Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-11-01
aAIexanOria Guzetttte
FRIDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER l, lo'c.

A STRAECE DREAM, the Winter Of 1850 D
a schooner vas frozen up in the upper part Q:
tbs Bay of Fundy, close 10 Dorchester, when
is riue miles from the river PeGe1dlae. Outing
the time of her detention she was entrusted 10
tho care of a gentleman of the name OF Cla1ko'
who vas recently c,rtaia ct the schooner Jula
Hilloek, trading between New 1o!k aad
g. Japn de Cubs. Captain Cisrke's psteTua!
grandmother, Mrs. Ann Dave Clarke 10 Wnom
6c was much attached, was at that time !iTlng,
and. so far es he knew, perfectly we'll: one
Yss residing ct L7mc Regis, 10 Dotsetshir &c.
On the night of the I7th of February, $780,
Cantain Clarke, then on board the schooner To-
te1rci to, had q dream ct Sc VlF!d cnatactet
that it produced e great suppression upon h!ll.
He dreamed that being at Lfme hsGlS, ne 81"
mass h. fore him the tuuclal OF his2rsndmetfer;
Uc too.. reie OF tie chief persons who composed
thu nroce: sion, observed who we're the pail
hearers. ", O were the nourDers. and 10 What
ordcr they walked, and distinguished who was
the officiating pastor. He joined the procession
"a il snproached the churObysrd gate, and Pro
oesded with it to the grave. Hethousht 10 bis
dream that the weather was stormy, snd the
oronnd wet. IS after heavy rein; and he no.
tioed the Wind, being high, blew tho pail partly
of the coffin. .,,,
The graveyard which they entered-:he CID
Protestant one, in the centre of the toWn-~ss
The same in which, as Captain Clarke kueW,
their family buryicg p!scs was. tie pcl1!csy
remembered It's situation; but, to bis SURPRISE
the funera! procession did not proceeo tn!lner'
but to another part of the churcoyard' sssone
distance There he saR the opeo. grave par
sally filed with water, as from raip' and loos.
ing into it, he particularly noticed Heating 10
fioIN 51yp
AfterHard, as be thought. he conVeTsed With
his mother, aud she told him that the morning.
had been so tempestucus that the !u9e!a!,
originally appointed for ten o'clock, bad been
deferred Until ionr.
He remarked, 10 reply, that it vas tostu,
nate circumstance. for, as he had lust arrived
in time to join the procession, had the luosIa!
taken place in the forenoon, he ccu1 rot have
attended it at all.
This dream made 50 deep 81 impression Oh
CAPTAIN Clarke. that IL the morning be noted
down the particulars of it and The date. Some
tineti1e aferWard there came tho news, OF bis
crsndmotbers death with tic additional par
,iculars that she was buried on the same dsy
On which he, being IN North Ane:!c., bac
dreamed of her iuaera!
When, four years aiterward, captain Iiarke
visited Lyme Regis, nc found that every ,par;i-
GUAR OF DIS cream u1luu!@ly C"lIeSp'teso "'SAA
the reality
The pastor, the pail bearers, the m2urneIs,
were the same ptcsens be had seen. Yet thls,
it NAV be said, might have been naturally artl,
cipated. But the funeral had been appointed
for ten clock in the morning, ard IN consc'
ausnce of tho tempts.u5us weather. and the
heavy rain that vas falling. it had been Gelay'
Cd urtil four 10 the afternoon.
His mother, who attended the tuneral, dis
tincty recollected that the high wind blew the
pail partially eff the cofho.
In consequence Of wish expressed by the
old lady shortly before her death, she was bu-
ried-not 10 the burying plsce OF the family
but at another spot selected by herself; aud to
this spot Captain Clarke, without a0y lndlea.
ton by the family or otherwise, proceeded at
once, as directly Us If ne had been present at
the burial. :,
Finally, On comparing Dotes with TIE old
sexton, it appeared that the heavy rain OF the
morning had partially filled the grave, AID that
there were actually found ia il two field nice
drowned.
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