Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-07-14
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"EYE WITNESS" AGAIN.

| "EYE WITNESS" AGAIN
MEssRs EDITORS :-Y Your correspondent TX.
L." seems to fear that the public may not know
that We have in Wheeling hospital attended
| by 1.-TWO surgeons, two PhysiciOns, and an ex-
eellent corps of nurses" This fact does not, IN
any manner interfere with the statement made
4 by me that we have no asylum IN our commu-
nity where misfortune, irreSpectiee9T character,
can find retreat. II is true, that such an IN
I stitution as AZ. L." mentions does actually eX-
list. But it is not true that the destitute can
have access to its advantages The very quar-
| icotions which render u patient etigibte to as
! bsne,iLs Mt the same moment renders HIM mae
! pendent ot' tEeD- ,.,..
Thus:ZA certain sum of money, weekly,
! ,nust I,e Maid in advance in addition To the bills
Of the attendant surgeons and physiciahS' nov,
place any sick person in position 10 c'I.UIe
! them TO pay their board bills and doctor 1 DIS,
! and what need have they for hoSpital!. Mlli
not the same money purchase the same medical
attendance and care almost my 'there' ana WI
mt that affection and Kindness which ever IA
/ GERS so lovingly around even the dome 81 per-
erty, do more to alleviate the distress OF tIe
poor sick, at their OieA Gbode, however hutnole
It may be- than could ever be accomplished ~
/ the very best disciplined body of nurses when
the sun ever shonc upon. We repeat again,
I that there is nat, in this city, any place %here
destituton can lay its weary, aching head, anu
feel tbat it is at homo but Tie Jail! "Ihc
poor" we "have always with US, the priests
and Leyites pass them by, on the other side'
and the only goOd ST,nGritdns are the Alder
men. and they have a very singular tedy OF
showing their goodness
| When the relentless gripeof disease, assisted
by the hard hand of the '"rax Collector have
left the martyr of Inisrule upon the bleak shores
of misery and restitution, the only rainbow OF
promise which filings its cheering rays on tne
troubled waters Of life before him point 10 tne
l,, in cnf
ride out the storm.
Since my first article upon this subject, an
other has been added to the list OF subjects at
the h0spifdt jail.
4 young man apparently under thirty, is here
charged with Insanity He has now been IN
Jail some four or five days, and his greatest
proof of insanity yet exhibited is his Oft repeat
ed declaration to "Renounee the DsVil, ana al.
his works :" This, we acknowledge IS almost
enough to prove his insanity-es specially II he
carries his declaration into practice
His disease is a religious mcLdReh0tyji and us
radical cure almost certain, under judicial
course Of generous diet, kind treatment abul-
dant exercise and cold bathing. But ne Is
stranger without friends, and without money
lie needs only the kind offices OF atfecton-3ut
where oh where will he go, in our community
to find them. EYE WITNESS
correspondent of the New Orleans PieayuaS, in
one Of his last published letters, relates the fol
lowing singular case:
In Paris young man who had become deep
" in love with an interesting lady, Mile Julie
r. asked her hand in marriage but was reject
cd He made several unsuccessful attempts to
engage her to reconsider this decision, at last
he became convinced that there was indeed no
hope for him. He repaired to her house, and
after hearing from her lips firm rejection of
his offer he drew pistol from his breast and
shot himself through the head. He fell at her
feet n mangled corpse. Terrier had so COM
pletely taken possession of her soul at the sight
of this unexpected and hideous tragedy, she
remained transfiXcd to the spot like n statue,
utterly insensible and her body perfectly rigid
Her family, attracted By the report of the pis-
tol haStened to the drawing-room, and attempt
ed to recall her; physicians came, but care and
science could do nothing, the poor girl was an
epileptic, and their only hope lay in those myS-
FERROUS forces of nature which seem able to re-
pair almost every havoc made in the constitution
This hope was not disappointed; in half an hour
an uncomfortable violent paroxysm Of tears, and
sobs relieved the poor girl. The next day, Willie
Mile Julie R., surrounded by her family, was
working quietly in another parlor, she was seized
Mt the very same moment of time the fit first
fell upon her with second fit, and she assumed
invuluntarily and unconsciOusly the posture and
IlSluity OF statue Terror. Every Jay thlS
disagrecable phenomenon was renewed, and
the physicians declared their art could do moth
ing for its relief, time being the only physician
which could alleviateit The family took every
measure to avoid any dangerous sequence to
this state, and determined to appeal to time
Mile Julia r was very fond Of birds, and she
had large cage full Of them hung above win
dow on the courtyard. She was so busily en-
gagged feeding them last Saturday that she for
got all about her daily paroxysm, which over
took her while she was in chair feeding her
birds, and necessarily leaned out of the window
a good deal She fell out of the window, the
height of several stories, on the stone pavement
of the courtyard, and when taken up, was found
fatally mangled. She possessed sufficient con-
seriousness to relate the cause of the accident.
but so numerous and so severe were the inju-
of the afternoon.