The Shasta courier., 1867-02-02
NUMBER 4S.
A strange Story--Recoyery of large
sum OF Money through a Dream--The
Value of FeIon.

The Lansing Democrat mentions soma
circumstances of most remarkable nature
IN respect to the recovery of large sum of
money which had been lost for five years
The strange and 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 to market with a
load OF wheat, accompanied by his son. the
narrator OF these circumstances. The load
OF wheat, with a span of horses, was sold for
the sum of S57S so. and the man returned
home, where, soon after their arrival. the
father was taken with the cholera morbis.
and died just at daylight the next morning.
After his funeral, search was made for the
money-which until then the family had
been too sorely afflicted 10 think of-but to
their astonishment only the S7S so could
be found. What had become of the remain.
der was question which could not be sat.
isfactorily solved. The whole house was
thoroughly searched, and at length it was
concluded that the money must have been
lost on the way home; yet after advc tising
extensively through the columns of the Free
iOoo, anu "AOiiuS u reward OI SDU TO the
finder for the recovery of the money, no trace
of it could be discovered, and the event grad
ually passed out of mind
But now comes the sequel unlocked for
and singular in which the money is recover.
ed through a dream. 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 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 repeated
minutely, with the incidents 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 closely watching his father
while receiving the money; that they after
wards went away. when his father took off
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 vet
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
eaten, seemingly anything but money bag,
yet, ON turning back the lining, five hun
dred dollars in Canada bank bills were
found In tolerable state of preservation
This strange, but 'ower true tale,' as we'll
as the responsibility and trustworthiness of
the relator, arc vouehed for by responsible
parties, besides the pile, the most tangible
and satisfactory result of the vagaries of
the exhausted mind, working upon the un.
real stuff that dreams are made of remains
to testify to the truth of the unusual occur.
renee. ."-Detron Free Press.