The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1871-01-14

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MINI committed suicide NE other DAY
10 e Singular msnnsf she pfneuefd r.
large lut n mafches md aie q fbe heals
Ihf result va death IN a ee h0un. pre-
r1ded hY violent sHiefiur
a little Oermsn ri1 N Afalan. Wiz
exhibited greet presence NJ MI n ihr
other LAY ~ throwing m Old coal
over q Kettle N burning bf and holding Il
here ~ hrf nFn peril, until assistance af
dyel a large nHmlef NJ valuable build
ingl SER thus myed from coniiuaii0n
"A widow lady. named Mrs Spencer.
eighty years NJ nge, living In Wyoming
county, Penn, met with n horrible death u
few days ago She WIS smoking n pipe.
which sot fire n her clothes. and shc Wns
found by the family, siill In her chair
burned 10 acfisp
The other day, as John sprauls, Of
Dnniphan. Kan, engaged In loves pork
house NJ that place, attempted 10 step
across q scalding vat, his foot slipped and
he fell IN. Before h. could be cxiricated
the entire body, from the bowels down,
was thoroughly cooked. lie died in great
agony.
The postmaster AT White Oak, Iowa
going away from home with his family the
other day, put $500 in g~reenbacks and bis
postage stamps into the oven of his stove
tor safe keeping. They came home,
klndlcd a fire, forgot about the contents Of
The oven, until there was q loud smell of
burned paper, and they took them ont
charred and worthless.
Thomas Shay, aged about ten years,
son of b. Shay, Of Luzerne, Iowa, was
found the other morning, frozen to death,
near Blairstown. He had gone to
town the previous evening with his father,
who left him with the team, while he went
into a store, The supposition is that the
boy fell asleep, the horse started for home,
and getting off the road the boy froze to
death.
"A few days ago, a Swede named Au-
gust SwcnsOn, who resides at Goose Lake,
Mimi, was engaged in trapping, and stoop.
ing to arrange Il trap in a bunch of willows,
he was mistaken for a deer by two other
Swedes. simultaneously they raised theiI
rifles and, firing with fatal accuracy, lodged
two balls in the body of the unfortunate
trapper, causing his immediate death.
The COW of Christopher Young, who
lives near Florence, Mass, was MIXED dry
for several nights in succession recently,
and although he kept watch he was unable
to catch the thief. He at last dis.
covered, by setting a trough full of milk
as a bait, that a snake was the d~epredator
The reptile, together with six of its off.
spring, was at once dispatched, and meas
ured over seven feet in length.
The New Albany, Ind, Ledger tells q
story of a prison guard at Jacksonville
who, being engaged to be married, and hav.
ing twice postponed the day for the wed.
ding, on apparently trivial grounds, had
the tables turned upon him by the tickle
TAR one, who, upon the approach of the
third period set for the consun,mation ot
their mutual bliss, i~adefRttdy postpone
the affair, and ordered him out of the house
The other day, as a son of Robert
smyth, residing near Adamsville, Ohio
was leading a small colt, the halter became
fastened to his wrist and the colt, becom
ing frightened, ran aroud the field severa
times, dragging the boy with him. Al
last the colt was stopped in his wild ca
recr by the boys head getting so fastened
between a stake and the fence that The
animal could not draw it hence. The bo,
was found dead, and d~readfully bruised
and mangled.
johnny Stevens, known as the grea
hunter and trapper of the Saginaw Valley
while on Il trapping excursion a few dav!
since, in attempting to cross Beaver Lake
Mich, on the ice, broke through. II,
struggled bravely to extricate himself, bu
ms feet became entangled in some brusl
IN tue treacherors bottom, and he persisted
from cold and exposure. His body wa
recovered, it requiring the strength of TIVE
men to withdraw it from where it wa
wedged.
Captain Macarthur, of Kinston, Can
ada, recently had q fearful adventure OF
the Grand Trunk He got up from hi
seat and walked out to the platform wheI
the train was near Lancaster, to find on
how near he was to the station. He over
balanced himself and fell, but managed tt
save his life by catching the coupling, an(
there he hung by his arms in a position
which offered him very little hope of re
covering the platform above, in the ont
case, and a sure and awful death, were h,
to drop of, in the other. No one could b.
placed in a o agonizing position
Through his great strength, being of strons
muscular power, he held himself up whilt
the train travelled four miles, undergoing
the greatest mental as well as bodily suffer
ing. No one discovered his danger, as il
was night and very dark. When hi.
strength was exhausted, and he saw {
bridge or a tunnel on the track ahead
which would increase the danger of hi.
situation, he prepared for the inevitable
plunge, and, with a prayer of despair upor
his lips, he let 60 his hold. Instant dealt
would have followed in n~inety-nine cases
out of hundred, but, pro~videntially, Mr.
Macarthur fell, more dead than alive, into
a hollow or excavation in the track. The
train passed over safely, and he laid there
unconscious from his injuries and suffer
ings for seven hours.
Industrial.
"A citizen of Maine is executing ar
order for sixty thousand baseball bats.
A Massachusetts farmer made two