New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-11


case Of trance, wherein a young man was
upon the brink Of the grave, occurred a few days
ago in this city. We withhold the names of all
parties by special request, but the particulars we
are at liberty to give
A young German, recently married to a hand
some lady, of very respectable parentage, was
taken suddenly i'll at his place of business last
Friday he was placed in carriage and taken to
his residence on Erie street, where he laid in great
agony until Sunday, wheu the disease so much
Frustrated his physical powers that he lay notion
less upon the bed, while weeping friends sur
rounded the couch. To all appearances he was
dead, and It was SO decided Arrangements were
to be made for the interment, when the young
wife, feeling that she couldnot give him up so soon
insisted that the funeral be postponed until Tues
day morning. To crafty the woman thus brought
so speedily to mourn the loss of her husband the
funeral was postponed. The disCOnsOate wife
spent most Of the day on Monday in the same room
with the corpse, weeping as thoa"h her heart
would break, and cIlngiug to the idea that he could
not be dead,
About twilight on Monday evening, when every.
thing about the house was perfectly quiet except
when the stiffness was broke by the signs of the
bereaved widow, there being but few persons in
the room, the body seemed to move. it was but
slight motion, yet sufficient to arrest the atten-
ton of one fearful eye.
| When the wife saw that life was not extinct,
that tile body did move, her friends became anxious
about her reason, and tried TO dyerther mind from
the sorrOwful scene. Two long hours vera snent
deceived, possibly by the Pickering light as the
shadows it cast might have produced the effect she
ascribed to vitality.
The feeling of that little circle of devoted friends
is known only to themselves and Him whose all
seeking eye visits the nmOst recesses of our hearts
During the conversation all eyes inyoluntarily
rested upon the habments 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 another slight movement was perceived
by all the party. The scene which followed can
never be described. The wife chung to the motion.
less form of het husband, alternately weeping and
begging of him just to speak one word while the
friends wept for joy, hastened for physician
alarmed the servants by their strange conduct and
presented scene of confusion generally When
t9e physician arrived the friends were assembled
ABOUT the t50ang man, suggesting and applying al
tue rest0ratiVes ever heard or dreamed of by any
OF the party, while the wife, overwhelmed witt
Wy ana completely worn out with excessive eX
o!Ieule1t' mad sWooned away and was lying at tn
sue Of Ref husband, in the same deathlike stilnes
before. 0"' ~" t1OAioA
- me physician took the necessary steps to restor
JUG WOMAN WOMAN and resuscitate the man, which wa
} sPeeany accomplished in both cases. and as W
tbe s0f%y D Eg woman is joyous and happy Will
elie llan Ihin6s ms escape from living grave on
} Oh Ihe marked features Of his life.
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A Salem (Mass.) paper says the State eonstab1
E %Ig Pusln5 L1atters in that city to an extrt
orIiuaFy extent. They have visited every ovstf
SALOON and eating room where ale and cider ;WeT
Sod sole every candy shop lodging house, grocer
ana apothecary. Every landlord who lets ten,
menU Ia winch alcoholic preparations are sold ba
been notified that he will be indicted for keeping
common nuisance, if he does not eject bis tengr
forthwith. Apothecaries have also been notide
that they must not sell alcohol or any kind of sb
Tlts, even upon the prescription Of a physici1r
The result that most, if not ALL tile places wher
any liquor can be obtained, are closed, the liauo
agency excepted,