Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-06-11
Scotch Chests.

Hugh Miller, i'll his schools and
SchOolmasters, gives an instance from
his childhood, which seems to rank him
amongst veritable ghost-seers. He gives
IL Renaissance from his earliest child
hood of that night when. in the wild and
fatal tempest, his father went down at
sea. His mother had Just received n
cheerful letter from the father, So that
there were no forebodings in the dwell
ing. She was sitting plying her cheer
| full needle 10y the household fire the door
had been left unfastcned, and she sent
little Hugh to shut II ; II was i'll the twi-
light.
"A gray haze, he says, WAS spread
ing a neutral tint of dimness over distant
objects, but left the near ones compare
lively distinct, when l saw at the open
door within less than ward of MY breast,
as plainly us | ever saw anything. dis
severed hand and arm stretched toward
me-hand and arm were apparently those
of female they bore livid and sOdden
appearance, and directly fronting me-
where the body Ought to have been, there
was only a blank transparent space.
! through winch | could see the dim forms
of the objects beyond. wgs fcarfully
startled, and ran shiekinG to my mother,
| telling her what [ had seen; and the
house. girl, whom she next sent to shut
| the door, apparently utfrctcd H. my ter
ror. also returned frightened, and said that
| she too had seen the woman's hand
In the University of St. Andrews Gus
tom obtains that, ON the death Of n pro
fessor, intimG.ion of the event is conveyed
by messenger to the other members of
the institution. In 1872 an aged profess
or was very i'll and his decease was ex-
pected daily. One of his colleagues sat
down to his usual evening dev0tions with
| his household His wife was reading Il
portion Of Scripture, when. watch i'll
hand, the professor asked her whether it
was not precisely half-plst nine. The
lady taking ont her watch, answered that
| it was When the service was concluded,
| the professor explained that at the time
he had interrupted the reading he had
seen his ailing colleague, who had sig
nailed him an a,lieu. He felt satisfied
| his friend had then expired. Not long
| after messenger arrived, reporting that
DIR. H. had died that evening at half-past
nine.
There is q singular story connected
with the death of Mungo Park ON his
second great African expedition. His
sister, Mrs Thompson, lived with her
husband on their farm of Myr,ton,
among the Ochils. She had received
letter from her brother, expressing his
| hope that be vodll shortly return home,
and saying that she would not be likely
to hear from him again until she Saw him
ON his return. Shortly after this she was
i'll bed she fanciad she heard a horses
! feet on thcFroaL before her window. Sit
ting up in bed, she instantly saw her
| brother, the great traveller, open the door
and walk towards her in his usual attire.
She expressed her delight, sprInG up
from bed, stretched ont her arms to en-
| brace him. and only folded them over her
own breast. BY the dim light she could
still only believe he had stepped aside,
that he was. perhaps, joking with her;
and while She was upbraidlng him for
retreating FROM her, her husband came
into the room ana assured her Of her de
fusion. This was the last that was heard
of Mungo Park the date ii his death Is
unknown. Mrs. Thompson is described
rs Il sllrewd intelligent woman, not at all
inclined to superstition. hut she always
believed that his death took place at the
time when she imagined he had returned
| to her at Myrcton.
Some Of the spectroa, or visions, oi the
HIGHLANDS Of the Old iimr som almost
like allegories.
A farmer, whose igh character gave
him great influence in his elevated ham
| let. lost his children, one after another
If, last he lost little child who had tax
/ great hold on the fathers affections The
fathers grief was Incorporate ami quite
unbounded. The death took place III
the spring, when. although the sheep
were abroad in the more inhabited Low
lands, they had to be preserved from the
blasts of that high and stormy region IN
the cote. In dismal. snowy evening,
the man unable 90 stiile his anguish,
went out lamenting aloud lac went TO the
door of his shcep-cotc 10 take lamb he
needed, and he found Il stranger at the
door He was astunIsiti to find. IN such
night. any person m - uuirvqueutSd II
place. He was plainly attIr'i, but with
II cnuntenanco singulnrly expressive OF
mil,iuess and bSnelicenre. The stranger.
very singulariy. asked the farmer what
he did there amidst the tempest Of such
night The man was filled with awe.
which hc could not account for, but sad
hr came there for Il lamb
What kind Of lamb d1 y"u m,aA L.
take" said the stranger.
The very hest | can iinl, answered
the farmer; but come into the huusa
anil share our evening meal.
DO yuur sheep make any Resistance
when you tnhr away the laAh. vr any
disturbance ui;orvarI?'
Never said the farmer
'.How differently am trrntrd. SAIL
the traveller: when come 10 VISIT my
shccpfold, | take, rs | amVcll entitled t.
take, the best lamb to myself, AMI my
ears are filled with the clamor ri djSr.n-
tent by those mgraiciul sheep whom
have led and watched ard protected -
Leisure HoEr