The Press., 1892-08-18
ALL DUE TO 4 DREAM.

Some Good Fairies Sent Poor Little
 Irish Boy His Fortune.
 There died in this city on April 6, 1890, an honest, hard working machinist by the name of Patrick Shine, who, having accumulated some little wealth and knowing that his end was near, a few weeks previous to his death deeded all of his property to his faithful wife, Ellen, their union never having been blessed with children. The loss of her life companion prostrated the widow, and her grief was so great that just three months later-.-on June 6, 189O- Ellen Shine, no longer able to bear up undeS her load of sorrow, quietly breathed her last to rejoin her beloved husband in another world.
 Ellen Shine died intestate, and her property was taken charge of by Public Administrator James C. Pennie. who at once advertised and otherwise searched for any unknown heirs, so that if they existed they could have an opportunity to present their claims.
 Among the people who knew Ellen Shine was Mrs. Mary Ann Johnson, of 40 Fell street. the wife of a mechanic. Mrs. Shine and Mrs. Johnson were both of them natives of County Cork, Ire land, and whenever thGy met they used to exchange "reminiscences of the days of their youth. When Mrs. Johnson learned ! through the newspapers that her old friend had died and that the public ad- ministrator had charge of her property | for the lack of legal claimants she was greatly distressed, and the matter wor- ried her for many weeks. In vain tho good woman eudgeled her brains in an endeavor to remember whether she had ever heard of any one related to Ellen Shine. She could recollect no one. The matter occupied her mind so much that it is not at all surprising that one night Aug 30, 1891), after retiring, still much perturbed over the fact that all the money should go to strangers, Mrs. Johnson had her peaceful slumbers disturbed by dream. She dreamed of Ellen Shine as a young girl home i'll Ire | land, surrounded by a host of relatives, and conspicuous ill that visionary pie ture from drealnland was the figure of Rev. Father James, well known to the dreamer.
 
 ing she remembered her dream and thought it strange that in it Father James should be mixed up with the youthful days of her late friend. The | more she pondered over this, to her, in applicable fact the more she became convinced that the proper person to- ap- | ply to for information concerning the relatives of Ellen Shine was the old parish priest, and she resolved at once to write to him. . #.
 Her surmise proved correct. In due time she received letter from the Rev. Father James, now known as Canon Hegarty, in which he said that he knew Ellen Shine well when she was still at her Irish home; that her maiden name was Ellen Dooley, and that her nearest relative living was a nephew by thename of Joseph Cotter, residing in village near Cork, called Carrignaver. The canon also advised Mrs. Johnson to turn the case over to some attorney at once
 Judge Levy gave satisfactory judg- ment, without more than the delay necessary for the purpose of obtaining the proofs of Cotters claim from Ire. land, and the young Irish lad was of ficially notified that he was the sole owner of house and lot on Garden street, and another lot in the O'Neil and Healy tract, all left to him by an aunt whom he had never known, by the as sistance of the benefcent fairies o1 dreamland.-San Francisco Chronicle.