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The annual meeting of St. George’s Society, Toronto, was held last night, when most satisfactory reports were pre- sented. Mr. George Beardmore was elected President. Wm. Kingston, an employee of the Department of Agriculture, at Ottawa, died on Thursday, aged 78 years. The deceased was for several years one of the staff of professors at Victoria College. Mr. Acton Burrows has resigned the position of Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Manitoba. He will, however, still retain the secretaryship of the Board of Agriculture. It is said Captain Clarke will be appointed to the vacancy. James Peatt, an employee in Scoone’s auction room, Winnipeg, was found dead yesterday morning near Manitoba. College. He had been drinking, and lay down und was frozen to death. All talk as to the possible successor of Col. Miller as commandant of the Queen’s Own Rifles is set at rest by the announce- ment that Major D. H. Allan has been pro- moted to the vacancy. Thomas Newman, living on the fifth concession of Romney, felled a tree yester- day, which in falling struck a limb of another tree standing by, and the limb fell on his head, killing him instantly. The survey of the route for the Central Ontario Railway to North Bay has been completed, and the surveying party have returned to Belleville. They report the land fairly level and well timbered. Canadian capitalists will apply at the next session of Parliament for power to build a line of railway, about 35 miles long, from Goderich to Wingham or some other point which will give the Canadian Pacific an outlet on Lake Huron. York County Council at yesterday’s meeting took the initiative towards the abolition of toll-gates by deciding that after the expiration of the present leases four of them shall not be renewed, and that the remainder shall only be leased for one year. The Quarterly Board of the Elm Street Methodist Church, Toronto, decided last night to invite Rev. D. G. Sutherland, of London, to be pastor of the church. Big Bear has been released from Stony Mountain Penitentiary. Trains’ are now running on time on the Canadian Pacific Western Division. The new depot of the Canadian Pucific in Montreal is to be erected on Windsor street, near Dominion Square. Candidates for positions as Dominion and Surveyors will be examined in Ottawa by the Board of Examiners on the 15th inst. It is understood that the application of certain regiments of Canadian volunteers for permission to go to England next summer to take art in the Queen‘s Jubilee celebration, has een referred to the Gov- ernment by the Militia Department, and that no decision has been nude yet. The Pope has decided to recall the pre- sent Nuncio at Paris and to appoint in his place Mgr. Ferratn, who is now Nuncio at Brussels. Lieuh~Colonel Henry R. Smith, Deputy Sergemit-atâ€"Arms of the House of Com- mons, has been appointed by the Governorâ€" Geneml as honorary A. 1). G. on his staff. This is the first appointment of a. Camu- dian officer to the position. Limit-Colonel Smith is universally popular and will prove an invaluable aide. The Murchioness of Londondcrry lxeltl a Lirawing room last evening in Dublin, when 1,300 persons were presented to her. The attendance was the best seen at the Vice» regal lodge for 10 years. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain writes to a Unionist: “I believe that the time is favorable for an unprejudiced consideration pf the Irish question, and I hope no P""§Ol‘m1 ’r‘cling will imei'icro vim“ such ’Qvibidcrgutiou.” ', if [A 9:1“. I" 3 firm 113111531]: WJL‘JM» firupei, Lond‘on, 1:67 commemorate the consecration therein in 1787 of the first Bishop of the Episco 8.1 Church in America was held yester fly. Among those who took part were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London and \Vinchester, and Bishops l’ottcrund Lyman, of America. The Dean of \Vindsor performed the service. Instead of a sermon, Bishop Potter delivered an eloquent address, sketching the history of the Church in America and its connection with the English Church. The Archbishop of Canterbury celebrated the communion. Minister Phelps and many other Americans attended the service. Sophia Congdon, of Willimantic, 001111., died on Wednesday at the age of 110 yeaps and 7 months. Her age is vouched for by her family and the records are said to prove it. During a. tremendous hail storm at Oliver, a small town fifteen miles west of Terre Hm1te,1nd., on Tuesday afternoon, an aerolite descended and exploded near {Che ground. The earth was torn, windows shattered and a large tree demolished. The explosion was heard six miles away. The railroad companios having head- quarters in Milwauke’e have recently made out, by request of the \Var Department, a list of their rolling stock and statement of their ability to convey troops to points on their lines. The statementg were sent to the War Department. Treasurer Jordan admitted to-day that Secretary Manning is to be President, and that he (Mr. Jordan) is to be Vice-President, of the \Vestern National Bank of the city of New York. The resignations of both officials are in the hands of the President, and will be accepted in due time. Charles Ogden Ferris, alias Sir Roger Tichborne, convicted in the United States Circuit Court recently for fraudulently ob- taining a pension from the Government upon a false claim that he had been wounded in the army, was yesterday senâ€" tenced to five years in Erie penitentiary. Mrs. Mark Donaldson, of Lymea, N.H.. aged about .50 years, was shot and instantly killed at her home yesterday by Stephen Lamphir, who immediately after killed himself with the some weapon. Lamphir was about (30 years old, and had boarded with the Donaldsons for two years. He had been considered slightly insane,and this is the only known cause for his act. TELEGRAPHIC SUMMAYR A Canadian poet recently fought; [L duel, but, an nvenging Nemesis being tem» pomrily overworked, it was theother fellow that got hurt. An Adrian (Mic-11.) despntch says : Mrs. Walter S. Mend, aged 2!) years, has suffered two years with an abscess in her side. and for the past few weeks has been confined to her bed. On Sunday she was‘ very low. and up to Monday night doubts were entertained whether she would live. Yesterday the physician found his p31 ient dressed, sitting up and eating with fair relish. She said last night the Lord, in response to her prayers, healed and restored her strength. A reporter who called later found the woman firm in the faith that she was cured. Medical men are puzzled. At Prof. Proctor’s dancing academy in Washington, seven of the girls displeased several of the boys by occasionally refusing to dance with them. 'l‘horoupon a boycott Was laid, and at the next meeting of the class the sovenoffendinggirls Were horrified to find that not a single young fellow asked them to dance, and they sat the whole evening out without dancing and without partners. doctor at Ignace, Mich, is also an un ertaker. She Thinks Prayer Saved Her. “I’m sorry he didn’t give the counter- feits to you,” Chief Drummond answered consolingly, “ for then I might have locked you up for having them in your possession.” At this the Canadian hurried away with» out even telling his name. 11; was learned litter, however, that he is Henry (1. Hill, whose home is near Strutford, Ontario, Canada. In summer he is a farmer, but sells jewellery in the winter. Not long ago he got the regulation letter from the ” green goods ” man offering to let him have some beautiful counterieits for almost nothing. He answered it, and got a second letter directing him to come to this city and put up at the International Hotel. He came on the \Vest Shore road. At the ferry a man dressed as a policeman asked him where he wanted to go, and when he said the International Hotel took him into a side street and pointed out a saloon, over which was a. lodging house. Hill was met in the office by two men, who took from him thetwo letters, and put him in a cab, which took the whole party to another saloon. There Hill thought he saw one of them put $5500 in greenbueks into a. small hand satchel. \Vhen it was handed to him he gave the man 3127. “ The best thing you can do,” the “ green goods " man said, “ is to drive to the depot and get off for home, and don’t open the bag until you get there.” A Canadian Famner‘s Adventumx “'ith New York Confidence RIcn. A flespatch from New York says: A tall countryman carrying a gripsack went into Chief Drummond’s office, in the Post-office building, yesterday, and said that he had come here from Canada, and that he had been swindled by a young man from whom he had bought counterfeit money and who had pahncd off on him a. bag containing paper. The Host “'hlrh Guards the Harem of the Chinese l‘linporor. I have been told that there are about 5,000 slaves in the Chinese Emperor’s Pal- ace, IL figure which it is, of course, very difficult to control, says the Pekin corms. pendent of a Paris paper. The number, however" must be large, since that class of individuals is alone called upon to fill posts which everywhere else are usually given to men, Their business is to keep sharp watch over the Emperor’s harem, an institution of no great service for the time being, since His Majesty is yet a minor, but in View of its becoming service- able some day, and to pay meet homage to the rites of religion. The Empress selects the young beauties admitted into this Chin- ese seraglio, and she has to renew the per» somch every three years. These young girls are recruited among the families of the Mundehou officers, who logk upon t]: hone; They bundled Hill into the cal), which took him to the depot. There he opened the bag. In it were two old newspapers and about a. pound of hard coal. A YOUNG MONARCH’S 5,000 SLAVES. immune“ wheels, “WNW. . I , r mum»: mm mm..ij ._r km Kmif‘o’nLUl'B‘m' the Imperial harem as a means of attaining high rank. These young ladies make their debut at the age of 14, and remain inside the harem until they are 25 years old. If in the interval they give birth to offspring they by rights become “daughters of the imperial blood,” and remain bound with the fate of the child, for he may become a “ son of heaven,” and sovereign heir to 10,000 kingdoms. If, on the other hand, the young lady reaches the age of 25 without yielding increase to the imperial household, she is sent home to her illustrious parents, and honestly weds a mandarin of the place. A Divorced Catholic Excmnmunicated ii. Louisvillo, Kentucky. A Louisville, Ky., despatch says: The facts in a case which illustrates the rigid rules of the Catholic Church concerning divorced people have been made public here. Michael McCoy, a grocer of this city, has been excommunicated from St. Patrick‘s Catholic Church owing to his marriage with a Miss Emma Long after having secured a divorce from his wife. Miss Longlived next door to the McCoy family, and Michael became infatuated with her, so much so that he is accused by his neighbors of having mistreated his wife in order to compel her to secure a legal separation from him, On the night of his nuptials with Miss Long his neighbors and his former church associates surrounded the house and threatened him with violence until quelled by the police. In reading McCoy out of the church Father Lawler denounced him and the marriage, and declared thathe would not tender the man his services though he were upon his dying bed. He also forbade any of the members of his church to speak to or in any way recognize McCoy. Prince Alexander's Different Prospective Positions of Honor and Trust. A London cable says: Owing to the friendly reception accorded to Prince Alexander, late of Bulgaria, while here, some of the continental papers contain the wildest rumors. One journal announces his impending,f appointment by the Queen as Viceroy of Her Majesty’s Provinces of the Oriental Indies, while another asserts that Prince Alexander is to be appointed Governor~Gencral of Egypt by the English Government in the place of the Khedive, who is to be deposed. A wellâ€"known Mos- cow paper informs Russia that the Batâ€" tenberg Prince will shortly become the husband of Queen Victoria, while several German papers predict his union with Her Majesty’s widowed daughter-in-law, the Duchess of Albany. The real fact is that Prince Alexander has gone south for the benefit of his health, which has suffered both physically and mentally by the events of the last six months. He contemplates avisit to the United States in the autumn. 7 FOR A POUND ()F COAL. A Stuttgart inventor has perfected a. machine for deadening the sound of a. piano. He will rank high among the philanthropists of this generation. “’IIAT ALE 'ANDER “IAY RECO'ME. In clearing away behind the Temple of Hadrian, at Athens, the foundations of a. temple to Pluto have been discovered in the rock of the Acropolis. Three natural caves have been found, and in them three fine sculptures. One is a- stutue of a draped men with abare breast and long flowing hair. Another, about three feet long, con- sists of two reliefs, one compartment show- ing Pluto and his wife in Hades seated at table. The third piece is a. fragment containing well-curved heads of the sacred deities. The Woman who marries & man for his pocketbook should not expect to find his heart inside. VOL X V III 0 M ORE C F01} HIM} The Terrible Railway Holocaust. in Vermont. A last Saturday night’s White River Junction (Vt.) despatch says: At half- pnst 2 o‘clock this morning the Montreal night express on the Vermont Central Rail- road went through the bridge at Wood- stock, some five miles north of here, and fell 70 feet into the White River, causing a terrible loss of life, the disaster being the most appalling that has occurred in the history of New England, and rivulling the famous disaster at Ashtabulu, which it resembled in many respects. The train consisted of an engine, baggage, postal and smoker, two ordinary passenger coaches, and two Pullman sleepers, the SIXTY PEOPLE BURNED TO DEATH. Heartrending Incidents and Horrible Death Scenes. “ Pilgrim ” am “ St. Albans.” The train, with the exception of the last Pullman, left Boston at 7 p. m., its usual time, arriving here at 12.30 a. 111., when it was connected with the sleeper “ St. Albans ” from Springfield, containing passengers from New York and the \Vest who had come to Springfield via the Boston & Albany, and the New York, New Haven & Hartford road. The Boston sleeper “ Pilgrim ” was full, as the night was cold, and those passengers who could afford it preferred a bed with covers to the chilly passenger cars. The Springfield sleeper was about three-quarters full, and the whole train contained some Nixsrr TO ONE HUNDRED PASSENGERS. In the passenger coaches were most of the local passengers, while in the sleepers were the through people for St. Albans and Montreal, most of the latter being enrole for the coming ice carnival. The train reached here 011 time, but was delayed waiting for the Springfield car, and it was exactly 2.10 a. in. when it pulled out of the depot. It had to pass a freight at South Royalton, twenty miles north of here, and so ran ahead of schedule speed to make up for lost time. At what is known as \Voodstock, an old abandoned station, the high bridge, a Howe deck structure some 200 feet long by 50 to 70 high, was reached,andhere by some means the cars left the track whilc 011 the bridge. All that portion of the train behind the postal car plunged into the river, two cars breaking through the ice and being partially submerged. The forward part of the train passed over in safety. The forward coach left the rails first and dragged the others ,Li-ualtin}; um’ coupling between 'the postwar and the coach. George Park-er, a rear brakeman, was going from one Pullman to another, when he heard a great crash and the cars trembled. He jumped to the step. and giving a. glance ahead saw the coach going down through the bridge. Without waiting he leaped off, striking the frozen snow and rolling 30 feet down on embank- ment. He was terribly bruised, for he says the train was going 40 miles an hour. One side of his face was badly torn and his right arm broken. When he got to his feel; he says “:4.” Kb, am .4an A: “haul?! n. A FEARFUL SIGHT ‘ met his eyes. The cars all mixed up, some on their tops and others on their sides were i lying on the ice, while a bright flame was ‘ leaping up from different parts of the wreck. The cries were terrible, but not minding them. and knowing that the engine could not recross the shattered bridge, he ran to a farmhouse some rods removed from the bridge and kicking at the door awoke the owner, Thomas Pingree, and told of the accident. Pingree got him a team and, wounded as he was, Parker drove at breakneck speed through the dark all the way here and gave the alarm. The station agent found Dr. Ira Chase, of Bristol, at the Depot Hotel, and with a number of citizens with linen and brandy started in a box car for the scene. Before they had left the depot a bright light in the northern sky too plainly told the horrible scene that was being enacted at the fatal bridge. The relief party reached the scene one hour and fifteen minutes after the accident, and by that time the bridge was one mass of flames, and nothing was left of the cars but glowing frames and redhot iron braces Stretched out upon the ice were a number 0f BLACKENED, BLEEDING FIGURES, covered up with what could be snatched from the broken cars, and,assisted by some dozen country people, the trainmen were carrying the wounded to the house of Pin- gree and the postal car, which was being extemporized as a. hospital. Your corre- spondent was one of the relief party, and can say that the sickening, terrible sights cannot be described. The wounded, most 1 of whom were suffering from horrible burns, were writhing and twisting upon their beds, while shriek aft-er shriek would be given out by what seemed but a bundle of hqu burned rags. Every few moments some tortured victim, while being assisted up the bank, would break away from the ‘ helpers and rush screaming, half-naked, across the frozen snow. One young woman, scarcely 18,who lives near Quebec, and who was said by a truinman to have entered the train wearing it magnificent fur robe to keep her warm, stood crying on the ice with nothing on but a pair of stockings and a chemise. She refused to budge when assistance was offered, and she had to be carried by force to Pingree‘s house. The smoking ruins of the burnt cars gave forth. l a sickening oven or BURNT nng which made the small band of helpers ill and faint. It was a remarkable feature of ‘ the accident that not one of the passengers who went over the bridge escaped soot free. All were injured, and, to show how fast the flames spread, only those survive who were got out of the cars ten minutes after the first crash came. Most of the fortunate ones were taken from the slee ers, all those on the two forward curs, wit few excep- tions, having been killed outright at the outset by the heavy sleepers falling upon them and grinding them to pieces. The ‘ rescued number 30 all told, and deducting l this from the low estimated number of 90 on the train, leaves (30 victims who met a. dreadful death. were: F. L. Wesson, of Springfield, son of the famous arms manufacturer; E. F. Dillon, of Dartmouth College; Henry Tewkesbury, of Randolph, Vermont, and Smith Sturtevant, the conductor, Who was taken from a burning car halt roasted. All DASHED TO DEATH. RICHMOND HILL THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17,‘ 1887. TIIE FATALLY WOUNDED pm.) um: these died soon after being taken from the wreck. ' Tuosr: wnn scurry]; are: J. H. Cushing, of Middleboro’, Mass, beck injured ; A L Abouef, of Lynn, Mass, legs broken; Miss L0vell,0f Montreal,sister- iii-law to Mr. \Vesson, back injured and. dangerously ill through nervous prostra- tion; 0. Boisvert, Angelina, Que, internally injured; L. Combremont, New York, hip and back bruised; Mitchel Lueaillaide, Lawrence, Mass, heed, chest and back; Moses Paulet, Quebec, right leg broken and head wounded -, Mrs. W. S. Bryden, Mon- treal, contusions on back; George Gennett, Syracuse, N. Y., head cut open and back wounded; Horace Jucan, East Pepperell, Mass.,face,ba.ck and legs bruised; Anna. Murphy, 116 Prince street, Boston, right cheek badly cut open and back bruised; Mrs. Charles Kaster, Boston, contusion on back and limbs; Katy Kalil, Boston, severe scalp wound; J. C. Hutchinson, Mont- gomery, Vt, spinal column injured; Joseph 1‘1. Jacques, Fitchburg, Muss, contusion over the eyes, and hips and legs bruised; Henry Mott, a. hay dealer from New York State; Andrew A. \Vheeler, Fitchburg, Mass, out over the eyes and face burned ; Mrs. John Graham, Medford, Muss, ankle sprained and spinal column injured; James Kiley, Burke, N. Y., left arm fractured and head bruised; C. M. Hosmer, Lowell, Muss, legs and body bruised ; Joseph Maig- net, Three Rivers, Que, body wounds. THE SLIGHTLY INJURED are : George Parker, brukeman, St. Albans; Fred. A. Fisher and Howard F. Smith, Gloucester, Mass; Miss Maria Sadler, Ormstown, Que; Polly Aril, Chicopee, Mnss.; Herbert Cashing, Middleboro’, Mass; Andrew A. \Vheeler, Fitchburg, Mass; Napoleon Rosseau, of Les Trappeurs Club, Montreal; Edward Bangs, brake- nmn, West Lebanon; S. S. Westcott, Burlington, Vt; Cephas Mills, Iroquois, Ont; Charles Kustuer, Boston, contusions of back and limbs, and Lee, of Burling- ton, Vt. I‘ERISHEI) IN THE FLAMES. Besides those who died it is known that the following perished in the flames : The two colored porters of the sleepers ; \V. 1‘}. Adams, of St. Albans,Vt.; Euclid Chagnon, of Manchester ; Churlcs\V. Sandford, Bos- ton ; Drummer Bousiequet, of Attawegan, Conn, with his sister, his wife Mary and two children ; Conductor Burgess, of the sleeping car, and B. Atkinson, of Lowell, Muss. All the bodies recovered were burned beyond recognition, and it was past mid-day before they could be identified. So far what are supposed to be the remains of forty individuals have been brought here and laid out. The (Iebrix of the burned cars is full of pieces of bones and charred flesh, which is being carefully picked out and assorted. The two forward cars have broken through the ice, and it is supposed that some of those there were drowned and have been washed out by the water. If so, they may be carried down the Connecticut River under the ice a' d never recovered. “‘0 A"“*J:,!-i”~ 5-! " ‘ OUSir‘LuJQL 1y , He had gone to the rear of the car to get a drink, when the crash came, and was separated from his family who, being in the forward partof the car, must have been killed instantly. He was pinned down by a seat, but managed to get his head through a window, when he shrieked at the top of his voice, “Mary, Mary,” for fully five minutes. Mr. Lee, one of the survivors, tried to rescue him, but he only asked where his wife was. Before any answer could be given the fire reached him, and crying out “.dead,” he deliberately threw himself on the floor into the fire. Those who were able to speak from experience say that it was simply an inferno. Frank “Vinchy a New York drummer, who was on the postal and escaped, was seen on route for Boston this afternoon, and he sa 's the only name given for the burning wrec was “Hell.” During the day great crowds of people arrived on the scene, coming from all sections by trains and sleighs. They all were willing to help and many were put into service. All who were on the sleepers agreed that those in the upper berths perished by the beds closing up when the cars turned over i and holding the occupants fast. Mr. Charles Hosmer, of Lowell. had his friend and travelling companion burned to death before his eyes by being in an upper berth. When the two entered the car at Lowell they tossed u for the berth and Mr. Hos- mer won the ower one. Mr. Hosmer says that out of five ladies in his car only one escaped. LOOKING I‘Oll THE DEAD. Early this afternoon Walter H. Wesson and his son, accompanied by Rev. Dr. Eustis and an undertaker, reached the scene looking for young Wesson’s body. Miss Lovell insisted, ill as she was,in help- ing. They at length decided that a terribly disfigured mass of flesh, minus head or arms, was that of the unfortunate man and took it away. Miss Nancy Dunbar, of Somerville, is supposed to have been lost in the accident. She was in the sleeper. Her brother is looking for her remains. Ed. Brocklebank, a brakeman, is also among the dead. The accident and burning of the bridge have blocked all traflic, and trains have to be run around by the way of \Vell River. The ice on the \Vhite River is hree feet thick, which prevented the rescuers getting water when the wreck took fire, and the flames had it all their own way. There is a great difference of opinion as to the cause of the disaster, many con- tending that it was a broken rail, and 3 others that it was due to the iron frame- work of the bridge contracting by the intense cold, the temperature being some 20 0 below zero when the disaster occurred. A broken rail some little distance back from the bridge is given as the real cause of the train leaving the track, and it is supposed that the jarring of the wheels over the bridge ties started the under supâ€" ‘ ports and caused them to give way. Of those collected twenty-five are minus head or limbs, and it is almost impossible to distinguish the sexes. The company will open the baggage in the baggage car and learn, if possible, the names of those who were 011 the train. The wounded are being brought to this place as rapidly as , possible, and are doing quite well. Some ten of those who are under physicians’ hands are not expected to live. The rail- road people are thankful that the accident did not occur tonight, which, being Satur- day, the traffic would have been twice as heavy. The railway does not consider itself accountable for the disaster, but its officials are very uneasy over the probable magnitude of the damage suits growing out of the affair, especially as the financial affairs of the company are notthe best just at present. One of the first passengers to escape from the burning wreck was Joseph Maig- net, 8» French-Canadian boy. He was with his father,Da.vid Maignet, on their way HORRIBLE INCIDENT 0}“ THE WRECK. PART IC‘L’IARLY SAD from Holyoke totheirhome in Shawenegun, Quebec. The boy sat three seats behind his father in the third car from the rear. He was dozing in his seat when he felt the car shiver. This motion was kept up for a few seconds and then the car dashed over the bridge upon the ice. By hard work the boy succeeded in getting out of one of the windows. He at once went in search of his father, and discovered him by the light of the burning wreck just abovehini, pinned down by a part of the top of the car, which had fallen directly across his chest and legs. The old man was as firmly held [LS if in it vise. Joseph was the only one who escaped from the car, as he says. HE RUSHED TO HIS FATHER’S ASSISTANCE, and spoke words of encouragement to him. The father was very cool, and told his son to help him out as soon as possible. The boy seized his father, and struggled with all his strength to extricate him, but in vain. The flames were approaching rapidly. “ Joseph,” said the father, “ run and get an axe or a saw,” but the boy could not find either. “Pull me out then,” said the father, “ even if you have to break my legs to do it.” Joseph tugged away with all his might, but could not stir his father an inch. \Vith wonderful coolness the father then gave himself up to his fate. “ It’s no use, my boy," he said, “there is no hope for me. Remember the dying words of your father: Always be a good boy. Farewell, my son, Iwill meet you in the other work .” The flames were then so close that the boy could remain no longer. He left his father and got out of reach of the flames, and watched his father slowly burn to death in the flaming debris. MRS. BRYDI‘IN‘S ACCOUNT OF HER ESCAPE. A Montreal despatch says: Your corres- pondent has just seen Mrs. \V. S. Dryden, wife of Mr. Dryden, of Pillow, Hersey A: 00., of this city, who had a miraculous es- cape. She was in the last Pullman car near the front end. She was awakened from sleep by a crashing sound, and found her- self pinned down and almost suffocated. She had presence of mind enough to husband her strength until she heard parties out- side. She then freed one arm and by knock- ing with her hand, on which were her rings, she attracted attention from outsiders, who chopped a file through the roof of the car. When they attempted to move her she found she was hemmed in, and with remarkable ‘ presence of mind she asked them for apen- knife, with which she cut her clothes free from around her body and was pulled out. She was wrapped in a blanket and laid in the snow, whence she was removed three times to get her out of reach of the flames. She says the whole four cars were burned up inside of twenty minutes, and when she was rescued one end of the car she was in was already in flames. She was saturated with coal oil from a lamp that had burst. She was removed to a farm house. PLACED AMONG DEAD AND DYING. She says the scene was an indescribably pathetic one. A poor little boy, who could Inot speak a word of English. was alone. -;.mâ€"swg‘»mv 00th Imuer‘andmmher. Mrs. Bryden says most of the people seemed to be French Canadians coming to friends in this city. The whole thinghappened so quickly that there was no time to do anything, although one old farmer living near did some heroic work. Mrs. Bryden herself seems to have but slight injuries to her back. The ther- mometer was at zero when she lay on the ice with nothing but a Pullman blanket around her, and she burrowed a hole in the snow and kept herself fairly comfortable. While Mrs. Bryden lay on the floor several persons died in the room, among whom was Mr. \Vesson, of Smith & \Vesson. Mrs. Bryden’s pluck and presence of mind saved her life. Mr. Mills arrivcxi here to-day. He was travelling with his brother, who was in the next berth. After getting out he worked away frantically to rescue his brother, and was just getting him out when the flames rushed on him, and he had to retreat and gaze on the horrible picture of his brother being consumed under his eyes and within reach of his hands. A Brooklyn burglar was recently captured by the police while attired in three suits of clothes and two overcomts. Alphonso King, of Buffalo, is preparing to walk across the Niagara River below the falls on [L pair of “ winged shoes.” A 10-year-old boy living near Marion, Ind., has been rendered insane, it is said, by the use of tobacco, he having taken to the weed when under 5 years of age. In a history of thimbles it is related that the Cult of the thimble reached its height when, in 1586, a firm of rich Nurnberg tailors presented a. magnificent silver drinkingâ€"vessel in the shape of a thimble to the tnilors’ guild of that town. Sometimes the top of the thimble was ornamental with a. hollow lid filled with perfume. An ingenious smuggling system has just been discovered in San Francisco. Opium, which the incoming Chinese steamers brought over, was arranged in metallic cases, and, as the steamer approached the coast, these were dropped overboard and immediately sunk. After the lapse of a few hours the cases would rise to the surface, and then could be picked up by small boats off the coast. De Baggstngloy, I want to ask you a delicate question. What was my condition when we pa}:th last night ‘3 1 1 1 W,“ ‘v‘hagiég’:&au were ‘llargcly loaded, my friend. “ Sure of that ?"’ “ Quito. \Vhy do you ask ?” “ Because my wife never mentioned it this morning. Ithought perhapsI might have gone liome sober by mistakefh~ I’hilud‘aphm Call “'lly Baby is so Small. ‘~ \Vhy don‘t baby grow faster, love ‘9“ asked a young father of the partner of his joys. “ It seems to me she isn’t nearly so big as Smith’s baby, and that is two months younger.” LAnHL xv uuu5VL . ” Doctor says Birdie is a fine, healthy child, and what mqre d9 ygu want '?” unuu, uuu u Alwv AUVM, » v V, “ That may be, but Silt: is small. Do you givellfer Ienqugh to eat ‘3" ‘1'- :AAJ L)“. n“ nnn “ Tlmthfii-ffiarry ! “"0 feed heron conâ€" densed milk. Of course she’d be small !” -Chicaflo Ledger. Tm; France publishes some statistics relative to the number of Germans in Paris. It says there are 45,000 in the city, among whom there are between 9,000 and 10,000 belonging to the German army. The German colony there is, the France affirms, composed chiefly of young men. 011 the other hand, according to this journal, there are not more than 1.,800 Frenchmen in the whole German empire ND BEFORE HIS BROTHJER‘S EYE ‘ Some Odd Things in Life. T0t to Be Avronntod For. WHOLE NO 1,490 NO. 38. How Married Men Can Avoid Domestic Storms. The latest genius who has applit d for 8. patent is the man who has invented what is known as “the married man’s indicaâ€" tor.” It is». wonderful sensitive arrange- ment of the ordinary thermometer in con- venient pocket size, and is graded to a. scale of cabalistic marks which show the exact state of the domestic atmosphere at any hour of the night. The hard-worked and belated husband arrives home, say, about midnight. He takes out the indicator, thrusts it in the keyhole and lets it remain there a few seconds. Pulling it out quickly, he scans the dial by the moonlight’s fitful gleaming. If it marks “ S. A.” (sound asleep) the poor husband pulls off his boots noiselessly, uses the night key with bated breath, gives the door a. quick pull to keep it from creaking, steals trembling to bed, and when his dear wife wakes up abouttwo seconds afterward and wants to know how long he has been home he is sound eslcep. If the indicator scores “ A., A. 0., B. 1). N. K. W. T.” (awake, mvful cross, but does not know what time it is), the husband puts a few more grains of coffee in his mouth, opens the door boldly and walks in with a slam-bang air, hits his boots inten- tionally against the chair, wants to know why the devil chairs don’t keep out of the way, gets desperately mud on general prin- ciples, scares his wife clean out of her crossness and curtain lectures, refuses to let her get up and strike a matchâ€"mover did like a. light at night anyhow, remarks gruffly in response to a timid query that ” it’s about twenty minutes after 10,” and then turns into bed with such an apparent awful state of mind that the wife of his bosom is afraid to speak to him, at which 1he is very stud. of course. There are other marks on the indicator showing just where it will do to play the “ lodge dodge,” or the “ sick friend,” or “been standing on the corner talking to so and so for more than an hour,” or “ Gene~ ml or honorable this or that, from you know where, was in town, and had to go away in the 2 o’clock train, and he insisted so strongly that the whole party stayed up to see him off, although he was a great bore, and we only did it through courtesy.” But the most awful of all cabalistio signs is the one on the top, about two marks above boiling point. When the weary husband comes home about 4 it. in. from the direction of the butcher shop, with a roll of meat held high in the air, so that every one who passes cannot fail to see it, and sticks the indi- cator in the keyhole, he is almost too weak to draw it out. \Vith hair on end he reads it by the faint light streaming in upon him from over the eastern hills, and sweat bi‘eaks out upon his noble brow in drops as large as walnuts as he sees the bulb of the indicatorjammed smack up against “ R. H. S. \V. F. Y. I. T. D.” (red hot, still waiting for you inside the door). The in- ventor of the instrument says that )yhen a man has this uul‘rlnlu 'uiismnune to over- take him he feels there is nothing left in lifeiworth living for. He slings the meat into the yard and braces himself for the coming fmy, but says nothing, for nothing can be said. Be he ever so gifted a. liar his accomplishment; is more than \‘aluoless. N0 dodge, no sick friend, no talking on the corner, no sitting up to see the general off, no swearing that he will never do it againâ€"An fact, nothing will prevail. It is {L11 indefensible case. He is caught. Even the ghastly gayety with which two hours previously he had said to the boys he guessed he would see it out»â€"“ might as well be killed for a. sheep as a lamb "â€"hml all vanished. The indi~ cntor having told him the exact state of things, he knows exactly what to (lo, and that is nothing but get in bed at once and wrap the drapery of his couch about him, pull the pillow over his ears and want for his wife’s breath to give out. It’s awful while it lasts7 but it has its use in relieving the unfortunate husband of his great load of anxiety. The indicator is a great inven- ti011.â€"'Lnnda7z 12‘.rcha71gc. American Wife (in palace GHQâ€"v1 sup- posed that nice-looking couple at the other end of the car were Americans, but I see now they are English. American IIfiéband»Wlmt have you noticed? W iArVnerica‘n Wifeâ€"The man drinks liquor at his meals. At the other end. English W'ifewI wish We could make the acquaintance of those two [it the further end of the carriage. I am sure they are English. “fili‘lhrglish HusbandLNo, they are Ameri- cans. Omaha World eefy An Ottawa despntch says : \Vhilst a spirited contest was in progress last night at an exhibition of the fencing club, the foil of one of the competitors snapped and a. bit of the steel flew across the room, grazing the chin of Major-General Fred Middleton in no gentle manner. The cut bled freely and a little excitement followed until the exact extent of the wound was learned and the bleeding stopped. Sir Frederick set out the entertainment. The public debt of the United States was decreased $9,750,000 duringVJanuary. A new and excellent soap advertisement appears in the Chicago newspapers. It is the picture of a very dirty and disreputable tramp sitting at a table writing. On the table and wall are portraits of Patti, Langtry, Beecher and other wellâ€"known soap puffers. The tramp is writing : “ I used your soap two years ago and have not used any other since." IT is said since the opening of the Cana- dian Pacific Railway salmon are deserting the Fraser River. Formerly the salmon in the spawning season ascended the river by the million, and they Could be scooped out of the water by the barrelful with any kind of a vessel large enough. The noise of the engine and the vibration imparted to the water by the trains running along the banks are supposed to have soared them, and ‘ therefore caused their departure. It is supposed that the man who conn mitted suicide by jumping from the Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls is a young bookkeeper of Buffalo, named Cutting. A tract of land on the western shore of Cayuga Lake, near Omnoga, has been leased to Rochester parties for the cultivation of Hfrogs. The raising of frogs for the New York market has come to be a. recognized industry. There is a large frog farm in the neighborhood of Waterloo and several in Canada, and still i the demand is greater than the Supply. “ How did you ascertain ?” “The man drinks between meals A N ()VEL INDICATOR. Gen. Middleton “’ound m1. Unvarying Trade-DIm-ks. How a \Vould-be Robber Found a. Friend in His Intended Victim. John Reamer, of the firm of Kern & Reamer, poultry dealers, is a. strong, active, and wiry young man, whose right hand was amputated at the wrist,writes& Toledo correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Demo- crat. In place of the original member he carries a heavy iron hand, which stood him in good. turn recently, preventing his robbery and probably murder, and, as the sequel shows, causing him to turn philan- thropist under peculiar circumstances. There has been but a. brief reference to the matter in the Toledo dailies, which have neglected an opportunity to give particulars of a very interesting case. The night was dark as Mr. Reamer walked down Cherry street on his way to his home in West Toledo, with a consider- able sum of money on his person. When he reached a lonely spot in the woods near the Metropolitan Park he was halted by a man who demanded his money or his life. Mr. Reamer instinctively dropped a small basket which he carried on his left arm, so as to make resistance, when the highway- man drew a knife and thrust it at him, grazing his body and passing it under the arm and partly through his intervening clothes. Mr. Reamer struck his assailant a terrific blow in the face with his iron hand, felling him to the ground, and followed this up by pounding his prostrate antagonist with all his might and main, until he finally groaned and cried for mercy. Presently he left the man leaning up against a fence, and with the remark, “ I wasn’t fixed for you this time, but next time I will be,” started out on the road. But before he had gone far he felt the blood trickling down his left side, and the thought that after all he might be seriously if not fatally wounded so enraged him that he started back to further wreak his vengeance on the would- be-road agent. The latter saw him coming: and, making a desperate effort, succeeded in getting away into the woods and dis- appearing in the darkness. Some days after the encounter Mr Reamer chanced to hear through [1 physician about a man being very sick in the vicinity of Tremainsville. His suspicions being aroused, he went to see the man, and found him dangerously ill in a hovel. Two persons lay on a wretched couchNa man and wifeâ€"both very low, the attendant told him. As soon as the sick man saw Mr. Reamer he tried at first to hide his features from him by turninv away, but his visitor thought he recognized the face of the patient, swollen, disfigured and black-andâ€"blue as it was. The sick man, with great emotion, said: “ I see you know me-I will have to confess." He then told Mr. Reamer how he had seen him dis- play a roll of bills on the eventful night, and that he heard him tell someonethat he could not get back froma certain place until late that night. He added: “ My wife was sick, my children hungry, and I out of money, and I determined to take this chalice of making a raise. How I have been punished, God knows. You certainly will not inform on me, will you ?” Mr. Reamer was deeply affected. Subse- quent inquiries convinced himthat the man was driven to the deed of desperation by poverty and sickness, and he decided to help him. From intended prosecutor he turned friend, and is now helping the miserable family daily. After Lying Dead 700 Years, an Old Churchman‘s Body is Found. An interesting account is given in some German papers of the discovery a little time ago, in the Cathedral of \Vorms, of the body of a medizeval bishop, who has been identified as Conrad do Sternbcrg, who died in 1154, being acontcmporary of our Henry IL, and of the great German Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, says the London Times. During the progress of some restora- tions which are being carried out in the cathedral, a stone coiiin was found deep under the floor of the choir. It was closely cemented, and on its being opened in the presence of a special commission the body was found in perfect preservation, and arrayed in vestments denoting episcopal rank. On the head is a low miter, the low border of which is formed by a band of thick gold embroidery, of a lozenge-shaped pattern; the fillets of the miter are composed of the same sort of work, with deep, heavy gold fringes. The peaks of the miter have their edges adorned by similar embroidery. The alb and amice are made of thin linen, very openly woven. The chasuble, of the old bell shape, is made of very thick twilled silk, and falls in long folds around the body, forming a sort of pad round the neck. In the usual way a richly embroidered band runs perpendicu- larly down the front ; it has no special design. The edges of the chasuble are simply hemmed. The tunics under the chasublc are also of silk. The upper one is of lighter texture ; it shows a pattern con- sisting of lozenges connected by rays. The under tunic shows a very fine interlacing pattern of geometrical design. The stole is , worn crossed on the breast, the lower por- tions being broader than the upper. Its ornamentation is a pattern of scale-like design, which shows alternately figures ‘ of lions and birds set in a pattern of fine- traced leaves. The girdle is of silk, but only long. untwisted strands remain. The feet and legs up to the knees are covered with silk stockings, which seem to be of a fine network texture. Three broad paral- leled bands and as many smaller ones are wound round in spiral fashion and fasten them. The shoes, which comes up above the ankle and have two deep slits, are made of gold brocade; they are ornamented by circular embroideries, sewed on. The soles of the shoes areJof leather. The pastoral staff lies in the arms, from the right shoulder to the left foot. It is of soft wood, ending with a fernle and spike; at top there is a spherical ball and hammered bronze, out of which issues a crook of soft wood, which ends in a bronze lily set in a socket. At the feet stands the chalice, also of soft wood, very finelyturned; the cup is a hemâ€" isphere, and on it rests the patina. Bill Arp says: “More than one-fifth of our white population in Georgia are illiterate, (L116 yet Massachusetts, with all her education and refinement, has fourteen times as many criminals in proportion to population.” THE fact has been satisfactorily estab lished by various scientific researches that many substances absorb luminous rays during the day, and at night emit these rays in such a manner as to impress pho- tographic plates, although they may not be perceptible to the unaided eye. Artists have not only succeeded in photographing the Visible night phosphor essence of Mont Blanc’s summit, but have even secured an impression of a midnight landscapeâ€"invisi- ble to the eyeâ€"‘01} the terrace of the obser- vatory at Prague. EVIAnmm M: MONTHOLON, widow of the celebrated Count Charles Tristan de Mon- tholon, who accompanied the first Napoâ€" Icon to St. Helena, has just died at Bordeaux. She was 85 years old. Her J)UL|A\.M\|‘» husband helped Napoleon in most of his bold strokes of business, such as that of the Eighteenth Brumairo and the return from Elba. The Comte de Montholon also aided the late Emperor Louis Na oleon in his famous Bonlogne escapade, an was imâ€" it 1 tr”, lllb Luluuuu A“, .»‘_.h.“ prisoncd with him at Ham. M, (18 Mon- tholon had received about $400,000 from the first Napoleon, who made him 1» Count and an Imperial Chamberlain after the battle of Wagmm; but most of this sum was wasted in bad speculations after the Count had retired into private life. A BISHOP IN HIS COFFIN. THE IRON HAND.