Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1880 — A Story of Ticonderoga. [ARTICLE]

A Story of Ticonderoga.

Dean Stanley tells (fie following story in Flaser's Magazine: In the middle of the last century the Chief of he Campbells, of Inverawe, had been giving an entertainment at his castle on the banks of the Awe- The party had broken uo and Campbell was left alone. He was roused by a violent knocking at the gate, and was surprised at the appearance of one of ais guesis, witn torn garments and disheveled hair, demanding admission. “I have killed a man and I am pursued by enemies. I beseech you to let me in.— Swear upon your dirk—upon the cruachan or hip where your ditk rests--swear by Ben Cruachan—that you will not betray me.” Campbell ewore, and placed the fugitive a secret place in the house. Presently -there was a second knocking at the gate. It was a party of his guests, who said, “Your cousin Donald has been killed,; where is the murderer?” At this announcement Campbell remembered the great oath which he had sworn, gave an evasive answer, and sent off the pursuers in a wrong direction. He then went to the fugitive and said: 'You have- killed my Cousin Donald, I can not keep you here.’ The murderer appealed to his oath, and persuaded Campbell to let him stay for the nijht. Campbell did so, and retired to rest. In rhe vis ions of that night the blood-stained Donald appeared to him with these words: “In verawe, In verawe, blood has be< n shed; >hieid 1.0 h 5 murderer.” In the morning Campbell went to his guest and told him that any further shelter was impossible. He look him, however, to a cave in Ben CiU. Oban, and there left him. The night again closed in, and Campbell again slept, and again the bloodstained Donald appeared. “Inverawe, Inverawe, blood has been shed; shield not the murderer.” On the morning he went to the cave on th& mountain, and the murderer had fled Again at night he slept, and again the bloodstained Donald rose before him and said: “Inverawe, Inverawe, blood has been shed. We shall not meetjagain till we meet at Ticonderoga.” He woke in the morning, and behold it was a dream. But the story of the triple apparition remained by him aud he often told it among his kinsmen, asking always what the ghost could mean by this mysterious word of their final rendezvous. In 1758 there broke out the Franch and English war in America, which after many rebuffs ended in the con quest of Quebec by General Wolfe.— Campbell, of In verawe, went out with the Black Watch, the Forty-second Highland Regiment, afterward so famous. There, ou Lhe eve of an engagement, the General came to the officers and said: ”We had better not tell Campbell the name of the fortress which we are to attack to-mor-row. It is Ticonderoga. Let us call it Fort George.” The assault took place in the morning. Campbell was mortally wounded. He sent for the General. These were his last words; “General, you have deceived me: I have seen him again. This is Ticonderoga.”

Died.—At Elk Falls, Kansas, Fri? day, October 22, 1880, Mrs. Thompson, formerly of this county, mother of Mrs. C. W. Duvall, of this place. She was highly esteemed for her Christian viques. A devoted wife and mother, sincere friend and neighbor, her last end was Peace. —Ladies underwear from 25c. upwards, and also gents underwear from 25c. upwards at the New Store,