St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-06
A CHASTITY SPECTER.
Terrible Experience of Missis-
sippi Man.

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sippi Man.
Jackson Miss Special.
Our town is much excited just now by
a bona fide ghost, which is to be seen
nightly on what is known as the old
North road. This road is little travelled
now, as better one has been made of
late years nearly parallel to it, though
some hundred yards apart. However,
owing to the fall of an immense oak
across the new road during the recent
storm, travel has temporarily been re-
sumed over the old one.
Jim D., milkman, driving his wagon
to town early one morning. was the
first to see the ghost. On being inter-
viewed, this man stated to your cor
respondent: "IJ was just a little after
daybreak, and there was very heavy
fog, which prevented my seeing very
far ahead, so | was not able to see
where she came from, but suddenly
saw, almost under my horses nose, a
little woman in q checked sunbOnnet,
hobbling along the road. The horse
seemed to see her about the same
time that l did, for he sprang
back with an awful snort, or rather
screech. He's the steadiest, animal
tIldU GNCl NOIC luCoSs UuC IlCr HCSQii
to rear up then, and take on so l could
hardly hold him, and the sweat just
rolled off him until he was as wet as
if he'd been through the river. Twas,
too busy quieting the horse to look after.
the woman. but when | got him started
again there she was still pegging along
Just in front of us. This bonnet tapped
about her face so | could not see it, but
from her walk and bumped figure I
could tell she was an old woman. She
was holding her hand up to her head as
if it hurt her, aud could hear moaning
to herself in piteOuS sort of way that
made my flesh feel mighty creepy. [
called out to her to know what was the
matter, and if she didn't want to ride.
but she didn't seem to hear, and just
kept straight OH till got mad. ''Hello,
there" | said, would you mind getting
out of the way? Pm in a.hurry, and I'd
like to pass you"
notice, l turned out and tried to drive
round. but though 1 got faster and faster
the old woman kept ahead, until we
reached that old clearing where a house.
used to stand on the side of the road,
when she turned around and gave me
one look. And | tell you, sir, I'll never
forget that sight as long as live. That
old wOman's face had the awful green
ish, corrupted look of a person that's
been dead long time, and right across
her long, skinny throat there was a
dreadful cut, from which, as l am a
| living man, the blood was still oozing
| in big black drops. [ was sitting there
! in the wagon staring at her, all the
blood in my body freezing, and my
| hair standing up like a brush heap,
when she vanished right before my
eyes as completely as if the earth had
| opened and swallowed her up"
Several have watched the road since
| then, and seen the little old woman sud-
denly appear always just as day is
breaking in certain part of the road,
and, after going a few hundred feet,
vanish near the old clearing. She re-
spends to no greeting, aud seems I'M
| conscious that any one is near, until
| just before disappearing, when she
chances round, revealing her unearthly
| dead countenance with the bleeding
! cash across her throat.
A certain gentleman of this place
made the boast that he would fathOm
the mystery surrounding her, and had
| the courage to accOSt her, even endeav-
oring to lay hold of her garments; but,
in his own words, his hand and arm felt
as if they had encountered an electric
fluid that fairly parafyZed them, and
he fell back fainting, and half
dead from the shock, while the spector
calmly pursued its way. The gentle
man still keeps his bed, and is suffering
from the nervous attack brought on by
his encounter with the ghost. As there
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