Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1876 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A Hartford (Conn.) landlady saved the life of a member of the Legislature, the other night, by rousing him after he had blown out the gas in his sleeping-roOm and gone to sleep. ■—William Johnson, colored, a resident of Midway, Ky., no longer is an advocate of coal-oil lamps. He blew down the chimney of one the other day to extinguish the light, and the lamp exploded, leaving'him in a first-class condition to turn blind beggar. —An insane man, named E. L. Wilson, of Wilmington, N. C., got out of Iris bed, in the absence of his keeper, and going to the kerosene can took it up, poured at least a quart of oil upon his head, and then set It on fire. He was burned to a crisp before assistance reached him. —A Stonington (Conn.) man says that his wife, who has now been dead twentyseven years, nightly appears to him, not in his dreams, but In his waking moments, to engage him in conversation, and to speed his preparations for meeting her in the happy land. She comes clothed In the habiliments of the flesh, seats herself on the edge of the bed right after his retiring, ana leaves him before drowsiness comes. She talks exactly as she did while living, and tells him of the glories of paradise. He is a very old man, and so is almost ready to go. —While a Xenia (Ohio) woman was at work in the garden the other day, her twoJ ear-old boy was left to his amusements l the house, one of which consisted in bolting every door that was not already bolted. When the mother endeavored to enter, she found herself locked out, and, as every window was securely fastened down, the vexed question how to get in was to be solved. The child was too young to appreciate the difficulty of the maternal situation, and to respond to her direction to unbolt. After calling in assistance and much study, & window-pane was cut out, the spring reached and sash raised, by which admittance was gained, the infant all the while remaining a calm and carious spectator of the operation. —Yesterday afternoon a span of mules drawing a load of lumber came down Third avenue south on a furious run, but without any incident of an exciting character until they reached Washington avenue. Here two boys were playing ball, and they did not observe the approach of the runaways until they were in very close proximity to them. One of the boys managed to dart off beyond the reach of immediate danger, but the other, a little fellow named George Magan, before he could escape, found himself between the two running mules. Realizing his great peril, and with remarkable presence of mind, he stooped until the neckyoke had gassed over his head, and then caught old of the pole of the wagon just forward of the double-trees. Here he held like grim death until all of the Bxß timber with which the wagon was loaded was shaken off by the motion of the vehicle in its quick travels toward the river. Finding the timber all gone, and observing that he was traveling in the direction of far greater peril, ana that the danger to life or limb was momentarily increasing, young Magan released his hold on the pole and dropped to the ground, the wagon passing over him without inflicting any other injury than a slight cut on the cheek. —Minneapolis Tribune.