Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-11-16
Strange verificatiOn Of q Dream.

Mrs. Eliza eth Mainwaring lives at
Sandusky, Ohio, and, on the ID OF last
mouth. her husband, who Is q large
manufacturer and dealer in tin and ia.
panned ware, started on q collecting
tour among his country customers, &C.
companied by his son Enoch, u young
man OF twenty, in delicate health.
Ihey were in a spring wagon, as most
OF their custom lay among tho small
towns and villages off the line of the
railroads.
On the third night after their depart.
ure, Mrs. Mainwaring awoko Eer eldest
daughter, who was sleeping with her.
as we'll as her mother, Mrs. Doughtery'
VINO occupied al adj lining room, and
told them OF terrible dream she had
just had, and which she feared was
mysterious reflection on her mind of an
actual occurrence. At the same time.
she directed their attention to the fact
that she had awakened out of her dream
at precisely five minutes past eleven.
when the clock over the mantel- piece
had suddenly stopped ct that point.
She dreamed that she saw her husband
and son driving over wild and wood
bordered road in the night, and she
somehow received the impression that
it was ip the neighborhooi of Toledo.
Ohio. She could hear them talking OF
o large sum of money they had with
them, as the result of successful col.
lections. and ct the same time she could
soc ahead four men lurking at the road.
side for the purpose of waylaying them.
The dreamer tried to warn the dear
ones OF their danger, but was restrain
ed by the strange inability to move or
speak--that IL characteristic of the
nightmare. She could only look and
see. and that with terrible distinctness.
And she presently saw them halted and
attacked by the four Williams. Many
shots were exchanged, and she ssw her
son fall in the bed of the wagon at the
first fire; but her husband, who was o
very powerful and fearless man, made
such a stout resistance with his revolt
yer that one of his assailants was killed,
and the others fled into the woods,
two OF them badly wounded. She then
saw her husband whip his horses into q
gallop until he reached the open, moonlit
prairie, where he made halt, raised
the body of ais son in his arms, and.
after feeling of the heart, he exclaimed
in voice Of bitter d tress: my Godl
he is dead. What will his poor mother
say?"
Then she awoke. Mrs. Mainwaring
was so excited over her dream that
she could not sleep any more during
the night, though her mother and
daughter laughed at her fears, aud did
their utmost to reassure her.
On the following morning, she re.
ceived telegram from her husband, ct
Toledo, conveying the sad intelligence
that Enoch had been killed in an attack
that was made upon the pair by robber
tramps on the previous night, four
miles out of Toledo. Mr.. Mainwaring
returned home on the evening of the
same day. with the body of his son, and
his subsequent detailed account of the
fatal encounter verified his wife's dream
in every particular. More than tbs,
his watch had received such injury
during the struggle that the main
spring had broken and the works come
to stop ct precisely five minutes past
eleven, the exact me ment that the clock
had stopped over the mantel piece.