"K' LANCASTEK DAILY ESTEIiLlGBNCEB, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 188& ILancastrr f nteilfaencet. WEDNESDAY BVKN'O, JULY 26, 1883. The PatUsMiaa Methtd. Tito office of controller of the city of Philadelphia is the most important in the organization of that municipality. The salary attaching to it is double that of mayor; its responsibilities are greater and, accordingly as the incumbent of it is faithful, intelligent and honest, or careless, ignorant and dishonest, the ex penses, the debt and the tax rate of Phil adelphia will be diminished or increased. The duties of the -place are very much more than clerical, as the ringsters have been made to feel since Mr. Pattison has been its incumbent. The controller is the check upon unlawful expenditures and exorbitant bills. During the past twen ty years nearly every city iu the coun try has suffered from the license which its authorities have indulged in to con tract floating and bonded debts for cor rupt and extravagant purposes. Obli gations have been piled upon each other until, despite a constantly increasing tax rate, upon an increased valuation of city property, each year found the mu nicipalities deeper in debt, their interest account heavier and the taxes more burdensome. The whole country was shocked some years ago by the exposure of the Xew York methods of municipal spoliation, but few cities of any consid erable size in the country have been exempt from similar operations, and as a consequence the total municipal and local indebtedness of the country, large ly resulting from shiftlcssuess and pecu lation in the administration of city gov ernment, far outruns the aggregate of the national debt. That Philadelphia was a notable illus tration of this tendency may be readily seen from the following figures, showing the total funded and floating debt at the beginning of each year, and the cost of the departments for the entire year : ., . Total funded Cost or Tax and floating. Departments. Rate. 1S0 f2!,liC.7J9.Si; $ -2,G82,548.13 $2.00 1H1 21,-27I,73i35 2,5fi7,82G.4U IStK 22,fiI0,2W.45 2,831,130.3l 2.30 INK 'J4,750.0M.1C 3,482.243.! 2.30 ISC.4 i'.,713,fil9.4 3,'JI7,:KI.34 2.30 IKffii 32.73,S.tK 4,150,29.84 2.80 IStW 38,727,121.00 4,101,709.11 4.00 1KC7 :I7,341,187.H7 4,442,3fil.72 4.00 1M 3S,U!),;itJ.(2 4,421,83!.G3 1.40 ISffil 40,1S3,:e1O.W 5,322,054.43 1.80 1S70 45,OM,217.34 6,0,C11.88 1.K0 1871 48,791,8G4.fi4 U,4(M,446.27 1.80 1872 M,.r..-,2,i:tfi.KI 5,C94,4.M 2.08 1873 04.20S,0!K).4! 8,4r,?,7j2.51 2.15 1874 fi0.rao,87!.U 11,070.844.72 2.20 1873 4,290,403.i;.- K),10'.,J1!.S9 2.15 187'! fi.,710,52U7 .t,x,.,r;i!l.0J 2.15 1877 n.574,14;.:t2 8.I84,1;1.20 2.25 These figures show a regular ami steady increase of the city debt, averag ing $:t,i22,40G per year for the ten years preceding 187S. At the same time the tax rale had leaped up alarmingly, and the cost of the departments had advanced from $1,442,301.72 in 1867 to 10.105, yi5.8! in 1875. It is true there was a slight reduction in the department ex penses from 1875 to 1S77, but it will be noticed that there was an enormously greater increase of the city debt of $9, 283,70.17 within that period, so that the municipal authorities were only sav ing at the spiggot to let out at the bung. In 1877 Mr. Pattison was elected con troller, defeating the regular llepublican nominee by a majority of 1,962, though the Republicans carried the city on the state ticket by an average majority of 5,871. Mr. Pattison was at that time a young and comparatively untried man with only a reputation for honesty and intelligence. But the public had confi denco in him, and how well he justified it may be inferred from the fact that when his party renominated him in 18S0 he was elected over a Republican of blameless private character and public record, by a majority of 13,593, though on the very same election day the Demo cratic national ticket was in a minority of 20,883 in Philadelphia. It must be re membered, too, that at this time there w;ts no Committee of One Hundred, nor any organized Independent or Reform movement supporting Pattison. Now let us examine the results of his administration which have had this high approval. The year 1878 was the first which tested his methods of administra tion. Inclusive of that, and since then, the record runs thus : v.,. Total City Department Tux 11 nr- Debt. Expenses. Kate. 1878 ?73,15,331.79 9 7,161,701.18 $2.15 1879 71,835.101,35 7,1,(H4.85 2.05 1880 72,2C4,595.7 0,870,578.34 2.00 1881 70,032,430.47 ,8S3,3ifi.92 1.93 182 ,G29,403.72 1 1.90 Against the former average yearly in crease of 3,22.40;, Mr. Pattison's ad ministratioushowsan average decrea.se of $1,246,737 a difference in favor of the Pattison system, and to the advantage df the tax payers, of $4,869, 143 per annum, nearly $5 a year iu the pockets of every man, woman and child in the city of Philadelphia, for directly and indirectly every class of people feel the burden of increased city debt and expenses. But not only is the superior method of Pattison's administration illustrated by the decrease of the city debt. The de partment expenses have gone down from $8,184,961.20 to $C,883,326.92, a reduction per annum of $1,301,634.28 ; and the tax levy is reduced from $2.25 to $1.90, a reduction of the annual burden on prop erty of 35 cents on every $100 of valua tion, a lenefit to owner and renter, mak ing real estate more valuable, while at the same time it lightens the burdens of the poor and diminishes the expenses of the business man. Prior to Pattison's term one fifth of the ciy taxes were un collected and went into the hands of the delinquent collectors, where enormous expenses were added for the profit of speculating politicians, who at the same time allowed political friends entirely to escape their municipal obligations. The poor and unfortunate were plunder ed for the enrichment of rapacious par tisans. Last year only 8 per cent, of the city taxes were uncollected, a gain of 12 per cent, over the days of ring rule. It was these reforms which enabled the controller to say in his last annual report : " The burdens of the tax payers are be ing lightened, increased encouragement is given for the employment ot capital within its limits, and an auspicious be ginning has been made in freeing the second city of the Union in population, and the first in industrial enterprise, from tixation for indebtedness." That is exactly the sort of relief that is aeeded at Harriflbvrg. The itate ex pense are iacrestfnf all tb time. Plan deringgoeson tafeeatftnUy. There is job berylri every departaient. -'The enorm ous revenues of the commonwealth which should have wiped out the state debt years ago are the prey of petty spoilsmen. From the purchase of sta tionery up to the building of asylums and penitentiaries there is universal cor ruption. What is wanted at Harrisburg is exactly the kind of administration which Controller Pattison has given Philadelphia. The story which we print of the suf fering and sad condition of a recent in mate of the so-called Lancaster hospital is one well calculated to excite the sym pathy and indignation of all right minded citizens. Allowing everything to the partiality of the outraged feelings of a sorrowing and suffering wife and a derauged husband, the testimony of the physicians leaves no room to doubt that Frank Farrell is the victim of neglect or abuse at what should be an institution to relieve such unfortunates as he. Wherever the immediate responsibility may rest, there can be no doubt that under the present-irregular and ineffic ient medical supervision of our public institutions such cases are all (oo likely to occur. It is the hame of this community that there is no resident physician at, the hospital, almshouse and workhouse, with their hundreds of insane, paupers, invalids and aged inmates. The occasional or even daily visits of a doctor from the city, who is changed off every three months for some other one, who secures the place through political influence, is a wretched travesty of proper medical attendance to the class who are in sorest need of it. We believe that a grand jury has already reported in favor of a resident physician. AH the instincts of our common humanity demaud it. Why is the appointment longer delayed V A terrible responsibility rests with the poor directors " poor," indeed, they must 1 e. Can it be possible that proper resi dent medical attention is denied these sufferers on the wretched plea of econ omy ? Judging from past revelations then; has been enough wasted and stolen arouhd the almshouse in the past twenty years to have endowed the post of resi dent physician. The fact that Cooper is an Ohio uiau explains a great many things heretofore wrapped in impenetrable mystery. Sinck the discovery thatRepublicauStato Chairman Cooper was born in Ohio, it is readily understood how it happens that ho so utterly fails to appreciate the wants of his adopted state. Vennou's prediction of snow-falls and " remarkably low curves of temperature" for next month would bo extremely re freshing to the stay-at-home brigado if the eminent weather prophet's forecasts bad not latterly been distinguished by the uniformity with which they had gone wrong. Observant peoplo cau discern naught but sorrow and misery in this lat est outgiving of the groundhog'sCanadian r vial. Tub midsummer idiot is getting his work in on the Harrisburg Telegraph, pre sumably iu the absence of all its responsi ble editors. Its latest discovery is that Messrs. Wallace and Cassidy conspired at the Harrisburg convention to defeat Mr. Hopkins because Mr. Randall was friendly to him, and that they are now conspiring with the Committee of One Hundred to defeat Mr. Randall and elect Mr. Pattison to spite the Right Honorable William Mc Mullin. The Telegraph has probably not heard that Beaver is to be withdrawn and ex-Gov. Curtin is to head the Regular Re publican ticket, aud that Don Cameron is about to resign to let Hoyt appoint Dr. Bradley in his placo. Wm. Neshit, a well-to-do and intelli gent colored barber of Altoona, is one of the repicsentatives of his race in this state whom the Republican party has for years made use of iu an ornamental capacity or to cut wood and draw water for the party. He and his friends propose to put the sin cerity of his Republican associates to tho test by his candidacy for the Republiean nomination to tho Legislature from Blair county. His constituents would certainly not have to blush for him as " a black guard" and "abetter of ringsters," and it will be interesting to the 30,000 Repub lican colored voters uf Pennsylvania to see what reception is accorded to the mod est proposition that they shall have one representative in tho state Legislature. The wife of Henry W. Lohmeycr, a young aud well to-do German of Philadel phia, last February obtained from the almphouso there a new-born infaut and paimea it on on ner uusoana as ui.s own offspring, in order, as she says, to gratify his oft-expressed wish to become a.fathcr. The deception worked to a charm ,and young Mr. Lohmeyer has for five months gloried in tho paternal dignity which ho imagined himself possessed of. Now the whole thing has leaked out iu an investigation by the board of poor guardians into the irregular methods that have been discovered to pro vail in giving out children from the insti tution, and of which the present caso is an instance. It is said that it is not an in fre quent occurrence for young married women to procure babies from the almshouse, in the same way as Mrs. Lohmeyer, and with the knowledge of the officials that they are to be used for just such purposes of deception. Lohmeyer had become so much attached to his fancied offspring, and the partner of his joys professes so much contrition for the trick she played on him, that he has decided to graut for giveness to the latter and keep the child anyhow. They call it " Olivette " and will raise it just as though she were thoir own daughter. Death In an Oil can. In Ashland, Pa., Elizabeth Barth, a young German girl, was employed as a domestic in the family of Peter Miller, saloon keeper, and at an early hour aroso and finding the fire out used oil to rekin dle it. While pouring the oil on the fire the contents of the can ignited and ex ploded with a loud report. In a second her clothing was one mass of flames. Her cries soon brought assistance, bat the un fortunate girl was beyond recovery and died shortly after. She was 19 years of age. FSRSOMAU Mrs. Bobsett, the novelist, dresses in the highest style of aestheticism. Miss Sarah Saroeant, aged 19, and very pretty, is a mail carrier in Washing ton county. Edward Arthur Wellington, the second Baron Eeane, in his GSthycaris dead in London. Representative Stephens has many namesakes in Georgia, even among the girls. Hon. Geo. L. Converse was nomina ted for Congress by the Democratic con vention of the Thirteenth Ohio district, at Lancaster, yesterday. Mrs. Schuyler Colfax wants her hus band to again enter public life and vindi cate himself. She is fond of Washington society. J. Proctor Knott is definitely an nounced as a candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for governor of Ken tucky at next year's election. Senator John Sherman, of Ohio, is an extensive landowner in Iowa. He has con siderable property in Des Moines, forty acres adjoining Council Bluffs, and several thous and acres of land in northorn counties. Mr. George Augustus Sala. has con sented to be the first president of the first Journalists' club in London. The organi zation will have its rooms in Fleet street and will include among its members both London and country members of the pro fession. Vennor says of next month: "I cannot butthink that August will be another month of storms and unusual rainfall, with one or two remarkably low curves of tempera ture. I expect snowfalls will bo recorded in extreme western and northern sections, and cold rains at more southerly stations shortly after the middle of the month." Joiin C. Hamilton, the last surviving son of Alexander Hamilton, whoso death at the advanced age of 90 years is just an nounced, wroto tho life of his father in 1838, omitting from it all mention of the tragic duel by Vhicb the great statesman came to his death. . His last and one of his few appearances in public life was in 1880, when he presented to the city of New York a statue of his father, and made an address. Webster was graduated from Dart mouth college, and the valedictory was given to Thomas A. Merrill. Webster went out in the street, toro his diploma in shreds, trampled it under his feet, and exclaimed : "Thomas A. Merrill given the valedictory over Daniel Webster ! One day I will soar as much above Tom Mer rill !" And he did. Merrill was awarded the position because of his attainment in classical studies. But he became a lazy, lounging, drawling preacher. Gladstone's friends propose to cele brate his " jubilee " tho completion of his fiftieth year iu the public service. Mr. Gladstone issued his fiist election ad dress to the constituency of the borough of Newark on tho 9th of October, 1833, the nomination took placo on the 11th of December, and the election was completed on the 13th of tho same month. It is proposed to have the commemoration coincide as nearly as possible with the fiftieth anniversary of his first return to Praliamonr, December 13. Since that time there has been no Parliament of which he has not been a member. The form which the celebration is to take has not been de cided upon as yet. Hon. Geo. P. Marsh, the' venerable American minister to Rome, just deceased was one of tho few Americans permitted to remain in the diplomatic service of the country undisturbed for a long series of years. Mr. Marsh's first service as for eign minister (to Turkey and Greece) dates back to 1849, continuing till 1854, and then, after an interval of seven years at home, he was appointed to Italy in 1861, and has been continued at Florence and Rome ever since. Long before his departure to Italy, he had made his mark as the pioneer of popular language study in this country. As linguist and English linguist he will be longest remembered, although as a scientific naturalist his at tainments were of a high order. KIOTING IN JBBSEY CITY. Roughs Again Making Trouble for tbe Freight Handlers. At half-past five o'clock Tuesday after noon a gang of about fifty strikers gath ered around tho tobacco inspection at Twelfth and Provost streets, Jersey City. Although they made no attempt to inter fere with the Russian exiles employed there tho latter stopped work as soon as they saw tho strikers aud quit tho buildiug. The strikers were then dis persed by the policemen stationed at that point. After the strikers had been driven from the tobacco inspection the line was formed again and the march was resumed. Thoy filed down Grove street and arrived at the local freight depot of the Erie juss as the Italians, having finished their work for tbe day, were coming out of the build ing under the protection of six policemen to march to the Pavonia ferry. The strikers jeeied at tbe foreigners and their escort, and this imprudence emboldened some hoodlums and hangers on, and they, led, it is said, by Michael Hart, approached the Italians in a threatening manner. The police ordered them back, and all obeyed but Hart, who roughly seized one of tbe Italians by tbe shoulder. Police man Connors pushed Hart back, but ho renewed the attack, and was again forced back by Connors. Hart theu assaulted tho policeman and he drew bis club and with a stunning blow felled his assailant. Hart's followers uttered threats and began to advance towards Connors, but he drew his revolver. On seeing tho weapon tho crowd fell back. Hart was then taken to the Grove street police station and after his wound, a slight injury to tho scalp, had been examined, he was lodged in a cell. This version of tho encounter is gleaned from some disinterested spectators who saw it. Hart's friends, however, say that the assault was unprovoked and that Con nors dealt the cruel blow without the slightest occasion, and after he had knocked Hart down drew his revolver and pointed it at his prostrate prisoner, who was then semi-conscious, having been stunned by tbe blow on his head. In this state they aver Hart was literally dragged through the street. Late Tuesday evening Hart's friends waited on Lawyer Daly, counsel of the Freight Handler's union, and be advised them to have the policeman arrested, and a warrant was issued by Justice Warren. The police say that a body of strikers made a rush at the forty Italians and that the policemen drove them back, but that they were persistent and attacked the po liceman, who was compelled to use his club. They add that the Italians were followed to the ferry and that an inces sent shower of stones was kept up. Hart is not one of the striking freight handlers. He is employed by the New Jersey lighterage company. His impru dence has given the law abiding strikers a deal of trouble. He was taken into cus tody a few days ago for attempting to boycott a grocer, in front of whose shop he took up a position and stood there counselling the patrons of the place not to buy goods of the firm as they supplied tho Italians with groceries. Nicholas Spoonstran, one of "the Erie trackmen, was repairing the tracks across Pavonia avenue and was severely beaten. John Bridgman, another employee, was badly whipped at Ninth and Provost streets. Both men were attended by phy sicians and sent home. It is supposed that the assaults were made by some of the many ruffians and loafers who infest tho neighborhood. No arrests were made. PLEA FOB THE TUEF. UfSX. ABB BUFOBD OX ME PLATFOR. lion Badag and Christianity-He Incom patible. How to. Aboil Gambling and Other Kvlls or the Tort. General Abe Buford, the celebrated Kentucky turfman, who has recently joined the church, lectured Tuesday even ing to a small audience at Hershey's Masks Hall, Chicago, on "Church and Turf." Ex-Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, was among the listeners. Mayor Henderson mtroduced the speaker, who spoko in sub stance as follows: "I am by birth and education a turfmau, and I come here as a Christiou turfmen to assert that there ought not to exist any antagonism between the church and the turf. It is by tradition alone that the church is opposed to the turf. The cause of the antagonism arises from the fact that ministers of tbe gospel do not understand tbe relative positions of a turfman and a sportsman. A turfman is a gentleman who owns sou, breeds and trains and runs and trots his horses to develop its speed and endurance. A sportsman is a gambler, nothing more. A turfman lives in the country. God set man above all the ant mals of the earth, and one of his duties is to improve and develop them. The horse is spoken of in the most sublime passages of the Bible. The prophets say, "The glory of his nostrils is terrible." All through the Bible tho horse is spoken of as brave and powerful. The advance of the church to-day may bo justly compared to a troop of thoroughbred horses with their trappings hitched to the chariot of the Rev. Do Witt Talmago. In America there is, properly speaking, no turf, but a race course instead. The best specimens of norses are to be found in tbo blue grass region of Kentucky. The speaker then adverted to racing in various sections and said that the Lexing ton association was managed by Chris tians and no gambling was going on. This association differed from the speaker's views in allowing running, but no trot ting. His reasons for supporting the turf are that horses aro a common defence for the country, and contribute to the pros perity and happiness of the people. The cavalry and light infantry are the strong est arms of the service, and the greater speed and endurance a horse has the more efficient he is. Our progress West depends on the horse and the machinery of to-day is estimated by the strength of the horso. The evils of tbe turf are its surroundings of gambling, fraudulent running and scatcbing at the start. These evils Christians must suppress. The speaker then showed up three modes of gambling auction pools, Parish mutuals and book betting. Theso evils might be lesseue J by introducing in the charters of jockey clubs a feature organizing such clubs as banking institutions and making it a penal offence for auy officer or agent of the club to be guilty of fraud. The pool box must be removed by legislative en actment and jockey clubs regulated like a board of trade. The pardoning power of tho governor must be taken away iu cases of gambling. This would bo its death blow. Racing is not an abuse, for through it the horse is made a prince of and is treated with kind ness. Scratching is robbery and means should be taken to prevent it. It is il libeial to say a turfman cannot be a true Christian. The turf has its abuses, but abolish the abuses and purify tbe turf. The proper position of the church on amusements is to leave them to the indi vidual consciences of each member. Tho duties of Christians are positive. They must be active for good and against evil. They should make money, but not abuse it. They may own and trot or run horses, and must not only steer clear of attendant evils, but oppose them, aud the turf will be ennobled and Christianized. MISCBLLANKUUS NEWS 1TKMS. A Call Boy's Theft or Diamonds. Michael Kennedy, a call-boy at tho St. Nicholas Hotel, New York, was arrested yesterday, charged with robbing Miss M. L. Cook, of Norfolk, Ya., a guest at tbe hotel, of three diamond rings valued at $1,000, on July 20. Tho stolen rings were found on his person. Miss Cook, who is at Saratoga, was notified of the recovery of her property. Ballooning Irom Cape May. The mammoth balloon Congress, left Congress Hall lawn, Cape May, for Phila delphia, at G:12 p. m., on Tuesday, with Charles E. Wise, Johu Wise, jr., and Frank Willing Leach on board. When last seen the balloon was making a rapid flight northward. Stood it Without a Whimper. Joseph Sayers, aged 40 years, who was committed to the Toronto Central prison from Whitby, Ont, for an assault on a 12 year-old girl, yesterday received 25 lashes. Although his back was frightfully lacerated with the cat, he stood the punishment without outcry or murmur. Apoplexy In Court. Samuel Rosenburg, who stole 300 pairs of unmade trousers from a Newark (N. J.) firm and endeavored to get the stolen goods into Canada, was yesterday at Toronto sentenced to six months in the Central prison. He was taken with an apoplectic lit before entering the court room. A Mule Dies uf a Broken Heart. A mule belonging to the Delaware ice company, of Easton, died a month ago. Soon afterward another mule that had been worked as a companion to the dead animal, refused to eat and starved to death. The St. Louis Gambling Cases. All the cases against the gamblers, lot tery men and kindred frauds at St. Louis have either been nollo pressed or deferred to the December term, when they will be dropped. This ends the fight against that species oi crime mere. The Perry Cotton Mills Troubles. Tho banks holding the paper of the Perry cotton mill, at Newport, R. I , bought the mill in yesterday at auction for $87,000. The mill is in good order. It has 10,300 spindles and 272 looms. Babies from a Cat's Bite. William YanOsten, of Chester, is suf fering from what appears to be rabies, re sulting from a cat bite. FIKK BECUBD. Destruction ot Property and Loss or Life. Joseph Haflin's drug store, at Minneap olis, Minn., was yesterday destroyed by fire to the extent of 810,000. A frame stable and contents belonging to Henry G. Bantings, was burned yester day at Wilmington, Delaware. Loss, $2,000. Tbe bending works and an adjoining factory, at Grand Rapids. Michigan, were yesterday destroyed by fire. Loss $13,000. Michael McCarty, aged 8 years, and Thomas McCarty, aged 11 years, were yesterday drowned in a mill trench at Woonsocket, R. I. Percival Eppleimer, aged 22 years, was seamen to aeaiu at roustown ou Tuesday by escaping steam. Mrs. N. Baker and Mrs. Anderson were suffocated iu a small house which was destroyed by firo yesterday at Grand Raoids, Michigan. Tho residence of J. H. Boardman, at Nevada City, Nev., was burned on Sunday night. Two sons, aged 6 and 8 years, are missing, and are supposed to have lost their lives in tbe burning building. A fire at New Haven, Conn., yesterday caused a loss of $2,000 to Moore, Sproul & Nichols, paper-box manufacturers : ftlO.000 to John Kirscbnor, job printer : $10,000 to w. wuuu luiwuuu, ju jinuusr ; ?iu,vruu iu i A C. Treagcr, saloonkeeper, and $6,000 to I theowaersof the building, the heirs of John W. Mansfield. Mrs. Julia Petery, aged 25 years, died yesterday at Blissville, L. I., from burns received on the previous evening by the explosion of a lighted kerosene lamp, which exploded while she was carrying it about her dwelling. Mary Cavanaugb, of l'etrolia, aged 11 years, attempted to kindle a fire with coal oil on Sunday and was fatally burned. Tbe house was burned down, and $1G0 in money concealed therein was lost. MB. TILUJSN'S HEALTH. A False Rumor Corrected and the ex-Governor' BeUef Announced. Yonkcrs Dispatch to tlie New York Herald. The widely circulated rumor of the seri ous illness of ex-Governor Tilden brought to this placid township a horde of corres pondents, reporters and obituarists. It will interest Governor Tilden's friends and possibly exercise his enemies to know that while the venerable man is not able to jump a five-bar gate, he is quite as well physically as he nas neon any time in livo years past. Mentally be is very alert, and in company witb two intimates be is prepar ing a " little matter " which bids fair to cause a sensation in political circles. He has not selected Mr. Allan Campbell nor Mr. Anybody Else as his political heir, and unless appearances aro more deceitful than usual he proposes taking a decidedly active part in affairs this fall. It is re ported that Governor Tildeu has settled two things in his mind first, that Gov. Cornell is to be nominated, and second, that he can be defeated. This much is all that the oracles thus far vouchsafe. More is expected anon. KILI.KI) 11V THE CAK4. A Series of Fatal ltallroad Casualties. Budget Mahone was killed .by cars near Dcrry, Westmoreland county.ou Monday. Johu II. Stebbins, of Port deposit, Maryland, was run over by the cars near West Grovo, Chester county on Tuesday, and fatally injured. Passenger Engineer Vau Pateu and Fireman Wedcn were badly hurt on the Illinois Central railroad on Monday night by running into the rear of a freight traiu between Irvington aud Centralia. Maria Cipnerago, aged 18 months, of No. 270 Elizabeth street, New York, was run over and killed yesterday iu Prince street, near the Bowery, by a street car. Tbo driver, Edward Dougherty, was ar rested and held to await the result of tho inquest. CHOPS In THE NORTHWKST. Reports rroni Illinois The. Condition in Iowa and Wisconsin. The Chicago Tiibune has the following crop specials : Hennepin, Ills., reports the greater portion of the hay crop secured ; tho quality is excellent aud the yield heavy ; a few farmers are threshing wheat and rye this week directly from the shock ; the warm, dry weather of tho past two weeks has greatly benefited corn upon the high lands ; tho prospect for a fair crop is good. One farmer told the Tribune cor respondent that he bad not had a better prospect for a corn crop in 20 years. Oats are filling well, and everything indi cates an immense yield. From Sterling comes a report, after a careful survey of the condition of the corn crop in White side county, that with tho most favorable weather and late frosts thero cannot pos sibly be more than a half crop. Corn has a very fine color and stands eveu ou the ground, but it is near the 1st of August and not a tassel iu sight yet, when it ought to oe tasseiea aud eared bclore this, it is true the acreage planted is much larger than last season, but that is more than offset by tbo vast amount that has been drowned out. Small graiu of all kinds is very fine, aud is being gathered in splen did condition. Early potatoes are a good crop, but it is too early yet to say what later ones will bo. Hay is a very largo crop.- Reports received by the Chicago, Mil waukee & St.. Paul railroad from 293 points in tho Northwest show a very grati fying cenditionof the crops. There are only a few places in which the chinch-bugs have appeared and very littlo damago has been done by them. The wheat outlook in Iowa aud Wisconsin is uniformly ex cellent. In 18 counties in Iowa 10 report corn as growiug fast aud promising a fair average yield, while in 8 counties tbe out look for corn is discouraging. In Wiscon sin 12 counties report corn as promising well and with favorable weather sure to yield a good crop, and in 3 counties the corn is backward. A Model lor Mlilsiiinuier. Philadelphia Ledger. Controller Pattison's acceptance of tho Democratic nomination for governor is a model letter of its kind. Something had to bo said, and tho less the better, espe cially in such hot weather. A SERIOUS CHAKGK. Whom Does This Shoe Fit ? Comrade Hayes Gncr's Columbia Herald. In Lancaster county we have over one thousand pensioners, and tho total amount sent to theso pensioners during tbe year ending Sept 4, 1881, was $207,313.00. This includes " arrears " in many cases. To meet tho demands of these pensioners $109,112.00 will be sent to tho county an. nually. Remember this was tho number ot pensioners up to Sept. 4, 1881. Since that date tho roll has been inci eased, and before all claims are settled the annual pay-roll to Lancaster county will be near $200,000. In tho great majority of cases this money is properly distributed, but "'tis true and pity 'ti?, 'tis true," there are same drawing pensions who are no better than thieves. To obtain the money they perjured themselves and in every case caused two neighbors to do the same ming. meuayot retribution is cornincr for some of them, and they will then wish that they had continued to support them selves, as they had always done, and will curse tbe day on which they listen id to the claim agent, and swore that their dead sons and brothers were their solo support. One Hundred and Three Tears Old. . A correspondent of the Oxford Press on the 15th inst., had tho pleasure of again calling upon the oldest inhabitant of Southern Lancaster county, Hannah Brown, who on that day had reached her 103d birthday. She is kindly cared for by her daughter and grandson, who live upon a good farm in Fulton township, one mile souiu oi waiceneia. Aiany caned to see her on the same day and converse with her. She is still able to walk with a staff to and from her chamber, going up and down a flight of stairs, as she has dono for years. Her locomotion is steady, her appetite is good and the sight of one eye good, deafness being the only difficulty in holding a conversation with her. She is anativnof Brick Meeting House, Cecil county, Md.. and came into Lancaster county in 1852. Uunkard Love Feast. The Zion's Dunkards, or liberal branch of the River Brethren, will meet at Cono wago, Dauphin county, and -hold a love feast on the second Saturday and Sunday iu August, about tho middle of the month, on which occasion a largo number of members of the church from this and adjoining counties are expected to be present. Vacancy Filled. Charles E. Long was yesterday elected treasurer of the Lancaster. Elizabethtown A- irx.a.it. m. ;i u miuuiouiwo lurnpiKo roau company in place of Jacob M. Long, deceased. CAN SITCH THINGS BE? A TKKRIBLfc CASE OP SDFFKRINU. Poor Frank Farrell Dying Prom Neglect a the County Hospital HM Body Covered with Corruption. Yesterday afternoon a report reached the Intelligencer office that a man was dying on Lafayette street from the effects of abuse and neglect suffered by him while an inmato of the county hosoital. A hreporter was despatched to look up tho case, fie learned that the name of the man was Frank Farrell, and after some troublo he found him in a small dwelling house, No 444 Lafayette street. Just be foro reaching the house the reporter fell iu with Dr. McCorraick, who was on his way to visit tho patient, aud went with him to tho sick man's room. Frank Farrell lay' stretched upon his death bed. A more pitiable sight is sel dom seen, even by reporters or physicians, who are supposed to bo acquainted with misery iu all its phases. Tbo pallid face, the emaciated frame, the vacant staro of tho man, told but too plainly that bis days on eartn are numbered, lie was watched over tenderly by his wife, a cleanly, tidy looking little woman, who fanned him and brushed back his hair and smoothed down tho bed cover as the visitors entered. Tho doctor after a few cheary words to tho patient and his wife, called the reporter to the bedside, turned down the cover and exposed to view the naked hip of tbe patient. It was ono immense sore, too larga to be covered by the doctor's open hand and extended lingers. It appeared to be rotten ; the stench was almost- unbearable and watery humor was dripping from tbo ragged edges of the sloughing tissue of the ghast ly wound. With au expression of horror the reporter asked what was tho matter with the man, and .the doctor answered that he was suffering from bed sores brought on by neglect if not by ab solute abuse. He said the other hip was in an equally bad condition and that great sores of similar character wero on the man's back, but that these could not be shown without turning tho patient over, which would cause unnecessary pain. The doctor added that the man's sores, having been carefully attended to for a week past, are in much better condition now tban they were when he was brought from the hospital. By inquiries mado from the doctor and 3lrs. Farrell the reporter learned that Frank Farrell had been sent to tho bos pital about a year ago, suffering from a soitemngoi tbe brain ; tuat bo was gen. erally inoffensive and caused but little troublo, but that at intervals he became violent and force had to bo used to subdue him. As time went on ho grew worse aud appeared to bo more and more neglected. Soino six weeks ago his wife visited him at the hospital, found him lying upon tbo floor in a wretched condition without bed, bedding or other comforts. She at oneo resolved to take him away from tho hospital aud have him cared for else where, sho being a poor woman and obliged to work at service for a living. Ho was thus provided for for a week or more, but Mrs. Farrell being unable to get anybody to take caro of him properly wa compelled to remand him to the hospital. At that time his body was free from sores, though his mind was un sound. He rcmaiued iu tho hospital about four weeks, aud at the end of that time be was found by his wife iu the terrible condition in which he was soon by tho re porter and which he has attempted to describe. Since his removal from tbo hospital he has been faithfully nursed by bis wife, who gave up the situation she held at a hotel, and which was bor only means of livelihood that sho might devote her wholo attention to her unfortunate husband. Sho runs great risk of losing her life from blood-poisoning while engaged in dressing his wounds. Farrell, sinco his removal from tbo hos pital, has also been faithfully attended professionally by Drs. McCormick aud Boyd, without hopo of reward. He has also been profession illy visited by Urs. Hess and Brubaker. Tho twu first named physicians declare unreservedly that Far roll's terrible condition i.s the result of neglect, if not of positive abuso during his last four weeks' incarcctation in the county hospital. They say that with even tho most ordinary caro it would have been impossible for him to havo become the mass of corruption ho now is ; but being left to Ho helpless upon tho hard floor and to wallow almo'st naked in his own filth, without attention no other result could bo expected. Although we havo not seen tho other physicians named, wo havo no doubt thoy will corroborate what Drs. Boyd and McCormick say. Sirs. Farrell states that when she went to tho hospital to see Frank and found him on the floor, the attendants refusing to give him a bed dnriug the day. Ho ap peared to bo almost starved, and she fed him fonr times a day, ho eating ravenously at each meal. An attendant at the hospital named "Dick" told Mrs. Farrell that he was frequently clubbed whilo at the hos pital, and that during last winter, one day when ho tried to leave that placo and go to his homo ho was taken back by force aud beaten over tho head by an attendant named Henry, and that ho was sick for a long timo afterwards. Ho was a mass of bruises from head to foot, aud tho hospital physicians despaired of his life. Frank Farrell is a man perhaps 35 years of age, and is very well-known in Lancas ter. A very few years ago ho was i egarded as one of the best bartenders in tho city, and held positions in several of tho best hotels and saloons. He was intelligent, courteous and accommodating, and had bo3ts of friends. "Now lies ho there.'-' What aro wo going to do about it ? "Can such things be, and overcome us like a summer cloud without our special won der?" There is something wrong at the hospital. There is a terrible responsibility resting on somebody, and that resposi bility ought to be fixed, the guilty ought to be punished, and the great wrong wiped out. Frank Farrell's case is not the only one of tho kind. While investigating it we have heard of others not quito so bad, it is true, but too bad to be tolerated, and we may have something further to say about them WOMTHK PKIZE. The Reformed Premium Tract. A report has been made by the committee entrusted with the duty of reviewing the manuscripts for a tract on the subject of "The Reformed Church in the United States," for general distribution, in order to determine wmen one is entitled to the premium of $20 offered by Rev. Chas. G. Fisher, manager of the publication inter ests of the church. Tbo committee consisted of Revs. J. A. Peters, J. B. Shumaker, John G. Fritchey, John S. Stabr, and Messrs. Christian Gast, John B. Rotb, Charles Denues. In their report they say : "We have received six manuscripts on the subject assigned, to which we individually, as well as in our collective capacity, have given caro- im examination. Tbe decision which we have unanimously reached is that the manuscript bearing the signature of ' Mel ancthon,' both as to matter and form, ap proaches nearest to the idea which you have proposed, and therefore, in our judgment, is entitled to the reward." It turned out that the successful author who wrote under this nom de plume was William N. Apple, esq., of this city, son of Rev. Dr. T. G. Apple and a law stu dent in the office of Major A. C. Reinoehl. As the originator of the contest says in the Messenger, he is certainly to bo con gratulatedas this is the first time, it is believed, in tbe history of tbe Reformed church in the United States that Ruch a test has been set p in his securing tho reward over his fellow competitors, whose manuscripts also possessed merit and evinced scholarship and ability. UAP AKWS. Latest Intelligence from Halltbury. Tho track has at last been laid on the temporary road-bed and ou Saturday thero arrived heie an engine and a num ber of gondola earn to be used in hauling out of the "cut" the largo quantities of earth dug therefrom. The great under taking of reducing the grade hero was commenced on ilonday morning last and the company is determined to go through with it. .Over fifty men are at work and reinforcements are continually arriviug. Many of the employees -of tbo uickel mines havo fouud employmont here. Little Locals. Three festivals are booked in this neigh borhood to bo bekl on the coming Satur day evening. A fine horse, valued at $175 and owned by Georgo Petre, died on Sunday evening from internal injuries received ou Satur day night by jumping over a rail fence. Quite a number of our citizens intend tn tako the opportunity of seeing " old ocean " by goiug with Uaverstick & Clark's grand excursion to Atlantic City on August 3. The P. R. R. company have just com pleted adding 150 feet to tbe trestle work used by Jos. C. Walker & Son, coal and lumber merchants. Martha, wife of Wm. James (colored ), died on Thursday and was buried at Zion church on Sunday. Pemoaal Notes. Michael Wise, I. Lewis Walker aud Wm. Hcndorson have arrived home from Blillcrsvillo normal school Isaac Stauf- fer and his son, from Now Orleaus, La., spent a few days hero aud aro now en joying tho cool breezes of the seashore at Capo May Wiulield Kennedy aud Syl vester Kennedy, or this neighborhood, are spending somo weeks at Capo May and Mr. and Mrs. Jos. C. Walker have gone to Atlantic City Miss Ida Doyle, of Intercourse, and Miss Ella Smith, from Annvillc, iu company with 3Iiss Helen Hoffman, uf May town, wero tbe guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Oreudorf last week and while hero we wero treated to somo very lino accomplishments ou tho piano and organ. Miss Smith is a most skill ful pianist and organist. Sho studied music and graduated at Aunvillo college and intends going to Bostou iu September to completo her musical education. SDNMKK LK1SUKK. The Sunset Idleness of the Mid-Season. R. J. Maloue, esq., is at Congress Hall, uape May. E. K. Smith and wife, and Mrs L. Parry, of Columbia, registered at Congress hall, Cape May, on Monday. Miss Josie Duffy, of diarietta, and Miss Maizie Davis, of Reading, aro among tho lato arrivals at tho New Columbia, Capo May. Mr. Milt S. Roycr and wife nave gone to Bellefonte. and will visit some of the popular mountain resorts in that neigh borhood. Arabi Pacha Kharpcnter, who bas been organizing his forces for two weeks past on Weise's Island, visited Lancaster last evening. Ho is brown as a nut and tough as hickory. Miss Kfliii Reimcusuyder left Lancaster at 11 o'clock last night for Chillicotbc, O., where sho will be the guest of tbo late Gov. Allen's family at Fruit Hill. A largo number of friends wero at tbe depot to see her oil. Ephrata Spriugs, Lancaster county, under tho new proprietor, is well patron ized. A good table, reasonable rates, flno mountains, picturcsquo seenory, cold spring water, baths, etc. Among tbo guests now thero aro E. Harper Jeffries, F. Eckiug and Prof. Lo Fevre. TUB (iKTTYSBOKO CAMP. Tlio Znolr Monument Unveiled Candidate Broslus on the Field. The crowd at Gettysburg was increased ou Tuesday by a large delegation from Heading aud other points. Tiicre wero several Posts with music. In the morn ing Zook post, of Norristown, unveiled a handsome monument to the memory of Major General S. K. Zook, who was killed whila leading a charge iu the battlu ot Gettysburg. Tho shaft is of Montgomery county granito, eight feet high and rests on a huge boulder in front of Round Top. Several thousand people witnessed tbe impressive ceremony. Rav. II. B. Strodach opened with prayer and Thomas W. Bean delivered an interesting biographical and historical oration! Music was furnished by a party of 1 uIum and gcntlemeu of Gettysburg. The camp was again crowded with vis itors in tho evening. To tho usual en joyments a grand display of fireworks and a suam battlo were added, cannon being stationed on Culp's Hill. Tbe wholo pass'cd off with decided effect. Candi date Marriott Urosius was on the camp ground. Heavy Wheat Crops. ElklOll Wlli;,'. Cecil county can boast of some extraor dinarily largo yields of wheat this season. Among them wo uoto the following : Mr. Hugh Cameron of this vicinity har vested a crop averaging furty-fivo bushels per acre, and Andrew Lynns, gathered from his farm near Port Deposit an average of forty bushels per acre. The former was the Fultz variety, tho latter "White Red Chaff." Peter Murphy obtained au average of twenty eight bushels to the acre. Wm. Jones, esq., from his farm west of town got an average of thirty-two bushels to the acre Irving G. Griffith, of Bohemia Manor, threshed out an average of forty bushels per acre. Two young men, suns of Mr. Dunbar Morgan, of this town, upon a lot of three and a half acres raised ono bun dred and twenty-five bushels. And so the average runs, a yield of less than eighteen bushels to the acre being a rarity. Tbo wheat crop in this county will this season surpass that of any former season for a long time pint. a Fighting ti lermeu. Lancaster is rot the only city that is blessed with fighting aldermen. Brooklyn comes to tbe front with Alderman Jim Dunn, who has challenged Tug Wilson, tho distinguished Englishman to fight him without gloves for a stake of $5,000 and the cbampionshipof the world. Tug" has promptly accepted the challenge, and this will for a time bar out the match we were in hopes of makintr between him aud our Third ward alderman. It mav be however, that the soured hern of tho Third Ward Pugilistic Benevolent associa. tion may eventually beaccimmodat3d with a match with tbe winner of tbe fight for the championship, if bo can only repress his noble rage until that event shall have been decided. Hand Badly Cut. Yesterday John Hepting, aged 9 years, son of Baltzer Hepting, of John street, was playing with some other children in Darmstetter's bntchershop, when one of them accidentally struck him between the thumb and finger of the right hand with a cleaver. The thumb was almost severed from tho hand, and it was sewed up by Dr. Westhaeffer. Baia Fishing. Judge Livingston, Sheriff Striue, Rois ter Umblo and Deputy Registers Stoncr and Harni8h caught 38 fine black bass below tbe Columbia dam yesterday, rang ing in weight from ball a pouud to two pounds. A i i t x
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