lula was in i That) mght I went inte the reoem te see it done. Atter bemg in bed «a while Lula j commanded the bed to :nove, and it obeved her command 2nd moved j across the floor. made her des feet. T then t. The hed moved two or three That was a month or so ago, | ; ately the piece of furniture be | other. and 1 be dene again, although 1 hehteve it requires more preparation and the greatest concentration of the mind. } I pledge you my word and honor that what I have said 1s true.”’ Stories are told of articles of wear- ing apporel being mysteriously mov- ed trom locked trunks and locked rooms to various parts of the house hy unseen torces, but they are not properly vouched for. Miss Hurst claims to have no power of t! that I know of. t sort The neighbor told that one residence of Mattie West, near by, taking a fre re mn wall, played with it 2 moment, then, me day she went to Mrs. stuffed squirrel the the and dropping it on the floor, it ran around the room. This is although Mrs. a tough story, West says it true. WHAT I SAW. It was at Rome that Lula. I saw Miss made a day late in seemg her, but I turned up at her hotel at Rome to- day company with Brother Ponder of the Courier, had a own benefit. She gives an entertainment at Rome to—right. There was no deception I watched her with at noon, and in private seance for my in what she did for me. mv eagle eye. Her father and Mr. Ponder and myselt were in the room and mother at the time with the young lady. Mr. Hurst lard an ordinary **Lula, chair upon the floor on its back. put your hand on it,’’ said he. lady put the tips ot two of her fingers The young stooped down, to immedi- the back of the chair, and an to back around the room at a rate. as tislid along Ly some unsee power. and chair was *n stood up -\ useless trip to Cedartown | hvely | ' both hands, and tou | away 1s | Mr. Ponder and I were asked to hold | itonthe floor. Ponder took one side and T took the other, We put} our whole force to keep it still. Miss Hurst placed t xalms ot her hands ont hay a twas soon flying aroutad } and crea a big stir. down. ind ur bor hands under the perfor- Mr. Hurst, 200 pounds. and sat boy Miss ing on at each side. a man weighing nearly then got upinto the chair calmly as if he were a Thus there as sitting on Hurst weight a ygate-post. supported — the ot the three. The — total weight which she thus supported on j the hands v palms of her §00 peunds, or much more than the | It | weight of two barrels of flour. nearly | the room, overpowering both js ched the tips ot her fingers tothe stick. In a moment it movedio one side, then to other, then up, then down, across. around, and the next mstant that young gi by simply touching the stick and < = keeping her har re, had four men floundering furiously around the room, and tines How several I was ten inches off is that? Five men held it put her hands on it, the floor. chair She caught a and to the floor and as the men held it securely the chair was com- pletely shattered in trying to Another stouter chair shared a hke fate. heavy bedstead to across the room twice simply by lay- ing on of hands. get from the and A Was made run Isatin a chair. touched it and dumped me on the floor six feet away. She All these tricks were repexted sev- eral tally me that she possessed some remark- able power that 1 leave to the scien- tists to explain—it they can. times, and convincing I did not have time to see her at tempt to move a bed by getting on it | and simply commanding it, that required an hour or ti Neither did she attempt any spirit moving. and as in Thad at my disposal There is no doubt of one thing, I mention it bricfly for the benefit of those who choose tostudy the matter, and that is this obiect she touched appeared to ve charged with a force that impelled it to move —and that, too, most vigor- from with an irresistible torce. her, and Her touch ously—and always Talk is Cheap —————0-— But it won't win with the people of to-day, its It take FIRST CLASS GOODS LOW PRICES, entirely too thin. Plain figures, and square dealing to take the cake. Others may talk but 4 LSE “AMERICAN” two more time | Whatever inaimate | is still on top when it comes to Style, Make & Fit of our Clothing , has no effect on animate objects. Mr. Hurst and his wife have grown very enthusiastic over their | daughter's power, and propose to take her on the road it she can make a success. She bas certainly crea- ted a big sensation in her section of North Georgia. The people are talking of hardly anything besides the wondertul Lula. The spiritual- ists are beginning to flock to the scene ind to write to her tather, and it may be that a few more weeks ww era full fledged medium. \ gentleman who is neither a spiritu- alist nor a scientist suggests that per- haps Miss Lula’s powers were de- veloped by the same causes that pro- duce the rosy sunsets, as they are | contemporaneous, and that they will tted bottom with her palms upper: | most. She took no hold on it, but simply tet it rest on her bands as a servant sight have carried a waiter of flowers. Chas the legs of the} chair were about three feet from the floor and the seat about tour and a half. Ponder and I attempted to n the floor, using ali our and strength to do su. but the chair would not come down. — Itcon- ‘tinued to rise and fly around in the pair. with the newspaper men swing- | combined ! was indeed astonishing. especialiy in | view of the that not a twitched and the slightest flush not mantle her cheeks. She was act as muscle | did | | self aloof from such influences. calm and urconcernded as itshe had | been twirling a summer hat by its string. Does it not ure vou!’ [asked Not at all.”* she replied. “Did you fee! any peculiar sensa- tion? **None whatever.” *-Dosen’t it strain you?"’ the it this were ne- x € +-Indeed, ir would net see you htest sratn on the delicate canes, oy hat do you think of 1 don’t snow anything about \ SINGULAR TRICK. [took 2 heave hickory walking stick and caught it near one end. Mz. J. .N- Brown of Chattanooga caught beside me: Mr. J. W. Hin- ton of Social Circle and Mr. M. ' Corne!l of Goshen. Ind., took the Each couple faced the We held on with both hands, the stick “firmly pressed againsteach m:n’s chest. To my left other side. | the end of the stick projected a foot. Miss Hurst stepped up to it, raised both take their departure together. The Negroes in Cedar Valley are afraid of the young lady, and — great alarm has taken possession Gt many of them who think she has power to cause their death at will. Some local wiseacres accredit her with an animal magnetism, others and still others the ‘todic For my own electricity influence’ developed. part I haye net made up my mind vet. Gov. Murray’s Message. Salt Lake, Jan. 16 —The Mor-} mon papers, comment seyerely on the Goyernor’s message. says: the Governor has allowed himselt to become the tool of a clicque hostile | to the majority ot the people. With gemal disposition and a tair record | as a soldier, he ought to hold him- He has made himself an enemy of the Terntory by his slanders ot zens and the instrument of evil men for the overthrow of Utah. The Herald says: **We can tell Governer the of his If they desired the paper it they overshot the outcow the message. to carry Weigh mark, and will be disappointec first to last. Viciousnessruns through hope om the entre document. and we the Legislature will treat the ill-timed in none threats with conten.pt. and ot its acts be influenced by and mrmid Ex-Sen: David Davis is now President of the Filinoss State Bar Association. A Run « ona Drug store. uch a rush made tor any Drug & Co's. K ption, Coughs Never was as is now at F. M. 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