The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-21
A wh,,e noun,n,n Ghost story

TIP t,p Correspondence Of the Boston Post.
The wind whistled mcCro!ully around the
hotel rs tho story was bling told, and the
hearers invl luntsrily lustered nearer one
another and VISITED the ne1t gloomy reTnin-
iscence. 1t came from An elderly genilemsn
who wouldn't vouch for It's trathfulness, but
who Was ready 10 swear that the friend who
told il to him was an eyewitness, and could
be relied upon slwaye. Tho story is 10 rela-
tion to the death of Miss Lizzie Blurue of
Kennebuhk. Maine, who die in blindnp
snow storm on ,he Glrr bride path, on the
night ot Septenoe ID. 1866 The traveller,
who Ii5os up Ia the little railway car, has
tina pile of stones poi tel out to him, as
marking tho spot where her rigid
body was found. Ono is sur
pissed to fad that ii is so near the Tip Top
house that IL not much more than sstone's
throw. So she must have shrieked and
shouted in her despair, out on such terrible
night, with the wind blowing like hurri.
cane, and bowling like . million fends, who
in the hotel could have heard her or have
distinguished her voice before it was swal-
lowed up in the tempest? There is we'll,
founded rumor, said the old gentleman, that
every year, on the night of the l4th of Sep
TENDER, the ghost or spirit or whatever you
may call it, of Lizzie Bourne may be seen
fitting about the mound. Henry j. How.
land snd party saw it last year, and were
Almost frightened to death, continued the
story-teller. II WAS a clear, moonlight night,
and Rowland and his party were roaming
over the SUNNI. 10 see whatever was to be
q, tha
m ,numert, and being somewhat fatpued
with their scramble over the rocks, they all
dropped down for few minutes rest. Nat
urally enough, the monument suggested the
tragic death of the poor girl, and they fell to
talking about it. A heavy bank of cloud,
rising from the west threatened to obscure
the moon altogether and give the party some
trouble in finding the way back TO the hotel,
end they rofe up to start AT that moment
hlmy cloud shot across the surface of the
moon and surrounding objects on the land
ecape lost their clesrness. A shrek from
Rowland startled everybody, and they
turned to see him pointing st the monument
and wriDging his hands ms if he was in the
greatest agony. He seemed to We lost his
voice after that oGe shrek and there he stood
horror stricken like. The whole party turn
W W snO iiouuneIt, tuu tutTti III GU III De-
lieye.t continued the story teller, CHANGING
at his now awe stricken listeners, was
whitish figure rising up through the stones,
just asif by some mysterious stage mocha
niam. Then as she got to the top, she assumed
defined shape, that of pretty girl,
with sad face and flowing robes md hair
She appeared TO point her right hand toward
the glit'ering lgbts of the TIP Top bouse,
and then, suddenly dropping on her knees,
she clasped her hands ss If in prayer. In an
other instant the cloud scudded away, he
moon looked rs bright IS ever, aud the
ghost or spectre, or Whatever you my call
II, was gone. Rowland, however, WAS pros
trated by the shock to his nervous system
and did not get over it for two days mo,
Sir" wound up the old gentltm,o, II don't
believe in spirits, and l don't relieve
my friends uuttuthful relieve there
Is something or other g. be seen there on the
mound, and If I'm alive rm g,ira do@n the
next l4tb of September 10 sec --.olo if [
can't get any Of my friend- tn - ,iong"
Such story, list nel TO with tho hli. iht
creakine like ships ahd hJrce tempest In
progress outside, hsd "A marked effect upon
some of the ladies, csusirg them 10 shudter
and cling coser TO the gentlemen, who fg-
ured either ss husbands or escorts. But blow
high or blow low, the cid hotel IL as safe rs
any hotel in the valley below, for II is an
chored to the rocks with great chains, which
no amount of tugging at by the great gals
has ever seemed to affect 10 the slightest de-
gree.