The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02
Concerning Some Really Odd
happening and Others Net
Nearly SO Curious as They
Seem.

of coincidence- II mGy be Satd. a. OF
dream. and p~remoulil0us, that. consul
a,ipe the immense number Of humsu
beings upon this earth aud the mu mt
diDon- points at which their eIlstcucIs
inter>ect "a another. the wonder = nos
that there are - uay striking coincl-
deucs but that there are 20 few. The
exchanges of the F X VI. have during
the past few months recorded a number
of condolences, some of which ct least
were worth noticing on the %srount q
their singularity. One OF the mosr Gu
rious happened only a few DAYS ago.
when a letter was seut TO the sher II ct
Dunn count Wis, authorizing tht at
tachment OF the stock Charley Hudson,
dry. goods dealer AT Wan. ka. Who
would have thought that the letter
would 70 By mistake TO the Sheriff OF
Dane county. that in Dane county thers
would be q place called Wannakee. and
that among Its residents there would be
found a Charles Hudson, a dry good,
merchant, whose stOck would OF curse
be attached? Charles {. Park. of Sears
port, Me, captain OF the Sumner X.
Mead, had not seen his brother Jere
miah @. Park captain OF the Alert, tor
SIX Years nor his brother Samuel Park.
CD board the same vessel, tor twelve
wears but the iates ordained that the
TWO vessels should be becllmed within a
few cables length d: each other for a
whole day OF he coast Of Madagascar.
Ip the smaIl town II Zeitz. In Pru>siau
Saxony, lived women, Frau Schmidt
and Frau Feustel, occupying aiioiuip.
rooms il the same house lu February
- .-l 4E- y4g.Ha- ON ~ 81. -HAr
the mother OF nip eto, all boys. Tn,
was a decidedly curious coincidence III
births. The Rev. Mr.. Busch OF Mn
ona, whose fise children were all born on
Sunday, has been the subject Of some
newspaper paragraphs, but his case Il.
less noteworthy than hat Of a resident
of Middleto u, Conn, three Of whose
four children have the same birthday
November 10. \ less remarkable com
cidence is uoted IN the case OF Mrs. Vim
Mining, Of Mount Auburn, O, who
celebrated on one day the anniversary o.
her birth, OF her wedding and Of the
birth OF a grandchld. la 1862 a fire
destroyed the city II Kingston, Jamaica.
On the day OF tie fire Aaron dc Cordo
va was born. Aaron dc Cordova. q rand
father was the first man who erected a
building. After the fire three months
. IN t.lc >.:.s place the present Aaron
IL Coriu,! va, the first man who erect
81 a buidIng. 1t was a curious fate
winch ordained that the son Of the Aus
triau Baron Carl Won Hoter. and Andfeas
%.i,t,rs grandson, should perish by a
bullet discharged during a rife match
ueuC the fifth member of this dis
ungulsted family slam BY such a wound
I~hr,eycars z one Lewis Hiitz, of t.
lei en4ence, Mo. killed Joseph Melody,
,ut vl> acquitted on the ground of IN
sanity. Two years later, Oh the same
lay and at the same hour, he received a
fatal sunstrOke on the same spot where
tie committed the crime. Condolences
relative to death are numerous, if not
Always very noteworthy. On The 10Th Of
AIrii, 1872 Edward Goss was buried at
Troy, in TINS State, from the same house
at winch, III 1870, the same clergyman
had buried hi. brother James. Both
brothers died on the same day Of the
month and at the same hour. On the
Sgh of April, 1852, at Philadelphia, oc-
CURED a curious series OF what the
English newspapers delight to cal ia
taIItIes.' AS Mrs. WInsmore was going
TO bed she heard "a noise in the room of
her sister, Mrs. " atson, and running IN
found her gasrlng for breath. The doc
tor and their third sister, Mrs. Smith,
were SEN for, and arrived in a few min
utos. In "a very few moments the SICK
woman died of an attack %apoplexy. and
at intervals OF ten minutes Mrs. Wins
more and Mrs. Smith fell dead on the
door OF the same apartment; a success
sion of deaths which would have been
voted absurd in aj-ensational mo!odr.ma
At Wheeling, W. Va Mrs Jacob House
died Que day at the age of seventy three,
and her husband, who was two years her
eenior, expired on the morrow. The
alleged coincidence in this case wa,
rendered less extraordinary by the fact
that they had always desired to die on
the same day, and that the surviving
partner of more han halt a century OF
welded life refused TO take food after
hearing Of his wife's death. THIS case
recalls that of the parents Of Lady Bur
jett-toutts who we're buried in the
same DAY. At Burlington, Ia a few
days ago, a. a young married woman
named Ahium, died Of consumption,
her stlil younger SIS ec fell across the bed
and died almost instantly, but in this
case there was a complication of lung
di>ease with heart trouble SO that the
younger woman death was not 50 much
to be wondered at This is much more
like a singular coinci fence: DR.. Jane.
Alternately, of CASTOR, \. c., and Mr
John +. Alternately, who resided within
five miles OF the towu-they were not
related in blood-were born on the same
day in 1872, married twin sisters on the
same day, and died on the same day ip
leS2. ;t viii, however. be seen that the
second point of coincidence Is not in
reality 81 very surprising, since ~nutllin.
would bc moIe natural than for the twin
sisters to insist ca being married at the
same time.