Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1876 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A young man in Troy.N. Y - ., dreamt the other day that he was destined to become a gambler. It made so deep an impression on him that he went down to his father’s store In the morning, built a fire in the stove, swept out the office, wrote a letter to the family, sending kisses to the children, took off his coat and waistcoat, and shot himself. He blundered in his aim, and is toft to wrestle with his destinj as best he can. —ln the will recently admitted to probate, of Fred Rose, in Brooklyn, there is the soniewh at remarkable clause: “Since I believe that married-.life is the best for mankind, I beg my dear wife to try not to be hindered by any false, romantic ideas from marriage after my death, if she finds a man worthy of her, and request her to accept as a wedding gift from me, her first husband, who loves her more than he can express in words, the sum of SIO,OOO, to hold and own forever.” —The other day, says the Portland (Me.) Argne, a gentleman entered the City Marshal’s office, and inquired if there was a man named Williams connected with the Police Department. On being informed that Mr. Williams had been Deputy Marshal the previous year, the stranger said a nephew of Williams hail died a short time ago on board his (the stranger’s) ship, and had left property to the amount of $500,000 to Mr. Williams, certificates of which he was instructed to put into his hands.

—Says the Fort Worth (Tex.) Democrat: “ Mr. Wm. Walker, a farmer residing in Tarrant County, fifteen miles northwest of here, on the Trinity River, discovered two large buck deer within half a mile of his farm, on the open prairie, with their antlers securely locked together. He walked up to them, and with the aid of his dogs, succeeded soon in exhausting the infuriated animals, who, from appearances, had probably been fighting for hours. Taking his pocket-knife, he cautiously approached them, and was successful in cutting a deep gash in the neck of one, from which he soon bled to death. The other was easily dispatched. The antlers of both were taken off, and so completely were they wedged together that it is impossible to separate them. One was five and the other six years old.” —Brooklyn has introduced a new thing in bigamies. A married man of that city (name of Smith), having tried for a long time to support his family and failed, was applied to by a servant in a family where he got an occasional job, with the proposition that if he would marry her she would set him up in the grocery business. Merely with a view or supporting his lawful wife, Smith accepted the proposition, and the marriage took place; but no sooner was the ceremony performed than number two declared she would not support Smith unless he lived with her. This Smith declined, whereupon his newmade wife had him arrested on complaint for bigamy. She failed, however, to make out a case, for the real Mrs. Smith, with singular fidelity to the man who had committed the crime for her sake, came into court and swore she was not Smith’s wife. —A man at Landingville, this „week, slaughtered a corn-fed hog weighing over 200 "pounds. The water was ready to scald the porker when one of the butchers thought it advisable to add a small quantity of rosin to assist the scalding water to loosen the bristles. He went to the store and helped himself to a chunk of what he thought was rosin, which he placed in the tub with the hog, and poured the scalding water over it. When they thought the hog was sufficiently scalded, they poured on the water, which, by this time, had changed to a dark red color, and die hog was dyed a royal purple deep into the skin. The butcher had got hold of a chunk of extract of logwood instead of rosin. Instead of scraping the bristles off, they were compelled to skin the hog similar to skinning an ox, to get beyond the effects of the dye.— Orwigsburg (Penn.} Timet. The exports of corn during October were, from Baltimore, 1,490,623 bushels; Philadelphia, 1,088,624; New York, 9,82149, Boston, 331,567.