The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-12-04
MARVELLOUS DREAMS.

many victims p"ilShed. in the tram
there CHANGED t. be a gentleman and
lady just landed in England after their
return from India The lady said to her
husband: Il see the great wave rolling
on; it is close to u.s." then the crash came
and SHE was Il corpse. The husband was
unhurt. and, at ii later time. explained
his wiIe's stlau-e words. Ever since
the, set sail from India she had been
haunted i'll sleep b., the dream Of a vas.
silvery wave. and always Us it was about
t. break on her she had aakrncd in ter.
ror. This was the phenomenon which
she recognized Immediately before the
accident which caused her death.
Less tragic. but quite odd enough FOR
Nr. Prnct"r> cnllrct o. Is tc amec',otr
of tie south "onn.!y -, err dream
Inc good min NV ,KrtI,''i itr-u his ut-i
sleep. and aroused his wnc t. tell trr
about ii startln. vision. He had dream
Ell that he saw Il iavurite CIV drowning
i'll pond i'll IA nei4 hb"ring common.
i'SiN maui Z nv punt thSi'. Sii'
wife. with natural irritation and double
Shotted negatives. This was undeniabIl
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. and just ut the
top of the lane the farmer heard a s"unr
as of man digging. Thena small ligh,
caught his eye. us it giimmrred through
IA hedge that divided the lane from TIL.
fields. The farmer cautiously drew nra,
till he was just above the ditch. There
he spie, a country telInw, with "a lantern.
digging long. straight. deep hole in tn.
ground. An axe law beside the hole. At
this point the farmer Slipped. the he'd
rn>tlcd. and the deliver fled away. Tia,
,armer secured the lantern and made fo,
nome. Just at the entrance of the lane.
the time being about in the morning.
he met one of his servant wenches hurry
ing in the direction whence he had CONF.
what do you want. my lasso No good.
itdl. S'tlu tIlS iIiol dilS'
and, in shout he made the girl tell him
her story. She was going to an assgna-
| ion with her young man. who ha
aired her and was counting another girl.
| She had him with an action for breach @
promise of marriage. and the swain had
promised that. if she but meet him at !.
| = h., .,f h., hap1 of hal .,n.
| sl,. would satisfy her. and remove all .jeal.
busy and differences. Very well NJ
lass. said the farmer; come, and II
Stow you what he had to give YOU IL
| ied the way, and revealed t. the hoIrii,
girl the long. deep. narrow hole and Tia
sharp axe which had awaited her. Nat
urally she did not any longer pursue h.l
lover. and here is Il dream which even
Mr.. Proctor will admit not to have beef
| purposeleSS. Indeed the "machinery
of the drowning COW made the vision al
peal direct to the buculc mind. Ii tn,
authority for the story is not all We coul'.
| wish, what can excel that for the spirit
ual rendezvous at ''Ticonderoga''-a
story lately told by Dean Stanley in Fro-
ser's Myazine? How could Il man Dire an,
that Il spirit offered to meet him at tt
condero.a, a place which he never heal,
the name of till he fell mortally woundcc
in the battle there. if there were nothing
not naturally explicable in dreams?
| b,l
f,ltiled. at least to his own satisfaction
Here he wrote on May 80. 1868. lis !,
curious case at first hand. On Thursda
night last week, being at the Office here.
in London ~ dreamed that saw lady
ia a red shawl with her back toward IN,
whom supposed to be E. On her turn,
ing round found that didn': know hel
and she said. I am Miss Napier Al
the time | was dressing next morning
thought, What a preposterous thing tt
have so very distinct dream about moth
ing! And why Miss Napier9 for never
heard of any Miss Napier That same
Friday night .read. After the reading
came into my retiring room Mary Bo!lt
and her brother, and the lady i'll the rec
shawl. whom they presented as Miss
Napier These are all the circumstance!
exactly told This was probably cast
of unconscious cerebration. Dickens ha'
no doubt really seen the lady, and beef
told that she was Miss Napier, when hi
attention was occupied with other ma,
tiers. There would be nothing unusua
in his dreaming about a person whom 1t
had thus seen without noticing. o
course it was an odd coincidence that TIN
lady of whom he had thus dreamed
should be introduced to him soon aier-
possibly the very day after. But sucl
c,ncidences are not inirequent. To sup
pose that Dickens had been special.
warned in a dream about SO unimportan
a matter as his introduction to Mis-
Napier would be absurd for, fulfilled -"
untutilled, the dream was. as Dickcn
himself described it, a very distinct dream
: about nothing. Far different in this It
spect was the strange dream which Pres
ident Lincoln had the night before h
was shot. If the story WAS truly told b
Mr. Stanton to Dickens, the case is on
OF the most curious on record. Dicken
5 told it thus in IA letter to John Forster
l "On the afternoon Of the day on whic
the President was shot, there was Cal
D met council, at which he presided. MI
: Stanton. being at the time Commander
e in Chief of the Northern troops thu
e were concentrated about here. arrive
r rather late. Indeed, they were waitin
for him, and on his entering the room til
President broke OIL in something he wa
| saving, aud remarked. Let MS procee
= to business. gentlemen Mr.. Stanto
4 then noticed with surprise that the Pre-
G ident sat with an air of dignity i'll h
e chair, instead of lolling about in tt
G most ungainly attitudes, as his invariab
p custom was; and that instead of tellir
/ irrelevant and questionable stories, |
G was grave and calm, and quite ditfe
d ent man. Mr.. Stanton, on leaving Il
c council with the Attorney General sal
: to him, That is the most satisfactol
O Cabinet meeting | have attended #
|. many long day. What an extraordina
@ change IN Mr.. Lincolu" The Attorns