Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1879 — INCIDENTs AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTs AND ACCIDENTS.

—A small boy recently picked up a Searl on the Little Miami River, near larysville, Ohio. It was -sent to New York and sold for SBSO, that price having been set upon it by a large jewelry house. —A tramp scared Van Buren, Ark., out of its senses recently, by simulating yellow-fever. He pawned his valise for whisky, got drunk and was jailed, when he “ took siok.” He was turned out like a flash of greased lightning. —A little boy in Troy, N. Y., during a storm the other Sunday, was playing in the doorway with his kitten. He put it down for a moment, and while he was walking toward an adjoining room a stroke of lightning killed the animal. —W. A. Zimmer and y ife, of Gloversville, N. Y., rode out to the county house near that village. Mrs. Zimmer remained in the carriage 'while her husband went into the house. A monkey soon after took ,his place beside her, jabbering like a book-peddler. The lady attempted’to drive the animal oil', but accidentally struck thq horse, which ran away. The monkey clung tenaciously to the lady’s person until the team was stopped, biting at her arms and face. Mrs. Zimmer was taken home, and died in a few hours of nervous prostration. —A farmer found a board placed so as to cover an opening in a hillside at Raynham, Mass. Removing the board and crawling through the aperture, he entered an underground room, which was neatly boarded on all sides, and contained all the apparatus necessary for making counterfeit coin. The spot was a secluded one in the woods, remote from roads and pathways, arid the secret would not have been discovered if the wind had not blown a oovering of leaves from the board. The room proved to be the workshop of several young men of good reputation, who had never been accused of counterfeiting; yet they had used it for years. —A despairing tramp has written on a wooden shed at Dorsey’s Cut, on the line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway, tlie following bitter words in a fair, commercial nand: “Bound for Virginia in search of employment. Lodged here 'One night, and breakfasted on dandelion salad and peas- a delightful dish. The polite attention of the waiters at this establishment I cannot too highly commend to my followers. Edward H. Wilkins, of Bristol, England.” The sarcasm of this can be appreciated when it is remembered that the dandelions and peas had to be plucked from a neighboring field, and that nobody lives within half a mile of the station. —A singular incident occurred at the residence corner of Washington and Adams streets. A white servant of the family had a little boy who was very fond of a mocking-bird which used, to sing near a window of the residence. One day the bird flew in; parties tried to catch it, but it escaped through the window. The child would often ask to be permitted to go into this room to hear the bird sing. A short time ago the child fell sick and about the same time the bird ceased to sing. Yesterday the child died, and when the undertaker visited the room where its body Jay, the bird flew in at the window, and, after making a circle or two, dropped dead upon the floor.— Jacksonville ( Fia. 1 Union. —A special from Lin wood, Md. r where a camp-meeting of the Church of God was in progress, says a startling scene was witnessed at the altar the other morning. The members were holding the regular morning prayer and praise-meeting, and Hanson renn, of Winfield, Carroll County, aged seventy-one years, among others, gave in a very warm and feeling Christian experience, and had just taken his seat when Elder Sigler arose and asked him if he did not now regret his not having engaged sooner in the cause of the Lora, he having been converted only six years ago, to which he replied, with great emphasis and feeling, “ I do,” and as he uttered the last word he fell over, but was caught by the brethren and carried to a tent close at,hand, where he immediately expired.