The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-08-10

'ouS' uou bOSh po"0A1uliy
! shocked by the electric discharge,
and for weeks atlerward | was so
sick rs to Oc thought almost ho-
yond recovery. One night just
before heavy thunderstorm |
happened 20 be home from school,
and was sitting Oh the iont steps.
l was suddenly seized with the
most violent spasms and had 70
be taken into the house. Then
my ialhcr noticed that these
spasms and twitcbings Of the
hands and arms always came be
fore i thunderstorm, and be be-
gan to experiment to. relieve me.
+! He soon found that | was sur
charged with electricity. He be-
gan to devise means 10 draw the
electricity off me, and has sue
ceeded in some degree. Ny eff.
forts at first were rude enough.
| remember one day that | was
| out here in this very wheat field
and under this same shed we are
standing under now. | was suf-
fering such horrible agonies that
l thought perhaps if l would strip
naked and lie down in the mud the
ground would act as a conductor
and free me from my iEtolerable
burden. | took my clothes off
and threw myself down. The et-
ect was trighttul. [ never felt
anything like it before and | hope
that God may never make me en-
dure such an ordeal again. When
! | laid down on the moist earth,
which made hne conductor, the
electricity left my body like a
flash. 1t was like an imprisoned
spirit freed, and l felt as though
my side had been rent asunder.
1t was as though red, hot iron
had been passed down my side
with inconceivable rapidity. l
felt q tearing off Of the flesh from
the bones, and for several mo-
ments imagined that | had been
torn asunder. The agony for an
instant was terrible. | after
; wards went at it more de!icately.
BY taking oti my shoes and stock
ings and wading in the mud |
found great relief when over
charged. | can forete!l thunder
storms, and during the aurora
borealis a few mouths ago l was
awakened by the electricity in the
air. Once | met young friend
Of mine, a delicate, white faced
young fellow, and he reached out
bis hand to me and l seized it
heartily, and he cried out, You
burn me let 60 [ did so, and
he wrung bis bands, saying be felt
innumerable darting needle.like
sensations pervadiug his nerves.
Everett's bed is in neat little
room on the second floor and is
between two windows. Around
one bed post, where he can lay
bis hand on IL at any moment, Is
a heavy magDetized iron wire
which goes down the outside OF
the house and finds resting
place in a soft basin of mortar al
the bottom, whence it is conducted
to the earth. Everett seized the
wire in his fingers aud it began tc
trembIe all the way down. There
it goes now,' said be. a mo
ment later the reporter placed biz
hand below aud there was very
apparent discharge of electricity
He afterward seized Gilbert BY
: both hands and a circuit wa:
established. 1n moment the
electricity, in weak form, how
! ever, began TO circulate, tingIlng
every nerve. 'An odd circum
stance said young Gilbert, ii
that whenever | am surcharget
: my mouth begins to taste Of sui
pbur. | can feel it in everything
| eat, and sometimes for days to
gether | cannot eat enough Il
sustain me. Whenever | get ex
cited or hot l also begin to hav'
my mouth filed with this strang
taste. Do you see the tips of m,
fingers? Well, they were burne'
by the electricity passing through
> When l was first afflicted in til
strange way the ends Of my fin
gers we're nearly scorched off. nu
now the skin has bardeucd.
. A GooD LIKENESs.-An Austin
: man started in the livery stabl
Z business last week, aud the frs
!. thing he did was to have a bl
e c;rn ,,a;pted reDresantinp himse1