The Columbian fountain., 1846-07-04

years, was accldenlally hiheu ~ ~ aPPSi P"' :
OF Penn street. Reading, Pa he was 10
cart with two other boys, one OF whom was
driving into his fathers yard. when the wheel
struck The curb-stone OF the pavement, the con-
cussion threw them out the wheel passing
over his neck. caused instant death. The life
less child was picked up by its father, who
could not save il, although but few feet be-
hind the cart. The other boys fortunately es-
capped unhurt.
SHOCKING AccIDEHT-As workmen were
Yesterday engaged i'll tearing down the walls
Of an old building in Water street near Race,
adjoining Bladen's Bakehouse, il gave way
from being undermined near the foundation
and fell into the cellar where some Of the men
were employed. Three of them were very
seriously crushed by the ruins. The one most
hurt is named James Murphy. He had his
head severely cut, and received some dreadful
internal injuries. He was conveyed 10 his
residence in the vicinity of Schuylkill Fourth
and Wood streets. Philadelphia Ledger.
ENcouRAGINs- The General Order" spe-
cifying the camp rules and regulations Of the
Ohio Volunteers, entirely forbids the use of
strong drink. Rations of coffee and sugar
are 10 supply the place Of liquor rations. This
tells well for the hold which Temperance prin-
ciples are making upon the affections of the
people. i
WEST PoINT CADETs.-Of those who have
graduated at the West Point Academy, TWEEN.
ly-6ve have been killed in battle; one hundred
and eighty have died while in service from
wounds received or diseases contracted five
hundred and seyenty-three are now in the SER
ool 60 brndrod nd III hau
resigned. A8
DETERMINED TO FIGHT.-The company of
Volunteers from Talladega, Ala, having been
disbanded at Mobile under the order OF Secre-
tary Marcy, most OF the gallant fellows have
returned to their homes; five Of their number,
however, have taken the other end Of the road,
and are now on their way to the Rio Grande.
They left on Wednesday evening, in the
schooner Duane, direct for Point Isabel. They
60 on their own private account, intending TO
report themselves direct to General Taylor, and
solicit from him some place in the army where
lighting is to be done.
A Jusr REpRooF.-A lady who had mar
ried man Of great good nature, but little de-
fcient in point OF understanding, was reproach-
ed by her brother in law, who told her in de-
rision that she had coupled herself TO fool.--
/" So has my sister," she replied, 80 for no man
OF sense would endeavor to give any woman
mean opinion Of her husband"
ACCIDENT Thomas Greer, aged %, while
driving a cart yesterday in Green street, be,
tween Fourth and Fifth, it came in collision
with coal cart, and the shock was so violent
as 10 precipitate him from his seat beneath the
hoolc IF hic 10 rpaaiuod vova,al Eicl-c
from the animal and the cart wheel passed
over his body His ribs were broken and he
was much bruised. Taken to the Hospital
Public Ledger.
Capt. Samuel H. Walker, the brave Texan
Ranger, is the son OF the late Nathan Walker
of Prince Georges county, Maryland, and is
about 81 years of age. He left home as pri-
va,e with the Washington Volunteers in 1880,
served through the Florida war and then emf
grated to Texas.
The wages paid to hands employed at the
railroad depot, 10 Reading, for the last month,
says the Miners Journal, amounts to frac-
ton less than $4,000.
The Lewisburg (Va.) Chronicle states that
on the 22d Of June, three hundred and ninety
dolph. passed through that place on their way
to their new home in the West-a large tract
of land having been purchased in Mercer co.,
Ohio, for their benefit This army is headed by
an old patriarch of Ito years, who rode on
horse beside the young and healthy, leading
them to the land of their adoption.
Yesterday while workmen were engaged in
plasterng the walls OF ST. Paul's Church,
for which purpose three scat
folds had been erected-the upper one upon
which there were four men, gave way, but all
of them were uninjured. The whole weight,
however, fellupon young man named Edward
Newman, who was standing upon the middle
scaffold, who was very seriously injured in
Daily Keystone.
DEATH ON THE TRACK.-One week ago last
afternoon; Mr.. Benjamin Flagg Of
this village, person, who, like mulltudes of
others, has felt and unintentionally yielded to
the influences Of the drinking manners aud
customs of the past, and the present, in pass
ing homeward from some OF the rumshops In
the region of Washington Square, was struck
down by passing train of cars, as he was
passing the railroad track, and had both his
legs so broken, and his head, and other parts
Of his system so mangled, and crushed, that he
passed, from time into eternity on Sunday the
day following Worcester Cataract.
We stop the press to announce that the Po-
tomac and Conococheaugue have swollen to