Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1878 — INCIDENTS ANS ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS ANS ACCIDENTS.

—A train on the Georgia Northwestern Railroad was checked just in time, lately, for a colored man to snatch frorii beneath the pilot a little child on tho track. —Tho life of a valuable dog, owned by a Boston gentleman, was recently saved by making an incision in its stomach and removing a rubbor-ball it had swallowod. —A little son of Mr. llaus, living in Lexington, Minn., while playing with his sister, became enraged at her, and, seizing an ax, cut off both her feet, from tho effects of which she died. —A colored man, named Anderson, has been arrested, at London, Ont., charged with having placed a mixture of s;Ut and ,paris» green in a pasturefield, whereby severed oows were poisoned.

—A woman-tramp and her daughter celled at a house in Pittsburgh, recent-, ly, and demanded dinner. After deliberately partaking of the repast the woman coolly asked for a set of earrings or other jewelry that the family might have to spare. —ln Merrimac, N. U., “two female tramps entered a house while tho family were out, and, without’ ceremony, went rnto the bestr-room and went to bed. The first that the family knew of this was in the morning, when the twO women got up, dressed, entered the dining-room and demanded breakfast.”

—Waterford, N. Y., has the champion absent-minded young woman. She was recently married, and a few days after had her furniture insured, but. the next day appeared before the agent and wanted the policy changed, explaining that she had'forgotten that she was married, and had had her maiden name inserted in the policy. —The barn of Van Meter, of Kentucky, was recently burned by spontaneous combustion. A pile of horse manure had been heavily covered with straw, and an explosion occnrrsd under the straw pile, the result of spontaneous combustion, which was instantly followed by a blaze in the straw. The stables wore rapidly consumed, together with two young bulls and two horses. —Somebody down in Biddeford, Me., vouches for the following story: “A lady was descending a flight of stairs, when she fell, dislocating her shoulder. She lauded on a large dog at the foot of the stairs, which rose in a fright and threw her into an adjoining room, where she fell upon a hot stove, and would doubtless have been seriously burned had not a man who happened to be in the'room suddenly pulled her away, in doing which he brought her arm back into place again.”