Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-15

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A boy was adopted by rich uncle, who
made him his heir, executing a will in his
favor. The uncle went to China on bus
iness, and while he was there the nephew,
who had grown into manhood, dreamt that
he saw the old gentleman and a strange
woman in a room furnished in Oriental
style. Both gradually turned into corpse
candles, the woman finally disappearing
few seconds before the man. Just at this
time the nephew married, and attributing
his dream to dyspepsia and love-sickness,
thought no more of the matter until sub
sequent events brought it to his recollee-
ton. The complications which followed
were remarkable, although every fact was
sworn to as such in the English Courts.
In the first place, the Chinese mails
brought word that the uncle had married,
and had died before his honeymoon was
we'll over; and that the newly-married
couple had succumbed simultaneously to
cholera on the very day of the dream.
PLOT WHICH THICKENED.
Next it appeared that the nephew's wife
had been disinherited by rich relative
in favor of distant connection, who was
none other than the lady who for but
few weeks had been the wife of the rich
uncle. The legal complication was COM
plete. The English Probate Court de-
cided that the uncle's marriage invali
dated his will, and that, as his estate con-
sisted of personal property only, it must
be divided among his surviving relatives
in due proportion. But the "rich rela-
tive" had also died about a week before
the beneficiary of his will, and as the
property was all real estate it must go to
the benefciary's next of kin. Then the
nephew remembered that in the dream
the woman died first, sent an agent to
China and ascertained that this was the
case, and on an appeal it was held that the
real estate passed from the wife to her
husband and from the husband to his next
of kin, who happened to be the nephew.
The last named was severely cross-exam-
ined as to the dream, but his evidence was
not shaken His dream helped him to
fortune.
TWO HUNDRED TO ONE.
The influence of dreams is not always
salutary, and there are instances In which
men have been prejudiced and even ruined
by following advice given them during
their sleeping hours. A young English
man of good birth and prospects was in
duced to gamble in consequence of dream,
and he finally died dead broke" on we'll
known race course. The main incidents in
his history were made the plot for a very
readable novelette,, but the evidence at the
inquest was as follows The man, whose
name was Neville, left college and COM
menced to read for the bar. He knew
nothing of racing, and was scarcely aware
of the names of the favorites in the coming
"Derby" and "Oaks." But in a dream he
saw the frst-named race. There was the
start, the rush round the dangerous bend
at Tattenham corner, a neck-and-neck race
up the home-stretch, and victory for
chestnut horse, whose Jockeys colors
were crimson and orange. After awhile
he saw another race, in which there were
fewer horses, and which was won by
black filly.
In the morning he read the sporting
columns of the daily papers, and found
that horses corresponding with the winners
of his dream were rank outsiders in the
Derby and Oaks respectively. After
worrying himself into fever, he decided
to wager on a double event." and when
responsible bookmaker offered him 200 to
1, he literally 'went and sold all that he
had" and backed the outsiders. Both
foreseen in his dream, and young Neville
at % found himself the owner Of for
tune. Little good did it do him. He
abandoned his studies, becoming race
frequenter and an inveterate gambler In
five years he was heggar, and, after
long illness, he decidea. TO quit the turf
and work for his living. A few years of
laborious dirt-shoveling and stone-break-
ing enabled him to save enough money to
90 into business on small scale, and at So
he was fairly prosperous tradesman.
Then he again dreamt of a double event,
sold out his business and even his surplus
wearing apparel, and put every cent on it.
In the first race his horse won, and by
hedging he could have assured himself OF
life competency. But he refused to do
this, and although the dream horse won in
the second race as well, in was disquali-
fed, and Neville's body was found on the
outskirts of the heath He had died of
over-excitement and despair, but the
Coroner's jury called it 'heart failure"
DREAM SAVED A LIFE.
A clergyman of the English Episcopal
Church-the Church of England-once
saved the life of a young girl who had
loved well, but not wisely. He did so at
the instigation of voice which called
him from sleep one very dark and miser-
BILE night. A practical, matter-of- fact man,
he seldom dreamt, and was inclined to be
trife severe on people who were guilty
OF such an lndiscretion. But on the night
in question he dreamt that daughter of
one his parishioners had just left her home
and gone out in the darkness to meet her
betrayer, who had promised to meet her
in secluded spot and convey her to
place where her baby might be born in
secrecy and safety. The man was at the
place of meeting long time before the
appointed hour, and spent the period of
waiting IN the singular occupation of dig
ging grave.
The clergyman woke with a start, and
springing out of bed, dressed rapidly and
hurried to the field, in which the meeting
in the vision had taken place. He arrived
in time to see the meeting between the
two who had once been lovers, and to see
the man hurl the girl to the ground by
the side of the open grave and raise his
spade in the air as if to knock her brains
out. The psrson was an athlete by nature
and by college training, and the blow he
bestowed on the would-be assassin made
that individual see stars and think himself
some one else. The girl was the one seen
in the dream, and she was taken home and
cared for. The man was also cared for
by the police. At the trial the clergyman
was asked the question, what he was doing
in the field at $3.50 A. NJ. on damp and
cold night; in reply he narrated the
dream. This story is true down to minute
details. The dreamer has been said to
have been the Bishop of Sodor and Man,
but it was really the Rev. Herbert Powys,
B. A. of Oxford.
Curing Drunkards.
The London correspondent of the Arser-
ican Practitioner and Ne,rs says that we'll
known medical man, who has recently been
in Norway. gives glowing description of