Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1881 — A Model Ghost Story. [ARTICLE]

A Model Ghost Story.

The County, N. Y.,) correspondent of the - Oswego Gazette tells' .the following story: “Quite a singula* circumstance happened to Mr. Dwight Cady last; Thursday night while on his way home from North Maine. It will be remembered it was a very dark night. It was necessary for him to pass by the Ketchumville cemetery, in which some seven or eight years ago, the remains of a man by the name of James Boyles was interred, and those of his wife also, we believe. It seems Mr. Cady was familiarly acquainted with Mr. Boyels, for he says as he neared the corner in which he was laid to rest, all at once Mr. Boyels appeared immediately before him, not more than two feet distance, and offered his hand. Mr. Cady says he grasped his hand and said, ‘How do you do, Uncle Jimmy ?’ to which the dead man responded, ‘I am all right; it is all right with me.’ Mr. .Cady then said: ‘How is the old woman ?’ ‘What old woman?’ said the dead man. ‘Why. your wife; howls she?’ ‘OhI I don’t know; I don’t ►nowanything about her,' and he disappeared as quickly and quietly as he came. Mr. Cady says Uncle‘Jimmy looked and talked as natural as life Itself, and his hand felt warm and jnst like any live man’s hand. He says he didn’t feel frightened in the least until Uncle Jimmy disappeared, and then* he never was so scared in his life, and don’t want to be again. Mr. Cady says he has been praying for the past thirteen years to have the dead to appear to him, if they ever did to anyone, and now that they have he is satisfied, and he positively affirms that he knows he saw him and calls his friends ‘doubting Thomases’ when they tell him he must be mistaken. His friends feel oonaMerably worried over it for they fear it Is a presentiment ot some coming trouble."