Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-06-16

other time; English and Scotch mails
at this time. and so on, thereby no de-
laws or stoppages are allawed for over
due mails. All London mails too late
to catch the steamer leaving Liverpool,
come to Queenstown via Dublin, eaten
ing her there as she touches. Lately
a new system has been adopted By the
Cunard Company, by which trans-At-
lantic mail steamers will only be de-
layed a couple of hours at Queenstown
TO catch late mails, where heretofore
they were compelled to remain for elght
hours. which greatly hamPered theh IN
getting mails to New York as soon as
the Southampton steamers.
Another very notable feature of Dub
lin is her accommodating docking sys-
tenn. The River Liffy is deep enough
10 allow cargo boats to come directly
uD i'm the heart of the city, discharge
their cargo. reload and be of the next
day without delay, while passenger
and mail boats have their special COCKS
as conveniently near.
Train time drawing near l hustleu
back to the station, procured my grip
and got into the carriage, the tralh De
ing scheduled to leave in five minutes.
I thought at first l would have the
whole compartment to myself, put
luckily. at the last moment, the rlgnI
man stepped into the right place. he
was a Young fellow of five and twenty.
He nodded to me and sat down. the
characteristics of an Irishman were
we'll shown in this parsonage, for he
was no more than seated when he I'M
mediately began to size me up. lie
soon opened up a conversation, ana,
AFTER chatting for a while, asked me IL
I was not a native of the States. On
receiving an affirmative reply, he said,
CT thought So" and from that on was
quite entertaining, being well acqualnt-
ed with the surrounding country ne
could point out things of interest. In
the midst of our conversation he SAID;
"Probablv YOU know a relative of mine
living in America" mentioning a name.
| injured where his relative was To-
Gated: somewhere this side of the Mis-
sissippi river" OF course l just smiled
and told him the United States was
many. many times larger than
Ireland. much to his establishment. 1t
is an every day occurrence TO have an
individual ask you if you know So and
So from such and such place in Amer
lea. and upon replying that you do not,
they express as much amaZement as did
my travelling companion. This ignor-
anceance is not only confined to the
magnitude of our country, but to the
general geography of the States, and
particularly to the whereabouts OF
rivers. etc. The following is clipping
from the Belfast News Letter, relating
an accident of an Ohio river steamer,
which very probably was received on
this side of the water in skeleton form,
to which the local editor supplied the
flesh:
"A special cable from New York, U.
S. A, says:
The passenger steamer Iron Queen,
running between PittsbuTg and Cincin-
natl. met with a frightfUl accident last
night, which resulted in the total loss
of the steamer, and, it is feared, some
of the passengers and crew.
THE Iron Queen left Pittsburg at 8
D. nm. with a good complement of pas
sengers and a large cargo. She had
only been to sea three hours when the
starboard lamp exploded sending a
sheet of fire across the deck. This i'm
mediately ignited the ropes, trappings
and canvass that were hanging from
the main mast and in five minutes the
ship was a mass of flames. The boats
were at once lowered, and the majority,
if not all the passengers, are supposed
to have been taken off. The boats
drifted around helplessly all night, and
at eight this morning two Of them
were picked up by passing steamer.
Fortunately the sea was calm and the