The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-08-31
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

The potato bug has had good deal
of mischief laid at its door, but the worst
charge of all is that he has bit a woman at
Kingston, r. l., and given her the lock-
jaw.
"A brave Colorado girl placed herself
the other day between her brother,and a
bowling mob who thirsted for his blood
Whenever revolver was pointed at his
body she interposed, and so protected
him until the arrival of the Sheriff.
"A resident of Auburn, N. Y, has a
hedge of deadly nightshade about his gar
den. The potato-bugs, on their travels
toward his potato-patch few nights
since, stopped on the hedge to lunch.
They ate freely of the poisonous night
shade, and Immediately turned up their
toes.
lightning is said to have played a
curious freak in Stow, Mass, lately. En-
tering by the ceiling, room twelve feet
square, where six young women were
seated about the wall, it dropped on the
center of the floor in a ball, and exploded
with loud report, and volumes of sui
phurous smoke but injuring nobody, and
not even burning the carpet
-Thos Kelly went to sleep, few
nights ago, on pile of hay on the levee
in St. Louis. During the night he slid
down the side of the pile, SO that his feet
projected into the roadway, without the
rest of his body being visible. At half
past three O'Clock next morning an ex-
press wagon passed over the projecting
members, crushing them very badly, and
eliciting tremendous whoop from K lily,
which made the express horses dash off,
and brought an officer to the scene. The
officer took Kelly to the city hospital.
Brooklyn coroners have an easy time
of it. An intirm old man called at the
office of one and informed the official
that he had come to have an inquest held
on his body. When reminded that the
coroner sat only on the dead and not on
the living, he sadly assented to the truth
of the statement, but said he was going TO
die in few hours and it would save the
coroner time and trouble to hold the in
quest at once. Examination showed tina
want Of food had crazed the old man, and
he was turned over to the Charity Com
missioners for the few remaining hours of
his life.
"A few days ago man drove his horse
to the Winslow House." half way up
Kearsarge Mountain, and tying him under
the stable went to the top of the mountain.
The horse stood there all day with nothing
to eat. The man came down at night, and
was about starting off, when the landlord
put i'll an appearance and demanded fifty
cents. "What for?" said, the man
.NFor cruelty to animals,'' replied the
Landlord, in leaving. your horse all day
under my stable with nothing to eat. If
you had done it in Massachusetts, they
would have fined you twenty dollars"
The man paid his half dollar and drove
down the mountain. =
'--Last Thursday evening Mrs w. and
a. gentleman friend went up on the in
clined plane to view the city from Mount
Adams. While they were walking about
very near the edge of the hill a rutfan
rushed up behind them, knocked the gen
tleman with a slung- shot on the back Of
the head senseless to the ground, CON-
handing her to keep silent, or he would
shoot hers then he commenced. searching
the gentleman's pockets. She, viewing
the situation at once, and with wonderful
presence of mine, pushed the villain over
the hill into the ravine below. Then she
did all she could to restore her escort to
consciousness sufficient to be taken home.
The desperate was picked up by two po-
licemen, considerably bruised, who were
unaware Of the tragic circumstances until
too late to recapture him.-Cincinnati Ga
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