The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-07-18
delivery, at this end Of the line. 1t read as

delivery, at this end Of the line. 1t read as
follows:
SYRACUSE, 10, P. NJ, May II, 1860.
Take frst train and come. The sudden
death of Helen gave Mrs. R-n shock
which brought fainting fit. Artery under
cancer broke, threatening death from loss of
blood. She specially wants to see you.
This was signed by one Of the two doctors
whose faces DR.. w. had seen in his vision
of the evening before. 1t told him, then,
that the appearance in his library had indeed
been vision, and that Helen had actually
died-whether in the way he had seen her,
or in some other.
Taking the first train, he arrived at the
house near Syracuse without any loss of
time that it was possible to avoid. And on
ringing the door. bell, muffled with Grape, at
about 10 o'clock A. M, on the morning OF
the 10Th, the door was opened for him BY
his eldest son, whom he had not seen for
several years, and whom he might possibly
never have seen again but for this circum-
stance.
We have not time to dwell on the minute
particu lars of Helen's death. but the follow
ing outline must suffice. She had been more
than usually careful of herself for several
days, and more than usually tender to hel
father and mother-a kind Of forebodng
having seized her that something was "very
wrong" with her lungs. Having gone into
Syracuse on the morning Of the l7h to dc
some shopping, she made several visits, unt
did not think Of returning until twilight be-
gan to creep over the land. She then start
ed in evident alorm and said she must "hur
ry home at once" e,"-declining to accept the
escort OF gentleman whose daughter she
had been visiting. When next heard oI
about two hours after, she was found BY
young NJ W, the Doctors son, (ar
entire stranger to her) and only casual!
passing that way, lying at the top Of rn,he
steep hill between her fathers house an
the place she had just le't-a large qunntit
of blood mixing with the clay of the roa
beneath her face, and blood still ooziny ou
of her mouth.
The cause OF this disaster, it was not diff
cult for those who knew her to gu'ss. Hur
rying home, and frightened, no doubt, b
the appearance of thunder storm which
was overhanging the neighborhood, sh'
must have exerted herself unduIy 10 hurry
ing up the hill; and the excitement Of he
feelings, together with the deeper respira
tions brought on by fatigue, had caused tn
bursting of come blood vessels in the lung
and the profuse hemorrhage which ensued
Terrified and unable to move, she hid laiI
on the road about half an hour in state q
Inconsistencies; and when young W.
mounted the hill to where she lay, she ha
,, only strength to point family to the yeIlo
house on tho next hilltop as the place
which she ished to be conveyed.
He was in a wagon which he used in h
business as on agent for Hecker's Farin
and ut once lifted her into t-taking her 0
; gently he could to her father's house,
He then drove into the city and brougl
back with him two doctors-those recog
nzed by Dr.. w. in his library; and in tn
> way it came to pass that he had been stanc
d ing at her bedside, just as his father hc
~ hot tx,hi hinh fra {
the very same moment Of time with the &C
> tual enactment of the scene.
. On futher inquiry Dr.. w. discovered tn
u just the same persons and no others ht
e been round the couch of Helen when ST
u died. And we may now sum UP the n
u markable condolences Of this case as fol
lows: Helen NJ. R. was born on the sam
: day-the third of June-as the first wife
u the Doctor, though about thirty five yeaI
9 later. She bore the most wonderful phys
u cal resemblance to what Mrs. w. had bee
e at the same age. She died on the same da
0 the 18th of May, and as closely as possib
u at the same hour of the evening. The hu
i band of Mrs. w. had q vision of Helen
d death and the exact manner of it at 4
d moment it was transpiring; and this dea
Is was made the means in the hands of ,
Il over ruling Providence for reuniting the e
Il dest son of Mrs. w. to his father. "
d drop the curtain; but will furnish full nam
n and proof to any parties applying with
~ proper motive.
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