The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-08


for them as we'll as for their sisters.
Teach them that by INDUCING their
depraved appetites in the woret forms
of dissipation they are not fitting
themselves to become the husbands of
pure girls.
Teach them that tits better to be An
honest man seven days in the week
than be Christian one day only, and
villain six days. i.
Teach them that God helps those
, who help themselves.
THE NOBLE COUNTY YsWHAT Is
lT!,,
Mysterious occuFrences at the res.
idemce of ur.Staats, nearCaiIwel.
! THE MYSTERY UNsoLvED.
The citizens of Noble county, near
Caldwell, haye been considerably ex.
cited over some mysterious occurren-
ces that have been trAnspiring for the
| past two weeks on the farm of Mr..
William Staats, father in law ofJudye
Frazier. The excitement has been
equal to. if not greater than the great
Bridgeport wonder, which occurred
during the summer Hundreds of
people have visited the scene of the
mysterious demonstrations during the
past week, and some of the best citi-
zens of the county have Witnessed
them, but cannot account for them in
amy manner. We are personally ac-
quainted with A1r. Staats, on whose
| iarm the occurrences have taken place,
and know him to be a reliable and
| truthful man, and besides there has
been hundreds of other witnesses to
the Mysterious performances and they
say they are true, but of course they
are unable TO ferret out the mystery.
About two weeks ago Mr.. Stats no.
ticed that the milk crooks in the spring
house were being continually over
turned. He first attributed it to dogs,
but. upon close observation, il was as
certained that they were overturned
demonstrations noticed, were in the
pasture field where a lot of calves were
kept, and when milk was taken to
them the buckets were overturned and
the milk spilled before the calves got
to them. Mr.. Stats then made the
matter known to his neighbors, who
Immediately availed themselves Of the
opportunity of witnessing these unu-
sual and SO far unaccountable demon.
stratlOns.
The demonstrations in, and about
the house commenced on Friday, the
18th inst, and continued day and night
with intervals of quietness, until
Thursday, the 18th. inst, when it ceas-
ed. On Wednesday night, 18th inst,
upwards of three hundred people from
different parts of the county, were
present and witnessed the following
singular demonstrations: A looking
glass was dashed to the middle of the
floor and broken; boot-jack was
hurled across the floor from side to
q
teakettle full of boiling water, was
lifted from the stove and dashed to the
floor pictures were hurled from their
places on the walls and dashed to frag-
mems on the floor; box setting in
the middle of the floor, was seen to
move across the room. and the glaes
was broken out of the windows.
Something very singular about the
breaking of the glass was, that some
of the paHes looked as if they had been
cut with a cutter, while others were
taken out with the putty that held
them, all the glass falling on the out
side of the house. One of the pictures
in particular, was taken up from the .
floor and replaced by one of the neigh
bors, the cord was securely wrapped
around the nail, and, even an additions
al cord wrapped around it and secure
ly tied. and yet it was Immediately
thrown to the floor again.
On Thursday morning, while the
hired girl was washing dishes, the
knives, which she had laid on the ta-
ble. commenced moving across the ta-
bic and dropping to the floor. The
attention of persons i'll the room was
called to the fact, the knives continu.
ing TO fall until all were on the floor.
Also, d glass pitcher, filled with water
was being carried across the room
when the bottom of the pitcher and
the water fell to the floor, the part of
the pitcher yet remaining in the per-
sons hand, was found, on examination,
to be entirely free from cracks or bro
ken places. Quite number of reiia-
BILE persons, who are disbelievers of
spiritualism or anything of that kind,
who say they saw the transac:ions,hut
cannot account for them, Or the cau-e
which produced them, and the whole
matter remains nystery, which will
in time probably be ferreted out. as
was the Bridgeport mystery.-Monroe
Co, Democrat, Oct. 26.
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