Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1885 — Page 4

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13 Ha largest and best newspaper published in Indiana, C vrm T-TTXTn i r a rrr tt txto Tree frea Partisan Pslitln tail Sectarian Bin. On all subjects of public interest it expresses its opinions according to its best Judgement, with a view only of promoting the BEST INTEREST OF SOCIETY. It contains the cream of the news from quarters down to 4 o'clock Sunday morntag, excluding only that which i3 prurient or Immorally sensational. In few words, the BcsDAT BnrnsiL is devoted to that class of news, literary and miscellany, proper and necessary to make it what it is, THE PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE, tpcially adapted to the home. The Scicdat Sr:?Tixia influence will be giren in aid of the Eleratlon and Advancement ef Woman to the true position which is hen by virtue of natural justice. Price, f 2 per year; twenty cents per month, delivered br "carrier; fire cents per copy. TWELVE PAG-ES. 8UNDAY, FEBRUARY '22. orriCEi 71 and 73 Weit Market Street. It would seem as if ths imported English actress is responsible for a great deal of do me stic tribulation nowadays. Tux arrogance of wealth equally with arrogance of poverty is detestable. The slavery of the plantation is only equalled by Ihe slavery of debt. Ak electric inventor has deviled a method of telegraphing from moving trains, and a line has been put in operation on the liarJem branch of the New Haven Railroad. A good many politicians are belog let down easy just now by having it said in the papers that it is understood that General, Colonel or Honsrable So-and-so can have this or that public office, but he does not want it. Air investigation by the New York Board of Health has resulted in the discover" that hair dye contains a large quantity of prussic acid, one of the deadliest of poisons. This disclosure will be likely to lessen the demand lor the stuff. Thc following good advice comes from George W. Cable: "Let all colored men patiently, persistently, and with all possible intellectual skill ignore their African origin'and do, say, and seek everything purely, only and entirely as American citizens." This advice is also good for white men of European origin. Tue steel rail mills of the country now have a capacity of 1,000,000 tons; in 1872 it was only Sf,.;9I tons. At the end of 1S83 some thin over half the track of the United States was iron. It is estimated the steel rails 111 need to be renewed every twenty years, to that the substitution of steel, which will be continued, and the manufacture for renewals in addition to new lines will form a great business for the future. Ibei.axd laat year had a population of r,C!7,S."C. The excess of deaths over births was 34,143, and, besides this, statistics show that the Emerald Isle lost nearly 100,000 by migration. The marriage rate also shows a falliDg off. the number of nuptial knots tied during 1332 being far below the average, Thia ii attributed to the fact that the greater partot the emigrants are persons between tbe ages of 15 and 22. No matter how much blood and treasure it may coat, England mut now chastise El Mahdi and retake Khartoum. The millions in India and elsewhere upon whom she has fastened her yoke are aching to get rid of it, and she must either bumble the false prophet or look to &ee the discontented people whom she holds in subjection rise in rebellion acainst her. Her only chance of retaining her supremacy is by the maintenance of her military prestige. It is cot ao long since King Cotton held sway over our commerce as not to make it seem ridiculous to the average man to suggest that the eg?s of this country are worth more than one-third as much as the cotton. The Boston Commercial Bulletin gives the value of the cotton crop annually as $273,000,000 in round figures, but the census of 1SSO gay the value of the egg crop as more than $100,000.000. And yet New York is compelled to import a great quantity of eggs. Thf. Frinchita bill enacted by the British Parliament last year throws tbe political power cf England into the hands of the laboring classes. If the latter shall stand firmly together they will now be able to destroy the land monopoly la England, and etfcct many other reforms essential to their welfare. But If they areas little conscious of their power aa the laboring classes of the United States soem to be, and permit demagogues to persuade them to yoU for the creatures of corpcrations and organized capital, as American workingmen do, the evils of which they complain will continue, and it will be jaat it well for them if they were not enfranchised at all.

The contribution, "The Soldier," in the "fusing to hear her confession, when Insisttcdj of to-day'i p'per, and "Early Teaching ; E5 on retaining her just in the position she ia the Southwest," In the supplement, are ; had cccupied? It is not the admonitory talk

frcxa the pen which also gave us recently Early Editing in Indiana," "Canvassing in Indiana." and otber excellent bits ot work. Tha humor of this contributor is only aurpsrrM y his modesty, which refrains him frcn tll0T7ing the ma of his name. This tinldity is the more noticeable since the C:zii3 I ta ex wldier, an ex-Uacher ad cn ex -editor. And besides these exClizxizzz, hs is a remirkably handsome izt ccnithing of politician, a Rood deal cl q rJizlu tsd T:rj much cf a bTTjer. Clr"T-r ihtt cne who feared not with his C..::t3 cczfrczt hecta In battle, thould,

when armed with the pen, which Is "mightier than the sword," t brink from raising his visor to tbe public who enjoy his sketches. Cat since he wills to appear inco?., we must yield him his way, rather than that our readers be deprived of his admirable emotione.

THE SYDNEY CARTONS Wbcever has read "The Tale ot Two Cities'' is acquainted with Dickens' Sydney Carton. lie was careless, be was slovenly, and be drank. Idlest and most unpromising of men, he served a glib and unscrupulous advocate whose superior in intellect he was. Mr. Stryver was the lion, Sydney Carton the jackal. The lion, ready and bold, bustled busily about and gathered cases which the jackal, over the bottles which the i lion provided him, analyzed and extracted i the pith and marrow of argument for the use ; of the man of tongue and assurance but litI tie brain. i "lama disappointed drudge, sir. I care j for no man on earth, and no man cares for ! me," was one o Carton's careless confesj siocs. Observing his weakness, his recklesscess and dissipation, the respectable man and tbe Christian passed him by without recognition, and he in turn hated the Christian and the respectable man. Unworthy ft How that he was, why should respectability and Christianity defile their bauds by touching his? But, anon, this Jackal meets a pure, gentle and sympathetic girl. Of all the high-toned who daily brush him by, who would have demonstrated such unselfish and immiculate spirit when confessing his love and his demerits? A "self-Hung away, wasted, drunken, poor creature of misuse, a3 you know me to be," he described himself to her. He knew that she loved another, and asked no return of his love, and would not have accepted the sacrifice of her, lest he suould " blight her, disgrace her and pull her down with him." But since knowing her he u had heard whispers from old voices impelling him upward, that he thought were silent forever." He revealed to her that beneath his protligacy and apparent total depravity was a vein of pure and coble thought and feeling, and Lucy Manette gave to him with tears all the esteem, confidence and sympathy ehe might havo given to an erring brother. The years roll by with Sydney Carton still careless, drunken and insolent, but always holding in memory the kind words of the pure girl. Of all the people he had met since falling into the debased life only she had given him companion. Charles Darnay, the husband of Lucy Manette, lies in the Ccncergerie at Paris, awaiting the morrow when, with other?, his head is to fall from the guilotine. Sydney Carton gains admittance to his cell. A few minutes afterward the guard removes from the Concererie the suit wem by Carton and the swooning form which it covered. An hour later that form was in Lucy's enbrace, though unconscious still, and a carriage containing both rapidly leaving Paris. On the following day the little sempstress, who was to be executed along with Darnay, hardly restrained an exclamation when she looked into the face of him who stepped from Darnay's cell. Bat his eyes repressed her. "Are you dying for him?" ehe whispered. "And his wife and child. Hush! Yes." "Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?" "Hush! Yes, my poor sis-ter-to the lost." There was another Sydney Carton in a Southern city during the yellow fever scourge of 1870. He was dissipated and a gambler, fhe respectable man and the Christian repudiated him as a foul blot on the place, and sought to have him driven out. When the scourge came most of the ministers and the "better classes" fled the city. But Harry Savage, the blackleg, re mained. He drew from bank some $S,OO0 and organized a corps of nurses and physi- ' cians at his own expense. The fever'a ravages j were appalling, but he shrunk not from j direst scenes. Refusing needful rest, he walked by day and byni-ht, providlog for tbe wants of the stricken poor and tending them with his own hands. lis exhausted his purse, exhausted his own physical strength, fell himself a victim to the scourgethe very last it lafd its hands upon and died. Four years ago a betrayed woman, penni less and nearing confinement, applied to everal charitable homes in New York City for shelter, and was refused by all. At length a magdalen, from her window, saw the unfortunate woman on the street, went out to her and brought her to her own room. Trcstrated by hunger and toilsome walking, she fell sick, and three days later some very respectable people had both the women arrested and subsequently prosecuted the one for infanticide and the other as being particeps. It was proven that the charge was unfounded, but the evidence of the wanderer on the witness stand showed the magdalen to have, during the weeks, almost j staryed herself that the sick one might have I comforts. j If respectability and Christianity would j not look so highly over their critical epec- : tacles they might do much more toward rej claiming the fallen. The human being is a ) rare one who is so totally depraved that ! there is not a corner in the beart susceptible j to the touch of kindness.of unselfish interest, j In his or her behalf. One of the disbarj meats of tbe erring from returning to the j rieht is the violence done their sensitiveness ; by the slights of others. Many a solemn I lecture, however well Intended, spoken to ; one who has let his foot slip, has had only ; discounting effect upon its object. Whit ' worse condemnation can the one gone j wrong enffer than from his or her own re j morse? What obligation bo strong could Lady Janet Bay have placed Mercy Merrick under, as when positively cor the consciously patronizing manner that touches and wins the erring, but the unostentatious hand and gently encauraging word. Ncr is the verity of this argument wholly unappreciated by those whose hearts go out to the Sydney Cartons. In our own city are people who have grasped the idea and are guided dj it. There is, at least, one minister ! In our midst whose outreachings In behalf of the unfortunate are ao timely in their meth eds ei in ttwrt in Mm h -4 . " , -v.. vuuuWa regard of many who have lost social aa well kj u;!ne!3cc:ts. Attentive totijpuJpU xainLs

traticcs, careful to feed his Sock, he also goes out in search ot the lost she e p, seeking by kind appeal and extension of benevolence to allure them into the Held. Let our sincere workers among the erring remember that whatever else the latter may have lost, they probably retain a sense of human pride and human tenderness, and that if avoiding o! fending the former, gentleness and unpretentious kindness may eiTect an impression cn the latter.

THE VENEER OF CIVILIZATION. "It will be a bigger thing for the great ex position than the liberty bell, at all events it would araw more people," said Mr. Sheedy of the proposed fieht between Sullivan and Evan, in a gigantic tent holding twenty-five thousand people, at New Orleans about Easter Monday. It is by no means certain that Mr. Shcedy's boast is overstrained. It 13 altogether probable that the attraction of a nose-mashing, eye-blacking j engagement between two of the most noted ' champions ot the ring alive would be strong er than any influence emanating from historical cr patriotic associations conreded with the bell, whose sound, lite tbe shot at Concord, was "heard round the world." After a'l our besst our civilization will not bear very deep probing over a very large surface of popular feeling. "Scratch a Kasfiain," said the first Napoleon, 1 ami you find a Tartar." Scratch off the surface civilization of half of every civilized people on the earth and you'll find a fetratum of savagery close below. So close, sometimes, as to show through the outside glees and betray the original animal without uncovering him. Looked at abstractly tbere can be nothing more repulsive to manly or human feeling than the sight of two big burly masculine animals beating the blcodout of each others faces; the teeth oot of each other's jaws; the breath out of each other's bodies; bloody, dirty, disfigured, panting with furious exertion, glaring with murderous revelry. And yet a thousand men will stand about and watch such an exhibition by the hour with unflaggiDg interest. What better are we than the savages who make an entertainment of murder? "We talk of the barbarism of the Bomans who built amphitheaters, seating 20.CC0 or :0,000 spectators for the butcherly performances of gladiators. We wonder at the Marcias and Portias and Cornelias of Roman high life, who could watch the deadly conflicts of the Flavian Amphitheater with applause for tbe fatal stab that let a scarlet slream of blood spurt out upon tbe eaud, and with a callous down-turning of the thumbs, to condemn lo death the unlucky gladiator who happened to displease their fastidiousness In murder. But how are we more refined or human when we watcn our pugilistic gladiators in contests as brutal and cruel? The Spanish who troep by the town to see a buli-fight, where frightened horses are ripped open and wheeled about the ring with their bowels dragging in the dirt, and where the work'o! a slaughter house and a beef butcher is done as the best of popular enjoyments, are rather better and more refined than a'large part of our mrce boastful people. They see nothing worse than the torture of dumb brutes. We see a torture as cruel icllicted with brutal ferocity and borne with brutal stolidity by man who may be supposed to have brains and feelingand some sense of humanly consideration for suffering, and yet see no manifestation of disgust or pain or offense in anybody. Of course we are not all of that kind. There are men and women by thousands who would not go to a prize fight if it were free and in a church, just as there were Romans who could not endure the performances of the,,Beorixes"and"Nobiliors" of the arnea, and Spaniards who don't enjoy a bull fight. Bat the majority of us Americans j take a prize fight with a fair share of ' satisfaction, and see a man sent down a csn hit on the nose," with a strong disposition to applaud. In short, there is very much more barbarism in the world than vre like to admit. ; "We have contrived to cover it closer and conceal it Letter than the people of ancient time?, or modern people of less moral and intellectual pretension, but we have not done more in the way of extirpating it than others. A big fight will do more to help the defective attendance at a great industrial exhibition than any display of patriotic rel- ! or any force of sentiment. A great naiional enterprise can be helped by the aid of influences that touch the baser elements of life and human nature. So says Mr. Sheedy, in effect, and there are not many close observers of tbe ways of the world who will not concede that he is about half right. Tbe pessimlfct ha3 a good deal to encourage hi tu yet. ENGLAND'S HUMILIATION. Not in generations has England suffered so much humiliation as recently in the S Midan. She can not avoid the confession that trie fall of Kahrtoum and the loss of Generals Gordon, Earle and Stewart are attributable to her own weak and vacillating policy. Had the forces for the relief of Gordon, which his situation so imperatively demanded, been forwarded four months earlier (within two months after their need was known ) these calamities are not likely to have occurred. But their occurrence will cost England enormously. The moral effect of 1 Mahdi's victories over his fanatical folj lowers is to confirm their faith in him as a ! "prophet." They will follow the more I readily and fight the more savagely. Tue : repute he lias won among the superstitious i people has aire idy brought large additions to his ranks. What with the immense dis- ; tance, the intolerable climate and the bushi whacking advantage the situation gives to ' El Mahdi, England must sacrifice much life j and spend enormous money before driving j out the Arab. And then what benefit is the : miserable territory to her? A SAD CONDITION. The language and intent of the following petition, from sixteen maidens of Charleston, S. C , bear a strange intarpretatioa to the present status and advanced stage of woman's position. It was found among the reccrds of the Secretary of State, baariog date r;'M,&nd wu addrs-sed to the Governor of South Carolina, and ran as follows: The Humble Petition of All the Miida Whose Names are Underwritten: Whereas, we, the humble petitioners, are at present in s a Terr melancholy condition of mind, con jdwi how all the bachelors are blindly j captured by widowe and we are thereby neglected. In consequence ot this, our re-

quest 13 that your Excellency will for the fu tore order that no widow presume to marry any joung man till tbe maids are provided for, or else to pay each cf them a fine for satisfaction cf invading our liberties, and likewise a fine to be levied on all bachelors as shall be married to widows The great disadvantage it is to us maids is, that the widow?, by tbeir forward carriage, do Bnap up the yencg men and have the vanity to think their merit beyond ours, which is a great imposition to us, who outsat to have the preference. This is humbly recommendel to your Excellency's consideration. And we poor maids, in duty bound, will ever pray, etc."

HON. GEORGE R. WENDLING TO NIGHT. At the Meridian Street Methodist Church, to-niht, under tbe auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association, Hon. G93rgeR. Wendling will lecture on "Immortality." The subject has suilicient attraction even without Mr. Wendlings eloquence, and Mr. Wendllng's eloquence has 8UiT;cient attraction even with a less villi subiect; the two combined must make the occasion a notable one, and we doubt not that Indianapolis will cive the orator a great audience. PERSONALS. Senator Lo .ax was fifty nine years old on February O. Sen'atop. Bayai:d is fond of a sauca made of horseradish beat up in white of egg. Grace Grf.enwcod claims that "literary women live happier livej than fashionable women." Vse;tlt Dl'di.ey is not the delicately beautiful creature fancy painted her. She wears a No. 7 shoe. General Grut wears several false teeth. G. Washington wore a set before he was Grant's age, and, moreover, they didn't fit. Hfnky Ciay Baif.d, the publisher, has recently celebraiea the one-hundredth anniversary of the foundation of his publishing bouse. General Siikrmax was sixty-five years old last Sunday, but hia kisser is still in good working order. Hi3 only rival, ex-Governor Crittenden, of Mi893uri, rstired from the Cold some time ago. Ax unsophisticated youth ot Adairsville, Ga., proposed to his Bweetheart by postal card:Jand, the missive having been read by about twenty persons before it fell into the hands of the 1 idy, a big social sensation was the result. Kix; Kalakaia, of the Sandwich l:!and?, can not help being a good man. The reason assigned is, that his ancestors ate so much missionary in their time that it worked into their eystem, and was transmitted to their descendants. Mr. Ci.evf.lanp is Eatd to ba very fond of the fragrant Havana. He also likes gool whisky und will drink beer on a pinch. He has not yet become addicted to roller skates or progressive euchre, but he is young yet and we have grave feirs. General Harney's children have succeeded in their effort to secure the appointment of a receiver for their father's esta'e. The General is eighty-four years old, and a few months ago married his housekeeper. Hia estate yields an income oi nearly ?100, C00 a jear. New York tuft-hunters, who, without knowing Lord Garmoyle, have invited him to their entertainments, are greatly disgusted to learn that he is merely a Lord by courtesy, tbe son of an Irish "created" Earl, and has no l!.i-eap;e or claim on aristocracy whatever. Miss Ph kbe Colins is giving but few lectures this winter. She told a reporter the other d.iy that "since the assumption of the duties of Deputy Marshal of the United States Court in St. Louis she has had little time for lecturing, and is now beginning to think she has little taste for it." - THE OREGON LEGISLATURE. The Storiuieat Iiu Kr Known in That fctate-llesolatlon to Adjourn Jtrinlt.

S.U.EM, Ore., Feb. 21. Tnis city bas been the ECtne of the greatest turmoil ever known In the history of the State since 11 o'clock last night. After the joint Convention adjourned without tae electiou of a Senator on the sixty-eighth billot of the Eefesiou, and the forty-tilth ballot of the day, both lloasea retired to their respective balls to finish up routine business. A concurrent resolution was passed three days ago adjourning the Legislature until Friday at midnight, at which time the allotted forty days expire. There la no '.aw apaiufct holding more tnau forty dars.Jmt raemrers can not receive pay beyond that period. The Republicans being in the majority In both Houses, they Immediately, upon comlus to order, passed a resolution by a viva voce vote rescinding the previous resolution to ad iourn. The Democrats were greatly incenicd at ttis turn of aliiirs, and a rlotoui scene occurred in the Senate when the Democratic hecator from Lynn made a ruth for the Republican member from Multuomoba, reaching In his peck et a$ he advanced. Tbe assailant was caught Ly the Serjeant-at-Arm. Both Houses adjourned till 10 o'clock this morning. At the caucus of the Democrat, which ended at 'J o'clock this mornin?. It wa resolved that every man leave by train at 7 o'clock this morning, thus preventing a Quorum, two-thirds of the members being requisite to transact business. The Republictns will adopt one of two CDurses either to meet this afternoon and elect a Senator iinder the Federal law. which provides that a majority of the members of a legislative body shall constitute a competent body for the election of a senator, or they will dispatch the Sergeant-at-Arms over the State to ring in the absconding members. This precedent was set down by the Legislature of IStO, which snt Colonel K. J). Baker and J. Y. graith to the United States Senate. The Demorrats defend their action on the ground that the Oregon legislature has never Eft more than forty day?, and rescindia? the previous resolution to adjourn by a viva voce vote, they state, was unparliamentary, and countenanced neither by law or nsage. They declare that the Legislature is adjourned. It is posib!e that the outcome of the whole business will be that the Governor will appoint, though hit power to do so iä questioned; on good authority, there tx?!ng no vacancy owing todeath or resignation. This was simply a failure to elect. The Deadlock ConCnnes. salem, Ore., Feb. 21. -Roth houses were calle 1 to order at 10 o'clock. All the Democrats' seats were vacant, nearly all bavin; left by the early morning train. In each house there was more than half the membership, but not the two-thirls required by the State Constitution for a quorum for the transaction of legislative business. Both houses took a recess until 11:45. As viewed by the Republicans, the legal v status of the situation is clear. The .President of the Senate, at 12 o'clock, has but to announce that the constitutional bour for a joint convention having arrived, the Senats wi:l proceed to the hall of the House, wnea, more than half of the members being present, as required by national law. balloting may proceed In the regular and legal form. There is, however, a trtng opposition to this plan, thoueh no question aa to the legal authority for it. The anUgonism which divided the Kpubiioijjs upto tbe hourof adjournment Is still unabated. The Lepubllean minority will probably decline to enter tbe joint convention unless the majority candidate will withdraw. The Republicans met in joint convention, fiftyone members belnz preaenu The sixty-ninth ballot was called and the vote wu widely mattered, the biehest man receiving only three. Tbe contending factions could not agree or compromise on a candidate at the conference held just before tbe session. ftcest uken UU 1 p. xa.

RAILEOAD DISASTERS.

Several Ciocinnatlans Injured by a Collision on the Ohio and MlssLIppi Road. An Engineer and, Fireman Killed by a Collision on tho West Shoro Road. RAILROAD ACCIDENTS The St. Louis Eipre Hods Into the Cincinnati Commuters l'rain Sererat Hart A lee Line llroken Kail. Cincinnati, Feb. 12. Tne St. Louis express train ou the O. and M., due here this morning, ran into the rear car ot the commuters' trnia, vaiiin; on the 6lde-farlc at Delhi, twelve miles from the city. Injuring a number o! passengers, all suburban residents of Cincinnati. The cause oi tbe accident was an open iwitch, but why it wasopen Is not clearly explained. Among the injured are Nelson fcayler, a lawyer, badly hurt; R. B. Trice. Robinson, bacjase master; McReady, Third National Bank; A. T. Clark, home in the city; lr. Trumbower, Mr. bnjder. Fernbank; J. IL Leng, Fernbank, badly hurt: Mr. Snowdoa, leg broken: D. A. Woodruff, hurt Internally, Mr. Drake. North Bend, seriously injured: Judge Conner, of the Common Fleas Court, eeriously iniured; Mr. Smith, Fernbant, slightly hurt: the engineer of the St. Louis exprtfs was aUo injured. Tbe officers oi the Ohio and Miisislppl Koid say thc eipres train being behind time theacCGTxmcdatlon train had orders to use thirty-eijht minutes of tbe ex Dress train's time and side-lraeit at LtlM for the express train to pas. 'the atcoasmodation was getting oa thc side track but found a box car in the ay, and while delayed in moving it the express rtme up and struck the rear car, telescoping It into the next otc before it. Some passenger were hart by jumpiDg. But one lady was hurt and sie but blightly. It is not believed that any will die from tbeir injuries. A corrected list of the injured is as follows! Nelson Taylor, leg injured: Harry V. Smith, of Aurora, lad., let broken: Judjze Conner, of North Bend, le? slightly injured; F. M. DrakP, Manchester, Mass., yisitin Judge Conner hip fractured and foot raashed: t aptain II. W, Wise, scalp wound: W. Rabinson. baggage aeent, back and leg bruised: John II. Inig. crushed and Internally injured: George Forlc?. ot tbe Citiens' National Bank, slight: C. T. Bincamp and two eons, of Aurora, Ind., slight iDjurif s; Edward Woodruff, of Cincinnati, serIoulv iomred about the eyes; J. Mcjueely, of the Third National Bank, leg injured: L. V. I'carce. Fernbank, slight; engineer of the accoi irodation (not of the express), slight. It is said that the express train was ruuniog at not more than ten miles an hoar at the time of tbe colli&ion. Not far fron tbe wme time an accident happencionthe Bee Line Road, at Lockland Station, thirteen miles north of the city. The New York txpress train was approaching the city, and bad just passed Lockland when it ran over a broken rail. Two sleepers and the rear paspeDer coach were thrown from the track: no one was killed to far as known, and only two reported seriously injured. Max Fltiichman, ot New York, a brother of Charles l letecbraan, of thiä city, andalaiy fron New York, name unknown. Quito a nurnbjr oi others were more or less bruised. Terrific Collision on the West Shore ltoad Two Kuiplojes Killed. Ai.iiAXY. N. Y., Feb. 21. The particulars of the collision on the West Shore Railroad at Canajob8rie, to-day, received here so far are as follows: A freight Uain, bound east, stood on the main track, around a curve out of the village, when ft passenger train was teen coming at a speed of rhirty miles per bour, and only a short distande aay. The whistles of both head engines blew fiercely, but in an instant the crt&h. came. On the passenger train tbere were three engines the head one. No. and Andrew bhiner, engineer, and tirover Fenny, fireman: the sec ond, No. 12, George Wilkinson, engineer, and James O'ßrieD. lireman; the third. No. 38, Thomas Finch, engineer, and Ldward f'tage. fireman. The freight train had one engine, No. 12, Andiew Zimmerman, engineer, and Milroy, lireman. Both engineer and fireman of engine No. 135 were kllleo. From their position under the wreck it is evident that they attempted to jump. Bo:h were crushed horribly, and were dcubtltss instantly killed. Engineer Wilkinson was hurt about the foot and head seriously. Engineer Zimmmerman was hurt about the back and otherwise, and for a time it was thought he would die. The other engineers and tremen escaped with slight injuriep. The second passenger engine was i tripped of most of its wheels, and in boiler stands at n angle of forty-five degrees. There were f.ve passenger coacbes, and although the rassengcrs were badly shaken up, none are reported as seriously injured. The bageage car and .several freight cars were badly smashed, and an oflicialstid tbe damage could not be repaired for less than il2:,0C0. Tbe four eDgines are wedged into each other, and three of them damaged beyond repair. A work train removed the bodies and cleared tbe west track. The blame lies between the flagman of the freight train and the dispatcher, who ordered passenger train coanged at Fulton to the east track, anl to proceed t? Canajohane. Stock Train Ueralled. Chicago, Feb. 21. A Btock train on thc Galena Division of the Chicago and Northwestern Itallroad suffered a derailment of four cars, owing to the breaking of a flange on one of the wheels. There were about 2uO head of sheep and eighty bead of cattle in the cars which went off the trck. and over one ba f of them were killed or so Dadly hurt that they bad to be put out of their misery. A $100,000 Wreck. Utica, N. y., Feb. 21. This morning a passenger train on the West Shore Road ran into a freight train at Canajoharie. Three locomotives were mashed. Kngineer Andrew Shiner, of Frank i'art, and Fireman Grover Fenny, of Deposit, were Instantly killed, and others severely injured. The loss is estimated at f 100,000. CONDENSED TELEUIUHS. Tte Louisiana State pen:tentiary, at Baton Rouge, caught on Are last night, and irom appearancts it was thought the entire building would bum. At Louisville, in a fight about a wor.iAn named Lizzie Davis. Joseph Pope cut the throat of Harry Chappeli with a pruning knile, allling him instantly. Tbe strike which was inaugurated at the Soiio Iron Werks, Pittburg three weeks ago has enaed, snd the men will resume work on Monday, a compromise having been effected. An accident occurred yesterday morning on the Lake Erie and Western nailroad near Arrow i-mlth. III, by which several passenger cars were ditched and many passengers more or less injured. Ttey were tasen to Bloomington. gt. John Commander? No. 4, Knights Templar, of Philadelphia, arrived at St. Louis at 2 p. m. vesterday, on their return from New Orleans. They were met with a band by local Knight, an4 escorted to the Lindell Hotel. They left lor Louisville at 12 o'clock last night. Chicago and Scandia Divisions, Uniform Rank Knights of Honor, will be In attendants at the ball given by the Indianapolis Dlt ision at Lyra Hall on the '.'4th. These Divisions have very t4ne uniforms and will add much to the attractloni of the evening by doing some very fine drilling. At Cba. lotte. S. C, yesterday, Samuel Ricbardfon, a colored fireman, ran azalnst Isariah Bron60u, also colored, and broke two eggs in the latter'! pocket. Kronson thereupon cat Richardson's throat. Richardson walked across the street to a drug store and fell dead. Rronson was arrested. At 3 o'clock yesterday morning a passenger train bound west on the Lake Snore Road ran into a freight train at Canajoharie, N. Y. The engineer, Andrew fchiner, of Frankfort, and tne fireman, Grovcr Fenny, of Detroit, were minified by the wreck and irstantly killed. Others were severely injured. Loss estimated at $ ICO, Coo. Plymouth Church O reran Recital. The ninth Saturday afternoon organ recital of Professor Clark at Plymouth Church, yesterday, was attended by a fair audience, considering the weather. The firt number played was a fantasie in C oy Tratschel, whose name, the Professor said, was seldom seen on programmes. The composition was a ne example of counterpoint. The graziös o in F was by Smart, who, he raid, wa3 one of the greatest organ composers of England. Tbe chorus fugue from the "Messiah," that greatest of all oratorios, was instanced as one of a class that Handel, tbe composer, had often scored for interlude. The next number was truly very noteworthy. It was a composition of the organist himself entitled "Homage to Washington." It wi$ plijed on this occasion as fitting to the time the eye of the birthday of the Father of his Country. As preliminary, the Professor stated that formerly when steamboats patsed Mount Vernon theyalwajs tolled their bells as a tribute to the great man who slept tnexe, and the piece had this

idea connected with it; and was intended tre feelings incident. It was a piece of a nigh order of merit, being very meloiions, sweet and aSecticg. In one part especially, tbe Snte stop wm csed nioet excellently as imitation of that instrument with an exceedingly touchine and expressive elTect. It rejects great credit on tbe composer. Tbe military march in D. byehubeht, seen ed to show tb:it the author was par-excellence tbe sons composer, as It teemed ai plain and ciear in expret'ion aa words comd be. The "Theme from an Opera," by Herold, was of the characteristic melodiousness of tbe composer of "Zampa." It was replete with triplets, tarns trills and tippings. The ' GaTctte in F," by Padre Martini, might seem an odd piece for a priest to compose, being an old time dance tune, but in these times of the whirling waltz, ranch fault can not be found with that staid old Equate dance. The performance concluded with the overture to tbe "Barber of Seville," by Ilosinl. It is somewhat remarkable that two of the rco?t melodious compositions extant celebrate the exploits of a Spanish barber tbe first bein; the above piece, and the other the "Marriage of Figaro." The rat part is dirticult of adaptation to the organ, as the quick movement is liable to be given with a little too much slurring for the nect-ssary distinctnets, was the case in this instance.

THk IIECORI) Snowing the Marrlagrea, Births and Deaths During- the Past Week. ft 1DI E. I'icf-s'ey and Pnsan fJriSitn e i 1. William and Hattie ri.aer-boy. William and Mary .avoun boy. James and Nora Gitliens girl, t rans: and Zereia Uiuuinger sirl. bristian and Mary 1 'ox boy. George and Annie Ilarnida ooy. J. W. and Krldset Burk bov. John and Maiie Giiwdorl boy, Jacob and Hannan Wirt toy. William and 1 .dna Berg boy. Louis and Adele Warenburg girl. Karland Kate Schilling boy. George and Clara s-hortwell boy. c hsrles ana Carrie Höhlt bor. Christian and Louiso Sch weir girl. Tborras and Mary Thompson girl. Mit hael and Mary Brown boy. J F. and Addle Carson girl. Julius andlMettle Hichie-girl. Charles and Matilda fc-aunders bov. William and Lleuora Itomko boy. Lewis and Cornelia Curtis boy. If. A. and May (Godfrey girl. Ralph aod Nora Wardwell ooy. John and Mary Beathe boy. Charles K. and Emna Cox twin boys. A. A. and Esther Barr jjirl. Peter and Bridaet Iorsey girl. Richard asd Catherine Brady sirh ALTAR. William M!-on and Nellie Owen. Benj Scheldmier and Amelia Geisel. Timothy Sheelan and Mary Mavln. James His'on and Kstelle Kohule. J. F. Smith and bigal Candace. John Brown and Flora Wheeling. Sylvester Jones and Julia White. Iave C rawford and Nannie Hughes. Jeremiah Rcade and Ayie Fnyder. Edward Frink and Emma Miller. Lcmenuel K1 wards and Almeda Wilson. lacy McKenzie and Hattie Danpert. Baniuel Rubens and Jessie Borne. Andrew Wood and Emma llicains. William Hedrict and Mary Otey. Walter Kerchner and Isabelle Stewart. TOMB. ('barks M. Keliy, ten ycats, tyr hold fever. Harry Ludlum. hi teen years, bronchitis Belle Moore, tnirty-one years, consaiai-iion. J. W. oufrley, three years, scrofula. Freddie West, six years, croup. Lida DavI. two and one-half years, diphtheria. Frank Keihl. two years, meuiasilis Martha Ann French, forty five years, dilatation of heart. Fred Lagermana, fifty-eight years, typho-ma-laria. Fearl Brock", one year, spinal congestion. Emma Henderson, twenty-four years, typhoid pneumonia. Nettie llartwell. seventeen years, typhoid fever. Bertie Biased, fourteen months, broncho pneumonia. May Grove, s.ix weeks, gnslro-entcritis. William C. Luchs, eighteen yeats. consumption. Sarah Noble, ei?nty-6ix years, emphysema. Gtorze Jordan, three years, croup. Maiy Jrwartz, twenty -scvon years, child-bed fever. Iienry Pimmon, flifty-six years, hemorrhage, busan B&bcocc, siity-eight years, congestion of brain. Ellen Killenmeir, two months entero colitis. Alvina Leonard, beventy eight year?, hemorrhage. Bertha Weiser, five years, malarial fever. Fred Drau, four weeks, entero-colitls. Robert 11. Kline, twenty-one years, malarial fever. Hattie McKibbons, four years, diphtheria, . Kllen Bmith, twenty-seven years, exhaustion. Dice Pattenon, seventy-two years, dropsy. Bernhart Siueber, two years, pneumonia. RAILWAY XEWS. Commlesloner Fink to Resign April 1 Tbe Local Passenger Ag-enta and Scalpers Other Items of the Rail. All of the Chicago lines are free from enow again. Thomas Teck, who has been employed in the feight department of the Hee Line for tome time past, has been transferred to the office of the local passenger agent W. J. Nicols. The fight for Washington business will begin in earnest this week, bat there is no probability of a war for it is generali conceded that rates to this point are low enough now. The local passenger agents will hold another meeting tomorrow, wben it is probable 'hat the representatives of several of the fortiori lines that were requested to discontit re the practice cf commissioning scalpers w ! : ppear in person and state whether or not the, are in favor of to doing. The IocaI agents are confident that their latest echeme fcr euppresEinir the "rtdaced rate' men will be a success and there is every indication that they will realize their expectations. Tbe impression no v,r prevails that Commissioner Fink will resign about April 1, and candidate! for tbe position are beginnim: to loom no. A great many railroad men are ready to believe, however, that the trunk lines will need no Commissioner after Mr. Fink goes ont, for at tbe present time there is every indication that the pool will Ease ont of existence before many moons aye come and gone. In its present state it is a mere farce, and its disruption will no donbt be hailed with joy. Local railroad men wonder that Mr. Fink haa held it togetner this long. Chicago railroad men are no donbt satisfied now that the headquarters of the Chicago and Ohio River pool have been removed from Ii dianapolis to that city. The oSice should not have been removed at all. Indianapolis is the proper place for the headquarters of the pool, thia city being nearly in the central portion of the territory embraced by the same, arl having easy access to all points. It is said, however, that Commissioner Richardson was not in favor of having the office located hers in the lirst place, and he worked earnestly to eeenre its removal to the city by the lake. Death or Joün Twines. John Twines, who was shot a week ago by Warren Banks, his cousin, died last night, at J o'clock, at the City Hospital. Twines was thought to be in a critical condition three days ago, and the Coroner took his ante mortem statement, in which he said he thought Banks meant to cripple, but not to kill him. Gangrene eet in and his death was only a rmenion of a short time. Banks was examined before the Mayor, but wsw released on his own recognizance, and h:u been at liberty ever since. Tbe police were notified by the Hospital authorities of Twines' death. A Bold Tnlef. Late laet night an unknown man snatched a silver watch from the pocket of W. H. Hoover, a passenger cn a Virginia avenue car. wno resides on Pleasant street. Mr. Hoover's efforts to capture the bold thief were ineffectual. The robbery was reported to the police.

RIGHTING A WRONG.

Gfccstä Tale ro??e??Ioa of a out'i Mrcet KesMenct. Praclrj Played, Not When Churchyards "Xawn, But In the Day Tlrxo The Story In Detail, The ceigbborhood of Fouth treet ant Virginia avenue is being stirred an by stories of a hanntcd honse. The talk ij not bo lend rs it is deep, and not all hae yet been let into the secret. Eat tbe matter '? rj&i' nally working ont among the people, and nothing but a verification of the facte or exposure of the fraud will qvfot the talk. The house in question is an oriintry dwelling, bat it is in danger cf having a history as curdling as one would expect t3 hear of one of those old castles ia üirope. It teems that the owner ef the propirty formerly lived in it, but in an cnlncky day a next door neighbor called In a spiritualistic medium for a communication of tome tort from the other world. This resulted in infi-rmation from the land of shadows that the bouse in Question was obtained from certain parties, and that a threat wrong bad been i erpetrated; also, that the unseen spirits had determined to take a hind in lb matter, and so far as in their power lay t'i wrong should be righted and the wronj"doexa punished. From that day matters went wrong with tbe owner of the place. Strange noises were heard in the day time, but tbe story goes that they have never been heard at night. Finally a child died, its death being beyond question the work of tbe uhosts. Tbe wife went insane, end thia also attributed to the disturbed Condiu r of affairs. Tbe proprietor then moved nay and trie premises were to let. Seen after this a tenant applied for tbe prerniies and moved in. He was a Catholic, and it seems that tbere was a promise mad that tbe spirits should not molest the family cf any Catholic ; but all tbe same, in tbo course of events, his business failed, and be too was compelled to move away. Another family moved in, b-i: the following day they di tppesrei, leaving their brcoa'is, tubs, pauj, bucket?, etc. They teemed satisfied to get out with their lives, and no ore learned their natu?. The house then 6t cd vacant for sevcr.il months, but the adjoining neighbors stili observed the capers ot the mysterious occipants. Finally one day a man and his wife, both coted lor their courage and oath wellknown in the city, applied for tbe house, and were given possession, they being provoked to excessive mirth by these Sterins. On the day on which they moved in, the lady hs etanding at the gste, talking to one cf her neighbors, when they botn heard tbe splash of what seemed to be a tub of wate1 from the rcof of the house. It was a bright, dry afternoon in the fall, and bcth lecked around hastily to see if the premises were flooded. F.ve rjthio was as dry as a patent oiVice report. The a?w comer was infermed that this was a frequent prank of the spirits. She soon entered the house, and after seating berself in the sitting room, she heard three alarmingly iou l rjr.s upon the door of a clothes press in the room. She arose and opened it, but found nothing unusual. A little later she heard tbe heavy measured tread of a man going np the stairway, and, although she looked out, marking each step of tbe way as the footfalls indicated propre: to the rooms above, she could see nothing. At times t lie dishes rattled and danced aoont in the most unaccountable manner. The walking of the tous acrcss the room unaided. the summersaulting of the chairs, the cold drafts of air as if driven in her fac by the pasie of a ewift train of cars, the low uncomfortable whisperings in every corner of the room, tne violent agitation of the beds, and the spiteful jerking oil of the clothing by oae corner to the center of tbe rcom.the finding of every thing in the wrong plac, tac.i as the ash bucket in the pantry, the ui;iware on the staircase, tbe tsck barn iter ob8irccting the pendulum of the c'ock, ar. i similar tric ks. All these thins i tawd the courageous little lady to tiaaliy admit that she wonKl like to hunt a new home. When one day her husbatd stoad by her aid both turned to see where tee water spiishtd when it apparently fell from the roof, she became just unnerved enough to go into tte house and sit down with a very pale facs. which she had hardly done before tbe table fell with a crash and every dish upon it thrown violently to the Hoor aud broken. She grew somewhat paler and even her ctont hearted husband said it was a liberty which he would not tolerate cn tne part cf any one of his acquaintances. The bosse is empty again, but the talk fi growing. The lady referred to above doe net wish to be known in tbe matter, and all names are omitted in this story, as they are not pertinent. The adjoining neighbsrs 6till hear the remarkable noises, and all are anilons for some eolation of the mattar, or at least to secure relief for the unea?y beings who, having served their probation here on earth, have no business proiin: around playing absurd jokes on thos3 still in tbe flesh, as though tney are aware tnat it is a case where there can be no retaliation. The Knightetown Home Investigation. The Knijihtstown Home Inveitv-atin Committee, which went to the Home cn Friday evening, returned last night, and will resume tbe taking cf evidence at the Committee Rooms to-morrow. Major Gordon went as counsel for Mr. Goer, and will i appear for him for tb future. ! At tbe Home a number of th ini mates were examined as to Morgan's ! character. These testified to the most I brutal whippings at his bands, in each case ! Morgan taking tbena to the room and whipr'-. . i j ' ; t r .. i r ptng tnem taseu. iuie xiucy, lo&r teen vears. told a horrible story ot outrage perpetrated upon him by Morgan. This ixatter was reported to Dr. White by the old soldier. Muser. Tbe Trustees heard of these matters and ordered Morgan discharged, but he wes kept at tbe institution seven er eicht weeat after the order bad been eiven. tijuie (vi'r'r-ts introduced by Dr. White to show tbatiioar was intoxicated at the Home, the principal witness In this line being colored man, but tbe fact was disputed and it appeared that Ccar was not intoxicated as cbarzL Fefore leaving Knightsiuwn, Major Cord ja ledced information against Morgan to be presented ta tbe Henry County grand jury. Mr. Goar will introduce a number of witnesses tbis week whom the committee will examine, alter which the b os and acCuhts cf the Hume are to ba examined. St. Joseph' Lecture Course. The Trustees of SL Joseph's Church have arranged for a course of six lectures, at intervals of two weeks, to be delivered at Bt. Joseph's Church, at dates named below. The object ot the Asscr:aticn in introducing this course of lectures is for the entertainment and instruction of the people. All are conlially invited. A small admission o! ten cents will be charged to defray expens9: Thursday. Feb. 26. "What has Cstholiclim Done for Thin Country?" by mLt Ktv. Bubop Cfcatard. Thurify, March l-'.-AaU Catho'dcTre'ulice, and How Catholics Meet Tbern for tb Motual Bnet.t of all Concerned," by ller. 1. J. McMullen, of lerrellaute, Thursday, March 24. 'Sone of Our Datics,' bv Rev. V. li. Lentz. of Tipton. "Tburfday. April 9. "Tbe Holf Lan V by Rev. George StelgeriraM, of GreeniDCrjh. Thursday, April 23. "tntemterance n3 Our luty in Retard to Urn Evil." by Kev. J. Ü. ilagtn. of Cbicaso. Thursday, May 7 "The Catholic Church aai Ssieacv." Pi fiev, , i al;ers, 9; ialajeit