New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-01-03
ANTICS OF 4 NEU-JERSEY SPOOR.

| FRIGHTENING MEN AND wOMES AND APPEARING
AT UMsEgMLY HOCaS.
BURLINGTON, y. j.. Jan. 2-New-JeTsey seems to
he exDending its energies upon ghosts This place has
one. They call it a devil there, bat il is as true
Ghost as anv OF the Others Mil,ie has ghost. two
or three other places in tue State have their spectral
specialiies but ahead of all others comes the Morris
town ghost which first appeared last summer ana now
after REF interval of suspended animation it again
visits the gmpscs Of the moon and walks the ear'h in
q new pair OF gum shoes This celebrated performer
has seemed to be improving and charging his iacll-
tie, during his time Of apparent inactivity, for in the
supplementary engagement he is now playing, he in
troduces several new and startling features which
meyer fail TO interest if they do not please the
spectators OF his performances. Audiences, he has
none for he never speaks word.
One night recently two men got OIL the owl train"
at the East MorTistown Station aud started down
Third.st toward their homes The owl tram, has the
hour of midnight for lis me of arrival. and Ihird-st
which lies along the railroad, besides being dark and
lonely thoroughfare is bOrdcIed on Que side by open
fields Nc time place could be more congeniai to
ghost and so the spOok appeared. lie rose up tan and
black and gaunt in front OF the two men waving his
black hands at them in the peculiarly sociabe way
ghosts have and thrusting his hideous white face
almost against their noses. There was duet OF
frightened wells and when those two men stopped
running they were tar apart and far from their homes.
The speore in the meantime vanished at his leisure,
but in what manner is not known Tor there Wa' noO0y
to see few nights later, another man got OH me
owl train and he also started down Ihird-st. lie mad
hardly gone rod into the darkness when the ghost
appeared TO him The was too much iIlghten'dlo
run and thus was enabled 10 the whole perform
once HAPPILY. the 8ppaTitIOn seemed 10 nave 10 III
ierest for him and passed UNDECIDED. 1t had como
from behind the vein. it was tan ana b'ach anu
walked swiftly and noisclessy IN the an "ccoLuhE 30
description. 1t passed cn short dis'ahte, thth
crossed the railroad OGtcd over The fence nto ne
and vanished a. dark object i AIT 10 DO at pldhgnt
one keeps old OF it, aud thi, man dld not keep
hold of the ghost Still more recently, anO'bef man
was frightened into a moderately severe spa'G'' ny
meeting the nightly visitor on dark anu loicy
cross street. This time 1t was IN west hoiIS'oNh'
To Oe sure there Is tradition that lie ghosts niS af'
peorapce here was the eyes of man. Inc lfa"l'h
refers 10 time last summer when the h;ine9r Oh q
nght train thought he saw man on u 'I'oHHi I@o
nycr him heard his bones crunch and then could Rot
find the body he tack walker 1t Is SAID must nave
been n Ghost and whether not he was the man VINO
ncg.crtcd to leave his body on the track the lrrfrht
Ghost began TO walk Immediately after tm- ie"'h',
II is also related that oGe night doctor was le'niE
home from late visit when the spectre rose np dtte'Y
in front of his horse. The doctor took prompt acton,
too prompt to the uucanny thing III iionl oI Lu; llo
jumped from his carnage ana caught .io i"f".'ao',i
What was the sequel no one knows but IL { Goclor SUI
the ghost The doctor never will say anything ABOUT
the matter. ana the ghost never says woid about
ANYTHING SO that midnight mystery Is mystery ,ihi
chaptcr of the ghosts history. . , -
Not long since. the GLost appeared IN the naP.''I
graveyard graveyard would at once suggest seh to
am, or.narv Ghost the nest ttng place iOr MS 0D-
i.ctiouabe mnstrations, but this ghost l. cTIa'ic
e,,des dressing in black. en- to the extent o "ri-
inr black gloves which orthodox ghost would tmhk
~ doing he seems not to have thought oil me grave
varo mi recently he inspiration when Il GId come.
was not SO trinphautly successful n some OF his nave
been He appeared 10 a woman anu hef Young
daughter who were passing through the e-uFch-
ward as short cut TO their home aiteT an
evening meeting he woman may nave
b,en frightened. but she did not act like
l. She turned On the spectre AID eric ont defiant y;
= scare " lao scare gho Who viii sou scare : 20
ghost fearing perhaps that she would scare I'M II no
lin yrcl prom lily vanished In the direc ION OF the HORSE
she'd Another reccnt naturalization llau no ptt'cr
success woman passing along one of the SIDE streets
suddenly became .ciDus that the ghost nae appeared
Ia nor lie WIS waving his black hands ~ her ana ms
CHASTITY white face was down close IN 'front.' oI hcIs
She looked calmly at Tie hdrOus Nsnge ana she Sill IN
a auet tone OF conviction. on. It's you. Is IL . me
ghost did not TrOiuuc the interview, Ddt Nahlsheu
Identification is not what he Graves.
Recently the repOr. abroad that the ghost hab
been CAPTURED identified and locked nv, ana imls"-
atry there arose. "A ot female voices, deha"ll-
whipping tho nliscrcaut until Ee should not Lave
strength to a mask again. but the report was ho'
true and the whippings had To he indefinitely p''.-
puuel since then another report has been crcnA'e'
H. the effect that the ghosts dress consisting al iSN'
"A pair gloves .nd black cloak, were found IN or
but II that le true he mast have obtained new outu''
for he S still walking.