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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-08-25

TERRIBLE ACCIDENT IN BALTIMoRE-Oae
Nan InstGnHy Ktued-Three Others Badly In
jured.-Shortly after one O'Clock on Saturday
afternoon a report gained extensive circulation
In the city that several men had been killed at
Locust Point, and that number of others had
been dangerously injured. By two O'Clock up
wards of five hundred persons had crossed over
to Locust Point in the ferry-boats plying be-
tween Locust Point and the foot of Broadway,
for the purpose of ascertaining the character Of
the accident. The true state Of affairs showed
that Thomas johnson, living at 319 Alice Ann
street, had been killed; John Hartman, living
on Essex street, between Madison and Gist
Streets so badly injured that his life is despaired
or, and John Swamp, living on Fleet street,
between Gist and Choptank, and Anthony Bar
rett, living at No. As Cooksie street, had re-
ceived fearful injuries. 1t appears that the
men had been engaged in loading the schooner
Ida Birdsall, then lying at Boyce's pier, with
Cumberland coal. For this purpose they had
pushed an iron coal hopper upon q large iron
chute at the end Of the wharf, and johnson was
IN the act Of drawing the bolt securing the DO :
tom Of the car, when one of the chains securing
the chute to an upright of the per parted,
causing the car, its contents and the four men
to fall to the deck Of the schooner. The force
OF the great weight SO suddenly brought to be r
upon the schooner was such that the deck was
crushed in for . considerable space The men
fell Immediately beneath the mass of coal and
debris Of the car, and fully fifteen minutes
elapsed before they could be ex;ricated.-Ban.
Sun, 25th.
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Who P0vSp
From the ROstDn Dai.v Advprtisar I

FROM the Boston DAILY AQyerttSer.I
If there should be disagreement between
the president of savings bank or lust COM
pany and its auditor, resulting in the retire
nent from the company of the latter, and the
president should then publicly charge HI Nth
having been removed for insu ,ordin alton and
iDcompetency, and he should publicly allege in
his defence that the sole cause of the President
Dissatisfaction with him was his refusal as au
ditor to certify the correctness of accounts,
witch he knew to have been Jdlsifed by the
President, and the said President should then,
without any explicit denial of this, launch upon
the press an overwhelming amount of advertising
patronage, ingeniously cOntrived to lead the
public mind away from the true issue, who ought
to pay for this adyertsing-the company or the
President I i'm eff
This question is respectfully submitted to the
policy-holders of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York, hundreds of whom are
doubtless readers of the Advertiser. 1t is of
some material interest 10 them. In reply to the
card of Sheppard Romans, lately printed in the
AdrertiseT, stating rather pungently why Mr..
Wirston, then President tcished to get ridof him,
a very costly advertisement is going through
the leading newspapers from one end of the
answering Homans' damning accusation against
the President-not against the company-is
this: !" Mr.. Homars was removed from his p0-
siiion in this company for sufficient cluse, by
For anything that appears in this voluminous
and irrelevant advertisement, the thirty six
trustees, whose names are appended to it, may
have unanimously" removed Mr.. HOmans-if
they ever did anything of the sort-just because
he refused to audit false accounts. The money
is thrown away, even as a defense Of Winston;
and the company has not been attacked. How
long are the policy-holders going to allow Wins
ton to fight his battles with their money, es-
peciall. when he has nothing better than the
Chinese fog and to
August 9, 1873.
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Frightful Bursting Of a Canal Feeder

TREMENDOUS FORCE OF THE RUSHING
WATER-oNE HUNDRED VESSELS CRUSHED
OR INJURED.
A special dispatch to the New York Times
rom Wilmington, Del, saya:-Further details
of the great rain storm fully confirm the report
specially sent 10 the Times yesterday. The in
jury to the Delaware and Chesapeake canal il
of water bursting from the feeder wrought ter
rible destruction to the locks in the eastern end
Of Summit Level, in the town of st. Georges.
AZ that place large number of schooners and
canal b0Ts were lying when the flood struck
them. Tie number is believed to be over one
hundred. The consequences were terrible. The
approach Of the water was heard some distance
OF, with an awful roaring, and when it ca ne
the boats were hurled in all directions Many
were carried far up into the fields, and others
were piledin heaps and crushed into fragments.
Ore schooner lies far up the mea lows on her
side, with tangled grass and weeds hanging in
bow many boats and vessels are wrecked but
the larger portion of the hundred are more or
less damaged. 1t is supposed that there has
been serious loss of life, during the intense
excitement. When the food struck, many
voices were heard crying for help, and ten or
twelve per ons are missing. The canal must be
totally closed to nav CATION for several W eks,
and perhaps for two months, inficting great
lo7s and inconvenience on all the inland water
trade between New York and Philadelphia and
Baltimore.
a later dispatch states that the damage to
vessels and canal barges includes eleven schoon-
ers ard eighteen barges hopelessly wrecked,
while twenty eight schOoners and thirty even
stranded, and most of them more OF less in
jured.
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Yesterday morning IS soon ~ boats were
drawn under the whsrves for loading, party
had agreed upon demanding an increase OF ten
cents per ton in the freight rates SIS and
s150 - Georgetown and Alexandria, respec-
eively,) stopped the loading Of several OF the
whsryes; and ii looked at one time - II the'r
movement would prevail. IL soon received q
quietus, however, In this way; Among the boats
kept from loading and tied up by the men Was
promptly informed one OF the owners o. the
boat OF the proceeding, and that gentleman at
once proceeded 30 the wharf, and In deter
mined manner superiutended the loading OF the
boar and started IL down the river. When ft
reached the lock there were about thirty OF the
advance" men there, and they declared IL
should not leave. AFTER n was in the lock thew
rtfussd TO permit II 70 pass out. Collector We
Der, however. was equal 70 the emergency. He
sent for Sheriff Gross, who repaired % the scene
OF difficulty, and ordered the lock-keeper
70 open the gates and pass the boat.
lev OF the men made some show OF opposing
the sherln authority, when he very calmly in
formed them that their opposition would be use
les and would only getthem into trouble. whic b
'hey might as well avoid. His manner and
worus SATISFIED the men. aud they dispersed be-
lore ne tonnd II necessary TO summon any aid,
which could have been obtained near Al hand.
some OF the men stated before leaving that IN
was their last strike" this season. that they had
had enough of such movements etc This vir-
tually ended the "advance" Increment. ,honsh
other bodies OF the men engaged in Il were At
the same time preventing the loading of boats
az the lower wharveS. But after the Borden
boat passed the lock and cleared. the "hack-
bone Of the rebellion" was broken-the OPPOSE
ton 10 loeiing AZ the old prices gave way, and
shipments took place thereafter the remainder
OF the day without any interruption whatever.
The number Of boots clearing (37l has the old
time busy season ring 70 it Next week, az tho
canal has no new msfortunes, will be brisk
one ca Hiber'IEd Netcs. 93f.
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VALUABLE PACKAGE Losr.-On Friday, the
18th instant, Hon. Jacob Tome started for
Baltimore on the II O'Clock train. He carried
with him small package, and before reaching
Perryyille he laid II carelessly down on TIE
seat, and on leaving the cars forgot it. A gem
tleman passing out at the time remarked ID the
conductor that package had been left. The
conductor, not finding any owner for IL at the
time, placed the package up in the rack above
the seat, surprising the owner would call for Il.
On Mr.. Tones arrival in Baltimore he missed
his package, and immediately telegraphed back
for IL. The conductor, supposing it was stu
where he put it, went for It, but to his great
surprise found II had gone, not where "the
package contained one pair of shoes, a number
Of notes and drafts, and one thousand dollars in
mutlated currency. Mr.. Tome offers two hun
money and conviction OF the thief.-ceeiI ma
Democrat. -
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THE MIssIssIPFI RIVER DISASTER artie-
atdrs 4 ~ Tcrllle Explosion on he Sysamsr
George Wogs.-Additional particulars from the
survivors OF the Inflated Mississippi steamer
George Wolfe, have been received from Mem
phis. Captain Carter, the commanding officer,
states that short time before the explosion he
had gone TO his room % take a nap, leaving the
match on watch, and the first he knew Of the
accident was that he felt himself lifted into the
air with severe shock, and fell with the debris
on the lower deck. As soon pc he could extri-
cate himself himself he glanced around and
saw that the forward part of the cabin and texas
had been blown away aft TO the boilers, and
that some of the timbers had taken fire. His
first thought was TO eXtlnguish the flames which
with the aid Of the others and heavy rain
which was falling at the time, he soon succeed
ed IN doing. Meantime one Of the crew, who
had been but slightly injured. seeing that the
wreck had 1rifted near tue shore, jumped out
With the head line and made her fast, when IL
was found that the boat had been but Little in
iured, except as already stated. The captain
states that she had onlv ten OF twelve cabin
passengers, only one OF whom was lost, Mr..
Melon, piano-tuner, from New York, aged
about co years. Owing TO the condition OF
Widen, the clerk, who was severely burned
about the chest and throat, IL was impossible 90
obtain a list of the passengers from him, and
the books were all lost.
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FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT TO AN EMreRAvr
TRAIN ON THE b. & q. RAILRoAp.-Ap acct .
dent occurred on the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road four miles from Cameron, West Virginia,
yesterday, by which three or four German emil
grants were fatally injured and fifteen or twenty
wounded. The accident was caused by the
spreading of the track, which threw the tender,
express car, and one passenger car down an
The coach that went over the bank some fifteen
or twenty feet, with some seventyor eighty men,
women and children, turned bottom upward
Some of the emigrants became enraged think
ing tue engineer and conductor were wing 20
Kill them, and set upon the officers of the train
with stones. The officers had TO fee for their
lives. The emigrants finally Gained down and
another train came along and took them on
their way. The accident appears TO have been
such an one as no ordinary foresight could have
provided against.
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TIE GooDRIoH MURDER Curious 81

TIE GOODRICH MURDER Curious .Storl
About Kate Stoddard.-The n. Y. Tribune gives
publicity to a rumor that the confession pur-
porting to have been made by Kate Stoddard
of the murder of Goodrich, was entirely false
and was published by the Brooklyn police tC
throw people outside, and especially the man
Roscoe, OFF the scent: 1t calls attention again
to the discrepancies heretofore noted between
the facts as stated in this "confesslon" and as
actually ascertained. 1t says that Kate really
charged Roscoe with having committed the
murder, but that the police did not want this
fact published least he should take the alarm
II is now believed that Roscoe and GoodI lch
quarrelled in Kates presence, when the former
mained "crooning" over the body until morn
irg, when she went away, taking Roscoe's pis-
toll with her and leaving Goodrich's. The re-
been partly due to alleged ineficiency in this
Gaze.
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kUKLUN IN KENTUCKY.
Accounts from Democratic Son RI

RIGHTY-sIX oUTRAGEs IN THREE COUNTIES
IN THREE YKARs-THK RKsPEcTABLK cITI-
zRNs PRAYING FoR STATE. OR FEDERAL
PROTECTION.
LOUISVILLE, August 25.-The courier-Jot.s.
nal publishes another letter from its special cor
respondent sent into the kuklux counties 70
investigate the outrages. The correspondent
gives a list of eighty-six outrsges committed in
DENY. owen, and Franklin counties since
$50, varying from simple warnings TO property
holders not to employ negroes, -
ARsoNs, RAPEs, wHIPPINGs, PILLAGEs AND
MURDERS.
Governor Leslie some weeks since offered q
reward of $500 for the apprehension of the
kukluN concerned in the murder of tie negro
Wilson, on Knox Browns planta,ion, but
since that proclamation several other outrages
have been committed. The outlaws laugh at
attempts to secure conviction. When one is
Frrested he easily proves an abb by other mem
bers OF the gang. The correspondent believes
THE WHOLE NUMBER OF ORGANIZED KUKLT Y
In those three counties does not exceed one hun
dred, who have regular place of meeting and
plans of operation. The letter closes as follows.
"One and all agree that soldiers, state and fed
al, can accomplish the dispersion and utter
annihilation of the kukluN in short order. Can
we get them? We have furnished evidence
time and again that civil law is a dead letter in
this case. Why should any one doubt il?
have attempted to furnish a Chronological list of
KUKLUX VILLAINIEs.
That they have committed twice as many as the
time and means at hand have enabled me ID
gather, there can be little doubt. If a dozen
tempts at murder and whippings, beatings and
driyirg from their houses of thousands of our
best ciuzers do not call for extraordinary meas
ures, what in the name CT truth and justice ever
will? The people of owen and Henry are
EARNEST IN THEIR APPEALS.
They even protest that Gov. Leslie is tardy in
coming to their relief. While he has thus far
done all that any officer in his place could do,
still his Excellency Is magnanimous enough to
overlook the nervous upbraidings of men
whose wives and children are at the mercy of
cut-throafs and outlaws, and he must institute
other measures, law or no law.
ARMED POLICE WANTED.
The Courier Journal, in a double loaded edi-
torial, commenting on the letter, calls for
prompt, decisive action to rid the state OF this
band of midnight assassins and banditti, who
have almost complete control over the whole
section OF country around the state capitol. The
same paper has advocated the formation of a
body of armed police, to be sent into the district
remain there until the discovery and arrest
of every member of the gang has been effected.
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Dean, of the recent term of the Blair comfy
(Pa) court, in sentencing the Tyrone druggists
for selling liquor without license, took occasion
to remark substantially as follows: "Druggists
are authorized to sell liquor for medical pur-
poses, subject, however, to the risk of indict-
ment. A physicians prescription is not of it
self a safeguard for the druggist. If the latter,
even on the prescription of a regular physician,
sells liquor to persons of known incorporate
habits, or to those who are known to use liquor
as beverage, he is liable to Indictment, and if
found guilty will be punished to the extent of
the law. In short in the opinion of the court, a
druggist who sells liquor for any purpose what
ever, or upon the prescription Of the most emil
nent physician In the county, does so at bis own
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HORRIBLE AFPAIR.-A dispatch from Pay
son, Illinois, says On Wednesday of last week
John Hancock, living forr miles from Payson,
was discovered hanging by the neck from an
upper window of his house, by q gentleman
passing by. He was dead. On entering the
house Mrs Hancock was found lying on two
chairs, with terrible wound in the head, from
which brains and blood were ooZing. The lady
lived three days, but did not return to con-
seriousness. An explanation of the matter could
not be obtained, but it is supposed Hancock,
who for some time has shown symptoms of
derangement, struck his wife with a hammer,
one being found near her covered with blood
and hair, and then hung himself. Hancock was
a respectable citizen about 60 years old,
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CONFLICT OF LAws.-The Savannah News
says: "In jacksonville recently a detachment
Of policemen under a sergeant made a raid
upon a dsorderly horse kept by female citi-
zen of color and captured a number of the in
mates. These were brought up before the may
or and fined. Sometime afterwards the colored
woman made complaint before justice of the
peace, charging the sergeant with trespassing
upon her sacred domain. The case came up
and the justice fined the sergeant twenty-five
dollars and costs, explaining that, while the Of
fcer did not transcend his duty under munich
pal authority, it is misdemeanor under the
laws of the State to arrest parties without a
warrant. The case has been appealed, and IL
will be shortly determined, we presume, whether
the decision of the justice Is in accordance with
law, or whether Ii is the result of native sa-
pience. In the meantime, the police are ma
king arrests in the most giEgerly Manner
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THE BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD.
The portion Of the track of the Baltimore and
Potomac railroad damaged by the recent flood
has been thoroughly repaired. aud the first reg
ular train passed over on Friday morning. leav-
ing Calvert station at 6.25 a. m. and arriving in
Washington at 1865 a. N. The company have
now put on twelve daily trains, all OF which ar
rive and depart with the regularity that has
heretofore characterized this road,-Ba!timore
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SThe stocking Of the Vermont waters with
salmon promises to be q success. Several small
ones placed In the Winoosh river have grown
two or three inches since last spring.
@Mrs. Sarah johnson, white woman, who
was bitten by rabid cat about Q year ago, In
Little Rock. Arkanees ., was attacked with hydro
phobia on Wednesday night last, and died Fri-
day morning.
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The CoLoRED POPULATION of Charleston is
considerably In excess OF the white population
&c, 1I3 colored, and ,749 whites are the figures
given in the United States census: but the num-
Der OF colored persons arrested by the CITY police
drring the quarter ending on July LIST, was only
one more than the number of whites arrested ii,
the same period. This speaks well for the so-
briefly and general good behavior Of the colored
people OF Charleston, and we chronicle the fact
with sincere pleasure Charleston News and
Courier. -
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TIE HoosAo TUNNEL.-The Springfield Re-
publican announces fact which Indicates that
the Hoosac tunnel is nearer completion than
many people imagine. " The headings from
the central shaft and the west end have been 50
far advanced that the workmen in each now
heer the daily blasts in the other, and only tue
few months required to pierce the less than
LOO feet that separate the two parties must
elapse before the hole will be open from end
n end %
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wall street To-dav

NEW YORK. Aug. 25.-The absence Of tele-
grams from Europe to-day checked business in
some departments of finance. Money is loan
ing at 4s5. Some banks are sending a little
currency to the West Foreign Exchange opens
dull at previous rates. Gold declined to 1l5A
afterwards advanced TO 116h. Rates paid for
carrying are l per cent. Gold dull but firm
State securities dull and featureless. TIE
Stock market is strong and higher, the volume
ofbusiness, however, being small, owing to the
absence of prominent operators from the street
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GREAT FIRE IN BELFAST, MR.-A destruc-
tive fire broke out in Belfast, Maine, yesterday
afternoon, at O'Clock, the weather being dry
commenced In Jennet's sail-loft, north of r.
Sibley s. Brothers wharf, and spread with fear
full rapidity along the wharves as far as Carriers
ship yard and marine railway, crossing Union
all the buildings In the southerly course as raf
as the house Of E. X. Boyle, on High street,
where the fire was stayed. Over one hundred
mostly wood. The whole loss is estimated al
$500 200.
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MoRRrsTowN, N. j., August PA portion
of the mills of the Boonton iron works, at Boon
ton, N. j., was destroyed by fire last night. The
works comprise large nail factory, saw mill +,
cooper shop, and four houses for drying stave
saved, but the saw mill, cooper shop. Giving
houses and one thousand kegs of nails were
burned. The loss of the saw mill and cooper
shop will prevent the making of nail kegs and
the running of the mills will be suspended until
these are supplied The loss is estimated at
$3.50, eco, and is thought to be covered by insur-
an, G. Work in the mills has been suspended
since the LIST OF July, and the fire is believed to
have been the work of an incendiary.
Second Dispatch.l
NEW YORK, August 25.-The reported loss
In the Boonton Iron Works is over-estimated in
the opinion Of Messrs. Cooper, Lord & Co., the
agents in this city, who say 1t will not reach
$4,000. Some of the buildings, machinery aud
stock have been saved that were supposed to
have been burned, and the buildings and
machinery burned were quite old. On these
there is an insurance Of $4,000 in seventeen
New York companies.
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Fatal Accident on the Chesapeake and
Delaware Canal

kIRKwooD DEL, August PA trestle work
bridge in progress over the Chesapeake and
Dela'7are canal breakwater on the Delaware
railroa fell at 10 O'Clock to-day, killing one
workman and injuring two others. The I'M ured
are being cared for.
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BURNING OUT A MANS EYEs.-As Mr.. Wal
ter Gibson, the proprietor Of the Harlem Local,
was entering bis Office last evening, an unknown
person flung a tin cup full of vitrol or muriatic
acid full in his face, probably destroying the
sight Of one, IL not Of both eyes. The perpetra-
near in charge of a confederate, and disappear
cd. Revenge for personal attacks by Mr.. Glib
son in his newspaper Is supposed to have
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SHOCKING OUTRAGE AND MURDER.-A
Louisville dispatch says that the bsdy Of caro-.
l'ne Lee supposed to have been rayished ana
killed by George Mangran last week was as
inferred yesterday and examined by pnysclsnns.
1t was discovered that she had been frighuully
maneled, There were deep prints OF nnger-
nails on her thighs, and every EVIDENCE or
rayishment were seen. Mangran VIII be before
the court to-day. Relatives Of the Eonap
wanted to kill him at once.