Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1879 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A very singular item comes from Maine. A lady of Madrid, that State, was in a house which was struck by lightning. A valuable gold watch which she wore stopped at the time, and, although jewelers have repeated* ly examined it and pronounced it perfect in every particular, it cannot be made to move. It is so charged with elctricity that watchmakers say no part of it can ever be made to do duty if taken out and put into another set of works. —John Sanders was shot the other morning by a man named W. C. Edwards, while At work in his field in Union County, a few miles from Gaff-, ney City, S. C. Edwards passed the field the day before with an umbrella, and became enraged at Sanders for jeering him about using an umbrella to protect himself from the heat of the sun, and Edwards came back with his rifle and fired at Sanders, the ball entering his back and lodging in his bowels. He died the same evening. —Mr. Z. Bass, of Irwin County, caught recently a catfish, a squirrel and an alligator all upon the same hook at the same time. The fish probably caught the squirrel while swimming across the lake, and afterward caught and swallowed an alligator about a foot in length, and then found and swallowed the bait upon a set hook. {When a catfish starts out on a foraging expedition he will take in anything from a wheelbarrow to a saddle-blanket. Hawkimville (Go,) J Despatch. —John G. McCabe was drowned in Philadelphia several months ago. He wore an oilskin coat and high topboots. A man’s body similarly attired was subsequently found floating off Woodbury, and Mrs. McCabe, identifying it as that of her husband, had it brought to Philadelphia and buried. The other day another body in an oilskin coat and high top-boots was taken out of the water at Wilmington, and Mrs. McCabe, believing it to be her husband, has buried it by the side of the first one. —A curious case that has just come to light at North bridge, Mass., of the death of two persons and the expected death of two others, all in one family, from the effects of cider-drinking, will reinforce the arguments of those who condemn the practice. As Uearly as can be made out, the father, aged sixty, mother, fifty-six, and two sons, thirtyfive and thirty-one, have drunk since last fall between forty and fifty barrels of oider. The mother was taken with fits six weeks ago yesterday and died ‘the next Thursday. The youngest son was taken with fits three weeks ago and died on Thursday, and last Thursday the oldest son was taken with fits /like the others, and Friday night his physicians gave him up. The father is also in a very bad condition, “sees snakes” nearly every night, and frequently gets up in' the-night and runs about the house crying ** Fire” at the top of his voice, doubtless suffering from delirium tremens. All parties suffered greatly. No cause but the cider-drinking can be found.—»Spr*«yLovk knots should lie tied with a single beau .-tliarlford Journal,