The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-09-28
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tt IS reported toat the Eike he NJ it-
porte, Ind, ia twenty inches thick, and St
clear that print can be read through it.
George Sauer. employcdiu acolor factory
Gil Staten Island, wac killed a few days
ago, BY being drawn between two Cos
wheeh.
A hired girl in Delaware. in or'ler to get
rid of the task of milking seven cows, set
the barn on fire, and was sent to State pris-
on for arson.
Michael Mccormick fell from a bucket in
a shaft of the Delaware and Lackawanna
Trnnel, OF Bergen Hill, recently, and was
killed.
A landlady, in Jersey City. lately bought
n piano at auction for four dollars and sixty
three cents. at is for tho benefit of my
hoarders," she remarked.
Nine persons werekilled in their houses at
Cape Diamond. Quebec, by q snow slide on
Wednesday night, a week ago. and several
others wore severely injured.
A little boy, four years old, was poisoned
the other day in Williamsburg. by eating q
piece Of bread and butter with strychnlne
on it, which had been prepared tor the
rats.
\ number Of men, while hunting in Ala
bana, drank too freely Of whiskey, got in
to a fight, and one of them was killed and
two others we're mortally wounded.
A man in Chicago got mad at his horses
and tried to kill them from starvation. He
starved three of them to death, and nearly
starved two others, before his barbarity w.s
discovered.
A scene-shiftor in a Chicago theatre
accidently stepped off his narrow platform
tho other night. and fell to the stage below.
4 distance Of sixty feet. He was instantly
killed.
4 teacher in Tennessee was recently in.
dicted for feruling a girl sixteen years old
until she went into commissions, because she
would not ask his parGon for a disrespect-
full answer which she gave him.
The rear car of the express train going
south on the Oil Creek Railroad, recently,
was thrown from the track near Titusyille,
by Il broken rail. Several passengers were
injured-one, a young girl fatally.
A polished stone tomahawk was recently
found By a Canadian wood cutter buried in
the wood Of an oak tree. 1t is supposed to
have been a~ccidently left sticking in a sap
ling about 100 years ago,t the wood closing
in around it in the course Of time.
During a snow, storm in Michigan, q boy
and girl-brother and ~sister-aged, respec-
lively, twelve and fifteen years, who had
been sent eight miles to mill with an OK.
team, were showed up on their return and
frozen to death. The oxen survived.
\ number Of boys engaged in shovelling
snow from the roof Of a house in Twenty.
ninth street, LATELY, got to froicking on the
roof, and one of them slipped, and rolling
over the caves, fell to the area, a distance
of nearly fifty feet ard was killed.
1narecentsnow storm a ~fayorite breeding
eve of the Cheviot class, belonging to Mr..
Elliot, OF Ltindhope, in England, was in
prisoned in the snow for a month. Not
~withstauding this long imprisonment, the
eve when recovered was alive, and is now
doing well.
4 short time ago, y nan in Leeds, Eng
land, died from the effects OF drinking nine
teen glasses of rum, which were paid for by
u chimney-sweep, OIL condition that the
man would drink them all one after anoth-
er. The keeper of the place was arrested
and fined two hundred and fifty dollars,
and the chimney sweep fed from the city.
A Milford, i. II. boy was charged with
stealing a gold pen, pleaded guilty, and
was sent to the Reform School. A young
girl has since been detected stealing from
same store, and the identical pen
the boy was said to have stolen was
her possession. Tic boy is to be
Springs, Miss, as is tho custom
y places, horse racing takes
ell piece Of the public road
est thlt had called togeth.
spectators on Sunday, hall
been run when q tree at
blown over by the wind.
z one Of the riders, killing
ming lately. young man return
St. Louis to Richmond, with his
.r suddenly sprans through a window
OF d railroad car, after leaving Washins ton.
The train, which YVES going at a speed OF
thirty-fve miles an hour, was stopped, and
the young man was picked up fatally in
iured. It is supposed he was insane.
A boy. six years old, travelling with his
mother from Milwaukee to Minneapolis, d
few DAYS ago, was seized with a so3nnambu.
listic fit, and before his motions were OBJ
served, walked out upon the platform, an,
fell off the train, which was running at tn
rate of twenty miles an hour. Fortunately
he fell into a snow bank, and escaped with
nut injury.
A girl was smothered to death while on
sleigh ride near Bangor, Me-, en- one of til
recent intensely cold nights. A party o
young people were out on a fro.ic, filing
long sleigh. This girl grew very co d, n
to keep her warm her sweetheart wrappeo
her closely in q huge blanket, covering he
head and face. Too drowsy and benumbe,
to stir, she suffocated without her compaE
ions being aware that she was dying.
A DEADLY SPRING.
4 writer in a Californian newsp-rr.
avs: About half 4 mile over o mountain
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