The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-01-10
A STRANGE STORY.
The Recovery Of a Iarge Sum Of
Money through eDfeam--T The
Value ofa Felon,

Value ofa FelOn,
Tho Lansing (Mich) Democrat
mentions some circumstances of
most remarkable nature, in respect 20
the recovery Of large sum ofmoney
which had been lost for Eve years.
Tho strange and almost incredible
story is told as follows by tho lucky
fsasfvhospassed through, this city
for Montreal last week, for the pur-
pose Of having the bills redeemed At
the bank
On the 6th Of December, 1862, Mr..
S., who then lived on tho Grand
River road, near this city, came to
market with load Of wheat, accom-
panied by his SOD, the narrator of
these circumstances. ',''''~ 40. ~
The load Of wheat, with a span Of
horses, was sold for the sum Of Eve
hundred and sovonty-eight dollars and
ffty cents, and they returned home,
whore, soon after their arrival, the
father was taken with the cholera
morbus aud 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 as
constituent only the seventy eight
dollarsand iifty cents could be found.
What had become Of the remainder
was a question wlhch could not be
satisfactorily solved. The house was
thoroughly searched, and at lennth it
was concluded that tho money must
have been lost on the way homo yot
after advertising extensively, through
the columns Of the Free Press, and
offering reward Of fifty dollars to
the finder for the re, e,overy Of tho
money, no trace Of il could be discov-
cred, and the event gradually passed
out Of mind.
But now comes the sequal, unlock
ed for and very singular, in which the
recovery Of the money is accomplish
cd through a dream.
The young man, who, With his fam
lily, now'resides in Ingham county
has been recently suffering with
painful fAlon, which tortured him 8
with loss of sleep that, on Thursda
night Of the week before last, he tool
n dose of opium, under the inAuenc
Of which, after retiring to bed, ho fel
into a profound slumber. In th
midst Of this sleep; he dreamed owe
the trip made to this city with hi
father, every circumstance of whicl
was repeated minutely, with the Incl
dents Of the time and place of sale
both of the wheat aud Of the horses
the counting Of the money, etc., ctu
in addition to which he saw, in hi
dream, that two men were closel
watching his father while he was ro
ceiving the money, and that they ai
terwards went away, when his athe
t0Ok, ef his hat aud placed nearly al
the money inside Of the lining of OF
ekin.6 sIAt
This dream, several times repeated
finally awoko Mr. s., who related il
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 was old and moth-eateu, seeming.
ly anything but a money bag, yet, on
turning back the lining, $500 in Can
ada bank bills were found in toler-
able state of preservation. This
strange but "O'er true tale" as we'll
as the respectability and trustworthi-
ness Of the relator, are youched for
by responsible parties, besides the
rP'le' the most tangible and salts
factory result of the vagaries Of the
exhausted mind, working upon the
Vnnreal stuff that dreams arc made
'of, remains to testify to the truth Of