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GHOSTS ON THE OCEAN. Ore that Ham:ted the Charles and the One that Hauntsi the Homeward. r'lOur Ui •• Xt w York sun. ‘ln the twenty years of my seafaring life I had two experiences with haunted ships. The term may provoke a smile, but if there are haunted houses why shouldn't there be haunted ships; As to the question of the supernatural, I may or may not I* a believer. I will give yon the inci dents just i> they occurred, and if you can explain everything satisfactorily to yourself 1 shall be gratified. Au English brig called the Charles, in making her tirst voyage from Liverpool to Boston, hail some trouble with her crow, and in putting it down the Captain shot a sailor named Jack Wallace. Jack lived about an hour after being hit and he cursed the captain higli and low, and he vowed by all that was good that ho would haunt the brig as long as she floated. I'm blessed if he did’nWiegiu the haunting business that ■very night, creating an alarm which made even the first mate shake in his boots. On getting into Boston every man but the second mate deserted her. She loaded her cargo, shipped another crew, and on the say over to England Jack's ghost kicked up such a row that the men were for taking to the boats in midocean and deserting the brig. Every man of them, mates and all, left her at Liverpool, and it was two weeks utter she was ready to sail again, this time tor New Orleans, before she could find a crew. News of an affair of this sort gets spread about sooner and farther than you would imagine, even without the help of the newspapers, and Jack Tar will not sail in a haunted ship for any man’s money. The brig reached New Orleans after a long passage, and she had scarcely tied to the wharf when everybody deserted her, the Captain going with the rest. There was a regular stampede, and the vessel was left in the hands of the consignees at the drop of the hat. I found her two weeks after this wjtb her load of cotton all aboard and her nails bent for sailing. Her old crew had talked more or less, and double wages were being offered for a crew. First mate’s place was offered me whilean Englis sea Captain had come down from New York. We re garded the ghost business as all nonsense, and were prepared to grapple with any spirit or investigate any mystery. By our own personal efforts we finally picked"up a crew, getting hold of men here and there, who had just come into port from long voyages and had heard nothing to the brig's prejudice. We dropped down the riverand got to sea without a single sailor having heard anything and of course none of them was looking for the mysterious. We were ■well out to sea before night of the first day, and when I came on deck at midnight to stand my watch there was a steady breeze and a moderate sea, and the captain’s watch had had an easy time of it. The men of my watch took a pool at a brace here and there, and inside of a quarter of au hour all except the lookout were stowed away here and there to catch cat naps. I was pacing the deck with everything very quiet alow and aloft;, when my attention was attracted to the sight of a sailor coming aft. I was on the starboard quarter, and ho came along down close to the port rail, aud made as if to go to the wheel. His footsteps gave out lio sound, aud he came along with a sort of glide I never could describe. It was a breach of discipline for a foremast hand to appear on the quarter deck without a special errand or without saluting, and when I saw this man making his way along the quarter to ward the man at the wheel it struck me that he was walking in his sleep. I picked up a rope's end and started for him, but be glided ahead like a shadow, passed within two feet of the man at the wheel, and went out of sight like a flash. Next instant the sailor let go of the snokes of the waeel and stagg ered about, and the brig would have come up into the wind had I not jumped for the ■wheel. I yelled out and raised an alarm, and the men threw a buoy over and we presently stopped our way and made ready to lower a boat. It was then discovered that no one was missing. Every man aboard of that craft was there to answer to his name. The captain set out to give me a keel hauling for creating such an alarm, but I took him aside, called to the sailor who hid seen all, and we told our story in a way ■which put the old man into a pickle. While he had to believe us, he wouldn’t believe in the supernatural, and no man could have been more uneasy. “Here is what I saw, sir,” replied the fore mast hand when asked for his version of the matter. “I think I saw the spook before Mr. Temple did. I thought it was one of the men coming buck to make a report to liim, but when I saw him bear off to port, and saw Mr. Temple start for hi in, I believ ed it was a case of sleep-walking. The thing came so close that I could have touched it, and there was a smell of dead folks about it. There was a sailor look to the face—it being a youngish chap —and h.s two hands were clasped on his side like this. He fetched a sort of groan as he passed me, and he went over the stern as softly as a leaf falls to the ground, and without a splash. This is a haunted craft, sir, and I give ” “Shut up!” hissed the captain. “Tell me that again and I’ll clap you in irons.” “But, who was it, sir?” “Both of you were dreaming, and if I hear any more of it somebody will hear from me.” He further requested that nothing be said to the men, and, although he tried to make light of the matter, I knew that he was deeply puzzled. The sailor was as good as his promise, aud said nothing, and nothing further happened until the tnird night. Tue second mate, as you may know, is really in charge of the Captain’s watch, and this officer, Mr. Graves, was on duty, and the time was 11 o’clock, with my watch all below, when something happened. His watch had just been trimming the yards, nnd could not, therefore, be charged with dreaming. All of a sudden a figureapjieareJ among them. It was first seen at the scuttle butt, and one of the men, who was after a drink of water, spoke to it under the impression that it was one of his shipmates It glided away, and at the same moment his nostrils wore greeted with such an odor that he cried out in disgust. The strange figtu-e was seen by four men of the watch tip it glided to a point a few feet abaft the foremast, and there stood for two or three minutes with bauds pressed upou its side, and its body weaving to and fro. A man of file name of Will Ketch —a chap who had never feared man or devil—called out to the mysterious poi sounge: “It you arc playing a trick on us look out for yourself!” With that he picked up a bucket, or lie laying pm, or weapon of some sort which was handy by, and gave it a fling at the figure, and the mysterious personage van ished at the snap of ”our finger. There was a row which brought us all op deck, aud now the fact that tuiye was a mysterious something aljcaixl the brig cxiuld no longer lie concealed. The Captain raved aud blustered, but the men had seen what they had seen, and it was no use to browbeat them. The watch below i ofused to turn in again. The captain undertook to drive them at the muzzle of his revolver, and they threatened to jump overboard. There may ho a haunted house in a neigh borhood, but no one fears it unless he parses it. Here was a ship believed to ba haunt ed, and ye no one could get away from it. I confess that things did look at least “queer” to me, and wnile the captain pooh-poohed and talked in a loud voice I realized that he was a bit shaky. Mr. Graves also blustered about, swearing at the men anil advising a dose of belaying pin to cure their nonsense, and when the captain told him to turn in he went down to his berth with a laugh and a swagger. Three minutes later he returned to us with a face as white as chalk, and it was a full minute before he could use his tongue to stammer out: “The—the thiug is in the cabin I” Without a word in reply we descended the companion with him—the captain go ing first, I next, and Mr. Graves bringing up the rear. As we passed along the hall i nnd pushed open the cabin door, the figure lof a man could be made out on the far side W Uni cabin, where the shadows were dark est. It was as plain as any human figure could tie, though we could not make out the face and other details. We stared at it for half a minute, and then the ' aptain pulled his revolver and banged away. ' There was a sort of groan following his shot and when i the smoke cleared we took a light and i searched in vain for traces of our mysterious 1 visitor. He had depar ed. It was confessed to the owners and to the press that the offi -1 cers and crew of that brig slept on deck every ; night after that until the end of the voyage. Indeed there were only two sailors among the crew who would venture into the fore castle in the daytime, and the steward could not have been kept in his place except bv threats. We were ridiculed an 1 laughed at as a crew, but it is a matter of history that the Charles never made another voyage. She could not get a charter, uor could she have got a crew if she had, aud after rotting in ordinary for a couple of years she was knocked to pieces. My second experience was on the ship Homeward. I shipped on her at Liverpool for a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope and return. I had not set eyes on her, and knew her only by name when I went aboard with my traps. I had a first mate s berth, and understood that the officer filling that place had been taken suddenly ill two da vs before. The ship was read v to sail, and I had to hustle aboard w thout making inquiries. As 1 approached her I encountered a man skulk ing away, and believing him to be desert er, I reached out for him. I got his collar, but he broke my hold aud as he ran away I heard him say: “Aye, but I’d sooner sail the sea in a cof fin." I gave this remark little attention, even when I fouud out alioard that he was act ually a deserter. He was one of six men who had come off to the shin in the morning, and nobody could tell why he hail cut sticks. We had a pretty good idea three or four days later. There were ouly five men aboard when I climbed over the rail —only five sailors. The cook and steward were there, as also a cabin boy, but the captain was ashore and no one could tell me whether a second mate bad been shippe i or not. About midnight the shipping agents sent me eleven or twelve men, every one of them helplessly drunk, and a little latter on came the captain. He had been drinking heavily, aud after trying to tell me his name and failing to understand mine, he went to his cabin with the order that I should call him at 6 o’clock. We were all ready to warp out, the work of only half an h nu- from our berth, and the tide would not serve until midforenoon. 1 appointed a shipkeeper and turned in myself, but the drunken fellows were bound to have their farewell carouse, and I got no sleep through the night. Less than half of them were of any use next morning in warping the ship out. The eaptain came on deck perfectly sober, and when I said something about the contition of the crew he replied: “Yes. it’s beastly, Mr. Temple, but we couldn’t have got ’em aboard sober, you know. Let a whisper get out about a craft and sailors act like fools.” I had my mouth open to ask what stories were in circulation regarding tho Homeward, when the captaiu, whose name was Robin son, gave me an order and walked away. The second mate, who seeme l to have been on a spree with the men, came up and in troduced himself. His name was Anderson, and he apologized for his presence by say ing: “I hung out to the very last, hoping to get another ship, but I had to take the berth. Do you think they are very bad?” “What;” “The ghosts.” “Is this a haunted ship?’ “Didn't you know it was? They say she has been deserted in every port and that she changes captains every trip; but perhaps it is only sailor talk. I hope we shall have no trouble sir.” He sidled away in a half ashamed manner, and all hands, or all who were of any use, at once began warping the ship out, and before noon we were on our way out. Af.er we were fairi off, the men " began to knock themselves together, the captain and second mate acted like different men, aud when the watches were set I had forgotten the words dropped by Mr. Anderson. He was a thorough sailor and full of discipline, and one would have judged by his face that be had great force af character. Nothing occurred to create an alarm for three days. Then, one night during my watch, a man in the captain’s watch, who was below, came on deck ami said to me: “Mr. Temple, it must be that we have a stows way aboard. We have heard groans and sighs and sobs for the last two nights, aud some of the men declare the ship is haunted. There comes the watch, sir, driven out by the noises. Wont you please make a search?” It was true that every man in the cap tain’s watch had tumbled up, aud I knew that they must be badly frightened to thus exhibit themselves. 1 took a long look at the weather, saw that everything was fair, and then descended to the fore astle alone. Not a man dared to follow me down there. I wasn't even nervous. If there were groans and cries they must coma from some poor devil who hail secreted himself in the hold, and who was now ill and starving. I hail only reached the foot of the ladder when I felt the touch of au icy nanil on my face, and the next instant my hair was on end. Someone was sighing, groaning, and weeping. The sounds ilia not come from any one direction. At one moment they seemed to come from the very eyes of the ship, and the next they were heard at the bulkhead which divided the place from the hold. I felt, too, all the time as if some body was moving about me, and I put tip my hand to prevent my throat being clutch ed. I frankly ' limit to you that I was scared, but I was determined not to show niv feelings to the men, anil as I went on deck again I carelessly said to them: “The noises come from the hold. Some one has stowed himself away, and well have him out to-morrow.” I left it with them to go back or remain on deck, and not one of them, nor yet a man in my own watch, would go below until daylight came, when, strange to say, the noises died entirely away. The captain and Mr. Anderson both saw that something was wrong as soon as they came on deck. The captain received the news very quietly ask ing a question now and then, and when I had finished he replied: “Very well, sir. After the men have had their breakfast we will search the hoi 1.” We had otie, but it was fruitless of result. It was thorough enough to covince us that no pei-son was hidden away The captain ua<l very little to say, seeming, as I thought, greatly distressed in mind, hut I finally brought Mr. Anderson over to agree with me that the in uses were produced by the rubbing of the cargo, though why we should not hear them in the daytime as "well I could not explain. The no.ses began about 9 o’clock the next night. Both Mr. Anderson and myself went down and listened to them, but we could not g revail upou the captain to aecomjmuy us. efore 10 o’cioek the men were in such a state of trepidation that it was hardly pos sible tc separate them to do duty, and an hour later, when I went into the cabin to consult with the captain, he looked at uie in the queerest manner and said: “Mr. Temple, we must go back to Liver pool This ship is haunted, and if we pur ue the voyage we are lost. ” With that he burst into tears and went off to his stateroom and locked himself in. It was a hard position to find myself in, for I now believed that the cap ain lia 1 gone daft, and the second mate was so rattled tent his advice was no good. I determined to hold the ship on her eonrse however, and she was pursuing it when, at 2 o’clock in the morn ing, the captain suddenly rushed on deck and sprang overboard with a yell, and, though we laid the -hip to and lowered a boat, we found no trace of him. I then put the ship about and carried her into Liver pool, and it was the last voyage she ever made. ’ To C insumptlvee, Or those with weak lungs, spitting of blood, bronchitis, or kindred affections of throat or lungs, send 10c. in stamps for Dr. R. V. Pierce’s treatise on three maladies. Address Uie doctor, Buffalo, N. Y. THE MORNING NEWS: WENDESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1887. EXPENSIVE FOR PIE MAKING. A Splendid Collection of Birde at the Garden. From the A’eio York Timm. When Noah, during tlio prevalence of one of tbv moat disastrous tidal waves recorded in history, wt nt cruising around in the ark looking for Mount Ararat, he did not have a Waterbury watch with him. But he did have the original rooster, and that rooster filled the bill. He, the rooster, announced sunrise as regularly as the latest improved alarm dock could have done. Noah's look out on the memorable voyage referred to was a dove, who first discovered and brought back to the ark news of the dis covery of land. The descendants of Noah’s timepiece and lookout are now jMipular resi dents of all parts of the globe. It would be a proud moment indeed if those two old birds could lie resurrected and permitted to drop into Madison Square Garden to-day and look over the convention now in prog ress there. They would have every reason to be proud of tlieir descendants. Mr. Rooster and Mme. Htn might not wholly approve of the patent hatching machine, but they certainly would “point with pride” to the crowing, cackling lot, who make a thundering lot of noise and lay an occasional egg. Possibly the descendants are more gaily dressed than the ancestoi-s were, but the general family resemblance would be there. The original homing pigeon would probably be more completely at home, and would unquestionably take the conceit out of some of tbe youngsters cooped up there who travel on not only their plum age, but the records they have made in fly ing anywhere from *OO to 500 miles. How Noah’s lookout would take the modern record-breakers across his lap and break their backs, figuratively, while he told stories about bow he was hunting about for a couple of days at a time before he sighted Mount Ararat. The descendants of Noah's family can drop in at the Madison Square Garden and thank their ancestor Sir having allowed the original birds to live and breed and send down to posterity such a jolly lot of fowls before the original birds met their fate in the inevitable pie to which old birds are consigne'L The average man or woman would view the collection principally from a gastronomic standpoint. The more highly educated man looks at them, however, a.s the horseman or cattleman looks at animals from the standpoint of blood and breeding. The fowls would make rather expensive pies, as a rule, for some of them are valued at as high as $lOO taeh, and canvas-ba k ducks, even, are a D-lfle cheaper. There are aliour a thousand fowls and pigeons in the Garden, varying in size from a forty-two pound turkey from the farm of Sherman Hartwell, up in Washington, Conn., down to a carrier pigeon weighing less than a half pound, with a collection of white warts on his beak and about his eyes that would make the professor of chiropody tremulously anxious to get at ihern with a good sharp corn-knife. The fowls occupy the entire main floor of the Garden, the pigeons having their quarters in the centre of the Garden, and the chickens theirs on either side. Turkeys, ducks and geese are over near the Fourth avenue end, and the Cochins, Brahmas, Plymouth Rocks aud Wyandottes have the aristocratic Madison square end of the big barnlike inciosure. The big fowls are the most numer ous, and because they are the high est-priced in the fancier's list they are given the position of honor. On the Twenty-sixth street side are a half dozen artidciul tanks, and in them Fred Mather, who knows more about fish than it would seetn possible for any other half dozen men to know, has mandarin, wood, teal and widgeon duck swimming about—a l exceptionally g od collection for one to look upon. The other parts of the building are given over to such prosaic aud utterly uninteresting affairs as chicken food specially prepared, first.' to make bens lay egrs, and then to put good shells on those eggs; medicine to cure pip, chiekeii lice ami other disagreeable inci dents of a chicken’s career. In a small room at tbe Madison avenue and Tiveniy-eeventh street corner the New York Poultry Exchange, which is running the show, has provided quarters for a quan tity of toy dogs, like pugs, Yorkshire and King Charles spaniels, black-and-tans, and for the squirrels, rabbits and cats that are competing for the prizes offered. There is plenty of room for these pets, for the num ber shown js quite small, and only au inci dent instead of a feature of the show. Still the collection is interesting. Seven years ago, when one of J. F. Henry Nott’s Plymouth Rock hens announced to that portion of Kingston, .Ulster county, N. Y., that she was the mother of a lot of chickens, Mr. Nott went out to congratulate her. When he inspected the brood he found one chicken that was dressed in down of a peculiar character. That down refused to form itself into Gathers and no sort of coaxing would make the down evolve itself into feathers as down usually does. Even the wings, though builc on the regulation plan, wouldn’t show any more feather.-than there are on the spines of a whisk broom. “All right,” thought Mr. Nott, “l’U grow chickens without feathers, but with swans’ down in then place.” The peculiar chicken's eggs brougut out similar peculiarly dressed chickens, aud the result was that by careful breeding and inter-breeding for seveu years Mr. Nott lias now got a chicken covered with down, aud without any power to use its wings. He grows them with black, white and gray p.umage, and they arc so helpless as to wings that they can’t fly over an ordinary boxwood hedge. He txdieves fur her breed ing will result iu producing an absolutely wingless chicken. They 1 look like the so called silkin, but differ in the peculiar quality of tbe feathering. Tue tail feathers of the new breed are like the fringe on a woman’s shawl. “Mystery,” a chicken hatched from one of the eggs found in the basket of the girl found murdered uear Railway, N. 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Ami we must not forget to mention the extensive assortment of Fancy Tables and Easels. We could keep on enumerating articles in our FURNITURE DEPARTMENT, but as our CARPET DEPARTMENT is replete with so many articles which make an elegant present we cannot pass thern over—LACE CURTAINS, PORTIERRKB, a very handsome line of TABLE COVERS. RUGS of all kinds, MANTEL aud TABLE SCARFS, LAMBREQUINS of all styles and prices. VELOCIPEDES, TRICYCLES and WAGONS for the children. Lmfaf & Marian A&PH ILI DA Vi,M ENT. Warrcn-Scharf Asphalt Paving Ca, 114 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK. CONSTRUCT Gcuuiiie Trinidad Asphalt PAVEMENTS. This Pavement has been thor oughly tested in actual ser vice and is found to possess the following points of su periority: Ist. Cheaper than stone blocks equally well laid. 3d. Durability; tbe company guarantees It for a period of years. i)d. Almost noiseless under traffic. 4th. Tbe cleanest pavement made. sth. A perfect sanitary pavement. Being im pervious to water and tilth. It cannot exhale in fectious gases. tlth. Easily and perfectly repaired when opened to lay pipes, etc. 7th. Saves wear and tear of heroes and vrbjcldK Bth. Being smoother, less power is required to haul over It than any other pavement. lltli. It enhances the value of abutting prop erty more than any other pavement. )Oth. It is theefore, all things considered, the best and most economical pavement that can be laid on any street, whether the traffic is light or heavy. ■ B ananas. K A A BUNCHES CHOICE YELLOW and RED t)UU BANANAS. 5,000 OOOOANUTB. APPLES, ORANGES, NUTS, RAISINS, etc. Fresh Banana, received every ten days. Coun try orders solicited. A. H. CHAMPION. BLAC KBERRY JUICE. SAMPLE BOTTLES FREE. 'MLN •iwoMEN’CHILDRfd. ij AMHMDV'ITCIVN t HUNGARIAN A4 i ill An Efficient Remedy for Diarrhoea, Cholera Morbus, Dysentery And all Disorders of the Bowels. Imported by Mihalovitch, Fletcher It Cos., Cincinnati. Ohio FOR SALE BY A. EHRLICH & BRO.. Sole Agent*. Savannah, Ga., and all wholesale and retail Druggist*, Liquor Dealers and Wine Merchant* everywhere, INSU RAM Cl. Tlic Savannah Fire and Marine Insurance Company. PAID IT CAPITAL" - $200,(100. HOME OFFICE, No. 97 BAY STREET, SA-VANNyvII, - GEORGIA. WILLIAM GARRARD President. LEWIS KAYTON Vice President. W. H. DANIEL Secretary. DIRECTORS: Herman Myers, George J. Baldwin. John L. Hamnood, Andrew Hanley. J. B. Duckworth, I. G. Haas. Samuel Meinhard, L. Kayton. J. H. Estili, David Well*. C. R. Woods. W. H. Daniel. Willliam Garrard. ..■-j _ -. 1 u'L'-a HOTELS. PULASKI HOUSE, - Savannah, Ga', XT rider New Management, HAVING entirely refitted, refurnished and made such extensive alterations and re pairs, we can justly say that our friends and patrons will And THE PULASKI first class in 1 every respect. The cuisine and service will be of the highest character. WATSON APO WEBB, Proprietors, formerly of Charleston Hotel. THE MORRISON HOUSE. ■VTEWLY fitted up offers pleasant. South room* A* and dxcellent board to those wishing regu lar. transient, or table accommodations. Central ly located on line of street cars, affords easy ao cess to places of business, and suburhan resort*. Prices moderate. < 'orner Broughton and Dray ton streets, opposite Marshall House. NEW HOTEL TOGNI, (Formerly St. Mark's.) Ncwnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla WINTER AND SUMMER. r P i IF. MOST cent ral House In the city. Near J Post Office. Street Care and all Ferries. New and tlei ant Furniture. Llectrio Bells, Baths, Etc. }- rid to S3 per day. JOHN B. TOGNI, Proprietor. GROCERIES. O. PA VIS. M. A DAVIS. ( i. DAVIS & SON, WHOLESALE GROCERS, Provisions. Grain and Hay. A LSI ), FEED STUFF, RICE FLOUR, WHEAT J V BRAN, BLACK COW PEAS, BLACK-EYE PEAS GEORGIA CROWDERS. CLAY BANK PEAK, VIRGINIA and GEORGIA PEANUTS. Orders by mail solicited. G. DAVIS Sc SON, IM md 19S Bay street, Savanuah, Ga. GEO. W TIED EM AX, WHOLESALE Grocer, Provision Dealer & Com’u Merchant, NO. 161 BAY ST., SAVANNAH. GA. Jas E. Grady. Jno. C. DeLettrb. Ja. E. Grady, Jr. GRADY, DeLETTRE & CO., Successors to Holcombe. Grady A Cos.. TIT HOLES ALF. GROCERS, and drab-rs in V PROVISIONS. CORN, HAY, FEED, Etc. Old Stand, cnn)er Bav and A bercorn streets, BAVAXNAU, OA. BROKERS. A. L. HARTRIDGU; SECURITY BROKER. T3UYB AND BELLS on commission all classed 1) of Stocks and Bonds. Negotiates loans on marketable securities. New York quotation* furnished by privatd ticker every fifteen minutes. WM. T. WILLIAMS. W. CUKHINO. W. T. WILLIAMS & CO., ZBuroHsiezrs- ORDF.RS EXECUTED on the New York, Chi cago sud Liveniool Exchanges. Private direct wire to our office. Constant quotations f join Chicago aud New York. ccrrrojj exchange. nau and oa stm ESTABLISHED 1858.' M. M. SULLIVAN, Wholesale Fish and Oyster Dealer, 150 Bryn r, st. and 153 Bay lane. Savannah, Ga. Fish orders for Cedar Keys received hero have prompt attention. PLUMBER. iTX McCarthy^ Successor to Chas. E. Wakefield, PLUMBER, GAS and STEAM FITTER ao tiaroAibl street, SAVANNAH. GA Xsiatiioiiadi'A 5