Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-05-27
A GHOST STORY.
A Ez-tsr 70 Caba-A yisiaHs Net 5f The
Night.
Stranger than fioliOH-Al Experience 10
Chs Life Of sg Old Citizen ef Memphis,

Isitnot possible that all our actions
are dagUerrcOtyped upon the 8tmO5-
yhere to reproduce themselves as evil
de1ce of crime or criminal intent, by
s1ne law as yet hidden from US?
Professor Babbage, Of England, the
great mathematician, some years
since suggested that every sound Of
the human voice had an effect upon
the atmosphere similar TO that effect
ed bv pebble dropped into a lake or
pool Of water; that they made their
impressions not only according to our
limited sense Of hearing, Just as the
pebble makes rings in the water; not
only within our limited vision, but
beyond: continually widening ont in
the limitless body Of ether, and 50
peFpetuating themselves, until at the
last d8y they m8y confront Us TO our
shame and condemnation. Nav it
not be so. too, that God, who orders
all things well, has also, in his inscFU-
table wisdom. made arrangements for
the perpetu8tiOn OF sights as well as
sounds, and that by a mysterious Law
ofEght crimes. IS well as good deeds,
are photographed and thus become
the evidences, as in the case below,
bv which seeming mysteries are at
last explained. There are more
things in heaven and iD earth than
are dreamt Of ia our philosophy"
Editors ADDeGJ-ln a late number
of the HegtuinSter BeUietU, I'm the book
notices, the following paragraph ap-
pears in a criticism on "Ihe Life and
Times Of
"HEEBY LORD BROUGHAM,
'sA.M., written by himself":
Lord BrOUgham, in his auto
biography, tells US a story which
shows that he too was not without a
tendency 70 hallucinatiOn, unless the
apparitiOn which appeared to him
was. az be himself suspects, the cre8-
ton of a dream. He had in early life
an agreement with c. an intimate
friend. that whichever of chem died
first should appear to the other. Some
wears afterwards, when BrOUgham
was enjoying the comforts Of a warm
bath. during his travels in Denmark
and Sweden, he turned his head
toward the chair on which he had
placed his clothes, and to his terror
saw C. sitting on it. The impress
sion unadeO on his mind was painfully
vivid one. He cametO the conclusion
that his friend was dead, recorded the
defe of the apDaritiOn in his journal,
and On reaching Edinburgh some time
afierward found his misgiving con-
6rmed by the announcement con.
tanned ia a letter, that C. had
died on the 18th December. Writing
about sixty years 8fterWard, he ex-
Dlains that. considering the vast NUM-
.bar Of dreams which night after night
mass through our brain, the number Of
coipcideDces between the vision and
the event Is perhaps fewer and les.
remarkable than a fair calculation q
chances would warrant us TO eXpecJ."
This reminds the writer OF a story
related to him iu 1850, in Memphis
under the following circumstances:
A gentleman (WhOm I shall call ABB
D0tt Tor the purposes Of this nara
uon) had visited Memphis on busi-
ness for q manufacturing house in one
OF the
NEW ENGLAND STATES.
and brought some letters Of introduc.
ton to me nom some friends in
Washington. AT that time a sensa.-
tiOnal drama, called the "Corsiesn
Brothers, was being played al fhe
Washington street theater. The lead
/ ing plot ia the play was that the
brothers had solemnly promised each
afher that the one who should die first
would appear to the other and also
cause 10 be passed before his vision
alI the circumstances surrOun ling
hin at the time Of his death. G Of