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St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20
AN EYEWITNESS.

What a Passenger on One CT the Leiligh
valley Excursion Trains Saw at Mud
Run.
SCRANTON, Pa, Oct: i2.-Wslter Nc
Nichols, of the Scranton post Office gives
the following thrilling account of his ex-
perience in the Lehigh Valley disaster on
Wednesday night: 81 was on the train
following tho one that was run into. sit
ting in car abotit The middle of the
train. The first l knew of the accident
was the sudden and tremendous Earring
of the train. 1t was then about 7:45
O'Clock. Two engines were pulling the
train on which was on. AS soon as the
crash occurred the people who
filled, the. hind train at once rushed
for the doors The lam Was fear
full. The people went out ol tie
windows pell-mell, and the first l saw
was the forward engine of our train
jammed into the hind coach of the for
ward train. The cars had taken fire fl ON
the broken lamps, but the flames were
quickly extinguished by the Use Of BUCK
cts. The scenes were fearful. Bodies
were wedged in between the seats and
among broken timbers. One man was
held down by the dome of the engine on
our train which had crushed upon him.
Another had tried to escape by the win
dows of the car, but was in the crash
and had the life squeezed out
of him. He was pinned be-
tween the timbers. Others were moan
ing and crying most pitifully. Steam
from the engines scalded severely all
those who were held down by the broken
seats and car tlmbers. I do not think
there was one in the last car of the front
train who escaped alive. On every hand
willing persons were at work rescuing the
injured, cutting away the cars, and tax
ing the people away to be cared for. The
scene was too terrible to witness, and
thrill of horrer passes through me as I
endeafor to detail IT,
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

| In sone who have run up to men
without education we may observe many
! great qualities darkened and ecllpseo'
| their minds are crusted over, like Qua
monds in the rock.-FeIto's.
TO character and success, two
things, contradictory as they may see"'
must 60 together-hunble dependenco
and manly independence humole oe-
pendence on God, and manly reliance
on self. - Wordsworth.
by their fruits ye shall kno"
them" Christianity needs no other
test. Skeptics may make light OF the
Bible aid its doctrines, but they prefer
employ Christians as trusted to servants
Limited Presbyterian
Tho vacation school and evening
school are to play an important part IN
the educational activity of the future,
and they demand the attention OF ALI
friends of the schools and OF the coun-
try.-Jgurnal of Education.
Never yet did there exist full
faith in the Divine Word which did not
expand the intellect, while 1t purlleo
the heart, which did not multiply the
aims and objects of the understanding
while it fixed and simplifed those OF
the desires and passions. -Colerldge.
There arc great many people who
seem to think that religion means not
doing wrong. AS if a knttting-machlne
that never knit any stockings would be
considered good because it never mis-
knit What is a man good for who SIM
ply does not do some things p-Beecher-
Many young men misuse schools
wherein specialties are taught, by has
tening through them into money-mak-
ing, they will dwarf themselves and i'm
part to our civilization money-loving
spirit which will be huf'tful In the ex-
treme. Moreover they will acquire and
propagate utterly false and unworthy
notions of education.-Ch Christian 4aGUo-
cate.
ALL men know that they must at
last die, but do not know beforehand
when this event will occur. The moral
lesson, to be derived from this knoWl-
edge and ign0fsnce, is that we should
at all times so live rs to be prepared
for death, no matter when 1t occurs
What is needed to this enc should not
be postponed for single day.-N. T.
independent.
Moro than one young man has prac-
tically demonstrated the fact that col
legiat4training is the very best posi-
BILE preparation for success in mechanics
and manufactures. And surely the
farmer who knows about the soil and
it's capabilities is more likely to do well
than the man who is ignorant OF such
things, and can only dig and SOW as his
fathers did before him. Other things
being equal, the more knowledge a man
has, the greater and more rapid will be
his progress.-Our Young People.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20
ADDITIONAL DrsPArCuEs.

The Broad Street Amusement Hall, the
largest hall in Nashville, is to be pur.
| chased for an undenominational gospel
tabernacle. The price agreed on was $21,-
COO, and under Sam Jones' lead, sis, 800 was
given on the lAth. The rest Of the money
will be easily raised.
A SERIOUS slide in the river bank oc-
Cured at Vicksburg, Miss, on the 18th,
resulting in the loss Of one life and the de.
struction OF considerable property.
The receipts for the Booth Barrett en-
gagements at the Chicago opera-house for
the past three weeks reaches the phenome-
nal figures of $G2, 1850.
A DISPATCH from Madras, France, says
that 2500 people were killed by an explo-
sion of gunpowder at festival on the 14th.
NIKE WOLF, treasurer of Marion county,
Ark, has disappeared mysteriously, and
no trace of him can be found. So far as
known his accounts are all right. Foul
play is suspected.
WEST POINT, MISS, is to have a new
bank with q capital stock of $4,000 West
Point is rapidly becoming one of the best
commercial towns in the State.
THE Cleveland Chair Factory, located at
Cleveland Tenn, was burned on thu 18th,
involving loss of $4,000 Two hundred
hands are thrown out Of employment by
the fire. The owners say they will rebuild
at once.
TIE business failuees for the week end
ing on the 18th number 2a7, as compared
with total of 211 last week and 220 the
week previous. For the corresponding
week Of last year the figures were 2O2
ADvIcEs as to the cotton crop are less
satisfactory, and in Louisiana, Mississippi
and the Eastern Gulf States the yield will
fall below last years, but the market drags
because the previous price was fictitious.
PAULINE MCCOY, negro girl aged 10,
was hanged at Union Springs, Ala, on the
18th for the murder of Annie Jordan, IA
year-old white child, last February.
Ar joint meeting of all the cracker
bakers between Pittsburg and the Rocky
at Chicago, on the 18th, it was
unanimously agreed to advance the price
of crackers.
ABOUT fifty pickpockets worked the
crowd at the Blaine demonstration in
Goshen, Ohio, on the 18th, and secured
about $4,000.
THE freight depot of the Vandalia rail-
road, at East st. Louis, together with Is
freight cars and 800 bales of cotton, was
destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss $4,000
A SENSATION was created at Little Rock,
Ark, ON the 12th, by the announcement
hat Maj. G. c. Dean, the trusted conffden-
5ial clerk of Maj. John D. Adams, was a
iefaulter, and had skipped for parts un-
Known.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20
COMING ro Terms:

Through the Intervention of the Citizens
Association the Striking Street-Car Men
in Chicago and President Yerkes Come
to an Understanding and the Strike is
About Settled.
CHICAGO Oct, 13-Not head was
cracked nor a car thrown from the track
yesterday. Cars were run over three of
the North Side lines and on Madison
street on the West Side. The police
preparations were even more elaborate
than those Of Wednesday, and the enthu-
slas1h OF the crowds was evidently damp
ened by the drizzling rain Hhish com
menced falling in the morning and COM
tlnued until after dark. Owing to these
causes, and perhaps also to a gradually
waning interest In the strike, the
running Of cars was attended with
scarcely any difficulty. Some school
children caused nementary stop-
page of the cars in Garfield
avenue by piling stones on the track, but
the youngsters were quickly chased away
by the police, and beyond an occasional
yell of ''scab" from the sidewalk the cars
proceeded in peace. Passengers, how
ever, were almost as scarce as yesterday,
aud for the most part t., police rode up
and down the line in solitary state. In
response to call made upon both sides
by the Citizens Association, there
was q cdnferencs held at the
mayors office last evening be-
tween committees of the stiliEers and
President Yerkes. Mayor Roche also
was present. 1t was announced at the
conclusion of the conference that the
strikers had agreed to withdraw their de-
maId for the diseha, re of the imported
men. On behalf Of the COMPANY, Mr..
Yerkes agreed that If the West Side men
would return to woFk tHis nidtnirg he
would execute bond not to reduce their
present rate of wages for five years, and
that he would tomorrow morning make
satisfactory proposition to the North
Side men.
The West Side committee retired to
submit this proposition to the meeting of
the West Side men last night. AS the
nominal cause Ct the strike on the West
Side was all apprehension on the Part OF
the mon that their wages would be re-
duced to the North Side standard, Mr..
4erkes' proposition puts them in an awk-
ward situation. as 1t practically comedies
what they claim, and If they reject it,
they will be put in the position OF feS
out without cause.
At midnight the meeting Of the West
Side employees decided to accept Presi-
dent Yerkes' proposition, and fetrrn to
work in the morning, with the UNDER
that they will again strike if
satisfactory terms are not made between
the company and the North Side men.
the latter viii not testme work until
they have heard the proposition which
President Yerkes is to make to them at
eleven O'Clock this forenoon.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20
WIT AND WISDOM.

-Uneasily lies the tongue that hasn't
the evidence to back it.-Burtingtoas
Free Iress.
| A precious thing is more precious
to us if it has been won by work or
| ec0rony. .-Rusk5n.
Experience is not necessary in love
making. 1t rather detracts from the
interest.-1onas SJt5a1gs.
1t isn't ( always the man that makes;
the most graceful proposal that gets the
girl.-Merchaat TraUeler.
Very many things in this world can
| be made smoother if men will do their
level best.-N. 0. PIcayatpe.
Some people who attempt to regu-
late the morals of the people can not
look at an approaching5 policeman with
out shudder. Journal.
Talk often spoils work. In think
ing what to say men forget what to do,
and in attending to what they are say
irg they neglect what they are doing.
1t is al well enough 90 talk about a
needle being LOST in q hay stack, but it
wouldn't be lost long, ,sif you were to
walk on the hay in u ur bare feet
Puck.
Never be grandiloduent when you
want to drive home a searching truth.
Don't whip with a switch that has
leaves ON, If you want it to tingle.-
BeecEer.
To be habpy the passions must be
cheerful and gay, not gloomy and
melancholy. A propensity to hope
and joy is rsa1 riches; one to fear and
sorrow, real poverty.
If we would preserve our mental
efficiency amid the changing pressure
of circumstances we must by occasional
recreation withdraw the mind rom too
continuous application.
The business of life summons us
away from useless grief, and calls us to
the exercise of those virtues of which
we are lamenting our deprivation. The
greatest benefit which one friend can
bestow upon another is to guard, and
excite, and elevate his virtues. s.-Dr. s.
johnson.
Genius is dazzling thing. but it
won't plod. Talent is forced to pIod
or get left, and SO, with the instinct of
self-preservation, it generally plods.
Genius starts out petted darling, and
ends by lodging the bailiffs and dying
in the poor-house, while talent raises a
monument in it's honor and pays the
bill out of its well-filled pocket.-At-
laaat0 Constitution.
DO not be discouraged at the duties
that seem so great before you. They
may seem great little way off, but
somehow they always diminish or van
ish altogether as we come near them.
Some one has said duties and difficult
ties are like the nightmare, as soon as
you stir, they vanish, Learn to look
on the bright side and you will be SUR
piised at the number of things that
Fill turn up to help you. Christian
inquirer.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20
Too Good for T his World.

Applicant would like position,
sir, in your store.
Merchant-Have you any references,
young man?
Applicant-No, sir, but / think !
would suit you. have been carefully
raised, and my habits are unexeeption-
able. / have no vices. l don't know
one card from another. | don't know
what tea, coffee, tobacco or liquor
tastes like. Never go out at night.
Never saw the inside of a billiard-saloon
Or ten-pin alley.
Merchant (dubiously) I'LL take you,
young man, but am afraid I shall not
be able to keep you long. You will
have situation as shining angel be-
fo.ge@-6any years-you're too good for
,.dch world as this. Chicago Tribune.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20
What She Wanted.

"Pa, do you know that this is my
eighteenth birthday"
Eyes, my dear
s'Pa, I want you to do me great fa~
vor on my birthday" and the beautiful
girl buried her glowing face ON the
paternal bosom.
''And what is the favor my little girl
wants?"
PA, you have influence with city
council, haven't youg'
We'll, yes, my dear"
sThen have them move that gaslamp
away from right in front of our gate. y
Thus it was that the fond father dis
covered that daughter isn't a little
girl always. She had d beau. Texas
sstttngs
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20
AN important engineering an.

AN important engineering enterprise
now in progress is railroad in the
Arctic circle. The Swedish and Nor
wegian railroad now building from
Ll1lea, on the Gulf of Bothnia. to Loffo.
den, on the North sea, is partly sit
uatod within the Arctic circle. and is
some twelve hundred miles further
north than any railroad in Canada.
An interesting meteorological fact
stated fn relation to this work il that
the snowfall is found to be actually
less than in some more southern lati-
tudes, while the darkness of the lone
winter nights has been partly COM
pensated by the light of the aurora.
The object in view in CONSTRUCTING
this line ID to tap the enormous de-
.posits of iron ore in the Gelliyara
mountains, the approximate exhaus-
tion Of the ore III the Bilbao (Spainl
nstrict rendering very desirable a new
asld OF non-phosphoric ore suitable for
N#l-rail making.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20
The Emperor at the vatican.

ROME. Oct. 12.-Emperor William visit
ed The Vatican at one O'Clock this after
noon and was received by the Pope in the
Throne Hall. The ceremonies attending
the reception of the Emperor by the Pope
were on a colossal scale and very i'm :
pressive. National circles are very much
dissatisfied with Emperor Williams visit
10 the Pope.
Premier Crispi wired Prince Bismarck
acquaintiag him with the hearty recep
ton accorded the Emperor. Prince Bis
marck in replying thanked Premier
Crispi and reafirmed his personal friend
ship for the italian Premier.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20
PERSONAL AND portiiIiiCAI. ortiIi


CHIEF justice FULLER took the oath and
his seat on the Supreme Bench at Wash
ington on the Sth.
CARROLL TILToN, Oldest son of Theodore
Tilton, Of Beecher scandal fame, was mar
ried in Brooklyn the other night to Miss
Miriam Alice Rlauvelt. Mrs. Tilton was
one of these present.
TIE charter election held at Newark, N.
j., on the 9th showed Democratic gain
on the general ticket of about 700. For
the first time in thirty years the Demo-
Gratis carried the city at the charter elec-
tion previous to the Presidential election.
SENATOR HALE's report on the civil-ser-
vice was presented on the 10th. The re-
port severely censures President Cleve-
land and the administration for alleged
violation of the principles of the civil-ser-
vice.
How. JAMES G. BLAINE spoke to an i'm
mense audience at indianapolis, Ind, on
the evening of the 18th. There was great
parade and demonstration previous to the
speaking.
surgeon of the late Emperor Frederick of
Germany, in his book on the case blames
DR.. Bergman, of Berlin, as the cause of
the Emperor's early demise.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
has requested a conference with Chairman
Leeds of the Transcontinental Associa-
tion and Chairman MidgIey, of the West
ern Freight Association, in regard to the
tariffs which recently called forth such
vigorous protests from Chicago merchants.
TAMMANY HALL has nominated Ashbel
Fitch to Congress from the Thirteenth dis
trict of New York and Sunset Cox from the
Ninth district.
The report that Bonanza Flood had died
IN Germany was denied later.
An anti Boulangist meeting in Paris on
he 18th was disturbed by Boulangists and
! fight ensued in which many persons
we're injured.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20

HE Colt arms factory at Hart
ford Conn, will soon begin the
manufacture of five thousand navy res
volvers for the United States Govern
ments The new piece fs a five-shooter
5o-callber. Besides being self-cock-
lng' all the Cartridges may be in
stantly removed by a slight pressure
of the thumb
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20

A YALE graduate, who was a stu
dent about thirty years ago,!said. in
speaking Of changes that had taken
place since his time: II never knew
whether to attach any Significance to
1t or not, but when I was there the
law school adioined the jail, the medi-
cal college was next the cemetery, and
the divinity school was on the road
to the poor house,
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20

The Secretary of the Interior finds
IN the case of E. P. Waterman, of
Marion County, Kan, who clained
$3.50 for depredations committed in
1864 by Kiowa Indians, that he lost
property to that amount, but the claim
not being presented within the period
fixed by law, he can not allow the
same
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20

MIR. JOHN HoEY has completed ar
rangemeats by which the Adams Ex-
press Company will extend it's SER
vlco over England, France and
Germany. He proposes to have
offices in Liverpool. London, Paris,
Berlin and Vienna, and employ a spe-
cial car daily on the express trains to
those cities.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20

TIE investigation into the cause of
the accident on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad near Gaithersburg the other
night, by which three persons were
killed, has been concluded. 1t was de-
yeloped that the train men on the
FREIGHT had zone to sleep.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20

IHE Fair Election League is said
70 have branches in every county and
precinct in Indiana. 1t has no connec-
tion whatever with the .sCommittee of
.one Hundred, whose officers recently
received donationo of $500 from Chair
man Huston, of the Republican State
Committee, but has in view the same
results. Colonel Samuel Merrill. of
indianapolis, is president, and CAPTAIN
John 4. Connor, of the Indiana FARM
er, secretary.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20

The Spanish American. Literary
society has appointed a committee
under tho name Cuban Relief Fund
OF New York." with headquarters in
room IA, No. 16 Beaver street. The
object is to raise funds to relieve
sufferers by the last cyclone in Cuba
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20

A LONDON newspaper says the en-
gagement of the daughter of General
Boulanger to Captain Driant, which
has recently been announced, repre-
sents the triumph of the lady's views
oyer her fathers wishes.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20

A WAR in passenger rates to the
East was inaugurated at Denver on
the 9th, which sent rates to Missouri
river points down nearly one-third,
and proportionately to other Eastern
points
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20

The grand jury Of St. Clair County,
Ill, has returned an indictment charg-
ing Slows Soucy, ex-supervisor OF Ca
hokia township, with the embezzle-
ment Of $40. .OOG. ....
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20

JUDGE THURMAN argued for the
Government in the Bell telephone case
before the, Supreme Court at WASH
ington on the 9th.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20

THE President has pardoned ex
Lieutenant james III. G. Wilcox, of the
army. He was in prison for duplicat-
ing pay accounts.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20

IHE German police have seized all
the copies of the paper containing the
late Emperor Frederick's diary ex-
tracts.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20
CURRENT COMMENT.

SIR ANTHONY MUsGRAvE, Governor
OF Queensland, Australia, died sud-
denly on the 9th.
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THE DISTRICT MILITIA.
Battalion TO be Formed from the Differ
ent Departments.

1t is proposed to organize battalion Of four
companies in the National guard, to be COM
posed exclusively OF employees of the depart
ments-one company from the State, War and
Navy departments, one company from the
Treasury department, one company from the
Post-Ofiice and Interior departments, and one
company from the Government Printing
Office. General ordway suggests that in
case the necessity should ever arise
for guarding the department buildings these
companies would be thoroughly reliable and
well acquainted with the buildings He con-
siders this good time for putting his idea
into execution, for those clerks who feel any
uneasiness under the change of administration
viii reason that membership in the national
guard will give them additional friends
and influence to assist them In hold
ing their places, especially as General
Harrison is known to be friendly to the Ma
tlonal Guard. As there is so much material in
the departments it is proposed that the bat
talon shall be composed Of the very best men.
AS the movement is sactioned by the present
administration, and General Ordway has reason
to know will be supported by the next, it is
probable that the new battalion will be raised
and organized in time to participate in the in
auguration.
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THE ROCHESTER, HORROR.
The Engineer of the Burned Factory
Arrested for Setting 1t on Fire.

Astartling turn was given to the investiga-
ton into the recent terrible fire in Rochester,
IN which thirty-three persons lost their lives
by the arrest of John Van Korff, an engineer al
the Steam Gauge and Lantern works, on sus-
picion Of setting fire to the works on Friday
night last. Van Korff is As years old, and re-
sides at 81 Penn street with his wife and six
children. He has been a resident of Rochester
for eight years, moving here from Syracuse.
Some year ago he was a brakeman on the Buff
falo, New York and Philadelphia railroad, and
was suspected of having set fire to loaded
freight cars. Later he was engineer at build
ing on Broadway in Rochester. Three times
while he was in charge the building was on fire,
and on the third occasion it was burned down.
Before this Van Korf worked in Morse's sash
and blind factory as engineer. This place was
burned twice while he was employed in it
When Mr.. Goulds grocery store, at Trowbridge
street and West avenue, was burned, Van Korfl
was the first to discover it
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NHoAAS BOWLING, Auctioneer.
SALE AT TIE BRITISH LEGATION

BY CATALOGUE OF AN ELEGANT COLLECTION
OF GOODS BELONGING To LORD SACKVILLE,
EMBRACING IN PART ELEGANT GLASS AND
CHINA WARE AND TABLE DECORATIONS. A
SUPERB SERVICE OF SILVER PLATE FOR SO
PEOPLE, SUPERB STEINwAY & SONS PIANO,
CHOICE SPECIMENS OF BRIC-A-BRAC, ARTI-
OLES OF VIRTU, ELEGANT LAMPS, A VALUA-
BILE ASSORTMENT OF WINES AND LIQUORS,
SOME CHOICE GROCERIES AND PRESERVES,
AC0MPLETE BATTERY OF COPPER COOKING
UTENSILS, A SPLENDID PAIR OF HORSES,
AND THE FOLLOWING CARRIAGES-yICTo-
RIA, BROUGHAM, LANDAU, MADE BY PETERS
& SONS, LONDON; ELEGANT HARNESS. SIN
GLE AND DOUBLE; ONE 80 LIGHT FRENCH
FIRE GILT CHANDELIER: TABLE AND
OTHER LINEN, TOGETHER WITH ARTICLES
OF VALUE THAT CANNOT BE ENUMER-
ATED.
On MONDAY, NOVEMBER NINETEENTH, 1888
commencing at ELEVEN O'CLOCK. shall sell for his
exceency. Lord Sackyille at the legation residence
Connecticut and st. choice lot of Housekeep-
ing Effects together with his Horses, Carriages and
Stable Paraphernala.
NB-The Stable Effects will be sold the day follow.
ing the Household Goods at precisely TWELVE
O'CLOCK.
THOMAS DOWNING,
Auctioneer.
morning Of the day of sale up TO commencement
sE-Adinission only by card which viii be furnished
by the Auctioneer, to whom all applications must be
made.
No I'D