Rrc- fc.-ggiT'ffr ',''' A.gi wjmvvt. LANeASTER DAIIA INTELLIGENCER THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1881. -' '-'i'T?'!!r3 Hancastcr fntelkgencn:. THURSDAY EVENING. 1IAB. 10, 1881. Net Gene for tieed. A geed deal of wonder has been caused by Mr. Blaine's retirement from the Senate into the cabinet. He gees from a place that is greatly coveted by men of ambition, who are capable of making ,tbeir mark in it, as he certainly is, te one which is shunned as a place of polit ical burial. The experience of many past years has shown that a presidential aspirant can find no stepping stone te bis ambition in a cabinet office. The secretaryship of 'state at one time had that allurement, but new it does net even have the attraction of being the most influential and powerful of the cabinet offices. It may, perhaps, be yet esteemed as the most respectable by reason of the old time perfume that hangs around it. It is a place of ease, well suited te an aged party favorite who lias surrendered his hope of the presidency. It did well enough for an 'exhausted candidate like General Cass, te rest in ; but for -a vigorous party chieftain, such as Blaine undoubtedly is, it seems a strange retreat. Seme people think that his assumption of it lias the significance of the taking of the black veil, and that Blaine has with drawn from the presidential pursuit which he was hitherto engaged in with se much ardor. We doubt this very much. The leop ard cannot change its spots ; but it can crouch and wait. Becoming secretary of state, undoubtedly Blaine has deter mined te interrupt for a time his pur suit of the presidential game. He pro poses te wash himself clean and anoint himself with sweet spices in the very resectable efllce into which he ler a time retires te rest. He is yet young. At the worst he will need but te wait eight years te bloom with a new vigor and fresh fragrance as a presidential candidate. Should it happen that Mr. Garlield's administration should be se successful as uflgive its head a second term, Mr. Blaine will share the glory and become f ragrant with pleasant odors. He has then an even chance of receiving the inheritance which se much goodness will merit and becoming his party's candidate for the succession. It is true that ad ministrations cannot safelv be relied upon te retain popular favor; and Mr. Blaine has in his calculation considered the probability that Mr. Garfield's will go te the bad in its first term. But he knows his own smartness and has a com. irtable reliance that he will be sagacious and bold enough te foresee the wreck and escape its dangers. Iu the Senate he would have been in perpetual struggle te maintain his po sition. Every act would have been con strued as dictated by the prompting of his ambition. His rivals would have main tained toward him their bitterness ; and every time he would have come before a nominating convention he would have had the same dead weight that has twice brought him defeat. Retiring from the presidential race, as he docs new for a time, he shakes himself free from these embarrassments, and when iu the future becomes upfrent a fresh directiep te make his spring, he hopes te be light weighted enough te span the distance. Se that we see a geed deal of shrewd ness and patient philosophy in Mr. Blaine's defiance of the superstitions of ordinary politicians about the state office, and his readinpss te assume that old woman's gown as a cloak te his am bition, which is no less ardent that it is thus disguised. There may, however, be further inducements for him. Ne doubt he sees in the state office capabili ties that the Fish and Evarts style of men could net discover. Mr. Blaine is net noted for extieme scrupulousness, and it is safe te say that he will fellow any path that ambition invites him te. He will make his department lively, if any lifecan hi put in it. We may safely count upon having a disturbing time iu our foreign relations, and finding Mr. Blaine gal lantly riding the storm lie hasstirred up, sj as te attract plenty of public atten tion. Upen what side he will be, it would net be safe te predict. "We suggested tiie ether day that perhaps he found iu the current agitation for a closer connec tion with Mexico, an opportunity which made the holding of the state office a valu able point of advantage. If he should fellow in the line of his heretofore de clared convictions, he will oppose that union with Mexico which is supposed te be close te the hearts of the Grant crowd. That it is their scheme would be another reason te Blaine why it should be net his: and their dissatisfaction with Mr. Garfield's cabinet may be greatly based upon the pronounced hos tility of the secretary of state te a polit ical union with " an undesirable popu lation" which would give us " weakness where we want strength, discord where we need peace, and a lack of patiietic inspiration where most of . all we re quire the devoted spirit of a true Amer ican nationality." As Mr. Blaine has thoroughly demonstrated the selfishness of his patriotism and his fondness for a row when he can mix in it te get glerjr out of it, we de net put any trust in his sincere desire for peace instead of discord in the Mexican matter. He is very likely te foment the discord tliat he may make the peace. Whatever has taken him into the state office, it is quite certain that he has gene there because he thinks ifc best for Blaine ; and he may be trusted te have made no great mistake. The resolution of the Pennsylvania railroad stockholders, which authorized President Beberis te issue four hundred thousand shares of fresh stock, permits it te be either sold or allotted te the present stockholders. The impression has been that the stockholders would be given the privilege of taking it at par, as has heretofore been done when an increase of stock was made. It is said, however, that a syndicate has offered te take the entire let of four hundred thou sand shares at seventy, and possibly, in view of the danger of depressing the price by putting se lan-e a body of stock en the market, the directors may determine te transfer this risk te the parties who offer te take it. The most satisfactory plan, however, te the stockholders would probably be the allotment. There is no great danger of the price of se geed a stock sinking materially under the fresh issue. These who would buy it at seventy, with the privilege of pay ing for it in three months, would be very likely te make the profit out of the operation that they calculate upon. Mn. CnASUJEBLAix, the leading edi torial writer en the New Yerk Herald, just deceased, dies without wide fame, though his work was famous, because he was net identified with it by name. The Herald get the credit of it and Mr. Ben nett, the owner of the paper, is the only one whom it makes famous, although' in fact he has little te de with its manage ment or utterances. It is remarkable that men of first-class ability as thinkers and writers arc willing te surrender their identity with their work and be content with their own knowledge of its performance and the wages, without fame, that it brings them. MINOR TOPICS. The Erie Herald makes the personal ob. scrvatien that Mr. Tilden is the eldest living ex-President. 1UK bill te submit te the people a con stitutional amendment prohibiting the im portation, manufacture, and sale, of intoxi intexi icating liquors in Texas, except for medi cinal and sacrameutal purposes, passed the State Senate by a vote of 23 te 7. Ex-Secrktarv Ramsey was -requested by Secretary Lincoln te open the telegrams received at the war office until the latter should arrive in Washington. One of the telegrams opened by Mr. Ramsey en Tues day read : " Please remember about that appointment." The Peruvian representatives at Londen and Paris asked England and France te mediate between Peru and Chili. France invited Italy and Germany te take part in the mediation. Germany declined and Italy accepted the invitation. The negoti ations have already begun. The Heuse resolution declaring that Mr. Tilden was elected president and that Mr. Hayes wasn't has been postponed imieiiuitcJy ey the Delaware Senate Though there is hardly a Democrat in- Delaware who hasn't his very pesitive opinion en the subject. The Heuse rese lutien was generally thought unnecessary, INDIANA ASD INGRATITUDE. They've lcJt you in the celli, Indiana; Xet :i son of venrs enrolled, And Hie Cabinet's all told, Indiana. October's golden fruit, Indiana, Has rooted and no slioet Of lloesicr shares the loot, Indiana. O, w Iier is Johnny Xew, Indiana ? And Ben and Tvner, tee ? Thv utmosphere is blue, Indiana. Courier-Journal. Tue Kansas Temperance executive com mittee have issued an address cengratulat ing the people of the state upon the pre gress of the temperance cause. They say By the votes of her citizens, by the de cisien of the supreme court, and by the ac tien of her Legislature, Kansas has de clared herself forever free from all part nership iu the traffic of intoxicating liquors and new leads the world in the effort te suppress by constitutional law the great scourge of the nations. Only by a prompt and vigorous enforcement of the laws can we have a right te held the pest of honor in the great warfare with intemperance. The passage of the amendment has been followed by the enactment of a law that is stringent in its previsions. It is note worthy that this law passed the Legisla ture by a large majority. The vote in the Ssuatc was 32 te 7, and in the Hen re 100 te 23, thus giving mnjerity in both Houses of mere than four te one." TnE correspondent of the Londen Times at Berlin comments en the great increase in the emigration te the United States, and says : " Whole villages are described by local papers as migrating from Pescn, Prussia proper, and Schlcswig. American emigration agents, hewcvcr,hardly dare set forth the advantages of the various states which they represent, as they are warned by the American legation that it would be unable te help them if they .should get into trouble with the authorities. Mr. Wrandel, an American citizen of Hunga rian extraction, who two years age was forbidden te lecture in Berlin en emigra tion, his just beeu equally unsuccessful ou a second visit, designed te pursuade the authorities of the felly of impeding emigration. It appears, however, that the precautions against the exodus of young men have been somewhat relaxed in Seuth Germany. The German govern ment particularly aims te divert emigra tien fiemthc United States." Tueue was something of prophecy iu the impassioned appeal of the late Senater Matt Carpenter befere the electoral com mission, when in a powerful pretest against the reversal of the people of thereby of the whole of the will Louisiana aud country, by that tribunal, he said : " I appear here for the next Republican candidate for the presi dency, whoever it may be, whether it sliall be one of my friends en this commis sion or some ether man, and insist that this court shall settle a rule here by which, if we carry Wisconsin by 10,003 majority for him, as I hope we shall be able te de, no beard of returning officers can by fraud, or falsehood, or bribery, be induced or be enabled te threw that state against him and against the voice and will of the pee ple." Gen. Garfield was ene of the com missioners who turned a deaf car te Car penter's appeal. Did the latter's keen foresight discern, se far iu advance, the probable action of the Chicago convention as indicated in the above quoted passage ? What a ItuUrea-l Car Will Held. Taking 26,000 pounds as a fair average lead, the ordinary railroad freight cars will held : Cern, 30 bushels ; barley, 800 bushels; eats, 800 bushels; rye, 400 bushels ; wheat, 425 bushels ; bran, 1,000 bushels; flaxseed, 360 bushels; apples 360 bushels; potatoes, 490 bushels whisky, 60 barrels ; salt, 70 barrels ; lime' 70 barrels; flour. 90 ban-els: flour. 2(in sacks ; cattle. 18 head ; hogs, 50 head sheep, 80 head ; haid weed, 6 cords ; sort weed. 7 cords; solid beards, 6,006 feet; shingles, 40,000; hard lumber, 20.000 feet ; green lumber, 13,000 feet ; joist, scautling aud Luge lumber, 4,000 feet. PERSONAL Gail Hamilton is te be appointed prose laureate of the state department. General Garfield declines te tea with the ladies. He likes lager and knows geed wine without the bash. Ex-Attorney General Devex-j will make a trip te California and Oregon during the coming summer. Geerge Henscuel, the singer, and Miss Lillian Bailet, also in the musical pro fession, were united in marriage in Bosten yesterday. Senater Angus Cameren was nominated Jer United States senator en the forty- eighth ballet in the Republican caucus at Madisen, Wis. Mr. Jehn Hay, assistant secretary of state, has informed President Garfield and Secretary Blaine that he will net ee able te remain in his position owing te private engagements. Marshal Bazaine and his wife are re ported te be moving in "the best society " of Madrid. This is gratifying te thu mar shal's and the niadame's friend here abouts. The name of H.J. Ramsdell, the Wash ington correspondent of the Philadelphia Timet- aud editor of the Republic in that city, is mentioned in connection with the appointment of first assistaut secretary of the treasury. Ivert Chamberlain, for many years an editorial writer en the New Yerk pi ess, died at his home, 612 Seveuth avenue, yesterday morning, aged 60 years. He was a native of Xew Hampshire, and iu early life taught school in Buffalo, where he subsequently edited the Commercial Advertiser. He was employed for many years as a leading editorial writer en vari ous city papers, lastly by the New Yerk Herald. He leaves a wife, an adult son aud a daughter. Fernande Weed, when in Europe, was found one morning sitting with his tall hat and gray moustache, in a hotel at Warsaw, a town whose people made up for going te bed very late by rising correspondingly late in the morning. He called the waiter and ordered an elaborate breakfast. "Mais, Monster, c"cst impossible," replied the man, " I cau perhaps obtain for mon sieur a little cafe, a little bread ; but zc breakfast, ab, no ! ze cook, he never gets up befere 11 o'clock." Weed drew himself up, and iu a voice of thunder, and rolling out the syllables into the ears of the asteuiahed garcon (who perhaps comprehended one word in twenty), he ejaculated with gesticulations, " Eleven o'clock 1 Ne wonder that the Russians subjugated Poland ! I could m6-ju-qale Poland myself if the cooks de net get up before 11 o'clock." Queen Careline Amelia, the widow of King Christian VIII., of Denmark, died yesterday in Copenhagen. She was the daughter of the late Frederick Christian, Duke of SIcswig-Holstein-Seuderburg-Au- gustenburg, and was born en the 28th of July, 179G. She was married te Christian VIII. en the 22d of May, 1815, twenty four years before he ascended the throne of Denmark, and seen after he had put forward an unsuccessful claim te the crown of Norway. She was a woman of excellent education aud exalted tastes, aud under her influence Christian devoted him self te artistic and scicntilie researches se assidueuslythat, in 1832, he was elected president of the Copenhagen Academy of Fine Arts. When he ascended the throne of Denmark in 1839, Careline took active pait iu the councils which led te the de. claratien that SIcswig-IIelstciu was indis indis Relubly united te Denmark. After her husband's death, iu 1818, she resided quietly in Copenhagen. LATEST NEWS BY MAIL. The intensely moral town of Bradford is sensibly shocked at the announcement that Sarah Bernhardt is te visit that place next Thursday, the 17th inst. Themas M. Baker, who has beeu for twelve years a clerk iu the dead letter office in Washington, was yesterday ar rested for rifljng letters. The jail iu Quiucy, Flerida, containing four prisoners, was destroyed by lire last night. The jailer net being about the building at the time, the inmates were burned alive. The gross earnings of the WabaMi rail road for the year were $12,461,713 and the operating expenses $7,787,348. 192 miles of steel rails have been laid and the com cem piny new has 1,118 miles of steel track. Wesley Harrison Smith, a gigantic negro negre was shot and killed, near Campbellsburg, Henry county, Ky., by a band often mask ed men, when in the act of setting a barn en tire en Monday night. Twe freight trains ou the Cleveland & Columbus railroad came in collision yes terday near Crcbtline, O. Beth locomo tives were wrecked, and fourteen cars were detailed. Conductor Gress aud Engineer McGrath were slightly injured. Seme generous man whose nanie has net been made public has premised te give Harvard college $113,000 for a building aud apparatus for a physical laboratory, provided ether friends of the college laisc $73,000 whose income shall devoted te the running expenses. At a recent social gathering in Canada, 57 of these present belonged te the family of Mr. W. Skippin. He is 66 vears of age, and, counting his wife, his sons and their wives, his daughters .and their hns bauds, and all their children, be has in his family one for each year of his age. The steamship Erin, at New Yerk, from Liverpool, reports having, en March 3, rescued the crew of the steamer Drum duff, bound from Philadelphia for Ant werp, and in sinking condition. The Drumduff was a Glasgow steamer and was grain laden. At a meeting of the Western Union di rectors a quarterly dividend of one and a half per cent, was declared en""Westcrn Union stock and also en the certiticates et indebtedness issued te holders of the At At lantice and Pacific, Americau Union and Western Union companies stock. The great drapery establishment called LaPrintemps, en the Boulevard Hauss mann, was burned in Paris. Fejir persons, including two firemen, were seriously hurt. The insurance, which nearly covers the losses, is divided between eighteen Paris companies, the heaviest loser being the La Fencierc, Baren Seudeyran's company, which is liable for nearly two million francs. The total -losses of the insurance companies will amount te 7.000,000 francs. Fire was discovered in a room in the basement of the Wisconsin capitol, at Mad Mad ieon, en Thursday afternoon, but was seen extinguished. The room is used for ster ing paints and oil, and the fire is supposed te have originated spontaneously in a heap ei rags mat lay in a corner. During the excitement, "Old Abe." the famous war eagle, screamed and flapped his wings, and being let loose, took atrip te another por tion of the basement, and remained there till all danger was ever. ' MEXICO. IS tiBANT LOOKING TOWARDS ITS 1 CONQUtST? And la Bialae la tbe CaMaet te Checfc that Enterprise? New Yerk Herald. Mr. James G. Blaine is mere Mexican iu his sentiments than the Mexicans them selves. It was no longer age than July 4, 1877, at a well remembered anti-Hayes de monstration at Woodstock, Conn., that Mr. Blaine.after listening te .impassioned denunciations of Hayes' southern policy by ex-Governer DauiafH. Chaimberlain and te the mellifluous stanzas of Dr. O. W. Helmes, rose te deliver the speech of the day. Mr. Blaine did net waste h'u breath upon subordinate issues nor beat about the bush for magnificent game. He boldly denounced the existence of an administra tion plot te bring about war with Mexico under pretext of border raids and thus ef fect the annexation of the northern states of that republic. Waxing eloquent with his great argument he fiercely impeached the administration for conspiring with Texan bandits te procure "a cession of territory acquired at the wrong time, le cated in the wrong place, inhabited by an undesirable population, adding weakness where we want strength, discord where we need peace, aud a lack of patriotic in spiration where -most of all we require the devoted spirit of a true American nation ality." It is but fail te a gentleman of Mr. Blaine's cminence te assume that these words were net lighly spoken in mere ' gayety of heart," like that of the French minister at the outset of the Sedan cam paign. Mr. Blaine, hke Brutus, is au honorable man, aud must have had geed reasons for deneun una the ambition of the modern Ca)sar from Fremeut, Ohie. What these reasons may have beeu it would be presumption for ordinary mortals te inquire, aud tbe task would be the mere useful since Mr. Blaine will readily concede that the Woodstock oration put an effectual quietus upon the treasonable designs of the arch conspirator. But is it certain that the danger is permanently averted ? There are ether ambitions new in full play be sides the foiled strategy of Air. Hayes, aud there are ether gentlemen ceuuected with Mexican affairs who have mere fre quently beeu charged with Cajsarism. Especially is this the case with regard te Mr. Hayes's predecessor and would-be suc cessor at the White Heuse. That gentle man is known te have a sentimental inter est in Mexico ever since the time he lis tened as a young captain of artillery te the siren sengr. of dark-eyed senoritas iu 1847-48. Last year he visited Mexico for a period only tee brief te satisfy his long ings. Te-day he is said te be en the eve of a fresh pilgrimage te the halls of the Mentezumas. His name appears conspicu ously at the head of a new railway corpor ation let- developing the untold re sources of that terra incognita, the South ern states of- Mexico. It is whispered that vast designs arc en feet with refer ence te regions whose mineral wealth will seen cause California aud Nevada te hide their diminished heads. If any cre dence cau be given te several of our in spired contemporaries the new plot against the independence of Mexico far exceeds iu magnitude the abortive design of Mr. Hayes in 1877, which was se promptly frowned down by our new Premier As, however, Mr. Blaine must be supposed te have the courage of his convictions it is seething te reflect upon the dismay which his appointment as secretary of state must have carried into the camp of the relent less plotters against the peace of two great American republics. While he remains at the helm young men and maidens may rest assured that their deep dreams of peace will net be broken at least net iu the direction of our Southern froutier; for Mr. Blaine's policy toward Canada re quires a chapter all te itself. A LEGACY OF AFFECTION. Suit of nu Only Daughter te Break Her ftatuer'n Will. The surrogate of New Yerk has sustain ed the will of Dr. Jehn Bishop, a promi nent physician, who lived at Ne. 19 East Eightieth street, and formerly bad an office in Broeme street. Dr. Bishop was pos sessed of a fortune of about $100,000 when his only child, Emilia A., in 1874 became engaged te be married te Lyman W. Brians, the vice president of the Fidelity and Casualty company. Beth Dr. Bishop and his wife opposed the marriage, especially the mother, and tbe de termination of Miss Bishop te marry Mr. Briggs led te a family quar rel. It was testified in the course of the contest that en the marriage day Mrs. Bishop put crape en the front deer and kept it there for three days afterward. The estrangement of the parents from the daughter continued until 1878, when Dr. Bishop became se ill that it was evident he could net live much longer. On June 20th he sent ter his daughter and sought a reconciliation with her. June 25th, and before the daughter returned for a s-eeend visit, Dr. Bishop executed deeds giving real property worth $30,000 te his wife, and also a will bequeathing the rest et the property te the wife. The will contained this clause : " Te my daughter, Emilia A wife of Ly man W. Briggs, I give my cordial love and affection, and de earnestly advise her te maintain always filial leve and affection toward her mother, and thus secure in re turn what her mother will have it in her power te jestew." This was the only legacy the daughter received, aud when Dr. Bishop died in Juiy, 1878, she began the contest en the ground of undue influ ence by the wife and of mental incapacity caused by the excessive use of narcotics and stimulants. The contest centiuued for about two years. The surro gate, in his decision says: "This i3 a litigation between a mother and an only daughter pursued with au inten sity of vindictiveness almost unparalleled in the history of family quarrels, but which iu its progress contained features which induced me, en several' occasions. te suggest au amicable adjustment of the matters, because there appeared te be suf ficent property for both, and that the head and front of the daughter's offend ing was that she married a gentleman of geed intelligence, address and respectabil ity against the intemperate and ill-considered opposition of her parents ; but my suggestions were net heeded." The sur rogate finds that Dr. Bishop had as clear an understanding of his relations te his daughter and hers te her mother and the legal force of the previsions of the will as te require him te sustain the will. A suit in ejectment te determine the validity of the deeds of Dr. Bishop te his wife is new pending in the supreme court. The I-ennsflvanIa Fight. The contest among the Republicans of Pennsylvania is concentrated en the Pitts burgh federal offices. Miles S. Humphries the lately defeated candidate for mayor of Pittsburgh, has developed as the opponent of Andersen for the pestmasterslnp. T. W. Davis, collector of internal revenue for that district, is threatened with removal in favor of Frank Case, one et Ins clerks, and liutan lias disappeared as the opponent of Drave for the Pittsburgh surveyership, and Jehn C. Ncwmycr, a law partner of Congressman Themas M. Baync, and the Allegheny state sciftter, is urged for the place.. A telegram was sent te Cel. Bayne, asking him te go in for Newmyer, nut he refused and said he would stick te Drave. The same elements enter this fight as at Har risburg, and considerable curiosity is man ifested as te what the result would be. ONE WHO WANTs TO KNOW. Bat Can't Get tbe Feg Lifted from Sundry Masters la the Management et the FeansylTanla Kailread. rtlladelphla Chronicle Herald. The excitement which Mr. W. E. Lock Leck Lock weed has created at tbe last two or three of the annual meetings of the stockholders of the Pennsylvania railroad has been in tensified by the efforts of the officers of the read and their adherents te apply the , cloture te that gentleman and coerce him into silence. Like the gas trust people, concealment lends suspicieu, and whatever charges Mr. Lockwood has attempted te make have had additional weight lent te them by the determination te' gag him and prevent his being heard. 3Ir. W. E. Lockwood who must net be confounded with Mr. Dunbar Lockwood, one of the moving spirits of the Committee of One Hundred is a gentleman who " wants te knew." And his search after knowledge prompts him primarily te ask why in the annual reports of the president of the Pennsylvania railroad the statistics are se manipulated as te mislead stock holders as te hew the dividend is made and hew the expenditures are managed. Sometime age Mr. Lockwood wauted te knew if the late Edgar Thomsen was given $30,000 out of the company's funds as a gift for conducting negotiations with the Fert Wayne read, and, if he did re ceive the money, why .it was paid. The plea, De mertuis nil nisi benum, was enter ed, and en the ground that the question was a reflection en the memory of a geed man gene before it it was never answered. Then Mr. Lockwood, in his eagerness" ,for mere light, wanted te knew' why the Adams express company paid se oempar ativcly small a sum for its privileges en the toad when the company could operate the express business itself and put the enormous profits te the credit of the stock holders. This is his latest question and was ene of the prime motives which in duced him te inake such a resolute effort te be heard at yesterday's meeting in Musical Fund hall. On the Pennsylvania division of the the read the amount paid by Adams express company for using two or three times the number of cars used by the United States government for its mail facilities has been less than the government pays, aud Mr. Lockwood evidently thinks he sees "a snake in the grass." He has never been able te get any explanation of the matter either iu the public meetings of the share holders or in private conference with the officers of the company, hence his sus picion. Calling en Mr. Cassatt. vice presi dent of the read, at the priucipal offices of the company, he lately asked te be shown, as a shareholder of the company, the con tract under which the Adams express company operated with the Pennsylvania railroad. Mr. Cassatt refused him the facilities asked until he had conferred with President Roberts, who confirmed his sub ordinate's action and the desired informa tion was refused. It was well-understood by the officers in the meeting yesterday why Mr. Lockwood wished te be heard aud what he wanted te say, and this knowledge, it is supposed, in duced the cloture under which the speech was suppressed. Furthermore, Mr. Lock Leck Lock weed's friends are under the impression that there was a -eibducd fear that he was in pessessisn of ether facts net creditable te the managements of the reads which the officers were leth te have known. In his advocacy of complete openness in the whole matter Mr". Lockwood is supported by several theusaud shares of English-held stock and by several stockholders hi this country, who authorize him te act as their agent aud spokesman. There is in preparation a statement, which will seen be made public, in which the whole affair will receive an exhaustive and accurate review. HAKKISllUKG. Tremendous Draw en llie Slate Treasury Pittsburg Leader Corresponilcnco. Outside the bill proposing te appropriate about $3,000,000 te indemnify Allegheny county for the amount paid for losses in flicted by the railroad riots of 1877, aud te indemnify the people of the counties. in vaded by the rebels in 1863, the demands for money from the state treasury exceed the anticipated revenue for the present year about $3,000,000. The appropriation cemmittc is uufertunately censtitucd, but three members being en who have no in stitution in their district demanding tribute from the state. The consequence of this arrangement of the committee is that the members help each ether te get their bills affirmatively reported, and very few come before the Heuse with negative recom mendations. Scarcely any attention is paid te the recommendations of the beard of public chanties, which in its prelimin ary report te the Legislature gives its esti mates of the appropriations required te run the various state institutions. Ex travagance is the rnle ; economy the ex ception. These members who are op posed te the large and indiscriminate giv ing of money have been se often defeated that they have resolved te allow the ma jority te have their own w,ay without further pretest, a-? the opposition .is net sufficiently formidable te execise a salutary effect in the pruning down of the appro priations demanded. Among the leeches sucking at the treas ury are the state normal schools, which have drawn from the general revenue fund at least ene million dollars iu appro priations, and which regularly knock at the legislative doers for mere money te run the costly institutions. The normal schools would never have been created by the Legislature had it net been first claimed that they would be self-sustaining. But no year in which the Legislature met has beeu allowed te pass without a demand for a big appropriation for the maintenance of the schools. This year the song has been somewhat changed, the institutions in debt asking the Legislature te liquidate their indebtedness. Fer this purpose $260,000 are demanded, but $50,000 could be added te the amount without exceeding their liabilities Of this amount about $330,000 are prier liens te the mertgagee of the commonwealth. The partial destruction of the Danville state lunatic hospital will probably result iu the introduction of a bill appropriating between $400,000 and $4300,000 for the re building of the institution, the trustees estimating that that amount will be re quired for the purpose. It is doubtful if the Legislature will appropriate this sum of money, as the insauc people iu thestate can be accommodated at ether lunatic hospitals at a greatly reduced expense, owing te the fact that it would enable the state te dispense with much of the force new employed te treat and watch ever the insane. The soldiers' orphan schools arc de manding $700,000 te keep them going the next two years, which would run their total expenditures te about $7,000,000 since their organization. Large numbers of petitions are being received from vari ous portions of the state praying the Leg islature te grant the amount demanded, which will' doubtless be done, as there is I no disposition of any consequence evident te step appropriations until the System of educating the children of soldiers have gene out of operation. It is probable that the Allegheny in demnity bill will be ncgativedly reported from the committee en appropriations, al though the Allegheny members are doing all in their power te have it returned te the Heuse with an affirmative recommen dation. Beth it and the border raid re lief bill, which is en the Heuse calendar, have net the least chance of favorable con sideration in cither branch of the Legisla ture. There have been introduced in the Leg islature thus far about 60ftbills 400 in the Hensc and 200 in the Senate and before the adjournment of the Legislature the number will have been increased te at least 1,000. Of this number net one-third will be passed, and at least one-third will fail by reason of a want of time te consider them finally:. A UNIQUE VOLUME. A Chinaman's Werk ea the English Lan guage. The Providence Journal in a recent issue says : We have before us a remarkable book, no less than a dictionary of English phrases, with illustrative sentences, by KweugKi Chin, p. Chinese- scholar, who for the last five years has been a member of the Chinese educational mission in the United States, residing at Hartferd. The work under notice consists, first, of idioms, colloquialisms and current English phrases, with their definitions; second, slang and cant phrases, idiomatic phrases, terms and phrases of the stock. exchange ; all these are accompanied with examples of their use ; third, English proverbs, Chi nese proverbs and maxims, Litin and French phrases. J These afs 'followed by a historical sketch of the Chinese Dynas ties, in which the dates arc harmonized with Christian chronology. Following is a sketch of Confucius, the Chinese sage, aud of Jesus Christ. The book closes with a full index, -making altogether a stout volume of 914 octave pages. Te compile a dictionary properly re quires many years of close study, some times, indeed, a lifetime,, even for scholars with minds trained iu languages having an affinity with their' mother tongue ; but for an Oriental scholar, and he a native of the Celestial Empire,, te compile a work such' as that before us, and se well done, is remarkable. We-possess dictionaries of idioms; colloquial phrases and slang terms, 1 but m none et them is the subject treated in the manner et our Ulnnese scholar. Our lexicographers condense their definitions as much as possible, but Mi. Kwong's def initions are generally fuller, often deubie. and in every case accempauicd by illustra tions of the Use of the idioms. We ive a few examples : Stiff as a ieker. Excessively stiff. Our new laundress made my cellar as stiff as a poker. Our new laundress made mv cellars -excessively stiff. 'Te stuff the ballet-box (U. S.) Te put in many fraudulent votes. It is a criminal offense te stuff the ballot ballet box in the election of officers. Straight ticket. A ticket containing the regular nominations of a party without change. The mere politician always votes the straight ticket. The one who is merely devoted te the advancement of a political party always votes the regular ticket with out change. We select a few of the Chinese maxims : " Curtailing expenses cures poverty." "Education cuics rudeness of speech and conduct ; the practice of mu-lc cures heedlessness." "First be correct yourself, then cerrcc' ethers." "Forego expenses for useless objects and devote the money te better purposes." " If another person has failings de net reveal them." "Diligence can compensate for dullness; economy in public affairs would remove all occasion Ter their being corrupted by bribes." A well known Christian maxim we find here from Confucius, who lived in the sixth century before the Christian era ; theughdifferently expressed : 'De Det fe ethers what you de net wish them te" de te you." Preceding the title of the book is a finely engraved portrait of Mr. Kwong, irem wnicu it is cvtuent that lie is a man ; of marked intelligence. Upen the whole the book will be inter esting as well as instructive te English readers, and foreigners net familiar with our colloquial language. It is highly com mended by the presidents of Yale and Harvard colleges, as well as by gentlemen who have made the English language their particular study. i AKT TUEASUUES- liUUNED. And the Narrow Escape of a New Yurie Yeung Lady. The New Yerk Times of yesterday says : "Twe young ladies were in peril and valu able works of art, bric-a-bric, tapestries and furniture were in danger of complete destruction last ni:lit, at Ne. 849 Fifth avenue, the home of Mr. Themas Hetter, the Frent street tea merchant. The house is ene of the finest en the avenue, and its vuiue, tegeiuer wuu me contents, is cer - tainly $200,000. At 6:13 o'clock the elder .una jiuiiul- reiuruuu jruni ;i want, aim went te her apartments en the rear of the third fleer. Taking a match, she struck it te light a tras jet near one of the windows, the head of and fell en which were of As it burst into flame the match broke off the window hangings, tapestry. Miss Ruttcr tried te put out the flames, but her cloak caught fire. She lest her presence of mind, and was rushing from the room when her sister, who had heard her cry when the match set fire te the curtains, ran into room, stepped her. wrapped an L article of apparal round her, aud led her into the corridor. An alarm was given fremsignal box 583, just as Mr. Ruttcr entered the house. He ordered water te be carried upstairs, but before any had dccu taKen mere a nne et nose was stretched te the third fleer, aud in ten minutes the fire was out. Just as the firemen were about te leave, fire was dis covered batween the ceiling" of Miss Rut ter's and a billiard room above. This was put out iu a few mo ments. Before the fire, Miss Ruttcr's room was the prettiest in the house. The walls were literally covered with paintings and brackets, en which steed all sorts of art treasures. Evervthinir in thn rnnm was destroyed, and an adjoining room, a hall bedroom, in which were many art treasures and bric-a-brac, was reached by the flames. Belew, reception rooms and drawing room an apartment 20 by 100 feet were damaged by water and the fres coing will have te be replaced. The bil liard room was slightly damaged. The police estimate the less at $7,009, but this does net represent the actual less at Mr. Ratter's valuation. Many friends called last night aud congratulated the Misses Ruttcr en their fortunate escape." A MUri'USED CASE O Tit A IS CK. Lying for FIve Weeks Unconscious and In. sensible te PaRi. In Reading, Dr. Erdman has under his care a case of supposed trance, which has continued for five weeks, and which is at tracting the attention of the medical and scientific men in this section of the state. The patient is Jehn Gyumbere. He is about 43 years of age, robust, and appar ently perfectly healthy, yet he has net been conscious, nor has he spoken for thirty-four days. Yesterday he was sub jected te the most trying tests, but they had no effect whatever upon him. lie lay perfectly still, and his system made no visible response te the ordeal it under went. Gyumbcre arrived in Fogelsville, Le-hii-h county, a stranger, about five weeks age. He asked ter refreshment, was served and he paid for it. He subsequent ly took a seat and fell into a doze. An effort was made te awaken him, but he could net be aroused. He was shaken and pitched around lively for a while, and then medical assistance was summoned. The physicians failed te arouse him, and as' hi3 home was unknown, he was taken te the almshouse. Since then he has net uttered a word or given any sigu of life except a slight yawn. Be lies stretched en his back en a low cot. Small doses of liquid fluid have been poured down liis threat, but there has been an apparent life- less condition of the stomach. Hundreds of persons have visited the strange patient, and the case is receiving notice from tbe local press. Dr. Erdraan says it is the most wonderful case he ever heard or read of. A number of the medical fraternity de termined te apply a galvanic battery te the man. and a special apparatus was pro cured. The battery was first applied te his 'extremities, but produced nothing mero'.than the ordinary spasmodic action of the. nerves. There . were no signs of re turning consciousness. It was next applied te the palms of the hands and the soles of his feet, but the operation.. produced net even a tremor, and the patient's almost imperceptible breathing was net in the least affected. Occasionally, when net un dergoing any test, his breathing will ap parently cease altogether, which for a time creates the impression upon the at tendants that life has departed. He re mains in that condition for a time, theu suddenly aud without any apparent move ment of the body, his respirative organs slowly begin operations again. Several times his death has been announced, but he still breathed, and strange co say he has liei wasted much, if any. His cheeks are flushed, his condition normal, and his body of the usual temperature. Yesterday he underwent treatment that would have produced sharp pangs of pain,-but he gave no sign of feeling. OUTCOME Or THE CAUCUSES. Democratic and Kepnbllcan Senators Come te Conclusions. A caucus of the Democratic souaters was held yesterday te act upon the report of the committee of nine appointed te ar range the majority membership of the Senate committees. A number of charges of miner impertance were made. The only conflict of opinion was in regard te the composition of the finance ' committee. Messrs. McPhcrsen and Camden were recommended te succeed Messrs. Kernan and Wallace. There was considerable opposition te Camden en account of his being a national bank president. The selection was finally agreed te with the understanding that it may yet be changed. The committee was ordered te complete the assignments for presentation te-day notwithstanding the caucus bad been apprised of the refusal of the Repub lican caucus te prepare a list of the min ority members. There was no diflcrence of opinion as te the propriety and expedi ency of organizing the committees without lurther delay. Although a single objection will prevent action en the list te-day the election may be expected next Friday. Mahenc has been assigned te several com mittee ou railroads and the military com mittee. The assignments of chairmanships as finally agreed upon by the caucus are as published in the Intelligencer yester-. day. The Republican senators also held a caucus, but no formal action was taken. It was unanimously understood that the determination arrived at last Monday te refuse te promote any organization until the Republican vacancies are filled shall be adhered te. The precise course te be pur sued was left for future action. It is new definitely understood that BIr. Davis, of Illinois, intends te vete with the Democrats, but the Republicans confi dently expect Mahene will unite with them and their four prospective colleagues in tbe matter of organization, and that, therefore, at an early day they will be able with the aid of the vice president casting his vote te reorganize the Senate and thereafter retain control of the com mittees and patronage. m STATE IT2MS. Cambria county's coal lands, ucarEbcns burg, will be developed this spring. Jacob Heuser, a prominent citizen of Harrisbnrg, died en Thursday, aged 78 years. Ex-Cougrcssmen Wright has stocked Harvey's lake, Luzerne cennty, with 100, 000 white fish. Frank Hazard, aged 17, while bending ever an oil tank near Derrick City, was asphyxiated by gas. When found two hours later he was dead. Jehn W. Pittock, ene of the best known citizens and most popular of Pitts burgh, who was the founder of the Leader died yesterday morning, aged 38 years. Shenandoah is excited ever the presence of het water in one of its mines. It is feared that the colliery is en lire, and a watch is kept constantly in the lowest lift. The temperance people of Johnstown 1 ami vicinity have remonstrated against the granting of licences te 23 persons 22 in .leiinsr.narn. - m K:it. i nnnininn nj 1 in Franklin borough. On the Philadelphia & Reading rail road, near Pottstown, a coal train ran into a gravel train. Fifteeu sand cars were telescoped and the cab, water tank and ten cars of the coal train were demolished. W. II. Hilten, colored, of Chadd's Ferd, Chester county, is held in Downiugtewn for persuading Maggie Strickland, a fourteen-year-old white girl, te elope with him. The girl was formerly au inmate of the Iudustrial home, of Philadelphia. Jehn E. Schooner, alias Shannen, who has been employed as a clerk by Jehn E. Van Leer, ticket agent for the Pennsyl vania railroad company, at Bread and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, was ar rested yesterday en a warrant chanrimr him with the embezzlement of $233.00 iu cash and seven tickets Verth $696.70 be tween November 3d and December 15th. 1880. Agent Dean, of the Pittsburgh Humane society, says that a lad of Shousetewn was stripped stark naked by his mother and forced te read three chapters from tbe Bible. While he was reading his mother steed ever him with a whip, and when the boy went te school next day marks of the lash were seen en his neck. The lad ran away after that and slept under the Ninth street bridge. Sixty-seven of the female patients from the burned Danville lunatic hospital have been transferred te thahespital at Ilarris burg. The rest, except these claimed by friends or taken by the counties from which they were sent, will be removed te Warren. It is estimated that it will cost . $400,000 te rebuild the Danville hospital, independent of the insurance money, which amounted te $266,000. The Bradford Bra commenting en the circumstance that, as far as heard from, a iauy ei inac city is ine leading competitor for the $10,000 premium offered by the agent of the Forepaugh circus for the ser vices of the handsomest woman in Ameri ca, for a thirty week's engagement, states that "the present favorite face for the for tune is only regarded here as of the me diocre grade. After all the rest of the universe has been permitted te apply uniuieru tuicnus iu iurwaru a photograph of the world's peerless beauty. Besides this.inatchlcss specimen of her sex, the . much advertised Langtry, of foggy Len- den, would tear her fair features in just envy." Mahauey is alarmed. The ground round about the place is still sinking. The read iu front of the dlethedist Episcopal church has sunk several inches, and the beard walk running from the superintendent's office te the bridge has been diawn apart in a number of places. The cottages oc cupied by the superintendent and resident engineer have been quite seriously dam aged. The plaster of the walls has be come loosened. The yard of the fermeris full of small holes. Net long age the fleer of the het house had become flooded with several' inches of water, and the gardener was iu a quandary us te hew he should drain it. He was saved any further trou ble, however, by a small opening being made iu the ground fleer by some unseen agency, which relieved him of the flood. 5i
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