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THE rffil mSk DI10I TIHEI " fA rulFVL AOOIDKVT. ^ TWENTY-RIGHT MEN BURIED AMVB4TWKNTY OF WHOM ARK KILLED. Jkrhky City, N. J., July 21.?At five o'clock this morning the caisson surroundlug the deep well leading to the entrance of tho Hudson River tunnel, in course of construction, at the foot of Sixteenth street . . in this city, caved in, carrying with it an immense ouantity of earth. Twenty-one men were buried. Seven were soon after taken out alive and fourteen remained underneath. The water from the river flowed in rapidly, and the steam fire engines were net to work to, if possible, save those who "YVjSk - t?ight still bo alive from drowning. The .' Workmen resided in the vicinity of the tun tie!, and a very large number of excited persons soon congregated. The night gang of thirty men, including Assistant Superintendent Woodward and two flreuiin, entered the shall at midnight, the hours of work (or this gang being from 12 to 8 o'clock. Tho depth of the shaft is sixty-five feet, and While most of the men were employed at the bottom of the shaft, about one-third of the .gang was engaged on the brick wall of the Rtrch, twenty-five feot higher. It was the latter sound. who were all hrieWlnvora tlini escaped, except two. The main arch of the tunnel TOns out from the ahaft a distaoco of about thirty feet wheo it opens ioto two distinct arches that are to form the taonel. Through soma negligence of the men it is supposed the air-look was not properly adjusted when the process of shifting commenced. The brick wall connecting the . two arches gave way and water rushed into tho -cave. Tho superintendent thinks the 1 air in the luwnet mast have escaped through the silt. He has put a gang of ono hundred men at work to dig a new passage to the tunuel, but they will not bo able to reach there in less than three days. The following is the official roport of the Hudson Rivet Taonel Company, through its engineers, Messrs. Spcelman and Brush, relating to tho accidont to the Hudson River tunnel, which oocurred at the foot of Fifteenth street, Jersey City: This morning about 4 30 while the men were chang- 1 iug the shifts of that portion of the iron roof adjoining the abaft of the counecting chambers between two tunnels and the sink- 1 ing shaft fell in. Twenty-eight men were ; in the tuanel at the time, of whom eight < I tl u .1-- ' -L - ? - - wovMpvva tuiuugil lno BIT lUCft BflU IWCDty were killed. The accident ocourred at the i connection of the iron platce with the brick i 1 wall of the working shaft, which during i the changing of the shifts was probably not < watched by tho tnon ns closely as it shold I have been and compressed air was allowed i to escape. This compressed air is relied 1 upon to assist in supporting the roof, which was also sustained by strong timber braoiog, and tho escape of air has always been prevented by stopping any loaks with waste silt. As the roof fell the plate closed the j door of the air-lock iuto tho tunnel and < water rising rapidly cut ofT tho escape of 1 the twenty men who were killed. The building of this connecting chamber, i though a difficult piece of work, progressed | until now. The roof was all in position and securely bolted. The connection of the i iron plates with the shall was being made 1 at the tim j of tho accident. The WotV will be prosecuted night and day with all the I men that can advantageously be employed until tho bodies are recovered, which will probably take about three days The acci- i dent will probably delay the work for three weeks. Tho following stutemout was made by 1 one of tho men who escaped : After eight < men had escaped, one wan in trying to pass through the uoor leading from the air lock into the temporary chamber of the tunool 4W was jammed in the door-way, and, despite | the efforts of those ahead could not be brought out, as tho door closed upon him and held him fast. Peter Woodland, assistant superintendent, told the men to try and get out, and phon the ninth man was fastened in the door-way, called out to those who had escaped, telling them to hurry and try t) get assistance to help tho rest and hiuisulf, who were loft behind. He refused to leave himself, saying ho would stay and make every effort to gut the rest out, and if it were not possible, that thoso who were escaping must try to get tho rest and himectf eat alrvo, H possible. Almost all of these killed, as well as those saved, resided to Jersey UUy. The men who were rescued did wet reach the surface a moment too soon, for the water was after them with amaiiog rapidity UM it reached a level within five feet of the top of the shaft. The survivors were so 'bewildered that they seated to lose all proseace of mind, oven if assistance oould bo rendered to the poor follows in the pit. Nearly all the men omployed in the tan el lived in proximity to the Works, in 13th, 14tk and loth streets, and their friands and relatives rnshed to the pluoe in a most excised frame of mind. The nows of the disaster spread liko wild fire through the snrronuding cities. From all points immense crowds thronged to the scene of the calamity, and abont tho fatal exoavatics the awo-strnok spectators stooJ A cordon of polico officers wero stutiooed ubout the shed and ungiuo room to prevent auy interrflranM with tha laknnin ? va>Ir ? V?U ?W1 W IVWTVI the bodies. Through the broken windows of the shaft house the fuoes of the distrusted wives, mothers and children wcro seen distorted with anguish as they sought in vain for the forwa that would never be soon again ?Hvs, Thomas Vannoster, one of the men resound in the waste lock, gave a thrilling account of bis escape. IJe said there were twenty-eight mon at work in the tunnel.?? They went on at 12 o'oloek last night for the eight-hour shift, and were at work near the K st end of the wa<te lock and in tho West end of the tunnel. It wss at about half past 4 o'eloek in the morning that I heard tho bolts snap end the braces give tray, the S4W9 )jr?c I felt a ru?h of air inmy face. I started baok with seven of the men who wore near and ran into the waste lock. The air pressuro crowded the door shut at the East end. At first it was blocked by a joist which we pulled oat and then the door slimmed to. The lock has doors at both cods, and glass dead-eyes to admit tho light. Through the dead-eyes we could see the men inside the tunnel.? Tho water was rushing in. Petor 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 be fatal to the men outside as the water would rush in and drown the men in an iostant. Woodland knew this,but stood at the door. His face was ghastly white, and he realised the terrible danger... He said to me, "Tom, quick ! burst the dead-eyea and do what you can for us." I knew it was death to us all if I did not do so, and I obeyed the or ler. As tho glass broke, tho air rushed in and tho waste lock shot out into tho main shaft, leaving the men to drown, as tho space occupied by the shaft filled with' wator in an instant. We Were wholly atrinnod of out nlntliAa vlian ( y r | " *" mvm v we crawled out. X heard a rush of water t at our back; it filled in fast, but the obstruc- a tiooa kept it back long enough for us to a escape from the main shaft. It was all we r could do to aavo ourselves. Woodland was v standing in the water up to his waist when t I last saw him. It was sure death, aud I * had to knock out the dead eyes as I told 1< you. Ho knew as well as I it was over t with them. I shall never forget the look v on his face or the sound of his voice when a he told us to save ourselves, though the c very act was to insuro his doath. i aqbicu ltube ib the pibdmovt begioh. " Piedmont, S. C., July 19, 1880. o Editor Register: The protraoted drought c is affecting seriously the corn crop of this * region. Tho small grain crop was short a but tho hay crop pretty good. c The farmers in this belt do not seem to a realise the value of an oat crop; they $ay k that they have tried the red oat unsucoess- I fully, but we are inclined to the opinion * thai tho failure was uwing to tho "mw/iu I operandi," rather than tho variety. It has o been always so uiuch the custom to plant t oats as a mere makeshift, ou the poorest o land often, and in tho curelesscst way, that t no value has been attached to the nroduot. a "What is worth doing is worth doing well," is as applicable to oat culture as to any * other crop. No niau should expect to '*get fi blood out of a turnip." If you want to c make oats, select the soil best adapted to b the plant?don't be afruid of its being too c rich?and "put it iu" carefully and early 1 enough to stand the Winter. If it grows i too rapidly it is a very easy matter to graxe f it down with small auimals. There is a i great saving of labor in growing oats; it is j also a valuable supplement to the corn crib. ( Corn is a costly and exhaustive product.? t And it should also bo borne in mind that a all crops which grow during the Winter v protect tho laud from washing away, and s hold in reserve, lit luturo crops, the soluble t ftud valuable salts which are leached out by t the Winter rains. t The pea crop does not recoive a tithe of r the care it deserves. Iudependeut of its g value as a food crop, wbioh can be grown \ with very little labor, it can be rnado to c play a very important role as a fertiliser, f Tho experiments carried on for years by Dr. llavenel and others have demonstrated t the fuct that the pea is invaluable as a fcr- * tilixcr. t Mr. Eduiund Ruffin, in bis Agricultural c Survey, pronounced the pea the clover of ? tho South, and, when bo returued to Virginia, began a series of experiments with it, which have been successfully conducted by his son since his father's death. The objection which has, under the old regime, been urged against the pea (tho difficulty of turning under a heavy pea fallow) has been removed by tho proof that the pea vine, when allowed to mature, and to be chilled even by frost, loses noue of its virtues as a fertilizer. The dead vine contains all the salts locked up for future use, the water only has been lost. No furnier should cultivate a crop of corn without peas. If he is afraid that the peas will injure the corn then let him sow at the last ploughing, and if his land is rioh onough to make oorn he will have a luxuriant coat of pea-vines to tarn under as a fertilizer. As an ameliorator of the soil for any orop, or a fertiliser for wheat or oats, there is nothing which oan be oompared to the pea vino for cheapness. 1 Ante Jieltnmthis region of country waa well supplied with domestio animals. Tho cattle ''grazed upon a thousand hills" in the Summer, the mountain sides being cov? ?.i ? ? erou wnn wna pea-vine ana nalivo grasses. Kvory furuior hud a small herd which he drove to tho mountains for Puuiuior grazing ( ?a few tnarcs and colts. Cora and grass I enough was grown in tho valleys to Winter I thjin; all of which wont on foot to uiarkut. i The war has loft its desolating track cvou < here. There are few cattle, horses, sheep or hogs : but oolton, by tho help of artificisi fertilisers, has crept up to tho very base of 1 tho mountains, una Termors buy their bacon, flour, and sometimes their ooro, from the < West. All along tho Air Line, even North ol i it, in Oooneo, Pickens, and over in Oeorgia, i in White, Uaberaham, Hall, Franklin, whera ante helium cotton waa never thought I of, you will now see it growing luxuriantly, i The best samples of ootton are said to oonie from this belt?six ply because it is a pet i ?is grown by white laborers, carefully workou sad handled, The fact is demon* j strahle that the largest proportion of the belt is grown by white labor, and the same may bo alao said of Texas. With proper oultnre, and implonients adapted to the i South, the white uian may soon bo independent of Sambo, so far as cottou is ooucerned. ?'VOX is Colu mhin lieyitler, stv ' JUDICIAL SAHCTXOB OF KCKDK*. We print elsewhere tho decision of Judgt Woods, presiding as a court of inquiry and nvestigatiou in the Red Oak murder cuse We invite careful attention to this decision or two reasons; first, taking all the cir juoistanccs into consideration, it is ono ol ho most remarkable judgments that evci tmanated from tho bench ; and second, it levelops a lino of policy on tho part ol federal judiciary of very great interest tc >ur people. The facts as developed by the prosecuion, are briefly these: Ou the 24th of Tune, Jesse Ross and W. A. Jones, living n or near Red Oak, went to a neighbor's or the purpose of procuring a threshing nachinc. On their way, they met an acquaintance named Kattcree, whom they isked to join them. The thrco then went m the etrawl, accomplished ihotr purpose, ind set out to return, when they met up vith thirteen armed revenue officers. Rose vas in advaucc of his coinpanious hurrying brward to ect out of a shower of mm He >asscd by the officers, accosting thein poitely, and was going on : but he had a gun, a single barrelled affair) and was seised by he officers. Protecting against such a ummary proceeding, he resisted the arrest nd was beaten over the head. It ia to be cuienibcred that the arrest was without rarraut or color of law. Jones aud Ruterec, who had approached near enough to ritness the violence offered their couipanion. aft the road and from the woods tired at he posse. Tho officers returned the fire rith a volley from their breech-loading guns nd the two men fled. With Ross, the rev* nue men went in the directum of the flee* ng men. After having gone a hundred or nore yards, Jones and Ratterec crossed the oad ahead of the posse, which immediately poned firo and followud thorn up, firing iuessantly. Uattereo was shot down in the roods, but Jones jumped over a fence into n open field aud ran for his life. While rOBgio? this fildd lift ?lin? in tlio K-/.L ud instautly killed, the ball passing through lis heart. These facts are testified to by loss, who was held as a prisoner, and who ras in a position to sec everything, and by iYank Suttlcs, who witnessed the shooting f Jones from his house. We have taken he pains to present the main facts brought ut by the witnesses for the prosecution for ho reason that Judge Woods' decision is a ummary testimony of the revenue wituesscs. There aro some other facts in connection rith the case worth adverting to. 1 it the rst place, Judge Woods was sitting as a ourt of inquiry merely, the investigation laving heeu transferred from the justice ourt at Red Oak to the Federal court in Atlanta. The question for him to decide ras whether thero were probable grounds or believing that the circumstances attendng the killiug should be reviewed by a ury of twelve honest and impartial men. ]ertr.inly Jones is dead. There was no cstimouy introduced to show that lie is still ilive. it is admitted on all hauds that he ras killed by the revenue men ; that he .vas hot in the back and through th J heart; hat he foil aud died some distance from ho road : and it nr>A:ia nn liialnnnnu (n olin? hat a man shot through the heart cannot un a hundred yards or uioro. 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 i go to a jury. In the second place, even if the tcstinony of the revenue men had not been, as re are 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 tcstinony to offset his decision, but really based lis judgment upon it, thus, in effect, makng his position a shield for crimes continued upon tho lives of citisuns by Federal ifficers. Such, probably, is not the intention of .he decision, but such is its effect. It is in advertisement to government officials hat they are safe in pursuing citizens to leath, and that they will be spared even .he mortification of a trial by jury; that vhatevor crime they may commit, they aro infer, not only from the laws of the State, >ut from the laws of tho United States; int) fltnf tKn fnutimnnu mm vmm* *mv wo?iuivujf VI UVVU9VU pCIOVUl d their own behalf shall have more weight, >rovided thoy be armed with Federal Com* Missions and breech-loaders, than the testinony of disiuterestod citizens. We need lot point out to Judgo Woods tho condiion of affairs his decision invites. He is perfectly well aware of it. But we present .ho matter to the attention of the people >f the North in order that they may apprejiate tho scopo given to those who pursue ind oppress our pooplo under color of the Federal authority.? Atlanta Constitution. ? * Ihon Filings for Pear Trees.?Mr 0. A. Hubbard, Now Haven, Conn., write* tho Scientific Amerioan, that it is conjeo lured that New Haven couuty has a largci tupply of choice pear trees than nny olhui county in the United State's. Some fino va rieties, notably the Flemish Beauty and While Doyenne, are generally failures.? Thoy sot well with blossoms, but tho younp iruit crooks, prcmaturoly ripens and drop: off. Mr. Hubbard thinks the general sue cess of the pear in that locality is due U the faot that the sandy soil oontains a per lion of iron, whioh he has oomo to believe is a necessary element in pear culture. H< thinks the quantity there, however, is in sufficient for the needs of the two variolic: named. He bases this conclusion mainlj on tho fact that a Flemish tree fertilise* annually from the sweepings of a smith') shop, io which there is a large quaotity o iron filings and bits of iron, gives a goot yield of most excellent fruit. He suggest) to pear growers even where the propriety of proouring irou filings or drillings, anc mixing with tho soil abont their trees. H< would mix with wood ashes in moderat) amount. mow xa cotton. t The rust is a disease that does more injury I to the cotton crop and ctuses greater pecu. Diary loss to the Soith than all the other i disease of the strple combined. It is prob able that it more or less affects about oner third of all tho cotton fields in the seven Southeastern States, and according to the . virulenee of its attacks, reduces the yield to [ only about two-thirds, or three-fourths of i what it would be otherwis. If thiscstiuiato appoximstcs tho truth the I068 to'the plantcre in these States last year was upwards of 925,000,000. Tho disease attacks cotton ; only in fields that have been under cultivai tiou for some years, seldom or never appear; ing in new ground. This fact loads us to the oonelusiun confirmed by other observations, that it is caused by the impoverishi treat of tho soil and the lack of vegetable f mctlSr.therein. Last season wo planted a field of about i thirty acrea iu cotton, all of which had beeu ploughed to the depth of niue inches in Febi ruary. The rows were run north and South, U wwiv/m runs miuuiu aiwaya De ruo u practicable,) and the entiro field, with (he exception of six rows, about the middle of it, was manured with one hundred pounds of phosphate and three bushels of cotton seed per acre. The north end of the field covered six acres of poor land that had not been planted in cotton for souio years, because the rust was there always fatal. These six i acres had beeu left fallow in 1878, and the growth of crab grass thereon was ploughed under in November of that yoar. At the south cod were three acres that had been planted in cow peas the same year, the peas were picked off, but the vines ploughed under. liy the middle of J aly the rust appeared in the middle section of twenty-one uorcs, over which it spread in the course of the real of tbo uiouth *ud August, only very slightly touching the six rows that had received no phosphate, and entirely stopping as soon as the two sections of six and three acres at opposite ends of the field wcro reached. The middle section of twenty* oue acres produced a vield of one hundred and eighty five pouuds Hut per acre, while those ut the two ends averaged two hundred and seventy pouud. The six rows that had no phosphate produced more cotton and remained green longer in the twenty-one acre section than those on either side of them. These results demonstrate that humus in the soil will prevent rust, and also, that unless there is such humus, the application of one hundred pouuds of phosphate per acre will not repay its high cost. The problem to be solved, therefore, is, how to put humus into a cotton field of 100 acres or more. Any thiug can be done with one aero, and from such a smal1 patch 1 enormous results may be obtained, clearly demonstrating tbo possible?results very interesting to agricultural chemists, and those intelligent planters who may have ample cash capital, but of not much practical value to the average farmers of the South, who do uot understand chemistry aud have no cash capital whatsoever. It appears to us that the ouly practical solutiou is the application of eow peas. This is a means within the reach of all farmers. At tho time of tho last workiug of the crop, about the 15th or 20th of July, a furro*.should be run between the rows with a bull tongue plough, in which the peas should be sown at the rate of a half bushel per acre. They should be covered with n sweep, which will also give the last ploughing to the cotton. The staple crop will, by this time, be so advanced that the pea viues cannot injure it, aud as cjtton cannot grow sufficiently large in laud in which it rusts to shade the middles, tho jtoas will make good vines, which will supply to the soil tho nocded 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 humus or vegctablo matter not yet decayed. The principles enunciated, aud the remedy suggested, are 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 and a portion of one adjoining; the vines died on tbe land and were ploughed under. This spring uot 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 tour bushels of cotton seed per acre. At this moment, nearly tho middle of July, the crop is the atrongest and healthiest that tho field lias produced for several years, and is pro' dueing an unusual quantity of fruit.? Famine, Violence and Death.?A i Protestant pastor in tho city of Mosul, Asii atio Turkey, writes as follows couccrning the fuuiine there: "Peoplo eat eotton seed, blood and even the . carcasses of pack animals. All business is at i u stand still; there is no profit, no employ ment; there is theft and robbery by night and by day j all manner of iniquity abounds, not * even the fear of God is left. Ou every - hand there is violeueo, oppression, wickedI ness, drunkenness, ruin. The poor in tho streets cry out till tho middle of the night, ; 'We are starving ; 0 merciful ones, wo are ? starving 1' Tho daily deaths from starva tion are from five to ten. In thMvillagcs > arouud Mosul they eat a kind of oarth, also LI . J .1 1. - J Dioou, curca&.Mca, uuituu nnu iiumpjeuu.*?Thej die from fifty to one hundred per day. Tho number of deaths of peoplo, beasts of burden and cattle, is beyond oomputatioa. In Mpsnl itself we soe many offering their chihtftn fbr ialo, and none buy; but in El Kash the Kurds bavo sold hundreds of girls at from ?1 10s. to ?2 each, and with the prioe of a soul they buy a few measures of wheat. From Duiriki, a day's journoy West of Mardio, news comes that the stores of grain are exhausted. Men did go on a day's journey for bread, but the roads are so unsafe now that tbev daro not stir. Women Sont and gather grass, whioh they cat e the beasts of tho field." - - 1 i . ?gga? DEFERRED HEWS ITEMS It is stated that a farmer near Nincty-8ix, Y Abbeville County, raised 1,015 bushels of oats S this season on seventeen acres, without fertilis- n ing. C . No Pistols.?The Town Council of Laurens has paase<f an ordinance tc prevent the carry. * ing of concealed deadly weapons within the the corporate limits. ^ ... oi A Tows Clock.?Is still spoken of, and would ti be a great benety to the town if placed in the p Hotel tower. One man proposes to give $20 tr towards it, another $10, another $5, and and so c< on. The tuoney could be raised without trouble, b What say the Council and the citizens generally? a ? Sttcbtrry iVfiri. t< ,| Murk About Oats.?Cnpt. K. T. Mockbee bus harvested this scasm 160 bushels of oats? ^ rust proof kind?from two and a half acres.? ^ Here is another added to the large number of instances which prove that it pays to sow oats. ^ This crop is destined to take the place of upland ^ corn in this country. ? Chtttcr KefHtrter. ^ Execution or Nkc.ro Muri>krkrs.?Memphis, * July 16.?Geo. Sanford and Richnrd McKce, Cl both colored, were hanged on Friday at Oscola, d Ark., for the murder of A.-misted Penn, col- o ored. on the 26th of November last. In an in- S terview on the night previous to their execution " the condemned men confessed their guilt, but " said the Lord had pardoned them. The gallows 11 a-.l iL. l - -# w?? vicvtcti un 1110 nanK ui me Mississippi > River under a gigantic pecan tree. ft is Tiik Crop*.?Reports from nil parts of the p county agree in this one respect;?that the crop of upland corn will be a complete failure, worse than the crop of 1866 or 1869 ; some of the old n farmers say it will be less than the crop of 1846, i< Young corn, if it has been well worked, prom:- p aca a good ytatsl. Tb? ah?a?ra of Alio last two or three weeks have benefitted the cotton, and h we hear encouraging reports of its condition.? tl Chetfer Reporter. p - b A Thousand Dollars Rrward.?New Orleans, July 9.?Johnny, aged two years and ; seven mouths, the son of John Cain, who disap- " pea red June 26th, is now believed to have been a stolen. He has light hair, inclined to curl, and b upper front teeth gone. The child is well grown ^ and talks plainly for his age, has a full face, fair 9omplexion and girlish appearance.? 81 Though a thousand dollars reward is offered, n the police find no traces but believe he was car- |( ried away. ? Tan Jk.vninos Hkirs Still HouEruL.?The ? "Jennings heirs" in this country, of whom 11 there are several in Petersburg and a number v in Virginia, are still sanguine of securing the 0 great estate of $165,000,000 alleged to be * awaiting them in England." The heirs have ' organised an association with a view of prose- c outing their claims, and they held their second 8 annual meeting in Camden, N. J., on Thursday, ' and elected a full list of officers. The expenses { of the association last year were nearly $1,600. 1 Dkjahnettk to de Tried for Killing His Sister.?Danville, Va., July 21.?J tiroes T. Dejarnette was brought up for a preliminary ex- * aininntion before the Examining Court this ' morning, charged)with the murder of his sister, ' Mollie Dejarnelte, in this city a short time since. ' The counsel ror the prisoner waived the exami- " nation and Dejarnette was recommitted to jai ' for indictment and trial at the next term of the 0 Corporation Court of Danville, which will be ^ held the first Monday in August. '' li Am Allkuku Spanish Uutchkry.?New York, \ July 14.?An evening paper says that news has j been received in this city bj the Cuban revolu- | tionary committee of the killing by Spaniards t of Cuban prisoners whose names will be found t below: Minister Of War Pio Rosaldo, Natalio j Argenta, Dr. Bnriqae Verofia Torres, Itaymon Qutreei, Felix Mearqjon, DomihgO >lossa, Lieut. Manuel Portes, Eche Verria, also several others. 1 They wero all sick when captured in a small a residence and Were under charge of Dr. Torres. ' Their retreat was a few miles frortk Manxanillo. a ^e< c Kailroau Kkcklkssnkss.?New York, July t 10.?An accident occurred on the Long Island C Railroad, between Pearsall's Station and Rock- t liway, this morning A gravel train gning east s with thirty-five Italian laborers on board ran t under a heavy wire rope by which a derrick j near the track was sustained, sweeping the cars ^ and knocking off tho laborers. Many of the 9 men were maimed in a shooking manner, many ' had their skulls fractured, and others esoaped * with broken limbs. Three are fatally injured. None of the laborers can speak Knglish. They ( were conveyed to Brooklyn on a special train j for medical treatment. Tiik Kiciimonp 1'ostokvicr.?Richmond, July < 19.?A colored letter carrier named I?eroy .V t Lee, connected with the Richmond postoflice, j was arrested this morning for stealing registered letters from the mails. Letters which had had ' their contents purloined were found in his pos- ; session. Lee was examined and committed to > jail in default of $1,000 hail I The sureties of Postmaster Forbes have oltli- , gated themselves to make good the detioiency in ( his accounts by noon on ThuraJay, and if that ' shall be done no steps towards a criminal pros- 1 ecution will be taken. The postoflice is now vir- I tually in charge of Assistant Postmaster llolli- | day, whose accounts were found to be strictly correct. Col. Italliday is one of the postmas- 1 ter's bondsmen. - Ths Eaethquakr.?Madrid, July 21.-?The 1 terrestrial disturbances in the Island of Luton 1 commenced on the 18th instant, and up to the 20th there had been repealed shocks of ear*.h- 1 quake, the tret and laat being the moat violent. The eathedral and barraoke at Manila have fallen, and the troops are encamped outsidg the 1 city. Two ahooks occurred on the 13th instant, one of whioh lasted seventy seoonds and the other forty seoonds. Eleven natives have been killed and 61 injured. No Europeans have been hart. The inhabitants of Manila have fled to Ike flelds. The earth has opened in several places and Jets of boiling water and ehowors of ashee are ejected. Some of the publie buildings at La guana and Rabacan have been dernoli iohed. All the votennos of Luton are in full . activity. i [ i ii mmmmmmmmam**pgpw mipni^ A Qikl kiuraprait bt Cikcvi Man.?New ork, July 22.?A Pittsburg special slates that alomc Burkett, a young girl whs was kid* apped by fire men belonging to Boyd & Peter's ircus, at Shanksville, in Somerset County, has een round, and S. C. Peters, A. D. Davis, II. larks and Clark Wise, the men charged with te crime, yesterday had a hearing before Judge [anion, in Oreensburg. Miss Burkett was put a the stand and testified to the outrageous *eatmeiit she had received, fully identifying the risoners as a part of the cireus gang that had laltreated her. She is in a very deplorable ondition. The case will be ferreted out to the otlom. Miss Burkett is a little country girl nd only fourteen years of age. The most insnse indignation prevails in Grcensburg, and lireAts of lybching the offenders arc feely made. PirrsBtrao, July 22.?The proprietors and bout fifty attaches of Boyd & Peter's Circus >ave been arrested for the abduction of and utroge upon Miss Salome Burkett, of Somerset ounty. Upon a pelimary examination, Miss iurkctt testified that iu leaving the circus, she ras separated in the crowd from friends who ccompanied her and forced away by a gang of ircus employees to a ticket wngon, where, uner a threat of instant death, she was afterwards utraged by the whole party of adoxen or more, he was then taken in a wagon toTurncr'sCross* oads ard released. In attempting to make her ay home from there she was caught by five tore showmen and again outraged, after which tie remembered nothing more until she was >und near Somerset, Monday night. The girl i now par.ially demented. Intense excitement revails in Somerset and Greensburg. Rf.k Ccltviik.?The small industries are too tuch neglected in South Carolina, notwithstandlg that they pay much more handsomely in roportion to the oapital invested and are far titter wimple) u> Ure present eomOVUou wt Wbor ere. Tho keeping of bees for preBt is one of bese small industries which we think would ay well in this State. We read of $25 or $50 sing realised by some bee keepers from the roceeds of a single hive in a season, but takig 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.? n?i from a small beginning this number could >on be obtained, with proper care, from tho atural increase of the swarms. A small out' ty of money would be sufficient and the princia! investment would be the time nnd attention f tbe beekeeper. Willi the new improvements i hives by which the honey can be removed rittioHt destroying the bees or ewtyccting the perator to those small attentions on their part, rhich sometimes under the old plan add such ively Interest to the performance, bee keeping an be oarried on with comparative ease. If oat of the yovng men who are out of employncnt and are hsirtiiwg daylight waiting lor a lituation would resort to ibis industry, they rould find it plessant, profitable and indepenlent. ?Columbia Rtgitter. Hon. JuRn If. KViss.?Our representative in Congress spent two days in Chester last week, (e seemed in fine health nnd most cheerful in pirits. Col Kvins has served the people of this list rid for four years with earnestness and idelity. Always At his post and closely attcn ire to ins duties, lie lies taken high rank as one f the best workers in Congress. He is Ighly esteemed by all Congressmen of all paries, and by his gentlemanly bearing and coureons manners has rnadts hosts of friends in ITashington. Col. Erins is rery hopeful, inced confident, of the election of Hancock and English. He is strong in the belief that the icket will carry Pennsylvania, Hancock's noire State, as well as Netv Jersey.? Chrrter Retorter. FabtInxI An? Fasters?Tho fast of Dr. Tanner docs not seem to do as singular as it first claimed. Accouuts of long fusts lave been resurrected from old newspapers md books until they become quite nuuierius and many of them seem to be well auhenticated The Albany Arjut prints tho inse of Reubon Kelsey, of Albany, who fused while laboring under a religious dcluion for fifty-three days. For forty-two days le walked about daily with an elastic step, rle shaved himself until a week before his leath. Toward the lust ho became thin ind looked ghastly; but was able to sit up. for a week before his death ho did not iven drink water. On the fifty-thitd day ?e died, aged twenty seven years. Another :asc is described from Washington couny, Pa. A man named Thomas Ford, aged .wenty-thrce years, became unable to swalow food or water. Ho lived thirtv nino lays, his strength for a great part of tho time being remarkably sustained. Upon tiis death an examination showed that a fungous growth had entirely closed tho entrance to the stomach, and that it would have been impossible to relieve hiui even bv an onera lion. The case is satisfactorily authenticated. The Hultiuioro American recalls thu ease of John French of Hagorstown, Md., also a religious monomaniac, who determined in 1870 to fast for forty days. Ho began July 12 and coinplutod his fast on August 21, having tasted no food, but drinking copiously of water during the time. Many attempts were made to tempt him to oat, aod ho was closely watched, but no doubt was entertained of the reality of his fust. His constitution refused to rally from the strain, although he was carefully nursod and attended by physioiaus. Ho died on September 1, 1870. The Boston Traveler recalls tho oasc of Dr. Mayo, G. Smith of Ncwberryport, Mass., who, about ten yoars ago, fasted for forty days. It war in winter, and ho frequently, during his fast, plunged naked into Mcrritnac river, having to out a hole in the ioe to get in. After tho first .11 f l: -e L i?i J: -i uwappoareu, and very little exhaustion was shown.? Dr. Mayo is still alivo, aged sixty years, and b a giant in aiao aud strength. When b fire like a bad husband f Wbet) ti goes qut at night.