Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1885 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. * & MARSHALL, "- - Pobumpp.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Miu Tki-ler Introduced a bill in the Senate, an the Uth Inst, to provide for the free end unlimited coinage of the sliver dollar. Mr. Sawyer presented a measure for the purchase of the Sturgeon Bay Canal. Mr. Butler offered a resolution directing the Committee on Territories to report by what authority a Legislature has been organized in the Territory of Dakota. A message from the President was received, asking authority to use certain funds for the relief of the Cheyenne Indians. When Mr. Hoar's Presidential succession bill oame up, Messrs. Maxey, Beck, Edmunds, and Morgan voiced their views. The House passed the Senate bill removing the political disabilities of Alexander R. Lawton, of Georgia, and devoted (he remainder of the day to discussion of the proposed rules. Mr. Hoar’s Presidential succession bill passed the Senate on the 17th after an able argument in its favor by Mr. Evarts. In a debate on the resolution regarding the unauthorized organization of a State government for Dakota, Mr. Butler /declared that no duestion of politics f Was involved, and asked if Mr. Harrison; 1 would sustain similar action by the Territory of Utah. John Hippie Mitchell, of Oregon, was sworn in. Bills were introduced for the sale of the Cherokee reservation in Arkansas, to encourage the erection of monuments on Revolutionary battle fields; to locate a branch soldiers’ home, costing $253,000, in the Northwest; to provide for the issue of silver certificates; for the warehousing of >. fruit brandy, and to bridge the Missouri at Pierre. The House of Representatives was principally occupied in the discussion of the revision of the rales. All amendments to the committee’s report were voted down by a decided majority, but Without taking final action the House adjourned. A Bum making it unlawful for a Senator or Representative in Congress to recommend or solicit appointments to office, was introduced in the Senate by Mr. Hampton, of South Carolina, on the 18th inst. A bill was passed to pension Mrs. Grant at the rate of 85,000 per year. Mr. Beck offered a resolution specifying the use to be made of coin received for customs duties. Mr. Sherman introduced a. bill to pay royalties to the widow of Admiral Dahlgren for the use of artillery patents. Mr. Beck offered a resolution to allow the widow of Minister Phelps a year’s salary for services In Peru. Mr. Ingalls Introduced a measuro to prevent the illegal inclosure of public lands. The "House of Representatives amended the rules in substantial accordance with the report of the committee, thus distributing the appropriation bills among seven committees. The Benate bill to give Mrs. Grant a pension of $5,000 per annum was passed. In the Honse of Representatives, at its session on the 19th, Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, from the Committee on Rules, reported a resolution for the creation of the following solect committees: On the election of President and Vice President of the United States, on reform in the civil service, on ship building and ship owning interests, on alcoholic liquor traffic, and ou ventilation and acoustics of the House. The resolution was adopted. Representative Lovering presented a petition by Col. David P. Hussey, Third Massachusetts Cavalry, and sixty others, survivors of the storming column known as the “Forlorn'* Hope,” organized for assault upon Port Hudson, La., June 15,1863, praying Congress to grant them medals, as promised In the general order of Gen. Bonks. The Senate was not in sessiju.

THE EAST.

Water flowing from a pool on the surface flooded No. 1 slope of the Susquehanna Coal Company’s mine at Nanticoke, Pa., in which there were at the time nearly 1,000 men and boys. All made hurried escapes save a band of thirty men, working in the Boss 6enm, who were cut off by the water and an accumulation of rubbish. Their condition nt this writing is unknown, but there is said to be no danger of the men being suffocated.... John Hannon, a new York schoolboy aged 12 years, was arraigned in court for the third time upon a charge of attempting to take his own life. His course has resulted from his dislike for school... .Hiland Hall, ex-Governor of Vermont, died very suddenly at Springfield, Mass. He was 90 years old, mid was in his usual heath up to the time of his death. The city of Elizabethport, N. J., levied on the effects of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, and the Works were closed. There is a quarrel between the city and the company, it appears, and the former is largely in debt to the latter and refused to credit the taxes due by the company on account. .. .Henry T. Coleman, a prominent lawyer of Philadelphia, has purchased the Bonaparte estate of two hundred acres at Bordentown, N. J., and will restore the dilapidated houses and preserve the historical features of the place.... In the Court of Common Pleas', at Philadelphia, the preliminary injunction restraining the American Association from expelling the Metropolitan Club of New York, was continued. ->

THE WEST.

It has been determined that the burning to death of Frank Enoch, his wife, and two children, in their home near Detroit, was the work of murderers, bullet holes having been found in the heads of Enoch and ms wife. There is no clew to the perpetrators. ... A new whisky pool has been formed in Chicago, and the price will at once be increased to sl.lO per gallon. The production is to be 33 per cent, of capacity, with an assessment of 16 cents per bushel, and a rebate of 25 cents per bushel for running less than the limit prescribedNeab Miles City, Mont., an attempt was made by three masked men to rob the Spearfish stage, but the driver galloped the horses away. The Sheriff and three deputies had heard rumors of the plot, and were on hand in time to capture two of the robbers, one of whom they shot twice... .A company of the Eighth United States Cavalry, under Lieutenant Fortune, was ambushed near White House, N. M., by the hostiles. The troops lost five killed aud two wounded. No Indians were reported killed. „ Since the opening of the winter packing season, the average daily receipts of hogs at Chicago have been 40,000 head. C, D. Hess commenced in the Superior Court at Chicago a suit for $25,000 damages for slander against Lillian Bussell and her husband, Edward 5010m0n.... Two murderers at Carrollton, Missouri, being dissatisfied with < the sentence of imprisonment for life, secured a new trial. The jury cdnvicted them of murder in the first degree, and Judge Davis fixed March 12 as the day of their execution. .. .The Hon. Wm. Pitt Lynde, a well-known lawyer and prominent citizen of Milwaukee died if* that city last week, aged 68 years. Mr. Lynde was bom in Homer, N. Y., graduated at Yale College in 1838, was admitted to the New York bar in 1841, and went to Wisconsin to reside in 1642. He was Attorney General of the State in 1844. In 1845 President Polk appointed him United States District Attorney for Wisconsin. In 1848, on the admission of Wisconsin as a State, he was elected to the Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat, being one of the three Bepresentatives sent from

the State at the time. In 1860 Mr. Lynde wM elected Mayor of Milwaukee. He served as Assemblyman in 1866 and oa State Senator in 1868 and 1860. He was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress over Harrison Ludington and to the Forty-fifth Congress over the late William E. Smith. He had held no public office for several years. California banks hold for collection forged drafts ou the Camden Consolidated Oil Company of Parkersburg, W. Va., for over $67,000. One of these drafts, for $21,437.50, was discounted by the Bank of California... .A boy at Youngstown, Ohio, named Frank Burnett, possesses such electrical power as to cause chairs and tables to dance Rt bis approach. He is to he examined by medical experts .. .Natural gas has been found in several localities in Indiana, and there is considerable excitement on the subject.. Fire broke out in the four-story brick building at the corner of Michigan street and LaSalle avenue, Chicago, owned by Obeme, Hosiek & Co., and occnpied by them as a tallow, hide,, and wool warehouse, and it was completely destroyed. The loss is estimated at $316,000.

THE SOUTH.

The value of the property left by the late Gen. Toombs is variously estimated at from $300,000 to $500,000. In a recent interview, one of the most noted sayings attributed to Gen. Toombs was repudiated by him in the following language: “I never said that I would live to call the roll of my slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill Monument. That was a fancy lie started by Jack Hale, of New Hampshire.” The Queen nud Crescent Railway system has recorded in various parishes of Louisiana a mortgage on its roadbed and cars for $1,323,000, in favor of a New York trust company... .Milton Young, of Lexington, Ky., sold twenty-three thoroughbred hors'es for $56,200, every prominent stable in the country having a representative present. Bakrupt, for which SB,OOO was refused last year, brought $6,700. Tropbadour went at $7,050.

WASHINGTON.

The recent rulings of Land Commissioner Sparks have created great excitement among Dakota homesteaders. Senator Cullom’s bill to reimburse the States for interest paid on war loans has been reported favorably by the Committee on Claims. The bill directs the settlement of all claims for interest upon loans borrowed and expended for the use and benefit of the United States under the act of July 27, 1861, to indemnify the States for expenses incurred in defense of the United States. Interest to be computed at the rate paid by the State, not to exceed 6 per cent. Representative Patson, of Illinois, says that settlers out West are needlessly alarmed on account of the recent decision of the Supreme Court that technically the titles of the railroad lands which have been sold by railroad companies to settlers, but have not yet been patented, still rest in the United States.

POLITICAL.

The President has appointed John Bigelow Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York, and Franz Sigel to be Pension Agent at New York. An Associated Pjress dispatch from Washington says: Gen. Logan is .quoted as saying that he is credited with much greater animosity toward the administration than he really entertains. He said, with a great deal of emphasis, that his enemies are trying to put him in this foolish position. “I have no light with the administration,” said he. “I mn not taking charge of all the cases which are to be fought. I said distinctly in a speech which I made in New York during the campaign that I should consider the nominations of Mr. Cleveland „in exactly the same spirit as if they were nominations from the hands of a Republican President, I shall vote for the confirmation of all men against whose private character no charges are brought. Where charges are brought I believe that the men involved should have a hearing and bo allowed to answer the charges. I shall oppose only the confirmation of men that I would oppose if nominated under a Republican administration. This is the whole of my position. People that represent me as going around trying to pick a quarrel with the administration for the purpose of making political capital are simply liars and mischief-makers. ”

GENERAL.

The unsettled state of affairs in Mexico is said to be due to a rupture of friendly relations between Diaz and Gonzales. The former is credited with scheming to secure the election of Bubio, his father-in-law, as the next President of the Bepublic. Irving Miller, having returned to Indianapolis from Brazil, states that only about fifty families remain of the Southerners who emigrated thither of ter. the fall of the confederacy, and they have all lost their means in an attempt to raise cotton.... A destructive fire m St. Francis Xavier street, Montreal, destroyed the premises of the McDougall, Logie .fcCo., oil merchants, whose loss was SIOO,OOO. The total loss was over $150,000.... The lumber firm of W. C. Hyatt <fc Co., of Detroit, has suspended payment on paper estimated at $175,000. An assignment was made by B. Courteau <fc Co., cigar manufacturers at Montreal, with liabilities of $40,000... .The United States steamer Dolphin has left her anchorage in the Brooklyn navy yard for her trial trip. She will be out on her eruise about sixty days. <

FOREIGN.

The Parnell party has issued to the electore of Great Britain and Ireland a manifesto charging the liberals with having violated their pledges to Erin, and urging that only such Liberals or Eadicais as are listed by the branches of the Nationalists’ Society' should be supported for Parliament. It has been arranged to distribute the manifesto at the church doors throughout Ireland... .It is said that France has resolved to terminate the Madagascar expedition, peace negotiations having been commenced with the PTovas.... The steamship, a Iberian British vessel, is ashore is Dunmanus Bay, Ireland. She will be a total loss. Her cargo is worth $200,000..... It is repoted from London that the Powers are about to interfere to stop the bloodshed in the Balkans. The evidence accumulates that the English Liberals are formulating a scheme for the creation of an Irish Parliament, by which the authority of the Crown and the supremacy of the Imperial Parliament are to be secured... .The Bank of England has advanced the rate of discount from 3to 4 per cent. ... Heavy snows are reported in the south of Italy... .By the recent cyclone at Aspmwall fifteen vessels sunk with their crews. " 'rt' . v Dispatches from. jSt. Petersburg an-, bounce a terrible dynamite explosion at the Pleijuehin Mine in Siberia. Several hun- r

dred persons are said to have been killed, but advices even as to the location of the mine are indefinite... .William Sheehan was convicted es the murder of his mother, brother, and 6ister in the County Cork, Ireland in 1877, and sentenced to be hanged Jan. 20... .Information from Koa Chung, in the province of Kwong Tung, China, states thflt a war has broken out between the neighboring villages of Ko and Ju, in which both villages have become almost exterminated, and nearly 400 people were burned jlive in one of the sacred temples. Not a house in either village is left standing, and two-thirds of the inhabitants are dead.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The leaders of the Salvation Army at London presented to the Home Secretary a petition a mile and a half long, bearing 200,000 signatures and weighing 560 pounds. This formidable document asks the release from prison of Editor Stead of the Pall Mall Gazette and Mrs. Rebecca Jarrett, who are in jail for ab 4 ducting Eliza Armstrong. .. .The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, at & meeting held in Dublin, issued a manifesto addressed to the Orangemen of Great Britain, protesting against complying with the demands of the Parnellites. . .The four children bitten by a mad-dog at Newark, N. J., recently, have arrived in Paris, and are under treatment by M. Pasteur, the hydrophobia specialist. On a charge of disorderly conduct in which Chief of Police Connelly was a participant, Col. E. C. Bluffy, assistant city editor of the Constitution, was fined at Atlanta, Ga., $lO and costs, Connelly being let off upon paying costs. The editor had challenged the policeman to fight a duel, but the latter declined. Articles consolidating the Milwaukee and Dubuque and the Bureau and Northwestern Roads have been filed at Madison, Wis. The object is to construct a railway from Milwaukee to St-Louis, to be called the Milwaukee, Peoria and St. Louis Road, with a capital stock of $6,000,000... .A boiler explosion in Trebien’s distillery at Dayton, Ohio, killed two workmen and seriously injured several others, one being blown several hundred feet into the river. The issue of standard silver dollars during the week ended Dec. 19 was 629,211. The issue during the corresponding period of last year was 454,995.

The feature of the Senate proceedings on the 21st of December was the carefully prepared attack of Senator Beck upon the financial policy of the administration. Mr. Beck believes that the word “coin" used in section 3694 of the Revised Statutes means silver as well as gold coin, and he therefore introduced a resolution instructing the Finance Committee to inquire whether the coin paid for customs duties under the section has been set apart 1 for the payment of the interest on United States bonds and to the payment of one per centum of the entire debt of the Unitod States made in each year as a sinking fund, and if this had not heartofore been done to report a hill for the enforcement of . the law. The Kentucky Senator spoke for an hour upon this resolution, and in the course of his remarks charged that the Secretary of the Treasury had deliberately violated this provision; that he was administering the Treasury in the special interest of national banka, and that he was, also, in the same interest discriminating against silver. The Senator declared, with great oavnestncss of manner, that lie would enforco fine and imprisonment upon any officer who would thus violate the law. Beck was so vehement in manner and so blunt in language that upon the conclusion of his remarks the Senators on both sides were too much surprised to make any response, Mt, Morrill said that the speech practically clmrged the Secretary of the Treasury with being a thief, and the President of the United States with being in collusion with him; and that, as no Democratic Senator seemed ready to dofend the administrdtion against the terrible arraignment, he moved that the Senate proceed to the consideration of executive business, which motion was adopted. In th(f House of Representatives, under a call of the States, a perfect flood of bills rained upon the Speaker’s desk. More than 1,001 were introduced, aud the call was suspended when Maine was reached. Inclosed in the list are the following: For the relief of Fitz John Porter, to suspeud the coinage of the silver dollar, to pay Government employes wages witheld in violation of the eighthour law, to limit the disposal of the public lands, to establish a ; postal telegraph, for the unrestricted coinage of the silver dollar, for the construction of the Hennepin Canal, to establish a Sub-Treasury at Louisville, to enable the people of Dakota to form a constitution, and to create the Territory of Oklahoma. Ten measures allecting railway land grants wore also introduced. Both houses adioumed until Jan. 5.- The President sent the following new nominations of Postmasters to the Senate on the 21st : At Fairmount, W. Va, Newton S. Barnes ; Jackson, Tenn.,R. R. Dashiel; Peoria, HI., John Warner; Mt. Pleasant, Mich., Fred A. Stebbins ; Evansville,,Wis., James V. N. Sonn f Nevada, Mb., Win. R. Crockett; Oxford, Pa., Samuel 11. Smith; Weatherford. Tex,, N, B. Johnson; Wauseon, Ohio, George Huumesler; Canton, Ohio, William Archival; Delaware, Ohio, David A. Starke; Ottawa, 111., William Osman ; Batavia, 111-., Willis S. Grimes ; Amboy, 111., George E. Young; Mason City, 111., William A. Mehau; Maywood, 111., Samuel S. Kemp; Mount Carroll, HI., William P. Baird _ Mount Morris. 111., Henry Sharer; Effingham, HI., Charles Kelly; Macomb, HI., Thomas Philpot; Hyde Park, HI., EdwinS. Hawley; Vandalia, 111.. Sidney B. Stout; Shelbyville, ICy., Joseph N. B.ell; Howoll, Mich., Isaac W. Bush; Niles, Mich., William J. Edwards; Stautou, Mich., Patrick 11. MeGarry Denison, lowa, O. B. Keith ; Oskaloosa, lowa, William T. Smith; Hampton, lowa, Oscar B. Hamilton; Little Rock, Ark., Thomas W. New. ton.

THE MARKETS.

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PARNELL’S VICTORY.

Gladstone Ready to Give Ireland a Parliament with Sweeping Powers. The British Kingdom .Greatly Agitated Over the Sudden Turn of Affairs. A Conflict of Opinion Among Political Leaders —The Editors Much Excited. London dispatch. Mr. Parnell has won. There is no longer any doubt that Mr. Gladstone will concede •home rule of a sweeping kind. Of course the details of the eventual compromise are unknowable, but it is believed that, beyond stipulating for free trade and exacting guarantees of protection for the loyal minority in Ireland, everything will be yielded to Mr. Parnell. As the Gladstone programme is outlined, it contains a proviso that Ireland shall continue to send members to Westminster, but it is likely that he will give way on this point, as the Irish do not wish imperial representation. There will be a Dublin Parliament supreme over Irish affairs, over the police, taxation, courts, and all internal matter’s. This seems certain. But how it will be brought about is doubtful. There is no question of Mr. Gladstone’s ability to carry the great bulk of the Liberals for the measures, as the Liberal .papers are rapidly vaulting to the homerule side, but whether it will be done while the Liberals are in opposition or after their return to power is not seen. It must be remembered, too; that Lord Salisbury has it in his power to dissolve Parliament before the thing is done, and it is quite likely that be will do this, going to the country on a strenuous anti-Irish cry. There is immense excitement in London over the news. A dispatch from Dublin says the public there is intensely enthusiastic. The following additional telegram was received from Mr. Gladstone at a late hour last night: “My reply in regard to the Standards statements applies also to those of the Pall Mall Gazette and Daily News. Although .those statements were unauthorized, proposals may conveniently be canvassed. “Only an Irish Parliaments will meet the case. Local councils, etc., would be use- ' less. The right to veto the acts of an Irish ministry would be au illusion. I propose instead the exercise of sovereign power on the part of a Minister responsible to the Imperial Parliament. The suggestion of an Irish privy council is unworthy of attention. The privy council survives only as a relic. The substitute is a cabinet. The questions of commerce and police are difficult ones, but with limitations I believe that home-rule may safely be granted, and that it would tend to raise the character of the Irish members.”

The Press Association says that Mr. Gladstone, foreseeing the increase in strength of the Parnell party, drafted a scheme four months ago for the self-gov-ernment of Ireland, according to which the power of veto by the Crown could be exercised only on the advice of a privy council convened especially to discuss the subject in question. The other points in the scheme were the same as already published. The project was submitted to a few political friends of Mr. Gladstone. Since the elections there have been no formal consultations on the subject, and it is not known whether or not the details of the scheme have siqce been modified. It is supposed that Mr. Goschen, who is almost certain to be Chancellor of the Exchequer in the next Gladstone Cabinet, will support the scheme. The Standard deplores Mr. Gladstone’s political profligacy. The Morning Post predicts civil war. The Times says: “The real danger is that, amid endless protestatious against separation and illusory safeguards of imperial unity, the control of the Commons will be gone, and will never be recovered except by civil war. We trust Englishmen will see this before it is too late. It would be better to cut off connection absolutely and to prepare for dealing with Ireland as an open foe than to arm traitors by the farce of pretending to maintain unity without the power to enforce a single law disapproved at Dublin." Sir Charles Dilke, in a speech at Chelsea last night, expressed anger at the action of the conservatives in rejecting proffered support. He said it was impossible for Lord Salisbury to expect the Liberals to give him a vote of confidence in addition to permitting him to remain in power. Sir Charles adhered to the views previously expressed by him on the Irish question.

Opinions of Various Leaders.

Loudon special. The opinions of various leaders have been sought on the subject of the Irish home-rule proposals, which have caused a great sensation in political circles. The Pall Mall Gazette having alleged that Earl Spencer had acquiesced in the scheme, Earl Spencer telegraphs: “No scheme of home nil eft] as received my approval.” Sir. Childers telegraphs that he has no knowledge whatever of Gladstone's alleged proposals. Sir Charles Dilke says it is premature to discuss the subject. Sir. He'aly says he cannot express an opinion on the subject before his party meets. • ; Sir. O’Connor declares that Ireland will not be satisfied with less than Canada enjoys, and will not contribute to the British exchequer. Mayor Sullivan, of Dublin says: “I cannot understand bow any assembly can save what landlords call their interests. They will perish by the inexorable law of nature. The minorities creed of politics is as safe in Ireland as in England. Larger home rule will be certain to work satisfactorily to both parties." Queen Victoria Accepts tlie Inevitable. ■ London dispatch. It is understood thatitbe Queen has intimated her approval of the introduction into the Imperial Parliament of a suitable measure with provisions securing imperial control of a Parliament created for Ireland. A ct.oth company in Gmniteville, S. C., is working on orders from China. Cross-ties are estimated" to cost the rail-roads of this country $0,000,000. “I think I was born with a headache,” said the poet Whittier to*a visitor a few days ago. A couple, each over "O ypars old, Who about two years ago, wei© remarried last week in Euiland, Vt. County Treasurer Burke, of Ca « County, Dakota, is the father of twepty-nine-pound twins. Since the Brooklyn bridge was opened, May 25, 18S3, |H?reons have dropped their pennies in the toil-box to pay for crossing.

A MOST FIENDISH PLOT.

Discovery of a Scheme in San Francisco to Kill Off Man/' Leading Men. Judges, Congressmen, Capitalists, and Public Officials to Be Dynamited to Death. San Francisco dispatch. One of the most sensational and startling plots for wholesale assassination of the most prominent men in this city came to light here to-night. Some time ago the police obtained information of the existence of an organization called “The Socialistic Revolutionary Association,” which, it was asserted, was comprised of ultrasocialistic members. A close watch was kept on their movements, and the police finally succeeded in obtaining the minutes of one of their meetings, held Nov. 23. \ From these facts it was discovered that it was the intention of the association to put out of the way about twenty men, including W. T. Coleman, Congressman W. W. Morrow, Gen. W. H. L. Barnes, Mayor Bartlett, United States Judge Lorenzo Sawyer, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, Gov. Stoneman, the principal police officials, and several others. These names were placed on the “prospective list” and placed in the hands of the Executive Committee to carry out the orders of the association. The committee were to devise the best mode of accomplishing the ends of the base plot, and were thus engaged when their, work was brought to a sudden termination to-night by the discovery of the association’s headquarters at No. 900 Montgomery avenue, by the police, and the arrest of four men found therein, named Julius C. Koosher, Henry Weiseman, Charles Mittelstadt, and Oscar Eggers. In the room were also found complete laboratory for the manufacture of infernal machines. The men were taken to the city prison, when they boldly asserted they were dynamiters, and proposed to get rid of the citizens named, and, then raze Chinatown. The prisoners also belong to the German branch of the Anti-Cooly League. No charge has yet been entered against the prisoners. Further developments are expected.

WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT.

A Sketch of the Recently Deceased Millionaire. The late William H. Vanderbilt was bom in New Brunswick, N. J., May 8,1821. His father, at the time' of his birth, was owner and in command of a steamboat running to New York. The family soon removed to New York City, where, and in Staten Island, William attended the public schools, finishing his education at the Columbia Grammar School. At 18 he entered as a clerk the house of Drew, Robinson & Co., a leading firm of bankers and stockbrokers. At the end of two years his business aptitude was so great that the firm offered him a junior partnership. Remaining until two years thereafter, his health failed him in consequence of close application. He then pur-

chased seventy-five acres of land on Staten Island, which was soon increased to 350, and went to work farming. During the first years of this activity he was chosen receiver of the Staten Island Bailroad, and after two years of hard work, having restored its finances to a sound condition, he was elected its President. His father was a large stockholder in this road, but, as is well understood, lent no adventitious aid to his elder sou’s career. After a few years of hard work on his farm and in the railroad office, Mr. Vanderbilt went to Europe, in consequence of the precarious condition of his brother George’s health. He remained with him until his death, a period of several months, when he returned to Staten Island and his farm, not engaging any further in railroad administration until 1864, when he became, by his father’s desire and the election of the corporation, Vice President of the New York and Harlem Bailroad. He married in 1841 Miss Kissam, daughter of a well-known Brooklyn physician, by whom he had eight children, four boys and four girls. After assuming executive control of the Harlem he was, in 1865, elected Vice President of the New York afid Hudson Eiver Bailroad. During the five years that followed his entrance into railroad affairs Mr. Vanderbilt was probably the hardest working executive in the country. He mado himself familiar with every detail of administration, personally examining each mile of the great system under his charge and becoming acquainted with the nature of every man’s duties, and work, and wages, and' the relations they bore to all Others employed by the' corporations he controlled. Competent critics claim that he lifted the burdens of administration from his father’s shoulders, and became by the date of the consolidation of the three New York lines under the Vanderbilt hand into one complete trunk line system between New York and Buffalo, which was brought about in 1869, one of the best infolded and most capable railway executives in the land.

John Gurney, the Mayor elect of Norfolk, England, is blind. In some parts of Mexico the natives build pig-sties With rosewood log 9. Thebe are nearly three thousand women voters on the lists in Toronto. They have full municipal suffrage. The fruit trees in Santa Barbara, Cal., are being dug up and English walnuts planted in their stead. John B. M<$uEAN is reported about to begin the publication of a Democratic morning paper in Pittsburgh. The Hon. David Davis is said to have prepared a volume of memoirs to be published after his death, in which appears a list of the “wolveß and lambs” he discovered in Congress while President of the Senate. The wolves are those whom he knew to be for sale, and the lambs thehonest ones. ,

A HORROR IN GEORGIA.

A Sleeping-Car Telescoped by a Locomotive and Twelve of the Inmates Scalded to Death. Pour Others Fatally and Ten Seriously Injured—Heart-Rending Scenes at the Wreck. Atlanta (Ga.) telegram. A frightful collision occurred on the Georgia Pacific Railroad, about fifteen miles from Atlanta. Thirteen lives were ci> lost, and three persons were so badly injured that it is thought death will result. The East Tennessee and Georgia Paciflo Roads use the same track from Atlanta to Austell, where they diverge, one going west and the other north. They, however, leave the city from different depots and meet just at the city limits, and from there they both nse the same track to Austell. Just one mile east of Austell, toward Atlanta, is a water-tank used by the Georgia Pacifio. The night ’ passenger train of the Georgia Pacific leaves here at 10 o’clock and the East Tennessee train leaves at 10:45 o’clock. Last night, however, the Georgia Pacifio was somewhat delayed, and when it stopped at the water-tank it was on the East Tennessee time. The East Tennessee passenger train came flying around a curve near the water-tank, and, without a moment’s warning, went crashing into the rear of the Georgia Pacific train. Engineer Owen and the fireman of the East Tennessee train saw the Georgia Pacific train, but too late to avoid a collision. The fireman jumped. The engineer remained at his post, reversing the engine and applying the brakes. He escaped without- serious injury, while the fireman is supposed to be fatally hurt. The engine tore its way into the rear of the coach, and the rear coach telescoped the one in front of it, which was forced into the one ahead of that again. The rear coach was filled with passengers, many of whom were so pinned down by the wreck that they were unable to stir, and the escaping steam soon caused the death of five or six. As soon as possible the East Tennessee train was backed from the wreck and the work of removing the dead and wounded begun. The killed are: Bernard Peyton, attorney for the Georgia Pacific, of Birmingham, Ala.; Nathan Stanley, of Anniston, Ala.; E. Y. Huie, of Eapt Point, Ga.; J. W. Pierce, of Texas; Jake and Mary Banks, of Fairbum, Ga., and their baby, who died in its mother’s arms; G. W. Belton, bound for El Paso, Texas; two little children, one a baby, belonging to Mr. Bright; Mrs. Jane Eliza Brown, Cleveland County, Ala.; B. Bright, of Fairbum, Ga.; Mrs. Carrie Bright, Fairbum, Ga. The blame for the accident cannot be yet placed, and an investigation will be necessary. The East Tennessee conductor says that he was on his time and following the schedule and his directions. The Georgia Pacific conductor says that he had no official knowledge of the night passenger train of the East Tennessee, and ram ■ out as he had always done. The Coroner’s inquest has been going on all day. In the examination Dr. Roy, surgeon of the Georgia Pacific, s&id that when he arrived on the scene the engine had telescoped the sleeping coach, passing through the entire length of the car. Water and steam from the boiler gushed through and flooded the whole train. According to his examination not a single fatality occurred from external injuries, but all met their deaths from scalding or inhalation of steam.

ROBERT TOOMBS DEAD.

The Famous Georgian Passes Away at an Advanced Age, After a Long Illness. ft A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., announces the death, at the advanced age of 76 years, of Bobert Toombs, the noted Southern statesman and irreconcilable. He had been ill for some time, and his demise wrs not unexpected. The deceased was bom in Wilkes County, Georgia, July 2,1810. His father died before he was 5 years old. He was educated by an old Scotchman until he was 15, and then, well prepared for college, he w r ent to the University of G eorgia, then Franklin College. He was a handsome, wealthy, rollicksome youth, and got into some trouble with the faculty, and left Athens for Union College at Schenectady, N. Y., where he graduated at 18. He then went to the University of Virginia, studied laxV, and, returning to his home, was admitted to the bar when he was not 21 years old. Not long after he married and settled in the town of Washington. He was very successful in his profession, before he was 33 years of age having made $150,000 in fqes and profits, his income being $20,600 per annum at least for several years. In the Creek Indian war of 1836 he was a captain of volunteers under Gen. Scott. When he was twenty-seven years pf age—m 1837 he was elected to the lower house of the Legislature. Then commenced a political career unequaled in Georgia for brilliancy. He served two terms in the Legislature, eight years in the lower hoilse of Congress, and in 1853 was elected to the United States Senate. He was re-elected to the Senate in 1859, but resigned his seat in 1861, when Georgia seceded from the Union. Mr. Toombs was one of the most striking figures in national politics during the ex--citing period immediately preceding the civil war. Intellectually he was one of the strongest of the Southern leaders at that time—perhaps the strongest-j-and certainly none of them exerted more influence on the public sentiment of theft section or did more to bring about the secession movement than he. Ardent and impetuous in his temperament, Mr. Toombs was inevitably the extreme partisan of every cause with which he identified himself. From early youth he was a firm believer in the State sovereignty aud nullification doctrines expounded by John C. and he never shrank from following them to their logical conclusions. Slavery found in him one of its most courageous and. eloquent defenders, and he hailed with enthusiasm its recognition sis the corner-stone of the new confederacy. He took an active part in the resigning a position in Mr. Davis’ cabinet at an early date to enter the army. After the war he fled to Europe to avoid a prosecution for treason, soon after returning to his native State, where he lived in retirement until his death. He never became reconciled to the new order of things, and refused to petition for a removal of his disabilities, or to have anything further to do with political matters. .. .... - . Brooklyn is so have a new rapid transit in the recent incorporation of the Bridge Tunnel Bailroad Company. Miss Nellie Hobson, of Wallingford, Conn., has been offered $4,000 a year as an art teacher in a Christian college in Northern India, but declines the offer. \ . A young lady in the Woman’s College at Beaver Falls j Pa., is to be expelled for placing, a greased muslin mask over her face to give it a death-like paUor, and Lightening her room-mate into hyoterics.