The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1872-11-13
Fromths Macon Estsrpsi.e. -, i'l 1
The Georgia Sensation The Myste-
rious Doings in Appling County.

Tromshs Afacon Estsrp,ise. -, ~
The Georgia Sensa tion--The Myste.
rious Doings in Appling County.
,Ghosts, Ho1yo1ii"gs and Un.een !Spirit. %
ne n Fro"tEC,ookeg, Pottery, Gia'.oar. and
Irons and looks Jumping. Around ~
Floor--1he 0hi Faimiy Cioek and Red. Ho,
Brickbats-Firc Hundred peoDie ON tL.
dron"d-FuH and Complete Pariicuiar..
On Sunday afternoon, it will be
remembered, we published a brief
paragraph stating that strange and
supernatural manifestations had
taken place at Surrency, in Ap.
ping County, 100 and 26 miles
from Macon, and about sixty
miles from Brunswick. Mr.. SCR.
rency is a gentleman wellto do IN
the world, and rs universally re-
garded as one Of the most honor
able citizens of the county, and it
wonld seem his ilouse would be
the last one ghosts would select in
which to play mischief.
WHAT MIR. sUKRENoY SAYS.
Soon after daylight Mr.. Surren.
cy came into the room and pro.
ceeded to tell from the beginning
what had taken place up to that
time. On Friday evening, a short
while before dark, the family
were greatly alarmed by sticks of Of
wood flying into the house and
falling about the floor, from direc.
tions they could tell nothing about,
anu without any human agency
they could sec or find out. The
wood would fail before being seen,
and what made the mystery more
mysterious, the room in which the
wood was falling had all it's doors
and windows closed. This was in
the front room. Soon after dark
they stopped falling and was sue
ceeded by brichbats, which fell
at short intervals throughout the
night in every room in the house.
MIR. Surrency, his wife, two grown
daughters, Mr.. Roberts, clerk
and Baptist minister by the
name of Bitch, were present, and
with the exception of the minis,
ter, who got upon his horse and
LETT, they all remained awake the
whole night. Notwithstanding
the windows and doors were tight.
ly closed, and no opening lett in
any portion of the house the
brickbats continued to fall but
although sometimes just missing,
bnt not one strncss any porson.
BOTTLES AND GLASS TAKE A HAND.
Soon after the bricks commenc.
ed falling, bottles. vases and glass.
ware generally commenced Jump.
ping from their usual places, fail
ing and breaking. Mr.. Surrency
seeing the obstruction going on,
directed a negro man to take four
bottles containing kerosene oil out
of the house and place them in
the yard. No sooner had lie set
them down when one flew back.
fell in the middle Of the room,
scattering the oil in every dircc,
lion. The whole family saw this.
1t seemed to come down from the
ceiling over head, and indeed eve.
rything else falling did 80 pcrpen.
dicularly--that is to say came
straight down from above. These
strange antics continued with
scarcely one minute interruption
until daylight Saturday morning,
when they ceased, leaving the
honse nearly bankrupt in crocke-
ry and glassware, and q large
quantity of brickbats and billets
OF wood around the floor. That
afternoon, or Oh Saturday, > the
l9lh, they commenced again pret-
ty much in the same manner, ana
doing about what had taken place
the night previously. The family
which had now been joined by
many neighbors, watched every
nook and corner of the house to
detect, and, if possible, to unrav-
el the mystery. But 80 qnickly
would pitchers. tumblers, books
and others articles jump from
their positions and dash to the
floor tho eye conld not follow, and
broken fragments were, the first
things seen, except in one in.
stance, and that was n pan of
water and some books they were
seen to. start.
CHAIRS, SHOES AND CLOTHING
were tumbling ,about the house as
it the hand of o averitable witch or
unseen devil was present. Bat
the most inapplicable incident of
THIS day was the escape Of lot of
ordinary clothes hooks from a
locked bureau drawer. They also
fell on the floor, the drawer re.
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