A BRIDE’S MISFORTUNE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2092, 5 December 1879, Page 3

A BRIDE’S MISFORTUNE.

' A newly-married wife returning from her wedding tour, with her husband to Fort Wayne, India, mot with a painful accident on the Canada Southern Railroad, on Thursday night. They had disrobed, and were cosily lying in the lower berth of a sleeper, when the occupants of the car were horror-stricken by hearing the young wife give vent to a series of piercing shrieks.. There was general commotion, and the conductor pushed aside the curtain to sec what was the matter. “Oh ! my heel! my heel!” she cried, with shrieks of pain ; “ something has run into my heel.” The husband was beside himself with anxiety and grief, but, like the rest of the passengers, could not imagine how his wife was hurt. Finally, assisted by several ladies, who hustled on their clothes, an examination was made. It appears that the lady had hung up her hat in the berth, and a large ornamented pin. about three inches long had become detached by the motion of the car and fell at her feet. In extending her limb suddenly, the pin had run into her heel about two inches, causing excruciating pain To add to her troubles, her husband tried to pull it out, and it broke off. The conductor telegraphed ahead to St Thomas, and on the arrival of the train a surgeon Was in waiting, who, after an hour and a half’s work,cut open the heel and extracted the pin. That couple . will get more laughter than sympathy when they geo home. — “ Quebec Mercury.”