Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-11-14

did the rest.
The foregoing narrative however 70
: mantle it may appear. is nevertheless tn,
succinct outline Of an actual occurrence
the particulars of which, are shortly
about to engage the attention of the le.
gal tribunals of France. The circum
stances recall to mind some of the mos
picturesque legends of necromancy and
diablery of the Middle Ages.
ONE OF JOHN PHGNIX's STORIES.
! DR.. Tushmaker was never regularly
bred as a physician or surgeon, but he pos.
sessed naturally a strong mechanical ge-
MUS and fine appetite and finding his
teeth of great service in gratifying the lat
ter propensity, he concluded that he could
do more good in the world, and create
more real happiness therein, by putting
the teeth of the inhabitants in good order,
than in any other way; so Tushmaker be-
came dentist. He was the man that
first invented the method of placing small
cog>wheels in the back teeth for the more
perfect mastication of food, and he claimed
to be the original discoverer of that
method of filing cavities with kind of
putty, which, becoming hard directly,
causes the tooth to ache so grievously that
it has to be pulled, thereby giving the
dentist two successive fees for the same
job. Tushmaker was one day seated in
his Office, in the city of Boston, Massa>
chusetts, when stout old fellow named
Byles presented himself to have a back
tooth drawn. The dentist seated his pa
tient in the chair of torture, and opening
his mouth, discovered there an enormous
tooth, on the right hand side. about as
large, as he afterwards expressed it, 'as a
small Polyglot Bible.'' 1 shall have
trouble with this tooth, thought Tushma-
ker, but he clapped on his heaviest for
ceps, and pulled. But it didn't come
Then he tried the turnkey. exerting his
utmost strength, but the tooth wouldn't
stir. "Go away from here" said Tushma.
ker to Byles, ''and return in q week, and
I'll draw that took for you, or know the
reason why" Byles got up. clapped a
handkerchief to his jaw, and put FORTH
Then the dentist went to work, and in three
days he invented an instrument which he
was confident would pull anything. 1t
was combination of the lover, pulley,
wheel and axle, inclined plane, we'd ge and
screw. The castings were made, and the
machine put in the office, over an iron
chain, rendered perfectly stationary by
iron rods going down into the foundations
OF the granite buildings. In week old
Byles, returned ; he was clamped into the
iron chair, the forceps connected with the
machine attached firmly to the tooth, and
Tushmaker stationing himself in tho rear.
took hold of lever four feet in length
He turned it slightly. Old Byles gave a
groan, and lifted his right leg. Another
turn "What do you raise your leg for?"
asked the doctor. ''I can't help it," said
the patient. "Well," rejoined Tushmaker,
that tooth is bound to come now" He
turned the lever clear round with a
sudden jerk, and snapped old Byles' head
clean and clear from his shoulders, leav-
ing space of four inches between the
severed parts They had post mortcm
examination-the roots of the tooth were
found extending down the right side,
through the right leg, and turning up in
two prongs under the sole of the right
foot! "No wonder" said Tushmaker, che
raised his right leg" The jury thought
so too, and five surgeons swearing that
! IlAOl EIuCat'OIA NOuIu nave cuSueO Ill le"
months. TushmaEcr was cleared on YER
dict of "justiGable homicide" He was n
little shy of that instrument for sometime
afterward; but one day an old lady, feeble
and tlaccid, came in to have tooth drawn
and thinking it would come out very easy,
Tushmaker concluded, just by way of va
riety, to try the machine. He did so, and
at the first turn drew the old lady's skele-
ton completely and entirely from her body,
leaving her mass Of quivering Jelly in
the chair Tushmalier took her home in
pillow case. She lived seven years af>
ter that, and they called her the " India
Rubber-W oman" She had suffered ter
ribly with the rheumatism, but after this
occurrence never had pain in her bones.
The dentist kept them in glass case. AZ
ter this, the machine was sold to the con-
tractor of the Boston Custom House, and
it was found that child of three years of
age could, by single turn Of the screw,
raise a stone weighing twenty-three tons.
Smaller ones were made, on the same
principle, and sold to keepers ofhotels and
restaurants. They were used for boning
turkeys. There is no moral to this story
whatever, and it is possible that the cir~
cumstance may have become slightly ex-
aggerated. OF course, there can be no
doubt of the truth of the main incidents.
REVOLUTION IN MoHTEv1DEo.-By the
way Of Southampton we have dates to the
1st Of September from Montevideo. On
| the 29th August, Flores was driven from