Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-12

found every article scattered about The
room.n
Ihe dowager maIchioress told me that
now Miss Tottenhsm had regularly turned
them oUt of the house." and orders had been
given 10 convert the tapestry chamber lnte
billiard-room.
Upon hearing this determined to write
to the Rev. Charles Dale, then incumbent oil
a parish near Dover, telling him what had
occurred to myself in that room, and that
the evidences OF supernatural appearances
there were 80 strong and continued Tor sew
eraI generations that 1 was anxious to put
them together, and should consider 1t great
favor if he would tell me whether anything
had happened TO him in that room, and OF
what nature. He then for the first time
mentioned the matter, and from his letter
now before me make the following extract:
For three weeks have experienced no incon-
venence from the lady; but one night, just before
we were to leave 1 had sat up late. II was just
O'Clock when retired TO my bedroom tine Lapes-
try rooml, very beautiful mo o nlgns s,a
properly fastened, as / did every night had not
laid myself down more than five minutes before
something jumped on the bed, making 0ro1ettn9
noise and the bed clothes were pulled off, though
/ strongly resisted the pull. | Immediately
jun ped out of bed, lighted my candle, looked into
the closet and under the bed. but saw nothing
Mr.. Dale goes on TO say that he endeavored
to account for it in some such way as L had
formerly done, having never up to that time
heard Que word of the lady or her doings IN
that room. He adds, 81 did not see the lady
or hear any noise bat the 9roWltng." Mr..
Dale had shut the windows closely, whereas
l had them fully open, and brilliant full
moon shining in, as also had Shannon, the
valet, who had seen her many years before
me.
Here, then, is the written testimony Of
a benefited English clergyman, occupying
the responsible position of tutor TO the young
Marquis Of Ely, a most sooer-minded and
unimpressionable man. He repeats In 1867
almost the very words OF my father when
detailing his experience in that room in 1870
"a man OF whose existence he had never
been coguizant, and therefore utterly igno-
rant Of his knowledge of Miss Tottenhsm 's
doings 10 that room nearly eighty years
before.
In the autumn of 1868 was again in the
locality, at Dupmore, the opposite side of
the Waterford estuary. 1 went across 10 see
tenham had forced the proprietors to make
In my tapestry chamber. / found that the
dark closet into which the poor lady had ale
ways vanished was taken away, the room en-
larged and two additional windows put in;
the old tapestry and lis "mimic chase" had
all gone, and billiard table occupied the
space of poor Anne's bed. / took aside the
old housekeeper, who had been in those
long-past days a servant OF my father,
s--d -Ise-I eekAd mon me as il also had
been ghost risen from the tomb, and asked
her to tell me how Miss Tottenham bore
those changes in her apartment. She
looked quite frightened and most anxious to
avoid The question, but at length hurriedly
replied: "Ohi Master George, don't talk
4h0 har laaf aiohf he IL
noise, knocking the billiard balls about"
have thus traced with strict truth this
most real and true tale, from the days of
"Tottenham and his Boots" to those Of his
great-great grandson.
In considering the very interesting ques-
ton whether there is spiritual interference
in the affairs OF this world, which 80 very
large number of educated people positively
assert, and which greater number as posi-
lively contradict, one or Two remarks may
help to simplify the matter. In the first
plac the great preponderance in the num-
Der Of disbelievers is at once accounted for
by the fact that by far the larger proportion
of educated and thinking men-and it is to
such alone that refer-have never seriously
turned their attention 10 the subject. and
having never experienced anything of the
kind, deny the existence of that which has
not only never come to their knowledge, or
even been treated by them as matter of
sober consideration. The second remark
which l No axe is that, when spiritual inter-
ference ia spoken of, no distinction is made
in he mind between the spiritual interior
ence Of angels and that of departed men and
women.
OF the first there can be no doubt in the
mind OF any Christian. st. Paul expressly
tells us, "They are sent forth TO be ministers
unto them who shall be heirs of salvation"
Also, as to the opposing influence of evil
spirits, st. Paul calls upon Christians to
"take the whole armor of God" because
'we wires lie against wicked spirits 10 heav-
emily places"
But the spiritual interference of departed
men and women is quite another question,
and very much depends upon the testimony
and experiences of credible witnesses. In
the tale which i have related not a particle
of doubt or distrust can be thrown upon the
testimony OF four generations, and the
strange fact comes out = that Miss Tot
tenham, although so impalpable that
my arm passed through her without
my perceiving the smallest resistance,
was able TO exercise force which
bsffied the efforts of a strong and
ab e young man TO resist, as also that she
possessed weight. Something heavy leaped
on the bed" There is also the strange fact of
the visibility of a particular dress, and its
being apparently acted on. by the laws of
the atmosphere, doubling on my bed-curlain
when the figure hurried forward from my
grasp, and exhibiting the brocaded flowers
OF the dresses worn in that day.
Lotus Hall has since been wholly rebuilt,
large modern ediice standing in the place
of the wierd old mansion. / have not heard
whether poor Aunie To.tenham has coude-
scended to revisit it, or ia wholly banished
at last. ! can only assert the simple truth
OF my tale.