Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ENGLISH GHOST STORIES. Many Old Castles and Manors Have Their Sj>ectres. A few nights before the battle of J Naseby, the ill-fated Charles I was sleeping in an old manor house, named Lukeham Old Hall, the Lieut- : enant Rastall, in his "History of Southwell," gives the following account of a weird happening there: Two hours after the king had retired to rest, some of his attendants, hearing an uncommon noise in his chamber, went into it,and found his majesty sitting up in bed and much agitated, but they could see nothing which could have produced the noise they had heard. Foretelling His Defeat. The king, in a trembling voice, in quired after the cause of their alarm and told them how much he had been agitated in a dream by thinking he saw the apparition of Lord Stafford, who, after upbraiding him with his unkindness told him he was come to return good for evil, and that he advised him by no means to fight the parliamentary army that was at that time quartered at Northhampton for it was one the king could not conquer by arms. The weakness and vacillation of the king, had, as everybody knows, allowed Stafford to come to the block, and his death was very much on the king's conscience. But with daylight Prince Rupert pooh poohed the king's dreams and urged him to meet the enemy. The next night the apparition appeared to him a second time, but with a look of anger, assuring him that would be the last advice he should be permitted to give him, and j that if the king kept his resolution of fighting he was done. XT 31 -? * ~ ~?-?TT flia coortnr? Tjrarn-i i\ y WXXVi *? V?* M ing also was unheeded, and Charles lost his kingdom and his head. Hampton court with its parterres and vinery looks too sunny and cheerful to be a favorite walking ground for ghosts. Yet probably the palace takes some beating in the number and quality of its ghostly inhabitants. Two of Bluff King Hal's halfdozen spouses regularly turned up? Jane Seymour, to wit, and Katherine Howard. The Special Hand. Why Jane Seymour who died at the birth of her son, who was afterward Edward VI, should walk the queen's apartments with a lighted candle is not very apparent, for she was the Bluebeard king's favorite wife, and was neither divorced or beheaded. But with the beauteous Howard it is quite otherwise. If she did not "walk" we would be almost surprised, for she had every reason to be restless. Wor ipwplpd hand is still thrust ( I through the arras of a chamber which has q,uite lately been opened once more to the public, or so it is stated by such as have seen it! It is also said that the beautiful child-wife who had undoubtedly erred, was coming into this very room to plead her cause with the. heartless Iking, to ! throw herself at the feet of the royal Bluebeard, hut was seized by the royal guards and borne, shrieking away just as she was drawing aside the arras to enter. Those shrieks, gradually dying away into the distance, may still be ' heard, according to some, and that ^lcient scene of violence and imminent tragedy?for later she laid her lovely neck on the scaffold?is still: enacted in Wolsev's old palace by the Thames. Several well defined and familiar ghosts visits the old home of the Byrons, Newstead Abbey. One of the poet's forbears was called by reason ' of his wickednessr; "Devil Byron." If j half the stories of this man are true he certainly earned and deserved his cognomen. Like Lady MacBeth. Wa and his sister are to be seen riding wildly away from the hall on certain moonlit nights. But the most dreaded ghost at Newstead is the Goblin Friafr. He is a fearsome spook and appears only when family disaster is imminent. Voyagers up the Thames are familiar with Medmenham Abbey?a house which Edwa/d VI bestowed on the Habye family, and where that young king's half sister, Elizabeth I afterwards the great queen, spent three of her girlhood's years in cap- J tivity. There is a rather horrible story at- j tacnea to tnis lovely oia nouse. it is j said that a certain Lady Habve had a j terrible temper and that she whipped I her little son to death for blotting i his copybook. She is still seen at j Medmenham, walking about discon-| solate, with a ewer of water borne before her hv invisible hands. wash-J ing the blood stains from her own? quite in the style of Lady Macbeth. Some years ago the Scottish papers were full of the Meoble Bochdan. This was a thing which took up its abode in a highland shieling occupied bv three shepherds and a farm baliff, who only used the place at nights. As r INAUGURAL PLAN OPPOSED. President-Elect Harding Against Extravagant Inauguration. Marion, O., Jan. 10.?In the interest of national thrift President-elect Harding tonight requested officials arranging for his inauguration to abandon all plans for an inaugural ceremony. In a telegram to E. B. McElean, . chairman of the inaugural committee at Washington, Mr. -Harding declared he preferred to simply take the oath of office, deliver a brief address < and then take up the duties of his office. He said it would make his position a very unhappy one if the plan for an elaborate inaugural created the imnression of extravagance. At the same time the presidentelect telegraphed Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania, in charge of the congressional end of the plans, suggesting that the proposal to erect stands on the capitol grounds for the event" be abandoned. The proposal has been the subject of heated debate in a congress, with some members severely objecting to use of public funds for such a purpose. they sat around the fire the big peats were lifted by unseen hands and hurled into their midst, and sometimes completely raked out before their astonished eyes. Their dogs crept to bed the moment they reached 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, horrified 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 stripped from the men, and hands, unattached to any visible body hit them right and left, leaving ugly bruises. Sometimes the Bochdan would tor ment them far from home by removing stepping stones just as the shepherd's feet were about to touch them and this in broad daylight, it was alleged. 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 impossible things. The story of how Admiral Tryon attended a crowded reception in London, yand was actually seen by more than one person there at the moment his ship had been accidentally rammed and sunk during naval maneuvers, is well known. There is a similar weird story told of the house of commons, a place where ghosts would hardly be supposed to walk. This house of commons ghost appeared once, but never again. A member, who was abroad, received an urgent "whip" for a critical divison, 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 Westminster. Edward Fitzgerald, the translator of "Omar," and one of the lest superstitious of men, told a story of an apparition he was quite unable to explain on natural lines. He saw clearly his sister and her children having tea in his dining room, through the 1 I! 1.1 3 _ li-t. 1. winaow iru?m iiie ga.ru.eu, cuinuugu 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 I Blackburn. Some three years ago three skeletons were discovered nearby, which seemed to give credibility to a story which had long been told of the old hall?the story of the attempted elopement of Lady Dorothy Southworth, 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 j story has long been told how Ladvj Dorothy died a maniac, with the j name of her dead lover on her lips. Now, on peaceful, still evenings, shej still meets her lover by the River Ribble, after traversing the oak-lined 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 other's arms, vanish with a low wail of sorrow. If it is a fine pig or a nice pecan tree you want, see us. Thoroughbred Duroc Pigs I wish to announce to the people of this section that I have on hand a number of thoroughbred Duroc pigs for sale. These pigs are direct descendents of the famous boars, Jack's Orion King 6th, and Bob Orion Cherry King, Jr. Jackson's Orion King was sold for $32,000, and Orion Cherry King, Jr., for $16,500",' which gives you an idea of the value of these hogs. My pigs are grandsons and granddaughters of the above named boars. Write me for prices. Pecan Duroc Farm \ C. W. Fogle, Prop, Denmark, S. C. Top working pecans a specialty. If you have a pecan tree not bearing or bearing bitter nuts, I can _ 1 __ il J -- - - ~ J M ,, maKe il pruuuce guua uui?. 066 will break a Cold, Fever and Grippe quicker than anything we know, preventing pneumonia. J. F. Carter B. D. Carter J. Carl Kearse Carter, Carter & Kearse ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Special attention given to settlement of Estates and Investigation of Land Titles. Loans negotiated on Real Estates. \ EXECUTORS' NOTICE OF DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned have filed with the probate court, Bamberg county, their final return as executors of the estate of J. B. Hunter, deceased, and will on the 15th day of January, 1921, apply to said court for returns dismissory. B. D. CARTER, G. W. HUNTEac, Executors of the estate of J. B. Hunter, deceased. 1-13 R. P. BELLINGER ATTORNEY-AT-LAW General Practice in All Courts. Office Work and Civil Business a Specialty. Money to Lend. Offices in rear over Hoffman's Store. BAMBERG, S. C. NOTICE PROHIBITING TRESPASS ING. All persons are hereby notified not to hunt, fish, remove timber or wood, or commit any other trespass, or 1 i.? iL ^ 1 J ~ ~ uiaKe any entry upuu me xanua owned by, or in possession of or in control of, the undersigned, in Bamberg county. All persons violating this notice will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. J. S. DANNELLY, E. D. DANNELLY. January 3, 1921.?l-27n NOTICE TO CREDITORS. District Court of the United States? Eastern District of South Carolina?Bamberg county. In the matter of J. O. Sanders & Sons, Inc., bankrupts. To the creditors of the above* named Bankrupts: Take notice that on the 22nd day of December, 1920, the above named bankrupts filed their petition in said Court praying the confirmation of the composition heretofore offerede and accepted, and that a hearing -was thereupon ordered and will be had upon said petition on the 11th day of January, 1921, before said Court, at Charleston, in said District, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, at which time and place all known creditors and other persons in interest may appear and sbow cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted. R. W. HUTSON, 1-6 Clerk. A TONIC Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic restores Energy and Vitality by Purifying and Enriching the Blood. When you feel its strengthening, invigorating effect, see how it brings color to the cheeks and how it improves the appetite, you will then appreciate its true tonic value. Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is simply Iron and Quinine suspended in syrup. 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