RECOVERY EROM A BROKEN NECK.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1297, 7 February 1883, Page 3

RECOVERY EROM A BROKEN NECK.

'•«6 1'f 1 11 1 V"-?;. ' John Cojlery,agan;Fwnoi»co i •bout five monthß i affp. J tried ( to- : drivo hji -tain through a jo doing bfid.hu neck forced down on his Breast until broltun.' Pollbemrgeon Stambaogh fetfqdithijl! ihe'siivtiiiK ; cervical veriel> -fkbifaVfifl, nnd''tlint ' the ipinfil cord had been stietohed nearly jwo inches. Ai th q\fntnlity ,'in■ aucfv cnVes ii estimated, pt jjma; hundred "' n ® ! n 0110 cave wp the hope of his recovery. Recently, however, a reporter mot Celery "who ■Uted (hat lie km almost at well »e before (bo accldbntjexdepttor thu>idi.jlil Biiffnewon-hidright side. ; After his removal to hie home he, .was .laid flat on his v back, with.a|sbrt'.oF-fene v d Aifidiit hia 'lioad and Deck which kept hui\ iiiiinovable fororw two months RiitliVlie'bodyVf 'tho ? Vertebra arching: .luHiihofr discovered to he broken, arid tlieoprauon of joining them together without, pinching the Where' it ;had ia&ged 1 between the ragged edges ii 1 described as one of! tb P iihoßt v difficuit tvftr poriosiiied 1 T For a monthithe |intieiit liiy on hij back, completely paralysed in rino' half 'of his ' body, and ,without, little fueling in the other. W he'tooyed'in ilioßligliteat'degreb ;i daring feel the jigged .edgeiof,the .bone gratia to.- ■, gether, and for Ijoura.after,such mi attempt- ' he was cow,ent jo, lie on.a hard bed with. 1 out attempting; iii move a mujle,' for fßar that the spimtl cord' should be crtijh'ed, and his extstenceieiided 'iii n twinkling'.' : The itmightest pnaitifin alttttinablo' mi reqtur® arid Dr. Stotflbaugh was coir* ; thVpfc'tient Vmatiresß, ' forcing Mto lie on a wido plank. jDol. lery aays that .Wovq his eight weeks'ipf. ; enforced qdietneslVas ended lie ] that boarf Wa ttiade of froui i)a .1 hardness.' 1 ' ThS 'mosC'datiuerous. time he • experienced, ,heeayq, .wns.oiie day when'Ji *n attendant fold him' that B man • whose neck.could atand breaking ai liii had was ndporri Vto.lbe hanged. ■■ His :! fin hia fastenine to bnrst, and the fracture • cime near ( being rupturod-afresh; ■ The \ paralysis lias now almost entirely diaappeared, *ndvDr Stambaogb 'lays that 1 Collery will be able to go to' work ■ •ix

Pil«rin»:love'to drink of the Holy Well it Mecoa'..i'one Abdalla, surnamed A 1 Halfedh, frorni 'his tQarvelleufi' mepaory acquired I list liicully, .so he said, merely by taking la/ge draught of Zemzem', so the Holy "Well ".'ls,*' - 'called.' The Chemical. Review aiislysis: that thn well water ii g B ).at)put ,t«n. liraeß, ihari'tivei'djfa Lniujnn aewa^e, M. pernushi,,.Unwell,-known economist »nd bi-metallisfc has announced hi# intention of bequeathing to the fljty of Paris. hu unrivfllM'colleotion : bi J and' Japaneie bronzes. Thecollecltdn was the result of a voyage to the East in 1782, a period when there were exceptional facilities for thelyjjquiiitibij of the treasures accumulated in the..houses of Japaneiei nobles and.jn the'temples. A doctor was arrested at Lynn, Mass,, 00 Nov. 30, clmvediwith malphclicijon no less than 500 fetiiales.

The payment ; (l f 300,000 peretaß has been authorised by the Spanish Govern■ tnent to indemnify sufferers by' the Carlist rebellion.

In Queensland any solicitor of fire years' standing is eligible to be appointed a judge o! the Supreme Court or District Uunr'i A law just passed in Denmark provides that all drunken pi uont should le faken time in carriage;, at (ho .jixpiiMe of-tlie landlord who sold thotu glass, A Committee lias bosu formed in Paris for the purpose I Of- organising a series of Mtistio conferences to lie held on Sundays in the Louyjiamnd lia^otiiboi*g Museums. The American employers of Leon Peltzer Que of tha-acotised'in the recent Bernaya mui'derofise.at Brussels, testified that they hid sudh faith in his iiinooents that they would gladly re employ him,