STARTLING RESURRECTION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 688, 6 May 1879, Page 2

STARTLING RESURRECTION.

•f' [ The ■■ Atchisonf)(J-atrjo,tji > paper) ,says; — South Atchison is shaken from turret to' foundaiftßn'atone 1. 1 A sensation has ' Within' ite precincts that bids fair to outrival even the startling wonders of s<jn%«ional Kansas City, and become the usuatnine tiiys! ineighboj^hifodtaygir |Thpf Jerome-. of the Aensation-nfpr the prinoipar oharaoter is a VfornAn^ia Tenny Dysart,, the wife of John- Dysart, an intelligent kdd 'industrious colored. > man, /w^io-lives m, •Wes.t Atchiapn, auji fprafr><^u|>atic(n drives A. B. Sjpnan's delivery wagon. About Christmas time Mrs Dysart was taken down .with dropsy, t and the disease has. confined her' to her house and bed nearly since. ' She was' about 40 years old, > and before her r present sickness was a strong and healthy woman. Medical aid had treUtied her with all that human skill could command, but it was apparently of'no avail, anot Tuesday night at 12 o'clock she died —that is, to all. appearances. Wednesday kind friends came m ami l6oked at the body, condoled with the husband and children^ and preparations were made for the funeral. Wednesday night 1 watchers Bat ■' by ; the inanimate? body,! and Thursday was fixed as t&e (lay of the burial. .Thursday morning the body was robed for the grave and placed , iin j the coffin^. the. sorrowing husband and mourning children sadly grieving the loss of their wife and mother. The funeral was to take place at 3 o'clock at which time the house was filled with mourning friends, the hearse, was waiting at the door, and the body' was soon ready to be borne to its lasc 1 resting place. As! the lid of the com" was thrown back to take the farewell look at the body one lady lard her hand on the forehead Of the supposed de^'d, and with a cry of astonishment declared that the body was warm. This; led to anbther examination and Dr Gotfgh was sent for. The physicians, applied the, usual 1 tests and pronounced that life still remained. The: body was taken from the. coffin, remedies; and (restoratives applied, and to-day at noon the patient was conscious and sensible and m a fair ' way t 6i recovery. ' It i 3 needless to. say that excitement and consternation prevailed, the hearse and ■' carriages went away, and 1 the probabilities are that Mrs Dysart's'. funeral • will! ■be postr; poned for many days to come/ , M, 1 '