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Bridgeton, N. J„ Juno 19,1884.

Kepublican National Ticket,

FOR PRESIDENT,

JAMES G. ELAINE, OF MAINE,

FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, JOHN A. LOGAN,

OF ILLINOIS.

Mr. Chas. W. Starr's Memorial ad- dress at Woodbury, on Decoration Day, is being highly praised. J. W. Newlin’s address on the same day at Camden, is also complimented.

Edward R. Pennington, of Newark, died at that place on Saturday even- ing. He was a member of the House of Assembly of 1881, and was a son of the late Governor William Penning- ton.

This life is a little too harsh for such goody-goody, namby-pamby, gilt-edged reformers as Geo. Wm. Curtis, Gen. Barlow, of New York, and Colonel Codman, of Massachusetts. They ought to leave this world, and “climb a tree!”

A statement was made in the Pioneer last week that Gov. Abbett had signed one hundred and twenty- five bills. It should have read, two hundred and twenty-five bills, and nine Joint resolutions. This is a lar- ger number than usual.

Congressman Ferrell seems to be striving to win votes by straddling the River and Harbor bill. He recently advocated putting in an appropria- tion for the improvement of the Mau- rice river, and then, after the appro- priation had been agreed upon, voted against the bill. This is equal to Dan Rice in his old time feat, of riding two horses at one and the same time.

Senator Mahone, of Virginia, who was a delegate in the National Repub- lican Convention at Chicago, is a man of small stature, with long, white locks, and military mien. He says that the war is over, and that lie heartily accepts its results. In the coming campaign he will fight brave- ly for the success of the Republican ticket in the Old Dominion, and hopes to give Blaine and Logan a majority.

George William Curtis, editor of Harper's Weekly sat in the National Republican Convention, and partici- pated in all its proceedings, without entering the slightest protest. As a delegate in that Convention he is bound by its action. If he does not support Mr. Blaine then he is a dis- honorable man! No honorable man would participate in the deliberations of a Convention without, nrntoct nr>a then go out and repudiate its nomi- nees!

Mr. Samuel J. Tilden, ex-Democratic candidate for the Presidency, is out in a letter declining to again be a candi- date. He says that his “political career is forever closed.” The struggle for his old clothes is terrific among the aspiring brethren. It looks now as though the National Democratic Con- vention would accept Governor Grover Cleveland as his legatee, with Senator Bayard, of Delaware, as a good sec- ond. The lucky man, however, may be ex-Gongressman Flower, of New York, or Benny Butler, of the Old Bay State.

During a recent conversation with the writer, Congressman John A. Kas- son, of Iowa, stated that on the expi- ration of his present term in the House of Representatives, he should retire to private life. Mr. Kasson has been a member of Congress with short inter- vals, ever since the beginning of Mr. Lincoln’s administration. When not in Congress, he was absent as Minister to foreign countries. He has been one of the best and most useful repre- sentatives, and his retirement will be regretted not only by his immediate constituency, but the nation at large.

Thomas M. Ferrell, member of Con- gress from this district, voted to oust from their seats Messrs. Peelle, of In- diana, and McKinley, of Ohio, both of whom were just as legally elected as he. But the Democratic majority at Washington wanted their seats, and. so the two Republicans had to go. Next Fall when the people of the district go to the ballot-box they pro- pose to remind Mr. Ferrell that they have not forgotten his partisanship in the cases of McKinley and Peelle. They will do a little ousting on their «wn account, and the man whom they will oust is known as T. M. Ferrell.

JAMES G. BLAINE, OF MAINE, Republican candidate for President, was born in Washington County, Pa., January 31, 1830. Graduated from Washington College in 1847; taught school; in 1853 went to Augusta, Me.; became editor of the Kennebec Journal. In 1858 was elected to the Legislature, and in 1862 to Congress; was Speaker of the House, 1809-1875. In 1876 was candidate for nomination for President, in the convention which nominated R. B. Hayes. In 1879 was appointed U. S. Senator to succeed Senator Mor-

rill, deceased. In 1880 was again a candidate for Presidential nomination, receiving 282 votes on the first ballot; was appointed Secretary of State by jrresiuem vrarneiu; resigneu wnenuar-

fleld died, eight months later. He is the choice of four-fifths of the Repub- lican voters of the Nation, and was named as the candidate of the party at Chicago by nearly a two-third vote of the delegates. The Republican party never had an abler or better candidate, and we believe his election is sure by a large majority of the Electoral College.

He is a tattooed man. The wounds of the fore front of every battle for the people's rights during the last quarter of the century have left their marks upon him. He is tattooed with every- thing that is highest and noblest and dearest in our history. The preserva- tion of the Union of the States, the re- demption of National credit, the defeat of the rebels in war and the more dan- gerous traitors in peace—with all these is this leader tatooed. Tattooed with this and more, tattooed with a genius that is marvelous; tattooed with mag- nificence as a leader, with generosity as an opponent, with wisdom as a statesman; tattooed with a list of deeds in public life that in spite of calumny mark him as a great, true and noble man.—St. Louis Morning Call.

What came near being a tragedy oc- curred on Salt River, Hernando County, Louisiana, a few days since. Mr. Shiver was absent from home on busi- ness, and his wife, after attending to her household duties, had seated her- self near the door at her sewing, while her little one played around on the floor near at hand. Hearing a slight noise Mrs. Shiver looked around and saw, crouched within a dozen feet of her and the babe, an immense panther, ready to spring. With a shriek she sprung to her feet and dashed the heavy shears, with which she was cut- ting her work, in the panther’s face, snatched her child and rushed back into the house. The panther, discon- certed by the sudden attack and noise, beat a deliberate retreat for the swamp.

The chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that the total values of the ex- ports of domestic cattle, hogs, and of beef, pork and dairy products during the month of May, 1884, and during the five months ended May 31, 1884, also of beef and pork products during the seven months ended May 31, 1884, as compared with similar exports dur- ing the corresponding periods of the preceding years, were as follows: May, 1884, $7,554,239; May, 1883, $0,473,489; five months ended May 31, 1884, $34,- 470,985; do for 1883, $45,453,041; beef and pork products for seven months ended May 31, 1884, $50,278,750; do for 1883, $01,001,404.

Henry Carey Baird's withdrawal from the National Greenback party is far from pleasing to the men with whom he has so long acted. “I have been indentified,” says Mr. Baird, with the Greenback party since its formation. I have left it in disgust for more than one reason. I have left it on account of its candidates not be- ing acceptable to me, and on account of its adoption of a free-trade plat- form. I shall support Mr. Blaine. He will have my most hearty wishes; for, in my opinion, he is the most able and earnest Protectionist among pub- lic men in the United States.”

In Swansea, Wales, during a recent bank scare an old woman drew $450 from the savings bank and hid it in a sack. Not long after the sack became fdled with wheat and was taken to the mill. Then she remembered that the gold was at the bottom of it, and rushed frantically after it, reaching the mill only in time to hear the mil- ler profanely wondering aloud what ailed the wheat that it clogged the stones so. The machinery was stopped and all the gold recovered, though in a much battered state.

EIGHT LIVES LOST. A collision occurred on the Camden

and Atlantic Itoad, at Pike’s Peak, about eight miles from Camden, Satur- day morning, which resulted in the death of seven men and one little boy. Many other persons were injured. An excursion train with five coaches left Camden at 7.40, having on board the children and teachers of the Sunday Schools of the Second Presbyterian Church of Camden, and the Presbyte- rian Church of Wenonah, N. J., bound for Lakeside Park, a pleasure resort on the Camden and Atlantic Road. When the train was rounding a curve at a place called Pike’s Peak, it came into collision with the accommodation train from Atlantic City due in Cam-, den at 9.10 a. m. Both trains were running at a high rate of speed, and neither engineer was aware of his dan- ger until a few seconds before the lo- comotives came together. The passen- gers were startled from their seats by the screaming of the whistles and the grating of the air brakes, and the next instant were thrown headlong by a ter- riffic crash and the sudden stoppage of the trains. The engines and baggage cars of both trains were completely demolished, and were piled up in a confused mass of wood and iron fif- teen feet high, and the whole so en- veloped in scalding steam, that for some minutes nothing could be done to rescue or recover the persons buried in the ruins. The collision was at once iouoweu Dy a scene ot wild excitement and confusion. Men, women and child- ren jumped from the cars, many com- ing out through the windows. Many were screaming and crying, and all were half crazed with fright, while the cries of the wounded and those who were being scalded to death in the ruins, mingled with the hissing of the escaping steam.

As soon as it was possible to approach the ruins without being scalded, men went to work to get out the killed and injured. The list of the killed includes the engineers of both trains, the mail agent and fireman of the accommoda- tion train, the Civil Engineer of the Camden and Atlantic Road, the con- ductor of the excursion train, a brake- man, and a Sunday School scholar, a boy 10 years old, who, crushed and lac- erated, lived until five o’clock in the evening. The first man taken from the ruins was Express Agent John Ro- senbaum, of the accommodation train. He presented a shocking appearance, being terribly cut about the head. He is still alive, but may die, as besides the cuts, he is badly injured. The back fireman, Nicholas Barber, of the accommodation train, was next taken out, He was dead. His entrails pro- truded from his body, and he was oth- erwise mangled. Fireman Louis Mc- Lain was then picked up living, but badly scalded and gashed about the face and head. Mail Agent Winfield Hiles was with great difficulty gotten out. He was lying under the debris, and it was sometime before he was dis- covered. Attention was attracted to him by a faint cry, “I am here.” He was terribly injured internally, and died in a short time. Of the excur- sionists, only one was fatally hurt. This was little Willie Caskey, aged 10, who has since died. His brother John, aged 13, is injured about the face, but not dangerously. Mr. Frank Fenton, the civil engineer of the road, was also the Superintendent of the Second Presbyterian School. He was taken out dead after about two hours’ work, mangled in a terrible manner. His daughter was on the train. Immedi- ately after the accident she began to search for her father, but was told that he was safe, and had (rone nhaml to flag the trains. She then walked to Haddonfield. After she had gone, her father was taken out of the ruins, his head almost flattened where it had been crushed. Cond uctor Albert Smith and the brakeman, Gustavus Edwards, of the Lakeside train, were taken out dead. Smith was counting his tickets in the front car. It was nearly an hour and a half after the accident be- fore medical assistance arrived. The dead were all taken to Camden, where the Coroner held an inquest. The in- jured were removed to their homes.

After years of hopeless combat with an opponent physically our superior, West Virginia stands at the threshold of a new era. The nomination of Jas. G. Blaine tor President will complete the work so happily begun within our own borders, and the Mountain State will be wrested from Bourbon domi- nation, and again placed where she rightly belongs—in the ranks of the Republican States. * * * The Dem- ocrats affect to ridicule the idea of Republican victory in West Virginia. So did they affect to ridicule the elec- tion of Goff to Congress, but he was elected, and just as easily, just as sure- ly, can we redeem the whole State with the prestige Blaine and Logan will give us.— Wheeling (IF. Va.) Intel- ligencer

Miss Mary Kelley, aged twenty-eight years, was found early on Saturday evening, kneeling in the bath-tub at her residence, 501 Franklin street, Bal- timore, horribly burned. She was un- able to state how her clothing took fire, and could give no explanation of her condition, as she could not speak. She died at 10 o’clock p. m.

OUR SOLDIER DEAD. Rev. Geo. Reed, of the Trinity M. E.

Church, delivered the following elo- quent and interesting address to the comrades of A. L. Robeson Post, No. 42, Grand Army of the Republic, on Decoration Day. It is published by request of the Post:

Worthy Commander and Com- rades:—Our National Government to- day commands a halt and calls the people from the hurry of business to reflection, while we commemorate the fallen soldier of the war of the Rebell- ion.

Flowers have been kindly strewn and flags have been planted on many a grave through all the land,and now we are gathered here to add our humble tribute of gratitude, honor and love.

There are seventy-nine National Cemeteries extending from New York to Florida and to the Indian Territory. In these alone are quietly resting 318,- 176 heroes of our late war. Among these are 146,874headstones whose only inscription is “Unknown.” As has been said of Moses “None but God knows the place of his burial,” none but God knows the burial place of an unnumbered army who passed to the nation’s roll of honor, without the last tender offices of their comrades or the common rites of a soldier’s burial, (of this number was he whose name adorns the banner of your Post), but their tombs will ever be green in our hearts and their names enshrined in our memories.

The Grand Army first began to dec- orate the soldiers graves in 1867—two years after the close of the war. Nine- tppn vpnrii lin.vp nmv nnccorl nnd

express the hope that through genera- tions yet to eoiue, this beautiful custom will still prevail. This much is clue from every citizen of our Republic— from the older citizen because of the sad memories of those dreadful four years, and from the younger, because of the benefits which" perpetuate with promise a nobler history of onr land.

But there are those who look upon this decorating and parade as only a waste of time and needless expense. So men thought when a woman came to Jesus with a box of precious oint- ment. But He pronounced it a good work and declared that wherever His gospel should be preached in all the world this should be told as a memorial of her. There are sentiments which are of more value than money. This Decoration Day is an important edu- cator in true patriotism and fraternity. The act of that woman was an expres- sion of love and at the same time a preparation (as he called it) against more solemn events that were to fol- low. Our custom looks to the past with love, and to the future it is a pre- paration, for solemn and mighty changes are sure to come. What se- curity has a nation against tyranny,dis- loyalty or disunion unless the youth are inspired by the history of the past? When secession first began to show its head it only dared to crawl from its vile den because it presumed upon the stupidity, indifference and cowardice of “Northern Mudsills.” They were a peace loving people, at least they were not reared with dagger and revolver in hand as were many of the South. And many a soldier who fell for the Union had hoped that the war would never come, and had prayed that it might never come, but the Fourth of July and the history of Revolutionary patriots had instructed them, so that the first shell on Sumter transformed us into a nation of warriors! May this 30th day of May continue to "be a memorial of the past and stand as a sentinel and guardian for the future!

There are those secondly, who fear that this day may perpetuate the bit- terness and animosities of ’61. But we think not. All true men are ready to cast the robe of charity if not of fra- ternity around the issues of the war. Where there sleeps a soldier in gray, to-day, you would as kindly deck his grave as of one in blue. But there are principles and issues which ought to be remembered to the end of time. Many think that the mistake of our war was the excessive clemency to the leaders and instigators of rebellion. And in the face of true loyalty, It is a shame against heaven that such a man as Jefferson Davis has been allowed to snarl out his treason with brazen ef- frontery for more that twenty years! Shall fathers forget their sons or widows forget their husbands? Of whatever party we may be, may we never grow so far from ourselves and patriotism as to permit the mournful record of the four years war to fade from the minds of men!

There is still another class who charge that the Grand Army observe this dav for their own glory and honor. This T tliinl/ ia ianlmiQir __

arils, such as feared the draft or fled the country in the hour of its struggle. I confess, to this day, I have shame that I have no part in this roll of honor. I am of this county. In the early part of the war while the muster drum was beating day after day and night after night, I saw men with large families and small support marchin0* up to the enrolling officer and giving their names for the Union service till I could stand it no longer. I enlisted was marched to the old armory in Philadelphia, where we lived three days mostly on lager beer and cheese We were drawn up in line to be sworn in when Col. Freedman rejected some of us because we were not of a"e. 1 suppose I was only too glad to" take that as rather Providential and did not again offer my services. But I hold that every soldier ought to have a certain pride in the noble but awful sacrihce which they laid upon the na- tion s altar. Anil that union, freedom and the blessing of Grod crowns the gift, they made! Costly anil magnficent monuments are erected in honor of our great generals and the world ap- proves. But it was the character of the rank and file that made many of them what they were. At the opening of the war our officers were unskilled in warfare, and. their success was due rather to the fact that these “mudsills” could stand in the face of death than any greatness of their own. Many of us remember, for instance, the sorrow- ful time when our “Fourth New Jer- sey” was swept almost out of existence in the very first engagement! It is not exaggeration to say that so noble so intelligent, so Christian an armv never before marched to field of ‘battle. Never before did so many men go from the professions, the schools, the fac- tones, the farms and from comfortable and nappy homes as against the Amer- ican Rebellion. Never before did so infernal a blight fall in gloomy bereave-

ment upon homes that were worthy of better fortune! Never did truer men cheerfully meet privation on the field or drag their skeleton bodies about more inhuman prisons than twenty years ago! How vividly some of the scenes of that time come to my mind! When thesoldiers were marchingaway we followed them to the railroad sta- tion in the midst of thrilling excite- ment, we would give them our shout, our tears and our prayers and then re- turn to our homes to pass wakeful and sleepless nights. How we daily watched for the incoming train, and when one would stand upon a box or a barrel to read the news to the gathered multi- tude of men, women and children, it was like listening for the sound of judgment. Inexpressible joy or bur- dening sorrow daily filled our hearts. And when the war was over and the boys came marching home I stood in the streets of Philadelphia one day as they passed along with shreded and dirty flags, dusty and ragged uniforms, scarred and crippled, amid the general shout I saw men weep like children for joy, old men bowed themselves in prayer, and every heart blessed God for the safe feturn of so many noble sons of the great Republic; and all wept for the silent but vast army that came not back with them.

For these men wre love our native land the more, we prize our free insti- tutions and stand for our united coun- try and the general brotherhood of man. And we love the memory of the fallen heroes and so we should. On

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your memorial service, or as I have seen lonely mothers wandering solemn- ly about the cemeteries, clothed in black, I think that every American citizen should remember that they were our brothers, our comrades and our friends, and their honored names shall not pass into oblivion while mem- ory lasts. If we think with admiration of Esther because she ventured into the presence of the King with her very life depending on the motion of the tyrant’s sceptre, for the sake of her countrymen, or of Moses bearing upon his heart a people’s cause through forty years, until at times he falls upon his face almost in despair, yet rises and leads them on; or of the Son of Man who became poor, despised and rejected of men for our humanity, we are surely taught to honor with living gratitude the heroic defenders of the American Republic. Year by year the comrades of your Post will be lessening as the veterans pass on to “the great majority” and answer to the roll-call of the finally and honora- bly discharged. Places are becoming vacant, and time will be thinning the rank and file of New Jersey’s volun- teers. But the Republic lives and grows! And with her increasing great- ness will add increasing honor to the soldier of the Union. Her sons look proudly upon you to-day and pour un- feigned blessings upon your name, and the nation is saying to them in the lines of the poet: “There is laid a sword in thy father’s tomb, And its edge is fraught with thy foeman’s doom; Hilt soft be thy step through the silence deep. For tho viewless have fearful might!”

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK. The following resolutions were unan-

imously adopted at the late session of the District Sunday School Convention at Cape May City:—

I. That the benefits of co-operation in the Sunday School work, as shown in the success of thoroughly organized township associations are too import ant to be neglected; therefore, this convention urges upon all Sunday School workers the duty of securing the advantages of township organiza- tion wherever possible.

II. That we regard it as an impera- tive duty of the Church and home to watch over the reading of our children and youth, and to commend the most careful scrutiny over the books and pages put into their hands, and the most liberal provision of pure and healthful reading, that it may be with- in the ready reach of all at home.

III. That in order to have our chil- dren brought more directly in contact with the preached gospel and the or- dained ministry of the Word, we urge upon Christian parents and guardians the duty of securing the attendance of their children upon the public service of the house of God.

IV. That while we heartily favor the use of all lesson helps provided by the church as aids to Bible study, we are not in favor of such helps as a substi- tute for the Bible in the Sabbath School. The Bible itself should be the text book in the hands of every teacher and scholar.

V. That we recommend urgent ef- forts to be made within the district to secure by the 25th of December next, the possession, on the part of every teacher and scholar, of a Bible of his own for use in the Sabbath School.

VI. That we recognize the efficiency and usefulness of the new plan of work adopted by the State Association, and heartily recommend to all our schools the support of this work through the vearlv envelones fnrnieHorl i„. Township Secretary.

VII. That we reiterate the recom- mendation of former years, that special attention be given to the formation of temperance bands in our Sunday Schools, and the indoctrination of ail our scholars in the principles of total abstinence.

VIII. That the thanks of the Con- vention are due and are hereby ex- tended to the citizens of Cape May City for the generous hospitality dur- ing tlie session.

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