Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-02
GHOSTS IN DREAMS.
Singular Experiences of Persons Whose Dreams Have Come True.
 TFroun tb. Navx yorL Worid

| From the New York World.
 "No fat churchyari in that" said Mr
 J. A. D. Harmon, pointing through i:.e doors of the Fifth avsnue hotel .O the
 fast flying snow filing the streets 1 Christmas afternoon. And an glad
 to see the snow," he continued. flor If
 there is one superstition that has firm
 hold on me 1t Is this" and the old gen
 tlemsn settled back comfortably in his
 chair as he recounted his sad experience
 with green Chrlstmasses." Under the
 influence of a post-prandial cigar and
 the growing twilight the semi-cOnfden-
 tial conversation drifted into the super
 natural, and MT. Harmon, who Is a we'll
 known broker residing at All Greenpoint
 avenue, Brooklyn, told how he had
 made his first lucky speculation in Wall
 street about SIX years ago.
 "You may laugh" he said, "when I
 tell you that mince pic was at the bot tom of my good fortune, but 1t was. On the night of February +, 1877, 1 had re- tired after eating two pieces of mince pie. l have a little common sense and am not superstitious, so when I dream ed that the spirit of Daniel Drew came to me l simply turned over, went to sleep
 again and gaid no attention to T.. AL most immediately I seemed to feel a touch upon my shoulder. and seemed to see the old man stepping over me, snak- ing me with his bony fingers. | recall distinctly how l could see clear through his body, the hickering freight in the grate shining through his heart into my eyes. In voice knew so we'll he said: John, buy L. and N., buy l.. and N., repeating the words over and over again. Then he seemed to dry up into the air, and awoke and made a mental resolution in regard to mince pie. But the next morning the words kept re- curing to me, aRd did buy l.. and N. | Of course 1t went up. But the strang- est thing IS that the spot where his fin l gers touched me on the side of the head l Is bald" and the broker pointed to a 1 bald place on the left side.
 Mir Harmon went on to gay that this | was the only instance in which any of | his dreams had been fulfilled, and added l that he knew fully dozen Wall street ! operators who placed implicit eliance | in tteir own dreams and acted on sug- gestons received in sleep
 h nearly every walk 1T life sensible | mei were found who "pooh-hoohed" at | superstition, yet had dreams that they | coud not explain. 4 Broadway hat | meIchant had horror of meeting three | wh1e horses following each other con | secttively, and a Fourteenth street dry | goods man will on no account permit his | right boot to be polished before his left | is b.ackened.
 T G. Wilson, the well-known publish | er believes that at least one dream was of some little value About five years l ago, c. D. Palgrove, of Staten Island. ! was accustomed to visit this city once | week, stopping at the Cosmopolitan | hotel. His habit was to leave bis manu- l script with the publisher in the morn | ing and to have the proofs sent to the | hotel at night for correction. One morn | ing after leaving his manuscript he re- l marked carelessly that the proofs should l be sent to the Astor house. When | pressed for reason for quitting the | hotel he had visited so often Mir. Pal | grove shamefacedly admitted he had dreamed that the Cosmopolitan would l be burned that night Both friends laughed at the dream and thought no more of the matter until next morning, when they found the Cosmopolitan ID ashes. 1t had caught fire in just the l maDner Mir. Palgroye had described.
 President Arthur on hIs recent visit l here refused to occupy his old room at l the Fifth avenue hotel and was accord l ingly put into new quarters. He Is said l by intimate friends to have dreamed l that the spirit of Garfield had come to l him and warned him to shun those well known apartments.
 Jos Emmet is said to have an abiding l faith in the virtue of drinking his matu- l tinal cocktail from alternate hands. In | s dream he was told that by beginning l Monday morning with his left hand, 1 Tuesday with bis right, Wednesday lift l ing the drink to his lips with the left | hand again, he would play to full houses. !
 At Hartford Phillip Conrad, last We'd nesday week, told number of men in | John Miller's saloon that he had | dreamed that Jacob Yeager, a wealthy | German, would die the following Sun | day. The men eagerly watched NIT. l Yesger, and true to the revelation he l obligingly died as foretold.
 NJ. Umphrey, of Stefensville. Mo, lives in house once occupied by a suicide. A few nights ago an alleged ghost visited him at night, and in dream told him to tear up a certain board under the staircase and he would find 6 valuable diamond ring. Of course he found the ring and IS very proud of showing it.
 The Rev. c. J. Kohl, of Champaign, His, dreamed, December 20, that his house would visited by burglars the next night. He set an old bear trap and caught a well known town rough. Two nights later the dream was repeated. He again set the trap, and about mid night caught hls servant girl. IL is said she will sue him for damages.
 Bertha Cromby, of Deposit, Pa, dreamed three successive nights that Texas uncle had died. In few days she received letter from Galveston lawyers, telling her that her relative was really dead and had left s50,OOO. She has gone west for the money. Her friends suggest that T they could dream like that they would go into the business permanently.