Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1874 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE, SENTINEL, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1874.

A SONG OF TIIUEE WORDS. OBAKE, LABOSABK, ET CASTARE. Three blissful words 1 name to thee, Three words of potent charm. From eatlo care thy heart to free. Thy life to shield from harm. Who so these blissful words may know, A bold, blythe-rronted face shall show, And hod with pence, shall tafeiy go Through war and wild alarm. First, ere thy forward fcot thoa move. And wield thy arm of might. Lift up thine heart to Him above That all thy ways be riaht. To the prime source of life and power I .et thv soul rlne even as a Mower That Bkyw-rd climbs In sunny hour. And seeks the genial light. Then gird thy lolna to manly toil, And in the toll have joy: Oi eet hardships with a willing smile, And love the stern employ. Thy glory this the harsh to tame. Acl by wise stroke and technic flame, In God like Labor's fruitful name, Old Chaos to destroy. Then, 'mid thy workshlp's dusty din, Where Titan steam hath sway, Croon to thyself a song within, Or pour the lusty lay; Kven as a bird that cheerily sings In narrow cage, nor frets Its wings. Bat with fnll-breantJd Joyoasne flings Its soul into the day. For lofty things let others strive With roll of vauntful drum; Kep thou thy heart a honeyed hive. Like bee with busy bam. Chase not the bliss with wishful eyes That ever lures and ever files, Bflt io the present Joy be wise, And let the future come! John SliuiTt Blackie in Good Word. IN MEMORIAM. CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL.

O summer sky, so bine and clear, O pa'kling eyes, without a tear, And Joyous hearts without a fear. O earth so sweet, &nA rosea fair. And bright birds glistening through the air, Trilling soft music everywhere. 0 form I loved so true and well. Naught on this earth can break the spell That links me to this narrow cell, Where lies thy quiet, peaceful breast, In childhood's hours, I've oft caressed Those loving lips I've often pressed. Oh ! life is sweet when love Is young. To cheer us as we urge along This toilsome path, this busy throng. 1 think of thee at morning light: I see thee In my dreams by night ; Thou art my guardian angel bright. IH love thee still while life shall last; Nor fame nor fortune e'er can blast Thy radiance o'er my memory cast. NEWS AND GQ The new Boston directory "Contains 127, ,750 names, an increase of r20,5G7 ia one 3'ear. Subscriptions and contributions to the central college, which it is proposed to establish in the interior of Asia Minor now amounts to $26,180.02. Dr. Cuyler insists that the young ladies should band themselves together orj the platform that MNo lips shall touch iny lips that have touched a bottle." A yoang Japanese lady, who is bein edU' euUd at the collegiate institute of George town, received four premiums at the com mencement, a few days ago. In England they sing now about the Home Secretary: "For he's a very crood fellow, Whatever the.K ids may think. For he's shortened the hours of work And lengthened the hours of drink The Alabama & Chattanooga railroad has been offered at auction bv the commissioners of Mobile. Three million dollars being the only ofier, and that being less than the minimum fixfid by thfl court, 1 the sale was adjourned till the first Monday in October. The heat of the sun is not chiefly what produces prostration and sunstroke. It has been discovered that the injury is caused principally from the effect of th9 chemical rays. Accordingly a hat lined with orange and green paper in two separate layers is a sure Ereventive of the injury of an excessive sun eat. " The Chinese of Sari Francisco have built themselves another theater aud one of very fine proportions. It opened a couple of weees since, on Saturday evening, to an audience of 2,000. The play was, tor the Chinese, comparatively short it lasted only from eight o'clock Saturday evening to three o'clock Sunday morning. Thus the saints and their virtues depart: " Dr. Robert Laird Collier has been looking over the original manuscript journals and account books ct John Wesley. He found that when John Wesley was at college, at the age of 27, he spent about 100 a year. Among the items of expenditure were beef,' tobacco, and lost at cards.' Mrs. Bolton, of Cleveland, a leader in the women's temperance movement, has written to the Chicago Advance that twenty-five thousand saloons have already been closed by the female crusaders of Ohio. Mrs. Bolton is an enthusiastic, and, we do not doubt, high minded woman, but she certainly docs not figure well as a newspaper correspondent. A distinguished Burgeon of the United States Army, Dr. Ely McClellan, who was detailed by a resolution of congress to investigate the cause of the cholera in 1S73, and who has traveled a belt of country on both sides of the Mississippi, in the Southwestern States from Tennessee to Louisiana, has arrived at the conclusion that there has been no cholera in the country thi3 season, nd the probabilities are that wo will have none daring the present year. The House bill No. 1,716. which was designed to relieve savings banks from tax upon their undistributed surplus earnings, and which passed both houses of Congress, did not become a law. It was neither approved nor vetoed by the President. By their adjournment Congress prevented its return by him under the provisions of section 7 of the constitution. As it failed to become a law the banks therefore remain liable to the tax. P. T. Birnuaa has engaged Prof.Donaldson to make several experimental trips in a balloon to determine many mooted points. J5arnum says he hopes by these ascensions o determine fully thequestioa of the "east erly current," ana decide whether it oe a tact or a myth. Its existence being estab lished, the voyage to Europe in such a balloon as I propose to build will be as easily and safely accompli ihed as a journey there on one oi our Desr. ocean steamers. A writer, speaking of the Orloff diamond, says: "We beheld the scepter of all the Rassias, tipped by the Orloff diamond. Of course we were disappointed. The scepter resembles a gold poker, and the 'mountain of light' which we had pictured to ourselves as biz as a walnut, with a haze of elorv sur rounding it, was no bigger than a hazel nut. The Orlofl diamond weighs a little above eight carats more than the Koh-i-noor before it was cut, but the Kassian diamond has In it a slight flaw, and the English brilliant is considered to be the most valaable." The following charges and specifications iave been preferred against the Key. W. C.

Dandy, D. D., tho pastor of Ada street church, Chief go: 1. Of lying; 2. Of dishonesty; 3. Of patronizing dancing schools; 4. Of using tobacco; 5. Of exhibiting and manifesting a vindictive spirit, and indulging in angry and passionate words, and in maladministration of church matters; 6. Of using his personal efforts to induce church boards to incrn pecuniary obligations without a probability of being able to pay them : 7. Of bjing bo unacceptable, inefficient and secu lar as to be no longer useful in the work of the christian ministry. A plan has been adopted for a monument to Gen. Nathaniel D. Lyon. The drait is that of a square Missouri granite columu, reaching to the height of twenty-three feet. The second section of the base Is quite handsomely cut. On either side h a depression of about an inch and a half and covering a circular area of about a foot in diameter. It is intended to Insert In this a photographic view of the battle where Gen. Lyon was killed, and to place over it a powerful lens which shall be hermetically sealed. At New Brunswick, New Jersey, on the 6th Inst., Thomas Kemp, a sober and industrious man, threw his three children, a boy and two girls, aged respectively five, seven and nine, into the canal, at the upper lock, and then jumped in himself, while in a despeiate state of mind, caused, it is said, by the dissipated conduct of his wife and the pressure of want, he having b9en for some time out of employment. The cries of the children attracted the attention oi some workmen, who managed to save all but'the oldest girl in an exhausted condition. The

father died soon after being taken from the water. The two youngest children have re covered. The late Stephen Whitney, the millionaire, was very economical. When boaraing at the Balilusi House, at Lake Mahopxe, he used to delight in giving his grandchildren practical lessons In the affairs of life. He took one of the boys who had bought an ex pensive fishing rod out on the dock, where a number ot country lads with hickory poles were pulling the fish oat very lively. The boy, however, failed in catching even a bullhead, and the old man gave mm a lesson from the circumstance, showing that those who achieve success in life are not al ways those blessed with the most advantages. Perhaps the.boy thought, however, that all the trouble was not with the fishing rod. AN INFERNAL PLOT. THE DETAILS OP AN ATTEMPT TO DESTROY A BUILDING IN CHICAGO FAILURE OF THE ATTEMPT. The Chicago Inter-Ocean of the 6th inst. gives the facts concerning a diabolical plan to destroy property in that city: One of the most diabolical attempts at incendiarism tha t ever came to jgQt was undertaken Saturday night, for tho purpose of destroy ing the building at the son th west corner of Fifth avenue and Lake street, and it is almost a miracle that the plot failed ia execution. An alarm was given from box thirteen, at 4 o'ciock yesterday morning, to which the department responded promptly ; but before the scene of the fire ws readied, an explosion occ-irred which smashed and rattled all the front windows on the second floor, scattering the shattered fragments of glass over the pavement below. When the department arrived two distinct fires were found in progress, one on the second and one on the third or top floor. After these were extinguished an examination of the premises revealed the details of the internal plot for destruction. On t he roof at the four corners of the builning were four small barrels of kerosene, all ot which were left so that the oil slowly escaped. Holes had been bored through tha roof wit a an anger in several places, through which the oil was running down to the floor bf low. I n boring the holes the perpetrators of the job nad several times hit the joist or rafters, and commenced i over again two or three inches awav. The scuttle door through tho roof was open, and directly under it on the floor was seveu or eight pounds of powder in a heap. A TRAIN QF POWDFR had also been laid to connect the second and third floors and also with the oil from the roof, the evident purpose having been to ignite powder and oil on the two floor and roof in one grand explosion that would make destruction sure, and bafll all efforts ot the fire department to get into the build ing. But, for some reason, this part of the work , was only halt effected, the train of powder in the rear failiug to go off. By this means the rear stairway was left, and the ingress of the department not prevented. Who the perpetrators of this attempt are, or what their object could have been, ia Rt present a mystery. Detectives have been put upon their track, and it is hoped they will be successful in their endeavors to probe the affair to the bottom. A man- registering himself as Robert Dougherty was assigned to room 8 in tha Kobinson house, the adjoining building, Saturday night. and is reported to have retired at a very early hour. Since the tire he has not been seen. But tracks, apparently , nude with rubber boots leaving the mark of oil, were traced from the scuttle of the roof of the fired building to the scuttle of the roof of the Kobinson House, and thence to room 8, which fact furnishes reasonable ground for suspicion at least. The Robinson House has for Home time borne an unsavory reputation, and it would not be very surprising to find it the base of operations tor this or any other outrage. The first floor ia occupied by Brechtr and Saureorn, leather firm, who have an immense stock on hand, insured for !?20,000. Albert Kees occupies the basement as a beer saloon, and has f 1.000 insurance. The second and third floors are occupied as a cigar factory, the proprietor being now in St. Liouis. Assistant Fire Marshal Shay, of New York, being in the city, visited the building yesterday, and characterized it, as wa have above, one of the most diabolical attempts on record. McDOLE INDICTED. THE GRAND JURY BR I NO IN AN JNDICfMKNl - THE PRISONER PLEADS SOT UU1LTY. A dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer from Lawrenceburg, 7th inst., says; The grand jury of Dearborn county were finally discharged to-day by Jude Roberts, being in session two days and finding nine iudictments. John P. Da vi-, having been indicted for burning the barn of Ferris Nolen, near Guilford, was brought intocourtaud arraigned; plea of not guilty. William McDole wss then brought in by Sheriff Weitzel, and the indictments found against him tor the murder of the Bradley family read to him by Clerk Conwell. His reply to each indictment was, "I (Jkin't do it. I didn't do it at all." As the last indictment was read to the prisoner the court was interrupted by Bradley, the afllicted hu!aud and father, rushing toward the prisone-, tuen iag him and threatening viotenco Ji ttoberts promptly ordering him to be UKta out of the room, Deputy Sheriff sister and Court Bailiff John Huth, witli some difficulty, succeeded in removing him from the room. McDole manifested consldeaable uneasiness during the excitement. The officers in charge of him inform me that since the sitting of the grand jury he has shown more concern about the case than at any time previous. He is realizing that bla case is becoming exceedingly critical.

A RAILROAD DISASTER.

THE WRECKED TRAIN. HOW THE CARS WERE THROWN FROM THE TRACK THE KILLING OF THE SUPERINTENDENT AND NARROW ESCAPES PERSONAL NARRATIVES OP THE hCENE THE "story of the station master. The terrible disaster at Stony Creek, Conn., which has been given already by telegraph, proves to have been a most remarkable one in some respects. The New YorA Herald correspondent, writing from New Haven on the 6th inst.. says: The greatest excitement prevailed in the city this morn ice. caused bv the announcement that a train of six cars had been thrown from the track at Stony Creek,, distant about eleven miles from New Haven, and that a large number of persons, SuperintondentWilöngoxmc a the number, had been killed. The telegraph oCic9 was at once besieged lor particulars of the affair, and later it was ascertained that the report, so far as Mr. Wilcox wis concerned, was true, and that serious injury to body and limbs of a large number of passengers had taken place. President William D. Bishop and Superintendent Reed, of the New York, New Haven Hartford railroad were fortunately in the city at the time the despatch was received, and they at once sent a wrecking train with men and tools to the scene, Mr. Reed accompanying to see that all was done promptly. Arrived at Stony Creek they found a scene of destruction "which pen is hardly adequate to describe. A locomoti e was standing on the track, and by the sideof the track near it, fif'een feet below, were a baggage and smoking car ana four passenger cars, literally torn to nieces. and large numbers of men, women and children striving in the vain attempt to free themselves from tke dehn?. 1 he work of clearing away the wreck was ttegun without delay, and seventy-five persons. with broken legs, arms, ribs, and all terribly bruised, were taken to tho depot at uetiar Lrees. Superintendent Wilcox, an efficient railroad man, highly esteemed socially in this city, was instantly killed. lie Wan standing on the baggage car at the time of the accident, lost his balance, fell, and the car fell upon him, killing him instantly. THE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT came from a misplaced switch. Passenger cars bad been left at Stony Creek on Saturday, and this train, bound for New Haven from New London, and due here at thirtyfive minutes past seven, stopped at Stony Creek to receive passengers and take these cars. It will be understood that the Short Line has but one track. The cars stood on a turnout, and the train backed down to the cars. Switchman Beach had attended to his duty, and when the train moved on the for ward truck of the last car struck the t-nd of a wem rail next the end of the switch rail, causing the switch to. open again. In a moment the wheels of the car, forward and back, were running on the ground, striking the woooen ties with force as the speed ot the train increased. The train ran m this way a distance or 150 feet, when a trestle bridge, approached by a sharp curve, was reached. This curve caused the hinder car to cant to one side, roll from the track and fall fifteen feet to the marsh below. The second followed and so on until six cars were detached from the locomotive, which remained on the track uninjured. Judge Harrison, of Guillord, arrived at Stony Creek, at ten o'clock, and, in the capacity of coroner, summed a jurv of inquest, who inquired into the cause of the accident and the death of Mr. Wilcox They tendered a verdict in accordance with the facts and censured Mr. Beach, the switchman, for not attending more carefully to his duties. Mr. Wilcox's remains were taken to Madison, where they will be interred. For the space of five hours no trains could pass the scene of the accident, as the tender of th locomotive, one of the heaviesi on tho road, had been thrown from the track and hung to the bridge, in part supported by the iron coupler. It was with dilfieulty that this ponderous mass of iron could be lifted back into position, owing to the narrowness of tho bridge. This alter noon, however, all trains are running regularly again, the Boston express being only about fifteen minutes behind time. A correspondent writing from the scene of the disaster says: No more COMPLETE RUIN of a railroad train could be imagined than that now lying on the marshes of Stony Creek. Your reporter has just returned from the spot, and by the aid of lanterns, carried by willing hands, be was enabled to see this - "wreck or matter." indeed it seemed fitting that silence and the sombre mantle of night should cover the tragic prologue of the day. You will have already received the details oi' the loss ot life and the many casualties attendant upon this last railroad blunder, but - nothing can describe the utter destruction of the train. The cars lie in all forms, tome without trucks, others stove in, splintered with great gaping doors where windows once were and iron work piercing battered floors like spears. How the human freight aver escaped with but such a trifling record of "killed" is the greatest mystery, but the number ot wounded, bruised and bleeding in New Haven to-nizht and jn the farm houses surrounding Clinton, Madison, and (Jul! ford may be set down as Dearly 200. As the story of the disaster, however, will be told in another place I can only now give the Herald some particulars whicli may not have reached you by other channels. " Upon arriving in New Haven this evening I sought Captain Ryiand, the conductorof the illfated train. He gave me his meagre but terrible experience oi that sudden dash fiom the track. He said: "I was sitting ia the smoking car, when I felt a strange motion, and, as I rose and looked back, I discovered the people in confusion Like a flash I saw the last car go over. I f prang for the door; but I could only grasp the seat, and soon we were all pell men turned over on the marsh. As soon as I could scramble out, a little bruised, but not much hurt, I saw the awful Rieht of the maimed and bleedinsr, and poor Wilcox dead." Upon asking him for an opinion as to the cause of the accident, be said he could not give any ; that he supposed the coroner's inquest had settled that. I asked -the baaag master, Edward Barrows, who was on tue train, how he escaped. He replied: BY A MIRACLE. I was standing by yit. Wilcox, our superintendent, when I saw him jump for the bell rope and he shouted to me "the last car's off." I saw them going and made a dash for the brakes. 1 had just reached the iron railings when the car turned over, but it landed me on my foe: in' tho marsh e. little fchakon, but not hurt. Wilcox tad reacned the door aud, I think, attempted to jump, but the car crushed him," Chauucey McCreat v is a brakeman on the train, and jumped like the baggage master and was t ot hurt. New Haven vvas full of the sufferers aud the city was in a state of feverish excitemeu', but my duties called me to Stony Creek, espeiall as I thought it best to William Beach, the railroad agent and station master there, who is the man chrud h tu cororer'- jury with beintt t can-' t ;;u orrow in so many bortiHS I fou-rt ..nrt and srivn his oory in Mr own words I w 1 1 premise by saying that Beach ia an Aiuericau, oi perhaps forty J ears of age, married, with one child. lie ooka like a temperate man and has a snug little house, In which he resides, opposite to the railway office. Beach said: "I have been in the employ of the company ten years, and at this plaoe four years. I am a leetotaler, a temperance man. I attend to the duties or station master. I can

telegraph a little, and do so between the different points. This morning our superintendent. Wilcox, jumped off the train and said, "Beach, go down to the switch." I jumped on the cars and rode down to tho bridge, about fifteen hundred feet, I suppose, to the lower switch house. I went in and turned the switch so as to let the train back up on the Riding to take on two cars laying there. The train moved on and the first thing I beard A SORT OF JINGLING NOISE. I looked out and saw the bind car tumbling into the marsh. Then one alter the other went down. My switch must have been right or I couldn't iret out of my switch bouse. Then the. brakeman, Ed. Barrows, came running back and halleed, 'Go back; teb graph to New Haven for wreckers.' I went back and telegraphed, and that's all I know about it, and is w hat I testified to before the coroner's jury to-day." "Why did they render aveiict against yon?" I asked. "1 don't know," he replied. "The engineer and some of the passengers testified I suppose against me." "Hs any action yet been taken in the matter?" "None that I know of," replied Beach, I shall not run away." . Such is the story gathered from the lips of the actors in the fad drama. This little hamlet has been filled with sufferers all day long, but they have nearly all been removed to their homes at Branford, Guilford and New Haven, while there is mourning in Madison and along the line of the Shore roai, for Wilcox, who was much esteemed. The trains are running regularly to-night, as Mr. John Fuller, the supervisor of bridges, has had a wrecking train at

Stony Creek all d3y, but the battered and sp!in:ered cars lie transversely in the morass and will have to be broken np for kindling woou or old iron. THE EVANSVILLE TRAGEDY. HOKRlllLE DESCRIPTION OF WIFE MURDER. The particulars of tho terrible crime no ticed yesterday by telegraph are given by the Evansville papers. The Courier' account is as follows: In the eastern part of the city, at No. 112 Olive street, near Lafayette street, just in the rear of the E. k C. R. R. Bbops, resided a colored man named Alfred Jones. Yesterday morning his wife. Johanna Jones, went out washing for a family on Walnut street, leaving her little children at home, as well as her husband. who, contrary to his usual ways, staid at home from work. Between three and lour o'clock the victim returned from her work, and going into her house commenced to put on her shoes. Her husband, Alfred Jones, soon came in a semi-intoxicated condition, and, seeing her thus engaged, asked her sharply where she was going. She replied that she was going out, and this soon led on to other words, when finally ihe declared she was going away, as he was drunk. Jones then got up and commenced to move toward his wife, repeating, threateningly, "You're going to leave me, eh?" at the same time crabbing an axe. The unfortunate woman, with one shoe on and the other foot encased in a stocking, got up, and, as he struck at her, ran up to him, catching hold of his arms and crying "don't kill me, Jones." Her cries frightened off two colored women who were in another room, and both ran out, - crving at the top -of their voices, "Murder! Murder!" This attracted the neighbors, among whom was Sylvia Clark, the mother of the murdered woman, who lived across the street and now reached the scene of the bloodv woik, just as Johanna Jones, with blood streaming from her mouth, ran out of the house to the gate, her husband I IN I URSCIT WITH THE AXE. The mother, to save her daughter, ran be tween the couple, but with curses Jones threatened to kill her too, at the same time striking two or three times, but only succeeded in grazing the old woman's throat with an axe-handle. One of the blows, however, struck the victim of the jealous husband's rage, and she fell. Turning from the mother the bloody villian struck his wife, prostrate at his feet, on the nead three times, killing her almost instantly. Dropping the axe by the side of his victim, with an exclamation, "I'm doae with yoü, Jones walked off tance, but leisurely 'soon broke a short dis- . into a run. A crowd soon gathered about the prostrate form cf the deceased, lying in the dust, in the half open gate, the :'ace downward in a dooI of blood, while two little 'children blood, while gazed in silent wonder on the bleeding vietim and the weepintr. mother. l est era ay morning Jones remained away from his work, and at ten o'clock was at home. Hero he said to Sarah Rose, a col ored women whowassick in bed, "I'raeoing to do dirt to-dav, a Ben ssawver trick," but made no threats in connection with his wife's name. During the day he was at Ab. Cloud's saloon on Vine street, where he drank seme, and was makins in quiry in reference to his wife going buggv riding, which It seems nad been told him bv a colored woman named Susan Kirby, at whose house he was a great part of the day, and who, during the coroner's inquest, came and took the iniant child away, noiwith standing the protests of the women Dr. Linthicut, after examining the body, found several bruised places, büt the latal wound was the fracture of the left top side of the skull, known as the parietal bond, and in accordance with the facts given above a verdict was rendered. The axe was produced, but singular to relate not a speck of blood was to be seen upon it. In examining the clothing of the unfortunate victim, fifty cents, the result of her day's washing was found tied in a corner of her apron. The news spread rapidly, and soon Denutv Marshal Breunecke. Marshal Gavitt and Chief Roesner, as well as the sheriff and staff, were alter th murderer. The former searched through some cornfields, and as be entered a woods on the E. fe C. R. R., near 'the fair ground, saw a coiored man lying on the ground under a tree. As soon as he beard the officer approach he jumped up, and the officer, by the description given, arrested toe leiiow wno co messed to tne murder and went with the officer, coolly en quiring as be walked if his wile was dead. The prisoner i3 atall, black looking fellow, about forty years ol age, and has been em ployed as a workman at the a. K. it. ti wharf boat. He was a pretty steady fellow, but got drunk occasionally. Ha had been quarreling with his wife for weeks before. .When arrested he acted coolly about tho affair, and said he was ready for the rope or penitentiary for life. The victim is about twenty-four vears of age, and was married to Jones last October, and leaves an infant child. She is a small, yellow colored woman, and bad been divorced from a lcrmer husband named Jackson. George William Curtis conducted the services in the Clinton Avenue Unitarian church at New Brighton, Staten Inland, on Sunday morning, and read a printed sermon by Prof. David Swing, of Chicago. The New York Tribune says the subject of the discourse was "Fellowship between Righteousness, or Virtue and Religion," and the text was from Psalm xiviiL :10. "Thy right hand is full of righteousness." Mr. Curtis prefaced the reading by this remark: "Injustice to Mr. Swing, I shall read the sermon as he wrote it; in justice to myself I will say that he seems to me sometimes unjust to the results ol recent scientific investigation.'1

A SiUMMEIi GHOST. . BT LOIISF. CHANDLER MoULToN. In that old summer can you still ret-all The pomp with which the strocg hud roe and set. How bright the moon shone on the Lining fields. " What wild, sweet blossoms with the dew were wet? Can yon stll! hear the roerry robins sing. Ana e the brave red IHK gleam anu glow. The waiting wealth of blcom, the reckless bees

That woo their and go. wild-flower love and feting. Canst hear the waves that round the happy store Broke in soft Joy and told delusive tales We go, but we return; love comes and goes; And eyes that walch see homeward-faring sails. "Twas thus in other seasons?" Ah, maybe! But I forgot thf ra and remembered this A bi lef, warm season, and a fond, brief love. And cold, white winter after bloom and bliss. Srribfur'ifur July. THRICE! BT PAUL II. HAYNE. i. I kissed her with a tender thrill On brow aud lips and loving eyes; I kissed Ler for the beauty born Within ; about her like a morn Of summer when the winds are still, Dawning, and ever fresh surprise. II. Abrain 1 kissed her, for the rare Auroral goodness in her face. The effl uence of a soul at rest Beneath her Innocent maiden breast A soul more pure than light or a r, Human, yet touched by angel grace. III. 1 kissed tier once, I kissed her twice: V.'arm, fervent. close, those kisses came; YiM when 1 thought, "Her heart di- ine And all her beauteous youth are mine," Tue last fond kias I gave her then Held somewhat of the sacred flame Wherewith the first of mortal men Kissed his fair tue In paradise! Harpei'8 Bazar. FATAL THUNDERBOLT. THE FREAKS OF THE FLUID. WHERE IT STRUCK, WHO IT HIT AND THE DAMAGE DONE ONE BOY KILLED AND SIX COMPANIONS INJURED. During the severe storm at the Trotting Park yesterday afternoon seven boys wwe struck by lightning, one being instantly killed. It was half-past two when the rain was coming down in torrents and the loud est reports of thunder were inaklDg the earth fairly vibrate, when it occurred. The report was distinctly heard by every one . on the grounds, but it was some twenty minutes before word came from the fatal spot that at least one life had been sacrificed by the mysterious power. On arriving at the railroad entrance gate, (where the bolt struck,) the following particulars were learned. The seven boys were hudd'-J to gether on the outside of the ticket and tele graph office, trying to shield themselves from the rain. Mayor Mitchel and others who were inside of the building saw the boys there and one of them in the act of climbing over the fence. Immediately after the parties inside were almost shaken from their seats and standing places by the stroke. Mayor Mitchell said that it made him shake Iroui bead to foot. The water was pouring ofl the roof in a perfect sheet, and of a consequence made a splendid conductor. The bolt undoubtedly struck the wrter on the roof . and went straight down in the street pouiing down on the boys and dealt its destruction. Jt did not injure anything about the building, not even a sningie or the rool. For a minute or so thev were so stunned that they did not look for the bovs and when they did they discovered that they were lying at some distance apart stretched out at full length. Otticer lirennerman was the first to go out. He picked up Johnny Shea, who was killed outiight, and carried him into the building. The others were then carried in and a messengf-r dispatched to the amphitheater for a physi cian. I wo brothers oi THE DEAD BOT were on the ground, and on arriving at- the side of theii dead brother -made a mott affecting sight by their lamentations. The remains ot the killed boy and ' the other six injured boys were plaoed on the train and brought to the city. The six were hurt as follows: Johnny Collins, aged 10 years. In the legs His father is Wm. Collins, and is employed in the Adams Express ofilce at the Union I Depot, ana lives &iiti Jieen street. Geo. Rafert, a step-son of Mr. Ingus, mer chant Tailor, 208 West Washington street, is 13 vears of age, was also hurt in the legs. Willie Henderson, a son of Mr. Robert Henderson, a machinist in the Bee Line shops, is 11 years old, and escaped with but a slight shock. Charley Lewis, a boy or la years, who works at a Mr. Thompson's grocery, on South Meridian street, was hurt on tho right leg, his pants being torn from the limb. His leg was pretty badly hurt, but nothing serious is apprehended. A boy named Padgen was injured in the back, and another, whose name was not learned, . sustained slight bruises. The six boys were all improving and in a fair way to recover last night, two oi tnem were aoie to walk to Hedges to give evidence on the inquest of Shea's remains. The jury found a verdict in accordance with the facts given above. Shea is the son of a wiaow, washerwoman, Mrs. Mary Shea, who lives at 1G2 Meek street. A year ago a brother of the boy was killed by the cars near the Spencer nouse. ELSEWHERE. The house of Mrs. Greaney, 170 Meek street, was struck during the storm, the bolt passing entirely over the room Mrs. Greaney was in, causing a fall of plastering on her head and shoulders. The tlt passed through the loot again, and besides the air-holes in the roof,o damage was doue The bolts flew around lively southeast of the city, doing some damage to trees, tte. A horse standing under a walnut tree on the farm of Mr. Holmans, six miles southeast of the city, was struck and instantly killed. The house of Mr. Seidensticker, at 377 North East street, editor of the Telegraph, was struck, though but little damage folio weil. The freaks of the fluid vere noticeable in this case. Tbelighthing firsthit the lightning rod and followed it in the regulations-ay until it mat two nails that secured the rod to the house. Following these instead of the rod the . - electricity entered the parlor, knocked off a little plastering and hurried out again, by two places and spent itself in the air. Wra. Seideusticker was at the time passing with his young child in his arms, into the parlor. He was made aware of the presence of a "foreign bodj"by a flash, and a faint tingling sensaiion in the arms. None of the family was, however, hurt in the least, or ielt the presence of the bolt. "COMETS. . THEIR NATURE AND DESCRIPTION. The following remarks on th9nature of comets are extracted from Professor Kirkwood's " Comets and Meteors :" The term comet which signifiesjliterally a hairy starmay be applied to all bodies which revolve about the sun In very .eccentric orbits. The sudden appearance, vast dimensions, and

extraordinary aaci of totwe ce.ieiial Wanderer, together with their rapid and continually varying uioLious, have never failed to excite the attention and wonder of all observers. Nor is it surprising that in foraier times, when thn nature of their or'-:'s was wholly unkn own, they should ha . been looked upon as omens of Impending evil, or messengers of an angry Deity. Even now, although modern science has reduced their ii.ot-.cns to the domain of law, determined approximately their orbits, and assigned in a number of instances their periods, the interest awakened by their appearance is in some reepects still unabated. The special points of dissimilarity between plaucts and comets are the following: The former are dense, aud, so far as we know, solid bodies; the latter are many thousand times rarer than the earth's atmosphere. The planets all move from west to east; manvcom;ta revolve in the opposite direct ion. Tte planetary orbits are but slightly inclined to the plane of the ecliptic: those of comets msy 'have any inclination whatever. The plariVts are observed in all parts of their orbits; cometa, only in those parts nearest the sun. The lareer comets are attended by a tail, or train of varying dimensions, extending generally in a direction opposite to that of tho suu. Th more condensed part, from wbi -'a the tail proceed, is called the nucleus, m.d the nebulous envelops immediately surroundiDr the necleus i? sometimes tormod the er ma. Zeno, Democritua and other Greek philosophers held that comets were prodc.ced by the collection of several sta:s into clusters. Aristotle taught that thev were formed by exhalations, which, rising from tho earth's surface, ignited iu the upper regions cf the atmosphere. Th's hypothesis, through the great inflence of its author, was generally received for almost two thousand year?. Juster views, however, were enter

tained by the celebrated Seneca, who maintained that comets ought to ba ranked among the permanent works of mtur?, aud that their disappearance was not an extinction, but simply a passing boyonJ tut reach ol our vision. The observation ot Zvcho Brahe first established the fact "that comets moved through the planetary spa??s far berond the limits of cur atmosphere.? THE MEXICAN VETERANS. MEETINO AT WASHINGTON AND TBE FACTS KLICITED THE PROPOSED ACTION T.EFOKE CONGRESS. The Washington Chronicle of the fith inst. says: notwithstanding the severe tornado of Saturday evening, the Associated Veterans oi 1S40 bad a quornm in attendant at their regular monthly meeting. Secretary Kenady's report gives some interesting d ata in regard to the progress which ha3 been made, from which we take the following: Since the issue in April last of th9 circular from head quarters of the National Assocalion requesting the state and county associations to forward the Dames of surviving veterans of the Mexican war desiring ' a pension under the bill vending in congress, the firt secretary reports that he bas received about" 1,100 letters containing the pest office address and military record of each applicant; tint the fferts in several iccilities have Vx en earnest and effective in complying with the request, but the imperfect organization as yet existing renders an accurate estimaio ia tha brief time devoted to the subject almost hnrossible. From such information as has bf eu re ceived, however, the secretary feels warranted in asserting that less than twen'v per centum of the number enlisted during the war will approximate the total of sur ivors. The state reunions of veterans which usually take place in the south and west simuUaneou with annual state fiirs will brif.g together the reprepresentatives from the severe! counties appointed last year, and possib'y tv the next session of Longress in forma- . tion will be at hand on which to bac A MORE ACCURATE ESTIMATE. One fact has been demonstrated, lo-wit: That the method of computing th? nnuiter of survivors, adopted by the bureau of statistics, is applicable to this case, iVr the reason that vast numbers ol the soldier who served in Mexico subsequently fell victim? to their adven urous dispositions, resulting from army experience In that country, during the political squables at Yucatan, Cuba, Nicarauga, and other similar expeditions occurring previous to our late civi' war, which.terminated the career of moa f those who were not already broken der by disease and hardship. The almost unanimous opinion ot the officers and soldiers who-have written to headquarters on the subject i, that 'the estimates laid before Congress have been ' trade with no friendly intention. While the f-c-re'ary does not share this latter view of unfriendliness on the part of public on?ers, he nevertheless thinks that the intelligent opinions of officers familiar with-the personal histories of the men of their command should have equal weight with the calculations of school men who never deviate from established rules in making such estimates. Rules lor calculating the mortal it v of vast populations men, women, and infants during a time of profound peace and public tranquility, are not applicable to the case in point, and when estimates of this kind are accepted "as conclusive by members of congress," they will find it a very tbin cloak to cover up their HOSTILITY TO A JCST MEASURE; but it is hoped that at the next meeting o Congress, in December, the bill will meet with fair consideration. The bill which passed the House last spring in lavor cf the veterans of 1812 "nun fire" in the Senate at the last hours ot the session. When that is disposed of. the claims of Mexican soldiers will be in order. A combined effort will be, in ail probability, made by their friends throughout the states to impress the justice of the measure upon the minds of congressmen. There have been printed about sev enteen thousand circulars and an edition of 4,000 copies of the proceedings ot the national convention, containing the address of ;eneral James S. Negely, the poem of General Albert Pike, the memorial aDd bill pending in Congress, and all the details of the first national reunion of Mexican war veterans since the conquest of the Aztec capital in 1S4S. The secretary proposes to furnish every survivor with a copy who forwards his name, postoffice address and a sufficient amount of bis military record to prove bis right tobe enrolled as a pensioner. It is also contemplated by the National Association to supply every honorably-discharged soldier and sailor with a medallion commemorating their victories, cast in bronze from captured cannon, as soon as arrangements can.be made to that end. The statistics of deaths from hydroj-Oiobia In the United States for the past ten years, according to the census, in which it is understood only the best authenticated eases have been entered, report a total of sixty-three fatal cases. The cases were distributed by states as follows: Alabama, 1; Connecticut, 1; Delaware. 1; Illinois, 3; Kentucky, 2; Louisiana, 22; Maryland. 1; Massachusetts, 1; New Jersey, 4; New York, 9; North Carolina,!: Ohio, 1; Pennsylvania, 9; Texas, 2, Virgina,3; Wisconsin 1; Michigan, 1. Entir reliance cannot be placed upoithe retuns from Louisiana, nor can it be deducted from the large number of cases with which tiat state is credited that the tendency to hydrophobia is greater in warm climates than it is in temperate; It is a pretty well-estabkshed fact that it is peculiar to latitudes subject to sudden changes and extremes ef heat and cold.