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IfevtP" f V dJasoueni Rerfteras j. '. llll.I.. MnnnKrr. hntereri at tlic V mo ruto(llio n ccoihI-c1hF Midi Mutter 5C CENTS PER MONTH. WACO, TEXAS, NOV. 2, 1689. General Kit John Porter says he takes no interest in polities. Senator Charles B. Farwell has a collection of 10,000 books, and is said to have the finest theological library in the west. Mrs. Langtry lias a fortune of $550, 000, Clara Louise Kellogg has $300, 000, Fanny Davenport $150,000 and Kate Cavton is said to br north $125 000, A London cable says: "Mr. Spur geon is again reported ycry ill, the usual result, says a Baptist, of under taking extra services at this time of year. His enemy is gout in the feet and hands. It is feared that he can preach no more this year. He will go south when able to travel. A curious case; says a London ca ble, has just been decided upon ap peal in a Scottish court. A young woman brought an action of breach of promise against a young man who admitted having been engaged to her. His defense was that she objected to his smoking and finally said: "Choose between our dear and me." fte made the choice promptly in favor of the weed, and when she sued him the judge held that by offering him the alternative she was responsible for the swain's desertion, and the Superior Court sustained the decision. The great state fair and Dallas ex position is over. The visitors were pleased, the Dallas people were satis fied and the management satisfied. And the latter should be for the honor gained by the gantlemen who have had this enterprise in charge, and have brought it to its present successful condition is such honor as lew men obtain. The Texas state lair and Dallas exposition has done much for the devt-lopment ol the state. Dallas News. Perhaps it may be a well for some of our partisan friends, who have fore boded notWng but unsatistactory re sults from th appointment of Judge Lamar to the United States Supreme Court, to explain to their prohibition ibts bictheren how it comes to pass that the judge has just rendered a de cision in favor of the constitutionality of constitutional prohibition under State laws. It looks very much as if Judge Lamar, like most other good lawyers ol all parties, is a lawyer before he is a politician. The trouble with his rritics is that they are partisans before any thing else. Boston Herald. HORRORS OF THE RAIL THE IRON HORSE EARLY BEGAN TO CLAIM HIS VICTIMS. Facts of Interest SuggeMeil bjr the lleccnt Terrlblo DUiutor nt Mud Run, !'., on the Lehigh, hjr Which More limn Sixty Lost Their Mtc. The lato railroad massacre- at Mud Run, Carbon county, Pa , Involved every Jr cumstanco of horror and suddcti death. Tho victims wye largely among tho vouncr nnd fair: thoy wero returning full of social Joy from n festival, nud wero dlstroycd without warning. Onu tnlnuto there was light lauglitor, pleasant ami and seutlmontal lutercliaugo among tho young peoplo of two closoly crowded cars; then catno tho awful crush, forty. five persons wero Instantly launched Into eternity and tweuty-uvo moro mangled beyond hopo of recovery It Is now honed that tho dead will not exceed seventy, but a hundred moro uro Injured In various degrees, trom the loss or a Qnger or disfiguring wounds, to the loss of ejus or limbs Ashtabula, Chat a wot th and Mud Ruu will long remain names of hoiror lu America. At tho first named placo a brldgo fell with a train. Dec. 23, 1870, and over 100 persons wero killed. Tills dis aster was romarxabio irom mo laci uiai so many of tho dead could never bo Iden tified, though their belongings showed them to bo porsonsof wealth and probable high social condition. English-Americans and Irish-Americans, who come here to avail them selves of our advantages, and who, no matter how long they remain, continue to be Englishmen or Irishmen, should not be tolerated at the polls. If they are not content to sever and have done with their allegiance to England or Ireland, to become in verity citizens of the United States Americans and nothing else the ballot should be kept out of their hands, or else they may, as there is a possibility they will do in this canvass, by holding the balance of power in close States, really elect the country's President. Philadelphia Telegraph. The discovery is announced of an other asteroid by Dr. Palisa at Vienna. This makes 280 minor planets tnat have been found since i8or moving within the solar system. These tiny globes, many of which have diameters of only a few miles, can generally be seen only in powerful telescopes. But despite their smallness, the asteriods are important for astronomical purpo ses. Some of them approach the earth much nearer than the distance from the earth to the sun, and near enough to have their distance meas ured. Consequently astronomers hope eventually to utilize them for de termining more accurately than has BCENE Of TUB MUD HUN UOHliOK. No previous railroad nccldeut was so ' thoroughly investigated as this On mo tlon of lion George C. Converse, a com mittee of tho Ohio legislature was formed for the purpose and brought out every detail. The Inquiry led to somo valuable Improvements lu construction and man agement. AtChatsworth, Ills, , lu August, 1BS7, an excursion train, running at thirty five miles per hour, was wrocked by a burning culvert; eighty-five persons were killed outright and 800 Injured. No other railroad horrors lu America equal these; but by tho Tay bridge disaster in Scotland, In December, 1879, over 200 lives wero lost, and the noted Aborgelo burning in Wales excited nulto as much horror, though com paratively a small number ere killed. An oil train, Improperly secured ou a siding whero tho grade w.is steep, got loose, rolled down the aiain track and struck a train loaded with noblemen aud their at tendants, on their way to a public cere mouy. Ou the instant of collision every parlor car was enveloped in burning oil, aud not one Inmate escaped. Somo twenty persons of noble blood werodostroyed, and lu tho ashes wero found ducal coronets, knightly ornaments and other metallic Insignia of rank. It Is only of lato years that railroads have been compelled to give full and ex act accounts of casualties, aud in the census year 1680 there wero returned for tho United States 8,210 accidents 2,541 killed aud 0,074 Injured. It is astonishing to read in this report that a very laigo majority of the killed were emplojes of the roads, aud that lu a ma jority of these cases tho juries de clared that death tesulted from the vict'.jis' own carelessness. Tho explana tion is that while calamities like Mud Run and Chatsworth are rare, employes are being killed or injured every day. During the somo year in Ureat iiritain and Ireland there were l,lo5 killed and 3,059 wounded, and lu Europe 3,213 killed and 10,859 wounded. Tor a term of years tho number of passengers killed and wounded iu the United States was 10.0 to the million, and a fraction less lu tho old world. Averaging tho seven years of completed returns it appeals that in New York thore is ouo pabt,euger killed for 173,905,802 miles traveled, one for 503, 608,188 miles In Massachusetts, and ono for 104,892,205 miles in Groat lirltaln. Thus it may be said ono may travel 1,000 miles a day in Massachusetts for 1,330 years beforo his chances for death would reach par, and for somowhat shorter times in tho other regions mentioned. But his chancea for Injury are twenty times as many. In England ho could travel just about twice as far as from tho earth to tho sun before boiug killed, but only a fourth as far as to the planet Venus beforo being Injured. In Massa chusetts, however, ho may travel 27,000,. 000 miles furthor than the distanco from '-Z-' W-C-V u LiVerpool and Mauchostlr lino the direc tors offered a premlnia of 500 for the best locomotive, lu Cftobcr, 1829, the trial was made, and Mr. Robot t Stephen sou's "Rocket" carried off tho priz against Hockworth's "Sansparull" and Braithwnlto & Ericsson's "Novelty." On tho 15th of September, 1830, thr lino was opened with imposing toro monies, tho Dtiko of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel aud many other emluent statesmen taking part. Eight locomo tives, built by Rorert Stephenson, ou the model of tho "Rocket," were In motion at omce, each drawing four carrlagos, except the first, w hlcji druw but ono. Six bun dled persons took the rido, pissing thioitgh a continuous ovation seveutien miles, from LUcipoot to Pnrkhurst, whore thcro was n short halt. Tho Duke of Wellington's car was halted on a side track that ho might seo tho other cars pass, and Mr. Iluskisson stepped over the main track to speak to the duke. At this uiofftent tho "Rocket" camo up at full speed and Mr. Iluskisson, who was lu fccblo health, lecamo frightened and attempted to recross (lio track. The en gineer tried In alti to stop the engine; the unfortunate statesman was thrown upon tho rail and his leg cut off at tho thigh, do died that evening. Ho was then 00 years old, and had been almost continuously In goverrfment service for forty) ears. His name is still associated with that of Peel lu tho early reforms ac complished by that financier, and as tho first victim ot tho now system ho holds a utilquo placo iu history. When lifted up his only words were, "1 have met my death;" but, as can carlly bo believed, many other icmarks were popularly attributed to him, and the calamity made an important item lu the discussions thou raglug. Lord IJrougham wrote that afternoon to an anti-railroad editor: "I have como to Liverpool only to see a tingedy. Poor Uusklssou is dead or must dlo beforo to-morrow. Tho folly of 700 peoplo going fifteen miles an hour In carriages eceeds belief. But they have paid a dear price." Now a number of trains In England are kin at the rale of a mile per minute, nnd the proportion of accidents Is much less than formerly. But the nrraugements and policing ef the truck aro almost perfection Charles Francis Adams, In his adinir ablo little volume on tall way accidents, not only points out the cuuses of the de clining ratio of accidents, but shows they may be 1 educed to a minimum, and closes with tho straugo statement that tho great difficulty lies lu "protecting, railroad em ployes against themselves " "Their fa miliaiity with the danger causes them to Incur it In tho most unnecessary and fool hardy manner." Ho points out their dan gerous methods, which need not bo re counted here, as the wotk Is, 01 ought to be, a tet book to railroaders. LIGHTNING WAS NOWHERE. Hott n Engineer Got Ahead of a Thun derbolt. "What was the fastest time you ever model" asked The Talker of Johnnie Bycrs, one of the best known engineers in the west ern country. "Wei," ho returned, "I reckon a run of forty miles I mado ou the North Flatto end or tho division was the slickest, iou see, I was sent out from Omaha with a light engine to pull in a special director's car from Nortti Platte, and when I got within about fifty miles of the latter station I was given an order to run regardless of everything other trains were side tracked for me. "I hadn't left the station tnore'n five min utes before a heavy thunderstorm camo up they do it awful quick out there and me and my fireman enjoyed the finest display of ureworks you ever see. "All of a sudden Tom yells to me: " 'Holy Moses I The lightning's struck the track I full out, Johnnie, or we're done fori' "I looked back, aud sure enough there come a streak of lightning along the right rail headed for us. It was a kinder whitish blue sort of thing, and was humping along like it bad a time order. "1 knew that if it struck the machine we was all gone to the s eet hereafter, and I pulled her wide open. "Well, the old machine seemed to know something was up, and she gave a jump like a scared antelope and oil ahead or that light ning streak. At flrsf tho streak seemed to be gaining on us, but alter the engine got good and started, my, you ought to see the dis tanco play out between us. But tho light ning didn't seem to be discouraged. It just spit on its bonds and clawed along of ter us like a promissory note after an insolvent debtor. "Well, I seen something must be done, but couldn't make out how to do it It was plain that If this thing kept up much longer the water and cool would give out, not to speak of red hot journals. I says to Tom: " 'Heave away, now, with the coal and we'll fool him,' and, although he'd been heav ing an ay since the start of the race, that seemed to help, for I could see tho lightning was lagging. Then I turned the machine over to him and crawled back on the tank. I had an idea. There was a siding a few miles ahead, and if wo could make it well, you'll see. There was a broken drawbar on (ho tank, and when 1 reckoned we'd got about the right distance I dropped it I could see it rolling along for quite a distance, then I got back to the eugino and slacked up. "All ot a sudden I heard the most outland ish racket you ever heard of behind us. Then tho air was full of splinters, and when I rolled back, euro enough the drawbar bad fallen in tho switch I'd calculated on hitting, and had made such a connection with the main track that tho lightning had been switched off and had ruu down on tho siding and Into two cars of powder standing there. I'm sorry I can't givo j ou the exact time of that run, but under the circumstances you couldn't expect a man to hold a watch, now could you?" Omaha Herald. ' -?. TUG TELESCOPED CAIIB. Jupiter to tho sun beforo his chances for death reach par. It is a gratifying fact that iu tho United States tho chances, in proportion to miles tiaveled, havo rapidly lessened siuco 1880. Tho first railroad accident, by a strange coincidence, occurred on tho very day the 'railroad was first proved a success, lu the very hour of Stephenson's triumph and under circumstances of painful nnd dramatic Interest. Tho victim was. Mr. Uusklssou, member of tho British cab inet, becrotary of stuto for tho colonies and ouo of tho first men to advocate free trado In parliament. This occurrod en Not for Intrusive Eyes. "As you can only be a sister to me," he said, in broken tones, "will you let me kin you good night?" Bho bhyly said sho would. Then he folded her in his strong arms and gently placing her bead agalast his manly breast, he kUsed her passionately. "Mr. Sampson," she said softly, "this is all so new to mo, so mi different from what I thought it to be, that if you will give me a littlo time to to think It oer, I I may" But let us n Ithdraw from the sacred scene. New York Sun. ever yet been done, by observing oLlvcrpooUnd Manchester railway, on Venus and Mars, the true distanco Railroads had been constructed before between our nl.-met and the sun. Dr. hat u w.Wcll..th ca.r8 woro dEw by r norscs, anu on tno mocuton anu uariug Palisa has rivaled Dr. Peters, the ton line traction, by horses, bv fixed en American astronomer, in ferretlna o&StiA'iiZ those dimutive glanetotds, I that nothing was determined. On the Something Serious. Guest LlghtAing struck our hotol this morning. Friend Nothing serious, I-bopnt Gueit Yes, qulto so. Filend Indeed, how was lt Guert Routed me out on hour earlier than usual for bieakfast. Chicago Tribuno ft a 0 0 u H d u 0 lice Furniture Co. JEO-ire well WARNIN A eood thin? for everybody who want to buy furniture. We will extend our closing out sale ten days longer. Now is your time to buy furniture; you can afford to buy at the prices we offer, wheth er you need it or not. Give us a call at once as we must make room for our new stock en routed, and after that time we wilr have the largest, best assorted and most complete stock of furniture ever shown in Central Tex as, at prices to suit everybody. UNDERTAK'RS SKMflTIf We Carry a Full Llm of Coffins.'-.from the Ghetpest to the Best. Also a line of cloth coverod cuskets. Metallo onsen, and a full Uneof robes for gents, ladies and oliildron. Arterial Embalming a Specialty. Prices to 8uitEverybody. WacaFurnitureCo. r P i p Thu Inventor or Valapuk. "Volapuk, they say, is a kort of a j arable of all other languages." "60I belloe." "Who Invented It, I wouderl'1 "A lestaurant waiter, robably. "Lincoln Duurnm. EVENING- NEWS Putolisatied - E)veryl- Dny Oacoeptv' JStmddir PRICE 50 CEMTSfER MONTH. Eve A 1 Soiltl :&&k n, - r