Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1876 — INCIDLNTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDLNTS AND ACCIDENTS.

M- i V < /• !ia -I--'--,/!., '^■Yh^Virginia -City ftnterjytiw . says'; “A train of twenty caniels, loaded with UjmMl Ofl. iniA Innni tthAii? AlAVt'n ttvvvij , vtnVv^ o’clock last night.. ,On account .of their frigbtenihg norees and thules m6y are not allowed to i enter the town during- day. light.” -nil - I i- /i- Hi.'. •> J*. —Says the Macon (Miss.) Nsocen; “M. Gy. Jenkins, of this county, was out deerhunting the other day, and after having killed <me, he Came To a place tihete hi counted over forty deer lying dead., with ! the black tongue. We had seen acoounts ishardlv safe to eat vension under th* cin cumstances.” ■•• ; t < 1 , J —A Memphis lover, refused bjr hig out his pistol , placing the muzzle between neesed the affair, toohlhe desperate lover assas* 3 —Borne years ago, while at Boft Kearney, a gentleman adopted a young Cheyenne child which had escaped a Sion* massacre, and took it home with hlih to Newark; N. J. The child, who is now about fourteen years of age, has gradually become utterly incorrigible, and, to use a common phrase, is a “regular young Injun.” He has always been treated like outer air, and displays all the nomadic instincts. The result fe, the police have had Will tell,”%aw the old adage, and in this case at .least it is pmvoh into- f,/' contracted with a widow for * load of widow with barley, but wbrn fee qw ( swl m ah^fewe with only-the honest intention de riding home with her, towndipg to he could do so the lovely widow stooped over in fee wagon, and, to the astonishment of her unintentional witness, began throwing out

I stones which she had concealed therein, deuce of an old lady named Askew, neat 1 * -jeasa- w “s’s twelve years tof ago—Were toe only uocuE*’ Theldd' 1 Sd™sef best the.had prepared in the hoßse, butbe rah into on adjoining! room, and, procuratonceabe woaM MoW hto hand oil The foilow saw at a glance foat; meant business, and wasn’t .to be fooled with, and he hot out of tbs house mid lowed him with her ihot-gttn Until he was off the premise*, wfaqq shqjnafbhod bgck hnd pdt up hbr goo..—Cincinnati Qcutette.

' 8. Thomson; who returned from a trip to Hardyville, Arizona, a few days ago, reports the-death and cremation of the mother of Macadow. a noted Captain Of the Mohave tribe. The Wake Was kept up for several days, during which time as kspm is is the custom of the tribe to burn all the effects of the relatives of the deceased at the timebf death. In this Instance a large amount of property Was Consumed, as tho Mapadoyr family for spme years past had been unusually healthy/anu consequently aopumulatad considerable, wealth: Beside the fourteen horses mentioned, several tons of mescal, a large quantify of seeds, a ■ considerable sum. m silver coin, and ail .tfae provisions, and clothing of the relatives or deceased were consumed.. Even the clothing they were wearing whon cojnujemoed their march around the funeral pyre helped tq feed the flames, and tji* l mournere returned to their homed as. naked as wheij they, came into the world, — Denver News. —An incident •' has come to light in BoD Umore thia week,w{ii<ffi. recalls the story of Enoch Ardbn. Charles Coates, who left his home three years ago ana was believed to ba4ead, return*# several days since, to find that his wife was again married. Hb WaS’the driver of an icewagon, and says he has been in thq Western States. Shortly after his disappearance the body of a drowded : man was found ip the Eastern District, an inquest was held by Coroner Bultzer, and the remains were interred in-thd old Methodist Cemetery, on PoUt Lane, dartfa pf Greenmount. The wife believed the body was that of bes absent husband, and made application to Mount? Y«r»on Lodge, No. 13, Knights of Pythias, and WilUam Louis Schley Lodge of Mechanic, for benefits due in such cases. The body was disinterred twice under the supervision of the Coroner, in the presence 1 of committees of tbe lodges,! and it w*s finally deOided, not to ,pav the benefits, for lack of sajisfacorjr roentrficatlon. The returned- husband, it is understood,.does not design interfering with the present marital relations of Uiswife, but claims possession of his child. Battimore Bun. J. ~•> - U.ll