Edgefield Advertiser

A friend has called on us to state a most distressing circumstance in the family of Mr. John Dixon. Mr. D. is residing, at present, near Kobir Blood Tavern, on the Ridge Road. One day last week, a little son of his, about ten or eleven years of age, was walking towards home, when a small dog, a cur, sprang out upon him, and bit his arm. The lad shook the dog off, and the animal flew up, and bit the child's cheek. By this time, some of the neighbors came to the boy's rescue, and led him home to his parents. Mr. Dixon thought the dog ought to be killed, and on going in search of it, he ascertained that the work had been already done.

A few days afterwards, the child, out with a gentleman in a boat, complained that he was sick. He was taken home to his mother, and some medicine was administered. He declined taking water, and subsequently had a spasm. A physician was called in who heard the circumstances of the boy's injury stated, and noticed his condition and then remarked that though he had no acquaintance with the symptoms of hydrophobia, yet he feared that the child was laboring under that disorder.

Spasm followed spasm, each either more severe or less resisted than the other. Between them, the child was sensible, not only of his disease, but of the rapid approach of death; and after suffering from Saturday noon almost unheard of agony, he was, on Sunday morning released by death. Phil. U. S. Gazette.