Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-04-03
A REM ARKABLE DREAMER.
The Exact Figures in the Kentucky
Senatorial Race Given Three
Weeks in Adyance--Other
Events FOreshadOWed.
Bluegrass (Ky.) Slipper.

Bluegrass (Ky.) Slipper
j. w. Harper, who has lived in Wood
ford county all his life, and is one of its
best and most substantial citizens, has had
four or five dreams, scattered over period
of thirty years, which have been verified
in wonderful manner. He seldom
dreams, but when he has one of his proba-
BILE dreams it impresses him greatly, and
he confidently predicts its verifcation.
On Sunday night three weeks ago, he
dreamed that he saw, in a vivid manner
the figures that indicated the result of the
Senatorial race at Frankfort, and these
figures were sixty -four and fifty seven, the
former for Blackburn and the latter for
Williams. He went to Frankfort next
night and told Captain Joe Blackburn that
he would be elected by that vote, and in
the presence Of half dozen gentlemen
wrote the vote on the wall. Captain Black
burn expressed confidence in Mr.. Harper's
dream, and the result showed him to be
correct. 1t will be remembered that the
vote stood sixty-three to fifty-seven, but
Representative Harris had sent word to
Blackburn that his vote should be caste
for him if it was required, thus making
Blackburn's actual vote sixty-four.
In February, when the race-horse Lex
ingtOn was two years old, Mr.. Harper
dreamed that he saw the great race which
took place in Lexington the following May.
He dreamed that bay horse, with four
white feet and little white on his nose,
was the winner. This answers the descrip-
tiOn of Lexington exactly, although Mr..
Harper had never seen him nor heard him
described. He dreamed that John Harpers
Irishman was second and Bradley's Vandal
distanced. He went by the next morning
and told Bradley and others of his dram,
when Bradley remarked mo such id
chuckle-head horse as that can beat Van
dal." The race came off three moths later,
and resulted exactly as Mr.. Harper had
dreamed.
Again, when Lexington was four years
old, he was to run in great stake race
in New Orleans Mr.. Harper dreamed in
March that Lexington won it. with a
sorrel horse he did not know second, and
Highlander distanced. He bet $40 with
General Abe Buford on the result Of the
race, and won it, the sorrel horse proving
70 be lie Compile.
A short time before the war he dreamed
that he was standing in certain place in
this yard, when he saw passing by man
with an infiamed and swollen face, who
seemed to be the bearer of evil news. He
thought that it turnened out that a num-
Der of negroes in Midway were arrested for
stealing goods from the store of Kercheval
& Storey, and among them was one, Nose,
a favorite negro belonging to William
Harper. He thought that Nose proved
himself to be innocent of the charge, and
was liberated. He told this dream to his
wife and friends Two weeks later he was
standing in the exact spot he was in in the
dream, when he saw {. man with a swollen
face pass hurriedly by. He went into the
house and told his wife that something
was wrong at Midway, mounted his horse
and went to town. The first thing he saw
was a gang of negroes on the street under
arrest, and among them William Harper's
Nose. They had stolen boots shoes, cloth
ing, etc, from the store of Kercheval &
Storey. The negro Nose had new hat on,
which he had bought, and was accordingly
set free. The facts set forth above are
we'll known to Mr.. Harper's friends, and
can be vouched for by many substantial
men.