The Grand Traverse Hoax.
By Editor
Our readers will remember that we promised, in No. 4, to lay before them whatever information might be gained concerning the reported wonders of Spiritualism, said to have occurred at Grand Traverse, Mich., namely, bringing the putrid body of a woman seven months dead from her grave &c. Information has come to light, by which it appears that it is an unmitigated hoax. The Editor of one of the papers that aided in giving circulation to the reports in question, received the following letter from the Post Master of that place: “GRAND TRAVERSE, [Michigan,] June 2. “Mr. ——————: Sir—I now write to inform you the story you sent is false; there are no such persons in or about Grand Traverse as are mentioned in said story. I have received and answered letters on this subject from nearly every State in the Union, and have a large package of letters now for James Taylor, Dr. John Morton, &c. There never have been any such persons here at all, therefore there is no truth in the matter. Report says, the Editor of the Grand Rapids Inquirer wrote and published said story for his own diversion.