The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-08-24
Do You Believe In Dreams =!


Said very intelligent and cultured
lady from Clinton County, who freqent.
ly visits her relatives in this city, 81
dreamed one night that a neighbor
family were having great trouble. The
family lived Immediately across the
street from us, but were all off at dis.
tance visiting. In my dream l saw the
father OF that family ride up to his house
on hearse, and driver sat on the seat
with him. In the hearse they had the
remains of his little boy who had died
but day or two before
The next day after had my dream
the gentleman l speak OF did ride into
town upon hearse with another man,
and the hearse held the corpse of his
little boy"
On another occasion this lady's broth.
er was suffering dozen deaths from
that terrible disease, peritonitus. He
had injured himself while jumping on
a college campus, and inflammation of the
peritoneum followed. For almost
year his sutferings were indiscribable.
The young man was lying on his death.
bed near Cincinnati, and this sister was
at her home in Port William, near Will
mington, yet it is told by those who
were with her at the time-all of them
truthful and responsible persd ts-that
without any information whatever con
cerning her orother's condition she
would from day to day describe not only
his agony, but the very hour when his
paroxysms would come on, and even
give the words that he would be saying
to his attendants at the time. Finally
she notified those about her of his
death, though as yet no telegram had
been received announcing it. She made
no mistake in the hour.
1t is well known by the friends of this
Port William lady, several OF whom live
in Washington, that the little daughter
was burned to death by an explosion Of
coal oil, and that the mother, while
fighting the flames in her frantic effort
to save the child, burned the flesh of
her own arms and different parts of
her body to crisp, so that for days and
weeks she hung between life and death.
and at one time 80 completely did she
seem to pass away that physicians pro.
nounced her dead, and friends were pre-.
pairing her for the coffin. Remarkable
as it may seem after she had, to all ap.
pearances been entirely dead for some
time, eyes opened and she gasped for
breath. Presently she recovered, and
though many years have passed since
the incident, she is still alive and was a
recent visitor in this city.
On the occasion referred to, when the
lady was apparently lying in the EN-.
brace of death, she tells us that she was
entirely conscious, but that her soul for
the time being was not in her body.
This is her own language:
I" My friends were all about my bed
attending to my wants and staying every.
thing that could be thought of to relieve
my misery. My flesh was burned to
crisp and no amount of chloroforn that
could be administered would relieve nv
sufferings. was anxious to die as this
would be my only relief. Presently
realized that my inner being was leav-
ing my body. was conscious of the
fact that my spiritinstantly released from
the house Of clay and was clothed with
a new spiritual body. Ny soul moved
quickly into distant corner of the room
and felt unutterable horror at the
thought of being again locked up in
that wretched body and / marveled that
my friends should weep, as / saw they
were doing. How strange it was that,
even while stood loathing that dead
body, from some irresistible impulse l
moved toward it again, entered it and
returned to all my earthlp wretched-
ness" To this day that lady is con.
slant sufferer.