Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1878 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A negro in North Carolina fracturad his skull by batting abrick Wall. —A Rhode Island sparrow has whipped a rat. The fight was about some crumbs. A Savannah, Ga., man pursued his eloping daughter, and found her in a hotel with her new husband. She was of age, and therefore he could not force her to return home; but he was the lawful owner of her clothihg, and he compelled her to go to his room and take off' every shred of it. Then he went back to Savannah with a large bundle under his firm, and the women in the hotel contributed something for the bride to wear. —There was a touching scene recently over a fresh grave in Spring Grove Cemetery. A little boy, an only child, was being buried. Among the mourners was a divorced couple, the lady b«* ing the sister of the weeping mother there. Her divorced husband had brought crosses and wreaths of flowers to place on the coffin, and also on another grave, that of his own little boy, buriea in the same lot two years before. In the emotion of the moment the man handed to his divorced wife the floral tribute to place upon the grave of their lost little one, ana their tears mingled over both graves. —Cincinnati Commercial. —While an express train on the Erie Railway was sweeping down the Valley of the Delaware last Wednesday afternoon, the engineersaw a little girl walking the track. The locomotive shrieked, but within two seconds she was overtaken and the train passed the spot where she had stood. The engineer looked behind the rear car, expecting to see her mangled body, but the track was clear. He stepped upon the guards of the locomotive and saw the child lying senseless on the cow-catcher. He succeeded in rescuing her as she was about to roll to the ground. She was slightly cut about the face, but escaped without further injury.— N. Y. Evening Post. —Twenty-three years ago Mrs, Ellen Phillips, now residing on Factory street, Watertown, lived in Utica. One evening while dancing her baby on her knee, she felt a sharp pain in her left foot, and on examining her slipper found a small hole in it, as though made by a needle. She at once sent for a doctor, who examined her foot and gave his opinion that no needle was in it. Seventeen years passed on, the circumstance was practically forgotten, but six years ago. the point part of a broken needle of less than half the length worked ite way through and came from her left leg. This brought to her mind the occurrence of so many years before, and the perforated slipper was the subject of conversation again for a time. It turns out it Was forgotten, until last Tuesday, when the remainder of the needle, the eye, with a little more than half shank, was pulled from her right leg, a little above the knee. After finding a resting-place in this woman’s body for twenty-three years, the needle was not rusted, although somewhat discolored.— Watertown ( N . Y.) Despatch.