Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1859 — A Hard Story. [ARTICLE]

A Hard Story.

Henry Black, of Newport, Pa., who undertook to sever the head of a hen, was attacked by a rooster, which spurred him on the hand into an artery. About two weeks after the accident, as the Post tells the- story, he was attacked with intense pain, a sickening sensation of the heart, and his sufferings became insupportable. At this date a remarkable occurrence took place. He drew his Jim tireframe together as though to ; gain strength for an act, and his voice broke forth like the crowing of a rooster! This was repeated from time to time, and such was the similarity of voices that outside listeners asserted their belief that it was a rooster. After four days of indescribable suffering he died, and crowed i>e more.