Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1890 — Page 2

llje JlrmotraticSentinei RENSSELAER, INDIANA. I. W McEWEN, ... Ptmuraia

THE NEWS RECORD.

EVENTFUL HAPPENINGS HERE AND THERE. Poetical, Commercial and Industrial News fiom All Over the Land—Fires, Accidents and Crimes—The Gist of the New* in a Few Lines. AIGUL AT MEMORIAL BUILDING. Mr. Hale Introduces a Resolution in the Senate. Is thc Senate, on the 23d, Mr. Hale introduced a joint resolution, which was referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, for the erection, in the District of Columbia, of a memorial building which shall be a suitable monument to the mem- , ory of U. S. Grant, which Is to contain a military and naval museum, etc., and in the inner court of which may be placed to rest the mortal remains of distinguished Americans. (The title indorsed on the joint resolution reads: “In the vault of which shall be placed the mortal remains of Ulysses S. Grant.’’) In the House a quorum was finally secured, enough Republicans being present to take up the contested-elec-tion case of Langston vs. Venable and seat Langston, the Republican contestant from Virginia. T. E. Miller (Rep.), of South Carolina, was also declared elected t> the seat now filled by Elliott (Dem.). By its action in seating Mr. Langston, the House endjd what was probably the most protracted and Utterly contested election casj it has ever decided. During the closing days of the last Congress the Democrats made a strenuous effort to unseat Felton and put In Sullivan as a Representative from California: but they were defeated by the refusal of the majority of the Republicans to vots upon the proposition.

THE NATIONAL GAME. How the Clubs in the Base-Ball League* stand. National. W. 1., 'f c. Players’ W. L. pc. Brooklyn... .80 43 .050 Boston 77 43 .042 Chicago 78 01 .( 00 Brooklyn .. .7 3 02 . 581 Philad'lphia74 00 .597 New York. . .70 02 . 574 Boston 74 50 .507 PhiladlphiaOG 57 . 537 Cincinnati..~i 52 .584. Chicago GO 61 .531 New York. ..50 64 .48j Pittsburg ...04 65 . 438 Cleveland.. .41 82 .333 Cleveland. ..50 72 .410 Pittsburg ...21 103 .113 Buffalo 33 90 .271 Western. W. L. pc. American. W. L. f) o. Ka6. City... 7G 38 6G7Louisville.. .77 40 .661 Minneapolis. 74 43 .632 St. Louis.. ..70 40 . 502 Milwaukee. .73 43 ,t2J Columbus. ..67 51 .563 Denver 55 60 .4 8 Rochester.. .60 51 ..322 Sioux Citv..s2 62 .456 Toledo 60 55 .517 Omaha 46 64 .418 Athletic 55 63 .462 Lincoln 46 70 .397 Syracuse... .41 68 .308 St. Paul 36 78 . 310 Baltimore... 32 85 .279 DESTROY RAILROAD PROPERTY. Chinamen Not in Favor or the Modern Way of Traveling. The Department of State at Washington has received from the United States Legation at Pekin, China, a report relative to the recent heavy flotds in that country. The report says that the floods have been the most serious ever known. It is supposed that an area of three thousand miles and a population of several millions we-.-c affected by them. Many people have been drowned, and tens of thousands are refugees from their homes, living on charity. One result of the floods, the report says, may have far-reaching consequences. Near Lutai, which is a point on the railroad from Tongku to Tongshan, Die railway embankment has been destroyed by tiie people for several miles. It was alleged that the embankment dammed up the water and flooded the country. Forcible possession was taken of the embankment, which was cut in many places, the trains sere stopped and the employes driven away. The Tongshan colliery is stopped and 3,000 men are thrown cut of employment, and the operation of the railroad is, of course, suspended. Tills destruction was wanton and unnecessary for letting off the water. All these proceedings indicate anti-railroad excitement, which may result in postponing indefinitely any further railroad enterprise iu China.

SILLY MISREPRESENTATIONS. Tales Told to Foreigner* About American 31 eat. As a specimen of the misinformation Industriously circulated In llit- foreign press regarding America, which now is in especially bad odor in consequence of the probable passage of the McKinley hill, the letter of a Chicago correspondent that appears In one of the Berlin pap» r> may be quoted. In referring to the .management of the stock yards of that city lie asserts that the rule Is to slaughter diseased animals for export, while the healthy meat is reserved for Lome consumption. He further adds that he writes in behalf of thousands of his fellow German-American citizens who desire that tiie true condition of things in Chicago shall be known throughout the Fatherland. The President of the Police of Frankfort has ordered that all pictures of actresses must not be removed from the shop windows where they are now displayed, but from the packages of American cigarettes kept for sale.

Mill Try to Wipe Out Landlordism. At the meniug of the Irish National League in Dubl.n, T. M. Healy in a speech said that if any tenants submitted to the landlords they were traitors to their fellowcountrymen. He promised that he and his colleagues would continue the struggle for the extinction of landlords in Ireland. Waterspout at Hot .springs. A waterspout descended on Hot Springs, Ark., and carried everythin.; bofore it. flooding cellars and the first floors of hous.s, and doing other damage, tiie property loss being estimated at $75,000. Want a FooUiolil in Mexico, Two large lottery companies from the United States have asked the Mexican Government for a concession, but President Diaz says he will refuse the request. Accepted the World's Fair Site. r V* The Columbian National Commission has formally accepted the Lake Front and South Park site, completed by Washington Park, and adjourned till Nov. 18. Denounce Great Britain. The National Council of the Irish National league of America in Session at Cincinnati ad pted resolutions denouncing Great Britain for arresting Dillon and O’Brien. To Convert THoir Barbarous Brethren. . One thousand civilized Indians from Yankton and Crow Creek agencies are camped In Pierre,'S. I)., being on route to Standing Rock agency, where a religious camp meeting Of a week's duration will begin next Sunday. These Indians aro going among the tribes who are now holding big dances in honor of the anticipated coming of Christ. wM.li the purpose of trying to lead them from their superstitious ideas. Floods in France. Floods have prevailed In parts of France. The River Rhone rose nineteen feet aud Inundated the city of Beaucairc.

WEATHER AND CROPS. Ths Signal Service Report of Temperature and Rainfall. The Signal Office at Washington furnishes the following weather-crop bulletin for the past week: The daily average temperature for the week has been above the average in thedistrlcts on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts,, Iu the lake region and central valleys daily average has been from 2 to 4 degrees" below normal except in Illinois, where It has been about C degrees. In extreme Northern Minnesota the deficiency has ranged from 5 to 10 degrees. The temperature for the season continues in excess, except in northern portions of the Upper Lake region, and the Upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys. In the Northwest the deficiency ranges from Ito 2 degrees. The rainfall for the season has been in excess in the districts on the Atlantic coast, and in lowa. Missouri. Arkansas, and Eastern Kansas. There has been a deficiency in all other districts. In the Lake Region there has been from onehalf to three-quarters of an inch. There has been no rain On the Pacific coast, and only light showers in the country from the Dakotas southward to Northern Texas. Harvesting has been completed in Dakota, but has been delayed in Minnesota by excessive rains. Killing frosts have occurred In Nebraska and lowa, with slight damage to late corn. Corn Is considered safe in Indiana and Illinois, where wheat seedipg. and corn cutting are progressing. The temperature and sunshine have been below the average in Kansas and Missouri, and warm weather is needed for corn in the latter State. IT HURTS TRADE. Wheat Values llere and Abroad Tend to Check a Free Movement. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: The root of the present financial difficulty is that wheat is quo ;ed at 93% cents at Chicago, $1.02% here, and only about 51.03 at Liverpool for the same grade, so that no frea and natural movement to tho seaboard, or hence to Eu:-opc, can t.tko place. Similar objects check the movement of mine other products. Exports of wheat and corn are not half those of lust year at corresponding dates,.while imports are coming forward la large volume, anxiety to get goods entered here before the new tariff goes into effect being great. The interior money markets are generally closer, with the strong demand whicli an unprecedented volume of business naturally causes. Tiie business failures during the last seven days number 103, as compared with 103 last week and 203 the week previous to the last. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 108.

WAITING FOR THEIR DELIVERER. Indian* Anxiously Looking lor tho Coming of a Messiah. The gi-eat Indian Council of the Sioux Nation, which has been In session up Bad River some fifteen miles from Picric, S. D„ was more in the order of a great revival meeting, as all the tribes are now greatly stirred up over what they believe is a coming of their great sp I rit to visit them. Tills idea seems to have taken complete p issesslon of their minds, and their time is mostly spent in dancing and other ceremonic; and waiting for the great event. Emissaries have been there le'ently from tribes up in Montana, filling them up with stories of the coming of an Indian Messiah, who is expected every day. He is to caver tiie earth with another great stratum of soil some thirty feet deep, cavering up everybody but faithful good Indians, who will manage to squirm through on top to find the new earth covered with grass waist high, buffn o and other wild game every where; plenty of wild horses will be roaming around and not a pale face will beseem In other words, the Indians will prevail. Those who have faith in the new fad think they must dance for hours at a stretch until they fall down and are dragged cut for others to take a whirl. There is no hostility among the Indians, they seeming to think that tiie uter Coitruction of the whites will be accomplished entirely through divine mediation. THE SUPPLY OF WHEAT. Stock on Hand in Minnesota anil tho Dakotas. The Importance of the stock of wheat held by private elevators in Minneapolis is steadily becoming more manifest. Elevators “A” and “B” at St. Paul have always been private houses, but nevertheless their stock was repcr.ed to the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, to be included in the visible supply. The “B,” which was lately sold to the Great Northern Road, lias taken out a license under the State- law, and on this crop will alone bo reported by the chamber. This action relegates elevator “A” to the class of houses whose stocks do ■ not enter into the visible statement. Figures compiled by -the Iforthwestem Miller show tiie s flock. lu private houses to be 909,000 bushels, against . 796,000 last week. The stocks at tho three terminal points are In detail as follows: Minneapolis, public, 2,042,870 bushels; private, 009,000; Duluth, 906,910; St. Paul, 15,000. Total. 3,873,780 bushels; decrease, 251,876 bushels. The Marhe'. Record estimates that the stocks of wheut in t he country elevators of Minnesota and the two Dakotas increased 615,000 bushels last w eek, making the amount thus held 1.745,000 bushels or a grand total In all the elevators of the three States of 5,010,780 bushels.

NEVADA WITHOUT A GOVERNOR. The Chief Executive or the State. Charles C. Stevenson, Dies ol Typhoid Fever. A Carson City (Nov.) dispatch says: Governor Charles C. Stevenson, of Nevada, died of typhoid fever. Governor Stevenson was a New-Yorker, who in 18il0 went with his parents to Canada and afterward to Michigan. When the Pike's Peak rush occurred he started for Colorado, but gloomy reports Induced him to go on to Nevada. He was part owner In the first quartz-mill on the Comstock and he has been in mining ever since. He held many public offices. The death of Lieutenant Governor Davis about a year ago leaves the State without a head. BURNED ALIVE IN HIS HOME. A 13-Year-O'd Boy Perishes in the Ruins of His Father’s House. Sycaway villa, the country residence of Mr. Manchester, a . wealthy New York broker, situated on the stone road, three miles cast of Troy, N. Y., has been totally destroyed by fire. The family escaped in their nightclothes, Mr. Manchester jumping from a two-story window. Later it was discovered that' Mr. Manchester’s twelve-year-old son was missing and Ills chanred remains can be seen in the ruins of the house. THREE MEN KILLED IN lOWA. Wreck of a Freight Train Near Council Bluffs. A disastrous wreck occurred on the Wa-j bash Railway eight miles southeast or Council Bluffs, lowa. A freight train from St. Louis, consisting of eighteen cars, all loaded with merchandise, ran Into a burning bridge or trestle-work and the engine and thirteen cars went Ihrough to the ground, forty feet below. The bridge is over a deep ravine. When the fire wr,s sighted by the engineer it was too late to prevent a wreck. The killed were: Martin Eskridge, the engineer;

Joseph Burke, fireman; Robert Williamson, bead brakeman. Eskridge was buMed under his engine and burned to death. The fireman was caught under a car containing a tank of oil and met a horrible death. His clothes were saturated with the stuff, and when'the fire reached hjm he was literally roasted alive. When discovered by the conductor and another brakeman he was not yet dead, and talked freely about bis perilous situation. Ul< companions could do nothing but console him. The head j brakeman was thrown about fifty feet. He lived two hours. CONFESSED TO RUSSELL’S MURDER. Mr*. Holden Acknowledges that She au<l Her Sou Edwin Did the I’eed. Sheriff George Miller and Dr. J. I). Knott, of Monticollo. 111., took Mrs. Ann Eliza Holden and Edwin Holden to the penitentiary at JolleL Mrs. Holden has made a confession that she and her son Edwin killed Harley Russell. In parting with her son Calvin at the Jail he put his arms around his mother’s neck and on his knees implored her in God’s name to tell who It was that killed Hurley Russell, and not to let him be hanged, for she alone could tell the true story. On the way to Joliet she confessed to Dr. J. D. Knott that she held the horse and that her son Edwin did the shooting. Bhc said Calvin Holden knew nothing of it until afterward. Shu says she wore Albert Dunham's clothes' and shoes. WILD ANIMALS TURNED LOO .E. A Menagerie Terrorizes the People of a South African Town. Mall advices from Kimberley, South Africa, tell of an awful occurrence there at midnight on June 1 last. Some vicious person or persons opened the doors of the cages in Fillis’ menagerie containing the wild animals and set them all free. The most terrible scenes followed. Four attendants sleeping on the premises were mangled beyond recognition, being actually torn limb from limb, bitten and gashed In n most slckt ning manner. One child was devoured before Its mother’s eyes, and five women were horribly mangled.

FIVE HUNDRED LOST. A Half Thousand of the Crew ol a Turkish War-Ship Perish. Advices from Hlogo state that the Turkish man-of-war Ertogroul has foundered at sea, and that 509 of her crew were drowned. Osman Pasha, whose victory over the Russians at Plevna gave him a high rank as a fighting general, was on hoard and was lost. He had been on an official visit to Jupfn. having been intrusted with a special mission from the Sultan to the Mikado. Tho Ertogroul was a wooden frigate-built crosier of 2.344 tons displacement. She mounted' forty-one guns of small caliber and was built in 1863. MAY RESULT IN A STRIKE. Indiana anil Illinois Miner* Will Have More Pav or tluit Work. C. P. Mcßride, senior member of the Executive Board of the United Mine-Workers of America, lias arrived at Springfield. 111., and issued a circular to all the miners In Illinois authorizing a demand upon tiie operators for an advance of 7% cents per ton for mining coal. In case this is not granted by Nov. 1 a general strike In Illinois will be ordered, and if the operators then still hold out the strike will extend through the entire competitive district, including Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and a part of Pennsylvania and Virginia. DISASTER IN MEXICO. Ton Persons Killed and Several M ounded in a Railroad Accident, A city of Mexico .dispatch reports a ter- ’ riiile accident on the Mexican Railroad. Two trains going in opposite directions ran into each other at Rincenada, and the cars were piled on one another and completely wrecked. Ten persons were killed and several others wounded. Highest Bridge in America. The Southern Pacific is changing its track between Shumla and Comstock and will cut off ten miles. The old route runs by “Painted Cane,” one of tho curiosities of the region and always considered dangerous, owing to tho cliffs overhanging the track. The new route will make a straight shoot across I‘e:c> River, which will be spanned by the highest bridge Iu America. r irector of the YVorld’s Fair. Col. George It. Davis, of Chicago, has been elected Director General of the World's Columbian Exposition. Ho was recommended by the Directors of the Exposition Company at their last meeting, and was, after a good deal of discussion regarding the merits of other candidates, elected to the vitally important place of Director General. His election was unanimous. Colorado Republican*. The State Republican Convention at Denver, C 1.. has nominated tho following ticket: Governor, John L. Routt; Lieutenant Governor, William Storey; Treasurer, John H. Fessler; Secretary of State, E. J. Eaton; Auditor, John H. Henderson; Attorney General, Sam W. Jones; Superintendent of Public Instruction. Fred Dick. Official Figure* from Maine. An Augusia (Me.) dispatch says; Official returns of the vote for Governor are as follows: Burleigh, 64,199; Thompson, 45,259; Clark, 2,949; scattering, 956. Total. 113,363. Burleigh’s plurality, 18.940. There has been no change In the list of Senators as published. The next House will stand 110 Republicans to 41 Democrats.

Disasters on the Rail. A pafso-iger triln o:i the New York, New Orleans and Texas Road was wrecked by a misplaced switch at Vicksburg. Miss., and Ihe engineer and fireman weie killed. A freight train was derailed at Wyoming, N. Y., by a switch that had been taken apart. Both disasters were the work of train wreckers. W. L. Scott 111. An Erie. Pa., dispatch reports Wiljiam L. Sccti very ill In that place. He went home from New York a month ago and has been confined to his home over since. His ailment is of the stomach and bowels, but while he is a sick man his family physician is hopeful. His family were called home two weeks ago. Massachusetts Democratic Ticket. The Massachusetts Democratic State Convention lias nominated the following ticket: Governor, William E. Russell; Lieutenant Governor, John W. Corcoran; Secretary of State, Elbridge Cushman: Treasurer. E. L. Munn; Auditor, W. D. Trefry; Attorney General, E. B. Maynard. " reck in tile Allegheny Mountains. While ascending the Allegheny Mountains near Lilly (Pa.) a Pennsylvania railway train broke in two. and the sections coming together, wrecked the engine and ejght curs. The engineer was dangerously and the fireman a brakeruun were seriously hurt. Gen. Rosecrans Honured. At Toledo the Society of the Army of the Cumberland elected officers. General William S. Rosecrans being chosen President. Tlie Committee on the Sheridan Monument reported that in two years bat .12,147

had been subscribed toward the project. The society will meet next year at Columbus. Presidential Selection* Approved. The Senate has confirmed the following appointments: Theodore M. Schleier, of Tennessee, Consul at Amsterdam: Charles It. Nunemacher, Postmaster at Ashland. Kan.; Charles Scovillc, Surveyor of Customs, Evansville, Ind. Wants the Lotterr Bill. Orders have been sent to Washington that the anti-lottery till be forwarded t> the President at Cresscn Springs immediately upon its receipt at the White House. Similar instructions were sent touching the river and harbor bIX Rumored Railway Combination, At New York it is announced that the Missouri Pacific, Atchison, and several other roads are to be organized and placed under J. F. Goddurd’s management. One of Gould's schemes may possibly be realized. Bought by the Santa Fe. It is announced that the Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe Railway has bought a controlling Interest In the Colorado Midland Railroad. The f'olorado Midland operates 274 miles of road. Torn to Piece* by a Hog. Abner Kyle, a wealthy farmer near Columbus, Ind., was attacked by a vicious sow and the flesh torn from his legs and arms. When found he wxs unconscious and lived but a few hours. Dissatisfied Stockholders Meet Ata meeting held ih Hartford, Conn., of the stockholders of the Illinois Central Road who are dissatisfied with the management of President Fish, a committee whs appointed to eppose further costly extensions. Elgin Butter Market. On the Elgin Board of Trade 10.500 pounds of butter sold at 22% cents, and 3,00 J pounds at 22‘a cents. Increased vitality in the markeUwas noted. Raising tiie Rate*. Rates by lake and rail will he advanced Oct. 1 by Northwest roads on grain, flour, and millstuffs to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Albany and Utica. Collaps • of t'ie Lima Oil Exchange. The Lima, Ohio, Oil Exchange has closed for want of business. Tho Standard would not recognize exchange prices, hence its collapse. Denies Dakota's Crop Failure. The Yankton Chamber of Commerce has issued a statement to the public denying the widely published reports of crop failure lu South Dakota. Hotel Thieve* Caught. The thieves who slo’.o $12,090 belonging to Bookmaker Carlan from the safe in the Hotel Yendome, in New York, have been arrested.

Prof. O’Connor Killed by an Engine. Prof. Thomas O’Connor, nephew of the late Charles O’Connor, of Now York, was struck by an engine and killed at Dallas, Tex. Rival Candidate* on the Same "latiorm. Governor Hoard and George W. Peck, rival candidates for Governor of Wisconsin, -addressed an immense crowd at the State Fair at Milwaukee. Michigan Farmer.*’ Alliance. A State Farmers’ Alliance has been organized at Lansing, Mich. About seventyfive delegates, representing eleven counties, were present. Tiie Copulation of Connecticut. The population of the State of Connecticut is given by the Census Bureau as 745,861; increase, 133,161. Forty Poisoned by Canned FruitForty wedding guests at Monongaliela City, Pa., wore poisoned on Monday by eating canned fruit. All have recovered. Ex-Congressman Thornburgh Dead. Jacob M. Thornburgh, ex-member of Congress from the Seeond Tennessee district, died at Knoxville, aged 53 years. The Minneapolis F.our Output. The flour output at Minneapolis last week was 172,000 barrels, against 160,925 the preceding week. A dull market Is noted. A Silk House Assign*. An assignment has been made by the I. H. Salter Silk Company of Boston. The liabilities are about $25,000. Strangled in a Trapeze. Victor, the 11-year-old son of Dr. Francis Grandy, of Adrian, Mich., was found strangled In the ropes of a small trapeze. A Strike in Salt Lake. At Salt Lake, Utah, a general strike has been Inaugurated on tha electric and streetcar lines. Fanny Davenport 111. Fanny Davenport, the actress. Is seriously ill In the Westminster Hotel, at New York. Dion Boucicault Dead. Dion Boucicault, the playwright and actor, died at New York, aged 68 years. Lieut. Holton Deqd. First Lieutenant Fred N. Holton, Second Cavalry, died at Fort Whipple, A. T.

THE MARKETS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime $ 3.25 (®* 5.50 Hoos—Shipping Grades 4.01 & 5.00 £® KEP 3.50 aft 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 97 gt 99 Corn—No. 2 '.47U@ !i8 Oats-No. 2 37 @ .38 Rye—No. 2 ex @ 62 Butter—choice ( reamery 20 <g) ,93 Cheese—Full Cream, flat's Egos —Freeh... 17 qj jg Potatoes— H/sbron. per bn 83 99 INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE-Shipping 3.50 (gp. 6.00 Hogs—Choice Light 3.00 @ 4.75 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.50 & 4!75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 09® qql; Corn-No. 2 White .... 'iSW@. 49W oats-n 0.2 white ; IP ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.50 & 5.00 H°° B 4.25 Mi 475 WHE 99*® liol* Rye-No. 2 & 6J CINCINNATI. Cattle 2 50 3 4.00 “ 008 3.50 (gk 5.C0 Sheep. ...... 3.00 5.25 Wheat—l Jo. 2 Red & .gs* Corn-No. 2 51 v ® .62 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 38 MILWAUKEE. ' Wheat—No-. 2 Spring 95 @ -98 Cohn—No. 3 43' @ 49 Oats—No 2 White 38U® .'39* Barley—No. 2 07 as By*-No.l 64*@ i^v. DETROIT. Cattle 3 90 4 50 bHEEP 3.00 iffi 475 Wheat—No. &I?ed qq qaiz Cohn—No. ‘2 Yellow * *52 Z 53* OATS-NO. 2 Whiter........:. i4„6* :« encash::::::::::::::-;-"-.;; oats-no. 2 white BUFFALO. ■ ■ attle—Good to Prime 4.00 @ 500 Hogs—Medium and Heavv 475 <it 'a as Wheat-No. 1 Hard . i'ro m 115 Corn-No. 2 "i" \« H g EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Common to-Prime.... 3.C0 (cL 4 7*» Hogs—Light 4.25 @ 5.25 Sheep—Medium to Good 4*25 5 25 k*" l * B 4.60 as eioo _ NEW YORK. S‘T! LE 8.50 & 5.23 wheat-I'no. 2'Re<j COBN—No. 2. 65W& .5614 Gat*—No. 2 White 4l)&9 .6516

HURLED INTO ETERNITY

THIRTY-FIVE LIVES LOST IN A j WRECK. | An Express Train Thrown Over pn Embankment While Running at Foil Speed —Awful Scenes or Horror a* the Debris Is Cleared Away. Reading (Pa.) dispatch: A fatal and disastrous wreck occurred on the Reading railroad, seventeen miles above this place. The train which met with disaster left this city ten minutes late. It was running at the rate of thirtyeight or forty miles an hour, It had on loard 125 to 150 passengers, and it insisted of engine, mail and express cars and three passenger cars. Above Shoemakersville, about fifteeu miles above this city, there is a curve where the the railroad is from eighteen to twenty feet higher than the Schuylkill river. Here, shortly after 6 o’clock a freight train ran into a coal train, throwing several cars of the latter train on the apposite track. Before the train hands had time to go back to warn any approaching train of the danger tho Pottsvllle express came around the curve aud ran iuto the wrecked coal cars on its track. The engine went down the embankment, followed by the entire train with Its human freight Someof the passengers managed to crawl out of the wreck and arouse the neighborhood. Word was telegraphed to this city and help summoued. Physicians and surgeons and a force of 300 workmen were taken to the spot by the company, and the work of clearing away the wreck was at once commenced. Work was slow and the dead and dying were takeu out with great difficulty. Up to 2 o'clock a. m. lifteen dead and thirty wounded had been taken out. Of the latter some were brought to this city and others taken to the miners’ hospital at Ashland. The dead so far discovered are still on the ground. The dead ta*ren out aud identified up to this time are as follows: WILLIAM D. SHOME, Reading; badly mangled. JOHN WHITE, engineer, Pottsvllle, Pa. JAMES TEMPLIN. fireman. Pottsvllle, Pa. HARRY LOGAN, conductor, Pottsvile, Pa. DAVID AUGUSTADT, Mahony City; died after being taken from.the wreck. LOGAN, baggagemaster Shenandoah. MAIL AGENT GREENAWALDSBERY. TWO FIREMEN. lOHN L. MILLER. The injured so far taken out are: Hah bison Riland. Philadelphia, leg broken and Internally injured. Joskph Southwood. Centralla; badly cu t and internally injured. James F. Merkel, Bethlehem; badly cut about head and Internally injured. John Thohnton, Lees port; badly out about head- and body; seriously injured. Joseph Noll. Shenandoah; cut about uead and left shoulder broken.

Fbank B. Holl, manager of Frank Mayo’s company; cut about head and body, bruised about arms and legs. John Carroll, St Clair; back and internally Injured. Joseph Asfield, Mahonoy City; bruised about body and legs. William Glassmayer, Port Clinton; badly cut about breast. Thomas Cooney, Philadelphia; head and legs Injured. Rohert Colling, Pottstown; injured Internally. Samuel Shollenberger, Hamburg; legs Injured. B. W. Cithler, Girardville; foot and leg smashed. John Culick. Mount Carroll; hurt Internally and hand smashed. W. W. Johnston, Shenandoah; head badly cut and leg broken. George Saunders, Reading; badly hurt ebout back and neck. Benjamin Franklyn, Shenandoah; left hip badly cut and leg hurt James Bernhart, Shenandoah; left hip crushed and leg hurt John Hess. Mahonoy Clty:leg badly hurt David G. Young.Maliouoy City;head badly cut and legs sprained. Lyman Dick, Hamburg; both logs broken. Dr. B. F. Salade, New Rlilggold; right arm badl hurt. Jacob Ulmer. Pottsvllle; both legs broken. Samuel Coomb. Mahonoy City; badly hurt about body and legs broken. William Simmers. Ashland. The wrecked train is still lying at the bottom of the river. The exact number on the passenger list is not known, but conservative people estimate the number kiiledat tit rty-livo. At 11 o'clock Mail Agent Greenawaldsbory was taken out, followed by the horribly mangled bodies of two Mahatioy City fireman.

.. Prof. Mitchell of Lehigh University, Bethlehem, is among the injured at the Reading hospital. Lawrence Barnes of Philadelphia has his arm dislocated. The body of John L. Miller of Cressonia was taken out at midnight. George B. Kaercher, Esq., the eminent railroad lawyer of Pottsvilie, who had also a law office In Philadelphia, is among the killed. Persons who wero well acquainted with him have identified the crushed body in the debris of the Pullman car. William D. Shone, one of Reading's wealthiest citizens, was a passenger on the train and was one of the first persons reported killed. He leaves a widow and two sons. A gentleman who escaped from the wreck said: “The train was going at a lively rate of speed. The passengers appeared a happy crowd, tnanv of them ladies, chatting and laughing after a day’s pleasure at the Berkes county fair. I was viewing the country through which we were passing, when there was a terrible crash. I was hurled from my seat, while the cars rolled down the twenty-foot embankment, and I was thrown from one side of the car to the other. One end of the car went into water and I was thrown against the side of the car with a force that partially stunned mo. I quickly recover ed myself and managed to climb upon the seats * on that side of the car which lay against the embankment. I was a prisoner in the car, unable to get out. Around me wero human beings struggling in the water, screaming’ in their fright, and some almost dragged me back into the water again. A few saved themselves as I did and the remainder struggled in the water and then quietly sunk out of sight.” The three reasons which a good woman presented for objecting to a preacher were striking ones. She said that, in the first place, he read his sermon ; in the second, he did not read it well; and in the third place it was not worth reading. To rejoice in the happiness of others is to make it our own; to produce it is to make more t|mn our own. It is simple enough to be a great man. Keep your mouth shut, and when you see a dollar grab ii. V

THE SENATE AND HOUSE.

WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceeding* of the Senate and Honse of Representatives Discussed aud Acted Upon—Gist of the Business. The Senate, on the 17th Inst., considered and passed a number of bills on the calendar and then resume! the consideration of the Senate bill to establish a United States land court and to provide for the settlement of private land claims in the States of Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, and In theTerritories of New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. After a long discussion the bill was laid aside without action. The privatepension bills on the calendar were laken up and eighty of them were passed in thirty minutes. The Senate then adjourned. In the House, Mr. Haugen (Wis.)demanded the regular order—being the Langston-Venable contested election case—but Mr. Payson (111.) interposed with the conference report on the landgrant forfeiture bill. The House decided • - yeas, 62; nays, 117—not to consider the conference report. Mr. Haugen then called up the election case, against which Mr.' O'Ferrall raised the question of consideration. During the roll-call nearly all the Democratic members deserted the chamber, leaving but a bare dozen present to look out for their Interests. The result of the vote was. announced: Yeas, 136; nays, 15—the clerk noting a quorum. Mr. Haugen Immediately demanded the previous question on theelection _ case, and the direction “All go out,” was given by the Democratic managers. It was not necessary to put this direction Into force, for after an emphatic protest of Mr. Cheadle (Ind.) against, the stifling of debate, Mr. Haugen withdrew his demand and proceeded with an argument of the case. Mr. Cheadle, of Indiana, spoke against tho majority resolution and the matter went over. The Speaker announced his signature to the river and harbor appropriation bill and the House took a. recess, the evening session to be for the consideration of bills reported by the Committee on Military Affairs. At the eveningsession Mr. Allen (Mich.) presided. Several Senate bills were passed and the House at H):30 adjourned.

In the Senate, on the 18th Inst., the calendar was taken up for an hour apd the following bills, among others, were passed: House bill to amend the articles of war relative to punishment on conviction by court-martiul: Senate bill to provide forthe inspection of live cattle, hogs, and thecarcasses and products thereof which are the subjects of interstate commerce: Senate bill to revive the grade of Lieutenant General In the army of tho United States; Senate bill for the relief of women enrolled as army nurses; Senate bill granting tho right pf way to the Sherman and Northwestern Railway Company through the Indian Territoryt; the Senate hill appropriating 575.000 for a public building at Colorado Springs, Col. Mr. Manderson presented resolutions relative to thedeath of the late Representative Laird, and after remarks by Messrs. Paddock and Manderson the Senate adjourned. In the House, while attempting to get a quorum for the approval of the journal, the doorkeepers locked the doors to prevent Democrats leaving the chamber. Hardly had this been done before Representative Kilgore (Tex.) presented himself at the door on the Speaker's left hand and sought to go out into the lobby. He found that the door was lockod. and the doorkeeper refused to unlock it. Mr. Kilgore gave a, sudden and vigorous kick and the frail baize structure flew open and Mr. Kilgore strode out. He was followed by Representatives Crain (Tex.), Cummings (N. Y.), and Coleman (La.), who In turn forced the lock open without opposition from the door-keeper. At the moment Mr. Ivllgore drove the door flyiug wide, open Representative Dingley (Me.) was approaching from the other side. The door struck him with full force In the face, bruising his nose badly. Further proceedings under the call were dispensed with. The journal was then approved, the'Clerk noting a quorum. Mr. Haugen demanded tho previous question on the Langston-Venable contested election case. On ordering the previous question the vote stood: Yeas, 135; nays, 10. This being no quorum, a call of the Housewas ordered. There were but 151 members present, and the House adjourned. In tho Senate, on the 19th Inst,, Mr. Plumb's resolution to recommit the 1 ankruptcy bill to the Judiciary Committee with instructions to amend it by making It apply to voluntary bankruptcy only was taken up, and after discussion the bill was placed on the calendar without action. House bill to reduce the amount of United States bonds to be required of national banks and to restore to the channels of trade the excessive accumulations of lawful money In the treasury having been reached on the calendar, Mr. Slie?said he believed its passage v. uuld tend very much to quiet even the present agitation In the money market. Mr. Plumb said tho hill had to a certain extent merit, but feared that it would finally result in a contraction of the currency. After further discussion the hill went over. Adjourned. In the House tho day was spent in roll calls, the Speaker’s count of a quorum being several times questioned and tellers being appointed to verify the count The question of Venable being duly elected was lost—4 to 155—but on an attempt to declare Venable not elected the quorum was lost. By unanimous consent tho House took a recess, the evening session to be for the consideration of private pension bills. At its evening session the House postponed until tno 24th Inst, the hill granting pensions to the wddows of Gens McClellan, Fremont, and Crook. Seventy-two private pension bills were passed, aud the House, at 10:30, adjourned. The Sonata on the 22d resumed the consideration of the bill to define and regulate the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States—tiie pending question being on Mr. Daniel’s amendment extending the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to all casesof conviction of felony, and to all cases where the matter In dispute Is the right to personal liberty or the right to tho custody of a child. The amendment was rejected. The bill was then reported from the committee of the whole to the Senate. Without disposing of Vie bill the Senate went into executive sossi'on and soon, adjourned. Representative Moore, of New Hampshire, introduced In the Housethe following resolution: “That the Committee on Rules be Instructed to report an additional rule, towit: Rule XLVl.—Contempt of the House. When a call of the House discloses tho presence of a quorum, any member absenting himself on the succeeding roll-call for the purpose of breaking a quorum shall be arraigned,at tho bar of the House and fined In a sum not exceeding $590.” There w»,s no quorum present and the House adjourned.

GRAINS OF GOLD.

A good example is the best sermon. Malice drinketh up the greatest part of its own poison. Fill a man with enthusiasm and no room is lell for doubt. The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. Employment is nature’s physician and is essential to human happiness. Abuse is one of the few things a man can get without earning or deserving it. You can flatter the worst idler on earth by telling him that he is working too hard. There is very little use in making today cloudy because to-morrow is likely to be stormy. Hurt no man's feelings unnecessarily. There are thorns ip abundance iu thepath of human life.