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The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-12-17
FataI wreck of a Pay Car.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, December 16.-The
pay car of the Ohio, Indiana and Western
railway with General Superintendent
Wilson and ]. NJ. Cummins, train master,
on board, was wrecked near Covington,
Ind, early this morning. Both Wilson
and Cummins were killed. 1t is impossi-
BILE at this hour t. gather details, but it
is believed paymaster and engineer were
also killed
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-12-17
The Wilmington review

Has got fairy into the teens, being
now thirteen years of age, yet so healthy,
vigorous and alert that it cannot be
charged with juvenility. Brother James
has trod the thorny paths of journalism
patiently, industriously and usefully, and
has fairly earned the confidence and good
will that so strongly attaches to him
and the Review. We hope for him con-
tinuance of favor and long life Of pros
perity.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-12-17
Fatal. ACCIDENT.
RumOrs as to a Terrible Disaster
Nine MiIes From Chicago.


CHICAGO, December 16.-The report
has Just reached here to the effect that
the accident happened to the train on the
line Of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
railroad near Englewood in the Southern
part of the city. The particulars, thus
far received, are very meagre. They are
to the effect, that four people have been
killed, and that the wrecked train is on
fire. The city fire department has been
notified that the accident is near Oak
dale. Four persons were killed and
many injured. The train is said to have
caught fire and many persons injured in
the flames. One or two persons are said
to have been roasted to death. Five
engines from Englewood and South
Englewood have been called. An order
was sent to Englewood to have every
physician in that suburb sent to the scene
of the wreck to care for the suffering.
Oakdale is small suburb, about three
miles from South Englewood, and about
nine miles from Chicago. The train
wrecked is said to have been one in the
suburban service. Inquiry at the office
of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
elected the statement that information
received there was to the effect, that
several persons have been injured, but
that no one had been killed.
Observation-Disclosures advices from the
scene of the accident show that it is far
less serious than was at first reported.
There were no fatalities, and the train
did not take fire. Engineer Murphy, of
the suburban train, had one leg so badly
smashed that amputation became neces-
sary. The conductor and one passenger
were slightly hurt.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-12-17
Gas strike A Failure.

LONDON, December 16-The strike OF
the employees of the South Metropolitan
Gas Company has proved a failur, the
company having filled all the strikers
places with non-union men. There have
been no disturbances, and the work at the
gas house is proceeding quietly.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-12-17
The New York Herald's Washington

The New York Heralds Washington
correspondent notes the fact that there
is a large proportion of young men in
the present House, many of them being
in the thirties, and the average age of
the House being only forty. As the
Herald says, this is new departure. 1t
is not bad one. Give the young men
a chance,
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-12-17

WASHINGTON, December 16.-The bond
offerings to-day aggregated 1856, 400 ;
all accepted at 1.27 for four per cents,
and ]. .045s for four and halls.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-12-17
The GOwen Suicide.

WASHINGTON, D. c. December 16.-D. N.
Wolford, who keeps cutlery store al
AT Pennsylvania avenue, Friday night
sold Franklin B. Gowen the pistol with
which he killed himself. The box of car
tridges found in Gowen's room at Worm
ley's hotel was ten short, and Mr.. VOL
ford says the box of cartridges he sold
with the pistol was not full one.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-12-17

Go where duty call, but turn in and
help when you get there. Don't stand
around with your hands in your pockets.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-05
Fashionable Society.

Bishop f. d. Huntington, in the
October Forum, .prescribes fashiona-
BILE society" as something too for
NAL for an Institution, too irregular
for an organization, too vital for a
machine, too heartless for fraterni-
ty, too. lawless for a school, too de.
cent for a masquerade, with too
much lying for bureau, and too
many passions for pageant. There
are the competition, matches, risks,
calculations of perilous game, the
changes of an imponderable,
immaterial commerce, musical voices
from inharmOnious breasts, spitefnl
courtesies, magnificent meanness.
There are songs of peace, flying ar
rows Of malice and revenge, bonds
and fragments of friendships, charm.
ing wells over hidden horrors, laugh
ter ripping over dark Depths of ST.
lent agony. One has only to reflect
q moment how considerable Sec
ton of the lives of many men and
more women these activities occupy,
what capacities they include, what
forces they engage, the interplay
between life and life, the issues and
destiny of character, the august re.
sponsibility, to comprehend that
society even in this limited sense,
is a study for the wisest minds"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-05
She Thrashed the Court.

There was a very sensational scene
in Justice w. Ell. Davis court in
Wheeling Monday. Mrs. Annie
Costello, a woman OF Amazonian
proportions and of fair record for
pugilistic power, was brought into
court on a charge of grand larceny.
The hearing was set for 10 a. m. to.
day, and as the judge turned to pick
up a paper the defendant sprang at
his throat. Mr.. Davis is about six
ty.five years of age, and the frenzied
woman brought him to the floor with
sufficient force to cut a cash in the
judicial head. Mrs. Costello held on
to his throat despite the efforts Of
the officers in attendance and there
was a severe struggle. Finally the
justice secured a cane and struck his
assailant several times over the
head, inflicting severe cuts. She
was then secured and locked M. Her
offense is punishable with at least q
years Imprisonment. Hi'e'.ai's y
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-05

The Rev. j. Snyder, a Unitarian
preacher in st. Louis, undertakes to
explain, in the Forum for October
the singular fact that there is not a
prejudice among any European PEG
pie against the Negro as Negro
such as is evident in every part Of
the United States. He thinks that
this prejudice is more or less natural
in the Southern States, where the
Negroes were slaves, but he can find
no satisfactory reason for its exist
ence, in an equal degree, in the Nor
thern States where slavery has not
existed for so long a period, or in the
Western States where it never ex
listed at all.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-05

THE FORUM FOR OCTOBER.-The
leading article in the October Forum
is review of the political situation
in Europe, by Prof. Emile de Lavel-
eye, of the university of Liege. He
shows the points Of danger to peace,
and explains the formidable prepare
tions for war that even the most pa
cific nations are continually making.
1t is comprehensive inside view of
the political status Of all Europe. A
hundred years hence, Prof. Laveleye
thinks, except China there will be no
nation that can compare in strength
and importance with the United
States and Russia. Senator s. NJ. Gull
lom, of Illinois, writes an elaborate
article to show that protection is of
greater benefit to the farmers than to
any other class. He quotes agricul-
tural statistics of different countries,
and traces the unprecedented devel-
opment ofagriculture in the West I'M
der protection. Mr.. Thomas l.. james,
who was Postmaster General under
President Arthur, and who spent a
considerable part of his life in the
postal service, points out the reforms
that are now greatly needed, such as
the cheapening Of ocean postage and
OF the rate Of money orders. Mr..
James makes forcible plea also for
the complete divorce of the postal
service from politics. Mr.. Edward
Wakefield, member of the Austria
liam Parliament, writes from his ex-
perience as politician about the bal
lot system which several of our States
have adopted. Prof. F. w. Taussig,
of Harvard, explains in detail the
workings of compulsory insurance Of
employees in Germany. Bishop Hun
tington, of the diocese ofCentraI New
York. under the title of ga Drawing
Room Homily,n makes keen analy-
sis of the frivolities of fashionable
life. Prof. William Il. Harris, the
new United States Commissioner OF
Education, reviews the system of
state socialism explained in Edward
Belamy's " Looking backward" The
Rev. John Snyder, OF st. Louis,
writes an essay on " Prejudice against
the Negro" which he points out is
felt and shown among civilized ma
tions only By Americans. Other arti-
Giles in this number are The love oil
Notoriety," by Frances Power Cobbe;
Making Name in Literature" by
Edmund Gosse; aud Democracy in
the Household, - by Eliza Lynn Lin
ton.-The Forum Publishing Co., 25s
Fifth ave., N. y. 50 cts. number
S. year.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-05
NEEDED POSTAL IMPROVEMENTS.

Wonderful as has been the devel.
opment of the postal service, there
is necessity far continual improve
ment if it is to keep up with the de-
mands of the times. Elk Postmaster.
General James, in an article in the
Forum for October, shows the ad.
vantages that would follow four i'm.
provements: ~ The consolida'
ton of contiguous small offices,
whereby responsibility would be
concentrated ami expense saved
without Inconvenience to the public
each small Office being a branch oil
the central one; ~ a cheapening Of
ocean postage, so that we may be
rid of the necessity of paying five
cents per half.ounce on letter to
London when we can send one to
Alaska, nearly twice the distance
from New York, for two cents an
ounce-just one.fifth the trans-At
lantic rate; ~ cheapening of the
money order rate, which is now s
cts. on $40, and 40 cts. on 500 ; and
(4) the complete organization of the
service on a business basis without
|any regard to party politics.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-05
new g Virginia debit has

A new !" Virginia debt" has been
discovered. The Old Dominion has
been asked, it is said, to pay back to
the United States Government SIG,
623.70 which was advanced by the
q. S. Government to f. ii. Pierpoint
as Governor of Virginia, in 1865
This amount was deposited to the
credit of Governor Pierpoint in two
of the Wheeling banks and was to
be used and was used by him in pro
viding the Union forces in the State
with arms. Prominent Virginians
say that their State will never pay
a cent oft to the Government unless
compelled to do SO. The question is
almost certain to 60 to the highest
courts and the decision will be oil
considerable interest. No one else
will watch it with so close attention
as Ex-Governor Pierpoint himself
who is living quietly at his home in
Fairmont.-State Journal.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-05
A WAR OF THE FUTURE.

When war comes in Europe. as it
must come some time, it will be seen
that a new era has begun in the art
of destruction. The Belgian histori
an, Emile de Laveleye, sums up in
an article in the Foru8a for October
the terrible factors of the next con
f1ict. The civil war in the United
/, States was but child's play in com.
parison. With Russia and France
on one side and Germany, Austria,
and Italy on the other, seven millions
of men can be instantly put in the
field, with ten millions in reserve.
The facilities for concentration and
the improved arms are such that
more men may easily be killed in
one day than have ever before been
killed in a whole war. The continu.
Gus preparations for war, even when
there is no thought of it's immediate
occurrence are far greater and more
expensive than ever before. France
has surrounded her frontiers and her
capital with a continuous line of forts
and entertainments. Germany has
made Metz, Strasburg, Mayence, and
Cologne gigantic fortresses, which
seem absolutely impregnable. Italy
has fortified her Alpine passes, her
sea.ports, and even the Eternal City
itself. Belgium is spending forty
millions OF francs in the construction
of redouhts with cupolas of steel, to
close the passage by the Mas val
ley. The war budgets are every
where increasing in enormous pro-
portions. "And it is under this con-
tinual menace of the most frightful
shock OF armies that our planet will
ever look npon," writes NJ. de La.
veleye, /" that we live. And the most
extraordinary thing is, that we get
used to it, We go about our bust,
ness, our pleasures; we rush in
crrwds from all parts to the Paris
exhibition, while each one says: 1t
may be for tomorrow !'n
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-05

When Secretary Proctor assumed
control Of the War Department he
found the department. 10000 cases
behind in furnishing the Pension
Office with the records of applicants
for pensions. The Secretary after
an examination of matters concluded
about two months ago to create the
division of records and pensions in
his department. The wisdom OF his
action may be judged from the fact
that the work is now right mp to
date; on Saturday the applications
received from the Pension Office in
the morning were all supplied before
the department. closed in the after.
noon
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-05
Governor Wilson's personal orgal

Governor Wilson's personal organ,
the Charleston Gasette, announces
that he will be candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Congress.
man from the Third District next
year. 1t says: s
awe learn upon the best authority
that Governor Wilson will seek the
Democratic nomination for Coz
gresham for this District next year"
This means that DIR. Wilson is al
ready in the field. Anderson will
doubtless be there also, and William
r. Thompson and three or four more,
bat none of the last named has any
handle to measure with Wilson's for.
mldable L. L. ID. His business card
now will doubtless read:
"E. Willis Wilson, L. L. ID. Gov.
ernOr lin last years nestl and candi.
date TO: Congress. Pardons and
Higher Mathematics a speciality
reference as to character to Judge
j. NJ. Jackson, Parkersbufg, w
Va).-Stdte Journal.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-05

1t is only too apparent that the
next great war will be an enormous
carnage. The many inventions IN
explosives and destructive agencies
are doubling the possibilities. At
the army maneuvers at Hanover the
Emperor's corps used smokeless
powder and got within two hundred
yards of the enemy without difficult
ty. The enemy were repeatedly
taken on the flank and were unable
to guess whence the fire came. "If
it had been a real BATTLE" says the
report, they would have been ami.
hilated." With smokeless powder
on land and dynamite guns and sub.
merged torpedo boats on the sea, the
outlook Tor human life would not be
assuring.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-05
they Lynched an Innocent Man.

UNION, w. Va, September 90
Reliable Information from Bluefield,
Mercer county, shows the recent
lynching of the negro Samuel Garn
er to have been an outrage on a par
with the hanging of John Turner in
Greenbrier county late in July. Like
Turner, Garner was lynched for a
crime he never committed. The
Mercer county authorities have
made a number OF arrests OF parties
having a hand in the lynching, and
the suspects are in Jail at Princeton.
There is a determination to go to
the bottom of the matter, aud there
has been quite an exodus from Blue
field in consequence.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-05

Ill.informed people speak of the
changes that are to be, or should be
made in the Rules governing the
House of Representatives. When
in fact there are no Rules. When
Speaker Carlisle adjourned the
House of Representatives of the
Fiftieth Congress on the 4th OF
March last at high noon, that body
as an organization ceased to exist
and with it died the Rules, with
which it had been misgoverDed. On
the first Monday in December the
first session of the Fifty first Con-
gress viii begin, and one OF the first
things to be done in the House after
effecting an organization will be to
adopt Rules, and right then the poll
tical fighting is likely to begin. 1t
is understood that an effort will be
to get up set of joint Rules which
shall govern both House and Senate
In the past both Houses have always
had their own separate Rules.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-05
A Tragedy with CorpuIent Woman an
Small Girl for Characters.


A Tragedy with "a CorpuIent Woman and
Small Girl for Characters
A Farnam street woman, whose stoutness
makes her susceptible to tho heat, stayed at
home from church last evening, and, In the
company of her syear-old daughter and
palm leaf fan, prepared to enjoy quiet
evening upon the front porch.
Unfortunately the 8-year-old was I'm
laxative mood and the following unseason-
able dialogue took place:
'Ma. why don't you wear your black vel.
vet dress instead Of that old white wrapperP
The stout woman famed vigorously.
Hush darling; II Is too heavy for such
weather will wear it next winter"
And will you buy me little muR next
winter, with fur all around the holes where
you put your hands thr@ghf'
The stout woman's fingers adhered 10 the
handle Of her fam
"Bo quiet, dear; ! can't tell what shall do
next winter"
I'D like a nice white woody hood, too.p
The cfimp came out Of the stout woman's
bangs as she said:
"Well. do not think about 1t gpw."
MA, may bring the bear skin rug out 70
sit orr
The tormented mother moved uneasIly In
her willow chair.
'Do anything yon like, but don't bother
men
II guess I'll bring the afghan, too"
There was a short silence.
"Ma, do you remember when we had that
lovely CRATE fire last fall, used 10 lie on this
rug with the afghan over mo and warm my
toes by the hourr
The stout wonrln's feet burned aud began
to ache.
"will you stop talklngf | win not hear
another wOri
A long pause brought temporary relief 70
the suffering mother.
MA, a mosquito bit my ear. II only had
my wad.Ied ear muiFs that match my blue
plush cloak. they couldn't hurt me then, could
theyr
The Syear-old gisgiei. bat the stout woman
made no remark.
"Ma, my slippers pinch %; may put on
my crocheted bedroom sho1SY'
III you speak again you shall go to bed i'm
mediately."
Another short silence
Ma, il go to bed 20 early must have .
hot water bottle like did when had q sore
throat a,ii you put red flannel around itF'
The stout womans collar wilted and the 8
year-oId was sent upstairs
Over tho bannisters there came one more
questions
MA, must | have my pink cretonno quilt
over ms to-nightF
Then the stout woman sought tho water
cooker and baIislage4l her bead with damp
cloth Omaha World
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-05
umphant banners of color. In "a
cathedral of basalt, Sunrise and Sun
set married by the setting OF rainbow

cathedral of basalt, Sunrise and Sun
set married by the setting OF rainbow
ring.
But how is this continent to be
gospelized I The pnlpit and Chris
tian printing press harnessed togeth-
er will be the mightiest team for the
first plow. Not By the power of cold,
journalistic theology, not by ecclesias
tical technicalities. l am sick of
them and the world is sick of them.
But it will be done by warm hearted,
sympathetic presentation Of the fact
that Christ is ready to pardon all our
sins and heal all our wounds aid
save us both for this world and the
next.
The Young Mems Christian As.
sociatior of America viii also do
part of the work. All over the con.
tinent l saw this Summer their new
buildings rising. In Vancouyer's |
asked: " What are you going to
put on that slightly place ?" The
answer was: "A Young Mems
Christian Association building" At
Lincoln, Neb., | said: "What are.
they making those excavations for?"
Answer: "For our Young Mems
Christian Association building" At
Des Monies, Ia, | saw a noble struc.
ture rising and asked for what pur.
pose it was being built, and they
told me for the Young Mems Chris.
tian Association.
These institutions are going to-
take the young men of this nation
for God. These institutions seem in
better favor with God and man than
ever before. Business men and cap
talists are awaking to the fact that
they can do nothing better in the
way of living beneficences or in last
will and testament than to do what
Mr.. Marquand did for Brooklyn when
he made our Young Mems Christian
Association palace possible. These
institutions will get our young men
all over the land into a stampede for
heaven.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-05

Secretary Noble has received two
large photographs, one for himself
and one for the President, of Joseph
Ledergerber Post, Department of
Wisconsin, G. A. r. This post is
composed entirely OF Meriomonee
Indians, and the photographs were
sent as a mark of gratitude to the
administration for allowing the agent
Of the tribe to remain in Office.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-05
A Dig i'm the Ribs,

If on the right side and lower part of the
diaphragm, though playfully meant and deliv-
cred, is calculated to evoke profanity from a
chappy whose liver is out of order. When
that region is sore and congested, pokes seem
fendish. Look at mans couhtenance ere
you prod him under the ribs. If his skin and
eyeballs have q sallow tinge, you may infer
also that his tongue is, furred, his breath apt
to be sour, that he has pains not only beneath
his ribs. but also under the right shoulder
blade. Also, that his bowels are irregular and
his digestion impaired. Instead of making a
jocose demonstration on his ribs, recomme nd
him TO take, and steadily persist In tax ing,
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. the finest anti
bilious and Alternative medicine extant. In
comparable as 1t is. also. for dyspepsia, rheu-
matism, nervousness, Kidney trouble, and
fever and ague.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-05

Caller Chesitatingiy)-I have here little
production Of my own which / should like to
have you use for your poets corner f.
Editor tfacetiouslyl Poets corneri Car
tainly We're all poet scorners in this Office.
The janitor, perhaps, may find some use----
Caller tstiifening upl-The poem, sir. b DE-
scriptive OF my patent hedge trimmer, and
was going to ask you il dollar line would
be sufficient compensation for publishing il
as an advertisement don't mind your al
fusion to the janitor, but that diddledy-dad
banged chestnut about the poet scorner makes
me tired Don't get between me and the
door, sir, il you please. don't want amy
explanations or apologies. You shouldn't
have this poem now IL you got down on your
knees for it. Good morning, sir. and be
hanged 70 yonl--Chieago Tribune.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-05

RICHMOND, VA, September 90
Rev. Joshua Peterkin, D. D., rector
OF st. james Episcopal Church, of
this city, is Ill at his residence. He
is seyenty-three years old, and has
been rector of the church nearly
forty years. He is, probably, the
best known Episcopal minister in
Virginia, and greatly beloved. Bish.
op Peterkin, of West Virginia, is his
son.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-05

DE Courcey- French society proposes, !
see, to ostracise NJ. Helx. who killed NJ Pier
roti In a duel
De We're Perfectly proper.
De Courcey-Yes; they say that NJ BelE
has dishonored himself
De Vere-lle has violated the unwritten
code, which requires that no gentleman shall
hurt another in a French duel-Memphis
Sunday Times