The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-16
THURSDAY, AUGUST 49, 1866

WEWVNnUT,
sity OF lie OF seclublon. He is believed TO
have practised Anew tricks 70 awe his vsltors-
such as Lighting o candle or Gre without visible
agency, and other uicks far more ingenious
than the modern table-rapping.
witch Pickles" was only one among the
number who derived large proht from this
Bind OF occupation. He was one OF the more
respectable of the cass, and he never de-
soended to the vile tricks of others of the pro
tessIon-tr cke practised on weak and credUlous
women and girls, which Will not bear desciip-
tion.
One ofthe most celebrated works on astroIogy
is that OF DI. Sbly, twelfth edition, 1917, in
TWO octave volumes containing more than
100 pages. THE following will give an idea
OF the pretensons OF the book, which is O re-
maIkable book fit really went through twelve
edlroIs. The owner of privateer which had
not been heard oi, called 10 know her fate.
DR.. Sibly gave Judgment on q figure recu-
fed 10 the precise time the question was pro-
pounded The ship itself appeared well formed
and substantial, but not swift sailer, as Is
demonstrated by an earthly sign possessing the
cusp of the ascendant, aud the situation of the
Dragons Head in five degrees OF the same sign.'
The ship itself was pronounced to have been
captured.
Sblys system-how now esteemed by astrolo-
gers do not knOw-has but this alternative.
Either one and the same figure will tell the fate
of all the ships which have not been heard OF,
including their sailing qualities, or the stars
Will never send an owner TO ask for news, except
Just at the moment when they are In a position
to describe this particular ship"
HANNAH GREEN OR LING BOB wIToH.n
This noted sibyl lived in a cottage on the edge
of the moor on the left of the old road from
0tey to Bradford between Carlton and Yeadon,
and eight miles from Leeds She was popularity
known as "The Ling.bo Witch," name given
her, it ls supposed, from living among the ling
bobs, or heather.tubs. She was resorted to on
account OF her supposed knowledge of future
events; but like the rest OF her class her prin-
cipal forte was fortune-telling, from which, it is
said, she herself realized handsome fortune.
Many strange tales have been told of her, such
as her power OF Transforming herself, after
nghtiall, into the shape OF any she list; and of
her odd prank in her nightly rambles, her
favorite character beng that of the hare, in
which pelsonation she was unlucklly shot by
an unsuspecting poacher, who was almost ter
Iifed out of his senses by the awful screams
which followed the sudden death of the
Llng-bob Witch. In the year 1885, DR..
-, of Sheffield, being at Leeds, had the
curiosity TO pay visit TO the noted Hannah
Green. He first questioned her respecting the
future fortunes of near relative or his, who
was then in circumstances of distress, aud in
deed in prison. She told him Immediately that
his friends trouble would continue ttN three
times three gears, and he would then experience
a great deltceraRce, which, in fact, was ON the
poin: OF being literally verified, for he was then
III the Court OF Kilgs Bench.
He then asked her If she possessed any tore
| knowledge OF what was about TO come to pass
| on the great stage of the world. To which
| she replied in the affirmative. She said, War
would be threatened once btH e1OWd not hap
| pen; but the second time il would blaze
out in all its horrors, and extend to all
| the neighbourng cou1 tries; and that the
| TWO countries (these appear to be France and
Poland), at great distance one from the other,
would consequence obtain their freedom,
| although after hard struggles. After the year
| l79O, she observed, many great persons, even
| kings and queens, would lose their lives and
| that not 6y fair means. In 1894, a great warrior
| OF high blood is to fall in the held OF batte and
| in 1895, distant nation (thought to be negro
slaves), VINO have been dragged from their own
| country, will rise, rs one man, and deliver
| themselves from their oppressors.
Hannah appears to have been one OF q some
| what numerous class, many of whom were resi-
| dent in Yorkshire. Very few of them went
beyond the attempt to toretell the future events
| in the lives of individuals; they did not aim at
| such high ambition as drawing the horoscopes
| OF nations Their predictions we're always
| vague, and so framed as to cover number of
| the most probable events in the life of every
| individual.
Hannah really died on the 18th of May, 1910,
after having .practised her art about forty
| years; and Line-bob became a haunted and
| dreaded place. The house renamed some years
| untenanted and ruinous, but was after wards
| repaired and occupied. Her daughter and sue.
| cessor, Hannah Spence, laid claim to the same
| Spence, but, it need hardly be added, without
| the same success.
| MR.. JOHN SCOTT (LoRD ELDoN) IN PARLIAMENT.
Mr. Scott broke ground in Parliament in oppo-
siton to the famous East India bill, and began
with his favorite topic, the honesty of his own
intentions and the purity of his own conscience.
He spoke in respectful terms OF Lord North,
and more highly still of Mr. Fox; but even to
Mr.. Fox it was not fitting that so vast an
influence should be intrusted. As Brutus said
of Cesar:-
| g. he would be crownd!
How that might change his nature--there's tht
| question"
1t was an aggravation of the affection he felt
that the cause of 1t should originate with one
| 10 whom the nation had 80 long looked no
| wound from him was doubly painful. Like
| Joab, he gave the shake of friendship, bu
| the other nand held dagger, with which h'
despatched the constitution. Here Mr.. Scott
after an apology for alluding to sacred writ
| read from the book of Revelations some verses
which he regarded as typical of the intended
innovations in the affairs OF the English Eas
! India Company" And stood upon the sAnC
of the sea, and saw beast rise up out of thu
sea, having seven heads and ten horns, anC
upon his horns ten crowns. And they worshippeC
the dragon which gave power unto the beast
| and they Worshipped the beast, saying, Wh(
is like unto the beast? who is able to MAKE
war with him And there was given unto hin
| a mouth speaking great things; and power wa
| months Here" said Mr. Scott. II believe ther'
is mistake of six months-the proposed dura
ton of the bill being tour years, or forty-eigh
months. And he caused all, both small an(
| great, rich and poor, tree and BOND to receive
mark in their right hand or in their foreheads.
Here places, PENSIONS and pecrages are clearly
marked out. and he cried nightly with
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