Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1876 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—The potato-bug has had a good deal of mischief laid at" its door, but the worst charge of all is that he has bit a woman at Kingston, R. 1., and given her the lockjaw. —A brave Colorado girl placed herself the other day between her brother and a howling mob who thirsted for his blood. Whenever a revolver was pointed at his body she interposed, and so protected him until the arrival of the Sheriff. —Lightning is said to have played a curious freak in Stow, Mass., lately. Entering by the ceiling, a room twelve feetsquare, where six young women were seated about the tfall, it dropped on the center of the floor in a ball, and exploded with a loud report, and volumes of sulphurous smoke but injuring nobody, and not even burning tho carpet. —Brooklyn coroners have an easy time of it. An infirm old man called at the office of one and informed the official that he had come to have an inquest held on his body. When reminded that the coroner sat only on the dead and not on the living, he sadly assented to the truth of the statement, but said he was going to die in a few hours and it would save the coroner time and trouble to hold the inquest at once. Examination showed tha want of food had crazed the old man, and he was turned over to the Charity Commissioners for the. few remaining hours of his life. —A few days ago a man drove his horse to the "Winslow House,” half way up Kearsarge Mountain, and tying him under the stable went to the top of the mountain. The horse stood there all day with nothing to eat. The man came down at night, and was about starting off, when the landlord put in an appearance and demanded fifty cents. What for?” said the man. “ For cruelty to animals,” replied the landlord, “ in leaving your horse all day under my stable with nothing to eat. If you had done it in Massachusetts they would have fined you twenty dollars.” The man paid his half dollar and drove down the mountain. a gentleman friend went up on the inclined plane to view the city from Mount t ' ■ ; ...

Adams. While they were walking about 3 near the edge of the hill a ruffian ed up behind them, knocked the gentleman with a sluug-shot on the back of the head senseless to the ground, commanding her to keep silent, or he would shoot her; then he conunenccd searching the gentleman’s pockets. She, viewing the situation at once, and with wonderful presence-of mine, pushed the villain over the bill into the ravine below. Then she did all she could to restore her escort to consciousness sufficient to be taken home. The desperado was picked up by twq policemen, considerably bruised, who were unaware of the tragic circumstances until too late to recapture him. —Cincinnati Gazette: