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AT THE BURNING GHAT. How the Hindoos Cr>ii:1uot Their Cremation Ceremonies* To every traveler in Hindostan is familiar the terrible call of "Ram, Ram Such Hai," which, bein? translated into English, means, literally, "God, God is ruth " The rrv is a fearful one, a cry which cnce heard lingers with peculiar rhythm in the hearer's ear, for never is it heard from the lips of a singb man. but from many, sometimes hundreds, and when borne with that terrible distinctness of the well-accentuated many upon a still air, its elTect is peculiarly awestriking. Still more so when at rapid trot upon the shoulders of lour wniterobed men is seen a white-sheeted corpsc laid upon a light bier. So tightly lias been drawn (he shrouding over the dead figure that every outline of the body is distinctly visible; and thus at a quick pace hurry the body bearers, followed by an immense throng, to the burning ghat, there to burn the body cf the de ceased. There are few more affecting sights than a Hindoo cremation. There is sc much of solemnity and so much of barbaric pomp attending the ceremonial, such a general gathering of c'ansmen, cn rmirVi mid loud wceninff and silent agony, that it may be well said that not to be present at a burning is t? lose one of the most interesting entertainments that Hindostnn can oiler. Nc Hindoo is ever permitted to die withiu four walls. Out in the open air must the last gasp be breathed, and the last look of the dying man must be upon that which is not made by hands. The measure is not wholly one of religion, but more of a sanitary precaution. Decomposition sets in so rapidly that it is reckless to leave a body in close and con~ " * '1 - - 1 4 lined rooms longer man an uuur m llu very most. No sooner does death appear inevitable than the friends prepare to meet it in the most philosophical manner. The dying man is borne out into the open air, the hired mourners are sent for, and sit on each side of the lintel and wail in a heartrending manner. These mourners are women, old and ugly, red and white, dusty garments, with hair dishevelled. barnvard sweepings on their head and all the accomplishments of woe imaginable. From constantly engaging in such business, Iheir faces appear tc have attained the expression most befitting such occasions. About the annotating of the corpsc the Hindoo i9 most particular. It is rubbed all over with the essence of roses. The hair is oiled, the cheeks and lips are "painted a bright vermiilion, and the body swathed in white linen, manufactured for that purpose, and so shrouded as only to disclose the face and hands. The bier differs according to the caste. "With the Brahmins simplicity is observaKin "Ruf flirt lnicpr r> caste. and con sequently the lower the general intelligence and status in society, the more gaudily decorated the bier. For instance, grooms affect the liveliest colors, and convert their funerals into ludicrous farces, and are more than pleased when their efforts meet with laughing shoutR of approval. It is a peculiarity of this class that they are a most jovial race, and have ever a song or a joke on their lips. With other castes preternatural gloom seems ever upon their minds. A. groom, on the other hand, seizes with avidity the occasion of a funeral, and looks upon it as a most fortunate circumstance?an occasion upon which to be merry, to laugh dull care away and defy tyrant death with the cup that more than inebriates; for drunkenness is a besetting vice with him, though it is a drunkenness that takes amiable form,rarely even permitting him to do more harm than to bite off the nose of one of his refractory wives. A licrht matting forms the bed of the pyre, which is attached to bamboo poles, covered with strips of red, white, blue, green, yellow?in fact all colors?of cottou cloth. A canopy is formed overhead, also covered with various colored cloth. The body is placed inside and smothered with flowers, the white chammalee being preferred. It has a strong odor and is a, pure white. Four of the stoutest relatives of the deceased then lift the litter, and before them arc runner-, who lay on the ground red and white strips of cloth, so as not to permit the carriers to tread the bare earth. When the funeral procession comes to the limit of one of these strips, the funeral cortege has to wait until other strips have been spread. In advance of these are the fisrhtin2 men of the party, who brandish spears, sticks, and occasionally fire oft' guns, beside going through antics symbolical of fighting iu midair hovering demons who are intent upon carrying off the body. In most picturesque places are these burning ghats located. Hard by is some holy stream, whoso blue waters contrast beautifully with the dark and glowing foliage of the overhanging trees, and the rich green of the rank jungle whicb fringes its banks. The approaches to these river banks arc generally through ravines, deep and tortuous, caused by the overfiooded river during the rainy season. Over hot and burning sands, which glisten in the bright sunshine like burnished silver, and cast a glare which to the unaccustomed eye is almost blinding, trudges the funeral party. Arriving at the ghat, a little huckster incr has to he cone through with some ol ? ~ ~ " O o the wood-dealers, who have already as sorted sized pieces of wood from which to build the pyre, this being accom plished after no little difficulty, for s Hindoo always asks more than he expect: to receive, and al\va>s places his figure high so that after the bargain is concluded lie gets actually what he llrsl wanted. The eldest son is closest to the body; it is he who carries the pot containing the fire, and it is his duty tostarl into flame the straw. He is dressed ic white, and upon his dress are greal patches of red like blood clots. The pyre is but a foot or so high, resting ou a bed of straw. After the doleful chants have been sung, and after he has thrice marched round the pyre, he ignites the fire, and a few seconds after a thin wreath of smoke ascending heavenward tells that the last rite has been successfullv performed. The funeral ceremon ies over, the party, including those whc arc nearest of kin, repair to the deceased's late dwelling and there inquire into the affairs of the departed one, and make an inventory of his effects. A marriage and a funeral are affairs much to be drended by a wealthy Hindoo, for on either occasion there is to be considerable spent in feasting the re'atives, and a host of dependants; and ns without a feast the soul of the departed one is ia danger of not tasting the joys oi the life hereafter, a funeral feast is really often the real source of the woe on such npfvminnq As n matter of course thr Brahmins figure conspicuously, for it is hoped that through their intercessions, will the dead man gain heavenly bliss ?<Sun Francisco Examiner. A Hindoo loom complete is worth sixty-eight cents, and weaves shawls, silks and muslins, which our most expensive apparatus cannot equal. HAULING A BUILDING. A. " Down-Ea^t Way of Moving a Factory. A correspondent of the Lewiston Jourual gives a graphic account of the moving of a shook factory at Turner, lie., from which we cony as follows: The site selected for the shook shop , was a spot where the rocks were so thick that holes could not be du<r for apple Tf T.-n j lncf. VPJtr flint, thft I ucua, iv >? aj uwiuvM j v.?. ....... ' 9hook shop must go. Last fall the spot was leveled by blasting some of the biggest rocks, and the foundation laid. The time set for moving the building i [ was last Monday afternoon, and Caleb , Sncll had charge of the hauling. ! Caleb Snell has moved buildings for thirty years, and can haul a building 5 anywhere. He is a large farmer on Sneli'a . hill, and is well-known in the region i [ around as a genial, quick-witted man , with a heart as big as an ox. He says he has Daniel Webster's head. Dan:el Webster was a great fisherman } and made a Bunlcer-Hill-monuraent , j speech that has not been forgotten for . | fifty years, but he was nowhere alongside " I /->- * t- t 1:? ? Pm. V-UIUU DlitMl 111 lliiuiiu^ a uuiiuiug, a iv i fessor Cain can move a house down the ! [ level grade of Lisbon street without j moving the family out and without much j fuss, but it took good calculation, quick judgment and engineering skill of a high order to haul the shook shop to the "Booker Intervale," and Caleb Snell was equal to the emergency. The distance to haul was not long. The building was about 30x40? J J - -1 - r j , tOOK lip a goou uuai UI ruuuwttj'. j.ug road was up bill and down, rough and sideling, and in some places just wide enough for the building to go. Everything was ready and a string of cattle , hitched to each of the "shoes" at 2 p. ' m. last Monday. The first pull was to , turn the building half round. She swung on her bed as gracefully as the Puritan minds her helm. Caleb is a , speechmaker, but he always makes short speeches. That is more than can be said I of Daniel Webster. Caleb looked up and down the road to see if more teams I were coming. Then he got up on the crosstie and spoke: "Men and teamsters, you have made a | good pull. We are bound for Canaan? \ the'Booker Intervale.' Like the road to ' Jordan, it is a hard road to travel, but we shall get there. Mind well the word. I ornrnftv fn iV?r?xv Strain im." , "When Caleb was making his speech, | every teamster stood by the side of his cattle with goad3tick at shoulder arms, and at the word they all pointed the spur at the off ox and whispered at the nigh one. They all pulled together with a steady strain. "Hard on the nigh string," shouted Caleb, and they walked with it, but not far; it was a heavy load for the team. They camfi to a standstill before Caleb gave the word, "Whoa-hish." At the next pull the team was stuck. Caleb swuug his hat and hollered. The teamsters put spur, but it was no go. It was a delightful afternoon, as warm as summer, and women gathered in Charles Snell's dooryard with their sewing and knitting work to look on and to encourage the men and oxen. The off "shoe" had plowed into the gravel half its bigness, and Caleb ordered the building , "jacked up." Uncle Solon Chase volunteered to give Caleb some advice. He turned round and spoke, "You drove Them Steers until you drove the Greenback party into the mud. I am driving this team; you can take command of the elm pry." As he spoke, his Daniel Webster head went up so high that it laid on the back of his neck, the elm pry was a stick of hub timber about twenty-five feet long, and ten inches through at the big end, which was sharpened out like the toe of a shoe, the building was "jacked up," seven men raised up the elm pry and Uncle Solon fixed the bait. All was ready, . Caleb gave the word. The men broke the pry down as the cattle strained up. Everybody hollered, the teamsters | screamed, the small boys yelled, the women waved their hats, and when the building started Beecher barked and wagged his tail. The noise was immense ?not unlike the confusion of tongues at the tower of Babel, but above all the din : and clatter Caleb's voice could be heard as the clarion notes of the bugle are heard above all the rest iu a band of music. To Caleb the "Booker Intervale" was the Kingdom come, and he had im, pressed every man, woman, and child, boy, dog. and steer with the same idea. The cattle pul!ed well, but they could haul the building only when it was ' jacked up,*' and helped by the elm pry. Progress was slow, and the shades of night were shutting down. ; Caleb spoke: "Men and teamsters, don't make another pull. Your cattle pull well, but there is not team enough. We [ must have fifteen more yoke. Will you ; come at 8 o'clock to-morrow morning? ' aii i>?vrv " KnnnAr anrpftd fnr Au ujv. n/???- -J forty, and steaming hot, but nobody ' stopped, all in a hurry to get home to | do the chores. The next morning they began to drive in the cattle early. As they came on to the ground the word ''VVhoa-back!" : was heard often, and it was heavenly ! music. When all was ready for a start ' there was team enough.. Forty yoke of them st.cers were hitched to the build! ing. They could haul it anywhere or tear it down. The elm pry became obsolete and was bft in the rear. Caleb 1 worked the building slowly over the rocks and along a steep side hill. To k make way a piece of stone had to be re| moved. One "binder" put in by Seth 5 Sampson more than fifty years ago was taken out. When the worst was over ^ ana the building stood pitching down ' V.%11 fAtrurrl ihn cn/\f Polnli fArtlr 11111 IUU JJ/VW, VHIVU KVVJA [ off his hat and got upon the cross tie to ' make a speech. He spoke: "Men and 1 teamsters, dinner!'' After dinner the building was slowly ! and carefully worked down hill on to the 1 spot. The warm September sun made 1 the afternoon delightful. The women were gathered on the green sward with ! their work, and the boys set on piles of 1 stave3 crunching apples that hung down from the bending limbs ever their heads just within easy reach. The shook shop is now on the "Booker Intervale" by the | side of the river where the woodbine 1 climbs the trees in great profusion, and I 1 where the water goes laughing dov/n 1 over the rocks as merry as a "giggling ' girl." All there is left of the shook shop 1 where it stood Is the pole where it sot. CalebVspeech was in one word but it was a welcome speech. Marcu3 Samp son shouted "Amen" so loud that they heard him on the Buckfield town farm. ; The oxen were turned into a clovcr lot and soon filled themselves and laid down. Mrs. Nora Burdin and Airs. Kate Wilder j had set tables for forty?four tables?ten I 1 plates each. The bill of fare was baked , ' beans,, Indian pudding, brown bread, | the whitest kind of white cake and | plenty of pumpkin pie, apple pic too, if you wished,tea, coffee, pickles, preserves and other dishes. After forty hungry men and boys had eaten all they could eat there seemed to be just a3 much on the tables as there was when they began to cat. AROUND THE WORLD. |: Matters ot Interest from Various , Quarters of the Globe. ] ] Denmark on the Verge of a Se1 j rious Revolution. 1 A Copenhagen dispatch says that "the long continued arbitrary policy of King : Christian IX. in declining to dismiss the Es- 1 trup cabinet, in compliance with the temper of the Rigsdag, and in levying taxes al- ^ logod to be unconstitutional because of the , refusal of parliament to vote tho budget, i seoms about to culminate in grave 3 troubles. A number of serious riots and imposing demonstrations against tho king and the Estrup ministry have occurred already in this city. Tho people seem determined that j their representatives in parliament sball have J some voice in the affairs of government. They 1 have become so threatening in their demands ] that tho kin~ has ordered the garrison of Co- i penhagen to be largely reinforced. These popu- ' far manifestations are not confined to Copen- < hagon, but are general throughout Denmark It is expected that a stato of siege will bo declared, and it ia feared that a revolution will ensue if the king persists in withholding the 1 concessions demanded by the Kigsdag. A i rmmhor of nolitical arrests havo been made and have tended to excite tbe people j further. Tbe popular feeling has become so angry that the shedding of blood is possible j at any moment." The trouble between the Danish govern- < ment and the people is of thirteen years' standing, during which time the Lower House, the Folkething, has vainly persisted in its demand for the removal of the unpopular Estrup cabinet. Its attempts to j coerce the government by refusing to vote supplies were boldly met; the king authorized the levy of taxes by royal decree and dissolved the Rigsdag with a rep- i rimand. This has since been done repeatedly, but each time a larger radical majority has 1 been returned to the lower house. In the popular branch of the Rigsdag, which met this month at Copenhagen, there are now scarce half a dozen supporters of the govern- ' ment. The upper house has remained loyal 1 to the king. The Smnllfox in Canada. Montreal advices state that the small-pox scourgo is spreading in Canada. Of the 483 patients admitted to the old Civic hospital in Montreal since April 1, 118 have died. The retail merchants have decided to urge upon the provincial board of health tho necessity of i rohibiting the sale of vaccine points in druggists' or other stores, but instead to establish a central dispensary where pure vaccina can bo issued. This action lias been taken because much of tho vaccine sold in the city has been bogus. The most extraordinary means are abjut to be adopted to prevent the spread of smallpox. The provincial board of health mot and discussed a motion passed by the civic board of health to close all churches and public places of amusement and prevent all gatherings in public squares for one month. It was resolved not to concur in t!ie motion, as tliey thought that tho time was inopportune. It was state ! that any parson coming from an infected house to a church could, be prosecuted now. Another Railroad Tragedy. Two sections of a freight train wjro waiting on a siding about four miles from Wil! '<> //MI nriAAmtnA loKAn llitllidpUL C) X C1U1. ) J.V4 UliO U^VVlIilUVAUViVU train which leivjs that city at (5:35 i\ M. for tho East. The train was late, and did not leave until 7:0r3. Tbo oxpress train came into collision with tho cast bound accommodation on the curve near Potter's crossing at 7:20. The two engines, the express, baggage, and one passenger coach on tuo train west, and a !iko number on tho east bound train were badly damaged. Eugene Thorn, fireman on tho oast-bound train, was killed and horribly mangled. Arthur Middlenauf, express messenger on tho west-bound train, was also killed. Daniel lioat, engineer on the west-bound train, was badly injured. Henry Welcoiner. engineer of the east-bound train, was also badly injurod. James A. Scott, a traveling man, residing at Trenton. N. J., had his ear cut and was badly bruised. The Greeks Kag-cr for War. An Athens (Greece) dispatch says that the Council of Candia, tho largest city in Crete, has voted in favor of a union with Greece, but the populace refuse to revolt against the Turkish government before Greece has declared war. The Greeks are wild with enthusiasm. Thirty thousand men of the reserves have been enrolled during the past five days, and thousands are arriving from all parts of Greece, especially from the Peloponnesus and the islan ds of tho ^Egean. Tlio people are clamoring for war and an extension of territory. Frcacli TrooP* Dyinj of Cholera. Advices from Tonquin describe the situation thore as very glojmy. Since the beginning of the summer 3,UJ0 Frenchmen have died of cholera, and largo numbers are still daily succumbing to the disease. The mortality among the troops hin lers the progress of the campaign. The reinforcements that arc sent from France aro scarcely sufficient to fib the gaps made in the French ranks by the plagua sjiot in Open Courr. Moonrod Huendelend, a youth of ninotoon, in revenge for an assault committed 01 his sister by Harrison Task* r, a colored man at Indianapolis, Ind., shot and fatally wounded Tasker in open court. Great oxcitement prevailed and tho young man was arrested. UNDER FALLEN WALLS. Workmen Fatally Crushed in a To* bacco Warehouse. For two weeks a score of laborers had been tearing down an old tobacco warehouse at No. 1144 West Main Street, Louisville. The other morning a squad of workmen were directed to begin excavations on the east side, while three bricklayers were engaged in strengthening the supports of the wall. Just as the men were preparing to go to dinner a cry of horror burst from all. The wall was seen to topple, and in a moment it had fallen with a terrible crash, burying five men in the debris. Their fellow-laborers ran to the rescue and dragged their mangled and bleeding bodies from beneath the mass of brick and mortar. Four men had been dragged out, when it was discovered that Augustus Bush, the boss bricklayer, was missing. His bruised body was found after a long search under the mass Ua /JaKwo TTfi woe ch'll nliuA hftWftVP.r. V/J. vug UVk/l AO* AAV ?? Ms> UVM1 V... * VJ MW , and may recover. Thomas Lambton, a brick layer, and William Cotton, a hod carrier, together with two hod carriers whoso names are unknown, were fatally injured. Gus Wilzer had his right leg broken above the knee and his left foot crushed. Thomas Bush had his right hip and left thigh broken. SOUTHERN INDUSTRIE?. Over 50,000,000 Tnvoted in tbe I ant Nine months in litiNliieMtt* The iJaltimore Manufacturers' necora nas published its quarterly review of the South era industrial growth, giving the name, location and character of business of all new mining and manufacturing enterprises organized in the lourteen Southern states since July 1, also statistics showing the amount of capital invested in such enterprises for the first nine months of 1SS5. These figures show that the amount of ( capital, including capital stock of incorporated companies, represented by the new manufacturing and mining enterprises organized since January 1, and the amount expended in ] the enlargement of old plants and the rebuild- j ing of tho mills destroyed by fire, aggregates $52,38G,000. Tho amount in each State is as follows: Alabama, $5,Sf>4,000; Arkansas, ' $500,000; Florida, $1,237,000; Georgia, $2,- ' 052,000; Kentucky, $14,005,000; Louisiana- j $1,'J55,000; Maryland, $0,107,S00; Mississippi, ' $571,500; North Carolina, $2,518,000: South j Carolina, $51)2,000; Tennessee, $2,C00,000; 1 Texas, 230,000;'Virginia, $2,735,000; West 1 Virginia, $9,0-14,000. In these new enterprises th.-ro is a wide diversity of industries, the Record's list including furnaces, foundries 1 and machine shops, steel works, cotton-seed oil mills, cotton compresses, fruit canning ' factories, etc. 1 NEWS SUMMARY. Eastern and UlJddlo States* Annie E. Cutler, a young colored woman who pleaded guilty to killing her lover in PhilflHplnliin hftfl hppn contAnpoH tr\ hA hnr?<ypA The Kester brothers, two old bachelors iving alono near Hazleton, Penn., were found murdered in their home. There was jvidence of a* desperate struggle, and the house had been ransacked. The revivalists, Moody and Sankey, have i>een holding meetings in New York. Charles Leland, one of tlio most prominent hotel keepers in the country, died on bhe 19th ^at tho Ocean House, his hotel in Long Branch, N. J. Two railroad collisions in Pennsylvania, the other day, resulted in the destruction of seventy freight cars?forty with a locomotive, at Black Creek Junction, on the Lehigh road, and thirty at Annville station, on the Reading road. Two fnmilv minrrnl noir THrin Pathi .Tnhn P. Ward fatally shot his son Charles. Malcolm Hay, formerly first assistant Dostmaster-general, die.l a few days ago in Pittsburg, Penn., of consumption, aged forty'hree years. He was appointed first assistant postmaster-general by President Cleveland, ind left a sick bed to accept the place, but ;he onerous duties of his oflice compelled him to resign. South and West* John W. Coffee was hanged at Crawfordsville, Ind., for the murder of McMullen and his wife, an aged couple of that place. William McGaughney (colored) met a similar fate at Monroe, Ga., for wife-murder. A terrible tragedy is reported from Sander county, Neb. Mrs. Peter Hingin, wife of a well-to-do farmer, and her child were shot to death by her husband's brother, who then ended his own life. The motive for the crime is unknown. At Osawki?, Kan., a few nights since, Mr. Lander, a farmer, accompanied by hi3 wife, ( rorv nViilrlron nnrl \frs Rt'.nrt'Arl hnmp ward in a wagon. Among their purchases were ten pounds of powder. Mi's. Lander in lighting her pipe dropped a spark upon the powder. The explosion killed Mrs. Lander and threw the other four cut of the wagon, fatally injuring them all. Frederick Greiner was hanged at Columbus, Ohio, for the murder of Margaret Seeling, who had refused his hand in marriage. A Chicago dispatch state? that statistics showed the amount of grain in sight in the United State3 and Canada on the previous Saturday, together with the increaso over the week preceding, to be as follows: Wheat, 43,378,'J7(5 bushels; increase, 2,021,1)70. Corn, 4,340,387 bushels; increase, 4S,li(J9. Oats, 4.405,375 bushels; increase, 517,435. Rye, 513,145 bushels; increase, 75.(587. Barley, 1,154,783 bushels; increase, 450,530. Xi fifth i lift on* The President lias made the following further appointments: To bo consul-general of the United States?Benjamin P. Bonham, of Oregon, at Calcutta; to be Unif-ed States -jttili: a fin COI1SU13 * r liilUlli XX. uai^OLUC, \jl xauoum M, at Martinique; Charles Forster, of Indiana, afc Elberfeid, and Nageeb J. Arbeely, of Tennessee, at Jerusalem; Ernest P. Baldwin, of Missouri, to be deputy'first auditor of the treasury; Henry R. West, of Ohio, to be Indian agent at the Fort Peck agency in Montana; Samuel \V. Langhorne, of Montana, to be register of the land office at Helena, M. T., and Horatio S. Howell, of Montana, to be receiver of public moneys at Helena, jr. T. James N. Childs, of Maine, has been appointed United States cousul at Guelph, Canada, and Jamos H Trumbull United States consul at Talcahuano, Chili Darius Le Dore, of Illinois, has been appointed special timber agent of the interior department. Secretary Bayard states in an interview that "the relations between this country and Mexico are more cordial than they have evor been before." Attorney-General Garland has directed the United States attorney for Boston to bring suit against the bondsmen of former Agricultural Commissioner George B. Loring for the $20,0UU deficiency in his accounts. New appointments by the President: C. H. Vaughan to be collector of customs at Sag Harbor, N. Y.; James Tilton to be collector of customs at Great Egg Harbor, N. J.; T. F. Donvan to bo surveyor of customs al Patchogue, N. Y.; William S. Bickford, receiver of public moneys at Shasta, Cal.; Sylvester Hall to be register of the land office al Shasta; L'rhard Bissinger of New York, consul at Beyroot; Daniel W. Herring of Tennessee, consul at Tegucigalpa. Foreign* A large force of Servians, with King Milan in comman'l, invaded Bulgaria and marched upon Sofia. A Turkish force was sent against the Servians. Fifteen* well-known gamblers have beon expelled from Germany under the Socialist law. A dispute between tho government of India and King Thebau, of Burmah, has led tc the fitting out of a combined naval and military force of 10,000 men, which will proceed from Calcutta to Rangoon to chastise the Burmese ruler. It is stated that 7,000 Christians have been massacred in Anuam. Among the victim* were M. Chatelet, a missionary, and ten native priests. The island of Majorca, in the Meditor ranean sea, has been inundated owing to unusually heavy rains. Great distress prevails among the inhabitants. Tns Brazilian legislature has passed a la\i for the gradual abolitiou of slavery in thai country, tho government buying the slaves from their owners. It is calculated that in nine years slavery will virtually be extinct. At the Melbourne (Australia) races fifteen horses fell in one race out of forty-one starters. One jockey was killed and seven were badly injured. Seven farmers have been sentenced in Limerick, Ireland, to one month's imprisonment for riot ng and boycotting. Chinese pirates murdered the captain of tlie British steamer Greyhound, and wore only prevented from capturing tho vessal after a desperate fight, iu which other officers were woundedFATAL OCCURRENCES. Killed on tlio Hall-Suffocated In Wlieat?Five Chinamen Biilled. A gang of section hands wore working on the Newark branch of the New Jersey Cen * J -i.Cl-t.Ji1 1 i> oral ranroau at ocuiuwr siret>t, x^iixuuctupui t, N. J., when a passanger train approached the crossing at a high rate of speed. As the engineer rounded a curve near the crossing he saw the laborers and blew his whistle, but it was too late to avoid an accident The men jumped for their lives, but John Sheridan and James Flaherty were caught by the pilot of the engine and dragged twenty feet. The train was stopped, and Sheridan was found to be terribly mangled and dead. Flaherty was injured internally,and his arms and legs were broken. Five cars loaded with wheat were ditched on the Northern Pacific railroad five miles east of Aitken, Minn., and two men, who wero stealing a ride, were found suffocated in the wheat. From letters found on them they are believed to have been John R. Cochrane, of Volant, Penn., and Louis Dust, of Champuign, 111. Fivo Chinamen were killed in the shaft of the Wellington colliery, at Victoria, iiritisii Columbia. They were descending to tlie mine when a car rolled down from the inouih of the shaft and crushed them to death, 'lhree others in the car escaped unhurt. THE BARREL BURST. Shocking Gun Accident?Fnte ( 1'hrco Young- Men* Three young men, named Robert Fichter, Edward Bradley and T. Scott, were hand ling n gun at Hazleton, Penn., the other lftcrnoon, and Edward Bradley loaded both barrels with a heavy charge of powder and shot. Just as ho had put on a cap tho gun fell from his hand and tho cap exploded. The barrel being overcharged burst, and 0110 of the flying pifeces of iron entered Fichtc-r's heart. He ran about thirty yards and then iropped dead in tho road. Scott was terribly cut with another flying fragment about the head, faeo and body and was not expected to recover. Bradley's right arm wivs so badly mangled that it had to be amputated, and he was otherwise injured, his face being badly burued. VICTIMS OF THE FLAMES. Fearful Disruption of a House- ? liold in Chicago. { ? ( Wife, her Mother and Two J Children Burned to Doath, i < A terrible visitation of fire and death cams i ( upon the household of William S. Bates, at ] 86 Vernon Park place, this morning, says a Chicago dispatch. There was a sudden cry ] of "The house is on fire! Oh, save us! Save i the children!" and then a rush and i sweep of llame and smoke, and in less time j almost than it takes to relate the tale of hor- x ror the little household of seven human be- { ings was reduced to three. Of the other four nothing remained but blackened, charred i bodies. The interior of the house was a ] grim, black moss of ruins; the red walls still j standing partially hid the ghastly scenc from { passers-by, the blackened windows and doors alone affording a view. The death list is as ? follows: Mrs. Mary Bate?, wife of William S. Bate*, aged thirty-three years; Mrs. Gray- , son, mother of Mrs. Bates, aged seventy-two years; Johnny Bates, aj:ed six years; Eddie Bates, aged four years and six months. The rescued were William S. Bates, Thomas C. ] Grayson and Martha Bates, a child of two j years, the youngest of tho family. Shortly before ( o'clock in the morning the servant, "Mary Dolan, got up to start a lire in ? thekitclnn to prepare breakfast. The rest 1 j of the family were still abecL It is not , known whether the girl used kerosene to stare the fire, for there were both an oil stove { and a range in the little kitchen. At all 1 - - - - -it 1 | events the household were arousea oy u suuden explosion. x . Mrs. Bates jumped from her bed in the J middle room of the first floor and rushed ? quickly into the kitchen in her night clothes, < and attempted to extinguish the flames by dashing water upon them. The frightened garvant had escaped through the rear win- J dow, which was still open, and a sti;f breeze 1 blew in, fanning the fire into fury. The partitions began to blaza. Beholding che awful danger ot the situation, the poor woman ] thought of her sleeping children and turned her attention to saving them. She thought of her babe Martha first, and, ] snatching the infant in her arms, carried it . through the side hall into the street. A panic J had by this timo seized upon the remaiuing ] people in the burning building. Flames were j madly leaping through every portion of the interior and had even reachei the upper rooms, where old Mrs. Grayson and her son Thomas slept. Stifling smoke was issuing from every window. The mother realized , that the peril of those within was awful. mir r-hililivn! Oh. mv God. ' help me!" she cried, as sho wrung' hor hands in agony. i The morning milkman had rattled up to tho door in his carfc. "Stop, woman!" he shouted, "you cannot 1 go in there and come out alive." ] He leaped from the wagon aud seized her ( by the arni3. There came a wail from her Serishing boys within. This decid9l her. reaking from the man's gra?p Mrs. Bates ] dashed into the hall and disappeared in the < merciless flames. She was never again *een alive. Facing tho blinding fury of scorching heat and stifling smoke the brave : mother, as afterward shown, reached the middle bedroom, snatched up another of her , children, Eddie, and started back.. But she could not reach the free air again. At the front window, within six feet of the front 1 door, tho brave mother's blackened remains were found with those of the boy clasped in her scorched arms. Mrs. Bates had been awakened first Sho called her husband, and whi e she tried to save the children he started upstairs to the rescue of her brotiier and her aged mother, j Mr. Bates made his way through the kitchcn just as the flames were eating their way through the felt partition separating the tm-n fho cloaiiincr Anartments. The K11A.UUU 11 VIA* VKV W*VV|#...0 | kitchen stove, a large sized range, was situated within six inches of this partition and ' on a direct line with the open window, through which a strong wind was blowing. Fanned by this draught the flames spread in every direction, and Mr. Bates had no sooner reached the stairs leading to the rooms above than the fire cut off his retreat. He dashed up the stairs, shouting at the top of his voice to alarm the aged woman and his brother-inlaw. The lalter awo.ee first, and at a glanco perceived the flames had cut off his escape down the stairway. Every moment tne blaze grew more appalling. The felt partitions were like so much tinder. Bates had i no sooner reached the upper floor than portions of the roof began to full. All the time the smoke became denser. Bates groped his way through the blinding clouds and managed to reach his brother-iu law, (J ray son. Aged Mrs. Grayson missed iir>r wav in the smoke. She left her room and started to descend by means of the back stairway while the two men were preparing to jump out the front window. She fell near the head of the stairs and was suffocated. Grayson jumped out of the window first, followed by Hates a moment later. Both men were badly burned. Bates was burned about the limbs, arms and face. His eyebrows were scorched, and portions of his hair and beard were singod off. Grayson's injuries were principally about the lower limbs. Within ten minutes after the department 1 arrived the flames were extinguished. Then Marshal Campion entered the front door and stumbled over something in thD hallway. The obstacle was the charred remains of Mrs Bates. 1 She was burned almost to a crisp. B ??ide her was the body of her child Eddie, also horribly , disfigured. In the bedroom was found the body of the eldest child, Johnny, aged six years, likewise charred and burned. Mrs. Grayson's body was the only one of the four not badly 1 burned. Her death was due apparently to suffocation, and the features were lifelike ( and easily recognizable. < Mr. Bates is a clerk in D. B. Fisk's establishment on "Wabash avenue. Thomas Gray- ; sonfor the last fifteen years has been a clerk in the Union National bans. FATALITY ON THE RAIL Eight Person* Killed and Many Injured near Jersey City. The "Western express on the Pennsylvania i railroad, which left Jersey City at 3:15 the other evening, ran into an emigrant train at Meadow Station, near the Hackensack river bridge just beyond Jersey City, N. J. The emigrant train, which left Jersey City at 1 7:50 o'clock, had stopped at a coal shuto, and at the east side of the Hackensack rivpr hrid<re tho "Western eXDl'dSS crashed into the caboose of the emi- ; I grant train and threw it and a passenger car j upon the east-bound track. The Lehigh V alley train No. 3, which left Newark at 8.10 o'clock, on the way to Jersey City, crashed into the wreck and one of the Lehigh Valley cars took fire. Eight people were killed outright and a number were injured. The wreck was the most frightful seen on the road in years. Three of the dead were brought 'to Jersey City, whenco all the ambulances were summoned. They were a man and a woman, both decapitated and terribly mangled, and a boy of about twolve years, whose legs had been cut off. All were dressed as emigrants. One woman had both feet cut off and was rolled into the ditch. She, with several others, was taken to Newark. One Pullman on the Western express and two emigrant cars were smashed. The victims were noarly all Norwegian immigrants and cannot speak 1 English. They were bound for the Lehigfi Valley coal mines. The accident was due to a telegraph operator's mistake. j MUSICAL AND MAMATIC. ' ] In Paris 150 babios rehearsed for a chorus ] (n the play "Petit Poucet." Colonel Will S. Hays, the songwriter, has joined a minstrel troupe. j Charlotte Corday will bo Sarah Bern- ( hardt's next part. Sardou is writing it for < her. Dresden has 700 pupils in its conservatory, j of which 34 are English and 20 are Ameri- ' i cans. \ Salvini has been on the stage forty-two j years and xs sixty-live yeari old. Yet ho is a grefy* actor. Mapleson's New York opera season will j begin with ''Carmen;" Minnie Hauk in the . title role. j Mlle. Teresnia Tua will come to this t country next winter, and is to receive $50,000 { f for an extended concert tour i LATER NEWS. Three derricks fell at the Lowell (Mass.) ;vater works, killing Owen Elmer, a laborer, a ind perhaps fatally injuring James P. Roberts, city engineer, and two assistants. Tiie church congress of th9 Episcopal :liurch, held in New Haven, Conn., was at- rji ;endod by hundreds of clergymen and laymen * xom all parts of the country, and addressed jy Canon Farrar. of England. Bishop Coxe, )f "Western New York, spoke on "Grounds >f Church Unity," and there was a lively de- fc bate on that subject. n( Robert Doxey, in jail at Holly Springs, SJiss., on tho charge of murdering his wife, m ivas forcibly taken out by 150 armed men n i nd hanged to a tree. A man named Church11, imprisoned at Murfreesboro, Ark., for nurder, met with a still more terrible fate, si i mob burning him alive. T More than five hundred "moonshiners" jr rnve been crowding tho custom-houso at s Nashville, Tenn., awaiting trial for distilling llicit whibky. About 150 have been lined j1' . ... ind sentenced to from one to six montns in $ jail. a Two colored men?Nelson Stewart and Anderson Davis?have been sentenced to ^ leath at Charlotte, N. C.. for burglary. a< A foot of snow has fallen in Northern a Michigan, causing a blockade of all the rail- jjj oads. b Seven men were killed by a boiler explo- k iion in a sawmill at Ridgeville, S. C. The nen were thrown from fifty to seventy-five j fards and were stripped of every vestige of ti Nothing. Even their shoes were blown from E ;heir feet. ? A great many bridal couples have called n ately at the "White House, to pay their re- n ipects to the President. Twonty couples n called in one day. The President has appointed Rudolph e tri.t, nf Tot? tn Iia United States at- ci l^icwcib, v.. . ;orney for the western district of Texas. Seven persons have been killed and enor- 0 nous losses caused by a great fire in Moscow, Russia. A young compositor named Rasmussen ? has tried to assassinate Premier Estrupp, a Denmark's unpopular prime minister, in Co- s< penhagen. Two shots were fired, one strik- Q ing a button on Herr Estrupp's coat. Ras- ^ mussen was imprisoned. f A train on the railway which ascends the h Etiel mountain, Switzerland,fell into a ravine. ? One person was killed and twenty-five were n Jreadfully injured. h Boston's formal triLuto to tho memory of ]? General Grant was paid a few days ago in v the Tremont temple. Mayor O'Drieu pre b sided, and there was a large audience. After musical exorcises Rev. Hoary Ward Beechcr delivered a eulogy on General Grant. a Mas. Moore, wifo or General Moore, com f mander of the Salvation Army, and twenty ? of her soldiers, were arrested the other nigh' tl in Williamsport, Penn., for singing aud parad- b ing in the streets. ? Joseph Smith, a boy of thirteen, living Q among the mountains of Bedford county, Pflnn.. was killed and almost devoured by a | tl panther. ? Two men were killed by an explosion of p black damp in Raccoon Pit coal mines, near k Richmond, Va. ? A statue of the late William E. Dodge, t| tbe philanthropist, erected in Now York by tl the Chamber of Commerce, was unveiled with appropriate ceremonies, among the ^ speakers being Hon. Abrain S. Hewitt, Pi ts- a ident McCosh, of Princeton college, and Ben- T ator Colquitt, of Georgia. Apditional appointments by the President: Collectors of customs?S. J. Anderson, at Portland,' Me.; George S. Savage, at Cherry Stone, Va.; territorial judgesLouis K. Church, of New York, William W. Porter, of California, William H. Bamcs, of P o Illinois, to be associate justices, and John O. Shields, of Michigan, to be chief justice of the n supreme court of Arizona; Evan Long, of In- ' G iliana, to be chief justice of tho supreme court of New Mexico. Consul?William Hill, P nf Illinois, at Port Sarnis. j I ------ - u The English privy council denied the application of Riel, tho Manitoba rebel leader, V for leavo to appeal from his sentence of vs death. r< The marriage of Prince Waldemar, third ^ son of King Christian, of Denmark, and y Princess Marie, daughter of the Du2 and h Ducbesso do Chartres, was celebrated at the " Chateau d'Eu, France, the resideuce of the Comte de Paris. n ? tl A THAIS' COLLISION. h Three Railroad Kmployes Killed in New Hampshire. A terrible accident occurred a few days ago on the northern division of the $ Boston and Lowe 1 railroad, between East An- b dover aud West Andover, N. H., by which 0 g( three persons lost their lives and five were in- 0 jured. Tne Chicago expre3i freight train left o Concord with a doub'e header, the engineers b being John K Emerson and Daniel Scannell, and when they reached West Andover to set off for tho down passenger train it was found v that they had broken apart. Emerson c started in search of tho missing cars, and j, meanwhile the passenger train came along. n The passenger train men were told that Em- ^ erson ha 1 gone after a part of his train before * they left the station. That train stopped at Andover Centre, leaving four passengers, and started southward. When three-eighths ' of a mile below Andover Centre both trains came in collision, and as the trains were going rapidly the recoil was 80 great that the direction of each locomotive was completely changed. As soon as possible trainmen were sent out on engines to tho rescue of the passengers. Both locomotives were badly damaged and B the engineers were missing. After a long C search they were found dead under the debris, S as was also William Harvey, a brakeman of L tho freight train who wont back with engi- H ncer Emerson on his train. Beside the throe kilied five men?a postal clerk, express mes- * senger, baggage master nnd two firemen of both trains?were injured. ? . R B C mn pi -*t a m rrvvr 4 T /lAllTJ O IttJS jmiUiUL trAlUEi. H New York made the most money even if SI it didn't get the championship. g1 Captain Morrill, of the Bostons, will figure as a polo referee this winter. Thk Washingtons, Milwaukeesand Kansas Citys are eager to get into either of the load- CI ing associations. The St. Louis American champions were presented with lino now suits of clothes by E| their delighted president, Yon der Abe. Last year the East held both champion- SI ships, Providence and New York. Now the L< West holds both?Chicago and St. Louis. St New York won ten games of the series of sixteen with Chicago, made ninety runs, 133 1., Iiits and 133 errors to Chicago's seventy-fivo runs, 115 hits and 123 errors. q( Dalrymple. Chicago's left-fielder, leads Bi the league in the matter of getting home runs. He made the circuit of the bases off a j, liit ten times daring tho season. ,, The New York State league, which ha3 enjoyed a fairly prosperous season, will next p< fear embrace Syracuse, Utica, Binghamton, F1 Oswego, Buffalo, Rochester, Troy and one or q ;wo other cities, making a strong chain. Q( It is estimated that tho gross receipts for the baseball season in Chicago will be at least ?o00,0l?0. It is said Anson and Flint each re- Be eived $4,000 for the year and Clarkson gfc ?o,50l). Other members were rated from this l? igure down to -Sl.ot'U. Hi The baseball association of Yale college has lecided to erect a building to be used for F1 aaseball practice during the winter. The pro- \\" posed building will bo ;sevonty-live feet long Rmd buiJt in sections so as to be easily taken Ct ipart. There will bono flooring laid, but the Ot ground will be rolled and made to resemble a Bi iiamond as nearly as possible. CI si WmM& M MM UMLMIBDSBOfi. 'I .n Explosion of Ga3 Caused by a Workman's Negligence. "errible Scenes of Death at the Bottom of tfie Mine. A Wilkesbarre (Penn.) dispatch gives tha >llowing particulars of a coal miue horror jar that city: A terrible oxploslon of gas occurred this lorning in No. a colliery at Plymouth, opeited by tho Delaware and Hudson coal cominy, by which four men were killed,five wert itally injured and a dozen others were severet hurt. The dead are as follows: John Levin:ey, Dennis Titus, Andrew Spennetts, nomas Collins. Fatally ,'njurea?Frank cmareux, Thomas Howard, William Coins, William hvans, Edward Jones, Anthony pennette. The mine is one of the largest in this region, oists on an average three hundred and ifAnftr.fitrA nam a riaxr onH Amnlf\XTQ KflfnTAOTI , - , fTOUUJ-U?V VUiOU UUJj WUU VtW{/tvju WO'rvvM K) and 800 men and boys. The colliery has Iways been considered safe. Twelve years ago le Hillman vein was struck and work comlenced upon it Last January, however, it as abandoned and since then the gas has . ^cumulated in largo quantities in the bandoned workings. The men were all otifled not to enter the chamber with naked imps, and a3 an extra precaution a signal oard was put up, warning "All hands to eep out." This order was strictly obeyed until 7 'clock this morning, when a laborer named ohn Levinslcey, who had been in this coun y a little over a year, and could not read Inglish, walked into the gassy chamber with, naked lamp in his hat. The next moment (vo terrific explosions occurred and the liner was hurled into eternity. Seventeen liners and laborers, who were digging coal ear by, were hurled in all directions, togethr with coal, cars, rails, ties and everything Ise, including two mules. The force of the xplosion was terrific, and when the gas aught fire the flames rushed up to the fan* ouse and soared twenty feet in tho air ? bove, a distance of 370 feet from the scene i me explosion. The scene below where the dead and dying ly beggars description. All was confusion; ars were piled up promiscuously, railroad ails torn up, doors broken down and beneath 11 the debris lay the unfortunate men, whose ireams of agony were heartrending. As uickly as possible a rescuing-party was rganized and the work of taking^ out the ead and injured began. Dennis Titus was ound 200 yards from the place where e had been digging coaL Fart of his head, nd a leg were blown off, and almost every tone in his body was broken. Andrew Spen:ette was thrown against the gangways and orriblv mangled. Thomas Collins was inioned under a car, where he had been drown by the force of the explosion. He ras almost unrecognizable, being terribly urned. The miner whose carelessness caused ' he catastrophe was found burned and bat* ared in a frightful manner. Five others were found terribly injured, 11 being badly burned, and none of them are xpectea to recover. The following are serjusly injured and some of them may die^ 11 being badly burned, the doctors saying bat they are burned internally, having reathed the flames: Thomas McDermott, - andy Love, John Uolby, jonn &.tm, )avid Grimes, John Woods, Joseph Thomas nd three others. The scene at the mouth of the mine, when tie dead and dying were taken up, cannot be escribed. The noise of the explosion was eard in the houses ou the surface. The peole rushed to the breaker, and their grief new no bounds as they saw husbands, rothers and sons horribly burned, the flesh anging in threads from their bodies and aose not dead crying -upon God to relieve aem of their sufferings. As fast as the victims were taken up from ie death-hole they were taken in charge of y physicians, who dressed their wounds, tter which they were taken to their homes, he town is in mourning over the great dis3ter. The death list will probably reach ten afore morning. PROMINENT PEOPLE, M. Grevy, President of the French re-, ublic, retires trom'his high office at the end f this year. t Senator Stanford is a leader in a move* lent in California to raise $250,000 for a Irant monument in Golden Gata park. The two richest women in America are robably Mrs. A. T. Stewart and Mrs. Mark toDkins. Each is wor^h about thirty million ollars. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe wants to have a 'foman's Industrial council convened, in 'hich every State and Territory shall be ^presented. It is announced upon authority that Mr. . [asson, of Iowa, has begun the preparation f his long projected work on the diplomatic istory of the United States during the late ar. It is said that the historian Bancroft is one f the two Americans now living who ever let Goethe. The other is George H. Calvert, ae scholer and poet, who is eighty-three ears old. / Major Powell, of the geological survev, as discovered in New Mexico, near CaliDrnia mountain, what he pronounces to be be oldest human habitations upon the Amerian continent It is now thought that if Mrs. Grant gets 50,000 from the sales of General Grant's ook she will be doing well The explanation f this reduction in the estimate is simple. All urts of cheap publishing concerns are getting nfr. 41 riv<wi nf Grant." and these are ualmed ff, in many instances, as the book written y the late general himself. Edwin Booth intended acting but a few eeks during the season, and only in three ir four larce cities beside New York. He as reconsidered his determination, and it is ow prebable that he will make an extended 3ur of the country. Forty more amusement companies are at wk in this country now than at the same ime last year, and tbe season's disbandmenta ave thus far been fewer. THE MARKETS. NEW TORJC. 43 eef cattle, good to prime 1 w 9%(dl 10 alves, com'n to primo voali beep o no 1/4 amus 5% ogs?Live 5% Dressed, city 5 (3 5^ lour?Ex. St., gooato fancy 3 80 (3 4 75 "West, good to cboica 4 00 @ 5 75 rbeat?No. 2. Ked 98 @ 9!)% ye?State 04 @ GO arley?Four-rowed State... @ 85 orn?Ungrad. West, mixed. 51%(? 52 ats?White State .*35 (a 37 Mixed Western 28 @ 32 ay?Med. to pr. Timothy.. 85 (S 90 a-aw?No. ], Kye 75 (ob 8-5 ard?City Steam 6 20 & 6 25 utter?State Creamery.... 21 & 22% Dairy 16 @ 19 West Im. Creamery 15 (5 IS Factory 6 (5 13 heeso?State Factory ?, 6 @ 9)4 Skims 5 (5 6% Western 5 (5 9 ggs?State and Penn 20 @ 21>? BUFFALO. leep?Good to Choice 2 75 (3 3 40 ?1_ -ur~. M so ^ 00 nil US ?T COCti w eers?Western 4 75 (d 5 15 ogs?Good to Choice Yorks 3 8.5 (a 4 35 our?C'y ground n. process 5 2.5 @ 6 50 'heat?3No. 1, Hard Duluth 1 01^@ )rn?No. 2, Mixed New (3 48>? its?No 2, Mixed Western 40 (d irley?Two-rowed State.... ? (if ? BOSTON. ?ef?Ex. plate and family. .12 00 (S12 50 ogs?Live 4V^@ 4% Northern Dressed.... 55% )rk?Ex. Prime, per bbl... 9 CO @ 9 75 our?Winter Wheat pat's.. 5 50 (3 5 90 >rn? High Mixed 53 (5 54 its?Extra White 3-5 Q0 35 ye?State 68 71 WATERTOWN* (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. ?ef?Extra quality 0 00 @ 6 37^ lecp?Live weight 3 & 3% Linus 4 (S 5% Dgs?Northern, d. w 4>?(cg 5>| PHILADELPHIA. our?Penn. ex family, good 4 25 @4 50 heat?No. 2, Red 90;V@ 90% ye?State.. v @ 75 nil?State Yellow 52 (cd 53 its?Mixed 40 41 ltter? Creamery Extra Pa. 20 @ 22 leese?N. Y. Full Cream... 11>^3 H