Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-28
Wonderful Supernatural Manifestations
"A House BOmbarded-CrOckerF
smashed Books and Chairs
Thrown About the House.


! = rom the Savannah Republican, I'd.
| Many Of our readers viii remember
\ the great excitement which was created
| in the country some years ago by The
! reports Of the mysterious pfoceeding in
I New York known as the Rochester
/ Knockings.n Thousands visited the
/ premises in the hope of being enabled
J 10 unearth the mystery, but were IN
| successful, and to this day it remains un-
z explained.
Ii now appears that we have in our
! State a similar mystery, which has thus
| far defied all Investigation as TO its causes.
I Our Information concerning it is de-
Z rived from a conductor on the Atlantic
and Gulf railroad, who arrived in the
I city Sunday evening. We approach the
Z singular subject without further prelim-
inary remarks.
On Thursday evening last, as Mr.. A.
p. Surrency, who keeps a store at No. 8,
on the Macon and Brunswick road, was
sitting down to tea with his family, a
large stick Of wood was thrown through
the closed window, striking upon the
floor and jarring the whole house. The
family weTe Of course greatly startled,
and it was evident thai the log could
scarcely have been thrown by q man, as
the window is high from the ground and
the log very large. Examination was
made around the premises, but resulted
in no discovery. The family returned to
the table, and had scarcely taken their
seats when a tumbler and a cup and
a saucer were dashed from the table and
broken right before the eyes Of the as
tonished and frightened family. Other
articles were thrown about the room, and
bricks and missiles thrown through the
windows.
These proceedings had been kept up to
the latest accounts furnished by our
Informant. The people in the vicinity,
attracted by these strange reports, gath
cred around the house and were aston
ished and bewildered by what they saw.
The reports of these mysterious proceed
ings come through reliable parties who,
although they express no opinion, they
give no explanation. We learn that the
railroad agent at No. 6, who doubted
the reports, visited the scene, and was
convinced that the family had no agency
in the matter, and could not account in
any manner for these annoying distur-
Dances.
In the Macon Telegraph, Of yesterday,
We find the following, which tallies
with the information we have received,
and we, therefore, publish it:
Reports in regard to this strange af-
fair being current, some gentlemen who
came up on the train, determined TO stop
and see for themselves. They asked
Mr.. SurTency if he had any ghosts
about him. He told them if they would
90 over to the house they might dis
cover something. They went over to
the house and propounded the same
question to Miss Surrency. She told
them they would be satisfied if they
would remain a few minutes.
She then showed them pile Of frag-
ments of china which she assured them
were the remains of vases and other
ornamental articles which had been
thrown down and broken, without any
visible agency being engaged in the
work Of destruction.
While they We're talking to the young
lady, a numbering noise was heard in the
adjoining room. They inquired what
the noise was. She said another brick
had been thrown into the room, and
told them further, that a large number of
them had been thrown in during the
day.
They all then approached the room
into which the brick had fallen, and as
they neared the door something whizzed
by their ears and fell with a crash be-
hind them. They turned and saw the
fragments Of a heavy barrOom glass,
which had been thrown through the
door with such force that the heavy
bottom Of the glass penetrated SO far into
the floor that it required some force to
wrench it out.
At another time a heavy fall was
heard in the room, and an examination
revealed that an ordinary smoothing
iron had been removed from trunk IN
another part Of the room and thrown
into the middle Of the floor.
Mr.. Surreucy went TO bed about three
o'clock yesterday morning, but brick
fell around him so thick and fast that
sleep was impossible. Out of two full
sets Of crOckery in the house but two
pieces remained whole.
These occurrences take place about
every five minutes, ,iday and night. The
family have not been able TO sleep dur
ing the time, and are beginning 70 look
greatly worn out.
The gentlemen who went to see came
away Perfectly llN illl6l anu l0sslDly
little startled. These bricks are thrown
into the house when windows are all
closed They could not come from
above, because the house is ceiled over
head"
The Telegraph evidently does not be-
lieve in these kind Of "spirits,n as will
be seen by the following doubt which
closes its article:
Evidently some human agency is at
the foundation of all this; but who or by
whom, is entirely in the dark. 1t is
probable, however, that investigation
will be made which will uncover the
whole matter, and show how simple a
thing may cause deep trouble TO a whole
family, and completely mystify a whole
community.
several gentlemen from Macon went
down last night, and probably when
they return tomorrow the public will
be permitted to know all about it,"
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