Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-07-16
Found By q Dream.

JUN OolloSuoA was u "Cl1-IO w Aul III
er, residing in the County Cork. He was
sober, steady man, and had never been
known to be behindhand 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, how
ever, that the weather was so lad that
nearly all poor Johns crops failed, so
that when rent day came he had no mon
ey to meet 1t. There was only one thing
to be done under the circumstances
must sell some Of his stock. He regret.
ted much being obliged to do this; but
he had no other alternative, if he wished
to retain his farm, for the agent was a
very hard man, and would soon turn him
out it he did not pay punctually. So the
next fair-day John took two of his best
COWS and some tat pigs to sell at the fair.
He spent all day there trying to get a
good price for them, and at last succeed
ed in doing so. he was very tired on his
return, and looked 80 ill that his wife re-
marked it to him. Assuring her that
it was nothing but overfatigue, and that
he would be all right in the morning, he
told her that he sold the cattle very
we'll 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 tell asleep. Next morning, howev-
er, his wife wondered he did not answer
her when she spoke to him. At first she
thought he was in faint, and sent at
once for q doctor, who pronounced him
dead. 1t was supposed that the anxious
state of his mind, and the over fatigue
he had gone through, had fastened 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 mon
ey 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 her room
1t was all in vain. The fifty pounds
could not be found anywhere. Could he
have lost 1t on the way home? Perhaps
50. Or had he been robbed2 He certain
ly said he had got the money; but she
had not seen itEwith him. It. may have
been only promised him by the parties
be sold to-; but that was not likely. The
poor woman was in a sad way, aud 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 if she could not pay, she
and her helpless little ones would have
to leave their dearly loved home, and
either beg or starve. Such was the state
Of things when, the very night before the
agents expected visit, Mrs. Callaghan
dreamed that her husband came to. her,
and told her that she would find the fif-
ty pounds pinned to the paper behind
the looking glass over the chimney piece
in the bedroom. He put it there for
safety he said, fearing the house might
be robbed, as it was known he brought
the money with HIM, and he thought il
would be safer there. The moment Mrs.
Callaghan awoke she went over to the
place mentioned by her husband in her
dream, and found the bank-note in The
exact position he had described