Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-01-26
Remarkable NnrrmtIve.

puthuutna OF recent uhtc, ana IN reno 70
part OF ihe world. is taken from volume sn
titled Savage Africa, etc, etc, by " Win
wood ROsds, chapter thirty. The scene is
MaCarIhy's Island, an English military post
on the river Gambia, on the west coast Of
Africa
sa "At the commencement Of the rainy sea-
son OF 1860, Mt Beale, STAT assistant sur
Reon, was seized with malarions fever The
Dover arrived soon after, bringinga NJ
Campbel to relieve him. Mr. Bsale was
taken on board the Dover, shook haA ads with
the captain on deck, went below, aud expired
almost Immediately.
Mr. Trestrail, his colleague, sat down to
write out the case Il is still preserved in the
in the medical report book at the surgeons
quarters az
Toward The end the hand writing changes,
becomes nneveD, and sometimes scarcely leg.
Ible. A few hours aiterwRrd Trestrail was
corpse. The two surgeons were buried to.
gsihet.
Mr. Campbell wrote out report of Ire.
straills case, He slept alone in The quarters
IN the same bed in which the others had died.
Slr Savage ia a trader on the island A
few days aiterward Campbell came to bin and
asked him to give him bed. Savage com.
Piled with his request
Don't you like your quartersT' he said
NNo,' replied Campbell. II have seen
Beale. Aud, he added, IL shall never see
my poor wife and children any more
DR. Campbell also soon died. No impor.
tauee was attached to his words, 81 have seen
Beale. 1t was supposed to be merely
dream of which he had spoken The words
fhan 5giu IA :.
had it not been for that which afterwards oe-
CURED. AIsaH 80 @ AAt' 81 81 .
The eommandants quarters, a detached
building, stands about fifteen yards from the
surgeons quarters, also q detached building.
sentry is stationed over each Captain
Wilcox and Dr. Bradshaw were sitting Que
evening in the piazza OF the commandant's
quarlars, when they heard a shrek from the
other building, and "a soldier, livid with fright
and without his musket rushed into the pi
Gzzl Captain Wilcox, supposipg him drunk,
put him nnder arrest it .s."
The next muru'nR, being examined, he de-
clsred that while on guard at the surgeons
quarters, gentleman dressed in black had
come toward him. he had never seen him
before. He challenged him, and got no an
swer The genteman continued until he was
close to him. The sentry threatened to run
him through il he did not answer the ohal.
lenge, Getting no answer, he thrust, and say
the bayonet pass throu b the body The ne.
ure gibbered at him aud turned away. Ii
was then that he shrieked dropped lis mus.
ket And ran away. Examined by Dr.. Dad.
shaw, he described the figure closely. the
face, height and dress tailed precisely with
those Of Dr. BeRle, whom the septry had new
er seen. H- tiA 'aitoo fr'A Asitt
Drs. Bradshaw and Hind slept in the build,
ing in separate rooms. They heard noises,
the cause Of which they did not know, but to
which they paid little attention At the time
Drs Mccarthy and Fox came up They
heard nothiug DR., Mccarthy renamed there
a month and during that time had a severe
fever. He went to Bathurst, and returned ia
company with Dr. Duggan, Both Of them
were in good health at The time. Neither of
them had heard the ghost story They slept
each in an end room, (there we're three en-
sWite) and Dr. Daggan's servant, boy Of
Mxteen, in the centre one $3.50 $50.
Dr. MAcarthy-from whom had these par.
ticulars---now heard pseuliar noises ia the
night. In the piazza outside there was a la
BILE on which theY pao d their tea things al,
ter they had done with them lie would hear
the cups and saueers elashed together, aud
the plates, az il seemed to him, dashed forci-
bly, to the ground. Several times he went out
in the morning, expecting TO find everything.
broken; but in no case had the position OF
the things been Alfffsd IL The least He as
cribed these noises 10 some mischevious fal-
low who had climbed into the piAzzi unob-
aerved by the sentry below I III I#f liH1
He heatd also noises VI the middle room
AZ il heavy pieces Of furniture were Iaaysd
Abont Aud often all night long he would b.
annoyed BY a paiteriug soand on the door
round his bed He thought at irst that these
we're bats which had fallen on the floor and
! we're unable TO rise. But he could never find
them in the morning. Then he supposed
that they we're mice
One night, instead OF going 10 bed he kent
4 bis candle alighf, aud sat on a chair, with a
stick across his knee, waiting for these mice
10 come out He heard a sound At the fur.
lher end OF the room IL was like a man
walking cautiously on lIptos The sound
came toward him, but he cpnld sgA nothing
/ Then the footsteps passed close to hiR, yet he
could see nothing RI ao qH
y Doctors pre esseniAlly maieriAlists. DR..
Mccarthy knew that the srangest sights aud
sounds can spring IRON disorded stomach
or checked seefetion. But when he meA-
toned his hallnciDation 10 DE. Dnegsa; and
DuggaA replied that he had been troubled in
the same Fnsuneh they became petple
b, Sill il did not occur to them that these
sounds we're supeFnat0Tal The mind Of man
ia Ayerse 10 believe that which Il cannot
/, grasp 81 ,tt gra 81 sFi{ u 31 n
! ID the course Of conversation they hAppeu-
\ ed 70 speak to Savage aboutit He replied
Ne II Il we're a commonplaos matter. tOh,
don't you know the house is haunted ~ and
related the affair of tha aantrV got ~