Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02
SOME GHOST STORIES.
Weird Witches. Strange Lights and NIys.
terious Messages.

Weird Witches. Strange Lights and NIys:
terious Messages.
There is 4 SuperstitiOus idea with some
| that horses are witCh-ridden We take no
stock III this relic of an ignorant age. but
strange incident that recalls this oft-agi-
tated matter is the fact that for several
| days the horse of S. B. Cohen, a merchant
OF this city, has been found in profuse
persplration in the early morning, with the
! PRINT OF leg on either side, as il he had
been ridden bare-backed The stable is
locked at night and tAe horse is in his
stable at daylight every morning. but for
the past few mornings he is painting rs if
| he had lust returned from q LONG iauut and
Is wholly unfit for service during The entire
| day. Changing the lock on the stable has
| no effect on the witches. The more icnor-
ant are much agitated over the matter,
contending that witches visit his stable
while the intelligent of our community
don't understand the mysterious occur
renee watch has been stationed al the
stable Madisonian (Ga.)
PEpLER's GHOST.
BY the roadside, on high bank Of the
Licking. near the northern boundary of
West Liberty, is 4 lone grave, a little rude
mound marked by rugged stones at head
and foot, but no inscription to informs the
paSser-hy who sleeps beneath Here lies.
awaiting the resurrection. the body of Nor
MS Haggcrty, an Irish pedlcr. who was
murdered III this county in 1858 To some
of our people whose minds are imbued
with superstitiouS notions this spot is OF
peculiar interest. Rumors of lights seen
at night fitting about the place accom-
panied by q wierd, spectral form that van
ishes i'll the air, and strange voices, have
ssnNr i - ~. III Il. >.
haunted place. Many and strange are
the stories told of sights seen and noises
heard about this place. and many an ur-
chin sits at night with dilated eyes, quick
ened pulse and hair on end rs he listens
TO the stories told of the frightful forms
that caper at night about the grave of the
murdered pedler. Ridiculous and absurd
as ii may appear, it is tCld and believed
that the mystic wanderer from that hum
bic grave entered the cottage home of DR..
Thornley,, when he resided here. and
filched his knife from his pantaloons
pocket and played havoc with his queens
ware. 1t is reported that these stories re-
Gently prevented the contamination of a
real estate transaction in that vicinity.
West Liberty Scorcher.
WORRIED BY A WITCH.
Jesse Miller, a farmer living in Green
v,
vania, is ready to swear that his household
is afflicted with a witch. Some time ago he
found q, saddle hanging on a hook by the
chimney He had placed it on the balus-
tiers. This occurred three times, and every
member of the family accused solemnly
declared that they had not touched the
saddle. Mr.. Miller took it to the woodshed,
'and again it was displaced. He then re-
moved the saddle to sawmill and spiked
it TO q standard. 1t stays there.
His wife was washing one day and
stepped out of the apartment for few
minutes. Returning she was amazed to
find the articles which she had left in the
tub thrown about over the floor. Miller
was aroused one night by screams in his
front yard. He bounded out of bed and
rushed out and found his daughter
there alone. She had no knowl-
edge of how she got there. Every window
and door in the house was locked and
bolted as when the young lady went to bed.
Twice since she has been spirited out of the
house in broad daylight, i'll the presence of
her mother and others. The spirit Of dark
ness that exerts this influence over the
young lady is invisible to all others. She
describes the witch as resembling an old
woman with heavy locks, hairy face and
wearing a white cap.
The Miller family is thoroughly terrified,
az is the entire community. Miller intends
to leave the locality as soon as possible.
Meanwhile he has been in Myersdale in
guest of q witch doctor, to make the place
tOlerable for short time at least He is
firm i'll his witch belief Pittsburg Leader.
THE GHOST or A MIsER.
A correspondent says the latest sensation
in Shenandoah is the presence of a va';-
uine ghost. Mr.. and Mrs. David WilIi
on East Center street, have both di
Gently and about three weeks ago a
watchman ct one of the colieries. mar
McNelis, was coming home at an ea
hour in the morning, when he met fgt,
clothed in white emerging from their Ia
residence. He hailed it, but received Ho
answer. Being a man of pluck, he sprang
forward to seize IL, and as if by magic, ii
eluded his grasp and vanished. Subse-
guently belated traveller returning with
team from Mahanoy City, while passing
the house, saw a white-robed form start up
from the ground and walk rapidly Oft in
front of his horse. He urged his horse on,
but the "ghost" still kept in advance
After pursuing it some distance, the driver
saw the spirit turn corner, and before
he could reach the point it vanished from
sight
Last week young lady, more courageous
than the rest of her sex, on a banter from
some companions undertook to take walk
through the house after dark Scarcely,
however, had she stepped foot across its
threshold when a tall figure rose at her
very side attired in the ghostly white. She
screamed and tainted. Her companions,
who were awaiting developments outside,
rushed to her aid, but when they entered
the house the spirit was gone 1t has been
seen at various times since, but never has
been cornered so as to clear up the mystery
of its appearance and strange disappear
ance. Superstitious people maintain it to
be the ghost Of old Williams, restless be-
cause of some worldly misdeeds. Others,
more sensible, regard it as a shrewd dis
guise under which some avariciOus indiyid-
ual is searching for the hidden thousands
of the dead PHILADELPHIA Press