North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-10-25

piercing scream. The faculty were instantly call
ed in, and, in the space of few days, her health
was completely re- established. The account which
she gave of her situation is extremely curious
She said, that she appeared to dream that she wa
dead, but that she was sensible of everything thai
was passing around her. and distinctly heard hel
friends bewailing her death she felt them enveloI
her in the shroud and place her in the coffin. The
sensation gave her extreme agony, and she attempt
ed to speak but her soul was unable to act on the
body. She describes her sensations as very con-
Trajectory, as if she was and was not in her BODY
at one and the same instant. She attempted IN
vain to move her arms, to open her eyes, or to
speak. The aoony of her mind was at its height
when she heard the funeral hymn, and found that
they were about to nail down the lid OF the cothn.
The horror of being buried alive gave new I'M
pulse to her mind, which resumed Its power over
the corporeal organization, and produced the effects
which excited the notice of those who were about
to convey her to premature grave
The Leipsic Chirurgical records the following
distressing event. as having occurred to an officer
of artillery, who was man of gigantic stature,
and robust make. Being mounted on an unman-
ageable horse, he was thrown from his back, and
received severe confusion his head, which rem
dered him insensble. He was successfully ire
PANIED, bled, and other usual means of relief a.
dopted but he fell gradually into more and more
hopeless condition of stupor, and was finally be-
was buried with indecent haste, in one of the pub
lie cemeteries. He was buried on Thursday, and
on the following Sunday, the grounds, as usual,
being thronged with visters, intense excitement
was produced by the declaration of peasant, that
while he was sitting on the grave of the officer he
had distinctly felt motion of the earth as if some
one was struggling beneath. OF course but little
attention was at first paid to the mans assertion,
but his evident terror, and the logged obstinacy
with which he persisted in his story, had at length
their natural effect upon the crowd. implements
were hurriedly procured, and the grave, which was
very shallow, in a few moments was so far thrown
open as to render the head of the occupant visible
He was then apparently dead, but he sat nearly
erect in the coffin the lid of which, in his furious
struggles he had partially upGfted. They convey
ed him to the nearest hospital, and there he was
pronounced still living, although in state OF as
phvxia In few hours he so far revived as to re-
cognize his acquaintance, and in broken accents
spoke of his agonies in the grave. 1t appeared
that he had been conscious of life for more than
an hour, while buried, before he relapsed into a
state of insensibility. The grave, 1t seems, was
filed loosely with a very porous earth, and some
air was thus admitted. He heard, he said, the
of those over his head, and endeavored
10 make himself heard in turn. 1t was the noise
and tumult within the grounds which appeared to
awaken him from deep sleep, but no sooner was
ne awake than he became fully aware Of the hor-
,ors of his position. This man would have lived,
10 doubt, for he was doing we'll, had it not been
or some silly experiments with the galvanic battery,
which was applied without any necessity, and he
uddenly expired in one of those ecstatc paroxysms
which its application is said occasionally to super
induce.