Year: 1866

cape from q Living Grave. &


The Cleveland Herald publishes the fol-
lowing remarkable case of resuscitation
which has just occurred in that city, show
ing that fact is sometimes stranger than
fiction, if not as romantic


A young German, recently married to a
handsome lady of very respectable parent
age, was taken suddenly i'll at his place of
business on Friday. He was placed in a
carriage and taken to 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 motion
less upon the bed, while weeping friends
surrounded the couch. To all appearan-
ces he was dead and it was SO decided


Arrangements were about to be made for
the interment, when the young wife, feeling
she could not give him up so soon, insisted
that the funeral be postponed until Tues
day morning To crafty the woman thus
brought so speedily to 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 to the idea that he
could not be dead i


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 1t was but o slight
motion, yet sufficient to arrest the atten-
tion of one fearful eye. ae


When the wife insisted that life was not
ny hot fho ho1 a. J,,oo hor fnio dc
became anxious about her reason, and 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 it 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-seeing eye visits the in
most recesses of our hearts. During the
conversation all eyes involuntarily 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 all the party. The scene
which followed can never be described.


The wife clung to the motionless form Of
her husband, alternately weeping and beg
ging of him to speak just one word, while
the friends wept for JOY, hastened for
a physician, alarmed the servants by their
strange conduct and presented q scene of
confusion generally. When the physician
arrived, the friends were assembled about
the living man, suggesting and applying all
the restoratives ever heard or dreamed of
by any of the party, while the wife, over
whelmed with JOY and completely worn out
with excessive excitement, had swooned
away and 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 and resuscitate 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 living grave one
of the marked features of his life.