The New York herald., 1872-10-26
A GEoRaIA SENSATION.

Ghosts, HobgobAans ena Unseen spirita
20 the Front-Crsckery, Pottery. Glass
waro and Butcher Knives-Ears ei
Corn, Smoothing Irons end Beoks
jumping Around tho Elo0F-The Old
Family Clock and Red Hot Brickbsts-
Five Hundred People ON the Ground.
From the Macon (Ga.) Enterprise. Oct 2l.l
On Saturday afternoon we published Q brief
manifestations had taken place ct house at No. 8,
Macon and Brunswick Railroad.
Passengers gers coming up on the train rain were greatly
ment prevailed In tnat immediate neighb0rhO0d as
indeed as far distant as the report had reached.
the matter, we detailed Q special reporter to the
scene OF operations. and viii now lay before our
readers the full particulars as detailed to US by
Taking the Brunswick train Saturday night in
company with Mr.. Mason and Mr.. Campbell. OF
purpose our @ REPORTER arrived az the point Of ' Ge
tlnati0n little after four O'Clock Sunday morning
Getting OF the train they found no one In the lit
A. +. Surrency they were admitted to q vacant
room, the fire in which had nearly died out.
depot or Surrency consists only OF station house.
one or two places OF business and the residence OF
the gentleman from which 1t takes its name. 1t is
and about sixty from Brunswick. Mr.. Surrency is
gentleman we'll -to-d0 In the world and IL univer
cSuy and woa sss@ ss
house would be the last one ghosts would select in
which to play mischief
THE FIRST BRICK.
nearly out went to the wood pile to get something
thud upon the noor OF another room, as II some
thing heavy had fallen. Thinking some member Of
the family had arisen ne paid no more attention
that was the first brick thrown by the ghosts or
whatever agency is at work on the premises. as no
member OF the family had as yet got up.
WHAT SlTRRENCY
Soon after daylight Mr.. Surrency came into the
room and after giving his guests hearty wei
come proceeded to tell from the beginning what
had taken place up to that time.
on Friday evening, snort while before dark,
lying and ng ~ the
from directions they could tell nothing about and
without any human agency they could see or find
out. The wood would fall before being seen and
what made the mystery still more mysterious the
room into which the wood was falling had all its
doors and windows closed. This was in the front
Soon after dark they stopped falling, and were
succeeded by brickbats, which fell at short inter-
house MI surrency, his wife, two two grown % daugn
ters, Mr.. Roberts. . clerk, and Baptist minister
by the name Of Bitch, were present, and with the
and left, they all remained awake the whole night.
Notwithstanding the windows and doors were
the house, these brickbats continued to fall but,
although sometimes just missing, not one struck
BOTTLES AND GLASS TAKE HAND.
Soon after the bricks commenced falling bottles,
vases and glassware generally commenced jump
Mr. Surrency seeing the destruction going on di-
rected negro man to take four bottles, contain.
ing Kerosene oil out OF the house and place them
in the yard. No sooner had he set them down
when one few back, fell in the middle OF the room,
scattering the oil IN every direction The whole
family saw this 1t seemed to come down from the
ceiling overhead and indeed everything falling did
so pcrpendicularly-tha Is to say, came straight
down from above.
These strange antics continued with scarcely one
minutes interruption until daylight saturday
morning, when they ceased, leaving the house
large quantity Of brickbats and billets Of wood
around the floor.
That afternoon, or on Saturday, the 10th, they
ner and doing about what had taken place the
night previously. The family, which had now been
corSer o fbe r. eec and nSHA
to unravel the mystery But so quickly wOula
pitchers, tumblers, books and other articles jump
could not follow, and broken fragments were the
first things seen, except in one Instance, and that
was pan OF water and some books; they were
seen to start.
Chairs, shoes and clothing were tumbled about
the house as II the hand OF veritable witch
and most inexplicable incident OF this day was the
escape OF lot of ordinary clothes hooks from
locked bureau drawer. They also fell on the floor,
the door remaining tightly closed, as usual.
Nothing else OF special note occurred to-day. All
got quiet at haifpast eight O'Clock Saturday night.
As stated above, our special reporter arrived be-
fore daybreak and heard the story Of Mr.. surrency
as above stated. So soon as he got through with
1t he stepped up to the
OLD FAMILY CLOCK,
and was about relating how rapidly the hands had
travelled around the dial when the ghosts were
about on the previous day. All eyes were turned
to 1t, and much to their astOnishment the hands
commenced running around at the rate OF about
hve hours minute. 1t was thrty-hOur weight
clock, and after seeing 1t run at this rate Tor
short whle our reporter, who is a matchmaker by
on Fourth street, determined at least to solve
this mystery, as 1t was directly in his line. He
stopped the clock, carefully examined the ma
chinery and found it not only in perfect 0rder but
nothing unusual inside or out. He could not for
the lie Of him see the slightest thing wrong
about 1t.
THE MAGNET THEORY.
1t has been suggested that there may be large
magnet about or under the house, but magnets do
the clock was running at its rapid rate Mr.. L. had
his watch in his pocket. which kept on its usual
way and was not in the least affected. He set the
clock right, when It continued keep correct time
up to the time he left.
Nothing else unusual occurred until seventeen
minutes before twelve O'Clock. when the perform
ances reopened by pair OF scissors jumping from
the table TO the floor. At that time Mr. Lindens-
truth was sitting in a chair, when, without the
slightest prem0ntiOn, large brickbat fell with
great lorce right beside him, breaking in two. He
Immediately picked up piece OF t and handed 1t
to Mason and both found it hot. Then taking up
the other piece he tried two three times break
Il BY throwing Il on the door but he failed He
the room, intending to bring it home Resuming
his seat near the front stoop, he again startled
by the piece he had placed on the window falling at
his feet and once more breaking into two pieces
He did not pick IL up again.
At twelve O'Clock a smoothing iron jumped from
the fireplace about six feet into the ROOM II was
replaced and again jumped out He noticed that
the iron was also hot, but this may have been
heated at the fire.
A SHOWER OF CORN.
At about this time dinner was announced, when
the family and many guests walked out to the
table. Soon after being seated, ear OF corn ap-
parently from the ceiling overhead fell between
Mr.. James Campbell OF Macon, and Mrs. Surrency;
striking the floor with great force, 1t broke in two
the grains all around the room. Later
in the day another ear OF corn fell in another room
striking near Mrs. Burns, a Northern lady, who at
the time had an infant in her arms.
soon after this while Mr.. ID. NJ. McGaulley, Allen
Walls, Robert r. Prestall, G. Q. Eason, John M.
Walls, j. W. Roberts and Daniel Carter, of that
neighborhood, and Campbell Lindenstruth and
Mason, were standing in the front room, a cham
ber glass was smashed into fifty pieces in the GEN.