Cobb County GaArchives Obituaries.....Mahaffey, James January 1881 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace (Teal) Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 April 1, 2007, 8:07 pm "The Carroll County Times" Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, FEBRUARY 18, 1881 STATE News From the Marietta Journal "Death lurks in every flower" it is said, but one would hardly suppose that death was concealed in a brass lamp, where there was no explosion. But such was the case recently at Roswell, in this county, as we learn from our correspondent. Mr. James Mahaffey, a well known citizen, had cut one of his fingers. The gash gave him no trouble and he handled articles as well as usual. A few night ago, Mr. Mahaffey was holding a brass lamp. The lamp had not been kept as clean externally as it should have been, and the brass parts had cankered and some of the oil from the lamp became mixed with the canker and the combination created a green poisonous matter. Some of this matter got into the flesh cut on Mr. Mahaffey's finger. The virus penetrated his fingers, hand and arm and the arm became inflamed and swollen and much feverish pain ensued. Medical attention was given but no antidote was sufficient to counteract the deadly poison, and Mr. Mahaffey died an agonizing death. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/cobb/obits/m/mahaffey7109gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb