Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-11-02
Incident OF Cholera Times--The Dead
Come TO Life-A Frightened Hus-
band. 2" " fNot' H5lu 10
From the St. Louis Times.

From the st. Louis Times.
During the prevalence Of the epidemic,
from which, happily, we are now entirely
free, many brave hearts were struck with ter.
ror lest 1t should enter their own domestic
circle. A little incident has just reached oul
ears, possessing sufficient of the strange and
startling to n.:.ke !. verify of note, though
both time and space admonsh us that brevi.
ty must be observed in its recital. ON ~
On one OF the streets running parallel
with, aud not far from Broadway, lived Q
married couple who had not travelled togeth.
er very smoothly since they had been made
one flesh. The husband, though not bad
man, occasionally took drop too much, and
on such occasions happiness was the excep.
ton in the household. The wife had q
thousand dollars in grecnbacks, which she
had saved and always carried with her, AND
being master-spirit of the firm, she would
not allow II TO be encroached upon, but, on
the contrary, endeavored to augment it. IL.
The wife took the cholera, and the hus
band, obtaining permit had her sent TO tho
City Hospital. IL is not known that he &C
companied her thither, though he must have
visited her. One morning, the nurse being
out Of the room for some time, returned q
the bedside of the poor woman, and discoy
cred her, to all appearance, dead. The Dec
tor was notified and made his observation
No pulsation of the heart no breathing
nothing to dissipate the allusion and asser.
ton that the patient VAS dead, was discov.
cred, and the learned disciple of 4EscyLAPIUs
pronounced her-dcad. She was forthwith
disrobed, placed in the rough coffin furnish
ed by the city, and conveyed to the dead
house, or rather dead-room. For hours sht
lay, apparently, corpse, with all the sur
roundings of death. After the shadows O
night had closed in, the watchman took {
hook into the room, TO see that all was right
From the inside, of one of the, collins per
ceptible knocking was heard. Superstition
seized him; he slammed the door after hin
and went TO notify other parties Of the mys
terious rapping, and several accompanied
the man TO the temporary receptacle Of tn,
dead. 90 gd Igii.SAain1 aiEu a
When the door was opened, a sight me
the gaze of the party which made the root
Of their hair tingle and caused them to fee
a weakness about the knees. The corpse
ting bolt upright In It. "Where am IL
says she. The matter was explained to be
briefly. Filled with anger, all illness hay
ing seemingly departed, she let loose tn
fioodgates Of her passion at the idea of be
ing enclosed in such contemplate recepta
Gle. She had thousand dollars when sh
went to the hospital, she said, and she de
manded to know where it had gone-th
amount would have given her decent sepul
ture. The attendants were unable TO ex
plain the whereabouts of the missing mon
ey, and the woman demanded to be restore,
to hersey once more, that she might pursu
the thief who had robbed her, and secure 4
her body, if she were to die, decent burial
The 'resurrected" one was helped out Of be
narrow prison.hOuse and taken to NOR
congenial chamber. But here another diff
Guilty arose--her clothes had been dc-troyed
Suitable apparel, however, was furnished
and on finding herself once more of tke fles
flesh, and the blood blood, she insisting O
starting at once in search of her HUSBAND
who, she thought--and perhaps correctly
was consoling himself with her thousan
dollars, and the idea that some other daugt
ter of EVE would console his lonely hour
The Surgeon, observing that madam wa
comparatively well, and thinking II migt
do her more harm to retain her than perm
her departure, had the iron gate opened fc
her exit.
Darkness had set in ere she reached he
husbands place of domiciliation. She knock
ed at the door, and her husband opened i
With eyes fairly starting from their socket
be gazed--words failed him--he was para
lyzed with fear at the supposed apparitior
At length the wife demanded why he ha
robbed her, insisting at the same time ths
she was not dead as he no doubt hoped SD
was, and she had come home-he woal
find it harder than that to get rid of her,
The husband was too astonisbed, horrifet
to believe his eyes, and he begged tn
"ghost" TO lcave--she might have the mon
ey, but for GoD's sake to go away and nc
destroy him. At this the man, with fea
and trembling, handed her the missing mon
ey, which she took but she was not to /
driven from her home, and with push sh
opened the 6oor and entered the house. Sh
had no sooner done so than her husband
minus cooat and hat rushed out of the bac
door, into the yard, and over the fence, an
: that is the last that either his wife or hi
friends have seen of him. r,.........