Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-02-05
REVEALED HOARD IN A DREAM.
Dead Grandfather Showed Where He Hid
$4,000 In an Oven.

Miss Lucy Alvord, of Taylor
town, N. j., told her brother
Claude, on Sunday morning that
her grandfather, who died in 1887,
came to her in a dream the night
before, appearing SO natural that,
although she had never seen pic
ture of him, she recognized him
from her mothers description.
He was middle aged and wore a
beard. In the dream he seemed
to shake Miss Alvord and arouse
her. She stared at him and was
about to speak, but he indicated
silence and motioned her to follow
hin.
She followed him into the kitch-
en- of the house, a wing that was
built long before the revolution.
The house itself hadI been occupied
Wy the A!vord family for five gen.
erations.
Stepping to the north side of
the great room the man opened the
iron door of the brick~even along
side the fireplace. He stepped
inside the big oven and reappear-
ed with a stone jar which he set
Oh the table in the middle of the
room. He then seemed oblivious
to the presence Of Miss Alvord,
and to her, in the dream, his con-
duct seemed perfectly natural.
He dug his hands into the creek
and brought them out filled with
gold pieces. He emptied the
crock on the table and began to
stack and count the money. He
made separate stacks of English
and American coins and of the
different denominati ons. He
made figures on a slip of paper,
which he totaled and put in his
pocket.
Then the visitor put the money
back into the crock and crawled
into the oven. Miss Alvord peer
ed in and saw him wall up the
crock with bricks and porter
which were waiting. The oven is
six feet deep and the new wall was
scarcely noticeable in the great
depth. When all had been secur-
ed the man closed and locked the
iron door. Then Miss Alvord
woke up. =
When she met her brother at
breakfast she told him the story.
The vividness CT her dream had
frightened her. But she insisted
that her brother attack the wall of
the oven. She was confident that
he would find the stone crock and
the treasure, He laughed at her,
but to humor her went at the wall
with a crowbar. The first light
blow went through the wall. A
few blows demolished it, and there
lay crock such as the woman
had seen in her dream.
The excitemnt Of the sister and
brother knew 10 bounds. They
dragged out the crock and opened
it, and before their eyes lay gold.
They emptied it on the kitchen
table-a table made generations
ago out of a slab of pine. They
counted the money.
In the heap of gold was four
thousand and some odd dollars.
The stacks weighed eighteen
pounds Oh a grocer's scales.
The hoard belonged to Silas
Alvord, the grandfather, IN all
probability. He was the last of
the family to work an iron forge
on the place. He made anchors,
anchor chains and other imple-
ments. When he died, in 1887,
1t was thought he had fortune.
Apparently, however, he left
nothing but the farm, valuable
in itself. Then his relatives
thought he had lost his money in
wildcat banks.
sMiss Alvord's story Of the
strange dream and of the finding
of the hoard of gold was told
about the countryside, and all day
yesterday neighbors heard her re.
peat it and looked in the oven and
! saw where tho bricks had been
removed.-New York World
Grippe is sweeping the country
Stop it with Preventics, before il
gets deeply seated To check