The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-10-14
AReai Chest Story.

Ihe Boston Traveller, ON the abost authori.
| "" tells the following ghost story, in which
M Hector MDonaid, of Canada. who was
recently on visit to that city. IL tho leading
living actor. Upon his departure from his
homo he left his family we'll. The Traysller
| says:
The second morning after ne arrived In Hos.
Ton, when leaving his bed to dress for break.
Iast, no saw reflected In mirror thu eornsa
OF woman, lying in tina bed from which he
nau Just arisen. Spell bound. he eazsd with
intense feeling and tried to recognize the fea-
lures OF the corpse. but in vain; he could not
even move his eyelids; he felt deprived of ac
tlon, Tor how long he knew not Ho was At
last startled by the ringing of the bell for
breakfast and sprang to the bed to satisfy
himself II what he had seen reflected in the
mirror was real or an illusion. He found the
bed as he had left it; he looked again into the
mirror, but only saw the bed truly reflected.
During the day he thought much upon the il.
fusion, and determined next morning to rub
his eyes and feel perfectly sure that he was
wide awake before he left bed. But notwith
standing these precautions. the visit was re-
peated with the addition that he thought he
recognized in the corpse some resemhlan nee
10 the features of his wife.
In the course of the second day he received
letter from his wife, in which she stated that
she was quite WELL and hoped he was enioying
himself among his friends. As he was do
votedly attached to her, and ALWAYS An xious
Tor her safety, he supposed that his morbid
Tears had eonjured up the vision he had seen
reflected in the glass, and went about his bust
ness as cheerfully as usual. On the morning
OF the third day, after he had dressed. he found
himself III thought in his own<house. leanfng
over the Coffin of his wife. His friends were
assembled, the minister was performing the
funeral services, his children wept-he was in
he house of death. He followed the corpse to
The grave; he heard the earth rumble upon
Inc eoinn, he saw the grave filled, and the
green sods covered over it; yet by some strange
power, he could see through the ground the
entire form OF his wife, as she lay in her coffin.
lie looked in the faces of those around him.
but no one seemed to notice him; he tried to
weep, but the tears refused to flow his very
heart felt as hard as a rock. Enraged at his
own want OF feeling, he determined to throw
himself upon the grave and lie there till his
heart should break, when he was recalled to
consciousness by friend, who entered the
room to inform him that breakfast was ready.
He started as If awoke from profound sleep,
though he was standing before the mirror
with Il hair brush in his hand
After composing himself, he related to his
friend what he had seen, and both concluded
that Il good breakfast only was wanting to dis
sipate his unpleasant impressions. A few days
afterwards, however, he received the melan-
eholy intelligence that his wife had died sud-
DENLY and the time CORES ponded with the day
he had been startled by the first vision in the
mirror. When he returned home he described
minuteiy all the details of the funeral he had
seen in his vision, and they corresponded with
the facts. This is probably one of the mos vivid
instances of clairvoyance on record. Mr..
NJ M'Donald knows nothing of modern spirit
ualism or clairyoyance, as most of his life has
been passed upon a farm and among forests
1t may not be amiss to state that his father
who was Scotch Highlander, had the gift OF
"second sight.