South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-10-21
Romney, Hampshire County West Va October 81 1881.

that this could not last very long
that there must be conflict before
long. 1t was rs she supposed. a
moment more and the coffin was emp
ty, aud ferocious young fellow sat
on IT'S edge, and thus addressed her:
we meant TO do it all quiet he
said and | don't want to frighten an
Old woman. Just put them down.
I'm not frightened said Maggie.
'l'm coming to take them things a
way from you, said the man.
Come said Maggie.
He advanced one step. She took
aim and he lodged, but bullet went
through his lett arm, and dropped by
his side.
Furious with pain, he dashed to-
ward her. She fired again, aud this
time wounded him in the right shout
der. Faint, and quite helpless, he
staggered against the wall.
There !! you've done 1t old woman
he said. Open the door and let me
out. My game is up
Mine isn't said old Maggie. Get
into your coffin again. or this time I'll
shoot YOU through the heart
The burglar looked piteousIy at her,
but he saw no mercy in her face. He
went back to the coffin and laid down
in it. Blood dripped from his
wounds, and he was growing pale,
Maggie did not want To see him die
before her eyes, but she dared not
call aid. To leave the house before
daylight would be to meet this mans
friends, and risk her own life. There
was nothing for it but TO play the
surgeon herself, and in a little willie
she had stopped the blood and saved
the burglars life. More than this
she brought him cup of tea, and
led HIM with it as if he had been u
baby. Nothing, however, could in
dnce her TO let him out OF his coffin.
About one or two O'clock she heard
steps outside, and knew that the other
burglars were near, bot her stout
heart never quailed. She trusted in
the bars and bolts aud they did not
betray her,
The daylight found her quietly sit
ting beside the wounded burglar, and
the milkmau. bright and early was
the ambassador who summoned the
officers Of justice.
When the bridal party returned
next day the house was neat and tidy.
and Maggie in her best alpaca, told
the news in laconic fashion:
'Frightenedr she said, in answer
to the sympathetic ejaculation of her
now mistress. frightened! Oh, no
Fca, wasn't born in me-
A Painful Pin.-Thc Everett, Bed
ford county, Pa, Press says: About
ten months ago, John Miller, a five
year old son Of Mr.. Martin Miller, of
this place, accidentally Swallowed a
pin. The boy said that II had lodged i'm
bis throat. aud the physicians failed
to find il upon examination. Forthe
last few months he had some trouble
III his throat which could hardly be
explained. Some attributed il TO the
pin, bnl it was hardly thought posi-.
BILE that it would remain in tie throat
so long, or indeed that it had lodged
there ut all. His trouble grew more
serious and efforts were made to find
the pin. On last Friday morning tine
doctor noticed Il small dark spot on
his neck, and concluded that il was
caused by the pin. When the lance
was applied to the spot the pin almost
forced itselfout. This is very fortu-
nate, as the throat is not q very good
place,in which to have that sort of
thing, and then II was becoming very
in this instance.
The surgical management of the
case Of the late President has been the
subject Of much comment, and now
there is newspaper discussion be.
tween the doctors This thing should
be stopped. as it can dono good. The
Medical Record, which IS good an
thority. says editorially: 1T is, we be-
lieve, the general verdict of the pro
fesssion that the late President recciv-
ed all the aid which medical science.
intclllgently applied, could furnish.
Looking back upon The case, even
with The light Of The autopsy before
US, IL is impossible for any one 90 say
that any different mode Of treatment /
would have saved the patients life. /
And furthermore, we may claim that /
medical art prolonged for months |
life which might otherwise have end |
ed IN few days or weeks
a collision occurred between two sec. [
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