Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-11-05


ice cannot be formed clear and solid
enough to be taken to San Francisco.
On the Prcifc coast large trees are to
be found seven degrees further north
than ON the eastern side, and gay flow
srs and rare and beautiful plants give
the shores of Cape Lisburne, in latitude
of SO degrees, the appearance of a gar
den.
A Haunted Hcs:sas.raPEs sish'' Seen
The Nashville Tenn. Pre,s and Times
of October IL is responsible for the fol-
lowing narration
In Northwest Nashville there stands,
isolated and alone, a strange and pecu-
liar old house, half brick, half wood,
which has the reputation of being
haunted. For nearly two years 1t has
been without q tenant, and seems to be
rapidly going to ruin. Here and there
a shutter hangs loose, displaying a shat
tered window or two; and tho front
door is splintered as though some demon
had taken sudden flight through the
portal, carrying away the panel and a
half which are missing. Through the
riffs one catches glimpses Of crumbling
and d~iscolored walls, mouldy aud worm
eaten floor, across which now and then
may dart a stealthy rat or q troupe Of
vagrant mice. The place 10 altogether
gloomy and cherries. A ruinous fence,
often patched and repaired, surrounds
the dwelling, and ~incloses likewise q bit
Of ground, which shows marks at hav-
ing been at some time in the past a gar
den. Weeds have, however, loug as
serted their sway, and shoot in wild
luxuriance over the decaying trellis
work, which likely enough once sup
ported q climbing vine or rose bush.
The few stunted trees and the bit Of re-
naming shrubbery, in the absence Of
human care, have been pruned so sedu-
lousy by the cattle which run at large
over the commons, that there is little
left. Tumbling rapidly to decay, Bills
tering in the summers sun, and racked
by winters wind, the old house is not
unlike some human characters, which,
in similar involuntary solitude, stand
like spectres along the way Of life.
As we remarked above, the house is
said to be haunted. The old story 10
that several years ago an old man and
his daughter, both queer and sombre in
their habits and way Of life, dwelt
there. How they managed to live no
one knew. They kept no servants,
came and went in q solemn, regular sort
Of way which brooked nc curiosity.
That they wanted for none Of the ueces-
saries of life was evident enough, for
the butchers cart and the bakers wag.
on stopped regularly ut the dwelling.
The daughter was shy and quite plain
and common in her appearance, and yet
there was something, a vague, ill-deined
bearing of superiority, perhaps, which
made her anything but common to the
neighbors who CHANGED to see her now
and then. Her sweet voice, singing
some p~laiutive air to the accompaniment
of a guitar, could often be heard even
ings after the lamps were lighted. But
finally, it was about tho close Of the
war, the daughter sickened and died,
and the old gentleman, who previously
had been gloomy and melancholy
enough, became even more so. Often
be was not seen for days together, and
at last, after nearly n week, during
which no signs of life had been seen
about the house, the neighbors broke
into the dwelling and found the old man
hanging by the neck from a rope over
one of the rafters in the garnet. 1t was
found from papers in the house that the
old gentleman had friends In Pennsyl-
vsnia. These were telegrsphed to, and
word came back to dispose Of the Of
fects, bury the suicide, and forward any
balance which might remain. This was
done, and the house was soon empty
and ready for a new tenant.
The first who came was on Irishman,
but his children sickened, his wife be.
came i'll, and finally he himself took TO
his bed with some ineIplicable COM
plant. Strange sights were seen and
strange noises heard at night, which
bafled all attempts at explanation.
Suffice it to say, the family left after the
first month.
An honest, phlegmstic German, who
worked in q carpenter shop in the Ninth
Ward, next took the house. But all his
phlegm and want Of Imagination
could not carry him through,
and the sight one evening of a spectre
swinging from q rope, supported BY the
identical beam from which the old man
had fastened the moose which launched
him into eternity, caused the German to
leave sven sooner than his predecessor.
The house was months without an in
habitant, bnt was finally let to a COL
ored family. It was not long, however,
before two Of the old black mans chill
dren, dying Of measles, and he himself
being laid up with a terrible ct Of in
fiammatory rheumatism, during which
he fancied all the demons Of the bottom
less pit were torturing his flesh and
muscle, he collected his few household
traps and moved back to massa's plant
alton in the country.
Since the colored mans incontinent
departure, tho house was wanted for a
tenant, and now stands as we have de-
scribed it, falling rapidly to decay.
The children shun it, and content them-
selves with throwing stones at its crack
ing walls and dilspidated roof at = safe
distance. There are those who aver
that supernatural lights may sometimes
be seen cleaning through the interstices
Of doors and windows when the winds
are high and the nights dark and
gle omy.
GREAT BEAR FiGnr.-The Montana
Herald says /: "An old hunter and trap
per, now operating on the Missouri
River, has succeeded in caging Il grizzly
of enormous size. The monster dsyours