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Show ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. .. A Delirious Man Fails to Destroy HimseLt About three o'clock, yesterday afternoon, some litcte excitement wo caused hy a man rushing out of Taylor's Tay-lor's hot, jukI miming at full speed, Hr.st to one drug storc then to another, ano-ther, and then to one doctor's office ufttr another r and for time the pros -ceU were that the gre:it puhlic would he no wUer for this singular at turn, riuully, however, it bvcame known that, a man in the T;vylor hotel luul attempted to eumniit ui-cide. ui-cide. Our reporter' wits among the first to h am of thu fldlkir, ai.'I w:is soon ut the rf-om of-Uie un!or;nn.itc man. l-'ur alxjtit a week John O'Neil, un old gt'iitluinan LmjIohjiuii; to Ciipt. Bailsman's surveying parly, h;w been .ulYuriug evorely with the erysipelas, but unlit a!out noon, yestenlay, hU iiiiiid lias been unall'ected. 'At that tiine Mr. E, 0. St. Legcr, the gentleman gentle-man who waita upon him, took him hid dinner, and then left for a fjw minutes. Shortly after another L-iitleinan opened the door of O'Xeil'a i-ooin and luutid him with a guu in his hand, and cocked. The gentleman gentle-man caught tlie un and in the struggle strug-gle that followed it w;is discharged, hut without Uiking cflbct in any one. O'Xeil was again left aioue.and when the waiter returned he found the door .open, and the delirious man with a heavy glasd bottle in each hand, threatening to kill Mr. St.' Leger. That gentleman went for some one to assist him and when he returned, the door was shut. He looked through the keyhole, and O'Niel was lying on the bed, blood streaming from his arm. The suffering man had broken the- bottles and with a piece of the glass had cut a gash to the bone on the lcit arm, below the elbow, severing sever-ing a small artery. The wound bled profusely, and had he beon left alone ibr a short time longer, he would have passed beyond human aid. Dr. Hamilton Ham-ilton was called in and stopped the llowing cf blood, but not until the man was very weak from the loss of blood. When in his right mind Mr. O'Xiel is a quiet, inoffensive gentleman. Last evening he was still delirious, and very low, but hopes were entertained of his recovery. Queer Proceedings. Under the head of " Passing Strange" the Beaver Enterprise of the 7th host., gets ofTtho following on an of the citizens of that place, a partner to "Eight and a half, "and said to be interested in-terested in tho land jumping, which was recently perpetrated near Beaver: " For ways that are dark, and tricks that are vahV'Giptain Beale is slightly peculiar. Saturday last, at the coroner's inquest, the aVove mentioned men-tioned hombrc- proffered his services us minute keeper and to Like down the testimony ot Captain Ogilbyand Dr. Elbrcv, and, uo objection "being made, did as he douxd. A, the termination ter-mination of the doctor's testimony, it was rci nested that the testimony, as taken (town by Beale, bo read to" the jury. There was considerable astonishment aston-ishment visible upon every face in the assemblage when he positively ni;ul to have the evidence read, slating that it was his private property and should be used only by himself; the j.iry had heard the evidence. We have visited seven 1 courts of inquest in our time, and can't for tho life of 11 3 remember re-member a cooler niece of iinpndi'nce than the above. The idea 01 a limb of the law appomting himself minute secretary', and then refuse point blank to have the result of his pen read to the court and jurors. The poorest place we know of for men of excitable dispositions and extreme ex-treme bull-headed m-.-s, is in the foot-1 foot-1 steps of the immaculate Black-tone even though it be in the la tier's baby tracks. |