Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-03-27
A RABID BRIDE.

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A RABID BRIDE. ion s,ot s
Lady Bitten by Mad Do.-Heeor,e
Eabid in Eleven Weeks-An Axvfr,l
Wedding Horn. GE II sr-''i1ff-
From the Pittston (Pa.) Gazette.
About eleven weeks ago a young
lady named Cox, daughter of Miles
Cox, OF Stoddardyille, went into the
yard to kill some chickens. The dog
followed her, and, picking up one Of
the chickens, ran off with it. She
chased him with stick to recover it.
and, coming up with him, he turned
upon her and bit her in the arm, lacer-
ating it fearfully. Her mother. and
brother, coming to the rescue, were al
SO badly bitten by the infuriated beast
The wounds healed, however, and
( nothing more was thought of the
matter. t9-ti53i So
The young woman was engaged to be
married to ayoung man living at Colds
boro, named Alfred Kerrick, and the
wedding was appointed to come off at
the place about two weeks ago.
On the wedding morning, as she was
about to perform her ablut1ons, the
sight of the water sent a shiver through
her whole system, and frightened her,
and, at the breakfast table, the coffee
had such an effect upon her that she
spilled it over the table. She then
complained of feeling unwell, and her
friends advised her to remain at home,
but she said she did not want to disap
point Al, and, accompanied by sister,
proceeded to Goldsboro, where the
wedding ceremony was performed.
Immediately after this, sne was seized
with spasms, bearing all the indications
of hydrophobia. In one of her lucid
intervals, she warned the company that
she would bite them if they did not
keep away from her. "But," said she
to her husband, "Al, you need not be
afraid, I won't bite YOU
In one of her paroxysms, she bit a
her. 1t was the wife of Doc. Hoffman,
who drives the stage from Goldsboro
to the Sand Cut, on the d. L. & w.
r. r.
Soon after assuring her husband that
she would not bite him, she was seized
with commissions, and, laying back in
his arms, died.
The other members of the family
who were bitten by the dog, have not, /
as yet, displayed any symptoms of the
disease, but they live in hourly dread.
Steamer Fleets and Future Wars.
Vernon Harcourt contributes to the
London Times an extended comparison
between the England of 1902 and the
England of 1872, and treats of one in
teresting point as follows:
[ shall be told, perhaps, that steam
has altered the conditions since 1872. |
Why, I thought if any one thing was
more proved by experience than anoth-
er, it was that steam is all on the side I
of the superior naval force. In old |
days the same wind which blew off the /
blochading squadron blew out the /
blockaded feet. 1t was thus possible
fora squadron to escape unobserved.s
But the experience of the American |
Civil War shows the infinitely |
superior power of a. steam
blockade. A ship here and there may
get out or in, but the escape Of a fleet, |
still less of fotilla, without an action
would be impossible. II steam had
existed, would Napoleon have ever got
to Egypt2 Conceive what would happen
If we were at war with Prussia and Rus !
sia. Every hole and corner of the North
Sea would be blockaded under the Gov
er of a superior fleet, which would pro-
tect the cruisers who bear swift tidlngs
of every movement of the enemy
How are 500 ships and the covering
feet which would be required to carry
even $4,000 men to getaway by stealth.
hear it said the British fleet is to
be decoyed away but why is 1t to be
dec0yed2 Surely we shall know where
the North Sea fiotilla is collected and
where the North Sea fleet lies. The
place of the British feet will be in I
front of the enemy while he IS in har-
Dor. and in the midst of him when he
is at sea- You might just as well talk
of the French ." decoying away" /" the
Prussian army and then conquering
Germany; or have proposed in 1862 to
keep 100, 900 men in Boston lest Jetfer--
son Davis should have landed a similar
force in Massachusetts,. You say IN
vasions have happened and may hap
pen again. Yes, sir, invasions have
happened; but there are lnvaslons and
invasions. No such thing as the inva-
sion of England has ever happened:
All the invasions which have happened
have been either land invaslons OF. IN
vasions where the fleet of the invaded
power could not keep thesea.
No such thing has ever occurred as
the invasion of a country which pos
sessed fleet, able, and will not say
to conquer, but even to STOW hght.
Phillip II. tried it with the Armada,
and we know what came of it. After
preparing a second Armada for two
years Napoleon was wise enough not
to attempt it. The difference between /.
a land and sea invasion are essential
and erradicable. You may mob1llze an
army and march it over a frontier IN a
fortnight, and take people unpreparre,d.
The greatest maritime country IN the
world could not provide the means for
tie embarkation of fifty thousand men I
under months no powers but Eng
land, and perhaps France, could prob
ably do it under years OF preparation.
Moed Word for the StOYe-pipe.