The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-11-18
Some Strangely Fulfilled Dreams.

r. a. Proctor, in Belgravia.
On the night of May IL, 1872, Mr.. Williams,
of Scorrior House, near Redruth, Cornwall,
woke his wife, and in great agitation told her
of strange dream he had Just had. He
dreamt he was in the lobby of the House of
Commons, and saw man shoot with pistol
gentleman who had just entered the lobby,
who was said to be the Chancellor His wife
told him not to trouble himself about the
dream, but to go to sleep again. He followed
her advice, but presently woke her again, say.
ing he had dreamt the same dream. Yet
third time was the dream repeated; after
which he was so disturbed that, despite his
wife's entreaties that he would trouble himself
nc, more about the House of Commons, but try
to sleep quietly, he got up and dressed him
self. This was between and o'clock in the
morning. AT breakfast MIR. Williams could
talk of nothing but the dream; and early the
same morning he wen t to Falmouth, where he
told the dream to all of his acquaintance
whom he met. Next day, Mr. Tucker, of Tre-
maton Castle, accompanied by his wife,
daughter of Mr.. Williams, went to Scorrior
House on visit. Mr.. Williams told Nr.
Tucker the circumstances of his dream. Mr..
Tucker remarked that il COT Il only be in a
dream that the Chancellor wulld be found in
the lobby Of the House of Commons Mr..
Tucker asked what sort of a man the Chancel-
lor seemed to be, and Mr.. Williams minutely
described the man who was murdered in his
dream. Mr.. Tucker replied: "Your descrip-
tion is not at all that of the Chancellor, but it
is very exactly that of Mr.. Perceval, the Chan
cellor Of the Exchequer." He asked il Mr.:
Williams had ever seen Mr.. Perceval and
Mr.. Williams replied that he had never seen
him or had any communication of any sort
with him; and further that he had never been
in the House of Commons in his life.
At this moment they heard the sound OF
horse galloping to the door of the house; i'm
mediately after q son of Mr.. Williams entered
the room and said that he had galloped from
Truro, having seen gentleman there who
bad come by that evenings mail from town,
and who had been in the lobby OF the House
of Commons on the evening Of the 1lth, when
a man called Bellingham had shot Mr.. Perce-
val After the astonishment which this in
telligence created had a little subsided, Mr..
Williams described most minutely the appear
ance and dress of the man whom he had seen
in his dream fire the pistol at the Chancellor,
as also the appearance and dress Of the Chan-
cellor. About six weeks after Mr.. Williams
having business in town, went in company
with friend to the House of Commons,
where, as has been already observed, he had
never before been. Immediately that he came
to the steps of the entrance to the lobby, he
said. "This place is as distinctly within my
recollection, in my dream, as any room in my
own house." and he made the same observa-
tion when he entered the lobby. He then
pointed out the exact spot where Bellingham
stood when he fred, and also that which Mr.
Perceyal had reached when he was struck by
the ball, where he fell. The dress both of Mr..
Perceval and Bellingham agreed with the de-
scriptIon given by Mr.. Williams even to the
most minute particulars.
A Scotch clergyman who lived near Edin-
burgh dreamt one night, while on q visit in
that town, that ne saw a fire, and one of his
children in the midst of it. On awaking, he
instantly got up and returned home with the
greatest speed. He found his house on fire,
and was just in time to assist one OF his chill
dren who in the alarm had been left in place
OF danger. The second story runs as follows:
Two sisters had been for some days attending
sick brother, and one of them had borrowed
a watch from a friend, her own being under
repair. The sisters were sleeping together In
room communicating with that of their
brother, when the elder awoke in a state of
great agitation and reused the other to tell her
that she had had frightful dream. 81 dreamt
that Mary's watch had stopped" she said,
"and that when L told you of the circumstance
YOU replied Much worse than that has hap
pened; for IS breath has stopped slso,''"
naming their sick brother. The watch, how
ever, was found to be going correctly, and the
brother was sleeping quietly. The dream re-
morning one OF the sisters having occasion to
seal note, went to get the watch from writ
ing desk in which she had deposited it, when
she found 1t had stopped. She rushed into her
brothers room in alarm, remembering her
dream, and found that he had been suddenly
seized with fit of suffocation, and had ex-
pired.-Abercrombie, intellectual Powers"