Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-09-07

some time was leased to q miner asd
family the household consisting OF the
man and wife and three children, the
eldest child being IL years OF age, a
daughter, the second child a son Of 9
years, and an infant daughter. The
night after moving into the house, the
man was broken in his rest, and trouo-
led, with singular dreams, but he &C
counted for the unusual disquiet by
| supposing it to be the result OF over ex-
ertion on the previous day. The next
night. however, as he retired much
| earlier than his wife,-a lady friend and
new neighbor coming id aud having a
little gossip with madam the man OF
the house awoke At 10 o'clock, almost
literally bathed in a p~rofuse cold sweat.
He called TO his wife, who was so
alarmed at his appearance, on entering
the b~ed-chamber, that she called in her
lady friend to see her husband. He
could only cry out in a husky, broken
tanner, aud it was some time after he
frst called before he could %articulate a
word. He then said that he had had u
| dreadful vision. The sheets were
w'riuCing wet with perspiratiou, which
As he sat up 10 bed streamed copiously
down his face; his hair being solder
with sweat. This curious condition
was then believed by the miner aud his
wife aud the lady visitor to be OF a Mt
Of nightmare, caused by indigestion.
The visitor departed, the sheets were
changed, and the man complaining only
| of weakness, being without pain, again
got into bed and closed his eyes for
sleep. His wife determined to sit up Il
| short time longer, and watch and see II
her husband was again trouble with
cold perspiration. Aud he instructed
her TO wake him up, il he slept and
again exhibited the nightmare symp-
toms. The husband had not thought II
worth while TO tell the particulars OF
his dream-thinking he would not be
bothered with it again." as he has
| since said. He had lain in bed but a
few moments when he apparently passed
into deep slumber, and again the cold
sweat broke out. His wife, on ascer-
tanning this, at nee attempted to rouse
hin, shaking him violently when her
calling him by name did not waken
him, as always before y would. Ou
shaking him he began Ito moan
~piteously, aud finally broke out
into an agonizing cry: I'm the name
Of God Almighty, let me rest! The
woman found il Of no avail to shake her
husband; he would not wake,-only
| CRYING out the more, and in more heart
terrible tones, rs she increased her
efforts to raise him. The woman then
went to an adjoining room, 10 which
was a - shake-down on which her
three children lay, and was about TO
call IN hee eldest child and tell her to
watch while she went for n physician
| or ueighborly help, when she observed
| that the child she was about 10 call WAS
also ia q streaming cold sweat. The
other two children were sleeping natu-
ally, aud with no unusual sign IN respl-
ration or perspiration. Setting the lamp
| on the center table in the front room,
the woman made haste to the neighoor )
house, Of whom mention has already
| been made, aud reused her and her hus-
band, who both speedily dressed them
selves and came to the relief of the dis
tressed. They tried to rouse the sleeper
by shaking him, but only elected the
dreadful o. which had been uttered
before. 4 basin Of cold water was then
| procured, and the dreamer's hands im-
| mersed in il; which resulted in an i'm
mediate though very painful waking.
| Phe bedclothes WAS saturated with the
sweat, and the man terribly exhausted,
AS the palor Of his couutenance aud his
| pulse indicated. And yet his first re-
| mark was. on recovering constituencies
and his power Of speech: al am not
| sick; I'm damned!N This queer ex.
preston was referred to his illness, and
| he was not then asked-strange asst now
| .ppears-to tell Of his "vision -
| which he mentioned as having had
early in the evening. All said, the
wife aud neighbors, twas dyspepsia and
nightmare; although the wife knew her
| husband had never been so aMicted.
| Sitting up in o chair, with a blanket
about him, and having his head and
fee, bathed, the patient declared he
was "sll right or getting to be so,
| and conversed cheerfully, aud for some
| time, with his kidd friends. Mean
| while the anxious wife had forgot
ten sbou, the condition Of the little
one in the next room, until the
babe cried. Opening the door, to 60
| into the shakedown bedroom, the MOTH
er was startled by seeing her daughter
standing 10 the middle OF the room, and
on one corner Of the mattrass, with her
ewes wide open and staring toward the
uucurtained window; the countenance
Of the little one having upon it an ex-
preston of the utmost horror. catch
| ing the child to her bosom, the spell
seemed to be NJ once broken II the
girl exclaimed while she clung to her
narent's arms, 30; mother, mother,
am 40 Glad YOU have come; he was just
going to murder mel" "WhoT' ''who|'
Swbo?" cried mother aud the two
neighbors, attracted by. the mother
expression Of wonder and the child,S
story. "That man; that man who stand:
AZ the window now" All looked TO-
ward the window, but nothing strange
was there to be seen; aud the moon made
il clear outside. "But he shakes II clut
a, me-" All gathered in the fathers
room, aud remarked on its being queeI
that such a fancy should possess th'
child, and follow her iuto wide awake
moments. But all considered the matte'
a dream; aud the neighbors inquired
how many pieces of mipce pie the faith
err and daughter had eaten for supper
There was considerable joking OF thu
kind, and then the neighbors retired
The mother ''fxed the children com
fortsble"in the shakedown, now brough
into the parents bedroom, and urged
her husband to go to bed again. Blu
be.refused; told his wife to lie down
that he was going TO sit up for the bal
auco of the night and ''tako his COLI
sweat out In the day time" The wo
man without undressing, laid down oil
the outside Of the coverlid and 500
dropped asleep. As was afterward
ascertained, she could not have beel
long 10 slumbsr, when she was rouse