Milford chronicle., 1885-02-27

| they were tossed aside hastily for the
last time. And this is 30. Fifty years
ago, the ticket on tho dress relates, 8
little child coming home from church
with her mother, suddenly died, and
ever since the mother has kept, Just as
the baby wore it that last day, the
dainty frock and cap and bag and nit
tens.
ONE of the strangest stories that has
/ ever been told has been brought out at
Macon, Ga, by the death of man who
was accused of committing murder, yet
proved his innocence until his actions on
his deathbed betrayed him. A farmer
por- = Evans was murdered. He was
y Z " Sg with his head smashed in
. 'le ls an ak lying rear. A negro girl was
/ found in the room buried under q pile
of corn. She said she had been paid by
Evans's brother-in-law, Carr, to let him
in the room with another white man and
a negro. While they were in the room
they killed Evans. The white man ran
away and the negro was afterward killed.
The girl was sentenced to Dade Coal
Mines for life, where she now is. Carr
died the other day. On his deathbed he
said he was in perfect hell, and called
all into the room to hear his story, when
he died with the secret on his lips.
The lower portion of a mans leg, i'll
cluding the knee, was taken to the po-
lice station in the suburban town Of
Lake, Ill. The limb was warm and
bleeding, and had been picked up on
Clark and Fifty-frst streets soon after a
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search for the body was made without
success. Some time later, when the
hunt was almost abandoned, the dead
body of NJ. F. Bell, tailor, was found
at Eightieth street, on the Lake Shore
track, nearly three miles away, mangled
in q terrible manner and minus one leg.
It is supposed that Bell, after losing his
leg, seized hold of the running gear of
the cars and held on until he fell from
sheer exhaustion, and was then mangled
to death beneath the train.
TIE arm of A. L. Davis, of Hartland,
VT, was so badly mangled a short time
ago as to neeessitate amputatiOn, and
the injured member was buried, but
those who attended to this duty failed to
wash and clean it. Soon after Davis
complained of q bad feeling in the hand.
He said it felt as though full of sawdust,
and insisted upon having it taken up
and washed. While sitting in a room
with his wife, neither of them knowing
that the exhumation had taken place, he
suddenly exclaimed: "They are pouring
warm water on my hand" This was
thought to be imagination, but on going
to a back room it was found that some
men had dug up the hand, which was
undergoing the very operation described
by the owner.
A CHILD with two tongues is said to
be living at Yonkers, N. Y. The second
tongue has grown from the root and on
top of the first. The mother first no.
ticed it when the child was three days
old. 1t was then quite small, but it is
now nearly as large as the real tongue.
The anterior part Of the upper tongue
looks natural, but the posterior part is
and round; giving the unnat-
ural growth a pear shape. heschild,
now two years old, has never expert
enced any difficulty in swallowing its
food or in breathing, looks natural in
every other way and has always been
healthy.
In the course of the excavations now
being carried on around the Athenian |
Acropolis, the foundations of the Propy- |
@a have been laid bare. Among them |
have been discovered q number Of sheds |
Or yerandas built of tufa, which was evi-
IDENTIFY existing on the spot when the |
Propyl@a was being srected, about 430 |
B. c., and were built into the founda-
ions. Some of them are in a state OF |
perfect preservation and retain still quite |
iresh the paintings with which they
we're originally decorated. The colors
were blue, red and yellow.
A GENTLEMAN conversant with the In
lian character says there is point of
lonor among even the worst of the
Jhoctaws hard to fud among white
criminals. When a Choctaw has been
ried for n capital offence and con-
lemned to execution, he is allowed to
hoose between hanging and shooting.
lie is then psroled and allowed perfect
reedom until the day of doom. Every
ne of these criminals elected to be shot,
nd every one kept his pledge and came
'ack to die.
Two YEARS ago young Frenchman
Tho enlisted in the army was amazed to
nd himself enrolled in a disciplinary
egiment made up of convicts. He
erved with his tough companions in
.lgiers until few weeks ago, when he
'as summoned to Paris, where he
sarned that he had been the victim of a
ldicial mistake, al ex-convict having
tolen his certificate and personated him
efore the final recruiting officer.
In 1888 a young man commenced
laking deposits in a Connecticut sa7.
lgs bank. His total deposits from that
me until 1885 amounted to 81, 962.25
etween 1898 and 1858 he drew 81. go
70, and few days since, on having his
ank book written up and balanced, he
as found to have on deposit 81. .273. 33.
AN English physician has been trying
, number the hairs on the human head.
-e finds that in a square inch there is
a average Of 1,066 hairs, and believes
lat person endowed with the average
uantity of capillary adornment has
Is, 600 hairs on his head.
An old negro 20 years of age has lust
cen sentenced to the penitentiary in
ewtown county, Miss, for marrying
bite woman. The woman was very
yed, and asked the negro to marry her
} that she would have some means Of
Ipport, and he says he married her out
sympathy for her miserable condi-
on,