News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-10-14
STRANGE THINGS WE SEE
PECULIAR INCIDENTS THAT TAKE
PLACE ABOUT US DAILY.
War StOry-in Mad HOuse-An Earth
quake's WOrk-A Sea Serpent-Ayetrran
Shaken Up-LOst Her Scalp, E,c., Etc.

War Story-in a Mad House-An Earth
quake's WOrk-A Sea Serpent-Ayetrrau
Shaken Up-Lost Her Scalp, E,c., Etc.
WHEN the war of the rebellion be-
gan, Asa Martin of Martin county, Ind,
left his wife and little children and en-
listed. He was captured and imprisoned
IN Belle Isle, and then all trace of him
was lost. After waiting several years
Mrs. Martin, sure that she was widow,
married Widower Peak, who had several
children. Her offspring and her prede.
cessors, together with several more that
blessed the Martin-Peak marriage, now
form family of really charitable pro-
portions. Now comes a man from the
Indian Territory who says that Martin
escaped from the rebel prison and went
West. He wrote to his wife, and not
getting an answer thought she was
dead. He has not married again, but
has made fortune. and his herds are
large and many. Mrs. Martin Peak is
;.nxiously waiting to see what Asa will
do about it.
A YOUNG lady from Charleston relates
this incident of the earthquake: "Old
Mr. Henry A. Middleton is over 81 years
of age, and has become so feeble that
his family persuaded him to give up his
usual summer at Newport, she said.
81 he whole side of his hou fell out,
and the family escaped to the garden,
where they camped all night. In the
morning the old gentleman disappeared
for awhile, and returned in the course
of an hour spick and span and self-pos-
sessed. He had made his way into the
house, taken his usual morning bath,
despite the fact that the whole side of
the house was out, dressed himself care
fully in clean clothes and, when his
family wanted to send him away, said
that he found the earthquake very ex-
exciting and meant to stay and see it
out"
In connection with the volcanic erup-
tons in New Zealand, correspon lent
of London newspaper writing from
Tauranga says: 81 have made a ca! eful
estima of the stuff elected during the
eruption. 1t amounts in round mum bers
to 5000, 900, 900 cubic yards weighing
5000, 900, 600 tons, which is, after all, not
quite one cubic mile. 1t seems a small
cavity. but it would take more than the
amount of the national debt of England
to excavate it 1t would take one man
1000, 900 years to shovel the stuff from
the ground into carts; yet all was done
in four hours. The stuff, when washed,
showed glittering particles of mica and
little pieces of transparent white crys-
tai. Sanguine people imagine they have
found gold and diamonds, and are anx-
iously awaiting analysis
Two years ago young farmer of Not
toway county, Va, fell in love with a
pretty girl. He was an F. F. V, she
a simple village maiden. But she didn
love him, because she loved another,
and she told him so. At this the feeble
brain of the young an gave way and
he was sent to the Eastern Insane Asv-
lum at Williamsburgh. Just before the
day set for the marriage of the girl to
the man she loved, he was thrown from
his horse and instantly killed. When
the news reached her she became
raving maniac, and she too was recently
taken to the asylum, and now she and
the man who went crazy for love of her
are under the same roof.
went to the theatre recently and sat
through one act of a very emotional
character, with legs crossed and locked
in the rung of a chair When the cur
tain fell he drew breath of relief, at
tempted to rise, and found that his right
side was paralyzed He was carried
home, and is very slowly recovering
Doctors suppose the paralysis to have
been caused either by an unusual tension
brought to bear on his brain by tenn
porary excitement while following the
drama or by a violent check to the cir
culation of blood caused by the posi-
ton in which he had been sitting.
DIR. HENRY VILE ofAtlanta has been
trying for long time to cure the scalp
wound of a nine year-old girl who, when
baby, fell in the fire and received
burns that never healed He decided
to give the girl new scalp. and said he
would have to take the skin from some
ones arm The girls cousin, a brave
boy of twelve, at once barred his arm,
and the doctor removed twenty-five
small pieces of cuticle and placed them
on the head f the girl. Both children
went home well pleased, but the boys
father was very angry, and has sued the
doctor for assault and battery on his
son.
A FEW days ago, while the Rev.
Newman Smythe and his son were fish
ing on Ripogenus Pond, uear Bangor,
the boy picked up what appeared like
an odd-looking stick He threw it
down and soon picked up another SINH
lar in appearance. He retained this in
hand, using it as a cane and striking
with it at trees and rocks. Upon reach
ing camp he was much alarmed by DE
ing informed by the guide that the ap-
parently innocent stick was loaded
dynamite cartridge, such as are used BY
lumbermen in the removing of obstruc-
tions in streams.
A CITIZEN of Valrosia, Fla, wants to
send some of the big red ants of that
region, called "bull dog" ants, to this
city for use by surgeons in fastening
wounds of the intestines. He says that
if the edges of two pieces of soft paper
are held together, and a bulldog ant
held so that he will clutch both sides.
and his head be then quickly twisted
off, the head becomes fixture in that
position. He says the Spanish surgeons
use the bulldog ants as suteres in this
way.
A c. IcAGo newspaper tells of young
Hoosier who to show his experiences on
typewriter, wrote love letter with
it. 1t was a fatal mistake. The girls
brother was printer, and she could set
type. She went to her brothers office
and set up in cold type: Dear Sir:
am not to be wooed by machinery. |
enclose your ring. Please return my
letters. Respectfully, -" She
worked that of on proof press and
mailed it to the youth.
A CITIZEN of Clayton, Ga, lost a val
liable dog, and suspected that he had
fallen into deserted mining shaft. He
could neither see nor hear anything Of
him at the bottom of the sixty feet
hole. but when he set down a piece of
meat on a string something 'bit' as
grcedily as a Saranac trout. Then
miner went down, and sure enough the
dog was there, and after being drawn
up was found to be unhurt
THEY raise energetic hens in Kansas.
A Kingman'countyman had one that.tried
to hatch out a sitting of eggs and
failed; then tried a second lot and
brought forth ten fine chicks; took care
OF them for six weeks, during the last
three of which she laid an egg every