The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-10-29
UNCANNY RAIN.
1t Keeps Falling for Days From
Clear Skies
Over a Small Area in Macon
Ga, Cemetery.
THE FAVORED SPOT
Is Plot Where Union Soldiers
Were Buried.
Remains Have, However, Been
Taken Up for Some Time.
THE FAVORED SPOT

Macon, Ga. Oct. 29.-Rain still contin-
ues to fall in a small spot in the Macon
| cemetery.
1t has been raining at a certain spot in
Rose HIN cemetery for several days with
out speck of a cloud in the sky above.
This announcement was made over the
telephone some days ago by Sexton Hail
at his office in the cemetery when he
had called up the mayors office and
asked that some reputable citizen or city
official might be sent out to witness the
phenomenon.
The most remarkable part of the report
of the sexton is that it is perfectly true
Away over the hills of Rose Hill ceme-
terry on a shaded slope overlooking the
winding river, there is a corner where
once slept the Union soldiers of Wilson 5
army who fell in battle around Macon.
With one or two exceptions the graves
of the Union soldiers were relieved of
their bones number of years ago. when
the ashes of the dead We're removed to
the Union cemetery at Nashville. Since
that time this particular lot in Rose Hill
cemetery has been left aside unused,
noticed. a few days ago, while the Ia
borers We're at work at the direction of
the sevton in that locality one of them
passed the spot, and although it was
perfectly clear day. with a sky as blue
as the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, he
noticed that it was raining on the hill
side on a spot about the size of the av-
erage house parlor.
He was dumbfounded for awhile, and
muttered an ejaculation, more of prayer
than of Amusement. Finally he mustered
up nerve to go under the drizzling shower
to ''see if his eyes didn't fail him." he
puts it He found that the falling drops
of water were really wet, although they
were not falling sufficiently fast to drench
the ground. He reported the matter to
Sexton Hall, who is of the best
known and highly respected citizens of
Macon. He, of course, gave the negro
the merry ''ha-ha." Seeing that the dar-
ky would not be laughed out of his mar
rative the sexton decided to go to the
spot with him. He found that what the
man had reported was strictly true He
was likewise amazed, and in fear of be-
ing laughed at, said nothing about the af-
fair until he had made further investiga-
ton After four days, seeing that the
drizzling rain was still falling there, he
determined to report it at headquarters,
and did so.
Numerous callers have visited the spot
in the cemetery In fact Sexton Hall
has shown so many there he is thorough
ly fatigued with the exercise The phe-
nOmenOn cannot be accounted for by
those who have witnessed it. That it is
rain cannot be doubted, for the drops can
be seen falling from the tops of a tall
blackgum and hickory tree, between
which the shower seems to make its way
to the ground. During the entire day the
rain has been falling between these two
trees near the foot of the lone hill in the
cemetery, all the while the sun fairly
beaming down as bright as could be on
the cIearest, fairest of autumn days Cit
liens who have visited the scene, Of course,
are jeered a by those who have not seen
it. but their Amusement is too genuine
for them to be cheated by ridicuIe out of
the really thrilling observation they have
made.