The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-05-11
FOUND BY DREAM.

John CALLAGHAN, was O. well-to-
u do farmer, residing in the County
Cork. He was sober, steady man, and
bad never been known to be behind
hand in paying his rent. Though his
farm was not very large, still, by good
management, he was able to support his
family comfortably out of it. There
came one summer, however, that the
weather was so bad that nearly all poor
Johns crops failed, so that when rent
There was only one thing to be done
under the circumstances-he must sell
off his stock. He regretted much being
obliged to do this; but he had no other
alternative, If he wished to retain his
farm, for the agent was very hard
man, and would soon turn him out if he
did not pay punctually. So the next
fair-day John took two of his best cows
and some fat hogs to sell at the fair. He
spent all day there trying to get good
price for them, and at last he succeeded
in doing so. He was very tired OF his
return, and looking so ill that his wife
remarked it to him. Assuring her that
it was nothing but over-fatigue, and that
he would be all right in the morning,
he told her he had sold the cattle very
well, having got fifty pounds for them,
which was enough for the half years
rent, and something over. He went to
bed Immediately after his supper, and
soon fell asleep. Next morning, how
ever, his wife wondered why he did not
answer her when she spoke to him. At
first she thought he was in faint, and
sent at once for doctor, who pro-
nounced him dead. 1t was supposed
that the anxious state of his mind, and
the over-fatigue he had gone through,
had hastened his death, his heart having
been affected for some time past
Poor Mrs. Callaghan got such shock
by this sad occurrence that at first she
did not think of looking for the money
her husband said he had got at the fair;
but as the rent was due, and accounts
came in for the funeral; she went to the
place where her husband usually kept
his money. Her search was fruitless;
no money was there. She looked in the
pockets of the clothes he had worn, and
in every press and drawer in his room.
1t was all in vain. The fifty pounds
could not be found anywhere. Could he
have lost it on his way homep Or had
be been robbed Perhaps SO. He GER
tainly said he had got the money; but
she had not seen him with it. 1t may
have been only promised to him by the
parties he sold to; but that was not
likely. The poor woman was in a bad
way, and spent all her time in searching
for the missing money, and could think
of nothing else. In few days the agent
was to call for the rent; and IL she could
not pay, she and her helpless little ones
would have to leave their dearly beloved
home, and either beg or starve. Such
was the state of things when the very
night before the expected agents visit,
Mrs. Callaghan dreamed that her hus-
band came to her, and told her that she
would find the fifty pounds pinned to
the paper behind the looking-glass over
the chimney-piece in the bedroom. He
put 1t there for safety, he said, fearing
the house might be robbed, as it was
known he brought the money home
with him, and he thought 1t would be
safest there. The moment Mrs. Gala
CHAN woke she went over to the place
mentioned by her husband In her dream
and found the bank notes in the exact
nOsitiOn he had dasorihed