Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson The Portsmouth Times Dated: August 14, 1880 Boy Accidently (Sic) Shoots Himself FRANK MILLER, aged sixteen, and son of JOHN MILLER, of Powellsville, met with a painful accident Monday evening. He saddled a colt and started out in search of threshing hands. In his inside coat pocket was a revolver, which he feared might be discharged and do him injury. He removed it, placing it in a side pocket. The animal he was riding was rather frisky, and the jarring and shaking about discharged the pepper box. The ball struck a few inches below the hip and furrowed down the leg nearly to the knee, where it came out. The shock made young Miller forget himself at the time, and it was several minutes before he could realize that the shot was accidental, he having thought some one had fired at and shot him. He immediately headed his horse homeward, and had the wound attended to. While it is not dangerous, he will be laid up for some time. It is unnecessary to state that he will hardly be guilty of carrying a loaded revolver again while riding a colt.