Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1877 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A New York young woman named Louisa A. Bowen has shown great skill in handling a base-ball bat She knocked a burglar’s brains out with one. —A Boston swindler has made thousands of dollars in New England by staying at hotels over night in the guise of a traveling salesman, by previous arrangement with a confederate, letters containing worthless checks and pretended directions from an employer, and inducing the landlords to cash the checks. His easy, business-like manner, and the simplicity of the fraud enabled him to succeed in nearly every instance.

—Mr. E. A. Ebarle, an actor of exEeriencc, became strangely at fault in is part in an Albany theater a few nights ago. At length he advanced to the footlights and said: “ I don’t know what is the matter with me, but I certainly am not drunk—l never drink anything intoxicating. I was perfect in my part at rehearsal this morning, but now I cannot recall a word of it.” He retired, and another actor read the rest of his part. His trouble was paralysis of the brain, and there is not much hope of his recovery’. —William Stevens of Clay County, Ala., has squatted on a mountain tract and built himself a log cabin, where he resides contentedly with his rille, wife, eight kids and 100 goats. The goats are hardy and prolific; he shoots them when he wants .meat, or leather for shoes; has their milk for milk, butter and cheese; exchanges kid flesh for meal with a miller at the foot of the mountain; sells his surplus animals yearly for clothing, hats, ■ etc., and claims that he is the best-fed, bestclothed, best-shod and best-humored man in the county. —The cotton-picking season is an unfortunate time for negro children. The New Orleans Times says that last year there were no less than fourteen cabins burned up, together with some twenty children whom their parents locked inside while they picked cotton in the fields. The business has begun for the present season; the second case occurred on the Cook plantation, in East Feliciana, a few days ago,when two colored children, locked in a cabin, were burned to death. It is said that there has not been a year since the war in which a dozen of these casualties have not taken place in Louisiana. —On a recent Saturday morning Mrs. Way, of Mechanicsville, N. Y., arose from bed and taking four children with her, proceeded to the creek, and threw the little ones in. She then jumped in herself. The eldest child, a girl, succeeded in getting out and ran to the house. Her father was yet asleep, and she awoke him, saying: “Mother threw all of us into the creek and then jumped in herself.” As soon as possible Mr. Way followed his little daughter to the creek and some neighbors, joined him on the road. With the assistance rendered by the neighbors, Mr. Way succeeded in rescuing his wife and one of the children, but two of the little ones were drowned. Mrs. Way has been thought for some time to be slightly insane, but not sufficiently so to be deprived of her liberty