Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-03

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friends we're almost frantic, and in their
efforts to relea5e her encountered . Sc
rious risk. The upper portion If the
veil was torn away and thrown down
an embaukment, and then the work of
digging and shoveling away the clay
aud cuim was commenced, amid breath
less suspense, and carried on vigorous
". At eight feet deep the sesrchers
encountered q portion of the clothing,
and animated by the hope Of still
saving her they redoubled their sner-
gies. She did not sink into the shaft,
tut was j:mmed against the side and
firmly held in tina: position By the fall
ing mass. Ropes and boards were pro-
cured, aud as soon as practicable ad
justed to the prostrate woman, who was
taken to the surface. At FIRST it was
hoped she would recover, but the hope
proved futile one. Her hand was
firmly clinehed on the handle of the
bucket, which she held when the acci-
dent occurred, and, brief as the time
was, she was rigid corpse. Mrs Mul-
herin leaves q child few months old
Although the fatal we'll was sunk
through higa bank Of culm and earth,
the surroundings seemed perfectly safe,
and were consequently most deceptive.
The Seighbors along that street for
considerable distance we're furnished
with water from it, and frequently had
recourse TO it during the day, even up
TO few minutes before the tragic oc-
currence.
Delicate as the organization of the
brain must be, it is surprising to read
Of the bard knocks it can bear, not
only without injury, but even to ITS
advantage. One man who lost half his
brain through suppuration of the skull,
preserved his intellectual faculties 20
the daS of his death and the brains of
soldiers have been known to carry bull
lets without apparent Inconvenience,
and to undergo operation for the ex-
traction of the foreign bodies without
loss of power. A physician who was
afflicted With, an abnormal cerebral
growth which pressed upon the cavities
of the brain, So as to paralyze one side
of his body and render him speeches.,
retained possession of his reasoning and
calculating powers until he died One
Of three brothers, al. idiots, after re-
ceiving n severe injury on the head,
gained sense, and lived to be a clever
barrister. A stable boy o! dull caps-
city, and subject to fits, had his wits
sharpened by the kick of horse, which
necessitated the abstraction: Of por-
ton of his brain; and no less a per-
sonage than Pope Clement VI owed
the Improvement of his memory to
slight conclusion of the brain. On the
other hand it is fact that the brains of
persons with Thoroughly disordered
minds, as rule present no abnormal
appearance after death. which is not to
be wondered at, DR.. WyRter declares,
when it is found that symptoms of a
disordered brain are often produced by
very slight alteration in the copstitu-
tion of the blood. Chambers Journal.
Samuel Malick, of Selinsgrove, was
drowned IN the river, at that place, las.
Wednesday. The circumstances of the
case, as We received thems are as fol-
lows: He and two other men we're
taking truck across the railroad bridge
to meet the G o'clock train, and when
about midway of the bridge his cloth
ing became entangled in machinery by
which the truck is propelled, which
threw him into the river-at which
place the water is deep ard the current
rapid. His comrades knew nothing of
the accident until they heard the
splashing in the water. Search was at
once made, and the body Of the drown
ed man was found with an arm aud leg
broken, about 100 yards below the
oridge.-FreeJug Courier.
The Blair county Register says: On
Monday morning last, about S o'clock,
heavy rumbling repor: was heard at
the Paper Mill of Messrs. Morrison,
Bare & Co., at Roaring Spring, this
county, and upon looking in that direc-
tion, heavy irons, timbeIs, and differ
ent kinds Of machinery, was seen flying
in every direction, and the paper mill
was a vast heap of ruins. The Straw
Digester, a sort Of engine, had bursted.
1t was Is feet in length, 6 feet in diam
eter, inch iron /; weight 7 tons. 1t
went high up in the air, several hun
dred yards, I'll! it appeared not larger
than a common tin bucket, and alighted
in field upon the hill. some two hun
dred yards away, the smaller end strik-
ing the earth and sinking 5 feet into
the sclid ground, the other part break
ing off and alighting some % feet be-
low. The smoke stack was blown be-
yond the church, about half mile