Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-10-27
From the New Orleans Delta, Oct. II.

The DEAD ALIvE.-Fmeral Auerted On
tuesday last, woman was taken sick, and
after much suffering was reduced to so low a
state that her case was considered hopeless
Some OF the neighbOrs took turns at sitting up
with the dying woman, hourly expecting her
dissolution. On Friday evening, newly.
married sister of the sick woman and young
girl were acting us watchers in the grief clad
chamber, and were sitting by the bedside
After giving the sick woman her medicine,
they sat quietly sewing, the sufferer having
apparently gone to sleep. The Watchers on
looking again at the supposed sleeper, became
startled at her death like appearance, and ex-
amined hOr more closely. The body was rap
idly growing cold, aud the pulse had apparent.
ly ceased to beat A looking glass was hastily
torn from the wall, and placed over the
mouth OF the PROSTATE woman, but no breath
stain was visible. She was evidently dead
The watchers left the room to procure assist
ance. An elderly neighbor was sent for to
clay OUT the body, and the messenger, meet
ing the undertaken, already notified, told him
OF the circumstance. He proceeded to the
house, arriving about the same time with the
nelghbors who had been summoned, and all
parties, after discovering the nature of the
fatal disease. and talking over some of the
funeral arrangements, prepared to enter the
chamber of death, in order to perform the last
sad offices for the deceased. The young girl
went first into the room for the purpose of
making it ready for the rest to enter. She had
no sooner entered where the body lay than
succession of piercing shrieks struck terror
into the visitors outside. They rushed in and
found the girl on the floor in taintng fit. A
glance around the room at once explained the
cause OF her terror. The dead woman was
sitting up in bed At first the entire party
fed screaming, from the room, but soon col,
ected their senses and returned. The dead
woman had resumed her recumbent position,
and was so far from being defuncf that she in
quired, in weak voice. the meaning of the
strange scene around her. 1t seems that she
had fell into q short trance.li slumber, seem.
ingIy like death itself Just as the girl enter
ed the room she had partially awakened, and
moved her head. The shrieks of the terrified
girl thoroughly awoke her and she sat up in
bed TO learn the cause of the screams. Restor-
atives were Immediately applied, and the ''de-
funct one" is now in fair way of returning to
healthy existence. The climax or the disor-
der had passed
SUICIDE OF AN OLD LADY.-A very respect
able old lady committed suicide iii Paris a
short time since, by means OF charcoal, and it
appears she was actuated solely by desire to
benefit her nephew, to whom she let large
fortune anu letter winch concluded thus
"All my affairs are in order, and you will
find the papers in the hands of my notary.
The only obligations | desire to impose upon
you are these First not to sell my house,
but to retain it for yourself and your descend
ants Second, to publish, in my name, two
volumes, one of poetry and the other novel,
of which l am the author. You will find the
manuscripts in my desk If you cannot OBJ
tain publisher, print them at your own cost.
/ am sure you will not hesitate to make this
trifing sacrifice to my memory, and you will
be grateful to me for thus permitting you 10
enjoy my heritage some time longer than you
had expected. You see l am good hearted
creature. Show yourself worthy of SO kind
an aunt
Boulevard Montmartre, Paris, Oct, 1860"
The recipient of this extraordinary docu-
ment Immediately FASTENED to his aunt's resi-
dence, and found she had asphyxiated herself
by means of the fumes of CHARCOAL
On Sunday, the 14th Inst, the Rev. Mr.
McNeel, Il Presbyterian minister, fell dead
while preaching in the brick church near Mr.
Statenboro's in the southern portion of Dallas