The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-05-20
STRANGE PICTURES,
Mysterious DaguerreotyPes OR Win
do W-Panes in Ohio.

Mysterious
do W-PaneS in Ohio
Milan, for the past two months has bad
n sensation, has been the centre again Of
good deal of talk and interest, owing to the
fact there has come upon the glass of certain
windows there the appearance of pictures OF
human faces that look somewhat like dagueT-
reotypes that were taken twenty years ago,
before the art was brought to its present
high state of perfection. The first appear
ance of the glass is stony steel color, inter
spersed with a dull ashen color. Or it has
somewhat the appearance of water that has
tar or crude oil mixed with ii, and one can
see the oily substance floating on the top Of
the water, giving it a variety of colors.-
When this discoloration Of the glass is first
noticed, there is no clearly defined outline
of a human face, but gradually, day by day,
in the centre of this djscoored appearance,
a face begins to shape aud form, until 1t re-
quires no stretch of the Imagination in order
TO see the well-defned features of an individ-
uai who appears to be looking out OF the
window from the room within. You 60
into the room, and look out through the
glass that has the picture upon it, and moths
ing eau be seen. The glass is just as clear,
apparently, as when it came from the ma
ker's hands. Most of the rooms containing
the windows having these pictures upon
them are vacant ones, and have been for
some time, although they have appeared
upon the windows of rooms that occu-
pied. The plainest picture is that OF a midi
dle-aged man upon the window of an old
building in North Milan, across the Huron
River 1t was built for a hotel and used for
that purpose for a long time, but is falling
into decay now, and is used as a dwelling
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the window of an unoccupied room. fronting
east, is the picture, plain and well develop
ed, so that one see the hairy eyes, nose.
mouth and whiskers as clearly Us in any OF
the old daguerreoty ypes that L have mention
ed before. How this picture came there. or
by what agency it was produced, no one can
tell. We cross the river and enter Milan
proper, and going in front OF Andrews Hall
look up to one of the windows, stepping
back slowly in order to get the right angle,
so shat the light shall fall properly upon the
glass we are looking at. An. we have it
now, and we see a face that some say is
Washingtou's 1t is the well-defued picture
of q mans head and shoulders. The head
is covered with military three -cornered hat,
slightly sh hadng broad forehead, while the
deep-set eyes, straight nose, firm mouth,
square~set jaws and smOoth-shaven face are
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by what agency it was produced. no one can
tell. Deacon Ashley, member in good
standing in the Presbyterian Church, aud a
worthy man, keeps jewelers. store on the
south side Of the square, in Milan. One of
these pictures commenced to show itself
upon one OF the upper windows of his store.
The deacon protested, but day by day It cons
tinued to develop into the features of a negro
woman. The deacon called n the services
of soap and sand, but that would rot eradi-
cate it. aud finally, despairing of disposing
of it in any other way, he took paint and
brush and hid it out Of sight by painting the
glass over, letting it remain so for a number
of weeks, and then removing the paint from
the glass. when he found il was still there as
plain as ever, aud now he has come to the
conclusion to let it alone, as he says it is
growing palmer every day, 50 that one can
see the ruttles around the border of the old
negress' cap. | h1pe my Republican friends
who read this will not fall into the error that
because the deacon strove so strenuously to
drive away the picture of the negro woman
that he is ID .mocrat. for he is not, but. on
the contrary, has always been identified with
the Republican party therefore they cannot
say 1t is judgment upon him because he
hates the ''nigger." Ontwo of the windows
in the Exchange Hotel, IN Milan, there are
also two pictures. one of which resem bIes a
Major Marsh. who died there soon after com
ing out of the army. The above | have
from those who knew the Major before he
died, but to me the features are not so plain
the other three | have described. The
other picture on the Exchange Hotel has
three female figures in it, who seems to be
sustaining man in reclining position, as
though he had just escaped from the tolls,
cares, veXations and sorrows of earthly life,
and was yet too weak and enfeebled to open
his eyes and senses to the beauties and angel
influences that surrounded him. People
come from quite distance to see these pic
lures, and almost every one has 4 theory of
his or her own in regard to the manner in
which they are produced. Here are the
facts; take them and draw your own infer
ences from them Milan, Ohio, Cor Chica
go Times.