The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-11-29
McInKHTs AND ACCIDENTS.

INCInKHTs AND ACCIDKnTs.
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Of the crystal and look very natural.
The Concord a. ~ Monitor says:
sThe other night e Henry A. Drew, Of
Stratford, was calmly siumbering,
large wildcat entered his house and b.
gan an attack upon him Mr.. Drew
managed to escape from the room, pro-
cured stick Of wood, and returned to
the attack. After smashing the stick
to pieces and demolishing ! chair, he
finally managed, with the help Of his
dog, to kill the animal. The wildcat
entered the house through hole left in
the side Of the outer door by the break
ing Of . pane Of glass;
Mr.. Zimmerman, residing in Spring.
field, H., was told of the presence Of
burglars in his house, few mornings
ago, byracat. It was in this wise: In
retiring the family had put the cat out
Of the house, andat early morn Mr.. a..
was awakened by the purring Of the
puss in his bedroom. At the same
moment he felt the draught from the
front door and knew burglars we're in
the house. The burglars had already
captured several napkin-rings and q lot
of plumber from the larder. but were
pressed SO closely by the awakened fam
lily that they dropped meal-sack and
other provender, and at once entered
upon lively foot-race.
Two young lovers in Vermont, who
would wed without their friends knowl-
edge, started for Westport the other
day, but found afterward that they
could not complete the journey until
the next day. They couldn't go home
unmarried, SO they drove to Panton and
asked the Rev. Mr.. Brooks to unite
them He could mot perform the cere-
mony without license from the proper
town official. That was unobtainabls,
as they were far from home. The BRIDE
groom hit upon the idea of evading the
law by going out Of the State. So the
three, with two witnesses, got into a
boat and were rowed out into Lake
Champlain, where the knot was salts
factorily tied.
The Virginia Nev.) Enterprise re-
lates the following as an account of re-
cent veritable occurrences: ABOUT a
week or ten days since, a man in this
city dreamed that he saw his next-door
neighbor brought home dead from the
mine in which he worked. He told his
wife of the dream next morning, and
during the day they talked a good deal
about it. On the second day, the man
who had experienced the dream looked
from the window and saw the neighbor
on his own doorstep, about to leave for
the mine. He said to his wife: Il have
"a great mind to go and beg that man
not to 60 to work, my dream haunts me
So The wife answered that it was a
foolish thought, which would only an
noy the man, and was not worth men,
tioning. as it was the neighbours last
day in the mine. Within two hours
from that moment, the neighbor' body,
crushed out of shape and quite dead,
was brought home"
"A man with large hole in his
head and another in his waistcoat
pocket, lost $500 the other day passing
along fremont street, ~ Boston. He
had crammed roll of bills into his
pocket, and it had slipped through and
fallen to the sidewalk without his
knowledge. Now it happened that a
shabbily-dressed girl, poor but honest,
was walking behind him, and saw the
greenbacks fall at his feet. She picked
them up, caught up with the gentle
man, and asked him If he had lost any
thing. His fingers were in his torn
pocket and his heart in his mouth as
he answered: Eyes, l have-$500."
The girl handed him the roll of bills.
He counted them, glanced at her, and
offered her twenty cents. With look
of disdain, she brushed him aside and
WCAe OA hCk way. Out tuC ludu VIII
the microscopic soul was not crest
fallen, he had saved his twenty cents as
well as his $500.
John Dumont and Dave Long, a
couple of Texas boys, were Looping their
horses up the road q few evenings
since, and at the same time shooting at
objects along the road with their pis-
tolls. As they approached tree, the
branches of. which extended over the
road, John wagered that he could hit
the limb, and, drawing his pistol, fired.
The bark few from the limb, which
went to show the accuracy of the shot.
Instantly after the report of the pistol
Dave checked his horse, exclaiming:
:" I am shot! am killedr' John re-
piled: II guess not, or you could not
racket that way" "Well, if l amt
dead, I'm dying" said Dave. BY this
time John was by Dawes side, and sure
enough he was shot. The ball that
John shot at the limb hit the same
square, bounced back and struck Dave
in, the mouth, knocking out four of his
front teeth, two upper and two lower.
The upper teeth and ball could not be
found; John. however, thinks Dave
swallowed them. Strange to say, not
either Of tho Inns uoc oorofohad