1 LANCASTER DAILY INTiAttENOEK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11. 1882. Eancagter JntelKgencet. SATURDAY EVENING NOV$U, 1898, - fr if $r- Don't Want It. Mr, Blaiae takes immediate occasion to say tbat he is not a candidate for j president and would not take the nomi-' nation if tendered him. He thinks' SenatorHarrison, of Indiana, Trould-be j a good man for his party to nominate. ' Mr. Harrison has had such an aspira- tion ; whether he still has it is question- J able. He is in Washington, and the in terviewer has found tim out. He is portrayed, as in a very disconsolate frame of mind, sorrowing over the I 'lighted' prospects of his party. Mr. Harrison feele, as Mr. Blaine does, that there is a great deal of vanity and vexa tion of spirit in politics. Mr. Harrison, like Mr. Blaine, would like to bo president, but has no anxiety to be a defeated candidate -for the office. The , jEepublican party now has to look' to another class of candidates for its presidential nomination, men of the second degree, who would relish a nomi nation for the compliment of the thing, and of a sanguine spirit which would lead them to hope where there is no hope. Fblger and Beaver would answer the requirement in temperament, but they have been buried under too heavy majorities to be available. Mr. William Windom would, no doubt, accept the standard, which old coons like Blaine and Harrison fight shy of, developing a sudden and strong inclination for the pleasures of private life. There are some Republicans who pretend to think that the late deluge was not much of a phower after all, and that their party will be able to have its plumage in fine feather for the coming presidential contest. Mr. Blaine is not among theia ; he realizes the fact that for some time to come tho Democratic party will be in the saddle ; the period depending upon its good be haviour. He does not believe that the Democracy will be in a hurry to lose what they have gained. In the course of time it is quite probable that the Demo cratic virtue will run out, and the polit ical opposition, reflnedTiyiheir period of exclusion from the flesh pots, will come in ; but the day is not going to be an early one. The 014 Man's Pluck. Our aged Winnebago chieftain is among the sad-eyed .Republicans whose thought the newspaper reporter gives out. He was found in the Girard house in the little room behind the office, whdre he had come down from his room to see his friends, bearing in his hand a volume of the " Vicar of Wakefield," with which he said he had been regaling himself Goldsmith, as he said in further explanation, being one of his favorite authors. He was " one of them literary tellers" whom he delighted in ; not one of the kind that nowaday?, in the col umns of 'the dally press, give so much trouble and abuse to fellows who are not literary, but a respectable fellow who confined himself to writing delightful romances to amuse the weary and dis consolate politician, with whom things have gone generally to the bad and who needs to get into the unreal to relieve his mind from the strain of real woes. No one will dispute that Simon Cameron has reason to .feel sad and weary. The affairs of the family, which he left in good care, have got in a sad mess under the care of his scion ; but the aged chieftain keeps up his fierce spirit and his voice is still for war. He admits no mistake in the past save in the conciliation tendered to the jebels in his party. There should have been no parley with thenxat all, he declares, but they should have been remorselessly trampled under foot. Perhaps the aged chief is right ; but the general impression is otherwise. His son Don is thought to have excelled in stiff-neckeduess and to have come to grief therebytlnrt it seems that he was not stubborn enougiir.o suit the views of his savage sire, who would not have had him even to parley with his foe. It is not surprising that with this paren tal teaching and inheritance Don Cam eron has shown so little facility in com promising with his enemies. The fault was not his, but Simon's ; and yet the latter has enjoyed-tlie repute of the wis dom of the serpent and of a disposition which would liend before a crushing storm. Like a devoted father he stands by his son, and making the best .of the situation, after the battle is lost, charges the result,not to the stubborn folly of the general, Irat to he timidity of his aids. m m Hew It Happened. George Bliss, a New York politician of President Arthur's set, thinks he knows how it happened that the political revolution came. It was due, he de clares, some time ago, and the Republi can party has been kept in power less by its own wisdom and virtues thau by Democratic blundering. That is about our own opinion, only we would express it somewhat differently. We cheerfully admit that its wisdom and virtue had very little to do in keeping the Republi can party in power, for it would be very hard to say where they have exhibited any for some time past. They have Clung to their places by their corruption and fraud and by the Democratic blun dering cowardice which permitted these means to be successful. The time when the Republican regime prop erly came to an end was the time when Mr. Tilden was elected president. No one to-day denies that he was elected and no one can de fend the lack of courage and wisdom of Mr. Tilden and the Democratic leaders which permitted the verdict of the peo pie to be nullified. But it is very brazen in the Republican agents of the successful fraud to explain to-day that their party was really overthrown so long ago, and has since "maintained itself in powor against the popalar sentiment which has now so 'unmistakably and emphatically kicked them out. Men who have done this trick and boast of it are not men who will be readily trusted again ; and Mr. Bliss and his friends can resign themselves to the conclusion that the Democratic blundering which left them so long in power will not be exhibited in early re storing them to it:. j !-J" tr isTrettar to haye voted and lost than never $ bro voted atall . T J ' Cameron after tlio election : - Let mc have men about me that are lat : Sleek-headed men, ana such w slep o'nfghts ; Yonrt' Stewart lias a lean and hunzry loose ; !io tbiniffl toomueh: such men are clangei 0112. TnE"bToody shirt7 payment oTrebel war claims and the tans' scare have forever lost tbeir potency as Republican campaign ammunition. Beaver runs about 230 ahead of his ticket in his own county ; Brosius, about 423 at home ; Pattiaon, several thousand ; Claik, over 2,000 Black, 142 ; Elliott, 1,000; and Africa, 1,000. ,Anticiiating the probable result of future events, the' Cincinnati Enquirer says : " The people seem to bn in the proper frame of mind, therefore we move to go into an election for president for 1884." Cleveland's overwhelming majority in New York has given rise to some very in geuious Republican reasoning. Mr. Mar shall Jewell claims it as a Republican victory because of the manifest fact tbat thousands of Republicans voted for tho Democratic nominee. This method of ex tracting comfort from misfortune makes Mark Tapley's cheerfulness in adversity pale into insignificance. The Philadelphia Committee of One Hundred has certain reform measures in view, which provide for tho repeal by the next Legislature of, tho recorder's bill and of the delinquent tax bill ; for tho passage of a law for the reform of munieipal gov ernment ; reducing the number of depart, ments and concentrating the responsibility and covering the general features of the municipal bill now before councils ; for the securing of civil servico reform ; for the revision of the laws relative to salaries of officials in cities of the first class; to the end that thore of them that are extrava gant may be lerluced ; for a bill giving tho councils of cities of the first class powers to scad for persons and papers in conduct ing investigations, and for tho repeal of the act of the act of Assembly passed April 11, 18G3. to define tho duties and liabilities of passenger railway companies in tho city. With all this accomplished) through tho direct agency of tho Dcmoc racy, as it must be, Philadelphia can stand up, redeemed and regenerated, and demonstrate what she owes to an honest controller and governor. Jenny Lind and Alabin.y have been spending the autumn at Malvern Hill. Mn. Holman Hunt has now about fin ished his great picture of " Tho Plight into Egypt," which was beguu at Jerusa lem six years ago. Ex-Secretary Blaine said to a porsou al friend in fioston, " I wish it distinctly understood that I am not a candidate for the presidency or any other political office and nothing can induce mo to became such." Prof. William Wagner, aged 93, and too I'ceolc to address an audicuc?, is lec turing in Philadelphia by proxy, ho sits on the platform in an easy chair, wh; le an elecutiouisi reads the nneusoript. Borro, the composer of " Mefistofclo," is about to marry Mme. Borghi-Mancr, who to". kDOwn as a magnificent con tralto some years since at CoventGai deu. Sho is not very young, but love commits, a la Burdett-Conrts, some strauge vagaries. Barbara Scott, an aged spinster of Montreal, was the owner of property worth $400,000, but she lived for years alone in the family mansion with only an old and decrepit man for a servant, and in such squalor that the board of health in terfered. Sho died alone and partly from starvation, having for a long time denied herself proper food. She left her estate, by a carefully written will, to a number of charities and churches. Three cousins contested it in the courts, producing plenty of evidence of Miss Scott's eccentricities, bnt the court has decided that she was in her right mind and that the will is valid. A NEW KI.UK LODGE. Tlio Masonic tiraml Officers go to Alleutotvn to Constitute a New Lodge. At Allentown Friday morning the offi cers of the Grand Lodgo of li'ree and Ac cepted Masons of Pennsylvania arrived from Reading. They were met by Mayor Martin, Colonel Fisher, Colonel Good and other citizens. Shortly after their arrival they were taken out in cabs and shown places of interest in and near the city. The object of the visit .of the grand lodge, officers was to constitute .i new Blue Lodge Greenleaf, No. 5C1. At 12 o'clock, noon, the new lodgo was constituted and the officers installed. Tho ceremony was highly interesting and was witnessed by many prominent members of the order from this city and other places. Among the distinguished visitors present was Hon. Robert A Lamberton, president of Lehigh university ; E. Coppee Mitchell, of Philadelphia ; L. H. Barber, of Mauch Chunk, and Robert Lerch, of Easton, dis trict deputy grand masters of Carbon and Northampton counties. At 3 o'clock Friday afternoon a banquet was served at tho Allen house to the grand lodge offi cers aud other visitors. Friday evening the grand master gave an exemplification of the work, and many prominent mem bers of the order from a distance were present. m KUNWIN'U AWAIT WITH A COKPdE. A Hearse Onset ana the Coffin Thrown Out Jntotbe Hoadway. An awful accident took place Friday during tho funeial services of Mrs. New master, near Cornwall, Lebanon county. The procession was passing along the Cornwall pike from the ore bank to the Methodist Episcopal church, when the horses attached to the hearse took fright at a passing locomotive and ran away. The frightened animals dashed to one sido at a fearful pace, upset the hearse, broke the French plate-glass sides, threw the coffin into the road, split it and smashed the hearse into pieces. The closed carnages in tho procession stopped, tho mourners got out, and a number fainted and fell at tho sight of the uuusual wreck. The greatest excitement prevailed. The un dertaker was obliged to send to Lebanon for another hearse, the mourners waiting until tho coffin could be lifted from the road and secured. The driver of the hearse fortunately escaped unhurt. Found Floating In TfaeBlvor.. Friday evening the body of William Hamilton, covered with cuts and brnises, was found in the Ohio river at Sewicklcy, eighteen mile." from Pittsburg. Hamilton was ttic confidential clerk of E. R. Rcagar, an f!xnsivo contractor; he was sent by his employer last week with a largo sum of money to pay some workmen. Nothing was heard of him until his bod was found. The money was missing and there is every evidence that anothor murder has been commitcd. , FUTUBE REFORMS. ,WOkK BEFORE THJE LKU1SLATCKS. Wbat'tTnalrjcan ilenart Thhk-Wl!i too Dene Tbe Democratic Party Will Abolish Useless Offices and Correct Abases Before Chairman Hensel left the Girard House, wbioh had been the Democratic state headquarters during the campaign, ho calleM attention to the fact' that it was in the same, rooms occupied by his-committee that Mr. A IL McClure had organ ized, and directed tho Republ can cam paign of 18G0, when the first governor was elected by his party. Rooms No. 7 and 9 have been memorable as the residence of many state committees, but none has ever closed them after the election more jubi lant than Hensel's, and, as he remarked Friday, " This furniture will not be auc tioned off ; tbere will likely be future use for the Democratic party." To a representative of the Timet Mr. Hensel said: "They make a great mis take who conceive the notion that the Democracy of the state or nation has re ceived a charter of perpetual power. It can only hope to maintain its present vantage ground by showing itself worthy of the confidence reposed in it and fit for tho re sponsibilities with which it has been en trusted. It must keep constantly in mind the causes which have overthrown Repub lieanism and take warning therefrom." "What will be the best polioy for it to pursue in order to carry tbe presidential election of 1884?" "To think as little as possible about carrying elections, presidential or local. Let the men whom it has eleotcd give them selves more concern about the proper dis charge of their official duties. The Demo crats have regained control of Congress because of popular disgust at tho waste of time and lavish expenditures by the last House, and because of its refusal to give the people tbeir demanded relief from needless taxation. What the next House needs to do is to economize time and ex penditures, to decide all contest ed election cases expeditiously and fairly and without regard to par tisan profit, to abolish or greatly modify the internal revenue system and to reduce the army of depondont officeholders. There will be no more plundering river and harbor bills passed. Tho conspicuous defeat alike of Robeson and of Miles Ross point a moral tbat will not be unheeded, lu our own state, where my chief concern lies if my views are of any consequence; the path of the party is straight and nar row." "The fight having, in my judgment, been won upon this issue and the consent of enough Republicans for us to wiu having been thus obtained, it would be a clear case of false pretense if a Democratic ad ministration and Legislature did not effect the needed reforms. Fortunately tho party need have no apprehension about tbe administration of the men whom it has elected. The fidelity to public trust and capacity for official duties which have been displayed heretofore by Mr. Pattison vftll not fail him in the higher office. Tho executive position demands at this juncturo just the qualities which he will bring to it. The breadth and thoughtful ness with which bis campaign speeches have been marked have astonished as well as delighted the people They need have no fears of failure on his part to deal bioadly and courageously with every question that will arise. He has heretofore shown a discrimination in the choice of his offi cial assistants to which may be safely loft the selectiou of his advisers and adminis trative agents. To embarrass him with the importunities of office-hunters will not only be a wrong to him, but to tho party and the state. No mau more clearly recognizes thau the governor elect that the suceess of his administration and the future of tho Pennsylvania Demoracy de pend upon tho freedom with which lie is allowed to pick his councillors of state a ; d it; tribute his patronage stuco iti.it offensive term must be invoked to lilly describe it regardless of tho ' shrieks of locality,' of the ' claims ' of ' party workers,' or oven the considerations of personal friendships.' ' "What can the Democratic Legislature do to help along tho needed reforms?" "It can do a great deal by tho judicious exorcise of the art of not doing it. I moan that its mombcis mubt avoid the disreputable practices aud stamp out tho vicious abuses which have to long pre vailed at Harrisburg, to tho shamo of tho state, to the disgrace of the participants and finally to the overthrow.of the party responsible for them. The first caucus hold should be to determine not who shall fill the offices appended to tho Legislature but how many of them can bo abolished. Tho cntiie pasting and folding department, now a roosting place for bummers, a hospital for decay ing political loafers, should be cleaned out. It now affords a " job" for a score or more of fellows who draw an averago of $900 per session, none of whom earn the half of it aud many of whom never go to narrisburg except to sign the pay roll . All sinecures should be remorselessly wiped out ; ail uuuecessary clerkships and and other positions abolished, tho salaries reduced to a fair compensation and tho pernicious tystcra of voting them " inci dentals" and "contingents" to cover a multitude of steals should be abandoned. The Independents and Democrats cau to gether organize the Senate iu such a way as to get rid of tho Cochrans, the Dela neys and tho Gallaghers and other rats who havo been fattening at the public cheese, and in the House the Democrats should organize so as not to admit to place anybody to whom attaches malodorous memories. The people will forgive a lit tle honest inexperience, but they will not condone the elevation to places of trust of tainted men or of those who will abuse power. If the members of the Legisla ture elect will reject free railroad passes and confine their traveling expenses to their mileage money the sessions will be shorter, and instead of meeting on Tues day evening and adjourning Friday after noon, they will earn their 810 a day with six days' service in the week. Some Needed Kelorms. "The now useless and expensive Legis lative Record should bo abolished or its publication reduced to a simple journal of the session. Roform is necessary in the public printing, where there is now lavish waste. Iu the supply of stationery and every other class of articles used in the departments aud Legislature there have been gross favoritism in awarding tho contracts, expert knavery in preparing tho bids, fraud in the execution of the orders and spoliation of the state treasury in buy ing personal perquisites for officials. The supplies of soap, buckets, brushes, brooms fcc, can bo cut down 75 por cent. The senatorial barber shop, maintained at tho public expense, might properly bo abated; at least there is no occasion to contract for senatorial shaving mugs at $44.50 a dozen during years when there is no ses sion of the Senate. These are the proper subjects for party agitation from now until January 1st, and the first duty of the first Democratic caucus will be to wrestle with them. We have overthrown the 'spoils system.' Any resurrection of it by our party will be deservedly the death of tho Democracy." " I would like to see a quiet, modest inauguration, without any fuss or fandan eocs and at not a dollar of cxponso to the state. I believe fifty thousand Democrat would go to llariisbnri: to sco and ap plaud such a ' send oil ' .is that would be. " The future organization of tho pasty in this state will be determined by the new state committee, meeting iu Ilarns burg on the third Monday of January. It will elect a chairman, permanent secretary and executive committee of seven. I am very emphatically of the opinion that the organization should bo kept out of tho hands of the office holders and office hunt ers. The strength of the committee of one hundred is largely due to this determina tion oa its part. Tho tendency of office holders to organize and run the machine for their own protection and the practice of associating parsons ip party manage ment so as.to -afterwards claim a division I of the spoils for services rendered, lias led to tho prevailing popular p otest against the "boss system.' We must rise above that. No man should be identified with the con .rrolof the Democratic organization who holds office or who could be reasonably suspected of ruuning the machine for his own present or future interest. The ex ecutivecommittceshould.be made up at least of a majority of men who will givo their constant preseuco and aid to tho chairman in state campaigns, taking the place of tho usual so called secretaries. In the campaign just closed Mr. Kisner. Mr. Meek and Mr. Shadla did substanrially all of the work, excopt that which was purely clerical, which I had done, not oniy privately but far more expeditiously and economically at Lancaster, under tho cap able direction of Mr. Lichty, than it could have been done at headquarters. Such aids as these would bo of much more ser vice to the new chairman in an executive committee than eminent counselors who would darken counsel by words and who would be busy setting up jobs lor their own aggrandizement. Has Squared Accounts. "The Democratic state committee leaves Philadelphia with every financial obliga tion paid and a little nest egg in the treas urya very little one, of course. Penn sylvania received no help from outside, except a single inconsiderable contribution made on personal grounds. We paid all of our bills as soon as presented, and every county that asked for aid and dem onstrated a legitimate necessity for it was furnished with it. I do not know of a penny spent for any illegitimate purpose. There was only one door to our head quarters, and I know of nothing done.said or written therein or therefrom that all tbe world may not know. Ludicrous even to be recalled is it that one day while one of tbe Greenback-Labor Btate candidates was penned in No. 3, waiting for an audience and Chairman McKce was closeted in No. 5, Cooper made bis appear ance at No. 7. Tho business of each was such that they need not have been ashamed to have had it known to all, but to avoid any sinister supioious I let them out one at a time, without a sight of each other." FAT-l-lSOA'S FI.UBAl.ITY. Tbe Official Keturns Pulling it ap Very Close To Fort; Thousand. Official pluralities are now reported iu all tbe counties but Allegheny, Etfc.Foresr, McKean, Sullivan, Susquehanna and Wy oming, and they foot np a plurality in the Btate for Pattison of 33,931. This will not bo materially changed by tho counties yet to be heard from. As only plu ralities aro . reported from many of tbo counties it is inipossiblo to give the Inde pendent vote complete, but it promises to settlo at about 45,000. The following tablo embraces tho latest figures : PATTISON l'UJRAUTIES. BBAVBB l'LUUALITIKS. AdauiM 57S Allegheny 'JI0(t lleavt-r 322 Armstrong 217 licdlord ."8.1 Blair 517 llerks 770 Uiadlurd I9s2 liuekH l'Jyi Butler -7 Cumbria 053 Chester ll'JS Cameron 3 Dauphin 1270 Uurbon Gto Delaware 7.V-S Centre 879 Indiana 20.13 Clarion 1193 Jefferson 15 Cle-irliclil 17t; Lancaster 4111 ClinU-u 931 Lawrence CHI cv-luinl'i.i 210.1 Lebanon l.":!" Cr.twinnl 13C0 Philadelphia SC3 Cumberland 973 Snyder 127 K11; ..1 800 Somorsot 1Uj7 r.rie. ........ .-09 rioa .... .... ..... 1.1 Fayette liiiO Warren 35 Forest '.X! Franklin S'-3 Fulton 4i"i Urcenc I'lll Iluntindon 112 Juuiata ittj Lackawanna' 117'J Lehigh 2101 .Luzerne 3713 Lycoming 172S McKean SOU Mercer 251 Mifflin 401 Monroe 2299 Mant-j-omei'T 1301 Montour :25 Northampton 4ti7.i Northumberland. 1178 A lrkti CSi Terry 40 Potter. 4 Schuylkill 3188 KJuIliViin 400 Sn-iquchanna 3oo Union 91 Venango 311 Washington 40 Wayne 1379 Wpbtmoteland.... 1598 Wyoming; J00 i oric ... ............ - ji Total 0,7i"8 Total '21.847 Apparent plurality lor Pattison 3S.931 Two Colorml Murderer select a Way to uio. At Knoxville, Tcnu., Milton aud Samuel Hodges, negroes and brothers, were hanged Friday ior the minder of James McFarland at Black Oak llidge on the 5th of last September. The execution took place iu an open field in a raviuo half a mihi from the court house, in a natural amphitheatre, the ground rising on all sides. There was no trap or scaffold, simply two upright posts placed in the ground, with a cross beam, from whicb ropes wcro suspended.Tue wagon with the two prisoners drove under the beam at balf-pat one, the ropes were adjusted and the wagon was driven away and the men were left dangling. They wcro choaked to death. Both tho condemned chose this method of meeting their death. The gibbet was enclosed by a rope into which nobody was admitted but tbo clergy, officers and reporters. An immense crowd was outside. Good order prevailed. Whoa the judgo at the close of their trial pronounced their sentence, conclud ing, " and may tho Lord havo mercy on your souls," Milton Hodges replied : " And may the Lord have mercy on vour soul. You'll go before we will." They were sentenced to be hanged on tho 24th of March but were respited until Friday. Notable Necrology. Henry Winthrop Sargent, a well-known citizen of Boston, and an authority on llowcrand tree culture, died yesterday morning at his summer residence near Fishkill, on the Hudson, aged 72 years. Benj. N. Huntington, an old Whig and Republican politician, died yesterday at Rome, New York, aged CG years. He bad served three terms in the Republican pres idential elector in 18G0, and was at one timo president of the First National bank of Utica. Frederick Fielding, tho blind professor of music, and organist iu Dr. Crosby's church, New York, died suddenly on Thursday night. He was a native of Eng land, about 45 years of age. Rev. L. D. Maier, a well known Evan gelical Lutheran minister, died in Balti more last night, aged 59 years. Dying on the ICoad to the Foorbouae. Triddle Lee, of Greensburg, shot him self Friday in the abdomen with an old army musket, while out gunning. This was at noon. His comrades caruo to town for help, and when they brought him in at 4 o'clock his stepmother, it is alleged, refused to admit him into tho house. He was then taken to the county physician, and at 5 o'clock they started with him in an old wagon for the poor house, the physician saying he would dio along the road. Two of his uncles, it is said, stood by and also refused to take their dyinjj nonhow in oat of las rain. , NEWS MISCELLANY. DOINOS AH. OVKK THE COUMTJKY.. A CIumiIcI , U Ctec, ,ClMlUf j nd Catastrophiea 'Oecurrias la Day Tbe TraU I Anger and Blood. Four tons of powder exploded yesterday at the Keenan lime works, near White- La'.!, New York, killing Dennis Uolden and'Jdseph. Cameron, who had charge of tho-powder hoase It-ia supposed they caused the disaster by smoking. While George Parr was eating dinner r.t Naples, Ontario county, New York, on Thursday, he drank a solution of sugar of lead and laudanum by mistake from a bot tlo labelled "Plantation Bitters," and died in two hours. , Two freight trains on the New York aud New England railroad collided last night, near Millville, Hassachnaetts, ow ing it is said, to disobedience oi oraers. Both engines and 17 cars were wrecked, but no person was soriously injured. The United States revenue cutter Cor- win has arrived at Victoria. Before leav ing Alaska, " she shelled and burned an Indian village, killing many of tbe tribe, who held a number of white prisoners." Isaac Bott was fatally shot by his step son, Julius Levy, iu Little Rock, Arkan sas, on Thursday night. A man named Gamble was fatally beat en in a quarrel with several men at a poll ing precinct in Grayson county, Virginia, on Tuesday evening. Henry Johnson, colored, has been arrest ed in Providence for the murder of Henry Murray. Both were employed in a meat market, and Johnson, it is alleged set tiro to Muiray's greasy apron causing his death. ' At Henrietta, Texas, on Thursday night, C. M. Buigers, defeated candidate for county judge, shot and killed It. M. Donley, a young lawyer, who had spoken ill of him during tbo 'campaign. Rev. J. B. O'Donoghuo, pastor of the Catholic church at Morrow, O., died yes terday morning, from tho effects of a blow from a monkey wrench, indicted by Tim othy Green, on Tuesday last. Green al leges that Father O'Donoghuo publicly denounced his wife as a thief before the congregation last Sunday ; hence the en counter iu which tho fatal blow was struck. A dispatch from Paris reports that a carriage in which Mr. Morton, the Ameri can minister, aud his wife were out driv ing yesterday afternoon was upset, bat that neither of the occupants sustained serious injury. Samuel and Milton Hodge, colored, con vistcdof tho. murder of .their brother-in-law, were hanged yesterday at Knoxville, Tennessee, in presence of about 8,000 spectators. Tho doomed men made ante mortem speeches, declaring that they were " going to glory," but at the same time warning those present " to beware of their fate." The Bafe of the Cortland hotel, at New York, was robbed on Thursday night of $4,000 in cash and $1,500 in diamonds and valuable papers. Two masked men set tiro to tho stables of Mr. Brandenburg, near Erin Georgia, on Thursday night. While Jiri Barndea burg was at the fire the men entered his house, shot at his wife and niece, and seized a trunk containing $2,000 in money and $5,000 in government bonds. There is no clue to the robbers. The Legislature of Tabasco, Mexico, has appointed Wenceslao Briseno provi sional governor of the state, to till tbo vancacy caused by the murder of Gover nor Fouchor. There is no disturbance iu the state. fEUISIilKU IN T11E .A:GISS. A nlother and Her Child Hirn t Death with Neighbors l'owerlesa to Help. A dispatch received at Harrisburg says : The paiticular of a hoirible burning ail'air in the upper end of this county havo just been received hcio. John D. Hcpler, his wife and. seven children, occupied a tenant house three miles ca&t of Gratz, in Lykena -Township. On Wednesday Mr. Hepler, who is stable boss at the Bear Valley work of tho Summit Branch colliery with ono of his sons, were at their accustomed em ployment. The other members of tho family retired early, Mrs. liepler placing some shavings iu the kitchen stovo with which to start tbe fire iu the morn ing. About 11 o'clock at night the oldest boy was awakened and found tho house on fire. His mother was aroused, and the soa, with her assistance, was' able to rescue two of the children, when Henry Reed, the nearest neighbor, living about a hundred yards distant, arrived at the scene. Mr. Reed caught two more of the little ones in his arms as they wcro passed from a second story window by tho mother, but before sho and her oldest daughter, Mary, eight years of ago, could effect their escape from the burning building, the timbers gave way and both were envelopod-by the llames. Tho shrieks of tho two unfortu nates could be plainly heard as they met their death with no ono able to save them. Tho smallest child was severely burned about the head, face and bands. The others were burned slightly. One of the sons was hurt iu being thrown from the house. Tho charred lem.iius of the vic tims wore found yesterday noon. Mr. Hepler and his son were sent for, a dis tance of three miles, and when the hus band and father reached the scene he was so much overcome that ho became uncon scious and remained in that state for some time. The fire is supposed to have been caused by tbe shavings in the stove ig niting. The dwelling, an old two-story house was burned to tho ground, togother with its contents and between $300 and $400 in money. When the lira at tho Helper residence had burned itself out, neighbors to whom tho rescued children bad gone found the charred remains of tbo little one hugged closo to those of the mother, whose sacri fice cost her own life. Mrs. Hepler 'was forty years of age, and came of a wealthy family. While the escape of the five children is considered miraculous, the sad fate of the mother and youngest child has spread a gloom over the whole valley.', An Altoona Newspaper War. At Altoona J. B. Smith, manager, and G. G. Anderson, editor of the Evening limes, were arrested Friday on the Charge of libel. An article appeared in the Times of Thursday, which was very severe on Haines, who changed his paper from In dependent to Democratic the day after the election, thus making it a rival of tho Times. m Cbeek" at tbe Opera House. Last evening a good-sized audience greeted Roland Reed as Dick Smythe iu tho comedy of " Check," in Fulton opera house. Mr. Reed, from the moment ho appeared upon the stage in the first act until ho loft it at the close of the last, was in full possession of tho most unstinted favor of the audienco. His ability as a comedian was most amply demonstrated last night in " Check," whereas " a gentleman, and I don't care who knows itj" he displayed all tho recklessness of a metropolitan Bo hemian, who for sustenance is compelled to rely wholly upon his impudence. Mr. Reed's personation of the character was a consummate exhibition of the art in his lino, and fully merited the continued plaudits of the audience. Miss Frances Bishop, as Nell, was pretty and as vivaoi. ous as could be wished, whilo the remain der of the company well met the require ments necessary to a satisfactory interpre tation of the play, which is ono of the most enjoyable comedies on the road. Mr. Reed had it announced that he woqld ro-app-ar hero on Pcccmber 14th. COLUMBIA NEWS. UDK KKGU&&K CUBRKSPUNUIUIVE frenU Al'mff tbo SaaquvbaaBa Itiuo of Intereat la" aad Arooad tbe Borongh Picked Up by tbe Intelli yeacer'a Reporter Mr. Jacob Agnew arrived here this morning. . . Bass fishing does not seem to be over yet. " Samuel" Reed caught one last mgbt which weighed 4 pounds. Mr. Henry Powers of Utohmond, a . stopped over in Columbia a few hours to day, ou his way to Boston, to see old friends who reside hore. A .inika. nt now l.-innmotiv03ar8 DeiQg placed on the Pennsylvania railroad at this place. One of them No. 591, arrived here last evening. - Forty dollars wore realized by .he ladies mite society of tie E. E. Lutheran church last evening, at the festival and SuPPei:. . u r. On Thursday, xnovemoer miu. . cursion will leave Columbia at 5:40 a. for Philadelphia, over the Reading an: Columbia railroad. The round trip tiokets are3. An agent for a Jersey City firm station ed himself at market this morning in the vain hope of selling a Wagon load of lad ders. Although ho had overy variety, ho nade few sales His charges were 04 high proportionately as his ladders. Mr. Alex McManus is expected to arrive !n Columbia in a fow days. He has been absent from home about two years. He left Liverpool, England, for New York on a sailing vessel about a month ago, and is 'daily expected to arrive at thia port. " Tho Columbia fife company held a meet-, ing last night to make arrangements for holding their anuual New Year's ball Tho affair is to bo ahead of any whioh the com pany baa yet held. Narrow Escape. Mr. Samuel Froy was nearly drowned at the Reading & Columbia railroad shutes yesterday afternoon . He was in a boat propelling it with a pole. The latter broke, and Mr. Frey fell headlong into the water. Had it not been for the timely assistance of several parsons who rushed to his aid, he would have been drowned. As it was, he was rescued with great difficulty. Janauachek To-night. ' Janausohek, tho great actress, will ap pear in the opera house to-night in the beautiful drama " Mother and Son." She will doubtless have a largo house, as the prices have been arranged to suit all. Mr.W. F. Wilson, of this place, has just comploted for tho G. A. K. fair two beautiful carpets. The silk quilt for the fair, and which has just been completed by tho ladies of Columbia, is on exhibition in ono of Mr. F. A'. Bennett's show'windoWF. It is a beauty. Mr. Heasel'a Bepiy. Tho following dispatch was received in renlyto a congratulatory telegram sent by the Young Men's Domooratic club to W."U. Hensel, esq., chairman of the Dem nirnfiff afntn'nnanmittnA - r FniLADELrniA, Nov. 8, 1881. To John A. Cnle, Pretident. . ''( The management of the Democratic state campaign could not have been suc cessful except for the generous cooperation of all elements of tbo party. None of these responded bettor to every appeal thau the staunch Democracy of Lancaster. Of all the congratulations received none aro so dear to me as those of tho people among whom I live and whose respect and con fidence I hope I will never forfeit. W. TJ. Hehsei.. Iteporc of Viewers. Tho viewers appointed to assess the damages to lot-holders in tho Lancaster cemetery and other property owners by the bti-aightening of Limo street havo awarded the following amounts : City. County. Es. of Chas. J. Beale. . Lan. Cemetery Ass'n. . M. E. Church Washington Fire Co.. Es. ofWra. Diller.... Wm. R. Witmer Heirs of Mrs. Swain. . J. M. Kiscadden Charles Eden ..$650 .. 40 $200 900 250 SO 350 9G 54 30 22 A Lecture on l.lbby Frlsoa Idle. Chaplain C. C. MeCabe, D. D., will on Tnesday evening, 21st, inst. deliver a lecture at tho Duke street M E. ehureh on "The Bright Side of Life of Libby Prison." Ilis discourse is said to be very entertaining. The revival services are still in progress at tho church, and quite a number pro fessed conversion during the past week. Miss Lizzie Sharp, of Philadelphia will assist tho pastor on the Sabbath at 10:30 a. m. 3 and 7:15 p. m. and tbrongh the week at 7:30 p. m. Court. Court met at 10 o'clock this morning fur the transaction of current businest : A charter was granted to the "Zioa Bethel of tho Church of God of Elizabetb tnwn " The eatinc houso license of Charles Bramm, of the Second ward was transfer, red to J.J. Doseh. A rnle for a new trial was granted in the case of W. W. Schum, who was con victed of adultery. . CBurged Witto Larceny. On Thursday night while a passenger train was standing in our depot an over coat was stolen from one of tlio passen gers. Thomas McAdams was arrested as the guilty party in Columbia last night by Officer Gilbert. He was sec n to enter tho train and quickly leave with some thing under his arm. He was committed "by Alderman McConoroy for a bearing. When arrested in Columbia no bad broken open a freight car. A Monster Turnip. We were shown this morning a massive purple-top turnip which is quite a curi osity in its way. Its circumferenco is 31 inches and weight within a fraction of 8 pounds. It was raised on the farm of Christian Moiskoy in -West Hempfield township, near Silver Springs, about five miles from this city. Dlsting-ulsbed (iuests. Senator Joseph P. Kennedy, of Philadel phir, W-F. Harrity, Democratic chairman of Philadelphia city committee, J. P. Sen senderfer, secretary of tbe same, and Samuel T. Jacquetto, also of Philadelphia, are in town to-day as guests of W. U. Hensel, esq. Celebrating; tbe Democratic Victory. The Democracy of the Southern dis trict will celebrate tbe recent Democralio victories on Thursday evening next at Joseph Roop's hotel, Kirkwood. There will be fire works and music by a brass band. A grand time is expected. Horses Mbipped. Fiss & Doerr shipped to New York this morning from the stables, No. 35 Grant street, twenty head of draught and driv ing horses ; they were purchased in Lan caster county. Tbe Jury "Wheel. The jury commissioners and judges will begin to fill the wheel with names of per sons who will be drawn on next year's juries. Time Chanced mt & j.f IUa yin isrli t An nr Iaawam hub vuno oi kuw ".7, "."". "V I King street for Quarryville at 5:40 in the I evening will, on MQnday evening, bel cuaogeu w jj. SHERIFF SALKS. FropertleK Ulapoaed of To -clay. At the court houso this afternoon the sheriff sold at public salo the following properties: A lot of ground on tho east side of Caro-. line street, Laucaster city, containing in (ronton said street GO feat, and extending iu depth 175 feet more or 'less, on which is erected a two story brick dwelling house with brick back building, frame stable, wagon shed, fruit trees, well of water with pump therein, eje, as we property m Abraham Spidle, to B C. Kready, eiq t for John Spidle, for $800. No. 1, a lot of ground situated OP the northwest corner of Manor and Plant- 1 street, Columbia, containing ,in front 3b feet, aad extending in depuiiong riaae street 130 feet, on whioh is erected a two story frame dwelling house, with improve ment, a the property of Patrick Don nelly to Lewis Bates for $310. A lot cf graound on Manor street, in the borough of Columbia, containing in front 24 feei i'ia extoudiu-4 in depth 130 feet, on which U erected a two-story frame dwelling house, with improvementa As the property of James Stauley, to rred- e-ick Fry for $975. Tin 2 A lot of ground on Manor street, cwlmbli, eontainiB in front 75 feet and hlus in depth 19S feet, on which is "aSSStwo story frame dwelling wi -rovements, as the property fcB7??T&.-', to Lewis Bates for of Patrick I)onni...' w $175. . At 'orough ofCol- A lot at ground' in UM v. street, umbia containing "in front oa u. - feet. 25 feet and extending in depth 1.- et with a two story framo dwelling Mih. with improvements, as tbo property ot Harman Renter, to W. If- Given, esq., for $12, subject to a mortgage of $1,000 with Interest from July 1878. AH that certain undivided one-half of a trrct of land situate in the borough of Wasuiogton, coatamingftfcrae aauy?8100 acres, on whioh . is erected a steam saw and planing mill, with basement; a one story office and other necessary outbuild ines and improvements, as the property of LawisC.Scofield, to John S. Mann, for Levi Haverstick, for $61, after notico had been given that it is subject, to mortgages of $2,000 and $i;000, with interest from April 1, 1881 and May 26, 1881, respect ively. . . No. 1, a lot of ground in tho village or Maytown, containing on front on Ctre Sqaare 60 feet and extending 250 feet, with a ouo and a-half story brick dwelling bouse and out-buildin.'s. Property of Charles Markley. No. 2ra tract of fcu'd in East Donegal townshfp, containing fivO acres. Prop2rtyof Charles MarkleyJ Botk properties sold To A. C. ReWoeh!, esq., for $671.50. , ., , A lot of gronnd on the south side of Second street, Marietta, containing in front 20 feet, and extending in depth 1G0 feet, with a two-story frame dwelling house and nocessary outbuildings. As the property of Elizabeth Otto or Ortb, to J. Hay Brown esq., for, $2., A lot of ground in Columbia, fronting on the east side of South Filth street 22 feet and extending in depth GO feet, with a two-story brickdwelting bouse with improvements. !&. of ground, situated as above, fronting 18 feet and extending n .... j.v . twnjrferr bnek dwelling W.1TOL, wi -, .-T-TJIi, Tak f bouse witn improTcnwucD. . . ground, situated an the west side of a publio alley in Columbia, containing front 45fBtandye!xtondinK30feet, on which is erected a two-story & ?.wee,in?!2?5v with improvements. wvg?LZ William Baker. All these rop"""" - to E. D. North, esq., for $1. TUK FIKEHEN AHU FOLIO- Their Parade This Afternoon A Very Cra. II- taoie inapiay. Tho narade of the new citv fire depart ment took place this afternoon. All tho companies gathered tbeir apparatus on North Duke street shortly after 2 o'clock. The police were escorted from their head quarters by the Uity band, to a pome on Thilc street siwive the railroad brideo. At 2J o'clock the large bell on tho top of tho tract house was tapped six limes as a. Mgnal 'or the line to move. It proceeded in the following-order : City Band. Polico force in command of the chief. Chief Engineer of the Fire Department Howell, in buggy. Engiee No. 1. - Hobo Cart No. 1. Engine No. 2. IloseCaitNo. 2. , HoSCaViNoi&I ' Engine No. 4. Hose Cart No. 1. The Now Hook and Ladder Truck. The' eiiginesvJiOM'eaciaand truck were all drawn by tbe fine, large horses of tbo department, and by their appearance they showed that they are well eared fori Every -thiag about Abe aparatus of the different eoiBpaauji looked neat and clean, and they were polished up to look as bright as new pins. The new truck,, looked re markably well. The hosemen, lire men, engineers, &o.t 'of tsJ aiietont companies rode on the hose' carta iud the foreman aud ladder were on the truck. The members of No. 1 woro bats and shirts of the old Union company. Those of No. 4 bad very pretty grey overcoats, the same used by .the old Washington company, with blue caps. The drivers of company No. 3 wore fall suits of uniform, as are nsed in all large cities. They con sisted of blue suite with silver -'. D." All tho. men of the dhtercetf" companies looked remarkably well, and the remarks" concerning them along the line of parade was complimentary. ,Tbcy all wore the silver badges to designate their positions. The police force looked very well. They appeared in full uniform with caps and maces and wore white glowes. Tboy were under command of Chief Diechler and marched like veterans. Tho display of both the fire aud police departments was very fine and the citizens had good reason to be prouH'of Tbe city band kindly furnished excellent music free and it was a feature of tho parade. After the route 'as ifebtjfked yesterday had been marched over the new truck was brought into Centre square where an ex hibition was given, 'i .o ' Seat to Jail, . r-t John Harrison, JEdWataf Uohnaon and James McManus, were arrested by Con stable Fordney for being drunk: and dis orderly, and were sent to jail for 10 days each. ' Lizzie Williams got GO days and James James Quinn 28 from Alderman A. F. Donnelly for being drunk aed disorderly. Sale ot Stocks. J. B. Long, broker, sold to day, at pri vate sale, two shares of Lancaster county bank stock at $110, ex-dividead ; two shares Farmers' national bank at $108.25, ex dividend ; $1,000 Reading & Columbia railroad bond at $105 and interest, and ten shares Fulton bank at $135. i m Held far GMOt Martin Miller, who assaulted officer Mercer kwt Saturday, waa held for court by Alderman Sanson, to-day. A Wood Bfcowtas Dr. Reuliug, the well-known oculis; of . Baltimore, has performed since 1869, acjaj cording to bis last aaanal report, over a thousand cataract operations successfully. Farmer's Cheap Excursion to Philadelphia, on Thursday, November 18th. Tickets good for three days, only 12.08. Train leaves Lan caster (King street) at 5:0 a. m. : eaves Co lumDia at 5: a. m. Fare $2J. Manhelm, wtjtz end JSphrata, 1.9ft n: lumbla at 5:40 a. m. Fare 91 M. Fare from 011,13,11. L
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