The true northerner., 1882-06-09

the location of the graveyard was
changed all of the graves were opened
and the remains taken up and again in
tered in their new resting place. We
say all the graves, yet they were really
probably not all found, for the reason
that some paupers had been buried there,
and as no stone or mound had been
erected above their graves the elements
had so obliterated all traces of them that
many of them could not be found.
Hence ii was that years after, when the
old graveyard was used AS building sites,
in digging the cellar to these resi-
dences the workmen frequently came
across the bones of some of the original
occupants OF the soil. No attention was
paid TO these ashes, and they were
thrown out to decay. Recently, how
ever, there have occurred some most
mysterious transactions and noises In
the houses located in this former home
of the dead. Strange sounds and strik-
ings would be heard in broad daylight
as we'll az at night under cover of dark
ness. These noises would sound as
though in the same room as the occu-
pant, yet nothing could be seen, and the
closest inspection revealed nothing.
Sometime these noises would sound like
the hittering of bird about the room,
yet nothing could be seen again, at
other times, there would occur sounds
as of a person digging q grave-the
sound of the spade in the gravel could
be heard, the crelking of the coffin as it
was lowered, thes sobbing of friends
around the open gravo, the dull, heavy
tbud of sod falling in, the all would be
quiet, save perhaps an unearthly groap.
Again the bedsteads of some of the
sleepers would be roughly shaken and
continued rappings would be heard
upon the head board, sometimes soft,
sometimes loud, and often rapid and
then again slower.
A light would be brought, but the
mysterious proceedings would still con-
tinue. At first the residents were much
annoyed and frightened by them, sew
eral families selling out at great loss
in order to rid themselves of the annoy
ance yet those who remained have be
come so used to them now that they
pay no attention to them. These antics
do not occur at regular intervals, how
ever, as sometimes months elapse be.
tween these manifestations. The resi-
dents are unable 70 account for them.
Some persons have spent months trying
TO discover, if possible, the true source
from winch these sounds come, but all
to no purpose. Spiritualists say that
they are the spirits of the persons whose
bones were disturbed and left to decay
above ground, coming back to remon.
strate against such unchristianlike treat
ment, but, as none of the persons in
whose houses these manifestations have
occurred are Spiritualists, this theory is
not readily accepted by them, and each
day the mystery still deepens. The
noises are heard most frequently at the
residence of f. w. Clapp, lawyer Of
this city, but are not entirely confined
to his house, and have been heard in
several other houses in that vicinity.
Night before last one of the parties who
lives on the street was annoyed by
knockings nearly all night, the rappings
coming thick and fast. At times the
noise would seem to be directly over the
bed in the ceiling of the room, then il
the walls on the sides, and from these
places often changing to the head of the
bedstead, and then back again. A lamp
was lighted and search instituted, but
all to no purpose, as meanwhile the
racket went on as before. Several who
have heard these manifestations are nov
asking lis it ghosts {"