2
RUARY 19" 1890.
IN THE CAROL NAS.
Sherman’s Last March, Twen-
ty-five Years Ago.
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SAVANNAH To GOLDSBOBO.
Battles of Averysboro and lentoiiville.
Transporting I’ickaiiiniiins—Burning of
Says “’ade
Columbia, S. C.—Sheriniui
Hampton Did It.
“When the sun turns northward I turn
with it,” said Sherman at Savannah twenty-
five years ago last Christmas.
But Not till Feb. 1 did Sherman‘s army
‘ get away from Savannah. The Confederates
were looking-for the Union general to attack
either Charleston or Augusta. Sherman
passed between and took Columbia, S. C., on
the principle which be systematically oni-
ployed in war: Never do what your enemy
expects you to. The army subsistcd on the
country as before. Howard commanded the
right wing, Slocum the left.
Schofield’s corps, 21,000 men, had been de-
tached from Thomas and sent down the North
Carolina coast to
make an attack
from that. side,with
Terry and Palmer.
Howard‘s army
' f o u ii d
men across
bridge and Bean—
fort bridge, on the
S a l k e hatcliie. A
b risk fight took
place, in w h ic Ii
G e n e r a 1 Wager
PALMETTO FLAG.
.Smith made a remarkable flank movement.
The soldiers, their generals at their head,
waded three miles through the icy waters of
. a swamp three to four feet deep. Hardee re-
treated to Branchville, behind the Edisto,
burning bridges. Sherman was with the
right wing.
' Columbia is 128 miles from Charleston by
rail. Howard crossed the Congaree river,
after some opposition, and entered Columbia
Feb. 16, 1865. The left wing threatened Au-
gusta and pushed on to Winnsboro, thirty
miles north of Columbia, at the same time
that Howard entered the city.
;' BURNING OF COLUMBIA.
During the-night of Feb. 17, the beautiful
city of Columbia. was laid in ashes. Each
side blames the other for the burning. Gen-
eral (now United States Senator) W'adc Hamp-
ton liad occupied the place with cavalry,
but retired on the approach of the Union
army, setting fire to a large ii umber of bales
of cotton before he left. Gen. Sherman says
the flames spreading from this was what do—
stroyed Columbia. Among the buildings
burned was the beautiful Columbia state
' house, the pride of South Carolina.
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OLD STATE HOUSE.
“lord was brought to Sherman after he
had retired at night that the city was in
flames. He sent hasty messengers to his
generals to put men at work at once extin-
guishing the flames, and these did all in their
power to that end, but without much avail.
A guard of Union soldiers protected the fa.-
mous palmetto monument during the stay of
Sherman. In the state house that was de-
stroyed the South Carolina legislature called
the first state convention that passed an or—
dinance of secession.
Howard’s men destroyed everything at C0-
lumbia that could bring any aid or comfort
to a Confederate army. “Having utterly
ruined Columbia,” says Sherman, “the right
Wing began its march northward.” Leaving
Columbia Feb. 20, the right wing joined the
left at W'iniisboro on the let.
Feb. 22 Sherman received a message from
Kilpatrick that eighteen of his foragers had
been found dead in the high road, with this
label pinned to their bodies: “This is the way
we treat Kilpatrick’s thieves.” Sherman or-
dered Kilpatrick to retaliate to the utmost.
Sherman said: “Foraging is a war right as
old as history. I will protect my foragers to
the extent of life for life.”
The next objective point of the Union army
was Goldsboro. The general ordered the
right wing to turn eastward towards Cheraw
and Fayetteville. The left was to march
northward a short distance, then turn east to
Sneedsboro. Kilpatrick’s cavalry made a.
demonstration as if to attack Charlotte, then
followed Slocum. Both wings of the army
crossed the Pedec and turned towards Fay-
etteville.
PALMETTO MONUMENT.
March 9 Kilpatrick’s cavalry narrowly
escaped serious disaster. Kllpatrick with his
command remained on the left flank of the
Union army, approaching Fayetteville by a.
route to the west of Slocum. The Confeder—
ate cavalry were constantly in front of the
columns, but did not offer serious resistance.
But March 9 Wade Hampton’s cavalry sur-
prised one of Kilpatrick’s brigades com-
pletely; Kilpatrick himself only escaped cap-
ture hya hair’s breadth and got away on
foot. Hampton captured the camp of the
UniOn cavalry. Instead of following up the
victory, however, and capturing the men
Hardee’s ;
the .
way both at River ‘
Swayne lost aleg. .
At River bridge Gens. Mower and G. A. I
__N0RWALK GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY, FEB
lime; "5’5", 'VM”: ’ ‘ ‘ . .-
them lves,. the Confederates pped to
plunder the Union camp. This gave Kil-
. patrick a. breathing space. He instantly ral-
lied his soldiers, charged on Hampton’s men
in their work of plunder and recaptured the
camp. .
During March 11 both wings of Sherman’s
army closed down on Fayetteville. Hardee
had left it and retreated across Cape Fear
river. The next day, March 12, was Sunday.
Sherman’s army rested. The people of Fay-
etteville, descended from the old Scotch
Covenanters, went to church as though noth-
ing had happened.
A little after noon a tremendous screech-
ing and whistling came from down the Cape
Fear river. It was a Union steamboat, up
the river from \Vihnington, and W'ilming-
ton had fallen into the hands of Terry and
Cox. It had been defended by the Confeder-
ate general Hoke, who abandoned it Feb. 21.
Cox, with part of Schoficld’s army, entered
it. The steamer brought Sherman the first
news from the world since his army had left
Savannah. He sent back by the steamer or-
ders for Schofield and Terry to meet him at
Goldsboro. Schofield entered that place
March 21.
It now remained for Sherman to make his
way to Goldsboro. That would close the
march through the Carolinas. But it was
his real destination, as before. Swarms of
negroes and refugees had hung upon his
army on the whole route. They hampered
the advance, as many of them were feeble
old people and children. All manner of ex-
pedients had to be resorted to to convey the
extra travelers in safety.
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TRANSPORTING PICKANINNIES.
Sherman waited till he could send the ne—
groes and refugees to W'ilmington, then re-
sumed his march.
There was now to be serious fighting.
Leaving Fayetteville, Sherman made a feint ‘
as if to attack Raleigh. The Confederate
forces under Bean, Hoke, Hardee and Whar-
ton had meanwhile been concentrating in
that vicinity.
BATTLE OF AVERYSBORO.
Sherman left Fayetteville March 15. The
roads were swamps, as before, but the sol-
diers had had so much practice in building
corduroy that they were not long delayed by
that difficulty. Averysboro is between Fay-
etteville and Raleigh. Kilpatrick’s cavalry
trotted gayly out the road towards Ayerys-
bore. Slocum was behind Kilpatrick with
four divisions of the left wing, while in the
rear of Slocum was Howard with four divis-
ions of the right wing. But the wagon trains
of both, accompanied by the rest of the army,
were on their way to Goldsboro.
When Hardee withdrew from Fayetteyille
he intrenched himself on a narrow neck of
land between the Cape Fear and South rivers,
with 20,000 men. A swamp was in front of
him. With this force he hoped to hold Sher-
man till the other Confederate generals could
come up with their forces. Then, although
the Confederate army was much reduced,
there would still be a respectable force to con-
front Sherman.
Kilpatrick’s cavalry skirmished with Har-
dee’s rear guard March 15. At noon Thurs~
day, the 16th, Slocum was ordered to ad-
vance and dislodge Hardee. “I proposed to
drive Hardee well beyond Averysboro,” says
Sherman, “and then to turn to the right by
Bentonville for Goldsboro.” The general
himself was present at the fight, watching
operations from an old cooper shop, where
he had taken refuge from the rain. Gen.
Albert Rhett, a. brigade commander from
Hardee’s rear guard, was brought to him at
the cooper shop, a prisoner of war. He wore
asplendid uniform, with “high jack boots,
beautifully stitched,” which amused the
Union commander not a little.
Gen. lVilliams’ corps led Slocum’s advance.
He opened the attack by a. successful flank
movement on Hardee’s left.
gagement followed, in which a brigade of
Union cavalry was at first driven back by
McLaws’ Confederate division. Then Slo-
cum advanced his whole line. Hardee was
driven back to his intrenchments, and dur-
ing the night of March 16 he made his escape.
BATTLE OF BENTONVILLE.
After Averysboro, Sherman resumed the
march to Goldsboro. Carlin’s division led
the advance of the left wing. Dibrell’s Con-
federate cavalry met him on the Goldsboro
road and ofliered stubborn resistance. This
was follo wed with an infantry attack. Car-
lin’s division was driven back a mile through
the swamps, when the gallant stand made by
Morgan’s division, particularly by the bri-
gades of Fearing, Mitchell and Vanderveer,
checked the Confederates. Fearing was
wounded.
A messenger was quickly dispatched to
Sherman, with the right wing, six miles
away, telling him that Slocum “had run up
against Johnston’s whole army.” Sherman
immediately ordered Blair and Logan to go
to Slocum from the right wing, and started
thither himself. Slocum arranged his army
for the defensive with all speed. Kilpatrick
came up at sound of the artillery and massed
his cavalry on the left. Slocum arranged his
force behind a barricade during the night of
March 19.
necessary to deceive the Confederates as to '
A general cn- ,
It was truly Johnston’s whole army op- ,
posed to Slocum. The Confederate attack
began at 3 p. in., March 19, and lasted till
dark. Hardee had joined Johnston after the
fight of Avei‘ysboro. Johnston had discov-
ered that Goldsboro was the objective of the
Union army, and set himself to oppose the
design. He ascertained that the two wings
were separated six miles or more, and his
hope was that he might mass his whole army
against them, one at a time, and beat one or
both.
During the night of the 19th Johnston con-
structed a work in line with that of Slocum
and between Slocum and Howard. Howard
slipped past this line and around Johnston,
March 20. On that day Johnston made a
second attack, but, after hard fighting, re
treated to Smithfield, leaving the Union
army to march undisturbed on its way to
Goldsboro. Schofield and Terry were now
too near for the Confederates to remain in
that vicinity.
Bentonville was the last heavy battle of
the war between Johnston and Sherman.
Johnston had here 30,000 men. This was
the only serious attempt made to check
Sherman in his march through Georgia. and
the Carolinas. The first attack against Car-
lin’s division came dan erously near being
successful on the 19th. ‘he Confederate loss
in the battle was 2,825; the Union, 1,646. The
attack of Johnston on Bentonville was a sur-
rise to Sherman. March 21 the three armies
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of Schofleld. Terry, and Sherman, altogether
a. great host 100,000 strong, met at Goldsboro.
Sherman’s second grand march was ended.
Emu Awaken Comma.
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FALL OF "CHARLES-TON.
Boers AND 'SADDLES.
Raising the 01-d Flag 0'" Sumter Twonty- ' Twenty-fifth Anniversary of Stonomnn’o
five Years Ago.
It was to Charleston-that Gen. Hardee want
when he made his neat oscapefrom under 1
the fingers of Sherman’s army at Savannah
in , December, 1861. At Charleston Hardee
had about 16,000 men. ‘
Sherman’s strategic movements after leav-
ing Savannah caused the evacuation of‘
Charleston. He conveyed the impression that
Charleston was to be attacked. Gen. Schim- ;
melpfennig made a lodguient'of troops at
James Island, three miles from' Charleston,
Feb. 10, 1865. Co-operative movements were
made towards Charleston by Gens. Hatch
and Potter. At the same time Sherman di-
vided his army into two wings, which
marched out of Savannah by different routes,
converging again towards Columbia, S. C.
He had passed by Charleston in the rear.
Only one way of escape was left for Har-
dee, and that was by the railway leading into
North Carolina, where Johnston was concen-
trating a force to oppose Sherman. Accord-
ingly, Feb. 17, Hardee evacuated Charleston
with all his troops and left it high and dry.
It was now to be destroyed by its own
friends. Before leaving Hardee set fire to
whatever property would be of use to the
Union army. A guard was detailed to ap‘
ply the torch to every point where cotton
was stored. A powder explosion followed,
which blew the North western railway station
into fragments and killed 200 persons. From
this explosion flames spread destruction into
every part of the city, and that night iuuch
of Charleston and some vessels in the ship-
yard lay in ashes. This shipyard is now,
twenty-five years after, being rebuilt. Dur-
ing the coming year, for the first time Since
the war, the busy hum of industry will be
heard in its grass grown spaces.
Next morning, Feb. 18, news of the evacu-
ation of Charleston was conveyed to Lieut.
Col. Bennett, commanding the Union forces
on Morris Island. He sent a boat at once to
Fort Sumter, having on board Maj. J. A.
Hennesscy. Maj. Hennessey carried with
himthe flag of the Stars and Stripes. By 9
o’clock, Feb. 18, the national flag was float-
ing, after an absence of four years, over the
spot where the first overt act of revolt
against the United States government was
performed. A guard of Union troops were
immediately put to work extinguishing the
flames, after the formal surrender of the city
by Mayor Macbeth.
The same day, Feb. 18, Georgetown, on
VViiiyaw bay, fifty miles northeast of Charles-
ton, was evacuated by the Confederates. At
Georgetown, in 1862, occurred a very tragic
event. A truce boat, containing the national
colors, was passing through the waters of
IVinyaw buy. A South Carolina Union wo-
man who lived near the dock saw the old
flag, and waved her handkerchief at the men
in the boat. For this offense she was ordered
to be shot by the Confederate commander of
the port, and the sentence was executed.
Gen. Q. A. Gillmore, commanding the U11-
ion forces about Charlenton, took possession
of tho ruined city. Col. Stewart L. I‘Vood-
ford, afterwards lieutenant governor of New
York, was placed over Charleston as military
governor. Meanwhile Hardee, escaping from
Charleston as he had done from Savanna-h,
was making his way, with such speed as he
might, across the Pedee and Santee rivers.
We next hear of him on a narrow neck of
land between Cape Fear and South rivers,
seeking to delay Sherman by the fight of
Averysboro March 6.
The flag at Fort Sumter had been taken
down by Maj. Anderson, April 14, 1861. He
carried it away with a. vow to raise the same
flag there again, or die. The years came and
went. None thought the war would stretch
out so long, till one presidential administra-
tion had rolled away and another begun,
till 2.261 battles, small and great, had been
fought, till a war debt of two and three-
quarter billion dollars had been rolled up by
the United States, and 313,000 good men and
true of the northern army and nearly as
many of the southern lay in their blood
stained graves allover the country, north,
south, east and west.
—-—You whose bright, true faces
Are dim with clouds of dust,
Who hide in the gloomy places,
And cringe in the teeth of rust.
As early as the fall of 1862 the Union forces
prepared to attempt the capture of Charles-
ton. April 6, 1863, Admiral Dupont entered
the harbor with a Union fleet and tried to
bombard Fort Sumter on the 7th, but aban-
doned the attack under the hot Confederate
fire that met him. June 2, 1863, Gen. Q. A.
Gillmore took command of the department
of the south. During the month of July Gill— ;
= more got possession of most of Morris Island,
and made two unsuccessful attacks on Fort
“Wigner, one of the most formidable of the
defenses of Charleston.
INTERIOR OF FORT SUMTER.
Gillniore continued to pound away at the
forts in Charleston harbor during the sum-
mer of 1863. By the middle of September he
had captured all of Morris Island, the Con-
federates evacuating Fort Wagner, on the
northeast shore of the island. In October
Gillmore battered Sumter almost into a. mass
of ruins. _
Gillmore’s fleet remained in the mouth of
,the harbor, hurling an occasional shell into
Charleston and against the crumbling walls
of Sumter, till the close of 1863. No further
attempts were made on Charleston. Gen.
Gillmore was in command of the coast in the
neighborhood of Charleston at the time Sli'er-
man reached Savannah.
THE FLAG ONCE MORE ON SUMTER.
April 14, 1865, four yearsto a day since the
Union flag had been removed from Fort
Sumter, was a great day in Charleston. Presi-
dent Lincoln had appointed the anniversary
of that day as the time for the re-raising of
the Union flag over Sumter. '
Distinguished citizens went to Charleston
from New York on board the steamer
Oceanus and gathered about the flagstaff at
Sumter. Many citizens and soldiers swelled
the throng. At the beginning of the core-
monies the host of people, standing in the
open air, sang “Rally Round the Flag.” An
army chaplain offered prayer.
Anderson stepped forward, a. slight, graceful
-man. He was a. noble, loyal Kentuckian. He
had grown grayer in the four years since he
had left Sumter, and changed from a colonel
to a general. He spoke a few touching, pa-
triotic words and then hoisted to the peakof
the staff the old flag of Fort Sumter. .
, Cheer on cheer rose on the air. Then, as
by a common imgulse, the throng began to
sing the “Star pangled Banner ;” sang‘ it
with a. sound that echoed among the '
of the sea. When the song ended H '
Ward Beecher delivered one of his most ,0-
quent oraticus. So Charleston came
into the Union.
Egan Ancnmn Coma
Then Gen. »
Raid from Knoxville Into Carolina.
During the closing months of the war,
twenty-five years ago, it became of vital im-
portance to the Confederacy to keep open the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rail-
’ road. It was the only communication left
between Richmond and the agricultural
states south, whence the Confederate army
at Richmond drew its supplies. In south-
west Virginia, in Smyth county, were King’s
on the line of the railway named.
In December, 1864, Stoneman made a. raid
.into Smyth county through East Tennessee
and partly destroyed the salt work and rail-
road adjacent. In February, 18 , Grant,
at Washington, ordered Thomas to have
Stoneman repeat the raid on the salt works,
going from East Tennessee, and continue on
into North Carolina. He was to destroy rail-
roads, supplies, etc., in western and middle
North Carolina, and thus co-operate with
Sherman, who was on his way to Goldsboro.
Stoneman did not start on time, fa' which
Grant blamed Thomas. Not till March 20
was Stoneman’s cavalry on the niarch. Brig.
Gen. Alvah C. Gilleni was in command of
the division. It conSISted of three cavalry
brigades, under Brig. Gen. Brown and 0015‘.
Palmer and Miller. The force moved out of
Knoxville, 6,000 strong, passing eastward
and crossing the Allegheny mountains.
March 22 the command was at Mossy creek.
March % it reached Morristown, and here it
divided. Col. Miller’s brigade was ordered
to sweep around through the country and
come upon the railroad between J onesboro
and Carter’s Station. The other two bri-
gades moved straight onward. On March
26, at a point ten miles west of J onesboro,
the two brigades left all their train, except
one ambulance, a wagon and four guns, and
prepared to raid in earnest.
At J onesboro the two commands met again
the same day. Col. Miller had encountered
a. straggling Confederate force, which fled at
his. approach. By March 28 they reached
Boone, in North Carolina.
At Boone the command separated again,
the second division moving by different
routes to Wilkesboro, N. C., where they were
reunited. Then both moved on towards
Wytheville, Va. At Wytheville were lead
mines, and the region round about abounded
in agricultural products. It was behaved
that Lee, suddenly evacuating Richmond as
his situation became desperate, might escape
over this railroad into East Tennessee. Stone-
man was directed to be on the lookout for this.
At Wytheville Col. Miller destroyed a.
quantity of Confederate supplies and a; bridge.
'By April 6 the raiding force had destroyed
or taken possession of ninety miles of rail-
road from Wytheville to Salem, Va.
April 6 Palmer and Brown were at Chris-
tiansburg, Va. The two made separate raids
in the vicinity of Christiansburg, destroying
r a i 1 if 0 a d s and
bridges. April 9 the
w h o l 6 command
were together
again, this time at
Danbury, N. C.
All then advanced
to German to w n ,
a. n d h e r e once
more they divided.
,. {By this time the
"~‘ "command was
swelled by the ad-
dition of several
hundred negroes,
escaping slaves. These were sent into East
Tennessee, and the onward course was re
sumed. At Salem, N. C., were large cloth
factories busy turning out Confederate cloth-
ing. Palmer’s brigade was sent to burn
these. With them went up in smoke 7,000
bales of Confederate cotton. Palmer was
also ordered to tear up the railroad between
Salisbury and Greensboro.
While Palmer was busy at his task the
main body was occupied elsewhere. At Salis-
bury was a Confederate prison, guarded by
3,000 soldiers of the southern army, under
Gen. W. M. Gardiner. This force was
marched out and met Stoneman’s men ten
miles from Salisbury. The Confederates had
eighteen guns and were under Pemberton,
who opposed Grant at Vicksburg. At Vicks-
burg Pemberton had been a lieutenant gen
eral. He had-been reduced in rank and was
now only a. colonel. He it was who was over
the force drawn up to meet Stoneman, April
12, at Grant creek. - It was a brave but for-
lorn attempt. ,
: Gillem and Col. Brown charged into the
Confederate ranks. The Confederates fled
and were pursued several miles, 1,300 of
them being captured, with all the 18 guns.
At Salisbury a. great quantity of stores was
taken. including 75,000 Confederate uniforms
and 250,000 good English blankets, which had
escaped the blockade only to be burned at
Salisbury. There were fifteen millions of
Confederate money and $100,000 in gold
among the spoils of Salisbury. Ten thousand
bushels of corn and fifty thousand bushels of
wheat showed that the Confederacy was not
yet starved out.
Among buildings destroyed were three
powder magazines, with six thousand pounds
of powder and over a million pounds of am-
munition. The railway tracks in all direc-
tions from Salisbury were torn up. But, as
usual, the Union prisoners had been removed
before the Federal soldiers reached the spot.
At Salisbury the expedition paused. It
was thought best to send the prisoners to
East Tennessee. Accordingly the expedition
started westward, reaching Lenoir, N. 0.,
April 15. Here Stoneman turned over the
command to Gillem. He himself proceeded
on with the prisoners and captured artillery
to Greenville, East Tennessee.
To each of the‘brigades remaining east of
the mountains further tasks were assigned.
Palmer was to station himself at Lincolnton,
thencescout down the Catawba. Brown was
to go to Morgautown, and Miller to Ashe-
ville, N. C.
April 18 Col. Palmer sent Maj. E. C.
Moderwell to destroy the Charlotte and
South Carolina railroad bridge across the
Catawba. By this time J efi'erson Davis him-
self Was at Charlotte, having fled in hot haste
from beneath the crumbling walls of the
Confederacy. He hadn strong cavalry force
with him. _
Moderwell had only 250 men, and was
obliged to be very cautious to avoid encoun-
tering the Davis retinue. Ho succeeded in
reaching the bridge in safety, and captured
the Confederate pickets. The bridge was a.
noble one, 1,150 feet long, and standing fifty
feet above the water. In half an hour after
Moderwell’s men set fire to it, it was burned
from end to end.
April 19, Gen. Gillem himself started to
Asheville. It was defended bye. Confederate
force under Gen. Martin. He moved rapidly
across the Blue Ridge by way of Hammond’s
Gap and came upon the Confederate rear.
His men charged on the Confederates and
captured four guns and seventy men. Then
he advanced directly to the attack on Ashe-
ville. But before he entered the place, on
the night of April 23, at 11 o’clock, he re-
ceived official notification of the truce be—
tween Sherman and Johnston preparatory
tothe surrender of Johnston’s army. The
fighting was ended.
Forty-six cannon, 6,000 prisoners and seven-
teen battle flags were by Stone-
imn’s men. Ems Anagram Cesium.
GEN. A. C. GILLEM.
salt works, invaluable to the Confederacy, .
J ACK-O’-LANTERN TOWN.
GHOSTLY GLIMMERINGS IN THE
LACKAWANNA VALLEY.
Strange Night. Scenes in the Town of Arch-
' bald—Good Material for Ghost Stories.
Phil Crehan and His Turkey—The Mys-
tery Easily Explained.
Have you ever heard of the "‘moving
lights” of the _Lackawanna. valley? They
present uninteresting phase of a. phenomenon
which has exerted a strange influence over
the minds of many persons in the mining
hamlets of northeastern Pennsylvania, and
particularly in and about the village of Arch-
bald, which stands a. little to the north of
midway between Scranton and Carbondale.
The mere mention of the “lights” to any resi-
dent of Arch bald is sufficient to convey the
significant meaning which usually attaches
in that neighborhood to the mysterious mid-
night glimmeriugs that are frequently seen
hovering over the shallow river that runs
through the town, drifting along the menu-
tain side or floating over the tops of the
houses.
These mystic lights have been seen at all
hours of the night by persons who firmly be-
lieve that they are manifested by ghostly
hands. A certain old lady who has frequent—
ly seen the “lights” solemnly avers that at
various times she has observed a candle held
by a spectral hand, and carried swiftly along
the mountain side and over the house tops in
the dead of night. That she saw the light
there can be no doubt whatever, but the hand
was furnished by her imagination—that is
certain.
These lights have been seen most frequent-
ly emerging from the mouth of an old, aban-
doned colliery called the Sebastopol mine,
where it is said several persons met a violent
death several years ago. Others have seen
them dancing across the village graveyard,
and others yet at the dilapidated water
wheel. It is needless to. say that these par—
ticular landmarks have been regarded with
no small degree of awe for years past, but the
terror is not so great now as it was ten or fif-
teen years ago, when the “lights” were
usually spoken of with bated breath by those
who actually believed that they were manipu-
lated by the spooks and hobgoblins, who took
a sort of fiendish delight in frightening the
poor mortality that were not well versed in
the scientific causes from which such phe-
nomena. proceed.
The “oldest inhabitants” could of course
tell some hair raising stories concerning the
ghostly lights and the thrilling experiences
of the pioneers who encountered them.
Among the stories current of bygone days,
or rather nights, when these haunting lights
were first observed, is one of a. mysterious
glimmer that actually spoke to one of tlfi
“old settlers” on his way home from the
upper end of the village. Of course it was
past the midnight hour, “when churchyards
yawu,” and the hero of the adventure, Phil
Crehan by name, was returning from a raffle
with a. fine fat turkey he had won under his
arm. Just as Mr. Crehan was passing the
“Bottomless mine” a. light started up from the
mouth of the shaft, and, after hovering about
for a. few seconds, as if undecided as to the
course it should take, it flickered merrily to
his side. Phil Crohan was a. man of power-
ful physique and rare courage, but he cod-
fessed afterward that when he saw the un-
canny light keeping him company for a. bun-
dred rods or so it made him feel rather shaky.
This was nothing, however, until the light
began to talk to him.
“You are out rather late, Phil, for a man
of family,” it began.
Thinking. silence was golden under the cir«
cumstances, Mr. Crehan made no reply, but -
hastened forward. As he did so the light
darted ahead of him, and with a laugh,which
he described as a “light laugh,” it said: “Oh,
not so fast, Phil; I am not so easily left he-
hind. I see you had good luck at the raflle,”
said the light rather sarcastically, and as it
spoke it fastened itself to the head of Mr.
Crehan’s turkey, giving the gobbler the
quaint appearance of having an illuminated
head.
By this time Phil plucked up some courage,
and he replied, with a. slight show of temper:
“Well, what if I did? I don’t see that it’s
any of your business.” '
“It wouldn’t be if you played fair,” re-
torted the light, “but you know you won the
turkey by cheating, and if you attempt to
eat the bird it will choke you.”
Mr. Crehan knew that his playing had not
been entirely fair, but it startled him to think
that this flickering intangible thing with a. T
voice should be aware of his conduct. The
threat of choking so terrified him that be ac-
tually lost his appetite for turkey. In his
desperation he blew at the offending light
with all his power of lung, hoping to extin-
guish it, but the result was that instead of go-
ing out, as he intended it should, the tiny
light burst into a great sheet of flame, which
entirely enveloped the turkey, and Mr. Cre-
han in his terror flung away the blazing bird
and ran home as fast as he could. Instantly
the light disappeared, leaving the darkness
more intense than ever, and there was a loud
pool of mocking laughter which echoed all
along the mountains.
When next Phil Crehan met the men who
were interested with him at the raffle he no-
ticed that they grinned rather suspiciously
when they asked him how he enjoyed his tur-
key, but he did not care about investigating
the matter any further, as his recollection of
his experience with the spooky light was any-
thing but pleasant.
The queer lights have been seen by scores
of others, and a. good many believe that they
are carried about by spooks and hobgoblins.
Those who made a. study of the movements of
the luminous visitors noticed that they were
frequently observed moving from a. lonely
spot Where a man was found dead, to adilapi-
dated shanty in which a poor woman was
burned to death some years ago. Another
favorite spot for the lights was around the
haunted dwelling in which a widow was found
dead in her bed. Other equally grewsome .
scenes are mentioned, including the bottom- l
less shaft, in which a party of men were
drowned long ago, and which is situated at
the foot of the abrupt slope called Dutch
Hill.
The mystery of the haunting lights is easily
explained. They are nothing more nor less
than the old fashioned will-o’-the-Wisp, some-
times spoken of as the ignus fatuus. They
arise from the gases generated in the old
mines, where the decaying timber of the
props and other prolific causes contribute to
their existence. Rising out of the mines at
night and floating about like tiny comets,
they present a. strange study and are well
calculated to strike fear to the stoutest heart.
The town of Archbald is probably not more
subject to these luminous visitants than other
mining towns, but its sheltered situation be-
tween two hills gives it special opportunities
for studying the phenomenon that has given
rise to many a ghost story and weird tra-
dition—Scranton Cor. New York Times.
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