The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-02-12
The death of Owen Duffy, editor of the


t did good service in the field as well as i
, tho chair. During the seige lie was seize
) with cholera-there was no medicine to b
found i'll the place, till at length they Oh
tanned some opium. Six pills were mad
: OF opium, containing grain eacll; ant
given him, with the direction that h
should take one pill every hour, to destro,
} the effects of the cholera. Fearful of til,
disease from which he was suffering, h,
took the six pills at one dose. The imme
diate effects of it were to put him into ;
deep narcotic sleep. lie lay there as if ir
trance all night and nearly all the ncx
day, the poisonous weed having benumLed
every faculty Of his mind and body. III
the latter part of the next day they at
tempted to wake him up; they took him
out to tile well, and poured cold water over
his head and all over his body; they rub
bed him, shook him, and halloed at him,
till they succeeded in waking him up suffi-
ciently for him to understand what they
were doing and what was going on imme.
diately around him. We kept him in this
State short time. l talked to him and
tried TO interest linn. lie was very sleepy
all the time, would fall into half doze and
nod his head, then rouse himself.
Thus he continued his efforts for little
while TO keep awake, and then fell into a
deep benumbing sleep. During the sue
cccdng night lie lay partly asleep and part
ly awake. lie had set down against the
wall and had fallen into very uncomfort-
able position; the opium had so exhausted
his physical powers, that lie had not suffi-
cicnt strength to raise himself. All night
long, lie sat there in that position, slowly,
sorrowfully, patiently breathing out "Won't
some gentleman put me in a more comfort
able position '"-" Won't some gentleman
put me i'll K more comfortable position ~
1t was thrilling to hear him as lie lay there
all night long, piteously repeating these
words, and not be able to help l,i,n, and
know that no one there could. Mr.. duffy
must have had some opium about linn, for
next day he WAS up and appeared quite
smart. The vis medicatri.r nuturp alone,
could not have wrought such a change
That day he entered the trenches and
fought furiously. lie was captain Of the
volunteer forces. lie died standing in the
trenches, his rifle i'll his hand.
But few good mon are attacked by the
cholera. The most of the men who have
suffered and died in Nicaragua, were the
scum of low groggcries who were
used up and broken down before they went
there. If healthy young men, Of good l,ab-
its. go there and live correctly, there is 10
danger of their dying. But no man can
eat fruit, ripe or green, and then drink IL
quor OH ii, without killing himself immedi-
ately. If you put pineapple into vcs-
sci Of brandy, the apple will swell up to
four times its size, and turn black rs coal,
for fermentation instantly takes place when
the liquor and apple come in contact. 1t
is just so when the pineapple and brandy
arc put into the stomach. knew young
man who came from California - stout,
healthy and hardy-he lived there without
the least symptoms Of disease-tle climate
agreed with him but one day lie said to
me, 81 guess I'll eat a pineapple, see
they have fine ones here" lie went out
and bought fine large one, pealel and eat
it. Feeling thirsty, he went out and drank
some brandy; six hours after, lie was dead.
lie was attacked with the cholera, when
that disease was not about at all. 1t was
not the Asiatic cholera; it was more like a
terrible aud severe diarrhea. There is so
much acid in the fruit there, where it grows
rank beneath tropical sun, that it is dam
gerous to eat large quantity of it, but it
d magnificent fruit when fully ripe. The
natives never begin to eat it till this month
they say it is not healthy before.
Phere is no place in the world healthier,
or that has finer climate than parts Of
Nicaragua but of course where the vege-
tation grows so rank, and the water over
flows the land, there is constantly going OH
a decomposition, fatal alike to the health
of man and beast. The swa,nps, low lands
and river banks, are generally visited at the
peril of ones life.
Col. Jones brought us half a busl'el Of
lemons, as specimen of the fruit of MIC
aragua. They were certainly the most
beautiful and largest samples Of that fruit
that we have seen in New York for many
year.
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