Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-01-12
Wonderful Escape.

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Last evening, about 0 o'clock, A. the train ON
the Jackson Railroad was dsshing on at full speed
towards tho city, ut y point seven miles from tho
depot, tho fireman was suddenly startled by tho
apparition OF man standing directly on the track,
facing tho engine and with his arm raised Il
was but a moment. and the engine was on him,
and he disappeared. ..=5.. $
Tho alarm WINS instantly given. the train stop
ped in very short distance, and all the hands
got down with lanterns mud hurried back h look
tor tho mangled body. Presently an old bat and
one boot. soaked through with rain. wsrs found
On the track hut no mnnged body The search
continued diligently for some aime, but still no
mangled body. Whore could the unfortunate
man be 7 or wns there any unfortunate man at
all2 f
Tho fireman, pqued, We presume, at the us;n.
untlon, then determined to look around tho engine
itself. Tho pnrty gathered round tho iron horse,
and 10 and behold, to evcry ones wonder there,
on tho cowcatcher. rat tho unfortunate victim,
holding ON to his dangerous scat like grim death,
and looking the very picture Of mingled dismay
and bewildermcnt His fnce was streaming with
blood, his head bare. and only one boot adorned
his neither extremites. l-t
A dozen arms were stretched forward 70 his re-
lici, and the doctor was called for. A doctor was
fortunately in the train, and in few moments he
had taken possession of the man. Il became evi-
don't Son that tho adventurer was what 10 fami-
lnrly termed 'dead drunk but what astopished
every one wns that he was not materially Injured.
HIS face was cut here and tiere. his tseth were
l"o.encd, and his mouth good denl bruised; but
otherwise he WAS not hurt Ills broad brogus
guse intimaiion of the land Of his birth, but he
WAS no stupefed with liquor and stunned by his
collision with the locomotive that he could give 10
account Of himself
lilo was placed in tho train md his bruises at.
tended TO. u quantity Of stimulus b,ing supplied
him to ennble him to get over the shock as tar a.
possible and he ls now at the Hospital. Possibly
the necessary reaction in his system may prove
more injurious than the immediate concussiou
with the cow-catcher.-N. u. hcayune.
TnE JEWEL IN THE HEAD Or A TOAp,--Evory
one is familiar with the passage in AS You Like
H. act second, scene first, where Shakespeare
says: The toad, ngly and venomous, wears yct
II precious jewel in it's head" Webster defines
tho word "buIonite," on the authority of the En-
cyclopcdia tombstone, from tho Latin bu6o,
toad, considered fossil-tooth of the auarrf-
chas, or sea.wolf formerly much esteemed for its
imaginary virtues, and worn In rings. II was
named. he continues, from an opinion that it was
found in the head of toad.
"n tho cabinet at Ann Arbor, ,"fsays our cor
respondent, NJ. H. c., "we have one Of the same
rings made Of slver--this fabcd toad-stons ~ tho
centre ornament, with small ruby ON either side
The ruby, in II cdiGval times, was counted proof
against evil influences. The rude style OF the
ring bespeaks its antiquity. which probably dates
back some three hundred years. the age put
upon it by the person from whom we obtained 1t,
and who also states that it originally came from
Enplandn ~'@ " ~