yjlt'ysasssRMtKurveissMBasam -V LANCASTER DAILY INTELLiGENCEK; WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1883. Lancaster Jntelligencer. WEDNESDAY EVENING DEC. 6, 1882, The Government in Court. The supreme court of the United States has decided in favor of General Lee the suit for the recovery of the Ar lington propextynearWashington, which was the home of General Robert .h. Tp. when the rebellion hroke up, and which since has been in the possession of the government, and in use as a na tional cemetery, under its purchase of it at a sale held for unpaid taxes of a few dollars. The court decided that, as the payment of the tax was required to be made by the owner in person, and as he could not personally pay them during the rebellion, the sale was void. The point upon which the government strongly relied was that, whatever the merit of the plaintiff's case,his suit could not be maintained because the United States cannot be sued save by its con sent. The suit was, however, not brought directly against the United States, but against its officers, who were in charge of the estate ; and the court made the important decision that it could be maintained against them, and that under it the inquiry could be made as to whether the United States had such a title to the property as to enable the government officers to maintain pos session of it. Practically, therefore, it is determined that the United States may be sued for tr;e recovery of propeity unlawfully held by it. andit may be wrested from it. The immuuily which it enjoys from direct suit will not enable it to maintain itself in wrongful possession of another's property when it has to do so through agents ; and as in most, if not all, cases, its possession must be thus maintained, it would seem that its inability to be sued diiectly will not be of much consequence to those wJiom U seeks to wrong. This decision is eminently just, but it is a mortifying tiling that it was ever found to be neces sary. That the United States govern ment, which is so lavish in ilscxpendi taie, and in possession of a revenue which it does not know what to do with, should have been will ing for twenty years to wrongfully appropriate the property of another, as the supreme court says it has done, is not an honorable exhibition to make to the world. It is a disgraceful fact that a great government should have been thus dishonest. It has set a bad example to the states, aud one which they have been ready to follow. It is notable and most discreditable that many of the states of tho Union have dis honored their obligations and kept the property of their creditors just because they had the power todo so. It is a con ceded IJ'iS hi civilized governments that the debtor must pay his debt if he lias wherewithal to pay it. The stales so provide by stringent laws. The courts aie open for the adjudication of disputes between tho debtor and cred itor, but when these are decided against tho debtor he must pay, if the sheriff can find any propeity belonging to him. But the statcs.which thus provide for enforc ing an honest discharge of theirobliga tions upon their citizensaue by no means solicitous to impose the same burthen upon themselves. Their laws provide that they may not be sued. They legis late upon the assumption that they can do no such wrong as to repudiate their debts, and then straightway proceed to do it ; of course, all the time pretend ing to believe that they arc not duing it, and claiming that they ought not to pay what they refuse to pay. But in this generally the judgment of all the world beside is against them. To such outside judgment they will not submit themselves ; nor will they even ask the judgment of their couits which they have raised to decide between their citizens. The people of the state, who . are the debtors, are sometimes asked by their Legislatures whether they :ue will Ins to pay their creditors, and generally and naturally they say no. If the states should leave to the debtor class of their citizens to say whether they should pay their individual creditors, they would be apt to decide, with equal unanimity to that with which they repel the public creditors, that they have a just defense to the claim. There would be little use ior civil courts u mo iiouui um jhujj- mentot ineueoiorwasio uetermmeuie payment of his debt; and the states have proved in abundant instances that they are no more honest than their in debted citizens. And neither, it seems, is the United States entitled to claim that it is always honest and just in deciding upon the justice of claims against it ; nor properly scrupu lous of its power of immunity from suit. It is a good thing that the United States government can be brought into court against its will to answer for its appropriations of property. It follows that the states government are equally amenable to the processes" of the courts in the persons of their agents; and that their creditors may seize upon any of their property that is unlawfully de tained from them by such agents under the authority of the state. Probably this decision will result in the appear ance in the courts of many state and na tional creditors,who conceive themselves wronged by the government. How far the remedy pointed out to them -will help them seems to depend only upon their ability to find property, to which they are entitled, in the hands of govern ment agents. Creditors who have nothing but a promise to pay to depend upon will probably find no authority in this decision to collect it ; but the de cision is in line with the idea that the state's sovereignty should not enable it to be dishonest, and there is encourage ment in it that the supreme coiut will use all its legitimate authority to hold governments to the honest discharge of their obligations. The tariff commission proposes the reduction of duty on Bessemer steel rails to 17.92 per ton, a rate which is certainly quite sufficient for their protection. This indus try requires no higher duty than will suffice to shut out the foreign nun ufaclure, and their proposed rate will do this as effectually as a higher one, under me present competition imong the home manufacturers, which has brought the price of rails down to forty dollars a tou. In future the manufac turers in this country will have home competition sufficient to control then prices and keep them down to a resona ble figure. The thiee cent postage stamp must go. Smoked glass was at a premium to day. Seven Blaiuo clubs wero organized in Pennsylvania last week. Hadn't Mr. Blaino better make that declination a little stronger? Seventy Indian children from Fort Niobrara arrived at Carlisle, Pa , Friday, where they will go to school. Has the Indian problem been solved at last ? Tub sedato citizou who was seen prom enading the streets to-day with the tip of his nose ornamented after the style of true high art hadn't been shoveling in coal, but was merely bearing the marks of his thiist for knowledge. Iu observing tho transit of Venus he bad got his improvised in stiutnent tufucd wrong side about. A Fijencii nowspaper dares to ridicule the American navy. It remains to be seen what Mr. Richelieu Kobiiison will have to say to tho insulting Gaul who dares twinkle his, fingers ul the lOlld hiid of freedom whom he to uejntly aioustd from her iguoblo slumber, and scut with maguificeut wing to fan the tempest and soar to tho sun. Tin: popular disgust at HubbelliMii aud its emphatic condemnation at tho polls have naturally led to tho introduction of several bills in Congress intended to pre vent these outrageous assessment abuses in the future. Some useful work may bo done by Congress iu the way of investiga ting Hubbell's accounts pursuant to the resolution offered by Senator fleck. Tin: libald youth who lises up to in quire what practical differenco it makes whether the sun is 93,000,000 miles off or only 00,000,000 probably doesn't know that tho distance between tho earth and the centre of tho solar nystcn ard of measurement iu ;.!:e.t of r.stronomical clcu". . certainty of ono per c-:.'. -i a iha stand. c-.cij I.Iai : ::d . . i.:- -.0 . -.. . .".iisfy than thrco per csr-t. i ": and ever cosmical fores ' L youug man had better sit dV himself by straining his eyes iurough a piece of smoked glass. PERSONAL.. Mme. Modjeska is in Washington. Mns. Blaine will not go to Europe. Tun Czaii has assumed tho titlo of Loid of Turkestan. Jay HrnuKi.T. is giving Sir. Ferry a sharp fight for tho senatorship from Michigan. The dark borso is uot yet cur ricd. Anthony Tkoixope, tho novelist, is much worse. He was unconscious last night and there are but faint hopes of his recovery. Nillssox will doubtless havo a cordial reception in San Francisco. Tho opening sale of seats for tho conceit to-night biought in $0,400. Justice Field, of the United States supremo court, is charged with retaining his old ambition to bo tho Democratic candidate lor president. Mns Senator Jones, of Nevada, has returned to Washington. She will receive this year. On account of a death in tho family she cou'd no re eiva last season. Mis FoLSEr, of the trea'' ', . '" -this season, ably compel ' t . Don Cam;, c -. '" the Senate an x tary of the trrr.r- . mation is from tl" ". ' r . f ',-T2retary '. . , .si :ncton ' 'i prob- '".. " irom fv-jro- x.. ' ; infor - ' Vrn.hmgton ZAiIIauolphia Times. correspondent of tho Mn. Dam, of tho Wasp, has been cp pointed secretary to Governor elect Stone mau, of California. Judging fiom this appointment it would appear that General Stoneraan intends to keep things warm in his office. Mr. Edwin Boom, who has always de clined to cpaak when called out on tho American efgc, has appeared in tho role of a boforo-t!rcuur.Ir. orator on the other side. His cj--'. r: his last night in Dublin v -.-ry ? Active, and satisfied a most fastidic :s dl.ry. GovERNOR-ZLrcT Cleveland was en tertained by ti'.o T '-nhatt-.n olub in Now York last night. T-'olve 'u -ilr.-l people, amon.' tl-era many ofth dKinguisbed leaders of 2ic7 iork and other states, wero preE?" E. 'i noro were speeches by tho govern . t-r - ', Judge Vanderpool, ex Senator Cu.uc ;. M Georgia, and others. Mn. Geo::":: A"guttcs Bala, who do livers his o; : so:: o:. "11 matters American with an excatheura ::::, pronounces Mr. W. M. Evarts tLc boat recontenr in the United States, nnx; to Senator Bayard. The general public do not know the statesman of the little state in that char acter. Mr. Evarts is a recognized jester. Mn. Oscar Wilde is reported to havo said, when tho newspapers began to relate that Mrs. Langtry and Sirs. Labouchere had parted : "I knew something was go ing to happen when I was talking to Mrs Langtiy lately, my intaglio ring cracked. That was a very bad sign. Then again she came to the theatre tho other evening looking very palo and uncomfortable. Sho had broken her looking glass, a distress ing omen." TnE Duke op uoxxaugut has been honored by tho German emperor with tin order pour le Merite, founded by Frederick tho Great, aud the highest military decora tion in the gift of tho Prussian crown. Tho bestowal is in recognition of tho duke's services in Egypt. This is tbo same order as the emperor conferred upon his victorious son, the Crown Princo, on meeting him on the field of Koniggratz. Tho Duko of Conaught, It may be men tioned, is in tho emperor's freudse7uift by reason of his marriage with Wilhelm's graud-daughter. Useful Committees, riiiladclphia Times. The Democrats can boast of two model committees Heiuol's state committee and Harrity's city committee. Both opened ineir receipts and disbursements to inves tigation and both closed the campaign with a surplus iu tho- treasury. That sort of party committees are eminently useful, whilo the old inachino sort are neither or namental nor useful these days. Fatal Fira In a Frame isuanty. Somo twenty men who had been con structing a drain near Cottam, London, occupied an old shanty near by for a sleep ing room. The thanty took fire from a defectivo stovepipe, and, being old and drv. burned to ashes in snnh a Hhnrr. timn that three of the inmates wero unable- to escape, and wero burned to a crisp. BOOT SOLES AND BONES. TUi: Dlfc'l OFJioKOS ASDK1SDEBMAS. On cf the Tnu "survivors of Lie Long'ri Hoars Crew Tolls of the Struggle To .Sustain Life. Before the Jcannette board Seaman Nin derm au continued his nariativc of the De Long and his party south, beginuiuir with the inorninir of tho 7th of October, 1881. De Long and witness were ahead on tho second day, aud thoy faw the rest of the company were sitting down. After a short rest thev started again, but bad to stop soon. Witness saw that the captain was "pretty well playeJ," aud offered to carry his load j but the captain declined, saying that bo was all right. After struggling alone: awhile tho captain and the doctor again fell behind. Witness again asked the captain to allow him to cany his bun die, but he said : "take the rest of the men aud go ahead until you find a camp ing place, and I will catch up." The cap tain and doctor remained together and tho rest went on to tho river bank. Witness picked out the best place that could ho found, and all staited to gather driftwood. By tho time a small lire was staited tho captain and doctor arrived. The most morning (October 9) tho wind had moderated and the weather was quito clear. Thoy held prayers and tho captain called witness aside and said : " Nindor- mau, i tmrnc you win uavo to go oniy about twelve miles to roach a settlement, and I think you and Noros can make it in three or four days." Witness said he had but little hopes of finding assistance, and the captain replied : " Ninderman, do the best you can. If you find assistance como back as soofi as you can, and if you dcu't you will be as well off as wo will be." Tho captain furthi'i -. il thitfhey two riuH keep ou tho west m:1c of tbo river aud noi. to wado. Noros was thou called aside and iuformed that he was to go with witness, and should obey his eiders. They were then supplied with a rillo, forty rounds of ammunition and thico ounces of alcohol. When thoy weic ready they bbook hands with everybody and started up the river, the party giving throe cheers as they wp aratcd from them. Before starting the captain gave witness a copy of the chart ho had, and said there was ouly one more river to cross before reaching Komark Surk. They traveled westward along tho river bank until a place was found where they could cross. Shortly after noon witness shot a ptarmi gan, which they ate for dinner. During the morning they looked back often to see if their comrades wero following, but could sco nothing of them it was the captain's intention to follow in their foot steps. They had a boot solo, which thoy soaked and burned and ate with the tea. They made bags with their blankets and kept close to tho fire as possible. On tho morning of tho 10th they had a littlo willow lea and another boot sole, after which thoy started to the westward. About 9 o'clock they hauled around to the southwest. It commenced to blow aud tho snow drifted so that they could pcarccly see fifty yaids. Now and then it would let up a littlo, and they took their bearings for a point of land. They kept going from ono point to another, bmg compelled to wade a number o! small rivers. This thoy kept up till night, whon they attempted to build a fire, but the wiud was too high, and they had to work along until they found a largo snowdrift. They dug a hole in the drift w ith a sheath-knife, and it must have been mid night before the holo was big enough to hold both. They ci awled ju and closed the holo behind tkeni to keep tho snow from drifting iu, aud, wrapping thcnisclvc in tho blankets, remained during tho night. They got no sleep, as both wero wet up to their waists, and had to keep knocking their feet together to keep from freezing. Their experience dm ing the succctdliig days, up to tho 1.1th, differed littlo fiom that already nai rated. They found aud ate two rotten li-h and caught a lcmhig. Tho court adjourned befor.; Niudormau had completed his stoiy of tho occurrence of the 13th. COWIllniNU AN I'.UITOK. Ititttr Keeling t.routiif; Out t llio I'ollco r.Iuilille In Troy. There was an intensely bitter feeling iu Troy. N. Y., Tuesday against General Carr bueauso it was understood that ho was ready on short not ice to attack tho station houses with military aud disposses tho old police force, who dispute the legal ity of tho appointment of their successors. In an articlo in tho Press yes terday Secretary of Stato Carr and his son Major William G. Carr, wero censured in very strong terms, the strictures upon tho secretary of stato being quito bitter. Tho Daily Telegram, Senator MacArthur's paper, also criticised tho warlike measures proposed by General Carr. This morning Colonel Joromo B. Parmcnter, editor of tho Troy Press, entered a cigar store oppo site his offico. Major Carr was in the store at tho time, but Colonel Parmcnter did not sco him. Carr pulled off his over coat and, approaching Parmcnter, who was lichting a cigar, in an abusive tono r.id : ' I demand a infraction of tho articlo publi3h2a in the Press ycsteiday." " I have hothing to retract," 'replied Mr. Harmcntcr. and he prepared to leave tho store. As he turned hid head Carr drew a rawhide from his pocket and dealt Parmcnter a heavy blow, but beyond cutting his hat it did not harm him. Par meuter closed with his antagonist but they wcio socn separated. Carr threatened to kill Parmcnter if he was again assailed in tho paper. There is littlo change in tho polieo sta tion to-day. Tho old force remains in possession and will resist all efforts at dis Iodgement except in a legal way. Tho Evening Standard, a paper which fortu nately has very little influence, was very incendiary last ni;:ht. It assails tho cool headed citizens who prevented the calling out of tho military and insists that tho station houses must bo taken at any cost. Several appointees ou the new force havo resigned Llt'ICSSE AND NO LICENSE. r.IasHacliUhctts Towns Voting on the Liquor Question. Municipal elections were held in a num ber of cities in Massachusetts, Tuesday. Politics did not enter laigely into the con tests, the principal struggle having been on " license " or " no hcen.-.e." Iu Chel sea tho entire Republican ticket was elected and 17 majority, was given for license. Fitchburg elects the Citizens' ticket and votes for liceuso Ilaveihill elects tho Citizens' ticket and votes for license. Maiden elects the Republican ticket and votes for no license. Taunton elects a Prohibition ticket aud votes heavy against license. Gloucester elects a Re publican mayor aud votes for license Lawrence Democrats elect tho mayor and tho majority of the city council. Boston oveituraed a Prohibition govern- , mcub, uiecreu ;i .uuinocrauc mayor and a majority of Republican aldermen, and voted strongly for license. At Springfield H. M. Phillips, Republican, is elected. The city votes for license. At Holyoke the Citizens' ticket was elected and li cense voted by a large majority. New Bedford elects a majority of tho Citizens' ticket and voles against license. Fail River re-elects Bradley (Deni ) for mayor. Tho Republicans havo a majority of the aldermen and council. There is a largo majority in favor of license. In Nowton the Citizens' ticket was elected without opposition, and a large majority was given ngainst license. Cambridgo re-elects Mayor Fox on votes for license tho People's ticket and . Somertille voted anti- license. In Poughkeepsie, N. Y., The Republi can candidates for mayor and most of the minor city officers were elected. In Hudson N. Y., The Democrats were succtssfull in the municipal elected. VKSSKL1 SUNK AMU ASUOKE. A Series of 1 Haunters The steamer Feruvtau lost iu tho Meaiey. The steamer Peruvian from Montreal, whilo entering tho Measey this morning, collided with a steamer of the Clan Lino and'sustaincd considerable damage. She was cut down to the waters fdge amid ships. Tbo weather was thick at tho timo of tho collision. Tugs landed tho crow and passengers safely. Hopes aro entertained that tho breach can bo repaired and the vessel floated in a few tides. Her fore-compart ment is full of water and sho has been docked. Tho Peruviau is ,1,400 tons measurement. She is a bark-rigged screw steamer, and was built in Glasgow, Scot land, in 1803. Her total length is 312 fcetl inch, bredlh of boam 3S feet 4 inches and depth of hold 22 feet. At tho timo of her launching sho measured 1,843 tons, but iu 1874 sho was length ened aud mado her present size. The steamer belongs to J. and A. Allen, of Montreal, and has been used as a limo steamer by tho Allan com pany sinco her trial trip. There aro also reports of several other disasters. Tho Gorman bark Rkeinland, from Pensacola, is a total wreck in the river Tyno. Tho steamer Strathmore, from Savannah, No vember 1C, for Bremen, is ashore at Cal-r-viDOg, Netherlands, and has jettisoned pri of cargo. Tho British bark Alexan dra, from Npy York, or Hamburg, pro-vioi-sly roportol askoro a-id on fire, at Ainsteidaoi, was totally doblroyed. .ILI.-1MTED "OLIVETTE." 1'ho ffevcro-3 Ono Company Comes to Uriel la West Chester. Oa JaLurday night a troupe known as tho Norcross opera company visited West Cheater and played "Olivette." Before the performance came off a representative of tho Zimmerman theatre company ar rived in town and attempted to attach the moneys in the nanus ot uoionei iuireu Rupert, who sold reserved seats at his bookstore. This attempt was abandoned upontho payment of ninety-sir dollars by the managers. Monday afternoon the "Olivette" company started away from town, but without tbrir baggage; for when they went to tho depot Officer Green was there with a warrant from It. A. Tor rance, of Chester who is a bill-poster. He presented a claim to the amount of sixty dollars, which could not be liquidated, consequently the baggage was locked up in tho baggage-room of tho Pennsylvania railroad company. The company has dis banded. Somo of the members havo at tached themselves to tho Lyceum theatre of Philadelphia. What the Priest May Mot Do. The ecclesiastical synod, which held its sittings in St. Patrick's cathedral, in New York, and whose deliberations camo to a closo on tho 9th of last month, issued decrees which aro now in the hands of tho printer and will bo published about the middle of this month. They are not to be tent to Homo for ratification, as has been supposed, for they relate to matters of morals and not of faith, and therefore do not require Roman ratification. Thoso most interesting to tho p".bl:- r'-3 dicrco forbidding priests to ai'",,i' d-.r-"" c- operatic performance forbidding clerical r course and ono rap.li'. rabba or Roman I : priests. There i" tho use of flow..." : i "f : 1 1 i ! : I the case of yc ." - ' ' may bo approu.I - i ' ' ' " innoeenco and ..u'.' . ', of tho decrees 'it ' v of the laity. Annlo tylonTj V: :zZ- ' - "". In Pittsburgh lact v'.i, r'.aut 8 o'clock an Irish girl, 19 years oi" ago, named An nie Lydon, threw herself from a fourth story window of tho housoNo. 18 Diamond street. When picked up both limbs were bent backwards until her heels touched her head. Sho was frightfully hrjured and will die. She came to Fitt,?bur'?I from Scranton, Pa., abo"r "ir " "'!-. a.'. and has been living nu ii' ' . ri- ous hotels aod i"-'d . '. '..' placo sho wei r" " i " ' ' -lrT some rood." In-" ''" iJ -o.r- im. " Sho conr:rT.d t i-dv ""-". t. their, but g "V " r T-"" ::. tress v.Ttj rlj.-"ii"i -,- . "' y" . .' ing arrest el-o I-Tric " ' r '-!.",.. ing into a srr.1! '. tv V ' ' -- V-' tho window to ro tcsl'V ' 1 bolow. Volaonlr.j; ;. I' r-"- " "- Grcr.t. cxc'teiur-n))- " " ' borhood of tho farnic?L37i . .:.. Eagle Point, Mar: ;.vj i county, a few dai -. ' 1::. c . . Adam's hogs were r-" and threo of tl m c1:" '. consisting of c'tc". "" . .". : it was found -. i-v. c o. .Ti"u i ' . v. dough. Theso L- J., vroro found to con tain largo quatiiii:'! of arsenic. Mr. jAdam made further search and foun- many similar balls mixed among ms rv, land other grain. The roni-irg 10 " will die. There is no cluo to ; " o"" k-'. A Terrible Accident on t rT :U V .:.. . An accident, caused by :i :;-'""; , -switch, occurred on the I,'?h-a Yc.'.' railroad Tuesday at Rummerfn'i. A freight train standing on-tho siding v C run into by express train No. 8. Engi neer Foulk and Fireman Kingsland, of the freight train, were burned to death and R. M. Mullan, a brakeman, was badly hurt. Both engines were totally wrecked. Tho baggage and express cars and sleepers wero burned, also the mails. Nono of tho passengers wero injured. Dnrled by a Cavo-In. At Buffalo, while some workmen were engaged in digging a deep sewer ditch Tuesday morning suddenly ono sido caved in, hurrying two of tbe laborers, named Henry Rodenmacher and William Ycager. Their fellow-workmen immediately set to work to releaso them, but were too late, Rodenmacher, who is 34 years of age, be ing taken out crushed and dead, whilo Yeagcr, who is 04 years old, will probably dio. Tbe Fato of Morgan, tbo Alaaon. Tooias a orucs, 01 uiyao, jm. x ., who is nearly 80 years old, and whose father was a cousin of William Morgan, of Masonic notoriety, says that Morgan was not mur dered by his captors, but was released on condition that he would Ieavo tho country. Ho did so, going to Melbourne, Australia, and there commenced the publication of a newspaper, which after his death passed into the hands of his son, who may now be living in that locality. Suicide of a Love-sick Maldon. Near Greensburg, a young woman by the name of Stoop, who was housekeeper for Mr. Heiuer, a boarding housokeeper of tho place, committed suicido by shoot ing herself in tho head. Sho had formed an intimacy with a married man who boards in tbe house, and who left hor the revolver with which sho killed herself.' Senator Batter Ite-Kiected. General M. C. Butler was re-elected by tho general Assembly of South Carolina United States senator. Col. H. S. Thomp son was inaugurated governor. He de livered an address, touching national as well as homo auairs. Whlr.ed Around for Twenty.foar Hour). Euacno Murphy, aged 44 years, wa3 found dead in tho wheel pit of the Cchocs rolling mills. Ho had walked in at an un guarded point, and for twenty-four hours had been whirling about a shaft. DESTKUCHVE FIRES. HAVING FLAJIfcS IN raiLAUELFHIA. Tvra Large Manufactories la UllTorcnt 1'arttt or tho City Iturneil Out at tbe Same Time. Iu Philadelphia, Tuesday afternoon, two fires necessitating three alarms each, were raging at the same timo. William Ar rott's five-story brick mil!, located on the northeast corner of Coral and Taylor streets, Kenv.nni.on, and the Girard iron foundry, at Twenty-second and Master streets, were destroyed by lire. The loss by the Arrott lire was $138,000, aud that by the other was about 10,000. Tho Arrott mill is 13 feet by 120, and fivo btories in height. It was-occupied exclusively by the manufacturers of cot- k ton and v.oolen goods. Robert Beatty occupied tho first floor, Grant Bros., the second, Samstcad & Brother the third and Jagsers & Jones tho two upper stories. Adjoining the building on Taylor street, bel w Emerald, is another mill of exactly tho same dimension", which is a!.so owned 3Ir. Arrott. Joseph Greer, a cotton and woolen goods manufacturer, occupied the solo structure excepting tho f-ecoud door, whieh is used by Mr. Beatty. Only tho upper portion of this mill was burned, but tho lower lloors wero damaged by water. Three hundred hands wero employed by these linns, all ol whom willthu;ue thrown out of work. The firo was first discovered in tho cen tre of tho fifth lloor of the mill at Coral and Taylor streets, in tho vicinity of a picKiug machine. Its ongin is attributed to a gas-jet igniting tho numeious small particles of wool that arise fiom this ma chine and float in the air ; and. owiui: to tho inflammablo Muiouudiiigs, it mjoii spread and speedily got beyond control. Tho male employes of Jge:s & Jones strove vigorously to co:ifiue tho lire to tho room in which it startcd,but after battling with it for a quarter of an hour they were compelled to retreat for their hv.s-. Upon tho discovery of. the lhe m.ti.y ot" tho women aud girls who weio engaged on this lloor ran from their loom1:, never stop ping to put on their shawls and bonnets, and descended to tho ground by the fire escape, which had but recently bean erect ed, though they could havo easily used tho stairways for thi.s purpose. The em ployees oi tho other firms also hastily left, and ail got out safely. When tho firemen a: rived they found tho entire structure ablaze. It appeared so threatening that a second a'aini was sounded, as it was feaied that the mill to tho north on Taylor street, and a thiid one adjoining mill No. 1 on Coral street, also owned by Mr. Arrott, were doomed to de struction Half an hour after tho breakiun out of tho fire Mill No. 1 was belching forth smoke aud llamo from every window. When the roof of Mill No 2, on Taylor street, had been fired by spaiks, a third alarm was sounded. The engines and firemen that responded to this alarm proved so efficacious that in a short timo tho llames were under control. Towar.la C o'clock tho upper portion of the Taylor street wall b?gau to crack and anumber of firemen belonging to Engiuc No. 23, who were working beneath it, fearing that it would topplo over and bury them iu tho ruins, ran across to tho west sido of tho street. Firemen McDado and Burns, however, were not so lucky. They started to run, but were caught beneath a shower of bricks and wero painfully though it is thought not seriously, injured. Tho firo in Mill No. 1 continue, to bv.' nously until everything co-' I been consumed. In th. ; .hing but a mass of 6moT k .' .irked tho spot 1'ormerJy ccc. riousmill. JI-0 los3 sustained isdiTi'i-. '-, ' . --t Bcattv, $33,000 ; .1 ...fV-v j,,-0 , uom .j ti . 1 : -- T.rtrtnw '.'... roj., $14,ir-; . Mother, 012,000, and ,TV $20,000. Mr. Arrott's Ices is c, :'i real estate. Ho said that he was i for only $7,500, while his tenants -v fully insured. On the night of Novcinbar T3 t'.i3 rio mills, abovo Columbia ? n tween Second and PL". , ' "c . owned by Mr. A?r:'t. - " ' :c fire, causing r J-1"" " ";.'.. ' Firo f - 7.'' " - " When !' J- .-. - -t 1 ' , . . .;-. p. .ho foundry attempts 7 ' j 11 lines, but withoutsucc lire was struck but was . o, as tho engines of tho dir.- a in scivice at the Arrott firo. : wait of twenty minutes au alaim was stiuek with the .same . Finally a third appeal called out paratu in tho most rcmoto sections . . j city. In tho meantime tho tl.imes on;cd their own sweet will. The work ... had been driven out of tho building ' t i riuokc r.ud heat, and could simply : -d by and ' let 'or flicker." Tho ar- ..? .-! :. 1 .!; .1. tnu uu;;iue, iiuwvver, caused mac .'r- 'o ahsumo another phase and the i vrc -.- re soon under coutiol. j TI'- '-hlv-e, tho engino room, which con- t'.- a a new engine costing 3,500, and a j : ... 1 j." i crn 10am, were' gutted by tho J ii . . .. Oiher parts of tho building wore I ..;. h'-.iv damaged bv lire and v:iti-iv Tho ion is about $10,000, and tho insurance i.; $0,000. -a i An iTvkwaril Keiult Likely. iioston l'Ojt. Mr. Whistler, the wtll-known Loudon aitist not long ago had tho ill luck to be told out by tho sheriff. Away went the blue and yellow chairs, the rickety cm broidtred curtains and tho dainty oriental bric-a brae of tho room which Nr. Oscar Wilde has described as " very joyous-" But when he saw it stripped and bare, the artist seized his bitisk and cried : " Now, to prevent this unploasant caststropho oc curring ac;ain, I mean to have something strictly permanent." And thereupon he painted chairs and tables upon tbo wallf, and flowing curtains, pictures upon easels luxurious divans, and quaint cabinets, and thus again mado of his room a " haimony inbluo and gold." Very clever idea, no doubt, but when a stranger, a littlo near sighted, perhaps, comes in aud tries to si! down on ono ct thoso chairs, what i 1 the result going to be ? Aralil 1 attna'rf Lcttsr to Air. Ilmut. Arabi Pasha has written to Mr. Wilfrid Blunt saying ho would prefer to livo in Damascus or, if that is impossible, in London. In his letter printed iu thi.s morning's Times Arabi expresses con tentment with his lot because ho knows his misfortunes have been tho means of scenring for the country ho loves tho lib erty and prosperity it deserves, He says he feels confident that when England has carried out her good work she will pormit him to return. Siu will so m learn that he was no rebel when ha set himself at tho head of the people who wanted noth ing but justice Meeting Do .Hi on a llurnlns Steamer. A special fiom Washington, N. C, says the sloanier Katcrpriso was burned off Maud's point, teu miles front WafbSolo:!, yesterday altercf-ou. Captain V. A. Thompson. W. II. Hancock, and a colored man from Peyton weiodrowntd. Captain Mayo displayed great heroism iu saving tho passengers, among whom were Mrs. Dillon and her children. ltOBBUiU A CEMETERY. A Jtotly-SnatcnlBsSaaUoBlnrblIadelpbis Tho Philadelphia Press, through its city editor, Louis N. Megargee, has un earthed a body snatching sensation and caused the arrest of several parties, charg ed with having been engaged for a series of years in robbing the Lebanon cemetery, a burying ground for colored people iu tho lower section of Philadelphia. Meg argee aud several reporters of tho Press had been working the thing up for nearly two years, aud that papor gives a dramatic accouut of tho arrest of the body snatch ers by the newspaper men, who had been lying in wait for them ou Monday night, whilo ia the act of conveying dead bodies from the cemetery to Jefferson college, which institution they had been supply ing with cadavers for some years back. being eugaged in systematically stealing the corpses from the cemetery almost as fast as they were brought there, and the Press" exposure showing that there are more empty graves in Lebanon cemetery than full ones. The testimony proves tho cemetery superintendent to have been iu collusion with the gravo robbers. Long before the hour set for bearing in Magistrate Lennon's office in Philadelphia on Tuesday afternoon, crowds of colored people blockaded Seventh street. Plots to lynch tho prisoners on their arrival were discussed, but Constable Myers, Pinkerton Dctectivo Henderson, and others rushed tho prisoners through a crowded hallway to a back door, and had them inside be fore tho mob realized what was going on. It vented its disappointment in jeers and yells. Tho otiico was crowded, the colored clement being strongest. Several of tho officers of the Lsbanon cemetery wero present. Louis N. Megargeo testified that two keys fouud on MoNamee fitted doors in tho room where bodies were prepared for dissection at the Jefferson college. Mc Namco denied knowing who gave them to him or what, ho was to haul, but finally said ha had waited outside the cemetery whilo tho others brought out tho bodies, and ho knew where they came from. Roheit Chow whon arrested at the ceme tery about 4:30 o'clock yesterday morning, began crying and said ho was paid $3 for every body taken from the cemetery, and that tho mcuey was handed to him by his brother. He did not known how many graves had been robbed. Sometimes Pillet did tho digging and sometimes Levy. He had been in the cemetery 11 years and tho body-snatching had been going on for 9 years. His brother-iu-law, Soloman Butcher, now in Maryland, did it first, then a man named Myers, aud then McNamee. Sometimes, if the wagon camo and the drivers said they were short, the coffins were opened iu tho receiving vault, the corpso "snatch ed," aud tbo farco of burying the empty coffin was gone through next day. The records of the burials found at tbe cemetery this morning showed that iu two months 53 bodies were in one grave. This created a sensation among the audience. Upon tho conclusion of tho testimony the defendants were declared committed in default of $5,000 bail for a further hearing on Friday. As soon as tbe crowd outside of the magistrate's office learned that the case was over, an overwhelming runh was mado for tho entry and gr.taw&y, with threats to lynch tho prlsonsis, uids rr eeant and 10 of the rcsorvca b-i tc bo rcr.; .13d t' - c - It- -. . J 1 - o.. ""- f -; j-. ' . - 1 j'-- '.I"1' ntviUd .. . '...:r. -!! - t"-, "-- receiving ,. .. ,...,.. 11 - government, . -. . .-.. -. . f,.ven in the rosolu- -.-.- , .n familiarly known - .sinant circular," "jih executive com- ' . i-. i.-wiuber of the i I' . .quested and : ' . o' employees of ." . ". .'" iV oolitic".! cam- .ic. . i. .. . . j,niV i'z Virginia, . "-v.1 r -.udrccsed to a ' -":l- 1 1-2 committee '.n ', av-2tijato promptly t, " : -1 '- rj.idacu of said com mit .- - .0 .fnl 10 requesting or receiv ing from employpos of the United States cither money or other thing of value for political purposes during the year 1882. Tho committee is directed to ascertain how much money has been collected dur ing tho current year from the officials and employes of tho government, by whom it was collected, tho amount paid by each aud to whom it was paid ; how the money so collected was expended, stating when and where in detail, and to whom it was paid out. If said committees, or any member of thorn, havo any portion of the money so collected in their possession to state how much. The committee is instructed to furnish to tho Senate tho names of all persons who have been disabled or dropped from the public servico sinco May 15, 1882, and to state how many of thoso so dismissed or dropped had failed to pay money to the committee aforesaid. The committee is empowered to send for persons and papers and to compel the attendance of witnesses, to administer oaths and to enforoo full answers to all such questions as the committee may think proper, by fins or imprisonment, or both. It shall have power to act through sub-committees, to sit during the session and icccsses of tho Senate and to employ clerks, stenographers, etc., and such other officers as it may require, and all its ex penses shall bo paid out of the contingent fund of tho Senato on the order of the chairman. O. A.JK. Department Officers Visit Colombia. This evening there will be a visitation of the department officers of the Grand Army of the Republic to Gen. Welsh Post 118, Columbia. A delegation of about twenty-flvo members of Georgo U. Thomas Post 84, of this city, will be in at tendance, and delegations will be present, also, from Wrightsville, Marietta and Delta. The department officers will ex emplify tbo unwritten work of the order, and will couduct tho initiation of members with a grand sciopticon accompaniment. The Iflre Department. The fire committee met last evening and awarded the contract for furnishing oat?, hay and straw to the fire department for six months to D. B. Landis. John Rudy of engine No. 3, was transferred from hoseraan to foreman and Wendell Glump and John Fink were appointed hosemen of the samo company. Martin Garnet was transferred from hossmao of No. 3 to tillorman of truck A. John Fct terly was appointed hosoman of No. 4. C'lwap Kxcurotona. Tho low priUe excursions to Philadel phia, this morning, wero not heavily pa tronized. Tho Pennsylvania railroad only ninety-four excursion passengers and the Rcadiug railroad thirteen. for. The crod tp".!3 men red vroi.".""i f.. -v?hofi.rrvT- r:--l e. ,- COLUMBIA NEWS. OUK KEUDLatC UOKKKl'ONOKMCr: Events Along the hnsquenawia Ileum t Interest la and Around tne l!oriiti ricked Up by the Jutelli cencer's Keporter Mr. Sauer Bbtz is .spending a week in Philadelphia. Officer Gilbert escorted thr tramps to jail this morning. Officer Fisher took down one diunk. The specialty company of Niles. Evau. Bryaut & Hooy, called tho ' Meteor.-," will appear tomorrow night. A combination called tho Guadrupan theons," will appear in the opera house 0:1 Tuesday. December 12th. Miss Emma Abbott's opera troupe pas ed through here this morning. Two of the members had a fight in York, aud ono was badly used up. Mr. William Vancrazen, wh.i has been ia town looking after old friend;., returned to his home iu Reading, yesterday. Gen. Weish Post, No. 118, G. A. R., jrill have an inspection in their armory to-night. A number of representative from other parts will bo present. Jesse Moore, the Pennsylvania radroa 1 switch teudor, of Locust street, lias o.vii married half a century to day. A fair will bo held by the congregation of the Mount Ziou A. M. V. church m their lecture room, commencing Daeem , ber 31st aud continuing until Deccmbcr 28th.. The coal traffic ou tho Pennsylvania railroad is increasing fast. As the canal business will soon be ended by reason of the ico shippers are afraid to run tbo risk of having their cargoes frozen in on the trip. Young men and b y j still aaiusu them selves by junipiu ou freiKLt trains. They will keep it up until another of them is killed or loses a limb. Every person causht jumping a train should bo pttniMi cd for thoir own good. A lSrakemaaa Arm Ct unlit d. A Pennsylvania railroad freight tr.iiu parted into two sections this morning ar.d while an extra brakeman was coupliiti; them together at Locust street, his aim was caught between tho dcadwoods and crushed. Amputation may not be iiect s sary, although tho arm was badly injured. " Hazel Kirk " To-n'tlit " Hazel Kirko "' will ho presented here tonight, under the auspicus ot Gen. Welsh, Post No. 118, (J. A. II. Mhs Belle Archer, who undo suoli stir n Philadelphia during tho Pinafore rciga 1 y her beauty and charming manner ou tLo stage, as Miss Belle Mackenzie, iiils th-j principal role. As the prices aro graded to suit tho all, tho opera house will no doubt; be filled, Tho play iu itself is a beautiful and very affecting one. onicei selected. The following officers wero elected for the year 1883, at a meeting of tho Vigi lant fire company last night. President, George R. Bennett : vica president, James Eiscadden; treasuro-, Nichola". Oilman; secretary, G. W. Gear 1, 7; trf doc tor, S. McNcal; c' v.: rV-or, C, E. Grovo; tr.'-o, .Ta'-c-s Lit :7r, Fidward i'.-jpi'ir-" rin-:i ' ;... '-'' .:.nt cu- : ;, W. i .;:ut A. 2 Uz-)I. !. iJ'.Adatnj, 1, G I J. . - - . J. f 1 1 o cveniu.' of ' Reso'sSit. - " ..c . .!. Ft em '- '5J'' bj oue ii " " prsscat V-It T7 -s l-.-M l.-lt tir-. onr-.h ' ' -. t, '-" -. Elc.nt I Go n ' .'ened of s '-3 t i .ra Hatlio ' " ' ', on Monday uioviul ihfiu- .Iil': , - '""'' 'l'r- --u, uBhl its meeting in - "-"i Offico oa Monday night and Jbr--!! j organized. Dr. Kay was elect, d president, Mr. Chas Filbert tre.iMn. r, .M. Frank Saner secretary and 31 r. A. M. Reeso dancing master. A naino for ;i club was also adopted. What it i.s is t secret, but the initials arc II. D. T. "Ud, Where Can That Vicious tl(j He ? It will bo remembered that Levi Scl.ait bauer was arraigned before Squire Young about a week Bir.ce, charged with hai bor ing a vicious dog. Tkelogwas oidered to be handed to tho proper pci son to lo killed. This was never done, and more over, tho animal cannot be iound. T!io present harborer of it, it matters not who ho is, should be compelled to jrivo it up. Several persons have ' ot late been severely bitten by this animal. Parents are afraid oi" their little ones' safety. Dogs having no ap parent owners should bo placed wht-ic they cannot barm people. Some of tlu; butchers keep dogs about them for ttio protection of their meat. Tneso auim i.- feed on slaughter liou.10 oiUls and are, consequently, fitrrco and icious, aud al -ways ready to bite. Thoio have been so many people severely bitten lately that something should be dono imraediatilv to end the matter. TUE Ol-KKA. Kinuia Abbott In 'La Sonnambula." Emma Abbott retains her hold upon the affectionate regard of our music-Ioviui; public and will continue to do so whilo her voice keeps the admii.t'ole quiiityth.it has made it ono o( tho treasures of tho operatic stage iu America. Miss Abb:ts vocal organ, if anything, seems to havo improved siuco it was heard here last seasou. Its rango appears to grow, its timbre to gather fresh attributes, :n d the sympathetic sweetness that his always been one of its mobt pro nounced characteristics to gain in iN power to charm tho ssnso and to fill tho rounded perfection of nature's glorioo-. gift. The role of Amintt, which e satin last night iu Bellini's op jra of " Li Sn nambula," atfouls her amplu scopo ior tho display of theso qualities, and though tho part lacks in the opportunity for such dra matic action as she has -shown hi-rself ci pable of in her characterizations '.. Lucia and Marguerite, hur bright a.id cheerful temperament, her unfailing viv.it-. ity and the sparklo which sho thr.nv.s into her singing en ib!es ho.- to invest tho role with mora thau ordinary attnuuivu ness. She is all Hfo and animation ; her critics say sho gnshes overmuch ; anyhow she leads captive tho popular hi.urt. There were several passages in hr performance last night that fairly car ried her audience by storm, and the sing er's remarkable power of sujtaiuiug anoro piano voce, and causing tho melody to d-a away as though reluctant to be stilled w is, employed to lino advantag-s and won her the mobt pronounced favor ; at the eud mi' each act she was called bsl'ore tho curt tin. Miss Abbott's support 1 excellent. Miss Hindle's rendition of the role of J.un being vocally very flue, though wantimj iu dramatic effect, whila Mr. Cistlo both .sang and acted his part of Eltina uicxi-eptio.i-ably ;Mr. Brodcrick, a new eaiididatu fur favor, used his fino bass voice a.-, thouctt be was half afraid of it, but it newvtlio less showed admirable qn tlitj i.t tho so.-. eral solos Rudolpho sings ; Mr. Hall ho.ti himself a clever buffo, mhi 1 ; tho p.ti t ot Alessio and at tho cud ot tV oncra ..p peariug with Miss Rosow.dd in tln emu duet from Donizetti's " Klixirol L, Tho last named littlo lad. ..muo,vim: voice and renewed the laurels !u cuu on her previous appoaraiuv in rou. .;. Tho chorus was Mroiig and w . ". lvV,.vavd, y ! 4 tii 71 r i-ii i;l wl ' h
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