The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1872-11-20
E, SOUTH CAROLINA, NOVEMBER 90 1879. !

right. This is all that we witness.
ed during our stay, as we arrived
too late to see any of the perfor.
mances, which ceased
ABOUT TWILIGHT
on Friday evening, the 25th, and
very nearly at the same hour at
which it began on Thursday, the
the 18th. As l have said, Mr..
Surrency was in this city at the
beginning of the affair, and was
expected home that evening"
The train, however, was behind,
and his daughter, young lady,
of, l suppose, seventeen years,
walked out to the track and look
ed up the railroad to see if she
could discover the lights of the
expected train. While anxiously
looking she distinctly
SAW AN oBJECT .,.,.. .-.
in the form of a man approach
ing her, but apparently with no
bad intention! She, however,
turned and walked quietly back
to the steps, and just as she reach.
ed them heard something like a
chunk come whizzing through the
air and fell to the ground quite
near her. For fear of being
laughed at for cowardice, she con,
cluded not to mention it to the
family, and sat down ON the steps.
She looked Immediately in the di-
rection she had come, bnt could
see nothing. s,e. ,a.a ..a.
nf THE APPARrrIoN. ...
She could see it in no direction,
though the grounds are quite open,
and we feel sure, from the dis
tance shown us, that she could
plainly have seen an object of
much smaller size. especially
when moving. AS she took her
seat on the step, other things simi.
lar 10 the first fell around her in
rapid succession, and in quite
close proximity, none striking
her. They all came from the di
rection whence she had seen the
apparition. She then moved into
the parlor, where were some gen.
tleman, among them a minister
She still said nothing of it, and
went into .... ....
. THE KITCHEN. ..
which adjoins the house, where e
her mother was experimenting
the preparation of supper. AS
she was going from the parlor
through a passage way to the
kitchen, she could distinctly hear
things similar to those described,
falling in the yard and against the
end of the house, apparently NOV
ing in the direction of tie Kitchen.
BY the time she had gained the
entrance, brickbats, bottles, &C.,
were falling .....
IN THICK PROPULSION
on every side. The gentleman
present were called, and diligent
search made, though no one could
be seen, yet those missiles were
falling around. 1t then got
among the pots on the stove,
threw them off, overturned the
coffee pot, threw crockery, knives,
&C., about the floor, and entered
the house, where similar actions
took place. Books. glasses and
other things We're scattered abont
the floor. a younger brother of
Mr.. Surrency was here sent for,
and remained with the family
during the night. He was one of
the principal witnesses of the
s STRANGE soENEs, ... -...
and detailed us many interesting
items. One in particular was,
that while standing before the fire
in the parlor, looking towards
some book shelves in the opposite
end of the room, he distinctly saw
book from the middle of the pile
of six or eight
DRAWN SLOWLY OUT,
describe an arch upwards from
the shelf, then gradually descend
some six or seven feet from the
shelf, and lie quietly on the floor.
He picked it up, laid it back, and
the same motion was gone
through again. He then called
Mrs. Surrency from an adjoining
room, and she said that she had
put it back from the same position
three times that day. The book
was a quarto volumn of Walkers
Dictionary, and was shown to us.
We could enumerate very numer-
Gus instances of the kind, but
space forbids.
IT Is SINGULAR ...
to say the least of it, that these
things could 60 on in different
parts of the house at the same
time, and that they usually choose