Year: 1879

whom he bequeathed his jewelry. He had
been on spree, arrested and fined, and was
so much mortified that he did not have the
heart to face his people, who are very
prominent, preferring death by morphine.


a HORRIBLE accident occurred at Null
berry Creek Bridge, thirteen miles north of
Selma, Alabama, the other morning. An
unusual freshet had swept under the bridge,
which is fifty feet high, and undermined it.
When a passenger train passed upon it in
the morning, the locomotive had got hardly
across when the engineer heard terrific
noise and looked around to see the bridge
go down with the entire train, mashing it
into fragments. On looking below, the pas
sengers, all of whom were crippled and
badly bruised, were endeavoring to escape
from the debris, when it is reported the train
took fire. George Evans, of Selma, was
taken out dead. General Superintendent
NJ. Stanton, who was fatally wounded,
dragged himself out of the water TO the bank
of the stream and sank down unconscious.
Conductor White was fatally injured. All
the passengers were severely bruised. The
entire train is a wreck; the baggage and
second-class cars were broken to pieces.


THE report of the special committee ap-
pointed by the Senate to investigate the
causes of omission of the Hot Springs Sec
ton from the Sundry Civil Appropriation
Bill last session, says, that all evidence goes
to show that the omission was a clerical
error made by overworked and exhausted
members and clerks of the House Commit
tee, while enrolling the voluminous and in
tricate bill in sections, as they severally
came from the Conference Committee dur.
ing the last hours of the session, and it is
conclusively proven that neither
Senator Conover nor any member
or officer of the Senate is
in any way implicated in the loss or omis-
sion of the section from the bill in question,
| of Senator Conover, or any member of the
Senate Committee on Enrolled Bills, or of
Mr.. Rice, clerk of the committee, from the
time it left possession of the House COM
mittee until it was placed before the Presi-
dent for his signature.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, the negro who was
| condemned to death for committing an out
rage upon little German girl twelve years
of age, was hanged in public at Louisville,
on February 81. Twenty thousand people
were present to witness the execution. A
rotten rope was used, and the custom
ary blunder followed. The rope broke
and the officers were compelled to hang the
unfortunate wretch second time. After
| the body was cut down it was taken in
charge by the doctors. who Immediately
conveyed it to the Hospital College. There
it was stripped and immersed in hot water,
Strong galvanic currents were passed from
the upper to the lower part of the chest,
but not sufficient motion of the muscles
could be produced to cause an inhalation
of breath. After this, TRANSMISSION of blood
was attempted, the blood of dog just
killed being used. Digitalis was also in
serted into the heart with an aspirator,
but no effect could be produced
indicative of returning life. The only mo-


ton produced by the electricity was a
slight twitching of the muscles of the body
and various: contortions in The features Of


the face. The body was next laid on dis


secting-table and the scalp cut across the


top of the head and laid back, exposing the


skull. This was then trepanned, aud a strong


current sent from the brain to the lower


regions of the spinal column. ALI OF tht


experiments were unsuccessful, owing Il


the fact that the neck was broken by thu
first fall,