i LANCASTER DAILY !NTTXIGENCltMCftDAlr FEBRUARY 20 1882. 51 EancastcT intelligencer. MONDAY EVENINQ, FEB. 20, 1882. Make Them Fire-proof. The scarcity of lumber which is new beginning te be experienced in this country will have the geed effect of causing the erection of les3 inflammable heusesthau these we new build. The fearful losses by Ore which this country daily experiences, one would think, would ere this have caused all great buildings te be constructed of fire-proof materials. It is a question whether the law .should net require such manner of buildimr tall factories and business places in the crowded streets of towns. A feeble effort in this direction is made when the outer walls are required te be of brick ; but the same policy which dictates this order would warrant the further requirement of fire-proof mate rials throughout the structure. It is net done because of the expense of such an erection ; but this consideration hardly suffices te excuse the building of inflammable structures for business pur poses that threaten the destruction of life and of contiguous property. A business that will net bear the cost of a safe building for its purposes is net one that need be festered at any great risk te the community. A Halllmerc Enterprise. Baltimore would like te have the United States build :i ship canal across the isthmus between the Chesapeake and Delaware bays, te the end that her shipping may have a speedier exit te the northern parts of the Atlan tic ocean than it gets by way of the mouth of the Chesapeake. It would suit Baltimore's interests excellently well te have a water-way opened te her across the peninsula te the Delaware break water, but it it; net se clear that the rest of the United States is se much inter ested in the project as te be called en te pay its cost There is already a very geed ship canal between the Chesapeake and the Delaware, built ever fifty years age at a cost of ever two million dollars, across the nariowestpartof the isthmus. It lies tee far te the north te make a short lint from Baltimore te thesea, but it is better for tiie general purpose of connecting the waters of the two bays than the longer route by the Choptank that is new projected, being very direct in its line and but about thirteen mile in length. We really think that Haiti mere and Maryland had better leek te their own resources for their new canal. If they want it ver much they are able te build it. Reclaim the Land. The Kansas Pacific railroad lias about six million acres of land in Kansas and Colerado, obtained as a land grant from the government, upon which it pays no taxes as owner, because it has net yet had I hem patented. It is net entitled te a patent until it pays the cost of survey, and is net liable for taxes until it gets a patent, because until then the title is in tue United States. This Suits the rail road company very well, because it saves net only the taxes but the interest en the survey cost which it has te pay when it receives the land patents. "Whenever it makes a sale of laud it takes out a patent for the quantity sold. But it does net suit the state of Kansas se well, which is deprived of revenue from three million acres of geed lam! ; and its representatives in Congress are seeking a lemedy by legislation. 0;su would think that the were entitled te it. The squandering of the public lands upon railroad corporations has been nearly an unmixed evil ; and all that can be leclaimed by the govern ment should be resolutely seized upon. Tin-: Republican newspapers would have been wiser net te recall the prac tices of dealing with the criminal classes which prevailed under Stauffer's admin istration of police affairs in this city. During a portion of his term he get the costs, and the way in which he worked the elfice, at the expense of the tax payers, is net forgotten. The two lte publican aldermen of the Third and Fourth wards, who last year drew nearly $.l,otie from the county treas ury for dismissed cases only, are only improving en the example set them by Stauffer. Near the close of his first tprm the In'telt.igknci-:i: charged that he had se manipulated his official busi ness as te draw from the county treasury hundreds of dollars te which he had no shadow of right. He said he was libeled. The Ixtklmgencek challenged him te come into court, lie never faced the music. The charge was literally true. We were prepared te prove it. Stauffer knows it is true. He has never refunded a cent of this money as his organ said he would. Tin-: Republican newspapers have the effrontery te speak in complimentary terms of Stauffer's police force. De they think the memory of the public does net run back four or five years ? Is it forgotten hew the mcmbeis of that force were demoralized from their chief down y And the worst of it was that Mayer Stauffer, himself, was either un able or unwilling te enforce discipline. Every case of demoralization or breach of discipline in Mayer MacGenigle's force, brought te his notice, has been promptly investigated and if verified the offenders have been promptly disciplined. Hew many such offenders have been premised reappointment en Stauffer's force if he is elected ? Tin: Stauffer policy is the policy of waste, extravagance, recklessness and irresponsibility, resulting in increase of the city debt. The MacGenigle policy has these cardinal points : XO KXl'IiXIHTrilE IX F.XCK- OKT1IK APPUOPHIATIOXS. NO PIMIMAXF.XT DKBT FOK MKIIKLY TKMPOKA11Y IMl'ItOVKMEXTS. A STIUCT ACCOrXTAWMTY or ALL THE dkpaktmkxt. Reduction- or the hate or ixteii- EsT OX THE BONDED DEBT. The question is whether the city gov ernment shall lie of the people, by the tjpenle and for the neenle. or of Alder. - i nit i, -i. ml piirrier for ITalku-h and Huber ? ' Tiie exact figures of the increase of the bended city debt under Mayer Stauffer's administration are shown by the following statement : 1674. Total cltv debt f 4S2.1XJ M ' sinking fund 63.1505 XlI tiiudcd debt $:,M5 90 isTs. Total city funded debt $ 00,312 i - slnkingluiid 09,23 00 i-ct lunded debt Xct ur.ded debt In 1S74 ..$ 3t,i3 W Increase of net funded debt In 4 yrs et feiaulier's administration... 1C9,258 06 Besides this there was at the end of Stauffer's administration a floating debt of nearly $30,000, incurred by criminal carelessness, recklessness and violation of law, swelling the actual increase of the city's liabilities under his ad minis tratien te about $200,000. The following statement covers four years of Mayer MacGenigle's adminis tration : 1242. Total city funded debt.. ' ' -liikli fund ' net funded debt.. l?7-i. Tetul n-t funded debt... ....$ 718.412 02 .... 170.154 OG ....? M7.'J53 9G .... 5G3,2M 9.1 Decrease in net lunded debt In 4 veai-M ttlS.tSOO 00 Besides paying the $30,000 floating debt left ever by Stauffer's administra administra teona total reduction or $4e,000. Dif rerence of $245,000 in favor of Mac Mac eonigle's honest, economical and effi cient administration. The Examiner and Xetc Era, which have both urgently demanded an aban donment of the volunteer fire depart ment and the substitution of a paid sys tern, allow their correspondents te mis represent the attitude of Mayer Mac Mac eonigle without a word of remonstrance. In his last annual message Mayer Mac Mac eonigle said : The substitution of a paid lire depart incut for tile present system has been ad vocated by some, while ethers thiuk the system, as wc new have it, might be mod ified se as te make it mere immediately responsible te municipal authority. The .substitution of a paid fire department will have te be undertaken with great care. Few who have net examined the subject carefully have auy proper conception et the cost of the change in the first place, and the annual expense in the second. Councils, however, urged en by the Examine? and Xetc Era, adopted the new system, and the mayor signed the measure which both branches of coun cils adopted, and for which the Repub licans, as well as Democrats, of both branches voted. The report that the j mayor had accused the volunteer fire j men, as such, of incendiarism is, of course, revived for campaign purposes. Nothing ever said by Mayer Mac Mac eonigle en this subject reflects se se verely en the firemen as that which can be found in the files of Stauffer's news paper organs. Ir Stauffer ever favored the policy of no expenditures in excess of the appro priations, it is queer he was never able te enforce it, and that every year of his administration ended with overdrawn appropriations and department deficien cies, aggregating, when Mayer MacGon MacGen igle came in, a floating debt of $30,000. The recklessness and extravagance of one Republican street committee, which Mayer MacGenigle finally had te halt by an appeal te court, cost the taxpayers an extra tax levy of 2e cents en the$le.') valuation. With Republican control of councils, and Stauffer in the executive chair, then: would be nothing te prevent the lax rate from running up te Sl.iM. Te Moijisew will be election day. Our readers are well informed as te the issue involved. The question is whether we shall have geed city government or bad : whether we shall have prudent city con trol or wasteful and extravagant admin istration. Mr. Stauffer has been for seventeen years what the Examine,- calls a "chronic office-holder." He has dis played no capacity for municipal govern ment. Under him the city finances were disordered and waste and carelessness ran riot in every department." lie is a political Micawber waiting for every thing that will turn up. Have the peo ple any further use for him as mayor? A weusii " let " of policemen, as a whole, than Mayer Stauffer had en his force the city has never been afflicted with, and if there were net as many dismissals for cause as there ought te have been, it was only because Stauffer feared te offend the " best workers " by enfeieing proper discipline. But these who were the stars under him in his previous terms were models compared with some who ai-e premised appoint ment in the event of his election. They may be disappointed, however, as the Examine? says Mr. Stauffer's character istic is his-' facility for lying." Mi:. Jehn A. IIiestaxd, of the First ward, estimates the Republican candidate as a man whose charac teristic is his" facility for lying." lie has se publicly declared. It may be taken for granted therefore that when the Examiner says anything geed may be expected of Mayer Stauffer it does net expect te be balieved. It said that Stauffer's appointment te even a census supervisership would be a "catastre phe." His election te the mayoralty would of course be even a worse calam ity than this if some word could be found te describe it. The Washington graud jury has in dieted ex-Assistant Postmaster General Brady, ex-Senater Dersey and ethers in iu connection with the star reute cases. As Mu. MaiGoxiet.f.'s administration has juiid r-$43,000 of the rity debt, and therefore decreased the tax burden 40 cents en every $100 calualten, and as IF. J). Stauffer" x administration increased the debt $200,000, and therefore increased the tax burden $1.7") en every $100 valuation, there fore every eiener of property in this eity irhe is ui favor of low taxes, and every tenant in favor of low rents, should gqe te Jehn T. .Vac Gen iyle his vote for mayor en Tuesday next. A Tnev bell founder has received an order for a bell from Delhi, Iowa, upon which the following inscriptions are te bel cast. On one side : ' A voice has gene before every great geed that has ever been achieved in this world." Tiie above words were taken from lVs.iilcnt Gai field's last public address. ' On the ether side of the bell will be cast : ' In memory of a servant of Jesus Christ, our loved president, James A. Garfield, 1831." Ox the preposition te increase the city debt for water works improvements tick ets, prepared by the city authorities in ac cordance with the directions of the &w, will be at the polls te-morrow and voters can take their choice. All the tickets arc labeled en the outside "Increase of Debt ;" these for it have en the inside the words "Debt May be Increased," and against it " Ne Increase of Dtibt." Tnr. Examiner says that ' when Mayer MacGenigle came into office he found everything iu such geed condition from Mayer Stauffer's administration, that he had little te de but lay back and econe- pnize in expenditures." The very first thing Mayer MacGenigle did when he came into office was te investigate the financial condition of the city and he found in nearly every department that the ap propriations were greatly overdrawn and that his administration had te provide for $30,000 floating debt incurred by Stauf fer's. Maxv years age, in autu-Revoiutienary days, Jonathan Meigs courted a young lady who rejected his addresses. Meigs continued te love the girl, and, though tee proud and sensitive te try a second time te wiu her, he determined never te marry any one else and te live and die a bachelor unless she, of her own volition, relented. After a few years the lady did relent, or perhaps get te knew her own heart better, aud sent a letter te her iermer suitor. Meigs get the latter and found iu it only two words : ' Return, Jonathan." It was enough, Jonathan did return aud made her his wife. Their first child was bap tized ; " Return Jonathan," te commem orate the brief fetter that saved the Meigs family from extinction, and from that day te this there has bean a Return J. Meigs iu every generation. The new reform prison-keeper has an unsettled account against Jere Yonder Yender smitu, Republican candidate for assessor in the Second ward. According te the stury told in well-informed prison circles Burkheldcr employed him as an extia watchman aud after seven nights service dismissed him for cause, and told the beard that Yenucrsmith did net come up te his staudard of a watchman. Yonder smith scut in his bill for eight nights at two dollars per night. The regular pay is $1 .33, and then the watchman lias te ex amine cells three aftei noens each week, at tend te visitors, etc., all of which Voudcr Veudcr smith did net de The keeper objected te the bill, se the clerk scut before the beard two bills, one at $2 and the ether at $1.53. The beard passed the bill for $2 aud eight nights, but afterwards made it seven nights. The man who took his place gets $1.33, and the question is what is the reform prison-keeper going te de about it .' PERSONA!.,. In the New Yerk Sun of yesterday Mis. I. E. Gnmexs has an article of five ami a half columns in length descriptive of four weeks' residence in Ireland. Mis.; A.nxii: Lelisf. Cahy emphatically contradicts the report of her intended marriage, and says she has no idea of withdrawing from her publie career. Regardless of the well known aphorism that it is the early worm which gets caught J. W. Uiiuax announces himself as a Republican candidate for the Legisla ture from the lower district of this county. Joux G. WuiTTiF.it is said te be quite feeble, and has within a short time grown exceedingly deaf. He has taken up his residence at Oak Knell, a large square house at Danvers, surrounded by a group of oaks aud pines, HkiiiikuT Si'Kxrmi's long meditated journey te America is new definitely fixed. Ue sails August next, and intends te he absent three months. He visits Canada and also possibly California, fie has re fused te lecture, his design buig s.ilely te b2i the country and people without any ulterior object. President Aimiru has tented the largest cottage of Jehn Hoey, ou Cedar avenue, opposite the ledge of Hollywood Park, Leng Braucb. The cottage is nearly completed. It will be furnished through out in the most costly and comfortable manner, and will contain all of the modem improvements. The special telegram scut out from Pittsburgh, and widely copied by news papers throughout the country, alleging undue iutimacy between the wife of Hen. A. W. Campbci.l and Gr.oueE K. Wheat, a prominent merchant of Wheeling, W. Ya., is characterized by these gentlemen as ' ' an atrocious falsehood, and without any foundation whatever." The lady involved was absent en a visit te her sister at Westen, W. Ya., for ever a week prier te the date of the alleged ee currencc. While Judge Tuciujee was prospecting for uames for the iuitial number of Our Continent it was suggested te him that it would be a capital idea te get Howells or Henry James, jr., te contribute. Teurgec was astouished. " Howells ! James ! Who are they:' I never heard of thorn before." On being informed he sent out, get the novels of these unknown lights and shut himself up uut.il he had perused thcin. Instantly he wrote a criticism en them be ginning something after the following fashion : "This is geed writing from the author's point of view, but assured ly it is net literature." Twe l'alai KallrunU Accidents. Jehn Black, aged thirty-five, living at Harrewgate, was run ever en thoPeniisyl thePeniisyl vauia railroad at Kensington avenue, jes terday morning, and had his leg cut, oil' above the knee. He was taken te Hit: Episcopal hospital, Philadelphia, and died there three hours later. Rebert Gamble, aged sixty .cars, living iu North Peiin Yillage, was almost in stantly killed yesterday afternoon, en the Pennsylvania railroad, at Erankferd Junction. He was cressiug the track, and was struck by a rapidly running freight train. The unfortunate man was horribly mutilated, his bleed and brains beiig scattered along the rails for a hundred yards. The body was taken te the North Pennsylvania junction, and the coroner notified te held an inquest. A Michigan Town Earned. Afire, which originated in a harness shop at Bellevue, Mich., destroyed sixteen business houses and dwellings, causin" a less of $40,000. IATUTMTI0IT. UKLK;i, AKKASAS, M'I531EitGElJ. Tiie Mississippi Klvcr Creating Wblilcsprcacl Devastation. There is no abatement of the floods iu the Mississippi Valley between Memphis and Yicksburg. It has rained almost daily in that section for three weeks, and there have been a number of breaks in the levees. Planting throughout the section will be delayed this season. The principal damage has been in Crittenden, Lee and Phillips counties, iu Arkansas, and De Sote, Coahoma and Tunica counties, in Mississippi. These counties form the largest cotton-growing district in the val ley. The planters and farmers have suffered great less ; barns and their con tents have been swept away and cattle and hogs drowned by hundreds. Many peer people living in the upland district are threatened with starvation. A break iu the levee occurred en Friday night just above Austin, Mississippi, which extends almost te Mahone's Landimr, a distance of thice miles. The levee protecting the Laceuia circle, in Desha county, Ark., broke en Thursday uight, and all the Cir cle, which contains eighteen large planta tions, among them several owned by Gov. Blackburn, of Kentucky, and relations, is new under water. The planters have been taking their live stock te the ridges iu beats, for safety. It is feaied the high water new going down from the Ohie river will cause further disaster. The water at Helena, Ark ansas, has backed up into the eity, most of which is new covered te a depth of four feet. The people move about the streets in skiffs. The lower sections of Cincinnati and Louisville, along the river, are iuuudated. The river at Cincinnati last evening was stationary at 53 feet. The Muskingum river was rising rapidly at Zaucsville, Ohie, yesterday, with a heavy rain falling. At Madiseu, Indiana, the saw mills, lailread depots and ether buildings aleug the river front ar.i flooded. Uiiyli Devat.tiir.cd by Smallpox. The National beard of health has leceived advice from Pert au Prince, Hayti, that during the week ending Janu ary 31, there were fifty-five new cases of smallpox and 538 deaths ; and during ihc week ending Febuary 7, seventy-nine new cases and 220 deaths. The minister resident states, "that without doubt tlicse figuics arc greatly underestimated, and that the disease prevails among all classes indiscriminately." ileek and Kye Candy. " A respectably connected young lady " of New Haven, having been seen drunk within the last few days, and having as spited that she was made se by eating " candy compounded of rock aud rye " the maker' of the candy, named Spaunutius, has been warned by the city attorney net te sell the article without taking out a liquor license. The candy is apparently solid, and it is claimed that its flavor is net due te whisky, but the agent of the society for the prevention of crime is moving in Ihe matter. Kevelt i:i a Female l'risen. A revolt among nearly three hundred female prisoners took place in the prison, some distance out of Montreal, en Satur day afternoon, which was only suppressed after a vigorous fight by a posse of police from the central station. The jail where the.se Amazons aie confined is presided ever by nuns, with only three guards in attendance. Of late the police authorities have bean raiding the disreputable houses, aud the women have been sent te jail for six months. This has overcrowded the jail te such an extent that all discipline lias been in abeyance for some time. On theanivalef the pelice they found the nuus locked up in their rooms, from which they did net emerge until the row was quelled. Tiie prisoners broke the furni nituic and defended themselves like Spar tans against the officers. The policemen were severely handled and some were dan gerously wounded. Constables Desjar dins, Hazinet aud Nacgle are reported te be in a critical condition. A J'aJal Drunken Qu.urel. Twe young men named Wesley Slater and Themas Frest, while en their way home from Casey, Iowa, get iute a quar rel at the house of a Mr. Ilibbard They i were both intoxicated, and Slater insisted that they should proceed ou their journey or he would sheet Frest. The latter saixed a gun belonging te Mr. Ilibbard and declared that he would sheet also. A scuffle ensued, in which Slater get posses sion of the gun, Frest seized the muzzle of the gun, placed it against his own breast aud dared Slater te sheet. Slater imme diately fired, killing Frest almost in- atautly. lliii-iied te Death. The house of James Jehnsen, colored, m Gaysbore read, eighteen miles from Halifax, was totally destroyed by fire. Jehnsen's parents helpless from old age, perished in the flames. The son, in his endeavors te resciie them was badly burned. 'I'i.c.iry l'cateii in it Walking ."U a tell. In New Orleans the O'Leary-Downey walking match terminated at 11:20 Satur day night. O'Leary left the track at 9:25, having scored 133 miles. Cuatiug lll1Vir te Deatli. A Swede named Abraham Neilson, liv ing in a heuse en "Webster avenue, Pitts burirh, beat his wife se badly that shedied iu half au hour. Neilson was immediate ly arrested. ?SlSCKI.l..SKOUS S EWS ITEMS. Matturdnnd Thins In General. During last week 5,304 immigrants landed at New Yerk against 1,323 during the corresponding period of last year. A Norristown physician is having a steam wagon made in which he proposes te ride while attcning te his professional duties. Jehn R. Stegar, tax collector of North Danville, Ya., has disappeared. He is alleged te be a defaulter te the extent of about $2,000. At Providence, R. I., en Saturday. Free man Hlanchard, doorkeeper at the skating rink, was held for trial in $500 for refusing admission te a colored man who had bought a ticket. The resolution introduced in the Vir ginia Scnate rebuking Senater Mahoue for his absence from Washington was en Sat urday, without debate, indefinitely pet pencd yeas, 20 ; nays, 14. Several buildings were illuminated with electric lights at Savannah, Ga., en Satur day, and nineteen stations will be cstab fished today. This is the first southern city which has used the electric light. A telegram was received in Chicago en Saturday from II. O. Kenyeu. of the firm of Kenyeu A; Ce., dated Kansas City. It stated that he was en his way home and would settle at 100 cents en the dollar. A girl in Carrelton. Ark., was betrothed te one man while she desired te marry another. She married the first, but prom prem ised the second that at the end of six months she would elope with him. He waited and the arrangement has just been carried out An anti polygamy meeting of the Protestant churches of Washington was held yesterday afternoon, in the Me Me eorial church, in that city, under the auspices of the Pastors' Union. Hiram Price presided, and Rev. Shelden Jacksen, for mauy years a Presbyterian minister iu Utah, made au address. Anti-polygamy resolutions were adopted by a rising rote. Obituary Notes. Paul R. Seavy, of the editorial staff of the Banger, Maine, Whig and Courier, died yesterday of pneumonia, in the 45th year of his age. Seavy was widely known sa total abstinence and political speaker, and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Rev. Dr. Egerteu Ryerson, a well-known Methodist minister, for a long time super intendent et education in the province of Ontario, died yesterday in Terente, aged TS years. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE LOCAL CORRESPONDENCE. NEWS IX TUE XOKTIIWEV1. Current Evsuta from LauilUville Alitytewu. te Au attempted robbery by a very con temptible thief or thieves was discovered at Maytown, en Saturday merniug. Mrs. Lydia Morten, aged 71, was buried at that place en Saturday forenoon, aud the culi nary preparations for the funeral had been made at the house of her daughter, Mrs. Jehn Eagle. During the night the cellar was entered and ransacked, but fortu nately the previsions which the thieves were after, had been placed iu the bake; house a part of the building which the thieves did net visit. On Sunday merniug members of Cove ledge, Ne. 301, K. of P. proceeded in a body te the Methodist church, where the pastor, Rev. C. Reads, preached a sermon for their special benefit. Otsego tribe, Ne. 59. I. O. of R. M., gae a supper at the Exchange hotel, en Friday evening. Representatives from Lancaster and Philadelphia were iu at tendance. They had a geed time. Mr. Christian Simons, who died sud cenly of heart disease, was buried en Sat urday. Superinteudattt Suanb visited the schools of East Douegal township last week. The mock trial by the Spriugville liter ary society came off all right, fast Satur day night. The Laudisvillc society will give one in the near future. Themas Wright, an ex pedagogue, who commenced te farm four years age, sold his farm stock en Saturday at geed prices, lie intends te raove te Chester county, wheie he will embark in another business. H. K. Nissley will leave this place shortly te attend Lewisburg university. Frank Murphy, principal of the Adams town schools, whose building was des troyed by fire this winter, spent Sunday in town. On Saturday uight the citizens nomi nated a ticket te be voted for next Tuesday. The election premises te be a tame affair. Vfhat is supposed te have been a fire was noticed en Saturday afternoon by a num her of our citizens. The locality is north of town, probably in Mount Jey town ship. Invitations for a ball at Silver Spring en Saturday are out ; also for oue te be held at Marietta, en Wednesday night. J. Heward Swart z has resigned his po sition as assistant secretary and director of the Mount Jey Mutual Aid society. S. S. Patterson was elected secretary vlce B. F. Eberle. Mr. Swartz intends te leave the borough . The school terms of the county schools in this neighborhood arc fast coming te a close. The latter part of next month ' the young idea " will be relieved. Exciting times are expected iu Marietta at the election te morrow, and there will be a geed deal of cutting especially ou eeuncilmen and school directors. Marietta people are getting afraid te come home from the Columbia opera hone after night and en feet. Some time age a man was waylaid and lobbed at the railroad tunnel ; and en Saturday niht Paris Plumb was beaten shamefully with a club. Much dissatisfaction prevails among to te to hacee farmers around Laudisvillc, who re cantly delivered their crops. In conver sation with your itemizer u grower iu formed us that, lie was decked $123 en a live acre let ; and of another who had suffered te the ttnie of $330 en a crop which had been sold for $700. When they suffer for a reduction at the rate of fifty par dent, it leeks a? if the farmers may have been unjustly dealt with. The farmers are loud and numerous in their complaints, and where there is se much smoke there must be some fire. Hereafter there will he less sold by the inch. MASHCU IICKULAKS. Twe Oh! l'cnple Tcrrllled iute Uevcallug Tlicli- Heard. A thinly populated locality, about five miles from Harmburg, was the scene en Saturday night of a daring robbery. About three hundred yards from the heuse in which, en the night of July 4 last, a colored woman was murdered, it is sup posed, by her husband, resides Michael I'Irich and wife. The heuse of these peo ple, who were the only occupants, was en tered last evening by five masked men, all armed with revolvers. Mr. and Mrs. Ul rich, both of whom are old, were threaten ed with death' if they refused te tell where tucy Had tucir money secreted, and, alter the masked robbers had made a careful examination of the clethina of the helpless inmates and the house, they were escorted te a mere pretentious residence, where the aged people lived in summer, and in which they kept their loose money. In this house the masked men secured about one thousand dollars, compelling the Ul richs by threats of sheeting te tell them were the money was kept. Great efforts are being made te capture the robbers. The County Auditors. The beard of county auditors convened in the orphans' court room at 10 o'clock this morning, all the members being pres ent, namely, Jehn K. Reed, and B. M. Grcidcr, Republicans, and Jehn. L. Light uer, Democrat, the beard organized by the election of Jehn K. Reed as president, aud Jeseph Clarksen clerk, and then ad journed te meet en Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. i.ecal Literature. Mis. P. E. Gibbens is going te issue a third edition of her work " Pennsylvania Dutch and Other Essays, " revised. In the new volume she proposes te introduce articles en English farmers aud Irish farmers, drawn from her visit te Europe last summer. Fourth Vi aril Feils. The Cress Keys hotel, the polling place for the Fourth ward, having been vacated for the purpose of remodeling it, the court has made an order that the election te morrow shall be held at Hasting's Fountain inn, 32 aud 34 Seuth Queen street. Sale of tlersei. Samuel He ;s & Sen, auctioneer.-, sold at public sale. February 18, 1882, at the Mer- rimae stables, this city, for Neer &- How Hew ard, 13 head of Ohie horses, at an aver age price of $193.0-3 per head. The highest one sold brought 2. t'lngrr Cut Oil'. Mr. Christian L. Frey, residing with Christian Lintner.en the Millersville pike, had the index finger of his hand cut off near the first joint in a fodder cutter. Christ, says it does it quick. Dr. Hess dressed the wound. Fell en tbe Ice. Daniel McMulleu, who resides ou East Chestnut street, fell en the ice en Saturday afternoon and sprained his left forearm se badly that it had te be put into splints. He will be disabled for some time. IN THE LAST DITCH, DESrEKATE ltEsOUTOF A OtSl'JSlCATIi PAKTY. A l-ylr. Appeal te Passion and Baser Motives. Following is a copy of a document which ha3 been distributed through this city yesterday and te-day : Fellow FiREMnx. At a meeting of the representatives of the various insur ance companies, held at the Stevens house a short time since. Mayer MacGenigle saul taat tue most et the hies in Lancaster were incendiary, and that the volunteer fire department of Lancaster was respon sible lei them. That the city contributed $3,000 per annum for the support ei the companies, and that the citizens gave a geed deal besides, in response te begging for balls, picnics aud fairs. He favored a paid department, aud ad vised a committee te petition councils for a paid fire department. Jacob L. Stemmcts, attorney for the city, has given as his opinion and advised that Mayer MacGenigle and the city councils can take possession of your prop erty, and all fire etigincs, etc., without any pay or remuneration te you. Are you an incendiary ? De you want your property taken without pay? Mae Genigle don't even pay you the appropria tion when the city ewes it. Don't fail te vote te kesp your prop erty. Yete early ami see that your fiieuds vote. Yeluxteeh Fntr.Mr.x. L.vxcASTEi:, Feb. 17, 1S82. It will be seen that it is anonymous. It has been been authorized by no associa tion and the author of it, wheaverha is, skulks behind a signature, which he is net worthy te wear, and which, na doubt, he has assumed. The statements in lue foregoing circu lar are lies, and are known te be sueh by the authors of it. Mayer MacGenigle did net use tiie lan guage here ascribed te him, aud Mr. Stcin Stcin metz has given no such opinion, nor ex pressed auy such opinion. Iu short, the circular is a shameless lie. It is prepared aud circulated for a base purpose, and will net deceive any intelli gent firemen. It is tee late for its purpose. It shows the desperation of the men who have issued it. Let intelligent and fair-minded citizens of all parties consider this base attempt, and properly condemn the men who have perpetrated this outrage ou common sense and common decency. BLED TO DEATH. FATAL FAI.I. IIMWN STAIKS. The Tr;t;le ller.th of a Maltte;: l.uily in Sew Helland. A terrible accident occurred in the town of New Helland last eveniug by which an esteemed woman, resident of that place met with a sudden and tragic death. Miss Catharine Mcutzer, aged 00, aunt of Uuderkeeper Meutzer, of the prison, started about seven o'clock last evening te ceme down stairs for a glass of water, car rying the tumbler in her hand. She tripped and fell, breaking the glass, the pieces of which cut her neck, severing the jugular vein, aud in a half hour she bled te death, despite all Ihe efforts of medical aid te relieve her. "JlUl.llUOJI'S BLUMIKRV A Decided Improvement ou the l'lc:iitr." On Saturday evening Hyde & Behtnnn's fourth specialty company, which is headed by Kelly & Ryan, appeared in the opera house;, and notwithstanding the fact that the last troupe which was licre under this management was bad, the audience was very large. The show was excellent throughout. It opened with Frank Den nett anil Miss Lida Gardner's sketch, enti tled the "Kitchen Domestics," which is always popular and well acted by these ar tists; Kelly & Ryan, "the Uardsef Tarsi," appeared iu their great specialties, and there probably is no better pair of Irish comediaus in this country. Deth aie ex cellent daucprs aud singers aud arc brimful of wit. The Olympia Quartet, com posed of Keeush. Randall. Sullivan and Mack, is out of the fiuest that has ever .' been Lere. I lien- songs were rendered in old darkey style, and are very geed, each member of the quartet having an excel lent voice. Merris & Fields are Dutch comedians who never fail te make a hit wherever they ge.and they certainly made an immense one here ou Saturday night. The Hegan Brethers arc new faces here, their aet is something like Lament and Ducrow's, they are geed dancers and singers and can turn themselves into all shapes. The Berdeaux Sisters are a pretty pair of girls who appeared in neat songs and dances. Annie Royd's serio-cemic songs were well rendered and her style was geed. The performance concluded with the comedy written by Jehn T. Kelly entitled "Muldoon's Blunders," which gave Kelly and Ryan an excellent opportunity te show themselves. Mr. Kelly appeared as Michael JFuldoen in a make-up a la Oscar Wilde. The whole company were seen in the piece, which is as funny as "Mul doon's Picnic." The entire "cenvjany is geed, and as long as Hyde & Behman run people as strong as these in this or ganization they may be sure of big houses here. The party left for Baltimore this afternoon, where they open at the Mone mental theatre te-night. TUE JIASCH XKAIiKDY. The .Matricide Sent te jhe Insane Asylum Funeral et Ilfi- Victim. As stated in Saturday's Intelt.iek.ncku, E.K. Martin, esq., presented te the court a petition for the appointment of a commis sion of three, te inquire into the insanity of Mrs. Elizabeth Masch, who beat out her mother in-law's brains in the manner heretofore fully described in these column'.-. The commission, consisting of Dr. Win. R. Greve, Maj. A. C. Reincehl and David Naumau, took testimony, declared the woman te be insane, ami an order was forthwith issued for her removal from the county prison te the insane department of the county hospital. The removal was made without difficulty, the insaue woman alternately weeping for her children, and inquiring for the executioner by whom she hopes te have her own life ended. Yester day aud this morning she remained in about the same mental condition. Mrs. Maxell's Funeral. The funeral of Mrs. Mach, who was slain by her insane daughter-in-law, Eliza beth Masch, took place this morning. The corpse neatly coffined, was borne en a hearse from the heuse iu which the hemi cide took place, te St. Antheny's church. There was a great crowd of people in at tendauce. The coffin was placed in front of the sanctuary, and the solemn funeral rites of the Catholic church were perform ed, Rev. Father Kaul celebrating requiem mass. At the conclusion of the services, the remains were again placed upon the hearse, the se.'emn funeral cortege was re-formed and moved slowly te St. An An thency's cemetery where the final inter ment was made. Itreacb of Promlse Verdict. In the case of Eliza Kcssering vs. Chas. Marklcy, breach of premise action, the jury en Saturuay evening rendcied a ver dict in favor of the nlaintiff for s'J'JS. . THE ELECTION. Tba Candidates or lleth Parties. At the municipal elections occurring to morrow the polls epeuat 7 a. m. and close at 7 p. m. The following is a complete list of the watchers appointed by the court for this city : wakd. Democrats. llepublieans. 1st, .Tne. A. Schaum, W. K. Beard. 2d, Wm Harkins, H. S. Shenck. 3d, Jno. A. Ceyle, J. II. Hubcr. 4th, L. Falck, A. K. Spurrier. 5th, Samuel Leutz, Jehn Swope. Cth, Jno. M. McCulley, H. McEIrey. 7th, J. Spickler, .Tac. Price. 8th, Jes. Albert, Rudelph SuterJ. 9th, Jac. Metzger, Ames Gast. Tiia Ticket-t. Following is a list of the candidates as nominated ey the respective parties : Democrat. Mayer. Ucpubllcau. Jno. T. .MacUonigle...: Wm. I. StanlTer. First Ward. select Council. Uverge W. lirewn 'Henry Ieerr Common Council. Jehn V. Keith .- Or. S T. Davis Jehn 11. Slough 11.11. Power Snm'l K. Liclity Jeseph Hoever Jr.celt Keese J. K. Steuer Alderman. U.K. M economy Cha.. P. Kbermuii . ... Constable. ticerge Uun-3 $amuul Swenk AMsesser. W. C. Iluchiulller A. C. Wulcliiiu Judge. Jin. A. MrKl'ii.ue C. C. Caiman Inspector. Tliee. Trout (Melvln II. Uattifen ... Si-ceuil Ward. Selnct Council Hubert A. Kvmiw CoiiunenCouncll. David McMullun Hervny N. Iliust James Best B. P. Stcevn .1.11. l.icuty W. It. Middli-ten Assessor. Gee. Marlen Jer. Vemlersialtli Constable. Hunkscm II. Smith Geerge Cramer Judge. Jamei K. Dennuily ill. 1.. ituii.teirfeii Inspector. Kobetl Clark W.T. Brown Third Ward. Select Council. Henry Wolf IKebert I,. Kk-hiiell;: Common Council. Gee. r". Sprenuer Jehn M. Kberly Juceb Ivield Joels. Eaby S. It. Cox Daniel M. Moere ... Assessor. J. M. Wcstliui'irur Joel I., llaiuei Constable. it. K. I.emau IClms. I. Steiiiit.tltx J udgc. 11. F. Davi- TliOniiu A. Deeu Inspector. Adam S. lilieails C. I.I.andN FeurtlWa.ri. Select Council. 11. W. lliulei-jcr A. W. Baiiiwiu ... Common Council. It. E. Urnce IQee. W.Ceruumy D. II. Bartholemew.... Jacob U. Goediimu.... Jehn K.Schum Assessor. Jelm W. 11 1 1 I .-y Constable. Lawrence It. Beyle.. ..Jelr.i Mcliuvilt Judge. Charles . HI;.' ys Kelert .1. Kvuiii Inspector. Win. Miller G. Edu. Kchiuaii Firm Warn. Common Council. Merris Gershel I.I. F. 'ti-iuly David Jeffries F. A. Albright Alderman. Win. B.Strliie M. A. McGlimi Assessor. Harry II. Hotten JHarry Hartley Constable. Philip Flshei- I.Jaceb 1 Killliij-er ... Judge. Jehns. Ilect Jehn L. Mllinger .. Inspector. j Peter Allabaeli Wm. Dellaveii Sixth Ward. Select Council. Win. Jehnsen ! Dan lei G. Baker Common Council, Dr. Jno. I.evcrced . Jehn McLaughlin .... Wiu. T. J cileries ;Wm. Tltddlu Daniel Bre-.vn (Jehn J Cochran Assessor. Charles It. Ir'aUey Daniel II. llcli-dni Constable. Martin Dalley D. W. Deitiieb Judy.-. Byren J. Brown (leliu .-anneii liis'iujliir. Joint l wener. .leiin II. I.iencrd Seventh Ward. Common Council. Henry Snieycli I. IL' Smith 1'liilip Hinklelieit,' .... Abiuhain Kllliuii Franks. Everts lesepli Clarksen Assessor. James It. Garvin iEdw. Melien (i.el.j ... Constable. Jehn Mel-ringer Sum'i Gi-.- (cel.) Judge. Win. McLaughlin ....) Winlield H. Cuius ... Inspector. Gee. hiililmin Heb. C. McDonnell Eighth Ward. Select Council. J. V. Wl-e ..llcnry Ui-i Common Council. Admit 11. TreMt IHenry Gust, r Jehn J. Hartley 'Edward Nab; Benj. Huber ;Win. Coxey Alderman. I'.sl ill-!.- Dennelly -Jacoh Ilecliteld, Jr ... Assessor. C. A. Obiender .laceb Breck Constable. iteerj.;i ?liay (Jehn I5:v.ia:m Judge. Geerge Hardy Charles Biet-k Inspector. Edw. Hardy .... (Joint Oveidcer Mutti Ward. Common Council. W. C Buchanan Dana Graham Geerge Scheetz Je-. K.Goedcil Joint Mckillips Jehn Kendig Assessor, David echer Il'etci W.Gnrrettlit. Constable. Wm. I'll us A. J. Flick Judge. Joint lloefc Georgc Fei Inspector. C hat c-: Smith W. F. II. Aiuwukc.. J Unclaimed Letter!. Following is a list of unclaimed letters remaining in the posteftice at Lancaster for the week ending Monday, Feb. 20 : Ladies" List. Mattie Bowe, Mrs. Sarah Eisenbcis, Mrs. W. F. Griflitts, Annie Gieidcr, Mrs. Sarah Hialen, Mrs. L. M. Johnsten. Rese D. Karam, Mrs Rebecca Metzler, Lizzie A. Partner, Sadie Reeder, Jennie Rey, Mrs. Fanny Seachrist, Mary II. Slank, Maggie Wash, Mrs. E. Weaver, Annie M. Weikle. Gents" List. Franklin Reck, J. Rourke, Jehn R. Barbaker, E. Bruse, il. Burten, Jehn Cue, Gee. D. Erisman, J. B. Eshle man, Frank V. Eavcnsen, Samuel Fister, Dr. C. II. Ferney, Chas. II. Feeser, Gil Gil seu & Bland, Jacob Ilartmau, Jehn lloer lleer gen, Henry Hellander, Edward S. Jenes, Jehn Jencen, Master Harry Kramm, Jacob Landis, Lewis McCuIIeugh, Jas. Mc Sweeney (for), F. J. McCarthy. W. B. Mowen, Levi S. INsuuapacker, Jehn II. Reiker. Sam'l Rhea-Je.s, Adam Rohrer, Jehn A; Geerge Rohrer, Jehn W. Rohrer, Sam'l Shrover. Wallace Sherman, Owen B. Sherker, Benjamin Stauffer, Benu Stnltz Henry Welt. Heats Lancaster County. Auether excitement his been caused at the Bucks county almshouse by the ap-pc-irauce of a disease among a let of oxen purchased for the institution, from wkieh one of their number died. A veterinary surgeon was summoned, who ascertained that the cattle had been fed ou salted eats previous te their delivery, causing them te drink a large quantity of water, and se increasing their weight te the extent of about a hundred pounds each. They were bought by weight at the rate of $6 per hundred, and a lawsuit against the dealer for the recovery of damages is probable. Mayer Court. This morning the mayor had a number of persons before him. One drunk paid costs, eight were sent te jail for short terms and four ledgers were discharged: m 93 i 4 1 i
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