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VOL. IV.
RALEIGH, N. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1884.
NO. I.
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- TRE FIRST SNOW. u "
Toe tewler pttboi ud simplicity oftsl beau
tlful poem cannot but meet wltb a responsive
echo in the heart of thot who te4 It Ed.
Mr mother-heart le aching, oh, how eore 1 1
The while I watch the frit light hit of mow, ,
For in the churchyard liei my little child,
ilnw can 1 lure bit bed unsheltered to ? .
I wept for honra beside my window pane
Wben I first left him there alone all night, .
Hut when I eongbt hti resting-place by day.
Then all the earth around (earned warm and
bright. ,
AM Hummer long fair flower here decked hit bed.
And bird bar warbled there their iweei at lays,
The clonds hare, now and toen.wept pltvlnR tears;
Fair moone hare watched It, and calm (inny
days.
lint now when careful shepherd house their
flocks,
And boutebolds gatiiur oloser in their fold -While
I am sheltered! safe, and still and warm
My little one Hut eut there la the cold,
Yot faith and reason tell me, that hi aonl
1 folded rale where never tempest blow,
And that he dwells where summer still abides
1 wish that 1 conld always feel It o.
Jf I conld see him one one little hour
Among the angel living, safe and glad;
Although I might not apeak nor touch hi robe,
I think that 1 could never feel so tad.
And yet, within the churchyard, all alone,
That little waxen form 1 cherished to.
And shielded from the slightest touch of chill;
Must He all winter underneath the snow.
THE WIFE'S SURPRISE.
'The fact is, my dear Mrs. Lynde, your
children ought not to remain in this poi
sonous city atmosphere a day longer. They
are too delicate, madam. I regard it as
your imperative duty to send tbem out
into the country.'
Dr. Carson shut up his gold eye glasses
as he spoke, with the air oj an autocrat
whose slightest wishes are law. Little
Carrie Lynde, nestling on her sofa, held
tight to her mother's hand, and regarded
the doctor with wide-open blue eyes. Mrs.
Lynde sighed softly.
:, . 1 doubt whether Mr. Lynde can afford
the expense of sending his family into the
country this year, doctor.
'Afford it, ma'am I Afford it! Why
all the world knows how fast your husband
"is making money ; and excuse me Mrs.
Lyndo, but I am a plain man all tenden
cies to a parsimonious life ought to be
checked in the bud.'
Mrs. Jjjnde blushed an indignant crim
son. V
Dr. Carson, I do not like to hear that
word applied to my husband.'
The doctor took his bat.
'The powder at eleven, perfect quiet,
and my little patient will do very well.
And remember what 1 recommended to
you about the country.'
After the Doctor had taken his depart
ure, Mrs. Lynde sat thinking oo what he
had said.
'Charles is a poor man,' she mused, 'a
man who is dependent on his practice as a
lawyer for his daily bread. I knew it
when I married him ; nor have I ever re
gretted leaving the luxury of Beeok Grove
lor his humbler, quieter home. And as
ior my Charles being parsimonious, don't
1 know better?'
The rosy glow was still mantling Mrs.
Lyndo's cheeks at the bare idea, when a
cheery voice sounded on her ear.
Well, how is Carry to-night?'
'Charles, is it yon ? How you startled
me!'
. He was a frank, noble looking man, with
clear, dark eyes, and a smile that bright
ened his whole face.
'Am Iso very startliug? What does
the doctor say ?'
'He says the children must go into the
country this summer with as little delay
as possible.'
Mr. Lyndo slightly contracted his
brows. , ' .
'I am not sure that 1 can afford it,
Alice.'
That is what I thought myself, butoh
Charles, if their health perhaps their
life depends upon it, ought we to hesi
tate?'
Mr. Lynde sat down, whistling quietly
under his breath.
'No, 1 suppose not ; but, Alice, it's a
terrible drain on a fellow's purse just
now.' .
Alioe Lynde felt a cold chill at her
heart. Was it possible that Dr. Carson's
words had a foundation in truth? Was
her husband becoming a prey to the terri
ble dragon of avarice ?
Mr. Lynde went on,
'1 suppose I must try to find some farm
house or other where they won't charge
the children's weight in gold. Alice, do
you never sigh after the velvet lawns and
shady copses of Beech Grove the old
stone house, with its cool verandahs, and
the summer arbor by the lake V
'Nol' said Mrs. Lynde, stoutly.
Never, Alios?'
'Well, sometimes I can't help thinking
how nice it would be for the ohildreo. I
wonder if the old man who owns it now
has any children ?'
'A childless widower, " I believe. Bat
all this has little to do with the question
of your summer exile. Of courso you'll
need no extra wardrobe to go to a farm
house, where there are no fashionable
dames and demoiselles to criticise your
toilet ?'
'Carry and Lucy have quite out-grown
their last Bummer's clothes, and Frank
baa nothing at all to wear. 1 suppose I
might get along, although I need a new
traveling dress sadly.'
'Try to dispense with it at present;
that's a dear little economical puss.'
'Charles,' said Mrs, Lynde, speaking
suddenly from the impulse of her heart,
'is not your business prosperous just at
present V
'Prosperous? Tea.'
Then why do you perpetually urge up
on me the necessity of economy ?'
' He eolered a little. 8be thought he ap
peared somewhat confused at her abrupt
question.
There are a great many outlets for our
money, Alice, of which you oin scarcely
form an adequate idea. Eight o'clock, is
it? Then I must be off.' Good night.my
love. I'll try to be at home before elev
en.' Mrs. Lynde was sitting by Carry a sofa
at her sewing, the next day, when Miss
Priscilla Forbes was ushered in.
'Good morning, my dear. How's Car
ry ? Better eh ? Well I'm glad to hear
it. Bethiah Lamb's little girl was taken
with just the same symptoms, and she
didn't live three days. I'd advise you to
be careful, though, Alice. There's always
danger of a relapse. By the way, where
has your husband gone to-day ?'
'Ii he not at his office?'
'No. He went out on the Brigham
Railroad this morning. I saw him go by
as if his life depended on the haste he
was making; and thinks 1 to myself I'll
just keep an eye on him and see where he
is going. Ho I followed as fast as I could
trot, and was just in time to see him
spring on board the train. What he was
going out of town for I didn't know ; but
thinks I to myself again, Alice can tell me
all about it.'
'Probably he is lookiug for summer
board for the children,' said Mrs. Lynde,
coldly.
But she remembered with a pang that
her husband had said nothing to her
about it.
'Charles,' she said, when he came home
to dinner, 'where were you going out of
town to day?'
'How did you know I was out of town?'
he asked a little abruptly.
'Miss Prireilla Forbes saw you start.'
'1 wish Miss Priscilla Forbes would be
so kind as to mind her own business.'
Alice was silent a minute, then she ask-ed.-
'Did you find a place for the child
ren?' 'No,' was his brief reply.
Alice inquired no farther. She felt
hurt and resentful, and Charles paid no
attention to her silence. If he could only
have witnessed the burst of passionate
tears to which she gave way when she
was alone by the couch of her little ones !
The farm house to whioh she and the
ohildren were banished for the summer
was not a particularly inviting spot ; well
shaded, however, with a stream of water
running through the grounds, and a plen
ty of fresh milk and vegetables. But
Alice Lynde felt the lack of cheerful and
congenial society.the unvarying monotony
of the uneventful life, and piued secretly,
even while Frank and Carry and little
Lucy were growing sunburnt and healthy.
'I wish Charles could spend a little more
of his time here,' she thought.
It was scarcely to be wondered at that
she recurred sometimes, with a thrill of
yearning, to the old days when she was an
heiress, under the spreading linden trees
of beautiful Beech Grovo. For Charles
Lynda's sake she had given up that beau
tiful home; had dared her unclo's threat
afterward carried relentlessly into effect
of disinheritance ; had submitted to all
the trials and evils whioh must neosssarily
surround a poor man's wife ; and now
Charles left her alone, to amuse herself
as best she might. So, while the ohild
ren grew fat and rosy, Alice grew thin and
pale.
'He will come to night,' she thought,
ooo Saturday evening, as she brushed her
glossy golden hair into the shining braids
he best liked, and put on a favorite mus
lin dross with a long turquoise pin in the
blue ribbons that set off the transparent
whiteness of her throat. 'Oh, it seems
an age sinoe I saw him last !'
But instead of her husband's presence,
the up train trom New York brought on
ly a note, hurried and brief: ,
Tear Alioe I cannot come up to-night.
Businoss is so pressing ; love to the ohil
dren. CL L '
The note fell from Alice's fingers; a
sickening sensation eame over her heart
'And I had watched for him so anxious
ly. Oh, can it be possible that he has
coated to love me? Me, who gavo up
everything for his sake I'
'On Monday a letter from Dr. Carson
was brought to Mrs. Lynde ; a letter en
closing another for her husband. The
doctor wrote :
'Please give this to Mr. Lynde. I was
at his office twice on Saturday afternoon,
trying to find him ; but he was not there,
and the olerk told me had gone into the
country. Tell him he's a lazy fellow to
neuleot his business so, when that business
is making him rich so fast,'
Alioe Lynde read the words three times
over before she fairly took in their whole
meaning.
'He has deceived me,1 she thought.
'It was not the convenient plea of bus
iness that kept him away trom me I Ob,
Charles, Charles! and has it come to
this?'
She sat down, still clasping the letter
in her hand, and gated vacantly out upon
the sunny landscape that lay before her.
'If it were not for the children 1 would
go away and never look upon his face any
more t He loves me no longer. The af
fection I so blindly deemed my own is
transferred to some other object; and why
ahould 1 care what becomes of me ? Only
the ohildren I'
And as the blue-eyed Carry ran up to
her to ask some trifling question, Mr,
Lynde drew the ohild close to her heart
and burst into tears.
'Mammal' exolaimed the astonished
little girl, 'why do yon cry ? Are yon sick
mamma?'
"Siok? Yes,' Bobbed poor Alioe, 'I
am sick of living. I am sick at heart,
child.'
And the plentiful shower of tears helped
to. relieve her overcharged heart.
'I will endure it for the sake of these
little ones. I will suffer oa and try to be
silent,' thought poor Alioe, pressing
both hands over her aching heart
. The next week Mr. Lynde was to come
and take his family home. Alioe looked
forward to the day with a eiok anticipa
tion. She longed for the hour of their
meeting and yet she dreaded it.
In this nervous state of excitement she
eame to the door, leading little Lucy, as
the carriage wheels grated over the stony
country road and stopped in front of the
old-fashioned portico. But Charles was
not there, only the driver, who touched
his hat with an awkward attempt at po
liteness, as he descended from the box.
'If you please, ma'am, Mr. Lynde
oouldn t come; but he'll be there to meet
you!' !
More neglect! Alioe answered not a
word, but the hands with whioh she tied
the ribbons ot Lucy's hat trembled sore
ly, and her Hp would quiver in spite of
the resolute little white teeth that held
it down.
The little ones laughed and chatted in
the carriage as it rolled along, exolaiming
loudly at the various objects on the road;
but Alioe leaned back in the corner, pale
and silent, seeing nothing but the fantas
tic visions of her own fevered mind.
Once or twice the idea crossed her brain
that the journey was rather longer than
she expected; but she did- not reason at
all on the subject, relapsing at once into
her painful reflection.
'Mammal Oh, mamma! What a pretty
plaoe!' chorused thj three children at
once. There's a tall white statue back
ot those trees, and a fountain sparkling
like diamonds ; and oh, mamma, such
beds of beautiful flowers !'
Alice, roused from her thoughts for
the instant, leaned forward and gazed out
of the window. Surely there was some
thing familiar in those green terraces with
their flights of marble steps ; in the Doric
columns of the majestic stone piazzi, be
fore whioh the carriage suddenly came to
a halt.
'Im 1 dreaming,' she thought, looking
vaguely around her, 'or is this really Beech
Grove?'
She went up the steps, feeling as if she
were moving through the uncertain fanta
sies of a dream. But in the vestibule
stood reality itself, in the shape of ber
husband, with a face of bright, enraptured
happiness.
'My dearest wife I' he murmured, fold
ing her tenderly in his aims, 'the time
has come for me to restore to you what
you gave up so cheerfully for my sake
years ago. Welcome once again to your
home, Alioe !'
'Home!' she repeated, gazing up into
his eyes as if she scaroely credited the ev
idence of her own senses.
'Yes, home. I have purchased Beech
Grove, Alice, and furnished it just to suit
your taste. My cherished little wife, I
am rewarded now for the years of econo
my, the extra work, the self-denial which
t have been obliged to practice.'
'Charles,' she whispered, growing soar
let and palo alternately, 'was it this that
kept you away from me, that occasioned
your absence last week ?'
'1 was determined to bring you here,
Alice, when I took you away from that
farm house. There have been countless
delays, innumerable difficulties; but I
have conquered them all. Welcome to
your home, my precious wife ! '
As he took her onoe more to his hoart,
Alioe's happiness was mingled with the
keenest pang of remorse she had ever
known.
Sitting in the handsome, familiar room
that evening, with the moonlight stream
ing through the stained glass windows,
her children asleep up stairs in the nur
sery that had once been hers, and Charles
beside her, Alice vowed to herself the
best resolution a wife can make never
again to lei the least shadow come between
herself and her confidence in her hus
band's love.
THE UNKNOWN GREAT.
A well known poet has said, "The
world knows nothing of its greatest men;"
but if we may not go that far, surely it is
a great truth that there are forms of ex
cellence, aye, greatness "whioh die and
make no sign," which perish silently far
away from the consecrated portals of the
world's Yallhalle. In every generation
lives the mute inglorious Mil tons, who
die voioelesa and unknown for that want
of courage and perseverance which all
writers must possess, ere they can reach
"those heights sublime." They possess
intellectual strength sufficient to place
them on the podostal of fame, but they
shrink from the tumult and confession
the struggle of the race oourse. The
paths of peril, the chasms ot failure, the
scorpion stiogs of envy they cannot brave.
They have a conscience too sensitive, a
taste too fastidious, a self forgetfuloess
too romantic, a modesty too retiring to
push themselves into the great line of
battle for fear of being trampled down,
and fall back into the beaten tracks, not
caring to toil onward on a journey whioh
seems to lead to no abiding habitation.
Is it strange that so few reaoh the
heights? It is not rather to be wondered
at that anyone should care to scale those
rugged mountain sides whose asoent is bo
steep when the weary brain can see no
stars through the dark o'er-hanging
clouds when the tired feet are so bruised
by the rugged rocks of the tedious as
oent? Surely it is a mistake to judge of what
a man can do by that which he has done,
Acaio, there are the toilers of the
world who "living toil, and toiling die,"
whose daily fives are made up of self de
nials, self-abnegation, whose hearts are
wells of thoughts a never-failing foun
tainwhose waters are constantly bub
bling up as ceaselessly aa the ebb and
flow of the ocean. Yet the sweet songs
whioh well to their lips will go unsung:
duty self sacrificing duty, forbids the
pause to stag them ; and those infinite
longings hidden away in their heart ot
hearts those vast unspoken, saored
thought! crystaliied within the holiest
of holies, for these there is no language,
but must remain unspoken and unsung.
It is not fated for them to make "undy
ing musio in the world ;" but when their
souls are loosed from their earthly moor
ings, with anchors made fast in the fair
haven of rest, they shall take up the
new sones of eternal life : then the soul'
longings shall attain the ultima thule of
its dreams and aspirations,
"And 'twill be sweet to He down with the song
yes nnsnng. '
And wake It first notes In a Heavenly tongue,"
THE LARGEST WATERFALL.
A paragraph is going the round of the
papers, says an English journal, to the
effect that America has long been the
possessors of the largest tree, the largest
cave and the largest waterfall in the
world. This is quite a mistake as to the
waterfall, and it will probably surprise
many of our readers to learn that South
Africa possesses a waterfall very muoh
larger in every respect than the falls of
Niagara. A memorandum in the baud
writing of the late Mr. Thomas Baines,
F. 11. G. S., runs as follows :
'The width of the Viotoria Falls is
1,900 yards, or 140 yards more than a
mile, the height is 400 feet, and the
height to whioh the spray olouds rise is
about 1,200 feet Niagara is 150 feet
high and 1,000 yards wide, or 120 yards
more than a mile."
So that the Viotoria Falls are nearly
twioe as wide as the Falls of Niagara,
and more than one and a half times as
high.
DESTROYED BY DYNAMITE.
The Terrible Fate of Two Well-Dig
gers in Union County.
From S. J. llichardson, who lives in
Union County, N. C, your correspon
dent learns news of a terrible and fatal
dynamite explosion, which occurred on
the premises of Mr. Mark Austin, in
that county, on the 15th inst. Two men
were in a well at the time of the explo
sion, Culpepper Austin and Maok Chap
man, and both were badly mangled.
Austin died at 9 o'clock that night, and
Chapman is not expected to live. The
scene of the affair is twelve miles west
of Monroe, near the South Carolina line.
The two men were down in the well blast
ing, using dynamite cartridges. They
prepared a charge and fired the fuse
when they were drawn to the top to
await the explosion. The cartridge flash
ed, or failed to fire, and they descended
into the well to take it out, and while
they were handling it it exploded. They
were drawn to the surface in an insensi
ble condition, with their blaokened bodies
shattered and bleeding. Austin was lit
erally torn into shreds, and it was seen
at once that there was no hope for his
life. He was carried to his house where
he lingered until 9 o'clock, when he ex
pired. He had received almost the full
force of the explosion and his body was
mangled in a shocking manner. Austin
leaves a young wife but no children. His
body was buried the day following the
accident. Mack Chapman, (he sec
ond victim of the accident, who is in all
human probability dead by this time,
was a frightful speotaole to look upon.
Both his arms were blown off and one of
his eyes was put out, besides other seri
ous injuries about his body. Chapman
leaves a wife and a large family of chil
dren. PROPOSED CHARTER OF THE
STATE EXPOSITION.
Befork tub Clerk of the Superior
Court op Waki County :
In the Matter of tlie Incorporation of the
North Carolina State Exposition :
Articles of agreement, made and exe
cuted this day of 1884, by and
between and
for the purpose of becoming incorpora
ted, according to the provisions of the
Code, under the name and style of North
Carolina State Exposition, for the pur
poses and in the manner hereinafter set
forth, that is to say,
First : The corporate name of said cor
poration shall be "The North Carolina
State Exposition."
Second : The business proposed to be
done by said corporation is the holding of
an Exposition ot the products and indus
tries of the State of North Corolina for
the purpose of aiding the development
ot the resources ot the state and induc
ing the influx of capital and desirable im
migration into tho State, and the doing
of suoh other matters and things and the
exercise of such powers as may be neces
sary to the successful holding of such
Exposition or may be incident to or grow
out of the holding of the same.
Third : The place where it is proposed
to carry on the business of said corpora
tion is at or near the oity of Raleigh, in
Wake county.
Fourth: The length of timj desired
for the corporate existence or said eorpo
ration is two years.
Fifth : The names of persons who have
subscribed to the capital stock of said
corporation are aa follows :
Sixth ; The capital stock of said cor
poration shall not exceed 125,000 to be
divided into shares of $25.00 each.
Seventh : The stockholders in said cor
poration shall not be individually liable
tor the debts of the corporation.
Witness, Ac :
e
Children or adults subject to ear ache
should wear a little raw ootton in the
ears during this season.
A good way to exercise the arms is to
wing them backwards and forward, touch
ing them each time.
A medical writer suggests the use of
oil of wintergreen, with an equal quantity
of olive oil or soap liniment, as an appli
cation for rheumatism.
People who are always preaching about
high heels should argue with the mules.
SALT AID WOOD ASHES FOR
STOCK. , : ,
The imrjortance of an occasional relish
of salt and wood ashes for alt kind of
stock can not be too highly appreciated.
The most convenient form in whioh these
materials are offered, according to feeders
of wide experience, ie in a solid mass
which admits ot diligent licking oo the
part of the animal without gaining more
of the : mixture than is desirable. In
order to mix these ingredients so that a
solid mass may be formed, take salt and
pure wood ashes in the proportion of
pound tor pound, witn water sumoient to
hold the mixture together, To preserve
the mixture in a solid state place it in
troughs or boxes sheltered sufficiently to
keep the rain and snow from reaching it
and converting it into an alkaline piokle.
These troughs with their tempting con
tents prove efficient as baits tor alluring
animals, turned out on long runs during
the day, home at night When cattle
chew leather, wood and old bones remem
ber that it indicates a lack of phosphate
of lime in their food, whioh is required to
supply bone material. A teaspoonful of
bone meal given daily with their grain
will correct the habit and supply the defi
oiency whioh induoes it. If the disposi
tion to eat bones is indulged in when the
cows are in grass, the deficiency then
evidently exists in the soil, and the pas
ture will be greatly benefited by a top
dressing of bone dust. Two or three
hundred pounds to the acre, sown broad
east, will repay attending expenses in a
better yield and quality of milk and but
ter. Exchange.
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.
Visit of Federal and Confederate Of
ficers to Bull Run.
Washington, October 13. A meeting
of federal and confederate veterans who
participated in the battle of Bull Run,
was held at the pension office, this after
noon, to complete arrangements for a visit
to the field of action. Congressman Rose
crans presided. It was stated that two
huudred veterans would leave on Monday
for Bull Run, tho object of their visit
being to locate positions held by the sev
eral corps of the two armies. The Presi
dent was invited and will attend, if his
engagements permit. Secretaries Lincoln
and Chandler will be present, also Gen
eral Rosecrans Governor Fairohilds, of
Wisconsin, Generals Pleasanton, Meigs,
Slooum, and other prominent federal of
ficers who participated in the battle.
General Longstreet and a number of
prominent confederate officers will join
the party at Manassas. .
IMPORTED LEAF TOBACCO.
Instructions of the Secretary of the
Treasury in Reference to Classifica
tion for Custom.
Washington, Deo. 12. The Secreta
ry has written a letter to the oolleotor of
customs at New York in regard to the
correctness of a former deoision relative
to the provision in the law of March 3rd,
1883, placing a duty npon leaf tobacco fit
for wrappers. That decision held that in
order to be dutiable at 75 cts. per pound,
wben unstemmed and $1 per pound when
stemmed, the packing containing the to
bacco to contain 85 per cent, fit for wrap
pers, of which more than ono hundred
leaves are required to weigh a pound.
Tho deoision thus made tho packages
units of quantity by which to determine
whether the merchandise conformed to
tho statutory standard. It has been cer
tified by persons interested that there are
fo dfwnriptions of tobacco known to the
trade one anoWls wrapper tobacco and
tho other as filler tobacco, and further
that all of the class known as wrapper to
bacco may however not be fit for wrap
pers, or be of sufficient lightness of text
ure to require more than ono hundred
leaves to weigh a pound, so that when
the tobacco belonging to the wrapper
olasa is found not to conform to this statu
tory standard in two respeols it falls into
the provision for tobacco not otherwise
Provided for, dutiable at 35 cts. a pound,
he Secretary says that tl.ii reasoning
would make tho class of tobacco the test,
not the Quantity contained in the pack
ages and that he thinks that these views
are entitled to severe consideration. No
evidence has been presented on the part
of importers wnoc the case was originally
decided. As preliminary to any lurther
deoision in the matter the Collector is di
rected to suspend action under the decis
ion before referred to and to classify wrap
per to tobaoco whioh may be found in
Dackues according to the standard be
fore indicated, leaving the importers, if
dissatisfied with suoh a classification, to
present their case by protest and appeal.
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BITING HORSES.
A foreign journal avers that horses are
suooessf ully cured of this vice by putting
a piece of hard wood, an inch and a half
square in the animal s mouth, about the
same length as an ordinary snaffle bit. It
mav be fastened by a thong of leather
passed through two holes in the ends of
the wood and secured to the bridle. It
must be used in addition to the bit, and
in no way impede the working or the bit.
Rarey adopted the plan with the xebra in
the Zoo, which was a terrible brute at
biting. Mr. Rarey succeeded, however,
in taming and training him to harness.
and drove him through the streets of
London. Animals with this vice should
be treated kindly in the stable and not
abused with pitchfork handles, whips, etc.
I....I. ... .ri,.j . f k.r
AS aypic, uitui ui lirau, iicve ua unit
etc, and a kind pat, but firm, watchful
hand and eye, with the see of the above
wooden bit. will cure the most inveterate
biter. The fact that he cannot abut his
mouth or grip anything soon dawns upon
bim, and then he u conquered.
BURNED IN BLAZIN& VARS.
XirusTiixK, Pa. , Januarjl5A
raih accident wwr'thS afonrmg
row gauge railroad. Several torfedoea
exploded in an oil well, near the track,
as the cars were passing, the gasAwn
the well filling the oars and setting . them
on fire. The engineer add fireman, ' see
ing their danger, lumped from the; tmu,
which ran down grade for twomileslw hen
it was ditched and burned up.
. Bradford, Pa., January n !5.-4t is
now stated that the number of persons
burned or injured by the burning of the
train on the narrow guage road to-day
will reach a total of 30, some of whom
are so badly injured that they will In ' all
probability die. Several of the persons
extricated from the wreck have their
limbs charred so badly that tbay will
have to be amputated. The oara of the
train are all almost totally wrecked. The
accident is now attributed to the bursting
of a tank of oil containing 250 barrel
which flowed down the bed of the road
and ignited from the sparks falling from
the train. This set fire to the road bed
and the rails spreading from the intense
heat caused the train to leave the' (rack.
The name of the wounded cannot be learn
ed as yet. , .,, s -
The list of injured is as follows: 'Pat
rick Sexton, engineer, terribly burned
about the faoe and hands; Michael Walsh,
fireman, badly burned on the face and
arms; W: H. Belknap, of Aiken, injured
internally by jumping from, the. train;
Jerry Donegan, brakeman, hands badly
eut; Chas H. Eidioke, express messenger,
burned about the hands; George McCart
ney, news boy, burned about the head,
faoe and hands. He will lose ihi hands
and is not expected to live. . A. N. -Carpenter,
of Little Genessee, F. Y., 'head,
face and loft hand burned;7 Jerry Hag
gerty, Cers, N. Y., badly burned; . about
the face and head. Mrs Black, her
daughter aod son, all of Aiken," ' were
all burned about the face and hands.
The mother is suffering severely. G. W.
Van, wife and son, ot Indianapolis, were
burned. The boy is suffering severely
about the head and hands. John Kefeer,
of Aiken, was terribly burned about the
face; K P. Fletcher, of Bolivar,; V X,
was badly burned about the faoe ana head;
B. C. Karly, of Andover, N. Yt mi
burned about the faoe and hands; Georje
Koch, of Allen town, N. Y., was wedged
in a window for a time, but waa thrown
out by the motion of the oars and, loll into
the snow, whioh saved him from serious
injury. Mrs.Thos. Parker ' of Bordell,
Pa., thicw her four-year-old ohild out
of the car window and followed herself.
Both were bruised and burned. ' Joseph
MoSwegan was badly out . by, breaking
flags. Capt. Hoe, of BostoiC was badly
urned about the scalp and face; 0. : If.
Peabody, ot Rochester, was burneiabput
the head and shoulders. The tenjyear
old daughter of W. E. Procto, - of Car
port, jumped directly through a window
and escaped, with slight bruises and outs.
K, B. Grant was injured about the head
and hands; Mr. Wright, of Rew City,
Pa., was burned about the face and head;
A. P. Fits, of Bolivar, N.'-l'.j was slight
ly injured; Judged Hamlin, ofSouthport,
leaped through a window his hair was
sineed and he was eut; W. N.. Sinclair,
of Rew City, Pa. esoaped, .slightly injured-
.,
THE DEAD. i
The following are the dead: Mrs. L.
C. Fair, of Kinzura junction, whose body
was burned beyond recognition, except
from remnants of clothing, cf-o. Mrs.
Katie Moran, Allen, Pa., body burned to
a crisp her body wsb found' hanging
fast to a window on the outside .of a car,
in which had been Mrs. Lebias Jones, of
Rew City, Pa., burned to a crisp.
A WOMAN ROASTED ALIVE.
Datremng Accident in Southwest Balti
more This Morning. k . ,
Baltimore Day, S6th. .
Mrs. Mary Sinclair, wife of Wm. Sin
clair, an employee at the Calverton drove
yards, residing at No. 445 MoHenrf street,
was terribly and, it is thought, fatally
burned about 10 o'clock this morning by
her clothing taking fire at the kitchen
stove. Mrs. Sinclair was engaged in
some domestic duty, and in passing the
front of the stove her dress -by some
means oame in contact with the heated
coals. She was not aware of the accident
until she found her clothing ill a blase,
wben she screamed loudly, aod ran into
the street, Her agonizing cries for help
brought neighbors to her assistance, who,
finding they could not extinguish the
flames, tore her clothing from her, when
she was found to have been burned almost
to a crisp from bead to foot Dr. Bosley
waa summoned, and. he thinks the result
will be fatal. ' .
BETTER WAN WATER.
"Understanothat you had a fire at
your house yesterday," said a gentleman
to his friend Col. Snagwell.
"Yes, house caught fire."
"Suppose the firemen did effective
woik?"
"No, they didn't get there is time."
"You threw water very promptly on
the flames, eh?"
"No, didn't use any water."
"How did you put it out?'
"Went out."
"That's singular." ' '
"Not at all The other day I bought a
load of kindling wood from a' country
man. 1 had it eut up and stacked in the
kitchen. Whei 1 saw the fire burning
in that direction I fait pretty ssafe and
1 was not disappointed, for when it reach
ed the kindling wood it went out" ?
Sage tea, with a little bay ram added,
makes a good wash for the Kait when it
inclines to fall out. It renders the hair
soft and induoes growth. '