The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1872-11-20

house, came through the front
door while closed, fell on the Aoor
and broke near the table where it
formerly sat. The spot was evi.
IDENTITY caused from oil, and il Ger.
tainly fell from the direction of
the front door as can be easily
seen from it's shape. We were
told that
MRS. sURRENoY
left her home for a day by the ad-
vice of her husband and friends.
and with her daughter went to the
house of friend (Mr. Patterson,A
some two miles distant. Anxious
to get all the information we
could, we sat ont and walked to
Mr.. P.'s. And just here comes
THE STRANGE PART
of our tale. Mrs. S. and daugh.
ter did leave home during the
week, and went to Mrs. P.'s with
the intention of remaining there,
and as soon as they arrived at his
house the identical proceedings en-.
acted at Mr.. Surrency's began at
MIR. Patterson's and ceased at Sur
rency as soon as the ladies Left
They remained at Patterson's, for
a few hours, and not wishing to
have his household goods so badly
destroyed, determined to return
home. Miss Surrency remained
at Mr.. Patterson's and her mother
returned, and as soon as she arri
ed home (about sanset) the very
....... SAME FREAKS
began again. They ceased at Pat
terson's when she lett there aud
have never returned, though the
young lady remained, and was
seen there by your correspondent
and friends. These strange things
have never happened except
where Mrs. Surrency was present,
and always ceased when she left ;
and it is very clear, assuming it
to be from a supernatural source,
that she is the medium through
which it acted. She stated to ns
that sue had never been mesmer.
lied, never saw mesmerist or
spiritualist that sue knows of, new
er read a work on 0',
.. sPIRITUALIsM.
and has never thought about it ex-
cept when she heard others men.
tion it. The same may be said of
her daughter, while Mr.. Surrency
has always been a strong oppo.
nent of the doctrine of spirituaiism
in any form. He is a plain, prac.
tical farmer, a well.to-do and pop.
ular citizen, and has an excellent
name among his neighbors, many
OF whom we met at his house, and
all OF the railroad employees with
whom we spoke vie with each 9th.
er in heaping praise upon himself
and wife.
NO SUSPICION
was ever known to rest upon his
conduct, and in politics we were
told he was staunch Democrat
in proof of which l will say that
he is a Subscriber to the Savannah
News. Your correspondent no
ticed several files of different pa.
pers in the house, all of them were
staunch Democratic journals
This part of the long and interest.
ing interviews that we had with
the family, and whether attributed
to human or other agency, the
whole thing is
A STRANGE MYSTERY,
if true, and we at least have no
right to doubt it. Every word
spoken by them carries with it an
air of candor that no intelligent
auditor can disregard. Each of
them was questioned by us apart
from the others, and at different
times, and when they did not ex-
pcct it, and each tailed with the
other as closely as possible. What
they said was also substantiated by
many of their neigbbors and away
from their presence. 1t is
CERTAINLY SIMILAR
that human agencies could operate
so diffusely over house and
grounds, in the presence of hun
dreds, all OH the alert, and vet not
be detected, unless we assume the
improbable position that "a mans
eyes and brains are little value to
him. That the scheme is concoc.
ted from motives of profit, is alike
futile, as we were assured by dis.
interested authority that in the
past week Mr.. Surrency bad fed
no less than
ONE THOUSAND PEOPLE,
lodging them at night, and all
without charging one dime. We
can bear witness to this TO some
extent from last SUNDAYS ohserva.