West-Jersey pioneer., 1880-06-10
STRANGE DREAMS.

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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 murdered 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
turned out afterward that the murderer and
the dreamer had been drinking together for
several days a short time after the murder. :.
1t has been suggested, as possible solu-
ton, that the murderer allowed statements
to escape him whilst under the influence of
drink which had been recalled to the other
in his dream, though he had not the slight
est remembrance of them in his sober hours.
A gentleman dreamt his house was on
fire; and the dream made so vivid an impress
sion that he Immediately returned, 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 reia-
tive had been murdered by black servant,
and this dream was repeated so often that
she repaired to the old ladys house, and set
a gentleman to watch in the night. About
8 o'clock in the morning the black servant
was discovered going to his mistress s
room, as he said, with Goals to mend the
fire-a sufficiently absurd excuse at such
an hour and in the middle of Summer. The
truth was apparent when strong knife
was found buried beneath the GOALS.
The case of the gentleman from Cornwall
who dreamt eight days before the event
that he saw Mr.. Percival murdered in the
lobby of the House of Commons by Bell
ingham, and distinctly recognized from
prints, after the murler, both the assassin
and his victim, whom he had never seen
previously, seems capable only of super
natural explanation, especially when it is
remembered that the gentleman was with
going to London to warn Mr.. Percival
known to him in his dream as the Chan
cellor of the Exchequer). He urged that it
occurred three times in the same night, but
his friends thinking it FOOLS errand, he
allowed the matter to drop till the news of
the murder rudely resuscitated it.
A gentleman from Yorkshire formed one
of party visiting the Exhibition of 1869.
A few days before leaving for London, he
had most vivid view of the Tower, the
Armory, and more especially the room in
which the regalia and crown jewels are
kept. He heard the old woman who showed
the room address the audience, and treas
ured up carefully her very peculiarities of
voice, dress, manner and features and ere
ated considerable amusement amoug his
friends by mimmicking the phantom show
woman when he awoke. He went to Lon
don at the proper time, and Of course visited
the Tower, where he was astounded and
somewhat sobered by the phantom's coun-
terpart, which was identical in every re-
spect. Several years ago the newspapers
were filled with details Of a horrible murder,
of which the facts, related from memory,
seem to be these: Mrs. Martin, the wife of
a farmer, was in terrible distress of mind
because her daughter Marie was missing.
1t was feared that she had been murdered
by her sweetheart in a fit of jealousy, and
hidden somewhere. For long time no trace
of the body could be found. At length the
mother had a dream, in which it was reveal
ed to her that the corpse of her child was
buried under the barn floor. This proved
the case, and the body was recovered, and
the murderer detected. The mother of a
medical student dreamed that her son had
got into some serious trouble in London, and
could not rest till she had 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 if she had not arrived in time.
A barrister of great penetration relates
the story of lady who dreamed that rail
way guard was killed in a collision. She
described the man and circumstances so
faithfully that there was no difficulty in
identifying the guard (who was actually
killed the same night in a lamentable acci-
dent) as the man she saw in her dream.
The lady rarely left home, and the guard
was quite unknown to her. Archdeacon
Squire, in paper read before the Royal
Society in 174S, tells story of certain
Henry AFFORD, of Devices, who caught
violent cold when he was twenty eight years
Of age, which rendered him speechless and
he remained dumb for four years. In July,
1741, in his sleep he dreamed that she had
fallen into furnace of boiling wort, which
put him in SO great an agony of fright that
he actually did call out aloud, and recovered
the use of his tongue from that moment as
effectually as ever" Horace Bushnell, D..
D., in his "Nature and the Supernatural,
recounts a case which he thinks cannot be
explained by natural causes. Sitting by
the fire one stormy November night. in
hotel parlol in the Napa Valley of Cali
fornia, there entered venerable looking
person named Captain Yount who had
come to California as trapper more than
acquired large estate, and was highly
respected. The captain said that ''six or
seven years previous he had dream in
which he saw what appeared to him to be
company of emigrants arrested by the SHOWS
of the mountains, and perishing rapidly of
cold and hunger. The whole scene appeared
vividly before him; he noted huge cliff
and the very features of the persons, and
their looks of agonizing despair. He
awoke, but shortly after fell asleep again,
and dreamed exactly the same thing. Being
now impressed with the truth of the story,
he told tito an old hunter shortly afterward,
who declared that he knew tie spot which
exactly answered to his description. This
decided him, and taking a company of men,
with mules, blankets, ETC., they hurried to
tho Carson Valley Pass 160 miles distant,