The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-03-21
DAILY CLARION
RuriRA Alive

cen for some time i'll of a slow
ring fever. My strength grad
ted, but the sense of life seemed
more acute as my corporeal
Ecame weaker. l could see by
of the doctor that he despaired
Eovery and the soft and whis-
row of my friends, told me that
hing to hope.
Ry towards evening the Crisis !
Re. was seized with strange
scribable quivering-a rushing /
Ps in my ears-I saw around my
Vulnerable strange faces; they
yht and visionary without bodies:
as light and sclemnity, and l
move, but could not. For a
ime a terrible confusion over,
d me and when it passed OFT all
Election returned with the most
distinctness, but the power DINO
departed. | heard the sound OF /
at my pillow, and the voice OF
50 sav-.sHe is dead !" l can
rjbe what | felt at these words. L
my utmost power of volitlon to
self, but / could not move an eye
fter a short pause my friend drew
nd sobbing and convulsed with
rev his hand over my face and
NV ewes. The world was then
ed, but still | could hear, and sui
When my eyes were closed, l heard
attendants that my friend had lett
bm, and | soon after found that
dertakers were preparing to habit
garments for the grave. Their
htlessness was more awful than the
# NV friends. They laughed at
nother as they turned from side to
md treated what they believed to
,orpse with the most appalling RIB
When they had laid me OUT
wretches retired, and the degrading
lity of affected mourning com
ed. For three days number OF
Is called to see me. | heard them
accents speak of what / was and
than one touched me with his
r.
hen all who had any peculiar inter
me, had for a short time looked a,
the coffin, | heard them retire anc
ndertaker's men placed the cover OF
otfin and screwed it down. Their
two of them present; one OF then
occasion to 60 away before the tasl
done Iheard the fellow who wa
Lerin to whistle as he turned tn
v nails, but he checked himself, an
Dleted his work in silence. l wa
left alone. Every one stunned tn
h. I knew, however, that | was ne
buried, though darkened and motion
1 still had hope; but this was nj
permitted. The day Of intermel
ved-I felt the coffin lifted and born
V; | heard and felt it placed upc
hearse. Then there were a crowd
pie around; some of them spoke so
fully about me. The hearse beg;
nove-I knew thatit carried me
grave. 1t halted, and the coffin W
IN out felt myself carried on t
ulders of men, by the inequality
ion. A pause ensued; | heard t
Is of the coffin move | felt it swl
dependent by them. 1t was lowert
I rested on the bottom of the gray
cords were dropped upon the lid
I'd them fall. Dreadful was the eff
len made to exert the power OF actlt
nv whole frame was lmmoVab
m after a few handsful of earth w
own upon the coffin. Then was
or pause after which the shovel v
ployed, and the sound became less a
5, and by the smging reverberatlon
coffin, | knew that the grave v
ed up, and that the sexton was tire
in the earth, slapping the grave W
fat of the spade. This, too ceas
d all was silent.
I had no means of knowing the la
time, and the silence continued 1
death, thought l, and l am doomed
main in the earth till the resurrect
-esen,lv the body will fall into corr
bn, and the epicurean worm, that is @
tisfed with the flesh of man, Will c.
ID partake of the banquet that had b
Eepared for him with so much solicit
Id care. In contemplation OF
ogt hideous thought, / heard
|und in the earth above me. and l ian
at the worms and reptiles of d.
ere coming-the mole and the RAJ
,e grave would soon be upon me.
bund continued to grow louder
carer. Can it be possible, thought L;
" friends suspected that they
urired me too soon? The hope
-ulv like light bursting through
loom of death. The sound cea
nd presently l felt the hand OF
eadful being working about my tn
hey dragged me out of the coffin BY
cad. | felt again the living air, b'
vas piercingly cold; and was ca
Witty away thought to judgn
perhaps perdition.
When borne some distance l
brown like clod, but it was not OF
round. A moment after | found
elf in a carriage, and by the
haDge of few brief sentences l +
hat | was in the hands of two of
obbers who live by plnnderlng
rave, and selling the bodies of PAL
,hildren and friends. One of the
|ang snatches and scraps of obs
longs as the close carriage ratified
he pavements of the dark street. '
halted | was lifted out, and l soon
Feived by the closeness of the air
he change of the temperature, that
,arried into a room and, being stri
,f my shroud, was placed naked
he table. BY the conversation OF
wo fellows with the servant who
nitted them, l learned that l was
light to be dissected.
Ny eyes were still shut, and l
nothing, but in short time l heard
he hustle in the room, that the stu
# anatomy were assembling. SoI
hem came around the table and
,mined me infinitely. They
DIeased to find that so good a 81
lad been procured. The demonst
,imself soon came in. Previous tt
thinning the dissection he propos
nv on some galvanic experiments
n apparatus was arranged for the
bose. The first shock vibrated thu
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