The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1900-12-27
AN ARIZONA GHOST STORY

A ttfsrfe l0otiAs lntla AiiH1hs ssss
paper, 10 svsys0tu snapper. came With
ny mail siss marGioss $50. snd shea ]
optnei Il, ~uBdeiiss Why II had bsen
seti 10 me sn5 by shom. my eye present
ly tsil 90 blae.psnoilea paissrspi
Marshal Ca,iip and posse eoi back late
last evening. Tbey b.i liveir ehsse-
and there Is ose bad utn the less. "
Won't eosi tbis town sryihlng to Try him.
Dive Tpnohti needed cksnsr he
sss TOO ioSd Of hofst.fssh -o,hOr pto
pls'a
Probably Arix1bians understand that
psrsgt.pb perfectly ., fret sight. aud iuli
us,ed even 70 .los New Enslsndet ihst
"Dive Trsnehsrl' had been steruly pun
ished
pDise Ttsnehaidl somethios 10 the
name set The chords Of memory vaguely
vibrating all day. aud sheB | wsked heIt
morning, the full, familiar name had come
10 me oat Of the psst Dive Tfsaehsrd
IL mus, be he-the "qaeer boy" OF the
school where fret began as sober 10
Ksnnebec county, Maine, 20 years sso
wss then only Is years old, aud the
school sgept VITO hired me and the good
minister member Of the school bosrd Who
gave me my 'cer,ibcste' said that might
"pui through" IL could msnsge Dive
TBnehard
10 the schoolroom. Dive dill not appear
formidable st frs, view, bat vas not long
in discovering the fertility Of bis misohiev
ous ingenuity Tbs wits OF the average
sch oolmsster could 10. possibly keep
pace with the swift trickiuess 10 which be
INDUCED himself
He was somewhat sedste aud disiin
snisbed looking yonngster, With clear
cat refined face, snd 40 Inconsistency be
tween bis countenance aud bis conduct
was suoh that | never vas able to feel, dur /
ing the whole time be was my pupil, that !
| quite understood bin.
Dive was 40 orphan, who, while still
very young, bad been adopted by the q
storekeeper OF the place, Mr. Mulhsll.
HIS fa,h,r bad been q very intonperate q
and blasphemous msu, whose desrsst de
light bad been to rsil at the Scriptures. !,
10 proisne trsysdo be had named bis u
three sons Judss. Tophet and Dives. The
two former bad died Of croup while very II
young. and Dives or 'Dlve," as be was a
generally called, was the sole survivor OF Al
the family
Naturally, teacher only IS years old d
could not hope TO sssume the role OF NOR "a
al adviser to youth Of II with entire suc q,
cess n,
When | attempted IL with Dives he %
grinned 10 my face, and the effort ended a,
in q rough and tumble nsht over the
schoolhonse floor. In this copflict estab Ia
lIshed kind Of doubtful sovereignty over SC
him, and siterwsrd m,i1,sined it with al
q bold front, but the issue was always in tb
some little doubt.
What the outcome would have been is yc
isr from certain. l have q feeling that W
Dives would have been too much for me,
in time. bad our relations as pupil and VI
pedagoeue continued long. But they last Az
I'd only three weeks. Ga the first day OF W
January be ran away, In consequence OF 3 hs
curious prank. M
District Number Eleven where l ever OF
Jaw what was believed to be ghost The he
people there we're not superstitious, but | VI
'ound that many OF them bad seen 40 ap
partition that they could not account for, ct,
Il had been seen three times the previous VI
ainter snd once late in November, a few so
days before arrived. OF
More than 20 persons admitted that they
lad seen it during snow storms, but oil tb
made light Of it; the people we're not ie ar,
lorsnt, and the sppsrtion puzzled them cs
much more than ii frightened them. lik
The mysterious thing. whatever 1t was, OH
lad always been seen ct night, aud seem mi
d to be kind OF phshtom on horseback, DR.
% equestrian ghott, 80 TO speak. fro
II had been discerned passing at great
peed, bu. the boots N made no noise, aud 1t me
ocked thin, or white, and was hardly die str
ipguishsble 10 outline smidst the falling an
nov q ,kee. That was about oil | could Ih
earn regarding the phantom; and as the sta
eprssebtitive OF educstiop, | set NJ yseli to no
iscoup tensncs belief 10 the spectre. My do'
heories were received with repect; the
oily difficulty in the way Of their entire &C VII
eptsnce was tbrt numbers OF those who les
stened to me bad really seen the ghost. fro
IL was s.plsce where The people retain NJ
q many q the old customs OF Ancestral ie'
u l,an Eoelsnd. among others that Of
watch nieht, or watching the old year apt
OF aud the new year 10. on the night Of lee
december 3lst. 1t vas announced q, the me
ieetiug house the previous Sunday that oa
here would be 3 wstch-nigbt The follow
's Saturday evening, to lstt half past Di'
Eelve, New Yesr's morning. There cal
ould be snging aud prayers bat it vas ish
OF TO be 40 exclusively religious cere did
iony. Conversation and even story tell ed
~ would be slloued. son
At the vs,cb-night meeting there were
, OF 35 people, old and young. including ni'
,e Methodist minister. Mr. Reeves, who low
si heen settled thgre bat few months, slei
very youns man. with whom | bad sl i
i,dy become intimate. old
he wss oompsnionsble. robust and jolly, bri
youth who siill enjoyed fnos-ballins. We
r Instance. Alter school when psssed the
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