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1878
22 May Giles goes to SF to see Samuel Gould. He runs away to Troy
in afternoon "in a delirious fit." Family looks for him,
he turns about 7:30 p.m.
23 May Giles goes to see Samuel Gould "who is quite out of his
right mind."
27 May Samuel Gould "is quite sick5of brain fever, is considerably
deranged." Giles unell with bad back.
Hired men are hoeing potatoes, corn, beets, etc. Gardeners
are setting out tomatoes which they have had to buy as a
frost on May 17th killed their first set.
29 May "The long detained (now about 8 years) and far-famed cabbage
seed law suit is aga(c)'non hand, being now tried in the com-
mon circuit court again, at Troy."
30 May Cabbage suit decided; jury award $2000 with interest for
9 years to plaintiffs, "but the Shaker lawyers take except-
tions to the payment of interest only from the time of the
court decision, as the Supreme Court thus decided."
2 June (Sun) Few of the world present. Singing is excellent. Daniel
Frazer delivers public address. Exercise only in common
& slow march.
8 June Samuel Gould committed suicide.by drowning in the flume
of the SF sawmill.
13 June Ministry return to Lebanon.
15 June Ministry now learns from Elders & many others, that the
(NL) meeting on May 14th with Win. Eddy "for manifestation of
spirits, was in no wise satisfactory, many witnessing to
their senses many things which gave the appearance of
charlatanry. It was a general testimony that the speaking
of the spirit manifestationw was very excellent, but a very
general lack of spiritual feeling; the room was so dark
and the speakers or spirit manifestations so very indistinct
that there was a general unbelief among many that the mani-
festations were other than William Eddy. Others, particu-
larly of the older part, felt quite satisfied...Others of
the older class pronounce the whole thing a farce. On the
whole, perhaps nothing has occurred that has produced more
diversity of feeling and sentiment."
16 (SUn) (NL) Have meeting in afternoon with Groveland visitors.
"There is universal distress, in these days, among Believers
on account of the paucity of numbers and a lack of ability
to manage business, or to keep a suitable spiritual gift
for protection, the future prospect of keeping the various
Shaker organizations intact looks very dubious, unless the
work of the Lord calls into Zion very soon a class of souls
largely developed inn spiritual understanding and consider-
ably progressed in a travel out of themselves and into a
Gospel conservation."
17 June (NL) Second Family now has 9 men, 4 over 70, no boys