The Baltimore County union., 1881-02-26
"IN VISIONS OF THE NIGHT"
Concerning Some Familiar and More On.
familiar Instances OF Dreams
Strangely FULFILLED.


Mr.. Elihu Rich has told US Of man
who dreamed Of being in strange city,
and some time afterward was startled by
identifying the town Of his dream.--
Every street, each building-all but one
church, which on inquiry he found had
been built since his dream.
Mr.. William Hone was led to embrace
religion through thoughts awakened by
similar vision. Being called to a part
OF London with which he was unac-
quainted upon some business he was
ushered into room to wait. Every
thing seemed so familiar that he invol.
unfairly exclaimed, stI have seen all this,
though l never was here before-if am
right there is a peculiar knot in that shut
ter" He opened the window and there
was the knot.
Dickens tells us in letter dated May
80, 1868, that he saw in his room lady
wearing red shawl whose face he did
not recognize, but who said to him, 81
am Miss Napier" and that on the NOR
row Of the dream lady in red shawl
was presented to him and proved to be
Miss Napier.
In letter to Forster, Dickens also
told Of President Lincoln's well-known
dream, on Secretary Stan:on's S authority,
the story, emitting some unimportant
passages, being as follows: q.
"OR theafternoon Of the day on which
the President was shot there was Cab.
met council, at which he presided. Mr..
Stanton arrived rather late. Mr.. STAN
ton then noticed with surprise that the
President sat with an air of dignity in
the chair, and was grave and calm. Mr..
Stanton, on leaving the council with the
Attorney General, said to him, THAT is
the most satisfactory Cabinet meeting |
have attended for many long day.
What an extraordinary change in Mr..
Lincoln! The Attorney-General re-
piled, I'VE all saw it before you came in.
While We were waiting for you, he said,
with his chin down on his breast, Gen
tlemen, something very extraordinary is
going to happen, and that very soon. '"
To which the Attorney General had oh.
served, Something good, sir, hope1'
when the President answered very grave
ly: Il don't know don't know. But
it will happen and shortly, too As
they were all impressed by his manner,
the Attorney General took him up again.
Have you received any information, sir,
not yet disclosed tous1 NO, answered
the President, 'but have had dream.
And have now had the same dream
three times-once on the night prcced-
ing the battle Of Bull Run; once on the
night preceding such another, (naming
battle also not favorable 10 the North. }
His chin sank on his breast again and
he sat rejecting. Might one ask the
nature Of this dream, sir3 said the At
torney- General. 'Well,' replied the
President without lifting his head or
changing his attitude, Il am on great
broad rolling river--and am in boa,
-and / drift !-arNi drifted but this
is not business, suddenly raising his
face and looking round the table as Mr..
Stanton entered; 'let us proceed to bus
iness, gentlemen Mr.. Stanton and the
Attorney General said, as they walked
on together, il would lie curious to no.
:ice whether anything ensued on this,
and they agreed to notice. He was shot
that night"
Another strange dream story with
which many Of our readers may be famil-
lar is that concerning Gustavus Vase
Brooke, the tragedian, who, on the day
before he left London to embark on the
ill-iated steamer upon which he hoped
to sail to Australia, met his friend
Greeves at favorite resort in the Strand.
$50 you are really Off to-morrow1-but
not for long, I imagine1'' eyes," said
the tragedian, in an unusually grave tone:
eyes, am afraid may never return.
"Nonsensc. What makes you have such
4 gloomy idea rs that1' "I'll tell you,
Greeves. l had strange dream last
night. 1t was this. l dreamed that
some fellow-an author-came to me
with themanuscript Of a play, and wanted
to sell it to me. / saw in the great let
tiers upon the cover Of the first act the
title. II was The Wreck | turned
over a few pages and came to sketch
in ink Of the closing tableaus, intended
to illustrate the way in which the stage
should be set. Standing upon the deck
Of shaking vessel was man clinging
to the rigging. The despairing face Of
that man was perfect reproduction OF
my own features. The sight of that
agonized face, so perfect a picture Of
myself, frightened me out Of my sleep.
Greeves, tell you that dream means
something serious" "pshawl' said
Greeves. "It means too late hours and
too late dinners" Brooke went his way
and met his fate.
A writer in Temple Bar some months
ago recited some curious instances Of
fulfilled dreams. Agentleman dreamed
his house was on fire, and the dream
made so vivid an impression that he inn
mediately returned, saw il on fire indeed,
and was just in time to save one Of his
children from the flames. A lady
dreamed that an aged female relative
had been murdered by black servant,
and this dream was repeated so often
that she repaired to the old lady's 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 room, as he said, with
Goals to mend the fire--a sufficiently
absurd excuse at such an hour in the
middle of summer. The truth was ap-
parent when a strong knife was found
buried beneath the coals.-N Y World.