The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-12-01
VOLUME e---No. 23.
A Ghost Story.

A Ghost Story. -
Since the tall Of the Pemberton Mills EHs city
of Lawrence, Mass, has known no such excite:
ment as that produced on Saturday, the 10th IF
August, by the unacconntable appearance Hf d
females features in light of glass in the win
dow Of house on Broadway. It appears that
a few days previous to the discovery Of the phe4
nomenon an elderly lady, after long and
wearying sickness, had died. The day suc:
ceeding that on which the funeral Scthrred d
same house, in passing saw 8 hgura iii the attic
window, which she recogniSed as that of thS
deceased lady, and With great eonsternahoh
communicated the fact to the, other occupahts
of the, Building, atid in short time, the entire
neighbGfhooa was made acquainted with the
strange and exciting discovery. - 2 s''7<'
The window of the room In which the #5man
had died was Immediately undst that id thS at:
tic, and was the usual setting place Of the de-
ceased. Some supposed that by some means
her face had become impressed upon the glass,
but the fact that it was not id the room oceu-
pied by her, and in room that was USUALLY
unoccupied, displaces all belief In this idea
During the day and evening the story of the
ghost on Broad~Ay WAS widely circulated
thtutghJut the city, and early TIE next morn
ing; Which was the Sabbath; people commenced
to gather about the ill-fated and haanted house,
much to the annUyance Of its inmates and inn
mediate hgighbors. None professed to believe
q word Of The wild story, and they were only con.
yinced upon an actual view with their own eyes
A sister Of the deceased, hearing Of the matter,
visited the place, and pronounced the Likeness
to be that of her relatiye. The only remaining
members of the family are two small children:
The excitement momentarily increased, as
also did the crowd in the street, and by noofi
it was so great as tc render the passage of the
horse-cars quite difficult. The Inmates tried
various means to remove the figures from the
glass, but were unsuccessful, and, with view
to sending the crowd away, removed the sesh
to the rear of the building; but as means Of
scattering the people, it was only stccessful in
drawing them from the front of the house to
the rear, where the face was seen to still bet
ter advantage, though it seemed to have shines
what different appearance: It was billy wheH
the sash had been removed and secreted in the
house that the erUwd began to disperse and
wander back to their, homes, each having an
idea as to the cause of the singular vision, and
all agreeing that "there was something Id it,
anyway" :, ;,
gathered around the house, and DIR. William
~. IaRUj pIUuilucut puJSlClhu, OUtdiucu per
missioii to remove the sash to his Office, on Es:
sex street. Here it was placed in his window,
opening upon the main business. street id the
city, and every one could get fine view fr6m
below. The window was examined by intelli-
gent and Scientific men; and while some were
Of the opinion that it might be the result Of the
action Of Lightning; when some person had
been sitting near, others thought this theory
one of impossibility. Of coune, the many SD
pertitious were satisfied that IL was the "ghtst
of the dear woman, and nothing mSfe," There
is one thing about it, at least; that seems
strange, and that is the fact of I6 face or figure
to be seen in looking on fr6M the inside Dui
ring the day frm Of photographers; after sey;
eral attempts, succeeded in getting d very good
Likeness of the sash and the face it contained,
No one can account for the strange phenom-
enon, but men who are practical, and possessed
of good share of common sense, conclude that
it must be one of those curious defects that will
sometimes appear in window glass. The strang:
est thing in its connection is that it wSs not.
discovered until after the death of an inmate 6f
the house. Those who believe in the "spnitu-
oil" are making the most IF tie circumstance,
and doubtless there seldom occurs such instan-'
ces upon which they can surely reach the par
TALLY stiperstitious mind. Ghost or not, moth
ing han occurred in the city of Lawrence Of this
nature that has produced such wonderment
since the well-remembered stories, Of appari:s
tions in connection With the fall Of the Penn.
berton Mills: