The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-08
The Best Ghost Story Yet.
Ghosts. HObgOblins and Unseen Spirits CrOckerY,
Pottery. Glas ware, Butcher Knives. Ears
of Corn, Smoothing Irons aud Books
Jumping Around TIE Floor.

jumping Around the Floor.
Or Saturday afternoon we published a
brief paragraph stating that strange anu anu
supernatural manifestations bad taken
place at a house at No. 6, Macon ana
Brunswick railroad. Passengers coming
up on the train were greatly eAcucu ABOUT
it and represented that great excitement
prevailed in that immediate neighbour Ood,
and indeed as far distant as the report had
reached Determined to find out the ex-
act facts in regard to the matter, we de
tailed a special reporter to the scene of OF
eTations, and will now lay before our read
ers the full particulars as detailed to us by
him.
Taking the Brunswick train Saturday
night in company with Mr.. Mason and
Mr. Campbell, Of Macon, who were also
going down for the same purpose, our re-
porter arrived at the point of destination
a little after four O'clock Sunday morning.
Getting off the train they found no one
IN the little place as yet up, but going to
the house of Mr.. a. p. Suucncy, they
were admitted to a vacant room, the fire
In which had nearly died out.
We may as well remark here that the
town OF Surrency consists only of a sta
ton house, one or two places of busnc IS,
and the residence Of the gentleman from
which 1t takes its name. II is situated in
Appling county, l26 miles from Macon,
ard about sixty from Brunswick. Mr..
currency IS gentleman weii-tU-dO in the
world, and is universally regarded as one
of the most honorable citizens of the coun-
ty, and 1t would seem that his house would
be the last one ghosts would select IL which
to play mischief.
THE FIRST BRICK.
Mr. Lindenstruth (our rcporter), find
ing the fire nearly out, went to the wood
pile to get something to make il up.
roll 1,N l
upon the floor of another room. as if some
thing heavy had fallen. Thinking some
member of the family had arisen, lie paid
no more attention to it. But subsCQuCnt
events convinced him that that was the
frst brick thrown 10y the ghosts or what
ever agency is at work on the premises.
as no member of the family Lad as yet got
up.
WHAT MIR. SUGREECY SAYS.
Soon after daylight Mr.. Snrreucy came
into the room, and after giving his guests
hearty welcome proceeded to tell from
the beginning what had taken place up 10
that time. On Friday evening short
while before dark, the family were greatly
alarmed by sticks of wood flying into the
house and falling about the floor from di-
rections they could tell nothing about, and
without any human agency they could see
or find out. The wood would fall before
being seen, and what made the mystery
still more mysterious, the room into which
the wood was falling had all its doors and
windows closed. This was in the front
room.
Soon after dark they stopped falling,
and were succeeded by brickbats which
fell at short intervals throughout the night
In every room in the house. Mr.. Sur
rency, his wife. two grown daughters, Mr..
Roberts, clerk, and a Baptist minister
by the name of Bitch, were present, and
with the exception of the the minister who
got upon his horse and left. thcy all re-
manned awake the whole night Not
wfthstandnG the windows and doors were
tightly closed, and no opening left in any
part Of the house, these brickbats cOntiu-
ued to fall, but, although sometimes just
missing, not one struck any person.
BOTTLES AND GLASSWARE TAKING A HAND.
Soon after the bricks commenced falling
bottles, vases and glassware generally com
menced jumping from their usual places,
falling and breaking. Mr.. SuIrency seeing
the destruction going on directed a negro
man to take four bottles, containing llero-
sene oil, out of the house and place them
in the yaId. No sooner had he set them
down when one flew back and fell in the
middle of the room, scattering the oil in
every direction. The whole family saw
this. 1t seemed to come down from the
ceiling overload, and indeed everything
falling did so perpendicuarly-th is to
say, came straight down from above. These
strange antics continued with scarcely one
minutes interruption until daylight Satur-
day morning, when they ceased, leaving
the house nearly bankrupt in crockeTy and
glassware, and with a large quantity of
buckoats and bilIetS of wood around the
floor.
That afternoon, or on Saturday, the 10Th,
they commenced again pretty much in the
same manner and doing about what had
taken place the night previous. The fam
lily, which had now been joined by many
neighbors, watched every nook and corner
OF the house to detect and, if possible, to
unravol Che mystery. But so quickly would
pitchers, tumblers, books and other articles
jump from their positions and dash to the
floor, the eye could not follow, and broken
fragments We're the only things seen, ex-
CCtt in one instance, and that was n pan
of water and some books they were seen
to start
Chairs shoes and clothing'were tumbled !
about the house as if the hand of a verita- /
bile witch or unseen devil was present. But /
the greatest mystery and most inexplicable /
incident of this day was the escape of a lot
of ordinary clothes-pins from a locked but
rcau drawer. They also fell on the floor,
the door remaining tightly closed rs usual.
Nothing else of special note occurred that
day. All became quiet at half-past eight
o'clock Saturday night.
THE OPERATIONS OF SUNDAY.
AS stated above, our special reporter ar
rived before daybreak, ard heard the story
of Mr.. Surrency, as above given. So soon
as he got through with it he stepped up to
the old family clock, and was about relating
how rapidly the hands had travelled around
the dial when the ghosts were about on the
previous day. All eyes were turned to it.
and much to their aStOniShmcut the hands
commenced Tln1nInnr around a tho rata of
about five hours minute. 1t was thirty
hour weight clock, and after seeing it run
at this rate for a short while. our reporter,
who is matchmaker by profession, en-
ployed at the store of Mr. J. Ii. Otto, on
Fourth street, determined at least to solve
this mystery, as it was directly in his line.
He stopped the clock, carefully examined
the machinery and found it not only in
perfect order, but nothing unusual inside
In could Enr thn L.c J..