The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-12

known to have. The couple living in the
shanty where he had been stopping weres
1t was supposed, his murderers, but evil
dence could not be obtained against them.
Scarcely a week had elapsed after his
disappearance when the suspected pair re-
moved out of the district, leaving no clew
where they could be found. A couple OF
young lumbermen moved into the shanty,
but remained in it only one night, and in
the morning asserted they had been vlsi-
ted by the peddler's ghost who had star
ed in at them through the window, had
slammed the door, blown out the candle,
and INDUCED in other antics. 1t was at
trst thought that the ghost might be the
peddler himself and that he was not dead
after all, but the men insisted that his
face had appeared to them covered with
blood and very pale. Whatever it was,
the fact remained that no one would live
IN the shanty, until venturesone natl-
ralist came along, who declared that he
had no fear of ghosts, and that they were
better than rats, inasmuch as they would
leave his stuffed animals and birds alone.
one night was enough for him, and moth
ing would Induce him to tell what he had
seen in the shanty He left camp in a hur-
~ next day and never returned. The mys-
terry OF the peddler's death was not solved
until two years later, when his ghost ap-
peared one night to a party of merry
makers taking a short cut home through
a swamp. All fed in a hurry but one Of
the party noticed just where the ghost
was standing and returned the next day
armed wath a spade. When the ground
was turned up the skeleton Of the peddler
was found two feet below the surface.
A weird story was related to the writer
by lady in whose veracity he would
place the utmost reliance. She was tho
vile OF an English church clergyman, and
When she first married him her husband
mad charge of a small parish in a place
called Stayner. They were living there
When a child, a girl, was born to them.
one evening, when the little girl had at
famed the age of 5, a brother clergyman,
rev. John Langtry, now of St. Lukes
church, Toronto, called at their home. The
clergyman was not at home, but his wife
was, ana she began to entertain DIR. Lang
Try, who said he would wait a short time.
as ne was very DESTROYS Of seeing his
friend. They were talking in a room down
stairs, when suddenly DIR. Langtrys face
grew very pale, and he hurriedly asked the
lady to go up and see If her child was all
right surprised at the request, she new
ertheless did as she was asked, and soon
returned with the information that the
httle girl was sleeping soundly. The oleI-
eyman said he was glad to hear 1t, and
shortly took his leave without waiting for
her husband to return. Some days after
however meeting him on the street. DR..
Langtry said
Il should advise you to go to your child
NJ once should she be taken i'll away from
home"
he would give no explanation for this
Tor some time afterward. One day the lit
Tie girl was actually stricken while on
VISIT IN a neighborng town. and died soon
AFTER her parents had arrived at her side.
Dr. Langtry then informed them that the
night he had visited their house he had
seen the form of an angel come down
STAIRS and out the hall door carrying tho
little child in its arms. Hence his premo-
milton that the child might die soon.