Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-04-18
Accidents of the Week.

On the 18th inst. a railway accident
occurred on the New jersey and Mid
land railroad, near Patterson, by the
giving way of bridge, precipitating
the whole train into the river. Some
thirty persons were killed and wound.
ed and had the water been up the whole
crew would have been drowned. s
| On Sunday morning, in Meadville,
Penn, little girl by the name of Katie
Nixon, while on her way to Sabbath
School was run-oyer by a freight train
and killed instantly. This is warning
to all children who go to Sunday
School.
The Steamer, ,oceanus, lately exploded
on the Mississippi thirty miles above
Cairo, resulting in the loss of sixty,lor
seventy persons q ul .giiiis
Firessare raging in the neighborhood
lof Van Vert. Ohio, destroying every
thing before them. ifsgf I.ss a5ijA.ir
"A destructive fire occurred atiIima
on Sunday, destroying the Court House
iana five other buildings; two large
stove factories were entirely consumed.
f AZ fire broke out in Gallon on the
same day, a large warehouse and three
lstables were burned..sb 1Hi5 i'i'l'i - i -
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| A Democratic Newspapers on van
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From the LouisvtIie Courier Journal. Saturday
mornlng. pos 3sam 3a 5sai3 BGia !is-'
+! A dirty fellow, calling himself Van
ITrunip and representing an Ohio dis
1trict in Congress, has issued q silly let
dterto the donkeys who have etimeto read
lit, in which, among other false and ig-
Inorant things, hesaysef Of Carl scfurz
IgI4Iis political convictions, if not bis
moral perceptions. are entirely too
itransceldental to comprehend the diff
1 ference between honesty and corruption
in politics, between a party of law and
! order and one of aggression and force,
u He is, therefore, a representative man
lonly so far as q common hatred and oP.
position TO Grant and the Democracy
4 are concerned in the coming Presiden-
Iftial canvass. Beyond that he viii have
I mo moral force or political infiuence;
tlunless, as it is claimed, but not YET
Iproved, he can carry with him a crowd
lof, his fellew7countrymen upon the
Il mere clannish and unreasoning instinct
! OF. nationality. The German mind il
not SO plastic or yielding as to be dIaWI
| aside from its convictions, whatever
they may be, so naked a personal infiu
ifiuence as that. Y ,rr ..,,,.i sfls,g ~. sf04
Il Carl Schurz is, without exception, the
purest, most virtuous and ablest Sena
|, tor in the Congress of the United
lStales.I No. one will deny his splendid
! land varied accomplishments or. Fhi'
4 great talents, and we defy all his enc
mics to point to moral blot on his es
lscutcheOn. We know him, and have
GENERALLY differed from him in opill
|, ions. We do, not know what we are il
4 accord with him now. But it is dis
: grace to the amenities Of political dis
: cussiony and an afffont to, the iatelli
81 gelee of the American people,, to oshayi
NJ q braying animal, like this Van Trump
utter such calumnies asEti1e foregoing
4 without rebuke. If Van Trump is no
in the pay of Grants administration HI
z is a donkey, and, as we caiinot sup
q pose the President so weak as to thinl
| Tit worth his while to employ suchp'
4 cFeature,l e,must suppose VanTruml
! .IE-wh0 reioiees in the unique appelia
) tiOn of PhiiadelphusAto be, what hi
father must haHe been, simply an asst