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i VOL. XT III. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY ‘MORNING FEBRUARY' 8, 1887 PRICE FIVE CENTS HANDSOME PRESENTS FOR ALL We cal! attention to our plan for distributing a box full of present* to our friends, described on the last column of page six of this week's issue. We want every subscriber to share in these present'-:. The pi u is simple. Ton send us a new sub scriber. Your name is at once written on a tag and put in our present box. On March the box is shaken and the tags mixed up, and committee draws out a tag. The namo on that tag gets the $100 present. The second tag the $60—and so on till all tho presents are taken. Of eonrse every person who seuds a subscriber Will not get a present, but every one will HAVE an equal chance. The lady who sends one subscriber may get the $100. Somebody bubbly will. Why not you? Bemembor your same goes in onco for every subscriber yon send, and onco for your own subscription. If you send five subscribers at one dollar each you get one of our superb pictures freo. For five subscribers at $1.00 each, by adding $1.25, watch and chain. For ten subscribers at $1.00 . each, ar.d at one time, a watch and chain freo. In each c..so four name goes in our prcscut box for every name you send. Now we urge every subscriber to be repre sented in eur present box. There is not ono of the l»:i,C00 subscribers this week who cannot get one subscriber—that one subscriber may get you $ir<0. The box is closed March 31st^ promptly. No names will go into tho box ex< ccpt those sent in during tho month of Febru< ary. Pur Story Corner LOST ON THE PLAINS. From the Fan Francisco Call. Only bi::tcen or seventeen miles a day. long, creeping, creaking line of white c wagon*, -t retching away to the west across the vast and boundless brown plains. Not a house for thouranrfs of miles, not a tree, not a shrub, not a single thing in sight, except, now and then, dotted here and there, a fow black spots iu tho boundless sea of brown. This is the way it was when my parents took me, then only a lad, across tho plains more than thirty years ago. Uow different now with tho engino tearing, smoking, and Bcreecbitg across at the rate of live hundred miles or more a day. Thera are many, many houses c n t he plains now. The pioneers hav planted great forests of trees, and there are also vast cornfields, and the songs of h 1 ■tSVvefiTcib ave found HeW. But the great b spots that dotted the sea of browu are gono forever. Those dark spots were herds of countlef s J iaon, or buffalo, as they wero gener ally called. One fttiHty morning in July, ns tho sun roso up and bin zed with uncommon ardor, a herd of buffalo was seen grazing quietly cloeo to our train, aud somo of tho younger boys who bad guns ami pistols, ana who wero dying to kill a buffalo, l egged their parents to lot them rido out and take a shot. As it whs ouly a natural desire, and seemed a simplo tl ing to do, a small party of boys was soon ready. Tho men were obliged to stiy with the train and drive tho oxen; for (ho tents had ulrctdy been struck and tho long white lino bad begun to creop slowly away over tho lovol brown sea toward tho uoxt water, a little blind stream that stole through the Willows some fifteen milcsaway to tho west. There were in our train two sons of a ricli and rather impoitant man. And they i now first in thosaddlo. aud ready to tako lead. Hut ns they were vain aud selfish, and had always had a big opinion of tbcmselvos, their father knew they had dot learned much about anything else. There was also in the train a sad-faced, silent boy, barefooted and all in rags, for his parents had died with cholera tho day after wo had crossed the Missouri river, and ho was loft helpless and alone. He hardly spoke to any one; and as for the rich man's sous, they would sooner have thought of speaking to their negro cook than to him. As the boys sat on their horses roady to go, and the twin of wagons rolled away, tho rich man came up to thoharefooted bov and said : "Sec hero, Tatters, go along with my boya nnd bring back the game." "But 1 have no horse, sir," replied tho sod faced !>oy. "Well, take mine; I will get in the wagon nnd rido thereuntil you come back," urged tho anxious father. "But I Lave no gun, no pistols or knife," added the boy. "Here, jump on my horse, and I will fit you out," cried the rich man. When the barefooted boy had mounted the horse, the uian buckled his own belt around the lad and swung his riile over the bow. How the boy’s moe lit up! His young heart beat like a drum with delight as tho party bounded away after the buffalo. The wagona creaked and crawled away to the weat of the great, grassy plain; the herd of bufihlo sniffed the young hunters, and lifting their shaggy heads, shook them angrily, and then turned away like a dark retreating tide of the sea, with the boys bounding after them in hot pursuit. , 4 It was a long and exciting ebaae. Tatters soon passed the rest of the boya, and pressing hard on the herd, after nearly an hour of splendid ridiug, threw himself from tho saddle, and, taking aim, fired. The brother*came up soon, ami dismounting na fait aa their lest practiced limbs would let jhem, aho fired at the retreating herd. When the dual and smoke cleared away, a fine fat buffalo lay rolling in the grass before them. Following the example of Tatters, t hey loaded their guns where they stood, as all cau tious hunters do, aud then went up to the **Tbe bare footed boy at once laid his finger on « bullet hole near the region of the heart and looked np at the others. • I aimed about there!" shouted one. "And no did 11" cried the other eagerly. Without ‘■nying a word, but with a very sig nificant look, the barefooted boy took out his knife. aud unobterved, pricked two hole* with the point of it close by the bullet hole. Then he put hia finger there and again looked at the |*ovs. They came down on their knees wild •with delight in an instant. They had really helped kill a bufihlo! In fart, they had killed ** “For are uot two bullets better than one?" they cried. ••Tatter*. cut me off the tail” said one. "And ent me off the mane: 1 want it to make a coat collar for my fether,” shouted the other. Without a word the boy did aa he was bid, find then securely fhstened the trophies on be hind their saddle*. "Now let's overtake the train, and tell Cither all about killing our first buffalo/’ cried the though!” wid Ifct fthtr, m he cUmbMCi W to the of me when you cannot see the sun. Am even then you must have coolness and paticnco and good sense to get on with it at all. It con at best only gnide you in ouo objocte, to another, and soyou keep:? fra straight o lin and picvcut you from going around and nrmtm). But when the plain is ono vast, level sea, witheut a single object arising up out of it os a guide, what is a boy to do ? It takes a cool bead, boy's or man s, to use a compass on tho plains. "Cciue on! That is light." cried tho cider of tho two hunters, nnd they darted away, with Tatteis far in the rear. They redo hard and hot for a full hour, get ting more frightened aud going faster at every jump. The sun was high iff tho heavens. Their hones were all in a foam. "1 *to something at last,” said ouons lie stood np in Ids stirrups, nnd then setting back in his seat he laid on whip and spur, and rodo fast and furious straight for a dark object that lay there in the long brown grasses of tho broad, uu- broken plain. Scon they eamc to It. It was a dead bufialo. They knew uow that they had been ridiug in the fatal circle that means death if you do not break it aud escape. Very meek and very penitent felt the boya a sTatters eaiuo riding up slowly after them.- 1 They wero very tired and thirsty. They seemed to themselves to linvoshruukcn tip to about half their usual size. Mcokly thoy lifted their eyes to tho despised boy, nnd pleaded si lently aud pitifully for help. Tears wore in their eyes, tlieir lips quivered, but-'thoy could not ray a word. "Wo mint rido with the sun ou our left ahonl- der. ns 1 said, nud with our fage* all tlio timo to the west. If we do not do that wo shall die. Now come with mo," said Tatters, firmly. Ho turned his horso and took the load. And now weekly aud patiently the others follow* * Bat thir horses were Uroken in strength “ai sphit. Tho son In mid-heaven poured its full forio of heat upon tho bonds of tho thirsty liuuteis, and they could hardly keep tbeir soats and turned bis face in every direction, lookiug for some trace of the wagons. "But where arc they?''cried tho brother. Both the brotbers laughed a little at first, and then grew very sober. "That is the way they went," said one, point ing off. "Yc-ycs. I think that is the way. But I wonder why wo can’t sec the wagons?” "We have galloped a loug way, and then they have been going in tho other direction. If you go that way you will be lost. When we started. I noticed that the train was moving toward sunset, ami that tho situ was over our left shoulder ns we looked niter the train. Wo must go in this direction, or woshailbe lost," mildly and firmly said the barefooted boy, ns ho drew his l»clt tighter and prepared for the work. The other boys only looked disdainfully at the speaker as ho sat on his horse and shading his eyes with his hand, looked away iu tbo di rection ho wished to go. Then they talked a moment anioug them selves. and taking out their pocket compasses looked at them very knowingly. Now, many people think that a compass will lead tin m cut of almost any place where they “NOTHING BUT COTTON” Bill A«p Continues HI* Tiip Through MistiMlppl- CJoVernor Lowry, Mr. MUlor and Mr. Grady— Koicinako and West Point-A Visit to tho Agriculture and Mechanical College. ble and stagger as they walked. And yet there was no sight or sound of anything at all—be hind, before, on tho right or on tho loft. Noth ing but the weary, dreary, otcrtial and uubro- ken sea of-brown. Away to tho west tho bright blue sky shut down sharp and tight upon tho brown and biasing plain. The tops of tho long, untrod den grass gleamed and shimmered in the heat. Yet not a sign of water could anywhere bo dis cerned. Silence, easiness, voice less as when the world came newly from the hand of God. No ono spoke. Steadily and quietly the leader of tho i»arty rode on. Now and then ho would lift his eyes under his hat to tho blaz ing sun over his left shoulder and that wosall. There comes a timo to us all, I bolievo, s( cr or later, ou tho plains, in the valley, or the mountain, in tlio palace or cottago, when wc, too, can ouly lift our eves, silent and help less, to something shining iu heaven. At last tho silent little tarty heard a fain sound beyoud them, a fcchlo, screeching cry, that came out from tho brown grass boueath tbcniasthcy struggled ou. Then suddenly they came out of the till brown gran into the open plain that looked like a plowod field; ly, all about tho outer edgo of tho Id wero little hills or forts al>oi high as a man’s knee, every one of these little torts stood a soldier sentinel, high on his hind legs and barking with all his might. The lost hunters had found a dogtown, the first they had ever seen. The party rode through the town and looked beyond. Nothing! Behind, nothing! To the right, nothing! To tho left, nothing; nothing hut the great blue sky shut down tight against the boundless sea of grass. "Water! 1 am dying for water," gisped one of the boys. Tatters looked him in the faco and saw that what he said was true. He reflected a moment nd then said. "Wait here for mo." Then leaving tho others he rode slowly round the dog-towu, closely scanning the ground. As he again neared the hovs he ut tered a cry of delight, and beckoned them te come. 'Look there! Do you see that littlo road winding along through the grass? That means everything to us." "Ob, what does itmeau? I'm dying of thirst!" ried one of the brothers. "It means water! Do you think a great city like that can get on without water. Come, let us follow their trail till we find it." Ho saying Tatters led off at a lively pace, for tho horses were somewhat rested, find it is safe to say that they understood the meaning of the little road under their feet. "Hurrah! hnrrah! hurrah!" Tatters turned in his saddle and shook his rap to cheer the boys behind, as he saw a loag line of fresh green willows starting up out of the grass before hiiu. And didn't the horses dip their noses in the water. And didn’t the boys slide down from their saddles and throw themselves beside it. They all bathed tbeir faces and the hones nib bled the grass as the riders sat on the bank and looked anxiously at the setting sun. "Stop here and bold the hones till I < ome bark," said Tatters. He went down to the edge of the water and looked long and anxioudy at the swift little After porusing the thriving littlo town of Winona and notiug tho lively business of her merchants, I asked Dr. Waul to tell me what all this life and prosperity depeuded upon. "Cotton,” said ho, "nothing but cotton.’’ This town handles about fifteen thousand bales. It is grown by white farmers in tho east and no- grocs in the west. Tho whites aro generally poor-—very poor—and have no bright pros pects ahead. It is a struggle to pay for their advances aud keep up their stock. Their harm and stables and fences are going to docay. They arc not making a healthy progress. But still they live aud manage to give tlieir chil dren some Echooliug. When cotton was ten cents, there was a margin of profit, but now there is none. The negroes are just ns bad off, perhaps worse, but they don't know it and don’t care. Tho proprietors of tho lands rent to the negroes at prices that brings an income of from five to ten dollars nr acre, but they aro in somo consternation now. for tho negroes are leaving by the score, and going to the railroal lauds below on the delta,. These lands are ou the raarfcet at low prices and on long time, nnd the negroes imagine they can pay for t! cm. Tcrhaps thoy can. White men do not care to risk the malaria. Winona Las good schools. In fact, I find them everywhere, and every town assure* mo that them have the best iu the state. The school fund of Mississippi aggregate.- about eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars, nud is rnndo up of recoipts from sales of public lands and from taxes on occii|>atious and an sdvalorcm of three mills. This is a largor school fund lliau Georgia has got. and it providos free - education for about six months iu tho year. Winona has a ritlo company composed of her best young* men. This is a good feature in our land A citizen soldiery is tho best that any government ran have, for it is founded on patriotiwm aud uot on money. The standing armies of Buropo arc u great oppression upon her pcoplo, for thoy aro non producers, and like the droucsUu a hive, have to bo fed and clothed by the “ ’ lug bees—by the sweat of tho toillug n It seems to bo a necessity over there, for thoy have nabors who aro not always frlomUy, but here wo have peaceful oceans cm either sido and a friendly uabor on our north dud a help- in's ono on our south. A volunteer half a million of men who aro product and support themselves and lose no time frcnBiolr , _ ... daily occupations. • In tho hot caddies. The horses began to stum- Jackson is a high old town—a city of mag- hfliu miniature appearance cl' the natio capitol, with its lofty dome, nnd fronting I’oi sylvnuia avenue. Business scorns to he thi nificcnt distances. From tho depot tlio capital has a miniature appearanco of tho national ’onn- thriv- ing hero. The morcliants lmudlo about forty thousand bales of cotton, nnd there are manufactories of various kinds. I called on Ills excellency, Governor Lowry, and found him a solid, unassuming gcutlcmau of about fifty venrs with tho great south in his head and .Mississippi in his heart. TWs is hit second terra and ft sneaks well for had no opposition. a tho gr H in his h< peaks wc _ I notice that somo of tho pants al*ove his knees ter, clutched a little white object aud hurried back to the boys. "See that! A chip! They are encamped on this stream somewhere., and they can't be try far away from here." Eagerly the boys mount, d tlieir horses and rode close after Tatter*. ‘ And Uow.do you know they are close by?" uneried or.c. "The chip was wet only on one side. It had not been ten minute* in the water." As Tatters said this the boy* exchanged glance*. They were *o glad to be nearing tbeir father once more. But it somehow began to dawn upon them very clearly that they did not know everything, even if their father was rick. Scion gnu* were heard firing for the lust party. Turning a corner in the willowy little river, they saw the tents, the wagons in corral, and the wu fctdto? peacefully beyond. pan- ... ... cisiug the pardoning i*owcr. Ho our own pa per* did Governor Stephens; but after all, it is a noblo epitaph for a governor's monumont that if he erred, it was on tho sido of mercy. The state house officers impressed mo with their commanding, intellectual uppoarauco, both in form aud features. They aro not so old as Father Barnett, our much loved secretary of state, hut they will 1>e if thoy live ou and fight grim death ns complacently aa he doe*. Old Father Timo keeps cutting down all around him, hut tlio good old patri arch imile* so sweetly when ho comes that lie paiecson and says I will sco you later. Mr. Miller, the attorney general, had just received a letter from Grady—our Grady. It was in answer to ono Mr. Miller had written to Grady congratulating him on hi* great spco^ti. They were classmates at the university of Virginia, and the attorney general wrote him that ho admired his paper, The CimnTrtTTroN, but could hardly be calm and itrene when lie rend these articles on the tariff, "that southern out rage, that abominable abomination." Grady closed hi* reply by saying: "Now ns to the tariff do you just let it alone, it will take care or itself. Wo will not discuss a ques tion that neither you nor I understand." I had my personel complimented at various times by new made friends who told mo that I favored Governor Lowry and General Stephen !». Lee, for which Mrs. Arp would bo very grateful ir hbc could see either of those distinguished and handsome gentlemen. But I did not dare to mention it to either of them, for I remember that once upon a time when I told a gentleman that my frienda said I favored him, ho shut one eye, and remarked: "Possibly it may bo so, but if yon will never mention it I won’t." I like Kosciusko very much for many rea sons, but mainly, I reckon, because Koscintko likes me. It Is a nice little town of 12,000 bales and is the home of Colonel Anderson, the M. C. elect from that dUtrict. He was iu the field and had no designing ambition, but the people took him up and nominated hirn and well did he deserve the compliment. Speak ing about cotton, lot me say that in Mis sissippi when a stranger inquires about the business of a town they will s»y: "Well, wo handle ten thoumnd bales," or fifteen thou sand or some other number, and that settles it, for that isall, pretty much all. There isosmuch good pickings in cotton as there is in a fat hog after it is killed. The whole town fattens on it, but the country keeps poor. As 1 neared West Point I found that I was gliding in a different country from any that I had seen. I conld easily imagine I was in Texas, for here was the prairie, the genuine Tcxai prairie,and no mistake. It bordered on the timber with well defined lines, just like it did in Texas. Vast stretches of level, open land meet the eye all along the route to Tupelo. West Point is a beautiful town of fifteen thous and bales of cotton. It is a post helium town, situate on a sandy plateau that has fine drain age and good, natural sidewalks that iust suit a lady with dainty feet. I think that Mrs. Arj* would like to live here, for she has never become reconciled to the chocolate raud of north Georgia. If a woman has got a pretty number two foot she has great respect for it, and it grieves her to soil even her shoe with mud. The beautiful country around West Point has attracted many northern settlers, who have gone to work diligently and are showing the natives what can be accomplished by work and (outriranee. I saw for myself how they had resurrected exhausted lauds. It is said that thi One of _ . . .. jury, and as the juries here are well sprinkled with blacks be wrote the judge a letter asking to be excused.tor he had no liking for the darky ai d did not want to bo in close contact with him, and he did uot boliovo that ho could do any ciso justice as a juryman if ho had to confer with a negro about the verdict. Tho negro is so slow nnd careless and shiftless that a diligent north ern man soon becomes dhgusted aud drives him away. Tho farmers of this region aro quite fascinated with tho cattle and dairy bus iness. I expect there aro more Jorsoys aud ih'lsioinsand Hereford* within arad ins of fifty miles than in all Gcorgin. Now Orleans is their market for butter. Now tbis brings mo to HUrksvillc, a pleasant town of fifteen thousand bales nnd tho sito of a far-famed agricultural nnd mechanicM college: I hnd heard of this college all along the Hue, nnd felt an anxious, earnest interest in it. 1 wanted to see if it was possible to make an institution a success whoro labor was hap pily mingled with study It has long been i theory of mine that tho mind and the body should bo educated together—tho hoad and tbo hand—and I still remember wluit importance was attached to this union way back in tho HcTiptnrc days where David said: "May my right hand forget its cunning, and my tongue cicavo to tbo roof of my month, if I forget tfcco, oh, Jerusalem!" My good old father tried to establish this theory and expended a great deal of raonoy in bnildiug up a manual labor institute half a century ago, Ho hail thocarncbt co-oporation of every rent in the .state who was afiUctcd with nn corrigible son. They were all sont there to bo controlled nnd reformed, but it was a morti fying failure. Tho sons of rich parents would not work at all. On tlio coutrary, they retard ed work. They plotted and planned by night how thoy should tlodgo thoir threo hour's of labor the next cloy, and they genor ally succeeded. Tho experiment was i signal failure and cost my futlior several thousand dollars. But that was iu slavery day*, when tho sons of rich men had a contempt for labor. Now thoro is no such con tempt existing at tlio south, and I boliovo that the union of ial»or with study cau bo made a .success, nnd that it will givo the south a hotter class of young men than the litorary colloi have turued out. The stato of Mississippi 1 go no into this business with earnestness nud ucivc that is deserviug of cefs. It is uo half-way oxperimont. Two thourand acres of fair, avemgo laud arc hero for the boys to work. A portion of it is devoted to horticulture, a feature that I great ly admire. Then there is tlio stock depart* incut aud the dairy and tho silos aud ull tho incidentals. The boys have tho best of op portunities to become experts in chemistry and geology nnd eurvoying nnd tho nualysis of soils nnd vcgotablo products. They plaut aud cultivate tlio crops. They establish nurseries of fruit trees and vines. They graft nnd bud nnd prune nnd liavo orch« aids coming on to full bearing, They fill the silos. Thev Lord tho cattloand " “ “ them, and thoy inako A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT! A Night Bxpresa Carrying Excursionists to tbs Io# Carnival st Montreal Strikes a Broken Rati, Falla From a Bridge and TaksaFirs- A Great Lots of Life-Tbs Details. milk tlio cows nnd feed tho butter aud run the croamory. Just thiuk but Jerseys and BMP. . .. T . Devons. Just think of a churn that holds 250 'gallons nnd another that holds 1(H) gallons; nud there aro great cans of cream that isship- ped dfHIy to New Orleans, for at this season cream sells for more than butter. Tho boys do all this. I saw them at it, dressed in their overalls, and they did it will ingly aud wero proud for mo to tbo thorn at theso practical industrial pursuitB. It is cor- tnlnly a novel sight to see a boy in tlio chtmi- cal laboratory with his blowpipe and his cru cible following science in it* most obtruso cal culations, and then put on his working clothes nnd goto tho cowpcn. Well, thoy do that hero at the A. and lfi institute* General Lee is a wondorful man—tho man for tho place. His West Point education has mado him a disciplinarian, nis parent stock has rondo him a man of broad, commanding Intel lect nnd personal at tractions. Tho boys love him nnd respect him and fear him. "Who is that young man," said J, "that I sco drilling that squad? Uo has no uniform on." "No." raid I ho general; "ho Is u splendid soldier, but ho violated ono of tho rules lust week and I took II' his uniform for ten days." Bovs have been x]*clled whose parents uro I bo dignitaries of tbo bind. Thorc is no favoritism hero. Gen eral Leo knows no favors. The humblest boy in the state bus an equal clianco with the sons of tbo highest. Tlio institution is full. Fro- qnent applications arc made from non resident- for admission, but they cannot take them. Take it all in ull, 1 believe it is the grandest institution of the south. It is only six years old, and is yet in its infancy, but it is a success and is tbo * pride of all .M iskisslpni. There are many dairy farms und fine cattle herds in this state, and most of them are now in charge of young men who graduated at this institution, and they are lib erally paid for thelrskill and experience. Bill Arp* A Uabe Condemned to Hard Labor. A Carlisle, Ta., dispatch says: Squired. B. Marlin'* face was whitened this afternoon when the jury came into the court with n verdict, unan imously agreed upon Iu two hour*, that he was guilty or mi-demeanor In office. Martin's case oc cupied tiro days of the court's attention. At each sitting thecourt room wa*so full that seats coubl not be bad by all, and the aisles were packed with sturdy old farmers who had driven many miles to t-ee what came of the man who bad helped ho ma terially to make their tax bills Idg. The specific charge which brought Martin before the court was the commitment of two-year-old Willie Albright to thirty days' "hard labor" in the county Jail. The child, It was shown iu the evidence, came to Car lisle In his mother's arm*, and the obliging Martin sent him to the county jail with his mother for thirty day*. Each had a separate commitment ending witli the words "and there him keep at hard labor." Willie didn’tralnd that last sentence, fcven if be could have read it he would have been unconcerned, for all hi* energies were necessary to make the pro|»cr exhibition of hi* squalling towers. Martin excused himself with the plea that Willie's vagrant mother was II! aud lie hadn't the heart to re-panto them: and having been ill- formed that they would not t*o received at the county poor home he did not know where else he could have sent them. White River Junction, Vt., February 5.— Tho night express which left hero for Mon treal, filled with passengers from Boston and New York for thocurnival, was wrecked at tho crci&ing on tho Whito river. A rail broke ami the engine, one bnggago car, ono paasengor nnd ono sleeping car went over tlio bridge, sixty feet into tlio water. Before tlio engineer or any ono could get to tlio wreck tlio cars had caught fire nnd burned. The bridge also was burned, nnd inside of twenty minutes* all wore destroyed. Tho train was about an hour and n half lato leaving Whito Itivcrjunction. It consisted of a locomotive, baggage car, two postal cars, two passenger coaches and two sleeping cars, and was running at tho usual ruto of sped. When nhout two hundred yards south of tho cud of Deck bridge, near ol<l Windsor station, a broken rail was .struck. The locomotive, baggage car and postal car broke away from tho rest of the train, passing over tho bridgo iu safety. The cat of tho train was thrown from tho rails and continued on tlio rond bed until it canto noar tho end of tho bridge, but there it ran over au abutment and ull of THE CAR* FELT. INTO WHITE RIVER, some fifty feet below. Tho gorgo at this point Is frightful, nnd when the cars wont (town there was a terrible crash. As soon as possible tho detached part of tho train was stopped and ran back to tho scene of tho disaster. The rercamsof tlio injured were heartrending. As sistance also came from pcoplo living la the vicinity, aud everything was don*', to roS< uo nnd relievo tho injured. 8v»n after help ar rived, it was discovered (hat tiro had started in tho fit st passenger coach and soon the entire train was ablaze, 11ms adding new horror to tho al ready frightful catastrophe. Those present were powerless to stop the fire and devote 1 themselves entirely to attempting to rescue thoro imprisoned in (be wreck. The rescuers met uuothci aud unoxpocted cbstnrlo in tho hcnt,*which had bocouio so in- tenre that they were obliged to relinquish their efforts to save tho sufferers, and were compelled to retreat to a place of safety for thciuhchcsand to becomo unwilling and hor ror-stricken witnesses of 'J lit: 'AWFUL HOLOCAUST. In addit ion to this ami to add to tho terrors and sufferings of tho passengers, tho weather was Intensely cold ana tho heroic rescuers were hindered thereby in their work. No water could be obtnlucd with filled with wounded. Others are scattered along for three or four miles with no means of coa uunication except by train. Tho water in White river, at place of the accident, is not more than five or six feet deep, with but littlo current, and the Ice i* perhaps fourteen inches thick. The felliug of the cars upon it, and the heat of the fire, molted tho ico clean, but little of tho personal effects of tbo passengers bolng left to roveal the identity of their owners. DIED BY THEIR OWN HAND. ..f!. .-finrn tw i.nift. <>r.o was taVentrInches thick on wero no uppliances at hand to mlso it. A greut many were killed outright by tbo tremendous fall and tho rush of the cats; but several cases arc known where peo ple unhurt or only slightly injured were fasten od in tho w reck and burned to doaih. Ono lady and one gentleman wero rescued from a hleepcr badly bruised and almost nakod, tliolr clothing being torn from them iu hastily pull- ing them out of reach of the fire. HURNINCI OF THE llRtlKiR. The bridge caught fire and was destroyed. The night was freezing cold and but for tho hospitality ofa fanner named Thomas 1’iugore, who lived near the scene of the ac< idont, who filled hh house with tho sufi'erers, many who [caned the wreck with little or no clothing mild have frozen to death. K EN EH AT Til K W R E» K. A gentleman'named McCarthy, who went in the relief train and looked over the track,says the broken railjwas about twenty rods from tho bridge, and that tho engino and first two cant Beading, Pa.. February 1.—At a farm bouso near East Hanover, Lebanon county, yester day, Bchecca Buck, aged 35 ycari, was found hanging in an attic dead. The young womau had been quite melancholy of lato, bat the cause for her taking her life is not known. The deed prayed on tho mind of her mother, Hprah Buck, aged 72 years, to such an extent that a fow hour* later sho hanged herself in exactly the same placo where her daughter’* body had been found. Knoxvillb, Tenn., February L—Dr. Matt Alexander committed suicide this afternoon by taking five grains of morphine. Ho w*as ono of the leading physicians of Kuoxville, but bad recently been dissipated. Ho left a note saving: I die with malice toward none. I go to holl. Toil my Km to go to heaven. Dr. Alexander was a member of tlio board of examining surgeon* of tbo ponslon department. Elkhart, Jnd., February 4.—The village of Millcrsburg, seven roll?* east of Goahen, has been thrown into nn uuusnnl state of excite ment by tbo suicido of Miss Aehsha, tho daughter of W. E. Hoffman, a wealthy former, residing near by. It Appears that for two year* past a yottng moil had been paying MIsh Hoffman atten tions, and she was doeply attacbod to him. It was understood until recently that tho couple would b* married soon. It scorns, however, that Miss Hoffman discovered a few weeks ago that the gentleman was becoming particular in his attentions to another young lady in Goshen. This hnd a very dopreuiug effect upon her, nnd sho became despondent Mr. llofikinn, whiio himself living on a form* hi the owner of a town residonco which wo* occupied by a Mr, Donaldson nnd his family, but with two rooms reserved for Mr. Jloffman’a use when iu town, where different momhera of his family often remained over all night. Last t4e- Tuesday Aehslia went to a«hc, nnd, not 4o- turninx Unit evening, littlo wan thought of tho mnttcr; hut Fruity, • sinter, passing through rotrud- 1 proti cars being prrwrvtd intact nlhml dathm for n port of tho wonudod. tiik nr.Ai. nonir> ».v THU n n. Word wns sent hero immediately after tho accident, and a largo force of mon, attended hy several physicians, repaired lo tlio scene. Tho bodies of IIva of tho dead have heen Idcr.tlllcd, threo of which were not burned, i in the ice, below the bridge sit., aro twenty-aiz charred and unrecognizable bodies. Many more were doubtless entirely cremated. The Central Vermont railroad olllclals arrived at the scene of the disaster at an early hour, and are doing everything possible to relieve the sudcrcrs. No less tbsn ten physicians were in attendance on tho wounded before H o’clock this morning. tho rooms while In tow ing from under the be. sho thought nothlug of It, but Friday night the told her jvarente. Mrs. Hofflnsn, who had hy this time becomo thoroughly frightened at Achsha’a prolonged absence, insisted ou her husband going to town to see for himself. Ac cordingly he wcnl, and, upon entering tho room, found )il> danghtor dead In bod. Uoslilo tbo bed, where it had fallon from tho lifclcJ Investigation showed thatMlaslfolTmaii had gone to town on receipt of tho Invitnttnn, pur chased a quantity of chloroform and bromide of potassium, and liad then retnrnod to hor room und doiiberutely mado preparations for her death. After making a very careful tollot nnd writing two letters—one to a sister and another to a favorite aunt—sho lty down upon the bed, taking threo handkerchiefs, all of which sho had saturated with chloroform, hor (bee, icod down over her face. A an his opltlen that thirty hours when dl , douhtcdly took tho chloroform noon as soon as alio had cotnph Tbo letters listed that .lisa] was tho cause of the snleide. Nrw York, February t. twenty-ono' In New Yorl _ ci's grave, In the Ksst Mori Long Island, lie bail severed bis wrist with a small pocket face. A physician gave It she had been dead about wovered, no that the Un learn of age, whole yoddoncov k, committed suicideinn hi, moth. About.forty persona csrjped alive: nearly n!J are on bit mother, wbodjed with all sympi hurl to some ext.nl. Tho conductor of the I poisoning. It Is holioved that Oelamr were devotedly attached to thele tiro hoy Harry Iklrly worshipped his and when the .lied, bis grief know no It In thought that fain grlcfdrovn him ITTTtntllKi, Fa., February 8.—John Ingbarn, wbo shot bis wife the other day at Boston, Fa., I Itemize she sued him for sdnport, and who wan sent to Jail, committed anlclde tonight In his Hiorx Fa us, Dakota, February B.—O. C>. Delanio, a farmer, shot himself j,-today w hile a coroner's Jury wan bolding the Inquest on bit mother, whodled with all symptom., of The Tallmt of Known Men. 1'rcm the Loudon Htandnrd. There ap|>carcd in the Loudon pavilion last cvcniiiR, for the fir>t time in tbi* country, the ull- e*t man whose height Iim been recorded in mod em time.-. The new Riant is an Austrian mimed Winkelmeier, and his height i« eight feet nine Inches, which is over one foot more than thAtol ( hung,the rhlntre giant. Winkelmeier was born at Fried berg, near Hal/burg, Upper Austria, in lfc'A, hi* parent- an humble station In Ilf.-, lie the youngest *on of a family of four children, Be of whom l- of abnormal suture, nor are his parents or grandparent** mm-tially tall. Ills fingers span two ocuvcs on a piano, and the stretch of his *rm is enormous. He hhowed no development of bis extraordinary growth np to the age of fourteen, but since then he has been growing rapidly, and medical authoiities in Iterlln and Paris have ex pressed the opinion that be b likely to increase Ull he Is twenty-five. The young man is healthy, strong aud intelligent. Bejond doubt he h one of the greatest curiosities of the day, and hi» appear ance ls*-t night side by side with a diminutive member of thaflekaflfer troupe of acrobat* was ex traordinary. A huge bed ha* been constructed for train and several others are fatally wounded, Tho namrs of tbo twenty.Hoven rescued have l>een obtained, all are from Now England or Canada. A number of others who are but slightly injured departed for their homes on the first trains thev rouhl take after being brought to White River junction. White Bivr.it Junution, Vt.. February 0.— Probably 8,nno persona visited the smne of the railroad accident today, The only trains run were for the accommodation of the officials and for earning the wounded and the dead. Con sequently, many teams coming from a distance of forty and fifty mile*, and centering here in long procession-. Woven nr eight bodies were today identified by friends, and many heart rending scenes were witnessed. It U utterly impossible to identify more than 10 or 12 of those recovered,the clothing fo-ing entirely gone aud the bodlen burned te a crisp. The wora of recovering the wreckage and bodies has been covered that ran be. The iron dir* has all been pulled over and cleared sway. The total number of bodies recovered today is five, one woman and four men. Drs. Grinndl and Bing ham, of Burlington, have today thoroughly examined tbs remain* of the victims thns far recovered, for the purpose of ascertaining the number. They report them to ho, up to this morning, Just 27, which, with the five found today, make* :» RECOVERED THU* PAR. Thi* statement is verified by Lieutenint Gov ernor Fuller. Mr. Fuller is doing everything in his (tower for all the sufferer*. He has been Instrumental In establfobing a bureau of infor mation. All rommnnications regarding the iKtssenger* should be addressed to Henry E. Tinker, station agent. White River Junction, Vermont. Mr. Fuller also Indorses the state ment that from all information obtainable at tbis time, from the connecting rood ticket agents and survivors of the disaster, it if be lieved that the total number of soul* on board of the ill-feted train, including the trainmen, was H. Of these .*12 are accounted for as shove, :v> are in the care of surgeon*, one died today, and nine are left on the same train with the uninjured, leaving only four unac countable for. It is understood that there were some children without ticket*, so the above figures may be slightly changed. At tho time of its occurrence and ever since, the ther mo meter has registered from 5 to I* degrees below aero. The suffering from. told was intense. There are only two or three fern houses within two »i|ee of the ififtk, atp\ tUf* oned his mother before taking Ills ofl JIo had got Into serious financial straits. I showed symptoms of mental derangement. Chicago, February 2.—Tho >1(0 report* eitremtlr com weather in I tarn Montana, tlio merenrj at Fort t bolne refUtaringtO 0 below xcro it aeron o'clock thta morning. Tbronghont Dakota, Mlniiooota ■nd Wloconrin it la eonildenbl? war northern Mlanooota paints reporting weather, while at nt.Faul it la & above At LaCrota, Wla., It If U- abOTO. and a go ‘J0° above. It la anowlng throughout tin. nortbweat and In nearly all tha states north of tbo Ohio river. Heavy thunder storms are re ported at Knoxville, Tenn., Igruisvllle aud Cincinnati, and telegraph service throughout tbo southwest is very much Impaired In conso- •jnence. hr. Pai i„ February 4.—Dispatches from - Montana, Dakota, and othar points along tin. Northern Pacitc road report that the continued succession of ‘‘blizzards” and deep snow has been .llsastrons to every Interest In those local ities. Heavy mortality among cattle has boon caused by the combined efforts of freezing and starvation, and at some points not of conveni ent access to the railroad, fuel and provisions for human beluga la growing scarce. Instancea aro reported of bnrnlog fences and unoccupied buildings for fuel. Drvn.'s Lakk, l)ak., February l.-Mu. Kd- ward Walker, residing ulue miles north of hero, perished in attempting to go to a nalgh- lior's kousa during HatnrdayV blizzard, which prevented her husband's return from town. He found Her body half buried In tho snow, enc-third ofa mile from tho neighbor! Cured by Faltb. Adrian, Mich., February 4.—A strange but well authenticated case of frith euro Is reported here today. Mrs. Walter a Mead, aged twenty- nine, wife of a well known drag man, has mffered tweyeanwlthanabtcealn her side, and to, tha past two weekahaa been eonllned to hv bed. Blin der Hr. Itaynoldi, attending physician, called la consultation with Dr. Dental Todd, mayor of the city. I'P to last night doubts wero entertained whether tho woman would live. Today the phy sician found hta patient drasud. anting np. and anting with lair relish. She said last night tha Lord, inntpoooa to her pnyen, bad holed her and restored her rtrengtb. A reporter who called later, Ibond the woman Brut In frith, she wax cared, an examination of her side showing sppsr- rally s healing wonmL with eapptntotan. Th; caw excites a watrd Interest hero, gat BSt'tiit nca pwtmw mtwKirn