Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-29

There are cases ON record, there were
many of them during the war of the re-
belliOn-in which men were repeatedly
hurt so that death appeared inevitable.
No sooner would they recover from one
apparently mortal wound than they
would receive another. The Hartford
Times not long ago published story
that was widely copied of a man whose
history was told by himself to a cores
pondent in Michigan, and whose person
al appearance bore out his story, so the
correspondent said. He claimed that his
troubles began when he was Only five
years old, when he fell through the roof
of a shed, breaking all his ribs, both col
lar bones, his breast bone, his right arm
in two places, his left arm above the cl-
bow, and the bones of lis lett Land. 1t
was thought that he could not recover
but he did. Ten years later his hip was
dislocated twice in the same year, and
his right ankle was broken. In 1856 he
was shot in the ankle in fight on q
Mississippi steamboat During this time
he had had Asiatic cholera, yellow fever,
and, in Central America, the spotted
fever. This last disease stayed with him
four months, and peeled him like a
snake" 1t was not until the war broke
out however, that this remarkable man
had full play for his talents. Joining
the army he was bayOneted in the left
knee in the battle of Gainesville, and cap
tured by the confederates. During his
imprisonment of three months he was sun
struck, and aftcrward nearly starved to
death, and was paroled when his captors
supposed him to be without the ability to
do further service. In long march the
veins of his left leg burst, and he almost
died Of hcmorrhagc. At Chancelors-
vile he was knocked down by a spent
cannon ball, and while lying PROSTATE
he was run over by a field piece of six
pound caiibre which passed directly over
| his body. After recovering again and
{. getting his discharge he undertook one
! day to cut down q tree, and by not un-
common accident the butt of the tree flew
; up as the tree fell, and this man stand
! ing in the way, as was to have been cN.
, pcctcd of a man of his habits, was knock
ed a distance, lie says, of forty feet. IL
! lay on the snow insensible for eight hour:
and on getting his senses again found
! that his skull WAS broken and his brains
leaking out, and that eight of his teeth
were gone. In three months lie was Ell
tirely wcll-that is, all that was left OF
him. but in handling some blasting pow
der he managed to ignite it and the loss
of one eye was the consequence. These
| were the principal accidents this man re-
lated, but he said he had many minor
ones. In spite of all he had been
through he was we'll and claimed to be
ready to fight any man of his age and
weight, but complained that his blood wa:
so thin that lie was unable to keep warm
even IL summer. In oldcn times such 8
man would have been thought by tht
| snpcrs:iiio,is TO he destined for the gal
lows, hut thcN is some question whether
hang ing would be a successful operation
I; Whether the story is true or not, it i:
ali possible, and there is nothing in il
ihst cannot he duplicated in the mcdica
record, except the fact that SO many &C
c;dents happened to the same person.