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The Astonishing: Experience of an In¬
diana Farmer,
HE IS THOUGHT TO 1IE DEAD—THE EU
NERAI, PREACHED AND THE
MOURNRRS CRY-THE
man’s life saved
BY A STRANGE
ACCIDENT.
From the JYew York Sun.
On the evening of June 18th, ’68,
George Wellington, an Indiana far¬
mer, had a gathering of friends at
his house. He was a man 42 years
of age and of robust health, and on
this evening it was noticed that lie
was in paiticularly good spirits. Af¬
ter the guests had departed he re¬
marked to his wife that he felt more
like singing and dancing than going
to bed. They retired about 11:30
o’clock, and she was asleep before
midnight.
The fanner was always out of bed
at five o’clock, but on the morning
following the party the wife awoke
at six and found him still sleeping.
When she attempted to arouse him
she discovered that he was dead.—
A doctor was sent for, and he ar¬
rived in the course of an hour and
pronounced it a case of Heart disease.
He said the man had been dead 3
hours when the wife awoke. The
undertaker came and prepared the
body for burial. It was remarkTble
that the corpse retained a life-like
appearance, and that none of the
limbs grew rigid, but the two other
physicians called in vigorously com¬
batted the idea that he was in a
trance and might be restored to life.
Nevertheless, the wife and sons had a
secret hope that death had not really
come to him. During the interval
the corpse was constantly watched
for any signs of ret urning animation,
but nothing occurred to delay the
funeral arrangements.
The burial was to take place in a
country graveyard, aud most of the
veh'cles gathering at the house be¬
longed to the farmers. The usual
ceremonies took place over the dead,
and the coffin was brought out and
placed in the hearse. Illiile the pro¬
cession was forming a team attached
to an empty wagon came down tho
road, running away. The wagon
oolided with the hearse, and the lat¬
ter vehicle was upset and the coftin
Hung out. Four or five men ran to
[tick it up, but before a hand had
touched it a voice was heard saying:
“For God sake let me out of this!”
The people at first moved back in
affiright, but as the voice continued
to address them the coffin was right¬
ed and opened, and Wellington was
found struggl-ng to get out. With
a little assistance he pulled himself
out of the box and walked into the
house and sat down on a chair. In
half an hour he had his clothes on
and was moving around among the
amazed people to whom he related
his experience.
“I did not full asleep until some¬
time after midnight. When I awoke
the clock was striking five. I made
a move to get out of bed, but, to my
great amazement, I could stir neith¬
er hand nor foot. I had the full use
of my eyes. I argued at first that I
was not yet wide awake, but when
my wife shook me and called me bv
name, and I could not respond by
even moving an eyelid, I became sat¬
isfied that I was in a trance. My
mind was never clearer, and my hear¬
ing was painfully acute. I made ef¬
fort aftereffoit to throw off the great
weight which seemed to be holding
me down, but I could not bend a toe
or crook a finger. However, it was
only after the doctor had pronounc¬
ed me dead that I felt any alarm.—
Up to that time it had seemed to me
that I could soon manage to get rid
of the weight. Had a pistol been
fired in the room I am sure the spell
would have been broken. After the
doctor’s ultimatum I felt that I should
be bpried alive. But was I alive?—
All of a sudden this cjuery flashed
across my brain, and I was troubled
more than I can tell you. As I had
never died before, how was I to
know tby sensations? Could the dead
hear and think,?. IPas the mind of
a corpse in active operation? It was
a problem I could not well solve.
“Not a word was spoken near me
which I did not catch and fully un¬
derstand. There was a great deal of
weening, and I failed to satisfy my¬
self as to the cause. I had died, bnt
it did not seem as if this was suffi¬
cient excuse. When my wife bent
over the coffin and sobbed and griev¬
ed aud refused to be comforted, I
did not feel bad with her. On the
contrary, her action surprised me.—
When the two other doctors pro¬
nounced mo dead I made up my mind
that I was dead and that the end had
come. I had been taught that the
spirit of the dead ascended to heav¬
en, and that the dead were in mind
as well as body. It was a base de¬
ception. I felt indignant that it
was so.
“As an instance of the acuteness
of my hearing, let me explain that
after I was placed in the coffin the
receptiacle was moved over to an
open window in the parlor, where it
was supported on saw-horses. Two
of my neighbors took seats on a wa¬
gon box in the barnyard, fully two
hundred feet away, and for an hour
conversed of my death in an ordina 1
ry tone of voice. I did not miss one
single word of the conversation, as
both afterwards admitted. I could
hear every tick of the kitchen clock,
and much of the conversation of the
women in the upstairs rooms. On
the night previous to the funeral,
about half-past ten o’clock, and while
the two men sitting up with the*
corpse were reading, I heard two
men climb the fence into the barn¬
yard, cross the yard and enter the
barn. After a few minutes they
came out, and I hea ,- d the jingle
of something carried by one of the
pair. I could not make out what was
going on, but learned afterward.—
The two men stole a horse from a
field opposite my barn and they en¬
tered my premises in search of a
bridle.
“I heard the people assemble for
the funeral, and as I caught a word
from this one identified them by¬
name to myself. I listened closely to
the sermon, but when the minister
spoke of me I’ could not take it as
peisonal. It was as if the name and
person belonged to some one I had
known years befoie. I knew when I
was carried out and placed in the
hearse, and I am certain I heard the
clatter of the team running away be¬
fore anybody sighted them. When
the people began to call out in a
fright I felt that same tear of being
hurt that any live man does. I heard
them trying to back the liaise out of
the way to let the team go by, hut
they were not quick enough. As the
collision came my eyes opened aud
my speech was restored, and from
that moment I was all right.”
W. B. Adams, J. C. Brown, Mar¬
tin Heard and Willie Arnold, four
young men who left Elberton a few
days ago on a pleasure trip to the
mountains, met with an adventure
before they were out long. They had
just entered the mountain range and
were driving along leisurely m two
horse buggies, with all their baggage
aboard, when they suddenly heard a
loud command to halt, followed im¬
mediately by a command to hold up
their hands. On looking just ahead
they discovered a man of tremend¬
ous frame, with his head covered
with long hair and his face with
whiskers, and a villainous looking
gun leveled at them, with both bar¬
rels cocked. As the boys had no time
to prepare for an encounter they
readily obeyed both commands,
when a parley ensured, and it turned
out that tho boys had taken the
wrong road and were approaching
the place of business ot a mountain
moonshiner As soon as the man be¬
came satisfied that they were not
revenue officers he treated them with
the utmost courtesy, explaining his
conduct fully and satisfactorily, and
tendering theiq free of charge a nig
ful of pure mountain dew to help
them on their way.
WILL BEAE 0UE BANNEE,
HON. GEORGE T. BARNES’ LETTER OF
ACCEPTANCE.
Augusta Chronicle.
The following letter from lion.
Geo. T. Barnes, Representative of
the Tenth Congressional district in
Congress, explains itself:
House of Representatives U S., )
Washington, D. C., J uly 21, ’86 f
Messrs. 11 J Lang, Randolph Ridge
ly, George W Gray, E B Rogers,
LI) Matthews, W. R Daley, Thos.
E Watson, Charles C Jones, Jr, G
W Brown, T E Massengale and
I»l Newman:
Gentlemen: —Your kind letter -if
the loth inst. informing me that the
Democratic Convention of the Tenth
Congressional (list, of Georgia, held
in the city of Augusta, had unani¬
mously nominated me as the Demo¬
cratic candidate, to represent this
district in the Fiftieth Congress, has
been duly received.
I accept the nomination with a
deep sense of the honor conferred,
and with feelings of profound grati¬
tude to you and to the people rep¬
resented in the convention. It has
been my honest endeavor in the past,
faithfully adhering at all times to
the time-honored principles of the
party, upon whose success, I honest¬
ly believe, depends the preservation
of our liberties and tho blessings of
good government, to so discharge
my duty as in my judgment would
best subserve the interests alike of
our district, State and county. But
a nomination so made places me un¬
der new and additional obligations.
Should your nomination be ratified
at the polls in November next, as I
feel assured it will be, I shall enter
on the discharge of my duties with
such an increased devotion to the
public welfare as so flattering a nom¬
ination is calculated to inspire. I
will not venture to promise much.—
As your representative I will do the
best I can. Experience has taught
me that a candidate for Congress
should be careful of his promises.—
In so enlarged a field of labor as the
American Congress, where there are
represented so many varied, often
conflicting and frequently clashing
interests, it is not only extremely
difficult, but well nigh impossible to
carry into practical effect, in every
respect, individual wishes or peculiar
local views. But it is possible to be
true to general lcadingand cardinal
principles, aud then in all subsequent
arrangements to bear in mind, what
has been truly said by an illustrious
statesman and historian, that “com¬
promise is the essence of politics.’'
This much is attainable—this much
I will strive to perform.
Allow me io thank you, aud thro’
you those you represent, for the dis¬
tinguished honor conferred upon me.
Please accept for eacli of you per¬
sonally the assurance of my highest
regard and esteem, and my thanks
for the very kind terms in which you
have communicated the action of
tho convention. Hoping to have
the pleasure of meeting each of you
during the corning fall. I remain,
your friend and fellow citizen,
George T. Barnes.
What “Father Says” and Does.
If parents think that children do
not notice closely everything they
do they make a serious mistake.
Children see quickly and reason with
marvelous exactness, and are not eas¬
ily deceived. 'I hey are more likely
to notice every little act of the fath¬
er, because he is not always at home
and what “father says” and what
“father does” are the things they
most wish to say and do. No matter
how dearly they may love their
mother it is undoubtedly true that
children imitate the father far more
closely than they do the mother. So,
therefore, the part a father bvars in
the training of children is a very, ve¬
ry important one, and he who shirks
it, throwing it ^1{ on the shoulders
of the already overburdened mother,
will have a serious sin to answer for
some day.—Cleveland Leader,
Terms—$1.00 per annum
TAKE CARE OF THE LITTLE ONES.
SUGGESTIONS TOR THE CARE OK IN¬
FANTS DURING THE HOT SPELL.
The New Nork Board of Health
has issued, according to custom, the
following rules for the guidance of
mothers with nursing infants during
the hot weather:
Overfeeding does more harm than
anything else; nurse an infant a
month or two old every two or three
hours.
Nurse an infant of six months and
over five times in twenty-four hours
and no more.
If an infant is thirsty give it pure
water, or barley water, no sugar.
On the hottest days a few drops
of whisky may be added to
water or food, the whisky not to ex¬
ceed a teaspoonful in
hours.
Boil a teaspoonful of powdered
barley (ground in coffee grinder) and
one-half pint of water, with a little
salt,, for fifteen minutes; strain, then
mix it with half as much boiled inilk
add a lump of white sugar the size
of a walnut, and give it lukewarm
from a nursing bottle, Keep bottle
and mouthpiece in a howl of water
when not in use, to which a little so¬
da may be added.
For infants five or six months old
give half barley water and half boil¬
ed milk, with salt and a lump of su
gar.
For older infants give more milk
than barley water.
For infants very costive give oat¬
meal instead of barley. Cook and
strain as before.
When j'nur breast milk is only
half enough, charge off between
breast milk and this prepared food.
In hot weather, if blue litmus pa
per, applied to the food, turns red,
the food is too acid, and yon must
make a fresh mess, or add a small
pinch of bakihg soda.
Infants of six months may
beef tea or beef soup once a day, by
itself, or mixed with other food; and
when ten or twelve months old, a
crust of bread and a piece of rare
beef to suck.
No child under two years oughl
to eat at your table.
Give no candies; in fact,
that is not contained in these rules,
without a doctor’s orders.
Summer complaint comes from ov¬
erfeeding and hot and foul air.
the doors and windows open.
Wash your well children with cool
water twice a day, oroftener, in
hot season.
Never neglect looseners of tin
bowels of an infant. Consult the fam¬
ily or dispensary physical! at once,
and he will give yon rules about
what it should take and how it
should be nursed. Keep your rooms
as cool as possible, have them well
ventilated, and do not allow any bad
smell to come from the sinks, priv¬
ies, garbage boxes or gutters about
the house where you live. Where an
infant is cross and irritable in the
hot weather a trip on the water will
do a great deal of good (ferryboat
or steamboat), and may prevent chol¬
era infantum.
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In Marrying a Poor Man
An advantage over a poor girl that
the rich one has in marrying a poor
man is that a woman of the world,
who has seen much of society, rarely
suffers from that morbid self-con¬
sciousness which is the most frequent
form of snobbishness to be found
among small gentlefolks, and which
makes them ever prone to take of¬
fense and to think that every little
action of their neighbors is the re¬
sult of deliberate intention. Half the
“slights,” and “insults,” of which
such people complain are quite un¬
intentional, and are caused by that
forgetfulness which is the natural
outcome of the hurried existence of
those busy bees of fashion or of hard
work, who are the most usual offen¬
ders.
The adaptability of woman is tru¬
ly wonderful, and the poor man’s
wife will, if she has even moderate
iuteligence, in a short time emerge
from the anxious, over-careful period
of her early married life; and, liav*
ing discovered the scale at which her
new income wi33 permit her to live,
she will find that her previous know¬
ledge of how things ought to be
done will enable her to become that
most excellent type of a housewife,
one who can combine elegance with
economy.
We do not mean to assert that evi
eiy rich girl is fitted to be a poor
man’s wife, or that every poor girl is
unsuitable. In every position there
are women unlikely to be good wives
to anybody, and others who could
hardly fail to do their duty in aray
state of life to which they itatay bo
called. But, taking girls of average
goodness and intelligence, it will be
found that the ai-tcli- ones are more
often happy and contented in small
houses than those who have never
lived in anything else,—London
Queen.
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The Disillusion of Matrimony ,
As love is always an idealizing
process—and it is the cliai mingciaft
of the girl to aid and abet the illu¬
sion of tho devoted lover by a thous¬
and exquisite arts, that he never sub-.
peels—the chances are that in nine
cases out of ten the first six months,
of married life arc months of disillu¬
sion.
'The sense of possession, which?
plays so important a role in the eon
sumptson of love, has a finality with
her that he cannot understand. This
is the end of her drama. But ha
doesn’t want it to end. It was the
delicious little actress that he admit’-,
ed without knowing it, and! now sho
insists upon turning off the gas and
washing off her paint and prosaical¬
ly informing him that the curtain is
down
Alas! how many women have a
wakened from their long dream of a
hero, and in the silence and desola¬
tion of their chamber have poured
bitter tears out to their mirrors, be¬
cause chivalry and peotry and senti¬
ment have resolved themselves into
common masculinity with a large ap¬
petite and a disposition to get weary
of tenderness now that there is no¬
bar to it.
When is the man or woman who
can touch these intricate and absorb¬
ing themes outside of fiction with
the deft fingers of truth and south
inent.—Nym World. Crinkle in New York
--
A little negro fell into Little river,
in Lincoln county, last week whilo
endeavoring to “walk a log” used as
a crossing. Her brutal father accom¬
panied the little negro and Jiey broth¬
er to the river and bade them cross
one at a tiine./fp the child’s affright¬
ed remonstrances ho answered with
curses and blows, lie compelled
them to cross, ant) about Half way
one of them fell ip and was drowed
before the face of the inhuman
wretch. IFhen asked as to the where?
abouts of the girl he said that she
was ip the river amj that it was use?
less to concern himself further about
it, The body >yas found three days
after on a raft of debris drifted dur?
ing the late heavy rains. The bug?
zards bad found it,