A FLAGHANS MISTAKE
A PASSENGER TRAIN IN OHIO DASHES
INTO A FREIGHT.
THE WRECK TAKES FIRE, — EIGART
PERSONS KILLED AND A DOZEN
NJURED,
CLEVELAND, Ono, Jan, 14.—A
frightful wreck occurred on tie New
York, Pennsylvania and Oblo Railroad,
near Tallmadge, Ohio, this morning, a
passenger train colliding with one sec-
tion of a freight which had broken in
two. Eight persons were killed and a
dozen injured. The list is as follows:
THE KILLED.
Robert Huntington, of Galion, Ohio,
passenger engineer,
Willlam Walters, of Galion, passen-
ger fireman,
J. F. Rushford, of Galion, freight
brakeman,
William
Y., Wells,
senger.
Three Chinamen.
Mary Ann Lyon, of Idale, aged 6,
ticketed second class to Cherry Creek,
N.Y.
A Leader special from AKron gives
the following particulars of the wreck:
At 2.27 o'clock this morning train No.
8, east-bound, rounding the sharp
3
Lundy, of Salimanca, N.
Fargo & Co, express mes-
of freight train No. Bl.
deuse fog, and this conspired with
other things to make the aecident be-
yond human power to avert. Engineer
Robert Huntington had just time to
reverse his engine when the dreadful
crash came, and in the instant he
yielded up his life. The freight was
heavy, and while it was climbing the
grade a coupling parted about the mid-
die of the train. It was decided to
resort to the common expedient of
doubling up. Flagmen were sent out,
one east, another to the west to warn
any approaching train. Brakeman
James Bradley, an old and experienced
east bound passenger, which
known to be about due, Meantime the
first part of the broken freight train
was taken to Talmadge siding, The
engine then returned to the second
part, A signal was then given, which
is said to bave been to summon back
the tlagman stationed at the
east,
Flazman Baadiey took it to be for him
also,
at any rate, Bralley heard it so and
went back.
under motion to go io Tallmadge when
the express came along. The
mentum of the fast train was some-
what checked by the reverse, but the
impact was terrific nevertheless, [he
receiving several cuts, The freight
led with the wreckage behind it. The
freight engine reared up and stood
almost on end. Eogineer Huntinglon
snd Fireman Walters, of the express,
were terribly crushed, The brave
sngineer was disebowelled, his head
crushed and his limbs broken and
loubled up. The passenger train con-
sisted of a combination baggage aud
express car and smoker, a common
coach and two sleepers,
». E. Barnes, residing near by, heard
ihe crash and the hissing steam, and
hastily dressed and ran over. He says:
*“The two sleepers had been pushed by
the wreck a distance of abont six rods,
The combination baggage and express
sar and passenger coach were afire
when I reached the ground. The pas-
enger and baggage car bad telescoped
and the two engines were thrown upon
the embankment. I helped to take
The greatest horror came when the
baggaze car and smoker. which tele
scoped with the common coach, took
fire. Engineer Jones, of the Kent yard
sngine, five miles off, began to be un-
aasy, and, looking down the track, saw
through the trees the giare of the burn-
ing cars. After the accident the two
telescoped coaches appeared as one, and
from the shattered aud burning cars
came the groans and shrieks of the
unfortunates. Then came the scene
of terror, the strong struggling to
géscape the horrible death by fire, the
weak and hopelessly wounded praying
for succor from the flames that were
fast emveloping them. One man,
release his lower limbs and escaped cut
and bruised, The last man to get out
alive was able to grasp an axe handle
and retain his hold until he was drawn
through a gap half dead, but was
quickly resuscitated.
In the smoker were eight Chinamen;
five were pulled out alive, but hall
dead from fright, Three were never
seen after the crash, and bones aod
bits of charred flesh gathered up in a
bag were all that were found of them.
One of the most pathetic of all
scenes was that attending the death of
little Mary Ann Lyon, an orphan, who
was belng sent through from Idaho on
a second-class ticket to relatives In
Cherry Creek, New York. Edward
Perryzer, a passenger, going to
New York, tells this story of
ber death: “1 poticed the little
girl, who appeared to be all alone, and
learned that sue had been ticke
ted through to New York as a second-
clags passenger. She was a sweet.
faced child, and every time I visited
the swnoker 1 interested myself in her.
came 1 was in my berth In the sleeper,
snd received only a slight shock, My
first thought was of little Mary, and |
rushed out of the ear and to say horror
aw that the smoker was all in
{ went outside opposite the
ar where the little
little girl, whose shrieks were heart-
rending, released herself just before
the fire got to her, and for a moment
groped wildly about in the prison of a
car, then fell over choked by smoke,
the flames quickly coming up to com.
plete the dreadful work,
The two detached sleepers wers
pulled back to Akron, and in them
were brought the wounded, whose
names are given above, The remains
of the Obinamen and the remaing of
the little girl were brought here, as
were those of Firemun Walters, The
bodies of Engineer Huntington and of
Express Messenger Lundy were taken
to Kent. The wrecking train from
Kent and Gallon worked from daylight
until 1 o'clock, when the track was
cleared.
While the express matter was burn.
Ing a lawyer from the West stood by,
and pointing to a flaming trunk, said:
“That trunk contains $25,000 worth of
legal books and papers. The papers
cannot be duplicated, and a suit involv-
ing $25,000 depends upon the evidence
they contain.”
The rallroad company’s loss 1s esti-
mated at $15,000 by the officials of the
company.
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THE READING CALAMITY.
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VICTIMS ON SATUR~
AND YESTERDAY.--THIR-
TEEN FUNERALS.—~FIVE OF
THE INJURED NOT EX-
PECTED TO RECOVER.
DAY
READING, Pa,, Jan, 13.—Y esterday
and to-day witnessed the interment of
thirteen of the victims of the recent
cyclone, There were evidences of the
last sad scenes 1n almost every section
of the city; they were seen in the
mournful processions, and in the large
crowd which filled the cemeteries
The spectacle of holding services
over three bodies in one chureh await.
ing final interment is not often wit.
nessed. This was the scene in St,
Luke's Lutheran Church this raorn-
ing at 10 o'clock.
The bodies of
| Matilda C. Grow,
separate caskets inside the chancel,
Their ages ranged from 14 to 17 years,
and in their placid, calm faces few
evidences of their terrible death was
seen. Miss Grow’ body lay In a
white casket, She Was the
youngest of the three, but
14 years old, The church was crow-
ded with the frends of the three
families, while outside the street was
i packed witha suiging throng. Miss
Reitpaver was an only child. The
| body of Miss Kercher was attired
the costume she wore when
confirmed in this church nine months
j ago, The pastor, lev. F. K. Hunt.
zinger, preached a funeral sermon
from the text, ’Iatthew, xxv,
“Watch therfo: or ye know neither
| the day nor the iv wherein the Son
of Man cometh.
At the close of 1
| were exposed to view for the last time
{ They were then carried out and placed
{ in separate hearses, when the cortege
| proceeded to Alsace Cemetery, where
i all three of the bodies were interred.
i Five squares of cabs fullowed them to
| the grave,
This afternoon the funeral services
{of Miss Eva Leeds, another victim,
| were held tn the same charch, and
were also conducted by Rev, Mr. Hunt
zinger. The funeral of Miss Sophia
| Frederick Wink.eman, the dead fore-
{lady of the silk milk, and Amelia
Christman took place in Saint *John's
{ Lutheran Chapel, the Pastor, Rev. J.
i J. Kuendig, cfficlating, and the inter-
ment was made in the cemetery adjoin-
i ing. At the
| Shade’s body was carried to
J bach" Cemetery, where Rev, Francis
Hoffman conducted the last rites,
Yesterday the body of Harory
i Crocker, superintendent of one of the
| departments, was taken to New Lon-
don, ©Conn., where iuterment was
made to-day. He arnved In Reading
bat two weeks ago, with his bride.
Yesterday the body of William J.
Snyder was laid in the Catholic Ceme-
tery, Miss Barbara A. Sellhalmer In
Aulenbach's Cemetery, Sheridan E,
Jones in Charles Evans Cemetery and
Mary C. Fitzpatrick in the Catholic
Cemetery at Port Carbon, Miss Emma
Nester's body was conveyed to New
Ringgold, Schuylkill county, where she
was buried. She obtained employ-
ment at the silk mill only three days
before the accident.
To-morrow the other victims will be
{buried and on Tuesday evening the
Coroner will hold an official investiga-
tion of the silk mill collapse. He has
placed on his jury several practical
builders,
The money for the relief of the suf-
ferers has been Howing in various sums
from many different sections and the
Rallef Committee has over $10,000 on
hand, In a published card they say
that they now have enough money,
food and clothing to supply the neces.
sities of the distressed, As instances
of the widespread sympathy for the
sufferers it may be mentioned that
William T, Ryle, of New York, sends
his check for $200; George V. Cresson
Philadelphia, $00; Bower, Mayer &
Co., New York, 8100; Daniel J, Shee.
ban, Paterson, N. J., $25; Charles ¥,
Homer, New York, $50; Herman A.
Schiffer, New York, $100, snd the
First National Bank, of Billings, Mon-
tana, $20.
Among the victims who are likely to
die are Katie Coxen, Katie Hippler,
Ellen Rauenzahne, Kate Sullivan and
Berta Taylor.
Thousands of people visited the
ruins of the silk mill to-day, and it is
estimated that several thousand people
came in on the trains, Nearly all the
clergymen in Reading had as the
theme of their discourse the visit of
the cyclone. Among the sermons
preached on this subject were those of
Rev. W. HH. Myers, of Grace Luth-
eran Congregation; Rev. C, M. Diets,
of First Daptist; Rev, C, 8. Gerhart,
of St.. Stephen’s Reformed Church;
Rev. T, C. Billheimer, ot St. Mat.
thew's Lutheran, and Rev. G. W.
Kent, of the Universalist,
~It 1s believed that all the bodies
ave been recovered from the wrecked
The funerals of
took plees on the
12th and the others cn the 13th,
ab
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
— Daniel Reynolds, colored,
taken from his house In Helena, Ar
kansas, on the evening of the 12th,
and whipped so severly that he has
since died. Ile was tied to a tree and
his captors, nine In number, used a
pleco of wire from a barbed wire fence.
Reynolds made a statement before his
death and gave the Sheriff the names
of his assailants, seven of whom are
under arrest. Wm, Dowell, who lives
in Andrews, Ind., and who, it is alleged,
fails to provide for his family, was
surprised by twenty masked men when
in a saloon on the evening of the 12th
and dragged out the back way. A
rope was thrown over his neck, and he
was swung up the nearest telegraph
pole. After hanging a short time he
was lowered, when he managed to slip
the noose, and ran, yelling with all his
rema‘ning strength, He was recap-
tured, but citizens, attracted by his
cries, came to his rescue, and the
White Caps fled without belng recog-
nized.
~— William Wertzel, aged 16 years,
shot and killed George Farnsworth,
aged 20 years, in Marietta, Ohio, on
the 15th, Wertzel says that they were
playing **White Caps,”” and before
beginning he had dug the balls cut of
the cartridges they proposed to use,
He cannot tell how a loaded cartridge
got into the revolver. Jos, J. Chand-
ler, a porter of the Canadian Yacific
was
| Railroad, shot and fatally wounded C.
{| A. Shefliald, in
{ing of the lith., Mr,
i sleeping car service. Jack Coals, a
{ colored inmate of the jail In Danville
Virginia, received a slice of molasses
| pudding from his wife on the 13th. He
| thought it was *“‘tricked” and
| to eat it.
S600
in
the pudding, and was
on the 15th died
jal, eat
taken sick, and
| acute poisoning. The woman who
| made the pudding has been arrested,
~—Mrs, Eads, who resides in James.
i town, Omo, locked her 2.year-old
§ 1 3 $41
| adopted child In the house while she
{ went to a {ire in the neighborhood. Her
| returned the child had been
death. Mary Spitzer, a young
was locked up in ber room for
duet by her mother in their house, at
| Leadville, Colorado, on the evening of
the 12th. A window
i the child climbed out
into the mountains,
{ was found on the 15th,
to death,
—ft 18
New Mexico, that hundreds of cattle
{and sheep are perishing. The plains
i and the mountains are covered with
A drove of antelopes were
girl,
and wandered
Her dead body
She had frozen
| deep snow,
i south of Albuquercue.
~- Allen Campbell, proprietor of the
reported to have fled to Canada, with
{of the village, of which he was trea
{surer., The room of Senator Martin
{ at the windsor Hotel, in Trenton, New
| Jersey, was entered by a thief on the
| evening of the 14ih, and a gold watch,
| Jewelry stolen,
| ~The small-pox is still spreading in
| Nanticoke, "enna. A place has been
| provided for patients In Wilkerbarre
should the disease break
Miss Anna F. Moon, a sophomore at
{ Cornell University, has been attacked
| by small-pox, and President Adams has
—Iin Paterson, New Jersey, on the
afternoon of the 15th threes robbers,
{ one of them colored, entered the house
tof William Roughgarden and found
{ his wife In the kitchen. One of them
| insisted upon ber reading a note, which
i he held In front of her face, As she
{glanced al the puper the negro threw
{ her to the floor, and one of the others
{ thrust the muzzle of a revolver into
{ ber mouth. While the woman, fright.
ened almost Into unconsciousness, lay
| motionless, the two others ransacked
the house,
was secured, The villains escaned.
~Fifteen masked men in North
Salen, New Hampshire, went to the
house of John Weish on Christmas
night and, calling him out, coated him
with grease and forced him to leave
that section.
a woman who deserted her husband,
Welsh went to Portsmouth and enga-
ged Pinkerton detectives, and 13 of the
masked men were arrested, On the
16th they were taken to Exeter, fined
815 each and costs and discharged.
— A dispatch from Holbrook, Arizona
Territory, says Glia Benita, a cowboy
dressed and painted as an Apache In.
dian, made a descent upon the Mexican
herders in the employ of Don Pedro
Montana, killing five and wounding
one,
- Reports were received at the Phil.
adeiphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company’s office in Pottsville on the
evening of the 106th of alarming phe
nomena occurring at the Phoenix Park
colliery during the day. There was a
succession of heavy detonations In the
mine, breaking down timbers, demol-
ishing gangway doors and doing other
damage. The cause of the disturbance
is unknown, but it 1s believed that the
concussions are the result of an exten
sive fall of “crop” coal in abandoned
workings, and that the damage in
other portions of the mite 13 ihe
by the compression and violent rush of
air thus produced. ii .
~Tax Collector Norch, of Lacka
wana county, Penna., was killed by a
train on the Dela Lac
track apd step J (
avoid a stock train to another in front
of the express, A train on the Little
wrecked by a landslide, near -
ding on the low:
‘thin and gave way,
~The post-office at Pleasant Valley
near deranton, Penna., was robbed and
then set on fire on the evening of the
16th, The flames were extinguished
with trifling damage,
— Mrs, John Greer, wife ofa lumber
man at Sunshine, Wayne county, Pa.
killed her babe on the 15th, and then
committed suicide. No cause is as.
signed for the deed,
~ A fire occurred in the dwelling of
Arthur Roddy, in Pittsburg, on the
morning of the 16th. Mrs Roddey was
burned to death, Her child was also
painfully burned.
~— Two men, named Webb and Har-
ris, quarreled in Poteau, Indian, Ter-
ritory, on the 16th, and shot each other,
Both were killed and a bystander was
severely wounded A telegram from
Wichita. Kansas, says that *‘Cattle
King? Zack Mulhall was shot and
dangersusly wounded by Albert Landers
on the evening of the 16th. Mulhall
had charged Landers with stealing
cattle. Datler Banks shot and danger-
ously wounded James C, Banks, in
Newberry county, South Carolina, on
the 12th. On the evening of the 12th,
a party of men burned Butler Banks’s
house, corn-crib and feed-house, leaving
his wife and six children without food
or shelter. Although the names of
the incendiaries are sald to be known
no arrests have been made,
- Two burglars entered the store of
Scott & Grannls, in Terryville, Con-
necticut, on the morning of the 17th,
where two young men, George A, Judd
and Nicholas Abbott, slept, and
aroused them, at the same time cover-
| ing them with revolvers,
| bound and gagged them,
taking thelr watches, broke
giafe, securing $100 in cash
postage stamps, They escaped.
—1. F, Voight, former cashier of
the Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank in
| Pittsburg, was arrested on the evening
{ of the 17th, charged by officers of the
bank with embezzlement, perjury and
| falsifying accounts, Ile Is in jail in
default of $40,000 bail. The bank
fatled in September last, with habilities
of $250 000,
—The wind blew a freight car from
a side track to the main track at Sylva.
after
the
and,
open
16th. A freight train ran into |
wrecking the engine and seven cars,
Harvey Brubacker was killed, Engi.
neer Flack fatally and George
severely Injured, The damage Is
placed at $49,000. Emma Boker, aged
| 17 years, while opening the shutters of
a house in Baltimore on the morning of
the 17th, lost ber balance and fell to
the pavement 40 feet below. She was
injured internally, A part the
| western wall of the ice palace at Mon.
treal collapsed on the 17th, The thei-
mometler registered degress in the
shade,
*
wy
of
A
Martine, aged 37
in the Courts in
for $5000
~51i88 Christiana
| years, bas obtained
| Cleveland, Oblo, a verdict
against Willlam J, Ilarrison,
| maker, aged 66 years, She asked for
$560,000 damages for breech of promise.
| =—James P. Neary, Cashier of the
| Mutual Union Telegraph Company, In
boston, has been arrested on the charge
of embezzling $2000 of the company’s
money. F.S. Higgins, station agent
for the Rock Island Railroad, and
iagent for the United States Express
Company, at Deviagtlon, Jowa, has beet
missing since the llth, There 5a
| shortage of $1200 in his accounts.
50th CONGRESS.-Sacond Session,
BENATE,
i
rent resolution for the counting by
{ Congress of the votes for President
|and Vice President on the 13th of
| February next. It was referred to the
i Committee on Privileges and Elections,
| The consideration of the Tariff ill
i was resumed, and Mr, Allison, from
{the Finance Committee, reported two
| new sections which he proposed to
offer as amendments, relating to a
| bounty on sugar, Pending considera.
| tien of the bill the Senate adjourned.
In the United States Senate, on the
| 15th, the consideration of the Tariff
| bill was continued. After five and a
{ half hours discussion, without a vote
| on anything, the Senate went into
| executive session, and, when the doors
were reopened, adjourned,
In the United States Senate, on the
| 16th, the President's messages, in re-
gard to Samoa and Haytl, were pre.
sented and referred with the accom
| panying correspondence. The consid-
eration of the Tariff bill was continued,
and Mr. Vest’'s motion, to put sait on
the free list, was rejected, Mr, All
son offered an amendment, which was
agreed to, making the duty on cross
cut saws 8, 10 and 15 eents per linear
foot, instead of 0, 8 and 13 cents. Mr,
Jones, of Arkansas, moved to put
* iron on the free list. Pending
discussion the Senate adiourned.
In the U, 8, Senate on the 17th, the
Hoar concurrent resolution in relation
to the meeting of the two Houses to
count the Electoral votes was reported
back and placed on the calendar, The
consideration of the Tariff bill was
resumed, and the amendment to the
tin plate paragraph to make iron and
steal sheets thinper than No. 25 pay
14-10 cen's per pound and tin platas
pay § ceuts in addition to this rate was
to. The amendment propos.
ing a bounty on sugar was considered,
but po vote was reached. After an
executive session the Seuafe adjourned,
HOUSE,
In the House, on the 14th, Mr. Ran
dall, of Pennsylvania, reported a reso”
requiring a
resolution was adopted by
orth Carolina, introduced a bill con-
the internal revenue features
#
In the House, on
ow
was passed for the establishment of a
Hghtship, with fog signal, at Bandy
dook, at a cost of $60,000. Mr.
the admission of Bouth Dakota and
North Dakota. He gave notice of the
offering ot the Omnibus’ bill as a
substitute at the proper time Pend-
ing debate on the ml the ilouse ad-
journed,
In the House, on Lhe 16th,
Territorial bills were discussed
adjournment,
In the House, on the 17ih, the Sen
ate bill fer the admission of Dakota
was considered, and Mr. Bpringer
moved to strike out all after the en.
acting clause and substitute the Omni-
bus bill, The motion was decided
out of order on a point raised by Mr.
Burrows, Mr. Springer then moved
to strike out the enacting clause and
insert House bill 8466, with certain
amendments, This also was ruled oul
of order, and Mr. Springer thereupon
offered House bill 8466 as a substitute.
the
until
point of order,
quently withdrew it, and the House
bill 8400 was received as a substitute,
Mr. McDonald, of
offered a substitute containing the
diate admission of South Dakota, At
{ this point the House adjourned.
—_e
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.
In the Senate, on the 15.h, the fol-
| lowing bills were introduced
| appropriately referred:
A supplement to the High
| bill, prolilbiting druggists fro
and
License
m1 seiling
i physician’s prescription; also, provid-
| ing that any ore. with or without a
license, selling and shipping intoxica-
Ling liquors to a minor, or pecson of
known intemperate habits, resident in
{| any other county than that in which
the seller resi , shall be indicted,
| nuder the provisions of the Brooks act,
{ in the county in which the liquor shall
be delivered, To repeal the Act of
1887 the enlargement
culture. To prohibit mining
manufacturing companies {ry
Keeping company stores, Adicurned,
In the Senate on the 16th, Mr,
Cooper again Introduced a joint resolu
tion to submit to a vote of the people
{ his bill abolishing the poll tax. Bills
| were introduced by Mr. Penrose for
the appointment of three additional
building inspectors in Philadelphia,
i and by Mr, Hines, to prevent unlawlul
combinations of railroads and anthra-
cite mining corporations, The bill for
the election of assessors for three years
was read a second time, and the second
| section, providing for the election of
{ assistant assessors, was sincken out,
{| Adjourned.
In the Senate on the 17th bills were
{ Introduced by Mr, Myhn, for the es.
| tablishment of manual training
i schools; by Mr. Rut authorizing
| street rallways hereafter incorporated
i
ie
x forar §
i June, « JOT 1
forest
and i
7
idy
{ to constract connections and branches,
with the consent of the cily or bor-
iough; by Mr. Upperman, relating to
{the crossing of streets grade by
steam railroads; and Mr, Lines, mak-
ing Labor Day a legal holiday. Bills
| were reported regulating building In-
i spection in Philadelphia; requiring
principals doing business through
{ agents to register with the Recorder of
| Deeds, and prohibiting t
| liquor on Decoration Day, adjourned,
sul
“i
he sale of
HOUSE,
In the House on the 15th, the foliow-
| ing bills were presented and appropri-
ately referred: Repealing the act of
F Jane 25, 1885, regulating the collec.
| tion of taxes In boroughts and towne
{ ships, To provide that countieshaving
10 or more public schools, or adjoining
districs having 00 or more public
schools, may elect a district or county
{ superintendent, and providing for the
| compensation of the same, To protect
the wages of labor and provide for the
| manner of the collection of the same,
hibit riding and driving over the same,
To prohibit mining and manufactur.
ing corporations from engaging in the
| business of carrying on stores, known
| a8 “company stores” or general supply
slores, by direct or indirect means, A
bill to authorize boroughs to levy and
collect a license tax on vehicles, A bili
{ providing for the appointment of dis-
trict inspectors of schools in boroughs
and townships (such Inspectors to be
poid $2.00 a day and to make monthly
| visits and examine into the sanitary
condition of such schools and the work
done by the teachers.) Adjourned,
In the House, on the 16th, bills
were reported, to provide for the dis.
play of the American flag over public
school houses; to regulate veterinary
practice. Bills were jotroduced by
Excise Commissioners to have sole
charge of the granting of licenses; by
Mr. Pugh for the apportionment of the
State into Senatorial Districts. Sev-
eral bills regulating the licensing and
sale of liquors were introduced.
In the House, on the 17th, bills were
reported authorizing appeals from tax
assessments and to abolish grade cross.
ings in Philadelphia. Bills were read
in place for the taking of property of
incorporated companies by other corpo-
rations, under the right of eminent
franchises; to submit a constitutional
amendment abolishing the poll tax; a
mechanic's len law; to regulate the
sale of milk; to prevent the adultera-
a a oer:
ulate ng ng
The bill to amend the act giving prefer
ence to Unlon veterans in public de
partments was to third reading;
also the prohibitory amendment joint
resolution, Adjourned.
will be presented to
and Morton received
MARYELOA
What Men May Who Cultivate
Their Faculties.
Mr. Stanton, the United States War
Minister during the great civil war, had
a very retentive memory, aud was
especially well up In Dicions’ works,
One evening in the early part of 1868
1) ekens, then on a reading {our in the
States, was dining with Charles Sum»
ner when Mr, Stanton and some others
were present, The War Minister was
put to the test. and when starfed
could repeat from memory a chapler
from any of Dickens' books showing a
much greater knowledge of the works
than their author could boast, Mr,
Stanton accounted for this intimate
knowledge of Dickens by mentioning
the habit which he had formed during
the war of Invariably reading some.
thing by the author of “Pick wick’?
before going to bed at night The
late Bishop Prince Lee, first Bishop of
Manchester, was similarly gified, It
is related of him that being once, at gn
evening party, started by a lady with a
i Ilne quoted from *“*Marmion,” he went
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and could have recited the whole, As
| a further test, the same lacy quoted a
few words from a conversation in
“Ivanhoe,” whereupon the Bishop re.
| peated the whole chapter correctly
fromm memory. Dut greater than any
of these was Lord Macaulay, ¥Froma
very early age the retentiveness of his
| memory was extraord.ipar: When
{ only 8 or 4 years of age, Lis mind me-
chanically reialned fora of what
{be read so that,
| talked *‘quite printed
{as child, when making
{ call with his father,
| Scott's ‘Lay of the last Minstrel” for
| the first time, and qu devoured the
treasure while his seniors were engaged
in conversation. When they returned
bome the boy wen! 1s other, who
| al the time confined {to her bed,
sitting down at the bedside re-
peated what he had been readiog, by
until she was Later
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“On another wsion,’” says
Trevolyan, Sir David Dundas asked:
‘Macaulay, do you know your Popes?’
**No,”” was the answer, “1 always get
wrong among the Innocent.” ‘Bat,
can you say your Archbishop of Can
terbury?’ ‘Any fool,” smd Macaulay,
‘could say his Archbisho Canter-
bary backward,” and he went off ata
score, drawing breath only once in
order to remark on the oddity of there
having been both an Archbishop Sane
croft, until Sir Davis stopped him at
Cranmer,” Macaulay once said that
if, by any possible chance, all the
copies of "Paradise l.ost” and the
“Pilgrim’s Progress’ mn existence were
destroyed, he could wile both out
agaln, complete, from recollection.
When O'Connell made his motion in
1654 for the repeal of the union, Mr.
Tennant, member of the Parliament
for Delfast, delivered a speech lasting
for three and a half hours, full of fig-
ures and calculations, entirely from
memory, in which he frusted so come
pletely that he sent the manuscript of
his speech to the newspapers before he
delivered it. His confidence was not
misplaced for the oration was spoken
withonl a single mistake, or even a
momentary hesitation. Another Irish
M. P., Mr. Robert Dillon Brown,
member for Mayo, had the same useful
faculty. He would dictate a speech
to an amanvensis, and Ulwenty-four
hours afierwards, without looking at
it or without thinking of the matter in
the meantime, could repeal it word
for word, Woodfall, the editor of the
Morning and brother of
Junius’ publisher, was able 10 report
accurately in the morning the debate
| of the previous evening without taking
any notes, In some cases the menta
| action involved in feats of this nature
would seem to be quite mechanical
and unintelligent. In the newspapers
i of January, 1820, there are accounts of
| an extraordinary man, who was known
| a8 “Memo y corner Thompson.” This
| man, although he could Lardly rem=m.
| ber anything be heard, could yet retain
perfectly the names and descriptions
of large collections of objects that met
his eye. He could takean inventory of
the contents of a house frem cellar tc
attic merely by surveying them, and
could afterward write it out from
memory. He could draw from recol-
lection accurate plans of mwauy London
parishes and districts, with every
street, alley, public bullding, public
house, etc,, duly noted, down to the
minutest topographical detail, such as
pumps, trees, bow-windows and posts,
all correctly marked. Conspicuous in
instances of this mechanical kind of
memory are to be found among the
famous mental calculators, Jefediah
Buxton was a celebrity of this kind
about the middle of the last century,
He bad but little education, and in-
deed was not able to write his own
name, But in arithmetic and in abstruse
calculations his powers were wonder.
fui. The following is a specimen of
the problems which when put to test
he solved mentally ina few minutes
Find how many cubica eighths of an
inch there are in & quadrangular mass
measuring 13,145,750 yards long, 2..
642.832 yards wide and 54 965 yards
thick. in London in 1754 be
was taken to see Garrick as Richard
115 at Drury Lane, The play did not
interest him, but he occupied himself
in reckoning the number of words he
beard and In Souniing the Abu ut
American boy, Zerah Colburn, who
came to London in 1812, was a simi.
lar phenomenon. Ile Ld no knowi-
edge of the rules
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