Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-05-02

care 1Rem mmTioA ALIVE.
qErom me oatses.aa Hsfasd, 49, Is
Aca.e Of naDce, Wherein Q yoane aAAn WaA
upou ,hs brink Of the grave. occurred few
daysssro in this cay. -SFe wishhoid ne names
a q. :. we are q Ssr,y . ave tne par
German, recentay manned to . handsome lady
Of vsry respr ctable percentage was taken, sud-
denl1 III NJ his place q business last FRIDAY
He Vas placed in casriage ana taSeo 70 ~.
resistance, Erie street, where he lai6 IN 1reaf
agony until Sunday, wAen the disease SO pros
,raiea ms physical powers that he lay melton
less apon the bed, while weeping frseods sur
rounaed the couch. To all Appearances ne was
dead, and il was SO decided. Arrangements
Were eelng made for the intermeaf, when the
young wife, feeling that she co0ld Eot give
INN UP so soon. insisted that the funeral he
postpoaed until Tuesday morning. To crafty
me woman thus broughtso speedily 70 mourn
hne loss OF her husband, 9he funeral Wks post.
ponpd- The disconsoIafe wife spent most of
che day on Monday in the same room With the
corpse, weeping as though her heart would
elsak' aad sun eiing,ag TO the idea that he
could not be dead. AboaS twilight on Monday
evening, when everything absut the house
vas perfectly quiet, exoept when the stiffness
Was broken by the signs of the beeeaved
widow, there being bat few persons in the
Boom, the body seemed 70 move II was cut a
slight motion, yet sufficient TO arrest the at
tehtlon OF one fearful eye. When the wife
insisted that life was not extinct, that the
body did move, her friends became anxious
anent her reason, and tried 70 divert her mind
frQn the sorrowful scene. Two long hours
GoS spent Ia CONVERSATION, t0e friends urging
mat she was deceived, possibly by the flicker
ing light, as the shadows 1t east might have
pfqdaced the effect she ascribed TO vitality
Tbe feeling Of that little circle of de voted
friends Is known only TO themselves and Him
whose all-seeing eye visits the inmost r-cesses
OF our hearts. During the con yersation All
eyes fnyoiunfarily rested upon the habili-
Infnts OF the grave and the features of him
whom they supposed soon would become one
OF its occupants. At the end OF the two hours
announcer snght movement was perceived by
AL the party. The scene which followed can
never De described. The wife chung To the
mononlesss form of her husband alter
naieIy weeping and begging of him to sneak
Just one word, while the friends went for low
hasfened for a ply sicion, alarmed the servants
Dy their strange conduct and presented a scene
OF confusion generally. When the physician
arrived the friends were assembled about the
hrl"g man, suggesting and applying all the
restoraflves ever heard dreamed of by apy
one OF the party, while the wife overwhelmed
with Joy and completely worn ont with ex-
cesslye excitement, had swooned away and
was lying AT The side of her husband and in
the same death like stiffness that had en-
braeed his form hut u few moments before
ne physician took the necessary steps to re-
store the woman and resuseitate 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.