Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1876 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—The opening of a coffin of a young man at Deny, N. H., who died thirtythree years ago, discloses the singular faqt that li is hair has grown out two feet or more, and is heavy, bright and fresh. —A few weeks ago, on the farm of Mr. Eli Reno, of Chippewa Township, Beaver -County, Pa., a hawk alighted with the intention of helping himself to some of Mr. Reno’B poultry. He was at once tackled by a game rooster of the ginger-red species, and a furious fight between the roostter and hawk ensued, at the expiration of which the hawk fell' over dead, and the rooster was loft master of the field.

—A man named Julian was driving a wagon-load of giant powder along a St. Louis road, when he discovered fire in the bottom of the vehicle. One box had just caught, when he coolly turned and threw it out. Finding he could not extinguish the flames, he drove the wagon into a ditch, and, unhitching the horses, drove them a short distance away before the explosion came. People were thrown down and houses wrecked, but the plucky driver got away with his uninjured horses. —Mrs. Sarah F. Holt, an aged lady of Nashua, Mass., expired suddenly upon her husband’s coffin recently. She had gone into the parlor, where the remains of her husband had been prepared for burial. Looking inta the face of the dead, she said, quietly: “ How can I live without you, Henry?” Then, putting her hand to her head, she tottcrea and was about to fall, but being caught by a friend, she was assisted to a chair and immediately expired. —~

—Amos B. Miller was taken to the station-house at Tiffin, Ohio, the other evening, a raving maniac. He came to that city about two weeks previous from Chillicothe, with a j-omng wife, for the purpose of attending Heidelberg College to prepare himself for the ministry. They rented a house and bought quite extensively in furniture, getting credited for mostof it. He expected $1,500 from his home the week before, but was disappointed. Creditors began pushing him, and this, together with the disappointment of not receiving his money, drove him crazy. His friends were telegraphed for, when the first sjmptoms were discovered, but failed to respond. —A late Vallejo (Cal.) Chronicle says: “An eleven-inch pivot gun, the heaviest piece of ordnance in the armament of the Tuscarora, was dropped overboard this forenoon while being hoisted out of- that vessel. Just as it had been raised by the crane, and was swinging between the ship and the dock, the chain parted, and the gun, with a great splash, fell into the water. The crane used was built to lift weights as heavy as twenty tons, and the gun weighed about 16,000 pounds, or eight tons, from which it is evident the chain in use on the crane was very unfit for that service. An attempt was made to raise the sunken cannon by getting a rope around it, but not being half strong enough, it snapped like twine.”

—A curious attempt to commit suicide by starving is attracting much attention in Springfield, Mass. Hope Doggett, a young woman who has been employed as a clerk in an office at a very small salary, was dischared a week ago last Saturday, and since that time has eaten nothing except two apples on the following Sunday. She refuses with scorn all offers of charity, declaring that she would take money from the man she used to work for, and from no other person, but refuses to ask him for aid, while he declares he will give her nothing unless she asks for it. Her bodily strength is giving way, although physicians say she can live some time yet. Should she persist in her madness she will doubtless be removed tp Northampton insane asylum.— Telegram, Any. 29.

—A remarkable death occurred in Montgomery County lately. Mr. W. D. Lord, Frank Lord, George Elland and Thomas Ballard went to Weaver’s Mill, seining. Messrs. Ballard and Elland were dragging the seine, and liad caught two small fish. Mr. W. D. Lord, who was some twentv feet from them, swam through water about waist-deep to them, took the two fish and placed them between his teeth, and undertook to swim back to shore. One of the fish being larger than the other, the smaller was not secure, and, with an effort to get away, went down Mr. Lord’s throat, lodging securely in his swallow. Becoming aware of his condition, Mr. Lord appealed to his comrades for help. “Help me, boys!” were his last words. They sprang immediately to his assistance, and got him to shore. He made several strong efforts to get his hand down his mouth to pull out 3ie fish, but in five minutes or less time life was extinct. A post-mortem examination was made, and the flsli—a perch about four and a half inches in length—was recovered.— Cor. Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser,