Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1879 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—An Alabama negro, for a wager, recently exposed his head to the furious assaults of a trained goat. *His confidence was rewarded by his winning the money, for, after half an hour’s vigorous butting, the goat drew off, utterly discouraged. —A runaway horse attached to a buggy was found ten days afterward in a swamp near Montgomery, Ala., so wedged in among trees that it could not stir. Although it had remained during all that time without food or water, it was sufficiently strong to be driven home without being taken from the buggy. —Sarah Belcher, of Lebanon, Pa., who was the main support of her aged parents, died a very painful death lately. She had been suffering with a fester on one of her fingers, which she picked with a pin, and this so aggravated it that her whole system became poisoned thereby. The arm was black from the elbow down to the hand. —A Hartford dog has died of a broken heart. It was a tine setter and lOved its master. One day last November while they were hunting for muskrats, the young man fell into North Meadow Creek and was drowned. The dog went home, acted strangely, ran back and forth and finally induced a neighbor to go to the creek where the body lay.. From that time the dog’s health declined. It ate little if anything; it drooped; it pined; and finally it died. , —Sallie Easley is an attendant in the Longview. Insane Asylum, iu Cincinnati. She deems it necessary, in the performance of her duties, to strike the patients with her fists. She is now suffering from the consequence of her zealous enforcement of discipline. A demented old woman would not obey an order, and Sallie struck her on the head. The old woman's skull and the blow were hard, while Salih's fist was soft, and her hand was badly sprained. She has the sympathy of all the attendants. — Exchange. —A few mornings since, three children, aged about five, seven and ten years, belonging to John W. Miller, residing six miles north of Troy, Ohio, were taken suddenly sick with vomit- J ing, purging, great thirst and burning distress in the stomach, drinking often and immediately throwing it up, which lasted all day." A doctor was called and discovered that the children had taken poison. The indications were that of arsenic. A close investigation was made without developing any positive source by which the poison had been given, but the supposition is that the children had taken lily white, administered by the domestic in the coffee and milk which they drank. The servant girl, who is suspected of having given the poison to the children, decamped.