Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03
THEY SEE THE GHOST.
A Few Lawrenceyillians Investigate
Certain Blush Lights
In A CEMETERY'S CENTER.
A Story Entirely Founded on Fact, as Its
Principals Aver.
THEIR REMARKABLE HALLUCINATION

Lawrenceville contains so much in the
line of graveyards and other places where,
according to an unpopular superstition,
spirits most do congregate," that it is not
a surprise when some of its inhabitants see
GHOSTS" The Allegheny Cemetery had
brand new ghost about two weeks ago, and
he was at least as funny as q funeral, until
party of courageous young men solved the
mystery and compelled His Tombs tones to
go out of the business of soaring honest
people who come home after midnight.
For several nights during the past two
weeks a strange object, bearing slight re-
semblance to man, could be seen through
the trees from the Butler street side of the
cemetery. 1t was surrounded by blush
flame, which would burn up and then die
out for few moments. The first man who
noticed 1t went home and swore off for
year. The second murmured something
about eating his wife's pies Che had only
been married for six weeks), and third
said:
"By Jingo! She's come back! She said
she weuldl''
His mother-in-law had peacefully de-
parted about three weeks previously. OPP
posite the cemetery the Lime Kiln Club has
q room. One of its members noticed the
object, and the rooms were vacant for two
nights.
The suspense was growing unbearable.
The "ghost" was having all the fun.
Two or three nights ago party was
formed to investigate His Ghastliness. 1t
consisted of two grocerymen Zone who
weighs about 200 pounds and is at least as
honest as his sugar; the other little fellow,
not much stronger than a pound of butter); a
physician, who is over six feet in height; a
drug clerk, who is often taken for the doc
tors son Gas he is so smalD, and two others,
one of whom was only an ordinary man,
and the other, by name Demi John Carried
by the drug clerk).
1t was impossible to get in at the gate, so
the party went to the wall-that is, the
cemetery wall. All first shook hands with
Demi. The doctor lifted the drug clerk up
on the wall, just as His Ghostly apparition
hared up. The elevated spectator fell down
on the other side in his fright, and his teeth
chartered until they sounded like castinet
solo. The big grocer slowly lifted his
ponderous frame upon the wall, and he and
the doctor sat there for a moment, while the
doctor murmured:
BE thou spirit ofhealth, or goblin, etc.,
let's 90 back!''
ONWARD WAS THE WORD.
The fat man whispered 'Be brave!" The
party held meeting on the other side of
the fence and again shook hands with John.
The drug clerk ordered an advance. They
crept along the road, as the villain in
play does, to sneaky music. The flight of a
startled night bird in low tree was the
cause of sudden retreat, in which the big
doctor took the lead and the fat man brought
up the rear. A halt was called when they
noticed no one was following, and all again
shook hands with Demi.
They reached the haunted spot. All was
silence. Through the trees faint glimpses of
His Chastity Nibs could be obtained The
little groceryman said it reminded him of
Pittsburg when the Constitutional Amend
ment took effect The party huddled to-
gether, and once more shook hands with
John.
A revival of spirits led to the signal, and
the party burst through the hedge which
surrounded the plot of ground in which
His Nibs stood.
The mystery was solved. Their yell of
exultation dropped down to groan of dis
appointment. Instead of real ghost, a
newly-refected blue granite monument
darted back the light from the Lucy blast
furnaces situated across the fields. When
the beholder stands on Butler street the
furnaces are behind him and, the circular
monument reflects their light.
Once more Demi John was consulted.
and the party made their way back to But
Ter street, and their homes.