Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1878 — Forgot the Baby. [ARTICLE]

Forgot the Baby.

A gentleman from Union City says that when the yellow-fever scare was at its height in Union City and peoplo were hastening to the country, to the woods, anywhere to oscapo the bare possibility of taking the disease, tho quarantine notwithstanding, a man and his wife were in such a hurry to move out that they left an infant lying on a bed in their dwelling, which they had looked up secure and last. Its wails could never have been heard had it possessed leather lungs, and no one would ever have dreamed that such an absence of mind could occur with the average parents. When they had gone a mile and a half toward Paducah Junction the wife exclaimed, as she wrung her hands in grief at the very thought of what might befall their sleeping infant, “Lord help us! we have left the child at home on the bed.” The husband went back home and there found the infant. It had been left asleep,, had evidently, waked up and then cried itself to sleep again.— Nashville (Tenn.) American.