Litchfield Enquirer

Remarkable Circumstance: About sixteen years ago Thomas Wilson, laborer in and twelve, felt a dimness of vision creeping over him, and in a short period became what is called stone blind. To a person who had always led an active life the affliction was heavy, the privation most severe; but still he was wonderfully cheerful and resigned, and though he seldom moved far from the fire-side, his general health had suffered but little, when the sense of seeing was restored in a manner which is truly wonderful, if not miraculous. On Thursday, the 26th ultimo, he was seized with a violent pain in his head and temples, accompanied by a copious discharge from his eyes; but at the end of two days the pain and running both ceased, and then the film was gradually removed that had so long shut out the external world. While seated in his dwelling, on Saturday, the 28th, he, to his utter astonishment, perceived the cheerful light of day, and in a few moments distinctly observed "a tall dark man" passing the window. This individual was his own son, who, during the long and dreary blank in his father's existence, had been transformed from "a white-headed callant" to a brawny and "black-a-visaged man." The feelings of the parties were pleasurable in the extreme: the father knew his son by his voice, and perused and re-perused his features with an anxiety which beggars all description. His wife next engaged his attention, and then every member of the family, from a daughter-in-law, whose appearance he had fancied rather than known, to her healthy offspring that ran romping about, sit emblems of their father when he had seen him before. For some days the old man was actually half delirious with joy, and even yet his wife complains that it is totally impossible to keep him in the house. A case so remarkable, and which we have learnt from the most undoubted authority, should not be overlooked by the Faculty; and our own opinion is, that if medical treatment had been resorted to at first, the dreary blank in the old man's existence might have been greatly shortened, if not averted altogether.—Dumfries Courier of December.