Reminiscences Of A Haunted House

THe ;ii-;nU.s oí eoUoegc boys cansed a lioi.s : na South Main street to gct the name of bciug haunted. About twenty or twenty-ftve inbare ago a large two-sior.v uaoccjipied dwelling house stood on the corner o: Jliiin and Hill streets and was owned ly Mr. or Mrs. E. W. Morgan. Uno dark íih it was entered presuwabjy by one of the letter jiocletios connected wich liio ü. o! M. TIü'.v were nitiating a junior Ut, who is now a s'.'iiator in one of the western states. The party entered and dcparted unobseryed. bul the noise and peculiar ligbcs in the secoud story Windows attracted the notioe oí late passers-by and these lights and notees being repeated, the uwelljiig soon was known as a liaunted house. Families tried to live there but alter a tay of a day or two would leave Some would say nothing when asked why they vaoated bo soou, ofhers would frankly adrait, that. the mysterious noiscs were so annoying they were compcllcd to lepve. On one occasion th house was watched ïrom the outsidc. At preeisely inidnight one of the Windows was suddenly Üghted up with a red light and a human tskeleton stood at the window bowlng ite head and shaking its meatless arms at them. It ís needless to say the watchers hastent'd away to their homes. : The ihouse burned to the ground a few years ago, but eigü-teen months before the fire it liad been ïhoroughly ovei-hauled and painted and a family was there. In one of the closets in the cliamber was ïound a crayon drawlng oi a snip on the stern of which were the letters S.O.M.E.E.S. and froni a yard arm were iianging by t li neet tliree men labelled respeetively, Öl'EXCUU, HMAI,!., CKOMWELL. These are the naiucs of the mo'n who were innig lor mut.iny on the ü. 6. war ship, táorners, uearly íiíty years ago. Spencer was a graduatu of an éltstern college and the ïounder of oe of the college secret speiéties.