Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-05-03
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a IsenmargsnbIe story.

The Presbyterian, religious pa
per, published somewhere at the
North, tells the following extraordm-
ary story;
''A young man in the township Of
Warsaw, Genessee county, M, ",
saas engaged IN cutting wood; and
In telling a tree it became entangIed
in the branches of other trees
While endeavoring to disentangIe
the tree and bring it to the ground, it
suddenly fell, and splitting at the butt,
he was caught by the foot, and thus
suspended with his head downward.
In this condition he cried for help,
until his voice was gone and his
strength we'll nigh exhausted. His
axe had fallen, and he could barely
touch the end of the helve with his
finger. He labored to reach it, but
ii ali was iii vain. Could he butget
that, he could extricate himself. But
alas! it was beyond his reach. What
was he to do? He had cried for hel p
until he could no longer speak He
was i'll the woods, three-quarters ola
mile from any human beng. The
weather was extremely cold and he
was hanging with his head down
ward,5 suffering extreme pain, not
only in the foot which was caught in
the cleft Of the tree, but also in the
head, caused by his unnatural posi-
ton and the great eXertion he had
put forth to be heard. Death now
seemed inevitable, unless he could be
lmmed ately extricated. There was
no alternative. Summoning all his
courage, therefore, he came to the
determination to make the attempt
to cut off his leg and should he sue
ceed i'll doing this, there was but a
faint hope that he would thereby save
his life, for there was no surgeon at
hand to take up the arterles-no kind
friend near to bind up the mangled
limb. 1t seemed more than proba-
BILE, therefore, that he would bleed to
death. But what will man not do
~ 55rve his life? ffc lrerel ifIvllis llCJClS-
ct an old dull knife. With this, he
cut off the leg of his boot and stock.
ing, and than unjointed his own an
kle.
This being done, he crawlcd to his
dinner basket, and binding up the
stump with a napking which had
covered his dinner, he stortod upon
his hands and knees through the
snow for home. When he arrived
within few rods of his house, he
was discovered by some friends, who
hastened TO his relief His strength
was now exhausted. Help had come
and he tainted. He was borne to
the house and resuscitated. Now
comes the curious facts: and i will
here say that the gentleman who re-
lated the facts to me was present and
went for the surgeon. Co said the
wounded man.. go Immediately to
the woods and cut out my foot, for
it is suffering most eXcruciaung pam.
They did so, and brought the foot to
the house. He then said it was cold
and wished it put into warm water.
This request was also granted. 1t
was not in the room in which the
unfortunate man lay, yet as. soon as
the foot touched the water he cried
out, saying, 1T burns me; the water
is too hot = Upon putting the hand
into water it was found even So
| The water was then made cooler,
and he was satisfied. will also add
that a surgeon was obtained from
Batavia, a distance Of fifteen or eigh-
teen miles; and the limb again am
putated; the man recovered and be-
came minister Of the gospel in the
Baptist church. .-- i, =, ..-
TRUE NoBILITY.-In some of the.
| French provinces are families of la
borers, who can reckon more than
five hundred years of succession from
father 10 son, in the exercise of the
most useful toll. and whose tradition
ary lore might be comprehended in
this ore phrase, "All were devoted
to agriculture, and were alike labo-
rious and virtuous. The golden age
nobility is well worth that of many
a higher parentage, whose desceD-
'ants are not unfrequently as proud
of their uselessness as of their an
cestors.
MIR. e., 6. Squres, who was for.
merly a Consul at Nicaragua, thinks
that the reports of the hostility to
Americans in that country, as given
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