Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-01-18
Remarkable Escapes OF A1zMa-
memt Men,

Some years ago young man holding q
subordinate position in the East India Com
pany's service, twice attempted to deprive
himself of life by swapping loaded pistol
at his head. Each time the pistol missed
fire. A friend entering his room shortly
afterwart, he requested him to fire it out OF
the window; it then went off without any
difficulty. Satisfied thus that the weapon
had been duly primed and loaded, the
young man sprang up, exclalmlng, " must
be reserved for something great :" and from
that moment gave up the idea of suicide,
which for some time previous had been up
permost in his thoughts. That young man
afterward became Lord Give.
Two brothers were on one occasion walk
ing together when q violent storm OF thun-
der and lightning overlook them. One was
struck dead ON the spot, the other was
spared elce would the name Of the great
reformer, Martin Luther, have been I'M
known to man Kind
The holy ST. Augustine, having to preach
at distant town, took with him guide,
| who by some unaccountable means mistook
the usual road and fell into by path. He
afterward discovered that his enemies, hav-
| ing heard of his movements, had placed
| themselves in the proper road with the de-
| sign of numbering him. egg
| Bacon, the sculptor, when tender boy
of five years old, fell into the pit of soap
boiler, and must have persisted, had not
workman, just entering the yard, observed
the top of his head, and Immediately de-
livered him. - 44A 11~-
When Oliver Cromwell was an infant, q
monkey snatched him from his cradle,
leaped with him through a garnet window,
and ran along the leads of the house. The
utmost alarm was excited among the in
mates, and various were the devices used to
rescue the child from the guardianship OF
| his newly found protector All were una
vailing his would-be rescuers had lost
courage, and were in despair of ever seeing
the baby alive again, when the monkey
quietly retraced its steps and deposited its
burden safely ON the bed. On subsequent
occasion the waters had well-nigh quenched
] his Unsuitable ambition. He fell into deep
pond, from drowning in which clergyman
named Johnson was the sole instrument of
| his rescue.
At the siege of Leicester, young soldier,
about seventeen years of age, was drawn
out for sentry duty. One of his comrades
was very anxious to take his place. No OBJ
| lection was made, and the man went. He
was shot dead while on guard. The young
man first drawn afterward became the au-
thor of the Pilgrims Progress"
Doddridge, when born, was so weakly an
infant it was believed to be dead. A nurse
standing by fancied she saw some signs of
vitality. Thus the feeble spark of life was
saved from being extinguished, and an emf
nent author and consistent Christian pre-
served to the world.
John Wesley, when child, was only just
preserved from fire. Almost the moment
after he was rescued, the roof of the house
where he had been, fell in. OF Philip Henry
a similar instance is recorded.
i John Knox, the renowned Scotch re-
former, was always wont to sit at the head
of the table with his back to the window.
On one particular evening, without, how
ever, being able to account for it, he would
neither himself sit in. the chair nor permit
any one else to occupy his place. That very
night bullet was shot in at the window,
purposely to kill him. it grazed the chair
in which he sat, and made hole in the foot
of a candlestiek on the table.
Many years have now elapsed since three
subalterns might. have been seen struggling
in the water off st. Helena; enc of them,
peculiarly helpless, was fest succumbing.
He was saved, to live as Arthur Wellesley,
Duke of Wellington.
The life of John Newton is but the his
tory of series of marvellous deliverances.
As q youth he had agreed to accompany
some friends on board of m an ot-war. tie
arrived too late; the boat in which his
friends hed goae was capsized and all its
occupants drowned. On another occasion,
when Tide Surveyor in the port Of Liver
pool, some business had detained him, so
that he came to his boat much later than
usual, to the. great surprise Of those who
were in the habit of observing his then I'M
deviating punctuality. He went out in the
boat as heretofore to inspect ship, which
blew up before he reached her. Had he left
the shore a few minutes sooner he must
! have persisted with the rest on board.
4 ADA IsAAcs MENKEN is on her way back
to this country With a Lot Of trained steeds.