Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1877 — A Terrified Negress. [ARTICLE]

A Terrified Negress.

Something occurred in the Repubtiedn building recently which was decidedly funny, and which created at first not a little excitement. A woman entered the hall leading to the elevator, the door of which was open, and stopped in under the impression, as subsequently appeared, that it led to another series of steps. As she entered, the elevator-bov, as a matter of course, closed the door and started the elevator. As he did so and the concern began moving upward, he became in an instant the worst startled boy in all St. Louis. That colored woman leaped to her feet, glared at the walls gliding past. and, with a terrific scream, hurleu herself at the transom over the door. Failing to get through, she plunged about the elevator, with every breath emitting shrieks long enough and loud enough to wake the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. People rushed from tne different floors to the elevator way under the impression that a ghastly tragedy was going on in open daylight. People ran in from the street to be present at, if not to prevent, the scene of blood. It was a terrible moment. Meanwhile the frightened elevator-boy had reversed his conveyance and reached the bottom again, where he flung open the door with an alacrity retttarkable—at least In an elevator-boy. The colored woman bounded out like a shot, still shrieking with double-loon power, and never ceased her yells until out on the sidewalk and at a safe distance -from the infernal machine. Then her expressions of gratitude at her remarkable escape were*touching. “Dey didn't catch here in dere trap ter take poah niggahs to dere disseetin’-room! No, sanT Bress de Lord!” And she started off down the street, fully ponvinced that she had just missed a horrible death and subsequent cutting-up.— Bt. Louis Republican. An old bachelor explains the equrage of the Turks by saying that a man with more than one wife ought to be willing to face death at any time.