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A HAUNTED LOCOMOTIVE.A Oboat cd to Eynoa on tba DelawareMUlft .nf.«4 4MJ )Cvf. I btiUr KrpuUli** :The Srw York C'etit*nl lit Proud I»aa It# phani train of car* which on the recur re'-ce of tb* anrWeriarf of thu Ira*'** portalloa of the *»M«»ln«trd President Llncotu OTrr ihu rovd, appeert wltb altIbe elt;we©tilt;'.Un »up*«f nnlural clrv'IMi•lancet, aofh *• ftp Mttrw d»ma.rda, ratt mover the line In the d*»»th of mid 1 m tiigbL lo ibao«it*atrrutt'on of lltedw.dlrr* | »t . along Ibnt **•%! viaduct of t1 * Rrplrt t »* } dial**. Wrdeniien* of lb- fca'tern fthnm | of have no train of oar*, with Ha fhnat»/ hr orrnpunta, niu’kcd with Iba r?inNda of ■ I »»f Hill Von'a rorrow, lo tariff our primitive I *lt; people j no noglne wltb i«a fla hlt.e I * nicl orle fvrrbrid, rumbPnc or-r the \*m'las no black •trnunna fluUcrmt: In i the night Iw m ; no Ionic d^fed windowHut* of light deecrntlnc Ibe •ombre • Id*# of Ibe cara ; no dime, bUcU opjirawlT* almcHpherr which imm* w|ih th*. io\lng train, ai H doe* on lb'' Central, » nt wn do ha^r a haunted engine on tbn Eaatcm 3Unre Rallied. I ipL*t»l •ummrr, a yuar ago, a colored to run nam*d Kr-drrlck Joum, who by bl« eUrntCv) lo bnatorM and apMtndc In ac-•Wiring Iba neccrfary kno*lcdr* to mo arj enalnn bad bnu promoted lo the chug* of tbtj Nrw CaMle, the oMeti ma chine on the routa. aud w*a UUInr Ibe ptelllrm with credit to himMlf and to ... the • a tl* faction lo hU employer*. Doe | m rvtulng bn brought the freight down and drilled lie car* on U»e tiding aat'.tfvc lotllf, but «Trry otic noticed tr 1 lilt evr* wrrr nnuauallv Mill**!. « '*uv«»etion waidcrlnfc aud alumce wild, strongly In coo trail wltb hi* generally uueicltablo demeanor. Thru be w ni home. The nait tuoroltnr br wtta In 1 ravltiff fever, •ot«By ddl*ou* and icobrront In Ida apercb, throm-bout which eonnunl refer-cuCo an made lo iba Saw Ca lie.M Ua loved bU eugtna well. | VFor wceba be lay growing weaker and , •! weaker every boar, and lu* balludualloo I *1 of bU mind remained aa llrmly renured I* upon the locoaiotlfc aa at Ibo ft ret mo n mmtof bia Uloaaa. He wae behind lime, bo thoutcbi. and It wa» ImpoMlbU for Mm to male up ibat whlru *ui I oat. OfUt be would call tbo alli otloo of the watcbcra at bla bad-ilde to r.utle—craw-tarn of IU Imagination, who *erw on the track lu the way of tbe cotulsc train. : 0 file over bua fancy led him to ramble 1 * now In waa wbk’tllnr 4,down h^^kea^,, t now can lot bla eti.'loc lo ecnlt abarp, | 0 •brill, rar pleretng •brick*lt; to drive theVwandering catl« oil iba road 1 now rub blog the braaa work of the locomotbblog Hie br*aa work of the locomotive until It •hone again j now rnuibUug * through the thick ploey wooda, and nowenionlng a raao with the moon which •erir.rd lo iprtug from Uwo lo troa M « tad nu at It, and w«wrti ,l0* *«*t behind, lal the laboring eug'oe do Ita beau Oftan be would bunt forth In tbaof un«controlablc laugh ter, and call the aileu-llnn of ibe ansiona frleoJa to a pwr-llcu'ar calf which gabop J dowtt tbo tra k he fore iho New i'aatle^ and not wlitiAiandlug the uuaarlhlv wbl tie of Ibr engine, kept •tca1*ly «o till tb«* lo*nti»f- 'lt; II r 1 wa* alnm»t U|Hn It, wu«n It would j I aprlna anilvwly to one aide and *■*»• ai | r ibe movtng uia«* wlib a rUi*og«» wonder- , 1 lvig look. Tbua the auk man •iruggled I wlih bla dia-atc unil! daalb Intervened 1 J Now many iwople Mice#thetlliomdodled 1 •plrll of ibe dead ctig u*«r itugi-ra aronud I the locooiotlva be bad loved ao well In I llfa. Oo Saturday avtmagt bla ghoat v ba« fHwn rrpent^liy aecti u|*on ibe N» w • faallo aa of yore, and I have known c col'ircd men, when alone lata at nigh', r*fu«« to paa- th«- round buuve wKmre tbr 1 eng'.uea arc abellnrcd, lewt Ibey rhou.d ace * U»# goewt.
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Wilmington Delaware State Journal
Wilmington, Delaware, US
Sat, Oct 25, 1873
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