LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER WEDNESDAY, JULY 6; 1881 Eancastrr .intelligencer. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUtiY 6, 1M1. The Crudity ef Oar System. There has long been a'commen feeling that the methods Tprevided for keeping our government supplied with a contin uous head, are very crude and ineffi cient ; and the present disaster renews the liveliness or this feeling, while ex hibiting an additional fault in our pres ent system. The hereditary plan of suc cession has this great excellence that there is always a chief, and one who is likely te be in sympathy with the idea of government established by his predeces sor. " The king is dead long live the king," signifies an instantaneous trans fer of authority which is essential te the well-being of any state. There should be no possibility of lapse of authority ; and there should be as little chance as may be that a violent removal of one head shall establish in power another of antagonistic political feeling. The changes in policy, when they are made, should come about through the deliberate action of the sovereign peo ple, taken directly or through their rep resentatives. There should be no op portunity given te men of evil or unbal anced minds te achieve the triumph of their views through assassination. The sheeting of Garfield was net, as we con ceive, anything mere than the individual act of a man net se crazy as te be igne rant that he was violating the human law, but still se unsound as te believe that he was obeying the higher law. There will always be people who are a law unto themselves and who can net be restrained by any fear of punishment from doing what they see lit. This man Guiteau is a clear sample of the class. lie insists that he has committed no crime for which lie should be punished, because he has no ill-feeling against the president and did net sheet him from malice, but only because he was bidden byGed te remove him for the geed of the country. Such men are net te be convinced by reason nor controlled by punishment. They are went te believe that they will go unharmed as Ged's anointed, or that if they die for their act it will be a martyr's death. The necessary safeguard te the life of the ruler is te make his death ineffective te change existing conditions. Our con. stilulieu seemed te have provided such a protection in making ready a vice president, of the same party as the presi dent, te take his place. But the party In opposition te the Democratic party has been singularly unfortunate, in generally having a vice president disposed te revcrhe the policy of the executive whose death places him in power. In making a ticket te be elected the faction disappointed in its presidential choice is given the despised second place te secure its vote. It was the concession of the vice presidency te Conkling which gave Garfield the vole of New Yerk, and elevated him te the presidency and the gates of eternity. Should Arthur succeed te the presidency he stands in peril of his life, at the hands of some ex alted fellow .'of the ether side, or even some crazy Democrat who might want te put into the presidency the Democrat who will 1m! very likely te lie chosen as presi dent of the Senate at the next session. Still, as no Democrat shot the fraud Hayes there is a reasonable probability of the safety of all ether Republican presidents from assassination at Demo cratic hands. A serious hitch in the succession is presented by the fact that no man at present stands ready te occupy the pres idency should Arthur succeed te it and die in it; no president of the Senate having as yet been chosen by that body, through Arthur's failure te give it an opportunity, by leaving his seat, te select a substitute. A ready way te save this difficulty ,while at the same time provid ing a successor te the president who would lte identified with his policy ,would be te give the succession te the cabinet officers, in prescribed rotation, until an election could be held. Practically this would be giving the president the power te name his temporary successor should he "be removed : and we knew no objection, but great advantage, in conceding him this privilege. This would require a constitutional change; but it is generally conceded that the mode of electing our presidents requires amendment; aud the revision should be se radical as te seek te remedy all the confessed evils in this part of our federal system. The electoral device, though geed in idea, has been smothered in the clutch of the party convention ; and the excellent idea that the people should decide who their president shall be has been as efficiently knocked in the head by the same overpowering might. The electors have no choice but te record the will of their party ; the people no re source but te accept one of the two can didates of the conventions of the domi nant parties. Garfield and Arthur were net the officers selected by one out of a thousand of the Republicans who felt impelled te vote for them. The de mocracy of our government is vastly mere in its name than in its essence ; it is net the geed judgment of the majority of the people that selects the men who rule the country. Perhaps the fiat of that judgment cannot be given voice; but certainly it is worthy of the fullest discussion as te whether it may net be, and hew it can be ; aud the present state of public feeling strongly invites such discussion. It has se far been taken for granted that in case of Arthur's accession the present cabinet would be displaced ; but this may be a mistake. Arthur's proper course would be te. make no change in the cabinet at all at present nor a whole sale change at any time. He will take office under very embarrassing circum stances, put there by the murderous act of his partisan. He would offend public sentiment greatly by taking advantage of power se obtained te put his own ad herents in place. It would be danger ous for him te attempt it. He will be bound hand and feet in exercising the presidential powers and" we doubt whether any stalwart will ever have a chance te get a smell of the kitchen. MINOR TOPICS. Only a short time age the president in sured bis life for $25,000. Largely owing te dirty streets the death rate in New Yerk is nearly 50 per cent, higher than in Londen. Missionary Ridge, near Chattanooga, Tenn., was the site of one of the most decisive battles of the civil war. It was a wild, rugged place, worth a dollar or se an acre. New it is covered with orchards. Among the first associations in 'the country te dispatch resolutions of condo lence te Washington were Tammany, the meeting of Democratic legislators at Al banyandthe Yeung Men's Democratic association, of Philadelphia. The kings of Italy and of Hayti have telegraphed their solicitude te Washing ten. Alfred Tennyson, the poet laure ate, has telegraphed te United States Minister Lewell expressing deep regret at the attemDt en the president's life, and asking for the latest news regarding ins condition. During the residence of a bitter South Seuth era woman in Washington, she formed an intimate acquaintance with President Lin celn, and a friendly correspondence was kept up between the two during a great portion of the war. On one occasion her letter paper was adorned with the Confed erate motto, a snake entwined around a Confederate flag, and the inscription : " Don't tread en us, or we will bite. When Lincoln replied te the missive, he sent hack the motto with "bite" erased and the word " burst" substituted. Our esteemed radical contemporary, the Philadelphia Bulletin, piously suggests that should Arthur become presi dent and then the succession be open te the president of the Senate te he elected by the Democratic majority" It would be a most praiseworthy and patriotic act for the Democrats te cast aside the little ad vantage they have gained by accideut and help te elect some eminent member of the Republican party." Just se, the Republi cans are always doing that sort of praise worthy and patriotic acts. Yeu remember that when Jehnsen became president they straightway hunted for the most violent copperhead they could find in the person of that arch Democrat, old Ben. Wade-, and made him president of the Senate, te show hew generous they could be. "Twinkle, twinkle, little star, " the nursery rhyme se familiar te every body, has been revised by a committee of eminent scholars, with the following result : Shlue with irregular, Intermitted light, sparkle at intervals, diminutive, luminous, heavenly bedy.f Hew I ceniectme, with surprise, net unmixed with uncertainitv, what you uic, . Located, apparently, at sueli a retiiel dis tanced trein, and at a height se vastly super ior te. this earth, the planet we inhabit. Similar in general appearance and refractory powers te the precious primitive octahedron crystal of pure carbon, set in the aerial region surrounding the earth. Or, Swad out with the antre gilesplan. tSee Ilesie. Pie mea benevolente. Act. Media v. Pp. !)9i Uuisque nuiujum satis. Vel. IL. ahap. 78. VUV. Alse. Hey Dldhul IHdhulThecatanthetHidul, "1X1. l'p.fui. lb. Notieumlin the MSS. of the 211th century Hunc. Dune. V. Huge Uusenbury : Sine venire, Puck ; Vel. XV., pp. 91-87 ; objected te bv the English committee. Vl'his "lay also be rendered, "si long ways." 'in the Vulgate, " like a diamond," Itur li nylon Hawltcyc. Prep. Loomis has been for some months experimenting in the West Virginia moun tains en his serial telegraphy and has suc ceeded by runuiug up wires te a certain altitude iu reaching the current of elec tricity which he claims can be found at that height, and by means of which com munication can be had at any distance. He has telegraphed te parties eleven miles distant by merely sending up a kite at each end of the distance te a certain height, attached te which, iu place of an ordinary string, was a fine copper wire. When both kites touched the same current com munication was had between them, and messages were sent from one end te the ether by means of the ordinary Merse in strument in connection with the instru ment iuvented by Prof. Loomis. He new has a project for a series of experiments from a point en one of the highest peaks en the Alps, iu Switzerland, te a similarly situated place in the Recky meuutaius en this side of the world. If this succeeds of course his invention will rank in import ance with that of the electric telegraph itself, and vastly reduce the cost of tele graphing. s i m PERSONAL.. Mr. M. P. Handy, managing editor of the Press, has returned from his European voyage very much improved iu health. H. P. McGitvrir, the woll-knewu race horse owner, has died at the Central hotel, Leng Branch. The remains will be taken te Kentucky for interment. When Mrs. Garfield read te her hus band a suggestion in a newspaper te the effect that there was a conspiracy, he said: "Ne, no ; there has been no conspiracy. This is the deed of an individual." A. D. Jessui, aged 55, formerly of 'the Jcssup & Moero paper mill firm, a very rich man aud proprietor of a paper mill in Yerk, has died suddenly of apoplexy in England at Westwood Park, the country scat of Lord Hampton. He had leased it for a terra of years, aud it was there that he resided with his family six months out of every twelve. The remainder of the year he spent at Reme. Near that city he had recently bought an old palace situated upon a large estate, and at the time of his death he was making arrangements te have it put in order. Mr. Jessup has lived abroad mainly for the past ten years, making frequent visits te this country. The famous "Belle Boyd," the rebel spy, is new the widow of Colonel J. S, Hammend, an English gentleman, once a member of the noted " Louisiana Tigers ;" and a Philadelphia Recerd reporter, who found her sojourning iu the upper part of that city, with her two children, calls her " a handsome, well preserved woman, of commanding presence and high-bred hear ing, with a complexion like a rose and lily combined, a wealth of sunny, chestnut brown hair, sparkling eyes, a sweet, mo bile mouth, and a face capable of most varying expression." She finds persons personating her everywhere, which is ren dered all the easier because she generally gees by her platform name of the talented reader and elociftieuist, " Marie Isahelle iLitninAliH " IllllllUlUUUi LATEST NSWS BY MAIL. During the celebration en Monday at Lincoln, Neb., a cannon exploded. Three men and a boy are reported killed. Early yesterday the opera house and eleven ether buildings at San Jese, Cal., were destroyed by fire. The origin of the fire is unknown. Less, $40,000. A fire just north of the city limits of Baltimore, destroyed Mr. Ballard's car riage factory and residence and a slaugh ter house and stable belonging te Richard Cromwell. Less, $8000, A nnrVmin nn thnr9.il mail at Edenville. Iowa, was assaulted for expressing the hope that the president would net recover. The man has since died from the effects of the beating. A similar fracas occurred at State Centre, but it was net attended with fatal results. Tb aHvAnturf-rR. Jehn Travner. an Irishman, and Ivar Olsen, a Swede, sailed from Bath, Me., yesterday, in a dory four teen feet long, twenty-one inches deap and five feet wide, the smallest craft in which a passage across the Atlantic has ever been attempted. Tbey are both skilled seamen and are provisioned for CO days. 'ant O'Sliav. a .Tersev Citv custom house officer, entered Canfield's saloon en the corner of Third and Monmouth streets where he heard a laborer remark, " Gar field deserves te be shot." Capt. O'Shay answered that that was false and that the man who said it ought te be sent te jail. Before he finished speaking ethers who irem niwcAnt Irr.nMcftd him down, kicked him in the head and dragged him te the deer, and then threw him into the street. Gare Grima, an Italian fruit vender, ar-. rested in New Orleans for the murder and robbery of his partner, Carromenie Chire, in San Francisce, two years age, also iden tified as the murderer of Salvator Socezan in New Orleans, six years age. Socezon was stabbed twenty-five times and robbed of 13,000. The governor of California offers a reward of $500 for the arrest of Grime, but he will first be tried for the murder of Socezan. "Mrs. Prinhard. widow of Dr. Prichard. a former eminent physician of East Orange, N. J., committed suicide in Rogers's cot tage, Asbnry Park, by opening an artery in the left arm with a pair of scissors. Aberration of the mind, caused by the death of near relatives, induced the act. She was sixty-five years of age, a fervent Christian and much beloved by the people of Ashury Park, where she has been in the habit of coming every summer for several years. MATTERS Or INTEREST. Mostly Gathered in the Open Air. According te the census returns there are about 700,000 people interested in the fisheries of this country, which are an nually worth about $100,000,000. A million shad fry were lately obtained by Senater Hawley, of the United States fish commission, and deposited in the Connecticut river. A let of England pheasants have been sent te the Recky mountains, in the nope that thev will increase and become an im pertant addition te the game of the ceun try. Iu the history of Colerado the outlook for stock interests was never Detter. me irrass en the range is plentiful and still growing rapidly. Cattle are fattening earlier than usual anu sueep are aeiug well. One of the most important products ex ported from this country is bacon, le sunnlv the foreign market it is estimated that 7,155,000 hogs were slaughtered last year, which yielded a total sum et $34, 838.242 for bacon aud lard. A Montgomery county farmer asks whether he has a right te sheet the im ported house-sparrow. He can sheet any bird or wild animal which comes upon and destroys his property ; but he must show that it does se. It is a natural right. Beet root sugar is new extensively sold iu the grocery stores of Philadelphia. It is preferred by many te the cane sugar ou account of being finer grained and dis solving mere readily. Iu portions of Eu rope the supply is annually increasing. The whortleberry bushes were well pre tected last winter by the blanket or snow, and an unusually heavy crop of fruit is premised this summer in JNew Jersey, The passengers from that section te the various seashore resorts will be able te in dulge in this favorite fruit all the way through. Iu Cape May county, New Jersey, some of the farmers arc complaining of the quantity of fruit en their peach trees, which threatens te break the limbs if a portion of the fruit is net removed. The influence of the salt water doubtless mod erated the temperature. Au eagle, with a brass chain around its neck, suspending a little tin box incles ing a slip ei paper en which was written in Danish : "Caught and set free again in 1792 by N. and C. Andersen, Boeted iu Falster, Denmark," was shot en April 15 last, at Makkoo. in the island of Jap laud. The bird measured six feet and a half between the tips of the wings. ANOTHER WOULD-BE ASSASSIN. A Maniac Who Threatens te Kill Secretary Hlalne. A man was arrested yesterday morning en Pennsylvania avenne who said he had come te Washington te kill lilame. riis actions were these of a crazy man. When taken te the police station be was unable te give his name. He is said te be Daniel McNamara. forty-two years old, and comes from Philadelphia. He is perfectly insane. He walked into police headquarters and demanded a hearing before the people, which, if net allowed him, he would sheet Secretary lilaiue. lie had a claim, it had net been allowed him, aud justice he would have in some way. He said that some time age a set of spiritualistic me diums formed a plot te sheet General Grant, aud he had been selected te de the sheeting It was abandoned, however, as Grant premised te stand by them iu a scheme they had formed. The man was examined by Police Surgeon Elliet, who pronounced him insane, and he appearad harmless. He was sent te the insane asy lum. He did net have a pistol. A Famous Heuse. Among the curious facts brought out in the eulogies en the late ox-Ueveruor William Bigler, delivered in the state Sen ate, a few days before that body adjourned, was the statement by Senater Smiley, of Perry, of the birth el live distinguished Pennsylvanians in ene room of what is known as the old Gibsen mansion, in Sher wiu's Creek, Perry county, less than thirty miles from the state capital. The men were : Jehn Bannister Gib Gib seu, the distinguished chief justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania ; his brother Geerge Gibsen, for many years prier te the rebellion the commissary gen eral of the United States army ; Wni. Bigler the late 'governor ; Jehn Bigler, who by a singular coincidence was made governor of California at the same time his brother was made governor of Penn sylvania, and Jehn Bernheisel who adept ed the Mermen faith and afterwards rep resented Utah in the national Congress. These men were net only bera in the same room, but were distinguished contempo raries in public life. If Bernheisel is still living he is the only survivor, and must be far advanced in years. In Ringtown, Schuylkill county, Corne lius Murphy, aged 19 years, and another lad named Rupert were bathing in Fisher's dam. Murphy get into deep water, and his companion was se terrified as te be un able te render assistance and he drowned. Yeung Murphy was an only child. THE WASHINGTON TRAGEDY. GARFIELD'S CONDITION HOPEFUL. The Antecedent of the Assassin. The. disease from which the president suffers is peritonitis, which is inflamma tion of the membrane that lines the whole abdominal cavity and covers all its con tents. The peritoneum, the anatomical name of the membrane referred te, is very extensive, and as inflammation of one part of it almost necessarily involves the whole the danger needs only te be mentioned te be seen. One of the symptoms of the dis ease is tympanitis, or gas generated by the inflamatien, which, having no means of exit, as that generated in the stomach has, distends the abdomen until it is sometimes as tense as a drum head. It is te remedy this that Dr. Simms telegraph ed from Paris recommending a puncture of the abdomen. The president's pains are relieved by the hypedermic adminis tration of morphine, and consequently he is drowsy aud sometimes partly uncon scious. The Conspiracy Theory. With regard te the conspiracy theory, about which se much has been said aud which Attorney General MacVeagh is said te adhere te, but little further is known. Attorney General MacVeagh says there is no foundation whatever for the statement that an effort is being made U establish the fact of a connection between the as sassin Guiteau and these concerned in the Star route cases. The fact is that certain matters have come under his notice, in tracing up the career of Guiteau, which he considered demanded a thorough in vestigatien. He is prosecuting this in quiry, and the exigencies of the case for bade any information as te the nature of these things or the developments being given te the public at the prosent time Detectives are investigating a rumor that the police have been advised of the secret formation withir. the past two days of an organization of colored men, num bering six hundred, who have arranged te set in motion a scheme te lynch Guitteau en the announcement of the death of the president. GUITEAU'S 1NSANITV. Pronounced te be of Unbound Mind at the Pension OlHce. Dr. Themas B. Heed, medical referee of the pension office, makes the following statement concerning Guiteau : "I re garded him as insane. On the thittieth of April he was referred te me by Commis sioner Bentley for medical examination. He talked incessantly and gesticulated wildly much of the time. He com menced by saying that he was drawing a pensieu for wounds received in the army, ene of which was located in the left lung and the ether in his right arm. He also stated that he had risen te be lieuten ant colonel. This I bclievc te be true What he wanted, he said, was an increase of pension, se that he could go te Eurepe for his health. He ran from one subject te another rapidly, and said he was a stal wart and had distinct views upon many subjects. He said he had his own way of thinking about things. 'My friends call me insane,' he remarked, ' but I am net insane.' He then branch ed off en a plan he said he had iu vented for reclaiming flats en the sea shore and in rivers. ' I was consulted,' he said, 'before I left Chicago, about re claiming the fiats around the lake. My plan was te plant willows, aud then put in fences and then mere willows. The water would rise and gradually the space between the willows would till up ; the grass would take held ; the flats would be reclaimed.' Guiteau then branched off en theology, During all this time I had net said a word, but he rattled away all the while. I'loeked ever his papers, and returned them with the words written en the back, 'The applicant is insane.' I re member new some of the medical papers iu the bundle said the applicant was iu iu saue. Hew lie Itehaied at tils Hearding Heuse. Rev. Rush A. Shippen, pastor of All Seuls unitarian church, a boarder in Mrs Grant's house, speaks of Guiteau as fel lows : "1 sat at the end of the table and he sat te my right, and very often we were alone at the breakfast table, both of us being early risers. I roomed upon the same fleer with him and he often called en me, remaining in my room at times for quite a lengthy period. He was a solemn and reticent person, morose in his demcauer, and seemed te be breeding ever something. I was never inquisitive enough te question him relative te person, al affairs, though we talked ever current subjects, political aud otherwise. I must say, however, that I never hear! him utter a bitter word against the president. A friend of mine a short time since was speaking te me in the highest terms of Mr. Conkling, and I repeated his conver cenver conver Fitien at the table a day or two afterwards. I added that I was glad te hear such a high tribute paid te Mr. Ceukling. One of the ladies remarked that she believed in Ceukling, when Guiteau spoke up and said : '1 am glad te hear you say se, for I helieve in him tee. ' " He never said anything te me in rela tion te consulships, but perhaps his know ing that I was a minister prevented him te some extent from talking te me as freely about such matters as he did te ethers. He appeared te be moderately posted upon affairs generally, but was net what I con sidered a polished gentleman. He was quite rude in his movements at the table, being bent en helping himself and never assisting the ladies around him." Eats Heartily Has nn Fear. Colonel Crocker, the jajl warden, says Guiteau passed a restless night, and arose yesterday morning with bloodshot eyes and somewhat nervous, hut ate a hearty breakfast of bread, potatoes, beef and coffee. He said te General Crocker he would like just one square meal from the hotel aud he would be satisfied for the day at least. He appears very anxious about President Garfield's condition and earn, cstly hopes that he will die, se that the Republican party will be united. He says he does net fear for himself, as he knows the S til warts will take care of him. General Crocker regards him as a fanatic en politics. At present he says en seme subjects he talks brightly and intelligently. He docs net regard him as an insane man by any means, yet net a man with correct judgment en all points. Garfield's Last Letter. By a singular coincidence the very last letter written by President Garfield was addressed te his opponent in the late pies ideutial campaign Majer General Win field S. Hancock. It was dated Friday and related te an appointment recently con ferred upon Cel. Mitchell, one of General Hancock's airieR rlp-pnmir. It was friend lv and pleasant iu tone, and could net but have pleased the recipient. The letter in formed flen. Uannnnk that" Pel. INTitntiell had been appointed assistant adjutant general of the army, and, apologizing for denrivinir the ireneral's staff of an irml. lent officer, concluded : 'While your staff, general, loses an ornament, the army gains an assistant adjutant general of whom it may well feel proud.' " -K--l A LARGE CONFLAGRATION. A Steve Works at Spring City, Pa., Partially Destroyed Dy Fire. In Spring City Pa.,at8a. m., yesterday a fire began the destruction of the extensive stove foundry of Oliver Keely,and by neon, excepting the pattern shop, engine, some patterns and tools, everything was in ruins. The fire originated in the unused left. The runs A is nnkiinnm Tim less is ftlOfirum. insurance ever $100,000. William Whitall,' ul x uiiaiiciLiuia, uas cunrgu ui uie liisur ance. Portions of the fire department from Pottstown and Norristown were for warded te the scene by special trains, their piesence being necessary owing te danger of the entire town being destroyed. Mr. Keely does net think of rebuilding there. One hundred and fifty men are thrown out of employment. Jehn Hiller, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was run ever by a fire engine and badly injured. m . STATE ITEMS. The Philadelphia cricket match, Ameri cans vs. English resident, was wen by the former with eighteen runs te spare. Chairman Dill says he intends te seen call the state committee together te fix a time for the state convention. A boiler exploded at Bosten Run col liery, Schuylkill county, with fatal effect. Themas Rourke was instantly killed and a mule met the same fate. Jehn Green, au aged citizen of Sharps burg, has died under circumstances which make it deubttul whether morphine or want of air killed him. Near Youghiegheny, accommodation train struck and killed Jerry Bragnel. The wheels of the engine ground his head into a jelly. Pittsburgh expects te have big races next week. Maud S., St. Julien and Hope ful will be there ; and eighteen ether nags with a record of 2:25 and under. Twe-boys and two girls in trying te row across the river at Scranton. sank their leaky beat and Catharine Tneinas, aged 14, was drowned. Albert Wetterauch was found dead iu bed iu Pittsburgh, aud the jury decided that he had committed suicide with a dese of morphine. Gee. Myers, au Allegheny county farmer who was jealous of his wife, was found dead with a bullet in his head and his pistol iu his hand. A young son of William Jehnsen, Iloneybreok, Chester county, who fell from a cherry tree, striking the back of his head ou the pails of a fence, died in six hours after the accident. In Locustdale, Rebert Bennie and Jehn Lennen, who were connected with the Baschee murder several years age, for which Lenuen was discharged en Saturday from a five years' term in the penitentiary, get into an altercation ou Monday about the murder, when Bennie drew a revolver and fatally wounded Themas Bennen, a disinterested party. While the mayor of Allegheny and his chief of police were standing in his office en the Fourth a pistol ball entered the window, and passing near where they were standing, struck the wall opposite thorn, and rebounding foil at their feet. The ball was from a 23 calibre revolver, and came with considerable force. Out at Waynesburg, Me., a picnic party, GOO in all, partook of lemonade that had been poisoned with acid. Eight persons have died aud a hundred are in a critical condition. The vender was ar rested and will be prosecuted. Public indignation is excited and the community is in mourning. The North and West Branch railroad sold at sheriff's sale atBloemburgtoChas. Parrish, Themas Beaver, Charles R. Buck alew and Henry W. Palmer for $700,000. The line is forty miles long, running from Wilkesbarre te Catawissa, aud is nearly graded from Catawissa te Nanticoke, eight miles from Wilkesbarre. A new com pany will be formed at ence and the read pushed rapidly forward te completion. It will become a feeder te the Danville and Hazleton branch of the Pennsylvania rail road aud make a rail outlet for the mines of that company at Nanticoke. Up iu Mcadville Edward Heward and Charles Knerr, while drunk and late at night, demanded admission te the disre putable drinkiug house of Ferd. Berk. The wife denied them admission. They persisted, and began kicking at the deer. A fight then ensued, during which Mrs. Berk ran into her bed-room, procured a revolver which she had ceucealcd in the bureau drawer, aud returned. Without saying a word, she aimed at Heward and shot him dead through the heart, and then turning upon Knerr, who was standing a j short distance from Heward, fired the second shot, the ball lodging in the tlesuy part of the left arm. A TRIPLE JHDRDER. A Negro Sheets Twe Children and Cuts the Threat et a Third. Sheriff Mickler, of Hernande county, Flerida, who lives some miles from the court house, having occasion te go there en the 29th ultimo, left his three children, aged S, 11 and 14 years, alene with a ne ne geo named King, te whom he had been very kind. The fiend slajtt and mortally weunde'd the eldest, drove the ethers te the woed.s and shot tbe elder dead and cut the threat of the younger and left it also for dead. He then returned, robbed the house of what he could carry and way laid Mr. Mickler, designing te kill him en his return, but a neighbor accompanied Mr. Mickler and the murderer was thwarted. The two wounded children when found were able te give an account of the terrible affair, though one and per haps both are new dead. The fiend was captured aud cenfessed his crime. He was hanged in the presence and with the ap probation of two hundred citizens, white and colored. He died sullen and unre pentant. m An Ambitions Little Scot. With his youthful mind filled with the opportunities which America offered, James Fesuer, a thirteen-year-old boy re siding in Glasgow, Scotland, borrowed $35 from his grandmother three weeks age and set sail for the domains of Uncle Sam. After scouring New Yerk for employment in vain young Fester struck out for Phila delphia some days age and resumed the search. Meeting with no success he was taken charge of by St. Andrew's society, which body found a home for him at the Heuse of Industry. He is still en the look out for something te de. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. . Sadden Death. Christian Wolf, a respectable resident of Schwneck, West Cocalico township, died under very unusual circumstances yesterday morning, aged about sixty years. He left Schceneck in the morning iu his. usual geed health te take a lead of oak bark te Grimm's tannery, near Uuieu Sta tion. He sat upon the lead of bark, and when ncaring the station, his horses were seen descending a rather steep hill at an unusually fast pace, and apparently with out a driver. The team was stepped as it entered the village and Mr. Wolf was dis covered lying ou top of the lead, dead. Deputy Corener Charles Carpenter being notified empaneled the following named gentlemen as a jury te inquire into the cause of his death ; Messrs. D. S. Lutz, Daniel Kline, A. J. Ream. A. R. Reycr, Cyrus K. Regar, Jehn B. Hacker. The jury rendered a verdict that Mr. Wolf came te his death by paralysis of the heart. Anether Man. The Geerge Evans confined in the Clear field county jail en charge of murdering a fellow convict, is net the former resident of Lancaster by that name who fled bence under suspicion of criminality. The Clear field county man is a Welshman who never was in these parts. Recovered. The small velocipede stolen from the front of W. A. Deyle's store. West King street, has been recovered, the thief hav ing abandoned it in Kautz's coal yard, Seuth Water, street. TBIXITX STEEPLE. The History or This Famous Landmark. The repairs being made at the present time te the steeple of Trinity Lutheran church have created net a little interest, recalling te the miuds of many of the elder inhabitants, the times when the steeple was repaired in years gene by. Mr. Henry L. Eichholtz, a nember of the vestry, has iu his possession a great many old papers relating te the building of the church. This morning he showed us a number of bills and receipts for work done or labor furnished, seme of them bearing date as early as 1751. They are written in both German and English, some of the latter showing by their pecu liar orthography that they were written by Germans having a very limited knowl edge of the English language. Here is one of them copied, verbatim : "Received of -Michael Hubley Geerge Hen' & Jacob Yeus Elder & Church wer- dens for the german Drinity Luderien church in Lancaster the sum of Thirty six Points wich I alewed Deurts Builtb Builtb ingef an ergin'it being iu Part of the Meney Due me Tewrtst making an case for the ergen new built hing in said church. I say Rec. by Me this lid Day of August 1774. Peter Fkick. " '44..0..0." Anether old bill shows that Philip and Benjamin Schaum, coppersmiths, furnish ed nearly 200 pounds of sheet copper te cover the points in the weed-work of. the steeple, which was erected in 1792-4 ; aud also that the same firm made the copper ball placed upon the spire above the wood work. Their bill was 47, 18s and 9d, the price of the ball being i'9. The weight of the ball when it was put up was 45 pounds, but wheu it was taken down it weighed only 43 pounds. The height of the ball, which is of oval shapes, is 3 feet and 1 inch, its smaller diameter 333 inches, or 8 feet, 10 inches iu circumference. The weather vane is also made of cop per, the point and bearings being of cast brass. The vane is 8 feet, 44 inches in length ; 2 feet, 2 inches iu width, and 1061 pounds. The reJs indicating the car dinal points of the compass are 4 feet, U inches in length, and the letters N. S. E. and W. are 7 inches in height. The tulip-shaped ornament above the vane was made by Nathanel Smith and his receipted bill still extant shows that the cost of it was l,5s,Cd. When the half was taken down the ether day it was found te have been pierced by no less than four rifle bullets, two of which passed entirely through it, and the ethers only entered it without passiug through. One of the bullets was found inside when the ball was taken down. The shots ap pear te have been fired from an upper room in the old Shirk building or from the court heuse steps. The vestry offer a lib eral reward for the detection and convic tion of the persons who fired the shots. It may be noted as a singular circum stance that the big copper ball was made. by Benjamin & Philip achaum, m 1794, in the very same premises, 27 Seuth Queen street, new occupied by Jehn P. Schaum, a grandson of Benjamin, and by whom the bullet holes in the ball are te be plug ged up. After the ball, vane and ornament had been taken down and carried te the shop of Charles Brimmer te be rcgilded, hun dreds of slips of paper containing the names of well-known citizens were found inside the ball, some of them having been placed therein in 1854 and ethers in 18G8 in which years the ball had been taken down for repair. One of these slips read as fellows : " Deposited by Jehn II. Duchman, born 19, 179C, resident of Lancaster, June 19, 1854, iu the 5Sth year of his age ; this being the fourth time he was present when the ball was taken down." Anether slip reads : " This ball was taken down by Michael McCullen, Oct. 22, 18C8. and put up Oct. 31, 18C8." Anether contains the following : " Painters who worked en the Lutheran steeple, Oct. 19th, 18C8 Michael McCul McCul lem and Allen Guthrie, contractors ; jour neymen painters, Frank Frcidcnstein, Charles Tucker, Sam. Showers, Jehn Car penter, Frank Broadbelt.' Anether contains the names of Jacob Waltz, Edw. Bookmyer. W. L. Peiper, W G. Baker, Dr. E. Grcenwald. There are hundreds of ethers, some in pretty geed preservation and ethers partly orquite illegible. As seen as Mr. Schaum shall have patched up the ball and taken out the "dents" Mr.Brimmer will rcgild it, together with the vane and ornaments. Meantime the painters will be at work en the steeple, and in a short time "Old Trinity" will assume a rejuvenated appearance. COURT. Current ISusluesH The " Sprecner Itensa " Licensed. Court met this morning at 11 o'clock. Th argument en the rule te show cause why alimony and counsel fees should net be allowed Mary A. Pcndegrast, pending the suit of a divorce brought by her hus band, was continued until September, the husband having provided a bearding place pending the' suit. Counsel for the libellant was directed te file an affidavit showing that he had been a resident of the state for one year wheu his applica tion for a divorce was filed. In the case of Edward Seiber tt al. vs. M. Fernsler el al., arising from the Brick erville church difficulty, the counsel asked that certain weed which had been cut be allowed te be used in the repair of the church. A writ of estrcpement had been issued,, restraining defendants from cutting any timber, and the argument en it has net yet been heard. Ne order was made by the court. A citation was issued te Ame-t Slay maker, esq., executer of James L. Rey nolds, deceased, te file an account iu the estate of William Mathiot, in whose estate Mr. Reynolds was administrator. The citation is returnable mi the third Monday of September. lusnne Tramp. Jehn Moran,wbe was sent te jail recent ly for being a tramp, was ordered te be taken te the insane asylum, as it was shown by the affidavits of attending phy sicians that the man is of unsound mind. License Granted. A hotel license was granted te the Sprecher house, en Duke street, which prier te this has had a restaurant license. The court said that they granted the license en condition that the house be kept en the European plan, and in its pres ent excellent condition. If that is net done they will revoke the license next spring without any remonstrance. Divorced. Mary R. Williams was granted a divorce from her husband, Frederick Williams, of Columbia, en the grounds of desertion. Sentenced Ter Costs. Geergo W. Moero was sentenced te pay the costs iu the cases which he brought against C. C. Schumaker and which were ignored by the grand jury and the costs imposed unenhim. Moere has been a fugi tive from justice for some time and was only caught recently. He went te jail. Court adjourned te August 13th. Contract Signed. The lamp committee of city councils held a meeting last night, passed a num ber of bills and signed the contract be tween the city and the Glebe gasoline company, for lighting the streets of the city with gas. Geed Frent. The Lutheran Sunday-school of May- town, at their festival, held for the bene fit of tlm sflioel. en the evenings of the 1st and 4th of July, realized the handsome sum of $113. COLUMBIA NEWS. OCR REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE. The Vigilant Ne. 2 want a new engine. The school beard held an informal meet ing in Mr. Given's office last evening te recommend several children te the sol diers' orphan school. Yesterday was the warmest day of the season, being 93 degrees in the shade at 4 p. m. Messrs. Geerge Bennet, Gee. Schroder, and Martin Smith, were appointed dole dele gates from the Vigilant te attend the fire men's convention' te be held July 12, te elect a chief of fire department of Colum bia. Company IPs inspection last eveniug was poorly. atteuded. The condition of President Garfield still causes great excitement here. A sail beat containing three men be calmed this morning and drifted down te the dam where it "stuck." A row beat was sent te the gentlemen's assistance. This morning three drunken darkeys were lying in a gutter en Union street, huddled like se many pigs. The funeral of Mrs. Rudensteiu last evening was very largely attended. The Upp & Black contract, despite the warm weather, is being pushed rapidly forward. A large number of gipsies were en camped at Gessler Green last night, but left this morning. The Reading & Columbia railroad car ried 3,000 passengers te Lititz .en the Fourth, and 140 te Atlantic City the same day. A beer car belonging te the Prospect brewery was thrown from the siding in the rear of the P. It. R. warehouse by an empty keg en the track. It has net yet been replaced. Nine' tramps were en a westward bound train this roerniug. Where was Brady? An unevenly leaded flour wagon spilled its contents at the corner of Fourth and Walnut streets. Mr. Samuel Filbert agaiu caught a live livo live peund bass yesterday. The Shawnee and Susquehanna rolling mills, which "shut down " last Saturday, started up this morning with a full com pletion of men. The Supplce steam eugiue works are doing a big business. They received three orders for stationary eugines this week. . The beat of yesterday caused a number of rails en the siding at the Shawnee fur uace te spring. Workmen are fixing the break this morning. Mr. Jehn Maime, of Kitchentewn, had his breast poisoned by wearing a blue flannel shirt next te his skin. Eruptions cever the whole of his breast. A carrier pigoeu was shot this merniug near the " Five Points " and around its neck was a piece of paper with something en it that was net decipherable. The Chiquesalunga tribe of 1. O. R, M. felt se elated ever the line appjarance of their room that they had a fine supper at JMetzgcr's hotel last evening. Officer Struck arrested Harry Skcen, who was implicated in the Wrightsville fight, and took him before Squire Frank. He was placed under $200 bail, Mr. Sam'l Read going his security. The women who engaged iu the fight at Shadtown yesterday had a hearing before 'Squire Yeung, who discharged them with a reprimand. The inspection of the Columbia water works by Superintendent Fasig is at last finished and the water works reported te be in geed condition. Adam Kicffer, aged 20 years, had his left wrist broken yesterday, while wrest ling with another young man. The Citizens' band will meet but ence a week every Friday instead of twice, en account of the heat. Pest Ne. 118, G. A. It., drilled in their new room last evening for the first time. The G. A. R. encampment will be held at Gettysburg, and a number of members of our pest will be in attenpance. Tickets can be had of Postmaster Mullen. Mr. Richard Borrough returned from his trip iu Maryland ; Messrs. J. C. Gable, B. F. Mullen, II. C. Lichty anJ Miss Annie (lillrnun returned from Philadel phia; Mr. Luther Rider, of Duncaunen, is the guest of C. W. Stevenson ; The Mi'ssps Begle have gene te Yerk ; Miss Carrie Reet, of Pottstown, is the guest of II. F. Ycrgey. A stubborn cow belonging te a farmer, caused a great deal of ainuscmeut as well as confusion at the P. R. R. round house. It persisted en getting en the track, and several times came near being run ever. It was at last driven off the tracks but took its position in fient of Harry Bruuer's coal office. One man attempted te twist its tail. He was picked up and carried into the office with the breath knocked out of him. The cow was finally started. A little four-year-old child of one of the workmen of the Shawnee furnace met with what will probably be a fatal acci deut last evening. He was playing ou the bridge in front of the furnace and which cresses the Shawnee run. when he lest his balance and fell into the ruu, his head striking a large stone and inflicting an ugly and dangerous cut. His arm was also broken in two places. When taken home he still remained in an insensible condition. THE MIJKDcK AT HIGHSPIRK. A Colored Man Kills His Wile and linrns Her lledy. William Andrews, a colored man, re sided with his wife and two small children en the farm of Michael LFIrich, near High spire, between Middletown aud Harris burg, where he was employed sis a laborer. The family occupied a small leg house some distance from Mr. Ulrich's residence. On Monday Andrews and his family went te Harrisburg te celebrate the Fourth of July, returning home at 8 o'clock in the eveniug, the husband being intoxicated. Arriving at Highspire Andrews left his wife and started te walk home. The woman, after leaving the youngest child with a friend, left her home, taking the two-year-old boy with her. That was the last seen of her. Next morning Andrews came into Highspire with his boy and told the story that he had waited for his wife Monday night aud she did net reach home, and that he then set out in search of her but without success. He said that early in the morning he started for Middletown, and, having reached the Still house, he looked back and saw his house in flames. Hurrying back home, he arrived just iu time te rescue his boy, who was at a window near the deer. On bursting open the deer he alleges that the flames and heut prevented him from entering aud the building was burned te the ground. What had beceme of his wife he could net say, but volunteered the surmise that she had perished in the flames. The people of Highspire did net have much faith iu Andrews's story and they returned with him te the house, the ruins et which was still smoking. Digging in the debris they came across some bones, which it was conjectured were these of the wife. Seme of the mere curious began te in vestigate, and found a spot in a corn-field where the ground was tramped down and evidences of a struggle were apparent. Searching closer, they found bleed spots and long hair, aud Andrews was taken in to custody. He said he thought the hair and bleed were these or his wife, but he did net knew what had become of her, un less she perished in the flames. There were several red spots in his clothing, and the child he had taken te High spire had suspicious red marks en its dress. Andrews was taken before a justice of the peace and com mitted te jail. He is a light, sinewy negre with a repulsive appearance, made the mere se by the less of ene eye, which, he claims, was knocked out in a Philadel phia restaurant, where be was a waiter
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