The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1850-06-12

Al tihes, nothinX u eu wou.u happen TOT
hours, and again . succession Of falling, OF
throwing incidents would occur within few
minutes Of each other. and IN different parts
Of the house. The gsnllemman's con, 4 lad
Of some twelve or fourteen years Of age, far
from being alarmed, found great amusement
10 chasing and picking up the moving articles.
One evening he thus ran into q room ad.
joining tina, in which the family was sitting
-hence had proceeded the noise Of something
falling TO the 4 DOR, and imme d,ately uttered a
piercing scream. HIS friends going in found
him on the A,or, ~riIhng in a fit. He was
taken up and cared for, and recovered f,om il,
the next day, ahen he said that the cause OF
his screaming was, that somebody caught him
around the body, Just above the hips, and 'wss
lifting him up. as he feared, through the ceiling.
or the fit he was not conscious. The next
evening. and every evening for about ten days
theresfter, at the same hour, and occasionally
during the day time, the boy was seiz'd with
similar 6's, which would last one or more
hours. aad then pass off
To enumera,e the articles thrown, and the
manner and appearance Of them, and above
all, the impressions made upon neishbors aad
strangers who frequently were Witnesses,
you'd require not only whole columns but
whole newspapers. We shall have room for
bu, few and in selecting them We shall no, re-
fer 10 What ws have slresdy narrated. They
are vouched for 10 the mos; unequivocal man
nsr, by gentlemen Who are in no way con.
nec,sd with the family, ard who could not, for
a momen, BE- suspected OF the leas. collision
and are the result If examinations made BY
them q, the reqnes. Of the family.
On one occasion, two gentlemen Of our &C
quaintance made thorough examination Of
the upper par, Of the house, leaving the whole
Of the family below siairr. Having looked
through the d,tfsren, rooms without observing
anything unusual, they were retiring down
stairs, when a fire. poker, which they had no.
ticed hanging on nail in one Of the chambers,
passed near their heads and stuck into the
fl,or before them, near the foo, of the stairs !.
They returned, ard once more examined the
premises. Nothing, and no person, could be
found. The door OF the chamber 10 which The
poker hung was closed, ,st ss they had lief!
it. but the poker IVES not 10 lis place. More.
over the door was 90 situated, that il could
not veil Be opened Without attracting their
attention, until they had passed further down
the stairs than they had done when the poker
whizzed by.
A gentleman and hs ~fe, Who reside 10
the vicinity, and had been with The lag,,.,;
l5ss4as.:aiss.yw nrhhss s;ssrse thing. were
going on. found o, another time, 10 g room
into which they. az we'll o. the family we're
psssing and rspsss'ng every few minutes,
nine figures representing females 10 kneelins
posture, before each OF which was Bible,
opened, and a passage therein marked in BY
turning down Of leaf to if, OF by small
piece Of paper lard upon il. These figures
were dressed With grea, precision, every hook
sod every button was fully adjusted, ana their
preparation would be the work Of many hours
| il attempted by human hands. The dresses
belonged to the young lady and her mother,
and ~ere hanging up 10 closets within shor,
time Of the discovery. The passages in Scrip
ture we're chiefly in the prophecies of the Old
Testamenf. and ~ere very appropriate 10 The
mystery which apparenily existed in the
house.
Not the leas, wonderful of these things was
the discovery, in different paris Of the house,
generally IN the morning, Of species Of hi.
eroglyphic character on The walls, end on the
floor those on psper, vas OF exceedingly high
finish. fully equaIlins engraving on steel.
Across the top we're characters 10 Hebrew,
and below, in up and down columns, others
similar 10 appearance to Chinese. The lie.
brew character we're deciphered by in,eli.
gen. neig hbors, and found TO be, "The Key
TO the Mystery" OF the Chlnese, or other
characters, nothing has yet been discovered,
but they have been, or soon viii be, submit
ted 10 gentlemen in this city, who are &C.
qusinted with the Chinese. Arabic and other
language.
| Up TO the Is inst, these manifestations
invariably occurred in the day time. On the
night of tina, day they were maintained with
increased violence and witbou, cesss,iun. nm.