Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-30

Dangers fEOan Premature Ineerment-Es.
cape from Burial Alive.

From the Cleveland Herald, April 25.
a case OF trance. wherein young man was upon
the brink of the grave. occurred few DAYS ago in
this city Wa withhold tho es of all parties. by
special request but the particulars We are at liberty
to give.
\ young German, recently married to a handsome
lazy OF very re peotablc parGntage. was taken sud
denly i'll at mis- place of business last Friday lie was
placed IN carriage and taken to bis residence on
Erie street. where he laid in great agony until Sun
day, when the disease SO prostrated hsphysioa now
ers that he lay motOntess upon the bed while weeD
i.is iieLd5 surrounded the couch. To all appear
ances ne was dead, and il was so decided Arrange
menlS We're about TO be made for the intermept
when the young wife, feeling that she could not give
MN up so Soon insisted that the funeral be POSTPONED
ilhtiI tuesday morning. 10 crafty the woman thus
brGught SO speedily to mourn the loss her husband
the funeral vas postponed; The disconsolatc wife
spent most of the day on Monday in the same room
with the corpse. weeping as though her heart would
break and still eiingng to tho idea that he could not
-, About twilight on Monday evening, when every
thlhg aoout the house was perfectly quiet except
wren 5ne stneSs was broken by the sighs of the be-
rsaTed widow, there being butfew persons in the
tne BODY seemed TO move. 1t was but slight mo-
ful eye. ''"-
When the wife insisted that life was not extinct
that the body did move, her friends became anxious
about her reason, and tried to divert her mind from
the SorroWtul scene. Two long hours were spept in
conTersatign, the friends urging that she was de-
celved, possibly by the Pickering light as the sa-
COWS u cast might have produced the effect she as
The feeling of that little circle of devoted friends
Is known only to themselves and Him whose al-see-
ing eye visits the lnmOst reoesses of our hearts
During the conversation all eyes nvoluntary rested
upon the habiliments of the grave and the features
OF hlm whom they supposed soon would become one
Of its occupants. At the end Of the two hours an
ot4er slight movement was perceived by all the party
- The scene which frllowed can never be described
The wife cung to the motioDless form of her hus-
band, alternately weeping and begging of him to
speak lqst one 0ord while the friends wept for joy
haStened lor q physician, alarmed the servants BY
their strange conduct and presented scene of c0nfu
sion generally. When the physician arrived, the
friends were assembled about the HUiag man. suR-
gestng and app ying all the resoratives ever heard
or dreamed Of by any one of the party, while the
wife, overwhelmed with JOY and completely worn out
with excessive excitement, had swooned away and
was lying at the side of her husband, and in the same
death-like stiffness that had embraced his form but
few moments before. -
, The physician took tho necessary steps to restore
the woman 2cG rlSustltate the man; which was
specially ACCOMPLISHED in both cases. and as we write
to-day tAeWom2n Is Joyous and happy, while the man
marked features of his life ~