Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1851-05-28
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AN INTEREST INCIDENT.

The other dav in conversation with Miss
Dix, the philanthropist, during her visit to
Greenville, S. c.. lady said to her:
care you not afraid to travel all over the
country alone, and have you not encounter
ed dangers and been in perilous situations ?"
81 am naturally timid," said Miss Dix, "and
diffident like my sex but in order to carry
out my purposes, | know it is necessary to
make sacrifices and encounter dangers. 1t
is true, have been, in my travels through
the different States in perilous situations
| will mention one which occurred in the
State Of Michigan. hired a carriage and
driver to convey me some distance through
an uninhabitsd portion of the country. In
starting discovered that the driver, young
lad, had pair of pistols with him. Enquir-
ing what he was doing with arms, he SAID
he carried them to protect US, as he had
heard that robberies had been committed on
our road. said to him, give me the pistols,
| will take care of them. He did so reluc-
tantly.
SIN pursuing our journey through dis
NAL looking forest, man rushed into the
road, caught the horse by the bride and
demanded my purse. | said to him, with
as much self-possession as could command,
are you not ashamed to rob woman?
have but little money and that I want to de-
fray my expenses in visiting prisons andpoor
houses, and occasionally giving to objects of
charity. If you have been unfortunate, are
in distress, and in want of money, will
give you some. While thus speaking to him,
| discovered his countenance changing and
he became deathly pale, My Cod he ex-
claimed, that voice = and Immediately told
me that he had been in the Philadelphia
Penitentiary, and had heard me lecturing
some OF the prisoners in an adjoining cell land
that he TOW recognized my voice. He then
desired me to pass on and expressed deep
sorrow at the outrage he had committed
But drew out my purse, and said to him, l
will give you something to support you un-
til you can get employment. He declined,
at first, taking anything, until l insisted on
his doing SO, Tor fear be might attempt to
rob some one else before he could get into
honest employment"
Had not Miss Dix taken possession ofthe
pistols, in all probability they would have
been used by her driver, and perhaps both
ofthem been murdered !--"That voice" wa,
more powerful in subduing the heart of q
rob6fr, than the sight of brace of pistols.
-GreenriHe s. c. Patriot.
as. ~ met" says Atkinson, "with Gu.
rious instance lately of fact in regard tc
the force ofour absorbing power. A friends
gardener having taken a few pinches Of foul
of sulphur to sprinkle over plant, found
although his hands were cleansed immedi
ately, that the subtle influence of the sui
phur had penetrated his system, and come
out again on his body, and though his clothes
so that the money in his pocket and othe
metal about him became tarnished. Othe
substances will produce similar effects.
know lady who could not touch the bras
knobs of her door for some weeks from
their producing pain and partly paralyzin!
the arm and another lady who was vari
ously affected by the approach of diferen
metals. Medicines rubbed on her skin woul
produce precisely the same effect as if sh
had swallowed them. | know whole fam
lily who are disagreeably affected by tn
near approach of iron.