Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-09-02

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apparently for her, she supposed, aud she
was buried, so II seemed to her 10 her dream
alive, but motionless aud powerless TO hell
herself in nny way. The horror OF hel
situation, -ae she was being lowered int
the earth seemed to give her strength, anC
in the act Of striving to cry out she awoke
What seemed so curious to her was, tha
though she had never seen the burying
ground before, or the road that led to II
yet, when she came to visit them be day
after her dream, she found that the realit y
Was exactly like the dream "'E..!ll g e.
Well, bur, l interrupted, you haven't
told Us anything yet that s...
Excuse me, replied our hostess, bnt il
you will do me the favor OF waiting till |
have finished my story you will 6ud you
will have no reason TO complain. Il s,g., 3
Her husband and her frieud laughed at
Mary for her evident belief in her dream,
aud ascribed the whole circumstance to ih.
digestion; they did not, however, stay much
longer in the cemetry, but returned to The
yacht aeI 'I..s1 4aUI r'-tr.
Two days afterwards, and on he evening
before that on which hey proposed leaving
Gibraltar, Mary Livingston was suddenly
taken i'll; a doctor was at once sent for,
who pronounced her attack TO be a slight
one of the cholera, assuring her friends at
the same time that they need not be under
tsny apprehension of danger. Next dav,
howvere her symptoms chaoged for the
worse, and 80 rapidly, that before evening
| IL wai eyidentthat she was sinking fast, /,
and ilat no hopes could be retained of
her recovery. She died during he night.
| Her husband, as you may imagine, was
overcome with grief, but be had to s'fle
his feelings, aud settle all things connected
With hsr funeral, which was Obliged to take
place on The evening of the very day after
she died. @
All. as was told afterwards, happened
according to that dream of hers; she was
carried along that steep road, and her
grave had been dug on the very spot where
but few days ago she had stood before
them full of life aud beaaty; bat strange to
say, aud almost incredible, neither her
husband nor sister remem bered the crcum
stance oil her relating her dream to them ;
aud il was not NATL some six orseyen months
at erlwsrds. that Que evening IN thea wilight
Of their 10 kshiere home, the memory of
The stroll through the burial ground aud
the event connected with il flashed across
the MUD of The widowed husband Re
morse at the thought iof its being now oil
100 late was his first feeling, aud then an
irrep essibe desire Sc zed bim-a longing to
see If bis darling's dream had come true,
aud if she had, in reality, been buried alive
A ga . for l, 40
be hurried TO Glbrahar;it was with some
difficulty that he obtained permission to
have the ground opened, and when he had
succeeded hes found thai his worst fears
had been realized; there was no doubt left
| in his mind that his wife had recovered
consciousness after she had been supposed
| 10y all to be dead, for the body was turned
partly on one side as if with the effort oil
trying TO reeilseIf from the icy grasp oi
the tomb. From be date of hat discovery,
he has never ceased 10 oreproch himself for
being in some part the Cause of her death;
but be has never ceasec to wonder, how it
was that The recollection of that dream OF
hers passed so quickly from bis mind, and
was not revived till so long afterwards
Her grave, he told me, is marked by a
wbite cross of marble, with the initials
NJ l.. on it and the date of her death.
The tale of our hostess was flushed; and
us she ended, the msmory7of that grave
with its wreath of flowers and the bleak
graveyard came into my mind, and made
The probability of the story more apparen
to me. L have told The tale as it was toll
sto me; for myself believe it to be true
as for my readers they must decide for then
selves. t-dl ie3N2s - &.
s The names of course, have been altered
as, for aught know to the contrary. som
of tire actors ia that curious dream ar
living still l.''i,.'