Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-09-11
The Strange HalIucinatiOns Of a
Young Man.

THE Davrnp ort Iowa Gazettc vouches
for the absolute truth of the following,
though for obvious reasons all names
are suppressed:
One Of the leading citizens of North
Davenport had an only daughter, who
was betr0thed to young man Of fair
promise, q clerk in leading commercial
house at Dubuque His visits to the city
were regular, and arrangements had been
made for an immediate union, when the
bride-elect was stricken down with tv-
phOid fever and, in spite of all that skill
and care could do, died. The Gazette re
porter says: eve saw her in the coffin,
dressed for the bridal of death, not for the
contamination Of all earthly love We
witnessed the agony of her lover as he
bent in speechless, fearless abstraction
over the satin-lined burial-case."
After the melancholy journey to Oak
dale, the young man returned to Dubuque.
Nervous fever set in and a peculiar haIlu-
cinatiOn seized him that his lost one was
present in the room draped in the same
garb which had enveloped her clay All
remonstranCe was in vain He minute,<
described her dress, her appearance and
her petition in his chamber Even when
his parents or friends would sit or stand
where he declared her to oe he saw her
glide away and take another place. This
went on for weeks, and the patient was
gradually sinking under the physical and
nervous excitement, when a friendly ruse
was tried to cure him Of his ecstacy.
Coming to Davenport, his mother found
that the funeral garments were purchased
of c. & NJ, and made by Mrs. B. She
procured the material, had it made I'D in
fac-sim5Ie and, returning, young lady as
near in height and appearance as could be
found was dressed to resemble his de-
ceased love, and during one of his fevered
and brief slumbers was introduced into
the room, taking her seat in shaded cor
ner
His awakening was anxiously watched,
and sanguine hopes Of removing his hal
lucination were INDUCED in. He woke at
length, and, turning his eyes in the direc-
ton of the pious fraud stared with fixed
eyeballs for few seconds, then raising
himself almost upright in his bed, flung
his arms aloft, and shrieking in an I'M
earthly voice: My God, there are t,oo Of
heaf' fell back and expired
A MAN living in the vicinity of st. Louis
recently forwarded to the Post-office De-
partmcnt eighteen three cent stamps.
A''>A4r Ai''' IL UGH tdi1ltu dDOut Ill Ill
pocket, were nearly reduced to the condi
ton OF their original pulp. Accompany
ing the dllapldated stamps was a letter in
which the writer says; "You can see that
they have not been used, and that is the
reason why | send them to you. If YOU
can, send good ones back; if not, YOU can
probably make it good some other way
for instance. by appointment to some good
position, or some other Wayn
EVERY man who has clerks in his en-
ploy ought to know what their sleepinp
habits are. The young man who is mn
till two, three and four O'Clock in the
morning, and must put in his appearance
at the bank or store at nine or ten O'Clock
and work all day, cannot repeat this pro.
cess without certain shakiness coming
into the system, which he will endeavor
to steady by some delusive stimulus. It
is in this way that many young man
begins his course to ruin. He need not
necessarily have been in bad COMPANY
He has lost his sleep, and losing sleep is
losing strength and grace.