The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-04-02
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents snd Accidents.

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Incidents end Accidents.
An open trap-door In Montgomery.
Ala, recently caused the death Of Mis-
Dugarry. Her neck was broken.
A woman was permitted to die of
nose-bleed ct Bremen, Ind, not long since.
in tho vain expectation that an old ieno..
ramus would stop the flow with . word
charm.
Whisky caused the death Of Joseph
Pelzak at Carlton, Wis, short time
since. He fell under the runners of his
sleigh and was dragged in this way for
more than two miles.
John Keller, of Camden, Me-, was
accompanying Miss Holt home from
singing school . few days ago, when his
horse and buggy broke through the ice
and both were drowned.
Recently Gibson Berry, of Berry
County, Mo-, while cutting down a tree
for coon, was struck ON the head bv a
falling limb and instantly killed, HE skull
being crushed to jelly.
AT Binghamten, N. Y, the other
day, man was blown into the air ninety
nine and Q half feet in consequence of
the bursting of . boiler. The local papers
refuse to stretch the distance six inches.
james Sylvester, trapeze performer
at Berry's Opera House, while performing
in New York few evenings since, missed
the safety rope and fell. striking his head
on the stage. He died an hour after.
ward.
Little George Cough was sliding down
hill in East Hampton, Conn.,, about half
q mile from home. His mother stood at
the window and saw him slide into a
pond at the foot of the long hill. Nobody
was with him and he was too young to
help himself. She started for the pond as
fast as she could run, climbing fences and
stumbling through banks of snow. Be-
fore reaching the place she became so
breathless, scared and exhausted that she
Tell, half fainting; but she got on her feet
again and staggered on. When she came
to the water, which stood three feet deep
over the ice, she waded in and drew her
boy OUTPUT he was dead.
One may be pardoned for sneezing
under any circumstances, in view of the
experience of . woman in Westfeld,
Mass, recently. Being in company and
attempting to suppress sneeze, she felt
queer sensation in the left side of her
face, which soon began swelling and
drawing out of shape. A physician was
called, but by the time he arrived her
mouth and the left side of her face had
become drawn up, dis6guring her SO that
her most intimate friends could scarcely
recognize her features, while she found It
impossible to close her left eye. The
physicians say 1t is kind of paralysis,
caused by the great effort she made in
suppressing the sneeze, and give but faint
hopes that her features will ever resume
their natural appearance.
The Salt Lake Nesss publishes long
account of the arrest in SEWER County.
Utah, of q man supposed % be old Ben.
der, of Kansas. A few weeks ago an old
man, dirty, hungry, and in rags, entered
Richfield. He stated that he had travelled
over the mountains from Montana. His
conduct was exceedingly strange, appear
ing most uninviting, and people vino had
read the description of old Bender sus-
pected that this was the identical Kansas
murderer. The suspicion was so strong
that he was placed under arrest, and the
Sheriff wrote to Salt Lake for q de.
tailed description of the individual in
question. When the reply was received
the supposed murderer had preliminary
examination before Justice Of the Peace,
when 1t was clearly indicated that the
man answered the description given of
Bender, in all particulars. He was then
put for safe keeping in the Jail at Manti,
San Pete County. There is q most strik-
ing similarity between the description of
the accused old man and Bender, even 10
the MANNED hands with the large, promi-
nent cords on the back, color and quaint.
ty of hair, beard, etc. There appears to
be q scowl on the face, the brows being
habitually knit. A portrait was taken at
Manti and sent to the authorities in Kan
sas for recognition. Some months ago q
woman came out of the mountains and
sojourned awhile at Provo, supposed To
be the murderess, Kate Bender.
Religious and Educational.
The Baptists of Philadelphia have
raised $125, 600 for publishing house in
that city.
-Parson Brownlow is opposed to mix
ing the white and black races in the pub
lie schools.
"A petition is circulating in Stockton
CAL, in eavor Of introducing the study Of
the Irish language in the public schools
The Memphis Presbytery has resolved
to recommend the licensing of such col.
ored men as preachers as are found to be
fitted for the ministry.
MIR. Emerson (R. Waldo), at the last
meeting of the Overseers of Harvard
sorry attendance Of students at prayers.
Boston has twenty-seven Catholic
churches and about q dozen chapels, while
six new Catholic churches are being
built. The Catholic schools number six.
teen, and halfa-dozen more are in pros.
pect.
An extraordinary revival, numbering
already about 1000 converts, is reported
in Derby, England, under the evangelic'
al labOrs of . young, xealous and devoted
Scotch Episcopal rector, q Rev. Mr.
Douglass.
The noon. day prayer.meeting in Phil
adelphia has been held over sixteen years
without the omission of q single day. II
has become one of the historic institutions
of the city, and its beneficial results have
been very perceptible.
Says the CAMrchman: "If the fashion
Va ASAAA0AV pAC0IuCAS CvCI ACtS A0Aly CStUU
lished in any denomination, the Others
will have to yield to it. Some leading
man will take it up for the sake of popu.
larity, and the rest win have to fall in"
The Chancellor of Georgia University
speaks thus of the desire for education he
witnessed in the people about Dahlone
Ga: They felt it's necessity like physi
cal want, and talked about It as though il
were sensation in their blood as well as
. sentiment in their hearts. I wish thai
oil Georgia had the divine fire of their
feelings" .isltf
The Presbytery of Brooklyn is deter.
mined that Miss Smiley shall not be
allowed to occupy any Of the Presbyterian
pulpits within its Jurisdiction. The two
brethren who have offended in this par.
ticular, BY inviting Miss Smiley to their
pulpits, are exonerated from all intention
Of violation of the established usaees OF
the church, but they are admonished to
avoid all such causes of offense In the
future. sa
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