Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-04
A Ghost in a New York Flat.

81 want YOU TO devote tomorrow 10 look
ing up other apartments; l won't stay in
this house another dsy-where there's
ghos;s,n was the greeting loving and tired
husba nd and father received upon reaching
his home in one OF the new fats in One
Hundred and Sixteenth street, according to
the New York Tribune. The husband plead
ed for an explanation, but had reason to re-
gret his non-submission. She continued:
''Irs no use talking to me; don't attempt to
dictate 10 me; l tell you l won't listen 10 it.
/ am going 10 move whether you do or not.
tell you the house is haunted, and Pm go.
ing TO pack up tonight and move tomorrow.
Why the children have been crying all the
afternoon; mother is frightened until she is
nearly dead. and as for mel tell you Pm
going TO move. II you don't believe what 1
tell yol, go upstairs and ask the folks on
the net fat" The husband did so. He
found that the determination to move cut at
once was an epidemic, and there promised
TO be an empty house on the landlords hands
the next day.
1t appears that Thursday last all the peo-
pie in the house were startled by loud,
rumblipg sound, followed by vibrations of
the chandeliers and rafting OF the globes.
These disturbances began about o'clock in
the afternoon and continued at irregular in
tervsls until dark. There was scarcely any
sleep for nybody IN the house that night,
but the women were ioslly induced TO forego
moving another day. When the husbands
returned home Friday night the women and
children were all assembled in the upper
part of the house, some crying and others
talking incoherently, with ashen counte-
| nsnces and colorless lips The manifesto
tons had occurred the second time. There
| was more certainty than before that the
house was haunted, and a strong determiua-
| tion 10 remove without delay was manifest.
| The men tried 10 reason with their wives,
children and mothers -in-law, but to no pur-
pose. They had reached a point beyond
reason:
1t was finally agreed that one of the men
should remain at no. ne the following day and
take notes. As he was engaged in writing
| Saturday he was startled by a report like
f. that Of a cannon, followed by rumblings like
those heard in bowling alley; these were
| accompanied by the swinging Of the chaude-
| Tiers and the jingling of the globes. Fifteen
minutes afterward another manifestation &C.
| Cured which made his bl5od run cold. 1t
was followed BY The tumbliug of one OF the
| glass globes upon the table in front of him,
where it broke into a hundred pieces.
Ga SUNDAY and Monday the same disturb
auces occurred with undimInished violence.
appraised yesterday afternoon that the
"ghosts" were not in any hurry 10 depart.
The loud reports as from cannon, the rum
bling as OF a bowling alley, and the yibra-
tfons OF the chandeliers we're heard and seen
as distinctly as Oh Thursday last, and though
they caused shudder and a chill in those
who witnessed these disturbances, they were
prepared partly to defeat the plans OF the
GHOSTS" Two fit-irons were tied to a long
string and suspended from the chandelier
nearly 10 the floor. This prevented the
chandelier from shaking, but the same noises
| were heard. Doe remarkable TACT Is, tha-
while the confusion startled the whole house,
| from cellar to roof, the noises seemed 10 be
confined TO one particular floor.
AHaunted jail.
The Jail in Sussex county, N. j., is said 10
be haunted. In this place the alleged ghost,
however, confines himself 10 one cell. This
cell was occupied by the murderer Frederick
Grill for some time before he was hanged. A
number of prisoners have been confined in
| it, but all asked to be removed, because they
| heard some one walking at night in the cell
| with heavy boots, preventing them from
sleeping. Two persons from the city, who
knew nothing about Gill; were recently
placed IN the cell, and id the riornifig asked
TO be given another cell on account Of the
ghostly wanderer annoying them. A few
nights ago the inmates of the Jail were
| aroused by a loud noise. Upon investigation
it was discovered that a prisoner had been
put into this cell and that he was throwing
Goals at some one who was walking up and
down in il. The present occupants of the
cell are two chicken thieves, aud they are
the only prisonets who have not been seri-
ously ann yed. They declare that they hear
walking al night, but that it does not dis.