Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 12, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 August 1893 — Page 6

LOOKING BACKWARD. ®r. Talmagre Indulges in a Season of Reminisoences. •A Review of Pant Advantage# and Past Adversities which ’Twere Well to Make at Times iu Order to Profit Thereby. ^

The following discourse, in the form •of a panorama of seasonable r^pinis•eenees, was delivered on a recent Sabbath by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage. It 'Is based on the text: While I was musing the fire burned—Psalms «xxir..3. Here is David, the psalmist, with the forefinger of his right hand against his temple, the door shut against the •world, engaged in contemplation. And It would be well for us to take the same posture often, closing the door against the world, while we sit down in sweet solitude to contemplate. In a small island off the coast I once ’passed a Sabbath in delightful solitude, lor I had resolved that I would have •one day of entire quiet before I entered* ■upon autumnal work. I thought to have spent the day in laying out plans for Christian work; but instead of that ■it became a day of tender reminiscence. I reviewed my pastorate; I shook hands with an old departed friend, whom I shall greet again when, the curtains of life are lifted. The days of my boyhood came back, and I was ten years of age, and I was eight, and I was five. There was but one house on the island, and yet from Sabbath daytweak, when the bird-chant woke me, until the evening melted into the bay, from shore to shore there' were ten thousand memories, and the groves were ahum with voices that had long ago ceased. Youth is apt too much to spend all its time in looking forward. Old age is apt too much to spend all its time in looking backward. People in mid-life and on the apex look both ways, ft wouldjbe well for us', I think, hcrw--ever, to spend more time in reminiss ccnce. By the constitution of our nature we spend most of the time looking forward. And the vast majority •of people live not so much in the prestent as in the future. I find that you mean to make a reputation, you mean to establish yourself, and the advantages that you expect to achieve ab■sorb a great deal of your time. But I - see no harm in this, if it does not make -you discontented with the present, or -disqualify you for existing duties. It is a useful thing sometimes to look back, and to see the dangers we have' escaped, and to see the sorrows we have suffered, and the trials and wanderings of our earthly pilgrimage, and to sum up our enjoyments. I mean to-day, so ' far as God may help me, to stir up your • memory of the past, so that in tlie review you may be encouraged and hum- - bled, and urged to pray. There is a chapel in Florence with a Iresco hv Guido, it was covered up •with two inches of stucco until our American and European artists went there, and after long toil removed the covering and retraced the fresco. And I am aware that the memory of the past, with many of you, is all covered up wiih ten thousand obliterations, and I propose this morning, so far as the Lord will help me, to take away the covering, that the old picture may •shine out again. Among the greatest advantages of •your past life was an early home and its surroundings. The~bad men of the day, for the most part, dip their heated passions out of the boiling spring of an •unhappy home. iVe are not surprised that Byron’s heart was a concentration of jin, When we hear his mother was abandoned, and that she made sport of dris infirmity-, and often called him “the ' lame brat. ” He who has vicious parents "has to fight every inch of his way if ? he would maintain his integrity, and . at last reach the home of the good in Heaven. Perhaps your early home was in the • city. It may have been in the days •when Canal street. New York, was far uptown. That old house in the city may have been demolished or changed into stores, and it seemed like sacrilege to you—for there was more meaning in that plain house, in that small house, than there is in a granite mansion or a tureted cathedral. Looking back this morning, you see it as though it were yesterday—the sitting-room, where the loved ones sat by the plain lamplight, the mother at the eve ning • stand, the brothers and sisters, perhaps long ago gathered into the skies, (hen plotting mischief on the floor or > unper thi table, your father with a • firm voice commanding silence, that lasted half a minute.

Oh those were good days! If, you bad your foot hurt, your mother . always had a soothing salve to heal it. i If you were wronged in the street, joar father was always ready to protect you. The year was one round of Irolic and mirth. Yopr greatest trouble 'was an April shower, more sunshine .than shower. The heart had not been wansaeked by troubles, nor had sickness broken it, and no lamb had a warmer sheepfold than the home in which your childhood nestled. Perhaps you were brought up in the <oountry. You stand now to-day in «ntemory under the old tree. You Vclubbed it for fruit that was not quite ■ripe because you could not wait any .longer. You hear the brook rumbling along over the pebbles. You ntep again into the furrow where your father in his shirt sleeves shout<sd to the lazy oxen. You frighten the swallows from the rafters of ; the barn and take just one egg, and • silence your conscience by saying they twill not miss it. You take a drink '■again out of the very bucket that the -old well fetched up. You go for the «ows at night and find them wagging their heads through the bars. Ofttimes in ‘the dusty and busy streets -you wish you were home again on that «ool grass, or in the hall of the farm bouse, through which there was the breath of new-mown hav or the blossom of buckwheat.

You may have in your windows now beautiful plants and flowers brought from across the seas, but not one of them stirs in your soul so much charm and memory as the old ivy and the Jyellow sunflower that stood sentinel along the garden-walk, and the forget-me-nots playing hide-and-seek mid the long grass. The father who used to come in sunburnt from tie fields, and

-sit clown on the door-sill and wipe the sweat from his brow, may have gone to his everlasting rest The mother, who used to sit at the door a little bent over, cap and spectacles on, her face mellowing with the vicissitudes of many years, may have put down her gray head on the pillow in the valley, but forget that home you never will. Have you thanked God for it? Have you rehearsed all these blessed reminiscences? Oh, thank God for a Christian father; thank God for a Christian mother; thank God for an early Christian altar at which you were taught to kneel; thank God for- an early Christian home. I bring to mind another passage in the history of your life. The day came when you set up your own household. The days passed along in quiet blessedness. You twain sat at the table morning and night and talked over your plans for the future. The most insignificant affair in your life became the subject of mutual consultation and advisement. You were so happy you felt you never could be any happier. One day a dark cloud hovered over your dwelling, and it got darker and darker; but out of that cloud the shining messenger of God descended to incarnate an immortal spirit. Two little feet started on an eternal journey, and yon were to lead them; a gem to flash in Heaven's coronet, anil you to polish it; eternal ages of light and darkness watching the starting out of a newlvcreated being. You rejoiced and you trembled at the responsibility that in your possession an immortal treasure was placed. Y'ou prayed and rejoiced, and wept and wondered, and prayed and rejoiced,and \vept and wondered; you were earnest in supplication that yon might lead it through life into the kingdom of God. There was a tremor in your earnestness. There was a double interest about that home. There was an additional- interest why you should stay there and be faithfiil, and when in a few months your house was filled ivith the music of the child's laughter you were struck through with the fact that you had a stupendous mission. Have yon kept that vow? Have yon neglected any of these duties? Is your home as much to you as it used to be? Have those anticipations been gratified? God help you to-day in your solemn reminisence, and let 11 is mercy fall'upon your soul if your kindness has been ill requited. God have mercy on,the parent, on the wrinkles of whose face is written the story of a child's sin. God have mercy / on the mother who. in addition to ht»r other pangs, has the pang of a child s iniquity. Oh, there are many, many sad sounds in this sad world, but the saddest sound that is ever heard is the breaking of a mother's heart. Are there any here who remember that in that home they were unfaithful? Are there those wfho wandered off from the early home, and left the mother to die with a broken heart? Oh, I stir that reminiscence to-day. I find another point in your life history. Y'ou found one day, you were in the wrong road; you could not sleep at night; there was just one word that seemed to throb through your banking house, or through your office, or your shop, or your bed-room, aud that.word was “Eternity."’ Y'ou said: “I am not ready for it O God, have mercy.” The Lord heard. Peace came to your heart. Y’ou remember how your hand trembled as you took the cup of the holy communion. Y'ou remember the old minister who consecrated it, and you remember the ehureh officials who carried it through the aisle; you remember the old people who at the close of the service took your hand in theirs in congratulating sympathy, as much as to say, “Welcome home, you lost prodigal;” and though those hands have all withered away, that communion Sabbath is resurrected to-day; it is resurrected with all its prayers, and songs, and tears, and sermons, and transfiguration. Have yon kept those vows? Have you been a backslider? God help you? This day kneel at the foot of mercy and start again for Heaven. Start to-day as yon started then. I rouse your soul by that reminiscence. But I must not spend any more of my time in going over the advantages of your life; I just put them all in one great sheaf, and I hind them up in your memory with one loud harvest song such as reapers sing. Praise the Lord, ye blood-bought mortals on earth! Praise the Laud, ye crowned spirits of Heaven!

lint some of you have no^ always had a smooth life. Some of you are now in the shadow. Others had their troubles years ago, you are a mere wreck of what you once were. 1 must gather up the sorrows of your past life, but how shall 1 do it? You say that is impossible, as you have had so many troubles and adversities. Then I will take just two, the first trouble and the last trouble, As when you are walking along the street and there has been mtislc in the distance, you unconsciously find yourself keeping step to the mnsic,so when you started life yonr very life was a musical time-beat. The air was fall of joy and hilarity; with the bright, clear oar you made the boat skip; you went on, and life grew brighter, until, after awhile, suddenly a voice from Heaven said “Halt!” and you halted, you grew pale, you confronted your first sorrow. You had no idea that the flush on you child's cheek was an unhealthy flush. You said it pan not be anything serious. Death in slippered feet walked around about the cradle. Yon diduot hear the tread; but after awhile the truth flashed on you. Yon walked the floor. Oh, if you could, with your strong, stout hand, have wrenched the child from 1 the destroyer. You went to your room

and you said: “God, save my child: God, save my child:” The world seemed geing out in darkness. You said: "I can not bear.it. I can not bear it.” You felt as i(*yon could not put the lashes over the bright eyes never tosee them again sparkle. Oh. if you could have taken that little one in your arms and with it leaped into the grave, how gladly you would have done it! Oh, if

you could have let y ,ir property go, your houses go, your land and your store-house go, how gladly you woultt have allowed them to depart if you could only have kept that one treasure! But one day there arose from the heavens a chill blast that swept over the bed room, and instantly all the light went out, and there was darkness —thick, murky, impenetrable, shuddering darkness. Hut God did not leave you there. Mercy spoke. As you were about to put up that cup to your lips, God said, •'Let it pass," and forthwith, as by the hand of angels, another cup was in your hands, it was the cup of God’s consolation. And if you have sometimes lifted the head of a wounded soldier and poured wine into his lips, so God put His left arm under your head, and with Ilis right hand He pours into your lips the wine of consolation, and you looked at the empty cradle and looked at your broken heart, and you looked at the Lord's chastisement, and you said: '“Even so. Father, for so it seemeth good in Thy sight.” Perhaps your last sorrow was a financial embarrassment. I congratulate some of you on your lucrative profession or occupation, on ornate apparel, on a commodious residence—everything you put your hand to seems to turn to gold. But there are others of ypu who are like the ship on which Paul sailed where two seas met, and J'ou are broken by the violence of the waves. By an unadvised indorsement, or by a conjunction of unforseen events, or by fire or storm, or a senseless panic, you have bjen flung headlong, and where yon once dispensed great charities now you have hard tvork to make the two ends meet. Have j'ou forgotten to thank God for j-our days of prosperity, and that through j'our trials some* of j'ou have made investments which will continue after the last bank of this world has exploded and the silver and gold are molten in fires of a burning world? Have j-ou, amid all your losses and discouragements. forgot that there was bread on your table this morning and thatthereshall .be a shelter for j-our head from the storm, and there is air for j'our lungs, and blood for your heart, and light for j-our ej'e. and a glad and glorious and triumphant religion for j’our soul? Perhaps j-our last trouble was a bereavement. That heart which ir childhood was your refuge, the parents 1 heart, and which has been a source of the quickest sympathy- ever since, lias suddenly become silent forever. And now sometimes, whenever in sudden annoj'anee and without deliberation you saj\ “I will go an l tell mother." the thought flashes on you: “I have no mother.” Or the father, with voice less tender, but at heart as earnest and loving—watchful of all our ways, exultant over j'our success without saying much, although the old people do talk it over bj' themselves—is taken away forever. Or there was your companion in life, sharer of vour joys and sorrows, taken, leaving the heart an old ruin, where the ill winds blow over a wide wilderness of desolation, the sands of the desert driving across the place which once bloomed like1 the garden of God. And Abraham mourns for Sarah at the cave of Maehpelah. Going along j'our path in life, suddenly, right before you was an open grave:. People looked dbwn. and they saw that it was only a few feet deep and a few feet wide, but to yon it was a chasm down which went all j-onr hopes and all J'our expectations. But cheer up in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Comforter. He is not going to forsake you. Did the Lord take that child out of your arms? Why j-ou could. He is going to array it in a white robe, and give it a palm branch, and have it all ready to greet you at j'our coming home. Blessed the broken heart that Jesus heals. Blessed the importunate cry that Jesus compassionates. Blessed the weeping eye from which the soft hand of Jesus wipes away the tear. But these reminiscences reach only to this morning. There is one more point of tremendous reminiscence, and that is the last hour- of life, when we have to look over all onr past existence. What a moment that will be! I place Napoleon'S- dj'ing reminiscence on St. Helena beside He is going to shelter

Mrs. Judson s dying’ reminiscence in the harbor of St. Helena, the same island, twenty years after. Napoleon's dying reminiscence was one of delirium—as he exelaimecl: “Head of the army!” Mrs. Judsou's dying reminiscence, as she tune home from her missionary toil and her life of selfsacrifice for God,, dying in the cabin of the ship in the- harbor of St. Helena, was: “I alwaysdid lore the Lord Jesus Christ.” And then, the historian says, she fell into at sound sleep for an hour, and woke amid the songs of angels., I place the dying reminiscence of Augustus Caesar against the dying reminiscence of Apostle Paul. The dying reminiscence- of Augustus Caesar was, addressing his attendants, “Have I played my part well on the stage of life?” and they answered in the affirmative, and he said: “Why, then, don’t you applaud mg?” The dying reminiscence of Paul, the apostle, was: “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me in that day, and not to me only; hut to all them that love His appearing.” August Caesar died amid pomp and great surroundings. Paul uttered his dying reminisences looking up through the roof of a dungeon. God grant that our dying pillow may be the closing of a useful life, and the opening of a glorious eternity.

TRADE REVIEW. H. O. Dan Jl Co.’s Weekly Rerleir of th« Condition of Trade Tliroghout the Country—A Slight Recovery In Wheat and ^®**k and the Volume of Domestic Trade But Slightly Diminished. Kotwlthstandthe Continued Bank Failures—The Closing of Shops and Mills the Overshadowing Fact. New York, Aug. 4.—R. G. Dun A Co.*s weekly review of trade, published this morning, says: Wheat has recovered about 4c and pork IS or more at Chicago, and orders for exports have caused a sudden advance In ocean freights. With the great surplus or wheat brought over from previous years the country will be able to meet all demands, even though the crop proves smal In enough la justify n considerable advance from previous prices. With a good crop of corn assured unusual accumulations of pork and hog products would be safer on the ocean than In Chicago warehouses autl more helpful to the country.

Stocks ait the lowest point this week averaged little more than 14.16 per stare, but it is yet a long jway down to the prices of 1877. averaging at the lowest $2.36 per share, and the contrast between the condition anfl earnings of railroads npw and then is greater than the difference in prices. Railroad earnings continue fairly satisfactory though they show a recent decrease and a reduction of rates for World s fair travel. For good stocks some recovery from such a fall as that of last week was inevitable, and its rapidity indicated how many stocks had been absorbed by investors here and abroad. Though too sudden to be healthy or enduring, t he rise doubtless reminds soma brokers that it is not safe to sell stocks held for customers. Signs of reaction appeared on Thursday And also early on Friday, but the coming gold it expected to give a further raise to prices. Bank failures have Veen almost as numerous this week as for the two preceding weeks, tut fewer have been of more than local importance. The westers states show greater distrust or weakness than other sections. Of the 1(E) banks failed since March, 5 were in eastern. 48 in southern and 151 in western states. Failures of national banks numbered 58. of state banks 79. and of private banks G7. In unxious efforts to fortify themselves, banks throughout the country have locked up a large amount of currency, and the depositors who have drawn their accounts are also keeping out of use many millions. As the entire circulation of bills of less than $5 each is but $71,000,000, while the depositors in savings banks number nearly 5,(XK),(X>), the withdrawal, or the mere withholding of accustomed deposits by a considerable proportion of them would put out of the market much of the small notes. The demand for these has been so great that shipments of silver in many cases I have been greatly reduced and the difficulty of I getting currency for paying employes causes a premium for currency in cases ranging as high ns 2 per cent. Closing of shops and works for lack of orders is the overshadowing fact. Yet many stoppages are only for a few weeks unless circumstances lead managers to extend them, and jit is believed that the consuming demand has not been reduced In proportion to the decrease in prouduction. so that their orders may presently enable many works to resume. Sales of wool are not a third of last years', and since the new clip the decrease was 41.750,210 pounds, or about 46 per cent. Most of the large carpet mills have closed, a large share of the works producing men's woolens, and many of those producing dress goods, flan nels and knit goods. Prices are weak, and yet so low that much decline seems unlikely. The Carjnegie and some other iron works have almost ceased producing, and yet the demand; brings no further.stimulus, though prices in tmS line are so low that makers prefer to stop ‘‘than to take lower. In boot and shoe, shops the situation is nearly the same, eastern shipments falling off about a quarter. Gold imports may help to revive the credits upon which a great share of the business depends. The volume of domestic trade indicated by railroad earnings is but 6 per cent, smaller than last: year, and clearings af the chief cities show a decrease of 15 per cent, optiside the -railways. While the failures of the week number 436 ag ainst 160 last year, a great proportion are at the west, and it is cheering to note* that comparatively few of importance occur except in connection with speculative eperalions. The failures for the week number 436 in the United States, against 16) for the same week, lasrt year, and. 34 in Canada, against 2V last year. The number contributed to the failures were largely in the west. There were three failures of a million or two at Chicago, owing to the break in the pork deal and in New York city. __ THE CHOLERA SCOURG. Jr. Cyrus Edison Thinks It Will be a Lonf Time Getting Here, and May be Harmless When It Does Arrive—Personal Precautions to be Observed. New York, Aug*. 5.—Dr. Cyrus Edison, health commissioner, will say in the forthcoming- issue of the American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record: It is to be regretted that some of the newspapers resort to sensational news and thus unnecessarily alarm the public in connection with coutagious and infectious diseases. While much good fs accomplished through their urging the people to observ^^he law's of sanitation in their own-persons.thrre is much harm done through unreasoning fear and nervous dread which is caused by these methods. The mere fact that the Kauamania was- detained at Quarantine Thursday should not be a source of great alarm, for never in the history of this country has the sanitary condition been so good. Cholera has been generally prevalent in the Russian districts ever since last year. Its existence in Naples has recently come to light though it has no* yet become epidemic there. The north.of Europe has been free of cholera since April, when some cases occurred ia one of the northern provinces of France. I have said that the sanitary condition of the United States in general is excellent, and this is more especially true of the large cities. Since the great source of infection is tbe water used for drinking, it is around this that the most stringent safeguards should be thrown. This has been frequently recognized in the larger cities, and thanks to the energetio works of the various boards of health, there is little or noicause for fear as to impure drinking water. Sojourners at summer resorts, however, sbopjll exercise particular caution; as the water us^g; arf these temporary places©* residence is frequently contaminated, noUat present with: cholera germs, but with other germs of diseases which may weaken the system so as to afford a lodging-place for cholena germs should they* be introduced later. That the health authorities of tttiheity are able to comba%. the disease, even should it reach this- country, a contingency which I scarcely class among the possibilities, was amply demonstrated in the way the few rases were handled which appeared here last year; ami further it may be said that the sanitary condition of the country is> better now than it was then.' There are jush three points to be argued. 1. The* cholera can only be* taken into* the body by means of food or dzslrit. 2.. Tfcttt if taken into a healthy stomach chc& era gjeoms are harmless, as the acid gastrihjuiee*at once kills and digests.them. 3. That they are certainly killed when sab-> mitfced to the boiling temperature. Bearingthese facts in mind, every person may solve the problem, if the cholera aonses. with oquantmity, feeling assured of his ability to care* for himself.

For the Relief of Fereica Exhibitors. World's Fair Urocrds. Chjcagos. Aug-. 5.—The treasury department restrictions surrounding exhibitors and their goods in bonds have been relaxed a little by the collector of the port of Chicago issuing instructions yesterday to Deputy Collector Hall in charge of the branch custom house at the fair, to allow all exhibitors who applied to pay duty on their goods entered as exhibits in bend and secure their release for such disposition they couli make consistent with the rules of the exposition. The exhibitors want to ■ell danlicates of their exhibit?

A FRIGHTFUL WRECK. Th*t» Persons Killed anil Many Injured by n Wreck on the Lake Shore Bnad at Lindsay. O.—Klee Sleeping Cars Reduced to Kindling by Contact with a Freight —Narrow Escape of Chlcaco.Baiieballlats. Cleveland, Aug. 7.—Train No. 9 of the Lake Shore railroad left, here Saturday night for Chicago on time. The train was composed of three coaches, three baggage cars and five sleepers. It left Fremont ten minutes late and was running at a high rate of speed for Toledo. When the train was about ten miles out of Fremont, at a small station called Lindsay, the sleeping cars left the track and crashed into a freight train that was waiting on a siding for the passenger train to pass. The first part of the train got by in safety but

the sleeping cars rolled over the ties quite a distance, finally swerved from their course and hit the engine of the freight train with tremendous force. The noise of the collision aroused the people of the little town, and they soon surrounded the wreck ready to aid the unfortunate passengers, whose groans could be heard amid the noise of the'escaping steam and pandemonium that ensued by the destruction of the locomotive. The sleeping cars were practically reduced to kindling wood and that anyone escaped is a miracle. Three persons were killed outright and a number seriously injured. Telegrams were at once sent to Fremont for medical aid, and a coach left that city within half an hour bearing physicians to the scene of the disaster. In the meantime the train crew, aided by the citizens of the little town, began to remove the debris and ruins that covered the track. Underneath the wreckage could be seen the victims of the accident and the groans of the more seriously hurt were pitiful. Here and there an arm or a leg protruded and little pools of blood that oozed from underneath the shattered timbers told the sad tale of suffering. Many people were buried in the wreck who were not seriously injured, their hurts consisted mostly of bruises and scratches, aud it was not a hard t >sk to free them from the heavy beams that held them to the earth. They were taken care of by the town physicians and were ready to resume their journey by the time the train started again on its way to Toledo. Perhaps fifteen or twenty were more or less hurt in that way whose names were not given to the local authorities. Deeper in the wreck were the dead and more seriously hurt. Tbe three who were killed Outright by the collision were not removed from the ruins until <5 o'clock. They, we ye buried under the engine and it-was impossible to do anything to aid them until a wrecking train had arrived. Prof. D. H. Emerson, of Amherst college, Gloucester, Mass., ami the colored porter, Pelmonn, were extricated after a long struggle with the heavy iron braces and the timbers of the- sleeping car, and they were at once taken to houses in the village. Prof. Emerson's case was hopeless from the start, his chest being erushed beyond possibility of recovery, and Pelmonn was ill the same condition, with no hope. The members of the Chicago1 baseball club were in the Cleveland slfeeper, which was the last one omthe train.and to that fact they owe much of their immunity from more serious injury. As it was, Ryan, the center fielder of the club, and Kittridge, the best catcher, were cut badly and bled profusely. Other members of the team were bruised and cut, but not so as to interfere with the continuance of their journey. A special train left Toledo soon after the report of the accident, with Lake Shore officials on board, to make- a thorough examination of the track and ascertain what caused the wreck. The only theory given is that the roils spread and let the heavy sleeping.can through the-switeh.^ A Sixty-Foot Plunge to Death* Tekp-k Hactr, Ind., Aug. 7.—A. special to the Express from Danville, 111., says: A wreck that will cost the Hig Four over $100,000 occurred: here Saturday night. An east-bound freight' train broke in two and while it was being coupled together on the iron bridge i over the South Fork river. Another-east-bound freighMte-ain came around tfie sharp carve to the wVst of the bridge and a collision occurred; / The shock kmatted two spans of the bridge, off ^he piers into the"river sixty-three feet below. Engine 532 and twentyeight cars composing the second train and four cars of the first train went down with-the bridge. All on the first train jumped1 before the trains cihne together. Engineer. Daniel. CFConnor of the second train, jumpedioff his engine before the bridge was reached. He was unfortunate enough, to land in a barb-wire fence and. was severely scratched I but received. no serious injuries. His fireman*. Fraote Ilannagan went down.with, the engiiiav In some miraculous way he cleaned the wrectuand was found1 waiting aaound in the water in aneariyum00H6G09US condition. He is not- seriously hurt. Conductor Grow has” his limbs orusited and hnecsever* internal injjmries Stead Brakeinan Stone-lies. burietfi at the-bottom of ahe wreek. A tramp bricklayer named' Charles Jackson was iadly hurt. He claims several other-tramp* boarded the- train alt Urbana and were 'hailed in the : wreck. A large foree of men are ah work ; clearing away the wreck, bull no rei mains hav* been found..

Have Y.a Hay to Sell? Caxajobarib, N. Y., Aug. 6.—The Hay Trade Journal reviews the hay market in tho- United States as follows: “The crop for this year is virtually harvested and in the main is of a good quality. Reports from every part oi the country indicate a feeling among fanners and dealers to hold for a rise, dn» in a large measure to advices from abroad regarding a short crop there. Holders are cautioned not to expect much advantage from the high prices abroad, as freights to foreign ports will more than offset the difference it prevailing prices *’

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