. History of Mount Union, Shirleysburg and Shirley Township. rldAnd speak with lighfnihgs tong-ue;What greater works hath man to boastIhan these immortal peers—•The telegraph, the telephone,That bless the rolling years. And last, let memrys deep impressRecord the deeds of yore,Qf him. who sleeps in peaceful restUpon thy rivers shore;A friend to friend, a foe to foe,To stand he was not thou dost wear this heros name—-The name-of CAPTAIN JACK. Nobody knows just where .JackArnistrons is buried. Joliin Hiirris inhis diary mentions that liis remainswere interred eight mdles from AugTi-wic
. History of Mount Union, Shirleysburg and Shirley Township. rldAnd speak with lighfnihgs tong-ue;What greater works hath man to boastIhan these immortal peers—•The telegraph, the telephone,That bless the rolling years. And last, let memrys deep impressRecord the deeds of yore,Qf him. who sleeps in peaceful restUpon thy rivers shore;A friend to friend, a foe to foe,To stand he was not thou dost wear this heros name—-The name-of CAPTAIN JACK. Nobody knows just where .JackArnistrons is buried. Joliin Hiirris inhis diary mentions that liis remainswere interred eight mdles from AugTi-wick and ten miles from StandingStone, or Huntingdon, which wouldbe in the vicinity of Mapleton. Afew years ago some of the residentsof that town, according to an accountpublished in the Local News of Hun-tingdon in February, 1889, and re-printed in the later edition of .JonesHistory of the .Juniata Valley, behelda peculiar light near the top of RockyRidge at Bridgeport, a short distancewest of Mapleton. This light wasmore conspicuous in January of each. 738 year. Those who noticed it wererather superstitious, knowing that itvvas a strange Diace for siich a thingto occur. It was left for a party ofthree, says the article, A. K. Skip-per, Joseph Grove and Thomas , citizens of Mapleton, to fitout an expedition, visit the place andinvestigate. These men saw, when,nearing the spot, to their astonish-ment, three lights which had the ap-pearance of Each one wouldcome up out of the ground and re-main for a few minutes about threefeet above the surface and then dis-appear in succession. Curiosity de-veloped, and believing that theremight be somthing buried beneaththe surface, which gave rise to thisluminous mystery, picks and shovelswere urovided and a depth of six feetwais reached, when they ctaime pile of loose stones which coveredtwo large flat stones, that formed alid, and upon lifting them discoveredwhat, s-eemed to be the remains of ahuman body in a hol
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