Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-03-04
Incidents and Accidents.


"A Barnet (Vt.) man discovered a rat
ensconced in the fleece of one of his
sheep on one of the recent cold mornings
nearly frozen to death.
The editor of the Lyndon (Vt)
Union would have us believe that he has
a butterfly fitting about his house which
he found IN an old letter, where il had
lain for over five years, and which came
to life upon being exposed to light and
heat.
-Four German laborers crossed Lake
Champlain on the ice from the New
York side to Burlington, VT, lately. and
missed the stage going back. In at
tempting to return on foot one of the
men was frozen to death and the other
three were severely nipped and frost.bit-
ten.
"A Portsmouth IN. H. boy, while
fishing years ago, broke the barb of
fish-hook off in his right thumb The
barb, after circulating through his anato-
my for seven years, much to his discom-
fort, finally came out at the left shoulder
in the form OF pimple. The victim of
this barb-arous joke saw the point at once
and extracted it.
An accident of an unusual character
occurred one day lately at the Lyon pa.
per mill at Rockville, Mass. On the out
side of the buildings runs an upright
shaft, and watch dog belonging to C.
T. Croker, standing near, was caught on
it by the tail and wound up until the
caudal aDpendage was torn off short from
the body.
A young beau. of Rumney, got lost
in w-drift, recently, while returning
from visit to his sweetheart. He would
have persisted had it not been for the eff
forts of some kind-hearted neighbors
who heard his cries and came to his re-
lief The moral conveyed by this adj
venture was not lost upon this young
man, however, for the following week he
/ called in the parson and his "going
counting" business closed up. He now
spends his evenings with his wife, sitting
by his own fireside, where winds and
storm do not modest or make him afraid.
The wife of Mr.. William Field, of
Newport, r. l., died lately under circum-
stances somewhat singular. She had
been i'll tor considerable time but was
thought to be recovering. Indeed, she
| ate what for her was hearty dinner,
after which she lay down on a lounge.
| After lying there awhile she arose and
announced her belief that she was about
| to die, and despite the discussions of her
friends had herself arrayed for that
event and the same afternoon passed
away.
A very remark able casualty recen
ly occurred in st. Lo uis County, Mo
Mr.. j. j. Kelly, a man about fifty
eight years old, was riding in a light
spring wagon from Kirkwood to Web
ster, and to keep his feet warm had put
| lot of hot bricks in the bottom of the
wagon and covered them with straw.
When about midway between Webster
and Kirkwood the straw burst into a
blaze and set fire to the wagon Mr..
Kelly's size and weight prevented him
| from getting out speedily, unless by the
| dangerous feat CT jumping out, and he
attempted to put out the flames without
| leaving the wagon, and in doing SO his
clothing caught fire. He then got out.
and, singularly enough, instead OF at
tending to putting the fire out on his
burning clothing ran to the horses head
| and seized the bride to prevent his run
ming away. He stood in that position,
apparently dumbfounded, until he was
SO badly burned that his recovery was.
| thought to be impossible. One OF his
ears was actually burned off. A neighbor
passing on the road found him in that
situation, and after extinguishing his,
burning clothing conveyed him to his
home near Webster.