Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-11-01
TALES OF SP0okS
The Deputy Death Sent to the
Second Lord LyttIeton.
WARNED HIM AND VANISHED.

WAnN6U TIM Anu vAUIS0eL
And Just When He Thought He He
, "Jookeyed the Ghost" tho Prsdictio
Became . Faet-story Of = Specie
Dog and tho Legend Of Lady Howard
Belief in specters. phantoms and an
partitions still fingers in many parts o
England. We scott ut ghost stories a
stuff that is considered ridiculous b!
all persons Of sound education ant
common sense" and yet mixed in will
the legends Of wraiths and hellhound!
are some true tales that are hard tt
explain from the standpoint of natura
ause and effect.
! A strange story is that told Of the no
torious second Lord Lyttleton, who II
said to have been as evil as his father
was the reverse He died when in his
prime under the following well attest
ed circumstances: A few days before
his death Lord Lyttleton saw enter his
room woman who told him that on
the third day after her appearance he
would die. He was very much fright
ened and extremely depressed by the
occurrence, but on the morning Of tho
third day his fears had abated some
what, and he had to breakfast with
him a party which included Lady
Flood, Lord Fortescue and two of the
Misses Amphlett, to whom he said, III
! live over tonight shall have jock
eyed the ghost. for this is the third
day." In the forenoon the party set
out to Pit Place. Lord Lyttleton's coun-
try seat nesr EPSON. and were not
long arrived when his lordship had Z
suffocating At, but recovered sufa-
GENTLY to dine with his friends at 5
o'clock.
By what IS described as "a friendly.
trick" the watches and clocks through
out the house were advanced half an
hour. The evening passed, and Lord
Lyttleton's spirits recovered their usual
gayety. At half past II he retired,
and, according to his Wallets report.
"he kept every now and then looking
at his watch. I" Within a min.
lite or two of ~ by his watch ..e
asked to look at mine. I" =" His
lordship then put both to his ear to
make certain that they went. When
It was near the real hour Of ~ he
said: Come: I'll wait no longer. Get |
me my medicine. I'll take it and try
TO Sleep" 1t appears that the valet
stirred the draft with a toothpick.
md this angered Lord Lyttleton. who
|ent him for a spoon. When the man
he found bis master in 4 fit.
instead Of attempting to relieve him
le ran for help. and when he returned
With the alarmed guests Lord Lyttle-
on was dead.
A~-peculiar class Of apparitton In
which many persons believed Is that
Il specter dogs, which are again d.
tded into three kinds: ~ Black dogs
hat are fiends in disguise; e. evil
pirits that hunt souls in this guise;
b spirits Of the wicked departed
made to take this shape for their sins.
'hese black dogs are Of all sorts and
ICES, big dogs and little dogs. long
aired dogs and short haired dogs.
1eek dogs and fierce dogs, but as a
ule the standard specter hound is
uge, most ferocious looking and
laggy like wolf, and, we are told.
acks Of these hellhounds have been ::
zen. sometimes hunted by a hunts
ian whose description much resem-
les the popular conception Of the
evil.
A famous story is told Of a goblin
ound which used to inhabit an old
ansion at Lyme Regis, in Dorset, that
I'd been partly demolished and turned
to farmhouse. in which lived an old
runken farmer. Having been urged
drive out the black dog by his CON-
anions, he seized the poker and rush.
at the dog, which sprang up Instant
and rushed upstairs, followed by
e tipsy farmer. 1t fed into an attic
ID, hey presto, jumped clean through
e ceiling. The angry farmer struck
the place. when, to his amazement,
'wn fell from the hole he had made
/ old fashioned money box, which
owed to be full Of gold and silver =
ms Of the reign of Charles I. The :
g was never again seen in the house, =
It it IS said to haunt a lane which
Ids to it. where it can be seen at
ldnight and which bears the name Il
DOG lane." while a local inn dis
ays the sign 1.-The Black Dog Inn."
Lady Howard, who lived in the reign
the first James and was as famous
: her wit as for her beauty and her
,alth, was also possessed of good
my bad qualities. She had four hus-
nds. whom she killed of rather rap
Y, and was very cruel to her only
lighter. For her sins she was trans
med when she died-so the story
ns-into black dog, and at midnight
E runs between Fitzford, her one
ne residence, and Oakhampton park
order to carry to the place from
lich she started q single blade Of