Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1876 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A negro woman in Atlanta, Ga., a few days since, met with a sudden death from eating a quantity of ice after getting overheated. —An eccentric citizen of Cape May carried a rfope in his pocket) for forty years, his explanation being that he was liable at any time to wish to kill himself, and always meant to have the means handy. A few days ago he hanged himself with the old rope. —‘The Nashville American says: “ Justice Meacham has a mocking-bird that was bequeathed him by his daughter Alice, who died about two years ago. At her death the bird ceased to sing. Saturday evening he determined to take it over to hia daughter’s grave an# there release it. That night the bir^' commenced to sing, and has been singing at intervals ever/since.” —IA man named Kerwin stabbed another named Gray at Georgetown; Cal., recently. Gray was lying at the point of death from loss of blboa by secondary hemorrhage, Kerwin offered to furnish blood for transfusion into the dying man’s system, and accordingly about four ounces of blood drawn from Kerwin’s-arm was injected into Gray’s. The latter, rallied considerably, but aid not reCoven —Don’t meddle with the boys. A Troy (N. Y.) man caught a number bathing in a pond on his premises recently, and seizing the lads’ clothing hid it, and awaited developments. The developments Boon came for the boys apparently took ho notice of the man, but after a little while they managed to surround him, and, getting him away from the clothes, pushed him into the pond, nearly drowning him before he was rescued. —Northampton, Mass., had a fire the other evening which destroyed the First Congregational Church, on Meeting-House hill. The fire caught iu the bs&ement of the church from a leak in the gas-pipe, and the building burned with great rapidity. It was one of the most notable churches in the Connecticut valley, built in 1812, on the same spot as the one where Jonathan Edwards used to preach and the still earlier log church of 1656. —The New Bedford (Mass.) Mercury says: , “ A daughter of Mr. Stephen Rich, of Truro, met with a singular and fatal accident at her father’s house, the other morning. Passing by a stove, the door of which was open, she struck her knee directly on the pan (sometimes called the ‘crazy hone’) with considerable force against a sharp corner of the door. Medical aid was summoned as soon as possible, but she died before it reached her. She was fourteen years of age.” _ —A man purporting to be a peddler stopped at a house in Rochester, N. Y., ana solicited the lady to purchase a superior article of bluing. She took a package, which was tied up in coarse, brown S. On opening the parcel it was to contain not bluing, but a mixture of gunpowder and a brown dust-like substance resembling dynamite. The contents were separated, and a portion of each being poured out in the yawl, were tested by tie application of fire. The flashes in the cases of both substances clearly established their nature. It is fortunate that the occupants of the house discovered the deception before any serious result occurred.

—A little four-year-old son of Mr. Griffith, who lives at Union Point, Ga., was looking over the curb of a well fifty feet deep, when he lost his balance and fell in. A negro girl, who was drawing water at the time, gave the alarm. A crowd soon gathered, and a man descended by the rope. It being dark he coaid not see the boy, and accordingly he called oat to him, believing, however, that the fall had killed him, or he was drowned. To his great surprise the boy answered back cheerily, and, getting down to the water, he found the lad astraddle of a plank, > with one leg broken, a shoulder-blade dislocated, ana a terrible cut across the forehead. In falling he had struck against the bucket, but had discretion enough to grasp and straddle the plank. The physicians are of the opinion that he will recover. —At Minneapolis, a few days since, David Pascal Spafford, one of the oldest and most highly respected residents of that city, stepped into the mill of Todd, Haven & Co., on business, and sat down, without thinking of danger, on the table .of the butting cut-off saw. The saw under or in the table upon which Mr. Bpafford seated himself is worked by an improved lever, which raises half the saw instantaneously, if necessary, above the surface of the table, throws it iato gear, and works it at the rate of 8,000 revolutions a minute. In a few moments after he had seated himself his foot accidentally came in contact with the lever raising the saw until it touched him, and then, springing forward to escape from the sudden and fearful torture, he rested the entire weight of one foot on the lever, throwing the swiftly-revolving saw up, it cutting him so that oas of ni* legs and hips was almost severed from the body. Death resulted instantly from the effect of the wounds.

If is very seldom that a bank reaps any profits from a “run,” but the Dry Dock Savings Bank of Albany seems to be an exception. Frightened by the closing of another bank in the city, the depositors have been withdrawing their funds from the institution first named as rapidly as they could; and as their interest does not accrue until July they forfeit it. The bank will make several thousand dollars by the operation. The New York Tribune, makes out that the number of cabin passengers who have reached this country flrom Europe ftpm January to June 1 was 11,864. Last year 10.455 arrived. Of the number this year, 3,885 were aliens, an(l 7.979 naturalized citizens who were here before. This makes a poor showing for the success of the Exposition, so far as foreigners are concerned.

Ik. W_* P.IW. One of the most frequent habitues of Fifth avenae is an old Foibh Count who has taken his dally stroll there for' bvtir twenty years. His story is as sttfifigo as any that the novelists invent. Twentyeight yeats ago he was cast into prison for taking pan in the Polish bmurreotion. He was betrothed to a young woman, and she visited hhn frequently in prison and cheered him with hopes of speedy re* "is would be necessary, a great deal of it. He possessed considerable wealth, but owing to hia situation could not command ft. She suggested that If it were is her hands ahe could rue it to get him oul of prison. They would then leave the country toEther, marry and be happy. His faith her devotion was strong. The property that was his became here. Her influential friends were at work, she said, and he would be released very soon. One day her usual visit was not made. Another day passed, and Another, and she did not come. A week passed, and the lonely prisoner then learned that he had been deceived. His beautiful ed bride had turned hia property into cash, and eloped with a man whom he had) always regarded as a friend. A year afterward hu prison doors opened and he walked forth to freedom. A few brief inquiries satisfied- him that the woman and her accomplices bad made their way across the ocean. He determined to-follow them, and oame to New York. It was months before he got any trace of them. He then learned that they had'gone westward, and he went to St. Louis in .pursuit. They had gone to'New Orleans ;he followed them. For over a year he continued the chase, visiting in turn almost every city in the United States, hut never overtaking them. At last he returned to New York, and in less than a week he met them face to face in Broadway. He upbraided the woman and fiercely threatened the man. The upshot of all was a proposal from the latter that so shocked the Count that he turned away speechless. Said the scoundrel in substance : “ Tike her now and marry her if ydtt wish to. I don't want her any longer. The Count never saw them again. Two years later he heard of the woman’s death Inr suicide, aad he procured a decent burial tor the body. What became of her companion he neither knew nor cared.— Buffalo Courier.