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

that which the writer hopes Will prove
"a word in season to a sinking king
DOM
Nor were ghosts wanting at this
time, of a political nature, too; for, in
the same year, there was hawked in
London an account of an apparitlon
which appeared three several times to
Elizabeth Freeman, thirty one years OF
age, on each occasion delivering a
message to his sacred Majesty King
Charles the Second. As certified be-
fore Sir Joseph Jorden, knight, and
Richard Lee, ID. D., rector of Hat
field, her story was as follows, and was
no doubt, political trick
On the night of the Oath OF January,
1880, she was sitting at her mothers
fireside, with child on her knee, when
solemn voice behind her said,
"Sweet- heart!" and, on turning, she
was startled to perceive yelled wo
man all in white, whose face was con-
cealed, and whose hand-a pale and
CHASTITY one-rested on the back of her
chair.
"The 18th Of May is appointed for
the Royal blood to be poisoned said
the figure. "Be not afraid, for | am
only sent to tell thee" it added, and
straightway vanished.
On Tuesday, the 22th of January, the
same figure met her at the house door,
and asked Elizabeth if she remember
ed the message; bnt the woman, in
| stead of replying exclaimed, "In the
name of the Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost, what art thou'n Upon this
the figure assumed ga very glorious
shape" and saying, Tell King
| Charles, from me, not to remove his
Parliment, but stand to his council,
vanished as before. Next evening the
yelled figure appeared again, when
/ Elizabeth was with her mother who,
on beholding her daughters manifest
terror, said, "Dost thou see any
thing2" She was then warned to re-
tire, after which the spectre said, stern
! ly, "Do your message" Il shall, if
God enables me- replied Elizabeth.
After this the spectre appeared but
once again, and remained silent. ''rhis
was taken from the maids own mouth
by me, Richard Wilkinson, schoolmas-
ter in the said town of Hatfield"
In 1888, as variety, London was
treated to An account of dreadful
earthquake in Oxfordshire, where the
houses were rocked like ships or car
dies, while tables, stools, and chests
"rowled to and fro with the violence of
he Shog."
The year 1857 brought strange and
and wonderful news form Cornwall,
heing an account of miraculous acct
dent which happened near the town OF
Bodmyn, at place called Hank. Print
ed by J. Wallis, White Fraysrs Gate
next fleet St.-near the Joiners shop"
From this it would appear that on
Sunday, the 9Th of May, Jacob Mutton,
whose relations were of good repute,
and who was servant to William Hicks,
near the old parish church of Eglas-
hayle, called Park, heard on going to
4 his chamber about eight o'clock in the
evening, hollow voice cry, $50 hoe!
so hoe, so hoe.n This drew him to the
window of the next room, from whence,
to the terror of Il lad who shared his
bed, he disappeared, and could no.
where be found.
According to his own narrative, he
had no sooner laid hand upon an iron
bar of the window, which was seven
teen feet from the ground. than the
whole grating fell into the yard below,
/ all save the bar which he had grasped.
/ This bar WIS discovered in his hand
next morning, as he lay asleep in a
narrow lane beyond the little town Of
Stratton among the hills, thirty miles
distant from Park. There he was wake
ned by the earliest goers to Stratton
/ fair, who sent him home, sorely be-
wildered, by the way of Camelford. On
/ Tuesday he returned to his masters
estate, without any hurt, but very
melancholy, saying that tall man
/ bore him company all the journey, over
hedges and brakes, yet without wear
mess. What became Of this mysterious
man he knew not, neither had he any
memory of how the iron bar came to be
in his hand. ITO conclude, the young
man who ls the occasion of this wonder
full relation was never before this acct
dent accounted any ways inclnable to
sadness, but, on the contrary, was es-
teemed nm airy, brisk, ah;! honest young
fellow.
But Mutton's adventure was a Joke
compared with that of Mr.. Jacob Seely,
of Exetor, as he related II to the judges
on the western circuit, when, on the
22nd of September, 1890, he was beset
bya veritable crowd of dreadful spect-
res. He took horse for Taunton, in
Somersetshire, by the Hinton Cliff
road, on which he had to pass a soil
tary place known as the Black Down.
Prior to this he halted Mt town called
Cleston, where the coach and wagon
usually tarried, and there he had some