Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1866-01-25
opNcL BLUFFS

hURSDAY, JANUARY
smarkabie Escspe Of Eminent
Mea. z 4.
Some yesrs sgo yeunz man bold
iAg 4 sutsordInate position IN the
sbs India conpany's service, twice at
stmptsd to deprive himself lof life by
lspspplng ! loaded pistol az his bead
karh time the pislol missed IRE. A
ffIend- entering bis room shortly after.
xard be reqaested him to Gre Is ont of
ths window; II then went OF without any
esfheulty. Satisfied tbps that the weapon
had been duly psimed and loaded, the
IyeanR man srrang up e<clhiming, I'll
~ast bs reserved for something greadn
md from that moment gave up the idea
IM suicide, which Tor sometime previous
lhd been uppermost In his thoughts. -
Inat young man afsersard becant Lord
Tva brothers we're on one occasion
Nalking together shen violent storm of
|xhunter and lightning esertpok tbem.-
Dos vas struck dead on the spot,
y ashsE xss spsred; else would the
ame b greet reformess Martha La
., haxx hssn ankassp - naankind,
he hs6 81. Auxustiass hssing 90
- - dizf6ns foNns seek ritz him
: Faide, sho BY some anacc9nntablel
means Tniaaook the usual road and fell
into hy path. lie afterwards discover
I'd that his enemies, having heard Of his
movements. had plased thensaiges 10 the
Iprorer road With the design af murder
ing him.
Bacon, the sculptor. when tender boy
Of Ave years old, T. Il into the pit Of a
soap boiler, and must have pegisbed had
not workman, Just entering the yard.
observed The top of his head, and iInme-
diately delivered him.
When Oliver Cromwell was an infant,
a monkey snntched him FROM bis eradle,I
ieawped With him through q gaEFet vim
dow, ran along the leads Of the b. use
The ntmost alarm was excited among the
inmates, and various were the delices
ased 10 rescue the child from the guardi-
anship Of bis newly found pratector- An
we're unavailing; bis would be rescuers
bad lost courage, and wers in despair of
ever seeing the baby alive again, when the
monkey quietly retraced its steps and de-
posted its burden safely on the bed. On
. subsequent occasion the waters had
welI-nieh qnencbed bis Unsuitable ambi.
.tion- lie fell into g deep pond, from
drowning 10 which clergyman named
johnson vas the sole instrument Of his
reseae,
At tae seige ef Deicester, a ronng sol
der, about seventeen years Of age, was
drawn ouE for sentry duty, Ono Of bis
comrades wae yery ANXIOUS to take bis
place. No objection was made, and this
man went. lie vas shot dead while on
grard. The young man frst drawn af-
terward became the aathoT of the s'Pil-
grim's Prcgrcss.n
Deddridge, when born, was 80 weakly
an iEfant 1t vas believed to bs dead. A
nurse standing By faneied she saw some
signs of vitality. Thus The feeble spark
OF life vas sased from being exiiDeuish
ed, ard an eminent author and consist
eut christian preserved to the world.
John Wesley, when q child, was only
just pre- erved from Ere. Almosti the mo
mont after be was rescued, tho roof OF
the house where be bad been fell in. OF
Philip Hrnry similar instance b re-
corded.
John Kadx. the renowned Scotch re-
former, vas always wont to sit at the
head Of the table with his back to tho
window. On one particular evening,
without. however, being able TO account
for 1t, be would neither bimself sit in
the chair nor permit any one else 10 oc-I
cupy bis place. That very night bull
let was shot 10 at the window, puTposely
TO XII bin; il erazsd the chair in WHICH
be snl, AMI made bole in the foot of a
candIestick on the table.
Many years have now elapsed since
three sabalterns might have been seen
struggling In the water off "A. Helena;
ono Of them, peculiarly helpless, woe
fast gacrumhing. fiewus kayed, TO live as
Arthur Wellesley, Duke. Of Wellington.
The life of John Newton ID bat the bis
tory Of . series Of marvellous deliver
aBees. lAs youth be hsd agreed 10 ac
cGsnpany some friends on board OF q
man pf-war. He arrived too late; the
boat IN which Lis friends had gone was
cspsixrd and all its occupants drowned.
On another recession. when Tide Sur
Vsyer in the port Of LiysFPools some bu
sinsss had detained him, 50 that be came
10 bis beat much later than usual, to the
grcat surprise Of those who were in the
the habit OF observing his then updevis-
siag punctuality. lie went out in the
hoal as heretofore to inspect ship,
which blew up before be reached her.--
Had be left the shore few minutes
sooner he must have persisted with the
fess on beard.