Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-06
REMARKABLE PREsENTINIENTs
A Wife Saves Her Husband-A Sister
Drowned.

"A wife Saves Her Husband-A sister
Drowned.
WASHINGTON Corr. PAiladelphia Times.
sit may not have been fifty years ago."
said a gentleman whose years did not
seem to warrant the belief that he was in
active life much longer than fifty years
ago, ''and it may have been longer, when
DIR. Linn was the colleague of Colonel
Benton in the United States Senate. | was
reminded by a chance circumstance only
a few weeks ago of an incident in which
he and Mrs. Linn played a part. She,
like her husband, was great favorite for
many years in Washington society, and
deSerYedly SO-nOt more on account of her
personal attractions than her Intellectual
qualities. On the occasion when the in
cident to which | have referred occurred
Senator and Mrs. Linn were to be guests
at formal dinner given by the President
ing DIR. Linn, feeling somewhat i'll, con-
cluded to remain in his lodgings. Mr..
Webster calling at the moment, he was
requested to escort Mrs. Linn and convey
to the President his regrets at not being
able to be one of his guests. At the proper
hour Mrs. Linn, escorted by Mr.. Webster,
was conveyed in her carriage to the White
House. The company had not been long
seated at the table when Mrs. Linn re-
she was seated, that she feared she had
not done right in leaving the Doctor and
that she felt an inclination, if she could
do so without marring the occasion, to re-
turn to her hotel. Mr.. Webster made some
observation designed to dissuade her from
departing then, saying that if she felt so
disposed she could leave at an earlier hour
than the rest of the company. So strongly
did the impulse to 90 grow on her that
off CHI 1adn 70 Mr.
ster, and so urgent was she that he did as
she requested, and quietly made known to
the President her wishes. Mr.. Webster
accompanied her to the carriage, and at
her request returned to the table. Her in
structiOn to the driver was to proceed
rapidly to her home, and twice on the way
she enjOined him to drive faster. Arriving
at the spot, without waiting for the groom
to open the carriage door, she, in the
quickest manner, opened it herself and
hurried to the room where she had left her
husband. AS she entered she beheld her
husband on the bed and the clothing in
flames! A moment more would have been
too late. DIR. Linn was in a stupOr, and
in some manner, which was never perfect
ly explained, the bed clothes had taken
fire. He was i'll for number of days.
His life was saved, apparently, through
his wife'S presentiment, which, | think,
w
Mrs. Linn related the facts to Mr.. Web
ster, in my presence, on his calling the
next morning.
II am reminded of this,y said another of
the company, EEOf what the Hon. n. =.
Talmadge, many years a Senator from
New York and for considerable time the
colleague of Senator Wright, told me
many years after he had retired from pub
lie life. He had moved to FOn du Lac,
xXhp 10 q OF of
the school of Robert Dale Owen. 'One
morning. said the ex-senator, my daugh-
ter, with much agitation, informed me
that she had during the night seen in her
sleep a steamer on Lake Michigan 90 to
pieces in a gale, when a large number of
persons were drowned, and among them
her sister, whose return home from New
York was expected about that time. All
the particulars were wildly impressed on
her mind and were narrated with the
greatest minuteness. 1t was the season
of gales, late in the fall. l was and am
now a believer in presentiments. Taking
a hasty breakfast, my daughter and N.Y.
self started in a carriage for ShebOygan,
the port near which the vision located the
disaster. 1t was a drive of several hours.
On reaching the place we found the entire
community out on the lake shore drawn
thither by wreck. The propeller PhGner
had been wrecked the night before in a
fearful gale. Between 20 and 100 lives
were lost. Among the lost was my daugh-
ter. The particulars were in nearly every
respect as they had been previously re-
lated. The facts were substantially in
agreement with the vision or PRESENT.
ment.' Mr.. Talmadge was all the more
firm in his belief in supernaturalism after
that, and, with Mr.. owen, pursued his in
vestigatiOns into its mysteries, which the
latter related subsequently in his book en-
titled FOOTBALLS ON the Boundary of
Another WOrld'v