Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-11-05

RED-HOT BRICKBAT.
Nothing else unusual occurred until seventeen
minutes before twelve o'clock, when the per-
formances reopened by a pair of scissors jump
ing from the table to the floor. At that time
Mr.. Lindenstruth was sitting in chair, when,
without the slightest premonition, large brick
bat fell with great force right beside him, break
ing in two. He Immediately picked up piece
of it and handed it to Mason and both found it
hot. Then taking up the other piece he tried
two or three times to break it by throwing it on
the floor, but he failed. He then laid this Sec
ond half on the sill of a window in the room.
intending to bring it home. Resuming his seat
near the front stoop, he was 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 it up again.
AT twelve o'clock smoothing iron jumped
from the fireplace about six feet into the room.
1t was replaced and again jumped out. He
noticed that the iron was also hot, but this may
have been heated at the fire.
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, an ear
OF corn, apparently from the ceiling overhead,
fell between Mr.. James Campbell, of Macon,
and Mrs. Surrency striking the floor with great
force, 1t broke In two, scattering the grains all
around the room. Later in the day another ear
OF corn fell in another room, striking near Mrs
Burns, Northern lady, who at the time had
an infant in her arms
Soon after this, while Mr.. D. M. McGaulley
Allen Walls, Robert R. Presta. G. G.. Eason,
John M. Walls, j. w. Roberts and Daniel
Garter, OF that neighborhood, and Campbell,
dlndenstruth and Mason, were standing in the
front room, chamber glass was smashed into
fifty pieces in the centre of the room. They
were at the time intently watching everything
visible In the room, but none saw this until af-
ter the vessel was broken.
THE EXCITEMENT-EXTRA TRAIN
So rapidly had the news spread and so great
was the excitement, the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad dispatched an extra on Sunday. 1t
arrived at Surrency about three o'clock in the
afternoon, with seventy-fve people on board.
But the ghosts, spirits, or whatever else they
might be called, did not choose to give them
any manifestations, and the train left in about
an hour, taking most of them back. A few
remained, however, determined to see into the
matter. There were at least three or four hun
dred persons on the ground during Sunday, and
up to the time our reporter left fully five
hundred had visited the place.
OTHER SIGNS AND WONDERS.
While these things were going on in the
nouSe tne Klton6n department was by no means
idle. Butcher knives, pots, skiets and crock
cry ware were falling around loose to the terror
and horror of the cook.
Another mysterious thing occurred on the
first or second day. Little piles of sugar, total
y unlike anything of the kind then used by the
family, were found upon the floors of the resi-
dence. In one of these few pins and steel
pen were found. There we're various other
Incidents of this totally incomprehensible mys-
tery related to and seen by our reporter, but
enough have been given
WHAT Is IT?
No one who has as yet visited the place can
give any rational theory as to the agency which
produces these strange sights. Mr.. Surrency
is plain, old. fashioned Georgia gentleman,
and is greatly annoyed and disgusted with the
whole proceedings. He peremptoriIy refused
any com pensation from any one Of the two or
three hundred persons who have eaten at his
table,. If they are produced by magnets. they
must be ofa different kind from any ever known.
We must leave the question to some one else
for solution
At the time our Macon party left people we're
coming in from all directions, and we presume
the excitement continued to-day unabated.