Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1859 — SAD ACCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

SAD ACCIDENT.

We learn from the Winnamac Deritocrat of last Saturday, that our friend Samuel •oachtenkirche|, late of Francesville, Pulaski county, met his death suddenly by getting caught in a Threshing machine on last Friday, while assisting Capt. ItileV, oh his form in Beaver township. < Mr. Bachtenkircber Wfts 34 years of age, leaves behind him a wife and two very thteresting children of the ages of G and 3 years. man was arrested about a year ago, in Frankfort, on. the charge of attempting to eommitt a robbery. He made strong promises of amendment; so much so, that a citiien of Frankfort made successful efforts to procure his pardon. On thursday he was qrrested on the charge of plundering his jfenefactor, and While making his detense in the office of the Aiderman, he fell to the floor in a violent fit. When restored to consciousness, he wis so terrified that he confessed the robbery.— Philadelphia Gazette. Vincennes Gazette says it is informed by Mr. Thomas Jourdan, that more than fifty carcasses of deer killed by the “black tongue,” have been found in Lawrence county alone. We have noticed before that this disease was reported to be doing mischief among the deer, but we had no idea that it was so fatal, or so wide spread. —State Journal! ——. (XCyAn Arkansas editor, while out hunting recently, was pursued by a grizzly bear that he had wounded, and had to climb a tree and stay there all night. In the morning, as soon as it got light enough to “draw a bead,” he shot the bear, descended from his elevated lodgingrplace, and hastened in the direction of a warm breakfast.

Pile big tunnel on the Covington and Ohio Railroad, in Greenbriar county, Va., is 4,7 10-ieet long, and 700 feet belo « the surface ofthe earth. It is 300 feet longer th.in the Blue Ridge tunnel. The wid his twenty-seven feet, to accomodate a double tr ick, and the flight is twenty-three feet. 1 , 1 (jO'The Muyof o: Mouile and the Recorders of New Orlea|ns are exchanging compliments, the Delta j>ays, in the shape of vagabonds. The former sends the “vags” arrested .in his c.it'v to New Orle.Wis to get rid of ihtpn, and the Recorders send them back. property upon which is the Natur.ft bridge of Virginia, has recently changed hauls for the suipj of twelve thousand dollar#. Next to the falls of Niagara it is the greatest natural curiosity in the United States. Cr*7" ather Chiniqiiy and his congregation of seven hundred,] at Kankakee, ha-, e joined the} Episcopal Chfircii.