Morning journal and courier., 1885-11-11
He Had Good Pluck.


 A good number of years ago people were startled by report respecting young man in the western part of what was then Upper Canada. He went to the woods one winter morning to fell timber. During the day he felled tree which lodged. He attempted to fell another on the first one to bring it down, but did not succeed. He went up to one of the leaning trees to attempt to dislodgs them, when suddenly the upper tree feli and caught the young mans foot between the two, at the same time throwing him over backward so that his shoulders just touched the snow. He was alone, for in the bush his voice could not reach his friends, and it being cold day, he must soon perish. But he was a man of strong will and was equal to the oc- casion. He took his knife from his pocket and cut the flesh around the bone of the i'm prisoned leg. As he came to an artery he held it until the cold congealed the blood and then proceeded. If he felt his strength beginning to fail he bathed his face with snow. When he had the bone barred he reached his axe, and with one blow severed it and was free. He crawled out of the woods and across field to the road, where passing team took him home. That young man, says MT. Dougall, Q. o., of this city, afterward 8 member of the Dominion Cabinet, 8 Cabinet minister, and is now known as MT. Justice O'Connor, who is on the bench at the Belleville Assizes.
 The house of ex-Mayor Greene Kendrick in Waterbury has been attached by the attorney for his wife in the divorce suit.
 Wirt N. Case, third son of Orestes Case of the East Hill, Canton, died after long and distressing illness November 9th, aged 29 years. This is the first death in his fathers .<7r,Tk years.'
 The livery stable of Ernest A. Olin 1n Windsor was burned Sunday night. The fire is believed to have been incendiary. There was insurance of $575 in the Phoenix of Brooklyn, $110 of which was on the house, was confined to saving the surrounding buildings.
 J. E. Potter, the missing Windsor station agent, fails to turn up and his books are found in bad shape. A considerable sum of money is unaccounted for. His bondsman is his father-in-law H. Strickland of Enfield and his wife has moved to her fathers house. Potter lived fast and owed much.
 The New London Telegraph says in speak ing of the recent birth of triplets in that city: '1n connection with this phenomenal addi ton to the census are the following curious condolences: Mrs. Morrissey, the mother, is one of twins and there were two other pairs in the family; the three godfathers and three godmothers who stood sponsors for the chill dren at their baptism were each half of pair of twins"
 The Norwich Bulletin says: John A. Palm CT, the Yale student who died suddenly, was victim of football. The port-mortem ex- animation revealed that he died from the rupture of blood vessel resulting from that I violent sport on the previous day. It is a | marvel to nearly everybody but football players that any pleasure can be found in | that sport as conducted nowadays, more par | ticularly by college teams. Certain recent games have been little less than indscrimi- ! nate slugging matches with football as the | ostensible excuse. Broken fingers, dislocated | joints, sprains and ruptured blood vessels are becoming too numerous to make football profitable recreation. It may be that Palm | CTS untimely death will result in modifying the roughness of the game somewhat or ir ' datarrinp others from enpaoin~ in if