Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1878 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A Baltimore woman pinched a school-boy’s arm, and ho is threatened with death from osteosarcoma in consequence. His parents refused to havo his arm amputated, as the surgeons advised. —ln Washington, recently, a weasel attacked a sleeping child of two years of age, making a deep gash in its throat, and would probably have killed it had not the child’s screams aroused the parents. —An Ithaca (N. Y,) man, named Manning, yawned his jaw out of joint, the other day, and held his fly-trap open for a couple of hours till-his family physician could be summoned. The other doctors refused to come to his relief. —The pastor of the Presbyterian Church, at Vernon, N. Y., was asked to resign, but he refused. The sexton was ordered under no circumstances to open the doors, and the minister proceeded to hold services at his residence. —While a negro man down in Georgia, the other day, was carrying a child in his arms along the road, a large eagle swept down upon them and en • deavored to seize the child. A lively battle ensued between the parent and the eagle, the latter getting the better of it until a farmer came to the rescue, and knocked the eagle senseless with an ax. The bird was captured, and, as it has recovered, it is an object of considerable curiosity in the neighborhood.

—The two mail carriers between Little Current and Sault Ste. Marie broke through the ice when about ten miles east of Spanish River recently, and men and dogs had a sharp struggle for life. The men, after getting out of the water, directed their attention toward rescuing the dogs, which were fastened by their harness to the toboggan on which the mail bags were tied, and which was rapidly drowning them. Their efforts to save either dogs or mail would have been useless but for the sagacity of one dog, which, appearing to realize the difficulty, instead of wasting strength in trying to get upon the broken ice, seized the thongs by which they were bound to the toboggan in his teeth and deliberately gnawed them asunder. Both dogs, thus released, swam toward the men, who helped them out, and afterconsiderable trouble they raised the toboggan and mail. They pushed on to Spanish River, where they spent nearly a whole day in drying tho saturated mail bags. -Toronto Globe.

—A young couple came to this city the other day, and calling upon or.c of our most prominent clergymen, notified him of their wish to be joined in the bonds of holy wedlock. The expectant bride was a pretty and intelligentlooking girl of only eighteen summers, and the groom was a resolute-looking young fellow, who had but just arrived at legal age. The clergyman asked, as is customary, whether the to-be-groom had procured a a license, and found that he not only had not, but that ho had only a vague idea of what a license was. He was directed to the City Clerk for information, and meanwhile left his affianced in the parsonage parlors. However, the course of true love was not smoothed out by a visit to the City Clerk, for the young lady not being of age rendered a properly-certified permit from her parents necessary before the license could be granted. The young gentleman was not easily discouraged, for, making a hurried visit to the parsonage, and explaining matters, he hurried back to the depot, took the four o elock train to Hartford, and, after arriving; there, procured a carriage and drove some six or eight miles to the suburb in which his prospective father and mother-in-law resided, got the permit, and was back hero on the 7:28 train. The City Clerk was at his office, the license was procured, and the persevering and happy young man rejoined his girl at the parsonage, where she had awaited his return with a patient confidence that promised well for the future.—Meriden (Conn.) Republican.