Singular Succession of Accidents.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 122, 12 March 1872, Page 7

Singular Succession of Accidents.

—v> — In the year 1801, or thereabouts, our »v----amU'ur was working near Bathurst at Ins trade as a stone-cutter. One day while carelessly plying the chisel and mall he struck his thumb. Lock-jaw was the result. He was four months suffering, and it was only by the most careful and skilful medical treatment that he recovered. Just as he was becoming convalescent, the coach in which he was travelling from the City of the Plains upset, and our hero had his collar-bone broken, his leg fearfully bruised, and all the teeth of the lower jaw knocked .out. For a long time he was confined to his bed, and neither of his medical attendants could put his shoulder in, and therefore it had to remain dislocated. The next scene in this story reveals our unfortunate on the Bathurst race-course. He vus still weak and only partially recovered from the terrible accidents he had met with. He was fated again, for on the last day of the sports he attempted to stop a runaway horse, and one of his arms was broken ! Thinking there was something in the locality which induced this continuity of accidents, the stone-cutter departed from the spot and went, to Forbes. He was not long there, however, before he fell down.-. hole, or something of that sort, and was laid up for months with a bad leg. Three or four minor accidents—breaking nobones, certainly, but preventing him from work—occurred to him while on "the Lachlan. The Fates and Cobb's coach brought him to Dubbo, where he resided for some time ; and last Christmas day he mounted a horse near the bridge, and the animal bucking sent the subject of this paragraph Hying to mother earth. The fall put in the 'shoulder that was put out ten years before. He also about the same time received news from England of the death of a relative, and his being left a large amount of property in one of the most prosperous of the manufacturing districts. He leaves the colony in February by the Sobraon to claim his inheritance ; and we wish him a- pleasant voyage, and hope the next, ten years of his life will be less marked by accidents than the last. — Dubbo Despatch.