The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-13
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The Nashville american says: jus
tice Meacham has a mocking-bird that
was bequeathed him by his daughter
Alice, who died about two years ago. At
her death the bird ceased to sing. Satur-
day evening he determined to take it over
to his daughters grave and there release
it. That night the bird commenced to
sing, and has been singing at intervals
ever since.''
"A man named Kerwin stabbed another
named Gray at Georgetown, Cal, recently
When Gray was lying at the point of death
from loss Of blood by secondary hemor-
rhage, Kerwin offered to furnish blood for
trarsfusion into the dying mans system,
and accordingly about four ounces of
blood drawn from Kerwin's arm was in
jected into Gray's. The latter rallied con-
siderably, but did not recover.
Don't NEEDLE with the boys. A Troy
On. Y man caught a number bathing in
pond on his premises recently, and seiz-
ing the lads clothing hid It, and awaited
developments: The DEVELOPMENTS soon
cattle fbt the b0Ts apparently took, no
notice Of tile tiiaR, bit after little while
they managed to surround him, and, get
ting him away from the clothes, pushed
him into the pond, nearly drowning him
before he was rescued:
Northampton; MASS, Had a fire tile
other evening which destroyed the First
Congregational Church, on Meeting House
hill. The fire caught in the basement of
the church from a leak in the gas pipe,
and the building burned with great
rapidly: It was one of the most notable
cliGrGBes id, the Connecticut valley, built
iii 1919, III The satAe spot as tile dte where
Jonathan Edwards used to preach and the
still earlier log church of 1866.
The New Bedford (Mass.) Nerrury
says: "a daughter of Mr. Stephen Rich,
of Truro, met with singular and fatal
accident at her fathers house, the other
morning. Passing by stove, the door
of which was open, she struck her knee
directly on the pan (sometimes called the
CRAZY bdne') with considerable force
against sharp corner Of the door: Med
ical aid was summoned as soon as posi-
BILE, but she died before it reached her.
She was fourteen years of age.'
"A man purporting to be apeddle1
stopped at a house in Rochester, N. Y,
and solicited the lady to purchase supe'
rior article of bluing. She took pack.
age, which was tied up in coarse, brown
paper. On opening the parcel IT was
found to contain not billing; bit a iiiixture
of gunpowder and brown dust-like sub.
stance resembling dynamite. The con-
tents were separated, and portion of each
being poured out in the yard, were tested
by the application of fire. The flashes in
the cases of both substances clearly estab
lished their nature. 1t is fortunate that
the occupants Of the ho.,se discovered the
deception before any serious result oc
Cured.
"A little four-year-old son of Mr.
Griffith, who lives at Union Point, Ga.
was looking over the Etfh IF we'll fifty
feet deep, when he lost his balance anc
fell in. A negro girl, who was drawing
water at the time, gave the alarm. A
crowd soon gathered, and man descended
by the rope. 1t being dark he could no
see the boy, and accordingly he called ou
to him, believing, however, that the fal
had killed him, or he, was drowned: Tt
his grsat surprise the boy answered back
cheerily, and, getting down to the water
he found the lad astraddle of plank
with one leg broken, shoulder blade dis
located, and a terrible cut across the fore
head. In falling he had struck agains
the bucket, but had discretion enough tt
grasp and straddle the plank. The ply
sicians are Of the opinion that he will re
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AT Minneapolis, a few days since
David Pascal Spafford, one Of the oldes
and most highly respected residents o
that city, stepped into the mill of Todd
Haven s. Co.; on business, aud sat down
without thinking Of danger, On the tabl
of the butting cutoff saw. The saw I'm
der or in the table upon which Mr.. Spaf
ford seated himself is worked by an i'm
proved lever, which raises half the sa,
instantaneously, if necessary, above til
surface of the table, throws it into gea,
and works 1t at the rate of 5000 revolu
tions minute. In a few moments afte
he had seated himself his foot accidental
ly came in contact with the lever raisin
the saw until it touched him, and then
springing forward to escape from the sud
den and fearful torture, he rested the en-
tire weight of one foot on the lever, throw
ing the swiftly revolving saw up, it cut
ting him so that ono of his legs and hip
was almost severed from the body. Deaf
resulted instantly from the effect Of til
| wounds,