Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-07-10

A Loving Couple Taken for Ghosts
and Come Near Beinx shot,.

1nM OOknt NeHE neau& 8nOt.
On Monday evening last, q miner from
Ruby Hill, who had spent the Fourth in
Eureka, left the town after midnight for
home. The stages had stopped running
for the night, and he was compelled to rely
| upon shank's mare for ~locomotion. 1t was
| pitch dark, though as he had traversed the
road often before he found little difficulty
in picking his way up Poverty Avenue and
over the hill. As our local readers know.
the road passes between two g~raveyards
beyond Dick Ryland's brick kilns. When
opposite the first one, known as Haskelrs,
the belated miner heard low is
suing from the Enclosure. OF curse his
first impressions were associated with
ghosts and hobgoblins, and not being de-
sirous Of meddling with the perturbed
spirits Of the dead, he hastened 10 the
brow Of the hill, and nearly opposite the
Eureka Cemetery. 1t had struck him,
however, that IL the voices he had heard
belonged to ghosts they were very healthy
ones, and partook Of other refreshments
than those found around graveyards. Our
hero finally concluded to solve the mys-
terry. He threw himself fiat upon the
ground, after carefully examining his re-
~volver, and endeavored to pierce the gloom
in the direction OF the lower cemetery,
from which murmurs could still OCCASION
ally be heard. The white fence was easily
traced, and the small plots, head boards
and tombstones within became visible one
by one as the mans eyes became accus-
toned to the darkness. All of o sudden he
imagined he saw two figures moving slowly
about among the graves, one in white and
the other rs black as the mantle OF night.
Getting up from his position, he cautious
ly approached the fence, revolver in hand,
when the sounds became more distinct,
but the figures could not he seen. After
listening for some minutes and straining
his sight to the severest test without see-
ing any moving objects, he came to the
conclusion that something very mysterious
was going on in the cemetery. 1t was
2 o'clock, and it could not be possible for
persons to be abroad at that hour and in
such . place. With no desire to put the
whole night in in ~unraveling the mystery,
he raised his revolver and fired o shot in
the air in the direction he supposed the
sounds came from. The reporthad scarcely
left the pistol when there was q feminine
scream like q locomotive whistle, and two
objects rose from behind a grave and
hurried toward the eastern entrance Of the
cemetery, through which they emerged
and fed over the hills toward Eureka as
il the devil was after them. Our hero
from the Hill. conscience-stricken at the
thought Of having taken a loving couple
for q pair of ghostly visitors, made his
way home in a sad and detected mood, and
related his adventure to his wife. who
naturally related it to a neighbor, and she
in turn communicated it to 3 SENTINEL
reporter. Our informant also pretends to
know who the unlucky graveyard pic
nickers we're. and says if a certain old man
would keep q weather eye on a certain
young oma such scenes would not be
re-enacted. 1t is highly probable that
they will not be-in either Of the ceme-
teries in the future.