Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1878 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—During a heavy storm, in Macon County, Ga.. Mr. Henry Baretield was struck by lightning and instantly killed, also a dog that was near him. He held an infant in his arms and the child was not hurt. ’ —A West Northfield (Mass.) blacksmith has a Plymouth Rock rooster, the position of whose wings is exactly the reverse of the naturftl order, so that when he attempts to fly he only drives himself downward. This story will do very well for an Eastern paragrapher. —At Tiffin, Ohio, a few days ago, a twelve-year-old daughter of Andrew Robinson was tossing her infant brother in and out of a second-story window, when the little fellow jumped from her hands out of the window to the ground, falling a distance of eighteen feet, fracturing his skull, throwing him into spasms, in which he lay several hours, when death relieved his agony. —The funniest somnambulist to date is the Herkimer County (N. Y.) lover, who rose from his bed one night recently and walked a mile in undress with a lamp in his hand to call upon his lady. She and her mother were about retiring for the night wlieu they answered his knock. In astonishment they conductsd him to a chamber, receiving his explanations in the morning and procuring more suitable clothing for his return trip. —A man is now at work in Santa Barbara Uounty, offering to clear farms of squirrels for from' nine to ten cents per acre, according to size, and guarantees a thorough work. One rancher declined to pay by the acre, but would pay four cents per head for the dealt squirrels. Mr. Benton went towork and in a short time drove up to the man’s house with so many wagon-loads of squirrels that it required a check of SSOO to satisfy the demands of the contract. —California Paper. —Martin Hayner, of Brunswick, is the proud possessor of a flue pair of colts. One day last week they were pasturing on his farm, through which a ditch had recently been dug, quite a distance from the house. One of the animals fell into the ditch, in someway" striking upon its back, with its feet helplessly pawing in the air, and utter ly unable to regain its equilibrium. The other colt, discovering the predicament of its mate, began running from the house to the ditch, making more than half-a-dozen trips before Mr. Hayner’ s attention was specially attracted. He finally entered the inclosure where his colt was neighing, when it seized hold of his coat and pulled in the direction of its mate. Mr. Hayner found his other colt in the position mentioned, and with difficulty rescued it. Such intelligence is certainly remarkable, and worthy of the recognition we have accorded it. —Troy (A. F.) Times.