Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-13
A HAUNTED HOUSE.
A Spring Street Apparition.
ONLY A LITTLE CHILD.

midnight wind, rafting the falling tim
bers or .dolorously signing through
crevices and %crannies, fills the soul o
the tiImid inmate with inexplicable ter.
rors; nor yet a haunted house in the
more modern style, where the medi-
uinistic spirits Of the departed rap out
untranslatable kilograms from the
pleasant land beyond the grave; but
n Of those unhappy places doomed
Of God and Stunned of man, in which
the disembodied spirit appears, sensi.
BILE to sight though not to feeling, and,
like the specter in the play, will not
down at mortal bidding.
With the idea of the ghostly appear
ance OF a restless spirit the mind natur-
ally associates the Accomplishments of
antiquity and terror. A Rhenish castle
haunted by the unhappy victim of the
cupidity or rage OF some midieval
| baron; an ancient manor house in
some wild and deserted park in Merry
England, where still walks the spirit
| of a distant ancestor, slain in some un.
told domestic tragedy; ever n rude
| cabin on the dark and bloody ground
of Kentucky, where still fingers the
homeless SOU of the maiden done to
death by a savage foe in days of yore;
all these comport with our precon-
ceived ideas of shostly apparitions;
but in the present case there is none
of the glamour of antiquity, of ro-
nance or of distance. The facts are
all patent aud present. They are with
in The knowledge OF some of our best
known citizens. In this instance the
spiritual bias apparently entered upon
and occupied the domain Of the actual.
II FACTS.
The facts, as detailed to us by eye
witnesses, are briefly as follows. We,
of course, out OF respect to the feel
ings of others, give no names. The
house which has been the scene of the
supernatural appearances about to be
related, is located on Spring street, one
of our most fashionable thoroughfares.
1t was built about six years ago by a
gentleman who was, in the fall OF 1873,
elected from Eureka to the State Leg
stature. 1t was subsequently, pur-
chased by a gentleman, no longer resi-
dent among Us, who was at the time
prominently identified with one of
our principal mines. BY the latter
- 80 l., 80 -, 49, NJ
nonrio,or aoa",a;ad !, nv ~ Camiiv
-, nt1 r. ramova r.,,n ~.
- g., rnan,hs 90 uhan ~ -
H. 80, 20 -
c',n' H. I'LL, ,is;,a,, a,,oaraJ
$50. - - E,,ia H.
n' : - 80 ia - 'nisror
49, - 10 ,h;Id MIN,
49, a- ohont 1o,r years old ,The
i,t,ia S.iion Ala nor dia in tina housa
49,, -, ~ ,aaid.nca ~ . no.r 10
80 IN lis ,ov.n mr. ,an.nt ,novad
~, " ~ ho,sa 9th ~ e.n,iIv .bort.
~ go !, go v,cataa hv INC ownar
g., 80 49, 49, n,ontns dnai,
,hara nnconscjous of the terror yat to
on,na Aleu- , mopth 400 thsv va.
oa;.ad ,ba a., ;rtimatio, r. sniri,usi
nrosonca in ,hair mids,
THE APPARITIoN.
n was inst after dark. The la-,ns
H., - H. -. ~,
hah oeeh ian'eu ""u '"o i'hhy h"u
gathered in the dining room and
were ENJOYING the TRANQUIL pleasures
~ tho Lo,no c;r,lo yha, ,hav u,oro
slartled py u sudden appearance OF
inc serVaht AN in'ei'iseht young
0hinaii'an. his lace was absolutely
iivid, anu nus tongue Glove 10 MS
mouth with terror. IL was some thme
before ne suihcientiy cover 10
explain the cause OF MS atiright. IL
appeared from ms narration tnat me
ordinary routine OF ms honsehold
uu'ies hsu ea.ieu MN iI'.o lne oatn
room AS ne opened tne uoor anu en,
.ereu IN room mere approacieo nm
rom its oPpos''e extremity, ho' an
appari.ioh, put, IS ne avo"eu. the
aoSoi".e coIpo'eai p,esencs Oh .he
cn,iu WIN hau oeeii ourieu mouths
oeio'e. III, nanus were Talseu as u
~ s"pp,Ga'Ioh anu ms up niose1
as IL u,'etins d aye oue no sounu
escapeu .ne.n. peSona .h,S .he p4us
oni,a'ian uioeieu mummy; us
en ns $50 - MN, anu nov ne es
~" ~ "au"'eu "pa.,'o Nv
could not tell. The head of the fam
lily, himself a man of the world, not
prone 70 snpers.,t,p"S errors enueavi
convince him that he was The victim
nj an optinal uIuSion sunaripdnced