Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1878 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A Boston woman recently testified that a man had threatened to'take her life, and he was put under bonds to keep the lieace for six months. Since then she has married him. —A touching scene noticed before a Baltimore toy shop, a few days ago was two little girls who had between them a smaller sister who was blind, and were describing in detail the colors. forms and names of the articles displayed. —lt is stated on authority of the London World that the Duke of Manchester will succeed Earl Dufferin as Governor-General of Canada. The Duke is head of the house of Montague, and is now in his fifty-fifth year. He was married in 1852 to a daughter of Count d'Alten of Hanover. —Rattlesnakes are so thick in Slaugh terville, Ky., that they have driven one man out of his house. For two or three nights in succession they could be heard rattling under and around the house, and as their number didn’t seem to diminish materially after he had killed twenty-seven of them, he concluded it was time to clear out. A man was killed in Canaan, Conn., the other day, by the fall of a derrick. He had a romantic history. He was one of the followers of Kossuth and fled to this country. He had wealth, and social standing in his native land, but before it was safe for him to return he met with such reverses that his spirit was broken, his lady-love in Hungary married another, and he finally sunk into a common laborer and so lived and died. —The champion “don’t-know” witness turned up, lately, in Troy. He said he was unable to give the date of either his first or secondmarriage, having taken but little interest in the affairs. The Judge then asked him if he remembered when the Rebellion broke out. His response was: “Oh, Judge, you misunderstand—l don’t see what that has to do with the case, but I believe it began some time ago; I don’t just recollect when.” The witness was here dismissed. —The Carson Appeal tells of a family who were recently encamped inCarI sou; and whose appearance of poverty I led a benevolent man to tender assistance, when the master of the rig said he was “ heeled,” and informed the citizen that, four years ago, he had sold a large farm in Kansas for SIO,OOO, and that he and his brood, as he called them, had traveled 2,500 miles in “ that thar rig, yonder,” pointing to his wagon, looking for some desirable spot to locate, but as yet ho had not found it. He is now en route for Mexico. —The Jefferson (Mo.) Tribune says: “A gentleman who lives in Vernon County tells a remarkable story of the sagacity of a dog which accompanied him on his travels. While in the Short Creek timber, on hie way to Joplin, the dog jumped and caught the horse by the bridle-rein. Mr. Ewing drove the animal off, but it persisted in catching the horse by the reins, until the gentleman concluded it must be mad. Under the impulse of the momenUhe pulled his revolver and shot the animal, which then ran back along the road over which he had come. In a few moments Mr. Ewing missed his overcoat, which had been tied to the saddle. He turned back to find it, and, after riding about a mile, not only found his coat, mit his faithful dog, which was lying on the garment, aead.”