Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1877 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—ln the year 1845 the late James Bidwell, then post-rider from Middletown to Saybrook, did errands for the people living on his post-route, deposited their money, collected their bills, etc. He deposited that year, for a gentleman living in a town down the river, in the Middle town Savings Bank, the sum of $l5O. The gentleman visited the bank for the first time last Tuesday, bringing his bank book with the original deposit to have the interest added to it. Great was bis surprise to find that in thirty-two years it had accumulated $875.18 interest, making in all due on his book to May 1, $1,025.18. —New Haven {Conn.) Palladium. At Highmarket, Lewis County, the six-year-old daughter of Mrs. Theodore Markham was left alone in charge of a baby. In trying to light a lamp to heat milk for the baby, the child set her own clothes on fire. She started to run out doors, fearing the house or baby would be burned, but noticing that pieces of her burning clothes had dropped on the floor, she carefully extinguished them. She finally got out of doors and threw herself into a horsetrough, putting out the fire. She then returned to the house and, as patiently as her agony would permit, waited for her mother. When Mrs. Markham returned, the little one said: “ Mother, I saved the house, but I shall die.” She lived one hour and a half after the accident.—Rochester (N. V.) Express. —A few weeks ago a boy in Lancaster, Pa., fell between the bumpers of a moving train, but his pantaloons catching on some portion of the car he was held suspended over the rail without injury until the train stopped, when he was released. Had the cloth in his trousers been poor stuff the lad would have been killed. This incident shows the advantage of wearing strong clothing. In Lancaster County, a few days ago, a man who was driving a threshing-machine had one of the legs of his pantaloons caugbt in the couplings and torn completely off. Had the cloth been of sterner stuff the man probably would have been killed. The moral of this incident is—well, it is so plainly and diametrically opposed to the first, that it is hardly worth while indicating.—Norristown (Pa.) Herald. —On Saturday morning a strange accident happened at a small boarding-house at the foot of Union street. A little boy, a year and a half old, named Jimmie Bussell, walked out of the rear doer of the house, and went in between two buildings, which are only about nine inches apart at one end, and very much less at the other, until be wedged himself in so that he could not move either way. His mother discovered where he was, but could not get to him. His sister about twelve years old, went up-stairs and attempted to go down to his assistance; she got down so she could reach him, but at this point she slipped, and was so fastened that it was impossible for her to move. A large crowd congregated, but it was found impossible for any one to get in between the buildings, and the children were obliged to remain in their un comfortable quarters until a place about three feet square had been sawed out of the side of the house, when they were released.— Bangor (Me.) Whig.