The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-09-03
EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

duceu TO gentleman who gave lis = prac-
tical cxcmplitication of the wonderful
Fourtcccn or fifteen years ago he states that
l,c was passing down Baltimore street. late
at night, during heavy snow storm, when
he met, near Frcdrick street, three men
and woman. He gave them the wav.
but hcins violently jostIcl by one Of them,
he urhra'lr'l them somewhat sharply, when
they attacked him. Icing a powerful man,
standing about six feet in his Shoes lie soon
laid two Of them horse dc combat, and
chased the other to the opposite side Of the
street, where he fcllcd him to the ground,
and where, leaning over him, he received
blow i'll the left temple, whicl, staggered as
well rs lcwildcrcd him for Il few minutcs.-
Upon recovering himself his asSiIants had
fled, and feeling the bi"o'! flowing pretty
freely from the wound, proceeded to IL ply-
scan, who soon found tl,1t he had been
stabbed, the instrument entering about half
way between the eve and car, and breaking
off short, leaving considerable length Of
blade in his head. All efforts to extract it
proved futile. Strange to say, he felt very
little pain or Inconvenience from his condi.
ton. The wound soon healed anil lie at
tended to his regular avocations, us if moth
ing had happened. Three years after, the
wound again opening, lie consulted II sur
seon, who, feeling the ragged edge of the
blade, mad: several efforts to draw it out,
and after considerable labor, drew from the
wound Il portion of the basc of the broken
dirk, Which measured within fsaction Of
two inches i'll length. This part Of it gave
an idea of the amount remaining, which
was supposed to be Il piece Of about the
samo size taken away. For eleven years
longer did it continue in this condition,
when, abo t two weeks since, after suffer
ing great degree Of pain on the right side
of his nose, near the corner of his eye,
on the opposite side to where hc received
the wound, and considerable swelling ap-
pcaring, he went to Professor Smith, who,
upon cxaminy the diseased part, found the
point of the blade prolruJing. 1t had ac-
tuaIly traversed through the bones of the
head, and, after fourteen years, made its
appearance in the above locality. Such is
its position, plain to the eye and wonderful
to be believed, excepting 10y an eye witness
DIR. Smith, we understand, proposes, in
short time, to operate for its expulsion
We have often heard Of pins and needles
being swallowed, and in after years ma.
king their appearance in different parts of
the body, but that the blade Of dirk, be,
tween three and four inches in length,
should thus travel, and through bone at
that, forms IN interesting subject for the
surgeon rs well as tho common mind
baltimore Patriot.
Salt Like Ciiy.-Ehler Hyde, in ser.
mon at New York last Sundsy, gave n
description Of Salt Lake City, the great
"roost" Of the Mormons:
1t is described rs containing Is, 900 in
habitants. 1t covers an arc; of six square
miles, divided into blocks Of ten acres,
being divided into eight lots. There arc
eight houses OH block, each surrounded
by small, well cultivated field. Down
each street runs 4 cold stream Of water, on
tho banks Of which rows Of trees arc plan
ted. The hous generally are two stories
high, built of a whilish gray clay, and
look very pretty. Towards the centre of
the city the blocks are smaller, as you near
the centre Of the city, the site of the great
Mo mon tempt that is to be. The founla.
tions arc already laid, sixteen feet deep,
and rs many wide, and the building is to
be two hundred feet long, one hundred
wide and one hundred feet high. The
turrcts and walls, and interior appointments,
arc to lie of style uncIuallcl for splcndor
in the United States. Near at hand are
the dwellings Of the prophets and the anti
sans at work Oh the palacc--thc funds be-
ing contributed by the faithful. Brigham
Youngs palace is also near, where, with
the most surprising harmony, live dozens
Of ladies claiming him rs their husband.
Ia'otS.-ldiocy IS arrested development.
There is, i'll all cases, Il deficiency of brain,
a low physical organization. Tho humane
and accomplished DIR. Wilbur says, that out
of class Of twenty pupils only three could
count ten. Their almost universal fault
gluttony. Their great want is the want of
attention. Many cannot talk it often re-
4uires two or three years to enable them to
utter single word distinctly. Tn almost
all cases heme treatment only confirms tic
maIady. In three hundred and fifty.
cases, all but four originated in parents who
had brought on some confirmed disease by
tho violation of the laws of nature. In