Year: 1866

The Cleveland Herald publishes the col.
lowing remarkable case Of resuscitation
which has just occurred in that city. show.
ing that fact is sometimes stranger than
fiction, IL not as romantic


A young German, recently married 10 a
handsome lady Of very respectable parent
age. was taken suddenly i'll at his place OF
business on Friday. lie was placed in a
carriage and taken 10 his residence on
Erie street, where he laid IN great agony
until Sunday, when the disease so prostra.
ted his physical powers that he lay notion
less upon the bed. while weeping friends
surrounded the couch. To all appearan.
ces he was dead aud Il was so decided.


Arrangements were about to be made for
the interment. when the young wife. feeling
she could not give him up 80 soon, insisted
that the funeral be postponed until Tues
day morning. To crafty the woman thus
brought so speedily 10 mourn the loss Of
her husband, the funeral was postponed
The disconsolate wife spent most Of the
day on Monday in the same room with the
corpse, weeping as though her heart would
break. and still clinging 20 the idea that he
could not be dead.


About twilight on Monday evening, when
everything about the house was perfectly
quiet, except when the stiffness was broken
by the sighs Of the bereaved widow, there
being but few persons in the room, the bo-
dy seemed TO move. II was but a slight
motion. yet sufficient TO arrest the atten-
tion Of one fearful eye.


When the wife insisted that life was not
extinct, that the body did move, her friends
became anxious about her reason. aud tried
TO divert her mind from the sorrowful scene.
Two long hours were spent in conversation,
the friends urging that she was deceived.
possibly by the pickering light, as the
shadows II cast might have produced the
effect she ascribed TO vitality.


The feeling OF that little circle Of devo.
ted friends is known only to themselves
and Him whose all-soeing eye visits the in.
most recesses OF our hearts. During the
conversation all eyes involuniarily rested
upon the habiliments OF the grave and the
features OF him whom they supposed would
soon become one Of its occupants. At the
end OF two hours another slight movement
was perceived by oil the party. The scene
which followed can never be described.


The wife clung 10 the motionless form Of
her husband, alternately weeping aud beg.
ging of him TO speak just one word. while
the friends wept for joy. hastened for
q physician. alarmed the servants by their
strange conduct aud presented scene Of
confusion generally. When the physician
arrived. the friends were assembled about
the living man. suggesting and applying all
the restoraiives ever heard or dreamed Of
by any Of the party. while the wife, over.
whelmed with JOY aud completely worn out
with excessive excitement, had swooned
away aud lying at the side Of her husband
in the same death.like stiffness that had
embraced his form but. few minutes be.
fore.


The physician took the necessary steps
TO restore the woman aud resusciiate the
man, which was speedily accomplished in
both cases, and as We write to-day the wo-
man is joyous and happy, while the man
thinks his escape from a living grave one
Of the marked features Of his life.