Impaled Upon An Auger

[From tho Virginia (Ncv.) Chronicle.] About 5 o'cloek last evening one of the most extraordinary and horrible accident tb at ever liappened on the Comstock took place in the Savage carpenter sbop. Here there is in use a steam anger, which pointe toward the workman and makes 1,000 revolutions per minute. It is a self-feeder, and anything that is laid up against the point is caught and thrown over its coils with lightning-like rapidity. William Carpenter, the uufortunate victim, at the time mentioned was boring n hole through a stick of hard wood, about three inches thick and eight feet long, and was leaning his weiglit against it, nndcr the impression tliat there was a gaugo nttached to the machinery to prevent the block goin further along the auger than the distance required. Suddenly a workinan near Carpeuter observed an indescribable look on his face as his body shot forward and donbled over the terrible machine. It liad passed, like a fencer's sword, through his stomach, and "was protruding at the back. He was literally impaled upon the auger, which wos churning his intestines at the rate of from 1,000 to 1,500 revolutions per minute. In the midst of this horrible agony Carpenter seems to have maintained his preaence of mind, for he tast himself backward and got off the migcr, falling to the floor as he did so. The most terrible excitement prevailed among his comrades in the shop, and Hiere was a rush to the prostrate man. The sight must have almostparalyzed them. Crpenter was lying on his back, with his clothes torn and twisted above the region of his abdomen. Just above him the deadly nuger was still whizzing, and clinging to it was a mass of intestino, the loose ends of whicli spread out with the revolutions and gave the auger the appearance of a buzz-saw. The man was removed to the bath-room and laid out upon the floor. Ho was still cool, and not a cry escaped hitn. His brother (the ex-city jailer) was sent for, and, on his arrival, he oommunicated his wishes in regard to his business affairs and the dicposal of his effects, remarking, " My brother is an honest man, and will do the right thi„g." Presently it became evident that he was sulïering intense pain, and the physicians in attendanoe decided that he had botter die under theinfluence of chloroform. Before the drug was administered he was told that he would never come from under its influence alive. He merely nodded, bade thoae about him good-by, and in a few minutes was nuconscious. He lay in this state as calmly as a sleeping child until after 4 o'clock in the morning, when the influence of the ohloroform passed off and hc opened his eyes. He did not seeui to suffer much pain, and occasionaliy taiked to nis attendants. He died at 5 o'clock, and, as those who saw him said, "died like a mfin. " His last words were, ' ' I am passing into the unknown." A Chronicle reporter ealled at the Savage works and inspected the scone of Carpenter's death. Tho bathrooni where he died was being washed and the blood scraped up from the floors. The mest ghastly Bight was the uoring machine. The auger whioh did the work was covered with blood for its entira length, with shreds of flesh still clinginp; to it. A workman infornied the reporter than nearly sixteen feet of intestines had been taken from it after Carpenter was takon into the bath-room to die. The frumework was covered with "blood, and almost everything spattereJ with it. CruUc Wagons. Tlie Bulgfirian wagon is nn interesting piece of mechanism ; the fellies of the wheels are about sixinches inwidtli, made in eight pieces, fastened together at the ends by woodea dowel pins, but there are no tires of any sort to bind the wheel together, and yet they manage to haul heavy loads upon theso vehicles. The axles are of wood, and wheü the wagon ia in motiou the caterwauling sounds that are emitted from these axles defyall description. Cannibalism iu Manitoba. The mail-carrier from Edmonton, Manitoba, briugs to Winnipeg the dismal news that six or seven Indians on the plains, on a hunting excursión, having been iong out, and in a stárring condition for days, at lust became cannibals. One died andwaseaten; and, before the ave or six survivors coulc reaeh their camp, all but one died o were killed, and shared the same hor rible fate. Every druggist in Paducah, Ky., bn one, has been indicted for selling liquo nnlawfully.