The daily gazette., 1876-05-02
Il STKANGESTORY.

THE TROUBLE A MOTHERS SPIRIT MADE
IN HER SISTERS FAMILY-A
DYING REQUEST.
From the ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
In one of the most pleasant and aris-
tocratic localities of our city, few
evenings ago, there were some strange
manifestations, by some supposed TO
be spiritual doings. The bells about
the house began to ring. First the front
door bell, then the servants, then the
kitchen, and then all the bells rang at
once. The inmates watched first one
and then another of the bells, but they
always rang when they were not
watching. After guarding outdoors
and in until exhausted, and they had
become extremely alarmed, the ring
ing stopped at $3.50 in the morning.
The servant girls gave notice that
they would leave next day, but to quiet
them the gentleman of the house told
them that the disturbance was caused
only by electricity, and he would have
the bells fixed; and away he went to
see the bell hangers and have them
ascertain what was the matter. They
frightened some of the wires and loosen
ed others. spending nearly day in the
work. can right, now," said they to
the gentleman. you'll have no fur
ther trouble" But the bell hangers
had barely reached the street when all
the bells began to ring again, land with
astonishing violence.
The next evening at II o'clock the
invisible bell ringers began their
changing music again ,and continued it
half an hour before reaching the clos
ing note. For two evenings they acted
only as they were acted upon by the
tangible fingers of doubling Thomases.
1t was thought. that electricity had
completed its work, and there would
be no more trouble, but that thought
was mistake.
In the morning the beds of the chill
dren were found moved across the
room, the location of other pieces of
furniture changed to different parts of
the room, the pictures broken down,
and the cords cut. The children de-
MED that they knew anything about
it, with the exception of the oldest,
who said he had heard loud raps
around the room. This disturbance
was repeated three evenings, when the
children were removed into the pa
rents room, as they were all too much
frightened to sleep in their own apart
ment,
The next evening, however, they
returned to it, and they were just
comfortably turned in for the night,
when the piano began to play. They
opened the door and listened, and it
played most beautifully, accompanying
a lady's voice in song. They then
went down stairs and opened the par
lor doors, when the music ceased, and
the instrument was found locked with
no indications, that any one was near
or had been there. For five nights
peace and quiet resigned within, the
children occupying the room adjoin-
ing that of the parents, the door
being left open between the apart
ments.
One little boy went to bed on the
sixth night at 8 o'clock, and he had
not been there long before the family
saw the bed moving across the room;
loud rappings and other singular
noises were heard on the furniture
The little fellow was taken into the
parents chamber again, when an in
visible power picked him up, lifted
him three feet, and carried him along
and placed him back in his bed. The
terrified parents were satisfied that
is was not done by any human
agency.
While mediatiHg as to what should
be done, the family standing in group
in one corner of the room, they all
saw what appeared to be little boy
emerge from the fireplace He looked
natural, but thin and pale. He went
toward the door, and then vanished
before their eyes, This frightened
them more than ever. They made