Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1859 — A Man Dying Twice. [ARTICLE]

A Man Dying Twice.

The Cincinnati <Enquirer> of a recent date tells a wonderful yarn about a man who died in the Seventeenth Ward a day or two ago, who might be said to have died once before, and been recalled to life by a singular circumstance. He had suffered for a long time from consumption, and grown weaker and weaker, and more and more attenuated, until he could not stand or speak. He felt that he had but a few days to live, and made every preparation for approaching dissolution. His wife watched beside him. and one morning he beckoned to her to put her head to his lips, when he whispered, “I am going, Jane,” and took her hand. A slight spasm passed through his whole frame; and a deadly pallor overspread his face: his eyes rolled upward, and the rattle of death was heard in his throat. At that moment his wife screamed, and he started up with new vigor, and asked faintly: “Why did you do that? Why did you not let me die in peace!” From that moment he began to recover and grew stronger, and in a month was enabled to leave his bed and work at his trade. He lived for nearly two years after that strange event, but finally was attacked with his old complaint, and died after an illness of three months. This is a very singular instance, but entirely true, and would seem to show that the soul of the dying man was called back by the voice of a loving heart, lingering a while longer ere it left a kindred nature to battle with the world alone. ———<>——— ——>A Baltimore paper gives the history of the famous Derringer pistol with which Sickles killed Key, and which Sickles’ counsel pleaded (for effect to the jury,) was probably the property of Key himself. The pistol is stated to have been formerly the property of Isaac V. Fowler, Esq., P. M., of New York, who, on one occasion, when practicing in a gallery in Baltimore, accidentally wounded his friend, S. F. Butterworth, in the posterior portion of the person by a premature discharge. Butterworth was some time sick from this awkward wound, and, on his recovery, Mr. Fowler gave him the pistol as a present. This same pistol Butterworth is believed to have, lent to Sickles on the fatal Sunday morning. If Barnum were in the country he would doubtless secure it for exhibition. ———<>——— LARGE PROFITS.—Eleven years ago, a Norwegian shoemaker purchased a small piece of land near Chicago for twenty dollars, which he recently sold for $17,000! That shoemaker has now gone to Minnesota, but we apprehend he will not be able to make a similar speculation in these “diggings.”