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DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.--Last evening, about six o'clock, as Mr.  
William Schuyler, an old and respectable citizen of South Park, was  
leaving his residence to go down-town, as has been his usual custom  
for many years with the exception only of a short interval in the  
spring of 1850, during which he was confined to his bed by injuries  
received in attempting to stop a runaway horse by thoughtlessly  
placing himself directly in its wake and throwing up his hands and  
shouting, which if he had done so even a single moment sooner, must  
inevitably have frightened the animal still more instead of checking  
its speed, although disastrous enough to himself as it was, and  
rendered more melancholy and distressing by reason of the presence  
of his wife's mother, who was there and saw the sad occurrence  
notwithstanding it is at least likely, though not necessarily so,  
that she should be reconnoitering in another direction when  
incidents occur, not being vivacious and on the lookout, as a  
general thing, but even the reverse, as her own mother is said to  
have stated, who is no more, but died in the full hope of a glorious  
resurrection, upwards of three years ago; aged eighty-six, being a  
Christian woman and without guile, as it were, or property, in  
consequence of the fire of 1849, which destroyed every single thing  
she had in the world. But such is life. Let us all take warning by  
this solemn occurrence, and let us endeavor so to conduct ourselves  
that when we come to die we can do it. Let us place our hands upon  
our heart, and say with earnestness and sincerity that from this day  
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