Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1878 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A Helena (Mont.) father recently lost S7OO in greenbacks, but some days afterward found that his little daughter had used irTo make a head-dress for her doll, chipping off the corners to make a good lit. —A tramp stole a ride from San Francisco to Council Bluffs by stowing himself in a freight-car loaded with bales of sheep-pelts reaching to within two feet of the roof. He got out at the latter city by breaking a hole in the side of the car. —ln Alburgh, Vt., a horse got frightened, the other day, in the field, ran to the house with a plow dragging at its heels, dashed into the kitchen, through the hall and out of the front door, scattering and breaking things, and creating a general sensation. —A case of singular attachment between a kitten and a hen and brood of chickens is reported from Hartford, Conn. The kitten passes most of the day and the entire night in the chicken coop in which the hen is confined and where the chickens are fed. During the day the kitten lies near the entrance of the coop, and occasionally gives the chickens as they pass a playful tap; but as night comes on it curls up by the side off the nen_aa—she—brood, and lies there contentedly until morning. The mother hen offers no remonstrance to its attentions, but rather seems to approve of them. —At Cleveland, recently, a young lady, named Miss Mary Hayes, lost her eyesight almost immediately. She retired enjoying excellent health, but during the night she was awakened by a sort of pricking about the eyes, following which she felt a snapping near them as if something was breaking. This lasted only a second or two, blit from the time it ceased she has been stone Blind. The best oculists of the city say the ease is unprecedented in their knowledge, and are unwilling to venture an opinion as to how it will result. Miss Hayes still enjoys good health, and has no unpleasant feeling except that which comes from her misfortune.

—At Lewiston, Me., the other day, as Father Wallace was driving along the river road below the river, he heard a loud scream from the bank of the river, twenty feet distant. On the riverbank he found a large dog furiously attacking a small naked boy. Some men hoeing in an adjacent field came to the spot at the same time. Father Wallace attacked the dog, and drove him from the child, when the beast made aspring for another little fellow near by, and bit him. It was with considerable difficulty that the dog was driven away by the efforts of Father Wallace and the men who came to the scene, one of whom owned the brute. The little fellow was found to be terribly bitten, having eighteen wounds all over his body and legs. The dog had literally eaten a large piece out under the lad’s arm, and lus ribs could be seen. Large pieces had been bitten out of other parts of his body. There were four boys in bathing when the brute attacked them. Two of them ran away from him, but the other two were too frightened to run. > —The fast train on the Boston & Albany Railroad, drawn by the locomotive Sacramento, Cornelius Teeling, engineer, and which was due in Ithe city at 2:50 p. m., narrowly escaped what might have been an appalling disaster Saturday afternoon. The hurricane that day had blown a large tree across the track near Genet’s Crossing, about three miles below Greenbusn, just ae the train was dashing along at a tremendous rate of speed. A tramp who happened to be in the vicinity noticed the. danger, and running around, the curve at the top of his speed signalled the approaching train. Fortunately the engineer noticed the signal and succeeded in checking the speed of the train before it came in contact with the tree. The forward Eart of the engine was badly damaged, ut no other injury was done. The passengers, realizing the great danger they had escaped, made a collection amounting to sl4, which they gave the tramp, and the train was started for this city, where it arrived without further mishap. The tramp was brought to East Albany, and given a pass through to Boston. —Albany Journal. Bishop Clark tells a story of a city clergyman who was once invited to preach in a small country.church, and the chbir thought they would get up a very elaborate performance for his benefit. They were more ambitious than successful, and when they had finished, before giving out his text, the preacher looked. up to the gallery and said: “My friends, if the angels in Heaven should hear you sing, they would come down and wring your necks,” It was not a courteous thing to do, but the provocation was probably very great. A coxcomb, talking of the transmigration of souls, |Baid: “In the time of Moses, I have no doubt I was the golden calf.” “Very likely,” replied a lady, “and time has rgbbed you of nothing but the gilding.”