The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-05-23

Out money and without price," YOU who
look upon our people as q race Of turbulent
devils. and a foul blot upon the good name
OF the land--to You recommend all the
comfort that you can find within these
PAGES. Small though this volume he, it
viii nevertheless save yon the exclama-
ton, ooh that mine adversary lad written
book' CHARLES Fl. SMITH.
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Singular Case Of Suspended Anilna-
tion---A Trance Of Twenty-fou
Hours.
From the Cleveland Herald, 25th.
In great city people are dying and he
ing consigncd to the eharnel-heuse every
day without creating the slightest ripple
on the living, moving tide of its inhabitants.
But when Il fellow mortal is supposed to
have departed this life, and arrangements
haze been partially made to cnnsign his re-
| mains TO their last resting place, the con-
sternation Of his friends can be mere easily
imagined than described when they diseov-
er that he is not dead, only slerI,illg--in a
trance All the horrors of a living grave
mnst certainly haunt their imaa ination
during the remainder Of life.
The fearful picture of human being
struggling for freedom from barrow vault,
where kind friends have carefully lowered
what they supposed to be n lifeless body,
cannot be faithfully represented by the
most brilliant imagination
| A case of this kind, 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 rennest,
bnt the particulars we are 1T liberty to
give.
Ayoung German, recently married to a
handsome lady of very respectable parent-
age, was taken suddenly i'll at his place of
business last Friday. He was placed in a
carriage and taken 70 his residence on Erie
street where ne laid in great agony until
last Friday, when the disease so Frustrated
his physical powers, that he lay motio,.-
less upon the bed, while weeping friends
surrounded the couch. To all appearance
he was dead, and it was so decided. Ar
ranselnents were about to be made Tor his
interment, when the young wife, feeling
size conld not give him up so som. 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 funeral was postponed.
The disconsolate wife spent most of the day
! on 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.
| hnut twiljuht IN Nnrdog a,.on;nn
when everything about the house was per
fectly quiet, except when the stiffness was
broken by the signs of the bereaved wild
ow, there being but few persons in the
room, the body seemed to move. 1t was
but slight motion, yet sufficient to arrest
the attention of one fearful 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 sorrowfnl
scene. Two long hours were spent in con-
versation, the friends urging that she was
deceived, possibly by the Pickering light,
as the shadows it cast might have prodtic.
! ed the effect she asefihed to vitality,
| The feeling of that little circle IF devoted
| friends is known only to themselves and
| Him whose all-seeing eye visits the inmost
recesses of our hearts. During the conver-
sation all eyes iuvoluntarily rested upon
the habiliments of the grave and the fea-
lures of him whom they supposed would
soon become one of its occupants. At the
end OF the two hours another slight move
ment was perceived by all the party. The
scene which followed ean never be dcscrib-
ed. The wife chung to the rotionless form
Of her husband, alternately weeping and
| begging OF him to speak just one word,
while the friends wept for JOY, hastened
for physician, alarmed the servants by
their strange conduct, and presented a
scene of confusion generally. When the
| physician arrived the friends were assem-
bled about the liriRg man. suggesting and
| applying all the restaratives ever heard or
dreamed of by any cg the party, while the
wife, overwhelmed with joy and complete
| ly worn out with excessive excitement,
had swooned away, and was lying ut the
side of her husband, in the same death-like
| stiffness that had embraced his form but d
| few moments before.
The5physician tock the necessary steps
| to restore the woman and recuseitate the
man, which was speedily accomplished in
both eases, and as we write to-day the wo-
man is joyous and happy, while the man
! thinks his escape from living grave one
of the marked features of lis life.
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