The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-07-02
Bad Devils Of Mountain View
More About the McComas Farm
Sensation--The Restless Spirit
Visits the Neighbors.

Dr- Todd the T.. N. Physician OF
bridgeport advocates the Cause"
Those Injured Farties''-W wholesale
Taking Of Dispositions and "Dr"sN'
ingThem Up" After they are Take"
A ..Stout" Article 10 appear in lie
papers Soon-"By God I'll Make
Him Swear to It''-Rich and R"cy
DetaiIs of the Spirit WOnders-They
sake Possession Of Elias DuyalFs
uouse-rheir Rude and AstOnish-
Ing Probable Cause OF the
wnoIe Afair-The DpIuded Parties
yictimized by a Quill Driver.
Another house mas been seized by the
invisible hand of some departed rest ess
shirt, and no more do the inhabitants OF
Mountain View Ridge, about 4 miles from
B-idgeport, on the Cadiz pike, indulge
IN ..,ired natures sweet restorer, balmy
sleep" Not much The awful thought
/ = hat the cold and clammy hand OF n spirit
| Is abroad in the neighborhood, has dis
| turbad the elements OF nature and set
people wild with the strange hailuciatlon
| that q tidal wave of electricity maaipu-
lated by hands fresh from the spirit land
is upon them. As was the case when
the MCComas house. was set upon by So
called spirits" the
CREATURES OF AN UNPOPULAR SUPER
sTITlON,
SO is il now, when they have entered the
residence Of Mr.. Elias Duvsll, situated
about a half mile from the McCOmas
mansion, and the whole neighborhood
has been thrown into teverish state OF
excitement, and stand about listening IN
silent wonder to the stories CT all the old
maids for miles around, whispering
half uttered prayer for an abatement OF
the unknown mystery" as they still in.
sist on terming it, Yesterday, a reporter
of the REGISTER, hearing OF the
occupancy OF Mr.. Duvalrs residence
by the same sprightly elf that mad caused
such great disturbance at McComas', for
the second time visited the scene OF the
manifestations But before proceeding
To the relation OF what TRANSFERRED at the
places where these demonstrations are
SAID to havetaken place, II is well to
REVIEW THE HISTORY OF THE CASE
from the commencement. As Is we'll
Ku,wn. AMI AS has heretofore been pub
ished, the first occurrence took place NJ
the residence of Mr.. McComas, and
the manifestations were continued Tor
some days, causing the family to vacste the
premises. The isct becoming known,
the matter was inve tigated by party
of gentlemen from this city, and one and
ali arrived NJ the sage conclusion that
the hand OF man was AZ the bottom OF
the whole matter. This solution o. the
n .lcry was at the time published IN de
! Lal in these columns, and was generally
accepted by persons whose reasoning
powers were stronger than their Pre]u-
dices. There are, however, great
many who allow prejudice to usurp
| their reasor and still ching with surprls
ing tenacity to The theory that gas, cleo
trIcity or spirit. are at the bottom Of this
mystery, so-ca,led, and who hold
up their hands in holy horror
and cry out that the parties who own
the property are prosecuted because OF
the honestly expressed opinion OF news.
paper. OF this class is
THE POSTMASTER DOCTOR OF BRIDGEPORT,
who has openly proclaimed himself a
champion of "those injured parties as
he very forcibly expressed it, and in his
zeaousness has so far forgotten himself rs
to have the dep, sitions OF a number ofper-
sons taken for use in "stouL news
paper article in their behalf.
On Friday evening the good
doctor, In company with Mr.. b. e.
Cranston, notary public at Bridgeport
VISITED Mr. McComaS residence, and
then and there, in the haunts OF the great
unknown, took the dispositions of Nancy
McComas, Margaret McComas, VIM.
NJ Cpuss, Della Duvall, Thomas Major
md Eli Badly, which work was concluded
about one clock Friday morning. The
doctor remarked, while the work WAS
being done, that he'd
"SHOW THOSE LONG-EARED JAChASsES
OF Wheeling more wonders than we can
enumerate st the present time, and that
he would dress up the testimony, which
goes for what it i: worth after the ''dress-
lng up OF course each o! the parties
mentIuned above Swore positively that
they had witnessed something, although
from what we can learn from parties
present, what was witnessed was of very
little Importance, and In reality cannot
possibly materially affect the theory al.
ready given By the city press. During
the taki0g of the dispositions Mr.. g. p.
Whitney, also oil Bridgeyert, objected to
the manner in which Mr. Todd was put
ting down the evidence, he propounding
only questions to suit and taking such
evidence IA suited, and