Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1876 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS

-The Paducah (Ky.) News tells of a mule in that city that has made several attempts to commit suicide. Twice ft rushed, dray and all, into the river, and was rescued with difficulty. It was then unhitched, and again plunged into the water. —A Mr. Mecklenburg was drowned at Com munipaw a few days ago. The first information his wife had of the accident was furnished by her child, aged seven years, who had been to the beach and returned with his father’s clothes, saying: “Papa was drowned, and I brought his clothes home.** ———^4-4-4—— —A young lady in Reading, Pa., has recently died from sheer fright, produced through a foolish fancy. Having had her photograph taken, she showed a copy to her mother, who discovered the form of a skull on the picture. Another skull having been figured out the young lady grew pale, took to her bed, and died.

—The spectacle of a man with his fifth bride listening to the funeral sermon of his fourth wife was witnessed at Bangor, Me., recently. Number four died of a malignant disease, and there were no funeral services. He immediately got another wife, and invited her to attend the funeral sermon of the dear departed. —The Cuthbert (Ga.) Appeal says Capt. W. F. Davis was bitten on the hand by a large stump-tailed moccasin while fishing with a seine. The snake held on till pulled loose, when Capt. Davis held him till a friend cut off his head. The wound was washed off, sucked, and dressed with tobacco. No further effect was experienced from the biting. —At a saloon in the divide, says the Gold Hill (Nev.) News, there may be seen a pair of venr oddly-matched friends, towit, a big Newfoundland dog and a wild pigeon. The bird’s favorite place of rest is upon the dog’s head, and he will allow no one to Interfere with the arrangement. The pigeon was trapped in the hills only a few months since, but has become very tame and never leaves Its strange fnena.

—Aja accident occurred at the National pipe works, at M’Keesport, Pa., the other evening, by which a workman named Loughran lost his life. He was engaged in repairing a gas pipe which passed near one of the pits. Before he knew it the escaping gas suffocated him, and losing the power of exerting himself he fell into the pit head foremost. His head struck pie hard substance at the bottom, splitting open his skull and scattering the brains about the pit. —Last Friday, says the Denver News, when the Floyd Hill and Georgetown coach, with six powerful horses, had stopped at Fall River, the driver got down for some purpose, leaving an invalid on the box to hold the reins. During the absence of the driver the horses started on a runaway expedition, and the man on the box was too weak to hold them. The coach was filled with men, women and children, and the frantic beasts dashed along through the canon with such desperate speed that every cheek was blanched with the fear of destruction that seemed so imminent. In all this danger, however, there came a hero. D. M. McCurdy, of Kansas (Sty, was in the coach, and he clambered out through one of its narrow windows and gained the box and the lines while the now thoroughly terrified horses were fairly flying over the fearful road, bounded with awful declivities and iutting rocks. Seizing theftfihs and bending against them with all the strength of his arm, and forcing an almost superhuman weight upon the brake, he checked the maddened steeds in their wild career just on the edge of a precipice that would have been the end of all the crew of the coach had it gone ora.