The Osceola times., 1880-06-12
REMARKABLE DREAMS.
Some Curious Instances Where Events
Were roretold in Visions-Alieged
Truth That Is Certainly stran-
.,.r Than Ordinary Fiction


edgdd. and are as jealous and solicitous
about the uniformity Of natures law as
a lover of his mistress. Ii must be
frankly admitted that powers and innu-
ences of a natural kind may be at work
i'm producing dreams OF which we are
ignorant, but which may some day be
discovered by the ever-brightening eye
of science. But Professionally, at all
events we must claim for some dreams
a higher origin. BY such dreams as
these. great and crushing evils have been
avoided, the innocent spared and the
guilty detected. Some years ago. it is
related, pcddler was murdered in the
north of Scotland, and the crime &C.
mained for long time mystery. At
length a man came forward and declared
that he had had dream in which there
was shown to him house and voice
directed him to spot near the house
where was buried the pack of the muir
dercd man, and on search being made
the pack was actually found near the
spot. At first it was thought that the
dreamer was himself the murderer. but
the man who had been accused confessed
the crime and said that the dreamer
L
aftcrward that the murderer and the
dreamer had been drinking together for
several days a short time after the muir
der. II has been suggested, as possible
solution, that the murderer allowed
statements to escape him while under
the influence of drink which had been
recalled to the other in his dream, though
he had not the slightest remembrance
of them IN his sober hours.
Several years 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 ei
mind because her daughter Maria was
missing. II was feared she had been
murdered by her sweetheart in fit of
jealousy and hidden somewhere. For
long time no trace of the body could he
found. At length the mother had a
dream, in which it was revealed to her
that the corpse of her child was buried
under the barn floor. This proved to
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 Lon
don and could not rest till she left her
home in the Midland counties and sought
him out. To her sorrow the dream was
painfully verified, and the consequences
might have been serious il she had not
arrived in time. A barrister of great
penetration relates the story of a lady
who dreamt that a railway guard was
killed in a collision. She described the
man and the circumstances so faithfully
that there was no difficulty in identity
ing the guard (who was actually killed
the same night in lamentable accident)
rs the man she saw in her dream. The
lady rarely left home, and the guard was
quite unknown to her.
4 lady of our acquaintance about TO
change her habitauon saw in sleep an
exact picture OF her future home, and
from her dream alone could recognize
the rooms and passages. We tried 10
account for this TO her by saying that
the dream really Influenced her conduct
and that when she met with house an
swering 10 her dream, she was naturally
prodispOsed to take it. A gentleman
from Yorkshire formed one of party
for visiting the exhibition of 1852. A
few days before leaving for London he
hal most vivid dream of the Tower,
the armory, and more especially the
room in which the regalia and crown
Jewels are kent. He heard the old wo-
man who showed the room address the
audience, and treasured up carefully her
very pcculiarities of voice, dress, manner
and features, and created considerable
amusement among his friends by MINI
licking the phantom show-woman when
lac awOke. He went TO London at the
proper time, and of course visited the
Tower, where he was astoundcd and
somewhat subered by the phantoms
counterpart, which was identical in every
respect.
4 gentleman dreamt his house was on
fire; and the dream made so vivid an
impression that he Immediately return
ed, saw it on fire indeed, and was just in
time to save one of his children from
the flames. A lady dreamt that an aged
female relative had been murdered by a
black servant, AMI this dream was re-
peated so often, that she repaired TO the
old lady's house, and set gentleman to
watch in the night. About O'Clock in
the morning the black servant was dis
covered going to his mistrcss's room, as
he said, with Goals TO mend the fire-a
sufficiently absurd excuse at such an
hour in the middle of summer. The
truth was apparent when strong knife
was found buried beneath the Goals.
The condolences Of dreams are very re.
markable. For two persons - dream
the same thing, at the same time, under
different circumstances exceeds the pow
or Of chance, boundless as that pretends
to be.
\ Mr.. Joseph TAYLOR relates that a
boy residing at a school a hundred miles
from home dreamt that he went to his
fathers house, found all closed for the
night but the back door, went into his
mothers room and found her awake.
Il come to bid you goodbye" he said ;
Il am going on long journey" She
answered with great trembling, 80, dear
son. thou art dcadw And he awoke.
Soon after he received n letter from his
father making anxious inquiries after his
health, IN consequence of a frightful
dream which his mother had on the
same night and which was exactly iden-
tical with his, even to the very words of
the conversation. Fortunately no sad
results followed, though it may have
proved warning to the boy in some in
scrutabe manner unknown 10 his friends.
The case of the gentleman from Corn
wall who dreaiat eight DAYS before the
event that he saw Mr.. Pcrcival murder
cd in the lobby of the House of Com
mons by Beliingham, and distinctly re-
cognized from prints, after the murder,
both the assassin and his victim, whom
he had never seen previously. seems
capable only of a super natura' explana-
ton, especially when it is remembered
that the gentlemen was with difficulty
dissuaded by his friends from going to