Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1876 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—David Fletcher, a farm laborer, near Fonda, N. Y., was mysteriously shot a few days ago. He was washing his hands after coming in from the field, when a bullet from the caboose of a passing freight train struck him in the side, killing him instantly. —Don’t be too polite. A Brooklyn man stepped from the platform of a street-car, a few days since, to permit a lady to enter, and the car. took off four of liis toes. He has recovered $1,750 from the car company, however, which partly rewards him for his gallantry. —A man named Lovejoy was a witness for the defense in the prosecution, recently, of a Mrs. Cozzens, charged with stealing diamonds from a boarder at the American House, St. Paul, and through his evidence the accused war acquitted. Lovejoy was so unfortunate as to be detected in the act of pocketing a barrel of flour from a freight car at Minneapolis, and was sent to jail lor:thirty days. On receiving his discharge he was handed fifty dollars from Mrs. Cozzens, with an invitation, which he accepted, to visit her at St. Paul, and after a brief interview he took out a license and was married to the grateful widow.

—One morning, recently, Mrs. Charles Itandall, of Hamlin, N. Y T ., informed her husband that during the period of years in which they had been married she had not been to him what a wife should be, and she had made up her mind to leave that part of the country. She had given the matter much thought, and decided it was, from all considerations, best that she should go away and leave him and her three little ones to live in peace and happiness. This information was of course a thunderbolt to the afflicted husband. The wife calmly prepared breakfast, left the morning’s work unfinished, packed her trunk, kissed her children, and departed—nobody knows where. Mr. Randall is a youngand prosperous farmer, and is a man in every way worthy of the respect of his associates. : ■- —Recently Mrs. C. L. Applegate, living at Toms River, N. J., went to the well, and, becoming dizzy, fell in. When her husband returned to dinner he was surprised to see no signs of life about the kitchen, and searched every part of the house for his wife. When passing the well, which is thirty feet deep, he heard his wife call: “Charley, I am in the well.” He soon drew her up with the windlass, and found that she had fallen in several hours before, and had been standing on tiptoe to keep her head out of the water waiting for him to come. She said she was nearly frozen, as her whole body was in the water, and it was only by laving her head back that she could breathe without drawing in a mouthful of water. Strange to say, she was not hurt by the fall, although she went down head first. _ Recently, Alf. Lent, of Camwell, caught, in the Hudson, opposite Peekskill, a black bass weighing fifty-four pounds, and on opening the fish, eight pounds of eggs were found. This immense sack of eggs, as large as a man’s ann between the wrist and elbow, suggested the inquiry as to the number contained in it. To ascertain, if possible, the eggs were taken to a drug store, and it took 150 of them to weigh a grain on the druggist’s prescription scales. As there are 7,000 grains m a pound, avoirdupois, the ealeu- j lotion is easily made that in the fish above caught there was the almost incredible number of 8,400,000, a number sufficient ip itself alone to stock the waters of the whole Atlantic seaboard, if no allowance ] had to be made for the destruction of the Jeggs and the young fish by natural J causes and the voracity of other finny tribes. j