Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-09-06

some time was leased to a 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 8
years, and an infant daughter. The
night after moving into the house, the
man was broken in his rest, aud troub-
led, with singular dreams, but he ac-
counted for the unusual disquiet by
surprising 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 and having a
little gossip with madam,-the man Of
the house awoke At 10 o'clock, almost
literally bathed in q profuse cold sweat.
He called to his wife, who vas so
alarmed a, his appearance, on entering
the bed-chamber, hat she called in her
lady friend to see her husband. He
could only cry out in a husky, broken
manner, and it was some time after he
first called before he could articulate a
word. He then said that he had a n
dreadful vision. The sheets were
w'riugiug wet with perspiratiou, which
as he sat up 10 bed streamed copiously
down his face; his hair being sodden
with sweat. This curious condition
was then believed by the miner and his
wife aud the lady visitor to be Of a ut
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 u
short time longer, and watch and see IT
her husband was again trouble with
cold perspiration. Aud he Instructed
her TO wake him up, il he slept and
again exhibited the nightmare syymp-
toms. The husband had not thought 1t
worth while TO tell the particulars OF
his dream-thinking he would not be
s~sbothered 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-
this, at once attempted TO rouse
hin, shaking him violently when her
him by name did not waken
him, as always before u would. Gu
him he began to roam
piteously, aud finally broke out
into an agonizing cry: "ln the name
Of God Almighty, let me rest!' The
woman found it Of no avail to shake her
husband; he would not wake,-only
out the more, and in more heart
tones, as she increased her
efforts to raise him. The woman then
TO an adjoining room, IN which
was II - shake-down on which her
three children lay, and was about to
call up hee eldest child and tell her to
while she went for n physician
or ueighborly help, when she observed
that the child she was about 10 call WAS
III a streaming cold sweat. The
other two children were sleeping natu-
ally, aud with no unusual sign in resp'-
or perspiration. Setting the lamp
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
and came to the relief of the dis
tressed. They tried TO rouse the sleeper
bv shaking him, but only ELECTED the
dreadful moa which had been uttered
\ basin of cold water was then
procured, and the dreamer's hands i'm
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 countenance and his
indicated. And yet his first re-
mark was. on recovering constituencies
and his power Of speech: al am not
sick; I'm damued!S This queer eS-
preston was referred TO his illness, and
he was not then asked-strange asst now
appears-to tell Of his "vision'-
he mentioned as having had
early in the evening. All said, the
wife aud neighbors, twas dyspepsia and
although the wife knew her
husband had never been so afflicted.
up in q chair, with n blanket
about him, and having his head and
feet bathed, the patient declared he
was "all right or getting to be so,
and ~conversed %cbeerfully, aud for some
time, with his kidd friends. Mean
while the anxious wife had forgot
about 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 in the middle OF the room, and
IN one corner Of the mattrass, with her
ewes wide open and staring toward the
u%ncurtained 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 at once broken; II the
girl exclaimed while she clung to her
.parent's arms, 80; mother, mother, |
am so glad you have come; he was Just
going to murder met "Who?' "who!'
cried mother and the two
attracted by. the mothers
of wonder and the child's
story. "That man; that man who stands
at the window now" All looked to-
ward the window, but nothing strange
was there to be seen; aud the moon made
i, clear outside. "But he shakes II club
a, mel" All gathered in the fathers
room. aud remarked on its being queer
that such a fancy should possess the
child, and follow her iuto wide awake
moments. But all considered the matter
a dream; aud the neighbors inquired
how many pieces of mince pie the faith
err and daughter had eaten for supper.
There was considerable joking OF this
kind, and then the neighbors retired.
The mother ''fxed the children COM
fortsble"iu the shakedown, now brought
into the parents bedroom, and urged
her husband to go to bed again. But
he.refused; told his wife to lie down;
that he was going 10 sit up for the bal
auce of the night and "tako his cold
sweat out IN the day time" The wo-
man without undressing, laid down on
the outside Of the coverlid and soon
dropped asleep. As was afterwards
a~scer,ained, she could not have been
long iu slumber, when she WAS reused