Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1860 — Sad Death by Hydrophobia. [ARTICLE]

Sad Death by Hydrophobia.

[■From the Davenport Gazette, 26th.

In the Daily Gazette of Friday, Nov. 11, we gave some par.ic.ulars of the visit of a strange dog to the farm oi Mr. John Carhart, in Hickory Grove Township, which attacked Mrs. C., who beat him off with a pitchfork, aided by her-husband. The dog then ran toward ihe house, where a little girl was j playing. W *rned by her parents, the child ran into the house, but the dog followed and immediately attacked her, seizing her clothes by the breast, but not wounding the flesh, and afterward grasping her arm just above the h. nd, biting it severely. While thus ; holding the child, Mr. C. came in, pinned the : dog to the floor with a pit hfork, and then | killed him with an axe. The girl, named * Melissa Carhart, was twelve years old, and a remarka fly intelligent child of her age, .and verry pretty. Last week she complained of a pain in I her back, and general indisposition.;,. Suturj day alternoun site 'aid in bed. Sunday morning lasl, she went into convulsions at the Sight of wat r. Her convulsions afterward twere from a few minutes to over sm hour in ; duration, and then s 11: was sensible between them. During these spasms site clutched at everything, viol- ntiy chewed a napkin, and appeared still more frantic by the sight iof her own sulva on the napkin. At times ' she shrieked fearfully, yet did not appear sensible. Monday morning, during her rational moments, she called the family around ; her, and bade them an eftectionate tare well, i being fully sensible of iter hopeless condition. Her convulsions gradually became weaker, and on Monday evening at five and a half o’clock site quietly died. Her death occurred about nine weeks after tiie date ol the biting. So far as we can assert a in, no other pe-sons were bitten by this nog. nor any cattle &.e. The dog, a very large one, appeared suddenly and mysteriously.' and was utterly unknown in the neighborhood.