The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-04-25
AN UPsHUR aCoUNTYzsENsAs
TON. ayeAe
A Young Lady, Under the Preaching
OF Rev. Sam. CIawson, goes Into u
TTance and BtaYs Ton Dayss.

OF Kew SAM CI0WBonS goes AhtO
Trance and stays Ten Days,
Theldilowng remarkable storySwe take
from The Weston DsaaOerat 81 Monday q
copy orwhlch comes TO US with the word
"fact" endorsed upon the margin. New.
CrthelCSs, our readers arc at liberty to
believe as much or as little as they like:
PICKS Run, April 10.
10 TIC Editor Of tho Democrat:
The people Of this neighborAood have
been excited 10 O. considerable extent on
account Of singular circumstance that
has occurred. And IN, giving the factsi In
the ease, am aware that there are many
who VIII doubt my veracity. Tosuch- /
have only to say that l shall state nothing
but what Is strictly true and can be fully
established by the very best Of witnesses.
Miss Josephine Reynolds, aged II,
attended q religious meeting held here
by Rev. Samuel Glawson, which, was
continued for more than a week. At this
meeting she was seeker OF religion,
and had been for several years, OF every
prOtracted meeting she had attended. The
last day of tho meeting, Wednesday the
3D. inst, she ate her dinner but no supper,
and went TO church. During service, as
was usual with her, she was very earn.
estly engaged until the congregation was
dismissed, when sh6 was heard 10 OK.
claim-"Lord, Il this DO religion, give INC
more Of VIZ She then sank into . Scent
ingly unconscious stalc-a condition
which Is often called u "trance." This
was about 10o'clock at night. The friends
who remained with her thought It best
to stay in tho church until she would
revive again, thinking It would DO but a
short tipic, and having no nicans ht Hand
70 convey Her away, 2 without carrying
her.
At daylight on the 4th she was convey.
cd 10 tho nearest house, and kept there
until evening, when she was removed 10
her home. The news spread around very
rapidly, and great number Of 'persons
went 10 sec her. ALL this time she was
perfectly helpless, and took no notice OF
anything that wa, passing. She neither
spoke by word or sign in answer to any
questions asked her for several days, and
only three or four times while in this con-
dition did she notice any question asked
her. She took no food Of any kind dur.
ing the time, except q little coffee and
some water, and these only by forcing a
cloth, saturated with them, into her
mouth. At times she moved her limbs,
and sometimes would appear to sleep, and
occasionally would smile.
The house in which she lay was con-
tinually crowded, night and day, all anx!
iOus to see her revived. Perhaps itwould
be proper TO state that she was faVorite
with all her acquaintance, beloved and
respected by all who knew her.
l think should be safe in saying that
five hundred people visited her, and some
estimate the number as much larger.
Among them were several ministers of
the gospel, and DR.. Blair, Of Barbour, DIR.
Wade, OF Burnesville, and DIR. Cherry, OF
Clarksburg. A great variety Of opinions
were expressed by those who saw her.
Some believed that from exertion, her en-.
tire system was exhausted Others, that it
was divinepOwer exercised over the body
that the soul was absent from the body,
like that Of Marietta Davis, with whose
narrative many Of US are familiar. Who
are right It ID very hard 10 decide. The
question presents itself, can science ex-
plain?
In this condition she lay TEN DAYS, from
the third day Of this month until the
evening Of the 18th, when DIR. Blair, Of
Buckhannon, was called in, who finally
restored her to consciousness. His opinion
was that she needed medicine, and that
she could not have lived much longer had
she not been restored SOON. uzg q, ~
Alter she was restored she spoke, and
was very much dissatisfied at the action Of
the doctor. It would seem that, after.
fasting so long, she would be anxious to
take some nourishment but she was not
disposed to cat, and says she did not suffer
any with hunger, but was thirsty until the
last two days.
i have not had much conversation with
her since, thinking It better TO allow her
to gain moro strength. She has told
enough to make q very interesting article,
and as soon as possible l will send you a
full account, just as she gives il. From
what she has toldsme and others, find
that she has some knowledge Of what
TRANSFERRED around her during the time she
lay in this condition. She can also give
an account Of the wanderings OF her mind,
what she saw in her imagination, or what
to her seemed real, just as the reader may
be pleased to have it. HENRY NEFF.