Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1894-05-30
sPooks AND SPIRITS.
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College Dormitory.

Some Irish Haunted Eouses-Ph Phantom In q
College Dormitory.
The following narratives are from
1.-THE Story of Two Noble Lives, /" be-
ing memorials of Charlotte Countess
Canning and Louisa Marchioness of
Waterford by Augustus J. c. Hare,
volume 3:
Sept. IL, 1869-We have all been to
luncheon, says Mr.. Hare, at Carham,
l6 miles from Ford castle, the seat of
Louisa Marchioness of Waterford.
Carham is one of the well known
haunted houses. The "Carham light"
is celebrated and is constantly seen.
We asked old Mrs. Compton, who
lives there now, about the supernat-
ural sights of Carham. "Och," she
said, land have We niver heerd of the
phantom carriage2 We've just heerd
it this very morning. When we
were waiting for you, we heerd it
drive up" We are quite used to it
now. A carriage drives quickly up
to the door with great rafting noise,
and when it stops the horses seem to
paw and tear up the gravel. Strange
servants are terribly frightened by
it. One day when l was at luncheon
l heard carriage drive up quickly
to the door. There was no doubt of
it. told the servant to go and SEQ
who it was. He came back pale as
ashes and said, ut is only just the
phantom coach" And then there is
the "Carham light" That is just
beautiful! It is large globe of fire
in the shape of a full moon. I have
seen it hundreds of times. It moves
about in the woods and sometimes
settles in one place. The first time I
saw it was driving home from Kelso,
and I saw a great ball of fire. I said
to the driver, what is that's" "Oh,
it's just the Carham light" he said.
When Dick (Mrs. Compton's son-in-
law, Mr. Hodgson Hinde) came in,
he said he did not believe it. He had
never seen it, and that night it came
as bright as ever. All the gentlemen
went out in the woods to examine it.
They all saw it, and they were quite
convinced. 1t has never been ex-
Nained.
It was Lady Ashburton's brother,
says Lady Waterford, Stewart Mac
keazie, who had that strange adven-
ture at school. He was in bed in a
long dormitory, with the boys in
rows of beds on each side. In the
night he awoke and saw little old
woman come into the room, and
round her neck was slung sort of
satchel filed with carpenters in
struments- mallet, chisel, ham
mer, nails, etc. He saw her go up to
one of the sleeping boys, look at him,
bend over him, examine him very
carefully and then take out a nail,
seize the hammer and seem about to
knock the nail into his forehead, then
suddenly, just at the last moment, to
change her mind and pass on. Into
the foreheads of some of the boys she
seemed to strike the nail and then to
change hermind. Finally, with hor-
ror, he felt her approaching his own
bed. She took out a nail, seemed
coming near and then suddenly
passed on. In the morning young
Mackenzie was very i'll, very fever
ish, and said, ooh, I have had such
dreadful dreamp' and he told what
he had seen. The master said: "Can
you remember which boys they
were into whose foreheads she struck
the nail2" ooh, certainly I can, :"
and the master wrote down the
names in a pocketbook. Very soon
after a terrible fever broke out in
the school. All those boys died.
The boys the old woman looked at
and finally turned away from had
the fever, but recovered. The boys
she passed by altogether escaped en-
tirely.
Lady Jane Ellice says, writes Mr..
Hare, that at Hardwood there is one
of the most splendid collections of
china-quantities of it. Formerly it
used to be kept in the gallery in
which the family live on bureaus, ia
bles, etc. One evening it was left in
it's usual place, and next morning the
whole collection everything quite
unbroken-Wasfo found on the ground
There was never the least explana-
ton. The china has since been kept
in cases.