The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-30
IRON FOUNDERS.

/ many devious windiugs, up through the
! earth and into the Hight. The besieged
! warriors made their way through this
/ only 10 be met at the entrance by their
/ enemies and d terrible slaughter fol-
] lowed. Their bodies were said to have
/ peeh buried in the graveyard adjoining.
A large farm covering this territory
was owned by a prosperous Tenneeseean
until one day in the early fall stranger
/ came along the dusty highway and stated
| that he wished to purchase the field in
( which the old graveyard was situated.
4 bargain was struck, ana the stranger
erected house in one corner of his ac>
CURED property. Some months later one
OF the neighbors found him sitting near his
chimney covered with cuts ana bruises.
The stranger related, with some reluc-
| lance, the story Of his experiences. He
said that he had lived in a neighboring
town all his life, when one day a man
/ called in at his field and represented him
self as his mothers great grandfather.
This individual said he had been in touch
with the ghosts, from whom he had
learned that there was a large pot of gold
in certain Indian burying ground which
was described in detail as the one Just
mentioned. He gave directions for the
finding of this treasure, but warned the
farmer that it could be obtained only one
night in the year in the autumn, when
the Indian ghosts who were placed there
to guard II were absent from shutdown to
sunrise, to attend the corn dance If they
returned and found the man digging there
they would XIII him with shower of ar.
rows.
The stranger added that he had found
the locality of the treasure from the pres
ence Of three stones that had been de-
scrlbed to him as a sign and that he had
set himself to digging on the night mem
toned when the braves were to be alb
sent for the dance. The gold was buried
very deep and it was already long into
the morning twilight when his shovel
struck upon a hard substance which
proved to be an earthen pot He was
feverish with excitement to obtain the
treasure before the return of the spirits
Tor but little time remained to him, He
had dlgged the earth away, and with per-
SEPARATION streaming from every pore was
ABOUT to lift the treasure from its resting
place, when he heard a loud scream not
unlike the whoop of an Indian. Immedi-
ately he became conscious of a number
of Indians circling about him. Instantly
there was a shower of arrows, from the
midst of which he escaped with the great
est difficulty.
The stranger and his caller returned to
the part of the field where the strange
occurrence had been, and sure enough.
there was the hole in the ground, which
showed that the man might have been
digging there nearly the whole night At
the bottom was the impression of a vessel
such as money hight have been buried
in, but every vestige of it had disappeared
The following ghost story was heard
from man who was an eye witness. He
was one of the watchers with a sick man
who was dying with a wasting disease. A
dim light was kept in the room at night
generally, but on the occasion in question
there was none Shortly after midnight
the watcher declared that he had heard
hymn played on a large reed organ In
the room, and that on looking closely
he had seen the pedals moving and what
seemed to be the form Of a ghost PLAYING
the keys.
He rushed from the room in dismay and
aroused one Of the sleepers with his story
OF the apparition. Both returned, and
there was the sound of the music. soft
and low, and in varying keys. 1t can be
imagined how their feelings were moved
upon by the circumstances in the dead
OF the night and in the presence of the
sleeping man overcome with his sickness
one OF them summoned the courage to go
nearer. 1t appeared that the sound of the
music was due to the wind which blew
through an open window, and in some
manner fell upon the reeds in the back of
the organ. The ghost at the KEEPS was the
product of an excited Imagination.