The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-02-16
. THoUoHr IT Musr Bs Tw1Ns.-Pit.

THOUGHT 1T MusT BIZ Twins.
mau was III Willismspors the other
day. and while attending, to his busi.
ness there he had atEong premonition
that something was the matter 1t home,
SO, in order TO satisfy, Mmssii, he de-.
terminsd 70 ran dpwn.tS P6iladelphia
o9 tde ,psxt train. Ia ,the mssntime,
his Wafbrr-in.lsw sent him q despatch
10 sAtss6 ,ct: "Anothef, danghter has
,srgiysd, Hau nah Is poorly: coms
.hpdae ~ Once." The 1inesl were down.
however. and the despatch Was jjhsld
over, and mean whils Ritman arrived
home, and found hts wife doing pretty
vel, aud tho nurte walking around
with au infant day old. After stay-
ing twentyfour hours, aud fudlng
that everybody w-s tolerably com
Portable, he returned to Williamsport
without anything being said about the
despatch. his nother-in-law supposiDg,
Of course. that he had received it.
The day after his arrival the lines were
fixed. and that night he received de-
spatch from the telegraph Office dated
that very day, ind conveying the fol.
loving Intelligence: Another daugh-
ter has just arrived. Haunah ia poor.
~; come home VI once" Pitman was
amazed Gnd bewildered. He couldn't
understand it. He walked the floor of
bis room all night trying to get the
hang of the thing. aud the more he
considered the subject the more be
became alarmed ut the extraordinary
occurrences. He took the early tram
fnr fhn " Il -
Was in u state of bewilderment. When
he arrived he jumped into a cab, drove
!nrlons!y to the house end scared his
tuother iu-law into coLvulsions by
rnshing in in frenzy aud demanding
what on earth had happened He was
greatly relieved to find that there we're
no twins in the nursery. and to learn
how the mistake occurred. But he is
looking now for the telegraph operator
who changed the date of thut de.
spatch. Pltman is anxious to meet
him. He wants to SEQ him about
something. -Ddnbury Ners.
EFFECT OF NERVOUS INFLuRNoB on
TIE HEART. RT.-Experiments made with
much care aud precision. show that
the circulation OF the blood is accele-
rated or retarded by nervous inf Auerces
In u manner which before was only
vaguely suspected. More recently, the
Investigations of this subject, made by
NJ. Marcy. in relation to the beating
OF the heart and its connection with
muscular exercise, fever and the vio-
lent emotions Of anger. fear, Joy, 60,
all of which. he says, exercise u dil ect
action on the peripheric circulation,
have excited peculiar interest. NJ.
Marcy does not consider variations in
the beating of the heart, to be due To
any change in the activity OF the heart
itself. but says it is certain that
changes in the general circulation take
place under the influence of moral
emotions, the face becoming red or
pale, etc. These we'll known changes
must entail variations in the frequency
Of the beating of the heart. so that the
power which moderates or accelerates
the contractions of the heart, he
thinks. can be no other than the con.
trectillity of the vessels OF the whole
body by nervous energy.
DOOMED AND DEspERATE.-J
Fraser. who is under sentence to be
banged in Camden on the 26th of
March. recently tried to commit sui
eide by straneliDg himself He pre-
vionsly made nn Int ffectnal effort to
escape by working through the ceiling
into the garnet, and thence out of the
top of the Jail; and, in consequence,
the Sheriff had securely ironed him
and fastened him to the wall of his
cell. by means Of nmnll chain which
connected with tho shacklps on his
feet. The prisoner doubled himself
up and twisted the chain around bis
neck Ia such manner an to interfere
with his breathing. and when found
by the jnilor was in speechless condi-
ton. 1t is now thought that he IL
willing to await the sentence of the
law, aud that he will not try any more
hanging on his own hook.
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