Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1877 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—While dancing at a Cape May hop, the orher night, a young lady, like a horse, threw a shoe, and a near-sighted old gentleman picked it up and put it in his pocket, under the impression that it was his memorandum-book. —A Nevada miner fell into a shaft that was 200 feet deep, but after going down about forty feet, he struck on a platform. He says that while falling, and expecting to be instantly killed at the bottom, he thought as much in the few seconds as he could think ordinarily in an hour. —A few days ago, a young man named Tuttle and a couple of small boys went into the Helds in the north part of Goshen, Conn., after berries. A shower coming up, they took refuge in a collier’s cabin. While there they found an old ax, and while fooling with it, struck the post in the center that held up the roof. Being decayed, it snapped off with the blow, and the roof fell upon them and killed young Tuttle. —During the strike in Albany, while Coroner Fitzhenry, of that city, who is a member of the Burgesses Corps, was guarding the western end of the upper railroad bridge, a man attempted to pass the guard. The Coroner commanded the intruder to halt. “ Who will stop me from over this bridge ?” asked the man., “ I will,” said the Coroner. “Would you stop the likes of me, who voted for you for Coroner?” The Coroner replied: “ 1 am put here to shoot, and I get thirty dollars for a corpse. If you don’t leave I’ll put a bullet through you.” The constituent withdrew. —An unusual mishap occurred shortly after noon yesterday on Tenth street, near the Michigan Central tracks. A carpenter was passing on the sidewalk, carrying a long stick of 4x4 stuff balanced on his shoulder, when suddenly a boy named Naughton darted out from between two houses, to escape some playmate, his head coming directly in front of the beam the carpenter was carrying. It was impossible for tne latter to stop the momentum of the timber or vary the direction, and it struck the boy’s head with almost the force of a battering-ram, catting open his scalp and throwing him senseless upon a soluble, stone pavement.— Detroit Tribune.

—A case of rare interest to the medical profession, says the Hartford Cour ant, is that of a young daughter of William G. Corbin, of Union. On the 3d of last September she swallowed a shawl-pin, which was received in the left lung. For six weeks she experienced no trouble, but at the expiration of that time she had inflammation of the lungs. She was attended by the local physicians, and, at length. Dr. Storrs, of this city, was sent for, this being in midwinter. He advised the parents, who were, of course, very much alarmed, to trust to the chance of the pin being coughed up, rather than have an incision made for the removal of it. This course was pursued. The child recovered her usual condition of health, nearly, and in May coughed up a portion of the pin, it having rusted in two. On the 25th of July the rest of the pin, the head part, was likewise gotten rid of, and the chila is as well as ever, apparently. She had lived for elven months with a shawl-pin, over two inches long, in one of her lungs.

—A flour dealer in this city played it rather fine on the strikers. His stock of flour having become neatly exhausted, and, being unable to replenish it from the mill at Monroeville, he hit upon a novel plan for obtaining a supply. A carload of flour belonging to him had been lying at Monroeville for a few days, the railroad company being unable to deliver it in this city. He procured the key to the Baltimore & Ohio Company's switch at Monroeville, opened the switch, and by hitching a team of mules to a car loaded with flour he pulled it out on the main track, and then started the mules with the car toward this city. He had provided himself with planks, which he placed on the ties across the cattle-guards and bridges, and the sure-footed mules were enabled, by walking on the plants, to get safely over the bridges and guards. Thus the car-load of flour was pulled as far as the switch at Perkins, where the “engineer” side-tracked his novel train in order to allow the regular evening passenger train to pass. The long-earea “ locomotives” were detached from the car of flour, and were allowed to rest during the night. They were hitched to the cer again next morning, and the flour brought here.— San&utky tfihio) Rsgieter.- : It didn’t suffice for Mr. Johnson to remark, at four o’clock the other morning, after Stumbling up-stairs to Mrs. Johnson and bed, “Y’ sefe, m’ dear, it co couldn’t be helped. It was the strike. I’m one o’ the delayed males.”