Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-08-12
Nsighborhood News.

Nsighborhood News.
KICKED By HoRsE-A son o
james Clay, aged about9 years, ws'
playing near q horse, which wa
loose in the streets, last Friday, and
received terrific kick ON the righ
side of the head, tearing the feshir
a most horrid manner. Fortunately
the skull was not fractured and the
boy will be well again in shor
time.-Eonton Register ..z.
+ UNFoRTUNArE.--Some time ago
the REGISTER contained an account
of an accident 20 Mr. W. d. Hall o.
lQnaker Bettom, in which he was
thrown from his buggy and severely
injured. He had not got his arm yel
from the sling, when his son had s
finger torn off in q cider mill. AT
hictions do not como singly.-Iron.
ton Regsste r. ssa 's'l E 1t t.,
A Marrow EscApE.-Last Satur.
day, as the fast train came around 8
curve to high trestle west of Big
Run, a woman was suddenly discov.
cred walking on the track, and she
as suddenly discovered the train
The breaks were vigorously whis
tied down, and the woman seeing hel
imminent danger, dropped between
the ties, holding herself suspended
by her arms around tie, till the
train passed over her, which was
checked till she was seen to climb up
all safe. She looked like woman 9
little past middle age, and didn't
scream, ,s5bnt went to work to save
herself IN thorough business-like
manner.-Mdrietta REGISTER.
The Little Champion base ball
club, of this place, and the ActIves
OF Thevenin. Ohio; played amatch
game last Saturday, on the grounds
Of the former club, which resulted in
complete victory for the Little
Champions, by a score of 56 to. "a
The best of feeling prevailed during
the game. We have NOT been fur.
nished with the score.-Pt. Pleosanl
journal. $500. Z.
A man by the name of Burns made
a narrow escape from instant death,
at West Columbia, West Virginia, on
Sunday last. 1t appears that he had
gone out to the village cemetery, for
the purpose Of Willing away the time
in reading, under the shade of a
tree, which chanced to be upon the
brink of perpendicular precipice
about eighty feet in hight, and while
thus engaged, it is thought, fell asleep
and rolled Off the same The dis
tance fallen by him, before touching
the ground, is we are credibly in
formed, seventy eight feet, and yet,
strange to say, he had no bones brok-
en-, and the physician who was called
in to dress his wounds, says his in
ternal injuries are not dangerous
Pomeroy Telegraph. sa. g
HORRIBLE 7ACcrpENr.-On Satur-
day last, two cousins named Reush,
one aged fourteen, the other ten
years, the first son of Lewis Roush.
the other of Adam Roush, while
watching watermelon patch On the
West Virginia shore Of the Ohio
River, nearly opposite the town of
Syracuse, in this county, got into a
controversy about revolver, which
was lying on a shelf in the tent
where they were sitting. The
younger lad endeavoring to take it
down for the purpose of examina-
ton, the elder one trying to prevent
him. In the struggle that ensued,
one barrel of the revolver was acci-
dentally discharged, the ball from
which hit the smaller boy in the left
side of the face near the nose, pass
ing straight back through the head.
producing almostinstant death On
perceiving what he had done, the ell
der lad was seized with a fainting fit,
and, at last accounts, was consider
ed In very dangerous condition
from the constant recurrence of the
same. On Monday, he was said to
be bleeding profusely, as is suppos-
editrom blood vessel, ruptured in
some way in the excitement of the
affair. 1t is q sad affair and has
plunged families in the deepest grief
p Poaeroy Telegraph. A.oa5 a97t.l 2. Aas'
Prof. A. N. johnson, of New York,
will hold a Musical Convention in
this place, commencing September
9th and continuing four days. The
friends of musical education in the
county are invited tolend their aid
and assistance in making the conven-
ton success. Any Information de-
sired will be given by application to
the committee, consisting of W. L.
Rutfner, J. NJ. Polsley and F. W,
Sisson.-Pt. Pleasant Journal. aI
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