Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1878 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A tramp at Bennington, Vt., asked for work the other day, and was told there was nothing else to give him to do unless he gathered potato-bugs at ten cents a quart. “ Very well, I’ll try,” said he. The first day he “picked” thirty quarts, aud the next day twentyfive quarts, amounting to $5.50. Thea his employer put him to doing something else. —A family in Paterson, N. J., trains toads for pets, caring for them in great numbers in the garden, where they follow people about like kittens through the walks- In the cellar, where there are half a score or more, these social creatures sit about, looking wisely upward while the churning is done, and one warty old fellow always occupies with evident satisfaction during the operation the boot-toe of the churner, a perch that he never quits so long as he is not shaken off. —As furniture in a tenement house at Fall River, Mass., was being transferred to a wagon, the wife carefully wrapped in a large comforter her little baby and put it on the bed in an upper chamber. A little later some one down by the wagon called to a man who entered the chamber to throw down something to use for packing to protect some articles. The man seized the rolled-up comforter and flung it out of the window. It was caught by a woman,who, finding a lump in it, unfolded it to find the child unharmed. —The circulation of almanacs being limited in Texas, the negroes in the path of the late eclipser aid not know what was to happen, and were overcome with fright. On Senator Coke’s plantation, near Waco, they fell on their knees in the fields, and exclaimed that the day of judgment-had come. In Buchanan, where the eclipse began, Ephraim Miller ran into his hut, split his son’s head open with a hatchet, ascended by a ladder to the roof, and cut his throat from ear to ear. His wife at the same moment ran out into the fields to hear Gabriel’s trumpet, and screamed, “Come, sweet chariot!” —The 6:10 p. m. express from Boston was struck by lightning yesterday afternoon on the Charleston grade, and narrowly escaped disaster. The bolt struck the engine by the right cylinder, enveloping the whole machine in an electric flame, knocking the fireman, Flaherty, partially insensible, and for a moment disabling Osgood, the engineer, whipping his hand off the throttle and nearly blinding him. The tender was sent several inches into the air, but reached the track again all right, and the whole train was jolted as though off the track. The passengers’ hair stood on end for several minutes, but .none were hurt. — Springfield (Mass.) Republican. —A notion peddler in Clarion County, Pa., dreamed that he had found a hidden treasure, and prevailed upon a farmer, named Logue, to accompany him to the spot. The peddler pointed out a large oak as the one he saw in his vision. It was apparently sound at the butt, but, about twenty feet up, a limb had been broken off. Mr. Logue did not feel like humoring what he supposed to be a superstitious whim, but Goodman had such confidence in his vision that he offered Mr. Logue one-half of the spoils if he would help him cut down the tree. When the tree fell there was a rattle of coins near where the limb had been broken off, and a small Hollow was found. Ensconced therein were loads of silver.! Both seemed to be wild with delight, and on counting it up, found the pile amounted to $5,000. The peddler expressed his unwillingness to carry around so much silver in his pocket, and inquired where he would bo likely to get greenbacks for his share. Mr. Logue having considerable money in the house, immediately gave Goodman $2,500 in paper money and took charge of the entirybulk of silver. On endeavoring to pass some of the silver, it was found to be counterfeitof the poorest kind. It was.a clever job of a gang of counterfeiters. Ahkl, !r Hebrew, moims Mid a lielle in English has milch the same signification.— London Fun. ■ ■ .x. . b ' Wb*ll have our preferences; but no one prefer* to hear a crying baby when the fact is Jo well known that Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup would at once quiet it,