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Is He a General?
The "Washington correspondents are
puffing Den Cameren's masterly general
ship of the Ilarrisburg convention, by
which they say he plucked victory from
the jaws of defeat and, single-handed,
turned back the tide which threatened te
overwhelm the Grant movement. In
proof of his great qualities as apolitical
commander it is cited that when he get
te Ilarrisburg he was already l)eaten.
Ilis instructions te held no county con
ventions, but have the delegates named
by the county committees, of whom in a
majority of cases, he felt sure, had been
resisted in no less than twenty-seven of
the sixty-four counties of the state where
county conventions had been called and
held contrary te his wishes. Twenty
three of these counties had instructed
their.delegates'fer Blaine and three ethers
had passed resolutions of preference. On
the ether hand, net a single county had
instructed for the ex-president, and oppo eppo oppe
position te the third term policy was
open all ever the state.
It did seem te be a .pretty tight fix.
But when it is remembered what tools
he had at hand, it did net require a very
expert workmen te frame a different re
sult. In Philadelphia McMancs had
forty-eight delegates in hand ; in Alle
gheny Chris Magce had eighteen, and
here in Lancaster any order drawn en
Iliestand, Eshleman. Brown and Coch
ran was certain te be honored. Thus
.seventy-four delegates were te be had
for the say se. And after all the victory
wen was net a great one. Anether such
will ruin the Cameren hopes. Leng before
Den Cameren is as old as his father he
will find himself eutgcnerallcd. and that
he is net the great captain which they
think who see his last performance from
afar.
The Mutual Friend.
The Philadelphia Tene certifies that
(Jen. Bingham is a warm friend of both
Blaine and Cameren, and that this
was the reason that while he talked for
Blaine lie voted with Cameren at Ilar
risburg. It may be that Blaine does net
appreciate a friendship which gives its
substantial favor away from him : but if
his friend Bingham acted with the best
intentions, as the Tinus declares, he can
only condemn his head while still trust
ing his heart. .Sometimes it is a lit
tle better te be. without a friend with a
poorly furnished head, and it is especial
ly convenient when that friend is rash
enough te try te put himself in your
place and act for you. Mr. Bingham
proclaimed himself the spokesman of
Blaine in declaring that the latter desired
te make no contest against Grant in the
Ilarrisburg convention. And if Mr.Blaine
does net think that was the thing te say,
it does net much matter whether his
friend Bingham was a feel or a traitor ;
he suffers the same injury in either case.
Ne doubt Mr. Bingham needed te be a
wise man te carry himself in the conven
tion as the friend of the two contestants ;
and he probably did the best thing for
himself when he pretended that he could
see no contest. But when he assumed te
spealc authoritatively for Blaine he
undertook te put tee much water en the
Cameren wheel ; and we should think
his friend Blaine would be. indignant
with him. But he will still have use for
him as an intermediary with Mr. Cam Cam
eeon, with whom we de net doubt his ne
gotiations for the next few months will
be frequent and finally satisfactory.
With the same facts te base an opin
ion en people somehow manage te come
te totally different conclusions. The
Philadelphia Iiicerd, for instance, en the
indication of the Ilarrisburg convention,
considers it beyond a peradventure that
Grant will be the Itepublican candidate ;
while our conclusion has been entirely
different ; and the press generally has
concluded that the bare majority with
which the Pennsylvania convention pre
sented the ex-president's name is fatal te
the chances of his nomination, which
must be made with enthusiasm and
unanimityif it can be made at all. The idea
which has been industriously cultivated
about Grant is that his great popularity
among the people makes him the strong
est candidate that can be selected ; but
when it is seen in Pennsylvania that he
is the candidate of its ring politicians and
that no popular feeling exists". for him,
but that what does exist is against him
and the third term, for which he is pro
posed, it is manifest that the reason
given for his nomination has no exis
tence. We de net believe that the Ite
publican politicians will persist in forcing
.a candidate, against whose nomination
the substantial reasons exist that
ferbidjthat of Grant, and his declination
of. the proposed honor will certainly
be shertlv obtained from him.
A commotion is raised in New Yerk
ever the discovery that st society which
was formed for the purpose of stepping
the unlawful traffic in liquor has extend
ed its sphere of usefulness se as te em
brace the suppression of all houses of ill
repute, and has chosen, as its most effi
cient means 'of doing se a system of espi
onage ever these who visit them. The
detectives of the society watch persons of
wealth and social position in their
incomings and outgoings, and when
the society's officers have se
cured positive proof the individuals
derelictions from the paths of virtue, he
is notified thereof and it is required as a
condition of secrecy concerning his
doings that tliejlieuses whose character
has been established shall be closed.
The pressure brings the result, and
the society suppresses these places
without the aid of the police or
the law. But the New Yerk papers
are howling because of the way the thing
is done, fit is a debatable question
whether it is a proper way. There are
certainly two sides te it; but the society
has the advantage of being able te de
clare that it acts in a lawful way; te sup
press lawless practices.
Ik Mr. Ilayes proposes te pay old cam
paign debts by nominating J. Madisen
Wells's son te the pest te which he is
ashamed te appoint the notorious father
it is a very geed case for the Democratic
Senate te start with in showing him that
his nominations are made only "with
the consent of the Senate."
Tin-: " Star Club" for. astronomical
study has done a geed work this winter,
and we are glad te see that it is te le
continued and its work expanded into
botanical investigation. Our country
friends who have kept up with it through
the newspaper reports, will de well te fel
low it into the field. The intelligent
study of popular astronomy and botany
can be made one of the most attractive
and useful features of rural life.
PERSONAL.
Senater Lamar is recovering rapidly
and expects te be in his scat in the Senate
in a few days.
Miss Mageie Mitchem., the actress,
has printed a letter in which she announces
that she is net a bit ashamed of her age.
She is forty-four, and she doesn't care who
knows it.
The trustees of the SUte College have
accepted the resignation of Prof. Ca;.di:i:.
Who will be chosen te fill the place is net
known, but rumor has it that the position
is te be tendered te State Superintendent
Wickcrshani.
The Nebraska City lrts lias this te say
of a former " Ixtki.ligexcuk boy :" Ji:i-t
DiETiticu, f"r a year or mere a sterling
type in this office, and as genial a gentle
man as one wishes te meet anywhere,
leaves te-morrow for Lincoln te accept a
a situation en the Jeuriuil."
Williamsport Gazette aa-i lttlUtiii :
"Queer things occur in this world in all
phases of life and none queerer than in
politie. The Hen. William II. Anu Anu Anu
stiioxe left here a booming Blaine man,
and net a delegate, lie turns up at Ilar
risburg as a delegate in place of I). !'
Brieker. and is out and out for (bant and
Cameren."
The Senate has refused te confirm .leux
Moktex. son of the late senator Irem
Indiana, te be collector of the pert at San
Francisce, in spite of Senater Voorhees's
strenuous exertions te secure him the
place. The arguments in opposition te
his confirmation were te the effect that
Mr. Morten is net identified with Califor
nia, having within the last four years,
been appointed te a treasury special
agency at the Alaska fur seal Wand, from
Indiana ; and that, while his personal
character is unexceptionable, no is net
fitted, by business training or experience,
for the highly important office for which
he has just been defeated.
II. S. McNaii:, of the Yerk Republican,
is mad very mad. He and his paper arc
for Blaine. Se the Ilarrisburg convention
would net admit him and he publishes a
blacklist " of the delegates from the 19th
congressional district te the Republican
convention, which met at Ilarrisburg en
Wednesday, who at the solicitation of
Cameren and Quay deliberately and dis
honestly disregarded the wishes of the Bo Be
publican party of the district, and grossly
misrepresented nincty-ninc-enc-hundrcdths
of its members, by voting for the motion
te instruct the delegates te Chicago for
Grant." Among them of course,
fellow who stele our seat."
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Se-Called "Kxuesurc" of Masonry the
Cause of IMoteus Proceedings in a
Clinrvii. I'elicc Interference lr.
Kestore Order.
One of the the most disgraceful exhibi
tiens ever witnessed in a church was given
last night in the Chambers street Presby
terian church, Bosten, when Rev. J. P.
Stoddard and D. P. Rathbun, of Iowa, un
dertook te expose Masonry. The object
of the exposures is te break up the order
by divulging the secrets. They say that
Masonry is organized infidelity, and in the
interest of religion they seek its overthrew.
Beth the gentlemen claim te be Masens and
they announced their intention te held
up the rites and ceremonies te ridicule.
The forms and oaths necessary te taking
the first degree were illustrated by the
cxpesers. They were assisted by eight or
ten persons, and all were attired in Ma Ma Ma
sonie regalia. The pulpit served as a ledge
room, three .large lighted candles being
arranged in a row in front, and the senior
and junior wardens, grand worshipful
master and ether officers in the persons of
the clergymen and ethers being seated,
behind and en the sides. The
" candidate, " an individual whose
skin had apparently net seen soap and
water for many days, was about an hour
and a-half in passing through the ordeal,
and as the "ceremony" developed the
scene became disgraceful and many ladies
left, the remaining spectators also becoming
restless. The "candidate" while taking
the degree was dressed, according te the
"cxpesers," in the customary manner,
but this was simply disgusting, as his only
garments were an old blue flannel under
shirt and white undcrdrawcrs, the left leg
of which was rolled up te the knee. Over
his eyes was a green shade such as is
worn at night by the working force of a
newspaper office, "llerc, barefooted, with
one leg bared and only partially clad, the
candidate received his instructions from
the various grand worthy officers, and then
came the administration of the various
oaths. An immense crowd filled the
building, and during the performance of
the disgusting farce the wildest confusion
prevailed. Hymn books were pelted at
the performers by people in the building,
while a large force of roughs and street
loafers steed en the sidewalks and
threw snowballs into the building. Cap
tain Ferd, of the Third precinct police,
fearing a riot, tried te put a step te the
exhibition, but it kept en for half an hour,
while a storm of hisses and indignant yells
greeted every word uttered by the speak
ers. Ex-Chief of Police Damrell made a
speech in which he freely and forcibly de
neunced the two reverend cxpesers, and
was loudly applauded, the spectators
cheering loudly atjthe several points made.
He claimed te belong te the same denomi
nation as Mr. Rathbun, and asserted that
the conference that would recognize him as
a minister of Christ's gospel ought te bow
its head in shame. The police broke up
the meeting about half-past ten. It was
the intention of the two ministers te re
main in town for a week and continue their
exposures, but they nave cnangca ineir
minds and will leave. The minister who
gave the use of his church for such pur
poses is stoutly abused by all classes.
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Drcariful Drowning Disasters.
The steamer Bcngerc. laden with coal,
from Pcnarth for Gibraltar, foundered
when two days out from pert. Thirteen
of her crew were drowned ; six were saved.
A violent storm has raged in the Mediter
ranean for two days past, and disasters in
snipping are lcareu.
Official dispatches have been received
giving further details of a recent hurricane
in the Phillippiuc islands. Twenty-five
vessels of various classes were wrecked,
including four foreign frigates and a large
number of ether vessels were damaged.
Forty-six persons were drowned.
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Nearly 1,000 boxes of frozen smelts
were exported from St. Jehn, N. B., te
Bosten en Thursday.
LANCASTM DAILY mTELLlGfcNCEK. SATtJHDAV, FEBRUARY 7, 1880,
MINOR TOPICS.
A Chicago Presbyterian clergyman has
been preaching upon the wickedness of
entering church late and disturbing the
congregation, and his sermon has had the
effect of decreasing the number of tardy
worshipers in his church.
Ax esteemed contemporary seems te
think that a Republican national conven
tion composed of delegates elected by the
Pennsylvania plan, with attendant bum
mers yelling for Grant, would be an edify
ing spectacle for the heathen te contem
plate. The Maine Legislature has had a prayer
offered for,bcferc, at or te it, by a "Rev.,"
which the Lewiston Journal pronounces
"spicy and full of practical suggestions."
If, as we suppose wc have a right te pre
sume, the prayer was addressed te the
Almighty Ruler of the universe, the kind
ness of the gentleman who made the
"practical suggestions" is noteworthy.
Dax Rviiei.t started for church, at
Freesvillc, Minn., and en the way asked a
neighbor who was te preach. "Parson
Ncwling, " was the reply. "I'd rather
die than hear him, " said Dan, and turned
off toward a weed, lie was afterward
found hanging lifeless te a tree. The be
lief is that, as the clergyman was deliver
ing a course of sermons en the dreadful
ness of sin, and as Dan was an unregenc
rate sinner, an awakened conscience led te
the suicide ; but the scoffers haTe a theory
that death might reasonably be preferred
te hearing one of Newling's long dis
courses. Gonnex 1'asiia gives a correspondent
this graphic and pleasant description of
King Jehn of Abyssinia : He is about
forty-seven years old. Never smiles ;
never leeks you in the face, and has a
most ungovernable temper. He cuts off
the lips of all these who smoke tobacco,
and cuts off the noses of all who take
snuff. He detests the use of tobacco in
any form. By means of torture he has
converted one hundred thousand Moslems
te the Christian religion. His favorite
method is te pour boiling tallow into the
eyes and ears of his victims. His people
all hate him.
Te take a pound of flesh from the body
or his debtor without touching a bone or
shedding a drop of bleed is a feat which
that eminent merchant, Shylock, ercwhilc
of Venice, did net venture te undertake ;
yet nothing could be mere simple, and
scarce anvthing could be easier. The Len
den ispertlny Times is responsible for this
story. A noted horse trainer was witness
ing for the first time " The Merchant of
Venice," and Irving, the renowned trage
dian, was the Shylock. When they had
reached the trial scene and while Shylock
was pondering ever the dilemma suggested
by Portia, hew te take flesh without the
bleed, the excited horse trainer shouted
"Sweat him, Shylock, sweat him !" Actors
are at liberty te adept such emendation of
the text as may enable them te avail them
selves of the jockey's advice.
Tire New Yerk Herald" splendid gift of
$100,000 te relieve the distress in Ireland,
has excited the admiration of the world,
and it may be questioned, in view of the
abuse lr. Parncll is rewarding the great,
newspaper with, whether that gentleman
has net the interests of Parnell nearer at
heart than he has these of his starving
countrymen. The matter reduces itself te
this simple preposition : The suffering
people of Ireland will receive the benefit
of that money ; the method of its distribu
tion is of miner importance te the eutside
world, only se the object is fulfilled. Fer
Mr. Parnell, thcreforc,te broadly intimate
that the Heralds generosity is nothing
mere than a gigantic scheme of advertising,
and all because the proprietor of the news
paper preferred te place the money in ether
hands than his own, is calculated te repel
the popular sympathy which hearty and
disinterested co-operation in a work of
charity is always sure te receive. Mr.
Parnell has carried his quarrel with the
Duchess of Marlboreuby and her cel
leagues tee far.
Ma von MacGexigle has received an ur
gent circular from the Citizens' Irish
famine relief cemmittee of Philadelphia,
Jehn Wanamaker, chairman, appealing te
our charitable citizens te constitute an
auxiliary aid society, or te make private
individual subscriptions te the philan
thropic cause of relieving the sufferings of
the Irish folk. In the southern, western
and northern counties of Ireland, and in
some parts of the central and eastern dis
tricts, a multitude of our fellow creatures
are new en the verge of famine. Their
potatoes retted in the ground during the
continuous wet weather of the past sum
mer, and their annual gatherings of turf
has been destroyed. Letters and appeals
for instant aid speak of sere and increas
ing suffering for want of feed and fuel of
children found dead for want of proper
nourishment of mothers slowly starving
te death that they may save their scanty
store for their children. The distress has
already reached proportions which are
beyond the capacities of local means of
relief te cope with. Their calamity has
become one for the world's pity and the
world's help. The first need is money.
There is feed in Ireland, but it is in the
hands of these who are themselves tee
peer te give largely, and who must sell it
out of the country, as in 1847, te meet
their own necessities. Mayer MacGeniglc
will take charge of and promptly forward
all contributions left with him or at this
office.
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STATE ITEMS.
Patrick Dougherty, aged 18, the only
support of a widowed mother and seven
small children, was killed in liast Colliery
by being caught between a wagon and the
sliutcs in the slope.
Last evening the citizens of Easten te
the number of several hunched assembled
at the town hall at eight o'clock, and
headed by a band,precceded te the residence
of the Hen. Henry Green te serenade him
in honor of his nomination by the Republi
can convention for judge of the supreme
court. Speeches were made and cheers
given repeatedly. Judge Green was con
fined te his room, but he sent his respects
and thanks te the assemblage.
In Allentown, Bcrnhard Winkler, aged
sixty years, entered a saloon of doubtful
reputation en North Eighth street, and
after drinking with the regular female oc
cupants three or four times, he entered a
rear room where he was for a time alone
with one of the women. He gave her a
silver watch and chain, after which she
left the room and lie was all alone, ten
minutes later a shot was heard and the
bartender, rushing into the room, found
Winkler lying en the fleer, shot through
the heart, still holding the smoking re-,
velver in his right hand. Deceased was
lately an inmate of the soldiers' home, j
near Dayton, Ohie, and was absent en a
furlough, which had, hevevcr, expired en
the 29th of November last.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
In the U. S. Heuse of Representatives
yesterday. Mr. Dickey, of Ohie, intro
duced a bill appropriating $23,000 for the
purchase of an equestrian picture of Gen
eral Scott.
In the cabinet meeting yesterday, the
sentence of the court-martial in the case of
Majer Rene, recommending his dismissal,
was affirmed, and orders te carry out the
sentence will seen be issued.
The Albany Republican general com
mittee gave only a few hours' notice of
primaries te elect delegates te Utica. An
indignation meeting has been called, and
two sets of delegates will probably be
elected.
The Conservative candidate has wen at
Liverpool bv a maieritv of 2.221. . Gen
eral Roberts reports officially that ninety
seven Afghans were hanged with his sanc
tion. The Panama canal surveys arc
makiug favorable progress. The Irish
distress was the subject of a long debate
in the British Parliament last night.
The trial of Jehn S. Vcrtz has com
menced in Camden. The accused is
charged with contributory negligence in
causing the deaths of live persons at
Clerment station in a collision between an
extra passenger and freight train. Vertz
was superintend of the read at the time of
the accident.
It is reported en what is apparently ex
cellent authority that Senater Conkling
announces that under no circumstance will
he permit the use of his name, at Chicago,
as a candidate for the Republican nemina
tien ler president, lie says Ins name muse
net be thought of, and that all his influ
ence iu New Yerk will be exerted in behalf
of General Grant.
The Heuse committee en patents yester
day, by a vote of 7 te e, decided against
the petition of Ezra Miller for an extension
of his car coupling patent. The ground of
the decision is that the length of time his
patent has run seventecu years is the
limit contemplated by the act of 18G1, and
that the general policy of the government
is adverse te extending patents beyond
that period.
A quarrel between W. M. Clifferd and
Jehn Shadd, at Tickum, was sctticd in
true Kentucky fashion. Shadd threatened
Clifferd's life, and went home te get his
gun. Clifferd armed and concealed him
self, and when Shadd returned he fired
both leads from his shotgun into his
enemy, one taking effect in Shadd's neck,
the ether in his legs. Shadd cannot live.
Clifferd surrendered.
The beard of Indian commissienerf, after
examining the charges made by Geueral
Clinten B. Fisk, has approved the action
of Secretary Schurz in removing Mr. llayt
from the office of commissioner of Indian
affairs. Mr. A. C. Barstow, chairman of
the beard, dissents, en the ground that
the evidence leaves room for doubt, of
which, he thinks Mr. llayt should have
the benefit.
Jay Gould and Thes. A. Scott, represent
ing the Texas and Pacific and the Mis
seuri, Kansas and Texas railroads, have
purchased all outstanding bends and secu
rities of the Dallas and Wichita railroad,
which will be extended se as te connect
with the Dennisen and Pacific extension of
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad,
thus making Dallas the terminus of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railre.id and
making the latter a competing line with
the Texas Central railroad.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE TOBACCO MAKKET.
Anether Heavy IMy's Kecciptx.
The old, old story may be repeated. At
most of the city warehouses that receive
en Saturdays the receipts have been very
heavy, several firms receiving from 00,000
te 100,000 pounds each. Mr. Shultze,
agent for Rescnwald & Bre., reports that
for four or five weeks past their receipts
have averaged weekly from 00.000 te 70,
000 pounds. Skilcs & Frey's receipts
during the past week have been 100,000
pounds. Frcy & Wcidler, Werthciiner,
Levin, Kerbs & Spicss, Jes. Mayers Sens,
Bunzl & Dermitzcr, Fat man & Ce., the
Moores, and ether packers visited, are as
busy as bees. Jehn S. Rehrcr reports
that the bulk of his purchases have been
received, but he is still busy and over
worked in getting it out of .the way. The
state of trade at the above houses may be
taken as a fair sample of what is going en
at the ethers.
Although there has been a great falling
off in the amount of leaf purchased
recently, the buyers arc nearly all in the
field anxious te secure every "fancy" crop
they hear of. These arc getting scarce and
are only te be found off the main reads.
It is no unusual thing for three or
four buyers, who may have heard of a
choice let, harness their teams and start
off at full speed te get it, and, after riding
a dozen miles or mere, ascertain that
they are just a little tee late someone
get in a few minutes ahead of them. We
hear of one buyer who higgled with the
grower for half an hour, the difference be
tween them being half-a-ccnt a pound, and
the former finally left without purchasing.
He had net get far away before, en sober
second thought, he rescelvcd te buy ; drove
back te the farm house, and found that
the choice let had been sold te another
buyer. This eager competition for choice
lets keeps up the price of them and they
sell at from 20 te 23 cents for wrappers and
some a trifle higher.
Fer medium goods there is much less
demand, and there is a perceptible fall in
prices. We have heard of lets selling as
'low as 10 and 3. Mr. Shultze bought
Emanuel Denlingcr's wep of right geed
tobacco, and has secured shipping lets at
prices running from 8 te 11. He has paid
during the week as high as 20 cents for
choice lets.
Jeseph Miller, of Marctic township, sold
1 aero te Heffman & Sen for 18 and 4.
B. Simpsen, of Martic township, sold 1
acre te Ames Fenstermacher for 15 cents
round. David Kreidcr, of Martic town
ship, sold 1 acre te Heffman & Sun for 20
and 5.
Perhaps 1G for geed medium wrappers
and 4 for fillers might be quoted as the
average price paid during the week. There
is a disposition among buyers te lift the
entire crop, but at reduced prices.
In old tobacco there has net been se
much doing during the week as there was
the two or three preceding weeks. The
sales of 1878 Pennsylvania are repcrtcd at
bout 409 cases.
The Rockland Undenominational Sunday
Scheel. 4
This Sunday school had a free entertain
ment in the East Orange street public
school last evening, which was very
largely attended by young and adult per
sons. There were singing, Bible reading,
recitations, dialogues, instrumental music
and addresses, and the whole affair was a
highly satisfactory entertainment.
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OUE LOCAL ASTRONOMERS.
EIUHTH MEETtNU OF STAR CLUD.
Crowded Heme The IJen "The Sickle,"
Cancer, the Crab Bee Hive Nebula Hy
dra The Lene One"" Egyptien X"
The Zodiac Plant Club Lecture, etc.
There was a crowded house at the regu
lar meeting of the Star club in the rooms
of the Yeung Men's Christian association
last evening. The list of stars has already
been carried beyond one hundred. It will
be increased te one hundred and twenty
five or one hundred and thirty, se that
each member may be sure of at least ene
hundred, as the result of the work of these
evenings.
The constellation of the Lien is new
rising above the eastern horizon in the
early evening, and can readily be traced at
any time after 8 o'clock as it moves toward
the meridian. It is some distance south of
the Great Bear, and is that sign of the Zo
diac which lies between the Crab and the
Virgin. We take it upon our list new, as
it will aid us presently in fixing the few
faint stars in the Crab te which names have
been given. The group of stars in the head
of the Lien is widely known as "The
Sickle," because of its striking resemblance
te that old-fashioned implement of hus
bandry. The bright star Regulus, of first magni
tude, is in the handle of the Sickle, which
is towards the horizon the blade lying in
the direction of the zenith. This star, which
was named from a distinguished Reman
consul, is known also as Cor Leonis, or the
"Heart of the Lien." Its distance from
the ecliptic is less than one-half a degree.
It has been much used by nautical men in
determining their longitude at sea. When
en the meridian it makes a large triangle,
nearly isosceles with Caster, which is
distant about forty degrees te the north
west, and Procyen,in the Little Deg, about
the same distance te the southwest. The
star at the point where the handle joins the
blade is net named. Al Gicba some nine
degrees from Regulus is the first in the
blade of the Sickle. It is double ; its pe
riod about 1,000 ycais. " The second star in
the blade is Adhafera in the neck of the
Lien, four degrees from Al Gicba. Six de
grees from Adhafera is northern Ras al
Asad, third star in blade, and continuing
the blade, we have for the fourth star
southern Ras al Asad, in the mouth of the
Lien. Beth stars last named arc double.
Twenty-five degrees northeast from Reg
ulus is found the well-known star Dcnebo Dcnebe
la, of the second magnitude, in the tail of
the Lien. Between this and the Sickle arc
two conspicuous stars, making almost a
right-angled triangle with Dcnebela, or, in
the opposite direction, a parallelogram
with Al Gicba and Adhafera. The upper
star here, which first reaches the meridian
is Zezma. It is in the back of the Lien, a
triple star, thirteen degrees cast from Al
Gicba and ten degrees northwest from
Dencbela. The star below Zezma is net
named. These arc all that have received
names in this constellation. Taken to
gether they constitute a group which, once
learned, will net be forgotten.
Wc turn new te Cancer, the Crab, a
constellation which shows no bright stars
and which would attract but little atten
tion from the ordinary observer, were it
net that it is one of the twelve signs of the
Zodiac. It occupies its thirty degrees of
space between the Twins and the Lien,
but none of its stars can be distinguished
in the moonlight. They should be looked
for in the absence of the moon when the
sky is clear. Midway upon a line drawn
from Regulus te Pollux will be found the
two stars, Ascllus Bercalis and Ascllus
Australis, in the body of the Crab. Beth
are faint, but nearly in line between them
a geed eye may distinguish the dim cloud
like nebula Pncsepc, the Bee Ilivc, appar
ently as large as the human baud. This
is almost the only nebula in the heavens
that can be seen with the naked eye. It
must be looked for in the absence of the
moon, as has been said, and is seen even
then with some difficulty. The stars just
named arc at the eastern angles of an
irregular quadrilateral which encloses this
nebula. The upper star en the eastern
side is Ascllus Borealis and the lower en
the same side is Asellus Australis. Acu
bens, very faint, is half way between Al
Gicba and Procyen. Half way between
Aenbens and Procyen is another faint star
net named. Between this and Pollux,
midway, is Tegminc, which is also in line
with Caster and Pollux, about ten degrees
from Pollux, near the line last indicated.
The constellation Hydra, only a part of
which is yet visible in the evening, winds
along through mere than a hundred de
grees of longitude. The head is a striking
group of small stars directly south of the
Crab, te which it might readily be sup
posed te belong. Tracing the curving line
of stars from this point, in a southeasterly
direction, we reach the star Alphard, an
Arabic word meaning the Lene One. The
name describes the situation of the star.
Alphard is also known as Cor Hydras, or
the Heart of Hydra. A line from Al Gic
ba, through Regulus, will reach Alphard,
about twenty degrees beyond Regulus,
The Lene Star also completes a quadrila
tral with Regulus, Pollux and Procyen.
We close our list for the evening with
what is known as the Egyptian X,cempris
ing five stars in as many constellations,
Bctelguese in Orien, Procyen in the Little
Deg, Sirius in the Greater Deg, Phact in
the Deve and Naos in the Ship. The first
three are already en the list as Nes. 51,
79 and 92. The last two wc fix by com
pleting the X southward, Sirius being at
the crossing of the lines andBctclguesc and
Procyen at their northern extremities.
Naos is found te the southeast as far
beyond the triangle in Canis Majer,
formed by Wcseu, Aludra and Adhara, as
this triangle is from Sirius. Phaet is fixed
by a line drawn 32 degrees directly
south from the Belt of Orien.
This figure, the Egyptian X, should
be looked for when Orien is en or
near the meridian, as Naos and Phaet arc
then high enough above the southern
horizon te be recognized with certainty.
Te recapitulate, continuing our numer
ical list, wc have : Ne. 98, Regulus ; 93,
Al Gieba ; 100, Adhafera ; 101, Northern
Ras al Asad ; 102, Southern Ras al Asad ;
103, Zezma ; 104, Dcnebela, all of which
are in the Lien ; 103, Ascllus Bercalis ;
100, Ascllus Australis ; 107, Pncsepc, the
Bee Hive Nebula ; 108, Acubens ; 10D,
Tcgmine, these five, including the Nebula,
in the Crab ; 110, Alphard in Hydra ; 111,
Naos in the Ship Arge, and 112, Phaet in
the Deve.
The carefully-prepared paper en the
Zodiac, by Miss Marie Kemp, of St. James
Scheel, presented the grand "Circle of the
Heavens" in a manner at once highly in
teresting and instructive. Her blackboard
illustration was excellent. There being less
matter in the text-books upon this than
upon any ether subject yet discussed before
the club, it was necessary that mere erig
inal work should be dene in presenting it
satisfactorily.
A spirited discussion was had as te the
probability of Alcyone, in the Pleiades,
being the centre of our stellar system, the
views of a dozen different authorities be
ing quoted for and against this bold guess
of the astronomer.
A show of hands was called for, of these
who wished tickets te the lecture by Rev.
Dr. Warren en the 2Gth inst. Mr. McCas
kcy had thought it desirable te supple
ment the work of the Star club by illus
trated popular lectures from the most dis
tinguished platform men in this depart
ment of science. The lecture by Prof.
Procter had cost him about $100 mere than
the receipts. If the receipts from the lec
ture by Dr. Warren should make geed the
less en the Procter lecture, any balance
remaining will be paid ever te the treas
urer of the Christian Association.
At the close of the Star club work and
before adjournment, it was decided te or
ganize a Plant club, which shall study the
elements of botany, giving attention te
the wonders of plant growth and te the
practical analysis of plants according te
the tables of an approved text book. Each
member of the class will need a text book for
home study and field work. The class will
arrange for eight or ten meetings between
this and the middle of June, and a part of
the work te be done by each member will
probably include the analysis of at least
thirty of the native Spring plants, with
description in proper form of family,
genus, species and habitat in the case of
each plant analyzed.
The first meeting of the Plant club will
be held at the call of the committee ap
pointed te consider the details of its or
ganization. The members of this com
mittee arc Messrs. J. D. Pyott, J. C.
Burrowes and Miss Marie Kemp.
About Stickers.
These who were present in court when
the Seventh ward ballet box was opened
for the pupese of determining the contest
ed election for constable of that ward
could net have failed te observe that the
placing of a "sticker" ever the name of an
objectionable candidate is net a very sure
way of having the vote counted against
him. Sometimes the sticker won't stick,
and .sometimes dishonest election officers
may take occasion te pull off these that de
stick, thus net only depriving the candi
date of the vote te be cast for him, but
giving it te his opponent. In the Seventh
ward case the repeated handling
of the tickets caused quite a
number of the stickers te fall off. Fortu
nately none of these belonged te the illegal
votes which alone were examined by the
commissioners. But had it been necessary
te make a recount of all the the tickets in
the box it would have been impossible for
the examiners te have determined the re
sult with accuracy, se many of the stickers
had fallen off.
At the coming election the great army
of "scratchers" should bear this in mind.
The voter should first carefully erase the
name of the candidate he don't want te vote
for. The best plan is te carefully write
in the name of the candidate he does want
te vote for. If stickers are used let him
see that they are properly put en and will
net he likely te come off.
STATE AX1 COUNTY TAX.
Wlmli IteHpeiisible for the Incrcube?
The county commissioners have issued
their orders te the assessors, fixing the
rate of state and county tax for next year,
and notices of the same are being served
in the several districts. The state tax has
been raised te forty cents en the hundred
dollars instead of thirty, last year's rate,
while the county tax is also put up te
thirty cents, as against twenty-five last
year. The commissioners have refused te
allow the assessors te make any reduction
in the valuations of properties (notwith
standing the fact that real estate is at least
ten per cent, lower than it was at the
making of the tri-ennial assessment three
years age), but have ordered an addition
te be made in all districts. Frem this
valuation our city and school tax is also
levied for the next three years, se that
our property owners can see as well as
feel the wondrous benefits we are deriving
from the continued control of the Repub
lican party in our county.
The Winter in France.
Frem a private letter received by a lady
in this city from a lady friend in France,
wc arc permitted te make the following
extract. The letter is dated Cannes, en
the Mediterranean coast, some 500 miles
south of Paris. The writer says :
"We ran down fnem Paris te Cannes te
secure a few weeks of sunshine, having
had a very hard winter in Paris since early
in December. Such cold is rare in
France. Fer four long weeks the city of
Paris was in a deplorable .state, most sad
for the peer. Heavy snow had fallen
after intense frost. The Parisians seemed
for days spell-bound, net knowing
what they should de te clear away
the mountains of snow that had drifted in
some places several feet high. All the
reaus surrounding the city were impassa
ble. The farmers could net reach Paris
with the necessaries of life, and for awhile
it was similar te the Prussian siege. Fuel
and vegetables were increasing in price, se
that very few, even among the rich, could
obtain sufficient even for immediate wants.
Where we arc new the sun shines out het
during the day, but the mornings and even
ings are coo!."'
Oidck Werk.
Yesterday Charles Carr and Harry
Goedhait, two boys who are in the em
ployee of II. P. Carsen, city bill-paster,
put up 300 sheets of bills in different parts
of the city. This was quick work and as
there are a number of entertainments
billed for next week nearly every beard in
town is covered.
Alderman Spurrier's Vele.
At the meeting of the school beard
Thursday evening Alderman Spurrier
voted for Miss Carpenter, and net for Miss
Guthrie as wc reported. The vote did net
change the result, but, as the alderman
had made a premise te one of the appli
cants, he would like it te be known that he
f ilifiled it.
Lump l'est Broken.
This morning a tobacco wagon was run
against the city lamp pest at the corner of
Chestnut and Market streets and snapped
it off as though it had been a pipe stem.
The gas pipe inside the lamp pest was bent
but net broken. One or two of the glasses
in the, lamp were also broken.
Committed for Larceny.
Jacob Shcnk, charged with the larceny
of groceries and ether articles, the prop
erty of Jehn Wesley Harkins, of Martic
villc, had a hearing before Alderman
Spurrier this morning, an.d in default of
bail was committed for trial at court.
Haadscme Bnildins Improvements.
The old McConemy property, after
wards owned by Isaac Stirk, en West
Orange street, which was sold some time
age. has been improved by the erection of
six very handsome and substantial private
residences, which are a credit te their
builders and an ornament te the flourish
ing " est End. " They are built of
brick, with grecu serpentine stone fronts.
Each is en a let 23 feet front, and 243
deep. The base of the front is marble ;
the windows and doers are trimmed with
a beautiful Ohie stone. On the first fleer
are three rooms a large parlor, dining
room and kitchen with the hall and ves
tibule. The parlor has walnut graining,
the kitchen and dining-room oak ; the
mantel-pieces are of Plymouth Reck and
Spanish marble. In each kitchen is a
range, sink, closet, het and cold water. On
the second lloerare four chambers and bath
room, and en the third lloer under the
mansard reef arc two sleeping apartments.
The bath-rooms are finished with
bath-tub, wash-stand and water
closet, the plumbing being of the
best modern plans. They arc furnished
with gas, heater, closets and all the modern
conveniences. Urban & Burger were
the builders and owners, and the wood
work was furnished from their mill. The
ether work was done as fellows : Plumb"
inSi gas-fitting and tinwerk, JehnSchaum "
painting, Allen Guthrie & Sen ; brick
work, Bluuiensteck & Keller ; stonework
and marble, A. Ridgcway, Philadelphia ;
slating, Sprecher & Pfeill'er ; plastering
Humphrcville Bres., J. Drnekemiller and
Henry Harding; the iron fences were
erected by Bender & Helmau ; Mr. 31c
Clure, of Columbia, put up some of the
mantels and ethers were done by Reading
parties.
ni:ig:ii;okheoi XKWS.
Kvents Acress the County Line.
The Yerk Republican has placed at the
top of its editorial column the name of
James G. Blaine for president.
The grocery store of Mr. A. Baker, of
Hanover, Yerk county, was entered last
night by some person or persons unknown
who stele therefrem about $25 in money
from a drawer. Ne goods, as fiir :is known,
are missing.
The " meanest man" was in Yerk a few
day age. Bis name is Spangler. A lit fie
girl in passing along the street dropped
some money. Spangler, who was standing
near, placed his feet upon a five rent piece
which rolled in his direction, and kept it
there until the child picked up all she
could find and started off. when the man
deliberately pocketed the five cents.
SKUfeNADKO.
l'resldent Twenty-live Tears.
Last evening Majer Charles M. Hewell
was tendered a serenade by the membeis
of the Empire hook and ladder company in
honor of his twenty-fifth election te the
presidency of that company. The fire
men, headed by Clemmcns' City band, left
their truck house shortly after 9 o'clock
and marched te the residence of .Air.
Hewell, where the band played a number
of lively airs. After the music Mr. Hewell
appeared at the deer, and in a short
speech thanked the company for the com
pliment. The company and band afteia
wards visited the restaurants of Jehn A.
Snyder and Al Fnlmcr.
Slight Fire at the Prison.
Shortly before 11 o'clock this forenoon,
a slight lire occurred at the county prison
in the room known as " Bummers' Hall."
It is supposed te have been caused by a de
fective Hue as the heater is under the
room. The joists supporting the fleer
were burned somewhat, and the Heer was
charred. The fire was extinguished by the
prisoners and the officials with s-evcral
buckets of water. The room was filled
with smoke and the prisoners who were in
it were frightened for a time. The Amer
ican fire, company had their engine there,
but it was net needed.
Yerk County Tobacco.
Our Washington borough correspondent
writes that " yesterday about twenty two
horse teams, leaded with Yerk county
tobacco passed through that borough en
their way te Jehn Wisslcr's, packing house
at Ilighvillc. One of the drivers en being
asked hew the prices rated answered only
medium. Our friend across the river have
net yet learned te grade their reasonably
fair crop as well as it is done in Lancaster
county, and the growers, or rather the
buyers, should net attempt te palm it oil"
as grown here."
The Alan He Would Clioe.c.
Lancaster Inquirer.
Mr. MacGenigle, whose term is about te
expire, has been reneminated by the Dem
ocrats. We would be faithless te our duty
as a journalist if wc failed te declare that
he has made a geed officer. lie has net
been without faults ; but in the main his
administration has been a creditable one.
If a Democrat must be elected Mr. Mac Mac
eoniglc would be the man wc would chose.
Hew They Voted.
The Lancaster county delegation at Ilar
risburg did net vote as a unit en the nomi
nation as auditor general. Delegates
Andrew M. Frantz, Themas B. Cochran,
A. L. Eshleman, Jacob S. Witmer, Wash
ington L. Hcrshey and Celin Cameren,
voted for Jehu A. Lemen. Jehn E. Wiley
and Nathaniel EHmaker, voted for J. A.
M. Passmore.
Fingers Cat.
This forenoon Geerge Yudith, residing
en St. Jeseph street, who is cmplepcd at
the bending mill of his brother Frederick
Yudith, en Maner street, had the four
fingers el one hand almost entirely cut off
by having them caught in a saw while at
work. Dr. M. L. Ilerr attended his in
juries. Fell in the Market Heuse.
This morning as Mrs. Strumpf was
walking in the market house adjoining the
Grape hotel she was attacked with vertigo
and fell unconscious te the fleer. She seen
recovered somewhat and was carried out.
placed in a carriage and taken te her
home.
Kale et Real Kstate.
This afternoon, Jehn II. Metzlcr, real
estate agent, sold the grocery store and
dwelling, situated en the corner of Con Cen Con
estega and Prince streets, the property of
Jeremiah Cogley, te Charles Makinst n for
?,300.
Presentation.
The family of Mr. R. K. Sehnader,
members of the Second Evangelical churchr
have presented Mrs. O. L. Sayler, wife of
the pastor, with a very beautifully painted,
portrait of her husband, Rev. O. L. Say
ler.
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