The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-01-13

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were lifted by unseen hands and
hurled into their midst, and some
times completely raked out before
their astonished eyes. Their dogs
crept to bed the moment they reach
ed home and not even the offer of
food would induce them to leave their
retreat.
On some nights terrifying noises
were heard, and when the men, hor-
rified by the racket, left the bothy,
they were assailed with clods and
stones, though no human being could
be seen. One clear moonlight night
they observed a huge boulder, seven
or eight tons in weight, roll violently
away for some twenty yeards with
nothing near to touch it. When in
their beds the clothes would be strip
ped from the men, and hands, unat-
tached to any visible body hit them
right and left, leaving ugly bruises.
Sometimes the Bochdan would tor
ment them far from home by remov-
ing stepping stones just as the shep-
herds feet were about to touch them
and this in broad daylight, it was al
legged. The tales went all over the
countryside, but the fact remains,
that after the death of one of the
shepherds, named Mcpherson, the
manifestations ceased. If he were
the Bochdan, the trouble is to explain
how he did certain seemingly impos-
sible things.
The story of how Admiral Tryon
attended a crowded reception in Lon
don, and was actually seen by more
than one person there at the mo-
ment his ship had been accidentally
rammed and sunk during naval ma
neuvers, is we'll known. There is a
similar weird story told of the house
of commons, place where ghosts
would hardly be supposed to walk.
This house of commons ghost ap-
peared once, but never again. A mem
ber, who was abroad, received an ur-
gent whip" for a critical division,
and promised by letter to be in his
place if possible. On the fateful night
the house divided, and at the door of
the division lobby the tellers saw the
member and counted his vote. Yet
when that division was taken the
member had breathed his last many
hundreds of miles away from West
Minister.
Edward Fitzgerald, the translator
of Omar" and one of the lest sup
erstitious Of men, told story of an
apparition he was quite unable to ex-
plain on natural lines. He saw clear
ly his sister and her children having
tea in his dining room, through the
window from the garden, although
they were not visiting him at the
time. He also saw his sister quietly
Withdraw from the room, as though
fearing to disturb the children. At
that moment she died in Norfolk.
But the old ghosts are much more
romantic than the new, the ghosts
which haunt the spot where some
far-off unhappy event took place, and
reenact their tragedy; and although
we do not associate the county of
Cotton with romance, one of the
most moving of these old stories is
attached. to Salmesbury hall, near
Blackburn.
Some three years ago three skele-
tons were discovered nearby, which
seemed to give credibility to story
which had long been told of the old
hall-the story of the attempted
elopement of Lady Dorothy South
worth, on which occasion her lover
and his two companions were all
three killed.
The bodies were always averred to
have been buried secretly, and the
story has long been told how Lady
Dorothy died maniac, with the
name of her dead lover On her lips.
Now, on peaceful, still evenings, she
still meets her lover by the River
Ribble, after traversing the oak-hned
corridors of the quaint Elizabeth
mansion. The lovers walk along the
river bank, pause at a certain spot
renew their troth, and clasped in each
others arms, vanish with a low wall
of cOrroW