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HAMILTON. GEORGIA.
1 FRIGHTFUL WRECK.
HE THROUGH EXPRESS WRECK¬
ED AT BLUE STONE C|(JARRT.
nitrond Cars Hull Over and Over Into the
River.
A frightful wreck occurred at Blue Stone
juany, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at
I o’clock Thursday morning. Train No. 12,
through express from Baltimore to Pittsburg,
consisting of sleeper, two coaches, two baggage
and one express car, ran into a misplaced
switch and was completely wrecked. The
pleeper rolled over the embankment into the
Yougliioulieny river. The other cars were up¬
set and the whole train detached from the en¬
gine. Sixteen persons were injured, but none
were killed outright.
The names of injured are: Hon. 0. E. Bovle.
member of congress from internal Fayette district; Hon.
John Dowlin, collector revenue for 23d
district; J. N. McJillton, legal agent of the
Baltimore and Ohio company; Hon. E. H. Big¬
ler, collector iuternat revenue for the 22d dis¬
trict, and twelve others injured. believed bo dan¬
None of the wounded are to
gerously injured, unless it is Congressman
B >yle, whose condition is believed to be serious.
J. N. McJilton’s ankle was badly sprained, and
Collectors Dowlin and Bigler were badly
bruised.
The report of the wreck reached Pittsburg
at about 9 o’clock in the morning, and caused
great excitement, as it was known that many
the prominent train. men The accident of the city disarranged were expected the tele¬ on
graph wires and it was some time before the
particulars of the accident were received. Tho
express was about fifteen minutes late when it
reached tho placs the w’rcck occurred. At Blue
Stone quarry the track makes a sharp curve
around tho river, a short distance hack from
the bank. There is a switch at, the commence¬
ment of the curve. The officials of the road
say the switch had lieen tamporodwith wreck. evident¬
ly with the intent of causing a As it
was, tho train could go on neither track. Tho
result was that the engine dashed along the
ties, tearing up the track and causing the
coaches and sle: ping cars to break loose and
dash on over the embankment in the wildest
confusion.
THE scene of the wrkce.
S3W«Sl stopped at the water’s SEJ? edge, 7J ££. but the S e e r d baggage cotLt
cw went into tho w.ter. There were many
passengers on board. The scene that followed
onCinjure^Snd frightened mmSwere* heard" from
every car. The pvasougers sprang
from tho Windows and straggled over each
other to escape from the rolling oars, and tho
who Xpc‘1 unhijiimT were t!» much sJrtled
tor a time to render assistance. The injured were
removed to the hotels at Connellsville. The
track was blockaded and torn up so badly that
no trains got through until tho afternoon.
The Crop Report.
NOVKJHllKlt RETURNS TO THE AG if i«
cultirai, uepaktmknt.
The November crop report of the depart,
ment of agriculture says: The present crop
of corn is tho first full average in rate of
Z Uf'tenor^wenty-sUaS
a quarter bushels per acra The highest rate
of Nebraska yield is thirty-six and oee-hnlf bushels, in
and Ohio. Ihe three corn-grow
tag States which produce four-tenths of the
entire crop-Illinois, Iowa and Missouri
each nverngo several bushels tier aero less
tlwn in the census year.
The cotton returns of Novemlier are local
estimates of yield per aero. They are some
what higher ihan those of ihe last two years,
but materially lower than those of 1880 and
1883. The increase over tfie yield of last
year is most marked iu Texas and Georgia.
The jiotato crop is smaller than that of
1884, m consequence of injury from rot.
The ieportei yield of hay per acre averages
one and a quarter tons, and indicates a crop
of over 47,0k>,(KK) tons, nearly as large as
that of la« year.
. aTe. fcJUt^brntoU
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A Freight Train Derailed.
MS Y oi’Z
ing over Hampton bridge, which is 100 feet
JSfJCT JS’lkr %
bridge, and several wtnt into the gorge, carry
< Iwofd ane.out 1 Td and E L. 0 L. L. b Gerst, fert?'who who n ‘”«. wire uSt tata.ly
hurt.
Mules, elephants and horses richly
caparisoned are the passing laucy for
lace pins.
THE NEWS.
Interesting Happenings from all Points.
EASTERN AND MIDDLE! STATEN.
A sleeping ear was Wrecked by an acci¬
dent to a train near Canajoharie, N. Y., and
the wife of Assemblyman Charles R. Pratt,
of Rochester, was killed. Mr. Pratt was
eeriously, if not fatally, hurt, and other pas¬
sengers were also more or less injured.
Work has started up again at the ship¬
yard of John Roach, Chester, Penn.
The postmaster-general of Japan and a
party of prominent Japanese officials arrived
in New York, the other day, from a tour of
inspection of the postal service in Europe,
and proceeded to Washington.
Charles J. Osborn, a prominent New
York broker, has just died, leaving a fortune
of about $4,000,000.
■ Charles H. Barker, a single young man
residing heir $7,500,000, in Newburyport, left Mass., has fallen in
to him by an aunt
London.
A passenger train was thrown from the
track near Connellsville. Penn.,and the sleep¬
ing car rolled into the YougtiiogDeny river. E.
Twenty-one Boyle, persons, including Hon. C.
member of Congress from the twenty
first Pennsylvania district, were in¬
jured in different degrees of severity.
SOUTH AND WEST.
A receiver has been apoointed for the
Richmond daily Whip, the organ of Senator
Mahone. The publication of the paper,
which is iu its fifty-second year, will be con¬
tinued.
John Foley, n theatre employee at Butte,
Montana, shot and fatally wounded Alice
Flack, wounded a male companion of the
woman, and then killed himself.
Two years ago much interest was aroused
in the Shenandoah valley of Virginia by the !
announcement that Miss Lydia Rebecca
Payne, a representative of a well-known fam¬
ily, was of the masculine gender, and that
she had married her employe, a Miss Hinton.
And now it is reported that in the course of
a suit argued at Winchester, Va., the fact
was brought out that Miss Lelia Payne, a
sister of the above mentioned, is also a man!
Four men were killed by the breaking
down of a scaffold on which they were work¬
ing at Keithsburg, Ill.
The New American exposition—an World’s out-,
growth Industrial or continuation of the recent
exposition—has been ceremonies. opened The in
Now Orleans with imposing
exhibits are from all parts of North, Cen¬
tral and South America.
WASHINGTON.
The annual report of'Third Auditor Wil¬
liams, of the treasury fiscal department, shows at
the beginning of tho year there were
on file in that office 37,487 unsettled accounts,
esMEFEI J** 1 £*L al SSSWr §>&OfthSL' 15171
!%%%?£ 4193 729 S«W
|#avini ;ll ih „ close of the vfar 37,091;cover
h.g the sum of $71 503,017.
During the past fiscal year the number of
postofhecs established was 2 121 and the
“umboi discontinued making the to al
01 °' K 0 as * U1 j n er0 * sa /
J heie aio . ^o o.v. post.>ifecos sublet . to ar point
j men ’- v ' ie 110S! ' .•
Additional appointments by the 1 rear- .
dent: Samuel J. Tilden, Jr., a nop ow of the
: Democratic leader, to be collector of internal
! revenue for the fifteenth New York district;
J James Burls, of Kansas to be City, surveyor Mo.: of Oscar customs Valetou, for
the port
j William nSw Oriea^ editoJ
ters: Hyde, of the St Louis
Republican, at St. Louis; J. J. Oasoy, at
Weeliawkcn, N. J.; H. R Linney, at Lor
| pension Bcwton; agent Colonel at Detioit, Robert McKinstrey Muh., Don tarlos to be
agent, V'.,. Di. Jolm ! L. Lee. ™ ofhiladclphio i mi,,.. to tn
^«rkey; bo secretary tmueial of legation Joseph J. afc Baitlett, Lonstantinop’e, of New
!
of pens.on VV ilium H. u Morgan, of ash
,
i yiuo, Tenn., to be a member «>f the boai d ou
1 Indian commissioners
! The annual report of the commissioners of
customs snows that during the past fiscal
year there was paid into the treasury from
various sources, the accounts of which were
settled The amount In his paid office, out the was sum $3i,13o,9«». of $1^3,2'*.,tK)2.
During the past fiscal rear the 7,355 money
order offices of the country issued orders
1 .mounting to about »t», V
ByhvuaR annointinonte ,hy tho President:
F „ r odenc: F M.inshel.L ot Toxa- to bose-iw
&VS,
i ’ SL ( T ’ ?M& d R * .??SSS’ ’
*-» -art ntartia. at Fort Myor. near
^ ashington, wInch tried eighteen signal sei
alT Eud"ra.‘dSSld by the chief n 7h^ signal , 'te officer. : '“‘“puMefy
Serpilliere and shimah are canvas ma
terials with narrow plush stripes in a
variety of combinations.
Little Pitcher*.
Johnny— “Didn’t it hurt you when that
dog bit you last night?” dog, Johnny 1 I
Mr. Simpkins—“What
wasn’t bitten by a dog.” I heard
Johnny—“Yes, you were. pa of
tell Mary you had been taking .”—Nets some
the hair of the dog that bit you
York Graphic.
A Good Retort*
At the breaking out of the Crimean
war, Rachel, the celebrated French
actress, was in Petersburg. Just before
leaving the Russian capital some of the
Russian officers gave a banquet in her
honor. One of the Russian officers, a
nobleman of high rank, said to Rachel,
iu a bantering sort of a way: good-by, but
“We will not bid you
merely say au revoir, for we will soon
be in Paris to drink your health in spark¬
ling champagne.” Rachel, “France
“Monsieur,” replied all her pris¬
is not rich enough to treat
oners of war to champagne.”— Term
Siftings.
Her Hopes Were Dashed.
“So you were at Niagara Falls?” she
asked.
< ‘Yes.”
“You saw the Fall*
“Ob, yes.”
“Very grand?”
“Very.” awed
“Did you feel
“I did.”
“Much water?”
“Yes, a great deal.”
“Constant roar, I suppose?' >
“Yes.”
“Felt your nothingness all the time,
didn’t you?”
“Yes’m.”
“How long did this feeling last?”
“What—the feeling that I was a poor,
punv, miserable nobody?”
“Yes.”
“Oh, not over ten minutes.”
“Humph! I was going it to send my
husband down. I supposed might last
two weeks .”—Detroit Free Press.
Dolly Got Him.
1 lien ______ you haven __________. t come into . a great .
had ,, ‘ 1 ‘® beeU ut 1 made ” ot i ced WeaUh io J he ^ HT the deata f of
some relative >
“Yes; that’s about the way it was
pictered out I guess.”
“And isn’t it true? Didn t you get
anything at a 1?”
mam; not a nickel. You see, Ihe it
was a false report, but it answered
P«*PO» J u “ thc
‘What pui pose.
“y 0 u don’t mean to say that you
haven’t heard?”
“TJeird what?” a
“Why, . tuat , ™ I oily „ married. . ,
was
“Certainly; I heard all about that. It
was quite a surprise * to me. So sudden, ’
know”
“Sudden! Well, I should gurgle! Be
fore the paper with the news in it got
j . dry the clerk in the corner grocery was
0 n the pop when she went after milk for
3igUto i young feiler with eyeglasses
aQ( j toothpick shoes, that she’d been
scornin'?n kind o'gone on for some time without
seemin to stand stand nn no show ihnw on on account account ol of
a ga l whose father owned a lunch
counter—he steps in a bowin’and scrap
m’to cume the disinterested .vr, and
i S , , , v i - I J inst too onif-k_che 1
| diu, for a caution, mam. - We ^ vs iound .
out siuce that he don t amount to much.
but his daddv lost a leg on the railroad
loot winter ’ and ‘ as ' A -omebodv v.f has ® o-ot to
1 , ■. > j t
o ' kind'o’
-
i that may pan out kind o glutenn flitterin’ after after
a spell. I tried all kinds o’ ways to
marry that gal olf without strikin’ no
luck til! I happened to think about put
, iu -that piece ( into the paper. If she
| had )ecn in such . SW e.t to scoop o'f
‘he chap with the goggle, on account
" h03S ,he noxt
____
c o«!d Not scare Him.
low A bright, dappor-looking young fei
walked into the city dispensary this
Ue » ««* of b " oks hj<>»®
hand and a subscription lis , . in another.
lie dumped the books at the feet of Dr.
Epstein, took the cover off, extracted a
gaudily covered book, pushed his hat
oack on L>s head, and commenced at. Mig¬
rate of 100 words a minute: “1 have here
the works of Charles Dickens in six vol¬
umes, which I am selling on time to
those desirous of securing the stories of
that master of fiction. These books are
the only—” shall I do with those smallpox
• < What
cases I have just Kortzendorfer, brought in,” the inter¬
rupted Henry big
driver of the smallpox hospital ambu¬
lance, who Had just come in at this mo
ment.
“Are they very bad?” asked Dr.
Priest. lr.y^Qjrlously.
“Very,” said Henry, running
“One is all broken out and from
every pore.” bring them iu here till I
“Just see
what they look like. Take a seat for a
moment, will you?” Dr. Epstein turned
to the book agent.
“Why, certainly,” said the agent gaily,
and moving his books over to the chari¬
ty chair, sat down.
This rather staggered the big driver,,
who said: “I don’t know, doctor,,
hadn’t we better clear the rooms?”
“I think it would be better. You
don’t mind seeing these cases, I pre¬
sume 1” said the doctor to the book
agent. all,” replied the latter,
“Not at
warmly. “The fact is, I’ve had a curi¬
osity for a long time to see a case of
small-pox. Fetch ’em in by ali means.
Beside, I want to see how a new gag
works. I’ve had the yellow fever and
the cholera racket sprung on me, and
I’ve sat ou seats full of dynamite and
been in a building when they hallooed
fire. So you see the small-pox idea is
a new one, and I'll just wait and see how
it works.”
And then Henry and the doctor
looked at each other, and the doctor
said he believed he would have the cases
wait until he had seen the books. Then
the agent went to work atrd made a sale.
— St. Louis Poit- Dispatch.
Retiving the Thumb Signature.
In mediaeval times, when one of the
fashionable follies was neglect of educa¬
tion, rulers and other gentlemen, instead
of making their mark or endeavoring their to
sign thumbs their names, dipped one their of mark
in ink, and blotted
on documents in that way. In some re¬
spects it marks the distinction between
two oignutoroo oven hottov than the
writing employed by civilized people,
since the latter may be perfectly imi¬
tated, and the thumb imprint cannot be
counterfeited. On account of the diffi¬
culties which it places in the way of de¬
ception, it is probable that the thumb
system will be taken advantage of by the
new Custom House officials so as to make
it impossible for a return certificate to be
used by any Chinese except tlic one to
whom it is regularly issued. No two
th .mb signatures .are alike. Even the
imprint of one's right thumb does not
correspond with that of the left, and
! when thc two ore had together uo Mongol
palm , himself . lf ™ for the real hmde. of
can on
a certificate. The complete difference be
tween the arrangement of the grain of
various thumbs has been denioastrated in
enlarged photographs of such signatures
taken by iaber. ike lines oi the grain
are all there is leit on the paper, ihe
j markincr Chinesecertificates. If this b.
j done, the description of a departing (hi
j nanum, which, as has been found, ap
! l^ i ies in most **11 particulars to olher
%ou„oi8, . cannot cannot be be mistaken, mistaken —Sa/t bin
F/ an cisco Lhumicle.
He Was Seward.
The Chicago Tima recalls a storv of
McDonald tv of California *' Z r e
it asinngton t mine time ,. oi f C ne\saiu.
’*
dp Teni\sylvauia avenue one
dark night he stumbled into a sewer
I | d itch, from which he could not readily
eiinwie , uiui.cn. ins TTic yiics rr i os u.oa ui
B
P ei *sons to me spor, iMio. in&teau ox ren
det'ng him oid assistance, anted woo he
was 1 he henator, exasperated but
-•'■H having a ively aphreciation of tho
» He was =
his-re^uers Xwh.r&CSttf discovered thaf it > S
not
2sew \ ork s senator, but that they were
-tims oi a pun.
“Mrs. George DawstK Coleman, of
I.ebanon, Pa." as a current item says,
owus d portrait beautifully painted on a cobweb.
The colors are laid or. ami
simply perfect as to liarmonv. It ii 7 a:d
o have co; t f800.”