Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1884 — Page 3

“The Old Ticket.”

The drift of the Democratic party seems to be more and more toward the nomination of “the old ticket.” Nobody ie talked of seriously except Tilden, and Hendricks goes along as the tail goes with the hide. The theory is advanced that Tilden and his bar! can carry New York against anybody the Republicans may nominate, and that is "Cited as the principal reason for “forcing” the nomination upon him. It would be more honest if the Democratic managers would admit that the available Presidential material in their party is so scarce, and the factional dissensions over living issues are so serious, that they are compelled to fall back on a reminiscence. The project is to ride into power upon Tilden’s old* time reputation for vigor and “reform,” and then use Hendricks’ pliable nature to secure a partisan distribution of the spoils. Tilden’s ghost is to be paraded through the campaign, and, in case of success, a big funeral will be given him when he drops from decrepitude, and Hendricks will be installe 1 m the President’s chair so fill out the term.

Is this a shrewd programme ? Is it likely to win ? In trying to discover the answer to these questions it must first be ascertained what Tilden’s candidature would represent. It cannot be assumed that American people will elect a mere dummy as President. And yet Tilden as a candidate for President, if he shall live till next November, will represent nothing. When he ran eight years ago it was as a professional reformer. The reform issue appealed to the people at that time. Many abuses and corruptions had crept into Grant’s second administration, and there was a widespread impression through the country that defeat was necessary to chasten the Republican leaders. Tilden had some claim to the reform pretenses he put forward in the prosecution of the Tweed ring, which the New York Times had exposed and ruined. He had vast experience as a politician and election manipulator, and would undoubtedly know how to proceed if he were in good health. His administration as Governor of New*York had attracted the attention of the country by its pretenses of quasi-independence. He had taken an active part in prosecuting the old Tweed ring for the purpose of improving the reputation of the New York Democracy. It was insisted by his henchmen that be was the very man to clean out the abuses in Government circles, and he developed considerable strength in his State. ' But since that time all the conditions have changed. During the eight years which have intervened the Republican administration of national affairs has been always clean and generally satisfactory. The cry of “reform” has lost its force, and does not now affect the people as it did then, as there are no great evils to reform. Even if this were not so —even if there were the same necessity for administrative reform that was impressed upon the people eight years ago—Tilden would not command the same confidence in his fitness for the work which he gained at that time. He is a mere wreck of his former self. He is a chronic and hopeless invalid requiring the constant and most assiduous care of his attendants. He is almost bed-rid-den. His paralytic stroke has disabled one-half of his body. It is doubtful whether ho could survive the journey to Washington. His mutterings and whisperings are inarticulate, and intelligent consultation with him is nearly out of the question. It is absurd to expect from such decrepitude a vigorous direction of the nation’s affairs. If the sitution required any real vigor and personal effort his helplessness would be pitiful. If his reappearance as a Presidential candidate would fail to revive the conditions of 1376 it would likewise fail to arouse public sentiment on the “fraud” issue. The Democrats have forfeited whatever capital they might have hoped at one time to make out of that question. The time to try that before the people was four years ago. Tilden was then stll in a condition to stand as a candidate. If he was entitled to any vindication or indemnification on' account of personal , grievances the Presidential election of 1880 offered the opportunity. But the Democrats were not then anxious to pit Tilden against Garfield. They refused to nominate him. It i§ now too late to make his personal grievances, if he have any, the burning issue of a Presidential campaign. What the Democrats might have been willing to do for Tilden in 1880, when he was still in tolerable possession of his faculties, cannot now be determined, but there : s certainly no reason to think they will be ready to induct the Democratic party into power next foil under the shadow of Tilden’s former greatness, when he was repudiated by his own party at the time he had a lively claim for recognition. The “fraud” issue is as feeble and attenuated as Tilden himself. , „ • Is it likely Tilden, under those conditions, can secure the Republican votes which enabled him to carry New York in 1876 ? There is a difference of 55, 0110 votes between the majority -Tiitlen secured in 1876 in the State of New York and that of Garfield in 1880, It is a wide breach for him to cover.

The Independent Republicans in New York and throughout the country will understand that, in voting for “the old ticket,” they will be voting for Hendricks for President in preference to the Republican candidate. Is there anything about Hendricks to encourage them to do that ? It will not be a tyial of Til den’s' former strength in New York, but of Hendricks’ present strength in that State, if the Democrats dhall nominate “the old ticket.” Notice will be clearly served upon the country of the Democratic purpose to ■ obtain possession of Ihe Government and to tfSe their most pliable politician to Becure a reai -tribution of the spoils. That wilt be the issue of the campaign, and Tilden’s shadow will not obscure it. Tilden is a forlorn hope, but it is the only opening for Democratic assault; and the Democrat situation, seems to be more des-

1 •- > B ,' perate than ever before. Chicago iTribime.

The Copiah County Farce Ended.

The trial 6t Wheeler, at Hazlehurst, Miss., for the murder of Matthews has ended with the acquittal of the muraerer. It will be remembered that Matthews was a prominent Republican of Copiah County, who was obnoxious to the Bonrbons of his neighborhood. Upon the approach of the November election the Bourbons of Hazlehurst held a public meeting at which Matthews was notified that he must not appear at the polls election-day, and the man Wheeler was selected to “remove” him if he did appear, as a warning to other Republicans that they must not attempt to interfere with alleged Bourbon majorities. Matthews, being a courageous man, paid no heed to the warning, went to the polls, and as he was about to vote was shot from Rebind by "Wheeler and killed. The murderer had no personal quarrel with his victim —indeed, only an evening or two before the murder he had dined with the Matthews family and enjoyed their hospitality. He did the infamous work to which he had been assigned by his Bourbon associates. No inquest was held upon the body of Matthews, the Coroner having been notified by the Sheriff that it was unnecessary. No complaint was lodged against the murderer. The only cognizance of the awful deed was at a public meeting of Bourbons, who passed resolutions justifying and applauding the act and notifying other members of the family that they would be treated in a similar manner if they took any part in politics. At a subsequent local election the murderer was rewarded by being made City Marshal of Hazlehurst. The trial was a farce from beginning to end. It is nearly six m&nths since the killing, all of which time the murderer has been at large and exercising the duties of a public oflice, no action having been taken by the authorities until about a week ago, and that action would , not have been taken had it not been for the investigation of the crime by the special committee appointed by the Senate. That committee, of which Senator Hoar was Chairman, made a patient and thorough examination ot all the circumstances connected with the crime, and reported, in accordance with the testimony, that it was a political murder, deliberately,, planned and carried out for a political purpose. To offset the effect of that report, at this late date —six months after the commission of the murder—Wheelei has been arraigned and tried for the crime, with the result as above stated, though there was no question as to the leading issues in the case. No one expected, there or elsewhere, that Wheeler would be convicted. No jury could have been impaneled in Copiah County that would have convicted him, for no juryman’s life would have been safe after such a verdict. So the farce is ended, but it has not altered the situation. The Senate Committee's report remains unchallenged, Wheeler remains a rewarded murderer, and the charge remains that murder is a recognized feature of electioneering in Mississippi, and that Bourbon majorities, other methods failing, will be maintained by the shotgun.— Exchange.

The Republican Party’s Rule.

For the past quarter of a century the country, in the opinion of Democrats who sleep with the Constitution .of the United States for a night-shirt, has been going to the devil. It is doing that now; it has been doing it from the day Abraham Lincolq was elected President. And yet in that twenty-five years the population of the United States has increased more than tvrenty-five million; manufacturing products have grown from $1,835,000,000 to $5,369,000,000 in 1880. Farm acreage has expanded from 407,000,000 to 536,OOO ; Q0O acres. The value of farms has increased from over six billion to over ten billion of dollars, and from 30,635 miles of railroads we have built 120,000. The Consfcitution-loviug Democracy of the South undertook to arrest ns on the way to darkness, destruction, and the devil, in 1861, but after four years of struggle thou jht better of it, and concluded they might be happy yet with the old flag and ail appropriation; and they are enjoying the benefits of their failure to-day. But it is not only in material wealth that we have advanced. Education and skill in industrial and fine arts have kept progress with wealth until we are revealed to the world as foremost among the nations of the earth. Speech was never freer, except in the old Constitu-tion-worshiping States of the, Sputh, and men were never left more unrestricted to think and act according to the dictates of their own consciences. Is not all this true? And yet these marvels have been accomplished under the destructively centralizing policy of the Republican party, with its piratical tariff, its banking and other monopolies aDd Buoh like monstrosities, whose existence, except in the way of benefits conferred, wonld be scarcely thought about were it not for Constitutionworshiping Democrats hulking out of their cross-roads groceries, with hands deep in their breeches pockets, to squirt tobacco juice at the hitching-posts, and swear that our liberties are in danger, and the country goiDg to the devil.— Cincinnati Commercial-Gazetle.

Tiepen himself is in such a condition of physical and mental decrepitude that he lives only in the past, and his feeble mind naturally reverts to tlib old order of things in the days of Pierce and Buchanan. He ignores the work of the war, which created a nation oat of disjointed parts. He revels in the original Bourbon theory of our Government in utter disregard of the effect which a revival of that theory would have on the prospects of his party.- He would arouse a new political antagonism to the epirit of nationalism. It is eksy to understand how his infirmity of body and mind should betray him into the advocacy of an obsolete policy, but it is strange that live and active men, whose chief interest in the election of this year is for the snecess of their party, should be willingto adopt h:s senile and unpatriotic utterances as a guide for their .political campaign. —Ch icago Tribune.

Forks.

Some of onr readers may be surprised to learn that the use of forks at the table was not introduced into England earlier than the reign of James L, and that this piece of refinement was derived from the Italians. The fact ap- ] ears from the following curious extract from a book entitled “Coryat’s Crudities, hastily gobbled up in five monethstraveils in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhsetia, Helvetia, (Switzerland), some parts of High Germany, and the Netherlands.” The book was first published in 1611. “Here I will mention,” says the traveler,, “a thing that might have been spoken of before in discourse of the first Italian towne. I observed a custom •in all those Italian cities and townes through which I passed, that is not used in any other country that I saw in say travels; neither do I think that any other nation of ohristendome doth use but only Italy. The Italian and also most strangers that are commorant in Italy, do alwaies at their meales use a little forke when they cut their meate. For while with their knife, which they hold in one hand, they cut the meate out of the dish," they fasten their forke, which they hold in their other hand, upon the same dish. So that whatsoever he be that sitting in the company of any others at meale, should unadvisedly touch the dish of meate with his fingers from which all doe cut, he will give occasion of offense unto the company, as having transgressed the laws of good manners; insomuch that for his error he shall be at least brow-beaten, if not reprehended in words. This forme of feeding, I understand, is generally used in all places in Italy, their forkes being for the most part made of yron or steele, and some of silver; but those are used only by gentlemen. The reason of this their curiosity is, because the Italian cannot by any means indure to have his dish touched with fingers, seeing all men’s fingers are not alike cleane. Hereupon I myself thought good to initiate the Italian fashion by this forked cutting of meate, not only while I was in Italy, but also in Germany, and oftentimes in England since I came home; being once quipped for that frequent using of my forke by a certain learned gentleman, a familiar friend of mine, one master Laurence Whitaker, who in his merry humor douhted not at table to call me Furcifer.* only for using a fork at feeding, but for no other cause.” The use of forks was mueh ridiculed in England, as an effeminate piece of finery; in one of Beaumont and Fletcher’s plays, “your fork carving tarveller” is spoken of with much contempt; and Ben Jonson has joined in the laugh against them in his “Devil’s an Ass.” Meercraft says to Gilthead and Sledge, "Have I deserved til's from yen two for all % pains at court to get you such a patent—(lilt head— For what? Meercraft— Upon my projec 1 of the forkes. Sledge—Forks? What be they? Meercraft —The laudable use of fork*; Brought Into cus oni here as they are In Italy, To the sparing o' napkins.” *Purclfer literally meant a slave, who for punishment ot some faul~, was made to carry a fork or gallows upon his neck through t ie city, with his hands tii dto It, hence it came to signby generally a rogne; a villain. The Eye.

In the Barber’s Chair.

“Will you have your hair cut medium or pretty short?" asked the barber. “Pretty short,” answered the customer. The barber then took up a nickelplated instrument and: ran it up the back of the customer’s head with a clicking sound. “This is a ‘clipper,’” he said. “I can shingle a man’s head .with this—cut the hair down close to the scalp, you know—in three minutes. Before we had this tool I’ve been an hour doing the same job. Last year we had the contract for shearing the American District telegraph boys. The man who did the work clipped 150 heads in five hours. I’ve cut eighty heads in a dfly myself, with only scissors. They were convicts. The clippers used to cost $5. Now we get them for $3.50. It takes ab’put fifteen minutes to cut hair as I’m cutting yours, and about the same length of time to shave an ordinary face and dress the hair. •Journeymen barbers own their own razors, but few of them know how to keep razors in order. They send them to the grinder’s about once a week. The boss furnishes everything but the razors. Barbers are paid $C to sl3 a tveek. Ajweek is six days and a half a day Sunday. There is also one day ofl every other week. In some of the down town shops barbers are given a commission on the work they do. Usually it is fifty cents out of every dollar they take at the chair and ten to twenty per cent, on the sales of brushes, soap, etc. There are about 3,000 barbershops in New York, and there must be 10,000 barbers. Very few of the shops have more than ten workmen, and not many have that number. There are fifteen to twenty agencies in New York exclusively for the employment of barbers. When a boss wants a man to whom he is willing to pay $lO a week he goes to an agent and gives him fifty cents and says he wants a No. 1 ten-dollar man. The agent also gets a fee from the workman. They make a good thing out of it. There must be 3,000 barbers discharged and employed in New York every week.” “Hair is getting protty thin in front, isn’t it,” remarked the customer. “ Yes,” said the barber, “ but you needn’t be afraid of that. Men seldom begin on the front of the head to grow bald. The crown is the place where real baldness begins.” “What is the best hair restorer?” f “Scissors. If the hair is cut often it will grow fast and the scalp will be healthy. Every man ought to have his hair trimmed at least once a month. He would not catch cold then every time his hair is cut, and it would keep the hair in good shape all the time. Is the back all right? There, sir. Please pay your check to the boss. Oh. thank yon. sir. Good night."—New York Times

His View of It.

“ What are those men doing up there ?” said a gentleman to an Irish hod carrier as he looked up at two men wildly prancing around on a narrow scaffolding on the third story of the Texas University building. “I be thinkiu' that they’re tightyi’ sor’, and as a disinterested spectator, it seems to me that av aythnr av thim sblips or Joses his how It, they’ll wish to heaven they hed enjoyed their divarshun clostei to the ground-” Texas Siftings.

THE BAD BOY.

“Don’t speak to me,” said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he showed up in his shirt-sleeves early one morning, and acted familiar with his old friend. “Go right away from here, and please keep away, forever. I have overlooked about a thousand of ynnr eccentric characteristics, because/yon have argued with me, and showed me that you were actuated by worthwljnbtives. But this last thing yon have (lone has been the last hair that has broken the camel’s back, and henceforth you and I are strangers, and I will take it as a favor if you will keep on your own side of the street,” and the grocery man opened the door and pointed the way out. “Wbat seems to be eating*you?” said the bad boy, ds he went to the back end of the grocery, leaving the grocery man pointing out the open door, sat down on the high stool bv the desk, and l>egan to figure on a piece of brown paper, with a stub pencil. “You must be troubled with worms, and there is nothing better for worms than vermifuge. What have I done now, that causes ybu such agony?” “Done? You have disgraced yourself, your family, and me, and everybody. Didn’t I see you gt> down au alley last night, in your shirt sleeves, locked arms with that uigger boy who lives down there ? Don’t deny it, confound you, cause I was watching you, and the nigger was drunk or something, because he staggered, and I don’t believe yon were mnch better. That comes of loafing around and being bad. When a white boy associates with nigners, and takes them home when they are drunk, that is all I want to know. Niggers are no better than cattle, and I never saw one that I would walk a block with for a million dollars. Now, own up, didn’t you go down the alley with the nigger, and ain’t you ashamed of yourself.” ‘ “O, is that all? Yes, I did walk with* the colored boy. and if I had not held him up he wonld have fallen down, and lam not ashamed of it. Here is a list of groceries I want yon to send to that, boy’s house, down in the alley, if you are not ashamed to deliver things in an alley, and here is the money to pay for them, and now fly around, old bar soap.” And the boy took an orange and began to excavate it with his under teeth.

“O, that is different,” said the grocery man, as he took the list and began to hurry to fill it. “Maybe lam wrong, as usual, but I can’t bear niggers. What was the cause of your helping him home Hennery ?” “There was cause enough. I was coming down toward the river and I saw about fifty people standing on the. br dge, watching a little German child drown, and yelling to everybody to do something. The child had fallen oil the wood dock where she was picking up chips. Just as I got there I saw this colored boy throw off his coat and shoes and jump in, and. in few seconds he had hold of the child and swam to the dock with her and held her up, and somebody pulled her out, and they forgot all about the little ‘nigger,’ as you call him, and he would have drowned in the dirty water if I hadn’t reached the butt of my fishpole (lo|p to him to climb up an. They took the rescued white child away, and brought her to by rolling her on a barrel, and no one thought anything about the colored boy, they were all so glad the little girl was saved. When the crowd went away somebody had stolen the coat and shoes of the colored boy, and he >vas not very well, ’cause lie had pneumonia in March, and the smell of the nasty river water made him turn pale, and he was weak as a cat, so T pulled oft' my shoes and coat and made him put them on, and took him home. The patrol wagon came, and the policemen would have taken him home in that, but the colored boy said he couldn’t go in the patrol wagon cause his mother was sick, and if she should see him brought home in a patrol \\ agon it would scare her into fits. So I took him home, and went in ahead and broke the news that her boy was all right to the poor colored lady, who was sitting up in bed with a small wasfi tab in her lap trying to do some washing for a customer of hers, when she looked as though she was pretty near dead. Gosh, but they are poor! The mother washes for a living, and the boy skirmishes around anywhere he can earn 10 cents. I gave him my coat and shoes, and went home and got some of my underclothes that are too warm for me, and I took the wash-tub away from the old mother and made her rest, and our hired girl is going to finish the washing and iron the clothes, and I am going to take them to the man she washes for, and I hare adopted that ‘nigger* and his ma till they get well. Now hurry up them groceries.” “Well, you are a daisy,” said the grocery man, as he went to the door to call his delivery wagon man. “You are

„ “No. I ain’t, either; I’m a heathen,” said the bov, as lie counted out the pennies and nickels that looked as though they had been taken ont of his savings-bank at home. “I am a disgrace to my family and frieDcls, ’cause I associate with a ‘ nigger.’ People go to war and spend billions and qnintillions of dollars to free colored men, aad pass laws that they shall be equal to the average white man, and they associate with them when they want their votes, but when anybody with a colored person, unless they have a selfish object in view, and have got an ax to grind, they are a disgrace to their families. That colored boy did not stop to think of his health, of the danger ol being drowned or asphyxiated by the foul river, but jumped in the water to save life, apd wliat was his reward ? He had his coat and shoes and socks stole, and had to crawl out of the water like a dog. Oh, this is a nice country, and you are a nice old foOl, ain’t you ?” “Say, kick me, thump me, do anything,” said the grocery man, “but I want you to bring .That colored boy here, and I will give him all the groceries he can lug home,” and the grocery man asked the boy's pardon, and be went down the alley to see how his adopted colored family was getting along .—Peck’s sifn. ‘ The grass of the field is often employed as a figure tv teach the shortness of life.

BUTLER IS WILLING.

Bis Letter Accepting the Anti-Monopoly Nomination for the Fresidenqr. Tilden Indorsed by Hew Hampshire and Nebraska Democrats—Other Political Conventions. Nebraska Democratic Convention. The Democrats of Nebraska met in convention at Lincoln and selected the following delegates-at-large to the Chicago convention: James E. Boyd, J. Sterling Morton, W. H. Monger, and Tobias Castor. They are all for Tilden. No other name was mentioned during the convention except Tilden’s. The following platform was adopted: We, the delegates of the Democratic party of the State of Nebraska, in convention assembled, submit the following platform of reforms and measures:

1. We demand a vigorous frugrality in •very department and from every officer of the Government, and we heartily concur in the sentiment that no reform of administration is possible so long as the Government is directed by a party which is under the dominion of false doctrine and animated by enormous pecuniary interests in the perpetuation of existing abuses; that the first effectual step in the reform of our Government must be a fundamental change in tbs policy of its administration. 2. That, in view of the unequal and discriminating operation of the existing tariff and the unjust and excessive burdens imposed upon the people, we are in favor of a revision which shall limit it to the production of the necessary revenues of the Government economically administered; that it should be so adjusted as to prevent, as for as possible, unequal burdens upon labor, and to bear most heavily on articles of luxury, and lightly on articles of necessity. We believe such a revision of the tariff laws; simplified in their operation and administration, will result in decreasing the growth of monopolies, prevent the oppression and spoliation of labor, and the uneqnal distribution of wealth, and abolish special and class legislation. Resolved, That as our fathers, under the lead of Thomas Jefferson, rescued our republic from the control of Federalism, and the alien and sedition laws of the elder Adams, so will the Democratic party of 1884, if united, hurl the Republican party from power, and re-elect Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks President and Vice President of the United States of America.

New Hampshire Democratic Convention. The Democratic State Convention of New Hampshire assembled at Concord and accomplished its work in three hours. ,It was unanimously for Tilden and Hendricks and generally in favor of the Morrison bill, Frank Jones, Henry O. Kent, Frank A. Mac Kean, and Alva Sulloway were chosen delegates-at-large. No instructions were given, but, as the unanimous sentiment of the convention preferred the “old ticket,” they will support it at the national convention. Chairman H. W. Parker denounced protection.and said that tariff for revenue only would be the issue in the campaign. Resolutioifo were adopted declaring against all laws turfing to the centralization of power, wealth, rod political influence; demanding a reduction of the war tariff; commending the Democratic majority of the House in their recent efforts for tariff reform, and insisting on no cessation of their efforts until the revenue system is re-established on an honest basis, and calling for a thorough reform of’ tariff, financial, and administrative affairs. The resolutions also arraign the Repablican party as false to the interests of the people, and assert their condemnation of “ the great crime of 1876, a wrong we propose to right and make impossible hereafter.”

Gen. Butler's Acceptance. Gen. Butler accepts the nomination of the National Anti-Monopoly organization for President of the United States. The following is his letter of acceptance: Lowell, Mass,, May 21, 1884. Gentlemen: I have the honor to receive your courteous note giving me the action of the convention at Chicago on the 14th inst. of the representatives of anti-monopoly. The honor of the designation by such a body as tbeir candidate for the Presidency of the republic can not be too highly appreciated. Concurring with each measure to public policy set forth in the resolutions, I need only to add that if the votes of the electors shall intrust me with the executive powers of that high office, each of them will be fully, justly, and energetically used to make every measure of relief to the people and reform in the Government pointed ottt by your platform the principles characterizing the administration. Accept for yourselves, personally, my most grateful consideration, Benjamin F. Butler. West Virginia (ireenbadwn. The West Virginia Greenback State Convention met at Bnckhannon and nominated Judge Edwin C. Maxwell, of Harrison County, for Governor; J. T. Burtt, Auditor; Spencer W. Surm, of Marion County, Treasurer; and J. N. Kendall, of Ritehie County, Superintendent of the Free Schools. Jndge Maxwell is a Republican. The rest of the State ticket is left for the Republicans to name, and the two parties will fuse in the October election as well as November. The nomination of electors was left to the Executive Committee. Tennessee Prohibition ConfroMia The Tennessee State Prohibition Convention, with four hundred delegates, convened at Nashville. Enthusiastic speeches were made, and the temperance cause in Tennessee reported in a satisfactory condition. The convention declined to put forth a separate ticket or to mix politics and temperance in any way. The delegates, however, pledged themselves to vote for candidates who favored submitting the question of a constitutional prohibition amendment to the people.

SHALL TALK.

4*^ Make Twain is learning to ride a bicycle. Look out for a new book. Mb. Stoby, the sculptor, is at work on a ■lew. bust of Gen. Washington. J. 3. Rat, Davis, Mol, inventor of a selffeeding water trough, went crazy over it last week. The total number of separate farms in the United States is 4,000, WO, and their aggregate value is $19,000,000,000. _ At Madison, Xy., Thomas Gentry’s dog caught a twelve-pound pike in the river, and brought it ashore in his teeth. A COLORED preacher in Buffalo gave notice to his congregation that he wanted less shouting and more money in the future. JL SON of Patrick FinnelJ, qjf Danbury, Conn., only 6 years of age, helped himself to three drinks of whisky and died two later. UTICA, N. Y., has started a reading-room exclusively for girls. • *

BURSTING BOILERS.

Six Persons Kilfid by a Steam Explosion at Dubuque, I lowa. fDubnqne (Iowa) Telegram.) ” , - Three boilers connected with the ooab and door factory of Carr, Ryder A Wheeler exploded with frightful effect. The explosion was heard all over the city, and it shook buildings to their foundations. The - boiler- house was completely destroyed and the boilqra thrown about in different diree- ' tions. The one that did not burst {was thrown intact a distance of thirty feet against the mill. A solid division wall separated the boiler-house from the mill, else the destruction and loss of life would have been terrible. The mill I employs 200 men. The corner of a dwellI ing near the boiler house was torn completely ont and several women injured. The engineer and two firemen were in the boiler house at the time and were buried beneath the debris. Two children playing near it were also bnried. The killed are: Milo M. Mellen, the engineer, aged 30 years. He leaves a wife. Fritz Villdanger, the fireman. He was a single man. Two children of Charlie May. aged respectively 6 and 3 years. Michael McLaughlin, the second fireman, was horribly bnrued and mangled, and cannot live bnt a few boars. Mrs. Margaret Wnlter was struck by the flying bricks, and badly cut Her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Albert Walter, and her three children were also injured. Mr. Rudolph Nealte and Mrs. Vaeglen, living on au opposite corner of the street, were also slightly injured. Nealte was knocked down in his yard. Mrs. Vaegler was upon her porch when a piece of one of the boilers came down through the roof, striking her on the head, kneeking her senseless. The main mill building had all its windows shattered, rffbe boiler-room was m stone structure apart from the main factory and was shattered to atoms. Pieces of iron, stones, and brick flew in all directions. The children killed were playing in a yard near the boiler-room. The woman injured occupied a house near the disaster. The house was blown away. Several theories are advanced aa to the cause of the disaster, the most plausible being a lack of water. The engineer, it is said, was running with but little water, as he wished to “blow off" the boilers to clean them ont. The boilers were inspected three weeks ago, and pronounced safe. The damage to the property is less than $5,000.

RECKLESS RAILROADING.

Somebody’s Blunder Bouses a Fatal fob lisloa on the West Shore Road. [Syracuse Dispatch.! As a Rochester express on the Wost Shore Road from this city was drawing onto a branch track opposite Savannah Station, the Atlantio express from Buffalo crashed into the baggage ear and made n clean sweep of the smoker, taking an entimrow of seats with it and leaving the two cars and the front end of the first passenger a total wreck. Two men were killed and' four seriously wounded. Nearly all of the victims were employes of the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company, and were on the way to their homes m Rochester to spend Sunday. " Many cations circumstances are narrated in connection with the disastrous occurrence. Some passengers occupying seats with the killed and injured escaped unhurt. George Waggoner, of this city, stood on the front steps of the smoker, and seeing the headlight of an approaching engine, he ran to the other side and jumped. He remembers being carried along by the car, but suddenly became insensible. On recovering, he found himself on a heap of loose dirt twenty feet from the track. He was notin jnred. Thetwo sons of Mr. Waterbary’s were at the station to meet him. Not findfog him, they left for home shortly after the accident, under the impression that he had waited here for the next train. An hour afterward they were snmmonod back to the wreck, when upon closer inspection the elder boy discovered among 1 todies- he had himself helped to remove the mangled remains of his father. The relatives of the - killed and wounded inveigh bitterly against the recklessness which made the accident possible. The West Shore Company is censured on all hands, the universal opinion being that under proper management the disaster could uot have taken place.

Death of the Oldest Enlisted Han in the United States Army.

William Marshall, Ordinance Sergeant. United States Army, died a few days ago at his home on Mackinac Island, Mich. Sergt. Marshall was without doubt the oldest enlisted man in the army of the United States. He entered the service by enlisting in A Company of the Fifth United States. Infantry Aug. 12, 1823. After serving in the field through the Floridan and Mexican wars he went to Fort Mackinac on duty April 8, 1848, and has remained .on duty at thaijposl without intermission up to his

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Leland Stanfobd offers Gen. Greet and his family a home with him m long as he lives. It is estimated that there are over 1,500 acres in strawberries in Marion County, 111. Get Johnson, of Clinton, N. Y., the last slave in the State, who was emancipated in 1812, is dead. $ Judah P. Benjamin’s daughter married a French officer of the staff, and resides in Paris with her mother. Gen. Booth says to his Salvationists: “ Shout; those who can’t stand the noise will never get to heaven." Db. Dio Lewis says the coming man and woman will not be smaller at the waist than at other parts of the body. DUB»h a thunder shower which passed over Shirley Village, Mass., there fell with the rain large quantities of small stones. The following is a copy of a notice pasted up in the Council Bluffs Police Station: "No 1 defers allowed here, except police.” A pebsonal item in a Rutland, Vt., paper says that “S. M. Dorr has lost a valuable cow which licked a pail of green paint.” Louisiana now has a State Weather Service Bureau of its own, and doesn’t care whether “ Old Prob” prognosticates or hot. The highest rate of the Western Union Telegraph Company at present is $1 for ten words between Portland, Me., and San Francisco. A South Cabouna man thinks that he has discovered that a chalk-fine about a barrel will keep away the ants, and is mad because the Government will not give him a patent. German measles is epidemic in gymcose. "Old people take it.