The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-02-02
RATES OF FREIGHT.
The Accidents and Misfortuuss Which
Have Befallen a Young Man of
Georgia,


and lamentable occurrences OF his short
career, and sent it to the Atlanta Con-
Stituti0H. 1t is as follows:
l. At the age Of five years | received
a very bard fall from chair while ex-
perimenting with il. 1t hurt me very
badly knocking out three of my front
teeth.
q Seeing an expert rope walk
err in Griffin, and thinking that l could
equal him, | went home, got on the
fence, fell and stuck n paiIing through
my foot, giving me severe pain for
week or two.
3. was playing shiny" at the
Sam Bailey Institute one afternoon
after school (when ought to have gone
home), and happened TO get on the
wrong side, when one Of my friends BY
accident knocked me senseless with
stick This was not very bad hurt, so
] was brought TO in the course OF an
hour or two.
4. went to circus, and seeing how
well the circus riders could act their
part / thought could do equally rs
well | tackled a loose horse. stood
upon him backwards, laying the whip
on to him, be was at full speed. fell
of, which came very near killing me.
5. | tried to slide down the rope dur
ing erection OF the Methodist Church
steepe. did this successfully.
6. was so successful at the above
act that | tried the swing at the college.
standing without holding TO the ropes
while way up in the air. l wasn't very
successful at this feat. fell from the
swing, my school mates picking me up,
thinking that | was dead.
Z. Not much sooner had l recovered
from this fall than one Of my associates
ran by me as | was on my way home
and pushed me off the platform at the
depot. | was hurt pretty bad. A gentle.
man who was near by saw the scene,
took me up in his arms and carried me
home. recovered from this by morn
ing.
s. was wrestling with comrade on
a dray while it was running fast, when
/ fell, the dray running over me, and
came very near breaking both legs.
9. climbed tree and fell, sticking
a large stub through my hand, from
which might say that suffered ex.
cruciating pain.
10. was at some kind of foolishness
q don't remember what) and knocked
nv shoulder out of place, laying me up
with severe pain for few days.
II. | was carrying around the Griffin
Daily News one cold wintry morning
and had to carry paper away out to
NJ. T. G.. Manley's. and | dreaded 1t.
But, with resolution of attending to
my business so rs 10 please my employ
ers (MessrS. Alexander & Brown, be-
lieve was the iirm), ran out in the
direction of his house and fell sticking
another stub in my head. | thought |
was killed this time, and ran home right
away and saw my brother Tom sitting
down by the fire, aud asked him to
finish carrying around my papers, that
| might perhaps die. recovered from
this in week or two, and was all o.
X. again.
u. | was practicing the slight-of-
hand trick aud swallowed button, but
it would not come out Of my nose, as it
would out Of the slight.of-hand | had
seen.
10. tried all my skill at farming
with cousin in Meriwether county
and was out one bright morning cutting
stove wood. when cut of three Of my
Il
for seven months | suffered awfully. |
used crutches for some time. would
see how good could walk on them and
fell several times, setting me back q
month or so, My toes did not do to
suit me, so ] took my pocketknife and
cut one of them OF, making them even.
II. started me pea crop, and one
night as / was by the stove where the
cook was boiling peas for the COW, stuck
one in my ear, which made me hard of
hearing, and informed my father of
the fact and he carried me up to DR..
Drewry, who said il the pea had re-
NAMED in my ear all night | might
have died.
Is. | went TO the machine.shop and
was testing my skill at machinery when
guage lathe threw piece OF timber
at me, knocking me senseless. | fell
from the stair steps at the same shop,
which laid me up for several days and
came near breaking my arm.
l6. changed to turning bed posts on
hand lathe, was caught in the same, my
shirt was torn off me, which was tho
on ~ resort TO have saved my life.
II. was engaged in some other bust
ness at the machne.shop, and accident
ally had another shirt torn off me-
Is, The shop closed and / went to
wheat threshing, cutting bands, stuck a
large butcherknifo through my leg,
stopping me for weeks.
l9. With desire of returning to the
machineshop went down to Barnes.
vile to work for Captain j. c. McMch-
ael and first got thumb mashed in q
guage lathe, and afterward pile OF
lumber fell on me, that the hands had
great difficulty in removing in time to
save me.
20. While working in the same shop,
at other machinery, the end of my
thumb was cut of, and worst of all,
while working with rip-saw, saving
timber, q piece flew from the saw, strik-
ing me in the breast, and thought was
killed. Telegraphing to my mother Of
this occurrence, they took me to my