Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1884 — Page 2

@lje|)etnocrflticsentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J w. McEWEN, - . Publishes.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record oitiie Week. EASTERN. \ Owing to depression in the Vail way bond and share market, Matthew Morgan's Rons, bankers. New York, suspended. The liabilities are said to be about $1,000,000. Stout & Co., bankers, of New York, suspended payment, with liabilities estimated at $1,000,000. They were largely interested in the Metropolitan Elevated Hoad. In a race of three and a half miles at New London, the Yale crew defeated the Harvards by three lengths. At Taylorsville, Penn., Miss Thompson entered her father’s drug store, weighed out a grain and a half of strychnine, and calmly swallowed it. Antidotes were administered without effect. O. C. Burrows, a prominent citizen of Bristol, K. 1., has embezzled $5,000 from the National Rubber Company. J. Miller Kelly, President of the Rochester (N. Y.) Common Council, has been Indicted for corruption and bribery. About forty Hungarians leave the Connellsville (Pa.) coal region every day for their former homes in the old country on account of Blackness of work in the coal mining business; also, probably, on account of the fierce opposition to them on the part of Irish and Welsh miners.

WESTERN.

At the Episcopal conference of Nebraska, held at Omaha, Dr. Potter, of Geneva, N. Y., was elected Bishop of the diocese, vice Clarkson, deceased. The officers of the railroads traversing lowa have issued a circular stating that in compliance with the law they will not receive any intoxicating liquors for transportation from any point either within or without the State to any point within its limits after July 4. At San Francisco, William C. Milton killed Albertina Anderson because she refused to marry him, and then shot himself dead. CoL Chas. R. Jennison, who, during the war, commanded the Seventh Kansas Cavalry, died at Leavenworth, of consumption, aged 50 years. Edward Lane, aged 23 years, a wellknown society young man of Minneapolis, highly connected, shot himself dead. He left a note saying, “My mind is gone. I have been insane for a year.” An important murder trial has been concluded at Lincoln, 111. The acoused parties—J. H. Hall, Belle Hall (bis wife), and William Ferris—were charged with the killing of Farmer McMahon and his two hired men at Mount Pulaski, Logan County, several months ago. The jury found J. H. Hall guilty, and fixed his punishment at life imprisonment. ' William Ferris and Mrs. Hall were aoquitted, but will be tried under indictments for killing Carter and Mattbeny. The spectacle of “Excelsior” at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, continues to draw an increasing patronage. The entertainment is one that merits the favor of those who find interest in ballet performances, as it is -one of the most artistic and pleasing of the many uniquely devised by the Kiralfy brothers. The grouping of numbers in a moving picture of raised figures is admirable, and many features of the spectacle or of the performance are highly enjoyable. Gustave J. Lowengart, of San Francisco, having lost heavily by gambling, threatened the life of his uncle unless SI,OOO was given him. When an officer arrived to arrest him, Lowengart killed himself with a revolver. Two horge thieves named £d Owensand 8. Nickerson were killed near Helena, M. T., by cowboys, who recaptured' several horses. The severance of the Wabash and Missouri Pacific Railroads has been agreed upon, and hereafter both liues will be controlled by a distinct set of officers, and the agents will compete with each other the same as with any outside road.

At Huntsville, Ohio, while driving a vicious pony, Louis Murphy was fatally injured and his wife was instantly killed. The Illinois Watch Company, of Bpring-fleld, has shut down for the summer, dispensing with the services of one thousand employes. The extensive distillery of Fairbanks & Duenweg at Terre Haute, Ind., with a large amount of highwines, was burned. One hundred hogs lost their lives, but the cattle were rescued. The total loss is $120,000. Col. George A. Henry, United States Timber Agent at Chippewa Falls, Wis., has been indicted for bribery in failing to turn over to the Government money received by him in settlement for trespass on Government timber-lands. Judge Wylie, in the Common Pleas Court, at Columbus, Ohio, in reiusing a writ of habeas corpus for one of the contestants, decided that the arrest of ball-players for Sunday playing was legal. The President of the local club says this is a death-blow to base-ball in Columbus. A Portland (Oregon) dispatch says that two boats capsized at the mouth of the Columbia River owing to rough weather. Capt. Olsen, a prominent pioneer citi; en of Astoria, fam Blair, James Craig, and four other unknown men were drowned. The bodies of Olsen and Craig were recovered. All the others were swept out to sea and lost.

SOUTHERN.

The Louisiana Legislature has passed a bill appropriating SIOO,OOO for the World’s Exposition at Now Orleans. Ike Laddy, a negro 25 years old, wh recently made three attempts to outrage white women at Whitney, Tex., and succeeded in one instance, was taken from jail at that place and lynched. The vigilantes also-cut his ears off. William Cox, at Danville, Ky., shot at two men who were trying to break into his house, and killed his mdther. One of the receivers says the State Bank of West Virginia, at Charleston, will pay depositors but 10 cents on the dollar.

Zeno L Young, the editor of the Madisonvllle (Ky.) Times, fell from the second story window of his office, and was fatally injured. A fire at New Orleans destroyed property amounting to $200,000. “Doc” Walker, colored, was hanged at Texarkana, Tex. He had murdered a negro named Lucius Grant, last January, over a boot trade. An extraordinary accident occurred on the Virginia Midland Railway, near Lynchburg, Va. As the train approached a bridge over the James River the conductor whistled for the airbrakes, but bis order could not be obeyed; neither could the ordinary braces be applied. The train rushed on the bridge, an old structure, with tremendous foroe. The girders gave way and the two Pullman cars were thrown into the river. The passenger coach projected partly over the break. The sleeping coaches broke from the trucks and floated on the water, giving time for the rescue of the occupants. All the passengers escaped without hurt, as if by a miracle. The conductor, who displayed great courage and presence of mind, was considerably hurt. A brakeman also received some Injuries.

WASHINGTON.

A large painting of the wife of President Polk, presented by the ladles of Tennessee, bas been bung in the green-room of the White House. President Arthur has sent to the Senate the following nominations: EU H. Murray for Governor of Utah, John W. Me drum for Surveyor-General of Wyoming, and Samuel A. Losch for Secretary of New Mexico. Secretary Folger has issued a call for SIO,O )0,000 of bonds. Gilbert A. Pierce, a Chicago journalist, has been nominated Governor of Dakota, and John H. Kinkead, of Nevada, Governor of Alaska.

POLITICAL.

The Democracy of Missouri have selected as delegates-at-large to Cbioago, Dr. Munford, of Kansas City, and John O’Day, of Spr ngfleld. Of fourteen district delegates, all aro for Cleveland with three exceptions. Gen. Logan was notified at Washington, by the Convention Committee, of his nomination for the Vice Presidency, and formally accepted it as a trust reposed In him by the Republican party. The Indiana Democratic State Convention nominated Isaac P. Gray for Governor, and M. D. Manaon for Lieutenant Governor. The Ohio Democratic State Convention was held at Columbus. The platform adopted favors a tariff for revenue limited to the necessities of the Government, so adjusted as to encourage productive interests at home, but not to create monopolies. The Democrats of North Carolina nominated Gen. Alfred M. Scales for Governoi and Charles M. Stedman for Lieutenant Governor. Representative E. H. Funston has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Second Kansas District. He was elected a few months ago to succeed the late Congressman Haskell by 6,200 over his Democratic opponent. Representative James B. Wakefield has been renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Second Minnesota District. The Democrats of Florida nominated Gen. E. A. Perry for Govenor and M. H. Mabry for Lieutenant Governor. The Republican National Committee met in New York and elected B. F. Jones, of Pittsburgh, Chairman, and Samuel Fessenden, of Connecticut, Secretary. The Republicans of the Tenth Indiana District nominated W. D. Owen for Congress; and in the Thirteenth District the Hon. William Williams was nominated to succeed Mr. Calkins, the nominee for Governor. The Democratic State Convention of Arkansas passed a resolution regretting the dedication of Mr. Mr. Tilden, and pronouncing him the greatest statesman since the days of Jefferson.

MISCELLANEOUS.

A party of eleven persons ate icecream in a Coal Bluff (Pa.) saloon, and within two hours all were taken with pains, vomiting, and convulsions. Two of the party have since died, and three others are very low. It is supposed that the vanilla flavoring poisoned the cream. . The trotting challenge issued by the owner of Jay-Eye-See is treated by Mr. Vanderbilt as an impertinence. The latter says Maud S. is kept for his own amusement, being the fastest and handsomest piece of horseflesh in the world, and there are horses he would not accept as a gift if they could trot a mile in a minute. During last week there were 171 failr ures in the United States and twenty-eight in Canada. Three seamen were drowned at St. John, N. 8., while running a line from a schooner to the wharf. Nineteen men, charged with the murder of five Orangemen at Rlverhead, N. 8., some time ago, wore acquitted amid great excitement. The Toronto Lacrosse Club defeated the Shamrocks of Montreal for the championship of the world. Mr. Van Horne, manager of the Canadian Pacific Road, states that the company can not raise the funds necessary to build branch lines in Manitoba. A Protestant mission-house at Celaca, Mexico, on the Mexican Central Railroad, was recently attacked by a mob. The ft r , Jture was completely destroyed, and the Rev. A. W. Gresnman and other icsidents of the mission had to seek the protection of the Mexican soldiery.

FOREIGN.

Prince Victor, the Bonapartist heir, in a letter to a friend states that he was obliged to leave the house of h!s father, Prince Jerome, while cherishing for him the deepest respect, as he could not take part in acts contrary to his political opinions. During the year 1883 53,000,000 gallons of beer were drank In Germany. The jute-spinners of Dundee, Scotland, have reduced wages 5 per cent., and besides put their mills on short time. The Leigh Court collection of ffeint-

tags were sold at auction in London, from which over $254,000 was realized. In consequence of the prevalence of cholera at Toulon, France, there is a general suspension of trade there. The merchants have petitioned the Government for relief. Two Spanish military officers were shot at Gerona for desertion in April last. The people violently protested against the execution. The conference of the five powers on the Egyptian question met in London on June 28, and, after exchanging the usuai civilities, adjourned for ten days.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

In a dispute at Windsor, 111., Harry Tice, aged 16, fatally stabbed Newton Easey, 15 j ears old. Near Logansport, Ind., the little son of J. A. Michaels poked a stick into a hive and was stung to death by the bees. Fire in a Youngstown (Ohio) suburb destroyed Mrs. Murphy's bouse, her three children, aged 5, 7 and 9, perishing in the tames. The chief of the Cherokee nation proposos to confiscate the wire fences put up by the stockmen on the lands of his people In Indian Territory. The stockmen are badly frightened. A movement for the reduction of the wages of sugar plantation laborers in Louisiana at least 25 per cent has been started, making the average about 65 cents a day, with rations. This causes much excitement among the hands, who aro almost exclusively colored. In a row between Orangemen and Nationalists at Warrenpoint, near Newry, Ireland, one of the Nationalists was stabbed almost to death. Two Orangemen have been arrested. It Las been decided in one of the English courts that Bradlaugh, In administering the Parliamentary oath to himself, acted contrary to law and the usage of Parliament. No fine was imposed, pending Bradlaugh’s appeal to a higher court. A cable dispatch reports that cholera has appeared at Saluzzo, in Northern Italy. The disease was increasing at Marseilles, France. A naval captain in the latter city killed himself when his wife was attackedFrench Government physicians, having examined the epidemic at Toulon, report that it is a mild form of Asiatic cholera. A number of deaths from cholera have occurred at Odessa, Russia. A dispatch irom Teuton says: “It is generally admitted that the worst of the cholera crisis is over. One feature of the disease has been the shortness of time elapsing between seizure and death. This would seem to indicate that the malady is Asiatic cholera.” The Theater Royal, at Edinburgh, took fire In the property-room, and within an hour was totally destroyed, together with several adjacent buildings. The Nationalist candidate for Mayor of Cork was defeated by a coalition of Whigs and Conservatives, a Liberal named Sheehan receiving two majority. During the month of June the coinage at the Philadelphia Mint aggregated sl,771,435. This included 1,140,000 silver dollars and 250,200 dimes. A court-martial for the trial of Judge Advocate General Swaim will meet In Washington on Sept. 10,,under the Presidency of Gen. Schofield. President Arthur has approved the act granting letter-carriers at f ree-delivery offices fifteen days of absence in each year; also the act establishing a bureau of labor. Bills were reported to the Senate on the 30th ult., to forfeit the unearned land grant of the Northern Pacific Road, and for the erection of a public building at Akron, Ohio. An adverse report was made on the bill to grant public lands to the survivors of the Mountain Meadow massacre. Mr. Cameron called up a reso utlon to discharge the Finance Committee from further consideration of the bill for the retirement and recoinage of trade dollars, but it w.is voted down. The river and harbor bill was taken up, and several an. ndments were disposed of. A House joint resolution was passed continuing the present appropriations for live days from June 30. President Arthur sent to the Senate the name of ex-Congressman Henry S. Neal, of Ohio, to be Solicitor of the Treasury. In the House of Representatives, Mr. King introduced a bill a> proprialng $200,000 to prevent the introduction of cholera into the United States. Ihe conference reports on the bills authorizing a bridge at St. Paul and the disposition ol useless military reservations were agreed to. The Committee on Elections made a report that John S. Wise is entitled to retain his seat as Representative-at-large from Virginia. The fortification bill was discussed. Messrs. Horr, Finerty, and Dorsheimer favored the majority report for a large appropriate «. Messrs. Holman and Follett made speeches on the opposite Bide. No action was taken.

THE MARKET.

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THE WORK OF CONGRESS.

What Is Being Done by the National Legislature. The Senate, Jane 24, passed the Mexican pension bill, with an amendment that no person shall be entitled to more than one pension at a time, and the House bill to authorize the appointment of two additional Justices of tne Supreme Court for Dakota and one for Washington Territory. In the House ol Representatives, a bill was passed to repeal the pre-emption and timber-col tare laws, with an amendment that agrlcultn-al lands shall hereafter be reserved for actual settlers under the homestead law. The House electoral-count bill was passed, os was also the Senate bill to give an annual vacation of fifteen days to each letter-carrier. The Senate, on June 25, spent the day on the legislative appropriation bill, and struck out the clause directing the consolidation of customs districts. The House of Representatives adm tted James R. Chalmers for the Second District of Mississippi, a resolution to declare the election void being voted down by 56 to 161. Bill-< were passed to authorize the establishment of a branch Soldiers’ Home in the West, and giving permission for a horse railway on the Island and bridges at Rock Island. The Senate, on the 26th, passed the legislative appropriation bill, with an amendment that all reports In the Record shall oe an accurate transcript of the proceedings and debates. The Honse passed a bill authorizing the con-traction of a bridge across the Missouri River at White Cloud, Kan. Bills were reported to pension the surviving officers and men of the Tippeoanoe campaign, and for disposing of the Cherokee reservation in Kansas. The Senate, on June 27, passed a bill granting right of way through the Indian Territory to the Southern Kansas Road A bill for the relief of William McGarrahan was reported adversely. Mr. Mitchell introduced a bill to incorporate the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Hawley called attention to a false statement in a speeeh printed in the Record , that Gen. Logan owned 80,000 acres of land. The House, by a vote of 124 to 114, table i the bill to forfeit the “backbone” railroad land grant. The subject of printing undelivered speeches in the official report of proceedings led to some hot words and considerable merriment. A favorable report was made in the Senate, June 19, on the bill to pension the widow'of General James B. Steedman. The general deficiency bill was passed, with an Item authorizing the payment of $3,000 to Charles H. Reed for defending Charles J. Guiteau. The River and Harbor bill consumed the remainder of the day’s session. In the House, the Speaker stated that the regular order was the question of privilege come.ng over from yesterday, and presented by -a resolution offered by Mr. Cannon, that the Record be so amended as to show that the speech purporting to have been delivered by Mr. McAdoo, in which allusion is made to Senator Logan, was not actually delivered by him. Mr. Cox after deprecating the practice of printing long essays In The Record, said the present dispute arose from the publication in The Record of a newspaper article stating that Senator Logan owned 80,000 acres of land. It had not been oharged that he came by It wrongfully. He (Cox) did not know that Logan was a dishonest man. What was the object of this discussion to-day, exoept to prevent adjournment? In order to put an end to the discussion, he moved to lay the whole matter on the table. [Cries of “Good " and “Vote.”] The motion was agreed to without a division. Mr. Lovering's eight-hour law, which proposed to pay Government employes a full day’s pay for eight hours’ work, was defeated.

To Succeed on the Stage.

John McCullough insists on familiarity with routine, and an habitual unconsciousness that leaves the intelligence perfectly free. But the two qualities which he regards as imperatively essential to success are comprised in the terms—heart and untiring industry. Joe Jefferson says that the successful actor must be gifted with “sensibility, imagination, and personal magnetism.” The student should begin at the foundation to learn. He thinks it a mistake to regard the lower positions degrading. Some actors he says, are inspirational and inventive, while others must have everything clearly mapped out, and a thorough plan of action arranged before they begin. Lawrence Barrett does not think that physical size has anything to do with success. He says there have been large generals and small generals. Salvini and Booth illustrate the fact in relation to tragedians. In his opinion, it would be best if a young man could start in a school of actors, so that he might have none but models to guide him. Every actor is an imitator of some time in his youth. An actor can be great in only a few parts. William Warren says the chances for getting on are greater than when he was a boy. He says of the comedian that he should have a real, genuine appreciation of the humorous and grotesque in life, and the magnetic power to make others feel as he feels. He need not, by any means, be what is known as a “funny man.” He does not hold to the theory that any particulai size of body is essential to success as a comedian. John Reeve and Burton were fat men decidedly; Charles Matthews, on the other hand, was thin. Modjeska believes in “vocation.” She thinks the best school for acting is the stage itself, when one begins by playing small parts. She believes more in inspiration, at the last, than technique or art, important elements as the latter are. Maggie Mitchell says the stage is the only school, and 18 is the minimum age for going before the footlights; and she hails the change in favor of simple and judicious female costuming on the stage.

Henry Ward Beecher is reported as having said: “Pie, sir, goes with civilization; where there is no civilization there is no pie.” Accepting that theory as correct, some printing offices where “pi” is constantly accumulating must be in an eminent state of civilization. It is a well-known fact that when a new batch of “pi” is made in a printing office the foreman uses some very Christian-like expressions. —Carl Pretzel's Weekly. Love never tires; and the more we love, the more we have of solid satisfaction. Every new soul we come in contact with and learn to esteem fills ns with new life. Those who love others are themselves full of sunshine, and the day marches triumphantly on with them from rosy morn to dewy eve and silent night. One of the latest cheats is tobacco paper. The stuff is such an exact imitation of the natural tobacco leaf, and is so well flavored that it takes a magnifying glass to detect the deception. Cigars made of this tobacco paper have a good flavor, burn well, and hold their white ash firmly. Repentance without amendment is like continually pumping witliQut mending the leak. — Dilmyn. ! At the latest accounts the debts of H. R. H. Albert Edward footed np $1,000,000.

IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT.

The Murderer of Mrs. Hollie Gherkin Suspended to a Telegraph* Pole. He Was Taken from the Jail at Vincennes, Ind., by a Mob of Men. [Vincennes Grid.) telegram.] The threats made last evening by angry citizens to summarily punish Oliver Canfield, the young miscreant who shot Mrs. J Mollie Gherkin last Tuesday night, were not idle ones. As the hours went by tbs j knots of men who stood talking quietly at ' the street corners were gradually re-en-forced until several hundred were gathered in the vicinity of the jaiL There was no loud talking or noisy display of any kind, but the grim, set features of those who had assembled to avenge the murdered woman boded ill for the unhappy wretch who cowered in his cell, folly alive to all that was transpiring and to the dreadful hopelessness of his case. At midnight the avengers, a body some fifty strong, composed of the best citizens, moved through the inky darkness toward the jail. The stout doors were quickly crashed open with a piece of railroad iron that had been brought from the track for the purpose. Meeting with no resistance, the avengers rushed on to Canfield’s cell, the door of which was battered down with three or four blows of the ram. The prisoner cowered down in a comer ana attempted to pray, but was roughly bidden to prepare to come out. Trembling in eveiy limb, and with features ghostlike in their sickly pallor, he complied, and was marched slowly between the two masked leaders out of the jail into the open air. The first proposition made on the outside of the jail yard being reached, was that Canfield should be strung up then and there, but, with strange persistency, he pleaded to be put to death on the same spot where his hepless sweetheart met her late at his bands. Hiß proposition was received with deafening yells of approval by the crowd, and he was rushed off to a convenient telegraph pole within a stone’s throw of the i murder. A stout rope was slung over the lower cross-ties, a noose made, and the victim placed in position. His aspect was pitiable but it called forth no expression of mercy or sympathy from the determined men around him, and ho was told if he had anything to say to say it quickly. He faltered forth that he was guilty, and was sorry he killed the woman. He begged that his mother be told that he tried to be reconciled to the Almighty, but that he should never go to heaven. He was given a minute to say his prayers, but he had by this time sunk so low that he oonld scarcely be roused. The rope was soon adjusted around his neck, and, amid the applause of the crowd, he was drawn to a height of ten feet and left to hang. There was scarcely

a struggle perceptible, but the victim probably lived thirty minutes. A card was pinned to his coat requesting the Coroner to leave the body hanging until 12 o’clock to-day. No resistance whatever was made by the jail officials. The Sheriff merely refused to deliver up the keys of the jail when requested quietly to do so, but after the doors had been battered down the lynchers were not interfered with. The crime for which Canfield suffered his terrible punishment was committed last Tuesday night. He had been paying marked attentions for a year past to Mrs. Mollie Gerkin.a beautiful widow. Canfield wished her to marry him, but as a divorce suit was pending between the woman and her husband, she was unable to comply. A week ago last Friday Canfield and the woman came to Vincennes from Washington, Ind. She obtained work in a boarding-house, while he spent his time in idly loafing about. Tuesday evening he called at the house where she was staying and requested his sweetheart to take a walk with him. She complied with apparent willingness, and the two strolled down Main street and turned in the direction of the bridge. Suddenly, without a moment’s warning, Canfield threw his arms around Mrs. Gherkin’s neck and kissed her. At the same moment he drew a revolver from his pocket and sent a bullet crashing into the marble forehead that rested lovingly and* confidingly on his shoulder. His victim sank to the earth without a groan, but not satisfied with the result of his devilish work he fired four more shots at her 'as she lay prostrate on the ground. A great crowd gathered and in the excitement Canfield escaped. He fled to Washington and went to his sister’s house, telling her what he had done, at the same time handing her a knife and revolver. These his sister threw into a vault. The murderer spent the night hidden in the woods near his mother’s house, adfl was captured early Thursday morning by the officers, who had followed closely on his heels. Brought back to Vincennes, he refused to give any motive for his deed, but declared that he was sober and rational at the time of its commission. Caflfield was but 22 years of age. He was known as a hard character, and had spent most of his time working in coal mines. Mrs. Gherkin died yesterday morning, and the plans for lynching her murderer were immediately consummated.

Nihilists Assassinate a Russian Officer.

A cable dispatch from St. Petersburg says: At Odessa Capt. Gerdzey, a prominent officer of the gendarmes, has been assassinated. His body was found with a bullet hole in the temple and a dagger sticking in his heart A note pinned to the coat left no doubt that the murder was the work of N hilists. Capt. Gerdzey was a capable, courageous official, and specially devoted himself to grappling with Nihilism. He thus incurred the bitterest hatred of the members of that body. The murder has produced a sensation in Russia equal to that occasioned by the assassination of Lieut. Col. Sudeikin.

SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

Gov. Adams, of Nevada, is a “natural faster,” sometimes going a week without food. Congressman Seth L. Midliken, of Maine, employs as his private secretary his daughter, Miss Maud Milliken. The women in the smithy town of Lye Waste, England, work in the shops, and are often more muscular than the men. As Mr. Jay Gould’s income is estimated to be $9 a minute, a statistician says that he lost $135 by the change from solar to standard time. Mrs. George Stoddard, of Newport, N. Y., while carriage riding, stopped to water her horse, when he hacked into the creek and drowned her. In a recent document put forth by the Associated Charities of Boston, it is stated that the four causes of poverty are drunkenness, ignorance, laziness, and pride. Shawneetown, HI., is the first place in the West to report wheat cutting.

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

Thrilling End of a Fast Bon on sh» Virginia Midland Railroad. Two Sleeping Cars Fall Through a Bridge Into Ten Feet of Water. [Lynchburg (Va.) Telegram.] A railroad disaster of a thrilling and remarkable character occurred on the Virginia Midland Railroad near this city. The Washington and New York sleeping-cars-were precipitated from a bridge into theJames River, and yet not a single life waslost. The escape of forty or more persons from death was almost miraculous, and the scenes while their rescue was being effected, from the submerged cars were exciting beyond description. The train was the morning express, to which the through sleepersfrom New York and Washington had been attached, and both were well filfted with passengers men, women, and children. All went well until reaching a point about; two miles north of Lynchburg, where there* is a heavy down-grade. The engineer found that the speed of the train was rapidly increasing, though he had shut off steam and. applied the air-brakes. To his suiprisethere was no perceptible diminution of the---train’s motion, and it became apparent that, through some defect in the brakes, they were not operating. The speed of the* train increased with each revolution of the wheals, and, during the run to the river, a . distance of nearly two miles, the train swept along at the rate of more than a mile a minute. Some of the passengers were alarmed, but' none were prepared for the thrilling episode which was so soon to follow. Upon reaching the bridge the engine, tender, and baggage-car kept the track, but; the smoker swayed so that it struck thegirders, throwing it from the track and causing the cars following to do the same. The trucks of the smoking-car tore thesleepers away for a distance of more ihan a., hundred feet, and when the heavy sleeper® reached the place the strength was insufficient for their support, and they wentcrashing through into the river. The water into which the cars plunged was ten feet deep, and the terrified passengers were of course imprisoned like dogs in a pound. Their stifled screams for aid as the water rose around them were pitiable in the extreme, but Ihere was apparently little room, to hope for their rescue. Conductor William King was thrown from a platform and had two ribs broken, but realizing the peril of the passengers hewent promptly and heroically to their aid. Procuring an ax he, with one or two other persons, swam to the submerged cars and smashed in the ventilators at the top of theca rs. By this time the water had reached that point, and the struggling passenger® were clinging to upper berths and the bellrope to keep from drowning. The screams; of the women and children were heartrending. One by one the half-drowned passengers were dfhgged through the opening and helped ashore until all were got out safely. Among the many thrilling incidents was that experienced while rescuing the child of Mrs. J. S. Farden. The terrified woman while in an npper berth which was fast being flooded with water, pushed her 2-months-old baby .through a window and held it there until it was rescued. The heroic woman was then saved herself. Old railroad men say this escape was oneof the most remarkable that have ever been recorded in the history of railroad disasters.

PROHIBITION PARTY.

The National Convention to Be Held at Pittsburg, Jnly 23. [Pittsburg dispatch.] Reports received at the Prohibition headquarters indicate that the national convention, which will assemble in this city on the 23d of July, will be one of the largest temperance gatherings ever held in the world. Over I,o€o delegates are expected to be present. The convention will be held in Lafayette Hall, where the first National Republican Convention was held. Arrange-, , ments are being made by a committee of 2CO local Prohibitionists. The expenses wilt be met by private subscriptions. The local leaders talk most extravagantly of the pros- * pects of the party. Many firmly believe that the convention will name the next President of the United States. Secretary Swoger said in an interview to-day: “We contend that Ohio and Michigan are already pronounced Prohibition States, and that in calculations of the present dominant political parties they should be left out. By nominating such a man as Clinton B. Fiske,. of New Jersey, I believe that New York, New Jersey, California, Kansas, lowa, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and some of the Southern States will give their electoral votes to the Prohibition party.” The canvass for the nomination* is quite animated. Gideon T. Stewart, of Norwalk, Ohio, is probably the ..leading candidate, and will come to the convention with a very strong support. In this locality, however, Clinton B. Fisk, of New Jersey, is the leading favorite, and in Methodist circles is being strongly and effectively urged. R. H. McDonald, President of the Pacific Bank of California, is urged by the Western and Pacific-Slope Prohibitionists, and will com* into the convention with the unanimous support of the delegation from California. Gov. St. John, of Kansas, will have the support of the delegates from his State. There are other names mentioned, but Fiske for President and John Russell, the veteran Prohibitionist of Michigan, for Vice President, seems to be a very satisfactory combination.

HERE AND THERE.

An Indian chief has married a Washington washerwoman. An Indian appeared in Austin, Nev., theother day with ten eagles, which he tried unsuccessfully to sell for sls each. The Altai estates of the Czar of Russia; cover 170,000 square miles, being about three times the size of England and Wales, A liveoak tree at Indian River Narrows, Fla., measures twenty-three feet and ten inches in circumference six feet from the ground. White stockings are coming once again, into fashion in London, from the crusade by the doctors against colored wear as slow poisoners. A little girl in Concord, N. C., swallowed a lightning bug, which caused her death. This is the first death from Buch a cause on record. The color line seems to have cropped out in England. The British Lords of the Admiralty have issued a stringent order that no negroes shall be entered for service in the navy withpnt their special sanction. Colorado contributes 100,000 colts tothe country’s resources.this year.