The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-08-27

The above Was The heaviest sale ~ the
SEASONS picking.
Incidents and Accidents.
"A girl In Albany attempted to com
NIT suicide because another girl would
not marry her brother.
Canyon City, In California, was des.
troyed BY fre q few days ago. only one
house escaping the flames. Loss $780,
900.
Mrs, @. II. Perry, In Montana, Iowa,
used oholoform the other day, 10 alleviate
physical suffering, and died from the
effects Of the drug,
"A gentleman in Indianapolis has, by
calculations, arrived at the conclusion
that twelve deaths per day occur by the
careless use Of kerosene.
"A little adopted son Of George Rlbhle
was recently smothered TO death In one Of
the spouts OF a grain warehouse, at Sci.
ma, Delaware county, Ind
AT Ipswich, Mass, on the Eastern
Railroad, one day lately, a furious bull
gave fight 10 q locomotive and was hurled
twenty feet from the track.
"A little three year old girl in Chicago
recently picked up in the street a bottle
containing q small quantity of q solution
Of potash. She drank OF the poison, and
died after great suffering.
"A thunderbolt, which struck near
him the other day, was the means Of re-
storing his hearing to Wilbur Merrill, of
Charlestown, N. H., who had been deaf
ever since his youth.
"A woman in Rhode Island was re-
Gently shot-the wound was q bad one
by an enemy. She Ia recovering. Her
sister was frightened by the occurrence,
and is expected to die.
An interesting little son Of Joseph
Goodrich, Ripley county, Ind, amused
himself q few days ago, by making q nice
little bonfire Of $4,000 worth of United
States bonds, belonging to his father.
Jeremiah Scully, q laboror employed
in repairing the drug store of Lamar
SaVin, IN Norwich, Conn, stole a drink
from a bottle of aconite, which he sup.
posed to be brandy, and his death rits the
result.
The children of Mr.. O'Neal, In
johnson county, Iowa, played with some
matches in q hay-stack the other day, and
the frolic cost him his barn, three horses,
a goodly quantity of grain and other
property.
The other evening, o Miss Pocket,
residing near Lynn, Randolph county,
Ind, was horribly burned by an explosion
OF coal oil, with which she was attempt
ing to kindle a fire. There were com
doubts of her recovery.
Near Lakeville, Ohio, a little child
one year old, attempted to get out of bee
while its parents were out, Of the house
and In doing 30 Its chin caught upon tn,
rail, where II hung until it was discovered
, dead.
Five children Of a Mr.. O'Niel, ofChi
cago, were playing on q vacant lot The
other day, when they came across som,
toad stools" which they picked and ate
taking them for mushrooms. They were
quite seriously, though not fatally
poisoned.
"A young man employed as q herdei
in Mills county, Iowa, got off his horse
and tied the rains about his wrist, laid
down and fell asleep. The horse became
frightened and ran away. The young
man was found with his head terribly
mutilated and his neck broken.
The Hannibal (Mo) Courier says
"A well known lady, who recently had
a new set Of teeth inserted, while passing
along Main street, the other day, was
attacked with o sudden fit OF sneezing,
and actually sneezed the teeth out of her
mouth upon the pavement"
james Garrett, an imprisoned thiel
at Virginia, Nevada, was discovered, some
time since, while In the act of drinking
his own blood from q vein in the right
arm. He informed the jailor that he had
been 10 the habit of existing on that
kind Of fare, at certain intervals, fol
years.
Mary Shsfer, In Chicago, the other
day, desiring to make the fire burn quick
ly, got the kerosene can and poured some
Of the contents on the live Goals. The oil
In the can ignited, and an explosion i'm
mediately followed, burning the girls
hands and arms badly. She would proba-
bly, recover.
The Wellsbuiy West Virginis) Her.
aid says: "There ia a man in this county
Of mature age, and average intellect, who,
although he has lived at home all his life,
has never eaten a meal at the table with
the family since he was a boy, owing TO
an affront put upon him at that time"
I'm Westchester county, N. Y, at Rye
Lake, a young girl slipped into the water,
from which a boy fourteen years Of age,
named Roach, the only son Of a widow,
sought TO save her. His strength failed,
both were drowned, and are now buried
in the same grave.
"A lad by the name of Daniel Walker,
in Dayton, Mich, aged eleven years, while
attempting to clean a revolver, by acct
dent discharged 1t into bis abdomen, the
ball lodging against his back bone. After
suffering terribly for four days he died.
"A country youth went into a aaw
mill in Madison, Ind, the other day, and
after looking at the circular saw, thought
he would more closely examine its con
strrction, thinking, in bis innocence, that
IL was standing still. lie entirely salts.
fed himself with the loss OF an arm.
The daughter Of q wealth j citizen Of
Gorham, Mich, died a few days ago from
the effects Of q bite from a potato bug.
She wal awakened during the night by q
sharp, atingiDg bite on her face, when she
crushed the insect and threw II on the
floor. The poison began its work and
caused her death.
"A man and wife In South Brooklyn,
N. Y, quarreled the other day, and The
man chased the wife with a large cheese
knife, which he threw at her ss she passed
out Of the door. Their infant son hap.
pened 10 be sitting In the doorway At the
time, aud the knife entered his left breast,
penetrating the heart, ard causing In.
slant death.
"A few weeks sgo, a Mrs. Court and
! three Of her children, living Of Benton,