Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1861-05-17

young gentleman resided with his widowed
mother and two sisters in the near neighborhood
of Bristol, England. He was in easy olrcum-
stances, respected-well, in fact, to do IN the
world-and moreover engaged to be married very
shortly. Under such state of things, there
was nothing likely to be preying upon his mind,
but he was of rather delicate health and nervous
temperament. One morning he came down to
breakfast looking pale, i'll, and altogether much
agitated Ill mother aud sisters anxionsly and
eagerly inquired the cause At frat he assured
them that nothing was the matter, but upon his
mothers more urgently pressing him, he CON
fessed that he had dream which disturbed aud
troubled him.
ought to have stated that he held some posi-
ton in the cathedral-was q minor canon, or
something of that sort-And he said that be had
dreamed he was in the vestry there, aud looking
over the registry, when, latest among the entries
Of burial, he had read his own name, age aud all
correct. There was no mistake the writing was
clear fresh, and legible. WE'LL they laughed AT
him, and rallied him, and though he was evident
ly much impressed with what he had seen, after
the lapse of day or two he shook of his dejec-
ton, and was the same as ever. Then he again
appeared second time at the breakfast table in
the same style Of neryousness-only this. time
worse than before.
Again he was pressed, ana again it was a
dream that troubled him. He had been walking,
he said, over the cathedral with some one, and
they had been surprised at the sight of new
monument in most out Of the way and unusual
place-oyer the yestiy door, they stopped tC
read tit was his OWL This time it was
worse matter than before to conquer nervous
anxiety, but just as the family thought hin
shaking of the effects of this second dream, HI
one evening rushed into the house, in stat
bordering upon frenzy, and calling out, 'Wherl
isit2 Where arc theyl What have they don't
with III? dropped down in sheer exhaustion nnt
| terror. As soon as he could answer their ques
lions he told them that there were at that mo
ment 10 the house two men with a eOiin-a mos
remarkable one, covered with red morocco
thickly studded with brass nails, and his namt
on it--that they had entered the door the mOmen
before himself, and brushed by him in the lanl
as he stood against the wall, to allow them witt
their CHASTITY burden to pass when he had dis
tinctly seen that the coffin was meant for him
self, and 80 pursued them into the house.
No such person could be seen or heard Of
| No such coffin had been made. II was quit
| light in summer evening and n public road
| No soul but himself had seen the men or thu
cofiin-mueh less touched it--it seemed aiogeth
err deusion of the brain. However, as HI
pressed il, every means were taken by his family
and large rewards offered for any information
as they rightly thought reason and life depended
to be From the bed to which they carried hin
he never rose again. A few days only of feverisl
excitement elapsed, and he was dead Til,
family in their deep distress could attend t.
no matter of business or money.
The undertaken to whom the funeral was en-
trusted sent home the most expensive coffin fo
his own sordid ends hut it was, strange to say
covered with red morocco and studded all oVei
with brass nails, and the name of course beinl
conspicuous among them. This might hav
been the working out of the deusion, from it
coming to the ears of those among whom preyiou
inquiry hsd been made. But the fact of th
monument needed further Interpretation, for tn
clergy belonging to the cathedral, wishing 4
show every respect, without consulting the famil.
of the deceased, resolved to put up a tablet Il
his memory, and. TO their intense surprise, hi
friends most unexpectedly found o monumen
erected in the very unusual place he had describ
ed as its situation in his dream.