Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-12
AN UNGALLANT GHOST.

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Bristol is haunted by ghost. It isn't
one of those insign iicant kind of spooks
that manifest themselves in bobbing up in
deserted places and then bobbing down
again before folks can get good look.
This one is said to appear semi-occasion-
ally, and instead of celebrating its materi-
aization by unearthly noises, Sc
pulchral groans and the clank-
ing of chains as the con-
ventional ghosts are fond of doing. it takes
little crawl around the town and does
business open and above board. 1t has
been subject of fireside gossip and bad
dreams for several years and the tales of
its mischievous promenades are familiar
to every resident of the town. 1t is gen.
orally admitted that it comes forth from
one of two graveyards, which are on Wal
nut street, about two squares east of the
Pennsylvania railroad. The one is at
tached to the Episcopal church and in the
other sleep the sober ancestors of Bristors
society of friends. It is hard to believe that
any one of the sect when teaches universal
brotherhood and love, and whose methods
of life are so fxedly opposed to unkindly
disturbances of..every nature, should SO far
forget his early teachings as to create such
a scare, but there is certainly as much
foundation for laying the blame upon the
Friends as upon the Episcopalians. The
two churchyards are separated by mar
row street, which is as dark and as unin-
viting path of promenade as any spook
would care to stroll through. And down
that little street, all clad in ghos.ly raj
ments, it has been seen to move by numer-
Gus witnesses.
WHERE THE GHOST CONEs FROM.
This is certainly its starting point. but,
as already stated, nobody has yet seen
over which wall it climbs-the one on its
right Or the one on the left. 1t has been
met on many of the streets of the town at
different times. There is very respecta-
bic young lady living on Dorrance street
who was thrown into dangerous, nervous
state by one of its visits. out of which the
doctors brought her only after days of
careful nursing and skill. She went to the
parlor window one night to close the shut
ters, and as she peered forth into the dark
ness of the street she saw the tall,
gaunt face in white drapery and
with feshless head advance quickly out Of
the gloom and extend its bony digits as if
to grasp her. She folded up like a meas
uring rule, ard when the family answered
the lusty scream which rang through the
house they found scared girl all III heap
on the floor, with no power to move a limb.
Two ladies we're returning home at late
hour one night, and to make time they cut
across lonely lot near the verge of the
town. Suddenly the tall, white figure
doomed up in their very path but few
feet away. There were no bushes nor
means Of cover near by out of which it
could have come, and..they say it seemed
to rise right up from the ground. They
ran all the way home and shook all night
in contem plating the awful sight
HUNTING GHOST WITH CLUBS.
Not long ago its appearance became SO
frequent and SO bold that body of men
determined to protest against its pranks
with clubs and firearms. It had been
noted that it always appeared before
women, and accordingly they each assumed
female attire and sailed forth on the hunt
But while they were scouting in the dark
about the graveyards, it was at that very
time of the night terrifying female pedes-
TRANS at the other end of
the town. The scare. pal
ticularly among the superstitious servant
girls of the town, has become so general
and the apparation has been so frequent
and persistent in its canny attentions, that
all women give the little graveyards a
wide berth after nightfall. The fact is
pretty firmly substantiated that
something had been frightening the fe-
males frequently for years past, but
whether it is spirit Of health or goblin
damned" the most bold and inquisitive citi-
zen of Bristol has not yet determined.
There are some who connect this appari-
ton with an old house standing upon the
river street. II is broad,
''double'' structure of an antique
pattern. The grounds are unkept
and the shutters are closed tight.
But many years ago the mansion was &C.
cupied by two elderly ladies, who had never
embraced matrimony. There they lived
together until one of them died, leaving
the request that all the furniture ana con-
tents should remain untouched. The
grief-stricken sister observed her wishes
religiously, and moving out she locked the
doors without removing single thing. It
remained untenantedIfor long, long while.
and finally the other sister died, too. Their
heirs then opened the house and the res
idents of BriItol crowded about the place to
get glimpse into the dim old halls, where
dust and cobwebs had had things all their
own way for SO long a time.
DESERTED HOUSE.
The opening day was one of the events
in the history of Bristol. Everything was
found just as it had been left except the
old piano, the lid of which had been raised
for so long time that it had lost its voice.
In jiffy the house was stripped of every
thing, and to-day it stands vacant and de-
serted. There are people of a conjectur-
ing turn of mind who assert that this same
ghost is prowling around to protest against
the violation of the sacred promise given
BY the one sister to the other, that the
''haunted house." as it has long been called,
would crumble to pieces with its contents
in it, just as she left them when she
breathed her last.
Methodist Sunday School Work.
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