Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1877 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

Bt Louis, a man of nnkutwn antecedents, thought he had got a rieh heiress of that city, MissJuliaWilcup, she pql Mlfoptdown and refused to let the ceremonv goon. This occurred when Dr. Rtfihur-*' the ceremony. / ( , neighbor in the removal of his gdoda, and carried in his hands a valuable mirror,. As he traveled illong hepaflHt-d a yoat'whw resented the oast upon h| rn, and charged upon the mirror with all his might. Mr. Manning war too ihueh as/* tonished at the impetuous rush of Hia bearded foe to avoid the 'cataMtophe; ana the mirror was shattered to pieces, fl f Brooluyn, Was bitten by. a mbid dfig., Thol thought of the matter until five dr alx days ago, when the horse became sick. The other afternoon unmistakable rwmptoms of hydrophobia were developed, and the horse was finally killed. The animal was very violent, and broke one of itff legs in its mad struggle. —George Whalen and’Albert’ Williams, 1 under the hame df Normkn Brothers/} started out the other night as.the cede. , brated flying men of the air; at the Theater Comique, in Cleveland, Ohio, and in! the first act Whalen missed bis hold on the bar and landed in the middle of the audience. His body felt With terrific, force upon a raised platform, and injuries were received in his spine' which wiH most certainly prove fatal. The wounded body was carried out, and the shew went ’ on. < hoi —A citizen of Hartford, (JJoqa,, teljs the following story of Gen. Wade Hampton: Gen. Hampton’s father; *who Wss a millionaire, had three children-—one son and, two daughters. At his death he left to' each daughter, by hie wiU, $100,000!; the rest of his large property he left to the son Wade. After the funeral the will was shown to the son. He read very carefully, and then threw itiptothe fire, saying, " I’ll never consent to 'take a larger share of the estate than, the .others. Let the property be divided equally among the three.” —About 12:50 on Christmas morning, as the congregation of ' Bt. Bridget’s Church, in Buffalo, -were celebrating high mass, a portion of the floor., about twenty by thirty feet on the southwestern corner, commenced to settle. Instantly the -Targe crowd, which completely flllyd • the church, were pahic-stricken afid rushed for the door. Luckily the floor only- settled about five feet, and the scare some-, what subsided. Still a large Wove, situated in the same corner, was overturned, and the floor began to bum. This increased tlie excitement, and would undoubtedly have ended in a Jqng, list of deaths but for the presence of inftid di a few men who reached out doors by a back door, got some water and extin-, guished the flames. —Four children of Ames McGoWan’ were recently burned to death near Pittsburgh, Pa. McGowan lived on a farm, and on the night of the disaster the mother went to a neighbor’s to assist at butchering. McGowan built a lai'ge fire in the old-fashioned fire-place, put the children, aged respectively three, five, seven and nine into bed, anti their went oft after the mother. Shortly after bis departure, a neighbor living half a mile distant saw the light or the burning building, got on a horse and hastened over. When he got there the roof had fallen in and the windows wer< 'bttrnefl out, and the whole interior of the house was on fire, and nq sign of life about. He then went to the house where the father and mother were, to appraise) (hem of -the condition of the house, not. knowing that the four innocent children ’ had perished in the flames until afterward, 'lhe parents hastened to the scene, only to be appalled at beholding the smoldering tuihff of their home and discoveting Um charred remains of four bhildren. - • .. ■ f ,