The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-13

Inity is treated with all respect. For
instance. in big political campaigns all
THE rest of Fayetteville must assem-
lble at the same place TO hear the great
iguns OF the canvass. but Campoeltton
~ienjoys the distinction OF its " as
|semblage; in torcnlight professions
land other Publications Campoeiiton
has its own booming cannon and sky
seeking fireworks. The historic old fOr-
lough deserves all its honors. and there
ibe not one who would strip from its
brow a single laurel.
The press writer and even the histo-
lrian have refrained from severe stric-
lures on Farquhard Campbell. No N
has ever questioned his ability. and L
lido not know that anyone ever inpus1-
led his personal Integrity; but in both
his public and private life IL was ehsrg-
led that there was good cause Tor DOUBT
ling his loyalty TO the patriot cause
the Revolution and TO the gov
Iernment afterward. A few months ago,
lin the waiting room or the passenger
station of the Atlantic Coast Line ran
lroad in Fayetteville. had a very pleas
ant conversation with Judge Ihomss
IA. Mcneil, Of LImberton. who was To
Ito take an incoming train. III ] am
mot mistaken. some OF his folks oy
marriage are descendants of Farquhar.
and Judge McNeill told rue
that ne hoped TO get across old rec
lords and family papers which wouia
light on b true inwardness OF
THE old Scotchman's career. and to-
we might rehabilitate him IN
the esteem of his posterity.
The article copied into the Whining
ton Messenger OF June End. signed oy
u. NJ. Turner, giving an account OF me
of rocks ON the house OF Louis
Day in 1912, recalls to my mind even
stranger case of mysterious occult
disturbances than that, and a case as
we'll authenticated as sue things can
possibly be.
In the year 1868, on the great red
clay up-and-down public road between
Charlottesville and Scottsville. Va,
there stood, about two hundred yards
of the highway, an ordinary frame
house, surrounded by about so acres
Of corn and wheat land. with The farm
outhouses grouped on the left, a peach
orchard in the rear and back of hat q
belt of oak and hickory woods.
There lived James Moon, with a wife
and two children. He was an ex-Con-
soldier of Lees Army OF
Northern Virginia, who, by hard WORK,
both on his part and that of an in
and worthy helpmeet, was
gradually rehabilitating his modest for
tune out of the devas alton of the Civil
war; Id it would have been difficult
to find a happier, more contented lit
tie family in the lowly walks of life.
The last / heard of IL the u was
still standing; but James Moon-as
brave a man. mis- comrades said. as
served in the Southern ranks-had left
it, literally scared away, with his wife
and children from his W rooftree
In the aforementioned year and
with no warning, this peaceful country
home became the scene of a series #
most terrifying, unexplainab!e,
visitations. Loud, impera-
tive knocking would assail the front
door at night; but, on its being opened,
a human being could be seen. The
and %tramping of heavy footsteps
would sound through the hall running
front to rear Of the building, nut
nocturnal invaders were invisi-
BILE. In a room of which the windCws
were latched and the door locked,
overturned and tables violently
down would be heard by the
but an examination of The
room would find all its furniture undis-
turbed. On the roof it would seen,
the terrible noise made, as if a
of men were ripping off the shin
giles, and tearing away the ~rafters, and
o n then, stones and 9TH
er missiles were apparently lombard
ing the devoted house on all sides.
Some months ago a writer in the
Richmond Times-Dispatch comment
ing on the unaccountable ciroun-
which made the Moon Ghost
it was called, the subject of wonder
ng speculation all over the country,
brought up the fact that bands of de-
men, fully armed, watched
he house in reliefs night after night,
that numbers of students of the
University of Virginia took turns n
guard around the homestead
but nothing ever cleared away the
darkness of the mystery. J. II. NJ.
Fayetteville, June 6.