LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER MONDAY, DECEMBER 18. 133 I Lancaster JntelUftencev MONDAY EVENING DEC. 18. 1882, Better Late Thau Sot at AH. Something lias occurred to awaken Attorney General Palmer to his duty to vindicate the plain injunction of the state constitution against the consolida tion ot competing line vi -i . The Western Union WW .lofvirxr tiiicm-nvision ever since Aitoi ney General Palmer took office, and jet u u .nlv now. unon leaving it, that he takes notice of a violation of the law that has been patent all the time, and all the time has worked great injury to the iwople of the state. Attorney General Palmer is a good lawyer and bears the reputation of an honest man. He hay, moreover, demonstiaied a disposition to do his duty energetically when he saw where it lay ; which makes it all the more remarkable that he has been so dilatory in his proceeding against the Western Union monopoly. Since he now declares that this company has in many instances violated the constitution, he must be called upon to say why it is that he has not earlier taken the measures for the vindication of the fundamental law which he now sets on foot. Has he been incited by the result of the elections, which shows howstronglythedisposition of the people runs to a demand for le form in administration and to a sine' enforcement of the laws 'i This may 1--Ins incitement, but it is not his sufficient excuse. Or is it that he has a cenlider.ee in the supreme couit now that 1 e lid not have before ? It is an open secret that the majority of the supremo court of Pennsylvania luu not the confidence of the community in its lack of favoiitism to great corporate interests. The abso lute impartiality of the court has been distrusted. Thcie has been but one change in its conati.ution made by the c'.tctiuu, and Judge Sharswood, whore tins, is one of the best of the im-inbeis ; but supreme court judges,as well as poli ticians or being politicians we might say iu tho case of the distrusted mem bers of our eourt may prudently keep their tars oien to the voice of the peo ple, and it may be that Attorney General Palmer expects to find them in a better frame of mind to defend the constitution than they were a few weeks ago. But whatever his motive in acting now, the attorney general's movement meets with the hearty approbation of the people. They see a clause in the consti tution which they adopted afewyeais ago plainly violated. They provided fiat there should be free competition in the telegraph business by forbidding the union in interest of rival lines. Prom that provision they have derived no ben efit, because it has not been enfoiced. The xeason given for its inoperativeness has been that the Legislature his failed to pass a law pro nouncing the pains and penalties for a violation of this decree of the constitution. That reason the attorney general by his present proceeding pro nounces not to have been a good one ; but there are still those who hold that nothing can be done to defend the con stitution until the Legislature acts. Those poisons maintain that the attorney general can take nothing by his action, because there is no penalty which the supicms court is able to inflict, though it is satisfied that the constitution has bH-ii violated. This argument maintains fiat the constitution is absolutely nerve less and of no effect without it is sup pleiuentpd by an act of tho legislature ; fiat the Legislature can, by a iaih.ro to provide penalties, nullify the co :stiti:- tio:-. We do aoi believe that th Legis lature has any such power. Wiu', is for bidden by the constitution catinoi exist ; and the courts surely cai s deelar.. If the Western Union telegraph company is shown lo the supremo court to have consolidated with rival telegiaph com panies in a way which the consUi'.itio'.i forbids then the offending comp tines cease to have power to do busine s in Pennsylvania. They are dead ; and their effects are at the disposition of the stale. It is imp that the law-del y ing tele graph companies have depended on the inaction of the Legislature for their safely. It has been the business of a certain set of sharpers to start telegraph companies in our state for the sole pur pose of selling them out to the Western Union. That corporation has bought them up, expecting, in the lmuthing time it was allowed before a new line would be thrust upon it for purchase, to collect the cost of the former one from the public, left a victim to its inouopo lizing charges. It has not been a profita ble business to it. Its whistle has cost it too dear ; and with its watered capital it is in a condition of body that will not enable it to endure the competition of the new crop of young and lightly capi talized rivals that stand ready to give it its coup dc yracc. The action of the attorney general can but hasten the day of dissolution which natural causes would soon of themselves have caused to dawn. m m Reform Is Necessary. We reprint from P. Gray Meek'- Delle fonte Wnldmwn some practical sugges tions as to what can be done in the way of abolishing useless offices at Hanis burg without crippling the public ser vice. Mr. Meek not only is qualified to .'peak on this subject by experience as a member of the Legislature, but as an active and efficient member of the or ganization entrusted with the direction of the late campaign he appreciates the pledges of reform upon which tho victory was won and which must bo maintained if the Democracy of Pennsylvania i3 to have a future. In tho matter of firemen, pasters and folders, doorkeepers, ser geants at-arms, messengers, janitors, scrub-women and pages, it is obvious, at a glance over the reports of the money expended, that there can bo rad ical and immediate reform. Most of these places have been made from year to year to satisfy place-hunters, and most of the duties which they pretend to stand for are fictitious or un performed. It is nothing unusual for bummers to be appointed to these places who never go to Harrisburg ; in other instances a fortuna'.c appointee has to share his salary with luckless competi tors, and often when the places run out before the heelers are all satisfied, a purse is made up for those who are " left," and the money is extracted from ihe state treasury on some pretext or other. Not long ago a member from this coun An ty who could not " get his man in,-' nevertheless succeeded in getting $-300 ,,. t, Ue fd,0V never -effc home or made pretense f goinff to Ilarrisbnrg. These cases occur every tear in different parts of the state. There must be an immediate stop put to it. Xo man should go on the pay roll for whom there is not necessary work', and no man should be kept on it who does not discharge the duties for which he draws pay. Worsej's Troubles. Ex Senator Dorsey publishes columns of letters from Garfield, Morton and othcis of the political managers of Ihol Republican campaign of 1SS0, showing clearly enough that Dorsey's energy and manipulative political skill were fully relied upon, and that he was, in fact, the Republican Atlas o! that campaign. II ostensibly miblishcs these vapors to refute an alleged chaige that he had tin ust himself upon Garfield and the party in that canvass : but as no well-advised person ever made such alls nation, Dorsey has another motive in these disclosures an.l it is L uieinoUo.i.it the close connection between himself and the Republican leaders, who now claim to lo m much holier than he, and who are ready to throw him to the wolves to save their own skins. When it was piofit able to them to lean on him and write to him, counsel with him and be his friends and associates, they were therr, closer than brothers to him ; but when it is otherwise they are elsewhere. Cer tainly Dorsey is badly treated by them ; but because they should all be in the penitentiary with him is no good reason why he should not go there with out them. One Rosier, who claims to have been elected a Pennsyl vania state senator, is lound in the distinguished company of cash con tributors to Dorsey's " estimate" for tlse Indiana canvass. Rosier gave 2,000 himself and undertook to raise $20,000 or S2o,000, but the government contrac tors do not seem to have come down as well as expected, as it is sadly recorded that Mr. Rosier was disappointed in his expectation. Gai field was ever so free of thanks to Dorsey after the Indiana election. Ho wanted him to go to sleep for two or three days to recover himself for Novem ber, and urged him to come to see him and sleep with him ; and all through the campaign he hung on to him as a drown ing rat. If Garfield was alive his letters would keep Dorsey out of jail ; but, Garfield dead, they lose their potency. Tin: directors of the poor have wisely and humanely resolved that the superin tendent of the lunatic hospital shall be a trained physician, resident in the in stitution. This policy has been advocat ed by the Ixtelligexc!:i: and ap proed by tho better sense of the com munity for many years. It is a grotesque idea that persons afilictel with mental disturbances of varying degre" should be entrusted to the iuexi erience of such persons as a biaid f paitisan poor dircc. tots may happen to " pick up." And since this now departure has been re solved upon it should not be made a failure by false notions of economy noi the office be made a slake for politicl doctors. A skillful and honest physician ought to 1)2 found,whose discharge ot tho duties of the place will confirm the wis dom of the change and who will be to, cure iu his place so long as he properly fills it. Tin: politic il assessment eas3- r.ic soon to be decided by tho supreme court and tho civil lights aud Laaisiana case will be fiuished up shortly after tho holidajs. "J. It., attorney'" sends to the United States tieasury for the cout-cici.ee fund the unpicccdcnlcd sum of $1,000. This shows that the big thieves aie be ginning to disgorge. Nkw Englvxd is to havoa big mechan ical and industiial exposition i:c:t fall aud it is pleasant lo note that the Sduth aud Southwest will contribute laigdy of their products. The Sabbatarian provisions of the now penal code of Now York have already be come a dead letter. No attempt was mado to enforce them yesterday in Now York city. In Brooklyn tho codo was observed. Tue Philadelphia Times thinks tLat Govcruor-elost Pattison " needs the honest counsel of tho hundreds of young, able straightforward Democrats ol tho stato, who are to bo the champions of bis reign if it js to bo made successful : aud he needs tho ripe counsels of tho many aole Democrats who have been honest and earnest, but less progressive laborers in the party vineyard through little sunshine and much storm. Ho wants open doors for honest, intelligent counsel from all of his sincere supporters who are ready to proffer it, and it will bo a gtavo misfor tune if ho fails to invite and hearken to it." Tun official reports of the tobacco tiado in this country for the past year show that tho incrcaso in cigar production was 321, 897,758, and that tho prcsont output of tho factories is doublo that of 1S73. Tho ex portation of cigars from tho United States has mado some increase, though very slight. The number exported was 3,4."il, 995 ; 725,920 moro than iu 1881. Of cigar ettes there were exported 04,001,500 in 1882, an incrcaso of 20,338,400 over 1SS1, or 70 per cent. Tho quantity of manu factured tobacco, inclusive of snuff, oa which tax was paid ia 1873 was 114,789, 208 pounds; in 1882, ou 101,324,003 pounds ; in 18S2, on 1G1,324,003 pounds, an increase of only 4G,53o,395 pounds ; and the production in 1832 was the heavi est on record. Exports havo remained about stationary, as in 1873 the shipments j of manufactured tobacco to foreign were 10,110,045 pounds, S29,212 pounds. and in 1882 but 10 - ' NEWS MISCELLANY. AN KXW.OSION JJEAK hURANTO. Knglne Explodes with Terrific Force, Scalding tlie Engineer to Dnth- Other litceiit llappeulug lr.nn all Direction-). A terrible boiler explosion occurred in the entice house at the head of No. 0 pLtuo on the Pennsylvania coal company's gravity load Saturday afternoon, killing the CLgiueer, wrecking the head house and demolishing a number of the Western Union compauv's poles and viicj. Tkcac o'dent occurred at 2 o'clock, when all the planes between Duumore and Hawly weiu running at full speed, moving tho long lines of c.al tiaius that .followed each other iu quick succession fiom tho mines of tho Lackawanna and Wyoming valleys, and it caused a complete blockade of tho road from cud to end. Fred Maish, the engineer, was caught amid a pile of falliug timber and debris and scalded to death by tho hot water and steam. The sccoo of the aqcident ia one of tho highest points on the Moosic mountain range, and lragments ol tho cugiue hoiine wcio scut flying hundicds of fcetdown the side of tho slope. The gravity road con sists of a succession of planes, operated by stationary engines that pull the coal trains up tho hillside by meaus oi stout wire cables. On icaching the summit, tho cars wcro detached and sent bpccdiug alous tho well graded levels at a swift pace, with nothing but tho brake to regulate their momentum, until they loach tho foot of tho U3xt slop?, when thoy aro hauled up agaiu aud thus pissed until they roach tho town, Hawley, -.vbe.e their con tents aro translcncd to the leguhr train on tho Erie line. Two passenger cars have been iuu ov. r tin r i.t'1 da'h .ml in sum mer it ia a favoit'.c. u.nu: lot j ' ...sute pai tios. The accident at Xo. SI will keep the road ami the com pi-iy's mines idle lor a week at lea it an 1 tltioA thou-a-uls of men out of employment during that lime. Eight Men Instantly Kil'ea :nl Tun Fatally Injured at C.intor, ill. At Canton, III , thero was a boiler ex plosion in tho plow factory of Pailiu & Orendorf. Eight woikmen were killed and two fatally injured. Tho dead aio William McC uircy, engineer ; Lewis Ilummcnt, lhc-r.ati ; Alexander McKersou, Joshua Othara, Wilb'am Miller, Hiram Palmer, Aichibald Henderson, and E. McGrath. Samuel Bell was terribly crushed and Calviu Armstrong scalded. The killed and injured were warming themselves in the engine room at the time of tho explosion. The building caught firo and $20,000 damage was dono. Two hundred aud fifty persons are thrown out of work. The boiler was new and no cause is assigned for tho cxplosiou. A Tlpjy Alan St?nls a L.ocoiuotive. Joseph Carlin jumued upon an engine iu tho yard at E ist Syracuse at 12:30. Ho pulled tho lever and the locomotive shot out of tho yard eastward. A half-mile from DeWitt tho engine collided with an other one which stood upon tho track. Ihti engineer and fireman ou tho latter .jumped out of tho cab. Carliu escaped without injury. Tho engines wero badly damaged. Carliu was taken to tho police station by Special officer Blowaer, of East Syiacus?, aud was locked up. Carlin is weak-minded. Several years ago ho is said to have received a blow in tho head from a ball club, from tho effects of which he has ne cr recovered. Ho is said to be usually temperate, iudustii.ius aud of good morals, hut Captain Seely says that ho was very druuk when he bi ought lo the station house, lie d":iit.- all knowl edge of what ho did. ATOUKIST'3 DISATil. ro-iul in a Stupor In n MceiilnR Car ami Ilyiug Without Kc:;ttiii!ii C'oiiH-luuMicrt'. Herman Weyman, of New York city, died at the St. James Intel Pittsburgh, Satuuhiy. When tho Pan Handle rxpiev, from Sc. Louis ariivrd at S:!0 he war, J.s covcred ling ia the sccptr i:; a stupor. All cubit to levive him weic fiu.t.ess and he was lemoved to the St. James hotel, where ho died in half an In.ur, without tegainhig cousc'iousucs-i. Fkuu tho time ol having St. L- uis the tiain men say he hal bcu drinking heavily a'id a!c -holism was undoubtedly ilia catiM- of ln death. From 1' Iters and papeis l.-:nl up'n his pets "i it mas Kan ed thr.t h- was ;. tour ist and vas cu his v:iy tohi.- !: mo in Now Yoik iroin Iloug Kong, China He had a thit-ugh ticket licta Hong Kong to New Yoik. Ho infoinud lI.ciM'iductm of the empires that his wife wsstn meet him in Piltsbmgh on Sunday. Very little money was found on him. Hois a fine looking old gentleman, aged about 00 ycais, white hair and sido whiskei.- aud lather puitli. His baggago consisted very hugely of Chinese and Japmesi; tuiiositics, one a brac and costly oi uameuts. A manuscript poem, "To the Muffin Mau," was louud among his eil'eets. The scraains were taken to Burns & Reilley'i. uudcit iking cstablishmcn, to await the action of his fiicnds. TUii WOUtt Of INCEaiJlAKiKS An Attempt to Destroy Jiniuirt.ttit fctc.r Motilo JSvldritc... In Washington a fuo occuried Situ: day evening iu the thud story oi the building on F street :n jiiilv ojjujiied a- law oiJiccs by Richard D. Mcniek, piiudpal cuius--! forlho Kovernmcnt in tho Star Iliutc cases. The liro was undoubtedly ii.cjnd iary. aud Mr. Morrick asscrtr, that u, was started for tho purpose of deotrojim; im portant papers in tho Star Route casts, which weic known to be iu his elllco. Tho liio was promptly extinguished, with the loss of a fev hundred dollars, but no papers of consequence weie injured. Losses by fclre. The planing mill of A. HaycF, at Pitts burgh, with 50,000 feet of lumber, was burned vesterdiy. Loss, 50,000. Tho First Presbyteriau church of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was destioyed on Satur day evening by a lire caused by defective furnace. Loss, $25,000. Tho Pavilion hotel at New Biighton, Staten Island, was nearly destroyed on Saturday ovcuing by au incendiary lire. Tho loss is estimated as t-50,000. Tho old state house at Lansing, Michi gan, a large framo structure, two and a half stories high, was formerly occupied by Paltt Brother1?, candle manufacturers, was burucd on Saturday afternoon. A firo at Gallipolis, Ohio, destroyed tho drug stores of O'Ncil & Co., and P. A. Sauna & Son, tho clothing store of 11. Frank and several smaller buildings, cans ing a loss of about 45,000. A firo at West Kansas City, Mi&souti, destioyed tho Missouii Pacific lailroul local f icight house, with its contents, tho state lino elevator, with 70,000 bushels of grain, and nine Height cars loadt-d v. ith merchandise The total loss is estimated at about 80,000 A DOt-TOit in Tium;i,i;. TfiircoMen, due a Prominent 1'liynlclnn, ir rcrt'.eu at Troy for Alulpructtco. Dr. Rice, a well-known physician of Troy, N. Y., aud for many years assistant superintendent at tho Marshall infirraaiy and Taylor Weill, of Ballston, wcro ar rested Saturday ui'teinoon charged with causing tho death by malpractice ol Miss Lillio Porter, a eiy handsomo young womau of tho latter place. They both pleaded guilty toachargeof manslaughter in the first degio and were committed to jail. Wells is a bi other in law of tho do ceased girl, liio doctu-s amt occa sions great surprise. Walter Bruco, a machinist, was a'so arrested, charged with a similar oileuse i;t Ronton, his victim be ing Annie King, who died in that eiry ov.-r two -vears a." , Ho was ccd to Tr0" ,,y means of circulais and photogiaphs Font out at the time. Wilbur, as h was known in Boston, has lived at Troy about twenty months, and has a divorced wife in Port land, Me., and a lawful wife in Maiden, Mass. A Young Woman Scared to Death. Near Shelbyville, Ind., Mr. Hugh Bran uau gave a bocial dance at his house, which was attended by all the young peo ple of the neighborhood. Among the guests were Miss Lottie Stroup, daughter of Mr. Peter Stroup. a well-known citizen, and her cousin, John Brant. During the eveuiuc ouuir Brant and a fellow named Thurston got into a fight, which resulted in Brant getting a terrible whipping. Some one iu formed Miss Stroup that her cousin was killed and instinctively she ran to where he was lying in the yard, where the light took place. Brant was not dead, and as Miss Stroup knelt at his side he turned over, fallowing his lace cov cred with blood and bruised. Tho sight so houilicd tho lady that she fainted and then had a spasm, fioni which sho never returned to consciousness. Yesteiday, after bciug in a somi-uueonscious condi tion, hho died, ju-it forty days after sho received her fright. Clrlutu mill Calamity. Clinton Briggs, prominent lawyer fir over 20 years a and politician of Ne braska, was killed by falling from a train at Aston, Iowa. The wife of John Wright, a grocer, was fchot (tend by a colored robber during her husband's absence from the shop, near Memphis, Tennessee, on Saturday after noon. Au engiue ou the Cumberland & Penn sylvania railroad blow out its crown-sheet at Cumberland, Mil., Sunday morning, scalding four men, two of whom, Francis Carafuie and Henry Miller, died in a few houis Sarah Keai, a'd l.S yeai, a gocii!C-s ia tho family of Major Chapman, at San Francisco, committed suicido on Friday night by taking poisou. Tho or.ly cause known lor tho deed is that " sho received a sharp reproof from liar mistress " a few hours before. A Lire Lynx oa an Unbidden (lucst at Sinner. Tho family of Obcd Frye, of Hudson, Mass., had a livo lynx as an unbidden guest at dinner tho other day. Just as they wero about to seat themselves at tho tablo the animal, weighing some twonty fivo pounds, camo with a bound through an open doorway aud landed on top of a piecoof furnituio. Then it sprang on to tho table, grabbed a picca ol meat, and showed a disposition to fight. Tho Frycs mado an attack on tho ferocious beast, aud in tho contest Charlotte Fryo was severely bitten in tho hands, whilo O'oed received several ngly scratches. Tho animal, rea'izing that it was getting the worst of it, bounded for the door, which was closod by a vigilant Frye just in time to catch tho lynx by the leg, in which position it was held until tho other Fryes could got arouud on the ontside and despatch it with clubs. Dcsperato tiamblero. Tho police of Baltimore last night raided a Chineso laundry in Liberty street and arrested twelve Chiuamcn in tho act of gambling. Their "gaming utensils" were seized and tho offenders will have a hearing to-day. Groderick Doohtcrman, aged 35 years, was stabbed to death by Martin Hesse, in tho hallway of tho former's saloon, in New Yoik, early yesterday morning. They had quarreled about an hour previ ously over a game of cards. Hcsso was arrested. His wife says he was arrested several times in Germany lor attempting to kill people. Ho has been only six months in this, country, and docs not speak English. The Imprisoned Aldcnaoa Keloascd. The ten Brooklyn aldermen confined to Raymond sti cot jail, Now York, for con tempt of court wcro released this morning. Their departure was conducted as quietly as possible and few even of the attaches wcio awaro of it when they went. The imprisoned aldeimcn mado the most of their list twenty-four hours under lock aud key. Visitors woio numerous. Two games of diaw poker wero kept up almost continuously. Alderman Dwycr, who won the first pot oa tho first deal lastThurs day morning with threo aces, continued lucky to tho cud, and it is s lid that he cashed in, all told, 11 vo lini; the amount of hio fine. At G o'eloek Warden Scliultz informed tho aldcraisu that tho law had been vindicated and tha ha wo.fd detain them no lon-.Tr. How :i Thici Was Cuas-.t. A fe.v days ago thcio was stolen from John Wuntwoi th'n offiso iu Chicago a tin box cutaiuiur 2,000 iu legislered U S. bonds, deeds aud moitgatcsfor a huge amount, aud Ictteis from Webster, Clay, Calhoun aud other publio men, bes'des other documents of historical value. Tho box was not missed until Friday, whou it was found hidden in tho basement, tho bonds only being gone. Tho box was re placed aud decteetives set to watch. Yes terday a man entered tho basement and was seized in the act of carrying off tho box. Ho gavo tho uamo of Fowler, aud is believed to bo onool" a gang of thieves. Tho bonda cannot bo icalizcd upon. 1'erlU at the Season. Rbeit Robinson and John Spencer, young men, wcro drowned on Saturday, while skating, near Kingston, Ont. Moro than 100 vessels wcro at anchor off Chatham, Mass., on Saturday, having sought refuge from tho galo. Those bound northward left in tho course of tho day. The Hudson river, from Hydo Park to Tivoli, is filled with fields of iloating ice. North of Tivoli it is frozon solid. There was a heavy snow storm in tho Northwest on Saturday night. Another Wile Murderer. The wifo of Charles Pope was found dying with a bullet wound in her head at tho houso of a mend m San Francisco on Saturday. She had quarrelled with and left her husband. The latter was after wards found doad in a yard a few blocks away,-with a bullet hole in his head and a revolver lying by, with two chambers dis charged. Tho wifo died in a few minutes attor being louna, without saying any thing, but it is supposed Pope shot her and then committed suicide. Burled In Ber Brown Dress. Miss Sarah Young, daughter of William Young, a respectable farmer, living about a niilo from Willow Springs, Mo., suddenly died of poison, administered by her own hand with suicidal intent. The ladies from tho neighborhood, while preparing the remains for burial, discovered lightly clenched in tho girl's hand the following note ; " I got mad because pa would not lot mo keep company with Monroe Lovan and took strychuino in coffee to kill mo limy mo with my brown dress on." A ISoy Convicted or flluntcr. Almost a year ago Georgo Jones, a six-tecn-y ear-old mulatto boy, shot aud killed Georgo Foster in front of a saloon on Water street, Pittsburgh. Last week tho caso was on tiialand was concluded yes tciday. Satmday morning the jury scut woid to Judgo Baily that thoy had agiecd upon a verdict. Tho jury was sent for and th:) prisoner brought into court. Their vcidict v.as muidcr in tho first degico. This makes tho fifth murderer under sen tence of death iu jail in that couuty. .tiniiiorumu Sentenced to be Hanged. At Kearney, Neb.,the trial of Matthew Zimmerman for murder was concluded Saturday. From the beginning it was eiy clear how tho caso would terminate, as thi, evidence of "uilt was conclusive. Tho juiy found a verdict of guilty of unit -der iu the first degree and Zimmerman was sciituiioed to bo hanged at Minden, Neb., on tho 21st of April uext. He will bo re moved to tho penitentiary to-morrow for safe keeping. THE TELEGEAPH WAR. A NEW KIVAL. XO AVKSTlSli.N UNION Tlin llaltlinoro &hto Sj stem to be Opened ior iienerm iiuinc Tu-iUj. Ilalthuore American. Tho officials connected with the Balti more & Ohio telegraph service in this city were yesterday busily engaged in urepar ing to take possession of their headquar ters in the central office, orner of lialti more and Calvert Greets, in anticipation of orcoing for general business to morrow. The company was aetivily engaged '.or some time m the exteiiMoii ol its lines of telegraph to New Yoik, last week suc ceeding iu getting seven wires which weie i(.tru estci day and found to be m line v. oi king order. The iine bej-inniuiT at the main oilice of the company In fal:i moro, extends eaitwaully within tho city to Bay View, from which point, by a most direct line, it runs through Havre do Grace, Elkton, Newark, Wilmington, Chester, until it leaches Philadelphia, dousing tho Delaware by cables, it proceeds almost by an airline from Camden to New York, through Pembeiton, Ilightstown, Amboy and Staten Island, following dnectly aiong tue mm oi tue t'cniisyivanii lail road and that ol the Matoii Island railroad iu such a maimer as to bo always easily aud quickly accessible lo- icp.iirs. It reaches lhooklyn at tho Narrows, by ca be, landing at Foits Hamilton and Rich mond. Ft em Brooklyn it passes over the suspension bridge into New York. Tho whole length ol tho him is less than 200 miles, or the shortest practicable di.-.tancu between Bait! mine ami New Yoik Tho line consists of 17 wires through the cPy of Baltimoie, with a provision for double that number. Fiom Baltimore to Brook lyn 7 wins aie aheady up, spice being provided for 15 or 18 non. From Fort Hamilton, thiongh tho city : Brook! vnt to New Yoik, tho liuecoiiMstsof 22 wires. By tho completion of this Pin to Nw loik the liuitimoic and On: i -ystem nowieachih .even of the nu-t important cities oi this coautiy, namely, New Yoik, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Ljws, ami intermediate points from which emanate not less than CO to 75 per cent, of the whole telegiaph business of tho country. Ample provision has been made for the Baltimoie aud Ohio telegiaph lines in all tho produce, stock and cotton exchanges in all theso largo centres. Tho unprece dented promptness aud dispatch remleicd by this company in its service between Baltimore and tho W stein exchanges it is now expected will bo extended also to New York aud Philadelphia. The 8 stem, forming as it does the great trunk telegraph line ol the country, has already made most valuablo connections for new lines, one extending south from Washington as far as New Oi leans, with offices ahcady open in Fredericksburg, Richmond, Petersburg and Norfolk ; another noithward from tho cily of Now Xork, coveimg tho prominent points throughout Now England, tho stato of New York, and Western Peuusylvauia. Iu addition to this, several of tho largest laihoad systems of tho country, west aud southwest, aio seekiug connection with this great tiuuk line sstem,with a viaw to Fccuro tho largo profits on the com mercial business passing over their wires which is now going to tho great telegraph monopoly of tho country. Coincident and coopeiativo with all theso movements will be tho cor.stiuction and laying of tho now Atlantic cable, which is to he the first and only Atlantic cablo built upoa a cash basis, which may ue also said ol about the whole system of laud lines with .-ihich it will connect. With this new s..teia oi co opera! i n of the vaiioas laign raihoad companies owning their telcgripb hues aud updating tho same jointly tlieio can benoiiskiU that consolidation .vhich has hcictofoio always been mad.- of va lious telegiaph ititensts o! the eou:.t:y as -won ;.s developed. Th's no if depaituio must tlun scciwe a healthy compstitit.ii in tho telegiaph business of tho cou'iliy he:etv.ouo uukuovvu, which will at oi'eo exotid to Lho Atlantic cable sei vice, and ultimately to C.nada and Mexico, which aio now ui'der the bat: oi tho g'atc-t telegiaph monopoly of the world. Thore is evciy indication that thj company will immediately open up a v,iy heavy genci.il biisine-s", and will prove a most formidable rival to Jay Gould's Western Union company. Mr. Eobeit Stewart, the supcimtcudcut of liio tole giunli depiitmcur, of which Mr. Gi .,. P. E.iik is uiauagi :-, has cigaubs.d al nge and duirciont foiee, and occupying, as tt will, tho li.iud.-om-t office ofany Icleg.aph company of this city, the Halibut re dc Ohio company vitli certamly stmt under the most favcrab'o auspices. oui jjvis: rUACricAui.K ki:fo :::-. Uitdea liiit:-s TIi.it V ir. o AU .led. lel!uloutt VVateiniiiin. If the coming Legislature can manage to Equecxj along with mt that useless and expensive public ition, the legislative Record, it will save to tho taxpayers in the matter of piinting alone, $10,000. With it abolished, the House alone, cau dispense with eight of its eleven pasters and fold crs, thus saving an additional 43,003. Then thero is a spcaka's clcik at a cu:t of 61.2G1.00 ; a message clerk at il,0:i-10; thice of the live sergeants .it arms at s ila rics averaging $1,100 each or $.,o()0 in all : two ol tho livo tloar kecpeis at $1)00 each or $1,805 together ; three of the four mes seugeis that cost $'2,700 more ; four of the six janitors at sr.laiies of $900 each or $3,G00inalI; ton pages at $J1G or$;J,lG0 together, all of whom aro needless ollteir.la and employes aud who cau ho lopped off without iu any way iu tcrfcring with tho eflicicncy ot tho organization or tho woik of tho Lsgislature. Ileie would bo a. saving to start with by a Democratic House of $41,:J90.40, and would be a certain assur ance that the reform promised in case of Democratic success, would bo faithfully carried out ia every department over which tho Democratic paity havo control. With tho Democratic Houso taking tho lead on tho road to reform, a Democratic executive and the Democratic heads of other departments could not fail to fol low. A Drove of 133 Upossams. Mr. E. T. McCord, of Charlotte, N. C, has for years made a business of collecting 'possums, which he sells during tho Christmas holidays. Ho started on Thanks giving day for tho mountains to collect a drovo of 'possums. Ho arrived at David sou college with 123 'possums which ho drovo a'ong the road as though they were bo many hogs. lie camped at Davidson college last uighr, secuiiim his drove by means ot poles, having ten 'possums to tho pole. Ho keep- threo dogs barkiugall night, aud these keep the possums so fiightt-ned that they hold a fiim gtip to the poles with their tails until tho sun is up. This is tho Hist lime he has ever at tempted tho experiment of driving 'pas sums like cattle, and duiing tho whole journey he has lost only two, oue of which Oscaped by lalhng through a budge. They follow their bader which is led by a stiing. Sliot in a Itaticn Hall. At LeadviPt-. Col., a shooting affray oc cnired iu a -.uto street dauco hall at 2 o'clock Sit ii -d a morning, in which two men icceivel fatal wounds. A dispute arose b. tweei two men named Miller and Ciimi-ii'igs about paying lor a drink, whi-ii both drew pistols and commenced firing. Oummiugs leceived on- ball in tin shoulder and another iu tho m mth. while a third struck a looker ou named Rcarick, from Victoiia. III., passing thiough bis luugs. Both men will die. Miller was not touched. PEBSONAIj. I E.vSfxketaky Stuakt, of the Brooklyn board or education, is a defaulter for 250 000. Mn.JoiixG. S.vxr, the poet, still re sides in Albany, at tho !uiio of his .mmi, ar.d is au invalid. Dr. J. Foksytii Meigs, an authority on the tieatment of tho diseases of women and children, died on Satuiday of pneu monia, iu his G5th year. Tun. A. J. Dirc-vEL Las given 5,000 to the Uuiveisity of Pennsylvania, Philadel phia, !!; tun endowment ol a iree tied in tue s.ow v, ini: for chronic diseases. E JroGi; R.vi.rn Lei: died at his home in llaJdonticld, N. J., on Saturday after looii, aged CO years. He was for some years associate judge of tho Camden county courts. Oscai: Hamuusteix the handsome and reckless editor of tiio 'Tobacco Journal, cot a voidict of u,000 against him iu the libel suit brought by a tobacco t'ealer whoso stock ho had misrepresented. Piuxcr.'-s Loui-u: will make a prolonged visit in tho United States, taking iu all tho larger cities. Sho will not return to Canada befoio tho expiration ol the maiquis's term. His lordship, however, will leturn for tho opening of Parliament. Joiix G. Whittieu reached his 75th" bhthday yesterday. Tho venerable poet lemained in his room in the Hotel Wiu throp. in Boston, and leceived many eall ois aud a number of beautiful lloial tiib- utcs. OMVEiiWnxiiEr.i. Holmes look- 'acioss the Atlantic and sees Mr. Gladstone, only four months Muiuger than mys. If, .stand ing cieet with Patiiek's grievances o.i one shoulder and Pharoah's pyiam'ul.s mi thu other an Atlas whose intoivals f K-poso aro paioxisins of learned Ial r.' Ross 1!aymom ih-j :i'. ;Ii- who bo it mi many people in th.s coiiu'iy, is iow connected with the L n.di-u pros:. He m dc ip'ilo a hit durin.t the Kg: t.i:i -. n as a L'Mid-i.i cor.vspiiiidi it ; si much ,-n indeed, thai when the war v.as tvt-r his employee; weie lined him back with a bi tlinucr. .Ionss MosT, tho Geimin S'eialis, was expected to airiva in New York on tho steamer Wisconsin, yesteiday, and a rcecpt ioa had been arranged In his honor. He did not come, but tho exercises wero gone threnj-h with all tho same, t-uvcr.il incendiary speeches being made. He is to havo a public nc-'ptiou in Coipar iti-ti-tu-o to night. " Uxcle" Sam Wakd dined with Mrs. Liugtry, and ho is perfectly ' enthused;" and a gossiping friend wiitos. from what I was told, sho lcciprocatc.s the sentiment. This is so tinea fact that tho day af cr t hey had bce'i introduced sho wrote to inviti; him to pa'-s the cveniug with her, and begau her u te, ' Dear I7ucle bam,' and signed it, 'affectionately your.-, Lillio.' " Edwaud E Rice, known to lamo caief ly as tho composer of tho succtssful ex travaganza " Evangeline," and later as manager of Rico's " Surpri-ie Party,"' and other theatrical ventuic. has failed, w'th liabilities aggicg.iting S38,7-J1, but a small portion of which is seemed. Among his creditors are members of his camp my. whoso salaries a-o overdue, and many personal friends who had a Iv.mccd him sums langing fiom $109 to $5,000 to tale him over his linancial difficulties. EoisEitT Smvlls the negro congiesmiau fiom South Carolina, of unsavory -cpute, wants to ba made a captain or. the letired list ol tho navy ior services ing tho war in piloting lendered tin a Confederate steamer and delivering her to the adiug force ia Charhs'o.i haiber. bh.ck A b.ll granting his application h.is been intro tluccd in Co gtf-, although In has been hands nndy pai.i.by the navy department for his expIuU. a'id a few yearn ao ho was discovci-itl in lho effo. t to s'.eai: a bill through Cuugt.'ss piyiug h'm oi ; again. Smalls is the mau U once niece tied hi haviug a Democrat turned out t.f his -eat in Congress and himself pat in although tho Democrat hud S,000 majority. .Tajiks G. Rlvink and wife weie si'ting at breakfast in the Fifth Avenue hotel at a table, at tl o end of vvhh-h w ts a chair tilled forwaid to show that it vva en gageil. Dnectly HosccoConkliugcnteietl and strutted up with all hi; senatorial dignity, that is a thousand pounds to tho square inch, llefoic ho leached lho ic torved se.it he saw lho enemy iind iu stautly them was a iiuxhof heat lightning over liis lofly couutenar.ee, :m.I tuining right oblique ho solemnly inniJiud to the tin ther end of the dining ioo;a. A smile, mild as mnmiliht on n hack yard, played on tho intellectual outlook ot the plumed fcitii'ht. Mr. CoiiL l:of l,.t '.. h'ii aiiLixini'li" -----r ----- -, - ..,.,-- . .- r. ' iu tho last live yea:. That, famous lock has disappeared fium his lofty brow and the snows of age have whitened hi.s dome of thought, once covered with golden hair. CoNtinns'-JiA.- Gowjvi: S. Oiitii t'.ied at his residence iu Lafayette, Ind , lato on Satuiday night, after a somewhat pio tractctl illness. Shortly boforo his disso lution he recognized his daughter, mur muted her name, " Mollie," and tho word " happy," and passed away rhortly alter. The immediate eau-e of his d"ith was blood poisoning, and not cancer, as has been leported, nor is his fiice eaten away nor his featuics iu any manner impahed by his illness save a natural cnr."i itioa. Mr. Orth was a nativn of L-luimn, Pi , and lead law under Thaddcus Stevens. Ho has '-.old many public positions in In diana, wiutnrr lie leiuovcd ia ins young manhood, lie cntcicd tho Ihnty-eighth Ctingress and has servctl almost continu ously ever since. He was 0 years old and leaves $50,000, to bo divided among scv. ral childicii. tin: ruin: JHitisuToie--. Tliey l'.iior ii iZcNlitPitt l'liyyiclaii at hiiiier liiteiident. The boaid of poor dirrctors met at tho almshouse tut Saturday and attended to a good deal of routine business of no public importance. Tho matter uf electing a superintendent iu the plac of Geo. Spur rier, deceased, was talked o'. ami it was detei miticd not to elect one until alter the rc-organia'.ion of the boaid at the animal meeting in January. In this comiectio 1 the following resolution was passed by a unanimous vote : "JUsolved, That fur tho proper inauagc mcut and contio! of tho hospital aud insane asylum or Lancaster county, thi-t board deems it expedient to creato the office of resident physician, anil that lb" office of superiutcudent aud resident phy sician bo combined, and filled by one an.l the samo person." There seems to be no doubt that tho board will elect a resident physician in January, as Messrs. -Kreider, Musser, Evans aud Keller, who voted for tho ah- ve lesohiMop, hoi 1 over, ar.d Mr. L-ug enceker, one of tho',mc!nl.r--r-iect, has f'e dared himself in favor ol tho policy tlu-i. in laid down. We have not heard whai Mr. Hard, the other member-elect, thinks of it. The passage of the resolution liis created a great flutter among the revcial aspirants who expected to step into )h. Spunicr's place, and they ami ttieir fiicnd.; will do doubt do all they can to pi event the propose d change. j Lancaster .VI ,i k iiilnli.iji io iS'-oi.ic. ltea-lin;: Herald. II. U. Albiiaht, of Lincasfcr, met with a painful accident in this city tin Friday. Heanived shortly bc-foic noon, and tak ing a street car at the depot, ho rode as fai as the Reading lnusc, North Sii'h "trcet, where ho stepped oil" the car. In doing so ho had n hard fall, by which his right ana was hurt and internal injuries sus tained, lie was carried into the Reading h-us", wiitp he received medical atten tion fiom Dr. HeistcrM. Nagle, who was summoned. Liter in tho day Mr. Al b:ight b-gan to exhibit symptoms of brain fever. TOBACCO MARKET. THE SKtU LfAff A3iO UAVMN A TRAIIK. l'or lh. Week cudlng -iurdy, December Id lSun!ue 3epl t : Mniidollll The Iinprtjtli.n ol Sumatra. L . .-. Tolneco Journal The most thorough canvass of the mar ket only brings to tight sales of about G0J eases. MauufacturOiS aro staving away entirely. Jobbers hero aud thero pickup a littlo lot that is ol.'e.ed at a sacrifice. Then, never has been much basiucsstrau aetn; in the latter part of December in any year in the pasr, but siuh au almost peilect stand-stilt of t tide has uot been kLOvvn for mauy years. Evidently the uiciuocrsof the industis aro imbued with the idea that v reduction, of the tax, if no! its tot.il.ibor.th.il, is me-, itable. Cougicss is bound to take soma ae-"t.a on this measure iu a few weeks. Grant ug that reduction or abolition is already an established fact, the truest ion arises how will it affect tho leaf market? Will it bring a rush of new buyeis to tho mitki-t and favor the prics-s of leaf? Thero certainly will bo a great, uia-t . buyers iu tho ma: hot alter tho tax tpies tion is settled ; there will be a good many buyers iu tho maxket a'ter Jauuiry 1. Tho stock iu tho bauds of inauulaettueis is not latge, aud cigats aie eoiisiiim l whether tho tax is six dollars or six cents but tltcin also is n. great deal of seed k-ai tobacco iu the market, both lino and poo-, and holders have paid large figures Kir u. Eveiy day it remains unsold its cost is iucreased. Now come cut-goes of Sumatra. It is calculated that nearly L 000 bales of Su matra will bj offered in this market in January. The competition between hold ot.s, coupled iv it It :; lotlnetion of duty, will tend t. 5 n- :u stociC still more than in s. 1 1 i tto papu'aiity in tho trade Anil t!:i.- ' r, iat darkens even tba luighlpst prospects- f ti : loaf trade in f'tttui!-. -s.u.ii'ia lot:' -til-- tho hopesof r.ah.iiig any paym;; noi.:cs lor "SO or 'SI seed leal tobacco. Amoag tho week's sales were 400 cues of "81 Ohio, at U to -I cents for law grade-. 7e and 8e, for iik-iiiu-u aud good running. Thero weie -also s'til 1M) case:, of "81 Con necticut, at 1,5 to '21 o' . s ; ar.d about '21 0 cases ot 'SO Pennsylvania at 8 to 1-t rents Tho remainder t.f the SJ IVunsylv uiia i.i thismaiket i- lepoited to lit- of vtry pool duality and yield. Sl'MATKA Market ipiiet bales. Pi ices unchanged. Havvxa Market ou'et. Silt 15: i il.-. o bales. Prices firm. Vans' ttcjturt. Sales of seed leaf tobacco reported by J. S. Cans' Son is Co., tobacco brokers, No. i:l Water street, New York, for the wet k ending December 18. 1SS2 : 150 eases 1SS0, Pennsylvania, S(M': 1G0 cases 1831, New England, lViTt. ; 350 cises-1891. Ohio, iQt,; 100 cises sifti dues, o(W)18. Total, 700 cases. 'Alio Local Tobacco Market. Another quiet week in the trade, aud it will continue quiet until after tho holiday; at least, and fur a still longer time unless Congress makes i speedy se-ttleiiit-ntot thu tax question. Sinea our last report wo havo he-aid !' tho sale of only about 00 cases of thu crop of I860 ; a still smaller quautitv of 1881, and a few small erowings of If-.Si With the exeeptiou oi Mr. lliovrnsteiu, ol" Cahfciiiia, who continues to buy the in-iv crop, wo hear of no dealer who is do! .g muie than to iiick up a faw odd lots : which thcio appear to ho bargains. A. yet very littlo ol tho m-v, eiop h.is Wen stiipio.l, and tho weather is vorv iitiiavtu--ablo for stiipping it. After New Visit we hope to have m i favoraWe repoils it, make. -rtiK 1CK. I.uti.l M::iiin liij; . loutlM llni lenlrr y j ctlnenti uiol Inili.ciilH. Tlie skating has been excellent oa the Cuiicstoga and thoiec is froui six to eight inches iu th'oUn.-ss. Graell's landmg secms lo be the most popular phieu forth s skaters. Ou Situiday afti'iiin.m tin hi wciotroai tluee toloiti huiuireil peoplo. i ar tho bridge. Yesteiday tho crowd at thu. point was very largo and in it vvo'.e a gieat many ladies; every per.m Laving a ja'.r of stales wit -ti tho ice. Tha weather was pleasant bur it was quite cool for tho hauthuls of peojilo woo rt-u I mi tho biuks to enj y the sport. An eufrpusiug huekstt-r l-.itl crec'.ed a staii'i o:i the b in!:, and he did a big business in h )t s-oups and other t-.tt,.-bles. There was plenty o' luu all ti.ii, and there wcio also t-e vei.il aeoitle-nts. Harry llouser, eq , white skating, Itli, striking his h id tin tho iee. Ho w.u, picked uji uueouseiuus and quickly diin tit ttit" ii. He was t.iken to tho oilice of Dr.Giov., ou Kjst King sheet, wLeto it was foiled that ho hatl receivctl :t very ugly cut on the head; after being attended by tho physician ho was icmoved to his hotel, aud is uow doing well. Horace Martin while skating at Grat 11 s fell ou the iec aud cut h'u chin terribly. Tliis morning Win. Ivnerz'-l was ougagc.) rutting ico with a l.oiso and plow -it Giaell's lauding, when the animal broko through, taking the plow antl mm along : nil were rescued after considerable work with tfio horse On Thuisday night a young man named Miller, who is a student at Milleisvilln, went skating on the Concstoga. Ho brokn through the ieo and would havo ilrowif.-d had it not been for the timely arrival of some fellow students Tho man lo.-t a brother by drowning in tho same creek. All the ico men arc busy filling their houses and mitiy of tho ico cream men havo fiuished. The ice ou the creek is very line, yet r.n poials it in thicker. last ol UntlnJined letter. The following is :i list of unclaimed letters remaining in thu postofficc for tho week ending Dec. IS : Litditii' Lint. Mis. Maiy Addison, Mrs. John Uirringcr, M. Ureslin, C. K. Illek, Barbara Iirubake-r, Lizio Rowman, Mrs. Abbio M. Colby, He-it io Crawford, Mis. Juliett Ddwiith, Cora Elmer, Mrs. Eliza beth Funk, Barbara Ginerieb, Maiy Goodwin. Ellio S. Homsker. Mrs. Hetty Ikerey, Kate Lehman, Mrs. Julia Leber, Mrs. Lizzie Long, Mrs. Alfred Lilloy, Mis. John Obc-rholtzer, Mrs. Ida M. Northup, Susan Shaub, Alice Shaub, Laura Shraek, Lucy Snyder. Gent's List. .Inn. Ii Raumane, Iler mau Bscrle, John K. lhubaker, Lowis F. Bviyner, John Can en, Eld. J. W. D. Ed wards, (J. Pray. John G-rliu, Wm. P. Giock, Henry llil icrbraud, Fred.S. Hot. tonstem, Jciemia'i Kcchii, Tho. Ivo z, If. E. McCarty (2), John A. Martin, Nathan Milner, B. A. Mussclmaii, J. P. Okill, Tbail. Rfssier (2), Chas. Rhoads, .1 x. Ragon, N. E. Rust, David Rootb, L. II. Schmidt, Daniel Sheuliergcr. John Snv tlor, Wm. Stemeburger, Jacob Stouel. II. P. Willi imii, John C. Walter, George Ziehen?, Dsirato Zanfiani. halo of Keai Ktaie. nenry Shubert, auctioneer, sold at pub lic sale, last Saturday evening at th& Cooper house, for Allen A. Herr t& Co. real estate agents, a two story brick dwe'hug situated at No. 5o8 North Queen street, to Z. T. Hayeg for $1,075. Fire in a School itoase. On Fiiday a fire occuried at the Cones toga .school house, East Enl township. SiR-.ikii was di.eovcred issuing from the building by a lot of men who wcio hauling ice. They went to t!t buildingand found that thcilto was in the ceiling. The child ren weie taken from t It: house aud in a few miuntfs a pkci of i ho ceiling about four feet iqnaro, which had been burued, fell down. The lire was caused by the stovepipe and tho loss will probably bo $G-.
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