Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1879 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—ATiewßedford, Mass., teacher was assaulted by a twelve years-old .l*d, while she was punisliingbim, the other day, and had to call in a man to her. Jf —One Montgomery, of Killinchey, v County Down, Ireland, dropped dead, the other day; his wife fell dead on seeing him fall, and her sister expired of heart-disease on receiving news of the double catastrophe. —A Philadelphia conductor attempted to put his wife off his car because she couldn’t pay her fare. She told him she had paid all her money for the supper she had just brought him, A lady paid the fare. Later he beat his wife so badly that her life is in danger. —A Maplewood man purchased a bale of pressed hay in the city, a few days since, and on opening it a line specimen of pressed rattlesnako was found neatly coiled up in the center. His snakesnip was about live feet in length and had ten rattles. —Chicago Journal. —Albany has a sad case of gumchewing. A young lady of great beauty and many accomplishments began chewing gum at the age of ten, and been a constant chewer eveT since. The habit Jjas become so confirmed that her jaws involuntarily perform the motions of chewing even when the gum is laid aside. — N. Y. Evening Post. —The Belfast (Me.) Journal says; More than five years ago, when in the field, a bug flew into and remained in the ear of Sijar Storer, of Morrill. Vinegar was administered to kill the insect, the pain ceased, and in a short time the event was almost forgotten. During an illness last week the bug dropped from the ear of Mr. Storer. —A colored man of good address, giving the name of Dr. W. C. Lane, is 'under arrest at Norwich, Conn., for swindling poor colored’ persons in a very audacious manner. He lectured on uhrenology and agriculture as an introduction to the moro important theme—speculative industry. He pretended to representthe “ Great National Desiccated Cocoanut, Spice Manufacturing and Shipping Produce Company, capital $50,000, par value stock at one dollar per share.” The stock was to be distributed among colored peopler the mill in Boston was to be run by colored men, and the cocoanuts were to be brought from the company’s own island in its own ships, manned by colored men. He and an assistant secured about S4OO.