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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC.

Carl Rosa, the well known musical director, is dead. There were six cases of suicide at Cleveland, 0., within a week.

A blinding snow storm prevailed in parts of Wisconsin Wednesday night. President Barnard, of Columbia College, is dead. He had been ill for some time past.

Bogs and the fly are playing havoc with the wheat aud tobacco plants in Kentucky.

The Standard Oil Company has acquired 10,00j acrts of oil lands around Lima, Ohio.

A motor train wa3 thrown from the track at St. Paul, and seven people were severely injured.

Lvsander Bandall committed suic.de at Bangor, Me., by strangulation. He left a note stating ''rum did it."

A chair and other articles brought over in trie Mayflower were lost in the burning of a f&rm house 150 years ol?l at Maspetb, L. I.

Twenty-four railrnad laborers, engaged in laying a side traok at Lancaster, Ohio, were arrested and locked up for Sab bath-breaking.

Hon. John C. New, Conr-ul General to London, was dined by Geo. R. Gibson at New York, Sunday night. There were several well-known people present.

Near Chicago, Vincent P. Smith, whose little daughter was ill with scarlet fever, declined the services of physicians, but. called in a faith-cure doctor. The .'hikl died.

Patrick Carroll, a shoemaker, aged twenty-six years, jumped from the Brooklyn bridge. He was picked up by ya tug and sent to the hospital. lie will likely recover.

An application by Anthony Comstock for meinber.shii) in the U. S. Grant,Post, G. A. K., of Brooklvn, was rejected, Wednesday night, thirty-seven black balls being ca?t.

After examinations covering eight days, a jury was secured. Tuesday afternoon. at Jacksonville, Mich., to try R. Irving Latimer. charged with the murder of Irs mother.

The carpenters' strike at St. Loui* came to an abrupt termination. Sunday, upon the ba-is that all carpenters may go to work at. -s5 cen:s per hour, eighi hours work for a day.

Charles II. Luscomb, President of the League of American Wheelmen, has designated Hagerstown, Md., as the place for holding the annual meet, and July 2, Sand 4 the dates.

The County Court at Parkersburg, W. Va.. has decided to grant no liquor licenses in that county for the year commencing May 1. This action will result in the closimr of about sixty saloons.

Eleven elevators at St. Louis propose forming a trust. The size of the syndicate which will manage the elevators will naturally be large,' for the original value of the property is about 54,000,000.

Mrs. Kinnehan, the Rock ford, III., woman who recently joined the Beekamites, a sect which worships Rev. G. J. Sciiweinferth aa Christ, pleaded not guilty Saturday to a charge ol blasphemy. She refused to be sworn. ~Mkrat Halstead's condition is so much improved that his sons, who were called to Cincinnati from the East, have returned. As soon as he is a Ie to travel, Mr. llalstead will, probably take an outing in some healthful locality.

Charles F. Hartshorn, of Taunton, Mass., has pent lothe Secretary ofJ.be Treasury .$2,000 conscience mo.M.y. 'tLi? amount was due the Government in 18G?, under an old tex law, but had been overlooked in some manner.

Editor Webber, of ths Republican Daily Leaflet, attempted to shoot, General Povvvii Clayton in a Little Rock saloon. Political differences are said to be at. the bottom cf the trouble. Both Webber and Clayton were arrested.

Frederick Ebersold, at one time chief of po'.ice of Chicago, has been appointed by Mtyor Cregier to be inspector of police, vice John Bonfield, who was suspended some weeks since by Mayor Roche, and afterward resigned.

Charles E. Woodruff, of New Britain, Conn., has confessed to having forged papers to the amount, of $40,000 on various State bank3. He tried to do business without capital, and resorted to crime to secure the necessary money.

At the sale of the library and prints of Robert Lennox Kennedy at auction in New York, lliuiv-day night, the first folio of Sh«kosptare's comedies, histories and tragedies brought $1,400. A commission dealer

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are only two other copies of the race folio in existence. •f- Uriah Logan Reavis, a noted eharacter of St. Louis. died in that city on the 24th inst. from the effects of a surgical operation. Mr. Reavis was well known throughout the country as the leading advocate of the removal of the National

Capital to St. Louis, on which subject he had written several books. Two young girls, Katie Hilty and Mary Ritzier, were attacked by a man named Calvin Ferguson in the woods ,near Bluffton, O. Ferguson knocked

Miss Ritzier insensible with a club and \then attempted an assault on Miss Ililty. The latter's screams brought aid, and

Ferguson was arrested and locked up. F. A.^Vnnhusen, a wholesale tobacco dealer at Denver, Col., says that he was knocked down and robbed of $l,5C0 on ^'"thestreet at 1 o'clock, Thursday night.

He had drawn the money from the bank to express it to Aibquerque, but express rates were found to be too high to suit bim and he remained over to get a draft, j. It is seldom that a woman is appointCj.- ©d a notary public, but now Columbus,

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Ind., has been brought into renown by a boom in female notaries. All in one day Wiilametta Mench, Minnie Young. Minnie Mobley and Anna Gilgour have received commissions as notaries public 4. for the town of Columbus, signed by the authoritive pen of Governor Hovey.

Lester H. Thompson, ex-Senior Vice Commander of the New York Department, G. A. R., died at Denver, Col., Friday, aged forty-eight years. He served in the Fifth and Seventh United States Infantry, and since the war has been an ardent and prominent worker in Eastern Grand Army circles. He will be buried at Cauandaigua, N. Y., Tuesday.

At Chelsea park, a summer resort across the Kansas line, opposite Kansas ityv-Sanday afternoon, abridge across

an artificial lake gave way and precipitated about seventy-five persons into seven feet of water. Most of them scrambled out or were assisted to the shore more frightened than hurt, but fifteen were injured, four of them seriously.

At a dinner recently given in honor of newly appointed Federal officers at New York, {ColonelJoel B. Erhardt, Collector of Port, said: ''General Sherman asked me the other day to do him a favor, and I

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At the conference of the National Reform Association, now in session at Pittsburg, a resolution was adopted reauesting President rrison to mention Christ in State papers, especially Thanksgiving proclamations. The conference is attended by over one hundred prominent ministers and others from all parts of the United States, and, aa stated in thn call, is for consultations on the Christian principles of civil government.

FOREIGN.

The Cssar wi!i not visit the Pari3 exposition. The American Samoan commissioners arrived at. Berliu Friday.

Henry R.ichsxort's son ha3 committed suicide at Bona., Algeria. The King of Holland will resume the reins of government on May 3.

Khartoum hag been captured, it is rumored, bv Abron Gherna Iza,and the Alaldi has fled.

The Queen of Wurtemburg narrowly cscaned death Sunday by her horses taking fright. One of the horses was kilied.

Letters received at Brussels, from the Congo, report all well at Stanley Falls. Four huudred troop3 had been sent to the Aruwliimi.

A despatch from Auckland says that the United States steamer Nipsic was agaiu disabled while being towed in in Apia harbor,

The treasure which was on board the ship Trenton when she was wrecked, dining the recent Hurricane at Apia, has been recovered.

The damage to private property, and the loss to the car company, owing to the strike of the Vienna car men amounts to 100,0j0 florins.

It is reported that at the time of General BonlatsgerVi flight from Paris six boxes, weighing 5o0 pounds, filled with gold and silver plate and jewels, arrived in Brussels for him.

It is expected that the Spanish government will soon sell at auction £40,uGO 000 worth of state woodland, ii orU to cover che financial deficiency,", to build railroads, canalsand highways, and to establish rural loan banks.

The Pads Temps says that societies have been formed, entitled "Union des Deux Mondes," to manifest bonds ol sympathy between America and Fiance and to seek an amendir of the A rnerican copyright laws. They will organize a fete for July 4. and will give a concert and other entertainments.

The Shah of Persia is due in St. Petersburg in the latter part of May. and must, of course, be welcomed personally by the Czar, The cxact day of his arrival has not "been named, but it is unlikely that he will be punctil ou. with the Western unbeliever?, and it may suit his pleasure and dignity to be a few weeks late,

The Samoan commissioners had a conference with ihe Bismarcks. The American members are much pleased with their reception. Mr. Bates made an explanation of his Century article, which was satisfactory. Prince Bismarck expressed the hope of an early settlement of the questions at it-sue. and indications point io such a result.

Will Try to Unite.

The conference of ministers of the Angiicau, Presbyterian and Methodist churches', which was in session at Toronto, Canada, on the 24Lh and 25th instant, to consider the question of organic unity of all Protestant bodies, has closed. The sessions vvere of the most interesting character, the representatives of th:: churches declaring that they would result in great good to the whole Christian church. The upmost harmony prevailed, although doctrines were discussed upon which all were not in unison. The subjects before the conference were: '"Organic Union," "The Amount of Unity in Doctrine/' "Worship and ModeB of Action between the Three Bodies," "The Holy Scriptures," "The Creeds." and "The Historic Episcopate." A resolution was adapted recommending to the several churches the appointment of delegates to another confeienceto be held next year.

Gutlirie's "City Duels."

The latest from Oklahoma is that Col. D. P, Dyer, of Kansas City, a Republican in politics, and formerl)' an Indian agent under President Arthur, has been elected mayor of Guthrie. One his first.acts was to give the gamblers twenty-four hours to leave, and the next train north took away a good many of them. Two big wall tents hare been erected and are called he city building?. Police .fudge E. M. Clark, of Kansas, holds his court there, and the city council and other city officers inhabit them. Several good buildings have been put up and improvoments of all kinds are in rapid progress. W. V. Hera ti court, special artist for Harjer's Weekly, dropped dead, in front ol his tent in Guthrie, Sunday morning. The remains have been sent to his home in Dubuque, Iowa.

A Blaclc-IJstiiic Ca*e Decided. The Supreme Court of Texas, Friday, reversed the decision of the lower court in the case of Richmond, a railroad conductor who sued the Missouri Pacific for damages for publishing him on the black list as a conductor discharged for carelessness. The Supreme Court holds that the case was not actionable for libel, for absence of express malice in the publication, and that a communication in reference to matter in which the person at interest is privileged if made to another for protecting that interest, and that a communication in the discharge of a duty, and looking to the prevention of wrong toward another on the public,

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THROUGH A CiSiN'i UK¥.,

OUR GROWTH AS A NATION HAS BEEN MARVELOUS.

The God of Ellslia is on the Side of Our Institutions—Christian Religion All that is Needed to I*uriiy

Our Politics.

Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Text: II Kings vi., 17. He said:

You will notice that the Divine equipage is always represented as a chariot of fire. Ezekiel and Isaiah and John, when they come to describe the Divine equipage, always represent it as a wheeled, harnessed, an upholstered conflagration. It is not a chariot like Kings and conquerors of earth mount, but an organized and compressed fire. That means purity, chastisement, deliverance through burning escapes. Chariot of rescue? Yes but chariot of fire. All our National disenthraliments have been through Bcorching agonies and red disasters. Through tribulation nations rise. Chariots oi rescue, but chariots of lite.

But how do I know that this Divine equipage is on the side of our institutions? I know it by the history of the last one hundred and eight years. The American revolution started from the pen of John Hancock in Independence Hall in 1770. The Colonies without Bhips, without ammunition, without guns, without trained warriors, without money, without prestige. On the other side the mightiest nation of the earth, the largest armies, and the grandest navies, and the most distinguished commanders, and resources inexhaustible, and nearly all nations ready to back them up in the fight. Nothing ay against immensity.

The cause of the American Colonies, which started at zero, dropped still lower through the quarreling of the Generals, and through the jealousies at email successes, and through the winters, which surpassed all predecessors in depth of snow and horrors of congealment. Elisha surrounded by the whole Assyrian army did not seem to be worse off than did the thirteen Colonies encomp' seed and overshadowed by foreign assault. What decided the contest in our favor? The upper forces, the uner armies. The Green and White Mountains of New England, the Highlands along the Hudson, the mountains of Virginia, all the Appalachian ranges were full of reinforcements which the young man Washington saw by faith and his men endured the frozen feet, and the irangrened wounds, and the exhausting hunger, and the long march because "the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw and, behold, the mountains were full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elislia." Washington himself was a miracle. What Joshua was in sacred history the first American President was in secular history. A thousand other men excelled feim in different things, but he excelled them all in roundness and completeness of character. The world never saw his like, and probably never will see his like again, because there probably never will be another such i-xigency. He was let down a Divine interposition. He was from God direct.

I do not know how any man can read the history of those times without admitting that the contest was decided by the upper forces.

Then in 1801, when our civil war opened, many at the North and at the South pronounced it National suicide. It was not courage against cowardice, it was not wealth s^rainst poverty, it was not large States agailist small L-tales. It was heroism against heroism, it was the resources of many generations against the resources of generations, it was the prayer ot the North against the prayer of the South, it was one-haif of the Nation in armed wrath meeting the other halt of the Nation in armed indignation. What could come but extermination?

At the opening of the war the Com-mander-in-Chief of the United States forces was a man who had been great in battle, but oid age had come with many infirmities, and he had a right to quietude. He could not mount a horse, and he rode on the battle field in a carriage, asking the driver not to jolt it too much. During the most of the four years of the contest, on the Southern side was a man in mid life, who had in his veins the blood of many generations of warriors, himself one of the heroes of Cherubusco and Cerro Gordo, Contreras and Chapultepec. As the years passed on and the scroll of caruage unrolled there came out from both sides a heroism and a strength and a determination that the world had never seen marshaled. And what but extermination should come wh^n Philip Sheridan and Stonewall Jackson met, and Nathaniel Lyon and Albert Sidney Johnson rode in from North and South, and Grant and Lee, the two thunderbolts of battle, clashed? Yet we are a Nation, and yet we are at peace. Earthly courage did not decide the conflict. The urper forces of the text. They tell us there was a baitle fought above the clouds on Lookout Mountain but there was something higher than that.

Again, the horses and chariots of God came to the rescue of this Nation in 1875, at the close of a Presidential election famous for devilish ferocity. A darker cloud yet settled down upon this Nation. The result of the election was in dispute, and revolution, not between two or three sections, but revolution in every town and village and city of the United States seemed imminent. The prospect was that New York would throttle New York, and New Orleans would grip New Orleans, and Boston, Boston, and Savannah, Savannah, and Washington, Washington. Some said Mr. Tilden was elected others said Mr. Hayes was elected and how near we came to universal massacre some of us guessed, but God only knew. I ascribe our escape not to the honesty and righteousness of infuriated politicians, but I ascribe it to the forces of the text. Chariots of mercy rolled in, and, though the wheels were not heard and the flash was not peen, yet all through the mountains of the North and South and the E.ist and West, though the hools did not clatter, the cavalry of God galloped by. I tell you, God is a friend of this Nation. In the awful excitement at the massacre of Lincolu, when there was a prospect that greater slaughter would open upon this Nation, God hushed the tempest. In the awful excitement at the time of Garfield's assassination

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God put his hand on the neck of the cyclone. To prove that God is on the side of this Nation, I argue from the last eight or nine great National harvests, and from the National health of the last quarter of a century—epidemics very exceptional—and from the great revivals of religion, and from the spreading of the Church of God, and from the continent blossoming with asylums and reformatory institutions, and from an edenization which promises that hia whole land is to be a paradise where God shall walk in the cool of the day.

In other sermons I showed you what was the evil that threatened to "upset and demolish American institutions, I am encouraged more than I can tell you as I see the regiments wheeling down ihe sky, and my jeremiads turn into doxologies, and that which was the Good Friday of the Nation's crucifixion becomes the Easter morn of its resurrection.^ Of course. God works through human instrumentalities and this National betterment is to come among other[things through a scrutinized bal-lot-box. By the law of registration it is almost impossible now to have illegal voting. There was a time—you and I remember it very well—when droves of vagabonds wandered up and down on election day and from poll to poll, and voted here and voted there, and voted everywhere, and there was no challenge or, it there were, it amounted to nothing, because nothing could so suddenly be proved upon the vagabonds. Now, in every well organized neighborhood, every voter is watched with severest scrutiny. I must tell the registrar my name, and how old I am, and how long I have resided in the State, and how long I have resided in the ward, or the township, and if I misrepresented fifty witnesses will rise and shut me out fiom the ballot-box. Is not that a great advance? And then notice the law that prohibits a man voting if he has bet on the election. A step inrther needs to be taken, and that man forbidden a vote who has offered or taken a bribe, whether it be in the shape of a free drink, or cash paid down, tne suspicious cases obliged to put their hand on the Bihle and swear taeir Vv)ta in if f.hey vote at ail. So through the cheat oi our Nation's suffrage redemption wisi come.

God also will save this Nation through an aroused moral sentiment. There has never been so much discussion of morals and immoralH. Men, whether or not they aknowledge what is right, have to think what is right. We have men who have had their hands in the public Treasury the most of their hfriime, stealing all tkey could lav their hands oa, discoursing eloquently about dishonesty in public servants, and men with two or three families of their own, prraehing eloquently about the Seventh Commandment. The question of sobriety and drunkenness is thrust in the face of this Nation as never before, and to take part in our political contests. Tha question of national sobriety in going to be respectfully and deferentially heard at the bar of every Legislature and every Hou^e of Representatives and every United States Senate, and an omnipotent voice will ring down the sky and across this land and back again, saying to these rising tidesot drunkenness which threaten to whelm home and Church and Nation: "Thus far shalt thou come, but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." have not in my mind a shadow of dishearteument as large as the shadow of a housefly's wing. My faith is in the upper forces, the upper armies ol the text. God is not dead. The chariots are not uawheeled. If you would only pray more and wash your eyes in Ihe cool, bright water fresb from the well of Christian reform it would be said of you as of this one of the text, "The Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and, behold, the mountain was full nf horses and chariots of fire round about EhriA."'

You will take without my_ saying it that my only faith is in Chriotianity and in the upper forces suggested in the text. Political parties come and go,and they may be right and they may be wrong but God lives and I think

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has ordained this Nation for a career of prosperity that no demagogism wiil be able to halt. I expect to live to see a political party which will have a platform of two planks—the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. When that party is formed it will 3weep across this land like a tornado, I was going to say, but when I think it i3 not to be devastation but resuscitation. I change the figure and say, such a party as that will sweep across this land like spice gales from heaven.

Have you any doubt about the need of the Christian religion to purify and make decent American politics? At every yearly or quadrennial election we have in this country great manufactories, manufactories of lies, and they aro run day and night, ami they turn out half a 'dozen a day all equipped and ready for full sailing. Large_ lies and email lies. Lies private and lies public and lies prurient. Lies cut bias and lies cut diagonal. Long limbed lies and lies with double back action. Lies complimentary and lies defamatory. Lies that some people believe, and lies that nobody believes. Lies with humps like camels and scales like crocodiles and neck as long as storks and feet as swift as an antelope's and stings like adders. Lies raw and scalloped and panned and stewed. Crawling lies and jumping lies and soaring lies. Lies with attachment Bcrews and rufllers and braiders and ready wound bobbins. Lies by Christian people who never lie except during elections, and lies by people who always lie, but beat themselves in a Presidential campaign. confess I am ashamed to have a foreigner visit this country in such times. I should think he wuld stand dazed bis hand on his pocket-book, and dare not go out nights. What will the hundreds of thousands of foreigners who come her to live think of us? What a disgust they mnst have for the land of their adoption! The only good thing about it is, many of them can not nderstand the English language. But I suppose tho German and Italian and Swedish and French papers translate it all and peddle out the infernal stuff to their subscribers.

Nothing but Christianity will ever stop such a flood of indecency. The Christian religion will speak after a while. The billingsgate and low scandal through which we wade every year or every four years, must b« rebuked by that religion which speaks from its two great mountains from the one mountain intoning the command. "Thou shalt not boar false witness against thy neighbor," and from the other mount making the plea for kindness and love and blessing rather than cursing. Yes, we are going to have a national religion.

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There are two kinds of national religion. One is supported by the State, and is a matter of human politics, and it has great patronage, and under it men willj stiuggle for prominence without reference to qualifications, and its Archbishop is supported by a salary of $75,000 a year, and there are great cathedrals, with all the machinery of music and canonicals, and room for a thousand people, yet an audience of fifty people, or twenty people, or ten, or two.

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kind of national religion—the vast majority of the people converted and evangelized, and then they will manage the secular as well as the religious.

Ah! it will not be long before it will not make any difference to you or to me what becomes ot this continent, so far aa earthly comfort is concerned. All we will want of it will be seven by three, and that will take in the largest, anil there will be room and to spare. That is all of this country we will need very sson—the youngest of U3. But we have an anxiety about the welfare and the happiness of the generations that art* coming on, and it will bo a grand thing if, when the archangel's trumpet sounds, we find that our scpulcher, like the one Joseph of Arimatliea, provided for Christ, is in the midst of a garden.

One of the seven wonders of the world was the white marble watch tower of Pnaros of Egypt. Sostratus, the architect and sculptor, after building that watch tower cut his name on it. Then he covered it with plastering, and to please the King, he put the monarch's name on tho outside of the plastering and the storms beat and the seas dashed in their fury, and they washed off the plastering, and they washed it out, and they washed it down, but the name of Sostratus was deep cut in the imperishable rock. So across the face of tLis nation there have been a great many names written, acros3 our finances, across our religions, names worthy of remembrance, names written on the architecture oi our churches, and our school?, and our asylums, and our homes ot mercy, but God is the architect of this continent, and He was the sculptor of all its grandeurs, and long after, through tiie'-wasb oi the ages and ths tempest of cwiturieB, all oilier names shall be. obliterated, the divine signature and divine name will be brighter and brighter a3 the milleniums go by, and the world shall see that the God who made thiij continent has redeemed it by His grace from all its sorrows and from all its crimes.

Have you faith in such a thing as that? After all the chariots have been unwheeled, and after all the war chargers have been crippled, the chariots which Elisha saw on che morning of his peril will roll on in triumph, iollowed by tne armies of heaven on white horsP3. God could do it without us, but He will not. The weakest of us, the faintest of us, the smallest brained of us, shall have a part in the triumph. We may not have our name, like the name of Sostratus, cut in imperishable rook and conspicuous for centuries, but we shall be remembered in a better place than that, even in the heart of Him who came to redeem us and redeem the world, and our names wilt be seen close to the signature of His wound, for as to day He throws out His arms toward us, He says: "Behold, I have graven thee on the palms of My baud," By the mightiest of all agencies, the potency of prayer, I beg you to seek our national welfare.

Some time ago there were four million six hundred thousand letters in the Dead Letter Postoffice at Washington— letters that lost their way—but not, one prnver ever directed tothe heart cf Ged miscarried. The wav is all clear for the a?c-nt of your supplications hfavenwsrd in hehali of this nation. Before the postal communication was so easy, and long ago, on a rock one hundred feet bi»h, on the coast of England, there was a barrel fastened to a post, and great letters on the sideof the rock, eo it could be seen far out at sea, were the words, "Post office and when ships came by a boat put out to take and fetch letters. And so sacred were those deposits of aflVi:!ion in that barrel that no lock was ever put upon tha barrel, although it contained messages for America and Europe,and Asia, and Africa, and all the islands of the sea. Many a stormtossed sailor, homesick, got message of kindness by that rock, and many a homestead heard good news from a boy long gone. Would that all the heights ot our national prospnrity were in interchange of sympathies—pravers sroing up meeting blessings coming down, postal celestial, not by a storm siruck rock on a wintry cixtst, but by the Kock of Ages.

A FRIGHTFUL DISASTER.

An Express Train 011 tlie Grand Trunli, Kimning at th« it« of Forty Jlil an Hour, .lumps the Track—Twenty Persons Killed—Many Injured.

The limited express on the' Grand Trunk .railway, due at Hamilton. Onf.. at 6:55 a m., Sunday, met with an accident about two miles west of that city, the rt suit of which wa* rhe lo: S of many lives. The train w?s composed of an engine, two baggage cars, a smoker, a thiough passenger coach, a Waba?b coach, a Wagner first-class eoa::h, a Pullman

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cars, in order named. The accident occured at the junction, where a "Y" is built. The train i« said to have been running at a speed of forty miles an hour or more, when directly on crossing the switch the engine jumped the track and plunged into a water tank, which stood in a space between the

smashing the tank into atoms and iurning almost upside down. The bag g«ge cars came directly after the engine, and the first of these was pitched over the engine and thrown on the main track, leaving its wheels behind it. The other baggase car caught fire from the on gin and the two were soon in flames. The coaches following, with the ex ception of the two Wagner cars in the rear of the train, were huddled together by the shock and soon caught fire from the baggage carB. The passengers on the train, numbering over one hundred and fifty, many of whom were asleep at the time, had a terrible experience. A majority were able to get. out before the fire reached them, but in the confusion that reigned it is not known how many victims were left to the mercy of the flames, penned in by the material of the wreck and unable to extricate themselves, L. S. Gurney bad his head completely severed from his body by a piece, of "flying debris. Rudolph Deerer, was also instantly killed. As Boon the engine polled oyer, after

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Watson and Engineer Chapman crawled*from underneath it, neither being much'' hurt. 'Ihe remains of twenty victims* were taken from the wreck. Many others were injured.

The place where the accident occurred is considered dangerous, as there is a switch on a rather sharp curve. Seven cars, a baggage car, two first-class coaches, a smoker, a first-class day coach, and two Wagner sleepers, were burned, there being not a vestige ot wood or anything that won'd burn left. One car, the baggage-car,

ed, and the engine is the must completewreck imaginable. The loss to the company will be enormous. Many of those on the train were going to New York to participate in the centennial festivities. Most of the passengers lost" all or a portion of their baggage and cloth inc. and a large amount of the mails were lost by fire.

D&JDLLY AN!) HARRISON.

A Forged better »n I tho Oiio Really Written,

The foilov/ing alleged letter, from Col. W. W. Dudley to Samuel Van Pelt, an old army comrade, living iu Anderson, Ind., was published at Washington. Thur:.cpv.ai5 a special to a Chicago paper from Anderson: "My Dear Sam—Yours received. 1 need not tell you that it would be very gratifying to me to see you get the Indian agency, knowing as I do your special'! fitness for the place and your service to Llie country in the hour of her sorest need but I am sorry to say that. 1 will be unable to render you any assistance whatever with the President. He has lost his back-bone, and ii too cowardly to be seen consulting with me, for the simple reason that ihe copperheads and rebels of Indiana have trumped up a lot of charges against me. He seems entirely oblivious t.o the fact that it was through my riforis that Indiana was saved to him."

When the above was shown Colonel Dudley ha pronounced it a clear, cold forgery." He said he had telegraphed" i.o an Pelt as soon as he saw it in the papers, dt-manning that VanPelt Kive out for publication the letter which he actualiy wroU', ami added: ''I Vfrote only one, and I Lave preserved a copy. Here. it. in. While I don't ear.' to have my private letters published to the1: world, yet there is nothing iu this letter I. am ashamed of, and while it was hastily written, in confidence to an old friend, 1 would nave no olijec lion to the President seeing it. I have ssked nothing from General Harrison, and therelore have nothing to complain of. I wibh liife administration every success, arid would not, if 1 could, embarrass it in any way. Jam ouc o) politic *, and would not. accept any public office. I have recently asi oeiatfd with m« Mr. Chaf. D. lnjrersol I, of New York, and Jerome Caity. of Philadelphia, and have decided to demote my entue attention to ihe practice of law. I neither seek nor would accept any public office.1'

Following is the letter, as written by Col. Dudl«*v: Washington,

Perhaps there is no one in the couniiv who has done so much for General Harrison during the Jatt twenty years, as I have, but because our Democratic, friends down in Indianapolis have start,ed the hue and crv on me Brother Ben don't seem to feel that he can Jifforti to recognize me as an acquaintance, and consequently I don't tafce dinner at the 4 White House as might be expected. Is have not been inside the White House

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April 15, 1889.

3. P. Van Pe 1, Kfcrj., A Ji'lersen, hid.: Dear Old ftam—* our good letter of he 28th of March, I got in good time, hut it found me absent. I have recentreturned from a trip to the South, where I went on legal business, and had a good time and a little rest from the crowds of pfople who throng my office from morning until nijzht, and •iom the monnU'ins of letter^ which pile upon my dt.sk every day. Your letter-, yot into the pue. vi hc-ie I rescued it tonigh', and 1 h:i:-ten-.:(l now to say h*iw much good it h»s done me to hear from cour again. Tin re is nothiny I should Jike bett than to do something for you, but I am a?raid you greatly t:V(-rfsl'im:le my inllurnce. Your oldfriend Reed has placed your pension in '(iv hand, and itrn working away at it to get it soon.

sir.ee Cleveland's inauguration, a little $ over four veara atto, but I will see if something can not be doi-e si little later 011, and tell you what to do. If you should not hear from me again, Sam, for the next two months, don't lie alarmed, for there will be just as good chancer two# months hence—and a littie better—as 'here i-.u- now.

Give my kind regards to all the^ bovsy at Anderson, and remember me always as your friend.

Sincerely your friend, W. W.

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Dudley.

The following is the telegram sent by Mr. Dudley to Mr. Van Pel!: Washington,

C\ Apiil 25fh, 188').

Samuei. Van Pelt—What

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Chicago Heiaid from their Anderson^ .oirespondent? I demand that you have mv letter :is written

you pub-

lisbed in the Indianapolis Jouinai, the Anderson psners and the Chicago^ Herald. Is that the way you treat private correspondence from an old friend? Answer. W. WT.

Dudley.

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