Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-20
MARVELLOUS DREAMS.

Most people remember the terrible rail
way accident in which Dickens himself and
his proof-sheets escaped, while so many
victims aperished. In the train there
CHANGED to be gentleman and lady just
landed in England after their return from
India. The lady said to her husband: :" l
see the great wave rolling on 1t is close to
us, and than the crash came, and she was
corpse The husband was unhurt, and,
at a later time, explained his wifes strange
words. Ever since they set sail from India
she had been haunted in sleep by the Organ
of vast silvery wave, and always as 1T
was about to break on her she had wakened
in terror. This was the phenomenon she
recognized Immediately before the accident
which caused her death. Less tragic, but
quite odd enough for Mr.. Proctor's collec-
ton, is the anecdote of the south-country
farmers dream The good man awak-
ened from his first sleep and aroused his
wife to tell her about a startling vision.
He had dreamed that he saw 4 favorlte
COW drowning ina pond In neighborlng
common. There bain't no pond there, !"
said the wife, with natural irritation and
double-shotted negatives. This was I'M
denla5ly true, but the farmer was uneasy.
At last he arose, dressed and walked up
the long lane which led to the common.
Everything was quiet but Just at the top
of the lane the farmer heard sound as of
man digging. Then light caught his
eye; it glimmered through hedge that
divided the lane from the fields. The
farmer cautiously drew near till he was
just above the ditch. There he spied a
country fellow, with lantern, digging a
long straight hole in the ground. An AK
lay beside the hole. At this point the
farmer slipped, the hedge rustled and the
deliver fled away. The farmer secured the
lantern and made for home. Just at the
entrance of the lane, the time being about
in the morning, he met one of his SER
want wenches hurrying in the direction
whence ne had come. "What do you
want, my Lass? No good, fear" said
the agricultural moralist and, in short, he
made the girl tell him her story. She
was going to an designation with her
"young man." who had Tilted her and
was counting anotherS girl. She had
threatened him with an action for breach
of promise of marriage, and the swain had
promised that, if she would but meet him
at two in the morning, at the bend of the
lane, he would satisfy her, and remove all
jealousy and differences. every WELL my
lass, ;" SAID the farmer, 1" come, and l will
show you what he had to give YOU" He
led the way and revealed to the Mortified
girl the long, deep, narrow hole and the
sharp axe which had awaited her. Natu-
rally she did not any longer pursue her
lover, and here is dream which even Mr..
Proctor will admit not to have been pur-
poseless. Indeed, the machinery" of
the drowning cow made the vision appeal
direct to the bucolic mind. If the author
ity for the story is not all we could wish,
what can excel that for the spiritual rem
devious at g Ticonderoga "a story lately
told by Dean Stanley in FraserS Mage
zi,sel How could man dream that a
spirit offered to meet him at Ticonderoga,
place which be never heard of till he iell
mortally wounded in the battle there, if
there were nothing not naturally explica
BILE in dreams?