Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1877 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—Two young ladies of Baltimore were made seriously ill lately by eating cake too highly flavored with extract of bitter almonds. The extract had been in the house for six years, and had become very strong by evaporation of the alcohol. —A Denver man who lost his overcoat discovered it on the back of the thief while strolling down the street one day, and, pitching into the sneak, yanked the coat off his back, kicked him in the stomach, rolled him over in the snow, punched his eyes, tied him up in a bowknot, and stood him on his head against a brick wall quite a long time before he discovered that he had made a mistake, and that the overcoat was not his, but the man’s, and that the man was an invalid Eastern clergyman, visiting Colorado for his health. —Mr. and Mrs. Sterner,, residing near Littletown, Pa., died recently under pecular circumstances. One Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Sterner, both very old people, were alone, and aboutsix o’clock Mr. S.was very suddenly prostrated by a stroke of ap. oplexy, and his wife went out doors to blow a horn for assistance, and while but is Supposed to have been overtaken by the same disease and fell to the ground, where ishe was found on Monday morning, dead and covered with several inches of snow. Mr. Sterner was found in a senseless condition upon the floor in the same spot where he had fallen the evening before, the fires all out, door standing open, and his body nearly frozen stiff. He died the next day. —A remarkable feat of sursrery was re cently performed upon Gen. David Barrett, of Whitehall, N. Y., aged seventynine year*. Ten years ago, ne was injured by falling upon a pile of boards, and a splinter of wood was extracted from his side. At periods since he has suffered severe pains in his kidney, whicn was ascribed to overwork. Recently he. was taken with more violent pains in the organ named, and an investigation showed the presence of a foreign substance. An incision disclosed the head of a tenpenny nail, and further use of the scalpel showed the surgeon that the nail was imbedded in the old man’s kidney, and that mortification had set in. The only chance of saving the patient’s life was the excission of the organ, which was successfully done, and, notwithstanding his advanced age, Gen. Barrett has made rapid and sure progress toward recovery. —How is the following for lawyer fees: The New York TriJwite publishes ar bill presented by William R- Martin. dent of the Park Department, against the Windsor Hotel Company, for legal sctvices, the gross amount of which is $60.000. Mr. ifartin’e lowest charge Is floo. For drawing the assignment for a lease he charges $1,006; for his services in three foreclosure suits, $10,000; and for the |

neflottation ot mortgage he wks |15,00ft Tien there is another item of $30,000 for “ saving Property.” This remind* the Mew Y*rk Graph" of the case of the poor womj D who wso fighting in the courts for her father’s property for nearly ten yean. She had a clear case, but when she was finally awarded 110,000, almost the entire clam war absorbed xtj the claims of the lawyer who had volunteered to prosecute her dasd. Thhjm»tt< r wtw referred to a comtnistrion or nrwyers, charges. The poor creature died soon afterward of a broken heart... .qj.