Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-12
MYSTERIOUS INFLUENCES.
Dreams and Premonitions which Do Not
Come 20 Pass are Forgotten.

Come TO Pass are Forgotten.
q am going to tell you something that
IS true, said a Brooklyn man the other day
TO New York San reporter " ! Gu can
believe it or not, but it's true. | have q
cousin who went to Europe for her health
last year. While in France she died Com
pairing time between France and America,
it must have been within an hour of her
death that her mother, who was knitting in
the sitting-room at home, laid her knitting
work i'll her lap and looked up with sort
of stunned expression. Why! Alice is
dead = she said. Next day we got a dis
patch by cable saying she was dead"
There Yves, said another member OF
the party, . a curious illustration of mind
reading or spiritual telegraphy, or what
ever you like to call it, during the war.
You remember that the battle of Gettys-
burg was settled on the Sd of July, though
Lee lay on his arms expecting another
attack on the 4th, and began his retreat
that night. The surrender of Vicksburg
occurred on the 4th. Gettysburg and Vicks-
burg are 500 miles apart, or perhaps more
and no telegraph message had been re-
ceived at Gettysburg-at least, if there
had been, it could hardly have reached
headquarters before shutdown on the 4th
The Twelfth Corps had been drawn up in
line on the afternoon of the 4th, with a
view to changing position, and was stand
ing at in place rest when one of the sol
diers exclaimed, Vieksburg's taken = The
word passed down the line, and cheer
broke from the troops. That news and the
certainty that Lee had sustained a severe
defeat put new life into them. But when
an attempt was made to trace the news to
official sources it couldn't be done. That
soldier felt it i'll his bones and had
RIGHT Na.yt, How Il al,
rived that proved the soldier had spoken
the truth"
Yes, those things are unaccountable.
said a third speaker The intuitions, or
whatever they are, needn't be SO very inn
portant, either. | remember that my father
was sitting in his library one afternoon,
when he took out his watch, looked at it,
and said: E will be here in ten
minutes E was his brother-in-law,
who lived in a neighboring town, and
though he called frequently, he was not ex-
pected that day. After he had spoken, my
father seemed rather surprised at himself,
and laughed little awkwardly. My
mother asked how he knew that E
would be there, and he said he didn't know;
he had spoken on the impulse of the mo-
ment. Sure enough, in ten minutes the
bell rang. E was at the door, He
had only come to dinner and his visit was
not important; but he had somehow pro-
jected his personality ahead of him."
Said fourth: There really is such a
thing as seeing beyond the limit of human
vision. I'll tell you little Renaissance
that | can swear to, and then let's talk
about something else. When l was 16
years old | had no more idea of going to
London than had of going to Nova Fem
bla. knew practically nothing about the
city. One night dreamed that was there
in park facing some public buildings, and
over the trees and roofs at the right were
the towers of Westminster Abbey and Par
lament buildings. That night an impor-
tant letter was on its way summoning me
to London. | went there, arriving Just as
the man who had written the letter was
leaving the house for walk. | saw my
trunk safely slowed and then went along
with him. We strolled out to st. James
Park to hear the band play At one point
in the park | looked behind me, and there
was the picture | had seen in my dream
trees, towers, public buildings, and all
Before | went there | hadn't the slightest
idea how the city was built. For aught /
knew, st. Paul's, Westminster Abbey.
Temple Bar and the British Museum stood
In row on one street. How did man
age i'll dream to see those buildings east
of st. James Park just in the positions and
size, shape and color that they really
have ?'