The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1866-05-16

Nanin a TrAncc-IseEaaTkabi Escape
from Living Grave.


Ifam ti.e C!.s..ani ierat.
Ina great city people are dying ani be-
Ing consigned % the charnel house every
day without creatiu the slightest ripple
ON the living. moving tide OF Us inhabitants.
But when "A fellow mortal is supposed 10
have departed this hfe. ana arrangements
have been partially made o. con-i-sn Dis re-
mains 10 their last resting place. the con-
sternali0n Of his friends can De- more easily
imagined than described when they dis
cover that he Is not dead. Onig sleeping
Ia "a trance. All the horrors oi q living
grave must certainly haunt their magina-
ton during the remainder 81 hie.
The fearful picture OF human being
strugg CLING for ireedOu from a narrow vault,
where kind friends have carefully lowered
what they supposed to be "a liele-- body,
cannot Doe faithfully represented Dos ll--
most brilliant Imagination.
A case of this k.ld wherein a young
man was upon The hrink OF the grave, oc-
CURED "A few days AGO. Iu this cts. We
withhold the names of aIl parties. hy spec
ial request. but tLe particulars We are al
liberty 10 give.
A young German. recently married o.
handsome lady OF Very respectable plren-
tage, was taken suddenly ill AZ his place oi
business last Friday lie was placed in "A
carriage AMI taken 20 his residence On Eric
street, where he laid in great agony until
SUNDAY, when the disease SO Frustrated his
physical powers that he lay motonless
upon the bed, while weeping friends sur
rounded the couch. To AN appearances he
was dead, and 10 was 40 decided. Arrange
ments were about 10 bee made for the inter
ment when the young wife, feeling she
cOnld not give him mp so soon. Insisted
that the funeral be postponed IN I'll Tuesday
morning. To CRAFTY the woman thus
brought So speedily % mourn the loss Of
her husband, the funeral was postponed.
The discOnsoiate wife spent most oi the
day on Monday in the same room with the
corpse, weeping as though her heart would
break, and sim ciiugiug tO the idea that he
could not he dead.
About twilight ON Monday evening,
when everything about the house was per
fectly quiet, except when the stiffness was
broken hy the signs OF the hereayed widow,
there being hut few persons IN the room,
the body seemed % move 10 was but
light motion. Yet sufficient 10 arrest the at
tention of one fearful eye
When the wife insisted that life was not
extinct, that the body did move. her friends
TO divert her mind from the sorrOwiul scene
Two long hours were spent Ina conversation
the friends urging that she was deceived
possibly los the ilickerins light. rs the shad-
Ows IL east might have produced the effects
she ascribed to vitality.
The feelings Oi that little circle of devO-
ted friends are known only 90 themselves
and Him whose all seeing eye visits the IN
most recesses OF our hearts Durng the
conversation all eyes inyo.untarily rested
upOn the habliments Of the grave and the
features OF him whom they supposed would
soon become one OF rs occupants. At the
end of the two hours another slight move
ment was perceived los ali the party The
scene which followed can never DE de
scribed. The wife chung tO the motiOnless
form OF her husband. alternately weeping
and begging of him % speak just one word,
while the friends wept Tor JOy fastened for
a physician. alarmed the servants los their
strange conduct and presented scene of
confusion generally When the physician
arrived. the friends were assembled about
the hriHg man, suggesting and applyiu.
all the restOratives ever heard or dreamed
OF by any at the party while the Wife /
overwhelmed with joy aud completely worn
out with excessive excitement. had swouned
away and was Wing M the side OF her has /
band, in the same deathlke stiffness that I
had embraced his form but a lew moments /.
before.
The physician took the necessary steps I
10 restore the woman aud reSuscitate the I
man, which was speedily accomplished iu .
both eases and Is We write to-day. the /
woman is Joyous and happy. while the man F.
thinks his escape from a living grave one 4
OF the marked features OF his life