Connecticut western news., 1878-01-31

OenCe tU WdITaut nls pOslLlVe Dellef. MT. McManus is cool, clear headed, careful man. and will make no statements without proper reflection and deliberation, and when he expresses himself 80 positively, we must regard the matter of sufficient importance to warrant investigation. For the credit of humanity it is to be hoped that this is not so, but if it be really true, that a man exists who is so utterly destitute of every spark of humanity; has degenerated into worse than savage beast, may a just God, to Whom the blood of the slain cry for ven- geance, bring upon him his deserved pun- ishment, swift and sure!
 MT. Bragg's Dream. Much has been said in the papers about the dream of MT. J. l.. Bragg of this place concerning the TariHvllle disaster, but We have made no mention of the matter for the reason that Mr. Bragg is one of our respectable and worthy cltlzenss and it appeared to be his wish not to be made consplcuous as a dreamer of dreams" for he certainly has not the reputation of being visionary, and has been DO believer in dreams being vls- ion of the reality. but in some way his dream, which impressed ham deeply and worked upon his mind, got into the papers and has become pubic property, and now with his consent we will allude to it, and will speak of it simply for the reason that | it is certainly very remarkable. Ills dream which has in some of it's features not been | correctly reported, is as follows, which we have fro'n MT Bragg personally:
 He stood on an emineuce looking toward | the east. with large tract of level coun- try before him, the larger part of the level region being at his left. While standing there he saw man on the right hand of the railroad track and near to it, He had not seen thls man till he seemed 8 it were, to come suddenly ID sight at the place men, tloned, ito rise right up." as MT. B. ex. pressed it, and crossed the track. and go. ing few steps began to run and soon was out of his s1 Rht. MT. Bragg says hls impres
 sion as he saw the wan In this dream, was
 8 track repairer who had been repairing
 the road. Soon after thIs man disappeared
 from hls view, he saw train coming. and
 knew it in his dream as the Moody & San
 key excursion train returning from Hart fOrd and the-instant this train reached the prec1se spot where he saw the man rise up
 on the track, (he didn't realize that there
 was more than one locomotive), the eng1ns
 went down into an aoyss. a deep place anG
 a portion of the train went with 1t. H,
 saw the remaining rear part of the tran
 standing on the track above, and after
 moment two or three persons were seen t,
 get out of these car
 and immediately after there was "a genera
 rush" as he expressed it. Instantly 1t cam,
 to him in his dream that the man he saw
 run away from the track had tampere,
 with the road and had wrecked that train and he became so excited over it in hi
 sleep that it aroused him and he awoke
 As he awoke b @ aw akened hls wife an,
 asked her if the exeurs1on train had pass ed. and being told that she had not bear 1t, told her he had seen in dream, tha train go off the track. MT. Bragg tells u !; he was not impressed particularly with tn 3 Idea that the train went down through bridge and it was not located at Tariff , vllle. but only and simply that it was con , ing from the Moody meetings, and wa thls excursion tra1p- He says he Saw tn man who rau from the track plainly, an has vivid recollection of h1m now, an ! says he was man he never saw only i !, thls dream and could certainly identif 1. him if he ever saw him. He knows th g color and style of coat he wore remember r distinctly the color of his hair, what | II wore on his head and hls features he coul Q not be mistaken about and should he St
 them again would recognize them lnstan ly. MT. B. says that he shall not at prei ent describe the man for the reason that y mlghG lead to the accusation of some innt k cent person, for he realizes fully that it e nothing but 9 dream, He says it was n, so much the fact that he saw this tral l. wrecked that threw h1m into such frel O zy of excitement and awaked him. but til !, fact that this man had wrecked that trail
 Thus IS the dream as MT. Bragg saw it, ar . who will say it was net at least very T $ markable