Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1879 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIBENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIBENTS.

—James Uy an, of St. Lawrence County, N. Y., was awakened a few nights ago by the cries of his little girl, aged six, who slept near him. He wept to her and fonnd her face, lips and tongue so swollen that she could not speak, and she was in terrible agony. Calling his wire, they made an examination, and discovered a large thousand-legged worm lying along between the lower lip and the gum, having probably crawled in as the child slept with open mouth. A dbctot was called, but spasms soon set in so violently that for several hours it wasi thought she would die; but the doctor remained by her through the night, and the next day she was thought to be out of danger, though her face was still hideously swollen.

—Two years ago the son of a wellknown American in Bridgeport married secretly, at the age of eighteen; an Irish girl of about the same age. To please her husband the wife renounced the Roman Catholic faith and "became a Protestant. Immediately after the marriage she went to Brooklyn, while the young man remained at home, where he has continued to live ever since, his parents, meanwhile, being entirely ignorant that he had been married. A few days ago the wife died and the body was sent irom Brooklyn to the parents of her husband. The arrival of the body required an explanation on the part' of the husband, and this explanation was the first knowledge the parents had of the marriage.— Hartford (Conn.) Courant. —A boy in the service of Thomqg Fawcett, of Gate, England, lately accompanied his master in shooting all day upon the moors, and on returning in the evening his master told him to make the best of his way home. The boy proceeded on foot, but being much fatigued, sat down and fell asleep. How long he remained in that situation was uncertain, as, when found, he was in his own bed asleep, and a neighbor passing on the roads, early next morning, found his clothes scattered in various directions, nearly half a mile off. The account he gave was that he dreamed he had been at a neighbor’s house, ate a good supper, after which he supposed he went to bed there. It appears be actually walked three miles, though in a profound sleep the whole of the time, during which he stripped qff his clothes and walked home naked, passed the gate and went up-stairs to bed, being the whole of the time asleep. —A wonderful amount of nerve has been displayed by a little twelve-year-old girl residing near the. corner of Wabash avenue and Twenty-third street. Last Wednesday she and another little girl of the same age, while playing in the barn, discovered an old-fashioned hay-cutter. With childish curiosity they “ wanted to see the wheels go round.” One began to work the crank and the other to feed the machine with hay. But, unfortunately, the little fingers followed the hay in too far, and two of the middle digits were chopped off. The injured child, with remarkable courage and presence of mind, quickly wrapped her injured hand in a handkerchief, and, giving no alarm, started for the doctor’s. She found Dr. Hall at his office in Twenty-third street, and was at once cared for. The two missing fingers were found in the hay and replaced with the hope they would grow together again. Throughout the ordeal the little one heroically bore all, refusing to take chloroform. Her mother is East, and will not know of her daughter’s pluck till she returns. — Chicago Inter-Ocean. —Much excitement has been created at Scottville, Va., by the discovery of a poisoning plot which has turned out exactly the way the would-be poisoner did not want it to end. The facts in the case are these: A young farmer had been separated from his wife for some time. He visited her recently, and while he was there his mother-in-law persuaded her daughter to get him out of the way by poisoning him, and gave her a dose to give him in his coffee the first favorable opportunity. The daughter placed a cup of coffee on the table and invited him to drink it. He thanked her and went to the table to do so. She left the room. He took a spoonful, and, not liking the tastq, he took the coffee-pot, which was at the fireplace, poured some coffee in a small bucket which he had with him and then emptied the contents of the proffered cup into the coffee-pot. He then left. His wife’s mother then stepped in and asked her daughter for something to eat. She was told that the coffee was in the pot at the fire. She drank freely of it, was taken sick and died. Her son-in-law has been exonerated from all blame in the matter.