The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1865-08-31
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3 URlED ALIVE.

happening to be spending the winter
Of the wear 1860 at Gibraltar, l one day
in the course of my wanderings, found
myself in the cemetery set apart Tor the
burial of strangers, Protestants and the
like who were not members of the Ro-
mish communion. 1t was bare and
bleak spot enough, situated on very high
ground and there was not much IN the
surrounding details and picturesqueness
of the graves, as sometimes is the case In
foreign burial places to interest sight
seer with one exception. In the extreme
eastern co .ner, and on the most elevated
ground stood 4 simple white cross OF
marble with the initials M. L." on
it, and the date of the persons death;
wreath Of flowers encircled the stone,
and the grave was evidently very care
fully tended and watched presenting
thereby a considerable contrast to those
of the other strangers who had found
resting place on that bleak rock.
So struck was / with the neatness of
this individual grave that seeing an old
workman near by, asked him if there
was any particular history attached to it,
and If he knew who the person was who
was buried there. His answer did not
give me much information beyond the
fact of it being the grave of an English
lady who had died there some years be-
fore, and whose husband paid him (the
old mani a small sum yearly for keeping
that spot in order and supplying the
cross constantly with flowers.
! This incident had quite passed out
of nv mind as a matter too trivial to be
worth remembering, till was reminded
of il. in rather startling manner short
/ time ago.
Twas stopping at country house in
Yorkshire, the host and hostess being
both of them old and dear friends OF
mine. when late one evening the CONVEX
saton happened to turn upon subject
sufficiently exciting to rouse the most
sleepily inclined of the guests into wake
fulness 1t was debated whether IN
stances had ever really occurred OF peo-
pie beng buried aliye-whether, a e any
authenticated case could be stated oil q
man who had fallen into trance, mad
been in that condition buried and after
wards come to life for n brief interval,
and then suffocated in his coffin. Opin-
ions were pretty equally divided on the
subject. the one party affirming that II
was impossible in the present state ol
medical science for anybody TO mee'
with such a horrible fate. and the other
though apparently unable TO cite any
examples, declaring they were sure sucl
thing might happen. though they ad
mitted that cases of that nature woult
be less likely to occur in England, wher'
reasonable time elapsed before burial
than on the Continent, where the law
E enforced the interment of the body $
soon after death.
In the midst of the discussion, the lad
of the house, who seemed to take Iltti
. interest in il one way or the otner, suu
denly surprised us all by saying that
we would give her our attention Tor
short time she would tell us a story o
that very subject. and relate what ha
truly occurred to near relative OF he
own many years before.
"You may have often heard me meI
tion,' she said, turning to me, ''my wv
cousins. Charles and Frank Livingston
though don't much think you have eve
had personal acquaintance with eith'
of them 1t is just now twenty yea
ago that they fell in love with two o. Il
prettiest girls in Yorkshire. sisters an
heiresses, whose names were Mary Al
Florence Arden. As the progress
their love affairs has not much TO
= with the gist of my story, it is enous
Tor me TO say lHsAb "S'N
yerv satisfactorily, and that in due cour
and on the same day, Mary and Floren
became the wives of my two cousin
Charles and Frank respectively Ma
was the eldest sister. though at the IN
of their marriage she was barely ninete
: and to my mind. the most taxing 81
Il loveable of the two. or course, Fra
thought differently, and perhaps 1t W
well he did so.
Il need hardly tell You that the hap
couple spent their honeymoon We
pleasantly in visiting various spots
= England and Scotland, and afterwar
!. settled down a few miles from each ott
} in close proximity to the city OF io
- itself
The marriages happened in the spri
:. Of the year, and in the following autun
- much 10 the delight Of the two brides
ng- was determined that yacht should
|. chartered for . few months, ana