The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-12-14

Most people remember the terrible
railway accident in which Dickens him.
self dnl his propf-shecis escaped. while
~ many victims persisted. In the train
there Glanced la nc Il gentleman and
Lady. Just landed in England after their
return from India. The lady said Ia
her husband: II ser the great wave
rolling On; il IS close to ms and then
the crash came, and She WAS II corpse.
The husband vas u%nhurt, aud, ut u
later time, explained his wifc's strange
words. Ever since they set sail from
lndiI she had been haunted in sleep 10y
the dream OF a vast silycry wave, and
always rs it wa about 10 break on her
she had Weakened in her terror. This
WAS the phenomenon which she rccog-
niled immediately before the accident
which caused her death.
Less tragic, but quite odd enough
fur Mr., Prnctor's collection, is the anec-
dotn ul the south country farmers
dream. The good man Weakened from
his first sleep, aud aroused his wife to
tell her about a startling vision. lie
had dreamed that he saw Il fIyoritc cow
drowning IN i pond in n %neighhoring
common, There amt M pond
there" said the wife, with natural irri-
taiion and double shotted negatives.
THIS was ~undcniabiy true. hut tho far
mrr was uneasy. AT last, he arose,
dressed aud walked up the long lane
which I'D tnthc commoia. Everything
WIS qn.rt, but just ut the top of tho
lane the farmer heard - sound as Of Il
man digging. Then II light caught his
eve, 1t glimmcred through u hedge
tia. divided The lane from the fields.
Tia farmer cautiously drew near till
-!e was just alovr the ditch. There he
pird a country fellow. with a lantern
digging . long, straight deep hole in
The ground. IN aN.lay beside the hole.
~ this point the farmer Slipped, the
hedge rnstleh, anu the deliver He'd away.
TIE farmer secured The lantern and
made for lomr. just at the entrance
Of the lane, the time loing about = ia
The morning. be met one of his servant
wrmohcs hrrNing in the direction
whence liz had come. What do you
want, my lass? No good, | fear" said
the agricultural moralist; and, III short,
liz made the girl tell him her story.
She WAS going TO an designation with
hrr ''yomE man. who Ind Tilted
her and WAS conrting another
gill She had threatened Him with mn
action Tor breach Of PROMISED marriage,
and the swain had promised that, If
altc would hut meet him at in the
morning, 1t the bend Of the lane, no
w1illd satisfy her, and remove all jcal-
nusy and differences. "Nery well, my
lass, said tho farmer; ''come, and I'll
how you what hc Ind TO give YOU He
led the way, and revealed 10 the horri-
lnl gill the long, deep, narrow hole
and the sharp AZ that lad awaited her.
Naturally she did not any longer pnr-
sac her lover. and here is u dream
which even Mr.. Proctor viii admit not
to have been rurposclesS. indeed, the
machinery" OF the drowning cow
made the visnn appeal to the bucolic
mind. II the authority for the story is
moi; all that we could wish, what can
excel that for the spiritual rendezvous
nj ''Ticonderognr-a story lately told
by Dean Stanley in Fra-er's Magazine,
How could Il mar dream that n spirit
offered 10 meet him ut Ticondoroga, a
place which he never heard the name of
til ho fell mbrtally wounded in The
battle there, IL there were nothing not
! naturally applicable in dreams?"