Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1877 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A.tedj in Borises re, NUY.4 Is stfnsataoffl&geufe ,ahe was frightened, aod continually insist** her sides nnd call upon her frteddsto Heip her catch the ret. Previously ahe. jwid evinced no symptoms of insanity. . —Big Lake, in Irwin County] Georgia, began to ju* irnt abom at an opening In the bottom abqut the size of a flour barrel, and up to »• Short while ago ran dowp from a mile , wijJe tq several lohg to the dimensions 01, a few acres, when the whole country, frfr and & a he could Carry away iff the finest dfees and qualities of the ffimy tijbe The basin now presents bjufls sixty odd feet deep, and will probably refill in the bourse of a year or two- M rxr .[> ; „ —An American lady who had been visiting friends in Canada, crossed the St.' Lawrence at Cepe Vincent lately, aufl, courteously invited the custom officer to examine her baggage. “There U nothxaEanowura officer unlocked the largest trank, i and, SJSSIi.T'J pounced’upoa a dozen bottles of ; French brandy. “Doyou call.this, wyarigg apparel f” he asked, sternly. “ Why, yes,” replied the lady, “ they* are my huebahd’a nightcaps.” . , , ~ /u< —The Silver C|ty(Nev.) Time t, of. * recent date, says; “ Some person in me mood of desperatiop attempted to >perpe-! trate an act whose results might .have been appalling, at shaft No. ,5 bf the Butrotunnel, last Saturday,. While Ute) engineer in Charge of the machinery at the shaft was absent, it is supposed in the air-compressor room, some one qqtered clandestinely and proceeded deliberately to fix things for a catalogue of accidents.He unscrewed pertain'bolts that mad# the brake poWerlCsa, disconnected the pipes that fed the boiler, and interfered with the operations of other portions of the machinery, so that if the boiler did not blow up or the cage fall down the shaft, something else of a serious nature would happen. Fortunately, the work of the villain was discovered before it had time to operate, and all parts of the machinery were inspected. It is not known who it was that resorted to such means for the working,of revenge.” —A savage Memphis (Tenn.) youth, named A. M. Band, shot and killed the father of his fourteen-year-old sweetheart, eighteen'miles northwest of that city, a few mornings ago. He was a wild fellow, of unsteady habits, and the father discouraged his attentions to his school, girl daughter. Going to the house of Mr. Hill, he fired a shot-gun at him, with effect, through a window; then jumped in and emptied into the dying man’s body; then seized the girl, placed her on horseback, mounted himself, and after the fashion of young Lochinvar galloped to a minister in the neighborhood, where he demanded that the marriage ceremony be performed. The frantic and horrified girl begged to be released. The preacher refusea to act, and called to parties passing to seize the desperate lover. The latter then shot and wounded a young man named Coleman, took a horse that belonged to one of the posse, Counted, and turning loose a Comanche yell, with a foul imprecation upon the people of the place, fled the scene and escaped. j 1 *» 1