The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1871-01-07

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"A talented and heauffulyoung lady IN
Wyoming Iowa. named Harriet Fordham.
had har bridal dress and other arrange
menis made for her wedding, when she
was seiled with typhoid fever, and died
The costly wedding dress became her
shr1ud
"A Swedish woman NJ Holmes City
MINI. committed suicide, the other day
in q singular manner She procured a
large box Of matches and ATE Of the heads
The result was death In a few hours, pre-
coded By violent suffering.
A little German girl Of Aztalan. Wis
exhibited great presence Of mind the
other day By throwing m old coat
over q kettle uf burning TAR, and holding II
there, a, her own peril, until assistance ar
rived. A large number Of valuable build
ings wor thus saved from contagration.
"A widow lady, named Mrs. Spencer,
eighty years of age, living in Wyoming
county, Penn, met with a horrible death a
few days ago. She was smoking a pipe,
which set fire to her clothes, and she was
found By the family, still in her chair,
burned to acrisp.
The other day, as John Sprauls, of
Doniphan, Kan, engaged in loves pork
house at that place, attempted to step
across a scalding vat, his foot slipped and
he fell in. Before he could be extricated
the entire body, from the bowels down,
was thoroughly cooked. He died in great
agony,
The postmaster at White Oak, Iowa
going away from home with his family the
other day, put $500 in greenbacks and his
postage stamps into the oven of his stove
for safe keeping. They came home,
kindled n fire, forgot about the contents of
the oven, until there was a loud smell of
burned paper, and they took them out
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. lie 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 Swenson, who resides at Goose Lake,
Mimi, was engaged in trapping, and stoop-
ing to arrange a trap in a bunch Of willows,
he was mistaken for IA deer by two other
Swedes, simultaneously they raised their
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 of.
spring, was at once dispatched, and meas
ured over seven feet in length.
The New Albany, Ind, Ledger tells a
story of u prison guard at Jacksonville
who, being engaged to be married, and hay
ing twice postponed the day for the wed
ding, on apparently trivial grounds, had
the tables turned upon him by the tickle
fair one, who, upon the approach of the
third period set for the contamination of
their mutual bliss, indefaitdy postponed
the affair, and ordered him out of the house.
The other day, as q 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 several
times, dragging the boy with him. Al
last the colt was stopped in his wild ca.
reer by the boys head getting so fastened
between a stake and the fence that the
f animal could not draw IL hence. The boy
, was found dead, and dreadfully bruised
and mangled.
johnny Stevens, known as the grea
!. hunter and trapper Of the Saginaw Valley
, while on a tapping excursion a few day
since, in attempting to cross Beaver Lake
Micho on the ice, broke through. II
struggled bravely to eXtricate himself, bu
his feet became entangled in some brus'
e in the treacherous bottom, and he perishe
from cold and exposure. His body WI
recovered, it requiring the strength of tw
o men to withdraw it from where it wa
r wedged.
Captain Macarthur, of Kinston, Car
J ada, recently had a fearful adventure o
the Grand Trunk He got up from HI
seat and walked out to the platform whe
the train was near Lancaster, to find OF
how near he was to the station. He owe
balanced himself and fell, but managed I
save his life by catching the coupling, an
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ID which offered him very little hope of II
rs covering the platform above, in the on
t, case, and a sure and awful death, were /
to drop of, in the other. No one could |
placed in a more agonizing position
Through his great strength, being of stron
er muscular power, he held himself up viii
the train travelled four miles, undergolr
of the greatest mental as well as bodily SUITE
&c ing. No one discovered his danger, as
was night and very dark. When h
"a strength was exhausted, and he saw
NJ bridge or a tunnel on the track ahea
i 10 which would increase the danger of h
* situation, he prepared for the inevilab
plunge, and, with a prayer of despair upC
" his lips, he let go his hold. Instant dea'
~ would have followed in n|inety-nine cas-,
lu out Of hundred, but, providentially, NJ
eot Macarthur fell, more dead than alive, in
v, a hollow or excavation in the track. II
train passed over safely, and he laid the
ne unconscious from his injuries and SUITE
or, ings for seven hours.
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Industrial.
III "A citizen of Maine is executing
order for sixty thousand baseball bats.
W A Massachusetts farmer made ty
nc thousand dollars last fall by selling bl