Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-08-07

A little boy was nearly drowned the
other day in barrel OF whitewash, al
Oxford, Pa.
Henry Terry, of Fond du Lac, didn't
resent it when man pulled his nose, and
his wife was so indignant that she left his
house and applied for divorce.
An aged Brooklyn lady, about to re-
move from that city, prints cara tnanK-
ing the conductors on one OF the morse
car lines for their attentive courtesy.
"A pair of robins were found to have
built their nest and raised brood OF
Young ones under the hat which Con-
necticut farmer had placed on scarecrow
in his strawberry patch.
AFTER generous dinner of green
corn and cucumbers," Mr.. Snyder, OF
Litchfield, died, recently, and the local
papers chronicled the fact as mysterious
dispensation Of Providence.
A German family of three persons at
Louisville, KY, ate supper OF smoked
herring, and soon after all exhibited SYM
toms of poison. 1t was thought at first
that all would die, but they finally recov-
cred.
John Schoenborn, merchant OF
Stearns County, Mimi, while driving near
St. Cloud during recent thunder storm,
was struck by lightning and killed. His
horses were also killed, and the wagon
torn to pieces, but unaccountably little
son, sitting by his side, escaped unin-
jured.
in Dover, n. H., on the 4th of July,
an elm tree $50 years old, and over four
feet in diameter, was blown down. 1t
h,,% bar in hp fa
turned up a stone lying upon its roots,
which is estimated TO weigh twenty tons.
Some of the roots of the tree, about eight
inches in diameter, were broken like tow
strings as the tree fell over.
Fourteen years ago, young man, re-
siding in Lewistown, Me-, sustained
spinal injuries which resulted in an ina
bility to walk, move his body, or lie down.
Ever since then he has sat in chair, un-
able to move without excruciating pain,
and mirror before him affords him his
only glimpses of affairs beyond the limits
of his home.
"A singular and serious accident oc-
CURED at Washington recently, while
some Government watchmen were being
exercised in the use of fire-extinguishers
which they had strapped to their backs.
One man failed to open the vent to his
machine, which soon made one, ripping it
from top to bottom, shaking the man con-
siderably, and breaking his shoulder
blade.
AS two young ladies in Royalton,
Wis, were about retiring, one of them,
looking out of the window, saw man
concealed in the limbs of an overhanging
tree. With rare presence of mind, she
picked up her gold watch and other valu-
ables, and with her sister went down
stairs, boiling the door after her. The
burglars, two in number, entered her room
by the tree, and ransacked the upper part
of the house, but without stealing any
thing of value. The young ladies are
now practicing with little pistol.
A Nashville man was awakened the
other night by pain in his stomach, and
thinking the cholera was at hand he
clutched for bottle Of camphor which
he kept on the table ready for instant use,
and commenced to apply it with vigorous
rubbing to his abdomen. He experienced
immediate relief, but was considerably
| surprised at not perceiving the strong
scent Of camphor. Suspecting that he
might have made mistake, he lighted
the gas and made an inspection which re-
suited in the highly satisfactory discovery
that instead of camphor he had used bot
tie of ink.
The avaricious man is often the vic
tim of his own greed. A Peoria boy had
| two punches Of fire-crackers given him on
the Fourth, which he crammed into his
pocket, but noticing another lying idle on
the sidewalk, he crammed that in with
the rest 1t CHANGED that the vital spark
was present ia the soul Of that idle
cracker, and suddenly that boy became
the busiest youth in all that town. There
were about $50 distinct explosions in that
] pocket, and at each one he turned two
| double summersaults and shrieked with
| terror. When quiet was at length restored,
he clapped his hands upon the scorched
and lacerated ruins of a once healthy
abdomen, and groaned his disapprobation
of the Pilgrim fathers for ever establish
ing free country.
| Here is case Of heroism in common
| life that deserves to be perpetuated. Mr..
Chase OF Washington, Ind, one evening
recently, had occasion to cross the Grand
Rapids ~ Indiana Railroad, and dis
covered that large hickory tree had fallen
directly across the track in the woods It
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would be along in two hours. He rode to
his fathers, nearly quarter of mile,
procured an AK, and had cut off one
end of the tree when the axe slipped and
went into his left foot, cutting it half off.
He remounted the log, cut off the other
end, and rolled it on one side, leaving a
clear passage for the train. He then
jumped on his horse and galloped home
through the rain to look after his foot.
Elijah Harris, highwayman, was
recently locked up in Chicago cell, for
pursuing his vocation on one OF the streets
Of that city, and, subsequently, young
man bearinAt the same patronymic, was,
for trifing offense against the peace and
dignity Of the city, sent to the same cell
to keep him company and sleep off the
fumes OF the whisky he had imbibed in
lmmoderate doses. This last must have
been an impossible fellow, for he allowed
Harris the garroter to stand his trial for dis.
orderly conduct, and the disorderly Harris
to stand his trial for garroting. The trick
was smart one and worked admirably.
Harris, foot-pad, was fined $40 for disor.
derly conduct, paid his fine like man,
and walked away, while Harris, the dis
| ORDERLY person on hpinp tried for rorrr,