Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1874 — HAPS AND MISHAPS. [ARTICLE]

HAPS AND MISHAPS.

—A young Bchool-teacher ofjSteuben, Me , named Nash, was instantly killed recently, while attempting to draw a charge from a gun. —Mrsi Johnson, of New York,, was fatally; injured, the other day, by getting her feet entangled in her skirts and falling down stairs. —Ambrose Palmer, of Sandwich, Vt., was killed a few days ago by falling in front of his loaded'eart while descending, a hill. The cart-wheel cut oil his leg ju<t below tlie thigh, and death ensued in a few moments from loss of blood. —A terrific cloud burst occurred on the Humboldt division of the Central Pacific recently. The track was washed out and an emigrant train drawn by two locomotives went into th«i chasm. Both engineers were instantly killed. No others injured. —lsaac Howland, of Franconia, N. IT., set a loaded gun by the stove to dry and laid down on the floor near it, the other day. The gun was jarred: to a fall, and, being discharged, the Contents • entered the left side of Mr. H., inflicting a serious but not fatal wound. —A singular blasting accident occurred lately on the Penobscot River at Green’s Point Ledge, Bangor, Me. Though the blast was some ten feet under water, a rock weighing half a ton was thrown out of the water and struck a sloop a hundred feet distant, breaking the right leg of Mr. E. L. Durgin, and otherwise injuring him. —As Jacob Smith’s wife, child and her sister, of Lyman, Me., were riding out on a recent Sabbath afternoon they came in contact with four oxen in the road. The oxen commenced a fight, rushed into the team, upsetting horse and carriage and landing the occupants under TEe fence. They were all badly bruised, but it was hoped not seriously injured. —While Oscar King and Gursey Milliard,- - aged--respectively eight-and nine years, were playing with a gun recently, at Burlington, N. J., Oscar raised it to his shoulder and aimed it at his friend, asking him if he should shoot. He said “No,” but the gun was discharged, inflicting a wound in the bowels, causing death soon after.

man Sloss, of Tuscumbia, Ala., who shot George F. Long some months ago for defamation of his daughter’s character, has stolen a march on her parents, and married the very man whom her papa favored with thirteen buckshots. Mrs. Sloss, upon arriving too late at the scene of .the ceremony, attempted to follow her husband’s example and shoot her daughter’s choice. —George W. Hall, who had been arrested for stealing at Norwalk, Conn., but escaped, was found in an underguard in front of the side-wheel of a steamer, just before it arrived in New York, the other day’. He had been there on a seat not over six inches wide, and two stet above the water, for forty hours. He was thoroughly drenched by’ the great waves and spray, and when taken off his legs Were swollen, his teeth were rattling like castifllets, and he was. suffering the pangs of hunger.