Rensselaer Union, Volume 12, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1879 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—The tenacity with which toads cling to life is well exemplified in the case of one which was resurrected from a catchbasin on Chapel street, in New Haven, recently. Alter a seven years’ imprisonment in solid cement, this toad, when relieved from his surroundings, hopped off just as if nothing unusual had happened. —A little eight-year-old in Rochester, N. Y., was sent down town by her mother one day recently on an errand. She had with her a pocket-book containing more than twelve dollars. A thief rushed forward and seized the pocket-book. The girl snatched it away from him, breaking the chain whereby he was holding it. She then kicked him and ran home to her mother. —There is in the almshouse at Dublin, Ga., a woman whose skull-bones for years have been gradually gaping open both at the longitudinal and the transverse sutures, leaving the brain unprotected save by the skin. One may place the finger in the tissues and plainly feel the throbbing of the brain. She keeps a handkerchief bound tightly around her head, complaining of great pain, and she dreads lest it will burst open when the band is removed for a short time. —At a funeral in Salem, Mass., recently, a stranger stepped forward and asked to see the face of the corpse. He was told that the family did not wish to have the coffin opened, when he demanded that his request be granted, as the body was that of a sister whom he had not seen for nmny years. A surviving sister came forward and recognized the man as a brother who for many years had been thought dead, and the meeting of the two at the open grave was very affecting.

No scene So solemn has occurred hitherto in an American legislative assembly as that in the Georgia Senate the other evening, when Comptroller Washington Goldsmith was stripped of his citizenship. The speech-making ran on until after sundown, and at the final vote twilight had crept into the chamber. Young Goldsmith sat in faultless attire near the chair of ChiefJustice Warner. A red rosebud had been pla<sed by a sister in the lapel of his coat. He was deathly pale, but self-possessed, the only hint at nervousness being noticeable when he ran his white fingers through his hair. His father, a gray-haired old man sat near him, quite sorrowful, but devoted. When the roll-calling began the Comptroller began to mark the “yeas” and “ilays” in a memorandum-book, but the “yeas” fell one after another, unrelieved of negatives, so rapidly that he leaned back in his chair and dropped his head on his breast. —On the 24th of September Rev. D. L. Lounsbery, rector of the Episcopal Church at Stratford, Conn., was shot and instantly killed by his wife. Both were in bed together, he sleeping. About 5:30 a. m. she drew a revolver from under the pillow and placed the muzzle close to his right ear, and fired; then ran up stairs and told the servant girl, “I’ve killed my husband." Both came down, and the servant and an eleven-year-old daughter, Anna. ran to give the alarm and call the doctor The latter says death was instantaneous. At the coroner’B inquest it came out that Mrs. Lounsbery was insane. All the testimony showed that the pair lived happily. Mrs. Lounsbery testified that she dia not know what caused her to

kill her hoabowl She woke Urn op and asked for a think of water. HegtH it, and went to deep, and then she took the pistol and fired. The jmjr brought in a verdict that the act wm committed during temporary derangement of mind occasioned by disease.