TERRIBLE DEATH OF A BRIDE.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 215, 17 June 1872, Page 3

TERRIBLE DEATH OF A BRIDE.

The Pittalon (Pennsylvania) Gazette gives the following particulars of a distressing case of hydrophobia: About eleven weeks ago a young woman named Cox, daughter of Miles Cox, of Stoddartsville, went into the yard to kill some chickens. The dog followed her, and, picking up one of the chickens, ran off with it. She chased him with a stick to recover it, and, coming up with him, he turned upon her and bit her in the arm, lacerating it fearfully. Her mother and brother, coming to the rescue, were also badly bitten by the infuriated beast. The wounds healed, however, and nothing more was thought of the matter. The young woman was engaged to be married to a young man

living at Goldsboro, named Alfred Kernel?, and the wedding was appointed to come off at that place about two week# n.qo. On the wedding morning, as she was about to perform her ablutions, the sight of water sent a shiver through her whole system and frightened her, and at the breakfast-table the coffee had such an effect upon her that she spilled it over the table. She then complained of feeling unwell, and her friends advised her to remain at home ; but ho said she did not want to disappoint K«„ and, accompanied by a sister, proceeded to Goldsboro, where the wedding ceremony was performed. Immediately after this she was seized with spasms, bearing all the indications of hydrophobia. In one of her lucid intervals she warned the compauy that she would bite them if they did not keep away from her. But she said to her husband, “ Al, you need not be afraid ; I won’t bite you.” In one of her paroxysms she bit a lady who was endeavouring to soothe her. Soon after, assuring her husband that she would not bite him, she was seized with convulsions, and, lying back in his arms, died. We have seldom been called upon to record so sad a case as this. For one moment a happy bride, and then the victim of a horrible death. The other members of the family who wore bitten by the dog have not as yet displayed any symptoms of the disease, but they live in hourly dread.”