The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-01-16
THE DEAD MEMS TRAIN ON THE
OLD COLONY ROAD.
SPIRITS RUNNING THE LOCOMOTIVE.


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SPIRITS RUNNING THE LOCOMOTIVE.
The Old Colony Memorial, publish
ed at Plymouth, narrates an incident
which is sufficiently marvellous to please
the most ardeut believers in "signs and
wonders"
It states, as matter of common no.
toriety in Plymouth, that during the
last summer months, between three and
four o'clock in the morning, there was
regularly and distinctly heard upon the
railroad the whistle, as of an approach
ing train. As it was we'll known, how
ever, that no train passed over the road
at such time in the morning, four gen.
tlemen at the Somerset House deter
mined to investigate the mystery. Ac-
cordingly, unknown to any one, they
one morning about two o'clock stationed
themselves on the railroad track, about
mile from town, and awaited the arri-
val of the supernatural visitor. They
did not watch long. nor wait in vain, fer
Immediately they distinctly heard, far
off in the north, the sound of rail-ay
whistle, and presently " the distant clat-
ter of wheels was sheard-louder, nearer,
nearer still 1t came-the click of the
rails in their chairs the rush of steam
was as plain In their ears as if the Ian
tern glared before them-the shrek of
demon whistle close at hand made
them lean from the track, as the train
Numbered down the grade-the hot
breath of the painting stecd was in their
very faces as it passed-as the unearth-
ly scream ceased, they heard the brake
men serewing up their brakes, the tinkle
of the bell, and a sound of meeting cars,
as if the invisible spectre monster of the
road had reached his journeys end"
About month since, says the Mem
orial, one of the watchers visited
spirit circle in Boston, where he was an
estires stranger to all present but one to
whom he had never revealed the sum-
mer's incident, when the engineer of the
spiritual train held converse with the as
tonished company. A potracted sit
ting was suddenly brought to close, by
the communicating spirit announcing
that he must go.
" Where and for what 20 some one
asked. /" To run the train" was the
prompt answer. The sitters looked each
upon the other and said, What train ?'
was the universal exclamation. Thes
Old Colony train" was the reply. "Do
you mean for US to understand that at
this hour of the night train of cars
passes over this railway? ?" There was
a long pause.
Slowly and deliberately, as if making
no common revelation, the arm of the
medium moved at last, and the pencil
wrote these words, q In life I was an
engineer upon that road. At stated in
servals, a train, unseen of mortal eyes,
.akes the spirits of pious dead to the
Pilgrim home they consecrated by their
ives. Mr. -, who is with you, will |
say whether he has ever heard or knows
lught of that train It is not for NOR
tals to know more.n
The 1IemoriaL vouches for the truth |
of this wonderful narrative. It is lit
lie singular, we will simply hint, that
spirits who can enter rooms with closed
doors, and who are ever present at the
,all of mediums, should require train
If cars to transport them to Plymouth
Boston Journal, Dec. l7th.
HUMAN ELEVATION" know" said
/" but one elevation of hu-
nan being, and that is the elevation of
5ouk Without this, it matters nothing
where man stands or what he possesses
ind with it, he towers-he is one of
Gods nobility, no matter what place he
lolds in the social scale. There are
lot different kinds of dignity for differ
mt orders of men, but one and the same
or all. The only elevation of human
,eing consists in the exercise, growth
md energy of the higher principles and
powers of his soul. A bird may be shot
Upward to the skies by foreign force,
,ut it rises, in the true sense of the
Tord, only when it spreads its own wings
nd scars by its own living power. So
man may be thrust upward in a con-
picuous place by outward accidents, but
le rises only so far as he exerts himself,
md expands his best faculties, and as
ends by free effort to a noble region
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