Flights of wild ducks and geese, in numbers _sufficiently multitudinous to
darken the air_, have already migrated to the moors--a circumstance
scarcely existing in the memory of the oldest inhabitant at this period of
the year.--_Hereford Journal._
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A countryman, who was cutting wood near the falls of Niagara, on the 10th
of July, was attacked by a rattle-snake; in his terror he leaped across a
tremendous gulf, sixty-seven feet wide, and escaped unhurt!--_Charleston
Paper._
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The _Weedsport Advertiser_ (an American Journal) relates an incident which
had just occurred in the town of Cato, Cross Lake. A young man named
Stockwell, son of a widow woman of that name, living in the town, after
repeated threats to kill a favourite cat belonging to the house, in order
to vex his mother, at length undertook to carry them into execution. In
the morning he took the cat and started with her into the woods, telling
his youngest sister that he was going to destroy her. They were absent
until the afternoon, when the cat came home, _apparently looking_ as
though she had been in the water. The next morning the young man's clothes
were seen on the bank of Cross Lake, and in the water was found his body,
the face and shoulder dreadfully scratched, evidently by the cat in
struggling, so that little doubt existed that he was drowned in attempting
to destroy puss. All speculation on the matter, however, was set at rest
on the body being brought home, for the cat flew at the corpse, and could
with difficulty be kept off.
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