Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-29
Phantom Armjes,

Af0Ii0 OF Apparltions n wonders.
preserved in the British museum, re-
cords that, st Durham, on the 9th Of
| September, 1903, when the evening
sky was serene and full of stars, a
strange and prodigious light spread
| over its northwestern quarter, as il
the SUN itself was shining; then came
| streaIners which turned to armed
men ranked on horseback. J. Ed
monson, the writer of the broadsheet,
adds: ait was thought they would
see the apparitioG better 10 Scotland,
because it,appeaTed a great way north
1.-The same,' he continues gravely,
''was seen in the latter end of March,
I7O4," and the battle or Hochstadt
followed it. This must refer to the
second battle fought there, which We
call BIenheim, when Marshal Tallard
was defeated and taken prisoner by
Marlborough. But this wonderful
light which turned to armed men at
Durham was outdOne by a marvel at
Churchill, OxfOrdshire, where lin the
same collection) we fiad that, on the
9th OF January, 1905, four suns were
all Visible in the air at once, ''sent for
signs unto mankind" adds the pub
Usher, Mr.. Tookey ofSt. ChristOpher's
court,n and having their Specifications
of the Lord, like the handwriting
unto his servant Daniel"
In l744, q man named D. Stricket,
when servant to Mr.. Lancaster, OF
Blakehills, saw, q evening about
seven O'Clock, a troop OF horse riding
leisurely along SOuter Fell in Cumber-
land, There were in close ranks, and
ere long quiekened their pace. AS
this man had been sharply ridieuled
as the solitary beholder Of q spectre
hOrseman in the same place in the
preceding year, ne watched these
strange troopers for some time ere he
summoned mis- master from the house
to look too. But ere Stricket spoke OF
what was to be seen, "Mr. Lancaster
discovered the aerial troopers" whose
appearance was as plainly visible to
him as to his servant. "These vision
ary hOrsenen seemed to come from
the lowest part OF Souter Eel, and be-
came visible at a place named Knott;
they moved In successive troops Tor
s~quadrOns) along the side Of the Fell
till they came opposite to Blakehills,
where they went over the mountain.
They TINS deseribeda kind Of eurvili-
near path, their first and last appear
ances being bounded by the noun
tain.n They were two hours in sight;
and nrhis phenomenon was seen by
every person (twenty-six in number) ,
in every cottage within the distance
of a mile,1 according TO the statement
attestsd before a magistrate by Ian
caster and Stricket, on the 2lst of July, |
1745.
During the middle of the last GEN.
fury, q toll keeper in Perthshire afim-
ed on oath, before certain Justices Of
the peace, that an entire regimen
passed through his toll-gate &C mid
night; but as no such force had lett
any town in the neighborhood, or ar
rived at any other, or, IN TACT, were
aver seen anywhere but at his partic-
ular turnpike, the whole story was
naturally treated as delus1on; though
the Highlanders sought In some way
to connect the vision with the unquiet
spirits of those who fought at Cullo-
den. for there the peasantry aver,
that sin the soft twilight OF the sum-
mer evening, solitary w~ayfarers, when
Dassiny near the burial mounds, have
suddenly found themselves amid the
smoke and the hurly-burly OF a battle,
and could recognise the various clans
engaged by their tartans and badges.
On those occasions, q certain Laird OF
was always seen amid the
raw OH a white horse, and the people
that once again q great battle
will be, fought there by the clans; but
With whom, or about what, no seer
mas ventured to predict"
Shadowy figures OF armed men were
zen in. Stockton Forest, Yorkshire,
,rior 10 the wal with France, as the
Mercury and local prints re- I
ord; and so lately IS 1872. much Gu
iOsity and no small ridicule were ex-
tied by the alleged appearance OF a
,hantom army in the vicinity OF hard I
working, prosaic Leeds, and all the {
newspapers and magazines of the
show how much the story anus.
d the skeptical and occupied the at ]
entior OF the scientific. |