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GHOSTS.
Some Weird Stories of Apparitions Told by
Reliable People.

Reliable People.
There is haunted house at Lake Hopatcong,
N. j.. where the cellar door refuses to stay shut.
and the barn is inhabited by phantom milk
maid and a COW with broken horn. Nobody
is willing to admit that they believe in ghosts
but it is undisputable fact that to say
house is haunted IS to give ii bad name aud
scare away tenants. well as to make il an
object OF morbid interest. As long as the
human race exists it will find a strange fasci-
nation in everything savoring of tho super
natural. and it would be hard to find com
munity that has net haunted house or
bridge or crossroads where uncanny spirits lie
in wait for belaied travellers
But not all ghosts well vouched for as
the one seen by Aunt Sukey Cooper, who was
the belle of Allegheny County during the
Revolution, and was nearly 100 when she died.
In the closing years of her ife when too feeble
TO leave her bed it was her delight to be prop
ped up with pillows and relate to an awe-struck
circle OF young folks how she saw the ghost.
The tale is still told in the neighborhood,
though the old house where she lived and the
cooper-shop in the garden are long since leveled
with the dust.
She was sitting in her kitchen door in the
Summer twilight when white, wavering shape
left the thick woods and followed the path
across the intervening meadow to the garden
gate through which it hoated TO the door of
the ruined cooper shop. There it paced and
WruHg It's ShadoWy HandS as IL IN dire distress,
finally vanishing again in the WOODS. This
was the first but not the last time it appeared.
Night after night it walked regularly in rhe
same spot and Aunt Sukey not the only
one who saw it. Public interest was aroused,
the woods were searched aud a snnken grave
was found. in which lay few crumhling bones
pronounced to be those of woman. They
were decently Inferred in Consecrated ground
and the weird white figure was seen no more.
But it was remembered that in Revolution
airy times beautiful girl went ont to meet her
lover one night and never returned. As he.
too disappeared at the same time ii was
thought they had eloped together, but later he
came back alone and denied all knowledge OF
her whereabouts. He was a sullen i'll tenn
pered fellow, known TO have been violently
jealous of her, and suspicion was strong against
him, but there was not proof enough for his
arrest.
Their trysting-place was known to have been
the old cooper-shop. When it was torn down
and the foundation for new building ex-
cavated or the site of it great wallet was
found, stuffed with Continental money, which
fell in fragments on being exposed TO the air.
But whether the wallet was in any way con-
nected with the murder of the unfortunate girl
or not was never ascertained.
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III.
AT THE gALL-THE LAST DANCE.

At THE BALL-THE LAST DANCE.
"And you're to dance the last dance with me-
remember. Miss Merridew."
Indeed, Sir Harry, will not promise you
that"
You will not promise? But you have prom.
ised"
Have promised? What do you mean, sir2
| think you are forgetting YOURSELF" and Miss
Sibyl Merridew lifted up her graceful head
with q little air of hauteur that was by no
means unbecoming to her piquant beauty.
But young Sir Harry willing was not to be
put down by this pretty little provfncial-not
he; and SO. lifting up his head with an air of
hauteur, he said to 3fiss Sibyl:
81 crave Miss Merridew's pardon. but per-
baps il she will reflect a moment she will re-
call what she said TO me yesterday morning
when | begged her to give me the pleasure Of
dancing the last minuet with her tonight"
But ] never reflect"
$50 / should judge, madam" retorted the
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/ He had only to drop the Shoe with message
she would write to go with IT, into the tunnel
box by the door, and, Anthony would find it by
daylight and set to work upon it at once that
she might not be disappointed, for it was a
ongish job she knew.
And would be then give her bit of paper
and pencil and take her to the cloak room for
a moment?
Alone in the cloak room, Sibyl wrote her
message to Anthony Styles Folding the paper
in the slipper, and wrapping the whole In her
pockethandkerchisf. she fastened the parcel
securely with the siken cord that had held her
fan.
"And may / have the last dance to- morrow
nisht?" asked Sir Harry, smilingly, as he took
leave of her few minutes later
Perhaps-if / may depend on you-and
Anthony Styles" she answered. Her eyes
sparkled like dark jewels as she spoke her
cheeks burned like red twin roses
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Where Snow Is Red.


Snow is someti mes found in Polar and Alpine
regions, where it lies unmelted from year to
year, and the annual fall is small, colored red
by the presence el linGumersble small red plants
In Its native state the plant consists of bril-
liant red globules ON a gelatinous mass. Red
snow wNs observed by the ancients, a passage
in Aristotle referring to it, but Il attracted lit
tie or no attention until 1850. when Sanssure
observed 1t in the Alps and concluded that It
was due TO the pollen of plant 1t was also
noticed by the Arctic expedition under Capt.
Ross on Batiins Bay shore on q range of cliffs.
the red color penetrating to depth of I2 feet.
Less frequent is green growth on snow
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A Future Citizen.

Just before Arbor Day last year pubic-school
teacher told the children in her charge that she
would allow them to vote for q State tree and
that each child should have one vote. Being
woman. and not politician, her surprise was
great when, the next morning, bright-ey ed
Italian lad asked how much money each child
would receive for his vote -Harper's Magazine
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hid for Either Subject.

Prof Jowett, master of Balliol College. OK
ford. was always particularly insistent that the
Undergraduate essayist should keep to the
point" Once, when Undergraduate who
had a choice of two themes, read his essay, the
master listened in absolute silence. and simply
inquired at the close WAS that about Mae
aulay or the other thing2"
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WANTED-ADDRESSES

observation-disclosures of VIM. Allen, a Scotch
w man: a baker b. trade; fair complexion hair
almost axen; large, blue eyes; rather large nose
has first and third fingers Of right hand off, third
finger of left hand is about five feet eight nine
Is 10 years Old II living Was last heard rona Dr-
buque lows IN the Spring Of 1897 at which time
left there to 20 into the Sntsrs service with the
Al that time 50 years old. Since 1882 has been
heard Of Any inSoFuatfou concerning htm, whsther
living or dead, win be most thank fully received by
his cousin-Thonsas D Wihiaaas, Biggs Sherman Co,
ogs- et2las
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One of my wouuded men who was a
prisoner for a portion Of the night Informed
me that he had seen iuljy l00 OF their dead,
and that Lieutelant vAo made him pris-
oner acknowledged tbst heir loss was g the
heavies; that they had ever experienced."
/ turned over three officers and % men,
prisoners.
Gen. Cox, ex-Gov. q Oiio and ex-Secre-
tary of the Interior, ia h:s History of the
Atlanta Campsikn,s referring 10 this engage
ment, states that he witnessed It from the
hills near Kenesaw, and speaks of it as
lone of the mest
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Ex-Congressman Buckner Dead.

A. H. Buckner died at Mexico City last week
of complication of diseases. He held many
important offices, including the Attorneyship
of the State Bank of Missouri in 1882 State
Comm issionership of Public Works in 1854,
Delegateship to the Peace Congress of 1861,
and was Representative from the Seventh Mis-
souri, District in the 43d. 44th and 45th Con-
gresses voluntarily retiring in 1884.
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Miss Willing (meaningly-Do you know thsy
are talking of putting a tax on old bachelorsf
Mr.. Bender tsnore meaningly They would
raise more revenue IL they'd tax the old married
men who wish they we're single
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HoTLY CONTESTED
cavalry fghts 05 The var "be-
tween Garrard's and the enemy's cavalry
under Wheeler"
The following from the afternoon edition
Of the Memphis Appeal, pabIished at At
lsnts, Ga, June % 1854 gives the f eht a.
it appeared to the C0Htederates:
On The 20ih instant two divisions
Kelly's and Martins and ore brigade,
NiEiams's Of our cavalry. went round to
the LEFT flank aHd rear sf Shermsn's army.
Ii WIS sad. to esBtare brigade 81 Yankee
cavalry staiione3 at McAfse'g
I'VE suceeeded IN getting 10 the right
place, where tn enemy, Minty's Brigade,
was vigorously attacked ly Williams ami
portion of Ander-on's Brigade.
"Ater a sharp coHf It tbe enemy was
driven from The fed. lannon's Brigade
having come up and attacked them on the
flank.
The Yankees fought desperately, and fell
back slowly, with what les we are unable
toascertaiB, as they carried off their wounded
and most Of their dead.
To one who WAS an eyewitness, bat not
sn adept in the art of war IL seemed very
strange that the whole Va kee force was not
surrounded and captured
"Dibrelis Brigade was drawn up a few
hundred yards from and IN full view of Il e
battlefield, with Martins whole division
immediately IN the rear
This is one Of the best Sighting bFigades
the Yankees have, and to have captured or
routed II wOuld have added Erie bit feather
TO the plume OF she successful hero
ACCOMPLISHING THE FEAT.
"After be, Minty, had been driven from
bis fiT-t position, Martins whole division was
brought up, and lost several OF Aliens Bri-
gade. BrIg.-Gen. Allen had his horse shot.
The 9Th Confederates and the 5th Ga.
Of Anderson's Brigade, lost several killed
and wounded.
"WIllismss Kentucky Brigade lost sew
eral good soldiers"
The Marietta papers of June % placed
the Confederate loss at 81 lied and 36l
wounded.
given above the following force opposed me
Kelly's Division-Anderson's Brigade
LIST, Sd, 5th. 9Th, and 10Th Confederate, and 5 h
Ga; Hsnnon's Brigade-1st, Cd, Sd, 4th, and
9th Tenn.
Martins Division-Iverson's Brigade-1st
I'd, 81, 4th, anc 9th Ga; Aliens Brigade-1st.
Sd, 4ih, 7th, and 51st Ala
independent Br gades-D Dibrell-five Ten
nessee regiments; Willlams-iive Kentucky
regiments.
In all 81 regiments, which at the average
Of 300 men-the 5th Ga numbered 800 AT
that time-gives total of nearly 10000
men.
Before / was driven from nv first posi-
ton there was actually engaged the brigades
of Williams and Harmon aud a part of An
dersons, in all, say, IL regiments Opposed
to these had 263 men of the 4ih Mich. and
one battalion of the 7th Pa, numbering 17O
men, or 45S in ALL
The loss sustained by the 7th was nine per
cent, and by the 4th nearly IS per cent
These few men held their ground for over
sNo hours. gsllantly rcpulsed every assault
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AFTER THE BALL.

And in the midst of pretty disorder of satin
and lace and flowers sits sibyl far into the night,
or rather morning, turning over and over in
her mind something that efectuaIly banishes
sleep.
"To think that 1t should be given to me to
do-made my duty! Uncle Jeffrey taught me
that, as he has taught me many things these
past months-t0 keep my own counsel for one
thing
Yet felt like cheat tonight as led Sir
Harry Oh to tell me what he did--Sir Harry,
who thinks me, as all the rest do, q stanch little
Tory, for have kept my counsel indeed, and
no one suspects
Yes have done my duty. for-'the report
Ing of important facts, however gained, in times
Of war, Is part of war tactcs.'
Oh, could laugh, could laugh, If didn't
sbiver so, when think of i'll Sir Harry, Sir
Harry, of all persons, dropping that message
into Anthony Styles's hands-Anthony Styles.
the stanch rebel, whom they think a s.anch
Tory"
The clock was striking the next afternoon,
when weather beaten man, who had look AS
if he had once been a seaman, knocked at the
side-door of Mr.. Jeffrey Merridew's mansion
and asked to see young Mistress Merridew.
It's Shoemaker Styles" the maid informed
Sibyl, and he says you must come down and
try on the si pper he has brought-hes not sure
He stood with the slipper in his hand as she
entered the room. and before she could close
the door behind her be called out In frank,
loud voice: " 1 thought you had better try on
the shoe, Miss wasn't sure of the heel"
The moment the door was closed. however,
he came forward eagerly, and in low tone
said:
at is all right little mistress. heard the
click of the tunael-box last night for hadn't
turned in, and afors many minutes / was up
aud of In my boat with the message-in my
head. burnt the paper"
'And it's all right and the end will be all
right?" faltered Sibyl. anxiously.
"All right You'll know for yourself by
nightfal perhaps and now God bless you lit
tie mistress; you've fdone a great service, and
II ever Anthony Styles can sarve you, he'll do
it with whole heart--God bless you, God bless
you'll" A ~
u#5
But Sir Harry did not dance at Nine. Bon
tineau's that evening, for when at nightlaIl he
returned to his quarters he, was met by the dis
astrous tidings that the long looked for eagerly
expected British brig. loaded with supplies for
the Kings army. had been captured off Lech-
mere's Point by the Yankee rebels!
1t was not many months after this capture
that the British evacuated Boston. When Sir
Harry Willing took leave of Sbyl Merridew, he
pleaded for some token OF remembrance.
You will not promise yourself to me-" he
said In reproachful accents, 81 but give me some
token OF yourself some gage of amity, at least"
But what-what can ] give you Sir
Harryf" asked SibyI not a little touched and
troubled.
Give me that little slipper you wore that
night We danced together at the Province
House."
That-that slipperf" and SibyI blushed
and psied.
"Yes--ah, you Will. you Will"
:noment's hesitation then with strange
smile, half grave. half gay, Sibyl answered,
Yes, wiIl."-B0st0n GL0bS.
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If anylyoung, old. or middie-aged man suffer
ing from nervous debility, weakness, will in
close stamp to me | will send him the preserip-
tion of genuine certain cure free of cost.
No humbug. No deception. Address I. G.
Barnes, News Dealer, Marshall. Mich.
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Tie arnu 10 defend The nenal

The ,0ay to defend the pension system and
secure ats maintenance is 10 begin the fight now,
achea The pension -haters are doiRg their utmost
to poison the public mind. Get up euery,uhere
clubs for THE NA7IONAL TRIBUNE
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No. so.

No. 80 This Is one of the latest ladies'
watches. The case Is guaranteed TO wear 20
years. The thumb-piece and ali parts sub
iect to constant use are made of solid gold.
The movement contains II jewels In set
tings, exposed pallets and compensation
balance We offer it to our subscribers, de.
livery guaranteed, for SIS; or sent With
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this reduction brings the cost to about one
aalf the usual retail price. The offer il
United 10 two colors and two grades, and to
lies fhust measurement ranging from
hirty-six to forty-six inches. Each coat is
dfty-three inches long, with detachable
cape twenty-four inches long, of double
texture goods, the lining being handsome
plaid. They are made of fine materials
and in the best manner. They viii not
grow hard or stiff, and are first-class in
every respect
The duk- blue coat is of very fine cloth,
fibbed, not all wool, but very handsome,
and the price, including delivery to any
Express Office in the United States, is 1885.
The black coat is made from fine wool,
smooth-surfacs cloth, that is less snowy
than the blue, but will give the best OF
service The price, including delivery to
my express Office in the United States, is
SO S5 Coats of different sizes will be made
20 order for 50 extra.
Measure over your coat.
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, Washington, D. C.
The National tribune., 1894-03-01

HEN SIR WILLIAM HOWE
& -NLEIyxEg succeeded Gen. Gage as Gov
MIASfE ernor and Military Com
@NNgNM mander of the New England
WfS.t Province, he at once set to
The National tribune., 1894-03-01

Pills are prompt and efficient, yet
ion. Sold by all druggists. 30
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-19

POLITICS ARE curious things, but poll
ticians are more so-that is, to the
many who don't understand human
nature. Congressman kayner, of Bal
timore, now poses as the Cleveland
candidate for Governor of Maryland.
And yet, so recently as the day after the
passage of what is called the German
tariff bill, MI. Raynor asked a gentle
mar in the Capitol at Washington to
tell Senator German that he always
had been, and was then, his friend and
admirer, that the passage of that bill
was a great victory for MIR. German
and would, and should, make him the
democratic Presidential nominee in 49,
and that he, .Rayner, had voted against
it, only because some people in Balti-
more opposed it, and he knew the ma
jority in favor of it was so large that
his vote would not affect It's passage.
Mr.. Rayner should follow Wolsey's ad-
vice and fling away ambition, as II
has such a baleful effect upon him.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mayor Gilroy, of New York, says
that the committee Of seventy is COM
posed of the old enemies of Tammany.
He has been installed as chief adviser
of Tammany.
A .hypnotist, in giving exhibitions
in Tuskir Castle, Hungary, yesterday
suggested that the young lady who
was acting as his medium had con.
sumption, when she suddenly sbrieked
and fell dead.
The estimate of tho California wine
crop this year is from $4,000, 900 to 49,
600, 900 gallons. This is considerably
below the average. The California as
ISOLATION plans to handle directly me
third of the estimated crop.
The residence of Marshall Cory,
near Owingsville, was struck by light
ming at four o'clock yesterday morning.
Cory, his wife and a daughter aged
eighteen years were instantly killed.
Several others in the house were in
jured, but it is thought not fatally.
Policeman Mellon yesterday arrested
a man, evidently insane, in Philadel-
phia, who was aourishing a revolver
and claiming that fortune-tellers were
pursuing him for his money. He had
a return ticket from New York to Chi
cago, and papers which lead the au-
thorities to believe that he is Peter Pc
t%erson, of Chicago.
The people of Manayunk, Pa, sup
posed a latter-day deluge had burst
upon them just after they had finished
dinner yesterday. There was a deluge
of rain which almost instantly convert
ed the streets into miniature rivers.
Sewers were injured, cellars flooded
and much damage done. An electric
car was derailed while the motorman
was endeavoring to force it through a
flooded street. There were several
washouts on the railroads leading into
Manayunk.
Ex-Vice President Levi P. Morton
was nominated on the first ballot by
the New York republican State conven
ton at Saratoga yesterday for Gov.
ernor. When the vote was finished
the clerks, amid the greatest confusion,
announced: Morton, 1921 Fassett, GO;
Woodford, 40; Butterfield, %; Russell,
90; Bliss, 404, and Arkell, l. Charles
It. Saxton was nominated for lieuten-
ant-governor on the fist ballot, and
Albert ]. Hayht for Judge of the Court
of Appeals. The platform denounces
northern democratic congressman for
permitting southern members to pro
tect the chief products of their section
while removing or largely reducing pro.
tective duties on products of the North
thus permitting the South by legal ell
actment in time of peace to destroy our
prosperity and accomplish what it fail
ed to do by illegal enactment in time o.
war;
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WEDNESDAY EVENING. SEPT. 10, 1894.
THOUGH SENATOR HILL, the most
%opponent of the new tariff

THOUGH SENATOR HILL, the most
pronounced opponent of the new tariff
bill before it's passage, now rightly says
it the part, not only of good democrats
but of all other good citizens to be will
ing to allow that bill time for a air
trial. there are many who call them
selves democrats who continue to de-
nouncei it, and also Mr.. German, though
that Senator is no more responsible for
it than any of his colleagues who urged
its passage. But it is observed that the
people referred to are the especial OPP
ponents of the income tax provision of
that bill, the provision that compelst the
rich men of the country to pay at least
a small share of the governments ex-
penses, and it is shrewdly suspected that
their persistent opposition is the result
of that particular provision, rather than
any real objection to the others, which,
at least, reduce the price of what the
boo must buy 10 order to live. But it
is only natural that q few rich men
should object to being taxed, especially
when there are many poor Q from
whom the required revenue can be
raised.
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and Killed.

New ORLEANS, Sept. 19.-For some
time past a party of regulators in Yer
million parish have been terrorizing ne
groes who were obnoxious to them.
Hearing of a contemplated raid On ne
groes Sunday night, the sheriff, with a
posse of deputies, lay in wait. When
the gang came in sight, armed and
masked, the deputies pounced upon
them and captured the entire party,
nine in number. In the meanwhile, the
negroes, hearing of the proposed
visit, lay in ambush, not knowing that
the sheriff was also after the gang.
When the party was returning to Able
Vile the negroes opened fire on them
from ambush, killing two of the regu-
lalnrS
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-19

ODD FELLows.-The SovereignGr Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows at Chattanooga
Tenn, yesterday reassembled in Look
out convention hall. The question of
the next place OF meeting came up and
Atlantic City was chosen.
Officers for the ensuing year were
chosen as follows /: Grand Sire, John
w. Stebbens, of Maryland ; deputy
grand sire, Hon. Fred Carlton, of Tex
as; grand secretary, Theodore Ross, of
New Jersey, re elected grand treasur-
er, Isaac Sheppard, of Pennsylvania, re-
elected.
In the afternoon there was a grand
parade. The parade was an hour late
in moving. Never before was the main
street of the city 80 packed and jammed
with humanity. At the corner of Slh
and Market streets q grand triumphal
arch had been erected. The structure
is the most artistic and costliest thing
of the kind ever erected in the South.
Three hundred incandescent lights illu-
minated it at night. Under this arch
n of the most creditable parades aver
seen in Chattanooga passed. The fea-
lures of the parade were eight emble-
NAUTICAL floats ofthe order.
After the parade the visitors were
driven over Missionary Ridge to Bragg's
old headquarters.
Last night a brilliant reception and
reunion in honor of the past grand
representatives was held in the LIST Bap-
fist church auditorium.
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IGNORED the Attachment.

COLUMBUS, o., Sept. 19.-When the
train from Cincinnati on the Baltimore
and Ohio reached Mt. Sterling yester-
day, a constable attached the engine in
a suit against the company for $500
for two horses recently killed by the
cars, and chained one of the driving
wheels to the track. The engineer
wired the general Offices here for in
structions. The answer came: "If the
chain is not too strong, come ahead"
Il was a big log chain, but it snapped
as the engineer pulled the throttle and
the train sped away. The farmer who
brought the suit will cause arrests for
this case of contempt.