Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 19, Number 2, Jasper, Dubois County, 12 January 1877 — Page 7

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C. SOAKS, Fubllsker. JASPER, INDIANA THE ASHTABULA, DISASTER. A rlliln XHrrtlv f the Dretutftil AHUIr ly h l.tuty Nitrvlvor. From thfl rhlcflgo Times, :ilet. J Miss Marion Shepard, of Uipon.Wis,, one of tho survivors of the Ashtabula catastrophe, arrived in this city on yesterday aitcruoon, and repaired to tho residence of Willinm C. VrRn Alstyno, No. 211' North Statu Street, whore, later in the duy, she whs interviewed by a reporter of tho Times. Miss Shopard was expecting to tako tho evening train for homo. To look at her, and to hoar her relate, in strong and vivacious language, tho story of tho awful calamity, one could hardly imagine that only 18 hours before sho had been precipitated seventy feet into a miscellaneous pilo of iron trusses, shattered cars, crashing glass, and snow and ice and rocks. A slight abrasuro on tho right hand was tho only hurt she had to exhibit. Sho had suffered less from the actual plunge into tho river than from the subsequent exertion in caring for less fortunato ones and the wearisome and unavoidable task of relating her experiences to tho hundreds who plied her with questions between Ashtabula and Chicago. " Suppose you toll that story just once more, and to 100,000 readers," said tho man of tho Times. 44 I will try," replied Miss Shopard, and I will begin by stating that 1 left Albany, N. Y., Thursday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, in the sleeping-car Palatine. Thero were sixteen gentlemen and four ittdiwt in tho car. It was storudng torrifically, and wo expected to bo snowed in. Tho condition of tho track threw n Kovornl hours behind time. A3 wo noarod Ashtabula fitM MAIS OtnCKKNKI) ITS STEED a lhilo. for tho reason. I suppose, that I tho track w.as loss obstructed than further east. I should guess that the speed of tho train, when wo reached the bridge, was fifteen miles an hour." Well, go on with your narration, Miss Sheppard," said the reporter, eagerly. , ... "Tho passengers," sho continued, 'were grouped about tho ear in twos, fours, and even larger parties. Soiuo were lunching, some were chatting, and quite a number were playing cards. Tho bell-ropo snapped in two, ono piece Hying against ono of tho lamp globes, snmhing it and knocking tho burning candle to tho iloor. Then tho cars ahead of us went bump, bump, bump, as If tho wheels were jumping over ties. I'ntil the bumping sensation was felt cvorv one thought tno glass globo had been broken by an explosion. Several jumped up,1' added Miss Shepard, after a short pause, "and some boized the tops of the seats to steady themselves. A half minute or so had now elapsed since tho rope broke. Suddenly there was AN AWKtfL CKAS11. I can't describe the noise. There wore all sorts of sounds. 1 could hear above all a sharp, ringing sound, as if all tho glass in the train was being shattered to pieces. Some oho cried out, 4 We are going down.' At that moment all tho lights in tho car wont out. It was utter darkness. I stood up in the center of tho aisle. 1 knewthat something awful was happening, and, having had some previous experience in railroad RCcidcHts, 1 braced myself tho beet I know how. 1 felt tho car floor sinking from under my feet. The sensation of falling was very apparent. I thought of a great many things, ana i mado up : my mind that 1 was going to be killed. For tho first few seconds wo seemed to bo dropping in silence. I could hoar tho other passengers breathing. Then suddenly the car was filled with dying splinters and dust, and wo soenied breathing some heavy substance. For a moment I was almost suffocated. Wo went down, down oh, it was awful. It seemed to me that wo had been falling two minutes. Tho berths were slipping from their fastenings and falling upon tho passengers. Wo heard an awful crash. As, tho sound died away we heard heavy groans all around us. It was as dark rj the grave. Well," said Miss Shepard, after a moment's reflection, in which sho evidently saw tho wreck in her mind's eye, ' 1 was thrown down. Just how 1 fell is more than I cau say. A OKNTI.KMAN HA1 IWM.KN, ACUOS3 me, but we wore both on our feet in a moment, Kvory ono was scrambling and struggling to get out, I heard some one say, Hurry out ; tho car will bo oh fire In a minute.' Another man shouted, 4 Tho water is coming in and we will be drowned.' Tho car seemed lvintr mirth on ono side. In tho scramble a man got hold of mo and cried out, 4 IMp mo i don't leave mo! ' A woman cried from ono corner of the ear, 4 Help mo; save my husband.' Hu was caught under a berth and some seats. I was feeling around in the dark, trying to release him, when some men at tho other end of the car said thoy wero alt right and would help tho man out. I groped along to the door, crawling over the heating arrangement in getting to it. The fire had not yet broken out in our car. While I was getting out through the door tho others wore climbing out through the windows." 44 What did you do then?' queried the reporter. " On the left tho cars were in a blazo. On the right a pile of rubbish, as high as I could see, barred escape. In front of me were some cars standing on end, or in a sloping position. If olio wed

a man who was trying to scale the pile of debris. I gt on to a coach which was resting on the edge of tho roof. The side was so slippery and ley that I could not walk on it, and so I UKA.WI.KI ALONG OVEK IT, The car whs dark inside, and oh, what heart-rending groans issued from it. It seemed filled with people who were dying. Two men, a Mr. Whito,of Chicago, and a Mr. Tyler, of St. Louis, helped mo down from the end of the car, Then I was in tho snow up to my knees. Mr. Tyler was badly gashed about the race and was covered with blood. You seo (to tho reporter) this stain on my sleeve. That was blood from his wounds. Right under our feet lay a man, his head down in a hole ami his legs under the corner of the car. Ho asked us to help him, and Mr. Tyler ami Mr. White releasod his legs somehow and some other men carried him away. It was storming terribly. Tho wind was blowing a perfect gale." 44 Were you able to aco any thing, or woro you still groping in tho dark?" asked tho reporter. By this time the whole sceno was lighted up by tho burning cars. I could sco that tno bridge had , 1IUOKKN OFT KVKN WITH THE AUUTMENTS. Tho abutraonts looked as high as Niagara. Away abovo us 1 could see a crowd of spectators. Down in the wreck there was a perfect panic. Tho people woro besido themselves. Some woro so badly frightened and panic stricken that thoy had to bo dragged out of tho cars to prevent their being burned up. I don't want to appear invidious, but I must say that the women, the fow who woro not killed outright, behaved more courageously than the men, as a rule. Bcforo wo got out of the chasm," continued Miss Shepard, tho whole train was in a blaze. The locomotive, tho cars and the bridgo wore mixed up in ono undistimruisiiablo mass, From

tho burning heap came shrieks and the most pitiful cries for help. 1 could hear, far above me, tno ciangor oi in the villacc. alarming the bo s citizens. Wo climbed up the steep side of tho gorge, llounderiug in snow two feet deep. They took us into an engine-house, where thero was a big furnace fire. Tho wounded were brought in anil laid on tho iloor. Thoy were injured in every conceivable way. Some had their legs broken, some had gashed and bleeding faces, and some were so horribly crushed that they appeared to be dying. Two ladies Mrs. Graham, of Now York, and Mrs. Bingham, of Chicagowore laid on tho Iloor. Another lady, whoso name I could not learn, had sustained terrible injuries. IIKK KAKE, WHICH HA1 HEKN OltUSHEU, lay on tho Iloor in anothor part of tho room, and its sobs and cries nearly drove its mother to distraction. She begged mo to lay tho child on her breast, but they would not lot mo. The clothes on tho wounded were frozen stiff, It was a half-hour, I would guess, before tho physicians came. After a little winic,"said aiiss smep- j ard, ,4wo left the engine-house and i climbed up a long, slippery flight of . stairs, to the top of a mil, and wcro j taken in omnibuses to hotels and private houses. Tho wounded were well taken care of. At tho Fisko House, among the wounded,was a Frenchman, from St. louis, who, in addition to being horribly crushed, was unable to make himself understood, as thero was bo ono present who could speak French. There was much talk among thowounded about suing the company for dam ages. A iur. Jijou, oi aew xorK, wno wasn't much hurt, said his trunk, witk $10,000 worth of goods in it, had been burned up, and the company would have to make good tho loss." 44 Did you hear any body censuring the railroad company?" asked the reporter. The people at the hotel told mo that the bridge had been condemned a year and a half ago. They also said that there woro several tanks of water near ? tho bridgo, and that tho hose attached to tho locomotlvo which got safely over might havo been efficiently used toward extinguishing the fire below. Tho railroad men were certainly doing all in their power for the relief of the wounded and the recovery of the bodies of tho killed." FercigH Land-Owners. From Mr. John Bright's return of the owners of land in Ireland we learn that 00,111 peoplo own less than one aero apiece, while 7,989 own from 100 to , 100 acres ; 1,803 own from 1,000 to 2,000 acresi 162 own from 6,000 to 10,000 acres: 185 own from 10,000 to 20,- ! 000 acres: 90 own from 20,000 to 60,000 acres; 14 own from 60,000 to 100,000 acres and upwards. These tlguros urn Rtrikhurlv KiunrnKtivn but thov (Mily idustrato the fact that tho soil of Ireland is owned by a comparatively small mimVr of people. In tho United Kingdom, London excepted, 852,438 people possess 179,3 18 acres, which is a fraction over one-tilth of au aero each ; but 28 persons own 5,M0,58l acres, which is ovur 196,806 acred each ; -17 persons own between 60,000 and 100,000 acres, aud 1C9 own from 20,000 to ou,ooo eaoh. The people in Ireland who own 600 acres nnd upwards hold 87.9 per cent, of tho land, whllo in Great Britain this class hold 77.3 per cent of the laud. Thoso who own 600 acres and upward in tho United Kingdom hold bl 7 per cent, of the total area. Four-flfths of tho laud of tho United Kingdom is actually owned by less than 19,246 persons. The tale tells Its own moral.

ITEMS OMNTEREST. lrraMMl Literary, Mr. llallam Tennyson, a son of tho pool, is h writer of Some promise. It is said that Mr. George Bancroft has started a testimonial fund for Wade Hampton. Oliver Goldsmith' grand-niece, Jane Goldsmith, has just died at the Homo for tho Aged in Halifax, N. S. Gen. Hawley says that the best thing he saw at the exhibition was the American people, and that during tho whole time he was thero he did not seo a single intoxicated person on the grounds, nor did ho witness any difficulty or altercation. Tho wife of Kx-Unltod States Senator Henderson of Wisconsin has dedicated a book on cookery which she has just written to tho wife of Gen. Sherman, whom in her dedication she calls A lady who studies the comforts of her household." Of Senator Conkling's memory, Major Den Porley l'ooro says that it is wonderful, 14 You quoto a line or two of Chaucer, Spenser,, or any of the old English poets, and he will repeat the whole poem to you." Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm says of Anna Dickinson's Anne Boleyn : 44Thore is no kind of compressing machine or patent corset that can over put this great representative American woman into the dimensions of that very smallsized bit of English royalty." Auorbach, the German novelist, is of Hebrew parentage, about 64 years old. He is short and rather ponderous, has a close-cropped gray beard, an a face of tho thoroughly Hebrew typo. Ho is witty, tolls good stories, and has tho art of amusing the titled society which he seeks. His manner, which is somewhat breezy, has gained for him

the title of 4,the Tyroleseof the salon." Henry G. Shaw ( Jo3h Billings") said to a St. Louis reporter that he had been told by Ossian K. Dodge of a fact in Artemus Ward's career in contradiction of the accepted history of that humorist. Mr. Dodge was traveling in the Western States with a show consisting of ar-JMUsical machine and vocalism. Ho mot yourigBrowne.liked his wit and sprightliness, and employed him as an agent. While thus engaged Browne wrote tho quaint letters about tho "snaix and wax-llggers" that introduced him to tho public as "Artemus Ward, moril showman." Mark Twain looks like anything but a humorist. Two deep wrinkles between his eyebrows mar a face otherwise as fresh and fair as a boy's. His slight tigure, his nervous way of twitching his hands and stroking his mustache, and the apparent embarrassment of his manners suggests a modest clerk or an overworked bookkeeper. Ho rarely laughs, at least openly although his friends say he constantly grius Internally at tho funny people and situations that force themselves on his busy brain. Science ami Ittiltiatry. Connecticut brown stone is now being shipped to Europe by quarrymenat Portland. A Wisconsin inventor has patented a corn-cutter which is attached to the operator's feet, so that at every stop he can cut r hill ot corn. Tno labor is light, like skating vigorously all day on rough ice. Tho pine-applo is cultivated extensively in tho East Indies, where the leaves are converted into akindof wadding, used for upholstering purposes instead of hair, and into a sort of flannel, of which substantial shirts and coats are made. The attention of agriculturists is directed to tho sulphocarbonatc of potassium as an insecticide. It has been used with groat success among the vineyards of Franco, but requires some persistence. Tho cultivation of celery is now ! recommended to farmers, not only as a J jourco of profit to theinsoivos, but as a benefit to tho coummunity, since tho habitual daily uso of this vegetable is more beneficial to man as a nerve tonic than most persons are aware of. Those especially who are engaged in labor weakening to the norves should use colcrj daily during its season. But few people outside the sugar trade have any idea of its magnitude. Tho exports of cane sugar ivom producing countries to tho consuming markets reached, last year, the surprising aggregate of 2,140,000 tons, while tho yield of beet-root sugar amounted to 1,817,023, or a total production of raw sugur reaching tho enormous quantity of J,467,G23 tons. This year, as is wen Known, uto production is consmorably less. A very novel and, at tho same time, intcsting experiment, according to tho Lockport (N. Y.) papers, is soon to bo attempted in that city by Mr. Holly, tho successful water-works pump mvuiuui. mu uxpunmuui u wuwi tho whole city with steam, aftor the same manner as it is lighted with gas. The city is to bo divided into districts, ami each district is to havo its separate boiler. Mains from each boiler are to run to tho diileront houses, and all the occupant has to do is to turn on a fau cot, and obtain all the heat ho wants. It is well known that a largo nor tlon of the tobacco grown never enters 8..,.. ..A nun uisb HiKio m iorinoniauou uuuwsurv to fullv develop Its bundae duality. flavor aud dark color, so thatTt retains its wild, rank elements and Its green and yellow leaves, and is therefore unlit for cigar purposes. An apparatus, however, has aow been invented, which is described in a recent number of the Scientific Avierican, by which such to-

baeco can be forced to sweat and color,

and its quality can be improved, thus reclaiming a large quantity of goods ! hitherto considered worthless. ttakual Htl Church. Thirty-iix States and eig torie report 14,007,622 child ht Terriren entitied to instruction. During President Smith's adrnini3 tration at Dartmouth College $9&0,61K) ; has been iriven to the institution. i

Ladies have been elected to the ; suicide by shooting himself while hi School Committee of New Bedford, ; wife was nt the Court-house prosecutMass., from two of the wards of that J ing a fruit for divorce on tho ground Of city. (his dissipated habits and neglect. -It is proposed to offer the superin- j bott Schultz, r young German metendence of the Massachusetts schools chanio of Lvansville, Ind., shot lurato Mr. W. Y. Harris, at present Super-! through tho head with a revolver. intendent of the St. Louis Sehools. I i ho boy had been drinking, and is sup Tim 1 ni Wiiia are now ftnutrin- PS!1 t0 have committed tho deed belne lAiuierans are now outstrip- 4 t.., ,lia ,i.v MnMi.. !,; w

pin all other denominations in their j'early increase. The Methodist Lpisconal Church reports a gain of about 40,000 this year; but this is surpassed by the increase of the Lutherans, which amounts to 67,27C. Somebody said to Robert Hall: 44 How rhany discourses do you think, Mr. Hall, may a minister get Hp each week?" Answered Hall: 44 If he is a deep thinker and great condenser, he may get up one; if he is an ordinary man, two; but if he is an ass, sir, he will produce half a dozen." Tho llev. Charles It. Treat, of Greenwich, Conn., preached on last Thanksgiving Day a sermon which was delivered a liundred years before to a regiment of Revolutionary soldiers then encamped in that town. It was a recital of events in the Revolutionary struggle and an acknowledgment of the Divine aid. In compensation for the destruc tion of the American chapel at Yen Vig-Fua, China, a fow years ago, a party has been sent by the local authorities to the U. S. Consul, with a sum ef money for books and other propertv destroyed. Tho chapel is rebuilt and delivered to tho missionary, and a proclamation issued explaining tho rights of foreigners to reside in the interior. Foreign XetM. Spread of American ideas. Young Arabs now greet the traveler in Egypt with tho familiar salutation, black your boots." j Tho rebuilding of the Tuilcries and its transformation into a museum have been decided upon by the French Government. Tho prospects of the Paris Exposition of 1878 are looked upon as gloomy in presence of the existing European complications. United States Minister Washburne has presented Trosident Grant's apologies to the Duke Decazcs, Minister of Foreign A flairs, for the arrest at Philadelphia of Capt. Aufrye, naval attche of tho French Legation at Washington, and Delegate Fronch Commissioner to tho Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, at the instance of one of the Exhibition policemen. Last year, it will be remembered, a young English lady, Miss Stratton, distinguished herself by making tho ascent of Mont Blanc in midwinter on Jan. 31. Sho is a largo, handsome girl with a private incomo of $0,000 per annum, ami is about to marry tho Alpino guide with whom sho has made nianyascente. Although in love with her, he could not wed her, tie saw, unless sue wonm oocome a noman jatnonc. aue uas uecided to abjure the Protestant faith, and is now building a chateau near Argentine, in Switzerland, where the happy pair will dwell. The German Government has latey published the results of an investiga tion by various States of the Empire, with regard to the employment of women in manufactures. From the returns it appears that 226,000 women above 16 years of age are so engaged. Aooutone-iourinaremarneu, aim muiu than one-half are employed in textile industry, 31,000 in the manufacture of cigars, and the rost in various branches. The duration of work is from 10 to 12 hours a day, and never exceeds 13 hours. In wasros, the usual pay is from $1.20 to $2 per week, although many skilled workwomen receive as much as $6. A letter from Constantinople to the Mtesager FrancO'Americain states that tho Turks expect, m case oi war, an invasion by Russia both on the European and Asiatic sides. They claim that they can place 700,000 raon in the field, and Ilavu pruvisiuiiuu aim sui'uuu wo ui r resses of Kara and Erzeroum for uearly a year. JStignsii omcers nave ocen vis iting both strongholds of late, inspectini? tho defenses and offering suggest ions, it is tuny expectcu at uonsumunoplo that tin English will occupy tho city on the outbreak of war. English ofllcers have indicated locations for de fenses, but no work has yet been commenccd. Ilnp KHtl XlihHii. W. G. Wood, City Clerk of Idaho City, Idaho, was killed in a railway accident near Fort Wayne, Ind. Ills relatives live in Nowburgh, N. Y., and ho was on his way thither to spend the holidays. At Washington, D. C, a carpenter named Wm. Lawrie, while entering his residence, slipped upon a step and fell, and .was literally impaled upon the headintr of the iron fence surrounding tho premises. He died in a very few moments. Mary Heiloy, aged 9 years, of Pittsuurgli,r.,w8 latauy burned wane piaying nofore an open fire. The Mames from her clothine were communicated to the bed of her invalid fathsr, who

wh rescued witk difficulty, A j'ounger sitter was Mjrkniuly but not fatally

burned. -Will Taylor, a young man living ; near Morgantown, ImL, blew into the) ; muzzle of his gun to ascertain if it was loaded. His foot, which held the ' hammer, slipped and discharged the ! gun, causing instant death. ! Heccnt suicides: Henrv H. Sonnickson, proprietor of the Indiana House, at Richmond. Ind.. committed rL-Zn" not coming home. Thomas Wilkinson, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Davenport, Iowa., shot himself while standing before si mirror, causing instant death. No cause ia known. Dana O. Whitman, an old resident and mcrehnnt of Dixon, Iowa, hung himself in the burn with u pair of reins. Ho was discouraged by the dullness of business. .Jim Jackson, in jail at Decatur, Ga., on u charge of murder and robberv, hanged himself with a pockethaadkerchief to pave himself from a mob, who surrounded tho jail for the purpose of lynching hi u. The Sheriff was defending the jail with t: posse of sixty men at the time. - A MAGAZINE FOR FARMERS. Col. George E. Waring, of OgdonFarm, near Newport, R. I., author of ' A Farmer's Vacation" and other well-knowa works, will soon begin the publication in Sc-ribner't Monthly of a series of papers of special interest to thoso living in the country. Farm Villages" will be the title of the first paper, in which will be considered the advantages offered to fanners from a concentration of their houses and farm.bulldings into villages, especially aa a relief from the dullness and isolation of remote farm-houses, as affording bettor education for children, and as making the farmer's life more attractive to tho young. Another paper will treat of the work to be done by 44 Village Improvement Associations" in the matter of increased neatnoea and good keeping of streets, public grounds, private places, etc., the furnishing of literary club-rooms, the planting of trcfifl. and like matters. Still anothor pa per will give explicit instruction as to the means for giving a good sanitary condition to the village and to the country house. These papers will be accompanied bv maps and diagrams. The serios baa been undertaken by Col. Waring at the request of the conductors of the Monthly, and is considered by them one of the nvoet important and valuable enterprises in which the magazine hasyet engaged. In the rjiosrECTua of scribner's monthly for 1877, just issued, other papers are anaouac that will be of especial interest to srmers. Among these, Mr. Charles Barnard'4 articles on various industries of Great Britain, including the History of some Experiments in Co-operation, a description of the British Workman's Home, and Clarence Cook's articles on Household and Home Decoration. There will bo also a series on American Sports and papers of Popular Science, all profusely and elepantlv Illustrated ; a department called the Worfd'sWork; another entitled Homo and Society, which will treat of domestic life, the care of children, etc. OCXEXAIi M'CIiKIiIiAN'8 TRAVELS, begun in the January Scrilmer with' A Winter on the Nile," will run on through the year. There will be three serial storiee: 44 NICHOLAS MIKTOKN," ters," "Arthur Bnnictle," ami the story of "Scvenoeks," etc. The scene of this latest novel is laid oa the banks of the Hudson. The hero Is a young man who has been always uUt& U a kwmn' nfron-Btrig9t" but who, by the death of his mother, is left alone In the world, to drift on the current of life, with a fortune, but without a purpoee. Another serial, HIS IXTiKKITAXCK, by Miss Trafton, will begin on the com. pletionof "That Lass o Lowrle's," by Mrs. Hodgson Burnett. Saxo Holm, Toureueneff, Boyoscn, and McKay, will contribute short stones to early numbers of the monthly. Saxc Holm's new story, FAXMER XASfiETT'g XOMAXCX, will be printed in two or three monthly parts. TourgucnefTs new story will appear simultaneously with its publication in Russia and France, and the magazine will also publish a critical paper oa Tourgueneff, by Prof. Boyeeen, accompanied y a portrait of the famous Russian patriot. Tim editorial denaruncnt will continue to employ the ablest pens both at home and abroad. There will be letters on literary f mHim (rom Lomion w Mr. Welford. The department of Bric-a-Brac will be filled with the choicest bits of American humor. . , Scribner't Monthly is the only Amerl.' can magazine (beside St. tfidtola lot the Bovs and Girls, by the same publish, ers) that has found any considerable number of readers abroad. Scribner is issued simultaneously In London and in ISew York. 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by that popular author, Dr. Holland (the Editor), author of ' Bitter Sweet," Kalliriaa." Timothv Titcomb's Let-