The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-01-05
BATHED IN BLOOD,
OR THE BUTCHERS STORY.

OR THE BUTCHERS STORY.
REPUTED NEw CURE FOR PARALYsIs-How
SYLPH-LIKE SAN FRIsCAN TRIED THE
RECIPE.
The Virginia City Enterprise evolves this
About year ago curious thing happened
here" yesterday remarked a robust and
rosy checked butcher, whom we had been
complimenting on his fresh and healthy sp
pearance. 81 know, /" continued our butcher
acquaintance. ''thst, as rule, mes engaged
in my business enjoy good health. and have
fresh, rosy look; but whether dabbliug in
blood and breathing and absorbing the
tunes aud vsp0rs arising from fresh
meats has anything to do with this, as
you appear to believe, can not say; neither
have ever seen any blood drinking, either
by butchers or others. But, as have said,
very curious circumstance occurred here
about year ago. generally work in the
market-so l must get my red cheeks
through what / absorb from the meats
taOdle-but about year ago one of our
butchers took sick, and filled his place in
the slaughter-house for about six weeks.
mad not been in the slsughter-houss long
until one afternoon about o'clock-our
time to begin Killing-a carriage drove up.
Two ladies alighted; one known to me as the
wife of the superintendent of one of our
leading Comstock mines, and the other q
ward learned. 1 saw, almost as soon as the
ladies arrived, that the younger one
HAD NO USE OF HEB RIGHT ARM.
1t was so completely psrslyzed that she was
obliged 10 move it about with her left
hand. observed that when she wanted to
put her dead baud into Ter muff she was
obliged to reach through with her left, get
hold of the hand and then draw it to where
she wanted it, jast as though It had been a
sksin of yarn. Well, it appears there had
been some understanding about the young
lady coming there, but what she did not a
little surprised some Of us the frs day she
came. The ladies stood looking on while
we hauled up bullock and knocked him
on the head. No sooner had the knife been
Withdrawn from the animals throat than
tie young lady suddenly threw off the large
mantle that she wore, and, rushing for
ward, sat down upon the floor just at
the bullock's neck, where torrent of blood
was gushing. She hen barred her right arm
and thrust it to the shoulder into the gaping
and bood-spouting throat of the animal,
holding il there until the blood had ceased
70 flow. We were then killing about thirty
animals every afternoon, and every day
regularly the girl came and thrust her dead
arm into the bleeding throat of one or more
OF them. That girl had great courage, and
was not one OF your over-nice kind, l can
tell you. She had coarse dress of some
aeavy wooded stuff that she wore for the
purpose, aud when the bullock fell and the
knife had done its work, she at once ran up
and
SEATED HERSELF ON THE FLOOR,
as regardless of the blood as if it had been
20 much water. There she would hang
across the neck of the beast until it cessed
TO bleed. Sins was SO brave that we were all
CAD when she got well. 1 remember how
happy she was when she came one day and
showed US that she could begin to open and
close her fingers. From that time forward
she improved rapidly. Soon she could
move her arm, aud finally could grasp ard
hit things with her hand. i think she came
tor about three weeks before she was cured.
The last day she came she was quite
bright and merry-more so than / had ever
seen her. After putting on her
mantle she thanked all for
our kindness to her and shook
hands with Us, giving us the cured hand,
W hicb, as she laughiDgly said, we had
s.some right to-" We all felt great interest
In her, but never saw her again. l never
learned her name. All know is that she
came fere from San Francisco i suppose
| might have found out who she was by
asking Mr.. -, but ] didn't know but /
IN ght be considered impertinent. i don't
know whether the cure proved permanent.
A ter the young LADY went away We thought
we should see many persons there to try the
blood bath, but none have ever come. That
girl was the only one, and L never saw any
thing like 1t before or since.