The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-09-02
Train Wreckfng

1t gives Us pleasure TO learn that Geo
Adams, who has lately distinguished him.
self in the diabolicsl business Of train
wrockipg, has been arrested IN Buffalo.
He admits that be misplaced the switch
on the Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern Railroad on the lth inst, when the
engineer and fireman were badly scalded
and the engine completely destroyed. On
the 10th he tsmpered with the same road
wrecIing the engine, three passenger
cars, and the baggage and postal cars,
and fatally injuring conductor. His
last exploit was the attempt at Fairport
on the 10th inst.
There are crimes so terrible that no
words can titly characterize them. Tam
pering with the rails is one Of these. No
wonder that some roads are now carefully
patrolled, for the expense Of such u pre-
caution, however considerable, is econo-
my itself even if there were no question
of human life. The plea of Adams is
that he intended to warn the trains in
time to avert the accident. He thus
hoped to put the company under obllga-
tions, and to obtain a situation. DE has
probably secured one of different char
acter for some yearsito come.
1t in for the criminal courts TO deal
very strmgently with felonies of this
character. Morally, at least, where death
ensues the otfense is murder in the first
degree, and It's actually manslaughter
under. very aggravated circumstances.
The dastardly deed, unfortunately, is one
of easy preparation. The culprit has
but to loosen rail or so, or to place a
heavy timber across the track. Down
rushes the train with its precious freight
of humOn life to certain destruction,
while soon the heaps of MANNED and
lacerated corpses, lately SO full of life,
may reproduce in some pleasant hamlet
or by some quiet wayside all the horrors
OF n holly contested field The author
OF So much misery should be marked out,
upon detection, for notable retributiOn.
In all his life he never should be trusted
at large again. Sane or lunatic, he
should be permanently locked up.
EDWARD EVERETT HALE says of the
education of women: 81 have for many
wears seen the work Of the young women
at Antioch College, who are trained ac.
tually IN the same classes with the young
men who study there. | have little
doubt that any Of the graduates at that
college would pass, with distinction, the
advanced Cambridge for women. This
is not because Antioch College offers
more studies, or wider curriculum, as
they call il, than our high schools. 1t
is because it does what it pretends to do,
thoroughly. The young woman is turned
back on her course At the end OF
IA wear, if she canLot pass her annual ex-
aminstions, Just as Cambridge sopho.
more or Junior is. do not believe that,
IN practice, the we'll educated woman
needs to go through the same studies,
precisely, with we'll educated man.
But do believe that what she learns
she needs to know thoroughly. 1t is Of
no great consequence whether girl has
studied this thing or that thing-that
thing or this thing. But, whether she
study this thing or tnst thing, it is import
ant that she should study to
the bottom, and learn it thor.
oughly well, SO far rs she learns 1t
at all. And if l had young friend
VINO WAS preparing herself to be teacher
of BOYS. in the things boys learn in going
to college, l should send her to Antioch
College TO prepare herself. The merit of
the Cambridge plan will be that people
will, sooner or later, find the advantage
of thoroIghness. 1t need not compel the
women TO study things they do not need
or do not want to learn. But, gradually,
it will tram the schools to teach well
what they teach.