Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1879 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A rustio couple dashed into a Washington oyster saloon, and implored the proprietor to get them married as soor. as possible. They had eloped, and parents were on their track. The oyster man not only summoned a Justice to tie- the knot, but provided stews for the party "after the ceremony. —ln a brief account of a Mississippian’s encounter with a mule, with unpleasant results to the Mississippian, the Natchez Democrat says: “The animal was roaming around the yard, and, it being very dark, MJ). Hackler came in contact with him before he was aware of it.” Mr. Hackler has tied up the mule and his jaw. —A Newfoundland young man, who suffered much from pain in the back, bandaged himself with flannel moistened with turpentine. Afterward, desiring to loosen the bandage, and having nothing at hand to cut the thread with which it was stitched, he lighted a match to burn it, and was burned so severely that he died in a few hours. —The firm of Carter & Cavin, sugar refiners in Osceola, Ky., was dissolved by mutual consent. The partners had disagreed in consequence of Carter's wife quitting him and marrying Cavin, and the work of settling up their accounts was accomplished with difficulty. “Is everything satisfactory?” Cavin asked, when the books had been closed. “Yes, all that relates to the business,” Carter answered; “but theusris an account still to be balanced. You’ve got my wife, and I'll take your life in payment,” and he shot Carter dead. —An incident of life in San Francisco is thus recorded by the Chronicle: A young woman by the name of Georgiana Morgan was sitting last night about nine o’clock, on a doorstep, at the corner of Stockton and Washington *streets, when she was seized with a severe attack of coughing. At that moment there passed a warm-headed blonde, known as Annie Kearney, and also as Annie Fitzgerald, who took offense at the noises made by Miss Morgan, and approaching the coughing woman she drew a keen knife and slashed her three times on the face and then fled. With the assistance of friends the wounded woman Wds taken to the City Receiving Hospital, where her injuries were attended to. Two of the gashes extended from the right temple to the chin, the other being on the neck, but all are of sufficient depth and severity to promise, when healed, unsightly scars, which the unfortunate woman will carry with her through life. j j v£ —At Washington, a few days ago, Capt. Norman Crane was dying at Meyer's Hotel. The Captain was worth about $20,000. He bad lived five years with a woman named Mary Crane, and had introduced her as his wife in some of the most respectable circles in the District. No marriage ceremony had, however, been performed. When Capt. Crane was dying he desired to make Mary his legal Wife. The Captain’s sister, Celia Crane, was violently opposed to a marriage, there being,; it appears, no will. A clergymanJHhe Rev. Dr. James G. Addison, was "sent for, and was willing to perform the ceremony. Dr. Townsend, who was also present, thus described the scene in an interview with a Post reporter: “ The sister kept her place by the side of the bed, and as I asked the question first to prove his consciousness, ‘Do you know me?’ he-in-dicated his reply by an affirmative nod of the head. Then I asked, ‘ Are you willing to marry this womanP’ but before he could uod his sister patted him on the cheek, and said. ‘ Don’t answer them, my brother,* In his weak and, after several i attempts and failures, both I and Dr. Addison gave it up.” The marriage was thus prevented, and after the Captain's death the sister took possession of his personal property.