The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-12
Remarkable Dreams.

dreams, says writer in Temple Bdgs
we tread on dangerous ground and
must be cautious, for skeptics haye
eyes like the eagle, weapons of oppo-
sition keen and sharp-edged, and arS
as jealous and solicitous about tne
uniformity of natures laws as love-
of his mistress. 1t must be franklA
admitted that powers and influences
of natural kind may be at work u
producing dreams OF which we arr
ignorant, but which may some daN
be discovered by the ever bright eni
ing eye of science. But provisiont
ally, at all events, we must claim III
some dreams a higher origin. IN
such dreams as these, great and crush
ing evils have been avoided, the
innocent spared, and the guillx,ds
tected. Some years, ago, it is relaiaG,
a peddler was murdered in the north
of Scotland, and the crime remained
long time mystery. AT length a
man came forward and declared that
he had dream in which there was
shown to him spot near The house
where was buried the pack of the
murdered man. and on search being
made the pack was actually found
near the spot. At first it was thought
that the drermer was himself the
murderer, but the man who had been
accused confessed the crime and said
that the-dreamer knew nothing of
the crime. 1t turned out that the
murderer and the dreamer had been
drinking together for several days
short time after the murder. 1t has
been suggested, as possible solution
that the murderer allowed statements
to escape him while under the infu.
ence of drink which had been recall.
ed to the other in his dream, although
he had not the slightest remembrance
of them in his sober moments.
Several years ago the newspapers
were filled With the details of a hor-
rible murder, of which the facts, re-
lated from memory, seem to be these:
Mrs. Martin, the wife of farmer,
was in a terrible distress because her
daughter Maria was missing. 1t was
feared she had been murdered by
her sweetheart in fit of jealousy and
hidden away. For long time no
trace of the BODY could be found. At
length the mother had a dream, in
which il was rei~t~si %---l>~.- + hat .atl
corpse of her child had been burfru
under the barn floor. This proved
to be the case the Body was discov-
cred and the murderer detected. The
mother of medical student dream
ed that her son had got into some
serious trouble in London and could
not rest till she left her home in Mid
land county and sought him. To
her sorrow the dream was painfully
varitied, and the consequences might
have been serious if she had not ar
rived in time. A barrister of great
penetration relates the story of lady
who dreamt that railroad guard
was killed in collision. She de-
scribed the man and the circumstan-
ces so faithfully that there was no
difficulty in identifying the guard,
who was actually killed the same
night IN lamentable accident, as the
man she saw in the dream. The lady
rarely left home, and the guard was
quite unknown to her.
A lady of our acquaintance about
to change her habtation was in her
sleep all exact picture of her future
home, and from her dream alone
could recognize the rooms and pas
sages. We tried to account to this to
her by saying that the dream really
influenced her conduct. and that
when she met with house answer.
ing to her dream she was naturally
uredisposed to take it. A gentleman
from Yorkshire formed one of par
ty for visiting the Exhibition of 1862
A few days before leaving for Lon
don he had most vivid dream OF
the Tower, the armory, and more es-
pecially the room in which the re-
gala and crown jewels arc kept. He
heard the old woman who showed the
room address the audience, and trea-
sured up carefully her very peculia-
rites, of voice. dress, manner ana
features, and created considerable
amusement among his friends by
mimicking the phantom show-wo'
man when he awoke. He went to
London at the proper time, and, OF
course, visited the Tower, where ne
was astounded and somewhat sober
ed by the phantom's counterpart,
which was identical in every respect.
A gentleman dreamed his house
was on ire, and the dream made so
vivid an impression that he imme'
diattly returned, saw it on fire, and