Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1879 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A Boston woman poisoned herself and died rather than testify against a lady friend accused of arson. *• —ln Jefferson County, Tenn., two brothers by the nauio of Caldwell got up to look for burglars, and in one shot and killed the other. —A barn swallow has built its nest, under the guard of the Steamer Mary Powell, ana rides daily between Poughkeepsie and Now Yoix." V —A Baltimore negro wont homo drunk, and ducked into a bath-tub to sober himself; but ho forgot to take his head out of the water, and was drowned. / ’ —‘-At Stanley Court House, Charles Forrest, a farm laborer, the other day -got into a difficulty with his employer and made an attempt to behead him with a scythe, A warrant was issued ior the arresK of Forrest and placed in the hands of John Thompson, who attempted to servo it. Forrest warned him if he arrested him he would kill him, and .placed himself in a position of defense. The officer drew a revolver and killed him. —A correspondent of the Newburg (N. Y.) Journal, writing from Highland Falls, says that Charles Smith, on the other side of the river, while shaking from a duster dry paris green on his potatoes, a few days ago, inhaled some of the poison, and died in great agony. It is said the wind was blowing hard at the time, and this caused the poison to Hy about so that Mr. Smith inhaled it. —An ex-Mayor of Binghamton, N. Y., lias been poisoned in hands and face while handling the Government revenuo stamps used on cigar boxes. One hot Saturday he Stamped and canceled the stamps on a large number of boxes. Green dust Hew from the stamps and covered bis hands and wrists, and a handkerchief used by him for wiping his face and neck also became covered with the dust. The resiflt was a “severe and deep poisoning wherever the dust touched his body. —A lady offered one hundred dollars reward for the recovery of a pet white rat in the Syracuse (N. Y.) Courier the other day. The reporters learned that she was a morphine eater, and on a visit to her lather, a respectable gentleman of Syracuse. The drug was taken to allay pain. After her arrival, when under the influence of opium, the pet rat fell out of the bosom of her dress, where she was in the habit of carrying it, and was killed by market men. The lady says she cannot sleep till she has another pet rat, and has started for New York to obtain one. Her father says the rat was perfectly tame and devoted to its mistress, who is rational upon all other subjects except this pet and morphine or opium. She says she was robbed of valuable rings while under the influence of the drug, but added: “I can buy more rings, but will give five hundred dollars to regain my darling rat.”