Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1880 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

John Didion, of Lancaster, N. Y., met with a horrible accident the other day. ■He was delivering a load of slaughtered hogs, and had driven into the building where the pork was to be hung on iron hooks attached to a frame. He jumped out of his sleigh and was caught in the eye by one of the sharp meat-hooks, and remained suspended. The cold steel penetrated his brain, but, strange as it mav seem, he was not instantly killed. He was takTen down and attended by a,.physician, his agony being awful to contemplate. A man and woman, of Phoenix, N. Y., decidedly on the down-hill of life—he was sixty and she was sixty-five—could wait no longer to be married and started for the clergyman's house ‘in a sleigh. On the road they met another clergyman, and, with a rare and beautiful enthusiasm, requested him to perform tfes ceremony on the spot. They stood up in their sleigh, - the minister stood up in his, they were pronounced to be man and wife, and a pair of frisky horses with their sleigh-bells furnished the wedding music. Curley, a noted highwayman of the Dead wood region, was arrested by two officers, who had to journey forty miles to take him to jail. All njde on horseback, the prisoner between the captors. The possibility of escape was discussed on the way, Curley maintaining that he could put spurs to his horse and get away, because his beast was the freshest of the three and the officers arguing that he could be riddled with bullets before he got out of range. Suddenly, Curley put his plan into execution, dashing off at full speed; but the officers' theory proved sound, for they easily killed him with their pistols. A man living near Prattsburg, N. Y.. went up the mountain there lately to cut trees for wood and slide them down a log-way to the valley below. Tho foot of the slide was thirty rods distant from the house. He started a maple tree down the mountain, when it jumped out of the shute, and, taking a diagonal course, struck the house and shattered it to splinters, killing one boy eight years old and injuring two others so that they would probabjy die. The father saw from the top of the mountain the course the tree was taking, and saw his dwelling demolished. It is feared that the accident has unsettled his reason. Port Jervis has its romance. Some years ago an employe of the Erie Railway was sent to Goshen Jail for a trifling offense. Soon after he was one of the party of three who choked a German employe of the jail to death, with intent to effect a general jail delivery, but the plan failed. Morgan was sent to the State Prison for ten years. The wife procured a divorce, and married Frank Odell, a painter of. Port Jervis. Odell went West, and died there on the 3d of last January. On the 26th of January Mrs. Gns*ie Morgan was married to a C. F. Welch, who proved to be C. F. Morgan, who was released from prison forms exceptional good behavior, and who, under his new name, hopes to yet become a useful and respected member of society. The other night a fatal affray occurred at Springfield, N. C., in which Amos Sweet, an old fellow known as the country fiddler, was killed. It seems that Sweet was engaged to play at a dance. About nine o'clock he got so full of whisky that he could not play in time, ana he was turned out and another fiddler put in his place. In a few minutes he returned, and demanded his fiddle. He was hustled out of the ball-room, but came back again. He reeled against Bob Turnstill, a young swell, jvho was so aggravated that he jerked np. the bass fiddle and dealt Sweet a blow over the head with it, crashing in the skull just above the ear, from the effects of which he died an hour later. The room was crowded with dancers, and the dreadful affair broke up the dance.

—A gentleman who took rather a broad view of things in general recently Tost his wife. - Seeing him a few days afterward, and without any badge of mourning, a friend remonstrated” and hinted that when so close a relation was broken the courtesies of life demanded some recognition of it in the style of dress. ‘‘Quite true,” he replied, “but don't you see, Biaria was no relation of mine; I only married her, and why should I put on black?” —Ko-kun-hua. the Chinese Professor at Harvard, goes much into society, and is said to enjoy it -very much. If reports be true there is nothing to prevent him. His duties as Professor are not onerous, there being but one student (an outsider)’ to recite to him, and he reporting only once a week. —From the London Times-. “It may be impossible to protect women against every excessive strain, that can be pat upon her working powers. Itis at least possible .to protect her against doing too much of such idiot-making work as factory work isl. excess can hardly fail