Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1875 — A Runaway Mountain. [ARTICLE]

A Runaway Mountain.

Although landed property is, as a rule, a coveted possession, yet, like many other blessings, it has its drawbacks, and a singular example of the troubles to which land-owners are occasionally liable has just occurred at Hagsgate, in the Cleveland district, where an estate has actually absconded and has been discovered on the top of another estate, where it has comfortably settled itself and will have to be moved back again at no slight expenditure of money and trouble. The property that has thus played truant consists of a mountain belonging to Lord Faversbam, which, having been honeycombed by mines and otherwise disrespectfully treated, has at last vented its annoyance and cut matters short by running, or rather slipping, awc.y. Instead} however, of -betaking itself to some secluded spot where its presence would be welcome, or where at least there is accommodation for it, it has most inconveniently deposited itself on the neighboring property of Lord de L’lsle, where it has blocked up a turnpike road for nearly half a mile, and excited considerable alarm in the bosoms of the rate payers of the township, who urge that its owner is responsible for its vagaries, and bound, if not to take it home, at all events to find it another lodging. This inconsiderate act on the part of the mountain lias already given rise to legal proceedings, and a lawsuit is coming on at the next York assizes, when the mountain will no doubt prove profitable to lawyers if to no one else. One of the most painful features of the affair is that the great, unwieldy thing arrives at its new home “in bids.” Those who are displeased at its presence have not even the poor consolation of feeling that the worst is over, but are kept in a state of constant fidget by the apprehension that there is “ more to come.” —Pall Mall (London) Gazette.