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INDEPENDENT AND PROGRESSIVE
LANCASTER, CITY, it'A.
FRIDAY, JUNE 18,1868
Economy, Retrenchment, Faithful Collection
of the Revenue and Payment of the Public
Debt—GRANT.
1869.
FATHER ABRAHAM!
FOR THE CAMPAIGN
FOR GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA!
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Address, RAUCH . & COCHRAN,
THE STATE CONVENTION.
The Republican State Convention for
the nomination Of candidates tau• Governor
and Supreme Judge will be held on Wed
nesday next, in Philadelphia. The dele
gates from Lancaster count•, are :
SF: N A TOE IA L.
Captain John K. Rutter. ('its•.
Theodore A. Kinzer, East Earl.
1117.11ZESENTATIV E.
Enden Franklin, City,
Ilan. John strohm, Priividence.
Andrew .1. Kattlfinan, Othunhia,
Jac4o) Shirk - , East Lampetel
These gentlemen are not instructed, but
go to the Convention altogether untram
melled. We have cinilidence in them, and
are sure that they will do the very best
thing for the suecess of the party cif Free
dom and Progress. They do not believe
that any one man has any poi:11E11r claims
on the people of the Commonwealth. The
Republican party owes no man anything.
It behooves the Convention to be cautious
and circumspect in its action. The "signs
of the times" are not propitious.
READ IT.
The speech of Senator Billingfelt, which
will be found on the first page of this pa
per, should be read by every citizen of the
Commonwealth. It is au able and lucid
exposition of the amendment of Mr. B.
to the appropriation bill, which threw
such consternation into the ranks of the
Treasury " Ring 7 , at Harrisburg last
winter, and proves our popular Senator to
be a man of ability and straight-forward,
manly independence.
FAUGH !
The Doylestown Democrat and all the
whelps of Copperheadism, make a great
cry over the riots by the colored men at the
election in Washington last week. There
is no excuse for them certainly; bat what
did those fellows say about the burning of
orphan asylums and the murder of colored
men, women and children in New York
by their Irish friends in ISti4. Never a
word—for were they not Democrats?
RIGHT !
Since the adjournment of Congress the
President has removed at least nine of his
own appointees, viz: Two Consuls, one
Indian Agent, two Collectors, one Asses
sor, and three Postmasters. Thus, Grant
is redeeming his promise to make fidelity
in office the great requisite for holding it.
He may occasionally be misled into nomi
nating, and the Senate into confirming,
an unworthy or incompetent person; but
the President will, when the error is dis
covered, not be deterred, by false pride of
opinion, from doing his full duty. to the
country by a prompt removal.
TILE newly organized Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty of Animals, in
Philadelphia, commenced operations by
arresting a number of city car drivers for
Overloading their cars. One driver arrest
ed had seventy people in a car built to ac
commodate but twenty.—Exckaiitic.
car RIGHT: But why not also arrest the
officers of the road, who are principally
responsible for such outrageous cruelty,
not only to 4lumb brutes, but to passen
gers. The society referred to is doing a
good work, and all that is yet needed is a
law fixing the maximum number of pas
sengers to be allowed in a street car, not
merely to prevent cruelty to animals, but
also for the comfort of passengers and
protecting them against pickpockets who
frequently work their way into the over
crowded cars.
The Republicans of Philadelphia settled
their loeal and legislative tickets on Wed
nesday last. There was a bitter contest
between the "Ring" politicians and the
party in favor of Reform, and the result
was generally in favor of the latter, about
half of the " roosters having been de
defeated, although the "Ring" succeeded
in getting half a dozen of the old Assem
blymen on the ticket. Elisha W. Davis,
and live other old members, were renomi
nated. This is unfortunate, as it is the
general impression that some of theni, at
least, will fail of election. "Giggling
Jimmy " went by the board.
1869.
We learn from the Reading Daily .b:b;i/c
-that the proprietors of the Jou retal—one
of the best weekly papers in the state, by
the way—have just bought the Dui/!l
Times, which is to be published by
them in connection with the journea.
Thus the need for a ! , 00il, reliable and
respectable Republican daily paper in the
city of Reading will be well supplied. With
such parties as Messrs. J. Knahb ck;
the Times will at once take its proper
place among the first-class papers of the
state, of which every citizen of Reading
—particularly every Republican—may
well feel proud.
President Grant and family made a nar
row escape on Wednesday evening last.
In company with Secretary Boutwell they
left Washington in the train fin• New York
in a special car, to attend the annual ex
amination of the cadets at West Point.
When near Annapolis Junction, the en
gine ran over a cow, throwing the baggage
and two of the other cars from the track
and breaking them to pieces. A number
of the passengers were quite seriously in
jured. The President's car, which was
near the rear of the train, was not much
damaged, but the occupants sustained a
severe shock.
Lancaster, Ya
Ex-Governor Curtin, Who will f-0)11
leave for Europe, has recently been the
recipient of numerous manifestations of
regard on the part of his friends. On
Thursday evening the citizens of Belle
fonte held a meeting to pay their respects
to him. A few days befiire a lar, - re num
ber of the prominent citizens of Lock
Haven waited on Min at his residence tea•
a similar purpose. On Saturday he was
publicly received by the citizens of Phila
delphia at Independence Hall, on a 1111f1111-
111 1 )Ils invitation by the City C'ouncils,
which was sent him by Mayor Fox. In
the evening a grand banquet was given
him at the. Academy of Music. On Mon
day evening he was entertain.'. at a dinner
by the Directors of the Philadelphia "ti ion
League.
The Pasters and Folders' swindle hand
somely laid out three more of its champ
ions in Chester county. Messrs. Mere
dith, Phillips and Robb, Representatives
from that county, who were entitled to a
re-nomination by virtue of party usage,
broke down under the load of legislative
corruption, and went overboard. At the
Republican County Convention held last
week, Dr. Meredith was beaten by J. C.
Roberts, Mr. Robb by Joseph Beech, and
Mr. Phillips was completely wiped out by
Abel Darlington. The three new candi
dates are good and true men, who will
represent their constituents, and the peo
ple of Pennsylvania honestly and faith
fully. So far, at least thirteen faithless
representatives who had themselves be
daubed all over with paste, are laid out
cold. And the end is not yet! These
nominations clearly prove, what we always
believed, that the great Republican party
is able and eager to right its own wrongs.
There is nothing like open, fair and full
ventillation.
The cops have made a wonderful dis
covery. It is terrible to contemplate.
They give as the reason for their opposi
tion to the XVth amendment, that if the
colored people become voters, the whites
will thereupon proceed to amalgamate
with them l How silly. We once had
Colored Suffrage in Pennsylvania ; but
who ever heard that it had a tendency to
produce amalgamation ? There never
was Colored Suffrage in Kentucky, and
yet we know that one of the most distin
guished of Kentuckians—Col. Richard M.
Johnson, whom the Van Buren men elect_
ed Vice President of the United States in
1836—married a mulatto woman, and pre
ferred her to any white woman. Now,
that was due, not to Johnson's "Demo
cratic,' principles, nor to the, colored peo
ple having or not having the suffrage. It
was the result of his peculiar taste. The
circumstance, it is well to remark, did not
degrade him in the eyes of his Democratic
friends, for they thought him tit to be,
and made him, Vice. President, notwith
standing his mulatto wife. This talk
about amalgamation is merely a bait to
" catch gudgeons."
EVIDENTLY General Grant has been
guilty of at least two mortal offences for
which A. J. will never forgive him—first
whipping Gen. Lee and crushing out the
Rebellion at Appomattox Court-house ;
second, whipping Andrew Johnson and
crushing out My Policy."
MORE STRAWS.
THE READING DAILY TIMES.
NARROW ESCAPE.
COMPLIMENTARY.
GOOD FOR OLD CHESTER!
HARD UP 1
OUR PHILADELPHIA. LETTER.
PitiLADELrni.k, JuNE 17, 1869.
Thc lurrwell Banquet to E.c-Gorernor Cur
tin--Friyhtfol :qv( nt at the American
Theatre—.77,( City Concentions and the
„„mhzutions—sailina o . t . the Florida—
( 'f , lnt r d(stination---The
Knights '1( m plar—A•c,, ( t. r..
DEMI A DE. —The friends of Ex-Gover
nor Andrew G. Curtin tendered him a
farewell reception and banquet on Satur
day last, previous to his departure as min
ister to Russia. Mayor Fox and both
Branches of City Councils formed in pro
cesssion and marched to Independence
Hall, where Governor Curtin arrived
shortly afterward. McClurg's Band i spik
stationed in the vestibule of the liana
discoursed elegant music, during which
time thousands of our citizens, including
large delegations of the Grand Army of
the Republic, called and bid the war Gov
ernor good bye. At five o'clock the party
left the Hall and proceeded to the Academy
of Musi:!, where a grand banquet took
place, which fix grandeur and magnifi
cence has never been surpassed in this
city. Speeches were made by Ex-Gov.
Newell, Senator Scott, General Gregg,
I)auzas, the Russian Secretary of Lega
tion, and many other distinguished gen
tlemen who were present.
In a previous letter I mentioned the
litany break-neck performances given by
the managers of our theatres, and the
growing desire of our people to witness
the most daring acrobatic feats of both
male and female performers. On Satur
day night last a scene was witnessed at
the American Theatre not in the bills, and
which very nearly cost the life of one cf
the performers. For the past few weeks
there has been engaged at this theatre two
females, known as the De Lave sister 4,
aged respectively twelve and eighteen, and
the feats they perform are truly astonish
ing. The youngest makes a leap from the
highest tier of the theatre, of some set
enty-five feet, turns a sourer-sault in the
air, and is caught in her descent by her
sister, who hangs suspended front,&
ceiling. This feat is repeated four -dr
ferent times, and I am sorry to say throe are those who applaud it and will insitt
upon showing their appreciation of the
act by (Tomlin! , the theatre nightly. Ot
Saturday ni‘ , llf, however, she missed lar
hold and fell to the stage, the fall beim;
broken iiirtunately by one of the scipe:
who made :in attempt to catch her in he
descent. Strange to say, after the
through I( ar of punishment, perhaps, sbc
attempted the act again, lint in her flight
lost confidence in herself, and instead of
letting go the ropes she held fast, and in
this position swung suspended over tie
heads of the audience until taken down.
It is high time the authorities take cilium:
in this matter, for in eight cases out
ten the performers are chilan o who must
do these flatrful feats, or submit to seven
beathe , s, and through fear are led to pen
their lives nightly. I ant pleased to sal
that these '• cards have been withdraw':
by the management of the American, and
I have no doubt he can find plenty
amusement for his patrons without night
ly risking the lives of children.
Well, dear Abe, we have had our differ
ent nominating conventions throughold
the city, and though the result might hove
been better, upon the whole the ticlet
placed in nomination is a good one, did
the present corrupt manner of select lig
delegates. ThecityticketisJohnA.llome-
I probably the best that could be placed fe
tbre our citizens for their support, uncer
man fit' Recorder; Thomas Ashton for
Clerk of Quarter Sessions; Joseph [.
Ma rcer for City Treasurer; Wm. K. Hop
kins for Prothonotary of District Court;
William Taylor for Coroner, and Thomas
M. Locke for City Commissioner—a ticket
which will sweep the city in October, if
the proper attention is given to canvass
ing,
and a repetition of the frauds and
system of "repeating" as carried on last
fall prevented. For Harrisburg nest
winter we have William Watt, the only
Senator to be elected this fall front ;he
city, in the district now represented by
McCandless, the Democratic aspirant for
Gubernatorial honors. Sam Josephs will
be his competitor, and with this ticket in
the field front the first district, a gain of ;
one Republican vote in the Senate may be
looked for, as Watt is a strong and a good
man, and unless unheard of frauds are
practised against him, will spend next
winter in Harrisburg. In the first Legis
lative District, David Foy, old ruembor,
has been beaten for the nomination, and
a new man named L. B. Thomas, substi
tuted. The second district belongs to the
Democrats, they having a long lease there
on, so 1 shall have nothing to say about
it. Likewise the Third District, in which
is Billy McMullen's 4th Ward—it will
surely send a Democrat; but in the Fourth
District Myers, the member of last winter,
has been left out in the cold, and the
namination claimed by two gentlemen,
'William Elliott and Joseph Brady. - The
Fifth District was last year represented by
Rogers, Democrat. In the Sixth District
"Rooster" Kleckner will remain, and
Robert Graham will go to 'burg in his
stead, whilst in the Seventh District,
Robert Johnson h is been nominated in:
stead of James Subers, of last session.
The Eighth District is to be again repre
senteil by J. V. Stokes, the present mem
ben, and the Ninth District by a Demo.
crat. In the Tenth District, E. IV. Davis
has again received the nomination, as also
W. N . Bunn, another old member, in the
Eleventh District. In the Twelfth Dis
trict Alexander Adair has the nomina
tion, and the Thirteenth District Lein;
Democratic, a change is hardly probtble.
John Cloud, old member, has been re
nominated in the Fourteenth District and
Adam Albright will represent the Fiftenth
District. A re-nomination has beenfilin
Marshall Hong in the Sixteenth Distriet.
Speaker Clark's place will be taken by
Watson Comly, a practical farmer, in the
Seventeenth District, and James Miller, a
new man, represent the Eighteen:h and
last District in our city delegation.
So you see, dear Abe, out of the tl:irteen
Republican members of last year, only six
have secured a renomination, a pretty
sure sign that the honest Republican
voters do not approve of all the doings on
the "Hill" during the last session.
The celecration of the semi -centennial
anniversary of St. John's Commandery,
Knights Templar, on Tuesday last was
grand, and, as predicted, the parade sur
passed anything given this season. Un
fortunately the day was ushered in by
several showers, and at the hour adver
tised to move it was still raining to such
an extent as to seriously injure many
costly regalia and banners. However,
the people turned out in thousands, and
the whole route was gone over when the
sun made its appearance. Delegations
were to be found in tine from Canada,
California, Virginia, and many other dis
tant States. I also noticed many familiar
faces from Lancaster, represented by Co
lumbia Commandery, No. 13, which made
a very handsomea ppearance. Where all
looked so tine, however, it is hard to dis
tinguish any single body. In the evening
a grand ball and banquet was given at the
academy, which was done up in true
Masonic style. Everybody, both partici
pants and lookers-on, pronounce the anni
versary a success, and I venture to say
not one of the many strangers who came
tto the city on Tuesday went home dis
satisfied, after seeing the great celebration
of the 50th birthday of St. John's Com
manderv.
The 'side-wheel steamer "Delphine,"
better known throughout the country as
the "Floirda," a famous blockade runner
during the rebellion, sailed from this port
last week, and rumor has it, is destined
fin• Cuba. While at this port, undergoing
repairs, the vessel was generally looked
upon as being made seaworthy in order to
assist the patriot cause in Cuba, which
had the effect to cause her detention by
the authorities. The effort was made
and her release effected from the depart
ment at Washington, and she at once
cleared for Boston, not under bonds, how
ever, as erroneously stated by the city
papers. It is currently reported now, that
instead of heading for Boston, her destina
tion is a port south of Hatteras—Cuba--
and t' at at Delaware City she touched
merely to indulge in the naughty act of
taking on board some three or fine• hun
dred bearded lillibusters and munitions
of war to strike against the Spaniards. I
give you the story as it is told, and as a
litithful chronicler of the news in Phila
delphia for FATItEn AHHAIIAM.
Yours, WAnwt cK.
A TRIP TO THE WEST-JOTTINGS BY
THE WAY.
NO. II
KANSAS CITY, MO., June 12, 1869
I.kar Fathee
We have already intimated that Chicago
cannot be recommended for its morals, and
the Sunday we spent there by no means
caused us to change our opinion. On that
day, more business, of a certain nature, is
transacted than on any three days of the
week. From early morn till late at night,
the street cars are crowded with the German
element, in particular, and the public gen
erally, on their way to the various beer gar
dens and similar places of resort which so
plentifully atoned there, where liquor is
vended in immense quantities, alike to men,
women and children. Bands of music tend to
increase the "hilarity," and, to their shame
be it said, no efforts are made by the author•
ities to stop this outrageous desecration of
God's Holy Day. The Grace Episcopal
Church, their finest church edifice, situated
on Wabash Avenue, was visited in the morn
ing. It has but recently been completed at a
cost estimated to between three and four hun
dred thousand dollars. In a beautiful grove,
at a commanding point on the banks of Lake
Michigan, and in the eastern sulferbs of the
city, lie the remains of the lamented states
man, Stephen A. Douglass. The base of the
monument is already completed. on the en
trance to the vault is inscribed his memorable
dying words : " Tell my children to obey the
lan's and uphold the Constitution," and under
neath is the following : " Stephen A. Doug
lass, born April 23d, 1813, died June :kl, 1861."
Our route to St. Louis was over the Chicago
and Alton road, which traverses an almost
unbroken prairie, with here and there an oc
casional patch of cultivated land, or a strip of
woodland, mostly " black Jack," or white
oak. Springfield, the capital of Illinois, on
the line of this road, is a beautiful inland city.
Its population numbers but 21,000, and yet it
boast of street railways, which run in all
directions. About two miles north is the
romantic Oak Ridge Cemetery. Here, in a
plain brick vault, lie buried the remains of
our second Washington, the much loved and
martyred President Lincoln I No costly mon
ument has yet been erected, and no inscrip
tion, save the hallowed word "Lincoln,"
marks the entrance to his tomb. I learned
that a contract has been entered into with
parties in the east for the erection of a suita
ble monument, to cost when completed $163,-
000. The Home of Lincoln is a plain two
story frame building, at the corner of Bth and
Jackson streets, but a few blocks from the
main thoroughfare of the city. The pictures
of it you see east are perfect representations.
Its present occupant is a Mr. George B. fier
ier, who keeps the building in good repair.
The foundations of the new State Capitol are
being laid. It will be the largest State capi
tol building in the country. It is to be 240
feet in width, 440 feet deep, with a dome 240
feet high.
At Alton, seventy-five miles south of Spring
field, you strike the Mississippi river at its
junction with the Missouri, and follow it
thence to East St. Louis, (Ill.,) a distance
of twenty-five miles. The country along the
river being low and flat, of course it is with
out scenery. At East St. Louis you take a
ferry boat, and in a few moments are in the
City of St. Louis. There is by no means that
enterprise and thrift displayed here so percep
tible in Chicago. An interesting competition
is going on between the two places for the
control of the western grain market. The
many railroad facilities possessed by Chicago
enables that city to transport produce to the
east at very low rates ; while St. Louie has
the advantage of Chicago in its steamship
lines down the Mississippi, and by the Atlan
tic to New York. St. Louis, we apprehend,
has bad her day, and Chicago, the "fast"
city of the land, will likely come out "first
beet." Chfcago now claims a population of
300,000 ; St. Louis, 11250,000.
Kansas City is on the Missouri river, 282
miles west of St. Louis, and is one of the
growing towns of the west. At the close of
the war it was a mere "mud hole," (to use
the phrase of one of its citizens) with a pop
ulation of but 5,000, but her huge hills are
rapidly being leveled, buildings everywhere
being erected, and now it numbers between
twenty-five and thirty thousand inhabitants.
It has had a magical growth, and with its
seven different lines of railway, and the Mis
souri river navigable 3,000 miles above, it
will soon lay claim, at least, to the mantle of
a metropolis. A bridge spanning the Mis
souri river will lie completed in a few weeks,
thus bringing it in direct communication with
the opposite shore of Kansas. Great prepara
tions are being made to celebrate the event.
Our wholeaouled friends, C. R. Coleman and
S. H. Zahm, formerly of Lancaster, are per
manently located here, and driving a flourish
ing business in the leather and slum finding
line, besides "dabbling" some little in real
estate. Long may they prosper.
TELE Providence Jouvnal says the ele
phant Empress, which stands thirteen
feet high—one foot and a half higher than
the celebrated elephant Hannibal—arriv
ed at New York on Wednesday, in the
steamer Holsatia. The custom inspectors
declined to examine the Empress' trunk.
' 1117 Y (1, COV NT 1% —A new Afri
can M. E. Church will be dedicated in
Pottsville on Sunday next Mr. Thomas
Thomas, on Thursday evening last week
while going down Railroad street, Potts
ville, Mt into a ditch and broke two ribs
Daniel ]foyer's barn near Port Clin
ton, was struck by lightning and totally
destroyed on Monday last week A new
Lodge of Good Templers was instituted in
Mahanoy city last week Mr. Joseph
Woolisen, an old and well known citizen
of Pottsville, died suddenly on Tuesday
evening betbre last On the evening of
the 7th inst. as Morris Weidman was
driving along the road at Half-way Run,
a highwayman seized his horse, presented
a pistol and demanded his money. Seeing
that resistance was useless, he handed
him his pocket book, when the robber
took out its contents amounting to fifteen
dollars, and politely handed the pocket
book back to him, remarking that it was
nearly worn out and of little or no use.
Another very cool case of highway rob
bery is stated in the Pottsville Standard
as follows : On the morning of the Bth
inst., as Mr. Thompson, one of the opera
tors of Monroe Forge, was driving along
the public road from the Big Dana to Port
Mifflin, he overtook Mr. Tobias, Super
visor of Sava tara township, Lebanon coun
ty, who was on his way to examine the
roads on the north side of the Blue Moun
tain. Mr. Thompson invited him to take
a seat in his buggy and ride the rest of the
way, which invitation he accepted. As
they approached Half-Way Run. a high
' wayman stepped out, caught hold of the
horse by the reins, presented a pistol, and
demanded Mr. Thompson's money and
watch. Seeing that he could do n 3 better,
lie handed over his watch and pocket
, book, which contained about eighty-dol
lars. The highwayman emptied the book
of its contents, and then handed it back to
Mr. T. He then domanded Mr. Tobins's
watch, which was handed over; and then
made a further demand for his money.
At this time Mr. Thompson interceded
for the old man, telling the highwayman
that Mr. Tobias had no money, that he
had only met him on the road, and asked
him to ride with him, whereupon the
highwayman told them to drive on. Mr.
Thompson's coolness and sagacity saved
Mr. Tobias *P2OO, as that was the amount
of money he had in his pocket-book On
the 9th ult., Deputy-Coroner Paul Neu
gardt of Millersville, held an inquest in
Poster township, on the body of a child
of Mary O'Brien, which came to its death
under the following circumstances : It
seems that Patrick O'Brien, her husband,
cams home intoxicated, and commenced
quarreling with his wife, charging her
with infidelity, and saying that he was
not the father of her child. He finally
drove her from the house by his violence,
and threw the child on a grate tire which
was in the room. A person heard the
screams of the child, and took it from the
grate, but not until it was so severely in- ,
lured that it died in five days after.
"MILD JUNIOR."
CHESTER COUNTY.—WiId Briar is the
name of a new postottee just established
in West Brandywine township A barn
belonging to John Hunter, at West
Chester, was destroyed by fire on Sunday
STATE NEWS.
DAUPHIN COUNTY.-A two year old
child, in Harrisburg, whilst playing with
a hatchet, chopped off two of its fingers the
oth, r day Butter sold at 25 and 30
cents on market, in Harrisburg. last Sat
urday Win. Kutka, whilst attempting
to stop a team which be was driving, i 1
Washington township, a few days ago,
fell under the wagon, was run over, and
had several ribs broken, and otherwise
seriously injured George Emerich, of
New Cumberland, was caught by the
machinery in a planing-mill, and had his
arm broken above the elbow, last Friday.
....William Wire, who was injured at a
boiler explosion at Miller's mill, week be
fore last, in Harrisburg, since died of his
injuries ..... Strawberry festivals are raging
in Harrisburg.
ADAMS Co.—The McClellan House, at
Gettysburg, is closed on account of the
bad health of the proprietor Rev. M.
J. Alleman was, on Sunday before last,
installed as pastor of the St. Paul's Lu
theran Church, at Littlestown The new
Hotel at Katalysine Spring, not yet com
pleted, will be capable of accommodating
300 guests.... The getters up of the decora
tion ceremonies at Gettysburg, disgraced
themselves by excluding a colored Sabbath
School from the procession The Fred
erick and Pennsylvania Railroad is under
contract, seven sections of which will be
constructed by Messrs. B. B. Gonder &
Son, contractors, of Strasburg, this county.
The two and a half miles of the road loca
ted in Pennsylvania will be built by the
Littlestown It. IL Company.
MONTOOMER Y COUNTY.—A sad case
of drowning occurred on Sunday, the 6th
inst., in Pottsgrove township, about a
mile and a halfabove Pottstown. A num
ber of little boys went into the river
Schuylkill, in tie afternoon, about 3 o'-
clock, to bathe, and two of them, William
Yocum, a sou of Edward D. Yocum, and
Warren Whartnary, a son of James Q.
Whartnary, got beyond their depth, and
'Ring unable to swim, were drowned.
They were carried under and out in the
stream at once, and their companions,
though able to get out themselves, were
unable to render any assistance to their
drowning companions. A large number
of people went to the scene of disaster the
saute day, to search for the remains of the
boys, but were unsuccessful in their at
tempts On Friday morning a man
named Al(;ulchie was blown into the air
by a premature explosion at White's quar
ry. near Norristown. Ile is not expected
to live Levi Singlet., of "Mogee Town,''
on Saturday morning was found dead on
the Norristown Railroad, near star Class
Works, a short distance from the
depot. It is believed that one or two
of the previous night trains passed over
him, as the body was shockingly mangled
in several places. The deceased had been
a man of intemperate habits, and it is
supposed must have been intoxicated at
the time of beingrun over Milton 11 un
sickvr, a boy of about twelve years, a son
of Win. 1). 11 unsicker, Esq., of Perkio
►uen township, went in bathing in the
Perkiomen Creek, at Crater's Ford, on
Sunday afternoon last, and made a nar
row escape front drowning. Ile was un
able to swim, and the creek being high lie
snow got It voila his depth and sank fin•
the third time, when his cousin Daniel 11.
lunsicker, fourteen year- , of age, who was
also bathiug,canu• to the ITSCIIe, and being
a good swimmer succeeded in getting the
drowning lad Out.
afternoon On Saturday last a horse
ow ied by Sewell Chambers, a colored
man living in Thornbury township, was
seized with hydrophobia. The animal
had been confined in a field near Darling
ton's Corner, but by some means got out
of the enclosure into the public road. It
attacked a team belonging to William
Farrell, that was engaged in hauling
stone to the railroad. The driver of the
team succeeded in drivin! , oil' the mad ani
mal, and it is not believed that it injured
any of the horses attached to the team.
When the fit was off, the poor brute
would become very weak—stagger and
when the spasms returned, it would again
rise and attack everything in its way.
Several persons were chased into the
tavern porch, and one individual nar
rowly escaped being bitten. In its rage
to bite, its own tongue was nearly bitten
off. The animal was finally secured in a
lot, where he died during the night in
great agony The Village Record says
the county is full of trampers, and that
they are all either going to or coming
from Lancaster Two mad dogs were
shot in Westown recently I ast week,
a son of George Kirkpatrick, East Nant
meal, about fourteen years of age, met
with an accident by which be lost his life.
I n campany with two other young fellows,
named Lomas and Honecker, he started
out for a night's fishing on Beaver creek.
They had coal oil lamps with them, when
the one in the possession of young Kirk
patrick exploded, throwing the burning
fluid all over his person. In a second, he
was enveloped in flames, and his com
panions, in their efiorts to save his life,
threw him into the creek. But he was
too severely burned. He was taken home,
where he lingered in a very painful man
ner for four days, when he died.
COUNTY.—Rev. G. M. Shipman
will preach a sermon on Sunday next, in
the York Baptist meeting house, on the
evils which afflict the community, and
review the operations of the license 1aw....
The new M. E. church at Gatchelville,
Fawn township, will be dedicated on Sat
urday, the Dith inst The lumber office
of Smalls, Bender Co., in York, was
entered on Saturday morning last, by
burglars, who attempted to blow open
the safe. The explosion, which failed to
open the door, was heard by the family
of Mr. Small, who immediately arose,
when the burglars left the premises.... The
Wri!ffitsville Stor says quite a number of
new barns and other latiklin,o . s are going
up this season in various parts of Hellion
township On Friday night before last,
twenty dollars were stolen from Mrs.
Ward's hoarding house in Wrightsville.
A. S. Martin, who left fire parts unknown,
is suspeetc("The corner•stone of the
new Lutheran church of Bev. Dr. Ilaum,
in York, was laid on Saturday afternoon
last.
loot itett•s.
JOB PRINTING.
Handbills, Cards, Bill Heads, Programmes,
Posters, Sze., &e., printed in the hest style and
at reasonable rates, at the FATHER AnitA.-
m Job Printing °Moe. orders by mail
promptly attended to.
PrEms: The Manheim sentinel says that
the slate (marries at that place are under
active operations, with the must sanguine
hopes of sirccess.
A small frame shed, on Rockland st., a few
rods north of Church st., this city, was de
stroyed by fire on Tuesday morning last. A
frame house belonging to Maria Gardner, ad
joining the shed, was somewhat damaged.
The shed belonged to Lewis Smith.
The new St. Paul's German Lutheran
Church, in Columbia, Rev. J. A. Darinstal
ter, pastor, will be dedicated on Sunday next.
A number of Lutheran clergymen will be
present.
The new organ for the Duke street Metho
dist Church, this city, has arrived,and will be
placed in position in the church during this
week. It was built by Samuel Boiler, of
Reading, and cost $2500.
Martin Smeych has picked twelve bushels
of strawberries, and expects to pick ten bush
els more, off of a piece of ground ]5O feet
long by 30 feet wide, situated in West King
street, this city.
From every appearance there will be a large
crop of hay this year. The time for mowing
is not far off. The grass fields never looked
better than at present.
Mr. Peter Reily, of this city, exhibited on
Tuesday, a strawberry of the triumph de
gand variety, which weighed one and a half
ounce.
The Thirty-third Annual Commencement
of Fraflklin and Marshall College will take
place in Fulton Hall, this city, on Thursday,
July let.
Market Master Kuhns last week seized a
quantity of butter for being short of weight.
On Saturday morning, as a son of Mr. Isaac
Bushong, of Leacock twp., was driving along
the Bridgeport and Horseshoe turnpike with
a wagon loaded with a threshing machine, to
which three horses were hitched, the horses
ran off into a piece of woods, near Stamm's
tannery. The lead horse ran against a tree
and was instantly killed.
The Oxford Frew says, that during the
prevalenoe of the heavy thunder storm on
Saturday afternoon last, the lightning struck
John Hampstead's bowie at Coulter's Corner,
Coleraiu twp., and the fluid was conducted by
a lead pipe into the cellar. Several of the in
mates were shocked, besides several persona
in the vicinity. Mrs. Mendenhall, residing
some 500 yards distant, was knocked down,
and did not recover her speech until next
morning.
The Inaugural Fair by the Lancaster County
Agricultural Park Association commenced
on Tuesday and continued over Wednesday
last. A large number of persons were in at
tendance, many of them strangers. The
managers of the Association have done all in
their power, to have the Fair prove a success.
The contest on Tuesday afternoon for the
Trotting Premium of $3OO, for the best three
in five to harness, was concluded at 4 o'clock.
Six horses were entered. "Importer " did
not put in an appearance, and " Sasarack "
and "Auburn George" were distanced on
the first heat. "Lady Lightfoot," owned by
Mr. R. P. Stetson, of Philadelphia, and en
tered by Mr. Owen Hopple, of this city, car
ried off the premium, winning three straight
heats. The last heat was made in 2:38.
A son of Mr. Samuel J. Erb, of Rapho twp.,
was killed on the afternoon of the Bth inst.,
under the following circumstances: The young
man had been engaged with his father's hired
man in harrowing some potatoes. Upon com
pleting the work they started homeward, the
boy riding the mule which was hitched to the
hoe-harrow. Just as they were about starting
the mule became frightened and ran home
ward; the boy was thrown off, and his legs
becoming entangled in the harness, he was
dragged for quite a distance by the mule and
was so injured that he died soon after the oc
currence of the accident.
The Pine Grove and Lancaster Railroad,
now building, will connect at }fanheim with
the Reading, Columbia and Lancaster road.
The rails are now laid from Pine Grove to
Lebanon, and within a year it will be com
pleted.
The Philadelphia express train which
leaves that city at midnight, ran oil the track