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FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1880.
The 'eblc Judge.
Judge Patterson says he has no
feplintr nfrnhist. ns and that lie
would net-iet liis own father say
te him what we said without
callinghira te account for it. That is just
right. We are very glad that Judge Pat
terson has laid his foundation se straight,
but it increases our surprise that he has
cot his superstructure se crooked. Very
clearly the judge is very noble in refusing
te permit any personal feeling against us
te animate his judicial action. We credit
his word te this effect, as we have no
reason te discredit it ; our personal rela
tions have always been friendly and our
editorial criticisms upon the judge's of
ficial cenductjjiave ever been free from
any taint of prejudice or malice. We
concede te the judge the motives we
claim for ourselves. We are acting in
this little affair, en both sides, from a high
sense of duty. Se far, we deserve credit
and applause. We start with geed motives.
Tlie judge is certainly right, tee, in his
refusal te let even his own father tell
him that the criminal court of which he
is a member has permitted an " imposi impesi
inn niirtipf(l lineii it and a disgrace
attaching te it,15 through the conduct of
its prosecuting officers, te pass unnoticed
because " all the parties implicated, as
well as the judges,belonged te the Repub
lican party;" that is, provided the judge
feels that he is innocent, as lie docs feel,
since we have had his own assurance te
us in this eilice that Judge Livingston,
having tried the Snyder case, is entirely
responsible for the failure te call District
Attorney Kshleman and Mr. Brown te
account for their imposition upon the
court.
The judge naturally felt that he did
net want te be blamed for what he con
sidered te be Judge Livingston's fault.
He loves Judge Livingston as one de
scendant of Adam may love another, if
vi is a geed member of the church, pray
ing daily for a full endowment of all the
Christian graces : but net any mere.
We say once mere the judge was
right. Every lub ought te stand en its
own bottom. Judge Patterson's tub
thus far had a geed bottom ; but his
next movement knocked all its hoops
loose, and made it just the leakiest tub
that ever was. What we said was quite
aggravating te a just judge. Such a one
had a right te complain that we charged
the leniency of his court te deeply of
fending members of the bar te political
inlluence. That is just about what we
did charge ; and if Judge Patterson had
sat himself down and -opened his law law law
beoks te find out the remedy for his
wrong provided by the law, lie would
have found that it lay in an action
against us for libel the same remedy
that is provided for the aspersed reputa
tions of people who are net judges. The
law does net make judges any better
oil than common people in this regard.
And se, in truth,.the judge, beingji
judge, ought te have known without
eensultintr his law books. And if the
J ml:
c knew that he didn't knew much
law as the people may suspect he made
a very bad step indeed when he stepped
v into the elliee of Lawyer Hay Urewn
te get posted; because the people that
Lawyer Hay Urewn pests se very often
somehow come te grief, and because
Lawyer Hay Urewn happened te be one
of the lawyers who perpetrated the im
position upon the court which we
criticised it for permitting, and which
Judge Patterson said that Judge Living
ston was responsible for net resenting.
And then te hear that this innocent, high
minded, independent judge, se zealous of
his reputation, had been in council with
one of the offending lawyers en the night
before and the night after he thundered
his anathema against us for charging
him with being anything less than em
bodied judicial purity zeal and honor
we declare astonished us ; a very little.
We advise the judge te drop Urewn,
lest he be done brown, as Urewn's politi
cal friends arc apt te be done. Let him
trust te the noble impulses that he tells
us animate his own besom, and then he
will net think it right te prosecute us, tes
tify against us, render a verdict against
us, and sentence us, all by his lone self.
Judge, we submit that this is " going it
alone " a little tee strong. Let us have
a jury en it, Judge, te whom you will
show the resplendent whiteness of your
judicial ermine and prove that Judge
Livingston is the nigger in the weed-pile
who has made all the mischief.
The Court of Public ; Opinion.
We de net Hatter ourselves with the
idea that the remarkable outburst of
newspaper opinion en our contempt case
is owing te any personal or political in
terest in the editors of this journal, nor
te any special professional sympathy
with their position as both editors and
lawyers, since among the editors of jour
nals from which we quote we recognize
friends and fees, Democrats, Republicans
and Independents, and for the most part
gentlemen who sustain no such relations
te their local courts as the editors of the
Intelligence!:.
The remarkably wide notice which the
case has obtained, as well as the singular
unanimity which is expressed regarding
its merits, as far as they have been de
veloped, is due te the lively appreciation
which the public press has of the impor
tance of the issue presented te every
community. We have no hesitation in
reproducing them, pending the final ad
judication of the matter, because it is
right as a matter of news that this rellec rellec
tien of popular sentiment en a
topic of current interest should be
brought te public attention, and be
cause Judge Patterson in his handling
of the case has shown an anxiety te give
it an extra-judicial prominence. Net
only has he taken the novel and unprece
dented course of summoning parties te a
rule before him te hear the rule read be
fore a quarter sessions audience, with
lengthy introductory remarks, that he
did net furnish us a copy of until spe
cially demanded, and followed by a
gratuitous disclaimer of personal mo
tives, but it Jis the common rumor of
the street and bar that at every stage of
it he has ceunselled with parties outside
of court and outside of the case in regard
te his treatment of it. lie is entitled,
therefore, te all the satisfaction he can
get and the public can get from reading
what the press has te say about him and
his procedure.
People are naturally interested in the
case because of the logical consequences
of its final determination. Let it once
be established that a court can reach out
its hand te execute its summary pro pre
casses upon these who, outside of its au
thority, express their honest opinions
alwut it, bring them lefere its bar and
seek te extort from them there an ad
mission that they entertain these opin
ions, in order te lay a foundation for
summarv proceedings, and, failing te
catch them in this trap, fabricate an ac
count of what it alleges took place, and
proceed upon such an invention when
this can be done with impunity and sue
cess, there will be no limit te the arbi.
trary exercise of judicial authority in its
infringement upon popular rights.
The Uosten Herald applauds the exhi
bition of the Maine supreme court in re
versing its own judgment where its par
tisan interests are served by conflicting
interpretations of the law. Twe years
age when a Democrat was suing for his
seat in the Legislature of which he had
been deprived by a defective return,
Maine's Republican judges gravely said :
" It is te be regretted that votes arc lest
by the negligence of town officers, but
the obvious remedy is te cheese such as
knew their duty, and. knowing it, will
perform it." New when they flatly re
verse themselves by giving out the doc
trine that, " no person is te be deprived
of his position because of the dereliction
of these whose duty it was te send in the
returns." the Uosten Herald under
takes te condone their inconsistent and
partisan action with .the sophism,
"courts are liable te favor technical
constructions in single cases, but, where
the effect is te defeat the will of the peo
ple, they are forced te leek deeper te find
essential equity." This may de te tell te
the marines, but the common sense of
the people of the country will put this
construction upon their remarkable per
formance ; Republican courts are cer
tain te favor technical construction in
cases where Republican interests are sub
served by se doing, but where the effect
is te accrue te the advantage of their po
litical opponents, they can go behind the
returns and overturn the law and pre
cedents in order te escape from the trap
they had se cunningly devised for their
adversaries.
PERSONAL.
Majer Brewniikai, paymaster United
States army, was robbed of $20,000, while
en his way from Fert Leavenworth te Fert
Rene.
Senater Lamm: is able te move about his
hotel en crutches. The Mississippi Legis
lature yesterday, in joint assembly, chose
J. Z. G 1:01:01: as U. S. senator.
The Pennsylvania editors have eleeted
Clayten M (Michael, of the Philadel
phia North Amerkan, as president of their
association.
TiieodeiieTilton was te lecture in Par
sons, Kan., and the committee was at the
station te receive him. They stepped up te
a long-haired gentleman, and welcomed
him with enthusiasm and much ceremony.
The long-haired gentleman appeared sur
prised, and said : "I don't knew what you
mean by this, but I can remove any wart
or bunion in thirty minutes, without pain,
or forfeit my reputation.'' The committee
had taken a "corn doctor" for T. T.
Senater Eaten, who has never recog
nized Hayes as the legally-elected presi
dent and he is the only Democratic sen
ator who refused te submit te the action of
the Electoral commission is en the war
path because Hayes nominated two Re
publicans for supervisors of the census in
Connecticut, and failed te give the Demo
crats any. He declares that both of the
Republicans shall be rejected, and no Re
publican shall be confirmed until one
Democrat is nominated.
Senater-elect Garkielu, 01 Ohie, was
serenaded in Washington last evening by
the Ohie state association. The opening
proceedings were interrupted by the break
ing down of a platform which had been
erected in front of General Garfield's resi
dence. About thirty persons, including the
General and several ladies, were upon the
platform at the time and were precipitated
te the ground. The casualties however,
were confined te one sprained ankle.
When order was restored General Garfield
was introduced and spoke for about twen
ty minutes.
The home of Mr. W. D. Hewklls, edi
tor of Alnntle Monthly, at Cambridge,
bears the quaint name of " Rcdtep." The
lower story is of brick and the second of
weed, entirely sheathed in California red
wood shingles. In architecture it is a
mixture of a Queen Anne house and a
Swiss chalet. Mr. Hewclls's study a large
and charming room, with a wide fire-place,
filled at this season with blazing legs, with
a pretty winter-garden, under glass, open,
ing out of it, and a ceiling divided in
ancient fashion by beams.
The Situation ill Turkey.
A Turkish gentleman, who formerly re
sided in this country, but has returned te
his own country, has recently sent a letter
te a Bosten friend, in which he gives a
crloemv picture of the condition
of the Christian subjects of the
sultan. Since many of the Christian sub
jects were set off as the result of the war
with Russia, these who remain arc treated
worse than ever before, as revenge is
taken en them for the disasters of the
war. There are many homeless Chris
tian fugitives in the country who
live by lebbery, and steal the
stock of the farmers and waylay travelers.
There are in the country 100,000 men dis
missed from the civil and military service
of the irevcrnment, who have been driven
out of Roumania, and many of them have
turned beggars or robbers, as they are un
able te support themselves. The govern
ment is bankrupt, and many of the per
sons in its employ have received no pay
fermany months. Te crown all, the harv
ests have been bad three years, and the
cup of sorrow and misery of the people of
the country is full te the brim.
Yesterday was the second day of the Sa
vannah, Ga., Jockey club races. First
nice Beuavcntura stakes, for three-year-olds,
mile heats. Mamie Fields and Lucky
Hit stilted. Mamie Fields wen, Lucky
Hit being distanced in the second heat.
Time, 1:48 V, 1:4(5, Second race mile dash.
Hattic F. wen, Aaren second, Buckshot
third and Shortfellew last. Time, 1:48.
Third race mile heals. Wen by Vagrant,
Hawk second. Time, 1:48, 1:5".
MINOR TOPICS.
Passmeke is in town te-day. Toe late,
tee late. He had better been in Philadel
phia last night.
It is believed in Londen that if the Af
ghans arc left te cheese an Ameer they
would cheese Ayoub Khan, the commander
of Herat, who is avowedly hostile te the
British and friendly te the Russians.
This is the way the machine runs in
Philadelphia. Passmerc take notice. Forty
four out of the forty-six delegates te the
Republican state convention held a caucus
last evening, presided ever by Christian
Kncass, with Mr. William R.Reed as secre
tary. It was unanimously agreed upon,
en motion of Mr. Meuat, te vote for Mr.
James McMancs as delegate at large te the
national convention. Mr. Edwin N. Ben Ben
eon was named and agreed upon as elector
at large, A resolution was adopted unan-
meusly indorsing Hen. Jehn Lemen, of
Blair count', as the candidate for auditor
general.
There is net much risk in making the
prediction that the United States govern
ment will never get a single cent of the
one million eight hundred thousand dol
lars the late Mr. Lewis bequeathed toward
the payment of the national debt. Fer
months and months the lawyers have been
wrangling ever the affair, compiling vol
umes upon volumes of testimony and run
ning up bills that by this time must have
made a pretty big hole in the estate of
the deceased millionaire. Te report and
print the se-called evidence has cost the
newspapers alone a small fortune, and
new the result of it all is that the alleged
wife of deceased has withdrawn from the
legal struggle, leaving te ethers the task
of asserting their claim te the immense
property. Lewis died in blissful ignorance
of either wife or kinsmen.
"A New Yekk Republican politician"
announces that a careful canvass of the
state shows that if Mr. Conkling attempts
te carry the delegation te the national
convention he will be defeated in every
Assembly district of the state. He says
that the friends of Sherman and Blaine
arc thoroughly organized and are united
for the purpose of defeating Grant and a
third term. It would be improper te state
the character of the organization or any of
its details, but it is a fact that it exists
and that a geed many very substantial
men arc behind it. The gentlemen who is
authority for this statement is connected
with the organization, and says that the
movement was inaugurated without con
sultation cither with Blaine or Sherman,
but te unite all opposition te a third term.
This he thinks is overwhelming, and that
the state's delegation te the national con
vention will be divided between these two
candidates.
An "Eminent Drinker."
Fer tllC IXTCLLICLNCKK.
It is said nay, it is absolutely stated en
the most unquestioned and unquestionable
authority that a young lady in the city of
Detroit, Michigan, one day last week,
swallowed six millions of living animals,
and it never "phased" her. It seems in
credible, but it is a fact. An analytical
commission "sat en the ea.-c '.ar.d pro
nounced the following verdict :
The subscribers, "whose names are
hereunto attached," de unqualifiedly re
port that Miss Pelly Vanderslicc did swal
low at one draught 1)99,000 Nitzchia curcu-
las ; 1,110,000 Cymatepleura soles ; 1,300,000
Cymatepleura elliplkas ; 500,000 Slausencis
pnnctatas ; 1,001.000 Plcurasiyna spenec-
rus : 5)00,000 Muzoselema cricusts; and
yet we arc happy te say she survives and
is "doing well.
Solen Wendeiutl, dim.
Pliny Protoplasm,
j. c. infuseria.
These are "jawbrcaking" names, but
they represent perfectly organized living
animals, possessing the power te appre
priatc aliment, of locomotion and the per
petuatien of their species. If any impa
tient reader is dissatisfied with these
names let him translate them into his ver
nacular, and see hew much easier he could
recognize these animals under an English
or a German name, than he can under their
urcelv and .Latin names, Perhaps we
ought te apprise the reader of the fact
that these little animals, or animalcules,
arc entirely invisible te the naked eye, and
that the whole "batch" of six millions
wouldn't keep a grasshopper from starv
ing for a single day. A single drop of
water would form an ample bathing pond
for ten thousand of them. Their sphere
of knowledge must necessarily be very
small, but within that sphere they knew
as well what te de as the most highly cul
tured man docs within the boundaries of
his sphere. The microscope has revealed
an invisible Hern and fauna immensely
greater in numbers than that which is visi
ble te the naked eye. Talk of a "jewel
screw " that requires 2:10,400 te weigh a
pound Trey weight, produced by mechan
ical genius, and it sinks into insignificance
when compared with the minute mechan
ism of nature. Nete the above bill of fare
ye cold water drinkers, and reflect that
that is what you arc "gobbling up" a
dozen times a day. Sam.
Eliseii'.s Carbons.
The Sanitary Engineer seeks te establish
the fact that Mr. Edisen is simply travel
ing ever a region previously explored by
ethers. In the first place as regards the
latest development at Mcule Park, namely,
the carbon filament inclesed in the ex
hausted glebe. In 1845 an American in
ventor named Starr took out, in England,
through his agent, King, r patent for pro
ducing light by electricity, which had
for its basis the use of metallic con
ductors, or of continuous carbons,
heated te whiteness by the passage
of the electric current. The best
metal for this purpose was declared te be
platinum, and, when carbon was used, a
thin red or filament was inclesed in a glass
vessel. The specifications state : " A
vacuum is previously established in the
bell, aud the apparatus veritably forms a
barometer, with one of the poles of the
battery in communication with the column
of mercury, and the ether with the con
ducter D." The conductor D is repre
sented as scaled directly into the glass
glebe or bell, and the reference te the
barometer shows clearly that the vacuum
preducd was what is known as the Tor Ter
ricellian vacuum, which, as far as the abso
lute exclusion of air gees, is con
sidered by the Sunitary Engineer te
be fully equivalent for practical pur
poses te what Mr. Edisen produces in his
lamps. If, therefore, these lamps are of
any practical use, se, also, would lamps be
if made according te the King patent,
which is, of course, open te all the world.
As te the countless devices for regulating
the current and distributing it through
numerous lamps, about which Mr. Edisen
has taken out se many patents, it is curious
te sec hew completely they are described
in publications wan 20 years old. At a
meeting of the French Academy, held
March 1, 1858, there was received from M.
Jebart a communication in which Mr. Edi Edi
eon's experiments seem te have been anti
cipated. As for the se-called Edisen elec
tric cencrater. the critic considers it in
every essential featute a duplicate el the ,
well-known Sicmen's dynamo-electro
ULli;iiiiii.a.
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LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Wesley Somers, of Geerges, S. C, IS
years old, committed suicide because his
father severely chastised him for marry
ing in opposition te his parents' wishes.
The beard of exposition commissioners
at Cincinnati has decided, by nearly a
unanimous vote, te held an exposition in
18S0 from Wednesday, September 8, te
Saturday, October 9.
Jules Metzlcr, 33 years old, living at C9
East Randelph street, Chicago, and well
connected in the city, committed suicide
yesterday morning by taking arsenic. Ne
cause is known.
The Polish residents of New Yerk city
celebrated the revolution of 1804 by a
mass meeting last liinht. The meetiug
was well attended, and the Polish sharp
shooters were in uniform.
The court-house of Sharp eeuny. Ark.,
at Evening Shade, was fired en Tuesday
night and entirely destroyed, together with
all the county records. The less is esti
mated at $20,000 ; no insurance.
The boiler of a steam threshing
machine at work en the farm of Malcolm
Cameren, near Clinten, Out., exploded
yesterday, killing Duncan McEwcr and
probably fatally injuring Arthur Wand less.
Several ethers were hurt.
Jeseph T. Crewcll, formerly president of
the New Jersey Senate and speaker of the
Heuse, at one time government printer in
Washington and for many years city treas
urer of Rahway. X. J., has been indicted
by the jury of Union county, X. J., for em
bezzling ever $48,000 of the city's money.
In Brazil, Ind., an explosion occurred in
the boiler room of the Vcach coal mine,
killing R. R. Roberts, the owner of the
mine and injuring William Elder and a
blacksmith named Jenes, se that they will
die. Mr. Roberts was blown into frag
ments. He was at one time a wealthy
banker at Evansville, Indiana.
statu; ITEMS.
Xcar Oil City the cars cut off the head of
an unknown tramp.
Delaware county instructs for Blaine
and Passmerc.
Wynkoop was acquitted at Carlisle yes
terday of poisoning .Mrs. Kiehl and as the
case against him was much stronger than
against Mm, Zell, who is under sentence of
death, her chances are greatly improved.
In Philadelphia while workmen weic en
gaged cleaning out the cess-peel in the rear
of the dwelling Xe. 400 Xerth Frent street
they brought up a large, hideous pistol, an
ordinary carpenter's hatchet, the blade of
which is yet quite sharp, with particles of
hair adhering te it a common butcher's
knife and ether evidences of a bloody mur
der committed at the place where it was
a disputable sailor's bearding house.
Geerge Goldy and Cen. Ryan, attempted
te pick pockets en a western bound train
between Philadelphia and Harrisburg
Wednesday morning. When they arrived
in Harrisburg they were promptly arrested
by officer Abe Rete, had a hearing before
Alderman Price en the same afternoon
and were sent te jail in default of $1,000
the evidence against them being cencluslv .
They were tried yesterday and sentenced.
Ambrose Simpsen, a tall, slim gentle
man, about 53 years old, well known te
Nineteenth ward Republicans, Philadel
phia, and for many years clerk in the city
controller's office left his home 212S Frank
ford avenue, where he had also a cigar
stoic, en the night of January 19, being at
the time depressed ill spirits and in ill
health, and has been found drowned in the
Delaware.
B. F. Kennedy, prolhenotary of Allegheny
county, concerning whom a dispatch was
sent out giving currency te a rumor that
he had defaulted and left town in company
with a woman of bad repute, has arrived in
Denver and says there is no truth in the
report. He is 1 eady te be taken back when
ever he is wanted, but expects te return
voluntarily as seen as he can visit Lcadvillc.
He thinks the fal.-e report was circulated
te injure him politically,
Early yesterday two heavy freight trains
met in collision between Cameren and
Sterling en the Philadelphia and Erie rail
road. Engineer Dean, of the train going
west, the fireman and brakeman en the
train going cast, were killed, while three
ether train hands were se badly injured
that they arc net expected te survive. The
operator at Cameren had orders te held the
cast bound freight train, but failed te de
liver them. He was arrested and ledged
in jail. As threats of lynching him were
made Sheriff Hensler, with fifty men
is new guarding the jail. Twe locomotives
and twentv cars were totally wrecked.
Haunted uy Hi Victim's Face.
In Milwaukee, Wis., W. W. Notting
ham, who has been employed in Aschcr
man's & Ce.'s cigar factory under the
neme of Parker, appeared in the Central
police station and asked te be .taken into
custody for murder. He said that six years
age he shot and killed one Jehn Gayler in
a street fight in Norfolk, Va., though the
shot was intended for another man. Dur
ing six years' wanderings in all parts of
the country the face of his victim has been
constantly before him, aud he new wants
te be taken back te Norfolk and punished
for the murder. He has worked under
different names throughout the Seuth and
West, and says that he is well known in
Kansas and Texas. He was in the Con
federate army throughout the war. His
statement was telegraphed te Norfolk and
the authorities of that city have requested
his detention until a requisition can be se
cured. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
" ISUKliLAKY.
Iiairy AlyeiVs
Saleen Enteric!
and lieu-
bud.
Last night the restaurant and dining
rooms of Harry Myers, in the basement
of Lechcr's building, corner of West King
street and Centre Square, was robbed.
This morning about daybreak when it was
reopened, it was discovered that burglars
had during the -night entered the saloon
and stolen a small amount of money,
several bottles of liquor and some fine
cigars. The thieves effected an entrance
by going down the back stairway between
Lechcr's and Strinc's buildings and open
ing the back deer of the saloon with nip
pers the key having been left in the lock
en the inside el the deer, the money
drawer behind the bar was then forced,
the lock being broken completely off, and
the money contained in it net less than
$2.50 nor mere than $ 1 was stolen. The
cigar case was epancd and about one hun
dred of the best brands of cigars taken.
Several bottles of liquor standing behind
the bar were " sampled," but the thieves
took only the best including a bottle each
of Reigart's old brandy, gin and sherry.
Nothing was taken from the dining room
adjoining, where a large haul of tablc-warc
might have been made. The thieves were
evidently well-acquainted with the prem
ises, but Mr. Myers has no suspicion as te
who they were.
JUDGE PATTERSON.
The Drift or I'nbUc Opiniea Expressed
Within and Without His Claimed Juris
diction. Lawyer Ilicstand's Examiner.
It is net our purpose new te express any
opinion "whether an officer of thc court,
who may happen te also edit a newspaper,
can say through his paper or print with
immuil;tv assertions that the
rupt The whole question w
court is cer-
will no doubt
be thoroughly argued and the law, se far
as this court is concerned, made plain be
fore the public.
A Violent Presumption.
Lawyer Warfel's New Kra.
Had the editor of the New Era charged
the court with being "implicated" in a
"prostitution of the machinery of justice"
without being able te sustain the eharge,
the court would clearly have had no right
te proceed against him for contempt of
court, he net being an officer of the court
nor having committed the offense in the
court's presence. Hew far the fact of
Messrs. Steinman and Hensel being attor
neys, and thereby officers of the court, may
extend the jurisd ictien of a judge ever them
is a question which never directly interest
ed us sufficiently te investigate. It is te be
presumed that Judge Patterson looked
into the law of the matter before taking
the course he did, or that he will satis fy
himself en that point before ordering the
rule te be served. It is a question which
seriously concerns him and these who act
in the dual capacity of editors and Iawers ;
but it isn't exactly one of our funerals. On
the ether hand, Messrs. Steinman aud Hen
sel deny the right of a judge te proceed
against them for contempt for an aet done
outside the court, and quote the act of 18(5e
and an opinion 01 Chief Justice Gibsen,
and the supreme court of Kansas te sus
tained their position. The same act above
quoted jrives the aggrieved party, (be he
judge or layman) the right te proceed
against the offending parties by indictment
for libel or in an action for damages before
a jury, be, if the contempt itself should
fall into contempt, the public may rea
sonably expect te be entertained with an
other little diversion en account of "the
best workers in the ward."
Harking up the Wrong Tree.
Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald.
As we understand the case between the
Lancaster Intelligencer, its editors and
the Lancaster court, the said honerab:e
court is barking up the wrong tree. It
happens that the editors of the Intelli
gencer are also practicing attorneys. The
court was sharply criticised in the Intel Intel
lieencki:. and Judge Patterson worked
himself into a state of mind se that he will
net permit himself te be happy until the
said attorneys have shown cause why they
should net be stricken from the rolls for
being also editors of a newspaper which
occasionally rasps court officers. It will
be interesting te learn what kind of law
the judge had in his head when he issued
the rule te show cause. Of course, he
can't disbar the attorneys for what the
editors said in their newspapers.
An Kxliibitien of Ignorance and Assumption.
Altfiena Daily Sun.
That the judiciary should be held apart
from politics is a preposition that few will
dispute who care anything at all for the
purity of the ermine. That the judge who
panders te partisan prejudices, or permits
his judgment te be warped by selfish and
mercenary considerations, is unfit te held a
position upon the bench, as well as becom
ing thereby a fit subject for newspaper
criticism, is also a fact no mere te be gain
said than the first. We arc led te these
expressions by an event which occurred
yesterday in the court house at Lancaster,
his honor Judge Patterson upon the bench.
It was no mere nor less than the
citation before the bar of the
court of A. J. Steinman and W. U.
llensel, csqs., te answer in the capacity
of attorneys practicing before the court,
for an alleged contempt in criticising
through the columns of the Intelligen
cei: newspaper, of which the gentlemen
mentioned are the proprietors and editors,
the action of the court iu the trying of a
certain cause. Fer this alleged offence,
committed in their capacity as editors and
publishers, this wise and most learned
judge proposes te take a rule te strike
their names from the list of attorneys.
A mere ridiculous exhibition of ignorance
and assumption never disgraced and
belittled the bench of this or any ether
commonwealth, and precious little
honor will ever be reaped by an
attorney, in such a field, unless it
be when he is held under con
tempt. Perhaps, before proceeding fur
ther, Judge Patterson might with advant
age peruse, and, if possible, digest the
plain meaning of section 7, of the hill of
rights in the constitution of Pennsylvania.
It covers the ease at issue completely, and
is as fellows.
Our brethren of the IntellieencehwHI
have the sympathy and support of the
press as well as all fair-minded people
throughout the country, and if a tyranni
cal despot en the bench dares te de what
he has threatened, they have an ample
field in the sanctum and magnificent op
portunities will be presented through
which they will be able te get mere than
even.
All hail a free, untrammclcd peess.
Tears Him te Pieces.
Rellei'ente Watchman.
Possibly ethers may, but the editors of
this journal never, have heard of a mere
outrageous assumption of power en the
part of a judge than that of a
judge of one of the courts of Lan
caster county, named Patterson, who ruled
into court, en Wednesday last, the editors
of the Lancaster Intelligencer both of
whom are members of the bar in that city,
te show cause why they should net be
stricken from the list of attorneys, for an
editorial in that journal of the day before.
In the days of Jeffreys this might
have been expected : or later, when
Puritanism was rampant in New
England, such an attempt te muzzle
the press and punish these claiming
the right of free speech might net have
created much wonder ; but in these days
such action en the part of a court is se
surprisingly outrageous that we can
scarcely conceive it te be a fact. If the
facts arc as stated in the dailies of yester
day Judge Patterson, for his unwarranted
assumption of power, deserves, net only
the contempt of the editors of the Lxtel-
ligencei: and every ether geed citizen of
the commonwealth, but should be booted
from the bench he disgraces, and be stuck
up in some public place as an object for
the scorn of all, and a warning toether
judges who would attempt a like assump
tion of authority, or forget that a free
people would rather be without judges
than with a press muzzled and at
the mercy of a judiciary that te hide its
own crimes would strike down the free
dom of speech or of the press.
The Limit of His Towers.
Reading Eagle.
The question is, "Can a judge strike from
the roll of attorneys, lawyers who have criti
cised his aetien outside of court?" If a
judge has such power then the office of an
attorney is dependent upon the whim cf
the judge. When the court is in session
the judge can for a violation of its rules
fine and imprison attorneys for contempt
of court. Beyond this a judge cannot
go. Fer words written or spoken against
a judge when court is net iu session, the
remedy of the-judicial officer is just like
that of any ether citizen. When a judge
is libeled or slandered by a lawyer or any
one else, he has only the same remedy as
another citizen. The humblest citizen can
apply te the law for redress against a
liheler or slanderer. just as the
judge of the courts can de. The law
makes no distinction for or against the
judge or the citizen. Beth stand en the
same plane. Therefore Judge Patterson has
no mere right under the law te proceed in
a summary manner against Messrs. Stein
man and Hensel because they happen te
be attorneys in his court, than he would
te pronounce judgment against a defend
ant without a proper trial. Lawyers can
wiite and publish what they cheese of a
judge, and his remedies against them are
the same as these of any ether citizen.
Fer improper behavior in court the judge
may use the strong arm, but net otherwise.
If this was net se, attorneys would be mere
puppets, te be moved about at the will of
the court.
The severest criticisms of judges that
we have ever read were printed by lawyers
in their paper books in appealing cases te
the supreme court. If Judge Patterson
can silence the Intelligence", newspaper
by a threat te strike its proprietors from
the list et attorneys, lie could by a similar
course prevent every ether lawyer who
has criticised his rulings from practicing
law.
If Judge Patterson has been libeled by
Steinman and Heusel he has his remedy
by a prosecution for libel, or if he has
been damaged he has his civil suit for
damages. These are the only remedies at
law Judge Patterson has, and they are
just the same as the law gives te any
ether citizen. If Judge Patterson is inno
cent of the charges made against him by
the Intelligencer, he will discharge the
rule against its proprietors and resort te
his remedy at law. If, however, he
pursues his present purpose it leeks
as if he was guilty and was afraid of
the light of day, and has resolved te play
the part of a tyrant against a newspaper,
whose proprietors happen te be members
of his court. If Judge Patterson pursues
his present unlawful course he will bring
the administration of justice into disrepute
in Lancaster county. Se far, at least iu
this case, it leeks as if Judge Patterson
had little sagacity, all the qualities of the
tyrant, an open ear te the corrupt machi
nations el politicians, winch together are
likely te make his court odious iu the eyes
of fair-minded men.
Toe Delicate for its Decision.
West Cheater Village Recerd.
Lancaster county, which is seldom with
out a row of some sort among its politi
cians or lawyers, has a new one new. The
Intelligence!:, in some remarks en the
Snyder case (the one which caused Eshle
man and Hay Brown's suit against the
New Era), used language which .ledge
Patterson of the county courts, construed
as reflecting en his judicial honor. He
therefore called into court the two
editor, Messrs. Steinman and Hensel,
who, as it happens, are both mem
bers of the bar of Lancaster county, and
notified them that he would place a 1 ule
upon them te show cause why they should
net be disbarred for contempt. The ques
tion thus raised is n delicate one ; the pre
cise limitations where freedom of the press
begins and ends, as te criticism of the
courts, and especially where its conductors
are themselves officers of the court as
members of the bar are technically con
strued te be are net well defined. The
Intelligencer's remarks certainly were
offensive te the judge, but whether they
were such as constitute the legal offence of
contempt is a question which we de net
undertake te decide.
.
The Court in Contempt or 1 1st-'.."".
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Anether remarkable case of offended
judicial dignity occurred en Wednesday at
Lancaster, Judge Patteisen, of the court
of common pleas of that venerable town
having issued his awful mandate against
the editors of the Lancaster Intelligen
cer te appear before him te answer for
their editorial expressions of opinion, net
as editors, but as members of the bar. In
their paper of the previous day Messrs.
Steinman and Hensel, who arc members of
the Lancaster county bar, said that politi
cal influence had secured the discharge
of a prisoner, and the court, in preserva
tion of its dignity, being unable cither te
deny their statement or te punish them
as editors for making it, issued a rule
against them te show cause why they
should net be stricken from the list of at
torneys for contempt. There is some
thing in the conduct of the court iu this
business which brings mere just and gen
eral contempt upon it than all the news
papers iu the state could de if it attended
te its dignity in a wise and temperate
spirit. Te fellow this rule te a natural
conclusion it must appear that if the edi
tors of the Intelligenclr were ministers,
instead of lawyers, the court would, if it
could, have them disrobed net for what
they spoke in their pulpits, but for what
they wrote in their journal. Justice is
made farcical and judges absurd by these
efforts te maintain a dignity that they
themselves make foreign te them and their
courts, and they would de better te notice
criticism less until such time as they have,
by their character and acts, disarmed it.
Even justice herself should come into
court net only with clean hands, but
clothed in wisdom and calmness. She
must have her cause just, and be prepared
te establish it se. In this case all things
which she should have she seems te lack.
Judgment Deterred.
AVilliamspert Runner.
The editor of the Lancaster Intelli
gencer was called into court in that city
Tuesday te answer some questions his
honor propounded respecting certain ex
pressions made connected with the court
and its manner of administering justice.
Frem the vigor and spirit of yesterday's
editorials wc judge that judgment was de
ferred for want of evidence.
That is the Point.
.Philadelphia Recerd.
The Lancaster editeis object te editorial
comments being tortured into attorney's
criticisms.
Which Would Net Werk.
Yerk Pennsylvanian.
Thecditers of the Lancaster Intelligen
cer arc practicing lawyers at the Lancas
ter bar, and taking advantage of this fact,
Judge Patterson took exception te an arti
cle in their paper of Tuesday evening and
commanded the editors te appear in court
en Wednesday morning, where the judge
tried te get our brethren of the craft te
commit themselves in the capacity of law
yers. 1 lie dirty trick would net work,
however, as the editors were tee sharp for
him. The judge still thinks he has power
ever lawyers in their editorial capacity and
will attempt te dismiss them from the bar.
Te us this seems about as small a business
as a judge could get into.
In the Metropolitan Papers.
The New Yerk Sun has a half column
account of the affair headed : "Judge Pat
terson's anger Can lawyers be disbarred
for what they say as editors? New and
strange sequels of an old liquor case A
Pennsylvania magistrate en his dignity
A queer colloquy in the court room."
.'Masonic O Ulcers Installed.
Last evening D. D. G. 31. Baunigardncr
accompanied by Dr. Henry Carpenter,
Majer It. W. Shenk and Wm. A. Morten,
as installation officers, visited Christiana
for the purpose of installing the recently
elected officers of Christiana ledge Ne,
417. The visitors were met at the depot
by a delegation of brethren and were es
corted te the residence of Samuel Slokem,
esq., where they were sumptuously enter
tained by that gentleman and his family.
Following arc the installed officers of
Christiana ledge :
W. M. Gee. M. Knight.
S. W. Cyrus Lingcrficld.
J. W. Isaac F. McGowan.
Treas. S. Slokem.
Sec. E. Garrett.
The Lancaster gentlemen returned te
this city in the 11:30 train last night.
COURT OF -UAnTi:i: SESSIONS.
January Kcgnlnr Term.
Thursday Afternoon. District Attorney
Eshleman addressed the court aud suggest
ed that the cause of justiee would be best
served by taking a verdict of " net guilty,
county for costs" in the case of Cem'th vs.
Franklin Smith. Judge Patterson said the
court fully concurred with the district at
torney. The cafe against defendant had
net been made out ; it was net shown that
the teacher had inflicted any mere punish
ment than was necessary te subdue the
boy. The law permits the whipping of
pupils, and if a small whip like the one
used is net sufficient te conquer a refrac
tory child, the teacher mayusea cewiiide.
The misconduct of school children is often
awing te the want of authority
and discipline at home. Parents
who permit their children te
grew up without proper restraint,
must expect them'te grew up lawless men
and women. Teachers, while the pupils
arc in their care, possess all the powers of
the parent, even te indict severe corporal
punishment when milder means fail. The
court instructed the jury te render a ver
dict of net guilty. The jury did se with
out leaving the box.
Cem'th vs. David Lewe, larceny. The
defendant was charged, in connection with
Henry Myersaud Henry Keller, withsteal
ing.breaking up and sellingthe fragments of
a large copper kettle belonging te Barbara
Sherrick. of Springville. Beth Myersaud
Keller pleaded guilty and implicated Lewe,
but there was no ether evidence against
him. Judge Patterson charged the jun jun
eo acquit, saying he would never give his
consent te the conviction of a defendant en
the unsupported evidence of confessed ac
complices The jury rendered a verdict of
net guilty without leaving the box.
Cem'th vs. Henry Hildebrand, adultery
with Annie llarlaeher. Defendant pleaded
guilty and his counsel asked for sentence.
The district attorney asked that sentence
be deferred, there being ether serious
charges against the defendant.
Cem'th vs. Peter Foreman, assault and
battery. Complainant Wm. T. Meck tes
tified that defendant and a man named
rm. Hiudmau assaulted him and choked
him en the read in front of Jacob G roll's
house, Churchtown. en the night of the
2-tth of May last. Mrs. Greff, who saw the
affair, corroborated Meck's statement.
Fer the defense it was shown that .Meck
was a married man and had been seen
keeping close company with a young sister
of llindman. only 1( years old, who was.
employed as a domestic in Foreman's
house and had been placed by her brother
imder Foreman's special care, and at the
time of the alleged assault, after 1 1 o'clock
at night, Foreman and Hiudmau had gene
te Graffs and seen .Meck in company with
the girl,and en mectinghim asked him what
he meant by keeping her company, where
upon .Meck raised his hands as it" te strike,
and Foreman then caught him by the
shoulder pushing him back but net hurt
ing him. The jury rendered a verdict of
net guilty with costs te be equally divided
between the defendant and prosecutor.
Cem'th vs. Isaac Ilauckand Jesse Laf
fcrty, larceny. The prosecutor, Jehn M.
Musser, of Earl township, testified that he
was the owner of a piece of woodland near
the Welsh mountains. He had missed
from this land a quantity of pests, rails,
cord weed and poles. He does net knew
who took it away. He brought several
witnesses who swore that they had seen
Ilauck carrying away weed from Musser's
laud en a hand cart, and one or two of
them had seen Lall'eity in his company,
but only one of them (a Mrs. Mull) had
ever seen Lafl'erty take away any weed.
Fer the defense, a number of residents
of the neighborhood testified te the geed
character of both defendants ; they passed
their houses very frequently and never
saw any kind of weed at either plate ex
cept old dead weed which would have
retted en the ground had it net been gath
ered. One witness testified that he had
heard Mrs. Mull say that she had cleared
a defendant in a former suit before this
court by swearing falsely, and several wit
nesses swore that Mrs. Mull could net
have seen defendants haul weed from the
point at which she was standing when she
saw them. On trial.
The grand jury returned the following
bills :
True Hills: Jehn Liehtenbergcr, en
tering outhouse te commit felony (4 in
dictments) ; Mary Wise, malicious mis
chief; Jehn Diehm, felonious assault;
Geet W. Mumma, assault and battery ;
Leenard Schecnbcrgcr, assault and bat
tery ; Isaac Ilauck, larceny ; Jesse Lafl'er
ty, larceny.
Friday Jferning. In the cases of cem'th
vs. Isaae Hank and Jesse Lalferty, lar
ceny, the charge was net pressed against
the latter and In regard te both thy jury
rendered verdicts of net guilty,
Cem'th vs. Henry Witsner, of Chiekics,
fornication and bastardy. Elizabeth Com Com
eort, of this city, who is a married woman,
but don't knew where her husband is, tes
tified that the defendant is the father of
the child, which was begotten cither iu the
last week or March, 1879, or early in April,
and born iu December. Several witnesses,
who live near the presecutrix, testified that,
they have net seen her husband for five or
six years ; a son of the woman had net,
seen his father for live years and he be
lieved him te be dead.
The defendant being called te the stand
testified that he was net the father of the
child ; the presecutrix told him she was
married. Twe witnesses heard the prose
cutrix say that she intended putting this
crime en Witmer as he had $800 in bank
and she wanted $200 of it te furnish her
house. She told another that a young
man (the defendant is old looking) was
the father of the child. Dr. Westhacfier
testified that this was a mature child.
Jury out.
The case of Albert S. Rkser, charged
with seduction, was nel pressed, en pay
ment of costs.
In the following cases verdicts of net
guilty were taken : Moses Gantz, violating
the liquor law ; Samuel Overly, jr., and
Jehn Gallagher, malicious mischief.
The grand jury returned the following
bills :
True Bill. Themas E. Wil.-en, per
jury ; Frcd'k Wolf. Jehn Wagner, Iraae
Smith and James Fife, assault and battery ;
William Williams, larceny.
Tynerfd. .!. L. Patterson, neglect of
duty, with county for costs.
The ilruiiil Jury.
This morning this body went te visit the
different institutions of the county.
About Again.
Rebert Carrell, who had his feet cut off
by the ears at the Pennsylvania depot, a
few months age, is able te be about. He
was down street this morning en crutches
but is looking very well.