Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-20
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Seventeen Thousand Niles TraveIed---The
Whole Civilized World Walked Overt
Marvellous Results Of Constrained Muscular
Action ia a Case of Paraly5isI

From the St. Louis Democrat
The late war has been followed by
many strange incidents of private for
tune, which afford an ineXhaustible
mine OF wealth to be worked by the
novelist and rOmancer. One of sin
gular and varied novelty has come to
our notice, which battles the imagina-
ton in any effort to surpass it in rich
ness and effectiveness. We present to
the nOyelty-loving public, for the first
time, the true and wonderful story
which follows:
Colonel NJ. L. DeMdhIer is the name
of the hero, as the reader must confess
he Is after reading his adventures. He
is a native of LOudon county, Va,
the scion of a long and hOnored line
of HuguenOts, who first settled in that
State about two hundred years ago.
He received a liberal education in EG-
rope, returning to this country just
previous to the opening of the con-
hict. He Immediately raised g COM
pany of infantry, rendered his sword
TO the Confederate government, and,
under Lee, was rapidly promoted for
gallantry and m%eritOriOus conduct.
He received six wounds, all involv-
ing serious fractions of bones, thereby
80 Gripping him as TO compel his re-
tirment from the service. o
In 1865, when Selma was threatened
by the Federals under Major General
Wilson, the Colonel, who was passing
through that place, prompted by a
sense of patriotic duty, assumed com
mand of a regiment and took part in
the terrible battle which resulted In
the c~apitulatiOn Of the city. Here he
received bis seventh and eighth
wounds, each more severe than the
others. One ballentered his abdomen
near the navel and came out Just to
the right of the spinal column; the
other entered and shattered the left
| shoulder, passed through both lungs,
and issued under the rightarm. From
these he suffered severely, and, as a
consequence of them and his other
wounds, paralysis ensued.
The war closing soon, he went to
Paris, and after exhausting all the or
binary modes of treatment, and de.
irving no benefit from them, by adj
wise of members of the faculty of the
University of France he undertook
walking to obtain relief. He started
from Paris in November, 1865, so Grip.
pied that it was from difficulty three
fOurths of a mile was accomplished
the first day, and it required four days
for him to clear the suburbs of the
city. Taking a southern direction he
Travelled with much difficulty through
the vineyards Of France and made
his way to Spain.
The exercise now began to develop
the most satisfactory results, and it
became evident that a continuation of
his tour would wholly restore his lost
health and vigOr. So he travelled
through Spain, the home of
romance and legends of love
and war, and passed into
Italy, through Southern France, TAX
ing in his route Florence, with all her
learning; Rome, with all her ancient
and glorious associations; Naples, in
all her lOveliness, with her match
Iessly beautiful bay and aWe-inspiring
Vesuvius /; up the western shore of
the Adrialic, stopping at Venice, the
"Rome of the Ocean," and on to
Triest. From thence, making an en-
tire circuit of Austria, through the
marshy districts Of the lower Danube,
Pennsylvania, Galicia, MOravia, Bo-
hernia, down through the mountain
GUS Styria, then up, entering Vienna
from the south. From here, passing
through unhappy, but proud, Poland,
along the northern frontier OF Prussia,
into Hanover and the Rhine country,
thence south to Switzerland and on to
Verona, thus making a complete cir
cult of Continental Europe, Turkey
and Russia excepted.
From Verona his travels described
a second, though more contracted cir
Gle, with Frankfort as the central or
pivot point, goinakhrough Bavaria,
Saxony, Southern Hanover, West
phalia and the Palatinate; and a third
of still smaller extent, through
Baden, Wurtemburg, F%ranconia, the
land of Hesse, and then around, enter
ing Frankfort from the northwest
thus making three circuits in spiral
form.
By this time his health was very
restored. He had contracted
an Unsuitable passion for travelling and
exhausted all the enticing por-
ions OF Europe, he determined to en-
bark.
With this view he left Frankfort,
through Strasburg and Paris
20 Havre, thence sailing for Vera
Cruz, Mexico, where he landed in ]
February. 1887. From here he re-