Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-23

1t was now remembered that the
beer, and brandy had been kept by one
of Monmouth s men (the spectre farmer,
probably who had been hung on his
own sign post, and the piece Of ground
where the net confined the travler was
place where many Of the hapless
dukes adherents had been executed
and inferred. Hence it was named the
Black Down, according to the sheet
before us, which was printed for T.
NJ. London, Sd Oct. 1890"
A sheet circulated at the close of the
precening year warns "allhypocrits and
atheists to beware in time, AS there
had been dreadful tempest of thun-
der and lightning in Hants, at Alton,
whore the atmosphere became so OBJ
scure that the electric flashes alone
lighted the church during the service,
ON which two balls of fire passed
through its eastern wall, another tore
the steeple to pieces, broke the clock
to shSeds, and bore away the weather
cock. The narrator adds that all
Friesland was under water, and that a
food in the Tiber had swept away
portion of the Castle of ST. Angelo.
AS another warming, London was
visited in 1859 by tempest, which up
rooted sixty-fve trees in ST James's
Park and Moorields, blew down the
vane of st. Michael's Church in Corn
HILL and innumerable chimneys, and
injured many well-built houses, and
part of the Armorers' Hall in Coleman
Street. Several persons were killed in
Gravel Lane and Shoreditch.. sixty
empty boats were dashed to pieces
against the bridge; three Gravesend
barges full of people were cast away,
and the C,'o,cn man-of-war was strand
ed at Woolwich.
But the warning seems to have been
in vain for London, in 1892, was treat
ed to an earthquake, which-as anoth-
er sheet records spread terror and as
constituent about the Royal Exchange,
all along Cornhill, in Lothbury, and
elsewhere, on the Sth of September.
All things on shelves were cast down,
and furniture was tossed from wall to
wall; the Spitatields weavers had to
seek shelter in the fight, and all their
looms were destroyed; ''occasioned by
the sins of the nation" and to avert
such prodigies the prayers of all good
men were invoked
| Two years later saw another marvel,
when "the dumb maid of Wapping,"
Sarah Bowers, recovered her power of
speech through the prayers Of Messrs.
Russell and Veil, ''two pious divines,"
who exercised and expelled the evil
spirit which possessed her; and in
1896 the metropolis was treated to the
detection of popish cheat" concerl
ing two boys who conversed with the
devil. though none seemed to doubt
! the Protestant miracle.
The close of the century, 100, saw
'the dark and hellish powers of witch
craft exercised upon the Reverend Mr..
Wood, minister of Bodmyn," on whom
spell was cast by n mysterious paper,
or written document, which was given
to him by a man and woman on horse
back (the latter probably seated on a
pillion,) after which he became strang-
ly disordered, and wandered about in
fields, meadows, woods, and lonely
places, drenched the while with copi-
Gus perspirations; however, ''the spell
was ultimately found in his doublet,
and on the burning thereof, Mr.. Wood
was perfectly restored" and wrote to
his uncle an account of the affair,
which appeared in broadsheet publish
ed at Exeter, by Darker and Farley,
100
Rosemary Lane was the scene of an
other wonder, when notorious witch
was found in garnet there, and carried
before Justice Bateman, in Well Close,
on the 23d July, 1904, and committed
to Clerkenwell Prison. Her neighbor's
children, though her, alleged diabolical
power, vomited pins, and were terrified
by apparitions of enormous cats. BY
utterng one word she turned the en-
tire contents of large shop topsy turvy.
She was judicially tossed into the
river from a ducking- stool, ''but, like
bladder when put under water, she
popped up again, for this witch swan
like cork" This was an indisputa-
BILE sign OF guilt; and in her rage or
terror she smote n young man on the
arm, where the mark of her hand re-
manned ''as black as coal ! he died
soon after in agony, and was buried in
st. Sepulchre's church, yard. OF the
woman's ultimate fate we know no.
thing,
In 1905 London was excited by
new affair, 1.-The female ghost and
wonderful discovery of an iron chest
of money! rare example of the
gullibility of people in the days of the
good Queen Anne.
A certain Madam Maybel, who had
several houses in Rosemary Lane, lost
them by unlucky suits and unjust de-
crees of the law; fora time they We're.