Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1878 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

Tn gold coinage during July aggregated •80.000 and the silrer coinage •1,0*7,000. Tn icUneCbld of the Uovernment BuNanof ButtaUd baa completed a comparatt«o atatoment of tfc« ImporU and export* 01 the UnitodßtatM for the yean 1877 an,11878, ending Jooe SO, lowing the following renulta, •parte value*: Export* of merrhaadia- <i 1878, domestic. ««0 881.788; foreign, 814, 900,405; total, **4,8*,300; imports, $487.061.5 W; excenof export#, $357,832,667. In 187 T, exporta, d. moatlc, $588,670 ?-*; foreign, BU.Bj4.MM; import*, 4451,833,127; excess of Import*, $151,158,003. Exports of cold and •Over in 1878, *33783,225; import*, $29,821,fU; excess of export*. $B,Bll-813. In 1877, exporta $98,162,337, Imports, $40,774,414; cxeee* of export*. $15,887,823. The total excess of sxporte over Import* In 1878 was $361,744,575; in 1877, $.66,588,817. Tbb Secretary of the Treaaury, on the 7th, tamed the atxty-aixth call for the redemption of $5,000,0u0o( the 5-30 bonds of 1865, principal and interest to be paid at the United State* Treasury on and after Not. 7. President Hates has appointed John P. Hoyt, of Michigan, to be Governor of Idaho Tenltory. According to a Washington dispatch of the Bth, the demand for the standard silver dollars was steadily Increasing. So far during the then current week, the banks had ratted for ssllo,ooo. There was little demand for the certiheatea tor sliver dollars, which had been printed to the extent of $19.000,000. It was decided at the Cabinet meeting, on the oth, that theie was no reason whatever why the former orders to the American force* la Texaa should not be fully carried out. and the President directed the Secretary of War to telegraph Gen. Ord reiterating existing orders with reference to the protection of i American Interests and the prompt pursuit and punishment of any parties making raid* 1 across the Rio Grande from Mexico.

TBS KANT. Reese, Trait a Woods, steel manufacturer*, of Pittsburgh, Pa, suspended on the Bth. Hie liabilities of the firm are $960,000, and their assets about $600,000. A labor number of workingmen met in Fanenil Hall, Raton, on the evening of the j sth. and were addressed bv Dennis Kearney, ■ the “Labor Reformer.” of California. Large numbers were unable to grin admittance. 1 The *;leaker, who was enthusiastically received, assailed capitalists and monopolists, the publishers of newspapers and the telegraph managers in rigorous and somewhat profane term*. He *l>oke of the victory the Workingman's organization claims to have achieved in California, and advised' the work-in-meß to cut loose from all parlies, and to take charge or their own affairs. A few days ago, an insane young woman of Benton, aged twenty-seven years, poun d kerosene over her bead and clothes, set it on Are and was burned to death. A dispatch from Rochester, X. Y., on the Sd, says Prof. Lewis Swift, who had just arrived home, confirmed the discovery at Denver, during the recent eclipse, of the Planet Vulcan. He end Prof. Watson agree as to the distance and direction of the planet from the sun, and expect to confirm the discovery by other obsci vat inns. AT the late Kearney meeting, in Boston, resolutions were adopted extending a hearty and cordial support to Deunts K -arney, “ the apostle of the laboring classes of Catilornia.” The Grain Committee of the New York Produce Exchange have made the following changes in the last year’s grade* of grain; Inserting the words “pure amber” in No. 1 amber winter wheat, which shall be bright, ! sound, dry, plump, pure amber and well : cleaned; substituting the word “ winter” for white in No. 1 amber white wheat, which j Hull be sound, dry, plump and well cleaned, I and inserting the words “or amber” in No. 3 red winter wheat, shall consist of sound red or amber winter wheat, unfit to grade No. 1 Other grades unchanged. At Buffalo, ou the 6tb, the trotting horse Rants made the unprecedented time of a mile in 2:13)f minutes. This is the fastest time ever made by a trotting horse to harness. At Newark, N. J., a few days ago, Mrs. Eli- * nor Williams, wife of Rev. W. R. Williams, r was burned to death in consequence of the explosion of the can of kerosene with which she was kindling the kitchen fire. On the saute day Mra. Anna Zellers, of the same place, ' was terribly and fatally burned by a similar careless use of the same explosive. A bill a] owing women to vote at school meetings has been passed bv the New Hampshire Legislature. This is the first substantial victory won by the Woman Suffragist* of New England. The Teachers’ Convention, which bad been in session in New York City for several days, coududed Its deliberations on the 9th. 8. S. Packard, of New York, was elected President for the ensuing year. The next meeting is to be held at Cleveland, Aug. 6,1879. I Severe storms of wind, rain and lightning visited a wide extent of country iu the Eastern States on the evening of the 9th. At Wallingford, Conn., s brick school bouse, Catholic Church, forty dwellings and a large number of barns were demolished by the wind, and thirty persons were either killed outright or fatally wounded, and a number of others were more or leas injured. The damage to property was estimated at 4100,000. Severe thunder stonus were experienced at various points in Massachusetts, and many persons were killed by lightning. The storm extended throughout port ons of New York. New Hampshire, etc., doing great damage to buildings, fences and stock.

Gold dosed in New York, on August9Ui, at 1 J 0)4- The following were the closing quotations tor produce: No. 3 Chicago Spring Wheat, *U«X«I-10; No. 3 Milwaukee, *U19J401.10; Onto, Western, 30@33>4e. Com, Western, Mixed, 45049J4C. Pork, Mess, #lO 90. Laid, *7.80. Flour, Good to Choice, *4.3505.75. Winter Wheat, *5.80@ 0-50. Cattle, *8.25010.25 for Good to Extra. Sheep, $3.5004:50. frogs, *4.6004.70. AT East Liberty, Pa., on August Bth, Cattle brought: Best. *4.9005.00; Medium. *4.15 04AP; Common, *8.6004.00. frogs soldlor ken, *4.3004.60; Philadelphia*, *4.700 4.90. Sheep brought $3.0004.15-aecordiug to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on August 9Lh, Cattle brought: Beat, *47305.25; Medium, tS K04.12i4. Hogs sold at *5 [email protected] for Good. Sheep wfcre quoted at *3.2504.12*4 lor good. WSBT AXB ItOCTB. In Chicago, during July, there were thirtynine toil area, with aggregate liabilities of *{,- 738,88*. Thk Mastin Bank, of Kansas City, Mo., dosed Its doors, on the 3d. Liabilities estimated St over *1,900.000, with assets nominally stout the same in amount. The wholesale grocery Arm of E. M. Bishop & Co., of Cincinnati, was also among the failures suite Toprk* (Kan.) National Bank closed its doom, on the morning of the sth The inducing cause, ft is said, was the failure of the Maatio Bank, of Kaunas City. At a largely-attended anti-Chinese demonstration in Ban Franc'aeo, on the evening of the sth, the gist of one of the speeches was that a committee of workingmen had waited |

on the Board of Supervisors, and would wait qxain. and it It would not listen to a petltlou ,if thy people to demolish Chinatown a* • put lie nuisance, the workingmen would !*e called upon to march upon that locality and leave not one brick upon another. This appeal met with an putbumt of. applau e. A resolution was adopted to organise the worklugnien of the State into a Committee on Public Salety, for mutual protection, subject to the call of the Vice-President of the Executive Committee of Organization. The Louisiana Bute Democratic Convention met at Baton Rouge, on the 6th, and adopted a platform indorsing the levee system, the Ntcbolls Government, the Stale Ponding law snd the Congressional Investigating Committee; demanding Government aid for the Texas Pacific Railway and the Brazilian Steamship Line; expressing sympathy lor the laboring classes; advocating the alailition of Natioral Bank* and the substitution of greenback* for Naiionsl Bank notes, the same tube a full legal tender for all debts, public and private etc., etc. Four men who offered to sell their votes were expelled from the Convention. E. A. Burke was nominated for State Treasurer.

Concerning the crop prospect In the Northwest, the Chicago Journal of the 6th says the wheat and oat harvests were turning out fairly, notwithstanding serious damage in some localities. Corn was doing well, with prospects of a fair average yield. Barley short. Potatoes not yielding as well as hail been expected. Fruit, where not killed in the early spring, generally turning out well. Southern Illinois and Eastern Michigan will give a fine yield of peaches, apples, etc. The damage dime to the wheat crop in Northern lowa aua Southern Minnesota wa* not as disastrous as first reports Indicated. Tiik Delaware State Democratic Convention Which met at Dover, on. the bill, nominated John W. Hall fpr Governor. A bardmoney platform was adopted. Resolutions were also adopted denouncing the conspiracy which seated Mr. Hayes, and approving the course of the Potter Investigating Committee. Ox the 6th, the journeymen shoemakers of Chicago struck for higher wages. They bad lieen receiving 49 a week, but demanded 412. The manufacturers offered 410.50, hut this they refused to accept and struck. , The fast train on the Pittshur.h, Cincinnati A St. Louis Railroad, which left Pittsburgh at midnight, coll.ded, early on the morning of the 7th, with a irelght train near Mingo Station, Ohio. Fifteen persons were killed and over fifty wounded, many of them fatally.

A Bismahck (D. T.) special of the 7th says the grasshop|iers were doing much damage to the crops in that region. They were slowly moving in an eastwardly direction. In North Carolina, at the recent State election, tin; Democrats elected ninetv-seven members of the Legislature, the Republicans fifty and the Independents nine, with fourteen districts re;>orted doubtful. At Greenville, 8. C., on the Bth, a demand ■was made, by the United States Marshal upon the Sheriff, for the surrender to the custody of the United States Court of the three Internal Revenue OHirers—Kaue, Durham and Moore—under Indictment for the killing of an employe of an illicit-distiller, w ho, it is said, was offering resistance to the officers when In the discharge of their duties. The Sheriff refused to release the prisoners himself, but quietly permitted the Marshal to secure tue keys. The latter thereupon released the prisoners and at once locked them up again, thus satisfying the writ of hubeax cotjjuh and placing the prisoners in the jurisdiction of the Federal Court.

The Colorado Republican State Convention met at Denver, on the Bth, and nominated Janies B. Belford, fyr Congress; T. \V. Pitkin, for Governor; H. A. W. Tabor, for Lieuten-ant-Governor; N. H. Meldrum, for Secretary of State: M. 8. Culver, for Treasurer, and C. Ws Wright, for Attorney-General. The platform condemns the seating of Patterson by : the last Congress; favors a currency of gold, : silver and papery made equal in value; opposes the Resumption act, etc., etc. The South Carolina State Republican Convention met at Columbia, on the Bth. The ninth article of the platform which was adopted reads as follows: “We deem it Inexpedient to nominate candidates for Governor and other St.ite officers, because, owing to the condition of affairs in this State, occasioned by rifle-dub rule and two years of Democratic rupremacy, it is inqiossihle for Republican voters in many counties—without Incurring great personal danger—to organize for the campaign, or to vote at the election when held.” The recent Texas State Greenback Convention nominated a full State ticket, headed by W. H. Hammons for Governor and J. S. Paines for Liimtenant-Governor. A Coroner’s investigation into the cause of the late railroad accident at Mingo Junction, Ohio, was begun, on the 9th. Conductor Sterling, of the freight train, had been placed under arrest, and committed to Jail, in default 0L45,r00 nail, on a charge of manslaughter. The deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans, from noon ou the Bth to noon on the 9th, numbered twelve. Total number to lastmeutioued date, 431. and deaths, 118. The number of new cases during the preceding twenty-four hours up to noon, on the 9th, was forty-four. Up to the 9th, since the recent openlug of the United States Court at Greenville, S. C., 267 cases of illicit distilling had been disposed of. On the 9th, several distillers came in from the mountains and pleaded guilty, and 100 more were expected to surrender within a day or two. In Chicago, ou August 9th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at 97@97*ec cash, 97c for August, for September. Cash Corn closed at 39>jc for No. 2, for August, for September. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 22>£c; and seller September. Rye No. 2,52 c. Barley No. 2, 88%@90c for cash,r for September (New.) Cash Mess Pork closed at 410 50. Lard, $7 70. Beeves—Extra, [email protected]; Choge, [email protected]; Good, [email protected]; Medium Grades, 43.25(33.50; Butchers’ Stock, $2.50,u3.00; Stock Cattle, etc., $2.50(913.00. Hogs brought |[email protected] for Good to Choice. Sheep sold at $2.50 4.25 for Poor to Choice.

roKKiun isTßLunsaca. Tile freedom of the City of London was presented to Lords Bearonsfield and Salisbury, on the 3d Lord Beaeonsheld delivered »n address, in which be expressed himself as sanguine that the permanent peace of Europe was assured. The Workingmen’s Congress, announced to meet in Paris, on the 3d of September, has been prohibited by the French Government. Full returns from the late Parliamentary elections in Germany, show the following results: Conservatives elected, 93; Liberals, 110; Ultramontane*, 96. Sixty-six second ballots are necessary. The cabmen as Paris have struck for higher p*y. An alarming degree of sickness is reported' aa prevailing in the Island of Cyprus. A London telegram states that over 17,000 Russians are sick with typhus in Bulgaria. Considerable excitement prevails In Bucharest, on the 6th, over a reported misunderstanding between Russia and Roumania. over the determination of the boundaries of the Dobrudscha. Li_ A Rome (Italy) telegram pf the 6th says' thafßismartk and the Vatican .had settled' their respective difficulties on the basis of amnesty for all violation of the Falk laws and the .estoration of the convention existing before the establishment of the Empire. In the international pigeon-shooting match at London, Eng., Capt. A. H. Bogardus, the American champion, was the winner by one bin!.’- ; > r „.

According tin Viennadizpatehoa of the 7th, 8,000 Montenegrin" Bad joined the Insurgent* In Herzegovina. ' There were luMiratiou* that a holy war would he proclaimed in Bospis. It was stated Hint the Austrian Cabinet was urging the Porle, In view of the Bosnian and' Herxegovlnan difficulties, to make an explicit declaration of It* intention*. AN explosion occurred in the Scrcmerston coal-mine, near Berwick, Eng., on the afternoon of the 7th. Thirty-five persons were In the mine, of whom only two had lieen rescued up to the morning of the Bth, and these were badly burned. The Austrians have circulated a proclamation in Herzegovina announcing that all person* wbo oppose them will be tried by drumhead court-martial. Annoi'kcembxt was officially made, on the Bth, of the betrothal of the Prince Im|ieri*l of France to the Prince** Tbyra ol Denmark. The dory Nautilus, from Beverly, Mass., retched Havre, France, on the Bth. She made the passage In flfty-alx days. A Rone (Italy) dispatch of the Bth announces the appointment of Cardinal Deacon Lorenzo Nina as Papal Secretary of State. By the explosion of a Russian powder magazine at Frateall, In Roumania, on the 7th, fifty-five persons were killed and thirty-one Injured. According to Turkish accounts, putllshed on the 9tb, the Austrian losses, since they began the occupation of Bosnia, had exceeded 1,000 in killed and wounded. —ft was stated In the London papers of the 9th that letters bad been received from British officer* In the Gulf of Saros, saying that the Russians were fortifying the coast opposite, and that no hopes of permanent i>eace were entertained. An explosion recently occurred In themlnes of the fortifications of Kars, resulting in fires which destroyed the greater part of that city.

THE LABOR INVESTIGATION.

The workingmen's representatives we.e on the stand again, on the 3d, and they laid the blame of the depression in business to National and State legislation, the granting of lands to railroad and other corporations and the granting of large interest on bonds. They advanced tne idea that the Government should assist men to settle on the public lands. W. A. A. Carney, who said he was a bricklayer and an editor, declared that, in his opinion, the public-school system was bad. Ihe Government, he claimed, shonld establish schools where mechanical trades and arts would be tanght. He denounced the contract system, under National, State and City Governments and said that under th t system the work wa* of the worst possible construction, and it gave an opportunity to men to griud down the laboring class an J employ Chin- se and others, against wnom American laborers could not compete, because the latter cannot live as the former do. He thought it bad policy for any Government to encourage swai ms of foreigners to drive out the native laLorera. Knowing the temper and needs of the workingmen, he felt certain that, if Congress did not step in at an early day with ameliorating legislation, the coming winter could not pass without trouble, and withnnt a repetition of the labor not* of last summer. A good movement would be the institution of a comprehensive system of internal improvements, and the inflation of the currency to carry on the improvements. George W. Maddox, of the " Congress of Humanity.’’ wanted the Government to “issue $14,000,060,000 or so to New York to build docks and so forth,” and comparatively similar Sums to other cities to be expended in public works. When these works would have made sufficient returns, then let the Government be paid back, and the notes destroyed, as cancelled bonds are, Mrs. Myra Hale, wno announced herself a member of the “ Congress of Humanity of the World,” said the first step necessary to bring back prosperity to the country was to grant suffrage to women. Give women the ballot and everytuing would be lovely and perfect. : James O Donnell, wno announced that he repreaented only “ his sovereign self,” said the nonsense of previous speakers the past two days had pained him. He wanted neither greenbacks nor Communism, nor an eight-hour law, but he did want some satisfactory manner of arbitration between master and man, a restriction of the rights of patentees, and the right to work wherever and whenever he oould get it, and for as many hoars as he chose. Several “labor reformers” were before the Committee on the sth. Among them was one named Robb, who re id a lengthy statement and said no man had a right to give a title for land, for God Bays, “Ye shall not sell the TancT forever.” We have violated tile laws of God, and fraud and perjury prevail everywhere. Maurice Cohen, formerly a manufacturer of silk cloaks, said large manufacturers had crowded him out. and were crowding out all the small dealers, and he requested the Committee to attend to these matters. Mr.. Graham, Secretary of the Workingmen’s Union, held that we do not desire the outlaws of the Old World to come here and upset our Government. He did not intend to denounce capital when honestly accumulated, but he denounced railroad monopolies and the raising of prices of provisions, etc., by stock-jobbing and speculation. Reduce the tariff and stop sectional legislation. Stop railroad jobs and give the country the benefit. Our shipping has been driven off the seas by foreign steamers. He would tax steamers in favor of freight. He believed the large unemployed population in cities ought to be sent to the prairie lands and settled thereon by private enterprise. Yr. Hewitt asxed Mr. Marshall, a large shipowner, to give his views. Mr. Marshall said ne did not want any protection against steamers. He thought the removal of taxes as much as possible consistently with revenue necessities would revive trade, and the abolition of the prohibitory law preventing Americans from buying their vessels abroad would revive the shipping trade. Horatio D. Shepherd, of the National Reform Association, attributed the present depression to mistakes in the currency question—too much inflation and not enough taxation. The President of the Cigar-Makers’ Union spoke of the cause of the depression in the cigar trade only. He said while the number of cigats manufactured steadily increased the condition ,j>f the oigar-makera got worse. The trouble has been caused by the General Government by a system of taxation which throws business into the hands of ~l8ig« manulaeturers. The first cause is the introduction of 3.000 Coolies into the trade in San Francisco, and in New York the tenement-house system caused ruin. The system is a shame and disgrace. The whole family, man, woman and children, work, day and night, from fourteen to eighteen hours, and still only make enough to live, or rather starve, on, and when the cigar-makers struck for wages, the landlords who were the manufacturers turned 1,000 wretched families into the streets. He asked that the tenement-house system be abolished, and that cigars be allowed to be made only in factories. He was not opposed to Chinamen as a rule, hut he was opposed to the importation of Chinese or any other labor under such a system. He was opposed to the importation of ali labor by contract.

Georoe E. McNeill, President of the International Workingmen’s Union, residing in West Somerville, Mass., was the first witness on the 6th. The whole difficulty, in his opinion, is the wages Bystem of labor, or, in other words, that the wage svstem and the steam engine are contemporanei m, and that the productive power has exceeded the power of consumption. He favored sn eight-hour law throughout the country. Mr. Peck, of Danbury, Conn., thought that, instead of lending hundreds of millions of-dollars to bßnks, the Government should lend some few hundred millions free of interest to the workingmen. He read a long petition to Congress asking the Wiivetnmrnt to loan any man *5.0(10 tos build a house with, the amount to be paid back by installments. One witness was in favor of abolishing the United States Senate, restricting the powen of Congress and the Preside.it, issuing *OB per capita, curtailing hours of labor to six, and allowing no one outside the ljabor Bureau to employ labo rera. Another believed the cause of the depression was the war, the over-issue of currency, extravagance caused by the short period of inflation, and a high protective tariff, all of which, ought t" be remedied. A third witness advocated bnilding homes in the Weet for the unemployed. A fourth said machinery was the curse of labor, and should be crashed out; he would also demonetize gold. and silver. A fifth said the present destitution was altogether due to rum-guzzling and beer-swilling i abolish all traffic in liquor and beer, and prosperity would return. . , Henry D. Rothschild, clothing manufacturer, thoug.it the business still profitable, bnc percentages lower. He believed in ten hours per . day for laborers and workingmen generally, the eight-hour system was the cause of dissipation. He would not give a laborer time even for urn use ment. The introduction of machinery increased employment If the, wuraingman saved his wages when work was plenty and prices high, he would not now suffer from want. Mr. Rothschild’s remarks were received with hisses and cnes of “ Get oat." qUESTIONS TO THE PUBLIC. Mr. Hewitt real the following questions, which the Committee submit to the public: The Congressional Committee earnestly requests the co-oper ition of the pn'>lic in all sections of the oouutry in obtaining information to aid»the pramieat solution of the important question submitted to it, it especially invites suggestions from representative men in all dt-j-ar tine lit* of business. It proposes the following questions to employers of labor throughout the country: 1. What were the selling prices of your prod■ctsin lfcfio, and in each subsequent year down to 1878. inclusive? - 2. ‘Vliat were the wages paid By yon in each of these yuars for labor employed? ,8. Wlitre the pers ins furnishing information are wilting to do so, the Committee invitee them

to state Um percentage of profit made by them in (A*cb of theae yean upon the capital employed in their boiinm. 4. Wiiat were the wholesale and retail prices of the leading articles of lanuly consumption during caiju of three years in your vicinity t 6. \v hat is the diff-rertoa. if any between the rente of tenement* occupied by operatives tn the yean lit# and 1878 in jour viotnuy? & What was the cuiparative amount of th< product* of your hustne-e in quantity and value in the years 1860 and 1878? 7. State tue comparative stoadtnesa of the employment of operatives between the yean 1860 •um 1878, inclusive. The Committee invites suggestions from eia plovers and employ'd a* to the extent and oanaes of the present depression of bosinees. and as to any special Federal legislation which, in its opinion, would tend to relieve ihc same. Tue Committee will hold their next seaaion in the New York Postoffice, Aug. 20. The Committee then adjourned until th* date above mentioned.

WHAT A STOPPED WATCH DIP.

The Keeent Aeeldent on the Pltuburgli, Cincinnati A hi. Louie Haallroad Terrible instruction to Life and Limb. A special telepram from Pittsburgh, ]>a., to the Chicago Tribune of the Bth, gives the following details respecting the fearful railroad slaughter at Mingo Junction, Ohio: Rlngo Junction, a straggling village of fifteen or twenty house*, is situated on the Ohio River, Just below the mouth of Cross Creek, and about four miles west from Steubenville, Ohio. Three year* ago it was the scene of a frightful railroad accident, In which J. N. McCullough, General Manager of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and several others, lost their lives. A year later another smash-up occurred, within a iew rods of the former one, which sent half a dozen mangled and bleeding victims to their graves. Another horror wns added to the list this morning, far surpassing either of the preceding in the number of killed and Injured. Most of the victims were English and German immigrants who were on their way lo the West. The accident took place Just licfore daybreak. A dense fog prevailed at the time, which obscured the view and added to the misery of the situation. The cause ot the calamity Is attributed to Sterling, conductor of the irelght train, who acknowledges that his watch stopped twenty minutes before the collision, but without his knowledge. This caused an error In his calculation of time, and -fifty or more’ mangled bodies, many of them lifeless, Is the horrible result. The details are as follows:

The fast line going weston the Pan-Handle Railroad, which left Pittsburgh about midnight, arrived at Steubenville a little late, and left there seven minutes behind time. It was composed of two postal-cars—one for Cincinnati and one for St. Louis—a baggagecar, an emigrant car, two ordinary cars and a sleeper. This train was In charge of Conductor Edward Morrill, of Columbus, and, being behind time, was running unusually fast. At Mingo Junction, at 1:50 a. m., just after Sassing Cross Creek, where the road leaves ic Ohio River, and while rounding a sharp curve on the west bank of the creek, the train dashed with fearful velocity into freight train No. 13, Conductor Sterling, which was off her time, the conductor’s watch, it is said, having stopped twenty minutes w ithout his knowledge. The trains rushed together, and a fearful wreck ensued. Both engines were demolished and thrown down an enbankment thirty feet. The first postal-car was completely wrecked, three ot the four Inmates killed snd the other’s leg broken. The second postal-car was more iortunate, being only thrown down the embankment, w here it stands on end. All the inmates escaped with slight wounds. The baggage-car was a total wreck, the baggage being strewn in all directions The emigrant car, In which the greatest loss of life occurred, was completely demolished. A large crowd soon gathered from the country for miles around, coming in buggies, wagons, on horseback and afoot. The people set to work with & will to extricate the wounded, dead and dying. Everything was done that could be done to alleviate the sufferings of the injured, who were placed on a special train and taken to Steubenville. Both of the engines were broken, twisted and wrecked so completely as to resemble a mass of old iron. Very few in the emigrant car escaped death or injury. The scene is Indescribable. The moans of the dying and sobs and screams of the living rose above every other sound. Dead and mangled bodies were seen in all directions, and in every every degree of mutilation. The injured added their cries to the dreadful din, which pierced the soiil like a prolonged wail from the region of lost spirits. Up to this time (nine p. m.) fifteen have died, and several more cannot survive till morning. Among the killed are tfie following: T. D. Graham, Head Postal Clerk on the Fast Line, of Cincinnati; \V. R. Johnson, Assistant Postal Clerk, Cincinnati; August Andrews, Local Mail Agent on the postal car, Clarksburg, W. Va.; ’Mrs. Anna Cullen, of Bridgeport, Conn, (her son, daughter in-law and grand daughter were badly injured); Patrick Gannon, Barren Hill, Montgomery County, Pa.; Bernard Miller, an emigrant from Bremen, Germany; an unknown woman, large, fleshy and with the appearance of being a German; Fred Gross, Manheim, Germany; John Curry, Tyrone, Ireland: an unknown woman, upon whom was found the address of Miss Flenken, No. 353 Sheridan street, Allegheny; an unknown German, with a ticket from New York to Cincinnati; John Dugan, engineer of the passenger train, Burgettstown; Mary McDonald, London, EDg.

Hunting Wild Turkeys.

The number of wild turkeys that we saw at one of our encampments on the banks of a creek, very appropriately called Turkej’ Creek, was incredible. So plentiful were they, aud so appreciated was their flesh by the whole party, that no less than 150 birds were shot" in the 3pace of ten days. More could undoubtedly have been obtained had they been wanted. They., were magnificent birds, and would frequently weigh from twenty-five to thirty pounds each. So epicurean did we get in our tastes that we seldom condescended to eat any part but the breast of the turkey. As a rule, the time to shoot them is just after dark, when the poor unsuspecting birds are roosting in the branches of the trees; but shooting theim thus by moonlight or dusk is, in my opinion, very poor sport—if, indeed, it can be called sport at all. There is also a difficulty in hitting them when the light is dim and obscure. I know one officer who fired fifteen times before he bagged a bird; yet in the daytime he was accounted a very fair shot. And I have also known the same gentleman to shoot at the same bird eight times without even frightening it away; at the eighth shot the bird it getting monotonous, with the fun all on one side, so flew away. In the daytime, hunting these birds is by no means bad sport, for the wild turkey is usually very shy, and will lie closely concealed in the long4>rairie grass until actually kicked tip, when they fly off with such a whirring and flapping of wings as would be sufficient to startle any young and inexperienced sportsman. On one occasion 1 succeeded in bagging po less than five turkeys with one discharge of my gun, without even taking the trouble of dismounting from my horse; alarmed at my approach, the birds raised their heads above the grpss, craning their long necks round to discover the intruder, and so close together were they that they all fell victims to their curiosity. When found on the open prairie at some distance from their roosts they can be run down on horseback, for after the first two, or at the most three flights, none of which are beyond 100 yards, they get so exhausted as to be unable to fly any more, and are then easily overtaken and killed. They invariably go about in-flooks or droves, numbering from ton to as many as forty and fifty birds.— Good Words. 9,' 0 » ■ Antmtobacco crusaders may find a useful hint in the item which announces that a Californian was cured of tobac-co-chewing by his horror on finding the finger of a man pressefi in the tobacco he was using.

• MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —A soft job~-Mlling soft soap. —All a mosquito wants is one bitejust one. ~ —The First Duty on T— Don’t forget to cross it. —A Hindoo proverb says: “ When in the water don’t quarrel with the alligator." .. T —ls a man is kicked over by a cow, can he not be said to get a- free milkpunch ?—JPuck. —The Germans say that more people dig their graves jvith their teeth than with spades. —-Pun—Exclusively Hterary : Why doesn’t Lord Lytton pay up? Why should he always be Owen Meredith? — Ex. —A .Pittsburgh man deserted her whom he had sworn to love and honor just because she called him ‘‘an old ground hog” and a “ skunk.” —Murdering for love is getting to be very popular. Cincinnati furnishes the latest example. Perhaps ’tis better to be loved and shot than never to be loved at all. —An article on "What to do and what to eat in hot weather” goes for nothing with the tramp, who is content to do nothing and eat what he can get. — Picayune. —The cent has never become acclimated in Louisville, but leading retail dealers are following the exampl&of St. ’Lotus and other cities in helping to introduce it. —Go West, young man. It is’ a charming place. Those who don’t freeze to death in winter get sunstruck in summer. The others get killed by a tornado. —Norristown llcrald. —An English lady who, in defiance of the law, married the brother of her dead husband, is in the habit of alluding to her first spouse as *‘ her poor brother-in-law.” So says the London World.

—A cat in St. Louis, having observed that all of her kittens but two were drowned, has become an advocate of natural selection, and now selects the two of her progeny that please her best and kills the rest herself.— N. Y. World. —lt would make a stone image turn green with envy to observe the expression of profound abstraction that settles down on the face of a worshiper when the contribution basket gets within about three pews of him.— HawkEye. —A newly-married man, who evidently needs discipline, thus discourses: “A woman is a handy thing to have aoout the house. She does not cost any more to keep than you’ll give her, and she’ll take a great interest in you.” My dear old fellow, how are you? Haven’t seen you since we were at college together, What ails you? You seem sad.” “My friend, lam thirtyfive; I have arrived at that fatal age when a novelist would speak of me as * a man still young.’ ” —Prof. Mouchot,* at the Paris Exposition, is exhibiting a sun kitchen, where, by reflectors concentrating the rays of the sun, he can boil water and roast meats in a very short space 6f time. Curious people will be particularly sunstruck with the ingenuity of the invention. The good woman who tied a bunch of variegated ribbon to the caudal of her poodle, remarked that it was the duty of everyone to do something toward making the world brighter and better. She might not be able to point a moral as well as the minister, but she could discount him at adorning a tail. Washinton Post. —lt is our aim to avoid needless laceration of the feeling of “society people,” but we trust they will just brace up and try to bear with something like composure the announcement which we find in a London journal, that the Princess of Wales-is quite lame from an inflamed corn on the great toe of her left foot.— Washington Post. —Arabs are Nature’s gentlemen, as different from the Turks as an Englishman is from the Neapolitan lazzaroni. I remember a story that I heard when in Syria of an Arab. He had a garden, and in his garden he was accustomed to place his frugal luncheon. One day he saw the son of his neighbor stealing this luncheon. The Arab at once ran away. A friend met him, and to him he explained what had occurred. “ I suppose you are going to the Cadi?” asked the friend. “No,” replied the Arab; “ I am running away lest the boy should see me, for it woula be a terrible thing for him when grownup to be aware that he is a thief.”— London Truth.

—Among the many curiosities of Utah, the red-and-black ant is excelled by none. One of these ants, weighing only one-fourth of a grain, troy, can draw four grains, or. sixteen times its own weight, with apparent ease. As a warrior, its courage is wonderful. The other day I witnessed an attack of four ants, one after another, on a green worm, and each retired from the conflict badly wounded, the worm resisting the attack vigorously. The wounded ants, meeting companions, reported their troubles, and soon seven ants were seen advancing, in a line of battle, on his wormship, when a hard battle took place. The worm made frantic efforts to relieve himself, but all in vain. In one minute from the time of the attack the worm was lifeless, the antn sti 1 holding to him. I placed them in wt ■ ter, when, to all appearance, they became lifeless, but still held their grip on the worm. I then placed them in the warm rays of the sun for ten minutes, when they were all right again and hauled, their victim off to tn'jfiT hill.— Cor. Salt Lake Tribune.

The Women Clerks at Washington.

Copying and figuring is the work mostly done by the women. In the Department of the Interior 500 girls and women are employed. Their wages range from SSO a month to $1,400 a year. Few get the latter price. One young lady, Miss Cook, a stenographer in the Indian Office, gets $1,600 a year, the highest price to a woman official in Washington. But lest all the bright young lady short-hand writers who read this should at once start off in a bodv to get $1,600 a year at the Capital,‘it may be as well to state that there are only places for about six stenographers in the whole Interior Department. These six places are filled, and the occupants are healthy. They do not intend to marry. They are afraid every man wouldn’t be worth $1,600 a year to them. Women clerks are -more troublesome to manage, than . men. This is the verdict in most o£ the departments. They are mort regular and faithful in their duties than the men; at the same time they are more quarrelsome among one another. A standing cause of war among them, ridiculous enough, iB the opening and shutting of windows. This one wants ventilation, while the one next to her

is dead sure to be afraid of a draft. This one slaps the window up, and that one runs after her and slams it down, and so the game goes on, slap, slam, while the ladies' eyes dart fire, and their little throats choke up too full for speech. This cattish quarreling went so far in the Postoffice Department that at last the United States authorities had to interfere, and make the rule that windows should not be raised till a certain time of day, so. that the windows of the United States General PostotHce are now opened and shut according to Government orders.— Cor. Cincinnati Commercial.

The Tornado at Wallingford, Conn.

WallinOfobd, Conn., Aug. 9. A TERRIBLE tornado passed over Wallingford about six this Afternoon, and blew over houses, uprooted trees, and caused the greatest devastation. It is estimated that the killed will number at present at least twenty (since stated at thirty), while the wounded wilt reach twice that number. Telegraph wires and poles were blown down, making it impossible to communicate with New Haven on the south or Meriden or Hartford to the north. Without warning, the tornado, with hail and rain, swept across the northern part of the town, from west to east, and everything movable in its course was carried away. It seemed to last but a moment, but its results were frightful. Afterward a light rain fell, and this soon ceased, and at eight o’clock the moon shone brightly down upon a scene of desolation. By actual count, forty dwelling-houses were demolished, and at least fifty barns. The scene was a memorable one. The wooden houses were carried clear off their foundations from a few' feet to the eighth of a mile. In the line & the tornado nothing was left standing, and on each side of its track lessei damage was done, chimneys especial’y suffering. The Catholic Church, wooden, and the new brick high school were totally demolished. The top of the brick factory of the Wallingford Community was carried away. Fires were communicated to the ruins in many cases by lamps and stoves, and but for the rain the horror of the affair would have brefi greatly increased. A youtn named Matthew Mooney was standing on the railroad track by the tornado. He was picked up fifty feet away almost beheaded. Mrs. Huldy had her child in her arms. When pioked up both were dead and almost scalped. Fred Littlewood was picked up dead on the side of the road where he was killed by flying timbers. He was coming home from work. Four female relatives of John Munson, tip town, were buried in the cellar of the house when blown down, and it took a long while to get them out. Two were injured slightly; the other two were unhurt. Michael Kelly, while driving in a buggy in the eastern part of town, was blown over a precipice some twenty feet. He and his horse were slightly injured. One man had three small dwellinghouses swept out of existence. Barns were lifted clear of the hay contained therein, and the latter left standing. The roofs of innumerable houses were taken off. Little John Hoey, aged twelve, fearing trains would be delayed, rode on horseback six miles to Meriden to get medical aid.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—During the month of June, 86,071 volumes were issued from the Boston Public Library, an increase of nearly 7,000 over the corresponding month last year. —Tappan, the Boston defaulter, is not poor, even after the assignment of his property. His father, who was a rich Boston merchant, left him SBO,OOO in trust. One of his horses is worth SI,OOO. —The death of Judge Shepley, of Maine, will seriously incbnvenienee many patent owners, for he had heard cases, in great numbers, relating to infringements of patents and involving large amounts of money, many of which he had had under advisement for months and even years. All these cases will have to be reargued before another Judge. —Celia Logan writes: “Lady Blessington with all her literary fame never wrote an original line. Entrance into the Count D’Orsay and Lady Blessington’s coterie was difficult to obtain—except you knew the magic key which would unlock them—which was to Write something of merit and humbly beg her ladyship to honor you by mothering it. If she did so, her patronage was secured, and any struggling young author was glad to ride into fame at so small a price.” —Rev. Samuel Hunt, a Congregational minister, vvho was for some time Private Secretary to Vice-President Wilson, died at his home in Boston a few days ago. He was graduated from Amherst College in 1832. He aided Mr. Wilson very essentially in writing the “ Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America,” and finished that work alter Mr. Wilson’s death. Later he devoted much time to preparing and arranging for publication Mr. Wilson’s letters, papers, etc.

—The •Princess Salm-Salm. whose death in England is announced, was known in theatrical circles in this country under the name of Agnes Le Clerq or Leclair. After marrying Prince Salm-Salm she accompanied him to Mexico, where he was Chief of Maximilian’s household. Later he went to Europe and was killed in the FrancoPrussian War, in which he served as a Prussian Major. About two vears ago she married a wealthy Englishman named Heneage, but the union was an unhappy one. L —George Eliot is now a trifle more than fifty-eight years old. She began her literary career young, and was editor of the Westminster Review when only twenty-three; but her first novel, “ Adam Bede,” was publisned when she was thirty-eight, so that her brilliant career as a novelist is included within a score of years. Her late poem, “ A College Breakfast Party,” published in MacMillan's for July, was written four years ago, and its publication does not appear to have created the faintest flutter of interest. —A correspondent of the Rochester Express writes: “ I met in Florida Jpjtm Tyler, Jr., son of President Tyler. He must be nearly sixty years of age, and resembles to an extraordinary degree his father Even in the extreme poverty of his late years he preserves a dignified carriage, a fondness for plush vests, .standing collars and white neckties. In his conversation, which is learned and at times highly enjoyable, he never allows you to forget two things, wit: That he is a Virginian and that his father was President of the United States.”

Danger From Lightning.

Under wbat conditions ia damage from lightning powerless, and what are the means by which the risk can be lessened or avoided ? An isolated tree, standing eitfcejf! Pjx>*» a wide plain or upon an eminence, is obviously likely to determine a lightning discharge, to “ attract the lightning/’ to use a common expression. The top of the tree is the nearest point to the cloud, and since the tree is a better conductor than the air, a line drawn vertically through it to the cloud’"roarks the shortest and easiest course along which the electricities may. pass. H, when the charged cloud arrives directly over this point, the ext. nsion is sufficient to overcome the resistance along th&t line, a discharge will take place and the tree will be struck. But if the tension be not sufficient, the cloud, will pass harmlessly over. Hence it appears that a person standing during a thun-der-storm beneath a tree so situated is exposed to some risk. On no aficount, therefore, should the traveler take refuge under an isolated tree; generally he will do well to avoid its neighborhood altogether; but should ne be overtaken by the storm when on a plain, with no shelter near, the tree may still be mado to afford him some protection. If ho take up a position near it, but not under its branches, he will probably escape unhurt should the lightning descend upon it. The safest distance from the tree is that which is equal to its height. To approach much nearer than this is to incur the risk of being within the influence of the stroke; to remain at a much greater distance away is to place one’s self in the same conditions of isolation as the tree itself. It will have been remarked by all observers of the phenomenon that whenever a tree has been struck by lightning it has generally occupied an isolated position. In describing the position as one of isolation, however, it is not meant that the tree is necessarily standing alone, but that it is not one of a numerous group. When there are many trees together, their collective conductivity is often sufficient to cause an indestructive discharge of the electricity. This is especially likely to happpen when the trees are wet with rain, for then their surfaces are covered with a film of water, which is a good conductor. For this reason, the danger from lightning is much less after rain has begun to fall, than before, when everything is dry. It appears, therefore, that the safest situation during a thunderstorm is in the midst of a wood, particularly if the neighborhood of the tallest trees be avoided. In such a place of shelter the travejer may take refuge in full asssurance that he will there be effectually shielded from harm. The greatest risk of injury from lightning is undoubtedly incurred by persons traveling across a wide and very flat plain, because in such a situation they are the only elevated objects. To lessen the risk, which may here be somewhat serious, advantage should be taken of whatever undulations of surface may exist, to keep upon the lowest ground. No doubt the prostrate position would in these circumstances afford greater security than the erect. It happens not unfrequently that animals are killed by lightning under a tree to which thev had betaken themselves for shelter. In these cases the tree is struck partly in consequence of its isolation, and partly on account of the presence of tho animals beneath it. Usually there are several, and often many of them assembled together, huddled probably by terror into contact one with another. The air, heated by their bodies, rises above them laden with moisture, derived mainly from their breath. Who has not noticed the cloud of vapor that in tho early morning and in certain states of the weather hangs over a flock of sheep or a herd of kine? The column of moist air ascending through the branches of the tree toward the clouds offers, in consequence of the comparatively high conductivity of water, favorable passage for the electricity. A herd of cattle under an isolated tree is thus exposed to a double risk; also, it is evident that these animals are in the open country less secure from injury than human beings, who cannot affect the atmosphere in a like degree.—Chambers' Journal.

A Few Words on Female Education.

Give your daughters a thorough education. Teach them to prepare a nourishing diet. Teach them to wash, to iron, to darn stockings, to sew on buttons, to make their own dresses. Teach them to bake bread, and that a good kitchen lessens the , apothecary’s account. Teach them that one dollar is one hundred cents, that one only lays up money whose expenses are less than his income, and that all grow poor who have to spend more tnan they receive. Teach them that a calico dress paid for, fits better than a silken one unpaid for. Teach them that a full, healthy face displays a greater luster than fifty consumptive beauties. Teach them to wear strong shoes. Teach them to purchase, and to see that the account corresponds with the purchase. Teach that they ruin God’s images by wearing strong bodices. Xeach them food common sense, self-trust, selfelp and industry. Teach them that an honest mechanic in his working dress is a better object of our esteem than a dozen haughty, finely-dressed idlers. Teach them gardening and the pleasured of Nature. Teach them, if you can afford it, music, painting and all other arts, but consider these as secondary objects only. Teach them a walk is more salutary than a ride in a carriage, and that wild flowers are a worthy object of admiration. Teach them to reject with disdain all appearances, and to use only yes or no in good earnest. Teach them that the happtr ness of matrimony depends neither on external appearance nor on wealth, but on the man’s character. Have you instructed your daughters in these principles, a..d have they comprehended these principles? Fearlessly allow them to marry; they will make their, way through the world.— Practical Teacher. The growth. of the nails is more rapid in children than in adults and slowestrin the aged; it goes on faster in summer than ih winter, so that the same nail which is renewed in 132 days r in winter requires only 116 in summer. The increase of the nails of the right hand is more rapid than those of the it differs for the different fingers, and in order corresponds with the length of the finger, consequensly it is the fastest in the middle finger, nearly equal in the two on either side of this, slower ift the littlo finger and slowest in the thumb. TJie growth of all the nails on the left hand requires eighty-two days more than those of the right.— ls. 7. Graphic.