The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-11-08
mCmKaTs AND ACCIDENTS,

"A prisoner in q Louisiana jail pa
tiently feigned paralysis for three months
50 as to get chance to escape; and
when the opportunity came, in the LAM
guage Of the local newspaper, . he was
OF Ike telegram
The famous war dispatch sent by
Mr.. Archibald Forbes. the Eastern cer-
respondent Of the London Daily Nescs,
which described the second battle Of
Plevna, cost q, 200 simply for trans
mission.
"A cow was recently taken for debt
from q poor family in Newburyport,
Mass. Two benevolently disposed ladies
hearing of the matter raised the money
to redeem the COW. and themselves
drove her down High street in that city
to the family from whom she had been
taken.
When information was received in
West Hartford. Conn.,, of the surrender
of Burgoyne, Mr.. Ebenezer Faxon, a
citizen Of that town, set out an elm as
q memorial tree, which is now one of
the largest,and finest elms in the neigh
borhood, and promises to commemorate
the surrender for years and possibly for
another century.
"A child twenty-five months old, liv-
ing in Clinch County, Ca, while at play
outdoors, the other day, came across
q rattlesnake with -four rattles, picked
it up and started toward his brother,
calling to him to ssee the worm.n The
terrified boy shouted to him to throw it
downfall it was snake-and the lit
tie fellow did as directed and got away
without being bitten.
Yesterday afternoon, about five
o'clock, the infant child of Moses H.
Breen, living at No. ~ Green street,
was placed in a bed in an upper room
by its mother. Shortly after cries were
heard from the child. Mrs. Breen ran
upstairs. and on opening the door saw
large wharf-rat jump off the bed
and, before she could stop it, make its
escape. On going to the bed she found
the top of her child's head bleeding
profusely. DIR. d. v. O'Leary was
called, and dressed the wounds, there
being three places where the head was
bitten. Much blood flowed, and the
child at first presented frightful spec
tacle. The wounds, however, are not
considered dangerous. Albany Times.
Three farmers sailed forth to hunt
bear in Alligator Swamp, thirty-six
miles from Fayetteville, N. c., recently.
They soon got upon the trail of three
of the troublesome g varmints,' one of
which was finally discovered and
brought to the ground by discharge
from the weapon of one Of the party.
The lucky marksman proceeded to the
spot where the bear had fallen. and
was bending over the animal, knife in
hand, in the act of plunging it into his
throat, thus :. making assurance doubly
sure" when the bear suddenly raised
himself upon his launches and seized
him by the arm, throwing him upon
the ground, where he held him secure
ly, and had bitten him upon the head
when the dogs OPPORTUNITY came to the
rescue, and the farmer was relieved
from the deadly embrace of the mon
ster and made his escape.
The New Haven Palladium of re-
cent date says: Son November 4,
1867, James Featherstone, harness.
maker, of No. "a Washington street,
was compelled to take to his bed by a
crick' in his back, and he has never
risen from it. In June, 1869, the terri
BILE disease of elepha,atiasis drabum de-
veloped itself in the hardening of the
soles of his feet. 1t rapidly spread up
ward, and his legs swelled and became
like petrifactions. 1t is believed that
tho 1ous of tbo oa1vos will ~, ooo,,ra fbir