Contributed by our Regular Correspondents LITTLE GIRL BURNED TO DEATH On Tuesday last one of the most distressing occurred on the farm of Mr. C. B. INGERSOLL, in the town of Strongs Prairie, that it has ever been our province to record. The circumstances, as we learn them, are that Mr. Wm. SLITER was plowing in a field some thirty or forty rods from the house and that one of his little girls, a child about three-and-a-half years old, was in the field with him. Several old stumps and piles of rubbish in the field had been set on fire, and were burning at the time. After watching her father at his work until she became tired, the little girl asked him to carry her across the plowed ground so she could go to the house and see "mama." Mr. SLITER picked her up and carried her across the plowed ground, and past , as he supposed, all danger of her clothing taking fire from the burning heaps, put her down and returned to his work. A few moments afterward his attention was attracted by the child's screams, and looking around he saw her running toward the house with her clothing all aflame. Those in the house discovered the child about the same time and ran to meet her; but before she could be reached she fell upon the ground, overcome by the agony caused by the flames. Mrs. SLITER was the first to reach the little sufferer and tear off the burning clothing. The child was tenderly borne into the house and a messenger dispatched for Doctor WEBSTER, but before the Doctor could reach her, death came to her relief. Almost the entire surface of the body and limbs, from the neck to the knees was burned to a crisp. Mr. SLITER and family until recently lived in Friendship, or on a farm near by, and little Anna, whose untimely fate has deeply shocked our entire community, was known as a bright and promising child. It is always sad to note the fall of these little ones-saddest of all when they are thus taken. How the child's clothing came to take fire is a mystery. It may be that as the careful father was carrying her past the fires, and as he supposed out of all danger, the wind blew a spark that caught on her clothing unnoticed and afterwards was fanned into a flame. But no one will ever be able to tell. The funeral was on Wednesday, and was attended by a large number of our citizens, drawn together by sympathy for the stricken and bereaved parents. MARRIED WITZ,--LEACH,--On the 26th of April, at the residence of Conrad WITZ, in the town of Adams, by Rev. P. R. STAPLES, Mr. Valentine WITZ to Miss Emily N. LEACH. LEGAL NOTICES Attachment Notice Adams County, Town of Adams, In Justice's Court. To Ole Rierson HOLTON: You are hereby notified that a warrant of attachment has been issued against you, and your property attached, to satisfy the demand of William WOOCK, amounting to twenty dollars and seventy-one cents. Now, unless you shall appear before J. B. HARRISON, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, at his office in said town, on the twenty-first day of May, 1878, at four o'clock in the afternoon judgment will be rendered against you, and your property sold to pay the debt. Dated this 1st day of May, 1878 William WOOCK, Plaintiff. Attachment Notice Adams County, Town of Adams, To Ole R. HOLTON, defendant: You are hereby notified that a warrant of attachment has been issued against you and your property attached, to satisfy the demand of Thomas O. HARRIS, amounting to eighteen dollars and two cents. Now, unless you shall appear before J. B. HARRISON, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, at his office in said town, on the 1st day of May A. D. 1878, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, judgment will be rendered against you, and your property sold to pay the debt. Dated this 1st day of May, A. D. 1878. Thomas O. HARRIS, Plaintiff
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