Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1875 — Railroad Collision. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Collision.

About one o’clock, on Monday morning last, a serious collision between freight trains No?, 1G and 21 occured in tho midst of town. Nor 16 had arrived on time, and was standing upon the track awaiting No. 21 from the north, when tho latter came bounding along at full speed, Engineer, Fireman and Brakemen all asleep, and plunged fiercely into the waiting train, seriously injuring the rear brakesman, who had just awoke and gained the deck cf a car tempting to reach the brake. The violent shock of the collision precipitated him between the cars, cutting a large gash into his forehead and' bruising hie body and -limbs very painfWiy. Ilia injuries -were

tvjt r.t.l. Both wore ext«n«i.el, sleeping engineer and fireman were not killed, or at least, badly injured. They were not scathed, however. They claim exhaustion from overwork as a plea for their neglect of duty. This is hardly a just one. •Men wh© are aware of their unfitness to discharge an Important trust, should net undertake it, especially when other lives are at stake.— Winamcte Pemhcrat. The Family Sewino Machine. — The invention of ihe Wilson'Sfcutttfc Sewing Matchine exerts an influence ©ver domestic comfort unoqmled by any intent-on of- the last hundred years. As an economical arrangement it* enables one person to do the work of ten in a superior manner, and with unspeakably more comfort. Bfachines will be delivered, at any Railroad Station in this county, free of transportation charges, if ordered through the Company's Branch House at 197 State St., Chicago, 111, They send an elegant catalogue and chro. mo circular free on application. TliiS ’Company want a few more good agents.

Look cn the bright side. It is the right side. The times may he hard, but will make them no easier to wear a gloomy and sad countenance. It is the sunshine, and not the cloud, that makes the flower. The sky is blue tea times whero it is black once. You have troubles; so have others None arc free from them. Trouble gives sinew and tone to life—fortitude and courage to man. That would be a dull sea, and the sailors would never get skill, where there was nothing’to disturb the surface of the ocean. What though tilings look a little dark? The lane will turn, and night will end in a broad day. There is more virtue in a sunbeam than in a whole hemisphere of cloud and gloom. - If an editor omits anything, he is lazy.— If he speaks of things as they arc, peop’e get angry. If he glosses over or smooth's down the rough points, ho is bribed. If he calls things by their proper names, he is unfit for the position of an editor. If he does not furnish his readers with jokes he is a mullet. If he does he is a rattlehead, laking stability If he condemns the wrong he is a good follow, but lacks discretion. If he lets wrong injuries go unmentiomd, he is a coward. If he exposes a public man, he does it to gratify spite—is the tool of a clique, or belongs to the “outs.’’ If he indulges in personalities, he is a blackguard If bo does not, bis paper is dull and insipid, ’— Ex.