Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1878 — Death from Excessive Joy. [ARTICLE]

Death from Excessive Joy.

On Sunday evening Mrs. Judith Dixon, of Silsden, dropped down dead, it is generally thought, from excessive joy at the return of her son, Thomas Duron, who had been nearly nine years in America. On hearing of the death of his farther, Mr. Abraham Dixon, on Aug. 1, 1877, the son had informed his mother that when he had settled his affairs he should return home. The mother had for several years suffered from palpitation of the heart. Mr. Dixon arrived at S tee ten Station by the evening mail train, and was dnven in an omnibus to the loot of the hiil where his mother resided. On finding his parent out and telling who he was, a neighbor, Mrs. Steel, went at once to the Bethesda Chapel, where a prayer meeting was being held, and where Mrs. Dixon was. She informed her that Thomas had returned, whereupon tho mother immediately left the chapel and came home. She appeared agitated, sat down in l. chair, and was seized with illness. A short conversation ensued between mother and son, in which she asked if it “ really was her son Thomas,” and was told in reply that he was her son. Almost immediately afterward she expired. —Leeds (Eng.) Mercury.

A miner in the Black Hills, writing to a friend in this city, tells of a horrible reminder of tho fearful srtowstorma of last winter, and of tire perils pi those who were caught out and lost their way on the plains. Ho says that recently, while ho and twlo others were crossing the country, came upon tins' skeleton of a horse; Within which was the skeleton of a man, with the grinning skull looking out at them from between the ribs of the animal, like a prisoner peering through tho bars of fiis cell. The two skeletons told the whole story. The man had killed his horse, cut him open and crawled inside of him, thinking thus to escape perishing of cold, but the flesh of too animal froze solid, and tho man was as much of a prisoner as if he had been shut in by walls of iron. The wolves and carrion birds had stripped tho greater part of the flesh from Ijoth Tho miner coqeludes Jus, description by saying: “It. is a sight I shall never forget. I can see it now whenever I close my eyes.” —Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise. —Vinnie Ream says she gave Licnt. Hoxie her hand but not her^art.