Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1871-04-12

the charm which seome1 to propcl her on
against her own will. Thus the midnight
march continued down stairs to the ground
Aoor, whetc slte endeavored TO move to the
street door and open it, but at the moment
the form of her husband turned round; and
by decided motion Of tho drm, seemed TO
drag her on. Then che noticed the wound
in the forehead which appeared dripping
with gore, and the helpless arm which
hing at his side. Thus they proceeded
down TO tho stairs which lead to the kitchen
cellar. A. tho foot the form stopped, and
they stood close together. 1t raised its arm
as II TO strike her. The whole vision cei:
tninly grew dark as night The form van
ished, and the poor woman remembered
nothing until she found herself in bed in
her mothers room.
The sensation which this second event
created was indcscribablc. The first OF
these mystical appearances had been
doubted by the inmates Of the house, but
o. the second there could be no doubt.
Mrs. Glover refused any more to sleep in
that room, which had brought her such
fearful revelations of another world. Her
mind peemed affected by tho circumstances
which occurred during the past few days.
She never dared to be alone, afraid of
meeting that dreadful vision which had 30
terrified her. There was no more pleasure
in life for her, and she moped about the
house unhappy and disconsolate.
From the night the vision has visited
her last she never re-entered her own
room, and dwelt with her mother on the
frat floor, back room Here it was that
the last scene of this terrible story occurred.
It was four days after the last event, and
Mrs Clarke, the mother, who slept in the
room with her widowed daughter, had
gone down stairs for few moments, when
she heard strange sound in her own
foom She rapidly mounted the stairs and
reached her room almost Immediately.
She was thundcrstruck, for there in the
room, which, she had left empty but five
minutes before, was man. One glance,
and she recognized the countenance of her
daughters lost husband He was Standing
beside the fireplace and intent on picture,
which stood on the mantel-piece As Mrs
Clarke entered, the figure turned and
glided out by her very side with strange
shutlling noise, which froze the very mar.
: row in her bones. On turning around to
notice the way the vision took, she found
It lad Disappeared in the same mysterious
manner 1t had come Rapidly regaining
her senses, which were greatly shaken hy
this occurrence, Mrs. Clarke approached the
bedside, and then, for the first time, saw
, her daughter stretched OH the floor. Blood
B was pouring from wound In the forehead,
I which looked ghnstly and dangerous. All
i sense of life had loft the woman. As the
I mother raised the daughter up she OBJ
G served that her arm wns hanging help
o lessly by her side. On examination she
d found the arm was broken, yet life had
d not departed. The wound in the forehead
o was not deep, and the careful mother rap.
n idly had doctor called in, who reassured
1t her as to any existing danger about her
o daughters life.
r. This last vision was too real and terrible
u to be further contested, and all in the house
Il became alive to tho fact that really some.
g thing supernatural was happening which
no human investigation could clear up.
, The dreadful strain to which the nervous
system of Mrs. Glover had been subjected,
r utterly paralyzed that weak and delicate
d constitution. Brain fever set in with a
b, violence which may yet tell MORALLY upon
3. the poor woman, yet spite Of the sickness
t. the doctors thought it quite advisable that
g Mrs. Glover should be removed from the
l. house which was terror and horror in
her eyes. She is now living in Sixth
l. avenue and prostrated on bed of sickness,
d and Providence, who has brought these
% terrible visitations upon her, alone knows
!. what their final result will be.