The Republican journal., 1871-11-23

in close ranks, and ere long quickened
their pace. As this man had been sharply
ridiculed as the solitary beholder Of
spectre horseman in the same place in the
preceding year, he watched these strange
troopers for some time ere he summoned
his master from the house to look too.
But ere Stricket spoke of what he had
seen, ''Mr Lancaster discovered the
aerial troopers whose appearance was
as plainly visible to him as to his servant.
'These visionary horsemen seemed to
come from the lowest part OF Souter Fell,
and became visible at a place named
Knott; they moved in successive troops
Cor squadrons) along the side of the Fell
till they came opposite to Blakehills,
where they went over the mountain.
They thus described kind of curvilinear
path, their first and last appearances being
bounded by the mountain" They were
two hours in sight; and ''this phenome-
non was seen by every person (twenty-
SIN in number) in every cottage within
the distance of q mile"
During the middle OF the last century
toll-keeper in Perthshire affirmed on
oath, before certain justices Of the peace,
that an entire regiment passed through
his toll-gate at midnight; but as no such
force had left any town in the neighbor-
hood, or arrived at any other or, in fact,
were ever seen any where but at this par
ticular turnpike, the whole story was
naturally treated as a delusion; though
the Highlanders sought in some way to
connect the vision with the unquet spirits
of those who fought at Culloden-for
there, the peasantry aver, that ''ln the
soft twilight of the summer evening soli-
tary wayfarers, when passing near the
burial mounds, have suddenly found them
selves amidst the smoke and hurly- burly
of battle, and could recognize the yari-
Gus clans engaged by their tartans and
badges. On those occasions certain
Laird of Culduthil was always seen amidst
! the fray on white horse, and the people
believe that once again o great battle will
| be fought there by the clans; but with
whom, or about what. no seer has vcntur-
| ed to predict"
Shadowy figures of armed men were
seen in Stockton Forest, Yorkshire, priol
to the war with France, as the Iced.
Mercury and local prints record and SC
lately as 1912, much curiosity and nj
small ridicule were excited by the alleged
| appearance OF phantom army in TIT
vicinity of nard- working, prosaic Leeds
and all the newspapers and magazines o
the time show how much the story amused
the skeptical, and occupied the attenti OF
| of the scientific.
! 1t would appear that between sever
and eight o'clock on the evening, Of Sun
day, October 2Sth, Mr.. Anthony Jack
son, farmer in his forty-tifth year, an'
q lad OF fifteen, named Turner, were over
looking their cattle, which were at gras
in Havarah Park, near Ripley, the seat 0
Sir John Ingilly, when the lad suddenl
exclaimed, ''Look, Anthony; what d mum
Der Of beastsn'
Beasts Lord bless us replied tn
farmer with fear and wonder ''they ar
men, And as he spoke there immedi
ately became visible "an army OF soldier
dressed in white uniforms, and in tn
centre parsonage of commanding aspec
clad in scarlet These phantoms (aC
cording to the Leeds Mercury and Edin
burg Annual Register) We're four deel
extending over thirty acres, and perform
ed many evolutions. Other bodies,
dark uniforms, now appeared, and smoke
as if from artillery, rolled over the gra!
of the park On this Jackson and Turne
thinking they had seen quite enough
turned and fled
Like the spells Of the Fairy Morgan;
which were alleged to create such beaut
full effects in the Bay Of Reggie and whic
I'.., Antonio Minasi sn'v thrice in ~
and "deemed to exceed by far the mo,
beautiful theatrical exhibition in tn
world" science has explained away c
fully discovered the true source OF all sue
spectral phenomena. The northern aurC
IL was deemed by the superstitious fror
the days of Plutarch even to those of tn
sage Sir Richard Baker, as protentous {
dire events; and fancies of the timid say
only war and battle in the shinin
streamers; but those supposed spectrf
armies whose appearance we have note
were something more, in most instance
than mere deceptio visus, being actual
the shadows of realities-the airy repro
ductions of events bodily passing in othe
parts of the country reflected in the cloud
an imaged again on the mountain slope:
OF elsewhere by y peculiar operation {
the suns rays.