Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-12-02
QUEER HAPPENINGS.
Some Very Peculiar Occurrence.
at Different Times and Places.

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Some Very Peculiar Occurrence
at Different Times and Places.
A Bucks county, Pennsylvania, mai
has just ended lawsuit OF - year
Standing, and recovered six cents dam
tsges.
| A large bird at Keokuk, Iowa, dartet
swiftly downward in its flight, anG
striking a lightning rod, the iron rur
through its body, and 1t remained i'm,
paied, fiuttering and struggling until
death came. y.
A woman in Marshall county, Kansas
who Is enjoying her fifth husband, lost
her first two by hanging through vigil.
ance committees, \ third was sent TO the
penitentiary, and the fourth committed
suicide.
As Jared bingham was shaking
81 800 in gold uader the nose of steam
tug owner In the Detroit river, en-
deagoring to tempt him to take that
amount for his boat, the tug struck a
steamer and the glittering gold was the
property of the fishes.
A Wisconsin COW, with persistent
cough that baffied the skill of a
veterinary surgeon to care, died, and
upon opening her windpipe to discover
| the cause OF the irritation there was
found In the upper part of the lung a
live striped frog Of ordinary size.
| Eleven children at four births was
the feat Of Mrs. Scanned Hickson, of
Shamrock, Mo. First birth, three;
second and third, two each, and at the
last interesting occasion there were
four, all the latter being alive and doing
we'll. Ten out Of the eleven are alive.
In Richmond, Va, an old colored
woman has been going to the depot
daily for many years to meet the In
coming trains, looking for letter con-
tanning $25. After the war she did the
washing for soldier, and when he
went away he declared that he would
return and bring the money or send 1t
in aletter. ,a- ..s,s..s1.,.5.
An event probably without precedent
in railway annals has just happened at
Provins. A passenger train leaving
Paris at s 30 O'Clock D. m. arrived safe
ly at its destination, hut on getting
down to let the passengers out Of the
cars the guard was astounded to find
neither passengers nor passenger cars.
They had forgotten to hook the cars on
at Paris. 1l4
While riding horseback, John Eller,
Of Alden, Iowa, saw coming from the
sky ball of fire, apparently about the
size OF flonr barrel. He was paralyzed
with fear, and saw the globe strike the
head of the animal he rode, when he
tainted. Upon coming to his senses he
found that the horse was dead, the head
of the animal being scared as If by a
red-hot iron.
An aged and wealthy Milwaukee
widOwer found wife by a queer
methed. In coffee-grlnding mill in
Chicago female packer placed in.sev-
eral bundles of coffee card saying
that any gentleman matrimonIally in
clined might address her. The widower
found the card while preparing his
lonely breakfast after quarrel with
his housekeeper, and now the Chicago
girl is Mrs.
Near the camp of the work on the
new toll road, near Yankee Forks, New,
quite q curiosity was recently found.
lG was 4 mountain rams head deeply
imbedded in pine tree, and about six
feet from the ground. The right horn
is outside and purls partly around the |
tree, while the front of the skull and |
most of the left horn is covered with |
the growth of wool. The tree is Il |
thrifty pine, Is inches through. How |
that rams head came there will always |
be mystery to scientists.
About midnight, just after the acci. |
Of ha GnnoaIt.iafaI Ii
the wife OF Matthew Winnie |
was found on her way to the works. |
She said she had been awakened Just |
before by her husband, who came all |
to her and told her he had |
been killed In the mine. She got up,
dressed herself and started to ascertain
the truth of what she was only TOO
we'll convinced was true. There had in
reality been a fearful accident; Mr..
Winnie was indeed killed, and the
woman went back to her
children and her desolate home.
As John b. Coyner, farmer residing
near Palestine, Ind, was watering nine
COWS at pump trough, recently, they
made stampede down the lane as fast
Is their legs would carry them. The
cause of the sudden freak was a mvs-
.ery to the hired man, bat it was not
ong before he was let into what ap-
Deared to be the secret of the stampede,
although the sky was clear
md the atmosphere still, young
.ylone, not over 20 feet in breadth,
larted down from the sky, and, striking
,he earth near the pump, twisted off
I've large beech Trees as though they
we're weed.
In Lincoln county, Neya Ia, there Is a
;pring of ice-cold water that bubbles up
over rock and disappears on the other
'ide, and no one has been able to find
where the water goes. At another
point In the same county Is a large
pring, about twenty feet square, that
5 apparently only some eighteen inches
leep, with sandy bottom. The sand
AN be plainly seen, but on looking
closer it is perceived that this sand is
n perpetual state of unrest and no
,ottom has ever been found. It is said
hat Il teamster, on reaching this spring
me day, deceived by Its apparent shall,
owness, concluded to soak one Of his
wagon wheels to cure the looseness of
Is tire. He took 1t off and rolled 1t
nto the, as lie thought, shallow water. :
lie never laid his eyes on that wagon
Wheel again. :.
This Is the coolest November In the