The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-06

performed delicate and neat operation
on the eye of HI. M Golf of this place,
removing therefrom a seven-eight.
inch belt hook, with T on each end,
which had been imbedded in the eye
for five years. Some five years ago
Golf was working on q shingle mill
when the belt broke, and striking
him over the head, from the rear,
drove two belt hooks, like the one we
have mentioned above into his right
eye, and for two years they both re.
manned there when he had one taken
out, the person who performed the
operation not being able to discover
the second hook, and, in fact, ex-
pressed the opinion that only one had
been driven in. DIR. Bordwell admin
istered chloroform and with q pair of
tweezers took the hook out, with q
piece of bone clinging to it. without
having to cut the eye. The Doctor
says the hook had undoubtedly gone
though the socket of the eye, and so
far i'm that it could not be discovered
until it had worked itself forward.
The wonder is, not that the man has
lieved SO long, but that he was not
killed outright. He says he has not
felt so we'll since the accident as he
has since the operation was per-
formed.
Since the above was in type we have
received the following correct history
of the case:
III. M. Goff, while at work in a
mill near st. Mary's about four years
ago, received the injury. The main
belt broke or separated at the ends
where it was fastened together with
brass hooks. The belt struck him
over the head and two of the hooks
passed into the eye and thrust the eye
out. The eye was replaced by physi.
clans, but the hooks remained in the
socket. About too years after one of
the hooks worked its way partly out
and was extracted by q doctor in the
eastern part of the State. The second
made its appearance soon after, and
many physicians were consulted. At
last DR.. j. S. Bordwell performed the
operation at his Office on Monday, at
10 o'clock, assisted by Omer S. Davis.
The eye holder was applied to hold
the lids, when the hook was seized
with forceps and brooken loose from
the bone which had grown around it,
back of the eye; then a small forceps
was passed down alongside the shaft
of the hook, the muscles held apart
and the hook withdrawn without in
juring the eye. He is now happy.n
Holiday goods coming.-at the
West End Store.
Yesterday the rain rained, but
this morning the weather is cold and
snow is falling rapidly, and covering
the earth with a mantle of white.
The work of finishing Hyde's
hall is fast approaching completion.
They expect to have the hall ready by
Jan. lst.
just received at the First National
Boot q Shoe Store fine lot of hand
and machine made French Glazed
Kid shoes, made on seven different
width lasts.
Peter Man, while cutting straw
with straw cutter Friday night in H.
S. Thayer's barn, got his hand under
the knife and cut the thumb so near
off that Doctor Bordwell thinks it will
yet have to be amputated.
Excellent Cheese always on hand.
The finest Oysters. Meats.
Fairbanks Lard, 8 S, 10, ib, packages.
Rabbits Best Soap.
Cooking Apples at the West End
Store.
IA thing of beauty is a joy for
ever" Our neat bill-heads, note
heads and monthly statements al
though not exactly 'joy forever"
are, nevertheless very neat and tasty
specimens of the "art preservative."
Benjamin Malin who had his
limb amputated on the I'd of Novem-
ber by Drs. Hoey and J. S. Bordwell,
assisted by E. o. Bordwell, and since
under the care of Dr.. J. s. Bordwell
has fully recorded, the limb healing
in thirty days.
Patrick Goodman, who was com.
mitted to the county Jail at the No
vember term Of court succeeded in
scaling the walls, in broad daylight. on
Thursday last and wasin a fair way to
escape when Sheriff Scull intercepted
his fight and again restored him to
his old quarters. He was allowed the
liberty of the yard and climbed the
wall and sat on the top a few min
utes before making the jump, as a person
naturally would before jumping dis
tance of eighteen or twenty feet.
The same night he almost succeeded
in removing a stone from the wall
and was again prevented from making
his escape.
SALOONS ON ELECTION DAY.-By
the Act of Assembly of 1872, inn and
saloon keepers prohibited from dis
pensing spurious liquors, lor wine.
either by gift, sale or otherwise, or any
intoxicating beverage, "during the
hours when, by law, in said district,