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THE CENTRE REPORTER.
FRED KURTZ, Entror and Pror’s.
Attorney-General Cassidy has given
notice that he will file a bill in equity
against the transfer of the Beech Creek
and Bouth Penn’a railroads t6 the Penn’a
rai'road company.
: in
Whois it that it is allaged wrote to
delegates he would pay their hotel hills,
if they came to Bellefonte and would
vote for him for delegate to the state
convention? Who knows?—our
umus are open for the facts that the foot
of scorn may be put on him,
ath inte fens
col-
Over 80,000 persons have been attacked
by cholera and 40,000 have died of it in
Spain during the past three weeks; and
yet it seems to create no sensation. Two
vears ago, when the disease raged in
Egypt, and last year when it visited Na-
ples and the south of France, every one
was talking of if, though in neither of
these countries was the motality nearly
80 high as it is now in Spain.
-
Towa druggists make monthly reports
of liquor gales, Great numbers of inva-
lids who doctor themselves seem to be
under daily aleoholic treatment. For in-
glance, a small dealer in Muscatine, where
all the sanitary conditions are favorable
finds that it takes 51 feet of paper to enu-
merate his sales for a month. He so'd
as medicine 152 barrels of beer, 89 gal-
lons of whi 19 of gin, 9 of alcohol
and 3 of brandy.
on ptf
a leer
sky,
The Ohio Democratic State Cenvention
last week, by acclamation and with
marked npanmity and enthusiasm, nom-
inated George Hoadly for re-election as
Governor and John G. Warwick for re
election as Lientenant-Governor. The
opposition to the choice of these gentle-
men was unable to crystalize before the
meeting of the convention and thus diss
organized fell to pieces when the dele
gates took their places.
The Democracy in all parts of the
country will receive the news of this
event with gratified hearts.
— mm sn lf A MP
The schedule of assets published by
the assignees of Mr. John Roach foots
tual assett of $4,481 478. If these assets
are actually “actual,” it is evident that
any sympathy felt for Mr, Roach’s mis-
fortunes has been misplaced. His as
signment is now in effect acknowledged
to have been only a shrewd “dodge,” in-
tended to secure him from the possible
consequences of the Navy Department's
action, in case Attorney-General Gar-
lind’s opinion should be made the basis
of legal proceedings against him.
ei en
The election of Cleveland was carried
by the Democracy on pledges of purer
politics and reform in the government.
Bo far as Cleveland is concerned, we are
glad to say, the pledge is being redeem-
ed. But Democrats must not sit down
now and think Cleveland will do all the
waiching and put his foot down on all
corrupt politicians and their corrupt
ways. The rank and file must keep
watching and point at corruption when-
ever it raises its head,
We are led to these remarks by a re-
cent pointer of our Bellefonte corre-
spondent, who called attention to a new
and petty practice of bribery, paying of
hotel bills by candidates for delegates to
the state convention and for office. This
is as much a bribe as if money were of-
fered for support, and we are only sorry
“Josephus” did not mention the name
or names. When Sap't Wolf was elect-
ed last time, a few directors who, no
doubt, had been bribed in this manner
in political convention, asked him to pay
their hotel bills because they had voted
for him. He heard the demand with
just scorn, Another correspondent has
made an equally just exposure, that of
a petty attempt to become conspicuous
by violating rule 9 of the party which
fixes the locality of the delegate. Now
if these exposures of crookedness are
kept up as they become known, petty
rascality will not live long in any party,
and honest men will say Amen,
a A oo Ap
INDIAN SCHOOLS.
The Pupils Show Themselves Susceptible
of Civilization,
Washington, A 20.~Mr. John H.
Oberly, the new Buperintendent of In-
dian Is, has made a report to the
Secretary of the Interior in relation to
the condition of the Chiloceo Indian In-
dostrial School in the Indian Territory
and the Haskell Institote at Lawrence,
Ky. Atthe Chiloeeo school the report
states that there are 176 pubils, ey
have oily two teachers, both young lo~
dies and Superintendent Oberly says they
are overworked. The male pupils are
taught farm work and the fomales are
taught general housework, sewing, cook
ing, ete. Buperintendent Oberly speaks
in the highest {oruin ot Haskell Tustitae
where he says the pupils are ac-
quiring a knowledge of the he
guage and are doing as well in
dustrial and mechanical
THE WHEAT SITUATION,
The Louisville Courier Journal, a just-
ly recognized authority on agricultural
matters, comments upon the condition
of affairs which bas followed the harvest-
ing of a wheat crop of fully 200,000,000
bushels, records it as in no way remrk-
able, since “there is an immense supply
on hand and a feeling of lethargy seems
to pervade the foreign markets.” The
visible supply is a very cumbrous clog
upon the immediate market. According
to the latest reports it now amounts to
39,000,000 bushels, nearly three times as
great as the supply on hand a year ago,
twice as great as two years ago and fully
100 per cent. greater than the average
at the corresponding dates of 1882, 188]
and 1880. These accumulations have
taken place on comparatively moderate
prices, foreign demand having been in-
different and exacting, largely in con-
sequence of the big stocks thrown into
Epropean distributing quarters as a con-
sequence of the war excitement of last
spring. Latterly foreign buyers have
also appeared to be operating onthe the-
ory that the United States will be
obliged to force sales of their accumula-
tions to make way for the new crop. It
is a very noticeable and promising fact,
however, that Europe is not buying else-
where while waiting for the inducement
to buy in the United States, The supply
afloat has been diminished by more
than 8,000,000 bushels in a month and a
half,
At the same time there is an abund-
ance of misrepresentation. A writer in
the New York Tribune, discussing the
outlook of breadstufls, adopts the Wash-
ington estimate of yield-—357,000,000
bushels—and, after showing that the ay-
erage yield of the last eight years was
444,000,000 bushels, he jumps to the con-
clusion that the old crop surplus at the
last harvest was 120,000,000 bushels, and
concludes, therefore, that the supply is
477,000,000 bushels, He adds that “this
is more than the average yield.” He
thus chooses to confound the annual
yield with the annual supply, If to the
average yield of the eight years 75 per
cent. of the present assumed surplus is
added, the average annual supply would
foot up 534,000,000 bushels, against his
477,000,000 bushels for There
has not been such an average supply in
this period or any other, but this would
be the conclusion from the premises ad-
vanced by the Tribune. The combined
crop and supply of 1885-86 are by this
writer placed in comparison with the
crop alone in the preceeding eight years.
The exports of wheat in the last eight
years have averaged about 139,000,000
bushels, and the present consumption in
the United States is about 320,000,000
bushels, a total of 459,000,000; so that, if
exportation diminishes by 89,000,000 and
home consumption by 20,000,000, there
will be a demand for 400,000,000 bushels,
out of a crop of 357,000,000 bushels, plus
the unknown quantity of the old crop
surplus,
Bat be the light in which speculators
view the market what it may, they
should at the same time bear in mind
that the present situation creates im-
mense opportunities for manipulation
against the public, and for the immedi-
ate present the position is very hazard-
ous for dealers on either side of the ac-
count. Among the devices of late em-
ployed to influence the market have
been constant rumors of deterioration and
heating in elevator grain. These rumors
have been proven false once or twice in
respect to Western elevators, and a
statement that New York elevator stock
had been seriously degraded has Leen
disproven within the past week,
APIA sii asi.
HAVING A TUSSLE WITH MR. J.
GOULD,
1885-76,
The Knights of Labor to Strike on the En-
tire Gould Railroad System.
8t. Louis, Aug. 18.~The General Ex-
ecutive Committees of the Knights of La~
bor were in session again this afternoon
and to-night, and formulated and issued
the following important order :
“Owing to the persistent fight of the
Wabash Company against the Knights
of Labor, the General Executive Board
deems it advisaale to issue the following
order to all assemblies on the Union Pa-
cific Railroad and the Gould Southwest
system :
“To all assemblies on the above lines
of railways: All his of Laborin the
employ of the Union Pacific and iis
branches and Goald’s Southwest system
or any other railroad must refuse re
pair or handle in any manner Wabash
rolling stock until farther orders from
the General Executive Board, and if this
order is antagonized by any company
throagh any of its officials your Execn-
tive ber tteo is hereby ordered to call
out all the Knights of Labor on any or
all of the above systems without farther
sctior. By order of jhe General Execus
tive Board, nen’ Tureen,
Treasurer and Secretary.”
Rh lo a ae
“Ter Indies cial into
ver Barns Th Dead Into sCitagie
Decker, dragglst, of Fin
#
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6, 1885,
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NO 33.
RESOLUTIGNS AND RULES, THREE FOUL MURDERS,
The recent Democratic Co,Conventien| Sanbury, Pa, August 23.—Patrick
the following resolutions and) Henry shot George Brown in Milton on
{Saturday night. Both are colored,
{ Henry, who gave himse!f up and is in
TROUBLE AHEAD OF THE VAN:
DERBILT SCHEME, |
1
Harrisburg, Auvgust 14.--It is confi-| passed
dently asserted in some official circles rules:
y / Ge om-| VESOLUTIONS, iad
that the Attorney-General of the Com-} -BEEOLUTIC _ lial here, says there was an old grudge
monwealth will interpose to prevent the | The democracy of Centre county in between Brown and himself and about
consummation of the bargain between Convention assembled unanimously de-|ten o'clock he met Brown with a white
Mr. Vanderbilt and the Pennsylvania|clare: - {man on Main street. The white man was
: yiy | 0 iti \ rs olalakd |intoxicated and proposed a fight, Brown
Railroad Company, by which the South _1,_DPposvor 3 this ope: violation 51 then supped up 10 Henry and said, ~1il
Pennsylvania and Beech Creek Rail- {Section bol Artie 8 savenicent : 0 a the lick rou,” and at the same time put his
hu {constitution in the sale and transfer to|yand into his hi set. Hig
roads come under the control of the|parallel and competing railroad lines to away from tom Pp 2 Bt Tuy ol
Pennsylvania Railroad. Section 4 of ar-|an already overgrown corporation to the | want pore and for SOBA. 38 posib'e, and
ticle 17 of the Censtitution specifically irreparable injury and damage of the DE yu ts
oe | Bome time afte i he ma x Barly
¢| people of the commonwealth. We invoke, pi en SEFWAR be Tet the pary
{the judicial power of the state to prevent oi? ana >rown said, “Now I'll
: pe previ x : lick you,” in plac :
competing railroads or other carry ing|the perpetration of this outrage upon the his Bs Jad again placed bis Saud bis
corporations, It has always been held|people. revolver and fired Oe ball wort a
: i . Ag ol 2. Opposition to discrimisation in " : ’ rhpa dr
that legislation was necessary to make! 6 = YPposi ni I Brown in the le y Cin ’
tt . i or. | freights by abatement, draw-back or oth-| the left breast, inflicting a
the provision operative, and during the
prohibits the consolidation or merger o
erwise. {wound from which he will die.
eleven years that has elapsed since the] The adoption of a platforms by the | xirnreD m1
state convention on the single issue of! _., .
anti-discrimination, { Chicago, Aug. 22.—Late last night in a
4, The democracy of Centre county sparsely populated section of the town of
pledge themselves, their nominees and Lake, Barah Bnyder, mistress of Corneli-
representatives in Senate, Assembly and |%¥V Leary, was shot aud instantly kills
Congress to follow where an honest and | © 8nd Kate O'Leary, sister of the sup-
fearless chief magistrate has dared to|Po#ed murderer, was so badly wounded
lead in the reform of the flagrant abuses! PY & pistol shot that she will probably
and corraption of twenty-four years of|9!¢. Itis believed to be almost certain
Republican rule. We enthusiastically that O'Leary killed his mistress and then
oa the policy of the administration |8tempted to take the life of his sis
and commend Grover Cleveland for the |'©r, a8 shortly previous the trio were
faithful observance and maintenance of ®¢en drinking beer, O'Leary has not yet
bis pledge of reform in administrative Pe®n found, The wounded woman Te-
methods made before his election, | fuses 10 sey anything whatever about the
5. The fidelity, ability and consciene 8fair.
tiousness with which the Hon, Robert E.} oe—
Pattison has met and discharged his do-| BLE MURDER.
ties as chief Executive of this state and| Springfield, Iil, Ang, 23.—This morn
especially his use of the veto power ining Leonard Gardner, who gpent the
defeating vicious legislation en tities him | night in jail for wife beating, procured
to the highest admiration of the people|bail and was released. He immediately
of the state, {armed himself with two revolvers and
6. The Democracy of this county com- | became loud in threats against Policemen
mend the distinguished services of Hon, Camp and Gall who arrested him. About
A. G. Curtin, who in season and out of {noon Gardner saw two officers approach-
season faithfully guards and cares for the ing on Washington street and opened
interests and welfare cf his people, {fire. Camp fell dead. Gall returned the
7. We heartily commend the course! fire rapidly, and in a minute Gardner fell
of Hons, Wm. A. Wallace, John A. |pierced with three bullets. He died in-
Woodward and Leonard Rhone, Sena- stantly, Officer Gall fell with two bullets
tor and Representatives in the Legisla- jin him, If is thought he will die.
ture of Pennsylvania, for their honest]
advocacy of the measure to break up!
the , discrimination in freights by rail«}
roads,
3.
adoption of the Constitution the Legis-|
lature has persistently refused to adopt)
the “appropriate legislation.” At the
last session Senator William A, Wallace, |
President of the Beech Creek Railroad,
who occupied a seat on the floor of Sen-
ate, made strenuous efforts to pass a bill
covering the subject through, but failed.
His bill enacted the constitutional provi-
sion into statute law, and provided pen-
alties for the violation of it. Senator
Cooper, the Chairman of the Republican |
State Committee, led the opposition, and
by invoking party disciplinary meas-
ures defeated it in a Legislature that was
Republican in both branches.
It is now believed that both Senators
Wallace and Cooper wereguided in their
labors by an idea that such a deal as has
been attempted was in contemplation,
and that Wallace aimed to protect him-
self and his friends in the State who
were subscribers to the South Penn.
sylvania and Beech Creek enterprise
against the plans of Vanderbilt, while
Cooper had in view the interests of the
other corporation and the promotion of
Vanderbilt's plans. It Is remembered
also that an effort to procure an endorse.
ment of the prohibition provision of the
Constitution in the Republican platform
a month ago was defeated by Senator
Cooper's friends, It is said that the
process which the Attorney-General will
adopt will reach the question, notwith.
standing the failure of the Legisaiture to
adopt the “appropriate legislation.” The
Sonth Pennsylvania and Beech Creek
roads were chartered by the State since
the adoption of the Constitution of 1873,
and consequently became amenable to
its prohibition clauses without addition-
al legislation. Those shareholders in the
two corporations to be absorbed will ap~
ply to the Attorney-General for a man-
damus to prohibit the majority share
owners from disposing of the franchises
granted to the roads in that way, and the
Attorney-General will rule in their fa-
vor and ask the Governor to revoke thel
charters. The best lawyers express the
belief that this course will defeat Mr.
Vanderbilt's scheme and compel him to
proceed with the work of building the
roads or forfeit his interest, amounting
to something like five millions of dol-
lars,
m——— dt —————
BEN BUTLER AS'A COWBOY.
Benjamin F. Butler is going into the
cattle business, and will no doubt make
money out of it, A man who can stand
in the centre of a ten acre lot and see
around the corner of a wagon shed in
the next township ought to make one of
the greatest cowboys in the profession,
A————— AM PAP A. A
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
For the three years the business
interests of the country have been at a
standstill com with former years of
rosperity which we have enjoyed. Bat
here is every evidence that a revival in
every department of trade and commerce
will inevitably follow on the heels of this
stagnation. It is law that governs the
financial as well as the physical world.
Over production has been the cause of
the rediculously low prices for almost
every commodity. Bat the supply has
been well nigh exhausted, and there is
every reason to feel hopeful a8 respects
business for the coming year. The rail-
roads are behind half a million tons of
rails for necessary maintenance. This
must be provided, and their peculiar ne-
cessities must be provided, and in conse-
quence cannot be d many more
months, The dealers in all lines of trade,
who lay in supplies this fall, will a year
hence be numbered among the fortunate,
and regarded as men of business fore
sight and sagacity,
A—————
The subject of “Sewage Disposal in Ci-
ties” is one of the most important which
the possible approach of en brings
to public attention. Dr, J, 8, Billings,
U. 8. A, has written an eight. arti
cle for Harpers M in w is
compressed a plain simp e account of
the present knowledge of epidemic dis-
ease, and the preventive methods now
thought to be
city sanitation, It will appear in
September issue,
“Across the Country with a Cavalry
Column,” is the su of a paper, and
of a number of spirited ills by
the artist Zogbaum, continuing his stad.
ies of army life, which will appear in the
a.
September Harper’
KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
New Orleans,
the
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HON. DAN'L J. MORRELL DEAD,
| Johnstown, Avgusf 20,—Hon, Daniel
{Johnson Morrell, of the Cambria Iron
{Company, died at bis home here this
RULES
That the following be adopted by this morning,
convention and be recommended for| iy. Morrill was born in North Ber
adoption by the party at the first mass wick, ie, on Avgust 8, 1821, being the
i % !
meeting which shall hereafter be held by [seventh Id in a family of ten, His
His enti school
the Democracy of the county as amends) parent were (Quakers.
d not exceed two years, and when
jing di
ments to the rules for better goveenment | 16 Daniel came to Philadelphia. After
of the parly, and to be known as Rules|numerous changes Mr. Morrell in 1855
17, 18 and 19: | assumed the management of the Cam-
Rule 17—The county committee shall|bria Iron Works at Johnstown. In 1866
assess for campaign purposes the candi-{ Mr. Morrell was elected to Congress, but
dates for the several offices, which assess. Was defeated in 1570 by Hon. R. Milton
ment shall be made 80 as to cover the|Speer. While in Congress Mr. Morrell
printing of tickets, stickers and all other | W88 the chief promotor of the Centen-
necessary and legitimate expenses of the vial Exposition in Philadelphia.
campaiga, sud no candidate shall be sub. a 2 —————— : .
ject to an assessment or charge for any ELOPED WITH A CHINAMAN,
other service on support whatsoever. Nor! Newark, Ohio, Avgust 18.—Wang Poo,
shall the committee lay any unreasonable ly Chinaman, who for eighteen months
Or unjust assessment upon any cancidate hag run a laundry here, ran away with
or candidates. : sy | Miss Lizzie Scott, seventeen years old,
Rule 15—The county commitiee shall ggughter of a much respected citizen.
atits first meeting in each and every! Lizio had been working for Wang Poo
ye a heroufier igh ANaasral og shall for several months, They became very
ne ’ ang nt a © ; 18r, ice at Col.
360 and Who shall be the coat es nt fond of each other. The police at Col
Gd the re P }
the funds of the commitiee and shall pay Bubs aresied ihe runaway, but lat
out said fands for pecessary and legiti-
mate campaign expenses onordersdrawn
upon him by the chairman of the com«
mittee and attested by the secretary.
Rule 19 ~The committee shall at the
first meeting in each and every year
elect three competent persons neither of
whom shall be a member of the commit
tee whose duty it shall be to audit the
accounts of the committee and the Treas-
urer at the end of each campaign, and
make a report thereof on or before the
first of January of each year. Which
said report shall be open to the inspec
tion of all Democrats. All balances found
upon settlement of said accounts in the
hands of the treasurer shall be paid to
his successor in office.
A —-—
THE CHOLERA PLAGUE.
The Dread Epidemic Spreading Northward
A Special Treatment,
Madrid, Augost 20. There were 4,109
them go upon receiving a telegram from
the girl's parents that they would not in-
cur any expense 10 have the girl return
ed. The eloping pair took a train west
from Columbus, Their return as man
and wife is expected,
INSANE FROM THE
BACCO,
Chicago, Aogust 20.—Henry and Geo.
Flinchman, two brothers, aged 19 and 22
respectively, who have been carrying on
a commission business on South? Canal
Street, several weeks ago showed symp:
toms of insanity, Henry's symptoms man-
ifested themselves in his disposition to
flying flat-irons at people. Doth were
melancholy and could not sleep. The
county physician thought their derange-
ment was owing to their excessive nse of
tobacco, They were adjudged insane to-
day and sent to the County Insane Asy-
um,
Tuznz is no use fighting nature. Dr.
Kennedy's “Favorite Remedy” does
nothing of that kind. It does not make
USE OF TO-
new cases of cholera and 1,541 deaths
from that disease in Spain Jostorday.
The only wealthy persons who have
been attacked by the cholera scorge are
public officials, who are com to vie
it the hotbeds of the in Many
persons are ret to the city, whi
they consider safer the provinces.
© doctors who went from Madrid to
Granada have died from the disease. A
doctor who saved fourteen out of fifteen
patients in the second stage of the in-
fecton by administering an enema of
ether has been authorizad {0 apply the
remedy in the hospital,
. 5 A Ao M55
EXPLOSION OF MILL DUST.
Toledo, Ohio, August 18, —An ¢ n
took place this mo in the Aplosio
vault of Morgan's
supposed either gas was fonetated by
fire among the shavings in
the vault, or else the fine dust caught
fire in some unknown manner and ex-
ploded like flour dust. The building
caught ire but the flames were extin
and timber and
ured, though
fi
re
RM OI WAI
LESSON FROM A MASTODON.
The tasks of a mastodon recently found
in Illinois weighed 170 pounds each,
berg even sagable Sthaving ! And
such iralgia | Ne :
8
PRL
the sufferers who trust it worse under
the pretense of doing them good. It
acts tenderly and in sympathy with
what nature herself is trying to accom~
plish. Do you have trouble with your
digestion, your liver or your kidneys?
Does rheumatism pain and rack you?
Is your head thick and heavy ? It will
charm away these ailments almost ere
yOu are aware. aug
On Sanday, 16, at he little village of
Leak county, Texas, George
Tatweller a farmer, a hawk that
was just with a youn
its talons, The bullet
jury.
A WALKING SKELETON,
Mr. E. of Mech
writes! “Hwa iced with 1
A
SE —
A BANE WOMAN 20 YEARS IN
ABRYLUM., AN
Miss Adrinna Phygick Brinckle was re
cently released from the State Lunatic
Asylum, at Harrishnrg, where she had
been confined for twenty-seven years on
the charge of “extravagance and exesn-
tricity.” She is a daughter of the late
Dr. Wm. Draper Brinckle, a physician
who enjoyed a large practice and moved
in the highest circles of society in Phila-
delphia thirty years ago. Miss Brinckle
was an acknowledged belle, but was ex.
tremely extravagant. An unfortunate
erigis in the financial standing of her fa-
ther made it impossible for bim to pay
her bills. Adrianna was unable to over.
come her extravagant habits, and “to
eave the family honor,” Miss Brinckle
was sent to the asylum, entering the in.
stitution July, 1858,
When the twelfth annual Conference
of Charities and Correction met in Wash.
ington last June, one of the delegates
made a statement which led to an inves-
tigation, and Miss Brinckle was visited
at the asylam, 21d a committes reported
that there was no evidence of insanity in
her cese. Representatives of the State
Committee on Lunacy visited her, and
then the order came and she was sent
ont a free woman. Upon her arrival in
Philadelphia she was taken to the cone
valescents’ retreat near Glen Mills, where
the is being tenderly cared for.
Miss Brinckle is now a gray-haired
woman of 60, in fall possession of all her
faculties, and in good bodily hesaith,
A .
CHOLERA DECREASES,
Madrid, August 20,—~There were 4,271
new cases of cholera and 1,448 deaths
throoghout Spain Taesday.
- . A
31G 1.OSS OF LIFE.
Jerlin, August 22. —The report of the
wreck of the German corvette August is
confirmed. Her crew of 238 officers and
sailors were lost in a cyclone in the Red
Sea.
———— os Moris SS
DIED,
iy of heart disease, on
instant, Wm. Harter, aged
iS days. He was born on the
one mie south of Asrons
uiil 60 years of age, when
0 Asrousburg Was mar
ARSE, 10 Miss Rebooca Hess, who
dow, He was the father of
is and 4 dsughters, all of whom
it 10 pay their last tribute of respect
At Aaronshidrg, sudden
Babbeath morning, 16
74 years, 7 motiths
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We Want 1,000 More Boox Aczxts for
the Personal History of
U. S. GRANT.
40,000 copies already sold. We want one agent
in every Grand Army Post and in every township.
Bend for Special Terms to Agents, or secure
agency 81 once by sending 50 cents in lamps for
outfit. Address FURSHEE & McMAKIN,
sug
Cincinnati, Ohio,
THI LOCOMOTIVE IN WINTER
Hm
A locomotive cab in Winter is a dreary
plese. It is bad in daytime, but ona
Wiiter night, when the snow flies fast,
Xie locomotive is a good place {0 keep
out of. Even in the day it is impossible
to gee anything if a snow storm prevails.
The rails run right up into the air.
Nothing can be seen ahead but a
jumping off place. The windows are
{frozen up or covered with snow, and
from innumerable cracks and crevices
around the floor where it joins the boiler
come draughts thatbite and sting. The
engine caws like a crow—haugh, haugh,
now fast, now slow, scocording as the
drifts cover the track or uncover it for
a brief space, and when it strikes a drift
it throws the snow in blinding clouds all
over itself, just as the spray flics over a
vessel shipping & sea. The track is
rough, for the frost haa disturbed if,
and the engine lurches ahead, staggor-
ing to and fro like a drunken man.
There are few more impressive speciacios
in this world than a powerful locomotive
laboring through a heavy snow-storm.
To the observer beside the track it looms
up through the gloom tremendous and
awful. The locomotive seems the
embodiment of the Death Angel, moving
swiftly and noisclessly. The snow has
mufiled the whir of the rolling friction
of the wheels on the rails, and the train
glides by like the unsubstantial pageant
of a dream. With its black breath,
its snorta of fire, its hoarse voice, it is truly
Apollyon, the destroying angel, and the
man must be unimpressible indeed who
does not feel a thrill at its ad
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