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Fatai* Occvrkkncbs at Bkioutom, N. J.—We learn from the Brighton Chronicle that on .Sunday week at a camp meeting, a fracas having occurred, a peacable young man by the name of Richard 8. Bacon received a blow across the bead which nearly terminated his life ; hia scull was badly fractured and seven distinct pieces of it were taken out the next day. He is still alive. Two or three negroeshave been arrested.(Ey-On Saturday, the 12th, a married woman by the name of Ballenger committed suicide, under circumstances of peculiar aggravation. On the morning of that day one of her children tell into the creek, the other in a fright ran into the house to apprize ita mother, when the child was startled at the quantity of blood on the floor. An alarm was soon raised, and the neighbors found the wretched woman lying on the floor weltering in her own blood, having her throat cut from ear to ear ! the expiredin a few minutes.The same week a person in Stoe Creek we are informed, had hia leg broken by bis horses taking fright and the wagon passing over him—one boy bad bis arm broken by falling out of a wagon— another broke hia by falling o«a high bank of earth near the nail factory -a son of Mr. David Mulford had the prong or line of a pitchfork enter the eye and penetrate to tbs depth of near two inches—and a son of Mr. J. Edwards bad his hand nearly cut off with an axe ! A chapter of accidents indeed to chronicle in one day.
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Terre Haute Wabash Enquirer
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Wed, Nov 11, 1840
Page 4
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Conner P.
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