Year: 1868

From the Cleveland (Ohio) Leader.
On Of the happiest men thai
ever journeyed a hundred miles
from Michigan took the Toledo ex


press on Saturday, at Fremont
bound for Toledo and his home il


Michigan. He told a strange sto
Try, of which the following is the


substance:


! Some weeks since, while at home


in Michigan, he retired to rest af.


ter a hard days work, and falling


asleep dreamed a dream. He ap
Ipeared to have taken a long jour.


-ney from "home," where he had


been located for ten years, and had


scarcely lost sight of, and where


he lived ga happy old bach" and


never thought of matrimony.


In that dream a vision appeared


unto him. He arrived at place
in Ohio, which was called Ere


mont. Itappeared that soon after
his arrival in that place he formed


the acquaintance of a young lady,
and that, after a short but happy
courtship, he married her and re-


turned to his home in Michigan,
where he became wealthy, lived


happily, and raised numerous
family of children, and in time
trotted his grandchildren upon his
knee. He then awoke; it was
then broad daylight, and his
mother was at his door calling him
down to breakfast.


At the breakfast table he rela-
ted his dream to the old lady, and
she was deeply impressed with it.
He told her it was his intention
to at once seek out the beautiful
creature of whom he had dreamed,
and the old lady, believing there
was a special Providence in it, and
beingalso a firm believerin in dreams,
advised him by all meaHs to go
and find her if he could, and if he
couldn't find her to bring back an
Ohio girl any way, "for, you know"
said she, "the Ohio girls are right
smart" So John packed up his
little wardrobe, and took the first
train out for Ohio, and lost no time
in reaching Fremont.


When he arrived at that place
he was surprised to discover that
the sign at the depot, containing
the name of the place, was an ex-
act duplicate of The one he had
seen in his dream, and that the
depot buildings and the general ap-
pearance of the city corresponded
exactly with his vision. He put
up at the Kepler House and began
his search. For two or three days
he was unsuccessful, but finally,
just before he was on the point of
returning home, he came face to
face with a maiden at the post-ot-
flee. "'Tis she," said he, all to
himself, and then he walked up
mantullv and told her his story |
his dream, and of his place in
Michigan, and frankly asked her to
share his lot with him.


She said something about its
being sudden; she would rather
wait a few days before giving an
answer; but he was determined
to have it there and then, and she
finally said she was all his own.
He accompanied her to her home,
and that evening he told her fond
parents all about it. And they
pronounced it good. The day
following they were married, and
at once commenced their journey
Michiganward.


The man was a fne-looking fel-
low, and SO happy that he could
scarcely contain himself. He pro-
tested roundly that it was the wo-
man he saw in his dream that he
had met and married, and that
all, from first to last, had been
exactly as he pictured in his dream.
The lady was of a pleasing ap-
pearance, and a comely-looking
lady, a few years younger than
the man, and seemed to be brim-
full of fun, and to enjoy the novel
ty of the thing fully as much as
her husband. Take them all in
all, they were well matched, and
were doubtless made for each 9th
er. He said only one thing was
lacking to make his happiness COM
plete, and that was the fulfillment
Of the latter part of his dream. I