The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-02-08
Ghosts.

ural occurrence are Os far withir my own
personal knowledge as it is possible to
be, without being the actual object OF the
extraordinary interferences narrated,
There was residing, somo years ago,
at an insignificant town in the Northern
Counties, a widow lady who occupied
small house alone with her young chill
dron. The oven calmncss and self.pos-
session of her disposition, the absence in
her OF everything approaching nervous
ness or hysteric, and her extreme good
sense, would entirely disipaie any sus-
picion OF weakness or unusual susccpti-
bility of mind, or of her possessing ten
dencies beftting her, according to pop
ular notions, to be the subject of any
spiritual or supernatural revelation.
She was sleeping, or rather doing in .,
half-unconscious state, in bed, with one
of her children, at night, when she FELT
her reason ovorpowored by an oycrmas-
toring Influence, as though sbo were
seized with II fit. Immediately there
was presented to her mind a vision Of
terrible dis,iuctness, She saw three
men struggling desperately in tie water
of some deep and rapid stream, and in
all the agonics of the last gasp of life.
The vision was but momentary, but suf
iicient for her to observe distinctly and
with minutoness the dcspalingly distor-
ted features Of each in q manncrso vivid
and impressive that they were never ef-
faced in all their cIearncss from her
memory, On returning to conscious
ness, the feeling Of reality created was
so exciting that she was unable to OBJ
tain any further rest; but dressing her.
self, spent the remainder Of the night in
passing about the house, III great per,
turba,ion Of mind, in tho cndcayor to
recover from the terrifying effects Of her
vision, When daylight began TO dawn
she opened tho shutters ola low crroom
looking on to the town street, and be-
fore closing the window she observed Il
person, whom she recognized, running
hastily down tho street. He told her
that just then the bodies OF three
drowned men wcro being taken out Of
the river adjoining the town, Deeply
effected with the coincidence, she sought
and obtained an opportunity of viewing
the corpses during the day. They We're
those Of three strangers to the vicinity,
who, engaged in some poaching venture
in tic nciShborhood, and being pursGed,
had plunged into the river, which, small
in other places, was there deep, rapid
and Unfordable, and had go met with
their death. In them she recognized at
once the very faces that had been SO
plainly represented to her mind in her
vision Of the night previous.
In another case, n married lady, resid-
ing in q remote country district in Lin
colnshire, had bestowed her charity, and
taken deep interest in poor and
friendless stranger-woman, who, advanc-
ed in years, had seen better days, and
who, struggling with starvation, pcrsis-
tently refused to apply for, Or receive,
parish assistance. Her great fcar-a
dread which haunted her perpetually-
was that after death she would be sub
mittcd to the indignity of pauper's
burial. On this theme she continually
dwelt to her bcncfactor, and she extrac-
ted from her u solemn promise that af-
ter death she would secure for her a de-
cent and respectable intermcnt.
The hope of obtaining a little present
aid for her necessities led her u short
distance away from her friend for some
length Of time. During this period, in
the middle of one night, whilst the lady
was passing from her own chamber to
her children's nursery, she suddenly saw
on the landing between the two rooms
with great distinctness, what she took
to be the form OF her old dependent, ,whC
had for some time escaped her memory
regarding her with look of most anx-
ious slpplication. The reader will, O.
course, guess the sequel Of the story
which is, however, o vertable fact. WheI
the lady with her husband on the follow
day deeply impressed with this circum
stance, sought out the little hut in whicl
the poor woman had been resident sine,
her removal they found the parish assis
tants preparing her corpse for its funer
al, and the promise so singularly oxac
ted thus strangely obtained its fulfill
ment.
There lived some years ago in one 0
the large towns in the north, n lad, who
in his later years, was well known b,
many now living. Beginning life as al
errand boy in an Office of large business
his merit soon became apparent and wa
acknowledged; and in the same office Il,
eventually became partner Of the frr
, be had served His only parent fror
infancy was his mother. left in wretche
, circumstances in life, but toiling fol
} loving with an engrossing intensity {
: devotion, and wholly wrapped in til
fortunes Of her only son. His base ir
/ Jiffnrnnoo on5 1israuor1 Of bnr 1;1 mr.