A "GHOST" STORY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 944, 21 May 1880, Page 3

A "GHOST" STORY.

A correspondent of the Geelong Advertiser is responsible for the following ghost story “As 1 know you feel interested in sneh circumstances, I write, in case you may net have heard of it, to toll you of a very remarkable circumstance connected with the death, at Hamilton, of the late Archdeacon limes. The archdeacon, as you know, died of dipthcria, and though perfectly sensible to the last, was unable to articulate a syllable, and was, therefore, compelled to have recourse to writing. This lends additional value tn the circumstance which I have to tell you. For some months the archdeacon had been assisted as layreader by a young man recently arrived from Homo, named Lissorman, who, though not remarkable either for culture or natural ability, yet endeared himself to the archdeacon and all who knew him by his earnestness and goodness. After working for a tew months ho fell a victim to prostrated energy, and died at the parsonage, at Hamilton, a few weeks before the archdeacon, who, as I have told you, expressed all he had to say in writing, and was compos mentis to tho last, wrote that going into his study one evening, after Lisscrman’s death, he saw him standing at the study table, and involuntarily exclaimed, * Halloa ! are yon hove?’ ‘ Yes,’ replied the apparition, ‘ and where I now am there will you soon he !’ Mr Lines was not a man of fancies, or of impaired physique ; and when he saw the apparition was in the enjoyment of robust health. These facts are well known and vouched for."