;W LANCASTER DAILY ESPTBtlilGENCER. FMDAI JULY 20.1883. tmcaster intelligencer. fbiday tcvtanma, jult ae. ibbs. The Telegrapher' Strike. The managers of the Western Union telegraph company can hardly feel grati fied ever the general expression of tbs public sympathy with the striking eper. aters ; yet it is net likely that these managers feel any acute chagrin at the condemnation -visited upon them by the public, since they are quite used and hardened te it. There is probably no mere generally disliked corporation in the country. It has' well earned the hostile feeling te it by its gross disregard of public sentiment, its arbitrary treat ment of the people, its inefficient dis charge of the important duty it has assumed towards them, and particularly by its Incessant effort te secure a monopoly of the service which it shows constantly its unfitness te perform. A telegraph service te be useful needs te be prompt and certain. That provided by the Western Union company is knewD te be both dilatory and uncertain. It is net safe te trust a message te it and it is net possible te feel sure that it will be delivered in advance of the mall. If there was free competition with this company it would have te improve its service or lese its business. Its policy has been te preserve its business by buy ing up its competitors. It has thus swelled its capital te many times the cost of its plant, and is still without tlm facilities which would enable it te perform in a satisfactory way the business which it has been per mitted te monopolize. The company is rotten te the core. Its plan of buy. ing off competition is one that cannot last forever. Its stock cannot be swelled te any larger figure without being given additional value. Jay Gould is desperately engaged in a present endea vor te held its value up until he can get out ; a plan which isse plainly indicated in his undertaking te pay the dividends en its illegal stock that only the very gullible can be gulled by his device. It is this overgrown and unpopular concern which is new assailed by its empleyes. They have suffered from the same cause that has injured the company's customers. The necessity for paying dividends en a grossly exaggerated stock has required a reduction of operatives' salaries ; and this has been possible because the com pany monopolized the telegraphing busi ness, and alena offered employment te telegraphers. It is just under these circumstances that a combination among empleyes becomes necessary for their protection. If there was any competi tion for telegraphers there would be no occasion for a strike by them te get proper wages. The matter would regu late itself, just as ether wages are regu lated in the open market for them There is no market for the telegraphic services ; one company fixes the price and pays it ; and that company has ob tained this power by combining with competing companies as they arise and swallowing them up. A corporation animated by such a policy, of course, cannot complain that its empleyes take a lessen from its operations and de a little combining en their own hook te raise the price of their services. The course was se manifestly forced upon them that they have the entire approval of the public in undertaking it. It is a a clear case of the biter bit. The Western Union company proposes te have the public help it out of its difli culty by submitting te an indefinite de privation of telegraphic facilities. Pres ilent Eckert, who we are sorry te be lieve te ba a Pennsylvaniau, has the impudence te announce that messages will be received by the company "sub ject te delay and te mailing en route If necessary." Mr. Eckert has been se long away from the free air of Pennsylvania and se long associated with the men who have made the Western Union com pany infamous, that he lias entirely lest his reckoning as te the rights of the pub lic. There are some things this company cannot de. It has found that it cannot water its stock ad libitum,aad it will find out that it cannot send its messages by mail ; and further, that it is incumbent en it te forward them by wire with rea sonable dispatch. It is a duty which it has assumed and which it must discbarge unless excused by the act of Ged. It cannot be excused by its inability te hire telegraphers en its own terms. The public cannot be dragged at its chariot wheel while it drives them ever its cm pleyes. The courts in New Yerk lately decided that a railroad company was net excused by a strike among its freight handlers for its deliy in forwarding freight. Ne ether decision was pos sible. The duty of the common car rier is te forward the goods entrusted te him safely and promptly. It is a duty he cannot decline. lie must take the goods offered trim and he must carry them te their desti nation with ordinary speed and care. The like logic of the law controls the telegraph company. It must discharge the public service it assumes if it can possibly be done ; and it must pay the damage suffered by its failure te de its duty. In the railroad case in New Yerk, Judge Davis in delivering the opinion of the supreme court in January last thus clearly stated the case and the conclu sion, and the pointed logic of the argu ment is unanswerable : " According te the statement of the case, a body of laborers, acting in concert, fixed a price for their labor, and refused te work for less. The respondents fixed a price for the same labor, and refused te pay mere. In doing this neither did an act vielative of any law or subjecting either te any penalty. The respondents had a lawful rigb4e take their ground in respect te tie price te be paid, and adhere te it if they cheese, but if the consequences of doing se weie an inability te exercise their corporate franchises te the great injury of the public, they cannot be heard te assert that Such consequences must be shouldered and borne by an in nocent public who neither directly nor Indirectly participated in their causes " Upea the question whether railroad corporations can refuse or neglect te perform their public duties upon a con cen UtMKff with their empleyes ever the cost or expense of doing them, the opinion said: " We thisk this question admits of bmt eae fiswetf r The cianse has in law no validity. The dttties imposed must be discharged at whatever cost. They cannot belaid .down or abandoned or suspended without the legally expressed consent of the state. The trusts are active, potential, and imperative, and must be executed until lawfully surrendered ; otherwise a pub lic highway of great utility is closed or obstructed without any process recog nized by law." Ik all the estimates which have been made of a fair apportionment in this state, based upon the relative strength of the two great political parties, the presidential vote of 1880 has been the basis of calculation, because it is the fullest and, therefore, deemed the fairest trial of their strength. It is eminently fair te the Republicans, because te con cede them the advantage of 37,000 plurality is an extialiberal allowance. Upen this vote, as the Times says, the Democrats are entitled te fully twenty three of the state senators ; they have all along been willing te take an appor tionment that gives them twenty-two te twenty-eight for their opponents. The latter insist en giving them only twenty, that is, they offer them, as they say, twenty-two, in cluding the districts of Montgomery and Lackawanna. But both the latter coun ties were carried by the Republicans in 1880, and as that is the only vote upon which the apportionment estimates are being calculated, the wiring in and wiring out of the Republicans is only an illustration of their determination te make no apportionment unless they cau get a dishonest, unjust and untrue one. Te the people and the polls with the issue! Net ever 20 per cent of our national debt is new held in Europe. Kansas has passed the million pepula tien pest, grashepper devastations not withstanding. The " extra session " of the present Legislature has net cost the state nearly asmuehasthe Republican dead leek ever the election of a United States senator in 1881. The telegraph operators are still out ; ten thousand cigar makers were looked out in New Yerk yesterday ; two theus and Bessemer steel operatives went out at Chicago, and the New Yerk dress aud oleak makers struck yesterday. Tub straighteut Virginia Republicans are a lira party ; Blaine backs them, and they will co-operate with the Democrats rather than with Mahone. At their Btate committee meeting yesterday they de elared themselves Republicans en principle and condemned the Arthur administration for " throwing its influence against Re publican candidates in Virginia at the instance of the ' bosses' of the Readjuster party iu removing from offieo Republicans who have always been active iu support of their party, and placing in their positions men who, fighting under false colors, re fuse te acknowledge themselves te be Re publicans." This is the admission of the Philadel phia Times : There was no time daring the regular session of the Legislature that the Deme crats could net have secured from the Republicans twenty out of the fifty sena torial districts ; but the obvious injustice of such a division, when the Democratic vote and population clearly entitled them te twenty three senatorial districts, cenced ing the Republicans all the fractions, justified the Demecrats in rejecting the proposal. They can elect fully twenty senators all the time under the present Republican gerrymander of the senatorial districts, when the Democratic party doesn't defeat itself, aud it mould have been madntss for them te assent te such a bill when they have the governor and popular branch of the Legislature. Between games our baseball editor has found time te moralize, with the generous aid of the muses, upon the tendencies of the times as fellows : Sew is the summer el our discontent Made ulorleus by the season el the bat ; Anil all the clouds that lewrM upon our land Are quite dispelled i,y the bread diamond's Uisli. Ne are youths' brews bjund llli victorious wreaths, With supplemented splendors f.em sprained juiuu Aud bruised Ilinb4 and eyes bunged out for lorn. New prlm-rlsag'd plagues are all forget. Fer glaretul In tuelr gaudy uniforms With rainbow can and muzzled nhiz. Tne bold boys step upon the field and vow Te de or uie. Quick trem his tallow candle Pants via eyeglass droll the dainty dude Flings wide bis little self and hurries Te the front ; the nasurul Cierk behind 11 ebtr Forgets tne cooling draughts and tinkling glass. And h-.rls the unyielding ball, forsooth, It tilings keep thus.the very church, Which holds tha gown clad man, will close. And meek-cyetl preachers run the diamond path, While men will use a vivisected ball ler loe J, And ler a dessert gulp the herculean bat. The New Yerk Herald publishes inter views with Charles A.. Dana, of the Sun ; Whitelaw Reid, of the Tribune, and Hugh Hastings, of the Commercial Advertiser, having reference te presidential candidates and conventions Mr. Dana favors Sara toga as the place for holding the Demo cratic convention, and late August or early September for the time ; he is sure Mr. Tilden is net and will net be a candidate, and is personally in favor of W. S. Hol Hel man, of Indiana, for president ; Arthur might be able te carry a United delegation from New Yerk ; Cernell would like te, but cannot, and Felger cannot. The only issue, he believes, will be te put the Republicans out, they fight ing te keep in. Whitelaw Reid favors an early convention of his party, and believes Saratoga te be the best plaee ; has no de eided preferences as te the candidate ; Blaine is out of the field ; Arthur stands very well with the oeuntry, while Rindall at present leads the Democratic candi dates Mr. Hastings believes in an early convention, te be held at Saratoga ; Til den would take a nomination if he could get it ; McDonald will be the strongest man in the Demecratkt- convention ; Arthur seems te havra-walk ever. e Fell trem Moasetep. At Middleport N. Y. Gilbert J. Hine, a leading citizen, aired seventy was nick ing cherries from his housetop when he lest his balance and pitched bead flint twenty-five feet te the greand, crashing in his head and breaking his arms. Death was almost instantaneous, The deceased was one of the most enterprUiag residents of the place. '' VaU.TOBBBOFTEI8TATBFBBM.' ) LMkinTat the famay side of it, te the TittaVurgh Telegraph Mr. Wharten Bar nor Seems te be the "roots or penues." The Scranton Republican deprecates Oe howl against the jury system whenever a verdict is rendered contrary te the current of popular passion. The Philadelphia Chronicle Herald load lead ly calls for an investigation of the alleged bartering away of a seat en the supreme bench in return for Jay Gould's contribu tion te the Republican campaign fund. The Pittsburgh Pest has the highest as surance that under no circumstances will Tilden permit his name te come before the national convention In connection with the presidency. The Philadelphia Ledger declares that the Republican state Senate by another day of factious and obstructive proceed ings, has put itself still further in the wrong in the apportionment contest. The Carlisle Herald, Rep., thinks Gov. Pattison ewes his present position mere te Jehn Stewart than te any one individual in Pennsylvania Likely Stewart was net aware of this. PBBSONAI.. W. P. Brinten, esq., is at Ocean Beach. A. J. Cassat is said te be slated for the presidency cf the Denver cs Rie Grande railroad. Colonel M. Richards Muckle, of the Public Ledger, will start en a European tour en Wednesday next en the steamship Zeeland. Dersey is challenged by Garfield's friends te produce the proof that he was ever offered a cabinet place. Probably this is what Dersey has been waiting for. SEcncTAUY Teller, it is reported, will make an effort te have waived se much of the civil service act as requires examina tion of women who are applicants for nine hundred dollar clerkships. Sib Charles Michael Wolseley, baronet, was married yesterday in the pro pre cathedral, at Kensington, te Miss Anita Theresa Murphy, daughter of Mr. D. T. Murphy, of San Francisce, Cal. Tem Tnuiin was buried yesterday, and te protect his body from resurrectienists, before the grave was filled, there was low ered upon the casket, by a-derrick, a slab of granite of many tens weight. Themas Hardy, in his novel, " But Yet a Weman," says : " Nature is like a woman. In the morning she is fresh from her bath, at neon she is in her working dress, and at night she wears her jewels. As for me, I like them both best in the morning." CniEF Justice Waite was thrown from his horse while going from Livingston, M. T., te Yellowstone. He reeeived pain ful but net serious injuries, which will prevent his proceeding with the party according te pregramme Judge Waite will return te Fert Suelling. Majer Wassen, sent te the Leaven worth military jail te serve 18 months for embezzlement of money belonging te the United States pay roll, bore up bravely until at the penitentiary it came the time te shave off Jiis elegant blonde mustache, which was four inches long. Then, the guards repert, he shed tears. Rev. Dr. J. W. Weed has tendered, verbally, his resignation as pastor of the first Presbyterian church of Allentown, te take effect in October. He has been pastor for ninetean years, and his congregation is large and nourishing. It is understood that the trustees have accepted his resigna tien, though with regret, for Dr. Weed, who is new in his seventieth year, is very popular with his people. Though resign ing, he does net propose te cease work iu the ministry, but will net engage in it se actively, it is understood that be will be married te Miss Maria Woodring next week. TKAOEDY IN BSADINQ. Salclae of Daniel a rrancls, Formerly Pre prieter or tne spirit 01 uerKs." Daniel S. Francis, one of the best known citizens of Reading, committed suicide yesterday by sheeting himself through the head. He left home shortly befere 7 o'clock, it was supposed, for din ner, and bis brother Samuel went out into the stable te leek after his horse. He fetuid Daniel stretched out at full length in the gangway, a pistol in his right hand. He had been dead about an henr, passers by having heard a pistol report at about 11 o'clock. Mr. Franeis occupied an eletrant mansion en the Mineral Spring read, one of the fashionable thoroughfares of the city. He was warden of the county prison for three years and published the Spirit of Berks nawspapar, daily and weekly, one of the Damecratis organs of the county, for several years. Recently he was in the coal business. His age was 55, and he leaves a wife and three chil dren. Ill health and financial embarrass ments led him te commit the deed. m Tbs itnlfale grengerfest. The sengerfcst in Buffalo closed yester day with a grand parade of the societies in the morning, and an out deer festival in the evening. About 8,000 persons atten ded the festival. During the Ssengerfest the reeeipts from the sales of seats were $17,850, and the expenses for singers, and hotel and railroad expenditures amounted te $23,145. It is hoped that net mere than 25 par cent of the guarantee fund will be called for te meet a deficiency. NKIGHBUBUOOD HEW8. Events Near and Acress the Count; Cholera infantum is prevalent in Lines. Read- ing The body of William Boyd, which was buried at Phceaixville saveral years age, was disinterred en Wednesday and found te have petrified. A jury appointed te view the DeEalb street bridge, at Norristown, with a view te having it made free, is in session at Norristown. The greatest interest is taken in the matter, and the company operating it will make a strong fight te have it con tinued as a tell bridge. Jehu Carter, colored, of Steelton, at tacked two men of his own race, whom he found making love te Mrs. Armstrong, his bearding house mistress, and upon whom he had been lavishing his affections. Carter was se badly cut with razors that he will die. The steel mill and two of the furnaces of the Bethlehem iron company, at Beth lehem, Penn., were pet in operation yes terday with a reduced force of men, "which will be increased daily until the full nam. ber is at work," About 100 men. have been sworn in as special policemen for the protection or these at work. Yesterday afternoon Philip 8taegmayer, proprietor of a beer saloon at 2000 Market street Philadelphia shot and instantly killed his wife and then committed suicide by sheeting himself. A small sum of money possessed by the wife is supposed te have been the cause of the trouble. The adjourned hearing by the Maryland beard of public works of the preposition of the Philadelphia branch of the Balti more and Ohie railroad company te bridge the Susquehanna river at Pert Deposit took plaee yesterday, at the railroad com pany's office in Baltimore. A number of business men, mostly from Pert Depe-it opposed the building of the bridge accord ing te the company's plan, which provides xer a structure ev leet above feign water, without a draw. They insisted that, in order net te interfere with navigation, it should be 190 feet above high water, and have a draw. A deeWea ia expected at Annapolis ea Tbmsisf asset.! THE TELEGRAPH STRIKE. thoebajUmi of onauxem e OUT. .eee Xmktiu The orders of the brotherhood te the telegraph operators te strike Thursday were pretty generally obeyed, especially in the large cities. Wherever the signal was given most of the operators at once left the operating rooms. In many cities pre parations had been made for the strike and according te dispatches received the plan generally followed was te close up the aub-offiees and call in te the main offices all the managers of the branches, thus securing small forces te transact pressing business. By these methods a few instru ments are kept going almost every where. The news comes from Bosten that when the signal was Riven in the Western Union office all but two male and four women operators went out. Yesterday atternoen the working force comprised about thirty operators, including officials, clerks, office boys who had been impressed into the service and the two men who re mained at their desks. Four wires are working between New Yerk and Bosten, and Bosten is doing some business with New England wires. At Portland, Maine, the wires are left with the super intendent and managers. There is no strike in Providence, R. I., among West ern Union operators, but the American Rapid are out. At New Haven, Conn., the main office is running, but thebranehs are closed. At Spnngneld, Mass., the Western Union manager and his brother are the only operators working. Ne strike among telegraphers en the railroads run ning out of Bosten is reported. At 11:30 o'clock iu Cincinnati the local chief of the Western Union gave the sig nal of three raps en his desk. The signal was obeyed by all the members of the brotherhood rising and going out. At the main office of the Baltimore & Ohie com pany every operator went out and business was wholly suspended. The same thing happened at the main office of the Mutual Union company. On 'change no messages were received or sent by either of the three companies having offices there. At the Western Union offieo a guard was im mediately placed te prevent outsiders from entering the operating room. All the operators about the office were sent te duty up stairs. Netice had previously been given te all operators net members of the brotherhood te come in in case of a strike. A number of responses have been mads already, and a force of ever thirty opera tors is new en hand. Superintendent Miller says this is the only office in his district seriously crippled ; that but one operator struck at Columbus, while Day ton, Springfield and ether points have a full working force. The strike at Pittsburgh was inaugu rated at 11.47. At that hour at a given signal every member of the brotherhood quit work, and coming out of the several offices formed a precession and marched te headquarters, where a meeting was held. A canvass of the offices a few minutes later found fifteen men at work in the Western Union, three in the Baltimore & Ohie, one in the American Rapid and none in the Mutual Union. The number of men who came out is as fellows : Western Union, G7 ; American Rapid, 1G ; Balti more & Ohie, 7 ; Mutual Union, 4. The Western Union and Baltimore & Ohie are receiving messages, bnt the Mutual Union and American Rapid refuse everything. Nine of the day force of the Western Union main office at Washington worked through the day, and ft is understood that five of these have premised te return te work. Nearly all, if net all, of the city branch offices were closed. Three mem bers of the regnlar night force, besides Night Manager Yeung, reported for duty at night, and the manager has ether as sistance, but what it is cannot be ascer tained. At the American Rapid office the manager and one operator remain en duty and six men have struck. In Baltimore the strike was pretty gen eral. In the Western Union main office only the officials were left after the signal had been given, but a couple of hours later twelve operators bad been secured and the managjr thought he could call in ethers. Eight operators only remained at the Bal timore & Ohie office. It was announced that the offices along the line of the read would be kept open. Commercial busi ness was refused. The strike extended te the corn and flour exchange. Business was immediately suspended aud as the men walked from the instruments of the Western Union and the Baltimore & Ohie there was open manifestien of sympathy from members of the exchange. Only a few women opereters are left in the Amer ican Rapid offices. Fifty four of the seventy-five of the day operators in the Western Union effica in St. Leuis quit work at neon, quietly left the building and marched in precession te their headquarters. There was no mani festation of feeling en thair part as they filed out, but several of the elder empleyes evidently left with much regret. Of these who left about one half were women and girls. These who did net strike sat quietly at their instruments and in ten minutes the flurry was ever and the effica was again ready for business. The force new numbers 50 and business moves with reasonable celerity te all the chief cities except New Orleans. In Chicago promptly at 11 o'clock the keys were closed and half sent messages were left uncompleted. When the opera ting room bad been cleared it was found that forty operators wcre still at their desks, ineluding twenty one chief opera tors and officials. The working force at 5 o'clock had enlarged te 00 men. The superintendent was confident that the company had already carried its point and that the strikers would be discerafitted. He had received advises from St. Leuis, Omaha, Cincinnati, Indianapolis. Cleve land, Minneapolis and San Francisce which intimated a similar condition of affairs, stating that the main distribution points can handle the business without material delay The additions te the working force come mainly from outlaying oeuntry towns. The Baltimore and Ohie company was badly crippled by desertions from its office and made no attempt te transact business. At Milwaukee sixty operators struck, leaving Manager Welles and four chiefs in charge. All but five of the Cleveland operators went out, but their places are being '.filled Twe thirds of the Western Union men in Indianapolis struck. Eighteen men are new en duty. The larger offices in Indiana have lest about half their men, except at Legans -pert, Lafayette and Riehmend, where there is no strike. There are but few operators left in Detroit. Thirty one quit in Kansas City, leaving twenty, nine et whom are women. The strike also extends through the Seuth. At Augusta 14 Western" Union men struck, leaving 5 at work. At Louis ville nearly all the operators struck. The Baltimore &Ohie office is deserted. Of ever 80 operators in the Western Union office 4 remained. Five mere have been secured and mere are expected. Only one man iu jrewrsuurg, v a , struck. Four of. the 7 operators at Lynchburg wenteuf. But 2 out of 13 operators at Chattanooga, Tenn., struck. Of the 43 operators em em pleyed by the Western Union company in New Orleans 37 struck. Tne company has obtained 5 ether operators, enabling it te handle the press reports, cotton and proemee exehange reports and a limited quantity of general business. Reports receive.! by Western Union offi cials late hut night, from various points are te the following effect : Cincinnati Everything working elegantly and every oaes fally equipped. St. .Louis-Werk ing every circuit ; sixty-nine operators, the fall day force en duty. Cleveland A geed working fosse en duty. Alse at Detroit and Ttslede aad mere men are coming in. Mineapelk All circuits manned. Omaha Will have nearly a fall feres at the principal points by te-morrow morning. San Francisce Of the fall reg alar force of 2 operators 16 joined the strikers. All vacancies will be filled to night. Ac St. Jeseph, Me., the full force has returned te work. Des Moines, Iowa There is only one striker. A report from the Indianapolis district, embracing In diana, 'Eastern Ohie and Western Illinois, shows all points, exeept three or four, with full forces. F. H. Tubbs, superin tendent of the Chicago district, reports that eighty geed operators went te work immediately after the strike and business was practically clear at three, o'clock. Reports from the Chicago district, em bracing most of Illinois, Wisconsin, Min nesota, Iowa and Dakota, show nearly full forces at most points and business gener ally clear. All FOK TBS 8TUIKEBS. A. Geed Supply of Funds Help from OaUlde Sources. All the members of the executive com mittee of the brotherhood, exeept Mr. Jehn Campbell, have left New Yerk for their homes. He will remain te answer any communications. He said that in structions were sent out by the committee te the men all ever the country and in Canada that unless a countermanding order was given meanwhile there should be a general suspension of business at neon, Washington time. At 9:30 a last appeal was sent te General Eekert, in hope that at the last moment he might accede te the demands of the operators, but as no reply was re re oeived it was decided te let mat ters take their course. The instrue tiens were net countermanded, and at neon the operators in two hundred cities in the United States and Canada struek. The operators of the Western Union, Mutual Union, American Rapid, Balti more & Ohie. Great Northwestern, of Canada, and Mutual Union, of Canada, joined in the strike, and the linemen of the telegraph, telephone and electric light companies. The brotherhood numbers about 7,000 men and 1,000 women. Mr. Campbell stated that the strikers are plentifully supplied with funds. As the brotherhood has a large striking fund and is also an assembly of the Knights of Laber, application was made several dayB age te the central committee of that organiza tion for aid, which was .premised them. Communications had also been reesived from several of the largest labor unions in the country, including the Amalgamated order of iron and steel workers of Penn sylvania, offering substantial assistance in case it should be needed. Mr. Campbell thought that many of the operators would succeed in getting situations. In regard te the prospect of the com pany securing new hands, he stated that their only resource would be iu employing a few third-rate operators from the coun try and that no geed men were left who were out of work. It would be impossible te employ students and these net thoroughly acquainted with the work, te de it satisfactorily, and especially iu the matter of press dispatches, where great care and accuracy were required. The English operators, he said, were in sym pathy with the movement and informed the brotherhood that none of them would come te this country as reported. ATT1XUD1S OF THE U0VKBN5HCNT. Conditions of tbe Telegraph Law of 1808 Hew Franchises May be Forfeited. A telegram from Washington calls at tentien te the fact that the postmaster general may have something te say about the great strike of the telegraphers. It seems that the United States govern, ment, and probably every telegraph com pany in this country, have substantially recognized this prineiple In accepting the conditions of the telegraph law of I860. That law is capable of broader construc tion, possibly, than the telegraph cempa nies themselves understand. By the ac ceptance of its terms it has become a con tract between the government and the telegraph companies. Tbe previsions of the national law governing telegraph com panies are briefly these : All telegraph com panies which filed their acceptance of the act of July 24, 1869, and the amendments thereto, are entitled te the use of the public demian for the construction aad maintenance of their lines, and of mater ials from the public lands, bnt these rights are net transferable. In return for these concessions the government have tbe right te priority in the transmission of all messages ever the lines of any telegraph company te which has been given any of the rights indicted. The government may for any purpose in its discretion, purchase any or all of these telegraph lines, net en the basis of their watered stoek, but after an appraisement by five competent, disin terosted persons, two of whom are te be selected by the postmaster general, two by the company interested, and one by the four se previously selected.- There is one clause of tbe act which might prove te be a serious one te all tale graph companies, and as te which the companies could net plead a strike iu ex cuse. The law provides that whenever any company whieh has accepted the terms of this act by filing a written ae ceptance " shall, by its agents or em em peoyes, refuse or negleet te transmit any such telegraphic communications (mean ing government messages, te whieh priority must be given, and all signal service messages from the northern lakes and seaboard), sueh telegraph company shall be liable te a penalty of net less than $100 and net mere than $1,000 for eaeh sueh refusal or neglect." The government and the paeple whom It represents have great interest in the weather reports and signals. If the operators by their strikes shall prevent the transmission of these messages, it will be seen that the com panies are clearly liable, for the act has expressly taken into consideration the possibility that the neglect or refusal te send sueh messages might be caused by the acts of the agents or empleyes. Fer the last fiscal year fifty-five tele graph companies in the United States had accepted the previsions of this act and filed their accaptances at the posteffloe department. They embrace practically all the companies of the United States, the most of the leading ones of which, hav ing taken advantage of the previsions as te the use of the public d imain are subject te the penalties for the non-transmission of government messages. The following are the names of the companies te which these previsions are applicable : The American Submarine, the National, the Glebe Insulated Lines, International, the Atlantic aadPaaifle, the Franae -American Land and Ocean, the Glebe, Mississippi Valley, National, Western Union, North Western, Great Western, Franklin, Insul ated Lines, Pacific aud Atlantic, Atlantic and Pacific states, the Eastern, Delaware river. Cape May and chore, Peninsula, the Ojeau, American Cable, Southern & Atlantic, International Ocean, Missouri river, Marine & Inland.Atlantie & Pacific, New Jersey & New England, American Rapid, Central Union, New Yerk Land and Ocean, Deseret, American Union. New Yerk ; Wabash Railway, American Union, of Missouri ; American Union, New Jer sey ; Baltimore & Ohie, Ameriean Union, Baltimore ; Deer Ledge, American Union, Pennsylvania ; American Union, Indiana ; Cheyenne & Black Hills, American Union, Ohie ; American Union, Leuisianna ; Bal timore & Ohie, Wabash, St. Leuis & Pacific, Frontier. Baltimore & Ohie. Illinois; Rankers & Merchants', Mutual i..uw , .aumua w jstwu. , annul union, Illinois, Mutual union, Missouri ; New Jersey Mataal, Baltimore & Ohie, I .the East Tenneaee TSUB STTTJATIOam FMIXAPKLPUIA. Sepeftateatsat ZeabH Hopeful of Barty In Philadelphia Superintendent ZeubHe had closed all the Western Union branch offices except the one ac Third and Chest nut streets, and called in all the operators who steed by the company. By this means he had gathered at the main offices during the day, ineluding men from tbe business department who could work a wire, thirty- three operators, including himself, Mr. Jenes, his manager, and the chiefs. He also telegraphed te the country offices near ey te send up assistance, and reeeived from these sources a few mere operators. He said that he had at work in the afternoon thirty-one operators, as against seventy, the usual complement, and last night five as against the usual complement of thir teen. Mr. Laverty, however, says that this is te say the least, a disingenuous statement. He says that the usual day force at the main office is eighty-five, and that, ineluding the " extras," the usual night force twenty-one. Mr. Laverty also says that the thirty one operators en day service and the five at night making thirty-six in all is the entire force in Philadelphia at Mr. Zeublin's disposal, in comparison with 145, the usual number he could command. Mr. Zueblin says thac he will be able te handle the business of the office effectively and satisfactorily. He said that all the business received yesterday had been gotten off in geed time and all important messages te the office well bandied. " The men who have gene out," said he, "I am bound te say, have acted like gentlemen. They left no unfinished work behind except that which would at any time at the neon hour accumulate. Thev stenned in the midst of what they had in hand,but we have no complaints te make en that score." Mr. Zueblin stated that in his opinion there are 14, COO commercial operators in this country and Canada, and that GO per cant, or 8,400, have gene out en the strike. He expects that many of tbe men who are new out will come back again te day, and ethers later. Tne Strikers will be Taken Back When asked whether the strikers would b? taken back by the company when tired of staying out. Mr. Zeublin said : " Oh yes ; we will be glad te welcome them that is, most of them. Seme few may find their places filled but the bulk of them will be put back en the keys when the strike is ever. W expect thorn te come back. We de net blame the men se much as we de these who have led them into the trouble. I have no doubt of the success of the company in the end ; but the operators who are out are essential te us, and we are essential te them. We cannot use the local operators who remain, because if we gave them commercial business they would get out also, for they are all brotherhood men." " Have any of tha strikers come bask ?" the reporter asked. " Only one, and he came back uppn the advice of bis undo ; but the game is tee young yet. Yen will see in a few days. Iu order te put ourselves in geed shape we have closed a number of small offices, and no messages are sent te or reeeived from the places where the railroad opera tor is our only agent. Thus such places as Elkton, Md., cannot be reached by our office at present. We have concentrated our business as much as possible, and in a few days, when we get fairly en our feet, will be in a position te give the boys who are out as much rope as possible." DROWNED IN THE SURE". Twe Llttle Beys Lete Their Lives at Atlantic City. At Atlantic City the first drowning! tragedy of tbe season resulted about half past nine o'clock Thursday morning in the deaths of Jesie Patten, of that city, and Johnnie White, of Philadelphia. The day was One, the water warm and no clouds en the horizon betokened any at mespheric disturbance or violence of cur rents. The two boys wandered down te the beach from the home of Mr. Patten, and for a long while no alarm was felt at their absence Mr. Samuel White, the father of Johnnie White, lives at the corner of Blair and Otis streets, Kensington, Philadelphia, and is the brother-in law of Mr. Jeseph Patten, proprietor of the Patten Heuse, at Ne. 10 Arkansas Avenue, City, they having married sisters. The two cousins, the White boy, only 7 years old, and the Patten boy, about 8, strolled through the crowds en the beard walk and began play ing ball en the beach about a quarter of a mile below the Excursion house, iu front of bath house Ne. 13. In a little while they were aeen te go farther down, towards the Forteseue house, and ene was heard te say te the ether, " Oh, Jesio, I get my feet wet ; I'm afraid mamma won't like it." This was the last heard from either of the boys. Soen afterwards they were missed from the water's edge, and anxious inquiries were made of the volunteer life guard, Captain Clark, whose tent is in that vicin ity Soen afterwards a young man, giving his name or William Marley, swam out seme little distance from the beach, and, en " letting down " for bottom, touehed with bis feet a human body. He uttered a violent shriek and attracted at once a crowd of people already mere or less anx ious about the missing boys. Marley came in in hysterica' excitement, and Captain Clark at ence went out te where he had been swimming. After diving ence or twiea he brought up and carried te shore the body of Jesie Patten. He was warm, but gave no ether ovidence of life, although experts said that he had net been under the surface mere thau ten minutes. Returning te the ocean Captain Clark found, net long afterward, the body of Johnny White, floating, but near the bottom. He at once took him ashore, and Drs. Bennett and Riley, who had been hastily summoned, used every known surgical expadient te restore ani mation te the limp forms which had a short tima bafore been tha pride of two families. The childreu were dressed in the clothes they had home in the morning. worn away from The scene was heartrending as Mr. Pat Pat eon came running te the water's edge, calling almost unconsciously the name of his boy. Hurrying into Captain Clark's tent, as he saw the pale but lifelike form of bis darling child, he became as white as the canvass and chilled into a deathlike silence, with a leek of sueh appalling agony that a number of ladies burst into a hysterical weeping. Mr. Patten looked for one moment at the corpses, said quiet ly That is my child," and then, looking at the ether, " and that is my sister's child." Scarcely a pint of water was ex tracted from either body, and for a long time hopes of resuscitation urged the attendants te the most strenuous exer tiens, but all iu vain. When asked about the drowning, Cap tain uiarK said : " I was just pushing my beat into the water when a gentlemahvteld me he had just stumbled ever a body in the surf. I swam out, and fpnnd the bodies just beyond the second breaker. There was no current or undertow, and no reason can be assigned for the drowning that I knew of, except the strangulation and fright of the boys en "being suddenly carried out beyond their depth by a breaker." The bath-house keepar, in front of whose place the beyshad been play ingaid : " 1 saw them get tneir feet wet, and then they seemed te conclude that it would de no mere harm te get wet all ever. Sa (IIBY WSUCU UUI uultUOT, WW X BSW A WTO . JM Al 4 S BTi bS Eh MB Jt Y A break all ever then. Then no mere." I saw these ' t Pennsylvania, and telephone company. 3 BASEBALL. TUX LOOSXi JEXUITKatKNT CONTINUES the KaUecat Game Call Fat aad Leaa Nines TIM Companionship. Everybody in town seems te have caught the baseball fever and the formation of nines, mere or less, agitates stores, shops and households. Ne day passes without its games and the reports from all ever the countryman watched and waited for with absorbing interest. The second game be tween the " Sheddies " and " Calicoes " the former empleyes of Myers & Rath von and tbe latter clerks from the New Yerk store was played en the college grounds last evening. The game was began en Wednesday evening, when three innings were played, and the score then steed 15 te 8 in favor of the "Calicoes." Last evening, with stern determination depicted upon every face and dainty forms willing te stand the din and clash of the baseball field, the game was resumed, with the " Calicoes " at tbe bat. Five runs were earned, with no notable occurrences exeept some artistic running and magnifi cent movements te keep out of the way of the ball. The game progressed tben through, two mere innings, with tbe score standing 18 te 11 in favor of the "Calicoes" whieh with the tuns made the evening before feet up 26 te 1G in the "Calicoes," favor. There was a great deal of fun during the game, whieh Cox of the "Sheddies" enhanced by a furious run after a ball thrown te him te first base and then sliding en te the plate with terri ble disregard of his parlor clothes, but putting the runner out before he rose t) his feet covered with glory and mud. The wondrous strikes of S. Lichty generally brought him and bis dainty little white hat near the bases, but he never appeared te get quite near enough, while Wilsen of the "Calicoes" ia order te court the geed graces of fortune developed the extrava gant habit of carefully dusting the home plate with his cambric handkerchief be. fore he proceeded te business. Anether effort will be made te score the ether three innings, te end the game, next week. Fat ana Lean Nines. Yesterday afternoon en the Ironsides grounds a match game of ball was played between two nines, which were adveitised te be composed of the fat and lean mem bers of the Lancaster Miuauercher. There were a number of fat men en the former nine, but there were also soma very small ones, and the lean team was net composed of small men entirely, nor did the man all belong te the Mionnercher. Tne game was full of fun, but as an exhibition of baseball was very tiresome. Some of the men showed considerable skill at the bat, as well as in the field, white there are ethers who probably never saw a baseball except In a store window. The pitching was very slew and for this reason a great many el the balls were hit. The fat men seemed te have the advantage at the bat and did heavy hitting. Tbe fielding of both was fearful. It was but little trouble for a bat ter te make a hema run, even if the ball did net go far, for the odds wero se even that none of the basemen would held a ball and the runner would net ba inter fered with. In the first inning the fat men made 14 runs and lean men 13. BoTero the next inning was ever the umpire deserted, saying that he did net have time te spand a week en a baseball ground. A new ene was selected and the puundieg of balk and turning of somersaults ever them was con tinued until five innings had beau played when the score steed 31 te 35 ic favor of the fat men. During the game both nines were greatly changed, as many of the players became tired and hungry and desired te return te town. As they had signed no papers they were quickly re leased and allowed te ceme home. Their places were usually filled 'with equally fine players. Notes el the (lame. The Blue Stocking baseball ui e of Mil- leisville, willgoteRohrerstown te morrow where they will play a match game of ball with the nine of that place. The Pottstown Alerts will be here te morrow and the game will be called at 3 o'clock. The Ledger of that place says : " In consequence of a severe sprain of his back in the nail mill of the Pottstown iron company, yesterday, Enes Longaker, the first basemau of the Alerts, will be unable te play at Lancaster, en Saturday." In Harrisburg yesterday the Active club of Reading, played a game with the Har risburg team. Instead of a geed pitcher the home team placed Burn, a fellow who knows nothing of tbe position, in the box. He was hammered all ever tbe field and lest the game. Gallagher, the new man who pitched the day before, was no geed at the bat and could net hit a ball The Reading battery was Moere and Carrel and the state capital nine could de nothing. The score was A te 5 and it serves the liar risburgers right, for they defeated a far better elub than the Actives the day be fore. Baseball Kl.ewber At Pittsburgh : Allegheny G, Metropoli tan 1 ; Baltimore : Anthletie 9, Baltimore 10 . St. Leuis : Cincinnati 7, St. Leuis, 18; Buffalo : Philadelphia 5, Buffalo 25 ; Chi cago : Bosten 4, Chicago G ; Detroit,- 14 innings, Providence 4, Detroit 3 ; Cleve land : NewYerk 4, Cleveland 5 ; Wilming ton : Quicksteps 2, Meriitts 1 ; Brooklyn : Trenten G, Brooklyn 5 ; Easten : Easteu G, Anthracite 13 ; Philadelphia : Hartville 16, Orien 9; August Flower 8, Olympic 3. The Merrltc uleb te Dissolve. It is stated by a number of peeple inter ested in the Meirit baseball club, of Camden, that tbe organization will dissolve en Saturday night. The nine contains a number of the best players iu the country, but, notwithstanding this fact, ic has been a losing concern from its inception. The first break in their lines was made en Wednesday night, when Kimber, tbe ebange pitcher, and Greenwood, the sec ond baseman, and captain departed with the Brooklyn club, after their game in Camden, without giving notiee of their purpose. Ic addition te these the elub consists of Sweeny, catcher ; Emslie, pitcher ; Househelder, first base ; Fennelly, second base ; Warner, third base ; Cor coran, shortstop ; Gardiner, left field, and Keinzel, centre field. One of the beard of directors said last night that the club was $2,000 in arrears, with no hope of the receipts of the club increasing. Senater Merritt, in honor of whom the club is named, has been tha main support of the organization, - but lately be has became disgusted with tbe recklessness of its players. Almeet a Fire. A thrilling scene took place at the resi dence of Mr. A C. Kepler a short distance north ef,thie city en Wednesday night. Mr. Kepler, his'wife and children occupy three adjoining bed rooms. Their beds are provided with canopies te keep away mosquitoes. Mr. Kepler had retired for the night and his wife was in the adjoin ing. room, having jnst put te bed one of the children. Near tbe bed was a bureaa en which a lighted lamp was standing. A gust of air through the open window blew the ganze like canopy against the lamp. In an instant it was all ablaze, the child lying in the bed surrounded with flames. A scream from the mother brought Mr. Kepler te the rescue. He seized the burning canopy, tore it down, and, he hardly knows bw, succeeded in extinguishing the flames and saving his child. Had ha been a moment later it is mere than probable that less of life and property would have resulted. The aceideat stay serve as a warning te ethers te keep their lastp and -gas burners at a safe dieteaee fresa their esaepise. c-1. S'1rf5l?v'i,"1-4 -
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