The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1872-11-20
From the .Saeannah Ne'o., asA.
A Sunday at Surreucy,

A Sunday at surrency.
An Interesting Account from the
SPIRIT Land-Ihe Entire Fam.
Ely Inte,vie,oed-A Reliable
Report Of the Mysterious
I'henonaeno.
AS we intimated in our issue of
Saturday, we now have the pleas.
ure Of laying before the readers
Ut the News an Intelligent, cor.
rect and interesting account of the
late wonderful phenomenal mani.
festations at Surrency, No. 6, on
the Macon and Brunswick Rail.
road:
SAVANNAH, Oct. %, 1872.
Editor Morning Neaos:
According to promise, I here.
with transmit you the most impor.
tan. portions of an interview had
on yesterday with the Surrency
family, whose recent mysterious
history has gone so far towards
exciting the attention of our citi-
zens and the public generally.
The z, p. IN, Macon train on
the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad
leaving your city OH the evening
OF the Goth inst, bore your CORES.
pondept safely to
sURRENCy STATION
on the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad, and the scene of the
late mysterious doings. We left
the cars at liz o'clock on Satur-
day night, and took a casual sur.
vey of our surroundings. 1t is
certainly one of the last places
that [ would suppose spirit
would choose to locate it's ghastly
pranks of a legerdemain or a
magician to display his skill.
TIE HOUSE,
comfortable, though built in an
olden style, is situated near the
railroad and near the centre of q
circle of cypress ponds, surround.
ing lands of a low, damp nature,
and covered with saw palmetto
The train left, and we proceeded
to the house, where we found sew
eral young men around a bright
fire. We soon enlivened the
scene with jokes, ghosts stories,
&c , and in this way passed of
the remainder of the night, and
the next day proceeded to con-
verse with different members of
the family, witnesses of the late
exciting scenes.
MIR. A. P. sURRENCY,
the owner Of the place, was the
first whom we approached ; but
as he was in the citv at the COM
menccment of the affair. he only
told us a portion of what was
done, and which was told by mem.
bers of his family who witnessed
the whole proceeding. On his re.
turn he was made acquainted with
what was going on, and soon after
witnessed several mysteries him.
self, but we omit them, as they
will como in under the testimony
OF the others.
THE McsT SINGULAR THING
told lis by Mr.. Surrency was the
affair of the clock, already men.
toned in the Macon Enterprise,
and which was witnessed by the
representative of that Journal
The clock was hanging to the wall
in the parlor, and had ever been
characterized for the correctn ess
OF its time. Suddenly, with a
WEIRD, BuzzING NOISE,
the hands began to move around
with exceedingly rapid motion,
the hour hand exactly five minutes
ahed0 of the minute hand. In
this singular position they continu
ed to move for seventeen minutes
in which time it had described
five hours, and each time as it ar.
rived at the twelve O'Clock mark
it would pause and strike, though
with the greatest irregnlarity.-
Sometimes it would strike one
hour for another, such as twelve
for one, &c, and at the end of the
five hours ceased it's wild move.
ments and was regulated by a
party present, and who was a
Matchmaker and jcwelry by trade.
1t was then started, and ever since
has kept its usual correct time.
which was always very accurate,
being kept according to the stand.
ard time Of the M. and B. r. r.
During this occurrence the gentle.
men present looked at their
watches and found that each had
the proper time, SO that the
idea of
A CONCEALED MAGNET
is dissipated, as the watches as
well as the clock would have been
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