Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-04
sUpEnHUrAN PHENomENA.
A House al Martins Ferry, ohio
Possessed of SPiri9s-Hundreds
of Persons witness In
credible Occurrences.

Cor. Pittsburgh Gazette, June %.
A very curious phenomenon has
inst occurred in this community.
THE scene of action is about five
miles in the country back of town,
on main road leading to CadiZ, at
the house of Mr.. William McCOmas,
a wealthy farmer. The community
around Mr.. McComas' are almost all
Observation-Disclosures arenot in the
habit of producing sudden excite
ments, hence their reports, together
with those of well known citizens of
this place and Wheeling, stamp it
with truth.
About nine o'clock Monday morn
ing Mrs. McCOmas heard a noise in
the pantry, and, on going in to learn
the cause, was surprised to see al
most everything there falling from
the shelves to the floor, and on re-
placing some cans Of fruit, say they
would not stay, but reeled about and
fell to the floor. Being alarmed, she
at once called the men from the
fields where they were at work. On
coming into the house they were
struck with amaZement at what was
going on. The neighbOrs were sent
for, many of whom came at once
and saw sights such as to throw the
most advanced Spiritualistic far in
the shade. The cooking stOvemOved
from one side of the room to the
other. A large piano, weighing
about 800 pounds, moved out from
the wall half across the parlOr. Two
clocks, stationary upon mantles, fell
off upon their faces on the floor.
They were replaced and did not stop
running, nor were they injured. A
feather bed in one of the lower rooms
raised itself high OFF the bedStead
and rested on the floor, while feath-
| er bed up stairs was carried from
one room through another, down
stairs, and rested on the hall floor.
| Pots filed with water were thrown
off the stove. A sewing machine
was thrown almost across the room
and rested upside down. Several
large jars, containing butter of diff
| ferent kinds and weighing about
| forty pounds, were turned upside
down, and on being hastily filled by
the almost frantic people, were
placed in a tub, where they remain
ed but moment, when they raised
| themselves out emptying out their
contents. A tea canister, filled with
| tea, moved across the room in such
position as to empty itself and
cover the floor with the tea as a
| farmer would cover the ground with
| grain; the drawers from the bureau
would slowly move from their places
out into the middle of the room ;
several large hams were repeatedly
! thrown from the hooks to the floor ;
/ books from the tables and bookcases
were thrown all about the room, and
| in fact everything movable was du-
ring the day thrown out of place.
While the strange scene was trans
piring the neighborS were fiOcking
in and passers-by were filling up the
house. More than one hundred saw
the affair, and all speak of it as
something unheard of before. a
part of the things in the pantry had
i'm the meantime been replaced by
| Mrs. McCOmaS, and while yet there
explaining to a party OF neighbOrs
everything she had replaced come
tumbling down upon their heads.
A batch of eight newly-baked lOaves
of bread were torn into hundreds OF
pieces and cast about the room, sew
eral pieces of which were gathered
up and and sent to friends.
The phenomena lasted all day
Monday until night, was quiet
throughout the night, but com
menced action again Tuesday morn
ing, and ceased about noon. Hun
dreds of people have and are still
visiting the scene of excitement
Hacks are running from Bridgeport
out to-day. The question in our eX
cited neighbOrhOOd is, what is it?
DIR. ]. II. TODD (well known il
Pittsburgh, of Bridgeport, went
out, and, "after careful eXamina
ton of all details and evidences,
it as a mysterious and unaccoun
table truth.