Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-07

though no human being could be seen.
One clear moonlight night they OBJ
served n huge boulder, seven or eight
tons in weight, roll violently away
for some twenty yards with nothing
near to touch it. When in their beds
the clothes would he stripped from
the men, and hands, unattached to any
visible body hit them right and left,
leaving ugly bruises. T..
SONG etimes the Bochdan would tor
lnent them far from home by rcmov-
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 shep-
herds, named Mcpherson, the mani
festations ceased. If he were the
Bochdan, the trouble is to explain how
he did certain seemingly impossible
things.
Death Hour Apparitions.
The story of how Admiral Tryon at
tended crowded reception in London,
and was actually seen by more than
one person there at the moment his
ship had been accidentally rammed
and sunk during naval maneuvcrs, is
we'll known. There is a similar weird
story told of the house of commons, q
place where ghosts would hardly he
supposed to walk.
This house Of commons ghost ap-
peared once, but never asain. 4 mem-
bcr who was abroad, recelvcd an ur-
gent whip" for a critical division.
and promised by letter to be in his
place if possible On the fatcful night
the house divided, and at the door Of
the division lobby the tcllers saw the
member and counted his vote. Yet
when that division was taken the
member had brcathed his last many
| hundreds OF miles away from West
minister.
Edward Fitzgerald, the translator of
Omar" and one OF the least supersti-
tious OF men, told story OF IN appa-
rition he was quite unable to explain
on natural lines. Ee saw clearly his
sister and her children having tea in
his dining room, through the window
| from his garden. although they were
not visiting him at the time. lie also
:aw his sister quietly withdraw from
the room, as though fearing to disturb
the children. At that moment she
died in Norfolk.
An Everlasting Tryst.
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 re-
enact their tragedy: and although we
do not associate the county Of Cotton
with romance, one Of the most moving
Of those old stories is attached to Sal
mesbury hall. near Blackburn.
Some three years ago three skele-
tons were discovered nearby. which
seemed to give crcdibility to n story
which had long been told of the old
hall-thc story OF the attempted clope
mcnt Of Lady Dorothy Southworth, on
which occasion her lover and his two
companions were all three killed.
The bodies were always 'avcrred to
have been buried secretly, and the
story has long bccn told thow Lady
Dorothy died L 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 travcrsinG the oak-lined corri-
doris Of tho quaint EliZabethan man.
sion. The lovers walk along the river
bank, pause at certain spot. renew
their troth, and clnspcd in each others