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The Indianapolis journal., 1889-07-04
THE VIRGINIA ACCIDENT.
Portions of Eight Charred Bodies Taken Out
of the Wreck-NameS of the Identified.

LYNCHBURG, July 8.-The scene Of the
terrible disaster on the Norfolk s. Western
railway, near ThaxtOn's, is beyond descrip-
tion. There is hardly enough left of the
train to make one car. AS soon as the
boiler Of the engine exploded the entire
mass of debris took fire, and those who
went down and were not killed outright
were burned to death. Portions of eight
bodies have been taken out, md it is be-
lieved that fully fifteen others were en-
tirely consumed by the fire. A survivor of
the wreck says the cries for help could be
heard from all portions of the wreck, and
those unhurt were pOwerless to render as
sistance. The women who managed to es-
cape lay about on the damp ground. suffer-
ing from their injuries. until daybreak.
and many walked long distances to farm
houses. The few passengers left uninjured
did all in their power for the unfortunates.
The debris at the wreck was removed to-
day, and a number of charred bodies were
found. The names of seventeen persons
who were killed have been ascertained.
The list is official and accurate, and is as
follows:
PAT DONOVAN, engineer
j. f. BRUCE. fireman.
ALVIN NJ. JAMES. road foreman of engines.
NJ. s. BRUCE, mail agent.
s. w. LIPSEY, train-dispatcher. Roanoke, Va.
WILL HOPKINS, express messenger.
The passengers killed were:
DENNIS MELLON, of Roanoke.
WM d. STEVENSON. Of Cleveland, Tenn.
i. A. MOORE, Of Chattanooga.
CIV. sTEEDS, of Cleveland. Tenn.
VIM. r. MARSHALL, of Cleveland Tenn.
JOHN NJ. HARDWICK, OF Cleveland, Tenn.
The last three were bound for the Paris expo
sition.
NATHAN COHEN. Of Roanoke.
JAMES ]. ROSE, OF Abingdon, Va.
PATTIE CARRINGTON, of Texas, aged nine
years.
JOHN KIRKPATRICK, of Lynchburg.
There were about thirty people who es-
capped with only slight injuries, and ten
who were seriously injured. The list of
the dead will be increased as friends of
the missing people come forward in search
of them. There is no way at present to as
certain the exact number of the dead, Ow-
ing to the fact that the train was de-
strOyed by fire.
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MAO N"' alter. She IS
charitable woman and takes IN interest
in ell that is philanthropit,. sho is also
naturally socially inclined.
Of Secretary Windows children Miss
Ellen is 4 young lady in society and
q beauty. She has been finely edu-
Gated and is good musician. The next
daughter is Miss Florence, who is still ut
school, There is son. Mr.. William
Window, of Boston, who is married and
has children. Mrs, Window is, there
fore, a grandmother. The family home
is at Winona, Mimi, but Mr.. Window
has made his home in New York city for
some years. x*x
Mrs. Proctor, wife of the secretary of
war, was born in Vermont. and size and
her husband were children together,
having been brought up at Proctor, VT,
o town named for her husbands family.
There Secretary Proctor has o fine estate,
the old Proctor homestead. Secretary
Proctor having been governor Of his
state, of course his wife has been used
to social prominence, and she is also
used to the possession of wealth. She
will be new to Washington, however,
1OT Silo llaS never uNeu tHeFc, tAOuSl
she will not be likely to take .; promi-
nent part socially, since she is in mourn-
ing. Mr.. and Mrs Proctor have four
children living-Mrs F. e. Holden, of
San Francisco; Flecher D. Proctor, who
is married and lives on his fathers place;
Miss Emily Proctor and II boy 10 years
old. Miss Emily is in society and fond
Of il. She is an accomplished horse
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GIN PIER SNNII

The Anei ici.ns have suppressed distances
by bringing railway trains to perfection.
You take the cars after dinner 10 go a two
or three hundred miles journey You pass
m hour or SO in tho smoking room, you 20 to
your berth, sleep tho hight through, and by
the time you awake you ure at your journeys
end
In point OF comfort, the American trains
are to tho French and English trains what
these latter are to tho stage coach Of bygonc
days.
Nothing surpass the comfort and
luxury of the Pullmnn cars, unless it be the
perfected Pullman that is called the rcstibulo
train. Six or seven carriages, connecting
one with another, allow Of your moving
about freely over length of some hundred
yards. Dining room, sleeping car, drawing
room car, smoking room, library, bath room,
lavatory, tho whole fitted up in the most
luxurious style. What can one desire more
1t is hotel on wheels.
There arc windows aud ventators, hut if
you open your window, you will SEQ your fel-
low travellers turn up their coat collars and
get down their shawis and furs, and you will
hear energetic gruInblings, which will give
you to understand that you arc turning your
self into public calamity. The Americans
are shicery people, stewing themselves in
bni,l-innrie
Here, as well as in the hotels and In all cou
ditions of American life you are ut the mercy
Of servants. There is no remedy ut hand no
appeal against it,
In America you are supposed to know every
1i,1 I'LL,
should happen to address yourself to well
bred people
If you aslS Il passer-by in the street the near
est way to the station, he walks as though lie
understood you not. The word Station is
English, but here you must talk American,
and say depot, pronounced decpo The nva-
rlahle answer you get to the questions you
ask in tho street is II don't know" They
are all like Joe, ''they don't know nothink."
When a railway servant has succeeded in
insulting you, he is quite proud, and plumes
himself on his smartness he looks at his
mates and seems to say: did you hear how
Ispoko up to himlo He would bc afraid of
lowering himself by being polite In his eyes
politcness is 4 form of servility, and he
imagines that, by being rude to well bred pco-
pie, he puts himself u footing with them.
You go to n railway ticket office to boo!
for certain place. Perhaps there arc several
lines of RAILWAY running to your destination.
The clerk says, without looking at you, and
! at tho ratio OF thousand words minute:
"What lines B. and O., nr S +. and W
R. r., or s. 7. l.. and CT"
II want ticket for Chicago"
81 ask whether you wis., to ;ro by then-
Hero he once moro repeats various parts of
tho alphabet, casting look Of pity at you
the while. Do not believe he will translate
his D's into English. It is your place
to understand them.
Do not ls'sa your temper. however, that
! never pays III Alncrica, Tho natives would
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CHAPTER NXXVI

Jonathans servants all appear to mo to ho
reduced duchesScs nntl noblcueu in livery.
When you speak to u man servant before
answering yon he scans you from head to
foot and seems to say: "Who may you be-
Be careful how you talk to me We area
free nation, sir all equals here, and am us
good lis yoIi.n
And you feel inclined to say to him:
IL congratulate you, young man, upon liv-
ing in free country; but since we are all
equals here, and am civil to you, why on
earth cannot you be civil TO lnc}"
The fellow is lacking in logic.
The manner Of the maid servant is differ
ent; she wears a look Of contempt and pro-
found disgust; shc seems to say with sigh:
How can men be such brutcs as to allow
women to work? What despicable creatures
they are, to be surc!'
To get un ilea of tho prodigious labor I'm.
dertalcn by an American servant girl ono
has but to sec her at work doing room,
feather broom in hu,id.
~ day or two after this remarkable man
ner OF busting had attracted my attention,
calno across the following in Puck:
Sarah Is doing tho drawing room. Enters
the mistress Of the house, evidently fearing
to be choked by the cloud of dust that fills
the room
Sarah, what arc you doinSa
'l'n dustin tho room"
II SEQ. When you've finished, please to
undust it."
Servants wages range from 5000 to $500 a
year. mean, Of course, in good ordinary
houses, and not in millionaire's mansions.
Mr. c. Vanderbilt pays his chief cook ten
thousand dollars. | write the sum in letters
that the reader may not cxclaim: "Surely
there is n tlisprint here; the printer has put
oao nousht too many"
In spite of tho enormously high wages they
nay, tho Americans have SO much trouble in
getting good servants, that numbers of them
arc, SO to speak, driven from their homes and
obliged to tako refuge in hotels and apart
mcnt houses
Negro ones ere tho only ones ut all deferen-
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tial in manner, or who have u slnilo on their
fa"c; from time to time. hut many people
have an objection to them, and charge them
with serious faults, such as finding things
which are not lost, and breaking the rlonot-
ony Of life by dressing up in their employers
raiment when occasion offers
An American of my acquaintance, upon
going to his room one evening to dress for a
dinner party, found his dress coat and waist
coat missing from the wardrobe Guessing
their whereabouts, ho went UPSTAIRS and
there, in his negro buffers room, we're tho
missing garments.
Ho rang for the culprit.
"Pompcy," he said, II have found my
dress clothes in your room. What is the
meaning Of itT'
II forgot to put dem back, sah."
'.You have had them on, you rascal.'
Yes, sah."
"Ho" dare you wear my cothes2'
please, massa got married yesterday"
and the broad black face Of Pompcy was lit
up with a rather shecpisE looking grin.
III icut11rps Of f tto II comic pap 1T c
outdono by realities i'll America
Know lady Who losing her patience
with her iousc,naid one day, said to her
~ expect my servants to do 50 and SO. ""
Your whatf' cried the indignant danlsel
IN just tell you what | think of you
You uin't no lady, that's certain"
Hero are two advertisements which cx-
tract from an Indianapolis paper
Situation as dish washer required by i
lady Apply Sentinel Office"
"a lady twhite, undertakes washing at
home" t.ltltlress follows.1
Democracy can no further 60.
Il take care never to part on bad tcruls
with my servants when they leave me" This
was said to me one day BY clever Boston
lady, who, to my thinking, lacks sufficient
admiration for the democratic institutions Of
America.
guessed that she intended {. covert satire
on the greatest republic i'll tho world,
''Whyt' | demanded.
because, when one of those girls leaves me,
it is quito within the range Of possibility thnt
she will marry some western ranchman and
one day, when her husband becomes a scua-
tor. she may be useful to mo at Washington" ="
To Jt tOltiERcT'
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CORPORAL TANNER. .
lie Wants to Er Commissioner OF Pensions
aul His Friends Think lie Will.

lie Wants tn Er Commissioner OF Pensions
anl His Friends Think lie Will.
Corporal James Tanner. Of Brooklyn,
n. y. is mentioned for commissioner of
pensions, and his friends think he will
win the prize. He has been intensely
interested in the welfare of the wounded
soldier ever since the close OF the civil
war, and had much to do with the build
ing Of the New York state soldiers home
at Bath, and is said to have aided in the
building Of the home for disabled Con-
fcdcratc soldiers at Richmond, Va.
James Tanner is q native of Scholarie
county, n. y. III September, 1861. he en-
listed in the Eighty y-seyenth regiment, n.
Y. S. ", at the age Of II years. lie was
all through the Pcninsular campaign,
taking part in the battle of Williams
burg, Fair Oaks, Yorktown and the
seven days fight before Richmond.
After leaving the Peninsula the Eighty
seventh fought at Warrington, Bristow
Station and Manassas Junction.
In August, 1862, while under com
mand of Gen. j. G. Robinson, he was SO
badly wounded as to render necessary
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home. In 1864 lie was appointed assist
ant postmaster in the legislature at Al
bany, and in 1865 received a clerkship
i'll the war department at Washington.
He remained there one year, when he
returned to Schoharie county and en-
tered the law office of William C. Lamont,
where he staid till admitted to the bar in
the spring of 1860, Soon afterward he
received an appointment as clerk in the
New York custom house. Here he rose
from one post to another by competitive
examination till he was made deputy
collector under Chester A. Arthur, hav-
ing served in that capacity three years.
He resigned it to take tho more RESPONSE
bic one of receiver of taxes for the city
of brooklyn.
In &. a. L. circles Mr.. Tanner is a
willing worker. and i'll any part of the
state where a charitable fund is to be
raised by a post he has responded to
any call on him for help. and his SER
vices have been willingly rendered when
his business would permit. For years
he has been member of the committee
on pensions, and has made frequent
journeys to Washington in aid of his
disabled comrades. In 1876 lie was
elected department commander of N. Y.
G. a. r. and reelected in 1877. During
his administration funds were raised for
the Soldiers home and beautiful build
iligs were erected at Bath. He labored
for this work night and day, Travelled
thousands of miles and addressed hun
drcds of meetings from Montauk Point
to Buffalo. When the buildings were
erected he went before the senate COM
mttee and successfully laborel to the
effect that the state should take and
support the institution.
While on visit to Richmond, Va, in
conversation with several ex-Confederatc
soldiers, mention was made of the suffer-
ing condition of manned and disabled
ones of the south. Mr.. Tanner suggested
that the citizens take the matter in hand,
build and equip q home and then ask the
state to care for it, Upon his suggestion
the work was undertaken by philan-
thropic men of Richmond. To assist
them in their work appeals to the old
soldiers of the north were made. In
Brooklyn, under the direction of Mr.. Tan
ner, meeting was held in tho Academy
of Music, addressed by Rev. !. NJ. Foster
and Mr.. Tanner, at which $1,000 was
realized to assist in tho erection of a
home. The suggestion thus made re-
suited in securing $25, 900.
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MRS. TRACY, likely to be dis
satisfied with the result Mrs. Blaine
was teacher in Kentucky many years
ago, during the middle Of the century,
while Mr.. Blaine was principal Of
military institute in the same state.
They were married in Pittsburg in 1851,
and removed to Augusta, Me. Within
five years Mr. Blaine began to be
prominent politically, and from that
time forward his wife has been used to
that prominence which would naturally
come with her husbands conspicuous
position. xSx
Perhaps the woman who will have the
nearest place of all the ladies Of the cab
met to the presidents wife is Mrs. Mil
ler wife of ". II. II. Miller, attorney
general The closeness which existed
even years ago between the Harrison
and Miller families is indicated from the
fact that Mr.. Miller is named for Will
lam Henry Harrison, or "Old Tippc-
canoe. The husbands being law part
llp!.s lie wives were naturally intimate.
Mrs Miller was a Miss Gertrude Bruce.
She WAS born in Ohio, but when she was
child removed with her parents to
Oneida county, n Y She married Mr..
Miller, and went with him to PERU Ind,
where he became superintendent Of pub
lie schools. lie then practiced law in
Fort Wayne, and Mr.. Harrison induced
him 10 remove to indianapolis and be-
come his partner. The two families have
lived opposite each other and have at
tended the same church for many years.
Mrs, Miller is 4 very tall woman, with
blue eyes and reddish hair. She is fond
of painting. and in this she and Mrs.
Harrison have 4 common interest, since
Mrs. Harrison paints on china. There
are three children in tho Miller fanily,
Florence Gertrude, Samuel Duncan and
Jessie. Miss Florence was educated at
New Haven; is tall and slender, With
blonde hair and expressive eyes, The
son is Il student at Hamilton college.
The second daughter is 10 years old.
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Tho "Consoler" would be good name for
this company OF insurance against the risks
of marriage,
also note the existence of u Harmony as
sociaton, tho object of which is to examine
men and women about to marry, and to give
them Mr.. Punch's advice, or to stamp tho
men warranted to wear and the women war
rantcd to wash. No moro frauds possible.
Perhaps the association may presently under
take to furnish tho certificate cf the decenso
of the future nothcr-in-law.
As specimen Of small and harmless eccen-
tricities, extract tho following from an
American newspaper:
Mrs. Margaret r., OF New York, had her
leg alnputatcd the other day, and insisted
upon its having II Christian burial III her
family lot in Calvary cemetery. a death
certificate was made out by the doctor set.
ting forth that the leg had died by aulputa.
tion at the Chambers Street hospital, Novcm-
Der %; that it vas 80 years Ole, married, and
part mother of u family The leg was buried
with Ill due cere,nony
Tho thing being quito natural the news
lilI,cr makes no comment upon it. 1t cnly
slpl'llc7 IL "itu II bubt heauliis5, spllletlllI1
liko "a Leg Gone to Heaven in Advance Of
It's Owner"
\ certain Mr. Arltrosa r., OF PittsburG
evidently intending to he a dcfauiter at this
last judgment, has; drawn up II will giving
tho following directions for the disposal of
his remains:
n direct that my bcdy be taken to st.
Miehaels church and, after the proper re-
lgiol$ services are performed that it be
given in charge of my family, who will con
vcy it to Sa,nson's crcIlatory and there have
it burned 10 ashes the ashes to be put il (.
small bottle anl given i'll charge of the Ger
man consul in Iittshi,rg. This gentleman
will then forward my i.sles to the consul i'll
New York, WHO VIII give them in charge Of
the csptain of the German steamer T,lba, who
will place them securely i'll bis ship for the
ocean voyage. When at mid ocean | direct
the captain to request ono of the passengers
to dress in u seafarins, sll!t and ascend with
my ashes in his hand 10 the top OF the top
most mast, and, after pronouncing u last
benetliction, to extract the cork from the
bottle and cast its contents to the four winds
of heaven direct also, while this ceremony
is being performed, that it be witnessed by
all passengers on board. After the Elba has
completed her trip and returned again TO
New York, want Il full statement Of my
death and the scattering Of my ashes in mid
ocean published in the pittsburg papers, so
that my friends in this city shall know my
burial place"
This reminds one of Chateaubriand's ocean
burial, but the sprinkling adds u touch Of
hu1Dor Of which poor Chatcaubriand was
wholly ;lrstit,lte
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CHAPTER XEXIN

Jonathan measures everything by his own
gigantic ell
His notions are like the continent he in
habits: vast, almost boundless. He has done
such wonders that he feels equal to doing
anything and everything.
The result is that America is the home Of all
forms Of eccentricitics, Of all forms of daring
Jonathan considers that everything is to be
had, it is but question of will and money.
How much1 So much. Done.
Parisians remember very well the Ameri
can millionaire who, on the occasion of his
daughters marriage, wrote to the town
council OF Paris to ask for the loan of the Arc
de,.Triomphc, which he was anxious to decor
ate in honor of the wedding, and have tho
special use of during the day. He was politely
Informed that the Arch was not to let.
'Then will buy it," he replied. "Name
your price"
The offer was royal one, and the Ameri-
can, doubt not, thought the town council
mnd to let slip such a chance of doing busi-
ness.
Jonathan would ask tho queen of England
to lend him Windsor castle for the season, if
the fancy took him.
A Bostonian once conceived the idea Of ell
tertaining bis friends with the performance
of on oratorio. His drawing room being
much too small to hold tho party he wished
to invite, he thought Of hiring concert
room or theatre for the night.
"But, no" said he to himself, Tan oratorio
would bo much moro impressive in q sacred
edificc"
And he set about hiring the cathedral of
the place.
Such things as these make us Europeans
nnile and we say: "Those Yankees are
crazy" Certainly they are q little bit
touched
In America the most preposterous ideas
find partisans-and subscribers.
Thus, saw in one Of the most widely read
American newspapers the announcement Of
company recently founded, with q capital
of $500, 600, called:
Matrimonial Iuldelity Insurance Company,
The prospectus of this enterprise states its
object and advantages with categorical clear
ness Each sufferer, upon presenting proofs,
is to receive from tho company check as
sort Of court plaster to patch up his lacerated
feelings would not advise you to put q
cent into the concern. have no confidence
in the dividends of an enterprise which might
have some day to pay fabulous sum to q
Mormon. whose twenty or thirty wives had
taken It into their heads to desert in batch.
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THE CABINET LADIES.
PEi4 PICTURES OF THE WIVES OF
thR. HARRlsON's MINISTER'S.

They VIII Lead Society" at the Capital
ms Their Predecessors Always Have III the
Past and as Their Husbands Are Sup
posed to Lead In National Politics.
A change i'll the administration of the
government of the United States is ac-
conpanied as matter of course by
complete social change at Washington.
Mrs. Harrison, who is now. by virtue
Of her husbands high office, the leader
Of American official society, is familiar
with Washington society, for her hus-
band has been United States senator for.
one term, which Of course fixed the
residence of the family at the capital.
Her second in social rank, Mrs. Nor
ton, has grown up in the gay circles of
New York, and will be an able assistant
in un,iveling knotty points Of etiquette
and on state occasions. Her husband
being very wealthy, and Mrs Morton
being still comparatively young, she
may be Looked to for as great promi-
nence rs the vito Of vice president
can be, **x
OF co;!rsc, rs the secretary of state is
to the president what a chief OF staff is
to II general. that officials wife leads
the social group of women who are the
wives ii secretaries. Mrs James G.
Blaine has passed the greater part Of her
life in Washington, and is well known
there One would suppose that Mrs.
Blaine would not relish any place except
that of the first social position, since her
husband has for SO MANY terms been
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passed tho latter part Of his life, the land
having been given him i'll 1880. Thehill
is $50 feet high, commands fine view of
Plymouth and Duxbury harbors, and the
monument will lie 100 feet high. 1t is in
:, sense unfortunate for Capt. Standish
that his ''courtship" has mado him the
subject Of jokes, for he was Il sturdy
fighter, an unfaltering Christian, though
not a Pilgrim or 'separatist," one of the
honored hundred and one to come over in
the Mayflower. He was Lancashire
lad," born in 1884, and died Oct 8, 1856.
Hewas one of those rare men who seem to
havo perfect command of their faculties
only i'll fight or other time of peril. In
common life lie was rather hot tempered
and sad blunderer in social matters. In
1926 he went to England is agent for the
colony, and after the end Of the Indian
war was made Il magistrate for life. Tho
excitement of battle operated on him
much as lealthful stimulant does to
most men; In the midst of the heat and
danger he became cool and clear headed
to n remarkable degree.
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He with evident agitation)-M-Miss
Grimes, do you singh
Shea little
He-And play7
Sho-Ycs
He tsighing)-Paint, too, suppose?
She-Some
He-Rccite any?
She-Oucc in Il great while.
Hc-Do you cook?
Shc-Nol
He-Thank heavenl Miss Grimes, will you
be my wife2-Burlington Free Press.
1t is said that Saxony furnishes the
largest percentage of suicides of any
civilized state Tie number last ycas.
was l.lUi. or one to abou every 5000 OF
the population. In 1881 the total num-
bcr was l.248.