A Fearful Tragedy.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 191, 19 July 1883, Page 2

A Fearful Tragedy.

The Rozon, of Monte Video, publishes the following account of a horrible affair wliirth took. place recently at Rio Grande del Sar, near the Uruguayan frontier:—*. A young farmer was bitten by a mad dog, and remedies were immediately applied to the wound. Cauterisation was resorted to, and there was every enson to believe that the virus had not entered the victim's system, When the accident occurred the young man was about to marry, but m conseqence of the untoward occurrence the ceremony was postponed for three months, when the medical men who had been consulted on the case gave it as their unanimous opinion. that thore was not the slightest ground fqr apprehending any danger from ths bite. The marriage too& 1 place on the fa r m, aad was cele— i brated with the customary festivj* ties. After the nuptial supper was over the bridegroom appeared to ba seized with a fit of melancholy. One of love's caorices, said somebody. After supper came the ball, and when this wis at its height the newly-wedded couple withdrew from the festive scene, and retired to treir apartment. About an hour afterwards the house resounded with ferocious cries, intermingled wjtb, shrieks and groans. As soon as the guests had recovered from their stupefaction they started m the direction of the crie3. They proceeded from the nuptial chamber. The door was burst open. A horrible spectacle presented itself. On the floor lay the young br;de m a pool of blood. She still breathed, Hut her body was torn and bitten as if she had been seized by a tiger. In a corner of the room was the bridegroom, covered with blood, and foaming at the mouth, scratching, biting, and tearing away at the wall and furniture. With a sudden bound he sprang like a ti/?er upon th 9 invaders of his lair, and be would have made one or more victims had not a brother of the dying bride sent a bullet crashing through the mad* man'g brain, J