Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1878 — IACIDFNTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

IACIDFNTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A sick man in Newport, R. L, in a sudden outburst of gratitude, told his female nurse that he would marry her if she would send for a minister. »She sent forthwith, but before the clergyman got there the sick man had changed his mind and was very obstinate. —A Massachusetts flpldier, who was severely wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg, and who applied years ago for liis back-pay and a pension, being reduced to starvation, lately stole some bread and inilk to appease his hunger, was detected and sent to the State I 'lirni for a year. A few (jays afterward jtapera came, giving him a pension and $1,400 back pay. —An Indiana deaf-mute returned home from Lafayette recently, in the night. His deaf-mute wife, not expecting him to be back before the next day, was not on the look-out for him, and the poor fellow, after hammering with might affd " maju at the door for ever so long, was at length foroed to Aiake the door-step his bed and remain out all night. — Louisville Courier-Jour-nal- ' ■ I ■ Seventy hours without food or drink was the recent experience or a tramp who stole a ride on a freight train from Hannibal, Mo-» to Toledo, Ohio. He hid himself in a car of wheat, and when he tried to get out' he found the door sealed. His last thought, as he became unconscious, was that he was to be dumped into the Vast caverns of the Wabash elevators, which, indeed, would be a death as unique as that of Clarence, who is popularly supposed to have been drowned in a Malmsey butt. — Exchange. Heffern wanted to go to Brazil with a party of workmen from Philadelphia. His wife implored him not to leave her, and his friends advised him to the same effect, but nothing could change his purpose. He went aboard the steamer, resisting the final appeals. A friend invited him to go ashore and take a part ing drink. He assented, and was purposely detained in a bar-room until the vessel had saHod. He was very angry then, but lie is glad now, because the steamer was the .Metropolis, which was wrecked on the North Carolina Coast. —The most remarkable railway accident on record happened not long ago on the Northwestern Road, between London and Liverpool. A gentleman and his wife were traveling in a compartment alone, when, the train going at the rate of sixty miles an hour, an iron rail projecting from a car on a side-track cut into the carriage and took the head of the lady clear off, and rolled it into the husband’s lap. He subsequently sued the company for damages, and created great surprise in court by giving his age at thirty-six years, although his hair Was snowwhite. It-had .been turned from jetblack by the horror of that event. —John Gumbinger, accompanied by a lady, registered at the Lindell House, in St. Louis, the other night. They ate supper, and were assigned to a room. About five o’clock the next afternoon the room was entered, and the bodies of the man and worn an fAdiiU ng on the bed; the woman had been shot in the left temple, and the man in the right. The pistol which had done the work was in the man’s hand. The man was identified as John Gumbinger, aged twenty-seven, a bartender for Henry Leiter, a wealthy saloon-keeper and Brewer. The woman was'Maggie Leiter, aged nineteen, daughter of Gumbinger’s employer. The father had forbidden marriage between the parties.