Burying Alive
lic luiiuniiig iiiiciciung imn.un.1" RUUJJl vu on to Phillip Doddrigë,onéof tho One p]si len the country has prodúced. whocan late eminent and worthy Phillip ling dru e was within an ace of meeting PeUinff idful fato of being buried alive; Thtl8 w j i.u r ⦠oom, lh( it made it worse, with a perfect ,, . lenornnc isnessof all that was passing.- disgipnli supposed tobe dead, having fallubeïty. n state resemblincr death. so faras .!..â.â .- - -- - - - - Lj t - UU II) C y is concerned. His pulse and supposà Lion ceased, his limbs became rigid, there w s assiimed the sharp outline charslavery ie of death, and he remained in we had idition until the family physician rum ' nds (all bul one) sunposed thathis ere , fr, ' ., took a as passed. Fhat ono was Mrs. t . . reeling, 5ge; her love refused to. despair, what ( e continued to use remedy after belief w r to restore animation; finally she vcrv# a spoonful of brandy (a case of ] ha of teetotalism which we think a part 1 Mathew himself would excuse,) manity lis throat, and the powerful dPte' [most iminediately dissolved' the allowir ,and restored Mr. Doddridge to the ne " and of his lirnbs, and lo many years J J many tinguished usefulness. But for ït, quantj, 1 in all probability been buried alive, mair,]s e weathor was warm, and he already pO0r f jed for his last abode. He used to of it. , with ihrilling effect, his sensations to uu g the time of his supposed death. - more uld not sÃif a Ãittle finger to give sIave fhisbeing alive, büf his sense of fr m ng remained perfect, and his mind . o i liim r :ted. He heard the fact of hisbeing eft announced, and the outbursi of grief comp followed, and the directions for M iding him, and the usual preparation whip 3 chambef of death! Desperate, but obum as desperate, were his effbns to give princ token of lifo- not a muscle could bi1t t! ove. Even despair, and the Pract pfesence of a fatê merrê appalling to :onscious tharï heïl itseït, could not b his dormant body to perform the =p itest of ifs iunctions. At last he heard Doddridge cali for tbc brandy, with ;ht and rnpture of love for her which Mrs ïorror of his situation may easily exi. He feit that he was saved, and he . caied. He himself witlily saidf that nfct1 as as ïitfle as the brandy coula do to tion )mplish his resurreclion, as it had stal ;d his living death. Blis â â â mum i the 8Sx.z:cTxozirs. rdl
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