Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1866-12-20
A CHOLERA INCIDENT--THE DEAD
COME TO LlEE---A FRIGHTENED
HUSBAND.

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flesh. The husband, though not bad
man, occasionally took a drop too much,
and on such occasions happiness was the
exception in the household. The wife
had 81 900 in greenbacks, which she had
saved aud always carried with her, and
would not allow it to be encroached up
on, but, on the contrary, endeavored to
augment it.
The wife took the cholera, and the
husband obtaining a permit, had her
sent to the city hospital. 1t is not known
that he 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 all
appearance, dead. The doctor was noti-
fed and made his observation. No pull.
sation Of the heart, no breathing, moth
ing to disspate the alusion and assertion
that the patient was dead, was discovered,
and the disciple of Esculapius pronounc-
cd her--dead. She was forthwith dis
robed, placed in the rough coffin furnish
ed by the city, and conveyed to the dead
house.
For hours she lay, apparently corpse,
with all the surroundings 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 cofins perceptibc knock
ing was heard. Superstition seized him;
he slammed the door after him and went
to notify other parties of the myterious
rapping, and several accompanied the
man to the temporary receptacle of the
dead. When the door was opened, a
sight met the gaze of the party which
made the roots Of their hair tingle and
caused them to feel weakness about the
knees. The "corpse" had raised the liz
of the coffin, and was sitting bolt upright |
in it. "Where am ?" says She The
matter was explained to her briefly.
Filled with anger, illness having seem
ingly departed, she let loose the food
gate of her passion at the idea of being
enclosed in such contemplate recepta.
Gle. She had thousand dollars when
she went to the hospital, she said, and
she demanded to know where it had gone;
that amount would have given her de-
cent sculpture. The attendants were
unable to explain the wheresbouts of the
missing money, and the woman demand
cd to be restored to herself once more,
that she might persue the thief who had
robbed her, and secure to her body, if
she were to die, decent burial. The
'resurected" one was help, out of her
narrow pr;son-house and taken to a more
genial chamber.
But here another difficulty arose-her
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
insearch of her husband who she thought;
and perhaps correctly-was consoling
himself with her $1,000, and the idea
hat some other daughter of Eve would
console his lonely hours The surgeon,
observing that madam was comparative
~ we'll, and thinking that it might do
her more harm to retain her than per-
nit her departure, had the iron gate
opened for her exit. Darkness had set in
ere she reached her husbands place of
domicilation. She knocked at the door,
and her husband opened it. With eyes
farely starting from their socket he gaz-
ed-.words failed him-he was paralyized
with fear at the supposed apparition.
At lenght the wife demanded why he
had robed her, insisting at the same time
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 asstonish-
ed, Mortified, to believe bis eyes, and
he begged the "ghost" to leave, she
might have the money, but for Gods
sake to go away and not destroy him. At
tbs the man, with fear and trembling,
landed her tbs missing money, which
she took; but she was not to be driven
f nm her home, and with a push she
opened the door and entered the house.
she had no sooner done 50 than her hus-