The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-02-07
Remarkable Case Of Tl.aisce.

Remarkable Case Of Trance,
The people living iu the vicinity of
Wbiteland, johnson county, have recently
been very much excited ovr u matter
which, to say the least, is very strange -
Several weeks since Miss Vaa ArsdaIe, n
young woman about seventies years old,
living at the house of family near
Whlteland In the capacity of IL servant,
was taken sick with something like hys-
tercs. She had been confined to her bed
IA little over week, when to all appear
ances, she died. The body, however, did
not entirely lose its warmth, aud very
slight pulse remained The people with
whom she lived supposed that she was
dead, and were making preparations to
bury her, when the physician interfcred,
torbldding any such step.
After remaining in this state twelve
hours consciousness returned. aud the Girl
pronounced herself much better. She
then went n to describe her sensations and
experiences during the trance, averrinr
That she had visited heaven and he'll and
had conversed with the Saviour, and mauy
persons whom she had known On earto.-
She spoke OF seeing persons in both places
who had recently died in heaven,
young man named Quinn, who, although
at one time professor of religion, had,
IN the last year or two of his life, led a
bad life; in hell, the two men, Hatchoil
and Patterson, who were lynched at
Franklin on the night of October 81, for
the murder of Lyons at Greenwood Mss
Van Arsdale sent for number of person,
In the neighborhood, and not only i'm
parted to them news of lost friends, but
told Of sins committed by them supposed
to be unknown by any one. Among 9TH
ers was a man who had participated in the
execution of the men named above; she
told him that he had been there that night
{ (Which he acknowledged, aud bqd in
the sight of God, committed murder.
Previous to this the names of the baud
had been a profound secret, and this man
had not been suspected. She narrated
good many strange things, relating main
ly to individuals both in this world and
the other, many of which it would have
been almost impossible for her to have u-
vented.
But the strangest part of the story is
yet to come. A few hours after the ex-
piration of the first trance she predicted
she would have another, aud told to
minute the time at which it would GER
tainly commence, and at which it would
end. Everything turned out as she had
said at the exact time she fell into the
same state. In an ordinary trance, or
cataleptic state, respiration is not suspend
ed, but in this case breathing could not be
observed. She was to all appearances
dead; but the pulse beat family, and the
body was not cold. All sensation was
gone.
The physician made numerous expert
ments, pricking the body, opening the
veins, aud so forth, to discover if there
could be any deception. In the end he
was perfectly convinced that there was
none. At the expiration Of the time set
by herself she came to- aud in few hours
was we'll enough to leave her bed aud 90
about the house. The story of her cxpe-
rience in the second trance was similar to
the first one, and was confined almost
" holly to individuals. She seemed unable
to describe the places she had been in but
gave histories of events and persons with
minuteness. She also said
that she would never have Il recurrence Of
the trance unless she should commit some
fragrant sin her authority Tor this prodic-
ton was that the Lord himself had told
her so.
This is certainly strange thing. The
girl Is uneducated, and has lived about as
u servant ever since she was able to work,
She had always borne COOL character for
aud is a member of church.
She is almost the last person in the world
to have manufactured such stories, and one
thing especially noticeable is the fact of
her seuding for persons to whom, before
her Illness, she would have been afraid to
have spoken, and conversing with them
without the least restraint; and telling
them stories and facts not the most pala.
table to worldly people. Size was visited
by great many people, some of them
emnently respectable, who vuuoted for
many of the statements of her Illness
The physician in attendance is positive as
to her condition during the whole time
and had it not been for him she would have
been buried alive.-hdiaaapoHs Herald.
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