Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1855-12-08

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AccIDExr--Raiiway train seioed by a
Sher6.--The Wheeling Argus of Friday
last says
A passenger informs us that yesterday,
when he Central Ohio Railroad train
Eastward bound, stopped al Newark, ii
was seized by the Sheriff, who after
considerable time spent in psrley, consen-
ted to permit the Engine and the mail and
baggage car to proceed, whereupon the
passengers both gentlemen and ladies',
were crowded into the baggage car, where
they were compelled to stand (when they
could) until their arrival in GAINESVILLE,
where cars were procured, and they were
started for Wheeling. Al 5 Z. NJ, on
reaching point within nine miles OF
BelIare The engine and the tender (the st.
Louis, one of the finest on the road ran
over COW and precipiiaied bottom up and
almost demolished, several rods to the
right of the track, while the mail car. pas
sing some distance ahead. went off to the
left, one end remaining upon the track
and demolishing the front Of the Passen-
ger car Immediately behind il. Several
of the passengers were slightly injured;
among Others our informant, whose arm
was in sling. The engineer and fire
men stuck to their posts--the hremen was
not injured, but the engineer was badly
cut and bruised. His escape with life
seemed to have been almost miraculous
his cap having been caught from his head
between two bars of iron so securely tina
it could not be removed. BY the use o
axes the ruin was cIeard away, and with
the assistance Of The passengers their two
cars were pushed at 10 o'clock nearly
mile, 10 switch upon which they remained
until the arrival of the next train, which
enabled them to reach this city.
MoURNFuL INCIDENT Death IN tn
Cars.--A passenger in The cars lurnlshe:
the Macon Telegraph with the following
statement a very mournful incident, com
ing under his own observation, and occur
ring, as il were, almost iii our very midst
Ii is a story, and appeals TO the symPa
thics of tie reader:
In the multitude OF ways III which the
"arch enemy" attacks our moral race, /
seldom happens under the following cir
cums,ances A poor forsaken mother
with her sick babe, enters the cars at Col
umbus, for Macon, Ga. She has been a
the former place in pursuit OF an unialh
full husband and an unleeling father. Fail
ing in her object, she returns TO her des'
olate home, about fifteen miles from Macon
The babe dies in her arms unattended by
a single mourner, save the heart stricken
and heart-broken mother--no kind hand
to wait upon her in this hour of her deep
affection. A passenger took seat by heI
side, closed the eyes of the llieless corpse,
and tried to administer words of consola
ton to the bereaved mother. Mr.. Lind
say, the kind-Aearied and gentlemanly
conductor, would that all railroad conduc-
tors were like Mr.. Lindsay,) made heI
situation known to some of the passengers
and took up a subscription for this poor
and bel pless woman, constituting himself
agent, for her relief. When we arrived
at the Macon Depot, the mother, with the
dead babe in her arms set out for her home
her eyes streaming with tears a, each
mournlul step.
GREAT PROFIT ON WHIsKEY.-The
present price of raw whiskey in Louis
vile according TO the CourieF OF that city
is thirly-four cents per gallon, which
yields an enormous profit 10 the dlsillIer.