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A31.50tA YEAR. 1, 10 ESTABLISHED 1865. NEBRY S._____ C., THURDAY --,IA "COLD AND BLEAK THE NORTH WIND BLEW." The Coldest Weather for over a Quarter of a Century. t NNW YoRK, March 1~.-AImost all (1 New Jersy towns witlin fifteen miles of New York now have sonie sort of rail road communication with this city. This morning thousands of business men made their fist apperrance since Saturday. Over 1.100 were snowed in at Roseville on the Delaware and Lack- t awarnna Railroad, and hundreds were compelled to stay in the cars over twenty-four hours, although their homes were within four miles. The cold was intense and food scanty, but no lives were lost at that point. The food supply is running very short in these Jersey towns, and but little fresh meat and no milk, eggs or vegetables can be obtained at any price. The chances of getting relief from New York are small, as the supply here is decid edly short. LIMITED EXTENT OF THE STORM. Roports at the main office of the Western Union Telegraph Company this afternoon state that the late bliz- t zard was of a comparatively local char- f acter. It did not extend furth:r south t than Alexandria Va.; west further than Pittsburg and Buffalo; north further than Saratoga and east fui ther than Boston. THE LOSS OF LIFE. It is impossible at this writing to esti mate the extent of the loss of life. Agreat many people are missing, and the snow will have to be cleared away before all the missing ones can be accounted for. Almost hourly reports are coming in from the surrounding country of fatali ties resulting from the storm. It is feared that over twenty lives have been lost in Essey County, N. J., alone. A list of fourteen persons known to be dead from cold is published, thirteen in New Jersey, in the vicinity of New York, and one on Staten Island. Five Jerseymen are missing. These reports will have to be taken with allowance, as some of those reported dead and missing may turn up from shelter. THE FIRST TRAIN. The Erie Road was the first to get a c train in. At 6 o'clock this morning the e Chicago express, which has been i snowed in since Monday at Monroe, came in passengers all well. Business s has once more been seriously attempt- t ed, but the difficulties are still great. t MELTING SNOW EY BONFIRES. 3 An attempt is being made to melt 8 snow by lighting great bonfires, but the effect is not perceptible. The sun is d shining brightly and the slush is deep ' in many places. First Train at Buffalo. r .Lo, N. Y., March 15.-The r first trntoarrive from New York city d since 3IonNTey.came in at noon to-day. A Hard Time omsthe Railroads in New 1 Jersey. ~t TRENTON, N. J., MIarch 15.-The ter- ai rible snow storm which struck this city e and vicinity on Sunday night is u npre- e cedented for the damwge done and seri- f ous annoyance caused. The city was i: completely. isolated fromn the outside r wvorld for two days. Not a word could r be received nor sent over the tele-;raph 1: wires, and railroad communication was a entirely cut off, business was suspended because the streets were impassable and none of the horse ear lines were run ning. It was a strange experience fo: a *city with such admirable railroad facili ties. The last train which started out of a this city for New York on Monday I mornin-; was stopped by an immense ' drift fifteen feet deep, about a mile fromi ' Princton Junction. There the train was r obliged to stay from 1 o'clock Monday C afternoon until 11 o'clock yesterday C ~norning, when a relief party succeeded t in getting the hungry and half frozen a passeni'ers back to Trenton. The experiences of the travellers were t fearful. During two nights they were ~ obliged to walk up and down through the cars to keel) from freezi ig. Fires ( were 1:ept b)urning in the stoves, but t the wind blew so fiereely that they did I not warm the ears. Several of the men ' attempted to walk to Princeton June- t tion, half a mile, and nearly p)erished in the drifts. They returned to the cars I with great difficulty, and decided to I wait their rescue with all the patience 1 at their commanu. Many of themi when I brought to Trenton had their ears and feet badly frozen'. While on the train s they had no provisions until Tuesday t . orniIr when a farmer brought sandl- 1 the cars and asked fifty cents ' ~ hem. Drifts entirely covered the e The relief party were from ~ -7 OlO the evening until the fol- ( 7 o'clockinorinlg in completing their 1.2'Tey hat fo)ur locomlfotives to t heir trainl, and1( even thien it was almost imosbeto force their way through the drifts. Once they got stuck themi Ivs and anl extra engine was sent for 5 froml Tlreniton. The water in the loco- e miotives5 gave out and the mxen were ta forced to throw snOW into the tanks to Ih keep suthicnt water in the boilers tou reach Trenton. The drifts in many is places were a nmile in lenvoth and from I twelve to fifteen feet in hight. fa On Monday igiht and Tuesday mi orn- t ing several trai is wvhich had been de layed at T ullytow ni aiad Bristol, on the p Pennsylvania Foad, were dIrawni into Trenton. The palssen gers had spent miany hours without food or sleep and were nearly f:anished. They were at e oneesent to hotels in the city and pro- a vided for at the expense of the complany. 1 All passengers were c..red( for in this way and last night the hotels were so crowded that it was ditlicult to get any f Some of the trains which were snow >ouiid at Bristol did not arrive here un il vesterday. All had suffered more or ess from cold and hunger. On some of he trains only crackers and watercould >e procured, and on this scanty fare hey lived for a day or more. The coni iany did everything in its power to get rains through, but the wind blew so ard that as fast as they cleared a way it vould fill up again. Not until yester lay afternoon did any Philadelphia rain get throngh bearing the mails and few newspapers. The latter sold at a )remiuni, bringing in some instances as uigh as 75 cents each. The Philadelphia .nd Reading Road is terribly blockaded lso. The Legislature has not been in ses ion this week, the first time such a hing has occurred in the history of the ;tate. On Tuesday there were only hree members present, and a few more rrived yesterday on trains from South ersey. Reports from all sections of the tate, which begin to come in steadily, how that the country roads are entirely illed up and travel is next toan impos ibility. Milkmen and produce dealers were inable to enter the city for two days, nd there was great dearth of these ar ieles. CIRCUMVENTING THE BLIZZARD. wo Live Papers Combine and by Using a Telephone and the Telegraph Get the News from Two Centres. [Philadelphia Times, March 14.] The last generation would have hought the Philadelphia and New Cork newspapers of yesterday rather >rogressive journals, even when they vere cut off from a day's record of the vorld's doings; but the present genera ion, used to the fullest and freshest tews from every civilization of the lobe, regarded yesterday's paper as lull and lifeless. Everybody fretted ver one day without the news, and for he first time intelligent readers appre iated the matchless offices of the mod rn newspaper. The Times was the only Philadelphia tewspaper that managed to get reason bly full news from Washington and few York. The telegraph was knocked lean out by the blizzard, but the Times orraled the telephone and finally got a ne in operation between this city and ew York, by which it received exclu ive news of the general prostration of usiness and of the destruction caused y. the storm in Gotham. The New .ork Herald managed to get a tele raph line in operation on Monday tight between Washington and Phila elphia, but here it was halted. The 'imes and the Herald pooled their pecial Washington telegraph wire and pecial New York telephone and both eceived Washington and New York ews, while most other journals had to o wild guessing all around. The telegraph lines were greatly im roved yesterday and last night, but [iey are yet broken in many sections, nd it will be several days before there an be an entire resumption of the omnplete news of the world usually arnished by the progressive journal am of to-day. The people are now Lestive under one day's loss of the full !cord of every civilization of the earth, ut it so seldom happens that they can fford to be patient under the sacrifice. Always Suspected. [B11 Nye in New York World.] I do not know why I should always e regarded with suspicion wherever I o. I do not present the appearance of man who is steeped in crime and yet r-hen I put my trivial little two-gallon alise on the . seat of a depot waiting oom a big man with a red mustache omes to me and hisses through his linched teeth: "Take yer baggage off he seat !" It is everywhere. I apolo ize for disturbing a ticket agent long nough to sell me a ticket and he tries a jump through a little brass wicket nd throttle me. Other men come in nd say : "Give me a ticket for Ban oline,: 0., and be d- sudden about it, ro," and they get their ticket and go board the car and get the best seat, rh ile I anm begging for the opportunity o buy a seat at full rates and then ride a the wood box. I believe that com aon couriesy and decency in America eeds protection. Go into a hotel or a otel. whichever suits the eyether or yther reader of these lines, and the ommercial mn: who travels for a bir aiusage-casing house in New York has be bridal chamber, while the meek and >wlv minister of the gospel gets a tall-pocket roonm with a cot slippery lim towel, a cake of east iron soap, disconnected bed, a view of the laun ry, a tin roof and $4 a day. A Singular Subscription List. Special to the Atlanta Constitution.] ArLunY~x, Ga., March 11.-"I have :en a good many cheeky things in my xperieniee," said art Albany druggist )-day, "but one of the worst is the idy who is going around town getting p subscriptions for the purpose of buy ig herself. a new set of false teeth." is a fact that a female, apparently -om a small neighborhood in cne of re adjoining counties, is actually so eiting help here in Albany, for the urpose of procuring a iiew set of o'lars. Her list is headed with a sub) eriptioni of five ollairs, then follow a st of donations of ten and fifteen ents all opposite the modest signiatures f "'cashi." Very few mioved inito good umor by the assuranice of the whole fihir refuse to contribute their miteandl is evident that the country lady will nastiente her hog and hominy with a DEATH OF HENRY BERGH. The Career of a Man Famous as the Friend of Dumb Animals. Mr. Henry Bergh, the philanthropist, died in New York Monday morning. He was born in New York City in 1823. After graduating at Columbia College he studied law, and, having a taste for literature, wrote several dramias, tales and poems while yet young. In 1863 Mr. Bergh was appointed Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburg, and after ward served as Vice-Consul at the Rus sian Capital. On his return to Ameri ca, in 1866, he organized the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with which his name has since become so well known, and to the success of which he has since devoted not only a very considerable private fortune, but all his time and talent. Whisperings of his true mission in life came to Henry Bergh about the time of his appointment as Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburg, in 1862. For years he had taken note of the cruelties practiced on dumb animals in European countries and the brutal sports in which animal life was ,acri ficed. His strong sense of justice and human obligation led him to regard such cruelty as one of the greatest blem ishes on human character. In Russia tL a common people have or had a pro found respect for official position. Mr. Bergh's footman wore the gold lace that served to distinguish members of the diplomatic corps. One day he inter fered in behalf of a donkey that was being cruelly beaten, and made the happy discovery that the owner of the beast as well as the crowd stood in awe of the gold la.-e of his equipage. "At last," he said, "I've found a way to utilize my gold lace, and about the best use that can be made of it." So he formed a society of two for the protec tion of dumb animals, his coachman, as executive officer, sympathizing in the work to the extent of the wages paid him. Before leaving Russia he determined to devote the remainder of his life to the interest of dumb animals. On the whole his success has been steady and progressive. Thirty-six States of the Union have societies founded on the Bergh model, and the impulse of his work has been felt in foreign lands. The society of which he was President has 325 agents in the State of New York. Mr. Lergh re ceived no salary for his work, giving his time and best energies to his work of defending the animals who were in capable of defending themselves. Next to Mr. Bergh himself, the so ciety's greatest benefactor was Louis Borard, a Frenchman, who bequeathed to the society $150,000. Wills agre gating half a million dollars in bequest have been drawn in favor of the society since by philanthropic men who are still living. THE HUGEsT "TRUST" OF ALL. An Attempt to Combine the Wholesale Grocers to Keep up Prices. [By Telegraph to the New York Her ald.] MINNEAP'OLIS, MINN., March 9. Within the last few days every whole sale grocer of Minneapolis has received a circular letter looking to tihe forma tion of what, on its face, appears to be an iniquitous and gigantic trust. "Un ion" is what it is proposed to call the new 1)001, but under any name the idea is the same, and it is an organization of the wholesale grocers of the United States for the purpose of manipulating prices. This circular is sent out by a firm of wholesale grocers of Milwaukee. It is a proposition to form a pool. The idea of forming a combination to regulate the price of sug~ar, it proceeds, has been rid ieuled so often that the finn sending out the circular wa "almost afraid to mention it" to any one until several leadinig grocers had approved it. It is suggestedl t'aat a pool be formed, and that every member deposit, in cash, with the treasurer an amount equal to at least onle per cent. of the total sales per annum of the firm such member represents. Ruli.ig prices shall be telegraphed each day to each member by a com nmittee appointed for tihe purpose, and those prices must be adhered to under strict penalty. In eachl section of tile country an investi-gation committee shall be appointed to invcsti'rate firms report d as cutting association prices. Then comes thle regulation monopoly move. "To avoid thlis cutting," the circular says, "it would be no difficult matter to arranige with the Sugar Trust, as well as with refineries not in the trust, that they sell this prcduct only to members of this associationl. This would compel every one to join and at the same time bind every one to live up to the rule." A promiinenit Minneapolis grocer pro nouncedi it a new "conmbine" that would surpass ini power andl extent any mo nop)oly ever yet formed. It proposes, in short, to so increase the profits on sugar that the amiounit of tile deposit re(quiredl will be small in comparison. He says the wholesale trade of the United States in thleir line is at least $2,00)l0,000, figuring onl a pop)ulation of 90,000,000 on an annual expenditure of %35 each. One per cent. of this or $20,000,000, is to be dleposited. Consum ers of the country would be compelled to pay an adlditional sunm for their su gars so large that $20,000,000 would be small inl comparisonl. Mothers, why fuss about children's wearing out so nmany clothes, when you can go to Wright & J. W. Coppock's and get their p)opular indestructible suitsfor so malml -a su,m. t Farm Mortgages. [The American Banker.] The Farmers' Review of Chicago, published the following summary or reports from its correspondents on the subjects of farm mortgages. As only a t part of such reports are based on an ex- a amination of county records, the bal- : ance being the estimates of correspond- t exits based on their knowledge of gener- t al conditions in the respective counties, only approximate correctness is claimed v for figures given. Summarized by s States the following figures are given: e Ohio-Forty-five counties report an s average of 23 per cent. of farms under a mortgage; 16 counties report farm mort- f gages on the increase and 24 counties d that they are decreasing. e Indiana-Thirty-seven counties re- f port 26 per cent. of farms mortgages; 18 e counties report mortgages increasing e and 14 decreasing. Illinois.-Seventy-five counties report c 27 per cent. of farms mortgage ; 7 coun- d ties on the increase and 33 on the de- e crease. t Iowa.-Sixty-nine counties report an I average of 44 per cent. of farms mort- I gaged; 14 counties report mortgages on t the increase and 10 on the decrease. a Nebraska.-Thirty counties an aver- t age of 51 per cent. on farms mortgaged; 1 12 report farm mortgages on the in- c crease, and 17 on the decrease. Wisconsin.-Twenty-five counties, f report 32 per cent. mortgaged; 8 report s mortgages increasing and 17 decreasing. f Dakota.-Twenty-seven counties re- s port 59 per cent. of farms mortgaged; 15 3 report them on the increase an< 12 on a the decrease. C Michigan.-Twenty-six counties re port an average of 50 per cent. of farms a mortgaged; 11 report mortgages on the c increase and 9 on the decrease. s Kentucky.-Eighteencounties report c an average of 23 per cent. of farms mort gaged;8 report farm mortgages on the increase and 10 on the decrease. t .4 . - - C Shylock is not Dead. [Atlanta Constitution.] f Shylock is not dead. He flourishes t in our large cities, and not only de mands his pound of flesh, but gets it. a Recently the newspapers of St. Louis, New York and Boston have shown 2 up the methods of a certain class of t money-lenders in those cities. Clerks t on small salaries and mechanics work- 1 ing for low wages sometimes find, in a spite of the most rigid economy, that E they must borrow money. They know t very well that it is nseless to apply to t the banks as they have no collateral to E offer, and they are driven to the Shy- E locks. Here is a typical case. At a time when money was being loaned in the large cities to wealthy people at two t and three per cent a year, a sober, in dustrious mechanic in Boston was dis- E abled by accident. His wife was forced to seek a loan. She succeeded in bor rowing fifty dollars, but she had to give a mortgage on all her household fur niture. The lender held back two dol lars of the money for "expenses," and five dollars more for a month's interestt in advance at the rate of ten per cent a month. This left the woman forty three dollars. She paid the five dollars interest month after month until she could no longer do it, and the kindness of a generous friend was all that saved her furniture from being sold. Commenting upon this case, the St. Louis Republican says: "It is aimazing, when we think over it, that in this age of enormous aggrega tions of wealth and high-sounding pre-t tenses of philanthropy, there should bei no institution at which the thousandst of persons in every large city, who ati times need small sums of money in an extremity-mechanics disabled by ac cident or sickness, and laborers tem-a porarily out of employment, can borrow 1 $.50 or $25, or even $5. At times money s is so abundant in New York that it is loaned at two per centon call to wealthyr borrowers who have first-rate securitiess to put up as collateral; but a poor man, who has nothing to give as security i but a chattel mortgage on his house- ~ hold furniture, is charged twenty-five to one hundred per cent by the usurersa he is compelled to resort to. If this age possesses half the practical humanitarianism it so vauntingly lays t claim to, surely it might devise sonme method for relieving the temporaryr needs of working people by loans of I money at a reasonable rate of interest- I say one per cent a month-and that, too, without a greater proportion oft losses than the business banks suffer from the failure of their customers." y The suggestion made by our contem- t porary will be approved by all kind- I hearted people, but it is doubtful ~ whether it will ever be carried into effect 1 by private enterprise. Possibly, someic day, when our government becomes more socialistic in its tendencies, ~ strange things will happen. We may t adopt the Bismarckian scheme of pro- e viding pensions and life insurance for the wage-working classes. We may go so far as to make every postoffice a governent bank, authorized to receive y deposits and to make loans at a low in terest upon all sorts of chattels, from a baby's cradle up to a set of parlor fur- f niture. Of course, this would be ex- 1 treme paternalism. But are we not ,y moving in that direction ? If the gov- e enent is to take charge of the edu cation of the individual, and regulate his habits, why should it not look after his finances ? All this, however, is in the future, and perhaps up in the air. In the ~ meantime, "iie honest workingman who t gets into a financial tight, is wondering f< whether it would be better for him to go to Shylock or to the devil. We do not like to advise him in such a matter, 1 but e canottellhimtogoto hylok.1 NO ONE NEED DIE. S( bi Or. Hammond's Plan for Living Forever. V [From the Washington Post.] ti People die through their ignorance of a he laws which govern their existence b id also from their inability or indis- k 'osition to obey those laws with which tl hey are acquainted. We are told in he first chapter of Genesis that before Ldam ate forbidden fruit the life of man vas to be eternal. But with the acqui- t ition of the knowlenge of good and vii death became his portion. It t eems to me that it would be more in 0 ecordance with the actual state of af- b ii at the present time to believe that t( eath came through the loss of knowl- q dge rather than from his obtaining it, n :r now he loses his life not through an b xcess of knowledge, but through an 0 xcess of ignorance. I do not see that there is any physi- s logical reason why even at the present e: ay man should die. From a knowl- tl dge of the causes of disease greater le han that possessed fifty years ago, and i rom the advance of medical science n eading to better methods of treating I he deviations from the normal stand- h .rd of health to which we are subject, a he life of a generation has within the d eriod mentioned been lengthened five e r six years. That is, the average man b ustead of living thirty years, as he did ifty years ago, now lives nearly thirty- n ix years. Looking at the question rom this standpoint only, it will be 0 een that it is merely a question of time trhen his life will be extended to thous- i nds of years, and that with an eternity ,f time his life also will be eternal. Let us take one aspect of the subject nd we shall not, I think, fail to per eive that when we thoroughly under tand it and are willing to live in ac ordance with its requirements, death, inless by accident, will cease to exist. We know that this life is continued hrough the death of the various atoms C f the several tissues that enter into the n omposition of his body. His organs ti ,re kept in action by force and this a orce results as does all other force from h he matamorphosis of matter. Thus to ti ibtain heat. we burn wood or coal, and ei .shes and gases are evolved in this pro- a :ess; to generate electricity we convert C inc or some other metal into a salt d hrough the action of an acid and elec- d ricity is set free. In the body, the a >rain, the heart, the liver, the muscles i< 11 act through the destruction or rath r alteration of the substance of which n hey are composed. With every thought a hat emanates from the brain, with v very emotion which it feels, with ev- ;h ry act of the will which it originates, s] vith every perception which it expe- 1 iences, a certain portion of the central fl issue is broken down into simpler sub- I tance and through various channels is 1< xcreted from the body. With every r, >ulsation that the heart makes some a art of the organ, though small it may fi >e in amount, is destroyed, and is cast ci ut of the system to make room for new p ubstance. With every contractioni of sj .muscle, no matter how small, from u he effort required to wield the heaviest :ind of a sledge hammer to that neces- ti ary to lift a pin or crook a finger or 1i vink an eyelid, muscular tissue dies c: .nd being no longer fitted for the pur- t< >ose for which it was formed, is taken a '1p by the veins and like that coming it rom the brain and heart and the lungs p pnd the stomach and all the other or ~ans which serve the purposes of the n ody, is gotten rid of through the kid- hj eys and the skin and the respiration d o be reformed outside of the system b uto other substances which in their n urn make the food by which the body b j again nourished.o The food that man takes into his p tomach ought to be of such quantity a ,nd quality as would axactly repair the o asses which, through the action of the a everal organs, his body is to undergo. a f it is excessive in either of these di- a ections, or if it is deficient, disease of t ome kind will certainly be the result. a f he knew enough to be able to adjust hi is daily food to the expected daily re- li uirements of his system disease could tever ensue through the exhaustion of h ny one of his vital organs. A large p aajority of the morbid affections to v which he is subject are due to a lack of ti his knowledge. r Suppose, for instance, that a man on a ising in the morning should say to 1e imself, "To-day I have to read ten a >ages of 'Blackstone's Commentaries.' wenty pages of 'Don Quixote,' to walk r< hree miles and a half, to p)ay a visit of n talf an hour's duration to my grand- b nother and to take my sweetheart to ii he theatre where I shall spend two c< tours: to do this I require (taking out p us pencil and nmemorandumn book as a e speaks) so much carbon, so much rt titrogen (giving, of course, the exact C veight of these several elementary sub- p tances.) I can get those precise quan- li ities from eight ounces of bread, four n unces of eggs, eight ounces of beef, six li unccs of potatoes, four ounces oIf fish, si pint of beef soup, eight ounces of wa- n er andl eight ounces of stro'ng coffee to b: iake them go a little farther than they g could otherwise. In case I have an o: xtraordinary demand made upon me ec >r mental or physical exertion I. shall o: tave to add to these substances others lh rhich will compensate for the increas- tl d loss.'' k Now suppose he is exactly right in c< is calculations and that the food taken Tj Sneither too great or too little, hut ex- Tj etly compensates the anticipated loss s, the death of each cell in the brain or o: be heart or the muscles, etc., will be M >llowed by the birth of a new cell, af rhich will take its p)lace and assume ir :s functions. Gout, rheumatisnm, liver S >ftening and other disorders of th -ain, the various morbid conditions t< hich the digestive organs are subject ould be impossible except througl ie action of some external force, sue] the swallowing of sulphuric acid or .ow on the head, or a stab with nife, which would come clearly withii ie class of accidents and of cours tany of them would be avoidable. Again, let us imagine that man kne% ist to what an extent his animal appe tes should be gratified; that he hai certained definitely to what an ex nt, if at all, alcohol, tobacco and her stimulants and sedatives shoul< used; that his knowledge in regard > clothing was perfect; that he had ac aired complete information of th, tanner in which his house should b ailt and heated and ventilated an therwise made sanitarily perfect; tha okery had become one of the exac :iences; that he was able to avoid th tects of extreme heat, cold and mob ire; that, in a word, lie had nothing t am in regard to the best way of liv ig so as to preserve himself from a] torbific causes; supposing all this, ani admit that it is not very likely tha e will for ages upon ages acquire th most God-like omniscience necessary eath would be impossible and th :ernal life to which we are told he wa rn would again be his. From a consideration of these point e perceive that people die. First. From ignorance-of all the law life. Second. From wilfulness in not obey ig the laws they know. WILLIAM A. HAMMOND. THE ANARCHIST'S WIFE. :rs. Lucy Parsons, Widow of One of th Men Hanged at Chicago, Speaks. From the Philadelphia Press. Mrs. Lucy Parsons, the widow of th hicago anarchist, addressed a larg ieeting of anarchistic sympathizers iu ie Knights of Labor hall, at 806 Girar venue yesterday afternoon. She cam ere under the auspices of the Interns onale Arbeiter association, which is iphemistic term for an association c narchists. Since the hanging of thei 'hicago comrades they have been ver iscreet and their president said yestei ay that they had disbanded and onl; isembled as friends with commoi leas. Mrs. Parsons is of a more pronounce egro type than is usually imagine nd her accent is decidedly southeri 'ith a twang of the negro dialect. Th ,cturer wore a neat black gown with ight bustle, neat cuffs, a gold loVE >cket hanging from her neck, and sh ourished a mourning handkerchie [er voice was low yet clear, and he ngthy address was delivered in unbling manner. It was quite poetics t times with an attempt at rhet>rica nish, but as often full of slang ani >mmonplace sentences. '-I am rofetariat," said Mrs. Parsons, "and >eak so that the common people shal nderstand." The speech was filled with denuncis ons of capital, sarcastic flings at rn gion and a glorification of the anal [ists and their ideas. All the infiams ry speeches were applauded by th udience, which was strictly f'reign i: s make up. The brewers' unions wer resent in a body. Mrs. Parsons was introduced b)y ian named Magee. On the stage wit: er was a matronly-looking womal ressed in black and a young girl il lue. Taking a sip from a glass of lemc ade on the stand, Mrs. Parsons begal er address by quoting the last word r her husband: "Let the voice of th eople be heard; it will ring down th ;es." Continuing she talked right o: f the anarchists, the blessed martyri nd "bloody" Oglesby. She said:" in not here to rail at religion, for I arm n anarchist, and that means I am fre think and act. Anarchy is not dead [though some of its adherents at anged. Such mugs as the papers put sh would hang anyone." She related her trials and troubles ow she was imprisoned, and the: roceeded to arraign capital. "As thos -ho have died are no longer here t -ouble us," she'said, "we can delibe tte on what they died for. In the qui( rternoon in this city of brotherly lov t us think of this. They were worth ad you allowed them to die." In a rambling way interspersed wit: ~fiections she told the story of the Hay iarket meeting and the story of th :>mb. She accused capitalists of hur: ig the bomb, and said it was part of )nspiracy to grind down the workin c.ople. She went for Chic Arthu ith a vengeance, andl with great iron called his meeting with Governec glesby while the anarchists were i: rison. "He called us," she said, "bras~ ng anarchists, and said that we di, ot understand the real harmony c bor and capital. Beneath the ver iadow of the bastile that held thos tartyrs, he refused to aid them. No, y the iron hand of fate before th rass has grown green on their graves ae of Mr. Arthur's men is shot by th ip)italists. I wonder what he think ~the exquisite harmony of capital an bor now. Mr. Arthur has got to lear: 1e A of the alphabet of labor. Capite nows no land, no nation, no sex, ni mndition other th]an to) rob) labo: here is no harmony and identity hat is the A of thealphabet." Mrs. Parsons continued her histor the case, and in speaking of thos ho prayed for the acqjuittal she sais 'ide : "I am never' guilty of such a. idiscretion myself." [Great applause. lie closed hcr address by prophesyin we upremar.y of a narch.L Pushing the Three C's. [Augusta Chronicle.] 1 The engineer corps of the Charleston, i Cincinnati and Chicago railroad com i pany is now camped near Hamburg, a and propose to- commence the survey i of the route to Newberry, S. C. Few of our people have an idea of the im portance of this enterprise. It is pro posed to build a continuous line from - Charleston S. C., to the Ohio river 600 i miles. The corps is now operating from - the Ohio river, at Asbland, Ky., to I White House, Ky., 60 miles; from I Rutherdfordton, N. C., to Blacks, S. C., 1 45 miles, and intend constructing a - branch to Augusta Ga., having consoli e dated with the Carolina and Midland a for that purpose. I The general manager was here with t mining and railroad experts not long t since. He reported that in Kentucky a the lines runs through inexhaustible coal fields, and his visit had as its main ) object, to ascertain the extent to which - this could be marketed. All the party I were much impressed with the impor I tance of this as a manufacturing centre. t It was suggested that coal could be e shipped by barges to Savannah, thus furnishing all the steamships visiting a that port, as well as 'supplying gas s companies, factories and private consu mers. The idea was favorably received, s and it is within the range of probabili ties that in less than two years, this s will become the distributing point for cheap coal, thus giving us fuel at rates - so low as to give a mighty impetus to small nanufacturing industries as well as contributing largely to the comfort of all our citizens. A letter from General;Manager A. S. Johnson, dated 10th inst, states that e arrangements are now complete and that the line will be running to Augus ta within eighteen months. This gives us a competing. line to the West, e through which its treasures of food and other products may be poured into our 1 midst, and furnishes our cotton mills a new route by which they may send their goods to Chicago, now the chief distributing point for the Western and Northwestern states. Work on the lines has been delayed r for reasons best known to those in au thority; but all :obstacles having been removed, we may hope to hear the whistle of the locomotive before we are two years older. THE RE-LOCATING OF THE LINE BEGUN. I [Augusta Chronicle, 16th.] The engineering corps of the Three 4, C.'s railroad arrived on the C., C. & A, e railroad train from Rock Hill last a night, and registered at the Planters. There are in the party, O. A. Ramsaur, e chief; Fleming Ramsaur, B. S. Suttle, C. C. Scruggs, W. C. Black, L. C. r Kingsley, Richard B. Rorison. a They have completed the locating of , the line from Camden, S. C., to Marion, 1 N. C. will begin to-day the re-locating of the line from Augusta to Newberry. a The old road bed of the Augusta, I Edgefield and Newberry railroad, .1 which was absorbed by the Three C's, was intended for a narrow gauge and is e considered too devious for a broad - gauge. The corps under Mr. 0. A Ram -saur will begin in Hamburg this morn Sing. 1 Written by the President In an Album. e - [Pittsburg Press.) a A lady went to the whiite house re 1 cently to obtain the President's auto 1 graph. Handing Mr. Pruden, the ex 1 ecutive clerk, a bright, clean sheet of tinted note paper, with her monogram 1 upon it, she requested that gentleman s to ask Mr. Cleveland to inscribe his B name thereon. Mr. Pruden, always B obliging, went to the President's private I office to secure the favor for the lady. ,Returning in a few moments he said : [ "The President sends his compliments, 1 and says that if you will bring your e autograph album he will be glad to ,write his name in it, but he never puts e his signature upon :a blank sheet of paper." The lady was rather'.taken aback, I, but, thanking Mr. Pruden for his kind -' ness, returned home to bring her al e bum. The book being a trifle dingy in o appearance, and also quite full of auto graphs, she determined to purchase a t new one, and have the President's sig e nature to "start it." Proceeding to y Ballantyne's book: store on the ave nue, she bought a new and handsome a album and repaired to the white house, -arriving there within.twenty minutes e from the time she had left. Mr. Pru den, smiling, took the book, and re a paired to the President to obtain his g autograph for the persevering lady. r Returning, he gave the book to the y lady, who, thanking him, left for her r home. Upon arriving there, she opened the album to gaze on the valued in -scription and found the following : W Xoman's name---her's but to give f away ! y A man's, his all ; it should not go e astray. GROVER CLEVELAND. ,AN EXCEmLING AGE.-A lady asked e a gentlenmaa his age. He replied, s"What you do in everything?" X. IL. So does Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of SSweet Gum and Mullein excel over all 1 other remedies for coughs, eroup and .i consumption. .THE FAMILY PHYsICIAN.-Old Dr. Biggers, in the shape of his Huckle 'berry Cordial has been the family phy sician of many a home all over this y country, where she has cured so many e of bowel trouble and children teething. 1 Everyone should see Wright & J. W. Coppock's Underwear before purchas ing. It is a.s comfortable as ornamen E tal. This is sayi.zg much, hut 'tis true. tf THROUGH A TRESTLE. A Fearful Wreck Below Savannah-The Florida Special of Vestibules Meeta an Awful Fate-The Li.,t of Killed and Wounded. SAVANNAH, March 17.-The first seo tion of the fast mail train from New York for Jacksonville went through the trestle at a point seventy-five miles South of Savannah this morning. The entire train. except the engine, is de molished. Nineteen people are reported to have been killed and between thirty and forty injured, ten of whom are ex pected to die. The private car of Presi dent Wilbur, of the Lehigh Valley road, with President Wilbur and Geo. Gould and wife and others in it, was on ore of the trains. SCENE OF THE WRECK. [Special Dispatch to the Chronicle.] SAVANNAH, GA., March I7.-The scene of the wreck is one mile East of Blackshear, Pierce County. The road there crosses Hurricane river, and be yond it is a long stretch of trestle.work. The train left Savannah at 7:01 stand ard time, this morning. It was composed of an engine, a com bination baggage and smoking ear, one passenger coach, two Pullman sleeping cars and a private car of the Lehigh Valley railroad. The engine passed over safely, but the rest of the train broke through and FELL FIFTEEN FE . to the ground below. Before reaching the bridge the trains always slow- up, and, it is supposed, that the speed at which the train was running was not high. The combination coach isre ported to be the first one which struek the ground. On it fell the passenger coach, the sleeper and the special car in which were President Wilbur, of the Lehigh Valley railroad, and George Gould and wife, of New York. The scene at the moment after the wreck was HEART-RENDING BEYOND DESCRIPTION The lower coaches were smashed to pieces. Fortunate were those passen- . gers to whom death came instantly. Every coach was filled, and scarcely a passenger escaped without some injury. When the wreck was partly cleaed away the disaster, serious as it was, was less horrible than was feared. Up to 6 o'clock the list of dead counted up nine teen, and the wounded thirty-four. The only names of the dead reported to the railway officials~here are: LIST OFITHE KIILED. Charles Pearce, a train hand, W. M. Martin, news agent; C. A. Fulton, mas ter transpotation Brunswick and West ern Railroad; W. B. Grogor, Savannah; Fred Meynard, New York;J. M. Smith, Pullman conductor; Merritt A. Wilb,ur, son of the president of Lehigh Valley Railroad; John Fray, Dale's Mill, Ga. Cuffy Wipiams, colored, Valdosta; Maj. J. H. Bate, Hawkinsville, Ga.; Loyd Corson, colored; Colson Foster, colored, Waycross; Moses Gale, colored, Way cross; E. P. Thompson, North Carolina, Five negro men, names unknown. Total, 19 killed. INJUREU. M Lawrence, colored ; W L Griffn, conductor ; J W Thompson, Jackson ville, iFla ; Charley-Brown, Savannah; Laura Jones, Thomasville, Ga. ; Mrs. McClinch,' Philadelphia ; Alice Simp son, New York ; Samuel Obes and wife, Providence ; Dr Boothe and wife, New York ; E P Wilbur, president Lehigh Valley railroad ; W A Wilbur, son of the president of the Lehigh Valley rail road ;Miss Cox, A FBoyle, AJ Fan-. cloth, Waresboro, Ga.; Miss M Ray, Dale's Mill, Ga. ; J P Thompson and wife, New Orleans ; 0 W Wallace, trav elling passenger agent Louisville and Nashville railroad ; L B Mallard, bag gage master ; Austin, colored,,. Way cross ; Henry Snook, colored, Savan nah ;C E Van Worst, Savannah ;A C Hudson, Macon, Ga. ; J Papy, flagman ; G M Feredo and wife, New York,; J Spiro, New York ; Mrs Hulburt, New York ; Sam Allen train hand, Savan nah ; E Butterfield, New York. Total. thirty-five injured. A RELIEF TRAIN. A relief train went out at 50o'clock this afternoon with two undertakers and thirty coff!ns and a force of tele graph operators and linemen. Man ager Merrihew, of the Western Union telegraph office here, as soon as the news was received that Mr Gould and wife were among the injured, employed Dr. Harris and detailed an operator and linemen to accompany him to the scene of the wreck. TRAVEL BLOCKADED. -. The wreck has completely blockaded travel South, and trains North and and South bound will go via Jesup, Brunswick and Waycross until the trestle is rebuilt, which will be seve al days. MR. AND MRS. GOULD INJURED JACKSONvILLE, FLA., March 18.-A late dispatch from the Times-Union correspondent at Wayeross says : George Gould was injured in the face, and Mrs. Gould in the side, both slight injuries. Nineteen persons were killed outright and six died at Waycross during the af- - ternoon. The wounded are being cared for at Waycross and Blachshea.ir. Seve ralmore are expected to die. The accident was caused by a broken rail under the baggage car. This train of vestibule cars wa the first sent out from New York since the freeze. It left Jersev City at 10:22 Thursday morning, j .-s the ice b>lock ade had been broken. Twenty miles away it was detained by a wreek, and four hours were spent waiting for a clear track.