Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-05-29
REMARKABLE DREAMS.


licitous about the uniformity of nature 5
laws as a lover of his mistress. 1t must
be frankly admitted that powers and IN
fluence of natural kind may be at work
in producing dreams of which we are
ignorant, but which may some day be
discovered by the ever-brightening eye
of science. But Professionally, at all
events, we must claim for some dreams
niger origin. BY such dreams as these,
great and crushing evils have been
avoided, the innocent spared and the
guilty detected. Some years ago, 1t Is
I related n peddler was murdered III the
north of Scotland, and the crime remain
cd for long time mystery. AT length
a man came forward and declared that
he had had a dream in which there was
shown to him house and voice direc-
ted 70 a spot near the house where was
buried the pack OF the murdered man,
and on search being made, thepack was
actually found near the spot. AT tlrst
il was thought thatt dreamer himself
was the murderer, but the man who had
been accused confessed the crime, and
said that the dreamer knew nothing
about it. 1t turned out atterward, that
the murderer and the dreamer had been
drinking togetherfo for several days & short
time after the muder. 1t has been Sug
gested, as possible solution, that the
murderer allowed statements to escape
him while under the influence OF drink
which had been recalled to the other in
his dream, though he had not the slight
est remembrance OF them in his sober
hours.
Several years ago the newspapers
were filed with the details OF a horrible
murder, Of which the facts, related from
memory, seem to be these Mrs. Mar
tin. the wife of farmer, was Ill terrible
distress of mind because her daughter
Maria was missing. 1t was feared she
had been murdered 10y her sweetheart III
fit of iealously and hidden her some
where. For long time no trace OF the
body could be found. At length the
mother had q dream, i'll which 1t was
revealed to her that tie corpse OF her
child was buried under the barn floor.
This proved to be the case; the body
was recovered and the murderer detect
ed The mother of a medical student
dreamed that her son had got into some
serious trouble in London, and could
not rest till she left her homeand sought
him out. To her sorrow the dream was
painfully verified, and the consequences
might have been serious If she had not
arrived in time. a barrIster OF great
penetration relates the story OF lady
who dreamed that railway guard was
killed in q collision. She described the
man and the circumstances so faithfully,
that there was no difficulty in identity
inc the guard, (who was actually killed
the same night in lamentable accident)
as the man she saw in her dream. The
lady rarely left home, and The guard
was quite unknown to her.
A lady of our acquaintance about to
change her habitation, saw in her 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 that
the dream really influenced her conduct
and when she met with house answer
ing to her dream, she was naturally pre-
disposed to take it.
A gentleman from Yorkshire formed
one of a party for visiting the exhibition
of 1862. \ few days before leaving for
London he had a most vivid dream oi
the Tower, the armory, and more es-
pecially the room in which the regalia
and crown jewels are kept. lie heard
the old woman who showed the room
address the audience, and treasured up
carefully her very pecularities OF voice,
dress manner and feature, and created
considerable amusement among his
friends by mimicking the phantom show
woman when he awoke. lie went to
London at the proper time, and OF
course visited the Tower, where he was
astoun6ed and somewhat sobered by the
phantom's counterpart, which was iden-
tical in every respect.
a gentleman dreamed that his house
was on fire, and the dream made SO yiy-
id an impression that he Immediately
returned. saw it on fire, indeed, and was
Just in time to save one Of his children
from the flames.
A lady dreamed that an aged female
relative had been murdered by black
servant, and this dream was repeated so
often that she repaired to the old ladys
house and set a gentleman to watch IN
the night. About 3 o'clock in the
morning the black servant was discoy-
cred going TO his mistress room, a. he
said with Goals TO mend the fire-a
sufficiently sbsurd excuse at such an
hour in the middle Of summer. Tie
truth was apparent when strong knife
was found buried beneath the Goals.
The condolences Of dreams are very
remarkable. For two persons TO dream
the saine lhlng at the same time, under
different circumstances, exceeds the
powers Of chance, boundless as that pre-
tends to be.
a Mr. Joseph Taylor relates that a
boy residing at school hundred miles
from home, dreamed that he went 10
his fathers house, found ali closed for
the night but the back door, went into
his mothers room and found her awake.
at con,n m hid you ooo,i hye" he said