Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-02-26


suffering from a quick consumption, al
ready beyond recovery. He bore the char
acter of clear minded, very firm, illiterate
| but courteous man, and and a most siren
uous unJelieyer IN Spiritudlisna.
There had been some subdued converse
tion-such as is natural in such scenes-th,
patient taking no part in it except to signify
in faint and gradually diminishing voice
her wants, until about an hour before he
death, when a sudden and indescribabl,
change came over her features, voice ant
whole appearance change, which he
husband noticed by saying with. as ] tho't
with wholly unwarrantable bitterness.
."There go those cursed spirits again."
The patient hereupon unclosed her eyes
and fixed look of unutterable emotion OF
her husband-a look so direct searching
and unwavering. that l was not LITTLE
startled by it. Mr.. Hayden met it witt
something like an unhappy defiance, ant
finally asked of his wife what she wanted
She Immediately replied, in voice of per
feet health, "You know"
was literally astonished at these words
and the voice in which they were uttered
1 had often read and heard of a returr
Of volume and power of voice just preced
ing dissolution; but the voice of the pa
tient had none of that unnatural intona
ton of such-it was as I have said, per
tectly healthy. In few moments she con
tinued in the same voice, and her eyes still
fixed upon her husband:
"William, in your secret soul you do be-
ieve."
"Wife," was the imploring reply, "that
is the devil which has stood between us anG
Heaven, for SO many months. We art
both at the verge of the grave; and in. God.
name, let him be buried first"
Apparently without hearing or needing
him she repeated her words.
"You dare not dss6eliere."
81 do" he replied, excited by her man.
ner, "while you are dying-nay, if you
were DEAD, and should speak to me, 1 dare
not believe."
"Then," she said, 81 wM speak to you
when / am DEAD! l will come to you, at
your latest moment; and, with q voice
from the grave, 1 will warn you of your
time to follow me-"
"But I shall not believe spirit"
"I will come in the body, and speak to
you. REMEMBERw
She then closed her eyes, and straight
way sank into her former state.
In few moments-as soon as we had
somewhat recovered from the shock of this
most extraordinary scene-here two chill.
dren were brought into the room to receive
her dying blessing. She partially reused
herself, and placing hand on the head Of
each, she put up faint PRAYER to the
throne of grace-faint in voice, indeed, but
a prayer in which all the strength of hel
great unpublished soul, heart and mind was
exerted to its utmost, dying limit t-such g
prayer as seraph might attempt, but
none but dying wife and mother could &C.
complish. From that moment her breath.
ing grew rapidly weaker and more difficult
and at twelve o'clock she expired apparent
ly without struggle.
Iclosed her eyes, Strengthened and COM
posed her limbs, and was about to leave
the house, when Mrs. Green requested me
to send over two young ladies from my
boarding house to watch with the dead
All this occupied some ten minutes.
Suddenly Mrs. Miles screamed, and Mr.
Hayden started from the bedside, where he
had been sitting. The supposed corpse
was sitting erect in the bed, and struggling
to speak. Her eyes were still closed; and
save her open mouth and quivering tongue,
there were all the looks of death in her face
With a great heaye of the chest, at last the
single word came forth:
"REMEMBERw
Her jaw fell back in its place, and she
again lay down as before. 1 now examin-
ed her minutely. That she was dead, there
could be no further shadow of doubt; and
so I left the house.
On the following day DR.. Williams made
a post mortem examination of the body
l was prevented, by business, from attend.
ing; but was, and am informed by the
Doctor, that he found her brain but very
slightly effected ian unusual fact that in
persons dying of typhus fever,) but that
her lungs were torn and rent extensively,
as if by a sudden, single and powerful eff.
fort, and suffused, partially, with coaugla-
ted blood. These were all the noticeable
features of the case. She buried on the
afternoon of the same day.
Z
About two weeks after the death of his
wife, l was called to visit Mr.. Hayden
On my way I met DR.. Williams, and told
him my errand, expressing some surprise
at the preference of the family to myself
as 1 knew him to be safe and experienced
practitioner. He replied that nothing
could hire him to enter that house again
He had seen things that-well, I would
find out when 1 got there" was consid
erably amused at the Doctors manner and
warmth; and beguiled my way by fancying
what had alarmed him-a physician
from his duty.
On my arrival I found no person pre-
sent with the patient except Mrs. Green
who informed me that the spirits had beer
playing such pranks that not soul, Dr.. w
included, could not be induced to remain
The children had been gone some time
They were at her house.
Found the patient very low, and with
no prospect of surviving the attack. He
was, however, quite free from pain, though
very weak. While I was at the house,
noticed many manifestations of the pre-
sence of that power called spiritualism
Tables and chairs were moved; billets o.
wood thrown upon the fire, and doors open