Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-10-07

"You certainly did not see her." said
one Of them, " for she has been very sick
for nearly week, and is not expected to
live"
The lady, however, was confident that she
could not have been mistaken, for there was
no other child living within many miles that
in the least resembled her.
A few minutes aiterward, boy who had
been sent to inquire respecting her, return
ed with the information that she had been
dead about half an hour-the same length
of time which had elapsed, as nearly as
could be ascertained, since the lady had
seen her in the orchard.
Another lady related to me the following
instance of spectral apparition.
A young man who was going short sea.
voyage for his health, was in the habit oil
frequently spending a day Or two in the fam.
lily of which she was member. They re.
sided about twelve or fifteen miles from Bos.
ton, whence he was going to sail, and the
last time he took leave of them, it was part.
ly with the expectation of re-visitng them
as he did not expect that the vessel would
be ready for sea before eight or ten days.
About a week after his departure, as she
was one afternoon sitting by chamber win.
dow, no other person being in the house
she saw him enter the yard and approach
the front door. She descended in haste
expecting to meet him in the entry, as he
was too Familiarity acquainted to perform the
ceremony of knocking. Not meeting him
as she had anticipated she opened the door
but neither he nor any other person was on
the outside. She then stepped out so as tc
command view of the street. No one was
in sight, and with feeling Of disappoint.
ment she re-entered the house. She men.
toned the circumstance TO the other mem
bers of the family when they returned, but
little was thought of it, as they as well as
she concluded that some person whose gen
eral appearance was similar to his, had mis-
taken the house for some other, and, discov
ering his error, had withdrawn before she
opened the door.
Soon afterward news came that the YES
sci had sailed that very day, the preparation.
for the voyage having been completed soon
err than had been expected.
| In few months afterward, his friends re
ceived a letter from the captain of the YES
gence that their young relative feel over
board the day he sailed, soon after they hat
left the harbor, and, that the wind being
high at the time, it was found impossible t.
rescue him.
One more instance of what has been con
sidered spectral appearance, would, hav,
sometimes been inclined to think if it ad
United of investigation, prove similar to thu
story of the delrious patient who rose from
his bed, and by means of a p.sss-koy entere,
the summer-house where were assembled
the club of which he was a member, ant
over which he was that evening to have pre-
sided
A lady who was resident of city il
New England, and had in early youth re
ceived promise of marriage from mar
of wealth, who afterward deserted her aut
married another, was one evening sitting
alone, no other person being in any part o
the house.
The evening was dark and stormy, causin.
the streets to be comparatively deserted, S,
that there was little to interrupt the silenc,
except the moaning of the wind, and thu
pattering of the rain against the windows
Suddenly she heard two or three smart rap
against the outer door, as if with a horse
mans whip. 1t was not without some Sigh
feeling of alarm that she went to the doc
and opened it. She was greatly surprise,
to see the man standing ON the DOORSTEP
who had, dozen years before, so basely de
ceIved her, and with whom, since his mar
riage, she had never once spoken.
He was enveloped in aplaid cloak, whicl
he was in the habit of wearing-a carmen
which at that time was just coming int
fashion.
81 have deeply injured YOU" said he, ca
ling her by name, " and wish, as far as al
able, to make reparation. | must have som
conversation with you in private"
AS he spoke, he made movement as
he intended to enter the house. She wa
much frightened, for his eyes looked will
and staring, and he spoke hurriedly, and q
if out of breath. She refused his request
for the thought struck her, owing to his vii
look and incoherent manner, that he migl
mean to take her life, Instead of urgin
the wish he had expressed for an interview
with the pertinacity which might have bee
expected from the earnestness with whic
he first addressed her, he turned abrupt
away, while much relieved she shut the doc
and locked it.
/ The next day she heard he was dead, h
7 decease having taken place the previor
: evening, after three or four days illness
a fever, though owing to the course she ha
r prescribed to herself of avoiding, as far
possible, all knowledge of his proceeding
she was not aware that he was not in II
S enjoyment of his usual health at the tin
e she saw him at the door.
4 All the foregoing instances of spectral
, fusion were related by persons of unique
: peared as realities, it may be remarked
/ am apology for their credulity, that eve
e philosophers had not then become so fam
= lar with the wonders of science as at Il
a present day.
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