Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1838-01-24
NUMBER 70.

sood. | dragged up the trowsers, and
thrust desperate hand into the pocket
the stuff of which it was made was smoking
W III the heat of the loose silver it contained
but it was not money was in search Of
1T was a knife grasped til half yin.
clasped tit burned the finger and thumb
of my right hand as if had closed them
on coal Of Ere. ! flung the instrument
of selEdestruction from me, and cried
aloud to God never 10 Leave me in tempta.
ton.
) l did not cry in vain--there were voices
above mel heard them distinctly heard
footsteps on the platfom--they wero gone
no, they were returning they were CO.
ming to my rescue. Good God! how
shall describe the awful sense of present
Providence-the almost overpowcring hope
tho agonizing doubts-and then the Joy,
the gro.itudo, the delirious ecstacy which
experienced within the next half minute, as
in the pauses of the flames roaring (for L
still poured through the building like IA.
ging river,) the voices of my deliverers
sounded louder or fainter, or like imagina-
ry sounds, or voices of real beings, until at
length that ladder, which was to me the vel.
CONTEST sight that ever the sun shone on,
was lowered down by hurried and tremu.
lous hands, amid the shudders of those who
never expected to see moro Of the poor
sufferer below than heap Of steaming
blood stained Gin iers or how shall at.
tempt to describe the establishment, the Pity
the honest pleasure of those benevolent
men, when they found that although speech
less, (for in all my fauces was not as much
moisture "a would have enabled me to
have swallowed tho smallest crumb Of
bread, and my tongue hay in my mouth liz.
To bsstef than piece Of dry SPONGE was
nevertheless ahls 10 climb up cut Of that
tosria atmosphere into which no firwnaa
would desire to descend! cannot do Of.
thor, and will not dwell on this pert Of he
nights adventure suffice it to say, nay
last missive had fortunately reached its dcs-
tination, and brought my deliverers to my
assistance. They carried me in blankets
to the hospital here | received all the aid
that medical service could bestow, uRtil sui.
ficiently recovered to be transported to my
own lodgings, where remained, suffering
from the effects of a'degree Of heat, such
as,H perhaps, no other human being ever
endured and lived, for six weeks and VI.
wards.
am quite satisfied that had the thermo-
meter not been broken, and had | possess
ed any means of suspending it, (for conld
not have held it in my hand much longer,)
it would have shown temperature much
higher than in the experiments Of either
Blagdcn or Bankes. | am sure a fcw
! minutes longer would have been certain
death, SO that may safely say have en-
DIR, d the highest temperature Of any man
on record. My bodily temperature except
on some portion OF the scarf.skin, at no
time rose above ITO or 1l2 degrees, and
during tho latter part of my sufferings it
was a great relief to my hands to place
them on aRy part Of my person. In fact.
| have no doubt there was OF one timo a
difference Of $50 or 100 degrees between
the temperature Of my body and that Of the
surrounding DIR.
- street, Dublin, July 5, 1887.