The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-11-02


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HUsBAxD.-On one OF tho streets running
parallel With Broadway lived . married
couple who had not travelled together very
smoothly vince 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 u 900
In greenbacks, which she had saved, and
always carried with her, and being the
master spirit Of the firm, she would not
allow It to be encroached upon, but, ON the
contrary, endeavored to augment 1t. F.
The wife took the cholera, and the hus-
band, obtaining 4 permit, had her sent 70
the city hospital. tits not known that hs
accompanied her thither, though he must
have visited her. One morning, the nurse
being out Of the room for some time, he
returned to the bedside Of the poor woman
and discovered her, to ell sppearsnce,S
dead. The doctor was notified. and made
his observation. No pulsation of the heart,
no breathing, nothing to dissipate the iilu.
sion and assertion that the patient was
dead, was discovered, and the disciple Of
Esculapius, pronounced her-dead. She
was forthwith disrobed, placed in the rough
coffin furnished by the city, and conveyed
to the dead-house. For hours she lay APP
parently corpse, with all the surround
ings of death. After the shadows of night
had closed in, the Waterman took look
into the room to see that all was right.
From the inside of one of the collins per.
ceptible knocking was heard. .Supersti-
ton seized him he slammed the door
after him, and went to notify other parties
of the mysterious rapping, and several ac-
companied the man to the temporary
receptacle Of the dead. When the
door was opened sight met the
gaze Of the party which made the
roots of>their hair Jingle, and caused
them to feel weakness about the
knees. The "corpse" had raised the
lid of the coffin, and was sitting upright
in it. "Where am II" says size. The
matter was explained to her briefly:
Filled with anger, illness having seemingly
departed, she let loose the flood-gate Of her
passion at the idea Of being enclosed in
such contemplate receptacle. She had
81 900 when she went to the hospital, she
said, and she demanded to know where it
had gone-that amount would have given
her decent sculpture. The attendants
were unable to explain the whereabouts Of
the missing money, and the woman de-
mandcd to be restored to herself once
more, that she might pursue the thief who
had robbed her, and secure to her body, If
she were to die, decent burial. The "re-
surrected" one was helped out of her mar
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NAL chamber. But here another difficulty
arose-hcr clothes had been destroyed.
Suitable apparel, however, was furnished,
and on finding herself once more of the
flesh and blood, she insisted on starting at
once in search Of her husband, who she
thought-and perhaps cOrreetly-was con-
soling himselfwith her 81 900 and the idea
that some other daughter of Eve would
console his lonely hours. The sur
geon, observing that Madame was
comparatively we'll, and thinking that
it might do her more harm to re-
tain her than permit her departure, had
the iron gate opened for her exit. Dark
ness had set in ere she reached her hus-
bands place of domiciliation. She knock
ed at the door, and her husband opened it.
With eyes fairly starting from their sockets
he gazed words failed him: he was para
lyzed with fear at the supposed apparition.
At length the wife demanded why he had
robbed her, insisting at the same time that
she was not dead, as he no doubt hoped she
was, and she had come home--he would find
it harder than that to get rid of her. The
husband was too astonished, Mortified, to
believe his eyes, and he begged the "ghost"
to leave she might have the money, but for
Gods sake to 60 away and not destroy him.
At this the man, with fear and trembling,
handed her the missing money, which she
took but she was not to be driven from her
home, and with push she opened the door
and entered the house. She had no sooner
done So than her husband, minus coat and
hat, rushed out of the back door into the
yard, and over the fence; and that is the
last that either his wife or his friends have
seen of him.-S. Louis Times, October rs.