Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-01-07
Alexandria Gazette and Virginia Advertiser
Marvellous Dreams.

Mes! people remember tho terrible railroad
ac,idsn! ia which Dickens himself and bis proof
sheets esospod while SO many victims persisted.
Il tho train there charcsd to be a gentleman
aad lady Just landed in England after their re-
tusn from Iadia. Thol sdy said to herhusbsnd !
see tho great wave rolling on; it is c,cs, to US, f"
ADD then the crash came, and she was corpse.
Tho husband YVES unhurt. and at later lime,
explained bis Wto's strange words Ever since
they set sail tor India sho had been haunted in
sleep by the dream Of a vast siIveIy wave and
always 80 1t was about to break on ner she had
wakened in terror. THIS was the phenomenon
which she recognized Immediately before the
accident which caused her death.
Loss traaia bu! quite odd enough for Mr. Pfcc
tors collection. is ths anecdote of the south
country farmers dream. The coed man wsksl.
ed from his frs! sleep, and aroused his wife to
tel! her about Startling vision. He had dream.
ed thet re cav tavoIite COW drowning 10 q
pond 10 D ign boring oomuoa. There hahn {
no .pond thers," said bis wife, With natural iiri
tatlon ard double shotted negatives. This was
uudeolao:y tfde tu! The farmer was uneasy.
At lss: be arose, dressed and walked up the long
lane which led to tic common. Every tbioe
vas quiet, but Just at the top OF the lane The
farmer hesrd sound ss of man d;gsiur.
Then naht eauget his eye, il glimmered
through tho hedge that divided the lane from
the islis. TIE farmer cautiously drew near
ill he vas jass above the di'oh. There be
spied couatry fellow. with laltero, digging
q lopg, straight. doep hole 10 the ground. Al
axe lay beside the hole At this point the farmer
slipped, the hodge rustled. ard tho deliver aed
away. The farmer sslnred tie lantern aud
msIo icr homo. Just at the entrarcs
of tie lsrc. tho time bsog nbcus two
in thu moSnlug, no met one Of his servant
wercbes hurtSpg IN The direction whence he had
| come. What do you want, 10y lass No good,
foar," said the Agricultural moraisi and, in
short, he made the girl tell him her story. She
| was eoirg 10 On ss;ignslion with her young
| uan." wbo lad lied her, and was courIiog
sno,htr girl. She had threatened him with On
| action lof Lresoh Of prcmis, of marriage. and
| tie swain hsd promised that, if she would but
| meet bin al Two 10 the morning at the berd Of
tho lane no would satisfy her. and remove all
Jealousy aud differences. VERY we'll, my lass"
said tie farmer; come, and III show you what
he had 10 give you" lie led the way, aud
revealed to the Mortified girl, the long, deep.
narrow hola and the sharp ak, which hsd
awaited her. Naturally, she did not any
louEsr pussus ner lover, and here Is cream
which even Mr.. Proctor will admit not to
hsve been pprposeless. Indeed The machine.
~" Of tho drowning cow made the vision ap.
peal direct to the bucolic mind. Ifthe authority
for the story is not all we could wish, what osn
excel that for the spiritual rendezvous at "Ti.
| conderogs"-a story lately told by Dean Stanly
in "Frszsrs Magszine?' How could man
dream That spirit ctfsred to NEE: him at Ticon.
derogs. place which ne never hesrd of till he
fell MORALLY wounded in the battle there, il
there ware nothing not naturally applicable 10
disqualification Ne,os.