THE DAILY EVENING TKLEGKAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1871
A STRING OF QUO ST STORIES.
The writer has, has in coramm witb mtuy
others, great curiosity in all matters con
hoc ted with the supernatural.
Without desiring to prove logically that it ia
often more difficult to doubt than to believe,
the writer cultivates a mind in abeyance,
ready to believe what is supernatural, on the
name proofs, and with the same faith, as what
is natural.
Direct ocnlar evidonce, or the strongest
circurustnncial evidence, being the rule in
courts of law, nothing ia hereafter stated on
the warrant of the writer that would not be
considered good lefjal evidence. The fact,
come direct from the witnesses themselves,
and were by them relate! to the writer.
Sir W. S. was a general oflicer, well known
in the Indian Rerviee. He died
lately at Florence. Ilia widow is alive, and
she related what follows:
Tbc-y bad been living for many yeirs in
India, with a sister, to whom Lady S. was
tenderly attached. loth had arraugod to
return toKngland about the same time, but
Lady S. left Crst, much against her wish.
Her sister was to follow ns soon as possible.
On reaching England, Lady H. anxiously
looked for letters with news of her sister's
plans. Iu this state of anxiety she dreamed
one night that her sister appeared before her,
in long white trailing clutnos, dripping with
wet, her face ghostly pale, her fair hair,
which was remarkably long and beautiful,
falling around her, save on the right bide of
her head, wLich was closely cut.
The dream was so shookiog, and so dis
tinct, that Lady S. became greatly alarmed.
She carefully noted the date of its occur
rence. Her anxiety to receive letters in
creased. They came at last. Her sister
bad embarked shortly after her, and died at
sea. By her own request a portion of her
beautiful hair was cut off before she died, to
bo sent to Lady S. She was buried at sea at
the precise hour of Lady S.'s dream. ,
Onptuin Campbell, of 8., is well known as
a spirited writer on Indian fiteld sports. He
and his wife were stayiug with me ia th3
Highlands of Argyleshire, when he related the
following circumstances:
8. Castle, his family plaoo, stands on
the const of Kintyre, that wildest part of
Argyleshire facing the sea. It is a regular
feudal stronghold, small, snare-turreted,
placed on a pile of rocks, lapped by the sea.
lieLind rise barren hills in long monotonous
lines, broken below into grass-fields divided
by walis, or dykes, as they are called in Soot
land. There aro no trees, nothing but the
clouds, the hills, and the sea. Under the old
castle, along the shore, nestle a few grey
hovels. These, with the grey castle above,
form the village of S.; a place that, oven in
summer, chills one with its suggestive look
of wintry blasts and roaring sea storms.
One special autumn morning Captain Camp
bell started to shoot grouse on the moors far
away beyond the hills. His path lay along
the shore by a little pier and a low wail
raised as a barrier to the waves. Under this
wall lay moored the lishing boats of his
tenants, who, on the borders of Loch Fyne,
look to the famous herrings of those waters
for their support.
As he passed this low wall he saw four men,
well known to him, preparing their nets for a
start. The day was boisterous, the wind
moaned along the shore, and the white
crested waves rode in, angrily striking
against the wall. Captain Campbell halted
for a few moments to speak to the men and
to wish tbeaa a good haul.
All day he was out on the moors, inland.
The wind had risen, and stormy gusts of rain
swept over the water and the land. As he
returned he again took the coast road, al
though it was further round. lie felt, he
said, a strange necessity to do so he oonld
not explain to himself at the time. Tne
sea was now very rough and lashing
furiously against the low wall; the sun was
setting in a bank of lurid clouds opposite.
Leaning against the wall, as if resting, the
sickly sunshine lighting up distinctly their
forms and faces, which he fully recognized,
he saw the same four men with whom he had
spoken in the morning. Being late, he did
not stop, but merely bade them good night in
passing, and scarcely noticed that they neither
raised their caps nor replied to him.
As he entered the enclosed court of the
castle, his wife ran out to meet him, exclaim
ing, "Oh, Campbell, how thankful I am you
are returned ! The most dreadful aocident
has happened. The boat, with So-and-so on
board (naming the four men he had just
seen), has capsized in a sudden squall near
the shore, lower down; they are all drowned,
and their poor wives are almost mad with
grief!"
'Impossible, my dear!" replied Captain
Campbell; "I have this instant seen those
yery men by the low wall at the jetty."
"Seen them!" cried she. "it is but an
hour ago their bodies began to drift on the
beach, and one still is missing, but the morn
ing tide is expected to bring it in ! As the
boat capsized in the bay, it was all distinctly
seen by the watchers."
Then Captain Campbell understood that
the forms he had Been were the wraiths of
the drowned men, standing there to bid good
by to the laird, and he went down to the vil
lage to comfort the widows.
At Walton-on-Thames, close to the river,
was a villa, long the property of the T.
family. It was the favorite residence of a
certain eccentrio countess of that bouse,
known aa "the bad countess," who was so
fond of the place that, being of a violent and
strange temper, she declared that she would,
after her death, haunt the house should any
one " dare to destroy or alter it, specially
should they meddle with her own private
room. In the course of years the villa .
was sold to wealthy people, who entirely
disapproved of its small size and gloomy
rooms, and unmindful or ignorant of the
threats of Lady T., pulled down most of the
old house, and built a very tine modern man
sion in its place. This family, immensely
rich, whom we will call 8. It., were happy,
merry people, with many sons and daughters,
happy and merry also. Visitors always filled
the house; the rooms were large and spaoious,
the furniture new and showy; in fact, it was
the very last place in the world to be con
nected with the supernatural. Yet, very soon
after the new villa was built, Mrs. S. 11., the mij
tress of the house, came to be aware that a
particular bedroom, forming part of the old
house, was haunted by the countess on one
special day of the year. Year after year the
Fame appearance of a little old womiu,
strangely dressed, occurred to different visi
tors occupying this room, until Mrs. 8. It.
conld not doubt the fact. The room was, of
course, used as little as possible, but, one
day, some American friends landing unex
pectedly, and making a sudden visit to Wal
ton, were, for want of space, placed in it.
In the night, before the fire had gone out.
the husband and wife were aroused by the
door opening, and an old woman appearing,
dressed in an antique costume. She crossed
the room, stood for some time looking at the
bed, and then disappeared before either of
tixeiu could follow her. Not ia the least pre.
pared for a ghostly visitor, the Americans got
up, and tried to trace the figure, but in vaiu.
The next morning they asked Mrs. 8. R. who
conld possibly have entered their room in the
middle of the night, describing the Strang
dress and appearance of the visitor. Mrs. 8.
It. started and turned pale. She remembered
that very night was the date of the
yearly appearance of Lady T., which, in
the sudden arrival of her friends, she had
forgotten.
The following incident occurred in Rut
landshire about twenty years ago, and was
rela'.ed to the writer by the wife of one of
our bishops:
Mr. and Mrs. F.. were then yonnc people,
and the future episcopns was glad to accept
a country curacy near his father's residence.
A small house was taken in the pirish on
a four years' lease. After six mouths' resi
dence, Mrs. E. one Sunday morning ac
cidentally remained at home during church
hours, and was sitting in her bedroom. All
the household had gone to church awe the
cook, who was in a distant part of the houso,
cooKing. U rider Mrs. E.'s bedroom was a
drawing-room, which was only partially fur
nished, and therefore raroly usod. It was at
that time locked up, tho windows fastened,
the shutters shut, and the blimbj drawn down.
Suddenly Mrs. E. was disturbed bv hearing a
confusion of noi.ses in tho room below; the
door blammed repeatedly, the windows
thrown up and down, the blinds noisily
pulled, the furniture drawn about tho room,
in fact every evidence of the presence of a
large and noisy party. Mrs. E. at once rang
tho belli which was duly answered by the
cook.
"Vv'ho on earth is in the room below? Xiko
has unlocked the door?" she inquired.
"No one, ma'am," replied the'cook; "no
one is in the house but myself, and I am
busy in the kitchen."
"Impossible, go down and see; there is a
large party in the drawing-room."
The cook went and returned.
"The door, ma'am, was locked; I nufasteuo 1
it; the windows and shutters are shut, the
blinds down, the furniture unmoved."
Mrs. E. dismissed tho cook, and pondered.
Some time after this she sat more in the
drawing-room, the season being summer.
When alono there she heard the same noises
in the room overhead, that is, in her bed
room; chairs were dragged about, the tire
(when there were no coals in the grate) vio
lently poked, and the sound of feet was
plainly audible walking in and about the
room. Mrs. E. had not the courage to in
vestigate these noises as the cook had done,
but when she did go to her room everything
was in its accustomed place.
At first these noises were of rare occur
rence; as time went on hirdly a week elapsed
without their occurrence, and Mrs. E.,
though by no means a nervous woman, felt
really uncomfortable. Noises, too, came to
be heard in other parts of the house, and the
servants became alarmed. There was a
small room, intended for a school-room, near
the offices, where the servants sat; at one end
was a window and on the left side a door;
along tho window side of the wall a curtain,
drawn at night, covered both window
and wall. The servants were sitting
in the room one evening by candle-light,
when the curtain rustled in a manner to
draw their attention, and as they looked,
behind it was distinctly seen by all the im
press of a form, passing between the ourtaiu
and the wall, and holding off the ourtain by
the left arm. As this unseen form passed the
opening of the curtains a hand appeared for
an instant on the dark stuff, and a moment
after all those present were conscious that a
something which rustled in moving had
passed out of the room by the door from the
curtain, and that the room on that side be
came intensely cold. The servants all saw
and heard this visitation. The lease of the
house being nearly ended, the E.'s left it.
Mrs. E. says that nothing would have induced
her to remain there any longer, for that both
her husband and herself believed that the
house was haunted.
The writer cannot of course guarantee
what the servants saw; but, as forming a se
quel to Mrs. E.'s story, it has been related.
What follows is given in the words of the
lady herself, Miss Jones, now Mrs. Harford,
of Stapleton Manor-house, near Bristol:
"I live in a large, rambling, old house in
the country, built some time iu the fourteenth
century, according to a date found on an old
beam in the roof some years ago by a work
man who was employed to repair it. The
two lower floors are wainscoted, and a blow
on the wall causes a hollow sound, sugges
tive of places of concealment, which doubt
less would be discovered if the panels were
removed. The heuse has the charaeter of
being haunted. Indeed, strange and unac
countable noises are at times heard in va
rious parts of it. Singular lights have also
been seen, not only by the domostics, but
by visitors. I shall, however, confine my
self to one instance, of which I was a
spectator. Tie bed-room, which I still oc
cupy, where this circumstance took place,
is on the third floor. It is a large room with
bow windows, and at that time contained two
beds. An invalid sister and I shared the
larger and another sister occupied the smaller
bed. We always burned a night-light in the
room. At the end of October in the year
18.r)4, I was one night awakened suddenly
by some noise, and being perfectly awake, I
saw a female figure pass slowly aoross the foot
of the bed, going towards the windows. It
moved so deliberately that I had time to con
sider who it could be, while it was before my
ejes. A slight figure, and a fair sad face,
dressed in a white cap, and apparently a
white night-dress. It was sufficiently like
the sister in my bed to make 'me think it was
she, as I had no idea of its being anything
supernatural, and I only thought she was
taken ill. Bat I checked the intention I felt
at first to speak to her, as she had a great
dislike to being watched, and turned round,
not to have the appearance of doing so, when
to my surprise and alarm I saw her calmly
sleeping by my side. I then got immedi
ately out of bed, and carefully searched the
room. The door was bolted, and I looked be
hind the curtains. This room is papered,
and there was no place of concealment where
any one could hiie. I then saw that my
other sister also was quietly sleeping. I
did not like to wake my sisters, fear
ing to alarm the invalid, but I men
tioned the oircumstance the next diy,
though, of course, no one could otter any
suggestion on the subject, as none but my
self had seen the figure. Somo years after
wards I again saw the same apparition stand
ing by my bed, aud apparently gzing at m.
I was then alone, and immediately slartod up,
when it disappeared.
"I afterwards heitrd that a new servant,
who had arrived at tie house ouly tho previous-night,
had seen a similar figure, and I
believe, on that morning. She had men a
little after 5 o'clock to i;et through her work,
when she heard a door open near to which
she was passing, and saw a female figure
dressed in whit6 come out of the door, and
pass along the passage leading to my bed
room. It tvas about 5 o'clock that i saw the
apparition by my bed, but being in February,
the morning was still dark. When the house
keeper heard the girl relate the ciroumstance,
she tried to persuade her that she had seen
one of the servants coming out of the room;
but she persistently declared it did not re
semble sny one in the house. I have not
heard of the same apparition having been
seen by any person since that time, though
noises still continue to disturb at times the
members of our household."
C. Abbey, in Cheshire, the ancestral Reat
of the C. Family, is the nxt scone to which
the writer will invite the reader's attentiou.
The old part of this fine old mansion has
been made into bedrooms and offices, not
being in keeping with the splendor of modern
requirements. Thus, what used to be called
the "coved saloon" was first degraded into
a nursery, nnd is now used as a
bedroom. When the late Lord C. grew
oui, tins room, in which be
child, was occupied by his
who before her marriage
had played as a
niece, Miss P.,
resided in the
house. LaJly C.'s dressing-room was only
divided from tho "coved saloon" by a Buort
corridor.
One evening Miss P. wns alone dressing
for a very late dinner, and as she rose fro u
her toilet-glass to get some article of dress,
she saw standing near her bed a little iron
one, placed out in tho room away from the
wall the figure of a child dressed in a very
quaint frock, with an odd little ruff round its
neck. For some moments Miss P. stood and
stared, wondering how this strange little crea
ture could have entered her room. The full
glare of the candles was upon its face and
figure. As she stood looking at it, the child
begun running round and round the bed iu a
wild distressed way, with a look of suffering
in its little face.
Miss P., still more and more surprised,
walked up to the bed and stretched out her
hand, when tho child suddenly vanished, how
or where she did not see, but apparently into
the floor. She went at once to Lady C.'s
room, and inquired of her to whom the lit
tle girl could belong whom she had just seen
in her room, expressing her belief that it was
supernatural, and describing her odd dress
and troubled face.
The ladies went down to dinner, for many
guests were staying in the house. Ltdy
C. thought and thought over this strange
appearance. At last she remembered that
Lord C. had told her that one of his earliest
recollections was the grief he felt at tho
sudden death of a little sister of whom he
was very fond, fourteen years old. The
two children had been playing together in the
nursery the same "coved saloon," running
around and around the bed over-night. Iu
the morning when he woke he was told sho
had died in the night, and he was taken by
one of the nursery-maids to see her laid out
on her little bed in the "ooved saloon." The
sheet placed over her was removed to sho w
him her face. Tho horror he had felt at tho
first sight of death made so vivid an impres
sion on him that in extreme old age he still
recalled it. The dress and face of the child,
as described by Miss P., agreed precisely with
his remembrance of his sister. Both Lady C.
and Miss P. related this to the writer.
Dr. (inson, a physician resident at Rome, a
very old and esteemed friend, told the writer
what follows:
"I was called to attend an English girl
in Rome, Miss P., living with her aunt. Mrs.
Evans. From the first I saw it was a case that
must end fatally. I became Rretttly intorotad
in my patient, and attended her more as a
friend, at last, than as a doctor. When she
became worse my wife and I took tarns to sit
up during part of the night, so as to allow
Mrs. Evans to have some hours' rest.
"I wsB sitting, about 2 in the morning, in
the salon of the apartments ocoupied by
these ladies. Like many small apartments
abroad, the bedrooms opened from this cen
tral room. On my left was Mrs. Evans'
room, where she then lay asleep. On
the right was my poor patient's ro9m.
Both doors were open to enable me to hear
the one and call the other. I was sitting
in tho furthest part of the salon, which
was lighted by a lamp. I was as wide awake
as I am now. I had just turned up the lamp,
thinking that it grew dim, when I
saw a figure dressed in white pass out from
Mrs. Evans' door into Miss P.'s room. As it
slowly moved along the other end of the
salon from where I sat, I did not distinctly
see the face or features, but the unusual
dress, and a shadowy look about the figure,
which glided rather than walked, surprised
me. I concluded, however, as I sat looking
at it in the somewhat dim light, that it mus t
be Mrs. Evans who had gone to look at her
poor niece, dressed in some bedroom toilet
new to me.
"But, as she did not return, I rose and
looked into her door. Mrs. Evans was fast
asleep in her bed. ' I then went into Miss
P.'s room, who lay in a troubled doze.
"I was shocked at the sudden change in
her appearance since I saw her an hour
before. Death was in her face, which had
from white turned now to an ashy grey color.
About 5 o'clock I called up her aunt to take
my place.
"On retiring about ten o'clock in the morn
ing, I could not help questioning Mrs. Evans
as to whether she had gone late into her
niece's room. 'It was not I,' she replied. 'I
never moved from the time I lay down until
you CRlled me.'
"When I went into Miss P.'s room, she was
sinking rapidly. She clasped my hand with
all her remaining streugth, and began speak
ing quickly, but very indistinctly. I under
stood her t say, 'Ob, Dr. Gaston, I am so
glad you are come I can die n iw I have
something to tell you a white figure
in the night the figure of . Oh,
do try and understand me the white
figure ' These words were repeated
many times; but the poer girl spoke so low,
and she breathed with such difficulty, that it
was impossible for me to catch ner meaning.
Most painful was the struggle to tell me what
was on her miud. To the lost she held my
hand, und her lips moved, but no sound came
from them, and in half an hour she was dead."
Mrs. P. is a family connexion. She was
living with her husband at their country,
place during the autumn of a certain year.
She was in good health, as was her husband;
no trouble or agitation harassed ber mind; she
lived in luxurious ease, rich, quiet, and con
tented. She is, moreover, rather of a reserved
and silent ten per, not in the least sensitive,
or imaginative, or outward.
Mr. P., a complete country gentleman (and
a very affectionate husband, be it said), was
in the full enjoyment of the sporting season;
he hunted, shot, and fished, and farmed, and
gkrdeiied; he was, indeed, as jovial as heart
could desire.
One memorable day Mr. P. went out early
to shoot with two friends. They went to a
distant cover, aud were not eipeoted back
until late, so that Mrs. P. dressed herself for
dinner, and sat in the drawing-room, opening
from the ball, ready to receive them. There
was sufficient light not to require candles
before dinner. The gentlemen enterei the
house by the stables and offices, so that Mrs.
P. neither Baw nor spoke with her husband
until he came down dressed for dinner with
his two friends. Mr. P. introduced them to
his wife, and they made suitable apologies
for being late. While they were sitting
round the fire talking, Mrs. P. remembered
that she had lft her pocket-handkerchief on
the toilet-table in her room, and went out to
fetch it. The drawirjg-rooni led into the
hall, and in the hall, opposite the
entrance -door, was the principal staircase,
large and broad, with a spacious landing half
way up, lighted by high windows. On this
staircase Mrs. P. saw a gentleman ascending;
his back was towards her. He was dressed
in a velvet snit of such a peculiar form and
pat tarn that Mrs. IV. attention was specially
attracted. He slowly mounted the stairs.
She paused in the hall to observe him, won
dering who he was, aud why he was So
dresRed. As she stood, the gentleman passed
into a small dressing-room on the funding,
to the tight of the large windows, called "the
yellow dressing-room." Mrs. P. followed
him np stairs, got her bandkorchief, con
cluded that he was another guest piekod up
out of doors, and returned to the drawing
room. Mr. P. turned to her and said, as Rha
entered, "My dear, aro wo never to have din
ner? Wo are very hungry. Will you not
ling tho bell?"
"Had you not better," said she, "wait so
as to give your other friend a little time to
dr(s 't I have just seen him go up stairs
into the yellow dressing-room. He wore such
a curious dress. I want you to tell me who
he is."
Mr. r. turned very pale, and looked
strangely moved. At first he did not reply;
then he turned to her and said, in a sharp,
angry manner, very unusual with him, "You
must be out of your senses. What are you
talkiDg about? Pray ring for dinner nt
once. Let me hear no more of this stuff
about the gentleman in the yellow dressing
room.. My two friends here are our only
guests."
Mrs. P. began, in a low voice, asseverating
that she had seen some one, who was then in
the yellow dressig-rom, begging Mr. P. to
go np at once and convince himself. But he
checked her by so stern and straugo a look
that she dropped the subject and they went
to dinner.
At night, after the two guests were gone,
Mrs. P. said, "My deur, why were you so
savage before dinner ? I really did see most
distinctly that strangely dressed geutlemau
on the stairs. I so pat ticularly noticed his
velvet dress a kind of plum-color, with steel
buttons, and such an odd cut."
Her husband again looked agitated and
angry. "I beg you earnestly," said he,
"not to revert to this subject: it is a delusion;
you see I do not like it."
Mrs. P. felt there was some mystery she
could not fathom. Her husband's manner
was rough and unusual, he looked pale, and
was silent and dull. The subject dropped.
She went into the yellow dressing-room, how
ever, found everything untouched, and heard
through ber maid no one had been there.
A couple of days after Mrs. P. drove to a
rather distant part of the county, to visit
some relations of Mr. P.'s. She had often
been there before; but now, as she sat in the
dining-room at lunch, she became at once
conscious that among some family pictures
hanging on the walls there was one of a
gentleman in a plum-colored velvet suit of
antique cut, precisely similar to the figure
she had 6een on tho stairs. Turning to her
hostess. "Whom." said she, "does that pic
ture represent?"
"A common ancestor," wa8 the reply.
"The picture, indeed, ought to be in your
house, as your husband is the head of the
family, but it got into our branch by mar
riage; and, perhaps, on the whole, it is bet
ter that it should be here."
"I ask you," said Mrs. P., "because two
days since I saw a gentleman in our house
exactly resembling it, with that odd coat,
and no one saw him but me; and I cannot
understand what became of him."
"Pray," whispered the cousin, "say no
thing about it. I thought you must have
known that there is a tradition that whenever
the head of our family is to die, that figure
is said to appear; but, indeed, I don't believe
it (seeing Mrs. P. turn very pale), I have no
faith in such things. Thank God, we are all
well. I wish I had not told you. Do not
mention it, however, to Mr. P., for it is a
painful subject with him, I believe."
Mrs. P. not being, as I said, imaginative,
was not (as she told me) as much alarmed as
might have been expected. She thought it
strange, specially in connection with her
husband's irritated, angry manner. On her
return home she found Mr. P. in his usual
health; but that very night he was taken sud
denly ill, and a week from the time she had
seen the figure on the stairs, he died.
Mrs. Brook related ta me the following
particulars, in presence of her daughter:
She and her family were living at South
ampton, in a small house, Bomewhat out of
the town. Her establishment consisted of a
butler and two maid-servants. Whenever
she spent the evening out, she took the
house-key with her, and desired the butler
to place on a table in the hall a candle and
some matches and to go to bed, so that
her return mignt not disturb the rest of the
family.
One evening some friends acoompaniod
Mrs. Brook to the door, and having seen her
safe inside, took leave, and left her. The
moon was shining, and it was a fine night.
W bile Mrs. Brook was holding the matches
in her hand, and in the aot of lighting the
candle, she saw a man come down the stair
case into tho hall, opposite to where she
stood, still busy lighting the candle.
Thinking it was the butler who had
awaited her return, she uaii: "Oh! how
can you be so foolish as to Bit np, when
you know I have ordered you to go to
bed, and do not wish it? Why did you
do so?"
As she spoke the figure slowly moved along
the hall, and began to descend the kitchen
stairs.
Not receiving any answer, and the candle
being now well alight, she looked up more
attentively, and wondered to herself why the
butler did not speak, and why he wore a cut
away coat and brass buttons; for, from the
dimness of the candle and the uncertain
moonlight, she noticed nothing otherwise
singular in his appearance. As it was late,
she went up at once to bed, leaving her door
open in order to hear the butler return up
stairs to his room. She undressed aud went
into ber daughter's room, who was awake. "I
cannot conceive," said she to her, "why
James should have sat np for me to-night
against my express orders, and now he is
sta)ing the most unaocountable time in the
kitchen. I must go and wake Jane" (the
maid), "and make ber go and see what be is
about. It is very odd."
The maid was called and asked to go down
and look after James. "James, ma'am! "said
she; "he is iu bed up-stairs, aud I am sure be
has not moved, or I should have heard him
overhead and on the stairs, I am such a light
sleeper." Miss Brook had heard nothing
either. Mid. Brook was aghast.
"There was a man in the honse, then, for
he passed close to me in the hall. I did not
look at his face, for I was lighting my candle,
but I took it for granted it was James. And
the odd coat, too. There is a man conoealed
below, and we must make James get up at
once."
James was found fast asleep in his bed; he
had never stirred. He got up and went down
stairs, followed by Mrs. Brook and the maid.
The doors were all barred and locked, the
windows fastened. Every hole and corner
searched, no one was found, not a chair even
had been moved. Mrs. Brook began to feel
uncomfortable; the singular dross struck her,
and something strange in the motion of the
figure, which in the hurry of the moment she
had not remembered.
At last, tired out and very much frightened,
they all went to bed. Next morning a police
man was Bent for, and Mrs. B. described tho
whole occurrence and the appearance
of the figure. "Oh," replied the po
liceman "that was the ghost many
have seen that ghost in this house before.
He walks down those stairs from the top
of the bouse. Years ago his master murdered
biin below, at the foot of the stairs near tho
kitchen, and his body was found tbero. If
you take up the matting you will see the
stains of blood in the flooring, which no
washing will remove." Mrs. Brook did soa
some dark marks on the spot indicated. She
left the bouse almost immediately. All the
Ytar Hound.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
tj THE LORRAINE VEGETARLE CATJIAR
TIC PILL Is far tlie best Cathartic reraeily yet
discovered. The most complete success has Ion:?
attended ltsue. It never falls to accomplish all
that is claimed for It. It produces Utile or no p.ilti ;
leaves the organs free from Irritation, and never
overtaxes or excites the nervous system, la all
diseases of thu skin, blond, stomach, bowels, liver,
kidneys of children, and In mauy diillcultlcs pecu
liar to women, It brings prompt relief ami certain
cure. The best physicians recommend and prescribe
It; and no person who ouce uses It will voluntarily
return to auy oilier cathartic It Is sold by all deal
ers In drugs and medicines.
Tl'RNKR & CO., Proprietors,
10 6 thgtn? No. 120 Trcmont street, Boston, Mass.
i.y- TURNERS I:N1VF.R3L NEUrTuIIA
PILL is an UNFAILING REMEDY for Neu
ralgia Facialis. No form of Nervous Disease falls
to yield to Its wonderful power. Even In the severest
cases of Chronic Neuralgia Its use for a fewdavs
a (fords the most astonishing relief, aud rarely fails
to produce a complete and permanent cure. It con
tains no materials In the slightest degree Injurious.
It has the iinrpialiflcd approval of the best physi
cians. Thoupamls, In every part of the country,
gratefully acknowledge Its power to soothe the tor
tured nerves and restore tne failing strength.
It Is sold by all dealers In drugs aud medicines.
TI'HNER A CO., Proprietors,
829 mwfSl No. 120 TKKyONT St., Boston, IVXass.
TO TIJE IIOLDENS OK OHIO STATE
STOCK 8. Notice is hereby given that the
Interest due January 1, 1S71 . on the Funded Dot of
the Sta?c of Ohio, will oe paid at the American Ex
change Natlouul Rank, In the city of New York,
from the 1st to the Run proximo, aud thereafter at
our othce la this city. ColunibuB, Ohiu, December
13, 1670.
JAMES II. GOTVWAN, Auditor of State,
ISAAC R. MlfcRUOOD, Secretary of State,
FRANCIS R. POND, Attorney-Oeueral, ,
Commissioners of the Sinking Fund of tho State of
Ohio. 12 30 1m
agf BATCH ELOR'S II AIR DYE. TIIIS SPLEN
did Hair Dve ia the best In the world, the ouly
trne and perfect Dye. Harmless Reliable Instan
taneous no disappointment no ridiculous tints
"l)on not contain Lead nor any Vilalia foiirnn ta i
fure the Hair or .fjntan." Invigorates the Hair aud
leaves It soft, and beautiful ; Black or Brown.
Sold by all Druggists and dealers. Applied at the
Factory, No. 16 BON I) Street, New York. 4 27'in wf
Iks- thjTunion FIRE EXTINGUISHER
COMPANY OK PHILADELPHIA
Manufacture and sell the Improved, Portable Fire
Extinguisher. Always Reliable.
D. T. GAGE,
5 30tf No. 118 MARggT St., General Agent.
Zgg- TilE IMPERISHABLE PERFUME I AS A
rule, the perfumes now In use have no perma
nency. An hour or two after their use there la no
trace of perfume left. How different Is the result
sncceeditig the use of MURRAY 4 LANMAN'S
FLORIDA WATER I Days after Its application the
handkerchief exhales a most delightful, delicate,
aud agreeable fragrance. 3 1 tutkn
A MEETING OF THE CONTRIBUTING
mw MKX1P.KR3 OF THE YoUNG MEN'ti HO MB
of Philadelphia will be held at No. 400 WALNUr
Street, on THURSDAY, tne 2d of February next, at
11 o'clock A. M. SAMUEL ASHUURS T,
Secretary pro tena.
PhUadelphia, Jan. 18, 1S71. 1 17 Ut
gy INSTEAD OF USING COMMON TOILET
Soap at this season of the year, use "Wright's
Mediated Glycerine .Tablet of Solidified Glycerine."
It softens tne skin, prevents redness and chapping
by cold, and beautifies the complexion.
For sale by Druggists generally.
k. . a. WRinnT,
1 6 fmw2Ct No.6?4 CtiESNUT M., Phtlau'a,
OFFICE BUCK MOUNTAIN COAL CO.
1'iiii.ADKLruiA, Jan. 1, 1S71.
The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the
BUCK MOUNTAIN COAL CO. will be held at the
office of the Company, No. 320 WALNUT Street, on
WEDNESDAY, February 1, 1871, at eleven (11)
o'clock A. M.
An election for seven Directors to serve the en
suing year will be :eld on the'sauie day between the
hours of 11 A. M. and P. M.
1 8 mw lot T. H. TROTTER, Treasurer.
fgy- THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE O M
" PANY OF PHILADELPHIA.
C0M!-ANY S Bl'ILMMJ, No. 400 WALNCT RTRKET.)
January a, is; l.
The Directors have this day declared a dividend
of 1HREE PERCENT, on the capital stock of tho
Company lor tlm last six innMiig, payable, on de
mum!, free of all taxes. ALEX. W. WISTElt,
1 2tf Secretary.
t- JOUVINS
KID GLOVE CLEANFR
gloves equal to new. For sale
by all druggists and fancy goods dealers. Price S5
cents per bottle. 11 SSmwfi
ftf- DISPENSARY FOR SKIN DISEASES, NO.
w 210 S. ELEVENTH Street.
Patients treated gratuitously at this Institution
daily at 11 o'clock. 114
tfy- DR. F. R. THOMAS, No. 9U WALNUT S'Ei
formerly operator at the Colton Dentil Rooms,
devotes his entire practice to extracting teeth with
out pain, with fresh nitrous oxide gas. 11 174
y THURSTON'S IVORY PEARL TOOTH
POWDER is the bent article for cleansing and
preserving the teeth. For sale by alt Druggists.
Price 25 and 60 cents oer bottle. 11 id alutoly
ggf JAMES M. SCOVEL HAS ESTABLISHED
Law and Collection Agency for Pennsylvania
and New Jersey at No. 614 WALNUT Street. -Vl'ii
OORDAOE, ETO.
CORDAGE.
Manilla, filial and Tarred Gordaga
At LowMt Raw York PriAM and FraJghta.
EDWIN II. F1TLER CO
rtatcry, TENTH Bt. and QKRMAKTO WH inu
Btora, No. 83 B. WATJtB Bt and B H DELAWAJS
AYTanua.
1 12m PHILADELPHIA!
MILLINERY.
Ty K B. R. DILLON
NOS. 323 AND 8S1 SOUTH STREET,
FANCY AND MOURNING MILLINERY, CRAPE
VEILS.
Ladles' and Misses' Crape, Felt, Gimp, Hair, Ratln,
Silk, Straw and Velvets, Hata and Bonnets, French
Flowtrs, Hat and Bonnet Framea, Capes, Laces,
Silks, Satins, Velvets, Ribbons, Sabhes, Ornament
and all kinds of Millinery Goods. 1 4
COTTONTAIL DUtWANVAiToF ALf
numbers and brands. Tent, Awning, Trunk
and Wajron-oover Duck. Alao, Paper Manufao
turera' Drier Felu, from thirty to aevemj-au
mchea, wit Paulina,
o. 10 CHURCH Btreet (Citl btoiaal,
N.
NOTICE. BY VIRTUE AND IN EXECUnOR
of the powers contained In a Mortgage
cuted bv
1U CENTRAL PASSENGER RAILWAY C05i
PANY
of the city of Philadelphia, bearing date of elgft
teenth of April, lso3, and recorded in the office for
recording deeds and mortgages for the city an
county of Philadelphia, in Mortgage Book A. C. II.,
Ko. M, page 4tw, etc., the undersigned Trustee
named In raid Mortgage
WILL 8RI.L AT PUBLIC AUCTION,
at the MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE, la the CltJ 0
Philadelphia, by
nrssrs. Thomas pons, auctioneers,
at H o'clock M., on TUESDAY, the fourteenth day
of February, A. D. 1871, the property described Ut
and conveved by the said Mortgage, to wit:
No. 1. All ttiose two contiguous lots or pieces of
ground, with the buildings and Improvement
thereon erected, situate ou the east side f Broad
street, in the city of Philadelphia, one of them be
ginning at the distance of nineteen feet seven Inches
and iive-elht southward from the southeast cor
ner of the said Broad and Coates streets: thence
extending eastward at right angles with said Broad
street eighty-el: lit feet one inch aud a half to ground
now or late of Samuel Miller: thence southward
along 8ftid ground, and at right angles wUh said
Coates strett, seventy-two feet to the northeast
corner of an alley, two feet six Inches In width,
leading southward Into Pennstrert; thence west
ward, crossing guld alley aul along the lot of gronnd
nereltialter.ricHcrlhed and at right angles wltn said
Broud street, seventy-nine feet to tho. east si le of
the said Broad street: Bud thence northward alonr
theeust line of sa'd Broad street seventy-two feet
to the piece of beginning. Subject to a ground-rent
of 2H, silver money.
No. 2. The other of them situate at the northeast
comer of the said Broad street and Pcnn street,
containing In front r breadth ou the said Broad
street eighteen leet, and In length or depth eastward
along the north line of said Penn street Reventy-four
Iceland two inches, and cn the line of said lot paral
lel with tald Pern street, seventy-six feet Dve Inches
and three-fourths of an. nch to said two feet six
Inches wide alley. Subject to ground rent of $72, all
ver money.
No. 3. All that eertalnt ot or piece of gronnd be.
finning at the southeast corner of Coates street and
ircad street, thence extending southward along
the said Bread street nineteen feet sven Inches and
five-eighths of an Inch: thence eastward eighty feet
one Inch and one-half of an Inch; thence north
ward, at. right angles with said Coates street, nine
feet to the south side Of Coates street, and thence
westward along the south 8 He of said Coatea street
ninety feet to the place of beginning.
No. n. Tlie whole road, plank roaV and railway of
the fald The Central Ptishenger Railway Company
of the city of Philadelphia, and all their land (not
Included hi Is ok. 1, aud 3), roadway, railway, raiis,
right of way, stations, toll-houses ami other super
structures, depots, depot grounds and other real
estnte, bulldli gs and improvements whatsoever,
and all and singular the corporate privileges and
franchises connected witl said company and plank J
road and railway and relating thereto, and all the
tolls, lnccme Issues and profits to accrue from the
same or any part thereof belonging to said company,
and generallv ail the tenements, hereditaments and
franchises of the said company. And alao all the
cars of every kind (uot Included In No. 4), machinery,
tools, implements aud materials connected with the
proper equipment, operating and eoiehictlng of Bald,
road, plank road and railway; and all the personal
property of every kind and description belonging to
the sold company.
Together with all the streets, ways, alleys, pas
sages, waters, water-courses, easements, fran
chises, rights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments,
and appurtenances whatsoever, onto any of the if
and appertaining, and the reversions and remain
ders, rents, issues, and prod Is thereof, and all the
estate, right, tlUe, Interest, property, claim, and de
mand of every nature and kind whatsoever of the
said company, as well at law as In eqnity of, la, and
to the same and every part and parrel thereof.
TERMS OF SALE.
The properties win be sold In parcels as num
bered. On each bid there shall be pild at the time
the property Is "struck off on No. 1, $300; No. 8, J
$200; No. 8, $H00; No. e, $100, unless the price
less than that sum, when the whole sum bid shall '
be paid.
W. I SCnAFFER, TrnBtcfl
W. W. LONGSTRETn.f lrnBwes
M. THOMAS A, SONS, Auctioneers,
12 5 COt Nos. 139 and 141 8. FOURTH Street
W ATONES. JEWELRY. ETO.
TOWSIf CLOCKS.
ITo. 22 NOItTH SIXTII BTKEKT,
Agent for STEVENS' PATENT TOWER CLOCKS,
both Kemontolr & Graham, Escapement, atnklng
hour only, or striking quarters, and repeating hour
on full chime.
Estimates furnished on application either person
ally or by mail. fiats
WILLIAM B. WARNS A CO.,
Wholesale Dealers In
WATCHES, JEWELRY, AND
aaiyl SILVER WARE,
First floor of No. csa CUES NUT Street,
a Jr. corner SEVENTH and CUESNUT Streets.
CROOERIES, ETO.
SHOTWELL
feWEET CIDER.
ALBERT O. ItOIJKUTS,
Dealer In Fine Groceries,
11 7 Corner ELEVENTH and VINE Sts,
E D UOATI ON A L.
TV
WASHINGTON COLLEGE,
VIRGINIA,
GENERAL G. W. CU8TIS LEE, PwllSIDBNT.
WITH FOURTEEN FROFKSSOHS.
The Spring Teriu of the present season begins on
wo
FIRST OF FEBRUARY.
The rearrangement of clauses then made enables
students to enter the several schools with advan
tage. Students entering at this tliuu pay only half
AH the ACADEMIC SCHOOLS of the College, asi
WPB an me 1-ron ssionai scnooia O' LAW and EN
GINEKUING, are In full operation.
For lunher iul urination, address
WILLIAM DOLD,
Clerk of Faculty, Lexington, Va.
January 1, 1871 i n er
1
DGEUILL SCHOOL
M UROH ANTVILLE, N. J.,
Four Miles from Philadelphia. .
Next session begins MONDAY, January 9, 1871.
For circulars apply to
Elly Rev. T. W. OATTBTA.
CUTLERY, ETO.
RODGEHS A WOSTENUOLMTi POCKET
KNIVES, Pearl and Stag Dandle, and
beautiful Cn:xh; Rodgeia', and Wada &
Butcher's Razors, and the celebrated Le.
coultre Razor; Ladles' Scissor, la oasea,
of the finest quullty ; Rodgera' Table Cutlery, Carvert
aud Forks, Rbznr Strops, Cork Screws, etc Ear In
strumenta, lw assist the hearing, of the moat aa J
proved construction, at r. ju AumiiA'H,
No llfi TENTH Street mnm Cheanut
SAXON GREEK
HEVER FADED.
s iem
Com Exchange Bag Manufactory.
JOHN T. BAILEY,
X. E. Cor. WATER and MARKET Bt.
ROPS AND TWINE, BAGS and BAGGING, fof
Grain, Flour, bait, feuper-FhospUaie ot Lime. iioa
Dnst, Etc.
Large and am all GUNNY BAGS coustantl
baud. Aio, WOOL BACEJj.
REAL. ESTATE AT AUOTIO