The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-04-23
NUMBER II.
FOUND BY DREAMS.

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his farm was not very large, still, by good
management, he was able to support his
family comfortably out of it. There came
one summer, however, that the weather was
so bad that nearly all poor Johns crops
failed, so that when rent-day came he had
no money to meet il. There was only one
thing to be done under the circumstance
he must sell some Of his stock. He regretted
much being obliged to do this but he had
no other alternative, if he wished to retain
his farm, for the agent was a very hard man,
and would soon turn him out if he did not
pay punctually. So the next fair day John
took two Of his best cows and some fat hogs
to sell at the fair. He spent all day there
trying to get good price for them, and at
last he succeeded in doing so. He was very
tired on his return, and looking so i'll that
his wife remarked it to him. Assuring her
that it was nothing but over-fatigue, and
that he would be all right in the morning, he
told her he had sold the cattle very well,
having got fifty pounds for them, which was
enough for the half years rent, and some
thing over. He went to bed Immediately
after his supper, and soon fell asleep. Next
morning, however, his wife wondered why
him. At first she thought he was in a faint,
and sent at once for a doctor, who pro-
nounced him dead. 1t was supposed that
the anxious state Of his mind, and the over
fatigue he had gone through, had FASTENED
his death, his heart having been affected for
some time past.
Poor Mrs. Callaghan got such a shock by
this sad occurrence that at first she did not
think of looking for the money her husband
said he had got at the fair but as the rent
was due, and accounts came in for the funeT-
al. she went to the place where her husband
usually kept his money. Her search was
fruitless no money was there. She looked
in the pockets of the clothes he had worn, and
in every press and drawer in his room. Ii
was all in vain. The fifty pounds could not
be found anywhere Could he have lost il
on his way home Or had he been robbed2
Perhaps so. He certainly said he had got
the money; but she had not seen him with
it. 1t may have been only promised TO him
by the parties he sold to but that was not
likely The poor woman was in a bad way,
and spent all her time in searching for the
missing money. and could think Of nothing
else. In a few days the agent was to call
for the rent; and if she could not pay. she
and her helpless little ones would have to
leave their dearly beloved home, and either
beg or starve. Such was the safe Of things
when the very night before the expected
agents visit, Mrs Callaghan dreamed that
her husband came to her, and told Eer that
she would find the fifty pounds pinned to
the paper behind the IOOking-glass over the
chimney-piece in the bedroom. He put it
there for safety, he said, fearing the house
might be robbed, as it was known he brought
the money home with him, and he thought
it would he safest there. The moment Mis-.
CanaClan woke she went over to the place
mentioned by her husband in her dream,
and found the bank notes in the exact posi-
ton he had described.
\ young lady had a present of very valu-
able watch. One day, however, it suddenly
stopped, and not wishing to NEEDLE with it
herself, she took it to a matchmaker to have
it repaired In a few days she called for it,
but it was not done; so she said she would
come again in a day OF two. That night she
dreamed that the watchmaker's shop would
be burned next evening; so early next
morning she asked her sister to call for the
watch, and not leave the shop without get
l.
not be ready. 'cNo matter" she said; get
it for ME as it is, done or not. Don't come
back without it, for the shop viii be burned
this evening I saw it all in dream last
night"
Immediately after 6ealfast her sister went
for the watch but was told that it was not
yet mended.
How long will it take to do it?' she
asked.
"About an hour, the man answered.
every well, them she said, Il will wait
for it,
So she sat down, and waited patiently un-
til it was repaired, for her sister was in a
most excited state Of mind about it, and
would have been greatly annoyed had she
returned without it.
That evening at seven o'clock the house
took fire, and the flames spread so rapidly
that it was impossible to save anything; and
had the watch been eft there, it would have
been destroyed
/ \ friend who lived in the country had for
some time past been missing things. That
! there was a thief in the house could not be
/ doubted, but who it was it was impossible "a
/ find out. Bread, meat, butter, bottles OF
( wine, etc, all disappeared in the most un.
accountable manner, and always in the night
/ That none Of the servants left the house at
night was an asceTtained fact, and it wa;
. equally certain that no one entered from
without. How, then were the articles con
veyed away? And by whom These werC
questions which puzzled Mrs. NJ, anC
caused her good deal of anxiety. At length
she dreamed one night that she was standn.
in the garden, and looking toward the hous,
she saw in the moonlight mans figure giid,
MP the avenue and stand under the window
of one of the servants room. Present.,
the window was softly opened, and a baske
we'll filed with provisions was let down by
rope. The person below united the basket
and quickly disappeared among the SUI
rounding trees. The rope was then draw
up and the window very gently closed. Or
awaking next morning, Mrs. NJ tol,
her husband of her strange dream. 1t mad
such an impression on her that at length sh
persuaded her husband to watch in the gaI
den that night So, accordingly, lie and on
of his sons stationed themselves in "a liJtl
summeIhouse in the garden, which con
manded a view of the window in question
- NAV as well mention that neither of theI
= had the least faith in aTy kind of dreams {
visions. What, then, was their astonishmeI
when they beheld the very figure describe
by Mrs. N glide softly up the avenu
/ and stand under the window, which wa
/ opened and the basket let.down, all exact
/ I as she had told them Before, hoWeye
the man had time to make of, they Tushe
4 out and seized him. He was brought iut