Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1879 — Buried Alive. [ARTICLE]

Buried Alive.

A dispatch from Parkersburg, Va., to the Cincinnati Enquirer says: “An affair which, although it may. have had the appearance of a joke to some of the parties interested, came very nearly proving fatal, occurred a day or two since, on Slate Creek, several miles above this city. My informant said it was rumored that three boys, or rather young men, determined to have some spert at the expense of a man named Crouser, for whom they have a dislike. They dug a grave in a hollow between tho hills, and sent one of their number to 1 a field whore a thrashing-machine was at work, where he founa their victim. Crouser was told that two boys wished to see him over the hill, and he unsuspectingly followed his conductor until he came in sight of the other boys and the newly-maao grave, when he asked one of them what ‘that hole was for?’ ‘To bury you in,’ was the reply; and taking hold of him they forced him into’the hole and covered him up with earth and brush, and then left. Fortunately, a man named Melrose, a few minutes later, had occasion to-, pass that way, and found the grave, fvith Grouser’s feet projecting above tho ground. Ho immediately went to work and dug the unfortunate victim from his living tomb, andwvith considerably difficulty succeeded in resuscitating him.” ' , ■ —Dn. Foote says, in the July Health Monthly, that all elirqnic skin diseases are invariably due to a scrofulous taint in the system. This view was also taken by Dr. L. P, Yandell, of Louisville, Ky., a late distinguished allopathic practitioner. , k » ’ ■—Denis Kearney has kent one hundred dollars to the striking spinners, at Fall River.