The Van Buren press., 1866-05-19
MISCELLANY.
A LIVING GRAvE-MAN IN A TRANCE.
The Cleveland Herald relates the fol

The Cleveland Herald relates the FOL
lowing as occurring in that city:
A young German, recently married to
a handsome lady ofvery respectable fam
lily, was taken suddenly i'll at his place of
business last Friday. He was placed in
a carriage, and taken to his place of res
idence on Erie. ST., where he laid in great
agony until Sunday, when the disease so
prostrated his physical powers that he
lay motionless upon the bed while weep
ing friends surrounded the couch. To
all appearances he was dead, and it was
so decided.
Arrangements were about to be made
for the intermcnt, when the young wife,
feeling she could not give him up so soon
insisted that the funeral be postponed
until Tuesday morning. To crafty the
woman thus brought so speedily to
mourn the loss of her husband, the fune
raj was postponed. The disconsolate
wife spent most of the day Monday in
the same room with the corpse, weeping
as though her heart would break, and still
clinging to the idea that he could not be
! dead
About twilight Monday evening, when
everything about the house was perfectly
quiet, except when the stiffness was bro
ken by the sighs Of the bereaved widow,
there being but few persons in the room,
the body seemed to move. 1t was but a
slight motion, yet sufficient to arrest the
attention of one fearful eye.
When the wife intimated that life was
not extinct, and that the body did move,
her friends became anxious. about her
reason and tried to divert her mind from
the sorrowful scene. Two long hours
were spent in conversation, the friends
urging that she was deceived, possibly
by the Pickering light, as the shadow it
cast might have produced the effect she
ascribed to vitality.
The feeling of the little circle Of de-
voted friends is known only to them
selves and Him whose all-seeing eye Wis
its the inmost recesses of our hearts.
During the conversation, all eyes invol-
unfairly rested upon the habilimcnts OF
the grave, and the features Of him whom
they supposed would soon become one OF
it's occupants. At the end of the two
hours another slight movement was per-
ccived by the party. The scene which
followed can never be described.
The wife clung to the motionless form
of her husband, alternately weeping and
begging Of him to speak just one word,
while the friends wcpt for JOY fastened
for physician, alarmed the servants by
their strange conduct and presented n
scene of confusion generally. When
the physicians arrived, the friends were
assembled round the living man, sugges
ting and applying all the restoratives ever
heard or dreamed of by any Of the par
ty, while the wife, completely overwhel-
med and worn out with excessive excite
ment, had swooned away, and was lying
at the side of her husband. in the same
dcath-li like Stiffness that had embraced his
form but few moments before.
The physician took the necessary steps
to restore the woman and resuscitate the
man, which was speedily accomplished
in both cases, and as we write to-day, the
woman is joyous and happy, while the
man thinks his escape from living grave
one Of the marked features OF his life.
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