The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-06-04

for him before We could get admission
70 the grounds Having edfed the key,
We quickly reached the iron gate of the
cemetery Bat too much time had been
!ost-the body was gone, the tomb being
freshly sealed. and upon the ground we
discoy yered foot-steps leading to the en-
trancel Following these to where they
ceased we found the track made by
which o shower had lately fallen. Ra.
pidly and eagerly we followed this track
through several streets to the rear door
OF q medical institute on G. street,
where the vehicle had evidently stopped.
Entering the vestibule and ascending
the flight Of stairs rising therefrom, we
reached door, from beneath Which a
bright Light streamed. out. We Knocked
and were admitted-within the threshold
of disseoting room!
With horror we saw the body of poor
Ned lying upon a table, beneath bril-
liant gas Jet, whose rays streamed down
upon his ,marble-like features, while n
group of students gazed idly at the up
turned face. Stationing ourselves by
the table, we demanded that the body be
given up to us, stating our relations
toward the deceased as our reason for
the interference. Our request was i'm
medlately granted, and we were about
making preparations for the removal of
the body to an undertaken, when Har-
Ian remarked that the appearance Of the
flesh was not that of dead person, and
no signs Of decomposition were visible.
A professor of the college also noted
these things, which, combined with the
mysteriousness of Ned's demise, created
doubt in my mind as to the reality of
death being present. So strong was my
misgiving that determined to investi-
gate the matter. An exceedingly deli
cate thermometer was applied to the
flesh just over his heart, and, to the sur
prise and astonishment of all, was SO
sensibly affected as to preclude the pos
sibility of its having arisen from artiti-
cial causes. No sound could be distin-
guished, though we waited long and pa
tiently, seeking to discover the slightest
pulsation. Oh, how anxiously did we
watch and listenl but in vain. A
stethoscope was produced, and, by it's
aid, we could hear-oh, joyful sounds
the feeble, yet regular, beatings of the
heart! Our very souls shouted for glad
ness, and we redoubled our energies.
Restoratives were quickly applied, and
soon the one 30 lately mourned as dead
breathed freely the pure air of earth,
and lived!
Ned lay for many days in the delirium
OF terrible fever, but ultimately reco-
vered, both in health and strength. 1t
was not till then that we learned the
cause OF his wonderful trance, which was
this: The day before his supposed de-
cease, he had met an acquaintance from
xpt,< nn .-l~
in strange city, with no friends to as
sist him. Ned took him to his own room
to spend the night. They drank deeply,
and the last that Ned remembered of the
night was Sudden paralysis of his
powers, and an obliviousness to all OBJ
jects ensued Immediately thereafter.
This person had once been a medicine
man in the East, and was skilled in the
toxicology of the Orientals. He had ad-
ministered draught to Ned which
would produce suspended animation for
a short period, in which time he hoped
to flee beyond pursuit. with the watch,
diamond pin and O couple of hundred
dollars in gold, which he found in Ned's
trunk. The potion was too powerful,
and the victim did not revive at the ap-
pointed time. The morning that the
wonderful recovery of Clayton was an
nounced, man committed suicide in a
gambling saloon, who, it was stated, had
lost all his money that day. together with
his watch and pin.
Ned afterwards identified this man, by
his photograph taken after death, at the
police Office, as the one who lad given
him the drink which 80 nearly proved
fatal. He is in England now on visit
to his friends, and we doubt not that his
death and resurrection are often re-
hearsed, and we blessed for being "In
Time to Save"
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