Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-05
4 REMARKABLE DREAMER.
Adventures of a Really Talented Lawye

4 REMARKABLE DREAMER.
Adventures of a Really Talented Lawyer
Four gentlemen, says the New York
HerGld, were seated one evening last Week
in private room of an uptown resort.
One of them made casual reference to
dreaming, and mentioned incidentally a
paper read the night previous by a clergy
man on the phenomena Of dreams and re-
ported that morning. Two of the party
scoffed at the idea that persons ever
dreamed of events to come. They admit
ted that they seldom had dreams, but
when they did dream the fancies had little
continuity and relevancy. One gentle
man, however, boldly affirmed that he had
bad several demonstrations that the mind
did often carry out in sleep the designs of
the day.
''When l was about u years DID," he
said, like most boys of that age, my prin-
cipal occupation was deviltry Of one kind
or another. An old man, heartily detested
by all the boys, had died in our neighbOr-
hood, and every evening his widow and
grown daughter had to pass down lane
running parallel with our fence, along the
top of which was laid fiat boarding. No
ticng the nightly trips OF these two
females an idea occurred to me. Keeping
my own counsel l laid my plans. l in
tended some night when my parents were
out, to wrap a sheet around my body, and
climbing the fence run along it when the
women came by.
'.Now here is the curious fact. Two
DAYS after, and before l had a chance to
carry out the plan, all the people about
were greatly excited. A ghost had ap-
peared and there could be no mistake as
to its identity. 1t walked down the lane
and distinctly said: i am the ghost of old
So This was sworn to by two wit
nesses. / wondered who had forestalled
me. l asked all the other boys, but none
of them, that was sure, knew anything OF
the matter.
1.-The next night there was a battalion
Of watchers, | among them. All patient
~, some trembling, awaited the coming of
the spectre. Twelve O'Clock, l O'Clock
passed, but it didn't come. Then we all
went to bed. The next morning it was
announced that gentleman had seen the
/ spOok later in the night, and heard its
/ cry. BY this time my soul was filled with
/ envy to think of the unknown who was
| kicking up such a row. A night inter-
vened without disturbance, but on the
/ following night it was laid forever, and
with it the belief of many that souls can
return from the other shore.
"Two men had watched. At last they
saw the gleam of white at the end of the
lane Suddenly it occurred to them what
was the cause of the ghosts great stature.
1t is walking on the fence. They laid for
it, grabbed it by the arm, tore away the
| sheet, and with such endearing names as
| 'D-d little imp Of hell! they awoke the
/ spirit. Glancing wildly about me, | be-
/ came unconscious. The mystery was
/ solved. The neighbOrs were enraged un-
| til it was found that [ was really sick
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/ soon after, and never told until long years
/ had succeeded that the scheme L carried
/ out in sleep | Matched while wide awake.
''Seyeral wears afterWard | made up my
mind to strike out for myself and leave
/ home. Most Of you, no doubt, have gone
/ through the experience, so there IS no
need to speak of my homesickness. l had
/ been away two weeks, and had, besides
/ some money, stock of attachments for
sewing machines, but had not the skill
/ or boidness to dispose of them. One day
| | went to the Grand Central depot and
4 took the first train for home. Arriving at
/ Stamford, Conn.,, L felt impelled to stop
over. 1t was the first time / had ever
/ been IN the town, and yet everything
/ seemed familiar-streets, houses. the
/ very trees shading the walks. At last it
all came to mel had seen Stamford in a
dream. Details returned to my memory,
and, walking along. l could tell what was
! to appear next. / knew that in trian-
/ gular space formed by the junction of two
| streets | should find a brick building, the
lower floor occupied as dry goods store,
! with a sign over it in black and gold. In
this store / sold my stock to man whose
face had never before looked in mine ex-
| cept in a dream.
''Some time before l had had a suit of
clothes made by tailor in town twenty
/ miles distant from my home, and on wear
ing them found The vest did not fit. l de-
| cided to return the garment for altera-
tiOns, and went to bed. In the morning
it was missing, and the most thorough
search could not find it. About ten days
/ after it came to me by express. with q
note from the maker, hoping that it would
now prove all right. Investigation showed
that in the night l had decided to return
/ it. ] had gotten out of bed at half-past
10 D. m. gone to the express office, and
had written a note to the maker stating
the alteration to be made, and then had
expressed the package. All the time /
must have been sound asleep. In 1881 a
friend of mine went to Wisconsin
| under engagement to a manufacturing
concern in Racine. Two months after
had a dream, in which | fanced myself
on train bound for Albany. Waiting in
the depot in Springfield, Mass, l saw my
friend coming toward me, and, getting
down, shook hands with him. and asked
him to explain his sudden appearance
He said: The factory had burned dowr
two weeks before, and the firm had re
fused to continue its contracts In q
Joking way l told the dream next morning
to a gentleman who had been offered
position by the firm named. An hour af
ter | had repeated it a telegram came
from Racine announcing the total de
structiOn of the factory by fire the pre-
vious night. Subsequently letter,
brought the news that the firm had can
celed all contracts.
sIn the township of Guilford, Conn.
lives a queer character known as 'Sherm
Davis-fsherman hunter, clam-digger-
he is anything, in fact, which Will turn
for him an honest penny. He lives no
far from the scene of the Mary StannarC
tragedy, and most people who visite(
Black Rock at that time struck up al
acquaintance with 'Sherm.' His house il
always open. and it is considered the cor
rect thing when in that vicinity for thu
tired hunter or wet trout fisherman to stOl
there and eujOy a chat with Sherm'
family, and after supper indulge in gener
} GUS draughts of punch. The night befOr
/ was to make my first visit TO Davis, il
a dream had the experience to cOme-al
day, in company with a friend,
whipped trOutstreams, but no fl
single fish. Tired, wet anC
hungry we reached Sherm's at ) O'Clock
We found him just emptying dilapida
ted basket containing fourteen trout, tn
largest weighing eleven ounces. II
condoned with us over our poor luck, an,
soon, over nice supper, we forgot th,
fatigue of the day. This was the dream
The reality, even to the weight and mum
Der of Davis catch, was precisely as
dreamed the previous night it would be
except that my friend caught two smal
fish, when my dream had given him II
catch whatever.
The dreamer had finished. SIlenc
! reigned until beer was ordered by one {
the doubters. 1t disappeared and the
Z the party broke up. The dreamer starte
of in an opposite direction to the rest
The third gentleman said to one of tn
I two skeptics. swell, what do you think 2
I The skeptic replied, ''He is remarks
t BILE dreamer, or a remarkable -."
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