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LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCE ERlDXYJAlSnJARY 9, 1880.
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Haucastet liitelltgencer.
FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1880.
Reviewing the Courts.
The Carlisle Volunteer seems te have
a queer notion of the proprieties of jour
nalism, and .its relations te courts and
juries. It is quite shocked at the mod
ern tendency of :' a certain class of wri
ters te ridicule the jury system and te
speak disparagingly of opinions emanat
ing from the bench." It should remember
that is net the jury system nor the judi
ciary, as such, that is criticised, but the
tee frequent abuse of them. Everybody
knows, who keeps his eyes open, that
influences tee often creep into the jury
box and determine verdicts which have
no business there, and that under the
present elective system meusing politi
cians crawl upon the bench whose reck
less partisanship or incempetency are
continually being manifested. When
these abuses are certain it is the duty of
the honest press te point them out and
te score these responsible indeed there
is often no ether remedy for the wrong
nor any ether means of vindicating
the integrity of justice. The boundless
power of a judge, which makes him capa
ble of the most tremendous and arbitrary
abusa of his functions and of yet saving
himself from impeachment, renders it
absolutely necessary that at times he
should be reviewed fearlessly in the
newspapers, and this sort of criticism is
often only gauged by the high standard
of a judiciary which intelligent journal
ism would apply. Se, tee, it often happens
after jurymen have separated and their
action is irreparable that the newspaper
discovers their verdict te have been se
cured by improper means, and it is its
duty te expose the wrong, regardless of
the" delusion that " twelve sworn men"
" fellow the testimony of the witnesses."
The case especially under considera
tion by the Volunteer seems te fitly illus
1 rate both sides of the argument. A
woman up in its town is under sentence
of death for poisoning a neighbor. It
admits that " a large majority of this
community believe that the evidence in
the cascdid netjustifya verdict of guilty
and a still larger number did net at any
time in the proceedings expect a convic
tion." The newspapers which have com
mented en the affair have alleged that
there was net even adequate proof that
the alleged victim died of poisoning, that
no evidence of act or motive connected the
prisoner with the crime, and that despite
an intense popular prejudice against her
prier te the alleged crime the jury steed
six te six when they went out and were
fresh from following the " testimony
of the witnesses." These statements
have net been contradicted and the IV
imlur'x account of the state of local sen
timent confirms them and makes news
papers " hundreds of miles from the
scene ' quite capable of fairly calling a
halt when a woman has been tried, con
victed, denied a new trial, and sentenced
te be hanged, in the face of such doubts
as te her guilt as te make " a large ma
jority " of the people of the vicinage be
lieve the evidence insufficient te convict
her and a still larger majority doubted
that the six jurymen who thought her
innocent would yield te the six who
thought her guilty.
We assure the Velenti tr that the In
TELMOEXfEi: has no interest in the
case except by virtue of its general re
tention in the case of justice. Our no
tice was directed te it by the account of
it published by the Herald, and if the
facts there given were net correct why
de net some of the Carlisle people make
a correct statement of them ? If that
fair place wants lobe disgraced by hang
ing an innocent woman it is chiefly its
own concern of course, and yet it cannot
expect the rest of the commonwealth te
keep silent.
Down in Maine.
Things will get settled sometime up
in the agitated state of Maine, and in
accordance tee with its laws and consti
tution ; but meanwhile the Republicans
are net displaying any very conspicuous
talent for taking care of themselves.
Since the Legislature has met and the
Democrats have obtained full control
of the situation, there is a subsistence of
the talk about revolution, which seems
remarkable in view of the decision of
the supreme court that the Democrats
are enjoying the Republicans' feast. It
must be an exceedingly aggravating sit
uation te the abused parly, and one which
would excuse a geed deal of bluster. We
de net hear it, probably because it is
mere prudent te bear the injury patiently
and te expect redress from the Demo
cratic sense of justice ; which will no
doubt in due lime give it te them. By
the kindness of Eugene Hale, the Re
publican leader, the Democrats were
given a quorum of the Legislature,under
which they have proceeded te set the
machinery of the state in motion ; and,
though some people think it was stupid
in Mr. Hale thus te aid his enemy, it
was in fact the best thing he could de te
threw himself upon the mercy of the
Democratic party and trust te its mag
nanimity for justice.
We are bound te say for the constitu
tion of Maine that it seems te abound in
pitfalls for the unwary politicians and in
devices te defeat the popular will. As
it is of Republican manufacture and
heretofore lias been used against Demo
cratic victims it would be expecting tee
much of human nature that its effective
devices should net be used for the un
doing of the authors of them who are
new under their harrow. The latest
illustration of the peculiarities of the
Maine law is found in the embarrass
ment encountered by the sixty Republi
can colleagues of Mr. Hale in endeavor
ing te get into the seats which the gov
ernor and council gave them certificates
of election te. When they appear a day
after the fair for the purpose of being
sworn into office, the governor and coun
cil before whom the law says that
they shall take the oath are them
selves out of ellice. The new
governor is te be elected by the
Legislature and the problem presented te
the legal mind of the Maine Republicans
is hew te get their representatives into
the Legislature in time te vote for a gov
ernor, who has te be elected before they
can be sworn in. It would seem te be a
reasonably hard question te decide, but
no doubt the Maine supreme court,which
has shown such facility in settling
the law te suit the present Repub.
lican needs, will have a solution
which will le agreeable te Mr. Eugene
Hale's colleagues, new se very uncom
fortably out in the cold. Rut, as that
opinion may he longn-ceniing, the polit
ical life of the Republican party in
Maine may be badly frost-bitten lxjfere
it gets its medicine : which is the fault
of the Maine laws, that have always
been of a strange sort, past the compre
hension of Democratic minds and gen
erally devised te abridge the liberty of
the jieeple.
JIokatie Seymeuij, in the talk from
him which we print te-day, confirms the
statement that the difficulties in the
Democratic party in New Yerk are net
nearly se serious as some of our friends
fear and all of our enemies hope. Wise
councils will prevail there and the party
will be solid for the nominee of the na
tional convention.
PERSONAL.
ISismauck is sick again.
Secretary Siieiiman's only
child is an
adopted daughter.
It is said that Mr. Blaixk had a violent
fit en Wednesday night, brought. en by
overwork. Physicians were with him five
hours.
Chief of Police Themas Davis, for
thirty years connected with the Syracuse
police, and their chief since the organiza
tion of the city, died yesterday.
Mr. Cek.max, who has just been nomi
nated for the Senate from Maryland, was a
Republican page in that body many years
age, and new returns te it as a Democratic
member.
The Cincinnati .society of ex-army and
naval officers held its annual banquet at
the Burnet house last night. Judge M. F.
Force presided, and about 150 persons
were present. Letters were read from
Generals Sherman, Sheridan, and ethers.
The welcome concert te AitTiiui: Si'lli
van at the Acadamy of Music, Baltimore,
last night, was financially and artistically
a grand success. A chorus of 1500 voices
and an orchestra of 45 pieces, led by Mr.
Sullivan, performed selections from his
compositions.
Mr. Jehn Austin Stevens, editor of the
Maijazinc of American History, has invited
four hundred of the leading citizens of
Philadelphia, New Yerk and Bosten te
a reception of Jeiix W. Feilnkv, te wel
come him te New Yerk en the occasion of
) the establishment, there of his weekly
peredical, Progress.
On Monday, the 5th, Mrs. Fisher, the
mother of Mrs. Ciiaielks G. Lklaxij, died
in Philadelphia. Mrs. Fisher was a Miss
Callender, of immediate English descent.
She was a great belle in her youth, and
one of the chief beauties of Philadelphia
when it had many. She married Redney
Fisher, a nephew of Cajsar Redney, and
cousin of the beautiful and celebrated Miss
Yiniug. the queen and beauty of Washing
ton's republican court.
There is a brisk contest going en in the
Senate ever the nomination of a son of the
late Senater Monrex te the collcctership
of San Francisce. Senater Beeth opposes
the confirmation with much vigor. He
bases his objection mainly en the ground
of want of sufficient residence te justify
such an important appointment. There is
a strong disposition among old friends of
Senater Morten, without regard te their
relations te party or te the administration,
te vote for the seu's confirmation. Mean
while Senater Heeth stands en his rights
as a senator, and claims that the courtesy
usually extended te senators in the case of
an obnoxious nomination shall be extended
te himself and his Democratic colleague,
whom he has induced te take sides with
him.
Joux Rmuirr has recently been making
a speech at Rochdale, in which, among
many compliments te this country, he re.
ports the views of a member of Parliament,
who has adopted liberal and democratic
doctrines because we have been paying elf
our debt rapidly, giving various ether cvi
deuces of geed sense, and because, as lie
remarks, while we talk a geed deal or
nonsense wc take geed care te act wisely
in serious emergencies. We arc also com
plimented en the fact that this country
continues te be the refuge of victims of
religious persecution, the emigration of
Russian Mennenilcs being cited as an ex
ample ; and praised for our effective main"
tcnancc of the barriers between church and
stale, for the heroism involved in the effort
te overthrew slavery, and for the orderly
manner in which a gigantic army relapsed
into its normal condition of peaceful citi
zenship. Anether instance of Hayes's predilection
for apieinting people from Ohie te all the
offices within his gift, te the exclusion of
mere meritorious persons, has just occur
red, and creates much bitter feeling espe
cially amongst Pcnnsylvanians. It ap
pears that through the proper channel
William A. T. Maddex, captain and assist
ant quartermaster en the general staff of
the marine corps, and stationed at Phila
delphia, has been placed en the retired fist.
The Pennsylvania representatives unani
mously presented the name of W. R.
lb-own, the senior captain en the list, a
native of Pennsylvania, and new stationed
at League island, for the promotion. Not
withstanding his rank and long services
and clear right te such recognition, Hayes
ignored his claim, and has nominated
Woodhull F. Schenck, of Ohie, and
a nephew of Gen. Schenck, for the
position, thus overriding the prier claims
of one second lieutenant, thirty first lieu
tenants, and twenty captains.
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A Startling Defalcation.
Frauds en the New Yerk produce ex
change te the amount of $31,500 have been
discovered. The defaulter was Benjamin
C. Begert, who had beeu treasurer of the
exchange for many years, and was a highly
respected merchant in whom general con
fidence was felt. Mr. Begert did net ap
pear at the exchange or at his office after
the discovery was made, and died sudden
ly yesterday afternoon at the house of a
friend in the city. It. is thought that, un
able te bear his disgrace, he may have com
mitted suicide. The disclosure of the de
falcation was due te the determination of
the finance committee of the produce ex
change te transfer the account of the ex
change from one bank te another. Mr.
Begert is supposed te have used the money
which he took hi his private business.
Philadelphia has 12,092 delinquent
payers.
tax-
MINOR TOPICS.
Mesby is te be ejected from the Heng
Keng consulate for telling the truth. We
have always observed a resemblance be
tween Mesby and Geerge Washington.
We are glad te read, day after day. the
Examiner's heaity endorsement of the
New Yerk Sun. When the Examiner re
bukes fraud and the Era shines as a
"society organ" the millennium dawns.
The Republican press of this state, with
singular unanimity, raises its voice against
the Cameren domination and the preten
sions of Quay, but without practical
leadership it will be vex ctpralcrea nihil.
The American republic must be totter
ing. A Washington correspondent sends
the harrowing intelligence that ' for the
first time in the history of Washington, a
member of the Heuse has come here with
his wife, and they have gene into the lu
crative business of taking boarders."
Cardinal Manning is in Remc,trying te
induce the Pepe te consent te his plan for
subjecting the monastic orders in Great
Britain te episcepal authority, they new
being directly dependent upon the Pepe.
Te say nothing of the male confraternities,
there arc 501 convents in the United King
dom, with ever eight thousand nuns.
That repentant pirate who pulled the
plank from under the feet of Theodesia
Burr Allston keeps en dying in alms
houses and making a last full confession of
his part in the tragic drama of the ocean.
This time the Chicago Inter-Ocean dishes
up the old fellow. Who'll set him up en
the ether alley.'
The Earl of Dunraven, who is himself a
real Celtic Irishman, says that there is no
such thing as a Celtic Irish people in ex
istence. " The inhabitants of Ireland arc
a very mixed race, composed principally
of Celts, Danes, and Englishmen, both of
what is called the Anglo-Saxen and the
Nerman race. It would be hard te find
many pure Celts in Ireland."
Having stolen the Transvaal Republic,
the British begin te arrest leading citizens
for high treason. This is en the same
principle that the impudent robber, who
has taken your watch, has you turned ever
te the constable for trying te snatch it
back, and yet, when Jehn Bull gets down
en his marrow-bones at family prayers; he
fairly shakes the turrets of heaven with
the resonance of his devotions.
Gov. Van Zaxdt is said te be extremely
anxious te succeed Burnsidc in the United
State Senate, and his aspirations in that
direction probably had mere weight in de
termining his declination of the mission
at St. Petersburg than his fears of the
severity of the Russian winter. He has
gained a gacat deal of respect in his guber
naterial career, and would very probably
make mere of a mark in the Senate than
the incumbent has whose term of office is
seen te expire.
Feil the Democratic nomination of
United States senator in Maryland Wm.
Piukncy Whytc reconsidered his determin
ation te withdraw tee late. He had an
neunced that he was no candidate, and
German made the fight and wen it.
Whvte reconsidered, nut the greunu was
occupied, and in the caucus last night A
P. German received 54 votes, Wm. Pink-
ncy Whytc, present U. S. senator, 22, S.
Tcacklc Wallis, 3. In Ohie the Demo
crats compliment Thurman with their
empty nomination.
The explanation which is made for
Judge Orvis's exhibition of temper in sen
tencing a Centre county prisoner te three
years' extra imprisonment for " sassing "
the court, docs net explain. The boy may
he a man, as is alleged, and an old burglar,
but the material fact is disproved that
three years were added te his sentence be
cause he made a very natural remark te
the court, which its dignity should have
passed ever in silence and by resenting
which it was exposed te the contempt of
the public.
The Philadelphia Press has an article en
the " Infamy of Maine" in which it char
acterizes the action of Governer Garcclen
and his council as "the most brazen out
rage ever perpetrated in this country," en
titling them " te rank with the greatest
criminals in history." But it will be grat
ifying te the readers of the Press te observe
in the next column that it still retains all
its former admiration for J. Madisen
Wells and the Louisiana returning board beard
It describes the Louisiana returning beard
as "an invention" of a Republican state
administration for thwarting the villainy
of the Democratic politicians of the state,
" clothed with powers which arc admitted
te be extraordinary, but which alone were
sufficient for the emergency."
l'atti's Kansas Critics.
In the Patti deposition case Leaven
worth, Kan. yesterday, Themas Giaconii Giacenii
ni, an Italian, keeper of the Dclmonice
restaurant, testified that Madame Patti
sent for him about 9 o'clock en the night
of the concert. When he arrived at the
theatre he found her sitting at a table be
hind the scenes with a beer glass
before her, containing what he sup
posed te be liquor. Although he had never
seen her before, she addressed him as 'Dear
Giacomini," and ordered him te cook sonic
macaroni and cheese and some quail for
her lunch after the concert, te be served
at the Planters' house, and te furnish
three bottles of French claret. She was
quite familiar in her conversation with
him. He then went into the auditorium
and heard Madam Patti sing, and declared
it was very peer singing. He served the
lunch as ordered.
J. W. Cranccr, Thee Egcrsderf, R. N.
Hershfild and William M. Lecper, premi
nent merchants, testified that from
Madame Patti's appearance and manner
en the stage, her peer singing, etc., they
believed her te be under the inllucnce of
liquor.
Tlie Eminent .Mars of Itcne.
New Yerk World.
The most eminent liars of Rene collect
ed a few days age and the result is as bc bc
Jew : Beck said he had seen it se cold in
6hie that it froze babies in the cradle ;
Tem Hymers said he had seen it in
Themas's canon freeze the mercury, and
said you could net go within six feet of a
spirit thermometer without running it up
five or six degrees with the heat of the
body, se he couldn't tell hew cold it was ;
Ben Bacen said a cold snap came along
when he lived at Green bay and froze the
waves standing right up en end and the
air ful of spray, and Finley Cook said it
was se cold the winter he lived in Minne
sota that when he threw a basin of water
out of the deer it turned into little balls of
ice before it struck the ground.
CHESTER COUNTY IN ARMS.
Trouble Down There for Den.
West Chester Dispatch te Xew Yerk Sun,
The first evidence of open rebellion
against the tyranny of Den Cameren in
calling the state convention te meet Feb
ruary 4, several months in advance of the
regular time, has just been given by Sheriff
James E. McFarl'an, chairman of the Re
publican committee of Chester county, in
calling a county convention te meet here
en the 27th of this month eight days in
advance of the meeting of Cameren's state
convention.
The object of this county convention is
te select two delegates te the national con
vention in fiat defiance of Cameren's or
ders that these delegates te the Grant con
vention at Chicago are all te be chosen in
state convention at Harrisburg en the 4th
of February next.
If the Harrisburg convention refuses te
confirm the selection of delegates chosen
by the Chester county congressional dis
trict, it will cause a contest at the opening
proceedings of the Chicago convention
that may unpleasantly air the despotism of
Den Cameren, and if, en the ether hand,
these delegates arc confirmed, it may re
sult in precisely similar action te that
taken by the two delegates from this dis
trict te the Cincinnati convention four
years age.
The delegation from this state was in
structed by the state convention te vote
as a unit upon all questions, but en the
second ballet for president Messrs. Futhey
and Darlington, the two delegates from
this district, refused te be governed by
that rule, and insisted en casting their
votes for Blaine.
Den Cameren, chairman of the state
delegation, and then Grant's secretary of
war, announced the entire vote of the
state as cast for Hartranft. J. Smith
Futhey rose te a point of order, and de
manded that the votes of himself and col
league be recorded for James G. Blaine.
The chair decided that their votes should
be se recorded. The chair rules that it is
the right of any and every member equally
te vote his sentiments in this conven
tion. Dick MeCermick, of Arizona, appealed
from the decision of the chair ; but the
chair was sustained, after a het fight of
two hours, by a vote of "581 te 359.
Under any circumstances this rebellion
premises te interfere with the smooth
working of Cameren's plans. Its signifi
cance is in the fact that Chester county is
the home of Cel. Hoetcn, chairman of the
state committee.
The Zell JHurtlcr Case anil the Neuiai. rs.
Ciirli.-lu Volunteer.
The New Yerk Herald, Philadelphia
Times and Lancaster Intelligence!: sim
ultaneously attaek the verdict in the Kiehl
murder trial, and all argue very much as if
they were in the employ of the defense, in
presence of the court and jury, and ex
pecting large fees for their labor. The
subject is an extremely delicate one for a
public journal te comment upon upon, be
cause se very few people consider the case
as finally settled and because another per
son is under indictment for the same mur
der, but these newspapers, or these who
write for them, seem te think that if they
de err in their action they err en the safe
side, and therefore write with a most reck
less freedom.
Leeking at the matter from a distance,
they distort and misrepresent facts and
jump at conclusions which we can net be
lieve they would de were they net misled
by some one. Wc aie well aware that a
large majority of the people of this com
munity believe that the evidence in the
case did net justify a verdict of guilty,
and that a still larger number did net,
at any time in the proceedings, expect a
conviction, but in all deference te this be
lief we can net see the propriety of the
newspapers, papers hundreds of miles from
the scene of the trial, vigorously main
taining that their opinion of the facts
and the law in the case is correct, and
that the twelve sworn men and the
court, who followed the testimony of the
witnesses and the arguments et the coun
sel for both sides, day after day, through
the whole term of the trial, should have
erred. Hasty and ill-advised action of this
kind, it seems te us, is just about as likely
te injure as te help the cause of the
defendant if it was taken in the interest
of the defendant. In manufacturing pub
lic opinion by means of which verdicts arc
influenced the public press illustrates its
power, but we seriously question
whether in se doing it does net
trench upon greuuds which prop
erly belong only te courts of justice. It
has become popular of late years with a
certain class of writers te find fault with
and ridicule the jury system and te speak
disparagingly of opinions emanating from
the bench, if these opinions chance net te
accord with the notions of these moralists;
but admitting that the jury system is im
perfect and that judges sometimes commit
grave errors, it is certain that an individ
ual, no matter hew peer or hew friendless,
is always mere likely te receive justice at
the hands of a preiierly constituted court
of justice than "in the great forum of pub
lic opinion." The powers that be should
be respected.
An Eccentric Alan.
The suicide of Leenard Case, the Cleve
land millionaire, is a tragic ending of an
eccentric but useful life. Mr. Case was
fend of doing geed in the most unexpected
and grotesque ways. One day while out
driving with the eity editor of the Cleve
land Herald, Mr. J. II. A. Bene, he point
ed out several lets and asked ?.Ir. Bene
which he thought most eligible for build
ing. Bene made a selection, and Case
said : "Well, build a house en it and send
ine the bills when it is completed. I'll
give you a deed te the property." Mr.
Bene took him at his word and the
premise was faithfully fulfilled. A
few years age he walked into a
meeting of the Yeung 3ien's Christian as
sociation, laid $1,000 en the table, and left
without saying a word, lie would never
notice a direct appeal for charity, and,
some ladies having solicited his help, he
rebuffed them flatly. The next day they
received a $.100 bill anonymously. lie
founded Case library, giving te the asso
ciation a property worth .$200,000. lie
employed an agent te dispense charity se
cretly, and gave away during his life
thousands of dollars. He was a man of de
cided literary talent and thoroughly well
read. Fer several jears he has been suffer
ing from consumption, and finally, unable
te lear it any longer, he put an end te his
miserable existence with chloroform.
High Water iiiTcmicsscc.
The American's Johnsenvillc (Tcnn.),
special despatch says: "The Steamer
I lettie Bliss, running in the Duck river
trade, reports the destruction of ."5,000
bushels of peanuts and 5,000 barrels of
corn in the Duck liver valley during the
past month by phenomenal freshets which
have swept down that stream, equal te the
force and volume produced by the bursting
of immense dams. Rains have been parti
cularly heavy, amounting at time te wat r
spouts. The weather in Tennessee is un
usually warm, grass growing as in mid
summer and peach tress about te bloom.
The Maryland Penitentiary Ki-purt.
The annual report of the directors of the
Maryland penitentiary for the year ended
Nev. :0 shows the entire income for the
year at $98.34:.2."5. The net earnings were
$19,955.28, of which $0,953.93 were expend
ed in permanent improvements and $13,
001.83 paid into the state treasury. The
average number of prisoners was 813 a
decrease of 12 per cent, compared with the
previous year. The average number of
prisoners under contract was G93 ; expense
per capita during the year. $105.21 ; num
ber of deaths, a little ever 2 per cent.
PARTY ISSUES.
Relative Positions or the Twe Great Parties
Horatio Seymour's Advice te the
Democracy.
A representative of the New Yerk
World has had an interview with Horatio
Seymour at his home in Dccrficld, near
Utica, The interview seems te have been
reluctantly accorded by Mr. Seymour, and
he spoke at last with the understanding
that he was giving his views once and for
all. He spoke as fellows :
In looking ever the political field it is
evident that en the Republican side there
are sharp controversies and much bitter
ness. The Republicans are in a far worse
way than the Demerits se far as feuds are
concerned. It is true that the divisions
in the ranks of the latter are mere ejhjh
and conspicuous, but they have reached a
point where they admit of healing reme
dies. Hatreds and jealousies in the ranks
of political organizations are like erysipe
las in the human system half cured when
brought te the surface. Concealed hate
and feverish iealeusv poison the bleed of
the Republican organization. The party
has no remedy for this state of things. Its
disease is internal, and therefore danger
ous, perhaps deadly. If it could be brought
te the surface it might be cured, but new
it is festering inwardly and with very bad
symptoms. The poison has permeated
the whole system, and there is no sage se
skillful as te be able te prescribe success
fully for a hidden distemper.
On the ether hand, there is one advant
age which the Democratic party possesses.
It always comes up smiling after a defeat.
Its vitality is wonderful. It- has outlived
a dozen opposing organizations, and it has
held te its ancient creeds while ethers have
caught at every excitement or novelty
brought te the surface by events. In the
country especially the Democracy have
made their adherence te sound party prin
ciple a matter as personal as their religion
though in a different way. It is a mat
ter en which they have permitted them
selves te become enthusiastic. Yeu can
not change them. The hard-fisted Demo
cracy cling te their faith under defeats and
trials, and are withal imbued with senti
mental feelings never seen in the conglom
erate ranks of their opponents. The Re
publicans fall te pieces unless they can be
kept at a welding heat by passion and ex
citement. If these cannot be kept up
against their opponents they break out in
their own ranks.
Under these circumstances there is every
reason te hope for the success of the Dem
ocratic ticket in the coming presidential
election. The Democratic vote in this
state last fall, under the circumstances, was
a marvelous one. Te my mind it amounts
te a demonstration that the state can be
carried by the Democratic candidates who
ever they may be. Wc have had our light
and it is ever. There are no feuds nor jeal
ousies left te rankle inwardly.
There is another clement new coming te
the surface which will tend strongly te in
crease this harmony. The town meetings
and elections are at hand. About twenty
thousand town officers are te be elected
and there is probably an average of three
candidates te an office. All these men are
doing everything that lies in their power te
unite the party and concentrate its undi
vided strength en the town elections. Peo
ple in the country really care less about
who shall be president of the United
States than who shall be supervisor of
their town, or justice of the peace, or per
haps school commissioner. They will al
vote for supervisor and will work with re
newed energy te secure the election of
their party's candidate. This is especially
true of the Democrats, much mere
se, I think, than in the case of the Repub
licans. The old sores of the Democratic
party, as I have said, are en the surface, and
therefore net only are net dangerous but
can easily be reached te be healed. What
ever healing process is necessary will, no
doubt, be completed by the spring elec
tions. As te candidates en the Republican side,
the men who have opposed the present ad
ministration apiear te favor Grant, and
his strongest opponent new is Blaine. The
fight is se sharp that it may end in bring
ing up a new man, as has happened before.
The third term is against Grant, and
Blaine is tee much of a Republican te suit
his party. The Republican party does net
like violent men in office, though it always
praises them for their boldness in the fight.
Morten, Chandler, Blaine and men of that
stamp were thrown ever in 187(5, and the
mere malleable and less well-known man
from Ohie was picked up and made presi
dent. Something of the kind is likely te
be done again.
On the Democratic side there is a readi
ness te take up any man who can unite all
factions. As they are all anxious te har
monize a way will be found te carry out
their wishes. Outside of this state Bay
ard, Thurman, Hendricks, English, and
ethers have been spoken of as presidential
candidates, and either of them, I should
think, would prove acceptable. The
Democracy cannot go astray in making
selection. The man whom they will nom
inate has every prospect of success.
The controversies in the Democratic
party in New Yerk are much less danger
ous than they seem te be. There arc great
and enduring reasons why this state should
upheld the Democratic party and its prin
ciples. In the first place, there is here
much less of sectional feeling than else
where. Our business men, merchants and
manufacturers are constantly brought into
contact with the people of the Seuth in
the course of their transactions, whereby
they learn the difficulties under which
they labor, and they desire net only te
promote their own interests, but in se
doing the interests of the country at large.
This intercourse has much mere influence
than congressional debates or the appeals
in our journals te political prejudice. The
same thing is also felt te a degree in reli
gious and ether organizations. The war
upon the Seuth has been ever-acted. It
has been carried se far that new there is a
reaction, and this cannot fail te benefit the
Democratic party which is the party of en
lightened conservatism.
There are ether and stronger reasons
why New Yerk must be Democratic. Its
commercial position demands that it shall
oppose the centralizing policy of the Re
publican party. That policy is destruc
tive of the interests and welfare of the
state. With its great wealth and popula
tion it has the least relative representation
in the United States senate of any state in
the Union, and all questions of centraliza
tion will always be most hurtful te these
who have the least representative power
and the most wealth te be taxed. The
Senate has gradually absorbed political
power. It is filled with men of large exper
iences growing out of the tenure of their
offices. They are usually selected after
they have had a training in state legisla
tures, or the Heuse of Representatives.
The members control vast numbers of ap
pointments under the general government.
When a question conies up between this
state and its rivals wc stand no fair chance
of justice.
Shet and Killed.
Milten White, aged seventy years, the
keeper of a tell gate near Meckville,
Washington county, Ky., shot Philip
White, a boy of seventeen years, en Mon
day. There had been a previous quar
rel between the parties, who are
relatives, and Milten says the boy
had threatened his life. On the
day of the killing Philip was passing along
the turnpike in front of Milten's house,
when the latter came te the deer with a
shotgun and said he was going te sheet
him. Philip threw open his besom and
told him te fire away, which Milten at
once did, killing the boy instantly. Milten
was held for murder and bail was refused.
Fears of lynching arc entertained.
STATU! ITEMS.
The Baldwin works built 398 locomotives
the past year.
The Renovo Recerd estimatas the total
amount of lumber that will be floated
from that point next spring at 14,000,000
feet.
There is a deep fceling of thanks in
every Pennsylvania heart when he dwells
en the fact that his state is net suffering
fiem a Legislature.
Philadelphia report:; 13,473 deaths in
1S79, against 13,498 in 1879. a decrease of
25. About one-fourth oft l.e deaths were
lrem lung diseases.
Richard Merrick, aged forty, died at the
German hospital from the effects of falling
into a vat of boiling water at the dye
works. Twenty second and Hamillen
streets, Philada.
In Erie, yesterday morning, an unknown
man was found dead and greatly decom
posed in an old building. By his side was
a bottle containing pure alcohol. He had
evidently been dead some time. Later in
the day the body was identified as that of
Ames McClcnthen. of WatCrferd. who has
been mising from home.
Scofield WolstencreTt. 51 years old, com
mitted suicide with strychnine yesterday,
at the residence of his brother William.
309 East Cumberland street, Philadelphia.
He was a married man, and had until re
cently been farming in Delaware county.
Since his arrival in the city he has been
drinking heavily and did net come home
en Wednesday night. Yesterday when he
reached home he went te the bathroom.
A noise was heard by one of the children,
who then peeped into the apaitmentaud
saw the uncle en the lloer in horrible con
vulsiens caused by taking enough poison te
kill six men.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL,
In
Frederick. Md., Felix Munsheur was
convicted of
murder in the first degree
for the murder of his
cousin. James
Wetzel.
A fire at La Grange, Missouri, vesterdav
destroyed the best business houses in the
eity, one of them belonging te ex-Cen
gressinan Grever. The entire Ies will
amount te $10,000.
The parallel red of the engine te a pay
master's train broke, between Manchester,
N. II., and Lawrence, yesterday, punching
a hole through the boiler and baulv scald
ing Chas. E. Jenes, engineer, and Charles
Webster, fireman, both of Concord
The consecration of Themas Alfred Star-
key, Protestant Episcopal bishop elect of
the diocese of Northern New Jcrsev, took
place at (Jracc church. Newark yesterday,
Willi niiprej-sivc ceremonies, in wiiien a
large number of bishops and clergy partici
pated.
t. tuisui ljriiigciaiKi reports mat ine re
ceipts of American corn at Havre decreas
ed during the last year because of the use
of false certificates of inspection. Many
cargoes that arrived wen; fit only for fuel.
The increase in the importation of Ameri
can bacon and lard has been large.
The United States counsel at Valparaiso
reports that the Edith Davis, an American
bark, owned in Portland, Maine, was
burned at sea en October 23. The crew of
fifteen men are new enjoying the hospital
ity of Alfred Derete, the lessee of the
island of Juan Fernandez.
The Indian government have decided te
allow the rules respecting newspaper cor
respondents with troops in active service,
te remain in abeyance, leaving te the dis
cretion of commanders the question of im
posing restrictions upon them if necessary.
Ne correspondent will, however, be per
mitted te the front without license.
There was a fire panic at Dead weed, Da
kota, yesterday, the city narrowly escap
ing destruction. The timber surrounding
the city caught fire for miles around and it
was only by superhuman efforts that the
eity itself was saved. Several cabins were
burned as it was, and ether damage was
done.
Afire occurred at the bearJing home
Ne. 254 West 21st street, New Yerk, yes
terday. All the boarders except two
escaped without injury. Mrs. F. A. Mul
len jumped from a window en the fourth
fleer, landing en the balcony, where she
was found by the firemen and removed te
a place of safety, slightly injured. Mrs.
Lewe was found in one of the rooms insen
sible. The less was small.
The glycerine building belonging te the
Lafliu & Rand powder company's works at
Oak Ridge, N. J., blew up yesterday
morning. Twe men. Fowler and Merrell,
firemen, were blown through the reef,
which was also blown elf and one side of
the building demolished. Beth injured
men arc still alive, though Fowler is
thought te be dying and Merrell will prob
ably net survive his injuries.
The charge of criminal libel brought
against Richard Smith, of the Cincinnati
Gazette, was dismissed in the police court
by the prosecuting attorney, en the ground
that a criminal charge cannot lie against
a corporation, Smith being charged as a
representative of the Cincinnati Gazette
company. Dr. W. S. Jenes, the writer of
the article in question, has been arrested
en a charge of criminal libel.
Superintendent Campbell, of the Brook
lyn police, en Wednesday came into pos
session of seven signed and eight unsigned
bends of the New Yerk Central railroad,
which proved te be counterfeits. The
bends were of the denomination of $1,000
each, and were discovered buried in the
earth in the weeds near Fert Hamilton by
Jehn Schwartz, a farmer, who dug them
up in a bottle December 23d, while at
work.
An Kx;!antien.
M'lin.-jjrevc Time.-'.
The Bellefentc Watchman, lately reflected
quite severely en Judge Orvis for giving a
"boy " burglar an additional three yea re in
the penitentiary for contempt of court for
remarking as he was about te leave the
court house with the .sheriff, that he wished
he had the chance te sentence the judge te
the penitentiary for four years. It turns
out new that the "boy" is twenty-four
years of age ; that he committed burglaries
at three places in Clearfield county before
he came te Centre county ; that he was
net sentenced for contempt of court ; but
that he had been convicted en two distinct
indictments and only sentenced en one
the judge having agreed te let the ether
sentence hang ever him en his geed be
havior; and only after his contempt of
court was the sentence imposed. When
he came te the. penitentiary the warden at
once recognized him, by a photograph he
had, as old offender for whom there was
a standing reward offered ; and as seen as
his term of service is up he is wanted in
Ihoeklyn, N. Y., en similar charges.
A Horrible Murder.
Information has been received of a
shocking murder which eccurcd at Mani
wakia, a lumber station, 100 miles north
of Ottawa City. A French Canadian
named Briscbeis, it seems, had some alter
cation with his partner in the trading
business, and the quarrel growing fierce,
the men picked up axes when Briscbeis,
gaining an advantage, knocked his partner
down and cut him literally in pcices, and
then lied from the spot before he could be
captured. The lumbermen started in pur
suit but being a geed bushman Briscbeis,
eluded thein and took te the dense forests
using his show shoes with which te travel
Intencc disgust prevails in the camp of the
lumbermen.
The Amenities of Literature.
The Xew Era's bard speaks of "the
poet, Harry W. Longfellow." Next
thing he will be calling the Examiner's
poet by his first name.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
Events Acress the County Line.
Sneak thieves evidently an organized
band aie operating in the the lower end
of Dauphin county.
The West Chester Jlejmblican favors
the nomination of Cel. J. A. M. Passmere
for auditor general.
The river is in geed condition for raft
ing, and if the weather continues as mild
as it has been for the past ten days, river
men might venture out with their floats.
Mr. William E. Gilbert, who resides in
Pottstown, is the owner of a strange look
ing specimen of the chicken tribe, which
instead of having " fedders like a hen," is
covered with soft gray wool or fur, some
thing like rabbit fur.
After an animated debate of two hours,
six disputants participating, the people of
Media, Delaware county, have decided
that electing a president for a third term
would net endanger republican institu
tions. " That settles it."
On Tuesday a cow belonging te Mitchell
Baker, Thornbury, Chester county, showed
signs of indisposition. Her owner had
heard that coal oil was a geed bovine ap
petizer, and se he administered a quart of
that lluid inwardly. The medicine took
immediate eifeet and killed the animal in
three minutes. The cow was one Mr. Baker
valued highly.
The water committee of Harrisburg
councils has discovered that it has only
$300 te pay debts of 1S79 amounting te
$3,000, and the members have finally de
cided te either let the bills go ever and
pay them out of the appropriation for
1880 or else take the unexpended balance
left from the appropriations te ether com
mittees during the year 1879.
James Cenner, of Phuuiixville, was
nearly killed en Wednesday at the Pluunix
iron company's quarry by the discharge of
a blast. Cenner had prepared the blast,
and after waiting some time for it te dis
charge, concluded that the fuse had net
ignited, and returned just in time te have
both his eyes blown out and a portion of
his tern off. He was conveyed te the
Pennsylvania hospital in a very critical
condition.
In West Chester en Wednesday, a com
mercial traveler, who has three wives
living, was walking en the railroad plat
form with wife Ne. 3, when wife Ne. 2
came up behind her, tore the bonnet from
her head and gave her a geed threshing.
Wives Nes. 1 and 2, it is auid, are sisters,
residing near Glen Riddle, and Ne. 2 mar
ried her sister's husband, knowing him te
be undiverccd, and he then abandoned her
for Ne. 3. Ne attempt was made by
moral Wfht Chester te arrest the biga
mist. It is contemplated by the owners of the
Lochiel rolling mill, Harrisburg, te se
arrange the machinery in it that steel rails
can he rolled, and begin en a contract
already tillered by a New Yerk party for a
western railroad. It is designed te im
port the steel ingots from England, where,
it is said, they can be purchased cheaper
than here, and the cost of carrying them
te this country will be small. New hous
ings anil rolls will he put up in the mill,
strong enough for the new work ti be
done, at a cost of about $20,000. The
contract will be for 20,000 tens of steel
rails, and it is expected that the works
will be ready by April 1st ter the rolling.
This work will give employment te several
hundred mere hands.
i-::t)i:.BLY fatal accidknt.
A Hey UiiK Ketli !.- Cut Oil'.
Yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock, a
lad 1( years of age, named Jehn Nye and
resitting in Bainbridge, this county, met
with a terrible accident, which will most
probably result in his death, lie had hoarded
the extra freight train, engine Ne. 208. ami
after riding some distance attempted te
jump from the train, but was thrown
under the whecls,and had both legs cut off,
one arm broken, and sustained ether se
vere injuries about the head and body,
lie was taken in charge of by the foreman
of the train, and conveyed te his home
where Dr. Bean was called te attend him.
He was alive at 8 o'clock this morning,
but the doctor said it would be almost im
possible for him te survive. It is an almost
daily occurrence for the Bainbridge heys
te jump en ami off passing trains and it is
a wonder that a greater number of serious
accidents have net occurred.
Malicious MiHcIiier Assault anil Itattcry.
Before Alderman MeConemy, Andrew
Keels, colored, has made complaint of
malicious mischief against Mary Winteis,
also colored, charging her with having
thrown a brick through the front window
of his house en Mulberry street, net only
smashing the glass but breaking out the
sash. .Alary was held for a hearing to
morrow. Before Alderman Spurrier, Mary Winters,
the above named defendant, has made com
plaint against Rev. Wm. II . Keels, father
of the above named prosecutor, charging
him with assault and batter', the allega
tion being that the Rev Keels kicked Mary
out of his house. The ease will be heard
en Tuesday next.
Sale of Itt-al Lntale.
B. F. Rewe, auctioneer, sold yesterday
afternoon at the Keystone hotel. North
Queen street, the property of Jacob Rein Rein
held and the heirs of Jacob Graver, de
ceased, a let of ground containing 3(J feet
front, en North Queen street, and extend
ing in depth 215 feet te Market street, en
which is erected a three-story brick dwell
ing, with two storc-reoniSjOn North Queen
street, and three two-story brick dwellings
tin Market street, te J. W. Byrne for
$9,095.
lleei M ml.
Yesterday, a countryman with a fi-ur
horse wagon leaded with grain, stepped at
the corner of Walnut and Water streets,
where the mud is at least a feet in depth.
When he attempted te start the horses
tore their harness almost entirely elf their
hacks. After some time spent in the
repair of the harness the man was able te
proceed. This street is in a fearfully bail
condition and we advise people who have
business in that part of town te walk.
Kcceinniittctl te Jail.
Benjamin Bihl charged with riot and
felonious assault and battery en Claude
Butler, and who. after having been con
fined in jail for sonic weeks te answer at
court, was released en $1,000 bail, as
stated yesterday, has been rearrested en a
bail-piece and recommitted te jail te an
swer at court. His bondsman was Andrew
Filsinger.
Free Setiu.
This morning 383 soup rations
given out at the station house.
WiMV
J.