The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-03-31
Strangely Fulfilled,

On the night Of May IL, 1912, Mr.. Viii
liams, OF Scor1icr House, near Rcdruth, il
Cornwall, woke his wife, and in great agi
tatlon told her OF strange dream he hat
| just had. He dreamed he was in the lobb,
of the House of Commons, and saw maj
shoot with a pistol gentleman who had
just entered the lobby, who was said to be
the Chancellor. His wife told him not to
trouble about the dream, but to 20 to sIccp
again. lie followed her advice, but pres
emily woke her again, saying he had
dreamed the same dream.
Yet another time was the dream repeat ed.
after which he was 50 disturbed that, de.
spite his wite's cntrcaties that he would
trouble himself no more about the House
Of Commons, but try TO s.cep quietly, he
got up and dressed himself This was be-
tween one and two o'clock in the morning.
AT breakfast MIR. Williams could talk of
nothing but the dream, and early the same
morning he went 70 Falmouth, where he
told the dream to all Of his acquaintances
whom he met. Next day MIR. Tucker, of
Irematon Castle, accompanied by his wife,
daughter of Mr. Williams, went to Scor
rler House on visit.
Alr. Williams told MIR. Tucker the cir
cumstances OF hls dream. Mr.. Tucker re-
marked lhatit could only be in dream that
the Chancellor would be found in the lobby
of the House of Commons Mr.. Tucker
asked what sort of a man the Chancellor
seemed to be, and MIR. Williams minutely
described the man who was murdered in
his dream. Mr.. Tucker replied:
"Your description is not at all that of
the Chancellor, but is very exactly that of
MIR. Pcrceval, the Chancellor Of the Ex
chequer."
He asked If Mr.. Williams had ever seen
Mr.. Perceval, and Mr.. Williams replied
that he had never seen him or had any
communication Of any sort with him; aud
further, that he had never been IN the House
of Commons in his life.
AT this moment they heard tho sound of
horse galoping to the door of The house !;
Immediately after son of Mr.. Williams
entered the room, and said that he had gal
loped from Truro having seen gentleman
there who had been in the Lobby OF the
House of Commons on the evening of the
llth, when a man called Bellingham had
shot Mr. Perceval. After the establishment
which this intelligence created had little
subsidized, MIR. Williams described most mi.
nutely tic appearance and dress Of the man
whom he had seen III his dream fire the pis-
WI az euC NhtuSCilol, Us ALSO luC appear
ance and dress of the Chancellor.
Aboutsix weeks after, Mr.. Williams, hav-
ing business in town, went in company with
friend to the House of Commons, where,
as has been already observed, he had never
before been. Immediately that lie came TO
the steps Of the entrance of the lobby, he
said: This place is as distinctly within
my recollection, in my dream, as any room
n hNnsn ho 10 th.
observation when he entered the lobby. lie
then pointed out the exact spot where Bel
lngham stood when he fired, and also that
which MIR. Perccval reached when he was
dress, both of Mr. Perccvul and Belllne-
ham, agreed with the description given by
Mr. Williams, even to the most minute
particulars.
A Scotch clergyman, who lived near
Edinburgh, dreamed one night, while on
visit to that town, that he saw fire, and
one of his children III the midst Of it. On
awaking he instantly got up and returned
home with the greatest speed. He found
his house on fire, and was Just III time to
assist one of his children, who in the alarm
had been left in place of danger. The
second story runs as follows:
Two sisters had been for some days at
tending SICK brother, and one OF them had
borrowed q watch from friend, her own
being under repair. The sisters were sleep
Ing together in Il room communicating with
that of their brother, when the elder awoke
in great state of agitation, and reused the
other to tell her that she had had fright.
fu. dream.
81 Dreamed" she said, "that Mary's
watch stopped, and that when told you
of the circumstance, you replied, Much
worse than that has happened, for IS
breath has stopped also,'" naming their
sick brother.
The watch, however, was found to be
going correctly, and the brother was sleep.
ing quietly. The dream recurred the next
night, and on the following morning, one
of the sisters, having occasion to zeal a
note, went to get the watch from writing
desk in which che had deposited it, when
she found it had stopped. She rushed into
her brother's room in alarm, RENE mbering
the dream, and found thai he had been
suddenly seized with ht of suifocalion,
and had expired.