The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1866-02-01

the distance muet DC gone, on hcr
hands and knees. She speaks Of il
wearing the skin of of her knees,
and being an extremely hard jour.
ncy. Who can doubt it'll
By one ofthesc haystacks, and
not Jurrored in it, partly covered
with the hay, she lay, and hunger
cd, and thirstcd, and suffered, aud
moaned, and rcpcntcd, and pray.
ed, and longed for death, day after
day, and night after night, for
t'centy.one (2l) long and terrible
days and nights. She was then
discovered by her meanings to n
10y returning from ,chool. He re.
ported. Soon after, three Of the
neighbors were at the sta ks
They Couhd the poor mortal in
terrible condition. She was almost
naked, and starved, and frozon.-
Her feet, so badly frozen the first
night that she lay by the leg, were
black and burstcd open. Her ex.
cla.nations were heart.rcnding; she
regretted that they had found her
before another day, and then she
would have perished and she be.
sought them with earnest cntrcaty
to leave her there to die. They
carried her to the house of Mr..
Daniel Davidson. This was the
4th day of January, 1866. 1t was
soon discovered and confessed by
herself, that she was the stranger
who had passed through Mount
Jackson on the 18th OF December,
or twcnty.threc days before She
had not been able to count the time
herself, but the date of a circustance
attracting so much attention YVES
readily remembered by many 9th
ers. She solernnly avers that du.
ring all this time, and for two
days previous. she was without q
morsal to cat. And all the cir
cumstances of the case go so strong
ly to prove it. that there is not an
individual in the community who
doubts it. DR. Zimmerman, the
attending physician, and others
account Tor her living SO long with.
out food, b, cause Of the torpid or
inactive state OF the system.
Louisa has some intelligence and
is naturally very bright. She an
swers readily any questions asked
her, and gives not the least cvi
dence Of any etiortto deceive. She
says that two years ago, and before
les wing Missouri to goto Salt Lake
City, she united with the Deciple
Church. In her cou, eisation she
cvinccs a considerable of Bible
knowledge. She still persists that
she came from Utah, and declares
that, intense as her sufferings have
been, she would rather endure
them all than return again to that
icarinlly dreaded, aud abominated
place.
Roa- ..-i.n moa little longer TIL
+ I give you a leaf Of this days his.
tory of Louisa. On yesterday, in
consultation, Drs. Davis of Poland,
Ohio, and Zimmerman, Of Mount
Jackson, decided that both Of the
frozen feet must be amputatcd.--
Modification had taken place. The
pain in one of the limbs was in.
tense. I epoor creature was rea
dy for the knife. or anything that
would give relief. She thought if
she had strength and conld gather
up the arteries she could cut off the
most painful one herself. This
morning the above named phyri-
I clans, and three others, Drs. Jack.
son, Archer and Petit, met for the
operation. Louisa was asked
whether she would rather have botl
feet taken off to-day, or one to
day, and the other few days al
ter. The reply was, " lfthey mus
be taken off, let them come off now;
and if live l live, and il l die
die and 60 to Jesus !! While tho
doctors were preparing their in
struments, bandages, cords, plas
ters, &C., in her presence, for the
operation, che sang throughout, in
a firm tone, without even the least
perception OF a tremor in he voice,
that beautiful hymn of Cowper's :
"There is fountain filed wish blood,
Drawn from Emanuei's veins 3hi Y
II And sinners plugged beneath that Hood
Loose oil their guilty stains"
She then desired, before coming
under the influence Of the ether,
land before the operation was be.
gun, that'a short prayer be offered
up for her. This was done. Then,
in the language OF the martyred