Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-01-26
A Strange Story-Recovery Of q largo
Sum or Money through n Dream-The
Value of q Pelon.

A Strange story-Recoyery Of a Largo
sum Of Money through n
Value Of q Felon.
The Lansing Democrat mentions some
circumstances of a most remarkable
nature in respect to the recovery Of q
large sum of money which had been lost
for FIVE years. The strange and incredi-
BILE 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:
son tho 9Th of December, 1861, Mr..
s., who then lived on the Grand
River road, near this city, came to mar
ket with a load of wheat, accompanied
by his son, the narrator of these cir
cumstances. The load of wheat, with q
span of horses, was sold for the sum of
$b7s so, and the man returned home,
where, soon after their arrival, the
father was taken with the cholera NOR
bus, and died just at daylight next
morning. After his funeral search was
made for the money-which until then
the family had been too sorely afflicted
TO think of-but to their establishment
only the $7s 80 could be found. What
had become of the remainder was a
question which could not be satisfac-
torily solved. The whole house was
thoroughly searched, and at length it
was concluded that tho money must
have been lost on the way home; yet
after advertising extensively through
the columns of the Free Press, and offer
ing q reward of $50 to the finder for
the recovery of the money, no trace of
Il could be discovered, and the event
gradually passed out of mind.
But now comes the sequel, unlocked
for and singular, in which the money is
recovered through adream. The young
man, who, with the family, now resides
in Ingham county, has been recently
suffering with a painful felon, which
tortured him so with loss of sleep that,
on Thursday night Of the week before
last, he took a dose of opium, under the
influence of which, after retiring to bed
he fell into a profound slumber. In the
midst Of this sleep, he dreamed over the
trip he made to this city with his father,
every circumstance of which was re-
peated infinitely, with the incidents of
time and place Of sale, both ofthe wheat
and the horses, the counting the money,
ETC.; in addition to which he saw in his
dream, that two men were closely
watching his father while receiving the
money; that they afterwards went away
when his father took of his hat and
placed nearly all the money inside the
lining of oil skin This dream, several
times repeated, finally awoke Mr.. s.,
who related It to his wife, who had not
yet retired, when she went to an old
chest, long unused, and brought out the
hat which the old man had last worn.
1t wa old and moth eaten, seemingly
anything but a money bag, yet, on turn
ing back the lining, Eve hundred dol
lars in Canada bank bills were found in
a tolerable state Of preservation. This
strange, but "'ower true tale," as well
as the respectability and trustworthi-
ness Of the r~elator, are vouched for by
responsible parties, besides the "pile,"
the most tangible and satisfactory re-
suit Of the vagaries of the exhausted
mind, working upon the 'unreal stuff
that dreams are made Of" remains to
testify to the truth Of the unusual oc-
currence.-Deroa Free Prsss.
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