The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1871-01-28

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Il N Kanagy, II Auburn. Mich ~
cidentalH dfurped a pistol cartridge into
bis plpc, alonE with Bis tobacco, and shot
himself In the heal
The house ~ Mrs. Drew. a widow. at
Plain View, MINI, wa burned the other
night Her baby persisted In the flames.
The mother was fatally injured
Two small children At Hubbard, Ohio,
were burned 10 death on q recent sunday,
trying To build a fire with oil, while their
parents were Of church.
In Columbia, =. G., Thomas Higgins
undertook 30 drink MI the wine his friend
would pay for. hut the third bottle threw
him into q siupor which ended In death
A young man In st. Louis went into u
toy storu, picked up q nitro glycerinc tor.
pedo, and tried TO bite H. He succeeded,
but a hole was blown through his lower
lip In the attempt
"A Pennsylvania man Is under arrest,
charged with setting fire TO n bed In which
his recently married vile was sleeping,
with the fell design OF consuming her and
their boarding house together.
Fifteen individuals residing In lamar,
Barton county, Mo, were recently poison.
ed by eating buckwheat cakes. tnvestiga-
ton proved that deadly nightshade had
been ground up with the b~uckwheat.
The Lafayette lind Journal says that
OF the two car loads Of hogs shipped from
that city to Indianapolis a few evenings
ago, only ten arrived alive, all the rest be.
ing frozen to death.
Mayor Wilson, Of Cory, Pa, went
deer hunting, and al the first shot brought
down a $500 colt. He paid the owner
and owns the carcass II Is dear meat TO
him, but 1t Is not venison.
AT Sun Prairie, WIS, the other even.
ing, Olive William, a lady 10 years old,
was burned so badly that she died in q
short time, her clothes taking fire from q
spark from a stove, while she was alone
for q few moments.
AT Mason City, Iowa, the other day,
Thomas Dolan was coupling cars with d
wet glove on his hand, which froze to the
link and prevented him from taking II
quickly out OF the way as he intended
The result was q hand crushed almost &c
atoms.
An exchange tells of q traveller who
goes prepared for escape from burning
hotels by carrying in his satchel n coil o
J half'inch rope, forty or fifty feet long
|, knotted every two feet, TO give a bette
l hold. On two occasions he Inns found !
serviceable.
| Frederick Scissor, a house painter O
> Madison, Ind, allowed o comradc TO snaI
. his (Seisser's) pistol in his face, because h
. knew II would not go Off" Result
badlydamaged jaw and a horribly dlsfigure
face, the pistol having been held only som
I two inches from Scissors face.
! The Bangor (Me.) Wig reports tina
I. owing 10 the intense cold, the wires of tn
J Western Union Telegraph line, betwee
' that city and Lewiston, were recent
broken In nearly fifty places. The wire
were put up during the hot weather, las
summer, and, contracting with the cole
G snappcdgike threads.
"A rail was torn up and thrown into
! ditch on the East Tennessee 81 Georgi
| Railroad, near Cleveland, Tenn, the othe
day, and an castern.bound passenger trair
4 with passengers from all parts Of tb
Z South, going at lightning speed, passe,
over the break and regaincd the rail with
6 out the displacement Of single wheel, o
c damage Of any kind, except the breakin
, of n Of the springs of the engine.
"A little girl and boy recently wanderel
4 away from the house of their father, Il
A Morrison county, MINI, and subsequent
r were found dead by the Indians. The bo
lay on his back, having apparently die
a without much suffering. The girl ha,
J taken her rings from her ears, and, wrar
ping them, with a lock of her hair, In
small piece Of cloth, had put the littl
parcel In her pocket, and then lain dow
and died from cold and hunger.
/. The Janesyille, Wis, Recorder, of Dc
cember 80, says; ain one of the coache
Of the Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad wa
asweet little prattling child in It's mother
arms. To please the little one, its mothe
let II take her portmonnaie. After the chill
had exhausted its curiosity on the purse, !
threw 1t out Of the coach. The matte
was communicated TO the conductor, an,
he backed the train a third of a mile, an,
the purse was found.
The watchman In a Ma~sssachusett
, tannery, who died recently, had been &C
customed TO take with him a little dog 70
companionship. After the death Of hi
master, the dog appeared sick and quit
duh for a few days, ever refusing to eat
but he recovered, and o makes his visit
nightly to the tannery. In the evening b,
starts off promptly at the usual hour, ant
! is quite as regular in his return in tn
, morning, notifying the household by
slight bark Of his arrival home.
"A nan and wife recently presente,
themselves before the revenue officers a
the frontier, In Vermont, the man produc
ing a small sized tin box and the woman /,
: small work, basket, each containing parti
Of old watches, watch.findings, and a large
VARIETY Of stOne.AettinQ upon Which, They
offered to pay the duties. The revenue Of
fcers, having their suspicious aroused
made o personal search, and discovered
twenty-seven fine gold watches, neatly
sewed up In the under garments of the
smugglers, the man carrying sixteen and
the woman eleven.
The Bangor (Me.) Wing is responsible
for the following pig story; in the vii
lagc Of Brewer, opposite Bangor, two men,
Messrs. A. and b., carry on the livery bust
ness, occupying stables situated about a
quarter Of a mile apart, and each owns a
huge Chester hog weighing nearly 400
pounds. The other day Mr.. AS hog
broke out of his pen and straycd down
upon Mr.. BIS premises, and that gentle
man, seeing him on the street, mistook the
animal for his own, and drove him into the
pen under his (Mr. B.'s) stable. Presently
he heard a terrible rumpus, and going out
10 ascertain tho cause, found that bis own
, porcine had resented the intrusion, and
was giving the hog he had turned In a ter
rible thrashing. Separating the combat.
ants, Mr.. B. drove Mr.. AS hog home, and
he was secured In his own domain The