The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-10-31
KENOSHA, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY OCTOBER 81, 1861.

considerably tight, and can't be certain whethe
wer asleep or awake t'other time it wer {
strange cat got into the room. Lord how fright
ened wer to be sure !
! Such a lame and impotent conclusion wa
disappointing. but the shepherd who had sa
very quiet since this subject had boon on the
tapts, now told US that sometime rather strange
had happened in his family thas ed tell us i
wa liked. Every one was agreeable to listen
Mrs Jack assured him, Sc he cleared his tn roa
and began
| One of my brothers was Tom he wer the
youngest lad but one, and she was gal, and
died; SO mother and father took to Tom most
OF all of US, and Tom wer very found of them:
and after he went to sea, every time he come
home he blinged the cid woman somethink.
| One Of them times he buyed her beautiful
set of china tea things; real chiGy they was,
ali complete and gifted over with gold most
beautiful Mother only used them on high days
and holidays.
Let's see. think it was my eldest sister as
had the two twins, ah ! so it was; pretty babies
they was too, as ever / see. and | was one OF
the god-faih hers, and after the christening we al
went down to mothers to tea.
Out comes the best clancy in course, and
mother she makes the tea, and we was all q
talking and laus hing, merry enought, when all
of a sudden the clancy teapot cracked from top
TO bottom! Then mother she slaps her hand on
The table, and busts out crying. and says:
There's something happened to my poor
Tom, know there is = and sure enough there
icGs, for he was drowned off Ingy, just about
the time the clancy teapot Cracked
We'll, that wor warning surely, said Mrs.
Jack, though fully ; some people say there ain I
nothing i'll warnings, but l knows there is
When my sisters husband died l said to her
rot ha
Mo- she says, Mary, know there's worse
to come, for the poor dears corpse is that lamp,
you mig ht throw him anywhere; and just to see
the trouble that dear creatures gone through
my blessed!'
Mrs. Jacks "reminiscences cast shade over
US all, and The clock striking ten caused GEN
eral move; Jack himself STOOD out for another
halt hour, but his better half declaring that she
ou;dn't go home by herself. tor It'd scare the
wits out Of her TO cross the churchyard alone'he
yielded the point; the drayman yaw ming rolled
away, and the labOrers generously waited tor
each other, no one seeming anxious for a Soil
taIy walk.
Nih many 4 civil Good night master, and
thank ye,' they departed, and after vainy EN-
aeavorrne to silt from SawduSt his extra expert
snce, | transferred myself to my bed chamber,
where | noted down this record OF an ignorance
and creduty quite unex pected, i'll this enlight
ened age l can well imagine many throwing
this article down with expressions OF unbtliet,
yet vouch for its beng an unexaggerated re-
port ; and let me ask, If these simple villagers
are i'll verify mere eccentric, than those men
and women of higher education and greater in
telligence, who are daily exhibiting themselves
as CONVEX IS to spirtualism-a system CONCERN
ing which and its mysteries we have already
expressed our opinion.
A cloud from the dark ages still rests uver
England, and it needs wiser heads than mine
to point ont way to disperse it but ii will be
we'll for all to remember that the superstition
which may be held harmless while it takes no
deeper hue than foolish girls desire to pry in
to her future, usurps vile domination over che
mind when il assumes deeper shape.