Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-01-17

! from them any very decided lniertnce.-
/ Judging. however. by what lie supp sed or
| vaguely limited, rather than by what he &C
tuaIlv said, was led to believe that his M
pressions were unfavorable especially when
| he again alluded, with much significance Of
/ manner, to the absence OF vendors name
or label OF any sort, on the bottles He
Congratulated me on having discontinued
the draughts, which might possibly, though
he would not affirm it, have been the cause
of my mysterious maady; and expressed a
/ hope that its progress you'd be arrested by
/ the copious use of the medicines he had
prescribed.
My strange complaint, however, had got
such complete possession of my system,
that it would neither yield to the most po-
tent remedies, nor to tie unremit.ng and
allectIonale attentions of nv daug'Fr who
was now assisted b. regular nurse With
/ the fond Illusion of an invalid, still chung
to the notion that my characterized year
! prevented the remedies from proving eifica-
clous but Whatever might be the cause, |
could not conceal from myself that | was
rapidly sinking. The arrangement Of all
my bodily functions increased, tie tlintinr
fits and cataleplc attacks were more fire.
quent and OF longer continuance; and
/ though, is | was assured, my personal ap
/ pearance was lar from Indicating any llai
result, | fell Is If lie were passing away
from me. Al thls iuncture, uutoriula.ely,
the doctor vas summoned to attend h,s sick
mother at Bath; but as he left full nsuuc-
tons as to my treatment, and contemplated
an early return to his home, would not al
low any other physician to be called in
Has absence, however, was Unexpectedly
/ protracted, and | dragged on without any
material alteration in nv state, until one
morning a sudden aud totally new sensation
paralyzed my whole frame My head >u IN !;
felt as II Death had laid his hand lpoa
my heart; and had ust breath enough to
whisper 10 my attendant
Nurse, | am diving all is over, lfeel
suiioclted. Take of some Of the bed
clothes"
These weie tie last words uttered be-
fore ny burial Marvellous and aiinos IN
credible as the statement may appear,
was only IN calaleptic trance, tor although
my limbs were stretched out in all the II
gidity of death, nv senses aud nv con-
seriousness were BY 40 means obliterated -
Nay, they were IN some rcSnect, ,titt ms fed
for could hear distant Whisper whoa
would have been previously inaudible: one
eve, being only halfclosed. retained It's iiil
power Of vision. and though the other was
quite shut, methought could see through
the lid a. clearly a. if 1t had been specie
cla-glass. Nv tongue HAVING lost al noucr
of motion, | was utterly SPECIFIES. but m,
impeded breath str,roiinq m The transit +
my body from vitality to lnanima,ion. for
ced usclf from my thrn,t Win p nose of
gurglIu1 aud stran5uiu.on.
The fat nurse. who hid hitherto an
preached me with maternal smile and a
coaNing voice. as She exclalrned.-.. Now.
nav dear rood >ir. il : time lo take tleniils
How purely you DO look this moruiorl N,
life ont We shall have YOU ridinr the wlitc
cob again in a week ar two r'-tbe f,t nurse
| say. had 10 sooner capubt lie cl.Et,.l
sound have ,us1tlo,,ed han sha ,r,,..l..5
in her natural accents hem, ,fa DEATH
raitle> Then il all oyer -n-a e,,u.h
and hiph time too. God knows H,fe.d ~