The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-03-14
THE DAILY EMPIRE.
H. Il ROBINSON,
PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR,
A Startling Sensation.

l BROKEN Co., Ky, February II.
The people in this ncighborhood are In
the greatest state of excitement In conse-
Iqnence of a remarkable visitation or an
partition of some demoniacal parsonage In
our midst. am not believer in the doe
trine that disembodied spirits can revisit
the glimpses Of the moon," nor do believe
that epoch designated in prophecy. when
the chains of Satan are to be unloosed, has
arrived. But the things whereof / now
| write are of such strange import. so mex
4 plicable, that l have determined to put YOU
IN possession of n full and explicit narra-
tive of them. merely promising that every
| word is true, and the facts sworn to. as
witness the accompanying affidavit What
II Is am unableto say. ! merely give the
facts, such as l am personally cognizant of
and leave it to wiser heads than my own to
unravel the mystery.
| On Monday night last, after myself and
family had retired to rest. we were sud
denly aroused by great outcry from the
negro quarters, which are Immediately in
| the rear of the house, in which PRAYERS
We'd for supremacy with blasphemies; men.
women and children screaming fire y
and "murder." at the top of their voices
| all consplring to create n scene worthy of
a pandemonium. Terribly startled. nv
wife and sprang from our bed
The room was Illuminated as brightly as
by Hood of sunlight though the light was
| OF blush cast. Our first and most reason
able conclusion was that the negro cabins
were being consumed by fire. We rushed
to the windows and beheld sight that
fairly curdled the blood in our veins with
horror, and fill our hearts with the utmost
terror. My. daughter, shrieking loudly
came flying into my room, hysterical with
fear. This is what we beheld:
Standing to the right of the upper cabin.
/ that aI,tn Ha
garden from the house yard, was a creature
OF gigantic stature, and the most horrifying
appearance. IL was nearly as high MS the
comb of the cabin, and had monstrous
head, not dissimilar in shape to that of an
ape; two short, very white horns appeared
above each eye; its arms were long, COW
cred with shaggy hair of an ashy hue, and
terminated with huge paws, not unlike
those of a cat and armed with long and
hooked claws. Its breast was as broad as
that OF large-sizcd OK. Its legs resembled
the front legs of horse, only the hoofs
were cloven. 1t had long tail, armed with
a dart-chaped horn, which 1t was continu-
ally switching about. Its eyes glowed like
two living Goals of fire, while from its nos
trils were emitted shoots of bluish-colored
flame, with Kissing sound, like the Kissing
OF serpent, only thousand fold louder,
IT'S general color, save its arms, was a dull,
dingy brown.
The air was powerfully pregnated with
smell OF burning sulphur. The poor ne
groes were evidently laboring under the
EXTREMIST terror. and two of them, an old
woman and lad were actually driven to
insanity by their fears, and have not recoy-
cred their reason up TO this writing. do
not know how long this monster demon or
devil was visible after we reached the win
dows--possibly some three seconds. When
It vanished, 1t was enveloped In a spiral !
nf hat aoG
tops of the locust trees adjacent, and which
MD his horrid form completely from view
The extinction of the flame was instanta
neous, and with its disappearance we were /
relieved Of the presence OF this remarkable
visitor.
II would be impossible for me to attempt
to describe the effect of this visitation upou
the members of my family. Suffice it 10
say. that my wife and two daughters are
firmly persuaded that IL was the veritable
Satan. For myself L would willingly be-
lieve that we all, by some curious coinci-
dence, had been the victim of a horrid
nightmare, did not know that we were
fully awake, and actually witnessed that
which Is above recorded Again, If ours
had been the only family visited by this
unearly creature, ! should have kept silent,
and perhaps, tutored my mind into the be-
lief that it was an hallucination
But precisely the same apparition made
It's appearance at my neighbor's, Mrs. WIN.
Dole, appearing there In precisely the same
shape IN which it presented itself TO us.
save the head. which appeared to those
who witnessed IL at Mrs. BIS to resemble
that of horse. At Mr.. Adam Fuuua's
another neighbor, Its head was that of
vnlture. On Tuesday night it appeared nc
Mr.. Jesse Bonds, there wearing the head
OF AN elephant At all these places IL made
the same appearance rs at my hOuse-ex-
cepting only the changing of the head
anu disappeared in the same manner.
Ihese parties are all reliable ladies and
gentlemen, and at my request have made
path to what they witnessed.
What II is, what Its object, what its mis-
sion, Is something that passes my poor com
prehenslon. What have above written Is
simply unadorned truth. You are AT lib
'rty to use this In any manner You may cs- !
eem proper.
Respectfully your friend,
NATHANIEL G. SoUREs,
STATE or KRNTucKY. BRACKES Co.-Scf. Il
This day personally appeared before tile
Undersigned John G.. Finley, Justice of the
'eace, within and for the county and State I
lforesaid, Nathaniel q. Squiers, Minerva
'quires, Sarah ID. Squires. Lucy Squires, Ii
Martha w. Dole, Adam Fuqua and Jesse q
t0nd, who, being duly sworn according to 1
aw, declare that the statements In the fore
'oing letter are true as far as refers TO each
4 them. And | certify that afliants are
redible and reliable persons, and their n
tatements entitled TO full faith and credit. |
JoHH e.. FINLEY, j. T.. h. &. II
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