XreVraasWEaigaamastBasgafcgH "TTT taCNwii V." v- Hill .i. .in IiANCASTEE DAILY INTELLIGENCET? WEDNESDAY MAY 9 1883. lncaster Jntelligenccr WEDNESDAY FVENINQ, MAY 0, 1B83, The Civil Service Bules. The rules of the civil service commis sion de net serve te make the concern shine as a very gigantic thing in the way of administration. Tne present ap pearance of the rnuch-talked of cemmis sien recalls anew the fable of the moun tain that labored and brought forth a mouse. If the commission is any bigger than a mouse, it certainly does net leek bigger than a respectable rat. Its oper ation is limited alew and aloft and in between and all around. It tases no cognizance of laborers, nor of offi cers confirmed by the Senate. The confidential clerk of a depart ment head also escapes the com mission's scrutiny, as de also the cashier of a collector or postmaster, the superintendent of the money order divi sions in posteffices, custodians of money for whose fidelity another officer is under official bendsecret service officers.trans efficers.trans officers.trans laters, stenographers, persons profession prefession professien allyemployed, chief clerks, superintend ents and chiefs of bureaus. Then the commission reaches no officeref any kind who is employed in a posteffice or a cus tern house that has less than fifty effi cers. Eleven custom houses andtwenly t.iirpn Dosteffices only come under the harrow of civil service reform as execu ted by this commission. The clerks in the government offices at Washington, who are net included in the many ex ceptions, are the chief care of the com mission. It will be their success in giv. ing us geed bookkeepers, better writers, money counters, messengers, and all that kind of officers in the Washington public buildings upon which the title of the commission te our applause and gratitude will be based. But as the gen tlemen and ladies who are doing this clerical work for us at Washington are very geed people for it, se far as we knew, we see no particular occasion that is likely te arise for a great public ovation te the civil service commission, because of their triumphant execution of a great work. Te besure,it is possible that some peer devil of a Democrat may creep into a small office under these rules, if he has geed luck; and perhaps we ought te he grateful for that. Hut as we no net think that a small government clerkship is a very desirable possession te any man, and as a Democrat's chance of getting one under the commission's rules is net particularly brilliant, we feel under no obligation te let our bowels of compas sion for our party friends move as te laudation of what seems te be a stupidly undertaken business. Of course, there is no politics in the commission. The very essence of its being was the avoid ance of political appointments. But it does net touch heads of bureaus. Tliey are political. When their heads want a subordinate they are directed te draw en the commission. They are supplied with four names for each clerk they need, from which te select the one they prefer. This latitude of choice will suffice te give them a man of their party every time, unless they have particularly hard luck. The fellows they de net select go back into the pet. They may be drawn three times ; buL if rejected that often they are pitched overboard altogether; as they are, tee, if they de net succeed in receiving an appointment within one year from their selection. Their educational requirements aiv net severe, as they are examined only in orthography, penmanship and copying ; in the fundamental rules of arithmetic, fractions and percentages ; in interest, discount and elements of book-keeping ; in the elements of the English language, letter writing and the proper construction of sentences ; and in the elements of the geography history and govern ment of the United States. All these are desirable objects of knewl edge, but manifestly are net particularly needed by the messenger or letter car rier, for instance, who is sufficiently educated when he has learned te read, and who would de his work better with active legs than an educated head. The commission seems te have had some idea that it was asking tee much bonk knowledge for some positions, since it provides that for places in which a lower degree of education will suffice the examination may be limited te penmanship, copying and orthegra phy and the fundamental rules of arith metic ; which is still an unnecessarily large demand while alertness and legs are the only points te be critically exam hied. We de net note that the com mis sien proposes an inquiry into the si;.e of an applicant's calves, the depth of his chest, or the state of his corns ; or. in deed, any careful physical examination, though this would seem te be of the first importance in selecting efficient of ficers for any place, high or low, the well established tule being that a sound mind dwells only in a sound body. It is directed that the ap plicant shall provide himself with certi ficates of his geed morals, geed health, and physical and mental capacity for doing the public work ; but there is no geed reason why certificates should an -swer a better purpose ler these qualifica tions than for the educational one?, which might just as well be certified te the commission from the colleges and schools. Ne one may apply for admis sion te the postal service who is ever thirty-five years of age ; which seems te be an excessive recognition by the com mission of the importance of youth in the postal service. The customs service may be entered up te forty-five. This is . quite a new idea of the merit of age. The commission evidently is net of the opin ion that it is a crime te be a young man , or perhaps their idea is that the places they have at their disposal are of se little account that only boys and girls should be permitted te accept them. There is some justification for this opinion. The commission's work is of very little con sequence. There is nothing in it te disturb the composure of the people, generally. Seme of the newspaper correspondents have been trying te anticipate the pub licatien of Curtis' biography of Bu chanan by warming up, with greater or less inaccuracy, the familiar newspaper stories about the betrothal of his early life, the death of his premised bride and the shadow which it cast upon his after domestic relations. The greater inac curacy of these sensational scribes gen erally characterizes the stories of these who with most pesitiveness assert that they tell the plain unvarnished tale of facts familiar te the memory of the elder inhabitants of Lancaster city ; aud they who confidently relate that besides the facts they knew and tell " there are none ether in the narrative of James Buchanan's first and only love," may be surprised, upon the appearance of Mr. Curtis' biography, te find that an 1m pertant part of the record of this passage e his life was sealed when it was made and the seals were never broken until, all the actors in it had passed te another world. A Peet's Leve Story. The matrimonial eccentricities, felici ties and mis-alliances of famous literary men have been an interesting study for these who delight in contemplating the curiosities of literature and the calami ties of authors. It has been remarked that nothing is se notable about the wives of great men as their resemblance in character and fortune te the wives of lesser men, and, perhaps, it is only be cause they stand in the brighter light of ampler criticism tuat there seems te at tach te the domestic relations of poets, dramatists and ether men of genius peculiar misfortune and frequent ship wreck. The subject involuntarily sug gests the names of Dante, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Milten, Byren, Goethe and a host of less brilliant lights. Joaquin Mil leris by no means the meanest of the later day poets and abroad, mere distinctively than at home, he has been acknowledged as an original genius whose contribu tions te American literature have em phasized its claims te distinctive receg nitien. His checkered married life has been the subject of a great deal of gos sip and scandal, and perhaps a man ei mere native refinement and delicacy of sentiment would have hesitated te tell the story of the heart which we reprint te-day from his narration of it in a San Francisce newspaper. But. as a correction of the scandal and gossip that have travestied the truth and as a romance of real life it is a curious and interesting story. It leaves little te ! explained of the causes which led te their luture separation, while it re veals very plainly the sources of the Sierra poet's inspiration for much of the best work iie has ever done. The egot ism of the man obtrudes itself se plainly through this very sketch that no one will acquit him of his share of responsibility for the awakening te their levers' day dream. But if he has written the closing of this tale in sad sincerity aud it is hard te see hew he could have ceiued his best sentiments into the earnings of the penny-a-liner he is entitled le the pity of a world that haschided him. There are " no returns " of umbrella statistics iu the census reports. Quite natural. Galveston has scored the receipt this season of 800,000 bales of cotton, ami thus becomes the second pert for this slapie of the country. The striking coal miners of Western Pennsylvania have filed a petition in the Pittsburgh courts for arbitrators under tlie Wallace act. it will nicely new nave a fair test of its merits. An important railway enterprise was organized in Duluth yesterday, te iuu a read from there te Red River. Five mil lien dollars of capital augurs a potent, factor in the development of the rich Red River country. The third velume of Count Paris' his tery of our civil war will ba ready for the American public in about a month. It will include the war en the Rapidan, the Mississippi and in Pennsylvania, includ ing the decisiva battle of Gettysburg. It is reperted that the civil service re form commissioners have determined te give Keim a cbauca te ask the withdrawal of his narnn. They count without their host. Keiru is altogether tee modest te take such iibeitfes as that, with himself aud his present opportunity. The appointment of a Greenback orator, general, colonel and general disturber of Democratic peace, named Butler, te a place in Sacretary of Internal AfTaiis Africa's office gives offence te the Dcmec racy of northwestern Pennsylvania and they are eagerly inquiring vthe is respon sible ler the imposition upon Mr. Afriea, THE SEASONS. Hay, and corn, and buds mid llewers, Snow, and Ice, and truit and wlne Suns and seasons, sleets and shower!?, lSriny in turn these fjilts divine. Spring blows. Summer glows. Autumn reaps, Winter keeps. Spring prepares Summer provides Autumn hoards and Winter hides. Come then, friends, tccir praises sound ; Summer, Antumn, Wlntei, Spring, As they run their yearly round, Each in turn with gladness sing ! Time ureps blessings as lie tiles Time makC3 ripe and then makes wise. Rev. Dr. Buiggs, a professor in the Union Presbyterian theological seminary of New Yerk city, an original and vigor ous thinker aud an able preacher, will deliver the annual sermon this evening hefore the Society of Religious Inquiry of the Reformed Theological seminary. Te this association the community is i egularly indebted for the presentation by some able divine of one phase or another of Christiau thought and these who hear te night's ser men will profit mere than from the mere bestowal of a proper compliment te the praisowertby efforts of the society te pro mote Christian culture. Oun consular reports from the British isles indicate that the prevailing distress in Ireland is net se much greater than usual, as has been represented, but the situation of the peasantry is always bad enough and is new aggravated by a short age of potatoes and ether brcadstuffs. Emigration is steadily increasing and 74.8 per cent, of the persons who left Ireland last year were between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five, showing that a large majority were able-bodied. Of the 47,426 males who emigrated no less than 32,955 were returned as simple laborers. As te farmers, the figures for the past three! years are : 1880, 1,994 ; 1881, 2,440, and 1882, 3,140. Nothing se scandalous was ever known in the gossip of pnblie life in this .county as the mean insinuations of the scurrilous English prints occasioned by the geed queen's faithful devotion te her loyal irillie Jehn Brown. What mere natural than that in her desolate widowhood she should turn dependency aud uven leau trustfully en the old servant whom possibly, alene of her attendants and counsellers, she could implicitly trust and in whose utter unselfishness she could rely ? Te the decency and credit of American journal ism he it noted that the flings and asper sions of her own subjects of the harpy press have found little respensiva echo en this side of the water. A brilliant contemporary argues that the European nations could net afford te disband their huge standing armies be cause the three million soldiers " could net find cmploymeut if they were turned out of "their vocation. Neither the me chanic arts nor agriculture need, or could employ, these legions ; for the increased production would at ence break the market for wares and feed, and se react en the general welfare by unsettling values in every direction." If the nations burdened with the .support of these legions can afford te keep them in idleness they could still better iuanage te support them when they were turned te active productive pursuits. The masses of the Eurepcau countries are weighed down with the burden of keeping up the" standing armies, aud their estab lishment is a constant menace te peace and a provocation te war. PERSONAL. Auciinisuer Girrens' mother, of Bal timore, died yesterday in New Orleans. Senater Antheny was reperted stronger and mero comfortable last even ing. James Lenc.street, jr., a son of the ex-Confcderate general, has been ap pointed by Mr. Arthur te he cadet at at large at Aunapelis academy. Senater Waee Hampton has accepted au invitation te deliver the oration at the unveiling of a monument te Confederate dead in Camdcu, S. C, en June 20. Charles B. Hall, president of the Bosten national bank, died yesterday morning in Bosten, lle was state treasu rer of Massachusetts from 1848 te 1S53. Rev. E. II. Bewer, D. D., late of Lin coln university, deceased, had $D,000 in surance en his life which has been paid te his wife. Rescoe Conkling made a mistaken speech, in the judgment of the Stalwart Philadelphia htening JViics, but iu the oye of the mero Stalwart Rraminer,he is a lien among poedlo whelps. Charles L. Davis' (' Alviu Jeslyn's") divorced wife, formerly a beautiful young woman of Bingbaropten, N. Y., then a variety actress aud later sunken low in degradation, rcceutiy died in the Lead ville almshouse. Ex-Gov. IIei'rrN's wife followed some men diiving cows en the streets of New Yerk for eight blocks until she could get a policeman te inake them re lieve the kine by milking their udders, which were se full that milk and bleed were running from them. Georee W. Peck, who has leaped into a certain order of fanie and wealth by his bad hey stories, which the virtuous Neic Era published in January and deprecated in April, is said te receive a larger yearly income from his writings than Emersen realized during his entire life. Mn. Randall is much better assured of election as speaker of the next Iloitse than he was in March. His enemies aud op ponents epened fiie tee seen. Their at tack upon bin cousctvative position en economic questions has only seived te ex ex eite apprehensions in the congressional delegations of such slates as Ohie that if his enemies get. the swing of the party they will lead it le defeat. Mr. Randall is in less danger of lesiug the speakership thau ever. Princess Beatrice is the old maid of the queen's family, being iu her 29th year. It is believed in Louden that she was sin cerely attached te the late Prince Imperial. The marriage could never have taken place, because, according te the English constitution, no member of the royal family may marry a Reraau Catholic. Se the princess still remains a maid, and may possibly de se for many years yet te come, though every new and then ene hears rumors of the advent of a German princel ing who is te claim her hand and her dowry. 1 m THE CIVIL SKSIVIOJ3 KUl.CS. Hew the Commission Will be Untried In Solectlng tjevernmnnr Empleyes. The civil service rules, as finally revised aud approved by President Arthur, are given for publication. The tenor of most of them has already been published in the newspapers et the country. Rule five provides that there shall be three branches of the shi vice, net including laborers, as fellows : First, these classified in the de partments at Washington shall he desig nated "the classified departmental ser vice." Second, these classified under any collector, naval ofiicer, surveyor or ap praiser in any customs district shall be designated "the classified customs ser vice." Third, these classified under any postmaster at any posteffice, including that at Washington, shall be designated " the classified postal service." The postal and customs classes embrace the several districts where the officials arc as many as fifty. Rules six and seven give the method and scope of the examination of candidates. They will be examined en the following subjects : Orthography, penmanship and copying, arithmetic, fundamental rules, fractions and percentage, interest, dis dis ceutit and elements of bookkeeping and of accounts ; elements of the English lan guage, letter writing and the proper con structien of sentences ; elements of the geography, history and government of the United states. Sixty-five t3r cact will be required in the first three subjects te secure a " grading," and no one who does net attain this proficiency will be entitled te a certificate of appointment. The com missioners may order examinations of a higher grade for place of special impor tance, but no questions calling for the disclosure of political or religious opinions will be asked. The names of all these who attain G5 per cent, will be entered en the books in order of their excellence, and the appointments will be made as vacancies occur. The places will be apportioned as nearly as possible among the several states and ter riteries, upon tha basin of population. Every appointment will be only for a probationary period of six months, when if satisfactory, the appeintee will be con tinned in his place. Bbie IJhII Yesterday At Baltimore : Athletic, 8 ; Baltimore, 5; Cincinnati : Cincinnati, 3 : Louisville, 4 ; Pittsburgh ; Metropolitan, 10 ; Allegheny, 7 ; Buffalo : Buffale.G ; Cleveland, 2 ; Phil adelphia : Athletic, 8 ; Baltimore, 5. At Trenten : The Inter State association game between the Trenten and Harrisburg clubs was interrupted by rain In the fifth inning, and the umpire declared the game in favor of the Trenten. The score was Harrisburg, 1 ; Trenten, 3. MAT WEATHER UKSTKUUTIVE WINDS MET X.OOMK. Thunder Unit aad Mrtecf 0amag Tn Ice Firm at Oaebec trerepaash'a Clrcea Tent Vreetrated. The temperature at Leng Branch Tues day steed at Se degrees in tue shade, a, heavy thunder storm prevailed there Tuesday night. A terrific wind and rain storm passed ever Trenten, New Jersey, en Tuesday afternoon. The maint tent of Ferepaugh's circus was blown down, and the canvas tern te shreds ; the " aerial apparatus " was destroyed, and the seats were overturned. Fortunately the last of the afternoon audionce had just left the tent, se that the only casualty was the injury of a circus eraploye by a falling pole. In conscquenco of the accident there was no ring performance in the evening. A violent thunder storm passed ever Williamsport, Pa., en Tuesday after noon, doing great damage. Houses were struck by lightning, trees aud fences were levelled, and the woolen mill of Sta Sta den & Ce., was uuroefed. At Danville the reefs of several houses wero blown off and ethor miner damages inflicted. The telegraph wires are downatsevoral places. The reef of che large bridge evor the river at Berwick was carried away aud trees were uprooted. Themas Carsen, whose engine ran into a tree blown across the track near Mocanequa, was seriously in jured. The most violent hail storm since 1877 visited Northern Berks county Tues. day afternoon. Window panes and fruit trees suffered materially. The rainfall was very heavy, badly washing out fields. A terrific thuuder and lightning storm passed ever Bellcfonte accompanied with hail stones thrce inches iu circumforence. IuUagleten store boxes, chimneys and fences were blown along through the streets promiscuously, greatly endangering per sons who chanced te be seeking shelter. At West Hazleton the new unoccupied house, owned by Geerge Kern, was blown down, aud two ether buildings, unoccu pied. The Park hotel and the fouce sur rounding it were completely wrecked. The hotel was untenanted. The judges' stand near the centre of the park, was blown almost a hundred feet distant. A Ceal Hreaker mown Down. Iu Driiten the new breaker which is being built by Coxe Brethers & Ce., ad joining Ne. 1, was blown down and two men, a carpenter named Dunn aud a Hungarian laborer, were instantly killed, and about 15 men aud boys mero or less injured by the falling limbers and ma chinery. The full force of the tornado struck the long covered planes en both the old aud new breakers, and before the terrified empleyes had time te realize their danger the heavy timbers wero sent crushing te the ground with neise similar te the booming of cannon. The alarm was quickly given by blowing the whistles. As seen as possible hundreds of men were en the ground ready te render assistance. At first it. was supposed that a greater numbev of the empleyes had been killed and wounded, but as the portion of the breaker knewu as the screeu house was net seriously damaged, the large number of men and boys employed therein escaped, with bnt few exceptions, unharmed. An old man named Ceyle had his leg broken aud sus taiucd ether injuries that may cause his death, hut the ethers will all recover. At Jed de a driver boy employed en the culm bauk had a narrow escape, lie was haul ing out a leaded truck from under the breaker when a tree fell en the mule kill ing him instantly. At Freeland a large plate glass window in the store of Werner Brethers, valued at $75, was broken by the slate flyiug from the reef of the build, ing opposite and all the windows in the Doues mansion and a number of these in the College hotel of Fred Haas were also broken. The store of Williams & Loer Leer uer was damaged considerably aud several new buildings, which were standing en blocks, were overturned, and a number of wagons and carriages left standing in the streets were upset. At Black Ridge part of the reef was blown from the breaker, aud the Dispatch office was completely de molished by a falling tiee. 1'he telephone aud telegraph wires were prostrated iu many places, and it was therefore impos sible te obtain a full r-sthnate of the dam age caused by the storm. At Stockton a bieakcr owned by Lindcrman, Skeer & Ce. was partially destroyed and several persons wounded. Hull, Lightning anil Celli. One of the "severest bail storms ever known" at Denver, Colerado, visited that place Tuesday. It lasted for au hour and was accompanied by tin rifle thunder and lightning. " Hail stones au inch in diam eter lay 0 inches deep in the streets." A thunder storm en Tuesday at Omaha, Neb., did damage estimated at $15.000. A violent gust at Paterson, New Jersey, en Tuesday afternoon, uprooted trees, scattered lumber piles, unroofed several mills, demolished an unfinished church spire, aud slightly injured several persons. The ice is still firm lu the Ragena river, Quebec. The water in the Ottawa river, Canada, continues falling, an event with out parallel at this season of tbe year, ac cording te the rccollectieu of the "eldest inhabitant." CALAMITY AMD OKI lit:. Seme Keccnt Fatal Disasters. Dr. Iieiuauli, a prominent physician of Medina. Indiaua, while hunting ou Tues day, had the hammer of his gun caught iu seme brush, when it exploded aud shot him iu the neck. Ile died instantly. The national beard of health is informed that 170 deaths from the glandular plague have occurred iu the neighborhood of Sulimania and Bagdad, and that a quarantine has been established along the Turkish fron tier. Jehn llessier, a German, aged 40, with a family, was employed as cutter iu the clothing store of Charles Rice at Shenandoah, where he had an established reputation for excellent workmanship. Several days age he received a letter from Germany, which, it is said, contained bad news, lie bacame despondent, complain ed of feeling uuwell aud immediately left the store, but instead of going home he walked in the direction of "William Penn en the railroad, aud was shortly after wards seen by the engineer of an approach ing train, who whistled for Rossier te leave the track, which he did, but when the engiue was within a few yards of him he sat down en the rail, threw up his hands and was crushed under the train. Jehn Hcalcy, aged 23, while at work at Fisher's slate quarries, at Chapmans, was instantly killed by the premature explo sion of a blast at which he was working. His entire head was blown off. Healey was a single man. Tlie Annals of Crlnie. Charles Schneider was fatally wounded by a drunken man named Poindextcr at Willcox, Arizona, en Monday. Poiudex Peiudex ter was arrested. Daniel Shnemaker killed a traveling salesman named Leng, and was himself mortally wounded, in a quarrel at Cornishville, Kentucky, en Monday. S. M. Thompson was shot and killed by City Marshal Butler, while re sisting arrest in Oxford, Mississippi, en Tuesday evening. At. Delvalb, Texas, en Saturday last, W W. Dillard shot and instantly killed Henry Sims in self defense. Mr. Dillard is a lawyer and member of the Legislature and Sims, who was a planter, was said te be a quarrel some bully. The preliminary trial of Philip B. Thompson, congressman, for the murder of Walter II. Davis, was begun en Tuesday in Harredshurg, Kentucky. Tuesday sessions of the criminal court in Chicago was consumed iu trying te secure a jury te try "Jerry" Dunn, charged with I the murder of the pugilist Elliett. One juryman thai far baa been accepted by oetn Bides, ana it is thought it will require two days te secure a fnll panel. The grand jury at Yankton, Dakota, was dismissed en Tuesday. It is said te certain that a number of members of the Legislature have been indicted for bribery. A sensation was created in San Autonie, Texas, en Tuesday, by the confession of Majer Wassen, the paymaster reported te have been robbed of $24,000 en a train near Fert Werth, Texas, that the whole trans action was a fraud te cover his short account with the government. The amount of which he is ' short " is $5,500, and it is said his Iowa bondsmen are geed for the amount. He has designated the hiding place of the remaining $18,500, and officers have been sent for it. Wassen is under arrest and will be tried by a military fleurt. NEWS HOTKS. Interesting Gleanings trreta tbe Morning Haila. The Ohie beard of agriculture has re ceived official dispatches from ether states giving the following probabilities for acre age and condition combined, of winter and spring wheat in the states named : Kansas, 03 ; Minnesota, 7G ; Indiana, 90 ; Iowa, about 80 ; California, S7 ; Michigan, C4 ; Ohie, 50 ; Iillineis, April estimate, GS ; Kentucky, April estimate, GG. Frem these and ether data, Secretary Chamberlain, of Ohie, estimates a provable total short age of 100.000,000 bushels from the last crop of 500,000,000 bushels. The Hetel Men's Mutual Benefit associ ation of the United States met yesterday in Bosten. The secretary and treasurer, F. W. Rice, of Chicago, reported that since last meeting the receipts had beeu $20,199, and the disbursements, $21,044. The number or death losses paid was 13. The present membership was 891, an in crease of 23. The seventh annual New Yerk bench show, given under the auspices of the Westminster Kennel club, epeued yester day iu Madisen Square garden. Over 1,100 dogs are en exhibition. The Monumental street railway, iu Bal timore, including 3 miles of track and its equipment, was sold at auction yesterday by the receiver. It was bought for $100,000 by a syndicate of Philadelphia and Balti more capitalists. The fourth bieunial convention of the Catholic Knights of America met yester day in St. Leuis, ever 200 delegates being present. Mayer Ewing delivered au address of welcome. A grand national pilgrimage of Cana dians te Notre Dame de Lourdes, iu France, has been organized in Montreal, under tbe auspices of Monseigneur Fabre. It will leave Montreal early in July. Frederick Wesley, of Penn Station, Westmoreland county, committed suicide by eating arsenic a lew days age. He had beceme dispirited through family trouble. I.KBANUN COUNTY'S WIl.U uIIU.. A Shocking Story of Ignorance and Deprav ity In MlllcreeK Township. Womelsderl Dispatch te the Times. On the northern slope of Seuth Menu tain, in Millcrcek township, Lebanon county, lives a family, among whom is a girl resembling a wild woman and who is kept mere like a best tb.au a human being. The family consists of but three persons, the father, a son and the girl in question. They occupy au old leg hut, which is nearly ready te tumble down. The girl's mother died when she was a child and the peer creature has had no one te train her. Her mind has always been weak and she was neglected entirely in every way. She has uet been inside of a school room iu all her life ; she cauuet read or write. She is very shy of strang ers. When she sees a person approaching her she disappears in the bushes and rocks en the mountain. In the spring, ". is said, her father compels her te ire out ou the hill with a fleck of turkeys, which she has se trained that they fellow her through the thickets and weeds from morning until night. Kind neighbors have several times attempted te catch the girl when she was out with the turkeys aud care for her, but all te no purpose. She runs at the sight of a person and dis appears, with the fowls at her heels. Wheat bread, the neighbors say, is un known te the creature ; that her principal diet was corn-dodgers and a sort of paste made of dried rye flour. Her father gen erally acts in the capacity of cook aud baker. Her dress consists of old rags, which are tied about her body. Seme time age ene of the neighbors took compassion en her and made a new calico dres3, which was probably the only ene the girl has worn for several years. Headware and shoes are unknown te her iu her rambles through the rough weeds and mountains. She has long auburn hair, whieh she wears hanging down ever her shoulders. The household affairs of this wretched family arc said te be very primitive, there being bjut one bed in the heuse. Stories of a most outrageous character have been circulated about this family. It is stated by geed authority that a number of citizens will call tbe atteutieu of the proper officials te this family and have the matter remedied. MCLDOOA'!) P1UNIU." lly ' Vault " Newell's Comedy Company. Last evening "Yank" Newell's spe cialty company appeared in the opera house te an audience, which was worth ever $200, of geed size considering that the weather is very warm and the season is drawing te a close. The company con sists of but eleven peeple and seme parts of their performance was quite enjoyable. The entertainment opened with a little sketch entitled "The Mystic Mede," Miss Clara Franklin, a ctever serio-cemic with a geed voice, sang a number of pieces in cluding Joe Emmett's " Cuckoo Seng." The performance of Billy Mack and Edith Valentine was only fair ; Jehn W. Morten was seen in a little of the Geerge Wilsen style of negre business and was geed. Mr. Morten is a member of the famous " Big Four," a strong team of comedians, who had a company .ou the read this year. Their season closed a few weeks age, and Mr Morten, as well as Mr. Shepkard, the manager, joined this " snap " for the re mainder of the season. The entertainment closed with the very cleverly written piece eutitled "Mnldoeu's Picnic," which, however, has been done te death the past two seasons. Themas Murray and Billy Mack impersonated Muldoenand Mulcahey and the latter was the better Irish come dian, although neither was great. Other features were the introduction of the trained donkey "Jerry," and the Biuging of Misses Valentine and Franklin. The company shows the effects of wear and it is said te have been changed very often since Newell started from St. Leuis with it. Newell is well known as an agent. Twe years age he was here ahead of the Sells' Brethers circus, and conducted a bitter war against Batcheller & Deris. He had a number of the latter's billpesters arrested for covering up Sells Brether's paper. He was also a manager of the May Fisk Blendes for some time. They Kepert It a Geed Bridge. Yesterday Wm. M. Slaymaker, Samual C. Slaymaker, Samual McDonald, Jehn A. Shober, Jehn Clark and Wm. C. Beecber, who were appointed by the court, inspected the bridge which has just been built by Elias McMelleu across the Little Cones Cenes toga, at Greff ' s mills. They found that the material and in its constuclien were geed and it was built in a workman like manner and in accordance with the speci fications. Thirty Sbares et stock . L. Reinhold sold 30 shares of Mari ietta hollow ware stock te Cel. James Duffy, at $220 per share, instead of 10, as reported yesterday. FRANKFORD . IN LIMBO. 'THE OMS-KTKD HUH" lUEMTIFlED. He Recognizes tne "Intelligencer" Reporter, and Accords Him an Interview. As related in yesterday's Intelligen cer, there was geed reason te believe that " the one-eyed man " recently arrested in West Chester was Jehn Frankford, the no torious herse thief, who broke jail here nearly a year age, and has evaded arrest by the local authorities ever since, though he has net, meanwhile, pursued his old- tirae avocation without some perils et tbe law, and ence, at lexst, having get within its clutches. As seen as it was learned that the West Chester authorities had identified the photograph of Frankford sent them by Prison Keeper Burkheldcr as that of their prisoner, a representative of the Intel ligencer was dispatched te West Chester te verify the identification and te inter view the prisoner concerning his move meve ments since he se unceremoniously quit his quiet bearding place with Mr. Burkhelder at high neon en that peaceful May day of last year. Kececniiiiig Acquaintances. The result of his trip and of his investi gatiens leaves no room te doubt that the daring horse jockey and prison wall scaler is new in custody at West Chester, where he was arrested iu iguorance of the impor tance of their capture by theso who made it. On the same train which carried the Intellieencer reporter te West Chester, went Prisonkccper Burkhelder en the same errand. Upen arriving in town they called upon Sheriff Hoopes and Wm. Hemphill, the latter being the young man who made the arrest under circumstances fully and correctly reported horeteforo in these cel umns. Theso gentlemeu had a photo graph of their prisoner, which was taken yesterday forenoon. As seen as it was shown te the Lancaster men they recog nized it as that of Jehu Frankford. The visitors were then taken te the prison and shown te the cell of the mysterious man, which is ou the second fleer. Sir. Burk Burk eolder was the first te enter the cell. He saw at a glance that the man was Frank ford, and the latter quickly recognized him aud seemed te b greatly pleased te sce a familiar face from Lancaster coun ty. The reporter of the Intelli gencer next went in aud wab recog nized at once by the prisouer, who shook him warmly by the hand. Besides the Lancaster men, thore were a number of lawyers and ethers in the cell, which is quite roomy. At first Frankford seemed te be backward about talking and acted shyly, especially te the Chester cetiuty men, seme of whom were inclined te in terview him, and he resented their efforts te get him te admit local depredations with exceeding coyness. Ills Account et Uliusell. He was taken aside by the iiowspaper man, and it reply te an inquiry iu regard te his health stated that he had been pretty well, although he has suflered con cen con siderablo pain iu his right oye, in whieh he was shot. The sight is entirely geno, but at times the pain is intense He has also had rheumatism, but was well of that. After A few ether remarks the reporter began questioning Frankford in regard te his travels. He stated that un the day or the escapa from the prison here, the 24th of May, 1832, ha was the last man te leave the cell. He really did net desire te leave the prison, as at that time he was endeavoring te ob tain a pardon, and his efforts iu that di rection had been quite successful. New he is worse off than before. After con siderable coaxing by the ether prisoners he finally resolved te go along, aud did se. no, Merris Bricker and Geerge Mc Mc Alpine separated from tha ethers, and in the evening turned up at Rawlins ville. MoAlpiue had a citizen's suit under his stripes when he left the prison, se he was net much afiaid of being de tected. The ether two were draped in convicts clothing, aud in the evening they went te the store in Rawlinsville and pur chased overalls. Upen being asked if he had ever heard that AI. Ilageu, a prison inspector, was iu the village of Rawlins ville ou the night that they visited the store, he laughed heartily aud replied that he might have been. After leaving Raw Raw liusvllle the threa prisouers crossed tbe river and started at oace in the direction of Baltimore, where Fraukferd was ac quaiutcd. About seven miles this side of that city, Frankford left the ethers. He heaid afterwards all about the recapture of Joe Greff, Abe and Ike Buzzard aud Merris Bricker. Frankford did net tell a very clear story in regard te his whereabouts and move ments after arriving iu Baltimore. n) said he traveled around through different towns and went West as far as Chicago. He was constantly in fear of being ar rested. While in Chicago he heard that officers were after him, aud at ence started East te threw them off the trail. This spring he has spout a great deal of his time ia Philadelphia, but could net freely make his appearance in daylight. He was compelled te prowl around at night, aud this became se tireseme that it does net worry him new that he is arrested again. TheClie-iter 'Jeunty Cases. As far as the present charges against him in Chcster county are coucerned, he claims that he is entirely innocent ; he stele nothing aud was just, unfortunate iu getting off at the wrong station en Sunday night by mistake. What station he had intended te step at the prisoner did net state ; nor docs he tell what his business was in that part of the country at the time. His ticket was te West Chester, but he asked the conductor te let him off at the first station eutside of West Ches ter. It was then that the suspicion of Mr. Hemphill was aroused and he determiued te capture the man, which he did exactly in the manner described in the Lancaster papers yesterday, their accounts being taken from the press of West Chester and entirely correct. Frankford was asked whether he had net broken out of a jail iu Maryland this winter, and if he did net attempt te take a portion of it with him. lie seemed somewhat astonished at this question aud reluctantly admitted that he had been in a prison in that state, which could net held him. I'eul and cheerful. Under all the circumetances Frankford was very cool and cheerful, and seemed rather anxious te talk te the reporter. Te seme ethers he was net se communicative. Te all he persistently denies his guilt, although some of his stories are somewhat strange. In personal appearance he has net changed much since he left Lancaster. If anything he is stouter. He was always accustomed te wear a goatee, but new has only a moustache, which be wears heavily dyed. His oye leeks very bad and his face has beeu se disfigured by the wound received from a shot in attempt ing te escape seventeen months age that it is very difficult for him te escape detec tion, and his identification is made mere positive. Apart from this wound he leeks the picture of health and as he sat en the win dow of his cell, with his coat off, submit ting te this interview, he seemed the most unconcerned man in the room. He appears te be anxious te get back te Lancaster county, where his friends reside, and he is fearful lest they attempt te keep him where he is. He thinks he has been very foolish and if taken back te his old quar ters will never again attempt te escape. The New Charges. There are four charges of horse stealing and several of larceny iu Chester county against Fraukferd, and he is said te have stolen a herse in Delaware county. The antherities say that they can make out all of the eases. Yesterday morning be was given a hearing en the charge of stealing the horse, wagon and harness of David Parke,atParkesburg, en the night of Jan nary 1, 1833. He was followed te the office of 'Squire Whitehead by a large crowd of curious people, and there gave bis name as William Jehnsen, though it was shown that he had geno by that of Jehn Parker. He was identified by William Hemphill, of the firm of Hemphill Brethers, West Chester, te whom he bad sold the grain stolen from David Parke ; by Moses G. Hepburn, pro prietor of the Maguelia house, iu the East ward, where he had left the stolen team te be fed ; and by Jehn Cummins, hostler of the Turk's Ilel hotel stables, where he had stepped for a short time with the stolen team. Elias Copeland, farmer for David Parke, Parkesburg, was examined in reference te the horse, wagon, harness, grain, etc , stolen from Mr. Parke, and his statement agreed with theso of the statements by the ether witnesses. The hearing was euded by the 'squire remand . ing htm te prison until Thursday after noon, when he will be given a hearing upon the charge of having stolen the team of Hoopes, Bre. and Themas. During the taking of the testimony tha prisoner sat holding a handkerchief te his tlefective oye and appeared very much tin concernod as te what was going ou. Ile wait dressed in a garb of black, his bait was nicely combed, anil altogether looked quite respectable He gave the name of William Jehnsen iu rather au undertime of voice, seemingly reluctant te tell it. Mli trp friiRtlces. At the hearing of Constable Caley, of Willistown, who identified him as the person te whom the Willistown detective association had paid a reward for the cap ture of the herse stolen from Wm. T. Davis, at Newteu Square, Delaware county, en the night of Thursday, April 20, and it is quite likely that the prisoner was then without the treuble of a femv receiving a rewavd for a herse stolen by himself. It is also reported that he was seen about Berwyn last week previous te the stealing of the horse, wagon, harness and grain from the stable ami warehouse of P. W. Lebb at that place. ills Picture Taken. After the hearing he was taken te the photographic gallery of T. W. Tayler, by the sheriff and censtable iu charge of him, te be photographed. During the time he was in the art gallery he asked for seme papers, remarking that " it was very lone seme in prison without geed and whole some literature." The picture of him that was taken is a very correct likeness and from it Mr. Hall, of the West Chrstt-r Republican, had a cut made for his paper of this morning. Since his arrest Frankford has given the names of Wm. Jehnsen, Jehn McCauu and Jehn McCannies. The West Cheat.-r people had no idea that they had caught such big game until they wero informed of his record. The officers were astonished. Mr. Hemphill, the young man who cap tured, him is a member of the firm of Hemphill Brethers, and a prominent young man in the town. He deserves great credit for his coolness and success in the matter. When- the prisoners escaped a reward of $50 was offered for the arrest of each one of the refugees. That reward still stands geed ami our authorities will doubtless net hesitate in paying the money ever te Mr. Hemphill, who certainly de serves it for the capture of the most im portant of the escaped convicts. Frankfiird'H Kecerd. The prisoner is a noted criminal, aud although net a despcrate man, has beeu very successful iu his "profession." His specialties are horse and grain stealing and he seldom took anything else. Anether act at which he is very expert is breaking jail, and he has succeeded iu making his escape from a number of jails in thi:; country. He ha3 broken out of our jail several times, and upon ene occasion get away after breaking his leg. Ile is alsn said te have ence broken out ( the Western penitentiary. He is a very hard mau te catch, and it is very difficult te keep him as he is a very cunning, shrewd fellow, and posse sed of mero than erdi nary intelligence. He has a wife aud family of several little children, who are warmly attached te him, although for years they have seen but little of him except behind prison bars. Ile is a rather geed natural person, and is said te be kind hearted and full of fun. The crimes for which he wai last con victed were all herse stealiug. He tvar arrested in 1877 at Ceale.ivilIe,aftei- havitig been a fugitive from justice for several years, by Captain Sprecher, who waa then chief of police. He was tried in November of that year en ch irgea of stealing a hers-e from Reuben Baer, this city, another from Itiackbill, at Bird-in-IIand,. and a thiid from Mr. Geiger, of Fairfield. He w. s sentenced by Judge Pattorseu te nineteen years imprisonment. This sentence was considered very severe net only by the pris oner, but the public genur.il ly, aud it was net quite certain that he committed all the crimes alleged against him at that time. Knewing very well that they had a hard man te keepjthu prison antherities had au iron clad ceil constructed for his benefit. He was placed in it and kept there nearly all th time The iron lining of the cell did net prevent him from making a nearly successful attempt te get away. About seventeen months age (as he states) he cut through his cell and made his way into the eellar of the prison. Digging under a stene wall and an iron fence, be made his way into the large flue in the stOise wall en the north side of the pris.m He crawled te the top of this, am. about the time he was going out he v, i., shot in the face by Prisenkcepsr Weis.-, whohadbeen listening te him working The weapon with which the sheeting va.- done was a shot gun, and the man received a terrible wound iu the face, causing him te entirely lese the sight of ene eye. When he escaped the last time he was confined in a large cell with a number of ethers and was engaged in making cint.-. They went" ever the garden wall" en th.' the neon stroke of the clock. Keeper Burkhelder remained iu Wt-i-t Chester ever night and it was his inn-i: tien te bring Frankford back te day ii ii could get him. Sheriff Heeper, lumper i McFarland and the Messrs. Hemphill wi re very courteous tJ the representative t this journal and he is indebted t tli.-m for many of the foregoing facts. Foeatl Shelter. In the list of corporations which the governor announced thirty days age would nave their charters forfeited for failure t make reports te the state wero a niniili.t of Lancaster county companies, hut be fore the governor's List proclamation ah selntely forfeiting their frauehl.se.; the Strasburg railroad company aud Lace ister beat company made return auds-aved the it corporate privileges. Sent te jail. The Hatrisburg Telegraph tells of James Cenner?, a one-legged man from Lancas ter, who went te Alteena te get his one eyed son. On the way back te Lau-:i.s!f r they stepped off at Harrisburg, and ihe father borrowed $1.50 from the boy, :.!'. the money tbe peer fellow bad, aud get drunk. Then he hunted up the unu at the depot and getting en his blind side dealt him a terrible blew in the hes, for which Harrisbnrg's mayor sent umi O jail for thirty days. .Baseball. The Ironsides baseball club has organ ized for the season with the follewiug nlaverrt ; ZnnhAr. nritnhpr ; Stveif-e C tt .. ., . . T k-- .,..v , , pitcher ; Myers, first base ; Mi'cn, second ease ; reuer, tniru uase ; iiaruy, short sten : Davis. Inffc field Arneld i'imi, field ; King, right field and change catch er. Tbey will get a ground enclosed with a fence. :
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