Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1878 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A child was fatally poisoned in New York, a few days ago, by a Sairey Gamp who administered the wrong medicine. —A young* woman in Fond du Lac, Wis., declined to accompany to the altar the man she had promised to marry, because his pantaloons were not quite respectable. A quarrel ensued over the unmentionables, and the marriage was postponed. Both parties regret the occurrence now, as they cannot have the ceremony performed until after Lent. —A negro man living near liashi, Ala., was recently shot in a singular manner. He was acting as a wizard, and imagined that by certain evolutions, gesticulations or articulations he eould surround his body with a magic armor that would be impregnable to shot or ball. Two young negro men and a white man tired a few shots at him without injury, when one of the negroes fired at him again and shot him down. He died in about a week. —The Seneca Falls '(N.'Y.) Courier says: “ About six weeks since, L. C. Boardman, of this place, was engaged by D. V. Benedict, of Buffalo, to disinter his wife, who was buried in the Canoga Cemetery four years ago this month, and forward it to Buffalo for reinterment. The coffin came apart in the operation, and the corpse was found to be as natural as when buried, and as hard and heavy as stone. The clothing had rotted and lay infolds upon the form, which was as white as marble. The deceased was a sister-in-law of Mr. Boardman, and he says the features were perfectly natural and full as when in life. The body had turned to stone, weighed 400 pounds. This is a genuine case of petrifaction, and no mistake.” —The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press says:— ** At Port Rent, the other day, one of the children of Horatio Burroughs broke through tho ice. An older brother attempted the rescue, and he also broke in. The cries of the children brought the mother to the scene, and she also was precipitated through the ice. An aunt living in the family went to the assistance of the three struggling unfortunates, and in attempting to assist the mother in her predicament was pulled into the water. The cries of the four people brought the father to the scene, and in his excited state he neglected taking the proper precautions, and was soon floundering in the water with the rest. About this time further assistance arrived, and by means of ropes and filanks the entire family were rescued rom their perilous situation.”