The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-28


the old lady's house, and set gentleman to
watch in the night. About 8 O'clock in the
morning the black servant was discovered
going to his mistress room, AS he said, with
Goals to mend the ire-a sufficiently absurd
excuse at such an hour in the middle of sum-
mer. The truth was apparent when a strong
knife was found buried beneath the Goals.
The condolences of dreams are very remark
able. For two persons to dream the same
thing, at the same time, in different places
and under different circumstances exceeds
the power of chance, boundless as that pre-
tends to be.
A Mr. Joseph Taylor relates that boy re-
siding at a school hundred miles from home
dreamt that he went to his fathers house,
found all closed for the night but the back
door. went into his mothers room and found
her awake. al come to bid you good bye"
he said, 81 am going on a long journey"
She answered with great trembling, 30 dear
son, thou art deadP' And he awoke. Soon
after he received letter from his father
making anxious inquiries after his health, in
consequence of a frightful dream which his
mother had on the same night, and which
was exactly identical with his, even to the
very words of the conversation. Fortunately
no sad results followed, though it may have
proved warning TO the boy in some inscrut-
able manner unknown TO his friends.
The case of the gentleman from Cornwall
who dreamt eight days before the event that
he saw Mr.. Percival murdered in the lobby
of the House of Commons by Bellingham,
and distinctly recognized from prints, after
the murder, both the assassin and his victim,
whom he had never seen previously, seems
capable only of a supernatural explanation,
especially when it is remembered that the
gentlemen was with difficulty dissuaded by
his friends from going to London to warn
Mr.. Percival (known to him in his dream as
the Chancellor of the Exchequer).' He urged
| that it had occurred three times in the same
| night, but his friends thinking it FOOLS err
| rand he allowed the matter TO drop till the
news of the murder rudely resuscitated it.
A lady of our acquaintance about to change
| her habitation saw in sleep an exact picture
| of her future home, and from her dream alone
| could recognize the rooms and passages. We
| tried to account for this to her by saying
the dream really influenced her conduct, and
| that when she met with a house answering to
| her dream, she was naturally predisposed to
| take it. A gentleman from Yorkshire formed
one of party for visiting the exhibition
of 1862. A few days before leaving for Lon
don he had most vivid dream ofthe Tower,
the armory and more especially the room in
which the regalia and crown jewels are kept.
He heard the old woman who showed the
| room address the audience, and treasured up
carefully her very peculiarities of voice, dress,
manner and features, and created consider
able amusement among his friends by MINI
licking the phantom show-woman when he
awoke. He went To London at the proper
time, and of course visited the Tower, where
he was astounded and somewhat sobered by
the phantom's counterpart, which was iden-
teal in every respect.
| Several years ago the newspapers were
filed with details of a horrible murder, of
which the facts, related from memory, seem
| to be these: Mrs. Martin, the wife of farm
er, was in terrible distress of mind because
her daughter Maria was missing. 1t was
feared she had been murdered by her sweet
heart in fit of jealousy and hidden some
where. For long time no trace of the body
could be found. At length the mother had
dream, in which it was revealed to her that
the corpse of her child was buried under the
barn floor. This proved to be the case, and
the body was recovered, and the murderer
detected. The mother Of medical student
dreamt that her son had got into serious
trouble In London, and could not rest till she
left her home in the Midland Counties and
sought him out. To her sorrow the dream
was painfully verified, and the consequences
might have been serious if she he'd not ar
rived in time. A barrister of great pene-
tration relates the story of lady who
dreamt that a railway guard was killed in a
collision. She described the man and the
circumstances SO faithfully that there was no
difficulty in identifying the guard (who was
actually killed the same night in lamenta-
BILE accident) as the man she saw in her dream
The lady rarely left home and the guard
was quite unknown to her.