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A FEARFUL ACCIDENT.
twenty-eight men buried alive?
twenty of whom are killed.
Jersey City, N. J., July 21.?At five
o'clock this morning the caissou surrounding
the deep well leading to the entrance
of tho Hudson River tunnol, in course of
construction, at tho foot of Sixteenth street
in this city, caved in, carrying with it an
immense quantity of earth. Twenty-one
men were buried. Seven were soou after
taken out alive and fourteen remained underneath.
The water from the river flowed
in rapidly, and the steam firo engines were
set to work to, if possible, save those who
tnight still be alive from drowniug. The
Workmcu resided in the viciuity of the tuntiel,
and a very large number of excited
|)ersons soou cougrogated. The night gang
Of thirty tnon, including Assistant Superiu
lendent Woodward and two firemen, entered
tho shaft at midnight, the hours of work (or
this gang being from 12 to 8 o'clock. The
depth of tho shaft is sixty-five feet, and
Vrhilc most of the men were employed at the
bottom of the shaft, about one-third of the
gang was engaged on tho brick wall of the
trch, twenty-five feet higher. It was tho
latter squad, who were all bricklayers, that
osciped, except two. The main arch of the
tunnel rans out from tho shaft a distance
of about thirty feet when it opens into two
distinct arches that are to form the tunnel.
Through some uegligencc of the men it
is supposed the air-lock was uot properly
adjusted when the process of shifting comutcnced.
The brick wall connecting the
two arches gave way and water rushed into
tho cave. The s >erintcndcut thinks the
air in the tunnel must have escaped through
tho silt. He has put a gang ot one hundred
men at work to dig a new passage to the
tunuol, but they will not be able to reach
there in less than three days.
The following is the official report of the
Hudson RiVcf Tftnnel Company, through
ita engineers, Messrs. Spcelman and Brush,
relating to the accident to the Hudson
ltiver tuuncl, which occurred at the toot of
Fifteenth street, Jersey City: This morning
about 4 30 while the men were changing
the shifts of that portiou of the iron
roof adjoining the shaft of the connecting
chambers betweeu two tunuels and the sinking
shaft fell in. Twenty-eight men wero
in the tunnel at the time, of whom eight
escaped through the air lock and twenty
were killed. The accideut occurred at the
connection of tho iron plates with the brick ,
wall of the working shaft, which during
the changing of the shifts was probably not
watched by tho men as closely as it ahold
hare been and compressed air was allowed
to escape. This compressed air is relied
upon to assist iu supporting the roof, which
was also sustained by strong timber bracing,
mid tho escape of air has always been prevented
by stopping any leaks with waste
ailt. As the roof fell the plate closed the
door of the air-lock iuto the tuuncl mid
water rising rapidly cut off the escape of
the twenty men who were killed.
The building of this connecting chamber,
though a difficult piece of work, progressed
until linw Th. rm?f Uf'lli nil in mtuili.in
nod sjcurely bolted. The connection of the
iron plates with the shaft wus being made
nt the tiui j of the accident. The work will
be prosecuted night and day with all the
men that can advantageously be employed
uutil the bodies arc recovered, which will
probably take about three days The accident
will probably delay the work for three
weeks.
The following stateuicut was made by
one of the uien who escaped : After eight
men had escaped, one uiau in tryiug to pass
through the door leadiug froui the air lock
into the temporary chamber of the tunnel
was jammed iu the door-way, and, despite
the efforts of those ahead could not be
brought out, as the door ulosed upon him
and held him fast. Peter Woodland, assistant
superiuteudeut, told the uicu to try
and get out, and when the uinth man was
fastened in the door-way, called out to those
who had escaped, telling them to hurry and
*iry t> gel assistance to help the rest and
himself, who were left behind. lie refused
to leave himself, saying he would stay aud
make every effort to get the rest out, and if
it were not possible, that thoso who were
? miiot II.II
?;i7Vil|flH^ WUW UJ U/ t HIU lUOll *11111 lllllloclf
oat alive, it possible. Almost all of
those killed, us well as those saved, resided
in Jersey City. Tho uicd who were rescued
did not reach the surface a moment
too soon, for the water was after them with
amazing rapidity till it reached a level withsu
five feet of the top of the shaft. The
survivors were so Bewildered that they
seemed to lose all presence of mind, even it
assistance could bo rendered to the poor
follows in the pit.
Nearly all the men employed in the tunMel
lived in proximity to the Works, in l.'lth,
1 111* ami lutli streets, and their frijnds
and relatives rushed to the place in a most
cxci'.cd frame of mind. Tho news of the
disaster spread like wild fire through the
Aurrouuditig cities. From nil points immense
crowds thronged to the scene of the
calamity, and about the fatal excavation
tho awe-struck spectators stood A cordon
of police officers were stationed about the
shed and engine room to prevent any interference
with tho laborers at work to recover
the bodies. Through the broken windows
of the shaft house the faces of the distracted
wives, mothers and children were seen distorted
with anguish as they sought in vain
Jbr tl>o forujs that would never be seen again
alivo.
Thomas Vannostor, ouo of tho men rescued
in the waste loek, gave a thrilling
account of his escape, lie said there wore
tweuty-cight men at work in the tunnel.?
They went on at 12 o'elock last night for
tho eight-hour shift, and were at work near
the K ist end of tho wu-to lock and in the
West end of the tunnel. It was at about
half past 1 o'clock in tho morning that I
heard the bolts snap and the braces give
?vay. A t the s:*me t ime I felt n ru-h of air
in my face. I started back with scron of
the uien who were near nod ran into the
waste lock. Tho air pressure crowded tho
door shut at the East end. At first it was
blocked by a joist which we pulled out and
then the door si itnmcd to. The lock has
doors at both ends, nnd glass dead-eyes to
admit the light. Through the dead eyes
we could sec the mcu inside the tunnel.-?
The water was rushing in. Peter Woodland,
City Assistant Superintendent, stood
at the door outside the waste lock, which
was stationary. It would not move with
us without knocking out tho dead-eyes.?
This would ho futul to tho men notsido na .
the water would rush io and drown the
men in an instant. Woodland kucw this,* I
but stood at the door. His face was ghastly
white, and he realised the tcrriblo danger. <
He said to me, "Tom, quick ! burst the i
dead-eyes and do what you can for us." I *
knew it was death to us all if I did not do i
so, nod I obeyed the or ler. As the glass '
broke, the air rushed iu aud the waste lock '
shot out into tho main shaft, leaving the 1
men to drown, as the space occupied by the ]
shaft filled with' water in an instant. We I
were wholly stripped of out clothes when (
we crawled out. I heard a rush of water I
at our back; it filled in fast, but the obstruc- i
tions kept it back long enough for us to i
escape from tho uiaiu shaft. It was all wc i
could do to save ourselves. Woodlaud was >
standing iu the water up to his waist wheu t
I last saw him. It was sure death, aud I i
had to kuock out the dead eyes as I told I
VOU. He knew as well as I it was n??r t
with them. I shall never forget tho look i
on his face or the sound of his voice wheu a
he told us to save ourselves, though the c
very act was to iusuro his death. i
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AGRICULTURE III THE PIEDHOHT REGION. r
Piedmont, S. C., July 19, 1880. c
Editor Register : The protracted drought ?
is affecting seriously the corn crop of this *
region. Tho small grain crop was short a
but the hay crop pretty good. c
The farmers in this belt do not seem to a
realize the value of au oat crop; they say I
that they have tried the red oat uusuecoss- 1
fully, but we arc inclined to the opinion *
that the failure was owing to the "modus 1
operandi," rather than the variety. It has c
been always so much the custom to plant t
outs us a mere makeshift, ou the poorest o
laud oftcu, aud in the Carelessest way, that t
no value has been attached to the product, s
''What is worth doing is worth doing well,"
is us applicable 10 oat culture as to any v
other crop. No umu should expect to "get C
blood out of a turnip." If you want to c
make oats, select the soil best adapted to h
the plaut?don't be afraid of its being too c
riob?and "put it iu" carefully aud early 1
enough to stand the Winter. If it grows v
too rapidly it is a very easy matter to graze I
it down with small animals. There is a i
great saving of labor in growing oats ; it is j
also a valuable suppleuieut to the coru crib. C
Corn is a costly and exhaustive product.? t
And it should also be borne iu mind that a
all crops which grow during the Winter v
protect tiic laud from washing away, and s
hold in reserve, IVV luture crops, the soluble t
aud valuable salts which are leached out by t
the Wiutor rains. t
The pea crop does not receive a tithe of r
the care it deserves. Independent of its g
value as a food crop, which can be grown N
with very little labor, it can be made to c
play a very iuiportaut role as a fertilizer, f
The experiments curried ou for years by
Dr. llavcncl aud others have demonstrated u
the fact that the pea is invaluable as a fcr- v
tilizcr. t
Mr. Eduiuud lluffiu, in his Agricultural o
Survey, pronounced the pea the clover of J
the South, aud, when he returned to Vir- i
ginia, begau a series of experiments with it, 1
which have been successfully conducted i
by his sou since his father's death. The t
object ion which has, under the old regime, c
been urged agaiust the pea (the difficulty
of turning under a heavy pea fallow) has t
bceu removed by the proof that the pea a
vine, wheu allowed to mature, and to be t
( llillnd ovnri liv t'riwl ln?i>u tinm> nf ilu uir. r
tues as a fertilizer. The dead vine contains t
all the salts locked up for future use, the v
water only has been lost. No farmer should s
cultivate a crop of corn without peas. If t
he is afraid that the peas will injure the u
corn then let hiui sow at the last ploughing, i
uud if his laud is rich enough to uiako com f
he will have a luxuriant coat of pea-vines c
to tarn under as a fertilizer. As au auieli- i
orat ?r of the soil for any crop, or a fertili- i;
zer for wheat or oats, there is nothing which t
can be compared to the pea vine for cheap- j
u ess. t
1 Ante JkUnm." this region of couutry c
was well supplied with domestic animals. (
The cattle '"grazed upon a thousand hills" n
in the Summer, the mountainsides being cov- 1
ered with wild pea-vine and native grasses.
Kvcrv farmer had a small herd which he
drove to the mountains for Summer grazing (
?a few mares and eolts. Coru and grass t
enough was grown in the valleys to Winter t
th :iii; all of which went 0:1 foot to market, s
The war has left its desolating track even i
here. There are few cattle, horses, sheep i
or hogs : hut cotton, by the help of artihei il 1
fertilizers, lias crept up to the very base of '
the mountains, and fanners buy their bacon, i
flour, aud sometimes their coru, from the (
West. c
All along the Air Line, even North ol t
it, in Ocoucc, Pickens, and over in Georgia, t
in White, Habersham, Hall, Franklin, i
where ante helium cotton was never thought t
of, you will now see it growing luxuriantly, f
The best samples of cotiou are said to couio :
from this belt?si i.ply because it is a pet (
?is grown by white laborers, carefully j
worked aud handled, The fact is deuiou- t
strable that the largest proportion of the i
belt is grown by white labor, and the same i
may be also said of Texas. With proper I
culture, and implements adapted to the <
South, the white man may soon be independ- i
cut of Sauibo, so far as cotton is concerned. '
?VOX >u ('"hi iihi't Ifet/i&fer. ;
JUDICIAL IAHCTIOB OF MOKDEK
We print elsewhere the decision of Judg<
Woods, presiding as p court of inquiry and
investigation in the lied Oak murder case
We invite careful attention to this decision
for two reasons; first, taking all the cir
cumstanccs into consideration, it is ono of
tho uiost remarkable judgments that ever
emanated from tho booch ; and second, it
develops a line of policy on tho part of
Federal judiciary of very great interest to
our people.
The facts as developed by the prosecution,
are briefly these: Ou the 24th of
June, Jesso Ross and W. A. Jones, living
in or near Red Oak, went to a neighbor's
for the purpose of procuring a threshing
machine. On their way, they met an acquaintance
named Ratterec, whom they
asked to joiu theui. The three then went
on the errand,-aooewiplwhwd their purpose,
ind set out to return, when they uict up
with thirteen armed revenue officers. Ross
was iu advaucc of his companious hurrying
forward to get out of a shower of rain. He
l i... .i., ac. .:? -1 - -
(jartoun uy kilt: UUIVIT8, acCUSllllg W1CI11 politely,
and was going on : but he had a gun,
'a (tingle barrelled affair) and was seised by
;he officers. Protesting against such a
lummarv proceeding, he resisted the arrest
ind was beaten over the head. It is to be
'cuicnibcred that the arrest was without
varraut or color of law. Jones aud Haterec,
who had approached near enough to
vitness the violence offered their companion,
eft the road and from the woods tired nt
he posse. Tho officers returned the fire
vith a volley from their breech loading guns
tnd the two men fled. With lloss, the revenue
men went in the direction of tho flceng
men. After having gone a hundred or
noro yards, Jones aud Kattcrec crossed the
oad ahead of the posse, which immediately
ipouud tiro aud foliowud tltum up, firiug iusessantly.
Huttcreo was shot down in the
roods, but Jones juutpjd over a fence into
in open field aud ran for his life. While
irossing this field he was shot in the buck
iud instantly killed, the ball passing through
lis heart. These facts are testified to by
loss, who was held as a prisoner, and who
vas in a position to see everything, and by
?rank Suttles, who witnessed the shooting
if Jones from his house. We have taken
he pains to present the main facts brought
nit Dy ttio witnesses tor the prosecution for
lie reason that Judge Woods' decision is a
uuituary testimony of the rcveuue witnesses.
There arc souie other facts in connection
rith the case worth adverting to. In the
irst place, J udge Woods was sittiug as a
ourt of inquiry merely, the investigation
laving hceu transferred from the justice
ourt ut lied Oak to the Federal court in
Vtlanta. The question for him to decide
ras whether there were probable grounds
or believing that the circumstances attendng
the killing should he reviewed by a
ury of twelve lioucst and impartial uieu.
Certainly Jones is deud. There was no
estiuiouy introduced to show that lie is still
live. It is admitted on all hands that he
ras killed by the revenue men ; that he was
hot in the back aud through th : heart;
hat ho fell and died souio distance from
he road ; aud it needs uo testimony to show
hat a man shot through the heart cannot
un a hundred yards or more. With the
;uilt or innocence of the accused Judge
Voods had nothing to do. Ho was to deide
merely whether the testimony and the
acts shoul 1 go to a jury.
In the second place, even if the testiaony
of the revenue men had not been, as
re arc informed, confused and contradictory,
he fact that they were witnesses in their
wn behalf should have had a decisive effect.
Fudge Woods not only allowed this tcstiuony
to offset his decision, but really based
lis judgment upou it, thus, in effect, uiakng
his position a shield for crimes coihnittcd
upon the lives of citiiens by Federal
ifficers.
Such, probably, is uot tlio intention of
he decision, but such is its effect. It is
in advertisement to government officials
hit the}' are safe in pursuing citizens to
leath, and that they will be spared even
he mortification of a trial by jury; that
vhatcvcr crime they may commit, they are
afer, not only from the laws of the State.
>ut from the laws of the United States;
aid that the testimony of accused persons
n their own behalf shall have more weight,
irovided thoy be armed with Federal Couinissions
and breech-loaders, than the testiiiony
of disinterested citizens. We need
lot point out to Judgo Woods the condiion
of affairs his decisiou invitee. lie is
>crfcctly well aware of it. Hut we present
he matter to the attention of the people
if the North in order that they may appreciate
the scope given to those who pursue
md oppress our people under color of the
federal authority.? Atlanta Constitution.
Ikon Fii.inos eou Peaii Tiiees.?Mr.
*. A. Hubbard, New Haven, Conn., writes
he Scientific American, that it is conjee
urctl that New Haven county has a larger
apply of choice pear trees than any other
;ounty in tlie United States. Some line vaieties,
notably the Flemish Beauty and
iYhilc Hoycniic, are generally failures.?
fliey set well with blossoms, hut the young
ruit crack*, prematurely ripens and drops
iff. Mr. Hubbard thinks the general suetoss
of the pear in that locality is due to
he fact that the sandy soil contains a p. rion
of irou, which he has couio to believe
sa necessary element in pcarculturc. He
hinks the quantity there, however, is inefficient
for the needs of the two varieties
jamed. He bases this conJusiou mainly
>n the fact that a Flemish tree fertilised
tunuully from the sweepings of a smith's
ihop, in which there is a large quaulity of
iron filings and bits of irou, gives a good
field of most excellent fruit. He suggests
:o pear growers everywhere the propriety
if procuring iron filings or drillings, and
nixing with the soil about, their trees. He
ivuuI<1 mix with wood ashes in moderate
unount.
BUST IV COTTON.
The rust is s disease that does more injury
I to the cotton crop and ciusea greater pecu.
niary loss to the South than all the other
diaeaao of the stfple combined. It is prob
able that it more or leas affects about onethird
of all tho cotton Quids in the seven
Southeastern Slates, and according to the
virulence of its attacks, reduces the yield to
ooly about two thirds, or three-fourths of
what it would bcotherwis. If thiscstiuiato
appoximates tho truth the loss to'the planters
io these States last year was upwards of
82fi.000.000. Tho itiaoBBO n??nolr? onltnn
only in fields that have been under cultivation
for some years, seldom or never appearing
in new ground. This fact loads us to
the conclusion confirmed by other observations,
that it ia caused by the impoverishment
of the soil and the lack of vegetable
mattAr tfcereia.
hast reason we planted a field of nbout
thirty acres io cottou, all of which had beeu
ploughed to the depth of uiuc inches in Feb- 1
ruary. The rows were run north aud South, ,
(as cotton rows should always be ruu if practicable,)
ond the entire field, with the exception
of six rows, about the middle of it,
was manured with one hundred pouuds of I
phosphate and three bushels of cottou seed
per acre. The uorth eud of the field cover- <
ed six acros of poor land that had not been i
planted in cottou for some years, because i
the rust was there always fatal. These six (
I?I u i_?\ r.n? 1 OTO 1 . i- -
?W1M MUU UUt'U It'll IUIIUIT IU 10I0, UUU IUU 1
growth of crub grass thercen was ploughed ]
under in November of that year. At the
south tod were three acres that had been
planted iu cow peas the sauio year, the peas <
were picked off, but the vines ploughed ua- <
der. By the middle of July the rust ap- 4
peurcd iu tho middle section of twenty-one i
acres, over which it spread in the course '
of the rest oi the uiouth aud August, ou- ,
ly very slightly touching the six rows that ,
had received uo phosphate, and entirely i
stopping as soon as the two sections of six
and three acres at opposite ends of the field
were reached. The middle section of twenty,
oue acres produced a yield of one huudrcd '
and eighty five pounds liut per acre, while 1
those at the two ends averaged two hundred ,
and seventy pound. The six rows that had i
110 phosphate produced more cotton and 1
remained green longer in the tweuty-one '
acre section than those ou cither side of t
them. These re.-ults demonstrate that ,
huuius iu the soil will prevcut rust, and
also, that unless there is such huuius, the
application of one hundred pouuds of phos- '
phate per acre will not repay its high cost. t
The problem to be solved, therefore, is, i
how to put huuius iuto a cotton field of 100 f
acres or more. Any thing can be dose i
with one acre, and from such a smal1 patch c
enormous results may be obtained, clearly <
demonstrating the possible?results very t
interesting to agricultural chemists, aud ,
those intelligent planters who may have am- (
pie cash capital, but of uot much practical
value to the average farmers of the South,
who do uot uudcratuud chemistry aud have i
I- *4 I I
no cusu capital wnaisoever. it appears to j
us that the ouly practical solution is the ap- n
plication of cow peas. This is a means within
the reach of all farmers. At tho time of
the last working of the crop, about the 15th
or 20th of July, a furrow.should be run between
the rows with a bull tongue plough,
in which the peas should be sown at tho
rate of a half bushel per aero. They should
be covered with a sweep, which will also
give the lust ploughing to the cotton. The
staple crop will, by this time, be so advanced
that the pea viucs cannot injure it, aud
as cjttou cannot grow sufficiently largo in
land iu which it rusts to shade the middles,
the peas will mako good viucs, which will
supply to the soil the needed humus if allowed
to die on the laud. Salt is considered
by somo as preventive of rust, but like
lime, it is efficacious ouly when tho soil
contains huuius or vcgctablo matter not yet
decayed.
The principles enunciated, and the remedy
suggested, arc being practically tried
this season by the writer. Last summer a
growth of cow peas was obtained over twenty-six
acres of the field above mentioned
aud a portion of one adjoining; the vines
died on the land aud were ploughed uuder.
This spring not a pound of phosphate was
used, but the land was manured with one
hundred and ten pounds Turk's Island salt,
cos'.iig seventy-seven cents, and four bushels
of cotton seed per acre. At this moment,
nearly the middle of July, the crop is
(ho strongest and healthiest (hat the field
has produced for several years, and is producing
an unusual quantity of fruit.?
? ?
Famine, Violence and Death.?A
Protestant pastor in the city of Mosul, Asiatic
Turkey, writes as follows concerning
the famine there:
"People cat cotton seed, blood and even the
carcasses of pack animals. All business is at
a stand still; there is no profit, no employment;
there is theft and robbery by night^tnd
by day ; all manner of iniquity abounds, not
even tho fear of God is left. On every
hand there is violence, oppression, wickedness,
drunkenness, ruin. The poor in the
Qlx.iotc exo nut (ill tlx. > 1.1.11.. lli., >.x.l.l /
'Wo iire starving ; O tncrciCul ones, wo aro 1
starviug!' Tho daily deaths from starvation
arc from five to ten. Iu thcavillogcs (
around Mosul they eat a kind of earth, also
blood, carcasses, cotton and hcmpsced.? [
They die from fifty to one huuurcd per day. '
The number of deaths of people, beasts of \
burden and cattle, is beyond oomputution.
In Mosul itself wo sec many ofFering their *
children for sale, and none buy ; but in Kl '
Kash the Kurds have sold huudreds of girls (
at from ?1 10s. to .?2 each, and with the '
price of a soul they buy a few measures of I
wheat. Kroui Dairiki, a day's journey West
of Vlardin, news comes that the stores of 1
giain are exhausted. Men did go on a day's
journey for bread, but the roads are so uu- i
safe now that they dare not st'r. Women
go out and gather grass, which they eat i
like the beasts of the field." i
-i - . . ??>aaw?
DEFERRED HEWS ITEMS
It is stated that a farmer near Ninety-Six,
Abbeville County, raised 1,015 bushels of oats
this season on seventeen acres, without fertilising.
?
No Tistols.?The Town Council of Laurens
has passed an ordinance tc prevent the carrying
of concealed deadly weapons within the
the corporate limits.
.
A Tows Clock.?Is still spoken of, and would
be a great benelfe to the town if placed in the
Hotel tower. One man proposes to give $20
i o U'Art) ?a al annf linr nnol Knw ??*|| ami an
on. The tuoney could be raised without trouble.
What nay the Council and the citizens generally?
? Xtirbcrry iWir*.
-
Mobk About Oats.?C*|<l. K. T. Mockbce
bus harvested litis season 160 bushels of oats?
rust proof kind?from two and a half acres.?
Here i.s another added to the Inrge number of
instances which prove that it pnys to sow oats.
This crop is destined to take the place of upland
corn in this country. ? Chalcr Ke/?orter.
Execution or Ntcnno Muri?krkrs.? Memphis,
July 16.?Geo. Sanford and Richard McKce,
both colored, were liAnged on Friday at Oseola,
Ark., for the murder of A.'tnisted l'enn, cob
[>red. on the '26th of November last. In an in*
terview on the night previous to their execution
the condemned men confessed their guilt, but
laid the Lord had pardoned them. The gallows
was erected on the bank of the Mississippi
River under a gigantic pecan tree.
The Crop*.?Reports from nil parts of the j
:ounty agree in this one respect ;?t lint the crop
if upland corn will be a complete failure, worse
than the crop of 1806 or 1869 ; some of the old
farmers say it will be less than the crop of 1846,
i'oung corn, if it has been well worked, prom:its
a good yield. The hosiers of Itae last two
ir three weeks hnro benefitted the cotton, and
we hear encouraging reports of its condition.?
Cheeler Reporter.
A Thousand Dollars Ukwari>.?Now Oreans,
July 9.?Johnny, aged two years and
teveu mouths, the son of John Cain, who disappeared
June '26th, is now believed to have been
itolen. He has light hwir. inclined to curl, and
ipper front teeth gone. The child is well grown
ind talks plainly for his age, has a full face,
'air complexion aud girlish appearance.?
['hough a thousand dollars reward is offered,
he police find no traces but believe he was carded
away.
The Jennings Heirs Still IIorxruL.?The
'Jennings heirs" in this country, of whom
here are several in Petersburg and a number
n Virginia, are still sanguine of securing the
great estate of $165,000,000 alleged to be
iwaiting them in England." The heirs have
irganized an association with a view of prosecuting
their claims, and they held their second
innual meeting in Camden, N. J., on Thursday,
ind elected a full list of officers. The expenses
if the association lost year were nearly $1,600.
DEJARNETTE to BE TlllED tor KlLLt.no Ills
Sister.?Danville, Va., July '21.?James T. Denrnctte
was brought up for a preliminary elimination
before the Examining Court this
norning, chargedjwith the murder of his sister,
dollie Dejarnette, in this city a short time since,
rho counsel for the prisoner waived the cxamilation
and Dejarnette was recommitted to jai
or indictment and trial at the next term of the
Corporation Court of Danville, which will be
teld the first Monday in August.
As Alleged Spanish Butchery.?New York,
ruly 14.?An evening paper says that news has
>ecn received in this city by the Cuban revoluionary
committee of the killing by Spaniards
>f Cuban prisoners whose names will be found
oelow: Minister Of War Pio Rosaldo, Natalio
Yrgonta, Dr. Enrique Verotia Torres, Raymon
Jutreez. Felix Meareion. DominsO Messa. Lieut, r
Manuel Portez, Kche Verria, also several others. '
riiey woro all sick when captured in a small
csideuce and Were under charge of l)r. Torres. '
riieir retreat was a few miles front Manianillo. a
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Railiioao Rkcki.kssnkss.?New York, July t
10.?An accident occurred on the Long Island C
lailroad, betweon I'earsall's Station and Rock- t
iway, this morning A gravel train going east h
vitli thirty-five Italian laborers on board ran
inder a heavy wire rope by which a derrick
tear the track was sustained, sweeping the cars (
ind knocking ofT the laborers. Many of the ''
nen were maimed in a shocking manner, many
lad tlieir skulls fractured, and others escaped
villi broken limbs. Three are fatally injured.
S'onc of the laborers can speak Knglish. They
vere conveyed to Brooklyn on a special train
for medical treatment.
Tjik Richmond 1'ostokkick.?Richmond, July
19.?A colored letter carrier named Leroy \*.
Lee, connected with the Richmond postothce,
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letters from the n.uils. Letters which had had
llieir contents purloined were found in his possession.
Lee was examined and committed to
jail in default of $1,000 hail
The sureties of Postmaster Forbes have obligated
themselves to make good the deficiency in
his accounts by noon on Thurslay, and if that
diftll be done no steps towards a criminal prosecution
will be taken. The postofficc is now virlually
in charge of Assistant Postmaster llollilay,
whose accounts were fouud to be strictly
sorrect. Col. Ilulliday is one of the postmaser's
bondsmen.
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Thr Earthquakr.?Madrid, July '21.?Tho
terrestrial disturbances in the Island of Luton
eoniinenced on the 13th instant, and up to the
20th there had been repeated shocks of car'-h)uake,
the first and last being tho most violent,
rhe cathedral and barracks at Manila have fallen,
and the troops are encamped outsidg tho
city. Two shooks occurred on the 13th instant,
ane of which lasted seventy seconds and the
ather forty seconds. Eleven natives have been
killed and (11 injured. No Europeans havo been
hurt. The inhabitants of Manila have fled to
the fields. The earth has opened in several
places and jets of boiling wnter und showers of
ashes are ejected. Some of the publio build:
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iii^i iiv ijii)(iiiiiii? nun idiuiiuiii iiiiic ucvu uciiiur i
?nlie<i. All tlic volcanos of Luzon arc in full 1
dctiviiy. I
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A Girl KioRArrau bt Circus Mu.^Ntw
Forkt July 22.?A Pittsburg special slate* Ihit
Salome Ourkell, ? young girl whs was kidnapped
by (lee men belonging lo Boyd A Peter's
Circus, at 8hanksville, in Somerset County, has
been found, and 8. C. Peters, A. D. Davis, II.
Marks and Clark Wise, the men charged with
the crime; yesterday had a hearing before Judge
Hanlon, in Greensburg. Miss Burkett was put
>n the stand and testified to the outrngooua
reatment she had received, fully identifying the
prisoners as a part of the circus gang that had
naltraated her. She is in a very deplorable
iondition. The case will be ferreted out to the
>ollom. Miss Uurkell is a little country girl
ind only fourteen years of age. The most inense
indignation prevails in Greonsburg, and
hrcals of lynching the offenders arc feely made.
Pittsbumo, July T2.?The proprietors and
tboul 11 fty attaches of lloyd & l'eler's Circus
liave been arrested for the abduction of and
>utrage upon Miss Salome Uurkell, of Somerset
bounty. Upon r. pelimary examination, Miss
llurkctt testified that iu leaving the circus, she
iras separated in the crowd from friends who
iccompanied her and forced away by a gang of
:ircus employees to a ticket wngon, where, unler
a threat of instant death, she was afterwards
>utraged by the whole party of adosen or more,
the was then taken in a wagon toTurncr'sCross
loads acd released. In attempting to make her
ray home from there she was caught by five
nore showmen and again outraged, after which
ihe remembered nothing more until she was
'ound near Somerset, Monday night. The girl
s now partially demented. Intense excitement
irevails in Somerset and Greensburg.
Bkb Ct'i.Tvnu.?The small industries are too
nuch neglected in South Carolina, notwithstandng
that they pay much more handsomely in
>roportion to the capital invested and are far
wOapteA re tWe fWWt voaStUan of tabor
lere. The keeping of bees for profit is one of
hese small industries which we think would
|>ay well in this State. We read of $25 or $50
>eing realized by some bee keepers from the
>roceeds of a single hive in a season, but takng
it at a much smaller average, a bee farm of
\ hundred or two or three hundred hives would
ring their owner a nice income annually.?
Ind from a small beginning this number could
ooa be obtained, with proper care, from tho
latural increase of the swarms. A small outay
of money would be sufficient and the princi- N
?a'. investment would be the lime and attention
if the beekeeper. With the new improvements
d hives by which the honey can be removed
without destroying the bees or subjecting the
iperator to those small attentions on their part,
which somctimos under the old plan add such
ively interest to the performance, bee keeping
uin be carried on with comparative ease. If
tome of the young men who are out of employment
and are burning daylight waiting for a
situation would resort to this industry, they
would find it pleasant, profitable and indepenlent.?Columbia
RnjitUr.
Hon. JoltN It. KVi.nb.?Our representative in
Congress spent two days in Chester last week,
lie seemed in fine health and most cheerful in
ipirils. Col Kvins has served the people of this
list rid. for four years with earnestness and
idolity. At ways at his post and closely nttcnive
to his duties, he has taken high rank as ono
if the best workers in Congress. He is
lighly esteemed by all Congressmen of all paries,
and hy his gentlemanly bearing and coureous
mannutrs has tnadu hosts of friends in
Vashington. Col. Kvins is very hopeful, inIced
confident, of the election of Hancock and
English, lie its stiong in the belief that the
icket will carry Pennsylvania, Hancock's naive
State, as welt as New Jersey.?Chttter Retort
tr.
Fast*.Yd A.nO Fastkrs?Tho fust of Dr.
Tanner docs uot secut to bo as singular as
it first claimed. Accounts of long fusts
i;tve been resurrected from old newspapers
uid books until they become quite uuuierius
and many of tlietn seem to be well nuhenticatcd..
The Albany Artjiu prints tho
:asc of Reuben Kelsey, of Albany, who fused
while laboring under a religious dclufit'..,
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iv/u IVI Hiv^'UMwu U.IJO. 1VI uujrn
le walked about daily with an clastic step,
le shaved himself until a week before his
Icath. Toward the last ho became thin
ind looked ghastly; but was able to sit up.
4\>r a week before his death he did not
sven drink water. Ou the fifty-third day
ic died, aged twenty-seven years. Another
:ase is described from Washington couny,
Pa. A man named Thomas Ford, aged
wcnty-thrcc years, became unable to swalow
food or water. He lived thirty-nine
lays, his strength for a great part of tho
into being remarkably sustained. Upon
lis death an examination showed that a fun;oih
growth bad cutir. ly closed the entrance
o the stomach, and that it would have been
uipossible to relieve him cveu by an operaion.
The case is satisfactorily authenticaed.
The Hultiuiorc .1 mrrican recalls tho
iasc of John French of Hagorstown, Md.,
ilso a religious monomaniac, who deternined
in 1870 to fast for forty days. Ho bo;an
July 12 and completed his fast on Au;ust
21, having ta-ted no food, but driukng
copiously of water during tho timo.
duny attempts were mado to tempt him to
tat, and ho was closely watched, hut no
loubt was entertained of tho reality of his
ast. His constitution refused to rally from
he strain, although he was carefully nursed
uid attended by physicians. He died ou
September 1, 1870. The Boston Traveler
ccalls tho case of Dr. Mayo, G. -Smith of
^Icwberryport, Mass., who, about ten years
igo, fasted for forty days. It was in winter,
ind he frequently, during his fast, plunged
laked into Merriinae river, having to cut a
lole in tho ice to get in. After tho first
veek all feeling of hunger had disappeared,
ind very little exhaustion was shown.?
Dr. Mayo is wtill alive, aged sixty years, aud
s a giant iu size and strength.
When is fire like a bad husband ? Wheq
i gut at night.