The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1866-01-17
Srlrrtea Sturu.
The Dead Rising from the Grave
"A Wonderful Narrative.

"A correspondent Of tue Crow Point
slIpdiana) Register tells the annexed:
. GRAND TRAVERSE, MIcH., May "a, SO
EDs. RKoIsrkW: send you the FOL.
, lowing account Of most extraordinary
svent-transaction, or what YOU will
because it ought not to be suppress sed.
E. but thoroughly investigated. In the mids,
sof the excitement, here such thing MS
calm and unbiased examination is alto
gether out OF the question nor would it
he safs to attempt it, inasnuch AS the
determination OF the eope is strongly TO
"hush up" As myself am one OF tie
chief characters concerned in the affair,
dare not at,eMp', if possessed The abil
~; to determine the character Of whatI
nan shout to relate.
- leh cleveland to establish myself
l'sse, a. you will remember, some time
last .J"ly-a Young and inexperienced
phy'iciSn. AIm"s, the first patient |
WAS csllet, ,o.see was a Mrs. Nayden-a
woman thirty five years of age. a strong
constitution, aud n well balanced mind
,t"p?'ren'Iy) and (arparen,ly) } with little
or-no i'm msginalion. She was, however,
a"Spritu~lis,," wmi, the reputation OF
being n superior "mrdium" Her usual
physician, DIR. J. N. Williams, was all
se"i. hence her application to me.
found her laboring under n severe attack
oftyphus fever, which threatened to prove
fatal. Having prescribed for her, left,
promising to seud Dr. w rs SOON as he
returned. '.s
This was On Saturday morning. At.
night .Df w. took tie patient off nv
l.~ads. and did no. see her syain until
Friday evening "f tho er suing week. /
then faInd her dying, aud ren,aine ed with
neI ua,il lrer decssse. which took place
precisely nr mrlnigkz. She was, or ap
pestsd to be. r~innai during the whole
my. grit, dough | VA. informed that she
he'd been de!irious the gresr-r part OF the
week. There ~as nothing seraarkable
sbou, her symptoms should say the
disease had taken its nstnrxi course.
sAtihe Time Of her decease there were
in.tls- house. besides n,s sell. her husband,
MIs.sSirsrn her slater, aud Mrs Miles "a
n-ishsM J, Hrr husband, whom 7 par
ucyl~rly noticed, WAS very Thin, and
~srk, he'r suffering from qnick con.
sumption. slready beyond recovery. he
bore tbs- character II ..cIs Il. minded, very
firm, illiterste. but courteous man, and a
most htrsn uous uubeiiever in Spiritual.
IAN. .... ...-
There had Leen come -.usdued conve,
ssu9p, such as is natural in such scenes,
the patient taking no par, in i, except to
s'glIty. ina faint aud gradually diminish.
ing v,eics, her wants, until about AN hour
before her death, ~rsn - sudden aud in
discribsble chsngecHms over he. features,
voice aud appearaucs--a change Which
he' hiRband noticed by ssymg. with. as
] thought, ~hoily un -srran,eI bitter.
EeSS 80 s
Tli~'e goes those cursed spirits a
gshs"
The patient hersuron Enclosed her ewes,
andsfixipg a look u unu'terabis emotion
on her husbsnd--a look so direct, search.
ing and wn~Svering ,lrat I was not Ii,
ne ls,sr|ed Ly it:. Nj. Hayden me, il,
~i.bsomething like an unhappy defiance,
andstiuSlly asked OF his vile wha, she
wanted. She Immediately replied, in q
voies'o! perfect health. "You know"
WAC literaiiy ss,oni,hsd at the words
andshe voice 10 which they were utter.
had often read and heard Of return
OF vsirssne and power Of voice jus, PREF
cedng dissolution but the soice OF The
paiisst had none Of the a,urai in ton zion
OF snsl'--h was. as hsvs said, perfectly
bealthr Ig wfe~ moments she con,in. /.
uedis'ths same voice. and with her ewes
stillsfixed upon her husband:
"WfIam, 10 your secre, soul, you do
belisssi''
"wife' as,hs impIoring reply, "tbs,
is the dssii which has stood between ~.