The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-18
Remarkable Dreams.

Prot. Proctor, of astronomical fame,
says the Pittsburg Dispatch, related
how the martyred President Lincoln.
at the last cabinet meeting which he
held, said to those around him with a
very solemn face: ''Gentlemen, some
thing very extraordinary is going to
happen, and that very soon" The at
torney-general observed: Something
good, sir, | hope" when the president
answered: 81 don't know, but it will
happen, and shortly, too" The at
torney-general asked: "aave you re-
ceiyed any Information, sir, not yet
disclosed to us?" NO" answered the
president, ''but | have had dream,
and L have now had the same dream
three times on the night pre-
ccding Bull Run, once on the evening
preceding another battle, and this last
night" ''Might one ask the nature
of this dream, sir9" Mr. Lincoln, who
sat with his chin upon his breast. re-
piled: "Wcll, am on a great, broad,
rolling river, and l am in boat, and
drift and drift-but this is not blISi-
ness, gentlemen Gas Secretary Stanton
entereD; let us proceed to business.
President Lincoln was shot down by
Booth the same night.
On the night previous to the attack
of the French general, Masseaa, on
Lord Wellington's position on the
Sierra de Barracottc, the troops of the
latter had lain down to sleep. The
colonel who had command of the Con-
naught rangers had not slept long be-
fore he started up in great alarm, and
to an officer near him, said: ''Don, l
a lH a Vt Al IL
such as had once before the night
previous to an expected battle. De-
pend upon it, we shall be attacked, and
that very soon." The officer spoken to
made hasty tour, and reported all
quiet, and the colonel went to sleep
again. In less than an hour he was up
again, and gave an alarm just as the
French columns were climbing the
hills in front of their positions.
Frederick IL, king of Prussia, on the
10th of August, 1869, dreamed that Il
star fell from heaven and occasioned
such an extraordinary brightness that
he could hardly find his way through
it. 1t was noted that on that day Ma
polcon, who caused Russia so much
trouble, was born. Plato, on the day
before his death, dreamed that he ap-
peared to himself.
United States Senator Linn some
years ago was saved from death by a
strange warning his wife received.
She was at an evening party at Wash
ington, while her husband remained at
home, not feeling well. In the midst
of her enjoyment she was overcome by
feeling that her husbands life was in
danger, and hurried home. She was
just in time to save him from being
burned to death, the bed curtains hav-
ing caught fire from a lamp by which
he had been reading when sleep over
took him.
There is no scarcity of incidents of
this character, but what do they prove?
Ii they were direct to the point and
clear in expression there would be no
trouble in believing they were bona
tide communications, but there is an
inexactness about them that renders
them entirely unreliable--Ify your house
is going to be burned, some of your
friends die, or your team run of, would
it not he just as easy to dream it in so
many words as to dream of a black
cat, getting your clothes muddy, or
falling downstairs?