Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-05-03
lust at the very moment, and for some time

just at the very moment, and Tor some time
after"
"How 1 felt in my inside, dye mean,
sir?" asked Hopper.
"Just So" was the bland reply.
"Well, sir" said Hopper, $50 far as
can remember. Memory impaired,
muttered the doctor, ave had just come
to Sir Nile Top, and was talkin', and
laughin', and chaffin', and what not, about
the train that was a-comin' behind us,
and about the next big race; and L was
offerin' Tom Briggs, as sit jest oprositeme,
hundred TO seven, think it was-bu, l
won't be sure to a point" MemG5 aoc.
cidedly impaired" ~ again mutter::I .ne auo
tor, [" can't recollect the Bc:s l,,p III co. snr
matters,"l against the ftys"g "ou ,da ;Ut
the TunbyidGSsbire shen all OF suuuii,s
.horo los ;ror.eIiljuous-what dye call
:.sn T va suggested the doctor, and
lido @Sfemory frightfully impaired
aont ,emember the commonest words.
al 9'ah. somethink O. that; and Tom he jerks
! forrard, and gives me one for myself across
the nose with the brim of his hat and be-
fore I could punch his head, there was an
other-jolt, don't you call it?" Memory
in shocking state" muttered the doctor,
and another genTman say 20, Lord and
come head-foremost, sixty miles an hour,
| into my stomach; and after that L don
recollect any more till was pulled out o.
the carriage (for dussn't move, for fear
any o. nv limbs was broke), and found l
was none the wuss of the whole business,
| except Jest this ha'p'orth o bark oil my
\ nose"
"You thought you were none the worse,
said the doctor, seriously and emphatical-
"; but you have not told me how you
felt
"WeI, / hardly know myself, sir
Knocked insensible," muttered the doc
tor: conclusion of the brain, chronic dis
order of the cerebellum inevitable :" "you
see it was all over in about three minutes.
at seemed to you about three minutes,
said the doctor, because you were in a
state of insensibility; but can't you re-
member any particular feeling?'
"Well, when the bump first came, l re-
] collect couldn't have spoken word any
more than if l had been born deaf and
dumb; my tongue didn't seem of any use
to me; my art seemed a-tryin to get out
side O me; and / had awful taste like
ashes or somethink in my mouth"
81 know the symptoms, said the doc
tor knowingly; and now tell me do you
feel at all dizzy when you 90 to bed anC
get up? Is your sight at all affected
| auQ uOtc NOul ciihhO.
, "Ar three, sill" answered Hopper
dreadful"
| This was not astonishing, seeing thai
even before the accident, Hopper's plan o.
recommending his liquors by showing thai
he himself was far from afraid OF them
had produced all the symptoms the doctor
alluded to; and after the accident, the
kind assurances of the doctor and of friends
that Hooper might depend upon it that he
: was injured internally, had begotten 8
nervousness that led to greater constancy
than ever in the plan of recommendation
SO. Hopper was ordered out of town, wa!
: wheeled about in Bath chair, and so skill
fully treated that he was, after very shor
time, unrecognisable by his own friends
! and many witness could swear, without
any approach to perjury, that he had los
three stone within short time after thu
, accident. So the Great Southern Railway
, Company was induced to compensate hin
: L(or, to use Hopper's own words, t.
"square" him) with three hundred pounds
! which Hopper himself allows, is prett,
good compensation for the bit o. bark h
, lost For he does not think the Compan,
! | responsible for the state to which his Owl
friends and his own doctor reduced him
,, and from which he recovered with mar
vellous rapidity the moment chat was di
rectly after Achan and the doctor wer
, paid) that he was left to himself Surel,
! this case of Hopper is sufficient to give tn
, moralizer something to think about, an
make the railway companies consider
they would not find prevention cheape
: to shareholders than compensation. :
Chambers Journal.