A REMARKABLE DREAM.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 275, 2 November 1880, Page 4

A REMARKABLE DREAM.

- [Corerepiorideni « New York Times s ?] ; : About thirty years ago a drover by the name of Young' caoie down from Wheeling, gathering up stock for the Easter market. He left Summer field, a little; bamlet among the hills, aud started on the way to Sarabsville.just as darkness was setting in. He never was beard of more, His friends io Wheeling did hot expect him home for «ever&l weeks. He wasa bachelor and bad no near relatives. . .Something of a search was made for him a few weeks after be rode out into the dat knees 00 hie way to Saraheville, bat in vain. She etory of his disappearance was told over- Bnd over again among the people of the region until it passed into history...- .; twenty '.years :af te.rl;.the disaf p-aranceof, the drover, the daughter of a prominent citizoo of the county living near Sar&hsvilie, had a singular dream. It seemed to her that she was at a fauailiar point. oo the ,'ma.jn road. ea|iqg ffom-ber borne tql Summit field. - It was nigbt, and fjijtorm' wastbreatening. The inky darkness was ever and. unon illuminated by the mott vivid flashes of ligtniog. In some way she was impressed with the idea that she was expected to watch attentively all (hat passed before her. . had no! long to wait. Presently .one of the flushes of lig t revtaled a horseman slowly wendiog hie way up the bill An instant Inter a second flash 'discovered a man approaching from the rear with stealthy tread. The, next flash revealed the bpreeman lyiqg on the ground, and the man whom she had' before seen approaching was holding the horse by the bridle, and i hastily rifling the pockets of the dead man. Becoming more and more interested, she closely followed 5 tbe movement! oJ the robber and murderer, and V*whioD go to a familiar stump, rand carefully deposit tbe.,, saddle-bags, of- .the murdered man !in the) Urge hollow Opening ' within. iJu'B'i. asjhislWork. finished, the to tirnJuponJhei suddenly, an 4 in a flaeh-of light she 1 recognised* the 'features' and form bT ! hef father. "Half ijeiuf with 7rfght she iawtfke, and did not close; her eyes in laleep again that night. Bright and ! early the next day she visited, the. 'Scene of her dream, and wiiba sharp i stick dug U»r the decked rubbish in the; ioteti jr of the old stump She was bo" ! thoroughly Jdipreesed; w.U.fci .the (reality of what she had see^n that she coula notlail to. do this. What was her surprise, when excavating only b few !>ncbes beneath the surface, to find a rusty stiirup and an old buckle or two {The; horrified girl kept her terrible sus s picioD to ! herself, but it :: weighed so upon her mind ; that ; her . coijiiitution ;wasi Boon undermined, and ,at the age of nineteen' she was thrown' into v * ;qui:k consumption and died. Before isbe {passed away however, she related ihejr dream and suspicion, aud^remarked ihat someone must be punished- for the horrible crimp, and she could no longer ! live with the belief so strong upon her that her father was an unpunished, murderer. Of course nothing was everyone in jhe _ wayoLproeeeding* against 5 the respectable citizen lhu» thrown under a cloud of suspicion b) bis daughter's dream. There was nothing in tbelwayi of evidence that could be -, ibrought toj bear on the case.