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| A LIFE OF INTENSE PAIN. A Man Whose Muscles Had Become Stiffened. j: Story of James Melvin, Who Hasn't Seen His Hands for Seven Years. %. ' V The stiffening began in my arms, but I did not give up work until I Xouud it impossible to raise my arms * to my head, and could hardly dress v.. ? myself without assistance. Then came in rapid succession cane, crutches and l^..i \ ft 11 :~ Wiu. iVlV/Cl tuo SllUUUlUg U1 llljr *111113 t the muscles of my legs began contract? i ing, until they were shut up like a ' \ pocket-knife, the heels resting against my hips. This condition of things continued for some months. One day, while being moved upon roy bed, my right hip slipped out of joint, the effect being to throw my knees over to the right side of my body and bring my heels to the left side. About a year later muscular flont.rnrHnn rvmsfvl mv Ipff. hin to sliii * r r out, bringing my knee3 where they are ' now, on the left aide of my body, with my heels pressed closely against my right side aud hip. It was impossible to replace the hips, and amputation, which was at one time thought of to ' relieve me, was given up by my phyk ... eicinns. The muscles of my face and throat are . in good condition, and are the only ones in my whole body which I can fp ' ir.ove. liy jaws, as you see, are firmly fixed, and I am fed with liquids through an aperture formed by the Joss of several teeth. To give you an idea of the resistless force of the musoular contraction, I will tell you that when my legs were being distorted I had a twenty-pound weight suspended over a nullv bv a cord, and so arramr. M. V ? " *" " ""O ed as to resist the force which was being exerted. But it was of no avail jV; . -whatever, and my heels are so firmly r, pressed into ray hip and side that my wife has to exert all her strength to pull them away from my body sufficiently to insert a single thickness of ? cloth. My hands lie upon my breast? 1 have not seen them for seven years, v V . and probably never shall again. My head is, as you see, turned nearly one-quarter around to the left " ' When I first become conscious that it > Was being drawn out of its proper F . ' position I had a stout clamp put on toy head to try to hold it in place, but the muscles had their way. Not alone have my muscles stiffened, my joints have become completely ossified, retulting in making my entire skeleton [t- one solid bone. While this ossification i Was colour on mv sufferinorB w?r? i f. ^ w " * ? intense. By means of a mechanical ; attachment to the bed, worked by a crank, I can be raised and lowered without disturbing the joints, always, however, retaining the same horizontal position, it being impossible to ; raise my head above the level of my body. The bones of my neck and spinal column are united firmly and inseparably into one, and are as rigid as a bar of iron. My ribs are all firmly united by their connecting tissues, the chest being simply an immovable box of bones, incapable of expansion, all breathing being done by the dia/ phragtn and the muscles of the abdo\ men. Human ingenuity could hardly devise a more effective arrangement f%'.. of the limbs as a means of torture. If turned on my left side I would lie directly on my face; if turned on my right ?V: side my right hip would rest on the back of my heels and my feet on the ends of my toes. Owing to the pecul> far arrangement of my limbs I have Ny, for seven long years lain squarely on U my back, never for an instant having f > changed my position in the least, each day having seemed a year, each year a century. Formerly weighing 185 pounds, my present weight is not over kly:; elghty-flve pounds.?Boston Herald, ; V > V Ho Gare Notice of His Intention. 't\ Smith?Brown, the auctioneer, has suddenly disappeared. ^ ' - Jones?That so? S.?Yes. Went off three days ago and hasn't been seen since. Didn't *ay a word to anybody about going away. J.?Oh, yes, he did. I heard him j i\ > myself say that he was going. S.-You did? When? J.?Four or five days ago. I was V1 at aa auction where he was selling goods and I heard him tell everybody' that he was "just a?going?going? " /_ But Smith was gone.?Boston Coufk'%: Her. /. ; -i. y-; A Horse Asylum. r 'O, There is an asylum in Berlin for overworked and disabled horses, un. der the management of a veterinary tirgeon, a cavalry officer and a farmer. The grounds have an extent of nearly .-V 100 acres, with excellent pasture land, - day and moor patches, water and bathing facilities, etc. V* x\ A Loper's IIo?pitaI. A Constantinople lettor to the Paris Journal des Debate says: There ft re now few of these establishments (hospitals for lepers,) left, and it is not too much to say that in the one I have just visited, human misery seems t?; have attained its highest pitch. I < saw numbers of beings sightless, theii faces distorted out of all shape, theif hands and toe3 having dropped off. their voice gene, breathing with desperate effort, their skin peeling off and black as that of a mummy, insensibh to pain when pricked in certain parts of the body. Their feet and llanks ara covered with horrible sores, through which what is left to them of life ebbs away. Their attitude is one of profound apathy and exhaustion, and 1 could not help being reminded of tho saying of the leper of Aosta, "Endless seem the nights when the mind is dwelling upon a desperate present and hopeless future." And yet amid all these horrible scenes there lived mar- , ried couples and children, the latter of whom, free from disease as yet, play about like other children, regardless of the spectacle which they have befora them. One of these wretched men, not more than 30, but among the mncif uniinfofl hno o vorir nroffv wifa v 14114IU WUV4, ?? ? Vt J |/LV?VVJ ?? A I.W and a child who i3 fresh and rosy like a young Cupid. A young fellow of 25, but who is so cadaverous that he might be 100, a mere walking corpse, has a wife 15 years older than himself, and herself ravaged by the same disease. This woman was married before, but her first husband put her away when he noticed symptoms of leprosy. He married again and had a child, which at his death he confided to the care of his first wife, who reared it. This child grew up, and has himself since married and had children, all of them living together in this hospital, It is said that the disease is not contagious as the Governor, who has been there 40 years, has a wife and six children, who enjoy the best of health. The brother of one of the lepers, who is a soldier in a neighboring barrack, comes to see him whenever he can get leave, ana ne nas not caught tne disease. I Dr. Zambaco comes twice a week and handles the lepers with perfect impunity. Dr. Zambaco, who is one of the leading Greek physicians at Constantinople, is of opinion that it is not at all contagious, and that, though occasionally inherited, it is more often acquired, the main cause being privation and want Among the lepers at the Miskin Haneis one who owes his malady to having been struck by lightning, while a second became a leper after a sudden fright. But in the East the conviction that leprosy is contagious still has very firm root, and for this reason at Mecca, while the lepers are given food and clothing, they nevei receive any money, the belief being that it would spread the disease when put into circulation again. Cremation in Madras. In Madras much of the hitleous- , niun fV... I- J 1*1 1- - uuoo uiiaii id bu lavuiuug iu a person 01 delicate nerves is hidden. There are 1 no fierce flames to be seen cracking around and burning the corpse, no terribly offensive odors, but. on the coiv trary, at a high caste funeral, there is to be seen the greatest respect paid to the dead, and also every possible arrangement to deprive the funeral ol its ghastly effect. The body is laid in a sloping position, resting on a heavy bed of dry straw. This straw bed rest upon a solid stone foundation imbedded in cement. When the straw has been laid and besprinkled three times slightly with holy water the I body is laid upon it. The legs are J crooked up, tailor fashion, and the body is clothed in pure white of a ' peculiar linen, used solely for the ' shrouding of the dead. The corpse is then covered with white flowers, the 1 only part that is visible being the face. The cheeks are painted bright red. After the surviving son has passed around the pyre three times, muttering a mantram, with the pots in hand , containing the holy Ore, he lights the k pyre. The straw is speedily ablaze, and the slight layer of wood is soon ' burning; and when the flames begin to ' touch the body it is covered with a thick coating of mud, so that the corpse is actually burned within a covering. It is thus left for three days, when this coating of mud is broken ( open and the collected ashes are thrown into the adjacent river. : No sooner has the mourning cortege . left the spot where under the mudden dome is burning the corpse than the eldest son prepares himself for the last rite of the ceremony. He disrobes entirely, and, taking up his position near the late pyre, gets shaven from head to foot, the razor passing over every inch of his body's surface. Here, as in Northern India, the funer- 1 m itmav is uuservea ngiaiy, ana ine number of perspns fed la generally . more than the puree of the dead man can actually afford.?San Francisco CaH :t '.NVv v. . v }* Palmetto THOS. McCETTK of the largest SALOON in th.) np-country, don' advertisements. The half is not mentioned ii prepared for fall trade. The Palmetto Honso is Foreign and Domestic the best the market affords. He hna got Rye and Corn, Irish an Apple, Peach, California and French Po] He can cheerfully recommend his goods t mixed drinks with all the DELICIOUS BEYER, V'KRATE DRINKS. His snecinltv is a Iarire stc GENTLEMEN'S RESORT,N and you will not forget again. A G-ood Line of Tobacco a Beer a Sp< gunninghamI HAVE IN ? Their Larire and fell FALL AND Wit Consisting i Foreign and Dome NOTK TTATS. HATH. HA1 J300r] HARDWAK, HARDW Groceries, Groceries, < Crockery, C: At Lower Prices than they were Ever Ofte PAVILION HOTEL, CHRLESTON, S. C. Ei Sf First Class in all its Appointments. P] RATES, 92.00, 82.BO. ^ Excellent Cuisene, large airy rooms, Otis " Passenger Elevator. Electric bell and lights. * Seated rotunda centrally located. c Oct. I, V4-tf 21 i JgENTRAL HOTEL, Mrs. M.W. THOMAS, Proprietr ess Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. 49 QXCHANGE HOTEL, Greenville, S. C. The Only Two-Class Hotel > ~ IUavM I 0ALHOUN & MABRY, Attorneys and Counsellors at Kaw, Abbeville C. H., S. C. P? ffice formerly occupied by Judge Thom?on. tf-50 H robt. b, IIEMPniLL. wm. p, calhoun. JTEMPHILL & CALHOUN, Attorney s-at- Law, Abbeville, 8. C, "" Will practice in the Courts of the State. . 54 . 62 U YT. PEBRIN. T. P. COTHRAN. ~ pERRIN & COTHRAN, * Attornoys-at-Law, * 51 Abbeville, 8. O. .8? ' - . . 1 > V. ; . L V : V Ill VIIV V?VI ?? W. R. WHITE, Proprietor, 4 J^EW DINNER HOUSE, |J Greenwood, 8. C. Kept by Mrs. F. G. PARKS. Cheap rates First-class fare. June 15th, 1882-tf. Ill r. p. tiiomhon. j. w. thomson. n< J1HOMSON & THOMSON, Attorneys-at-Liaw, * Abbeville, S. C. 3f"Oflice in rear Mr. Lee's. -A June 8th, 1885-tf. 100 irf * .ffTF^ - > . . - ' V V * ? i v. . V \' >' i . Salooni DAN, Proprietor t intend to dope Iur customers by false ti tlie throo Abbeville papers. Heis well woll stocked with everything in the lino of Wines and Liquors, Liquors nine years old. Good old id Scotch Whiskies, < l Brandies, n rter, Ale and. Fresh Lager Beer, g o tho public for MEDICINAL USE, nnd ' > \GESof the Hoiinon. Also COOL, TEM- | jck of PU11E GOODS, Cull nt tho 0.4 washington st. s THOMAS McGETTIQAN. o nd Cigars. Budweiser . aoialtw 47 I TEMPLETON JTORE Selected Stock of ITER GOODS,, n. ]Part of a istic Dry Goods, DNS, TS, rs A.1STD SHOES ar:, hardware, ( Grroceries, I 1 ~r *r%. -m. r ?. % /jl ji ^ red Before l-tf-22 SDQESED BY C|1 BETTE2 AE3 IIENTISTS AS fJsm? CHEAPER TEA. KACTICALLY^Pr^i AKY J laestructime JljjFffipF STONE. Over 500 ; Send foi Seautiful f|l|JjfflH Price List 81 Designs. Circulars manufactuhrd by ^ M ONUMENTAL BRONZE COMPANY, BBIDOEVOILT. CONN. 188S \ t AT THE: Centennial Saloon i I For this year will be foand I Absolutely Pure Spirit*, J h " t r jrth Carolina copper distilled Corn, Finest ^ brands of Kontueky Rye, from c 92. to $6 Per Gallon. iportefl Cognac Brandy a Specialty, ALSO .les, Porter, Champagnes, &c. fact all the popalar and standard goods that can be obtained. Together with an assortment of Tobaccos and Fine Cigars that can not be excelled in quality. arsons needing such goods would not be humbugged by buying from them. The place is second door from Court nunc* ODONNELL & CUNNINGHAM, Proprietors, ABBEVILLE, S. C. ) jan 14-tf 'J J L IAj the new shades in Hats and Bonnets k tvifK Rihhnna Pi rrlt VlrwsAra Wnfin? id Velvets to match. R. M. HADDON A CO. EUGENE B. GARY, ttorney and Counsellor-at-Law, i Abbeville, S. C. j'V' ' C -,' ,r ' Vi'? !'v.' W' ;r: ' GOODYE Carriage Re "IAN HE POUND THE LAKC.KST STOI J Phrotous, Roml Carts, Plantation WajronR (nil [arness Saddles, Beltine, leather of all kinds. \V lirtv days I will OFFER SPECIAL BARGAINS I HES at less th*>.n Manufacturers' Prices*. These 1 rn makes: which I will guarantee equal to the be inco yonrselvos that they fire absolute bargains, A. R. GOOI (Succcssor to R. H. May & Co.,) OPI I AUGUSTA, ft DAY & TAT Are Now Receiving a Fi CARRIAGES AN Jr'OK THE SPRII AT PRICES TO SXJIr. \.nd Never Before Attained in th Wo arc tumbled to give our customers every t the closest possible cash prices. Call and b Children's Carriages i The finest assortment of HANDBAGS and & [HUNKS, WHIPS and UMBRELLAS. THE WILSON, CHILD'S & CO.'S PIHLA. TENNESSEE WAGONS, 1, 2, and 4 Horse DAY & TANNAIIILLS ONE AND TWO EXPRESS AND DELIVERY WAGONS. Axles, Springs, Hubs, Spokes, &c. Rubber llOYT'S LEATHER BELTING. The best LACING, RIVETS, Etc. OAIv AND HEM CALF AND LINING SKINS, LASTS, THI IT A n\TT?l3CJ A \Tn Ci 4 Tvtxt "r" ^ * iiiimirjoo liiiu OAL/JJLUiO. YY Hi UALi )UR HARNESS DEPARTMENT, IN WHIC 'RICE. DAY & 1 4:$ WHITE BR Would call the attetion of buyers to n Fe 13 R ESS s unusually large and attractive. They have the ave ever offered. They have also Home h&ndsoui ortment of Black and Colored VELVETEENS fo nice line of Wool Laces in all colors, the latest t Their stock of BLACK CASHMERE cannot be i are in the selection of these goods, and are assart uality and price. A good line of JERSEY JACK It would astonish any one to see how very cheap Bason. Buyers in this line would do well to exam WHITE BR CARPETS are so very cheap a8 to be in the reac 'ETS and RUGS can. be found at the store of WJt The above are only a few lines in whio Special B The General Stock of Fall and Winter Goods no XV H I T E BRC ? the largest, best assorted, and moro attractive t: lete in all departments. THE HUMAN EYE AI JOSEPH OPTIC luperior to any otbor in use, constructed in accori if nature in the peculiar form of a CONCA.VH-C1 o tho organs of sight, and perfectly natural to tl o tne human visiion ever invented. I. SILVER ind is traveling at this^time throughout the State :nowii ms i neory una I'mcuce, nna ni tne name tn lis spectacles have been tried they nro spoken of estimoninls will certify; the original and many oorns. He at the same time wishes to be uuderst [uacks who merely s lis you a pair of glasses i lever see again. He has established in Augusta, :a8B you should happeir to lose or break your glass . small nominal sum, as it is his custom to keop a lim to know just the glass you have purchased fr< uch men as Judge Fottle, Govern Colquit, Gen. G CLOTHING! CL0THI1 Miller XSjt ,v ' . iti * jpository. DK OF CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, sizes, 1 to 6 horse,) Single anil Double niton Material. <tc.. fco. For fn? nnrf. N A LOT OF 0"EN AND T()l' BUOritiUKios Hro all Fine Northern and Eiwtst. Call and examine them and con>YEAR, Agrant. ?. GEORGIA RAILROAD BANK. PAT) HI A I FACTORY, 703 EORGIA. I E1H" sir,2et' JNAHILL, ,?e Assortment of D BUGGIES! Q*Gr TRADE, r THE TIMES ! e History of the Business advandtage by purchasing oui' good c convinced. in Great Variety. jATCHELS ever brought to the city WAGONS, all sizes. HORSE WAGOjNS. Belting and Packing. in the World. lock sole leather. ie ad, cement, etc. i particular attention to :ii we excel in quality and cannahill, Augusta, Ga. OTHERS w Specialties: Their stock of 3-OODS cheapest lino of BLACK SILKS thoy ie Coiered Silks. They have a good an r ureases and Trimmings. They have hing for line Dress Trimmings, mrpasaed. They have bestowed nnusaa1 )d they are all right in regard to color, ETS, cheaper than ever before. FLANNELS nud BLANKETS are this ine the stock of OTHERS w sh of all. A good assortment of CARIITE BRO L'HERS. bargains can be had. w offered to the public by >THERS, ban they have ever carried. It is com eep.30, 88545m' rD SPECTACLES. SILVER, XiLBT, 3ance with the science and philosophy ON VEX ELIPSES, admirably adapted le eye, affording the best artificial help STABLUHED A EYF. GLASS EMPORIUM ^ITY OF AGUSTA. of Georgia for the purpose of making me introducing these Lenses. Wherever in the highest terms, as the following others can be seen and examined at his ood ihat ho is not one of the traveling it exorbitant prices and whom you may at present, 548 Broad Street, where in ies, he will replace the sumo for you at register of all he sell.!, thereby euables >in him. These testimonials are from ordan and a hoat of others, sep.3 .',188 7Gf CLOTHING! J^OOK at the old gent above in a litwlH* isn't h? with bin nil oaggy and 110 fit? My friends do j'ou wish to avoid getting into just such a scrape? Then when you make up your mind to buy a suit of clothes come right along to our store and have your measure taken and have your clothes made to order by the very best TAILORS IN THE COUNTRY. i and then if they are boggy and ; don't fit, just rhv to "send these ! clothes right back, I don't want thcin and wont have them." Moreover, wo would not let you keep niiMnluM if tlitu' rlifl lint fit I VUVU1 VUIOVA ? w mm v??vj -- you. Wo arc not working for a fall trade, but a trade we can by giving entire satisfaction hold in the fature. Remember our motto is '"fco fit no pay. We arc yours truly, < \ v '