Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1867-12-18
"What may this mean,
Thatthou dead corse again in complete steel
Revisit's, thus the gIImpscs of the moon,
Making night hideous''

Making night hideous."
Which put me in mind of the great
Ghost sensation we are having. L
nave seen great many ghosts-on
the stage-within the past few years,
and have heard the personifier of
Hamlet use the above quotation when
addressing his fathers spirit, in such
a way that had it been real, it would
have been powerful enough
ITO make each particular hair upon your wig,
Stand up like bristles pig"
as Arlington was wont to say; but that
is nothing to what we have now.
Chicago has real ghost that night
" wanders forth in the County Jail,
located in the basement of the Court
House.
As the city papers furnish the most
reliable news on the subject, l shall
make few quotations from them
One paper says:
His Ghostship is said to stride
about the cells on the first floor Of the
Jail His voice is not exceedingly
natural In tone but rather cultural,
and calculated to freeze ones blood
even though he take refuge on red
hot stove; and that Captain futile
SAW him wrapped in the loose folds of
"A long white hroud'-probably his
shirt-"and looked like the picture Of
death; or. if not death, a first-rate can
didate for burial ground" Another
says: The ghost or spirit to which
the origin of the sounds have been as
cribed, has been the leading topic of
conversation among the prisoners and
inmates of the building. Among the
former the superstition is prevalent
that the ghost of Flemming who was
hung nearly two years ago with Cor
bett, for the murder of Malonev,
haunts uneasily the place where he
suffered the penalty of his awful
crime" The ghost has been The sub
Ject of great many jokes, and the
following ,'ghostly resolution of Mr..
Thompson at a recent meeting Of the
Board of Supervisors, l found in the
EUening Journal among the balance of
the published business" of that hon
orable" body:
WHEREAS, The act of the General Assem-
bly, OF 1861, provides that the Court House
Square aud the buildings on it shall be used
and occupied for county purposes only; and
WHEREAS. ghost has recently appropri-
ated and occupied portion of the Court
House, using il Tor his own purposes, and
will not leave, all of which is an apparent
violation of the aforesaid act; therefore,
Resot,ed, That the Special Committee on
the Court House be, and is hereby author
lied TO investigate the matter at once, and
see whether the ghost is a county ghost, and
whether it is in the Court House for cou"ty
purposes, and if not, by what authority it is
allowed TO use the building in violation of
the aforesaid act
This caused considerable amuse-
ment, and on motion the resolution
was referred to the Judiciary with
power TO act.
As nearly all the prisoners are ig-
norant it is no wonder that they are
superstitious, and consequently easily
frightened, situated as they are many
Of them IN dark cells, and the perpe-
traitor if caught should be severely
punished
For my part | never believed in the
existence of ghosts, but if any person
IL very DESTROYS of making an inspect
ing tour through the county board
ing house and can't procure a pass,
let him attempt to take my pocket
book-which by the way is lacking
tunds-while some ever vlgllant pc
liceman is near, I'll guarantee him
free pass with liberty to sing,
''fn my prison cell | sit
With ghost not far away"
And if he don't feel kind .'o'skeerv"
when he thinks of being within a few
feet of where the poor wretches were
hung; his heart would naturally sink |
down to zero, if it could get that far. |
If any body wants to try it I'll get |
nv pocket book in convenient posi- |
ton, and TO make things more amia. |
bic, l know a policeman, No. 81, /
that Will treat him with the utmost !
civility; don't speak from experience, /
should like to have your readers un- /
ierstand, but from appearances.
For the last half hour the voung
men on the floor below have been try
ng 10 initiate the Court House ghost
With fair success. " hen their next I
comes off | shall try to gain
'dmittanee and report in nv next,
'ut | fear, Judging from the way they
dispose of the generous landladv's fare.
hat they will nuke rather healthy
cooking ghosts to palm themselves off
or genuine.
In the line of legislative amuSe.
nents we have had at Crosbv's Opera
House the fairy spectacle of"Undine,
which has been played to crowded
ouses. 1t would be impossible to
escribe the magnificent scenery, es-