The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1827-09-20
A DEATH WARNING.

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A DEATH WARNING.
Lord Rossmore was advanced in years, but
never heard of his having single days in
disposition. He bore, in his green old age,the
appearance of robust health. During the vice
royalty Of Earl Hardwick, Lady Darlington,
at drawing room in Dublin Castle, met
Lord Rossmore. He had been making up
one of his weekly parties from Mt. Kennedy
to commence the next day, land had sent down
orders for every preparation to be made. The
Lord Lieutenant was to be of the company.
IS NY little farmer,' said he to Lady Barring
ton, addressing her by pet name, g When
YOU go home, tell Sir Jonah that no business
is to prevent him from bringing you down to
dine with nae tomorrow. Twill have no ifs
in the matter, so come he must !''-She pro-
missed positively, and on her return informed
me other engagement, to which at once a
greed. We retired to our chamber about IL;
and towards two in the morning was awak-
ened by sound of very extraordinary ma
ture. listened: it occurred FIRST at short in
fervais It gesenbled neither voice nor an in
strument; it was softer than any voice, and
wilder than any music, and seemed to float
in the air. Idont know wherefore, but my
heart beat farcibiy. The sound became still
4nore plaintive till it almost died away in the
air; when a sudden change as if excited by a
s,ang, changed its tone it seemed descend
sng. / felt every nerve trenble it was not
a patHral sound, nor could [ make out the
paint from whence it came. At length / a.
Weakened Lady Darlington, who heard 1t as
well as myself She suggested that it might
be an Esiian harp; hut to that instrument it
Bore no simiiitnde: It was altogether differ
ent character Of sound. My wife at frst APP
peared less affected than myself; but subse-
quently she was more SO. We now went to
q large window in our bed room, which look
ed directly on a small garden beneath; the
sound seemed then obviously to ascend from
"A grass-plot Immediately below our window.
1t continued; Lady Darlington requested
that / weuld call up her maid, which | did,
and she was evidently more affected than Ell
theY of us. The sounds lasted for more than
half an h0nr. At last deep, heavy throb-
bling seemed to issue from the spot, and was
shortly succeeded by a sharp but low cry,
and by the distinct exclamation, thrice re-
peated, of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
will not attempt to deecribe my own feel
sngs; indeed cannot. The maid fed in hor-
rOr from the winow, and il was with diff
Guilty prevailed on Lady Darlington to re-
turn to bed in a minute after the sounds
died away, until all was silent. Lady Bar
zingt0n, who is not so superstitious as myself
attributed this circumstance to q hundred diff
ferent causes, and made me promise would
not mention it next day at Mt. Kennedy,
since we should thereby be rendered laugh
ing stocks. At length, wearied with specu-
satiOn, we fell into sound slumber. A
, bout the ensuing morning, strong rap at
my chamber door awOke me. The recOl-
lection Of the past nights adventure rushed
upon my mino, and rendered me very unfit
to he taken suddenly on any subject. 1t was
light, went to the door, when my faithful
servant exclaimed, 20 Lord!' What's the
the matter I said I. o sir! calculated he,
Lord Rossmore's footman was running past
the door in great haste, and told me that my
lord, after coming from the castle in perfect
health had gone to bed but that about half
after s his man hearing noise in his masters
bed, went to him and found him in the ago
MES Of death, and before he could alarm the
other servants, all was Oyern Iconjecture
nothing: only relate the incident unequivo-
cally as matter of fact. Lord Rossmore was
absolutely dying at the moment l heard his
naEne pronounced. Let sceptics draw their
own conclusions but am totally unequal
to the task.--Sv Jonah Barrington's Personal
Sketches. #
The following account of pestilence and
mortality, in the State of Georgia, is evident
ly highly coiored. The style of the article is
almost too poetical for matter of fact, and it
is to be hoped that the fears or the magma
ton ofthe writer have led him into exaggera-
ton.
From the Washington (Georgia,) "Neps," Of Au-
gust, 18th.
The death inAicting fever, which at present
RACES in this place & the surrounding country,
is, the mortality of Savannah in the year 1890
excepted, without a parallel in this State. In
! many families there isleft not one, untouched
of disease to administer to another. Our enter
pricing and humane physicians are nearly bro
ken down with excessive fatigue, or sinking,
themselves before the ravages of the distem-
per. In truth, our boast of saiubrity of eli
mate may not now be uttered. Our vallies
are no longer tenantable, and our plains melt
to the burnings of malignant sun. Our
mountains arc climbed by cOntagion--our rilIs