Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-10-27
NO. 254.
Gales ano Skettbes.
STRANGE DREAMS.

was murdered in the north of Scotland,
and the crime remained long time a
my stery. At length man came forward.
| and declared that he had had a dream in
which there was shown to him house,
and voice directed him to q spot near
the house where was buried the pack of
the murdered man; and on search being
| mfde, the pack WAS actually found near
| the spot. At first il was thought that the
dreamer was himself the murderer. but
the man who had been accused confessed
the crime. and said that the dreamer knew
nothing about il. Ii turned out aiterwaed
that the murderer and dreamer had been
drinking together Tor several days short
time after the murder. II has been sug-
gested. rs a possible solution, that the
murderer allowed statements TO escape
him whilst under the influence of drink
which had been recalled 10 the other in
his dream, though he had not the slight
est remembrance Of them in his sober
hours.
4 gentleman dreamt his house was on
fire and the dream made SO vivid an inn
preston that he Immediately returned,
saw il ON fire indeed. and was Just in time
to save one OF his children from the
flames
A lady dreamt that an aged female rel
ative had been murdered by black SER
want. and this dream was repeated so Of
ten that she repaired to the old lady's
house. and set a gentleman TO watch in
the night. About three O'Clock in the
morning the black servant was discovered
going to his mistress room, rs he said
with Goals to mend the tire--a sufficiently
absurd excuse at such an hour and in the
middle of summer. The truth was appar-
ent when strong knife was found buried
beneath the Goals.
The case of the gentleman from Corn
wall, who dreamt. eight days before the
event, that he saw Mr.. Percival murdered
in the lobby of the House of Commons by
Belingham, and distinctly recognized
from prints, after the murder. both the
assassin and his victim. whom he had
never seen previously, seems capable only
of supernatural explanation, especially
when it is remembered that the gentleman
was with difficulty dssuaded by his friends
from going to London 20 warn Mr.. rerci-
val (known 10 him in his dream rs the
Chancellor OF the EXchcquer.) He urged
that il had occurred three times in the
same night. bat his friends thinking it n
FOOLS errand. he allowed the matter TO
drop till the news of the murder rudely
resusitatcd it.
A gentleman from Yorkshire formed
one OF the party for visiting the Exhibi-
ton of 1862 A lew days before leaving
for London. he had most vivid dream OF
the Tower, the armory, and more espe-
cially the room in which the regalia and
crown Jewels are kept. lie heard the old
h,, eb,,HnI th, aI.lrasa tho
audience, and treasured up carefully her
very pecuiarities OF voice. dress, manner
and features, and crested considerable
amusement among his friends by mimic
ing the phantom show woman when he
awokc lie went to London at the proper
time. and of course visited the Tower,
where he was astounded and somewhat
sobercd by the phantom's counterpart.
which was identical in every respect.
Several wears ago the newspapers were
filled with details OF horrible murder. of
which the facts. related from memory,
seem to be these Mrs. Martin. the wife
of a farmer, was in terrible distress of
mind because her daughter Maria was
missing II was feared that she had been
murdered by her sweetheart in a fit of
jealousy, and hidden somewhere. For n
long time no trace of the body could be
found At length the mother had a dream,
i'm which it was revealed 10 her that the
corpse of her child was buried under the
barn floor This proved 10 be the case,
the body was recovered, and the murderer
detected.
The mother of medical student dreamt
that her son had got into some serious
trouble in London, and could not rest till
she left her home IN the Midland counties
ami 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 a lady who dreamt that n
railway guard was killed in a collision.
She described the man and circumstances
so faithfully that there was no difficulty
in identifying the guard fwho was actual
ly killed the same night in lamcntable
accdent) as the man she saw in her
dream. The lady rarely left home, and
the guard was quite unknown TO her.
Archdeacon Squire. in paper read be-
fore the Royal Society in l74S, tells the
story of certain Henry AFFORD of Devi-
zes, who caught violent cold when he
was twenty-eight years of age, which
rendered him speechless, and he renamed
dumb for four years. In July, 17I1 in his
sleep he dreamt that ..he had fallen into
furnace OF boiling wort. which put him
into so great fright that he actually did
| call out aloud, and recovered the use Of
his tongue from that moment as effectual-
| " as ever
Horace Bushnell, ID. d., in his "Nature
and the Supernatural. recounts "A case
which lse thinks cannot be explained by
natural causes. Sitting by the fire one
stormy November night, in hotel parlor
in the Napa Valley of California. there
entered a'sybcrable-looking person named
Captain, Wnlnt, who had come to Califor-
MIA as a trapper more than forty years be-
fore. There he lived, had acquired a
large estate. and was highly respected.
The captain said that ''six or seven years
previous he had dream in which he saw
what appeared to him to be company Of
emigraats arrested by the SHOWS of the
mountains, and perishing rapidly Of cold
and hpager. The whole scene appeared
vividly before him. he noted huge cliff
and the very features Of the persons, and
their looks Of agonizing despair. He
awoke. but shortly after he fell asleeI
again, and dreamt precisely the same
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