The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-10-09
From the Detroit Adrertissr, Get. ST.
A MOST HORRIBLE CASE OF HYDRO.
PHORIA

heartrending case of this terrible dis
occurred in this city, terminating with death,
yesterday evening at O'Clock.
Patrick O'Donnell, young man twenty-five
years old, amoulder, working for jackson d Wiley,
and residing with his mother near the Eighth Ward
School House. the 9th of June last was bitten in
the handby alitte dog ofoficer Mahanna's. The lat
ter believing the dog to be mad was about to XII it,
when young O'Donnell, with whom it was great
favOrite, demonstrated, refusing to believe that it
had the disease. He even went so far as to snatch
it up, to take it away, and he did this it bit him
in the right hand, between the thumb and finger.
Mr.. Mahanna, however, killed the dog, but O'Don-
nel still asserting that the dog not mad, paid
no attention to himself.
On Sunday last O'Donne and two other young
men rode out in buggy, and went as far
a Wyandotte. They drank, but not enough to
intoxicate. O'Donnell, however, acted very singu-
larly, often starting up, and biting one of his COM
paniOns, generally on the hip. One of them yet
bears the black and blue marks of this biting
Hydrophobia, however, not thought of, but
the singular conduct was ascribed to excitement
induced BY the drinking, though that even then
seemed to have been hardly enough to make him
so wild. He would, too, seize the whip and lash
the horses into run before he could be stopped
When he arrived at home his conduct was singular
and he INDUCED in strange expressions, like man
in restless sleep, and would at times clutch at the
table, near by which he sitting, and tremble as
if suddenly startled
On Monday he went to work as usual, and also
on Tuesday. During the afternoon of the latter
startled when the hot iron poured, as if exces
sively nervous On Wednesday he was too i'll to 90
to work, but hydrophObia was not thought of, nor
in fact his illness considered to be serious,
either by him his family.
On Thursday morning the unmistakable symp-
toms of the most terrible of diseases apparent
and from that time till Friday evening, when
death brought to his relief, his sufferings
frequently, and during the latter part of the last
day, continually, of the most intense kind. Nopen
can even describe the horror with which the sight
of them afflicted the spectators.
1t should be understood, that in this disease the
sensitiveness of the nerves is exquisite, almost be-
yond belief. The raising of hand by one several
feet away occasioned terrible shudder. 'For
Gods sake don't do that, you take my breath
away" he gasped out, and such is but one of the
many incidents that were constantly recurring
when his spasms were on. There was a con-
slant twitching of every limb, eyes staring if to
leap from their sockets, clasping and clutching
of the hands, and the like. When in the spasms he
could scarcely be held. He would jump and bite at
everything near. The sight of fluid Occasioned a
most fearful exhibition of perfect dread, and at
moment was the unhappy man at rest. When not
in spasms he was rational and conversed. Early in
the day, yesterday, he spoke of death as certain,
and would call his mother to him, embrace her,
and talk to her, if the next moment would be his
last, telling her that no could tell what might
be the consequences OF the next spasm
DIsCoURAGING FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA OIL
WELLs-Late intelligence from the oil districts of
estern pennsylvania reveal the fact that the cele-
brated TideOut well stopped flowing over the top,
alter throwing ont some two hundred barrels day.
The famous Crosby well had dwinded down from
seventy barrels day to six seven, but the owner
thinks the failure is attributable to the filling of the
pump, and hopes to do better when it is cleaned
Out oftwo hundred and sixty-seven wells on the
creek, above Ttusville, only thirty-four are yet
pumping oil, and many of the oil-seekers are just
now in state of very anxious suspense.
planter, Gen. Cornelius Robinson, living near
Montgomery, Ala, advertises his property for sale.
He says that he has become "disgusted with the
submissive policy of the South" and is determined
to dispose of his property and lcars