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TUESDAY EVENING, JAN. 20, 1880.
The Electric
Light.
The Edisen electric light is net the
jissured thing that its inventor proclaim
ed it te be after he found his paper horse
shoes working se nicely in their air-exhausted
glass cells. The mean glass
would net expand equally with the metal
that penetrated it tecause it is net its
nature te de se, and the inventor finds
himself reduced te the necessity of dis
covering a glass of "a different nature
and which therefore will net be glass
before the electric light is a success. Wc
sympathize with Mr. Edisen in this slip
that has come between his lip and the cup
just as he seemed about ready te drain its
rich draught, and we sympathize as much
with the owners of the Edisen stock,
which was reported te have bounded up
ward in value from a few dollars a share
te thousands. It was very provoking ;
and the reporters who get their shares
for the trouble they took toblewthe
electric light trumpet in the ears of the
public te its great delight, all except gas
stock owners, need consolation in the
sudden subsidence of the fortunes
they thought they already grasped.
Perhaps they will yet come te them ; but
net before some easier problem remains
te be solved than one which demands the
equal expansion of glass and platinum.
With the reputation Mr. Edisen has es
tablished as an untiring investigator
we are ready te believe in the possi
bility of his light still shining among
men ; though new that he has suffered
this check envious people are saying ugly
things about him and intimating that his
discoveries have all been made years age
by ethers and been exploded en their
practical test, and that the present
excitement is nothing but a stock-jobbing
scheme te make money by trading
in gas company stock. Such intima
tions probably have no foundation but
malice, and are mean attempts te dis
parge a man whose undoubted achieve
ments give him the highest plane among
the men of the lime for inventive genius.
We trust that his labors will be rewarded
with the success he merits, and quite pos
sibly they will be. There surely can be
no physical impossibility in cheaply
drawing the electric light from its cx
haustlcss reservoir.
His Sele " Dihtiuctieu."
The nominations for census supervisors
which have becu made for this state indi
cate a very commendable effort en the
part of these having this matter in hand te
keep away fiem politics. There arc Bc
publicans and Democrats alike in the list,
and while there may be mere of one party
than of the ether it will be cause for gen
eral satisfaction that there is net a man
among them all who is distinguished as a
politician. Philadelphia Times.
The hist clause of the above cannot
fairly be held te be true as it relates te the
appointee for this district. If Jeseph
Samson has any distinction at all it is
as a politician, and if he is net distin
guished as a politician it is only because
he has no distinction of any kind. In
that line he has quite as much distinc
tion as attaches te the average Heg
llingerand Bull Itinger in this county of
unsavory political nomenclature. lie
has been a persistent officeholder, always
hunting place when he was net occupy
ing it. In his capacity as prison inspec
tor and school director, he has been a
constant violator of the law which
forbids members of these beards
furnishing supplies te the public
institutions and, in general, he is
an adept practitioner of all the arts of the
small politician. He was ousted from
the prison direction by virtue of the
strong charges made by the ruling fac
tion of his own party that he had been an
active promoter of the scandalous man
agement which has se long prevailed in
that institution, and his last appoint
ment, te a place for which he has no
special fitness and no desert,reflecls credit
neither en Congressman Smith who se
cured it nor en Mr. Haves who made it.
Ceukling's Candidacy.
The decadence of the third term boom
brings forward prominently as a presi
dential candidate Roscec Conkling, who
has heretofore been held te have been
Grant's light hand man. The New Yerk
Herald, in double leaded Washington
correspondence, as well as editorially, in
itiates an effort te draw Conkling out
from the shadow of the increasingly un
popular third term movement, and te
present him as the candidate who could
most surely carry New Yerk en the pop
ular vote. But what ground for this as
surance the Herald has it does net
state, and the foundation for it
is net obvious. Mr. Conkling, while
he controls his own party in New
Yerk,is net a generally popular man and
would have no reason te expect mere
than his party vote, nor even that, since
he has bitter enemies in his own fold. Ad
miration for his talents does net extend
te his character, which is very far from
being beyond reproach. It may be that
with the new scheme in his hand
te have the electors chosen by
the people he would be the man
te carry his state, but the Herald's
idea strangely is that this movement,
made in the house of Mr. Conkling's ap
parent friends, is really made against
him. That can hardly be. If Mr. Conk
ling is the strongest Republican presiden
tial candidate in New Yerk, it is only
because of his power te control
the political machinery of the party
there, and certainly net because
of his held upon the people. We should
welcome the opjiertunity of meeting him
en that field with the Democratic candi
date, even with Tilden, who is alike
without personal popularity ; and with
Horatio Seymour as the candidate there
would be no doubt at all of the state.
It would have been a bad snap te have
convicted " the best workers in the
ward" en the eve of a municipal elec
tion. The acquittal of Mike Snyder en
the plea of autrefeis acquit can be traced
none the less directly te the proper source
because the previous acquittal was ac
complished by legal jugglery and for a
corrupt consideration.
The diplomatic appointments of yester
day had scarcely even a sensational inter
est, being almost entirely transfers or
promotions of men already called from
private stations te diplomatic service.
They are possibly quite sis well-fitted for
their pests as any who were likely te be
summoned from private positions, and
their selection is none the mere compli
mentary te them because it was made
after a dozen ethers had been offered and
had declined the place. Of course it will
net 13 claimed that they were made en
any principle of civil service promotion,
since that could have lxjen done as well
months age as new; and if Minister
Lewell was te be sent te the court of St.
James, it would have been mere credit
able te the administration and mere grat
ifying te him te have had the first ap
pointment than te be offered the position
after half a dozen smaller men had de
clined it.
It will net much surprise anybody who
has followed the llayden trial that eleven
out of twelve jurymen should vote for
his acquittal and refuse te accede even
te the preposition of the twelfth te com
premise en a venuct ei miinier in me
second degree. Even these who suspected
the guilt of the accused must have dis
covered in the conflicting " expert "' tes
timony such legal doubts created that
their benefit would acquit the pris
oner; while the twelfth man's intelli
gence and honesty can be best
gauged by tin- fact that he was willing
te vote for a compromise verdict in a
case in which if the prisoner was guilty
at all his crime was of the darkest dye.
Tjik Philadelphia .VnnMiav'mg polled
the delegation from that city te tlie Ke
publican slate convention, reports 14 for
Mr. Blaine, "'. for Grant unconditionally ;
Grant or Blaine, 4 ; Hayes 1 ; Conkling
2; and the rest scattering. The milk in
this cocoanut is that the "scattering" are
the majority ready te de Den Camer Camer
on's bidding and go where his finger
points.
PERSONAL.
In the Democratic caucus of the Louis
iana Legislature, te nominate a senator
last night, Randall L. Giusen received
33 voles ; MeEncry, 38 ; scattering, 1G.
Dean Stanley, of Westminster abbey,
England, has said " the two greatest theo
logians"' of the United States were Rev.
William E. Channing, D. D., and Rev.
Jehn W. Nlvix, D. I)., LL. D.
Archbishop Gir.neNS, of Baltimore, will
leave this country after Easter for a nine
months' pilgrimage te Berne, lie will go
in compliance with the requirement of the
church that all prelates shall visit Berne
once in ten years.
The anniversary of the birth of General
Bei:i:i;t E. Li:k was celebrated by the
Lee association, in Mobile yesterday.
There was a parade, in which the foreign
consuls and city officials took part, and a
banquet, at which ex-Union as well as cx cx
Cenfcdcrate officers were present.
The pretense put forward that Camkken
has settled his ''difference with Mr.
Blaine" is lidiculeus. His difference
with Blaine was one which cannot be
settled. Besides this, Mr. Cameren never
.settles differences. The elder Cameren
.sometimes settled differences, but the
younger one always lights them out.
Bev. Mr. Lank, the "kissing pastor "'of
Kensice, preached in that vicinity te a
crowded congregation en Sunday, and at
the close of the scriptural lessen a letter
was sent up fiem the congregation con
taining a present in the form of a roll of
bills. The pastor premised te be merciful
and kind te the.?c who had spoken against
him.
The Bosten Journal has found something
new about Daniel Wi:i:sTEninan old let
ter from a lady belonging te the Fletcher
family, into which Webster married. The
letter has never before been printed. It
says : "Cousin Grace Fletcher is trying te
entertain a young man by the name of
Daniel Webster by playing checkers.
Father and Uncle Chamberlain think him
a young man of great premise, but we
girls think him rather awkward and ver
dant." Mile. Azimon, the former soubrette of
the Palais-Royal theatre, has acquired the
right of hunting and sheeting ever the
state forests of Claircfeutainc and la Vcr
rcric, and Augustc Maquet, the collabora
tor of Dumas pere, the rights of the forest
of Saint Arnoult, near Deurdau. The
theatre in France seems te be as geed a
read te fortune as any ether career. Den
ncry is a millionaire, se is Labichc and
Sardeu. The fortune of Dumas filsis like
wise net te be despised.
Bear Admiral CeiiNEi.irs Stiuhling, of
the United States navy, died in Martins
burg, West Virginia, en Sunday. Admiral
Stribling, who was about 82 years of age,
entered the navy in 1812, served under De
catur in the Algcrine war and in almost
every American squadron in all the waters
of the glebe. Coming from the East India
squadron in 1801, he became commandant
at the navy yard at this pert, and served in
that capacity uutil 18C4. His total sea ser
vice was twenty-six years, and his service
at naval stations also very long.
In Arkansas there is a lady who has been
married fourteen times, and is the victor
ious survivor of thirteen, being new only
fifty four years old, and, matrimonially
speaking, entirely successful. Her four
teenth husband is rather hopeful, consider
ing the epidemic that raged with his pred
ecessors. In the hall where the lady new
lives there are thirteen pegs driven in the
wall, en which hang thirteen hats labelled
Jehn, Tem, Abe, Bill and se en. The lady
is well connected. She has a great many re
latives living in Conway county, and some
of them are the leading men of that section.
Funeral or I)r. White.
The funeral of the late Samuel S.
White, the well-known manufacturer of
dental instruments, of Philadelphia, who
died in Paris en the 30th ult., took place
yesterday afternoon, from his late resi
dence, Ne. 1,622 Arch street. The re
mains, which had been embalmed in
France, were attired in a suit of black
cloth and reposed in a metallic casket.
During the day the residence was visited
by large crowds of people. After relig
ious service at the house the cortege pro
ceeded te Woodland cemetery for inter
ment in the family vault. Bv a strange
coincidence, just as the funeral occurred,
the quarter sessions court was being occu
pied with the trial of Thes. McGuirk for
murdering the colored porter at Dr.
White's establishment some fifteen years
age.
MTNOB TOPICS.
Elder Thatcher, a Mermen apostle, is
meeting with great success in Mexico.
Dcbing the past year there have been in
France twenty-five persons condemned te
death, of whom two were women.
The Maryland Heuse of Delegates has
six chaplains, te whom it pays 8500, t lc
divided between them equally.
The total liabilities of Baltimore en
December 31, 1879, were $33,017,151,73.
The receipts for the year from all sources
were $4,598,388,40.
The practice of glibly " implicating old
offenders " in crimes net proven, and of re
vamping criminal records te injure private
individuals, is like the habitation of glass
houses dangerous in times of promiscuous
stone throwing.
Gexeiial Jee Lane and a number of
prominent Oregon Democrats have issued
an address te the members of their party
in that' state, dwelling upon the impor
tance of upholding state rights against
centralization and advocating governmen
tal reforms.
A workman in the blcachery at Mill
ville, N. J., was carried en a rail en Satur
day because he started a rumor that three
of the leading mechanics were going te
persuade the men te strike for increased
pay. Seme of the hands wanted te tar
and feather him.
The Philadelphia North American says :
" The bill for the relief of Fitz Jehn Por Per
ter has been adopted by the Heuse com
mittee en military affairs. It ought te be
passed forthwith. The recent trial proved
beyond doubt that Fitz Jehn Perter has
been subjected te cruel injustice."
The Ciuciunatti Gazette has heard from
about one-quarter of the comities of Ohie
en the question of Republican presidential
cancidates, and the figures are : Sherman,
377 ; Blaine, 158 ; Grant, 92 ; Washburnc,
13; Garfield, 14; Hayes, 14; Bristow, 2;
Dcnnisen, 1 ; Stanley Met thews. 1 ; nomi
nee, 15.
j We respccfully refer te our neighbor
J ever the way the query of a correspondent
who wants te knew if the New Lra, which
assails the present district attorney for
multiplying indictments, is the same Nac
Era that is edited by the political protector
of the last district attorney, whose official
career taught the present state's office hew
te multiply indictments.
An ingenious colleague in journalism
has discovered that there are in France, at
the present moment, 1,700 women of letters
and 1,150 lady artists, as they arc called
in England. Twe-thirds of these writers
were born in the provinces, Normandy,
Brittany or the Seuth, while two-thirds of
the artists are born Parisians. Out of the
writers, 1,000 publish novels or moral
stories for children, 200 arc poets, 150
write for pedagogue journals. Out of the
artists, 107 are sculptors, 702 oil painters,
193 miniaturists, 254 ceramists and 494
water-color and fan painters, or pastel and
crayon drawers.
This, from the New Yerk correspondent
of the Washington Republic, seems te be
the average popular judgment en the new
opera :
"The Pirates of Penzance " maybe con
sidered as fairly acclimated new. Its suc
cess is assured, but it will never be popular
in the sense that "Pinafore" has been.
It will never be whistled and sung and
quoted, instant in season and out of sea
son, as that brilliant operetta has been.
Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan said it would
net perhaps they intended it should net
and it is net. "Pinafore" is a vaga
bond, a street gamin it is equally at home
in the theatre and out of it. But we shall
go te hear " The Pirates of Penzance "
without immediately wishing te form a
company and play it ourselves.
THE GREAT EDITOllS.
WatlcrsGU Chaffr Cincinnati's Field
Marshal.
Murat Halstcad preserves a sense of hew
it feels te be misrepresented, and writes
thus te the Louisville Courier-Journal :
The following appears in the Courier-Journal,
and I speak of it because it has
become a bore : " Murat Halstcad
of the Cincinnati Commercial said te report
er in Washington city, the ether day,
that he prays night and morning that Grant
may net be nominated." I did net say
anything of the kind. I did express re
gret that Grant was a candidate for the
presidency and a hope that the Republicans
would net nominate him. I am opposed te
the third term. In my judgment, no citi citi
zen ever will be, or ought te be, under any
circumstances, president of the Unitcil
States for mere than eight years. In the
same connection it is said that I told a
story of "a nigger" and "a darkey
preacher," etc. I did refer te the desper
ate resolve of the colored brother at a
canipmeeting te take te the weeds if all
reads led te the bad, but I de net use the
terms "nigger" and "darkey." It is
perhaps absurd td-attempt te correct this
sort of thing, but it becomes a weariness
te see quoted as your exact language
that which you didn't, couldn't and
wouldn't say. Mr. Watterson, evi
dently realizing the enormity of the
offence in this case, thus closes his apol apel apol
ogy: " With our hand upon our heart we
de declare that we have never seen Mr.
Halstcad pray. Neither have we ever
hcaid him say 'nigger' or 'darkey.'
Though net a devotional person, he has
always, at least in our presence, referred
te these who emanate from a previous con
dition of servitude as 'our esteemed
neighbor of the colored persuasion,' or
speaking of individual examples, alluded
te ' our unfortunate friend, Othetle,"
or ' our sportive acquaintance, Tous Teus
saint L'Ouvcrture,' varying, at times
these picturesque sobriquets and in a
mood quickened, with 'Anether thimbleful
of soda-water, Bismarck,' and 'I say, Ven
Moltke ! -a sprinkle of nutmeg, if you
please.' And thus ever hath it been the
humor of this geed man te while away the
weary hours with harmless jests and tune
ful lays. And still he is net happy. But
his own statement is sufficiently luminous
and copious, and we leave it te tell its sad
yet instructive story, regretting the circum
stance which made us, unwittingly, the
innocent cause thereof."
We've Heard Them Before.
Sunbury Daily.
The Presbyterian Sunday-school has a
choir, and very proud it is of it, tee. If it
isn't it ought te be, for it is quite a good geed
looking one. The organ used is after the
pattern of the one Neah and his family
used in the ark. Perhaps it is the same
one. On Sunday afternoon that organ
played for the choir in a way they despised.
They were standing up, looking their pret
tiest, net knowing that there was a piece
of smooth ice in front of them ; thev
beamed en the school in their own peculiar
way. The first verse of "Yield net te I
temptation " was sung by the school and
gotten through with very well ; then the
choir struck the first piece of smooth ice
the organ stepped, just as the second verse
was being commenced ; it did net step
dead but sent tip a low plaintive -wail, as if
it had eaten something that did net agree
with it. The choir was new slowly sliding
out en the smooth ice ; it steed for a min
ute, when slowly its feet came out from
under it and it sit down with a very red
face. The small boys in the front scat gig
gled, laughed reared. The organist pump
ed, worked and played, still the small
voice of the old organ kept up its constant
' wah ! " At last the tenor singer came te
the rescue. He took the obstinate old
" waher," gave it a geed shake, and, much
te the regret of every twelve-year-elder in
the room, it stepped we hope never te go
again.
CONWAY ON IKELAXD.
lie Thiuks tlie Distress Ought te be Alle
viated by the Sale of Churches
and Cathedrals.
In Ireland, says M. D. Conway, the out
look grows gloomier every day.
There are considerable districts, chiefly in
the western part of the island, where the
people have neither feed nor clothing, and
no work. Crime is following, as usual,
close en despair. It is stated that, in the
whole district, from Leenanc round
the coast te Tully, Strcamstewn,
Oniay, Clifdcn, Roundstone,Carne and Gal
way, the kelp industry ,is gene ; there is
no work, and private charity is uttterly
unequal te cope with the distress. A
dreadful famine is impending. The
Duchess of Marlborough's appeal for a
voluntary fund te deal with pressing
necessities is meeting with a geed re
sponse. A relief committee has been
formed at Dublin, and ethers will probably
be organized in England. There is a
probability that the government will
undertake the long proposed work of im
proving the Shannen, if only te provide
employment for these who new
have none. I need hardly say that,
in the presence of such a for
midable prospect, the government
will hardly venture te press its prosecu
tions for wild political agitation and speech
very far. It would certainly fail if it did.
But it may be added that none here held
the government at all responsible for the
distress in Ireland. They will only be as
sailed if they de net energetically grapple
with it. It is a curious thing, however,
te sec all the English theatres crowded
with spectators, witnessing in the panto
mimes of the season geed fairies conquer
ing wicked ones, and fabulous knights
overcoming story book ogres and dragons,
while the real ogre of hunger and dragon
of famine are devouring thousands
in another part of the kingdom,
and no here starts up with strength suffi
cient te slay them. The only thing re
quired in Ireland is for all the churches,
Catholic and Protestant, te make up their
minds that Almighty Ged can exist and be
happy without their attentions and costly
services. If he be as kindly a Ged as they
say in their services, He would surely be
happy te sec a thousand churches and
cathedrals sold at auction for the purpose
of relieving the distress of his miserable
worshipers.
A Level-headed Kuler.
Fer real practical promotion and diffu
sion of knowledge among men commend
me te Dem Pedre, emperor of Brazil.
He is remmembercd in this country as a
quiet, sensible gentleman who would net
be feted, and who traveled about indefati
gably, gathering up all sorts of hints
and helps toward improving his
own country and people. He keeps it
up. Ills latest movement has been
te establish, in connection with the depart
ment of commerce at Rie Janeiro, a "Cen
tral Commission of International Ex
changes." The idea of such commissions
in all countries was breached at the geo
graphical congress held in Paris in 1875.
The French government has already acted
upon the suggestion, and new Dem Pedre,
intelligently wide awake te the interests
of his people, issues an imperial
decree creating a commission. It
will be a general bureau of information
and exchange for the literary and scienti
fic world, give assistance te scientific ex
peditious, hunt up information hidden
away in libraries and government archives,
receive and distribute publications sent
from foreign countries,appoint delegates in
all the Brazilian provinces te co-operate
with it in a word, organize the knowledge
en hand and collect mere. RanwMVs Re
public. LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Behrcr, the defaulting Louisville cashier,
has been sent te jail.
The jury in the Yeung murder trial, at
Petersburg, Va., arc still out.
The printers en the morning papers of
Kansas City, Me., are all en a strike.
The bark Continental, which left Wash
ington, D. C, November 14 for St. Jage
de Cuba, is supposed te be lest, with all
en beard, including Captain Larrabec,wife
and child.
A stable belonging te A. J. Wilsen, a
dry goods merchant, at Chatham, Out.,
was burned en Sunday. Twe of Mrs.
Wilsen's children, who had been playing
with matches in the stable, were burned
te death.
Burr Bobbins, a circus proprietor, was
fatally injured en Sunday evening at
Jaucsville, Wis., by his head coming in
contact with a bridge while he was run
ning his little steamer rapidly en Reck
river.
Eleven obstinate jurors The llayden
jury disagree and arc discharged by the
court Murder in the first degree never en
tertained in their deliberations One hold
ing out for murder in the second degree,
the ether eleven for acquittal.
The negre Jerdan, who ran off with a
white girl from Fauquier, Virginia, some
time age, and was arrested in Maryland
and brought te Warrenton en Wednesday
last, was taken from the jail at that place
about 2 o'clock yesterday morning and
hanged.
A tragic sheeting affair occurred at
Lancaster, Peoria county, Illinois, en
Saturday evening, Al. Barnes sheeting his
inamorata, Mattie Ferd, wounding her
perhaps fatally, and then sending a bullet
into his own brain. The woman had been
leading him en in his suit, which she
finally refused.
On Friday morning Patrick Redden was
found lying at the feet of the stairs inCur
tiss hall, Bridgeport, Conn., where he had
attended a dance the night before, suffering
from concussion of the brain, which result
ed fatally en the same day. It was sup
supposed he had fallen accidentally, but
the police have obtained evidence which
shows that the fall was occasioned by an
unprovoked blew from Jehn McQuiclan,
who was going up stairs as Redden was
passing down. McQuiclan, who is 19
years old, together with William McMul-
len, who was with him at the time, is under
arrest.
Jehn Richmond, an eccentric old man
of 75 years living near Lynn, Susquehanna
county, has been annoyed a geed deal of
late by two brothers, Geerge and Eugene
Pawlcy, who would go te Richmond's
house and abuse him and his son in-law
and demand; and obtain previsions. Rich
mond grew tired of this, and warned them
last week net te come again. On Sunday
afternoon last the Hawlcys again visited
Richmond's and were driven from the
house. Eugene returned armed with an
iron bar and threatened te kill Richmond,
when the latter took took down his gun
and shot hini dead. An inquest was held,
but no arrest made.
OTA'i'JS ITEMS.
. Napeleon Campana and Chester L.
Lewis begin a 75-h.eur feet race at Brook
lyn te-morrow evening.1
James Boyd, of.Nerristown, was elected
president of ' the Steny Creek railroad at
the annual meeting of stockholders yes
tciday. Oliver Dreshcr, of llaitranft station , en
the Steny Creek railroad, Montgomery
county, was found dead near the insane
hospital en Sunday. Corener Leng's jury
returned a verdict that Dreshcr was killed
by the cars. Ne one saw the accident,
but as both arms were broken below the
elbows and ether wounds inilicted it was
thought te be certain that the unfortunate
man, who was a well-known and resected
citizen, met his death en the track.
Wilkcsbarre had a coincidence yester
day in the affairs before the court. Judge
Woodward occupied the bench, and the
case under consideration Harvey vs.
Benham had for attorneys, ex-Judge
Harding, whom Woodward succeeded;
Hubbard B. Payne, who was the judge's
most active opponent for the judgeship ;
and C. B. Metzger, en the jury, who is
Judge Woodward's successor as chief en
gineer of the AVilkesbarrc fire depart
ment. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
Muddy Streets.
Many of the streets are in a terribly bad
condition, and owing te the very open win
ter we have had, this was te have been ex
pected. But we think there is no possible
excuse for the almost impassable condition
in which the first two squares of North
Queen street is at present. When it
is remembered that the street commit
tee during the past season has spent
$400 or $300 in repairing these squares,
and the street commissioner has recently
hauled away from them hundreds of eart eart eart
loadsef filth, and that the street is yet almost
impassable from Centre square te the rail
road, it must be palpable te all that there
has been gross neglect or mismanagement
somewhere. Residents iu the vicinity of
North Queen and Orange streets
call their favorite thoroughfare "the
canal of the Dismal Swamp," and say
it has been opened for navigation for
the season. Storekeepers complain that
their business is greatly interfered with
and shoppers find it almost impossible te
get from one side of the street te
the ether, tlie se-called "crossings"
being as deeply covered with mud as the
rest of the roadway. What are the street
committee and tlie street commissioner
going te de about it ? It is te be hoped
they will net waste any mere money by
attempting te pike it with rotten slate.
Ilaiitam and lirahma.
Eds. Intelligencek : " Brahma" begs
leave te thank your reporter who " carried
the news" te him, that Mr. Charles E.
Leng's bantams received "four first,
two second and two special premiums at
the Franklin county poultry exhibition."
Ne doubt the premiums were well de
served for Dr. Dickie, of Doylestown,
who acted as judge, is an expert who is
net liable te make mistakes. By referring
te the premium list of the Franklin county
exhibition, I find that-of ever $100 cash
premiums ettered, only $6 were offered for
bantams, (a fair proportion). Of the $20
special premiums offered, the Asiatics,
Games, Spanish and American, received
$5 each, anil the b.tntams nothing, (a
very fair proportion). Of the "donation
premiums, amounting te ever $100, the
bantams received less than $5 (a decent al
lowance), the remainder of the premiums
being awarded te Brahmas, Cochins,
Gaines, Plymouth Rocks, turkeys, geese
and ether fowls that mean something when
put iu the market basket or en the dinner
table. In a word, the Franklin county
premium list was se arranged that the
bulk of the premiums fell te the owners of
valuable fowls, while only a moiety fell te
the owners of pets. On the ether hand the
Lancaster county premium list was se ar
ranged that considerably mere than one
half of all the premiums fell te the owners
of pets, while owners of hundreds
of line fowls en exhibition received
little (and most of them nothing) for
their excellent exhibits. In no fault-finding
spirit, but with a hope of preventing a
similar mistake at the next exhibition of
the society, " Brahma " called attention
te the matter. At horse fairs, ponies arc
net awarded higher premiums than Per Per
chcrens or thoroughbreds. At cattle
shows the highest premiums are always
given te the stock possessing the most
valuable beef-producing or milking quali
ties. At mechanical exhibitions
the chief premiums are net awarded
te ingeniously constructed toys, but
te valuable implements and machines.
And se in poultry exhibitions the almost
universal practice is, and ought te be, te
award the bulk of the premiums te valu
able breeds of fowls. This was done at
the late Franklin county exhibition, at the
Berks county exhibition, and at all ethers
except the Lancaster exhibition. Until it
can be shown that bantams arc mere val
uable than ether breeds of fowls I will held
te my formerly expressed opinion, that a
poultry society te be successful and useful
should distribute its principal premiums
among the llcsh-preducingand egg-producing
breeds the Game, Leghorn, Hamburg,
Plymouth Reck, Cechin and
Brahma.
Unclaimed Letters.
The following is a list of unclaimed let
ters remaining in the Lancaster posteffice
for the week ending January 19.
Ladies' List: Amanda Clark, Mary
Ilerihrcn, Florence Heinslcy, Anna Neff,
Maggie Shread, Laviuia Smith, Anna 31.
Warner.
Gents' Lint : Gee. F. Andersen, Erbin
D. Bechtel, Jehn II. Bicknell, Jlilten J.
Brecht, Frank Belger, D. Brandes, Jehn
Bruuer. Jehn Dart, Jacob Esbenshade,
Chin. B. Ebenshadc, Gee. F. Gehn, Abin
Herr, Jehn L. Heir, Sam'l Myers Hoever,
Henry N. Jans, Mr. Kuffmau, J. Knisly,
Iveurad Knodt (for). Gee. M. Little, Wil
liam Mayer (for), D. S. Peterman, Mr.
Penrose, Tbes. C. Reynolds, Jehn II.
Shenk, Edward Scheidler (for), Edward
Smith, B. W. Snyder, William Steighel-
man, Henry Steinmaii, Peter Stoets, Fred
crick Zimmcr.
Law and Order.
One of the issues which may be properly
settled in the approaching municipal elec
tion is that which grows out of the com
plaint of the mayor that the police authority
of the city cannot be fairly and success
fully exercised when prosecutions are
strangled in the quarter sessions because
the law-breakers arc or can be bribed te
become the best Republican workers in the
ward.
Surety of tne Peace.
On complaint of Jeseph Stark, of the Gth
ward, Abraham Speidel was held by Alder
man McConemy te answer at court for
surety of the peace complainant swear
ing that in consequence et threats made
by defendant lie believes his life te be iu 1
danger.
BHXUUUDS.
Cluunplea Schaefer aad Eugene Carter at th
, v CityHetel.
Mr. H. H. Power,.ppeprieter of the City
hotel, has for some time' past been aego aege
tiating te secure the presence in this city
of the famous billiard expert, Jacob
Schacfer, and yesterday afternoon that
gcntleraaUj'acceinpanicd by Eugene Carter,
another noted player, and J. W. C. Brown,
whose name is familiar as referee or mark
er in metropolitan championship matches,
arrived in this city directly from New
Yerk and put up at the City hotel. There
was a geed-sized crowd of persons curious
te see the famous champion of the cue
when the train came in, and when the gen
tlemen stepped off the cars and were met
by Captain Power, there was a subdued
chorus of " ehs" and "ahs," and interrog
atories of "Which is Schafer?" were fre
quently heard as the party moved off to
ward the City hotel, where a game had
been announced for tlrree o'clock, and
where a fair-sized audience, comprising
some of our best known local billiard play
ers and admirers of the game quickly as
sembled te witness the exhibition.
Mr. Schacfer is a gentleman prob
ably less than twenty-five years
of age, under medium size and
slightly built. He has a keen, well-set
eye, a thin, dark mustache, and rather
sparse growth of dark brown hair. He
at present holds the title of champion of
the United States and the cham
pionship emblem, which he wen from
William Sexten en the 10th inst., at the
great Tammany hall match, in which Mr.
Schacfer was victorious by the score of
COO te 585. Mr. Sexten had had the badge
since November, having wen it and first
money at the Cellender teurnanieut, en
which occasion Schaefcr secured third
place ; in that famous exhibition Gee. Slos Sles Slos
sen came in second, barely missing the
coveted distinction of the championship,
which has long been the height of his am
bition and has been almost within
his grasp en mere than one former
occasion. The badge is a magnificent
piece of workmanship. It is made of solid
geld, handsomely jeweled, octagonal in
shape, with the word " Champien " sur
rounding it. In the centre is a miniature
billiard ball, beautifully set with small
diamonds and rubies, and from which
radiate te the angles" of the octa
gon lines intended te represent cues ;
the top of the badge, te which
the pin is attached, represents a billiard
table. The emblem was exhibited te the
audience and was the object of a great deal
of admiration.
The afternoon game between Mr. Schacf
er and Mr. Carter was for 300 points, under
present championship rules. Mr. Car
ter, who is also a young man, is
the reputed champion " bank " shot
of the world. He is a tall, well-built and
pleasant-looking young fellow, apparently
with a temper and disposition as evenly
balanced as his wonderful nerves and un
erring eye. His upper lip is adorned with
a red moustache, and his thick curly hair
is several shades darker. The game was
in every respect a brilliant one, and was
wen by Mi;. Carter, in twenty-two innings,
the champion evidently reserving his pow
ers for the evening exhibition, although
both pbycrs showed some brilliant work,
and the frequent pretty shots evoked the
applause of the audience, The largest run
was 82, by Mr. Carter, and the score in
full was as fellows :
Carter 0, e. 13, 1. 'i :a, 3, IS, 13, -J, 2, (,&!, 1, 1(,
4, 21, e, 1. 1'., l'., 7. Total, 3hi.
Schiit'l'ur 1, 0, (I, 0, (), 51, 17, 5, "!, 2, 0, II. 0, 0, I,
3, 11, 3, :Mi, 0, 0, 17. Total, 231.
WinncrV average, 13 7-11 ; loner's le.
1 lie evening game was witnessed by a
considerably larger crowd, and much en
thusiasm prevailed. Beth games were
played en the beautiful "Monarch " tabic
(J. B. Brunswick & Balkc Ce. 4x9 feet)
and with 2Hl inch balls. Hie evening
game was 400 points up, and, as
in the afternoon, Mr. Brown acted
as referee and marker. The men
strung for the lead, Carter wen and failed
te count, and the champion followed with
a miss ; en his second shot Carter
madciJ, and Schaefcr retired with a
zero. In the third inning Carter again
missed ; Schacfer took up his cue and
went te work ; by careful manipulation of
the ivories he get them together, coaxed
them along the rail, and then began an
exhibition of his wonderful skill iu inur
ing. By rapid rail play he added
point after point te his score, the
balls clicking gently as they traveled up
the left hand cushion, and never being al
lowed te wander a hair beyond the play
er's easy control. As the audience
watched they knew that the inning was
one destined te yield " great billiards" and
the excitement became visible in the craned
necks and eager glances of the spectators.
Hew slickly the balls obeyed his magic
cue ! Bew grandly they moved along,
adding point after point te the score?!
Once they broke, when a brilliant masse
brought the glebes together again and
called out a burst of applause. They sped
aleng.passcd the corner safely, and had just
started en their journey along the upper
cushion, when an unexpected miss en the
98th shot was greeted with a chorus of
disappointed "Ohs," and the champion sat
down just three points short of the triple
numbers, the superb run being re
warded with loud applause. Frem this
time en te the tenth inning the shots failed
te yield any great number of points, when
Schaefer by fine play rolled up 45, and at
this juncture the marker called out, " Mr.
Schaefcr 205, Mr. Carter 58." On the 14th
inning the champion counted 46, fallowed
it with21, and then, after a miss, tacked :!4
te ins string, un ins 2Utn inning
the champion ran 19, followed with
a miss, then rolled up 35, and en his
twenty-fourth inniug, after he had made
18 and wanted only 1 te go, heeded the
suggestion of his adversary te "make a
fancy shot," and failed te count. Carter
only succeeded in counting 3, and left the
balls in a position that forced him te threw
up the sponge, and the winner, Schaefcr,
was saluted with prolonged applause.
Carter's play was very weak up te the
eleventh inning, when by excellent play
and a number of pretty shots he rolled up
:3K, followed withe3 mere in the thirteenth.
In the seventeenth he counted 21, and
then began a succession of geed runs, cul
minating en his twenty-first inning, where
the audience was again worked up te a
high pitch of excitement by the expecta
tion of seeing the champion's long run
equalled or surpassed. Having get the
glebes in favorable position, he repeated
the fine exhibition of rail play afforded by
Schacfer in the early stage of the game,
varying it occasionally by a brilliant reund-the-tablc
or pretty masse, and rapidly run
ning up the points. When 75 was reach
ed the iuterest was intense, as there seemed
no likelihood of the balls breaking. At
almost the same spot en the upper cushion
at which Schaefer had missed, and en a
yet; easier shot. Carter terminated his
brilliant work, and sat down amid loud ap
plaase, with 88'additienal points append
ed te his credit ; and when the marker
called "Mr? Schacfer 34G, Mr. Carter
259, " the interest in the game heightened
at the prospect of a close contest, for it
was known that both men were players
who don't step counting until the last
shot. But the young champion kept his
nerve, and three mere shots yielded the
necessary 54 points te make him the win
ner. The score :
Carter-O, 3, 0, 7. G. 0, 1. 4. 3C, 3, 33, 3, 0, 4, 21, 13,
0, 2S, SS, !, 0, 0, 3. Total, 3KU.
Schacfer 0,0,97. 2), 0, 14. 18. 2, 0. , 11,15.0,4,;,
21, II, 31, 1, 3, H, U, 33, 0. 18. 1. Total, 4U0.
Winner's average, 16 ; loser's, 10 19-25.
At the conclusion of the game the two
men engaged in a contest of "bank"
shots, 10 points up, which was wen by
Carter, who scored the necessary number,
te Schaefer's 0. This is said te be Mr.
Carter's great specialty, in which he
claims the national championship. The
object is te strike a cushion before carom
ing, and affords opportunity for beautiful
and scientific work and accurate judgment
m order te touch the cushion at exactly
the right spot te come back'and carom.
Beth men also jive exhibitions of fancy
shots, many of which cannot be described
otherwise than marvelous, and were
greeted with tumulteus applaase, notably
Mr. Schaefer's wonderful work with twenty
balls, which lie started off from one corner
of the table and brought them around te
the ether corner within a mark described
with chalk, all the balls being iu motion at
the same time and net "kissing." Mr.
Carter's fancy and finger shots were also
greatly admired.
Messrs. Schaefer and Carter left for
New Yerk te-day, whence they start for
New Orleans en Thursday te engage in a
tournament seen te cemt off there, iu
which Sexten and ether celebrities will
participate.
COURT OF OITAKTEK SKSSION.S.
January Regular Term.
Cem th vs. Michael Snyder, selling
li
quer en Sunday. Jehn Potts testified that
he never drank, or saw auy one drink, li
quer at Snyder's saloon
Henry Gardner drank
the saloon en Sunday
en buiulay.
liquor at
within two
years ; it was given him by Lawrence Sny
der ; no one paid for it ; the beer had been
bought en Saturday and was drank en Sun
day ; Lawrence Snyder had been married
en Saturday. Benjamin Schauin testified
that he did net drink any beer at Snyder's,
nor did he see any one else get any. Jehn
Fritsch drank liquor at Snyder's en a Sun
day in May, 1878 ; did net knew whether
defendant was there ; his father was. E.
E. Snyder testified that he drank liquor in
the saloon of defendant en Sunday iu the
spring of 1878 ; defendant was there and
witness paid him for the beer ; he also paid
the defendant's brothers for some.
Fer the defense, Michael Snyder was
called ; he testified that while he kept the
saloon in Scheenberger's park, or within
two years past, he sold no liquor te any
one en Sunday ; he gave instructions te
all around the place net te sell liquor ;
witness did net. te his knowledge, ever sell
any beer te E. E. Snyder ; he did net re
collect of him ever being there ; the beer
which Lawrence Snyder gave away en the
occasion of his wedding was bought by
him at Bicker's brewery ; it was given out
in the kitchen of the house. The com
plaint, indictment and record of the court
were offered te show that the defendant
was complained against for selling liquor
en Sunday in August, 1878. A true bill
was found against him. In October the
case was called and the jury rendered a
verdict of net guilty with county for costs.
Rei The witness then continued his
testimony and testified that no liquor has
been sold by him or allowed by him te be
sold en his premises since October 1878 ;
witness never employed his father te at
tend te the bar ; he never saw him hand
out beer te any one ; nobody was author
ized te sell but the wife of witness.
The defense argued that they could net
be convicted, as they were acquitted of this
charge in October, 1878, since which time
they have sold no liquor en Sunday. The
prosecution argued that there had been a
violation of the law since acquittal.
The ceuit iu their charge instructed the
jury that nothing could be considered by
them which occurred previous te August.
1878, but if they believe that the defendant
had sold any liquor subsequent te October,
1878, he could be convicted. The jury
rendered a verdict of net guilty, with coun
ty for costs.
Ulysses Broemell, a boy, who plead
guilty at the last court te a charge of lar
ceny, was sentenced te one months impris
onment. The cases of Charles Wihner, charged
with larceny as bailee, and Martha Bathurst
with false pretense were nel pressed for
want of evidence.
In the cases of Joel Miller and Ames
Stencr, charged with conspiracy, and W.
II. Strobel, with being accessory te the
fact, verdicts of net guilty were taken for
want of evidence.
The grand jury returned the following
bills :
True JJilh. Geerge Evans, assault and
battery ; Michael Geed, assault ; Emma
Williams, Cabal Jacksen, alias Jenes, Jehn
Jehnsen, larceny ; Charles Black anil Wm.
B. Weeds, fornication and bastardy.
Ignored Bills. Cabal Jacksen, larceny.
Tuesday Morning. Cem'th vs. William
B. Weeds, fornication and bastardy. The
offence is alleged te have been com
mitted with Elizabeth Dill, of Conestoga
Centre, who is the mother of a child,
which was bem in February, 1879. There
was no defense and the jury found the
accused guilty. Sentence as usual.
Cem'th vs. Cabal Jacksen, alias June.,
and Jehn Jehnsen, colored, larceny. The
defendants were charged with stealing a
quantity of wheat and some ether articles
from Isaac Land is and Martin Bmbaker
in October last. The principal witness was
Elizabeth Smith,, colored, who is the
housekeeper of Jehnsen and resides with
him in the Welsh mountains. She testi
fied that in October last Jacksen and wife
crme te their house. The former said he
knew where they could get some wheat.
They started off en a Thursday night and,
leaving the women in the weeds, the men
went and stele some wheat, which they
brought back te the wagon in the weeds.
This they took te the Welsh mountains
and afterwards te Lebanon, where they
sold it. On the way te Lebanon they took
some wheat, cider, eats and hay from the
premises of a man, which the witness was
told was Martin Brubaker's.
The defense offered no testimony, but
claimed that no ownership had been proven
and it was net shown by the owners of the
wheat that they had lest any. The jury
reudered verdicts of net guilty.
Cem'th vs. James Kelly, tramp. It was
charged that the defendant was a man
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