Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1866-12-25
Recovery Of q Large sam Of Money
ThrOuEh = Dream-The Value Of a
From the Detroit Free Press.


From the Detroit Free Press.
The Lansing Democrat mentions some
circumstances Of the most remarkable ma
tnre in respect 10 a recovery Of a large
sum Of money which had been lost for FIVE
years. The strange and almost incredible
story Is told as follows by the lucky finder,
who passed through this city for Montreal
last week, for the purpose Of having the
bills redeemed AT the bank:
On the 9th Of December, 1861, Mr.. s.
who then lived on the Grand River road,
near this city, came 10 market with load
Of wheat accompanied by his son, the mar
raior Of these circumstance. The load Of
wheat with span Of horses, was sold Cor
the sum Of S57S so, and the men returned
home, where, soon afier their arrival, the
father was taken with the cholera morbus,
and died just at daylight next morning.
After his funeral search was made for the
money-Which until then the family had
been TOO sore afflicted 70 think of-but 10
their establishment only the S78 50 conld
be found. What had become Of the re-
mainder was q question which could not
be satisfactorily solved. The whole house
was thoroughly searched, and at length il
was concluded that The money must have
been lost on the way home; vet AFTER
advertising, through the columns Of the
Fnee Press, and Offering a reward Of fifty
dollars 10 the finder for the recovery
Of the money, no trace Of il could be
discovered, and the event gradually
passed ont of mind But now comes the
sequel unlocked for and singular, in which
the money is recovered through dream.
The young man, who, with the family, now
resides in lngham county, has been recent
ly suffering with a painful felon, which
tortured him 20 with loss Of sleep that, on
Thursday night OF the week before last he
took dose Of opium, under the influence
Of which, afleF retiring TO bed, he fell into
aprofound slumber. In the midst Of this
sleep he dreamed over the trip made TO this
city with his father, every circumstance Of
which was repeated infinitely, with the in
cidenss of time and place Of sale, both Of
the wheat and the horses, the counting of
the money, etc, in addition TO which he
saw, in his dream, that two men were close
~ watching his father while receiving the
money; that they afterwards went away,
when his father took of his hat aad placed
nearly all the money inside the lining of
oiA-shlh. Aue uteAsu rfeIAA times repeated,
finally awoke Mr.. s., who related il to his
wife, who had not ye; retired, when she
went 10 an old chest long unused, and
brought out the hat which the old man had
last worn. Il was old and moth eaten,
seemingly anything but money bag, yet,
on turning back the lining, $500 in Canada
bank bills were found in a tolerable state Of
preservation. This strange but "ower tale"
as well as the respectability and trust
WOrthiness Of the relAtoF, are vouched for
by responsible parties, besides the pile"
the most tangible and satisfactory result of
the vagaries Of the exhausted mind, work
ing up on the "unreal stuff that dreams are
made of remains 10 testify 10 the truth Of
the unusual Occurrences.