The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1886-02-12

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he next morning about ten O'Clock,
Z iny friend presented himself A glance
lat his face told me OF something wrong.
u He took me aside. ss- a BiD
%Do look like crazy man NJ asked
atWeIl, not more so than usual"
DO lock - if ] were drunk'1?
y sNo=o-o-note exaetiy, just Continuation
fI Of the same olSi',--sIook here, no nonsensel
Itcll you my friendad have never before
I fpassed such night IN my life. sat talk
q i1g to the ladies until about twelve O'Clock,
when they retired, vent tomy room. Up
. ITO that time everything had been quiet. /
Kicked off my boots and threw myself upon
Z my bed all dressed as IEas. So as to be
E1eady I'M case Anything turned up, yo1
; know. -sImust have ALLEN asleep, for the
thing 1 knew soihe one was pounding
standing there, her eyes as big as saucers.
can will ye'es please 60 70 the ladies
room, for there's tke {byy diyil an an to pay
tthefe.nz
q slipped on my boz - auisR ss 1
Z twinlzs and, taking : COED stcht cane mad
i brought along, repaired to- Mrs BIS room.
Il where ] found her, her ttso neices and two
Children all huddled in the same bed, pale
as ghosts ard frightened ont Of their wits
For the first time noises had been heard On.
that floor, and in that very room, in fact, as
weif as the adjoining one. The Heicesland
Ichildren having fed to Mrs B-4's foow,s the
maid had been sent for me. ' -
~ sY6u.can readily imagine, continued my
friend, the predicament Wasin, ffried to
comfort the ladies and to encourage them
all / could: Sol pooh-poohed the-~whole.
thing, and said Il was the result of their
/ nervousness teld them their imaginations
had gotten the better of their reason and
by way of a joke, and to make laugh, threw
myself into the supposed attitude of Ajax
defying the lightning, and brandishipg my
cane, exclaimed in tragic tone, if there be
spirits present let them make themselves
known by rapping.' At once a most infer.
nal din arose. 1t seemed as though all the
furniture about the room was being smashed,
though not an, article of it moved One of
the neices went off into a dead faint. One
of the little girls sprang screaming out of
bed, and danced aninsarie jigin the middle
| of the floor. Whereupon the other neice, she
| of the nerves, sprang after and boxed her
jaws soundly, and suddenly remembering
in full dress, retired precipitately into the /
bed, and from the innermost depthg of the |
coverlid, besought me tosp put that child
back in bed, somebody. .>-:su.~se s.
81 leave it to you, continued my, friend,
| 'to fancy my feelings; However, 1 shook |
| myself together with an effort, for felt
somewhat scattered as we'll as demoralized,
and began to soundthe walls and examine
the papering in quest of hidden wires. 4
prodded with my cane under the edge. Of
| the carpet. l opened the register and thrust
my stick up and down. In short, l looked
every where, and did every thing to find
the cause of the sounds, but to no purpose.
The two servants were present, seated on
the floor, rocking to and fro, praying and
and industriously crossing themselves. /
was fairly non-piussed, iii try them again.
thought I, will the spirit be good enough
to rock the chair standing in the. center of
the room" at once the chair-a large rock
ler-began to rock most violently, and Fl |
nally awaltzed lightly away in the direction
of the tyfoservants, who, scTeeching, gave
. headlong plunge, s3hd dfved under the I
bed. On which, oneS of the -neices again |
went off in dead faint. Again the little |
girl sprang from the bed and danced the in |
sane jig in the centre of the floor; again to |
have her jaws boxed by the other neice,
who, again remembering her state of un-
dress, precipitately retired to the privacy of
the coverlid, to again ask me to put that |
child to bed, somebody
dShSo PilltS uPOh WdIu-
robe it shook with the force of the blows. |
asked them to turn on the water at the |
washstand; at once the faucets turned, and |
| the water poured forth. l asked them to |
go out into the hall and make some demon
stration there. Out into the hall they went |
| and raised tremendous racket l asked |
them to 60 down stairs and set things to |
rights there; the piano Immediately made |
| hasty journey from the front to the back |
parlor while all the furniture was apparent |
| ly made kindling wood of.
"What could do p continued my friend; |
'cal in the polices Clearly that wouldn't |
90. The whole affair would appear in the |
papers. The house would be besieged by |
reporters and a curious public, and the |
publicity would be quite as Objectionable |
as the ghost
"tWell, said l, Gadies, there is evident |
| ly something here that cannot understand, |
but as it does not appear to be doing any
special harm, why, FL get me to bed and
sleep, and will advise you to do the same.
| With that | nIafched off to my room, where |
! spent the rest of the night in smoking |
and listening for another outbreak. But |
the spirits appeared to be disgusted with |
my invitation for them to descend to the |
lower floor, for l heard nothing more of
them.
sThi.,' continual the Colonel, ais in sub
stance what my friend told me. On the
next day Mr. b returned, and gave up
the house, and moved his family out. II
was we'll he did, for they were all quite sick
from excitement, and did not fully recover
! for some time" s-%
| "Is that all >? asked one of the captains
That is aiP' replied the colonel.
Did you ever hear any thing more connected
with that house after that? asked the skepti-