Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1881 — Washington's Clock. [ARTICLE]

Washington's Clock.

New York Tribtmp. ■ t { ' f A “mysterious incident” is said te have happened the other day in. Washington’s favorite room in the old mansion at Mount Vernon. In,the Foom are manycrellcs of Washington,in4luding an old, round faced, peculiar-shap-ed clock, which has stood: jn silence for forty years. Only two or three rusty wheels are left in it. On the afternoon of Nov. 16 Mr.' J. McH. Hollingsworth, superintendent - of the Mount Vernon association, was Showing the relics to a party of visitors. He came to the old clock. “This clock/* said he—when, to his astonishment and terror, “three afropg, distinct strokes” were struck upon the bell of the clock, and were heard by all in the party. Mr. Rollings worth ‘‘was Overcome with emotion,” and requested, the visitors to leave the room. He could not understand the phenomenon. The clock, he said, hSti not been disturbed iu the twelve years that he had been superintendent of tbe grounds. It is open in the back, and one can see, he said, that the works are broken and only a few of the wheels reteain in position. The whole thing was a fcnysterv to him. The details of th.»' occurrence are given by “J. W. Buel,” in a letter to the St. Louis Republican, and “this story,” he says, “is not a sensation, but a fict.” If he or "Mr. Hollingsworth could muster The courage t-> examine the ancient t.nid-pleoe, it would probably be found"; shat? the mysterious striking was due, to?, the breaking of a spring or wheel. -