The Republican journal., 1882-11-09

received, and was well enough to walk
out and pay visits-or at least supposed
himself to be. Other cases could be cited
of similar nature if it were desirable to
make a catalogue.
HARD 10 KILL.
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 a story
that was widely copied Of a man whose
history was told by himself to a CORE
spondent in Michigan and whose personal
appearance bore out bis story, 50 the
correspondent said He claimed that his
troubles began when lie was only five
years Old, when he fell through the roof
of she'd, breaking all his ribs, both col
lar bones, his breast bone, his right arm
| in two places, his left arm above the el-
bow and the bones of his left hand. 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 d fight on Mis-
sissippi steamboat. During this time he
had had Asatic cholera, yellow fever
and, in Central America, the spotted few
er. This last disease stayed with him
four months and ''peeled him like q
| 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 captured
by the COntcderates. DuIing his I'M
prisonment of three months he was sun
struck and aiterWard nearly starved to
| death, and was only paroled when his
captors supposed him TO be without the
ability to do further service In a long
march the veins in his left leg burst, and
he almost died Of hemorrhagc At Chan
cellOrSyille he was knocked down by a
| spent cannon ball. and while lying pros
trate Was run over by field piece Of sin
pound calibre, which passed directly over
his head and body. After recovering
again and getting bis discharge he IN
deItook one day to cut down a tree. but
by not uncommon accident the butt Of
| the tree flew up as the tree fell, and this
j. man standing in the way. as was to have
been expected OF a man Of his habits,
was knocked a distance, he says. of forty
feet He lay on the SNOW insensible for
eight hours, and on getting his senses
again found that his Skull was broken
and his brains were leaking out, and
that eight Of his teeth We're gone. In
three months he was entirely we'll that
| IS all that was left was well. but in hand
ling some blasting powder he managed to
| ignite it and the loss Of one eve was the
consequence. These We're the principal
| accidents this man related. but he said
! he had had many minor ones. In spite
OF all he had been through he was well
| and claimed to be ready to fight any man
of his age and weight, but complained
that his blood was SO thin that he was
unable to keep warm even in summer
In olden time such a man would have
been thought by the supersttious to be
destined for the galloWs, but there is
some question whether hanging would be
a successful operation. Whether the story
is true or not. it is all possible, and there
Is nothing in it that can not be duplicat-
cd in the mcQicat records, excepting the
fact OF so many accidents occurring to the
! same victim.
WHERE POISONS DID NOT KILL.
10 multiply the list Of men who have
survived ''mortal injuries, " or what have
been supposed to be mortal. would be to
make this article a catalogue, as limited
above. There are such cases without
number, and each has its own peculiarity.
''Bill' Poole, the gambler, it is well
known, lived some days with Il bullet in
his heart. Anegro in this city, some ten
! years ago, murdered his mistress and
| then cut his own throat with the same
razor with which he had killed her.
Then, with the irrational fear that some
times anlmates would be suicides, he ran
away TO escape arrest. He remained hid
den III an outh0uSe for over forty eight
hours. Then, being hungry. he crawled
out and surrendered to the police He
was faint with the loss Of blood and h S
windpipe was completely severed An
unfortunate man who hangs around an
Eighth avenue saloon, in this city, carries
a bullet in his brain cavity, which, it has
been found by the use Of the "indicator'
(used by surgcons), now lies some four
inches below its first resting place. This
| bullet entered his temple, the hole being
still apparent, during the War Of the Re
belllon. lie was a strict teetotaller be-
fore and during the war, but since he was
shot he has had terrible thirst for liu-
uOr. common remark Of the saloon
keeper is, "Don't give Tom glass It'll
make him blind drunk There is no
end to such cases, but another branch of
| the subject should be mentioned. 1t is 4
we'll known and common fact that a man
may so habtuate himself to the use of
poisons (of many kinds) that he may take
with lmpunity and carry around in his
system a sufficient amount to kill fifty
other men. Probably the commonest
| instance Of this is in the use Of nicotine
There are hundreds, perhaps thousands,
OF men in this city who have been in the
habit for years Of lnhaling (not swallow
ing, but breathing) the smoke of cigars
or cigarettes. If any one of them should
die and an autopsy should be made his
lungs could be squeezed in a common
lemon squeezer and enough of the pure
oil OF nicotine would eXude to kill doz-
en-, perhaps hundred men. Yet the
habit, despite what the doctors say. does
not always kill, or if it does, the time it
| taxes enables the victim to die of old age
| first. \ less frequent, but still common
ease Is that Of the abuse of lludauum.
| Two friends Of the writer were once
playing billiards and ordered cocktails.
One swallowed the others drink by mis-
take and it took two physicians twelve
hours to bring him out of his danger.
The second player had the laudanum
| habit and what almost killed his friend
was his ordinary drink
A CASE In POINT
Not many months ago a man was tax
en- to the Charity Hospital who had been
for long time the victim Of the morphine
habit This had grown on him to such an
extent that the poison swallowed had no
effect whatever upon him. He had to take
it by hyperdermic injection to obtain the
desired effect, and, being poor and with
out the proper tools, he would hack his
skin with knife or scissors or any sharp
| tool ha rODl6 rpt and ruI, Tho ,,o;co,, -,