Year: 1859




Hector Mcdonald, Of Canada, wss re-.
c. on visit to Boston. When he left
his family was enjoying good health. and
ne anticipated pleasant journey. The sec
ond morning after his arrival in Boston, when
leaving bis bed to dress for breakfast, he saw
reflected In mirror the corpse Of womsn
lying in the bed from which he had just risen
Spell-bound, he gazed with intense feeling
and tfied to recognize the features of the
corpse, but in vain +; he could not even move
his eyelids; he felt deprived of action, for
how long he knew not. He was at las,
startled by the ringing of the bell for bresk.
fast, and sprang to the bed 10 satisfy himse i
u what he had seen reflected in the mirror
was real or an illusion. He found the bed
IS he had left it he looked sgain in the mir.
ror but only saw the bed truly reflected
During the day he thought much upon the
Illusion, and determined next morning 10 rub
his eyes and feel perfectly sure that he was
wide.awake before he left his bed. Bot,
notwithstanding these precautions, the vision
was repeated, with this addition, that he
thought he recognized in the corpse some re.
semblance to the features OF his wife.


In the course of the second day he receiv-
ed letter from his wife, in which she stated
that she was quite we'll and hoped he was
e'joying himself among his friends. As he
was devotedty attached to her, and alway.
anxious for her safety, he sed that his
morbid fears had conjured 10 the vision he
had seen reflected in the glass +; and went
about his business as cheerfully as usual
On the morning of the third day after he h ad
dressed, he found himself in thought In his
own home, leaning over the coffin of his wife
His friends were assembled, the minister
was performing the funeral services, his
children wept-he was ia the horse of death
He followed the corpse to the grave he
heard the earth rumble upon the coffin, he
saw the grave filled, and the green sods GOV.
cred over ;yet. by some strange power he
could see through the ground the entire form
OF his wife as she lay In her coffin.


He looked to the faces of those around
him, but no one seemed to notice him he
tried to weep, but the tears refused to flow !;
his very heart felt as hard as a rock. En-.
ruged at his own want Of feeling, he deter.
mined to throw himself upon the grave and
lie there till his heart should break, when he
was recalled to consciousness by a friend
who entered the room to inform him that
breakfast was ready. He started as il awoke
from profound sleep, though he was stand.
ing before mirror with q hair crush in his
hand.


Alter composing himself he related to his
friend what he had seen, and both conclude ed
that good breakfast only was wanting to
dissipate his unpleasant Impressions. A few
days afterward, however, he received the
melancholy intelligence that his wife Had
died suddenly, and the time corresponded
with the day he had been startled by the frs,
vision in the mirror. When he returned
home he described mnuteIy al the details o.
the funeral he had seen in his vision, anc
they corresponded with the facts. This i:
probably one OF the most vivid instances o
clargoyohce on record. Mr.. Mcdonald
knows nothing Of modern spirltualism ol
clsirvoyance, as most of his life has been
passed upon farm, and among forests. L
may not be 0miss to state that his father
who was Scotch Highlander had the git o
second sight" Boston Traveller, 10th inst