The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-05-30
THAT GHOST.
Il 1T A SPIRIT OF HE'LL OR COB
LIN DAMNED
DOES 1T BRING AIRS FROM
HEAVEN OR BLAST FROM
THE OTHER PLACE?
AND WHY DON'T ITPUT ITS PAN.
falcons ON

Monsieur lie Sage may sport his Devil
on Two Sticks and the Gentleman in
Black may walk about to his hearts con-
tent. What do we of Cairo care We
hav, also our spirit, whether black or
white, we don't yet know, and it is
about as lively ghost as was ever before
brought from the regions beyond the
grave
ITS HISTORY.
This, We solemnly asseverate, is not to
be considered as a play fol assertion, il the
concurrent BBssnve sS8Rsstfae %es
as worth anything at all. There
can be no longer any doubt, in any well
regulated mind, that we have a ghost
among US, And this ia how the important
fact was ascertsined. Two of the child.
rem of Mr.. Jacob Martin, with their nurses
were sitting near tho front window of
that gentlenans residence one night three
weeks ago. A nurse happened to look at
the window, and saw sight that almost
froze her blood. 1t was enough to brighten
any one. Looking in at the window was
AMAS,
with dark HAIR, pale face, very tall, a cap
on his head and a pair of boots on his
feet. lie wore no other article Of cloth
ing The maid uttered piercing
scream, and the spectre vanished.
WHERE?
Whether the skeleton went up or down
or in another direction we could not as.
certain. The maid was too much alarmed
to pay much attention TO the manner of
the ghosts disappearance She only knows
it vanished.
AGAIS,
a few nights after, Mr.. James English.
well known in this city, vas going to his
home in the Fourth ward about , o,clock
He had gone as far as 10th street on Com.
mercial avenue, when an obstruction seem.
cd to grow up across the sidewalk. What
the devil shall l do2' said English; and
at that instant, a man appeared by his
| side, naked, except that he had n hat on
his head and boots on his feet, and grasp
ing the S'tonished pedestrian by the right
arm: hung him oil the sidewalk
When English recovered he was gone.
and although he has no timidty in his
composition, made haste TO leave the
haunted place.
AND AGAIN,
Mr.. John Smith Kynsstons butcher,
about the time English received the at,en.
IONS OF the .shadowy plague of the Fourth
and Fifth wards,saw it in Nineteenth stree,
wearing cap and boots, bu, no other
clothing, Smith says the ghost Was an
ordinary sized man, and vanished as my..
teriously ss it appeared.
AND YET AGAIN.
by this time, the news of these ghos,ly
appearances, had become general through.
out the city, and the police, believing tina,
auick WAS being played by some dare-dev-
u person ,determined 10 surprise him in the
act OF personating the ghost. They there.
fore keep their vigilant eyes wide Oman
In the vicinity OF these ghostly appear.
anees. a few nights sgo--the night be-
fore the day Of his resignation-otlcer
Wh'tcamp was walking along ono of the
streets OF the Fourth ward, when the
ghost he was looking for, in all its naked.
hess' appeared before him. The officer
neglected to quote Hamlet, but he did |
challenge the thing and babe i, stand
but 1t didn't lie grasped it by the arm
which felt like flesh and blood b,, ,ha
spectre broke away and o.s
like the wind. Wbitcsr,,
pursued and discharged the contents Of
his revolver at it, but without effect. Az
tor Irunning about square it seemed 10
fade into the night. Gres. drops Of per.