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MONDAY EVENING, JAN. 12, 1880.
About' Rings and Things."
The JXctc Era does net seem leased
with the nomenclature of its party quar
rels in this count-. "We cannot help it.
We did net coin it. The general impres
sien is that it was started in the .A etc
Era office, and if the new classic names
of the two rings which struggle for the
spoils worry the Era people it is only an
other case of chickens come home te
roost.
Of course the Era says what it knows
is net true when it denies that there is
an impending disruption of its Heg
Ring. We state only facts when we say
that when the bundle of sticks with which
" the Cameren ring was twice routed'
in this county fell apart it was found te
contain se many ' crooked sticks " that
it will be hard te get them together
again in the compact bundle which alone
can chastise the opposition. The cohesive
power of public plunder, "the tie which
binds," being loosed in the scramble for
petty patronage, we repeat that there are
threateningsef disruption, and it is lit
erally true that " McMellen complains
that he has net get his share, and these
who expected te be the beneficiaries of his
favor half suspect him of treachery and
de net give him credit for his efforts en
their behalf. Ed. Martin sulks in his
tent and J. W. Jehnsen untimely claims
his reward at Tem Davis's expense."
And while some of the Heg Ring leaders
are seriously considering " bustin' up
this party of ours" te use the language
of the Era's classic friends ethers
have been for months negotiating with
" the Cameren ring" te come in en geed
terms. We knew whereof we affirm.
As te "Ed. Martin sulking in his tent,"
the Intelligencer intended te convey
no such impression as that " he was
forced off the track as a candidate for
district attorney by ethers interested in
securing that office for themselves or
friends." If this journal had intended
te "convey any impression" in the matter
its language would net have been un
certain ; since, as is usual in matters of
news, the Intelligences iinds itself
"te be in a position te knew mere about
Ed. Martin's alleged 'sulking in his tent'
than any ether" journal. If Mr. Martin
had any communication en the suject te
make te the public he would hardly se.
lect as his medium a newspaper whose
recent cewardlv back out of the
fight against " the Cameren ring "
merited his contempt and aug
mented the dangers of a dissolution
of the faction with which he has co
operated If that journal honestly de
sired te fairly state why "Martin sulks
in his tent," it might have done se with
out such fulsome adulation of itself and
of what its editor did and said and hew
he talked like a father te Martin. Fer te
the public generally no better reason
need be given for Mr. Martin's retire
ment from factional politics than the
company in which he finds himself. Con
siderations of propriety no less than of
policy would suggest te him dissociation
from a fellowship se largely made up of
cowards who shrink from the issue they
have raised, of return tinkers and forgers
of naturalization papers, of political cut
throats and blackmailers, and of men who
after waging a fight en the high anti anti
Cainereu issue would "bust up the
party" if they did net get their share of
the prison or peer house spoils.
Watch It.
We trust that public attention will be
resolutely fixed upon the pending strug
gle in the Heuse of Representatives te
have the revised rules adopted. These
rules were agreed upon during the vaca
tion by a committee with Speaker Ran
dall as chairman, and including Garfield,
Alex. II. Stephens, Blackburn and Fryc,
leading members of both parties and rep
resentatives of the live great divisions of
the country. The feature of them which
meets the most intense opposition is that
which proposes te take from the commit
tee en commerce the power te report the
appropriations for rivers aud harbors and
ledges it where the control of all ether ap ap
priatiens is placed with the appropria
tions committee. Heretofore these ap
propriations have been a grand larceny
en the public treasury, members of all
parties and from every section, each
putting in his claim te a divvy, and
all leg-rolling together tit the close of
the session te get millions of subsidies
through which would have had no chance
had they been subject te the rigid scrutiny
and deliberate investigation of the appro
priations committee. Any member from
a close district who bethought himself te
get $5,000 or $10,000 or $20,000 te im
prove some trout stream in his district
' would "put in" for it, te gain the favor of
his constituents by giving them a share
in the plunder of the treasury.
The new rules, as we understand
them, are framed te prevent this and the
jobbers are arrayed against them. The
issue is plainly made up and the contest
ought te be watched closely.
General Walker, superintendent of the
census, has announced his determination
te appoint General Rebert B. Death as
supervisor of the district of Philadelphia.
The choice of the Philadelphia delegation
was Dr. Sherwood, but Senater Wallace
was opposed te him because Randall favor
ed him. Special te the Times.
Mr. Randall had no interest whatever
in Dr. Sherwoed.and never saw nor heard
of him until his three colleagues from
Philadelphia Harmer. Bingham and
O'Neill joined in his recommendation
and at their request Mr. Randall verbally
concurred. Mr. Beath was especially
urged by Kemble, who secured Con
gressman Kelley's aid; and Senators
Cameren and Wallace, for reasons
that were doubtless sufficient unto
themselves, preferred Kemble's and
Kelley's man te Harmer, Bingham and
O'Neill's man. We de net presume that
Mr. Wallace would let his senatorial dig
nity down te oppose a Republican ap
pointee simply because Mr. Randall
joined in his recommendation ; nor that
Mr. Randall is se anxious for a " fight "
in his own party that he would precipi
tate one ever a Republican scramble for
spoils. But the slangwhangers of the in
dependent press cannot be expected te be
content unless they can get the Demec-1
jacy of Pennsylvania a-quarreling.
Our racy Alabama cerresixnident
writes freely of things in the sunny Seuth,
but it is mere imagination than reality
that depicts us shivering in the Northern
blasts. With pansies blooming in our
yards and plowing progressing in the
fields,hispicture of the tropical, perrume
laden breezes, is net se tempting as he
fancies. " E. M." confesses te the polit
ical indifference of his people and their
lack of national spirit, but it is reassur-
ing W ee lOHl mat tneii i"c ui i.iiKiu
Saxen liberty will oppose a third term?
and all classes will rejoice in the dawn
ing material advancement in the Seuth.
When Reman emperors fed their
horses en gilded eats, and their guests en
the ova of brook trout and dishes made
of nightingales tongues, the empire was
in its degenerate days, and its virility
was being melted away in pampered lux
ury. The clamor for a third term for
Grant and of the need of a strong
government in this country is fitly sup
plemented by such exieriences as that of
which an account is published en our
first page, when a New Yerk epicure
entertained his company with strawber
ries costing fifteen cents apiece, and fur
nished them bills of fare that cost $15
each.
MINOR TOPICS,
were 577 births, 182 marriages
deaths in New Yerk city last
Tiieub
and 548
week.
It is many years since the Hudsen river
has been open te navigation se late in the
season.
Thk tells en the New Yerk canals in
1879 were $011,511.22. The total miles of
beats cleared were 8,22G,947.
Tub New Yerk children's aid society lias
recently found homes in Prince Geerge aud
Sussex counties, Virginia, for 200 wards,
and it is thought a thousand mere can
find homes in that section of Virginia.
The Philadelphia Tiuu has been polling
the party papers of the state, and out of
CO Republican organs 20 declare for
Blaine, 22 for Grant, 3 for Sherman, 5 for
the field, 7 for the nemine", and :' for the
best man.
A revised portrait of Victeria will pres
ently adorn the current coins of the British
realm. It was about time. The present
profile has done service ever since her
majesty's accession, and is about as like te
Hercules as te the Victeria of our day.
North American.
Thk two cases of pamphlets belonging
te M. Chettcau, containing articles en the
proposed France-American treaty of com
merce, which were seized by the customs
authorities in New Yerk as liable te duty,
have been returned by order of Secretary
Sherman.
The Democratic president-elect of the
Maine Senate, Lamson, did net wait for
any supreme court decision te assure him
self of his legal right and duty te act as
governor, lie takes the chair te-day and
he is reported te be a man with a back
bone.
Engineer W. II. Weisr, of New Yerk,
in view of the recent disaster en the Firth
efTay, calls attention te the structure of
the East river bridge, which he claims,
will net support mere than one-fifth of all
the weight that is likely te come upon it,
and will have no reserved strength for
extra trains.
The great red spot en Jupiter continues
te attract the attention of observers both
in this country and in Europe. Its vast
extent (if it is an opening, the earth could
be dropped through it), its peculiar color,
and permanence of form and position make
it probably the most remarkable object en
the disk of Jupiter with which physical as
tronomy has ever had te deal. Brcdcchin,
a Russian observer, has noted an interest
ing peculiarity about this spot. He has
detected brilliant white ridges or facukc
surrounding the spot, resembling these
that arc seen in the neighborhood of sun
spots. This seems te favor the view of
these who rejrard Jupiter as a kind of
half-lustrous sun a sun whose fires arc
dvimr out. and which, in the course of
some millions of years, may become a fit
abode of life.
Ax English nidge has decided mat a
set of artificial teeth is net one of th
" necessaries" of a farmer's wife, which
the husband is bound te provide te
pay for when furnished without his con
sent by a dentist. The question has just
been raised in one of the county courts of
Ireland whether the Bible is a necessary
of life te a married woman. The geed
wife, during the temporary absence of her
husband, bought a Bible, had it charged
te him, and then ran away with another
man. She seen returned te her husband,
who received her, but obstinately refused
te pay for the sacred volume which she
had purchased preparatory te her elope
ment. The Connecticut court of errors has
held that neither a pew in church nor re
ligious instruction is among the necessa
ries which a husband is bound te provide
for his wife. It has been held that a yoke
of oxen, but net a saddle horse, nor a fid
dle, nor fiddle strings, are necessary for a
youth in his teens. While an English
court denied te a worthy farmer's wife the
necessary and very economical means of
enjoying her roast beef, it has decided that
$470 worth of lace and silver fringe for a
petticoat and side saddle arc necessaries te
the wife of a sergeant. The supreme court
of Illinois held in a recent case, that ene
revolver was necessary te a Chicago grocer
traveling, but that mere was supcrllneus.
m
l'ctcr Hcrdic Again in Trouble.
In Willi amspert, en Saturday morning,
the jury in the case of Peter Herdic and
Herace E. Tayler brought in a verdict of
guilty. The charge was conspiracy te de
fraud creditors in connection with the
operations of the banking house of II. E.
Tayler & Ce., which suspended a couple
of "years age. Motion was mode for a
new trial, bail given and the hearing en
the motion put down for March. Judge
Mayer, of Clinten county, presided at the
trial, which continued several days aud
has attracted a great deal of attention.
Stanley Woodward's Appointment.
Examiner, Bull Sing organ.
Under all the circumstances, we consider
that Governer Heyt has done an act which
is creditable te both bis head and heart.
PERSONAL.
General Grant will probably sail this
week from Flerida for Havana, and may
call at Nassau. N. P.
Prince Oscar, of Sweden, was married
en Friday te the Princess Helen, of Wal
deck. A dispatch from Lisben announces that
Mr. Mehan, the American minister te
Portugal, is seriously ill.
Mrs Elizabeth F. Parmele, the wife
of General A. S. Badger, died in New Or
leans yesterday, aged 24 years.
The Arkansas IiepaMican, published by
W. Jasper Blackiiurn, cx-cengressman
from Leuisinna, has appeared at Little
Reck.
Hayes is said te have offered the Russian
mission te Jehn Stevens, of Ilobekcn,
the richest man in New Jersey, but he
don't want it.
The will of William L. Ripley, pro
bated at Columbus, Ohie, en Saturday,
gives about $75,000 te the Ohie Wcsleyan
university, at Delaware, te endow a "Rip-
Icy professorship."
Count Felix Wimpkfen, the new Aus-tre-Hungarian
ambassador te Italy, had an
interview en Friday with Signer Cairoli,
the Italian premier, and very friendly as
surances were exchanged.
The Senate committee en military af
fairs will take up the case of General Fitz
Jehn Perter en Tuesday. The commit
tee has decided te report for confirmation
all the pending army nominations, about
1G0 in number.
Jehn Humffreys Parry, of Londen,
the eminent surgeon at law, and one of the
leaders of the home circuit, is dead, at the
age of 05. His disease was congestion of
the lungs. The death of Mrs. Parry, from
grief at the less of her husband, is also an
nounced. Frank Maye is endeavoring te obtain an
injunction from the United States court in
New Yerk restaining ih-t production of
"The Peer of New Yerk" at Abcrle's
theatre, having bought the copyright
from Dien Beucicault. The defense deny
Beucicault's authorship, saying that the
play is taken from " Fraud and Its Vic
tims," etc. The court reserved decision.
"Frank Leslie," whose familiar nom
dc plume was much better known than his
real name, Henry Carter, died in New
Yerk, en Saturday, aged 59. Hs was bem
in Ipswich, Eng., and casly displayed a
taste for weed engraving. He canie te
America in 1847 and since 1854 has pub
lished many illustrated papers with vary
ing financial success. He was divorced
from his first wife. His second wife was
the widow of the late E. G. Squicr, the au
ther and traveler, and she has been for
some time past editor of three of her hus
band's periodicals. Twe sons by his first
wife survive him, Henry Carter (or Frank
Leslie, jr.) and Alfred, and a third son,
Scipio, died last year. Mr. Leslie was ex
tremely popular with his employees, and
dispensed elegant hospitality at his resi
dence at Saratoga, where he passed much
of his time.
Who .Sulks in His Tent!"
New Era.
The Intelligencer tries hard te make
itself and readers believe that there is
imminent danger of disruption in that
wing of the Republican party which routed
tlic Cameren ring hi the last two
campaigns in this county. Beth of its
editors having been se fortunate as te
receive a college education, including a
.smattering of the classics, and both prid
ing themselves en their "society" man
ners, of which their paper is the un
disputed Jenkins organ, they naturally use
such refined phrases as "hog ring,"
"skinned and quartered," "the feed is
scarce and every hog wants te get his feet
in the trough," "ominous grunting and
squealing," " disemboweling its porcine
enemv." all rolled from under the classic
editorial tongue into a single paragraph of
moderate length, and pointed with the
declaration that "Ed. Martin sulks in his
tent." As there is no mere truth in the
remainder of the Intelligencer's polite
utterances about Capt. McMellen, J. W.
Jehnsen and Tem Davis, than there is in
the allusion te Mr. Martin, the reader will
have no trouble in estimating the whole at
their true value.
The impression the Intelligencer in
tends te convey is what has been fre
quently asserted of late by these whose
"wish is father te the thought," that Mr.
Martin "sulks in his tent" because he was
forced off the track as a candidate for dis
trict attorney by ethers interested in se
curing that office for themselves or friends,
with whom Mr. Martin se efficiently co
operated in defeating the Cameren ring in
this county.
The Confession of a Metlct Man.
New, it se happens that the editor of
the flew Era, el all ether persons, nuus
himself te be in a position te knew mere
about Ed. Martin's alleged "sulking in his
tent" than any ether person. His conclu
sion net te be a candidate for district at
torney was reached through his own judg
ment, in accordance with the advice of the
writer. Had we given that advice as a
politician, looking only te the success of
that section of the party with whom we
both have been and still are in sympathy, we
would have urged him te be a candidate ;
for we then believed and still believe he
would have been successful, as his candi
dacy would have done mere te take rival
"claims" out of what will probably be a
scrub race than can new be accomplished
by any ether candidate. But our ad
vice was given as a personal friend who
has never advised a young man te try te
make his living by politics when he has
anything belter te de, with a fair prospect
of succeeding in doing it. Our friendship for
Mr. Martin was cemented by our knowl
edge of the fact that he helped
te fight bur battles against ring
rule purely from honest convictions, of
right, with a courage which compelled the
admiration of his political enemies,
when they were trying te hound him down
with the idle cry of " Buckalew Rcpubli-
can," Jioensmue politician, ana similar
epithets. He lived down all aspersions of
loyalty te Republican principles, fought
his rcvilcrs in two hotly contested cam
paigns, in planning and executing the win
ning cards of which he had mere te de than
any ether one man, triumphed in both, and
judged as one who did it all te vindicate
his fidelity te honest convictions and Re
publican principles, he has new less cause
te " sulk in his tent" than any ether man
wc knew of. Simply as a politician he
can well afford te rest en the laurels he
has wen.
DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
A Man Crazed by ihe Infidelity of His Wife
sheets tier l'aranieur.
In New Haven, Conn., Rebert Jacolman
a mechanic, entered the house of Melvin
D. Curtis, a grocer, and shot mm m the
left side. . Curtis's family was absent at
church, and no one but the two men were
present. Jacolman gave himself up at
once. He appears deranged, and it is
claimed that Curtis wen from him
the affections of his wife and induced her
te abandon him. The prisoner is said te
have previously offered te forgive his wife
if she would discourage Curtis, but she
refused te de se. Her refusal preyed upon
his mind, and he has been in the habit of
repeating expressions apparently wholly
irrelevant, in a crazed manner, te the mys
tification of his friends, who could net
imagine their meaning. Beth arc married
men, Jocelman having one child. Curtis's
wound is probably fatal. He claims that
Jocelman came te him for the purpee of
black-mailing, and had . been te him en
similar errands before.
ueueft of ms reKH'XE.
Jehn I.avin'a Suit te Recover a Deposit in a
New Yerk Hunk, Drawn by His
Relatives. Who Helievcd
Him Dead.
On the morning of tlic 26th of June,lS7D,
Jehn M. Breunan, esq., of Providence,
R. L, while walking along Smith street,
suddenly detected the clicking of a pistol,
and turning about espied a rough-looking
stranger, who aimed the weapon at his
head, and shouting, "Give me my money
or I'll kill you," fired a shot past his
head. Mr. "Brennan struggled with his
assailant, and with the assistance of
some bystanders, the stranger was dis
armed "and taken te the Central station by
the police. He gave the name et Jehn
Lavin when committed, and was subse
quently arraigned for an assault with in
tend te kill. The prisoner was interviewed
by a Providence Journal representative,
whom he informed that he had recently
returned from California, after au absence
of eleven years from his native town of
Cranston. Prier te his departure for Cali
fornia, in the year 1860, he deposited $500
In New Yerk, having earned that amount
while in the government employ at Hilten
Head, in the previous year. Upen his ap
plication at the bank for his deposit
with the interest, he was notified
that Mr. Brennan had drawn the amount
under the authority of administrator con
ferred at the request of Themas Lavin,
his brother, Lawyer Brennan acting under
the law of Rhede Island, which permits
the nearest relative te administer upon the
estate after a three years' absence from
the state, should no tidiugs be received
from the absent one. The prisoner came
te Providence in March, and met Brennan
several times, who informed him that he
could net recover his money and that
he (Brennan) had acted in conformity
with the law. After Lavin had employed
counsel, and found that Brennan had been
legally appointed, he became exceedingly
disturbed, and purchased the live-shooter,
net with any intention of sheeting the law
yer, but of scaring him into returning the
money. Mr. Brennan stated te a reporter,
about the same time, that Themas Lavin,
brother of Jehn, applied te him in 1877 te
take out letters of administration, and the
authority was granted and the record
placed en file at the town clerk's office in
Cranston. After receiving the money
made ever te him by Brennan, Themas
Lavin disappeared from the city, leaving
his family behind, and has never returned.
Jehn remembered that he had a brother
Themas, but had net seen him for several
years. The deposit, with accrued interest,
amounted te $781 or thereabouts, when
drawn by Mr. Brennan.
At the September term of the common
pleas court, Lavin was indicted by the
grand jury and held for trial in the sum of
$1,000. He retracted his plea previous te
the day assigned, for trial, and the indict
ment having been changed from "assault
with intent te kill" te " assault with a
dangerous weapon," Judge Burgess im
posed a sentence of twelve months' im
prisonment in the county jail. Lavin serv
ed out nearly the whole term, and then
took his departure from the city. Recent
ly Lavin appeared in New Yerk and com
menced a suit against the bank te recover
his deposit and accumulated interests in
United States circuit court, before Judge
Cheate. Lawyer Brennan appeared at the
same time with papers of administration
granted by the authorities of Rhede Island
and New Yerk, and accounted te Themas
Lavin, the brother, for the property dis
posed of. Judge Cheate reserved his de
cision. A MAINE ;IRL'S CHRISTMAS.
Her Petition te Santa Clans Intrusted te a
Knit Cleve.
A customer trying en knit gloves in the
furnishing store of Keith Bres. & Ce., in
Chicago, found in one of the gloves a scrap
of paper. On the paper, in the awkward,
heavy hand-writing of a child, was the fol
lowing ?
"I am a little girl, 9 years old, and I
live in Bucksport, Maine. My name is
Cera Norwood. I knit these gloves for
eight cents a pair, and I wish the gentle
man that buys them would send ine a wax
dell for a Christmas present. I have net
get any and I want one real bad."
On December 17, 1S7S), a box accom
panied by a way-bill, was started from
Chicago. The bill was headed : " United
States express company te K. P. R. W.
Ce's Exp. Meney and valuable parcels
way-bill from Chicago, 111., te Bucksport,
Hancock county, Maine." The blanks
near the head of the bill were filled out se
that they read as fellows : " Description, 1
box ; consigner, Keith Bres. & Ce., fur
nishing goods, Chicago, 111. : address,
Cera Norwood ; destination, Bucksport,
Me. ; advertising charges, gift ; K P.
charges, gift ; collect, nothing prepaid
with love ; remarks, be happy."
On the way-bill was written, ever the
signature of B. Schcrmcrhern, Chicago,
111., the following : "The letter pasted en
is request found in a pair of gloves, and
this box contains the desired wax dell,
being the gift of the employees of the firm
selling the gloves. Please let this way-bill
go through and be delivered with dell.
These who handle the way-bill may endorse
en back their happy New Year, fcc."
On the back of the way-bill are the fol
lowing endorsements :
Chicago, 111., Dec. 17, 1S70.
Merry Christmas, Cera.
15. SCIIEIIMEKIIORN.
A. Carlten sends his compliments.
Midi. Se. Rte.
Schneider wishes that all your requests
in life be granted as readily as this.
Dunkirk and Teledo Reute.
J. C. Rac Heaven's blessings be with
you. Hoping you a happy New Year.
Te Miss Cera As you gently glide
down Life's Hugged Riccr, be ever watch
ful of the many deceitful rocks that se
thickly line its banks and you will always
have a happv Christmas. A. Shaw.
Train 12, Dec. 17, 1879.
U. S. Ex. Ce. Meney Dept., New Yerk.
W. II. Phclen wishes Cera a merry Christ
mas. A merry Christinas aud happy New
Year te Cera Norwood.
Wm. Hutchinson and Partner.
Bosten, Dec. 21, 1879.
I fully concur with the above.
A. D. KEiTn, Bes. and Ban. Rte.
The endorsements show that the box and
way-bill reached Bosten safely and en
time, and were started East, and there is
no doubt that Cera Norwood's Christinas
present was duly received.
Stanley Woodward's Appointment.
The letter of Gov. Heyt, notifying Ce
Stanley Woodwerd of his appointment e
Friday last, reads as fellows :
January, 9, 1880.
Colonel Stanley Woodward :
My Dear Sir : I have this day directed
te be issued te you a commission as ad li li
tienal law judge of the several courts of
Luzerne county. I am reluctant te modify
in any way the satisfaction with which
I confer the short term of judicial duty
upon you. Bui, it is only frank and fair
te say te you that it is issued against
the earnest and deep-seated convictions of
valued friends, politically, and that both
their right and my own inclinations will
forbid my promoting your success in a fu
ture contest ever the succession, involving, j
as it will, ether personal and political hours' snow storm which ended en Satur
friends. This term conferred en you th day morning, terminated last evenin
law gives me the duty and responsibility of
conferring, and any personal motives of my
own in the matter must, as you readily ap
preciate, terminate with this act, net
grudgingly performed.
Very truly yours,
Henry M. Heyt
Hew Retrenchment is Strangled.
New Yerk Sun.
It is mere than doubtful whether the re
forms proposed by the committee en rules
for the better management of the business
of the Heuse of Representatives, which is
constantly growing, and for removing ob
structive forms that new encumber the
accepted manual, will be adopted. A long
and a sharp debate is expected by the
friends and by the opponents of the report.
The princtpaf point of controversy will be
the preposition te refer the annual river
and harbor bill, new reported from the
committee en commerce te the committee
en appropriations, from which all the gen
eral supply bills emanate.
This bill, though net enumerated
among the "general appropriation," has
become as much se as any of the ethers,
and if uniformity aud a system of regulat
ing the public expenditures are te be ob
served, it eiurht te take the same direc
tion as they de. Otherwise, the work of
retrenchment, if pursued as a policy,
might be materially harmed by an exception
which casts the country millions every
year, without valuable return for the ex
penditure.
Although there are important standing
committees, representing military aud na
val and diplomatic and Indian affairs, and
the postal service, and pensions, yet all
the money bills relating te them come
from the appropriation committee. The
committee en commerce wants te be ex
cepted from this rule, and te be indepen
dent in its action, se that the river and
harbor bill, which is made up by a com
bination of local interests, and without
proper regard te public works of impor
tance, may be leg-rolled through the
Heuse as it was last year, with a grant of
seven and a half millions, without even
being read !
That surely cannot be called legislation
in any proper sense, which takes the in
terest en nearly two hundred millions of
four per cent out of tiie treasury te squan
der en trout streams, creeks and bayous,
that by no possibility can be rendered
navigable, aeihsiinesj rises aoeve party,
and preftawed principles are cast aside
when its desires are te be gratified. Dem
ocrats, Republicans and Grcenbackers
forget their differences and join hands in
a common raid for the plunder of their
own constituents, who at last have te feet
the bills.
If the proposed reforms are beaten en
this test, as is probable, the interest in
the rest of the work will necessarily be
diminished, and the committee cannot
leek for any well sustained support en
either side. Reform of any kind has a
hard read te travel in these days, especially
when its pretended friends, who get into
power by a loud affectation of zeal for the
cause, are the first te abandon it and te
combine with their opponents in a waste
of the public money, which ought te be
branded as brazen stealing.
STATK ITEMS.
The Oxford mines, in Hyde Park, caved
in en Saturday night, badly shattering
Themas MeXichells's and Jehn O'Hara's
brick store.
William Riuchart, au extensive tobacco
dealer, and well-known citizen of Pitts
burgh died en Friday.
Daniel Fahey, of Pittsburgh, an em
ployee of Andersen te Ce.'s steel works,
was killed en Saturday by being caught
in the belting of a wheel, and dragged
under it.
Nelsen J. Lee, a former temperance
apostle, who lectured te large audiences in
all the middle states a year age, but who
new keeps a saloon in Erie, gave a public
lecture in that city last night en his fall
from grace.
Several hundred coal miners at Irwin's
station, who have been idle for two months
have gene te work again, their demands
having been acceded te. Railroad
miners at different points are idle new,
awaiting the outcome of Wednesday's con
vention. People en the upper Delaware arc get
ting anxious about the ice crop. The
river is free from ice and the houses are
all empty. Hundreds of hands are patient
ly waiting for a cold snap te come and give
them employment in cutting and storing
ice.
The regular criminal term of court for
January, before Judge Cummin, ended at
Williamsport, en Saturday evening, with
the sentence of sixteen prisoners, tcu of
whom go te the Eastern penitentiary for
terms ranging from twelve and a-half
years te two and a-half. Twe ethers, con
victed of grave offenses, were net sen
tenced, motions for new trials having been
made.
A large meeting of persons who claim te
be heirs te the Blackmere estate, which is
located in the District of Columbia, was
held in Pittsburgh en Saturday. Seme of
the heirs live in Beaver county, some in
Sewickley and some in Pittsburgh, and
altogether number upwards of fifty. The
estate of which they desire te possess
themselves is said te be worth two or three
million dollars.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
The semi-annual meeting of the Union
of the American Hebrew congregations
was held at Cincinnati yesterday.
Three boys were drowned while skating
en the Connecticut river at Longmeadow,
Mass., en Saturday.
Twe houses aud several small buildings
in Taylorsville, Ohie, were demolished by
a tornado en Friday night. Ne person is
reported injured.
A large meeting of friends of Ireland
was held at Indianapolis yesterday, and
Mr. Parncll was invited te visit thai
city.
Jehn Hall aud Bruucll Smith, both
colored, have been sentenced te be hanged
at Nashville, Tcnn., for the murder of
Majer Pugh, committed in May last.
The work of improving the sanitary con
dition of Memphis, in conformity with the
suggestions of the national beard of health
commission, will proceed at once.
A severe wind storm in Montreal en
Saturday morning proved very destructive
te trees, telegraph wires and chimneys. A
massive cress en the dome of St. Ann's
church was blown down.
The exposures of grave robbing at Oak Oak
weed cemetery, Richmond, Va., have
stepped the trailic in dead bodies, and it is
new proposed te prosecute all who have
have been concerned in the transactions.
All the Catholic chnrche? Lewell,
Mass., took collections yesterday en behalf
of the suffering tenants in Ireland. The
m ncy subscribed will be paid te Mr. Par
ncll en the occasion of his visit there to te to
meri ew.
The Democratic caucus of the Mississippi
Legislature te nominate a United States
senator te succeed Senater Bruce had six
ineffectal ballets en Saturday night. The
last vote steed Barksdale, 52 ; Walthall,
38 ; Singleton, 36, scattering, 5.
Martin Paqucttc, a former tenant of the
Hen. James S. Barnes, shot and killed the
latter last Sunday in New Madrid, Me.,
firms a lead of slugs from a shotgun into
his left breast. The affair grew out of a
disagreement while settling their landlord
and tenant accounts.
The snow blockade en the Central Paci
fic railroad, in the Sierra Nevada meun
tain, in consequence of the forty-eight
The tracks are new clear of snow and the
wrecks of the sheds,, and trains again run
regularly.
Burglars attempted te enter the Thayer
jewelry manufacturing company's build
ing, at Asteria, L. I., en Saturday night,
but were driven off by the watchman, who
tired several shots and wounded one of the
burglars, a trail of bleed being discovered
in the morning. Twe shots were lircd at
the watchman, but without effect.
Jehn C. Keyser and Jehn W. Palmer,
painters, formerly of Pennsylvania, em
ployed en a farm in Zuiu? ijwnship, Reck
Island township, Illinois, l-vcamc involved
in a fight en Thursday last, when Keyser
fractured Palmer's skull with a hammer,
causing his death. They were rivals for
the hand of a young lady. Keyser is in
jail at Reck Island.
lecalInteiIigence.
poultry premiums.
A tientlc Urewl and a Fcr Words eIAdtu'e.
Editors Ixtelligencer :
New that the poultry show is ever and
the premiums awarded by the judges have
been paid te the winners, it may net be
amiss te call the attention of the society
te what appears te have been a mistake in
the arrangement of the premium list.. An
examination of the list will show that con
siderably mere than one-half of all the
premiums paid by the society were award
ed te the pigeons and bantams exhibited
in tire small room of Lecher's building,
while considerably les than one-half was
received by the owners of the magnificent
display of fowls which filled the two large
rooms. Te be mere exact, the pigeons
were awarded S3S, the bantams i'.iO, and
the ether fowls, including meie than
twenty choice varieties, only $56.
The bcs.t coop of pigeons received
a special premium of $5 : the
best coop of bantams, $10, while the
magnificent coops of Brahmas. Cochins,
Plymouth Rocks, and ether varieties of
large fowls, recejved no special premiums,
and only a few of them any premium at
all. This remarkable result cannot uiMlv
be charged te any unfairness en the part
of the judges, for they performed their
duties with impartiality. The mistake
was in the premium list itself. It iuu only
awarded as high a premium te bantams as
te large and valuable fowls, but it allowed
these pretty little pets te come in competi
tion with the ethers as the " best birds en
exhibition." and thus carry oil' the highest
prizes. These remarks are net made in a
spirit of fault-linding.but rat hr as a timely
warning, se that the same mistake may
net be repeated next year. A poultry so
ciety te be of any practical value must de
all in its power te encourage the l earing of
the best varieties of fowls ihoeo varieties
best adapted for supporting the market
with meat and eggs. These are the heavy
Asiatics, the Plymouth Reeks, the Leg
horns, Hamburgs games, iVc. An ex
hibition premium list should be se arranged
that the bulk of the, valuable premiums
should fall te the breeders of these valu
able fowls, even though they happen te tall
or point or two below the bantams, when
judged by the fancier's standard .
BlSAIIMA.
Sircdcnuergiuii Lectures.
There were large audiences in the meet
ing re'm of the New (Swedenbergian)
church, third story of Leng's drug store
building, yesterday morning and evening,
te hear Rev. J. E. Bewers, the missionary
of the church who has been visiting tin
society here, and whose Friday evening
lecture we published in full en Satin day.
Rev. Bewers, preached in the forenoon and
in the evening lectured en Angels and
Spirits Where de they dwell '.' Their
bodily forms and the garments in which
they are clad. Their state of life, employ
ments and heavenly enjoyments.'" The
discourses en both occasions were exposi
tions of the Swedenbergian doctrines, es
pecially with reference te the relations of
the angelic heavens and the human race.
Rev. Bewers is a graceful, easy writer and
a modest, unpretentious pulpit orator, and
his addresses were listened te attentively
by an audience that included people of his
own faith, Catholics, Lutherans, Reformed,
Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians.
Moravian aim nendescripts.
Tlie Dance.
There is quite a breeze in the Presby
terian circles of Marietta ever the prohibi
tion of dancing among the members of
that denomination by their pastor. The
recent brilliant masked ball at Mr. Duffy's,
which was attended by some Presbyterians,
furnished the special occasion for the
anathcma,and since that Rev. J. M. McII-
meylc has several times announced his dis
approbation of this feature of social life.
At his last prayer meeting he announced
that if his members persisted in dancing he
would resign, and yesterday he said from
the pulpit that if any of his members at
tended dancing parties, public or private,
they would be "sessiened." A New Year
party is te be given by some of the Mari
etta ladies this week and some of the Pres
byterians say Rev. McE. will have a chance
te enforce the threatened discipline.
ArreKtefaii Alleged Ilersi: Tlilef.
Jehn Lichtcnbcrgcr, of Litiz, is under
arrest in Reading, en the charge of steal
ing a horse, carriage and harness from Jehn
Dutt and Wm. Gantz, near Manheim. lie
was ledged in prison. At the time of the
theft, a young man who formerly resided
in Reading, was suspected, and a constable
of Lancaster county was in Heading look
ing into the case.
Debt I'aid.
The debt en the Millersville M. E.
church has all been provided for. Seme
small subscriptions have net yet come in,
but arc expected seen. The people of the
church arc very grateful te their many
friends in Lancaster and vicinity who
have aiiled this society in saving its prop
erty. Huh Seven l'exes.
Brisbin Skiles, proprietor of the Mount
Vernen hotel, Salisbury township, a noted
fox hunter, has recently caught at different
times seven foxes, whieh he has chained
en his premises. Mr. Skiles proposes te
have a grand hunt with these foxes at no
distant day.
Sale of Itcal Estate.
Henry Shubert, auctioneer, sold at pub
lic sale en last Saturday en the premises in
Poplar street. 10 building lets belonging
te the estate of Henry C. Lecher, de
ceased, at an average price of $155 jwr let.
Inncd Threu;Ii.
Cel. Mapleson's opera troupe of 240
pei sons passed west through this city yes
terday. They were en route for Chicago.
Appointed 1'eMtinaHter.
Levi n. Gochnauer has been appointed
postmaster at East Hempfield posteflicc,
this county.
TORACCO.
The New Yerk Market The Crep Still Com
ing in.
V. S. Tobacco Journal.
It continues te leek lonely in our market.
Of course, as our friends of the Imcaster
papers would say, "the best bleed" of the
leaf trade is packing new tobacco and, as
we say. "the best bleed" of the cigar man
ufacturing interest remains at home.
"Where are the buyers V" the wearied leaf
men are new exclaiming, as the see day
after day pass accompanied by no call for
tobacco. The fact "of the matter is that
the large manufacturers are gradually be
coming wholly independent of our leaf
market. They buy from country packers
or themselves pack in the country. Se de
the great mass of Western jobbers. Only
small parcels of goods mere neeessities-"-are
being bought here by them. High
prices are the cause of this. The
leaf market of New Yerk city
thrives only when prices aie low. The
felly of these who invested in 79 tobacco
at unwarrantably high figures will bring
about it own punishment. All the talk that,
for example, the line '79 Pennsylvania is
the finest tobacco ever raised and therefore
will sell at high figures, is but se much
bosh. The limited jobbing trade docs net
risk buying high-priced goods when the
country is lloeded with tobacco which wilt
sellat low figures, aud contains fine tobacco
as well. Cigar manufacturers cannot pay
high figures, net aleue for the reason just
mentioned, but because of the iron-handed
competition which does net allow of the
raising of prices of cigars.
There was a little improvement in 7S
Pennsylvania goods this week, and some
small but fair running lets were sold at IS
and 19 cents. '78 Ohie again received con
siderable attention, and some 300 cases
were sold at from 10J te 1 1 cents running.
Pennsylvania tillers of the '7 crop realize
from 10 te 13 cents. Fer 7S Connecticut
very little call was made, and the sales re
ported amount te 100 cases seconds, at 131
cents, and US cases wrappers at 2S te 30
cents.
Havana Market active. Sales 550 bales.
Strictly line 79 goods sell at extraordinari
ly high figures. One sale of 107 bales was
made at $1.03. There is a large quantity
of very geed fillers. theugh,iu stock, which
sell from .$1.10 te ?t.25. Inferior styles can
be bought in bend at from 35 te 50 cents.
Tlic Lecal TobiicveTradc.
The principal features of the trade
ueserving notice ai tins time is tne unpre-cedenti-dly
large receipts of baled leaf at
the warehouses, and the continued activity
among buyers. Although fully three
fourths of the crop of the county has
been secured, there continues a demand
for mine." and there is scarcely a let of
geed Ie.it offered for sale but there aie
two or three buyers eager te get it. This
spirited competition whieh has been pro
nounced "ruinous," ".stupid" and "idiotic"
by certain would-be organs of thetrade.ap
pcars te have been of great advantage te
the packers as well as the growers. The
latter have received an ample reward for
their careful and well-directed industry,
and the former are net only in possession of
the finest crop of leaf ever grown, but they
have by their enterprise and pluck added a
tone te the market whieh has kept up
prices te such a figure that they have been
able gradually te slide off at a fair profit
their large packings of '7S leaf, whieh had
received such a ''black eye" early in the
season as te make it for a lime quite an
elephant en their hands.
Besides the advantages shared mutually
by the packers and growers, the commu
nity at large has been greatly benefited
by the early lifting of the crop. As is.
well known, many small farmers and crop
pers are compelled te buy their household,
supplies en credit from the country store
keepers, depending en the sale of their to te to
baeceto liquidate their debts. In years
gene by, when the crop was net lifted
until late in the winter (and sometimes
net until spring) the erepp-ns could net
pay their store bills ;ki the store
keepers could net pay the whole
sale merchants with whom they dealt.
As a consequence there were hundreds of
petty and vexatious lawsuits among the
parties, involving heavy losses and some
times ruin te the litigants, and of no pos
sible benefit te anybody except the jus
tices and lawyers. New, all this is
changed ; the croppers, with pockets full
of money, pay their store bills, the store
keepers pay the wholesaler, the packer
works oil' his old stock and supplies
it with a better one, net one law
suit is heard of where formerly there were
scores of them; 'here are few or no fail
ures ; constant employment is given te
thousands of men in stripping, sorting,
marking and packing the crop, and there
is a general "boom" of prosperity all
around, instead of the bankruptcy that
was prophesied by the organs of this
bcais.
Of the crop of 1878 nearly 100 cases
sold in this city during the past week, the
terms being private, but reported satisfac
tory. Of the crop of 1879, net less than
200.000 worth was delivered at the ware
houses in this city, and iaiil for en Satur
day. The Yerk Dhpntch of Saturday says :
"Messrs. Skiles is Frey received at
Wrightsville 125,000 pounds of tobacco
from the lower end of the ceuntv, all of
which was brought by teams. Samuel
Kechcs sold 275 cases of his 1878 crop te a
Philadelphia firm."
Large numbers of sales continue te bu re
ported, shewinir that prices are being fully
maintained. Only a few of the city ware
houses are receiving te-day. Among Jehn
S. Rehrcr's receipts we notice five-acre
crop grown by C. V. Kendig, of Conesto Cenesto Coneste
ga, for which 25, 8 and 3 was paid. Five
acres grown en the same farm by William
and Jacob Caldwell was sold te Werth -cimer
for 25, 10 and 5. Jacob Morrison,
of Maner township, sold 2 acres of tobac
co te Schuberth fc Ce., for 28, 10 and 5.
Purchasers generally commend the
growers for the excellent form in which
they deliver their goods. There are, of
course, some unworthy exceptions, where
the avaricious grower attcmptsrfe palm off
seconds for wrappers, and in one or two
instances wc hear of turnips, stones, and
ether foreign matter being tied up in the
bales. The short-sighted rascals guilty of
these practices are almost always found
out, decked, and their names placed upon
the black list.
Kevival at Hrownxtewn.
A revival of great interest is new in
progress in the church of the Evangelical
association, in Brownstown, AVest Earl
township, of which Rev. F. Sechrist is the
pastor. It has been going en for thirty,
five days and already sixty persons have
been converted. On next Saturday and
Sunday the quarterly conference will he
held in this church, ind Rev. Jeseph Sav Sav
eor, the presiding elder, who has been a
minister for a great many years will preach
lils farewell sermon.