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LANCASTER BAiLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1880.
Lancaster intelligencer.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEB. 11, 1880. tne
The County Assessment.
Our county commissioners are engaged
in the threes of an effort te equalize the
taxable values of the county, but they de
net seem te appreciate the magnitude of
the job they have undertaken, and they
are likelv te leave it in a worse state than
they have found it. There is no doubt
at all that real eslate is very unequally
valued net only by the different assessors
but even by the same assessor. It is a
very difficult thing te determine the
value of even- piece of real estate in a
district, and te put upon each one its
"proper rate. It requires experience,
skill, honesty and industry, te de it with
any near approach te accuracy, and then
it Is only approximately done. Very few
assessors come up te the needed standard,
and it is net at all strange, therefore,
that there should often be gross irregu
larities in the values they put upon dif
ferent pieces of property, and it is quite
impossible that there should net be great
unevenness in the assessments of differ
ent assessors. The county commission
ers are authorized te act as a beard of re
vision te correct these irregularities, and
in fact it is their sworn duty se te act.
The present commissioners are entitled
te credit for their manifested wish t0
discharge this duty, but it is obvious
that it will be a great work and cannot
le satisfactorily performed in the few
davs that are assigned te the hearing of
appeals. The theory of the law seems te
be that all persons tee heavily taxed will
appeal from Hie impost and that thus
justice will be done. But there i.s no
prevision made te secure the review of
cases where a tee" small valuation has
been placed upon property : and, since a
certain tax has te be raised, great injus
tice is done te the citizen whose
property has been assessed at its
proper value by the fact that ether
properties are appraised at less
than their value, and se an unduly heavy
proportion of the tax required is put
upon him. The trouble is net that any
particular property is rated above the
market value ; that does net often occur?
and when it does it is seen remedied.
The difficulty lies in a tee low assessment
of many pieces of property. It does net
really matter whether property is assessed
at its full value, or at a half, or a fourth
of it, se that every piece is assessed at
the same proportion of its value ; but it
is easier te secure this result by assessing
at market values, as thus the accuracy
of the assessment is most readily detect
ed. The commissioners need, te properly
discharge their duty, te inform them
selves of the present market value of
each piece of real estate in the county ;
which is a task of a magnitude that they
will shrink from. They may content
themselves with inquiring into the value
of different classes of property in differ
ent sections of the county, and if they
de this intelligently they may be able te
de something of value towards the cor
rection of the irregularities of as
ment. We fear, however, that, being all
countrymen and farmers, they incline
te show a blind eye te the low valuation
of farm property. Undeniably farms are
assessed at a price much below what
they would bring in the market ; and
when the attention of the commissioners
is called te this they excuse it en the
ground that farms pay but a small inter
est upon the investment. The heavy
valuation of city and business property
they defend en the ground that it can well
afford te pay the impost. They forget
that law imposes the tax net upon the
revenue but upon the land, and that if
the rental of property is te control the
tax, and net market value, it would be
necessary te relieve all property from
taxation that does net yield an inceme:
but whoever heard of a tax being remit
ted because a dwelling, a store or a man
ufactory steed idle ? Farms, while their
returns are small, area safe investment
of capital, and this it is which makes their
value in the market se much greater
proportionately te their yield than that
of any ether class of property. A farm
will always yield some revenue ; while a
manufactory often times net only yields
nothing but even costs a great deal te
care for in its periods of idleness.
There is but one safe guide for the
commissioners in seeking te equalize tax
ation ; and that is te put upon every prop
erty the price it would bring in the mar
ket, and te let the taxable value be affect
ed by no ether consideration whatever.
That is the law and that is their duty.
The Anti-l'aineren Felks.
Congressman A. Ilerr Smith at "Wash
ington, at whose belt hangs a Cameren
scalp, still dripping with the bleed of
1878, has been telling some of the news,
paper men there that his friends in this
county are net going te stand the Camer Camer
on dictation. Though he himself was
but lately a Grant man, he does net pro
pose te see his birthright te political su
premacy in Lancaster county shameless
ly bartered away, nor himself remanded
te an insignificant position by having his
inveterate enemies cany the county for
all their plans. It is war te the knife
between him and Cameren and lie tells
the reporters of Newspaper Rew that his
leeple will held a mass meeting
like their neighbors in Chester ceun"
ty and denounce " the family' rule.
Seme Lancaster county politician has
been talking te a Tribune reporter in the
same style, and of course there is even
greater pretext for the proposed formal
expression of indignation here than in
Chester, lx;cause of Lancaster county's
greater importance and because, after
all, Chester county get her deserts and
the local nominee was approved by the
Cameren convention. In Lancaster
county the masses of the party were ig
nored, their wishes defied, their rules
violated and every element of fairness
despised.
But the anti-Cameren people hcieare
used te this sort of treatment. Their
opponents have visited it upon them and
.rubbed it into them se often that they
can presume very far upon their acqui
'eseence. There .are no biljs posted yet
for the alleged indignation meeting, no
hall has been hired, and no order has gene
forth te " let the hand play." congress-
man Smith had hetter come home and
see about it, and the man who talked te
Tribune reporter must t enthuse'-
his brethren a little if he wants his hopes
te lie realized.
PERSONAL. "
JesEi'ii Semgmax, the well-known New
Yerk banker, is ill in Flerida.
General William B. Tibuitts died at
his residence in Trey, X. Y., last night.
Fkascis D. Mou.tex was yes'.erday
elected president of the International
Dairy fair association.
M. Isaac Adem'ubChemieux, Rcpubli
can life senator in France, who had been
suffering from bronchitis, died last night
at the age of 84.
.Ieiin Rice, who participated in Perry's
victory en Lake Erie, and the only sur
vivor of that famous light, died at his
home in Shelly, O., yesterday.
Cant. Themas Auld, who was formerly
the owner of Frederick Douglass, died en
Sunday last at his residence war St.
Michaels-, Talbot county.
Governer ReiiEr.rs, of Texas, is ever
seventy years of age; but nevertheless was
sprightly enough te dance at a party the
ether evening with seven young ladies.
His dress suit was of homespun.
Mr. En.KNi: Sciiuyleu, the American
consul in Reme, is living in the Altemps
italncc. where he is about te entertain M.
and Mine. Waddington. Mr. Schuyler
married Mine. Waddington's sister.
The name of Rkah Fhazeii. of this
city, who is assistant paymaster of the
United States navy, was sent te the Sen
ate for confirmation en Monday as passed
assistant paymaster.
Yirren Hroe will be seventy-eight
years old en the 2Gth of this month, and
about the same time he will publish his
new books. " Religions ct Religion " and
"Teulc la Lyre. "' The poet is hale and
vigorous.
Rev. CiiAiti.Es 11. Pakkhuist has re
signed the pastorate of the Congregational
church at Lenex te accept that of the Mad Mad
ieon Avenue church et New Yerk, at a
salary of $8,000. Mr. Parkhurst has been
the Lenex pastor for live years at a salary
of $1,500.
Sir KiiWAiiD TllOHNTux and his two
daughters ride en the reads about Wash
ington every pleasant day ; the white
whiskered father en a handsome hay, the
young ladies en two beautiful mouse-
colored horses. The English girls high
hats and short blue habits are mentioned
as being efthe most delicately trim fashion,
and they are remarkably graceful horse
women. The late Auei.ru E. Benn:, in his will,
gives all his property te his wife, Elizabeth
D. Beric, for life, with the power te use as
much of the principle as she desires and
te dispose of the residue by her last will.
In default of such disposition he makes
the following disposition of the residue.
After sundry legacies te personal friends
and relatives, amounting in the aggregate
te $04,000, and including therein a legacy
te General Ulysses S. Grant of $10,000, he
makes a number of charitable bequest:'.
MINOR TOPICS.
The reception of Hayes te the diplomatic
corps last night was the most, brilliant
entertainments ever given at the executive
mansion.
A. PrrrsiUT.eii correspondent who in
terviewed Senater Wallace in Washington
en the presidency, reports him as saying :
" I am a Pennsylvanian and always for
Pennsylvania, whether it be Hancock or
Randall : veu understand?"
Tiieiii: arrived at the pert of New Yerk
during the month of January, 18S0, 7,512
passengers, 5,839 of whom were immi
grants. During the corresponding period
of 1879 the total number of passengers ar
rived at the pert was 8, 9S2, of whom 2,
331 were immigrants.
PeiNDEXTEi:, who is new in the Vir
ginia penitentiary for the murder of Cur
tis, has taken out a marriage license and it
is understood will be united shortly te
Miss Isabella CettrcII. The young
woman's feet, it will be remembered, cost
Curtis his life and sent Peindcxter te
prison.
PitoKEssen Dekemus's bill for services
in the Cobb-Bishop poisoning ease, at
Norwich, Conn., was $1,800, and the state
attorney, with a view te economy, em
ployed Professer .Jehnsen, of Vale col
lege, in the Riddle ease, estimating the
cost at less than $1,000. Professer John John Jehn
eon's bill is, however, $2,880, and it is
understood that the state will dispute it.
Repekts from Illinois state that Grant
has been weakened there by the action of
his friends in Pennsylvania. Six of the
ten delegates elected from Albany county
te the Utiea (N. Y.) convention have re
signed en account of the pretests against
the way in which the caucuses were held ;
new primaries will probably be called.
Business men arc te organize a club in
New Yerk city te advocate the nomina
tion of Secretary Sherman.
TJIK DISHONKSTFACETO THE FRONT.
ApnopeK of the Scnsenijj-Furnlss Peel and
the Furniss-Ilrcncman I.;iu Suit.
riilliKlt-liiliui Times.
Political jebb( ry has been reduced te a
science, although no exactly an exact one,
in Lancaster. That county, which with
all its rugged honesty, manages te keep a
dishonest lace te the front about all the
time through the misrepresentation of its
politicians, has presented nothing mere
audacious in the line of partisan rascality
than is set forth in a letter printed here
with. Several Republican traders in votes
formed a ring which was te raise the
funds te carry a certain slate of
county candidates through a primary
and the county election. They
put in six thousand dollars en a
basis agreed upon, in advances te the
candidates, under premise of reimburse
ment, secured by notes, in case of success,
and with an understanding as te the dis
tribution of the spoils of the offices that
were te be bought. The scheme was only
partially successful aud the rogues who
had planned it fell out aud had the
effrontery te go te the courts for a settle
ment of their dispute. It is an interest
ing story of the greed and treachery of
political bosses that came out en the trial
and has a moral which may be com
mended net only te hucksters in votes and
offices, but te the voters who, net alone in
Lancaster, entrusted the management of
their political affairs and the public in
terests te the most unscrupulous class,
while they .are careful enough te allow
none but honest meu te attend te their
private business.
THE FAB NORTHWEST.
A YOTJXO ABMY OFFICER'S OBSERVA
TIONS. On l!e Forty-ninth Parallel, Forty West
Among a Peculiar People Who
The- am and What they de.
?ut!j1 Cerre-spniwlence efthe Ixteixieencek.
Feirr ("elville. W. T., )
Jan. 13, 1830. (
Nothing strikes one mere forcibly in a
new country than the absence of that
character se often unappreciated, " The
Oldest Inhabitant. " A stranger yourself,
you at first are given te asking (piestiens ;
hut find cvoryeno clse as much of a
stranger as you are, and that their infor
mation results, net from any knowledge,
hut from the truly Western talent for
handling unknown subjects with imagina
tive complacency. Profiting by one or
two impositions en his erediility. the
" stranger" strikes boldly out ami always
knows mere about the country than any
one he meets, whether the latter be from St.
Leuis. Chicago, Philadelphia or Tscw
Yerk, from which four points every one
seems either dircetlv or indirectly te hail.
An air of mystery pervades the doings
and conversation of all your traveling
companions, and a tacit etiquette prevents
any allusion te occupations or intentions ;
as you near the line of the railroad this be
comes mere and mere apparent, and. lying
ever a day or se te obtain conveyance you
sec the whole party scatter helter-skelter
en Indian ponies, mules and en "shanks
mare," after the most hasty breakfasts.
Later you run across one at work en a
quart;', vein with hammer and micro
scope, ethers are seen wading streams
in search of mill-sites or listen
ing, note book in hand, te
the concurring reasons for some emhroye
town becoming the metropolis of the Spe
kane country, as they are emphatically ex
posed, by its half-dozen citizens, whose
tent-covered houses arc supposed, with the
assistance of a stake or two, te indicate a
labyrinth of avenues and streets and the
sites of the omnipresent court heusc,church
and school house, upon one of which, all
unconscious, he may be standing. The far
greater number of your companions only
turn up dusty and weary as the sun drops
behind the "buttes," and, from the gen
eral remarks about ethers being ahead of
them and the determination te "try it fur
ther out en the line '" (you are already
three hundred miles ahead efthe first pick
en the N. P. R. R.), you discover that
these are the contractors, speculators,
miners, land agents and mill men. who
are always found en the outer edge of em
igration, looking for " a geed thing " of
any description with money in it.
A striking feature of this immigration is
that the foreign clement is entirely want
ing, leaving it net only purely American,
but modern (net te say young American).
Wagons, harness, ploughs, arms and tools
arc all of the latest and most improved pat
terns. The wagons are all from one or two
large manufactories, with their parts made
by exact patterns and interchangablc ; se
that you can pick the part you break from
the nearest wreck. Here, what the unin
itiated would call a wagon is a Bain or a
Studcbakcr, just as the word rille has been
superseded bv the terms "Winchester"
and "Remington.""
Clethes, tee, show similar peculiarities ;
everyone, even the Chinaman and Indian,
wears the brown canvas hunting suit with
its riveted buttons, scams and game pock
ets, its braces, reinforce straps" and buckles,
conveniently distributed te meet every
possible requirement of wear and tear;
and all bearing the trademark of semeNew
Yerk sporting emporium. Like everything
else up here, when they begin te wear out
they are 'thrown away and new ones
bought ; a cheaper plan, even with the
high premium for transportation, than te
attempt repairs where labor is se dear.
Yet here, as in certain parts of our Last,
ern country, there are districts which seem
destined te be passed by, undisturbed by
the tide of progress. The valley of the
Colville, differing as it does in its histori
cal associations (for it has a history), in
its inhabitants, institutions, and language,
from the country around it, may, like
"Sleepy Hellew,"' en the highlands of the
Hudsen, withdraw itself from the world,
and live ever and ever the traditions of its
fercfathcrs.undisturbed by the jestlings of
civilization outside its guardian moun
tains. Seme "Irving" of the 20th cen
tury, ilceing from the bustle of Walla-la
or from the (by that time) crowded city of
Spokane, te pass a quiet summer among the
pines, may find here a race quite as quaint,
quite as erignal, as the placid old
Dutchmen whose pretty daughters
and rollicking sons brought the gob
lins about the cars of "Iehabed Crane.''
Quite as romantic as the landing of old
Hendrick Hudsen is their pilgrimage across
this continent, wild as it was fifty years
age and earlier, when the Jesuit mission
aries and the great "Hudsen Bay com
pany " vied with each ether in piercing
this new Norse land. Their beat prow
pleughing unknown water ; the shadow
of the tall cress lashed in the bow, falling
in weird outline en the placid surface .
while te the splash of the paddle is tuned
the French beat song of the voyagers or
the chants of the missionaries. Or else
scudding ever the frozen snow crust in
deg sledges and camping under snow
drifts, while bringing in the " catch " of
costly furs from some "Hudsen Bay com
pany's " factory (as their forts were called)
or carrying te the " Factcur " (the lone
" Scotchman " in command of the " fac
tory" anil the score of the French
"servants" of the company stationed
there) his yearly mail ; and the replies
from bennic Scotland te letters written
tire long yearn before.
HardshTp came in full measure te these
explorers, but no sooner past than it was
forgotten by their buoyant, suffering,
careless nature, which, as well as the lan
guage, has strangely enough been perfect
ly preserved through se many changes and
generations since its importation from
sunny France.
A strong infusion of Indian bleed, has,
in most cases, done little hut exaggerate
these traits. " Mitlite ! C'est lc mien
eclui-ci. Yeu bet !" a sentence I heard
te-day !"-explain by--" Step ! This is mine !
Yeu bet in three languages, hew the eu
phonious French is introduced by the
startling Indian aud backed up by the em
phatic Anglo-Saxen, and illustrates the
character of our rising generation.
At one end of the valley, surrounded
by its colony of leg cabins, each with its
Indian " teppee" beside it (for, though the
"Siawash" Indian will keep his pigs in a
leg cabin he must have his ledge te live
in), you will find the "Mission," with its
Brethers' house (or monastery) and its Sis
ters" house (or convent) ; where, if you arc
as lucky as we were, you may hear a
large class of Indian girls at the Con
vent school si:igcvcral choruses in purest
English. As te whether they knew what
they are saying, or can speak the language
otherwise than poetically, you will net step
te inquire ; neither should you question
the utility f a highly cultivated rendition
of "The Sweet By-and-By " as a means of
practical education. Fer, what Eastern
seminary would tolerate a similar inquisi
tien, and hew can you call the " bisters
te account '.' ( )u a slight knell in the val
ley stands the foundation of what is te le
a large handsome church, in the form of a
cress, while lower down a steam saw mill
is sniawinir awav at the leirs that arc te I
furnish lumber for it. All around stretch
the wheat fields ami pastures, where the
fanning and stock raising is carried en by
some of the lay brothers, while ethers at
tend le the sawing, building, &c.
Our chief being well known te the fra
ternity, we found, when about te leave,
that a most bountiful aud excellent repast
hail been prepared, with hespitable fore
thought, bv one of the lav brothers, and
we willingly proceeded te discuss it with
the " Father," whose tales of early adven
ture were appropriate seasoning ; though,
in truth, little condiment was needed after
a spin of eight miles in a sleigh with four
in hand. As we left the table, whose
height had all along been perplexing my
curiosity as well as upsetting all my theo
ries as te the transfer of feed from plate te
mouth, we were informed that it was also
used as an altar when the cold prevented
the use efthe chapel.
I must acknowledge that the "hab
itant" of Colville valley, this grandson of
France, with all his poetical or romantic
association, is, in a proper spirit of frank
ness, like the Indian, the Italian peasant
and ether favorites of romance an, un
pleasant object for practical centcmpla-.
tien. Ignorant, lazy and dirty, his lack of
energy, ambition and enterprise, limit his
highest aim te bread and meat enough for
the present, only ; and his ideal of happi
ness never surpasses a break-neck gallop
down the vallev with half a gallon of
whisky aboard.
Established for a score of years in one of
the most fertile valleys of this fertile country
he does net yet knew what a kitchen gar
den is ; and has net deigned te take ex
ample from the soldiers, who stake out
half an acre right by his rauchc, and take
home wagon leads of magnificent vegeta
bles of almost any kind in the fall. What
would one of our Lancaster county farm
ers say te leaving a herd of twenty milch
cows unmilked for three or four days at a
time, every week or two, while he was
away en a social visit te a friend in the
neighborhood ? These " dairymen" won't
bother themselves about such small mat
ters, and it is therefore no wonder that but
ter sells for $1 per pound, and eggs for the
same price per dozen, right in the midst
of their settlement, and that a Scotchman
who has a small 10-year-old orchard, sells
his apples at " four for a dollar."
This race can net held its own against
the Anglo-Saxen, and must cither fall te
the position of its servant, when it feels the
weight of its competition ; or else, as I am
inclined te believe, it will gather its lodgc ledgc lodgc
pelcs and, deserting its cabins, will drive
its ponies further north into the wilderness
of King Geerge's land, as it still calls the
British possessions. " Geed Queen Vie"'
will no doubt find in them a tractable set
of subjects ; judging from the time
that has elapsed without enlightening
them en the succession of meuarchs of the
British throne, they seem te be constitu
tionally unfitted te grasp the rapid changes
in our national politics ; and we can watch
their forms grew beautifully less as gladly
as we watched the exodus of Sitting Bui's
"out-fit."
N. B. "Out-fit" is a word used te desig
nate anything and everything in the
Northwest (synonymous with " rig"
" circu.V " celebration" and " boom,"
in their new general meanings) ; and which
is perhaps te work its way into public
favor : for slang, unlike the sun, travels
from West te East.
Fred.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Hayes has nominated Frank H. Masen,
of Ohie, te be United States ceunsul at
Basle.
Miles Cenrad, of Wyandotte, Michigan,
was shot by an unknown assassin en Mon
day night.
Scott Cooper, a prominent stock dealer,
was chloroformed and robbed of 3,000 in
a hotel at Broekvillc, Indiana, yester
day. Benjamin Rewcll, another member of
the Finn gang of counterfeiters, has been
arrested in Scott county, Miss.
The French steamship Valentine, from
Cardiff, for Dieppe, has foundered. Six
teen persons were killed.
Madri Gras was observed yesterday at
New Orleans, Mobile and Galveston with
great spirit, immense throngs of visitors
from Northern cities being present at New
Orleans.
On Monday night a bridge was burned
en the Petersburg and Welden railroad, at
Hickford, jever the Mehcrrin river. It was
200 feet long, built in 18fiG, and the finest
bridge en the read.
While at the Powhatan steamboat com
pany's wharf house, yesterday, Andrew
Beisscaux, a respected citizen of Peters
burg, Ya., was caught between the ware
house and a passing freight train and
crushed te death.
Frederick Eagle called at a New Yerk
police station last night and stated that he
had murdered his mother-in-law, in
Buffalo, six years age. He was locked "up
and the authorities of Buffalo telegraphed
te.
The body of Alexander Campbell has
been stolen from the grave in the parish
cemetery of St. Malache de Ormstown, at
Montreal. The medical colleges have been
searched by the police, hut without dis
covering the remains.
Geerge Beck, a Swiss, 31 years of age,
whose wife died en the 21st ultimo., com
mitted suicide en Monday, by sheeting, en
his wife's 'grave, in the Lutheran ceme
tery, Queens county, Leng Island. He
was crazed by grief at his bereavement.
Mr P. Lorillard's brown gelding Parele
(aged) is first favorite in the betting for
the race for the Lincolnshire Handicap,
which will take place at the Lincoln
Spring meeting, en Wedncsday,',Mareh 17,
by 100 te 6. Fred Archer will probably
de Parele.
At 4 p. m., yesterday, the body of a girl
5 years old, dressed in a brown sacque,
trimmed with blue, gray petticoat, button
shoes, and white stockings, was found in
the Harlem river off 16th street, New
Yerk. The body was net identified and
was taken te the Morgue.
Geerge F
Slossen, of New Yerk, and
Maurice Yignaux. of Paris, France,are
matched te play 4,000 points in Paris for a
stake of $1,000 at. the regular three-ball
game of billiards, the Cellender challenge
cup rules te govern the contest, said rules
permitting unlimited rail play.
In Peoria, 111., yesterday, Jacob Frye,
an old resident of that city and Chicago,
was shot and instantly killed by his son-in-law,
Luther B. McKinncy. Twenty
years age the father of the murdered man,
Smith Frye, was shot in the same place.
McKinncy quarreled with his wife and
blamed her parents for their trouble.
Seuth street, N. Y yesterday was liued
with idle 'longshoremen. Probably net
one man of the 'Longshoreman's Union
Ne. 1 could be found that was willing te
work for less tbau forty cents an hour, day
and night, as was agreed upon some time
age. They are te have a meeting te-night
at which the subject af wages wil be dis
cussed. FKillTIXti OVEll A I.OVKK
Sanguinary Duel Uetween Twe Girls in Vir
ginia lfeth Enamored of One Man who
was in Doubt as te Which he Liked
Hest One Takes a Club and
Other a Pitchfork.
In Onancock, Ya., a sanguinary duel was
fought between two women last Saturday,
which resulted in the probable fatal
wounding of both. Miss Louise Wise and
Miss Margaret Downing had for some
time excited much comment in the little
village because of their jealous quarrels
ever the attentions of a young man named
Benjamin Yeung. On one or two ecca
siens they had come te blows in his pre
sence, and were only restrained from se
riously injuring each ether by the efforts
of Yeung. This young man seems te have
bceu in doubt as te which of the maidens
possessed his heart, and realizing the force
of the axiom :
Hew happy I could be with cither
Were t'ether dear cliarmer away,
temporized with them and had little diffi
culty in convincing each that she was the
object of his admiration. At length en
Friday evening he went te a party with
Miss Wise, aud while dancing with her the
assemblage was thrown into intense excite
ment by the sudden appearance of Miss
Downing, who, in a tragic manner, stalked
up te the couple and forbid her lever te
dance with her rival. As she steed facing
the couple, with her eyes inflamed with
passion, it was thought that violence would
be the next act in the drama. Suddenly,
however, with a piercing shriek she sank
te the fleer in a swoon, frothing at the
mouth as though suffering from an epi
leptic fit. She was removed by her friends
and Yeung ami Miss Wise withdrew.
The following day Miss Wise received a
note from Miss Downing, requesting her
te call upon her as she wished te see her
about an important matter. Miss Wise
went te her rival's house, as requested.
She entered the yard, walked around the
kitchen entrance, pushed open the deer
and walked inside, saw her rival seated by
the stove, with her head resting moodily
upon her hand. AVhen Miss Downing
caught sight of Miss Wise she sprang te
her feet and, seizing a stout club, rushed
at her, shrieking with rage. Miss Wise
ran into the yard aud, seeing the ether fol
lowing, she picked up a pitch-fork, and,
facing her enraged rival, warned her te
stand oft". Miss Downing exclaimed :
" All right ; we will light new. Yeu
have a weapon, se have I."
Beth being strong, healthy, country
girls, they feuud no difficulty in wielding
their weapons. As Miss Downing rushed
at the ether, she was met by the thrcc
tined fork, which was driven into her
breast. The next instant she struck Miss
Wise a stunning blew en he head which
staggered her, and followed it up by a
second blew which felled her te the
ground. Miss Wise seen regained her
t'ect, and, assuming the offensive, impaled
Miss Downing' hands en the prongs of
the fork. Again she received a blew
en the head from the club, which felled
her te the ground. "While in this position
she thrust the pitchfork into Miss Down Dewn
iug's face making three terrible wounds.
By this time both were weakened by less
of bleed and dropped te the ground .in
sensible. In this position they were found
by some neighbors, who gave the alarm.
Dr. Drummond was summoned and was
seen in attendance. Beth girls were ter
ribly injured, Miss Downing having been
wounded fourteen times by the pitchfork,
aud Miss West shockingly bruised and
beaten about the head. They arc new
suffering from a high fever, aud the physi
cian lias little hope of their recovery. In
lucid intervals they gave the particulars
of the fight, and at the same time each
begged pitceusly te sec Mr, Yeung. The
latter, evidently net relishing the notoriety
into which he was brought by the strange
infatuation of the two girls, has left the
town, and no trace of him can be discovered.
The affair has caused the most intense ex
citement and the usually quiet little town
has been in a turmoil since the particulars
of the fight were made public.
STATU ITEMS.
Jehn Ruth, aged 24 years, had one leg
crushed by a blast hi a quarry in Upper
Mcrien, Montgomery county, en Monday.
In the second ward Of Leck Haven the
Republicans have determined net te nomi
nate a candidate for alderman against
Henry L. Diffenbach, esq.
Jehn Liebtreu, aged about 28 years,
son of Cenrad Liebtreu, proprietor of the
Fifth Ward house, corner of Third and
Beas streets, Harrisburg, was found dead
under the ice in the canal yesterday.
Mr. Daniel O. Hitner, who is Mr. Tay Tay
eor's colleague te the national convention
from the Seventh congressional district
Montgomery and part of Bucks county
proposes te faithfully reflect the sentiment:
of the people of his county and has declar
ed enthusiastically for Blaine.
The drawings for the class K engines
arrived at the Pennsylvania railroad com
pany's machine shops at Alteena, en Mon
day. Werk is ordered te commence imme
diately en an experimental locomotive that
is te be run ever the read between Phila
delphia and New Yerk en exceedingly fast
time ninety miles in ninety minutes, it is
said.
In Easten yesterday a leak in the Le
high water company's reservoir was
discovered. The water was running out ou
Northampton street for a distance of five
squares and then into a sink hole. The
property owners fear it will undermine the
houses." There was 1,500 gallons of water
in the reservoir when the leak was disoov diseov disoev
ered. The water has fallen four feet and
is still running. The leak cannot be locat
ed or the damage estimated at present.
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Kailread Disaster.
An engine, tender and a baggage car en
the Pictou Branch railway ran off the
track yesterday, about a mile from New
Glasgow, N. S., tearing up a hundred feet
of rails, throwing the engine and tender en
one side and the car en the ether side,
ever an emankment of forty feet and
crushing the engineer, James Cameren,
almost completely severing his left leg be
tween the knee and the hip. The leg had
te be amputated before he could Ikj get
from under the car. He will probably
die. The fireman escaped with slight
bruises.
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Murder Will Out.
A servant girl in Franceui's hotel, St.
Henri de Devis, Quebec, died en Monday,
making deposition before a priest and
ether witnesses respecting the Guennette
murder. The girl was one of the witnesses
in the case of Pation, who was tried for
the alleged murder, and charged with hav
ing killed Guennette and placing his body
en the railroad track. At the time she
pretended te knew nothing of the murder,
but en Monday stated that her conscience
would net allow her te die before revealing
the terrible secret. Ihe story will be
secret. The story
given out after the burial.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
OBITUARY.
Death of Adam Gable inAltoeua.
The following from the Alteena Sun of
l this morning concerns an old resident of
Lancaster :
The announcement this morning of the
death of Mr. Adam Gable caused gcnuir.e
sorrow te hundred of citizens of Alteena
who were accustomed te daily see his
geed-humored countenance upon the
streets, and for a long time there were
few who could realize the melancholy fact.
Mr. Gable, though net an elu resident of
Alteena, was one of her bet-known citi
zens. The cause of his death was heart
disease, aud his taking off was extremely
sudden, although Mr. Gable himself of late
frequently expressed the belief te his fam
ily that he had net a very long time te
live, as he recognized the danger of his
disease. He returned but a few days age
from the funeral of the husband of his
sister at Lancaster, and since that time he
seemed mere than ever impressed with the
conviction that his days en earth were for
but a short time. Yesterday, however, he
felt considerably better, even te the hour
of retiring late last night. About half
past 5 o'clock this morning he awoke and
complained of difficulty in breathing and
of an oppressive pain about his heart. He
felt very cold, he said, and Mrs. Gable
said she would have a lire made. Mr.
Gable demurred te this, and intimated
that he would seen rise and build the lire
himself. Soen after he told his wife he
was feeling better that the pain had left
his breast and seemed te be settling en his
stomach. Mrs. Gable then rose and went
down stairs for the purpose of procuring
something warm with which te bandage
her husband. While thus engaged .she
heard a dull thud en the lloer above.
Thinking one of her children had fallen
out of bed she hurried te the room, only
te find Mr. Gable lyinjr en the lloer. te
which he had fallen in an attempt te rise,
meaning and gasping for breath. Physi
cians were despatched for hurriedly, but
before they arrived Mr. Gable had
breathed his last, never having spoken a
word after she left him te go down stairs.
lie Med en the lloer in the spot wheru he
had fallen, his wife net wishing te disturb
his last moments by an effort te replace
him in bed.
Mr. Gable was born in the town of Gross Gress
zimnicr, hi Hesse-Darmstadt. Germany, in
1839, and was consequently in his 41st
year. When 14 years of age his parents
emigrated te this country and settled in
Lancaster, where his youth was spent and
where he learned the business of a confec
tioner. In 18(52 he came te Alteena, and
en the 1st of January, 18(54, he
WGiit te Philadelphia and enlisted in
the army, serving until the war closed.
After this he returned te Lancaster and
lived there for four years and a half,
when he removed te the Wist, remaining
fourteen months and returning again te
Alteena, where he lived ever since, a pe
riod of nine years, all the time being en
gaged in the confectionery business en
Twelfth street, above Eighth avenue. He
was married with Miss Rosanna Dankyu,
of this city, en the 25th of May, 18(53, and
was the father of seven children, five of
whom are yet living. Mr. Gable was a
loving husband and an indulgent father,
aud his family deeply deplore the great
less they have sustained. As a neighbor
he was a model, and was one of Ged's no
blest works, an honest man.
The deceased was a member of the
German Catholic church, of the Freshinn
singing society and the Geed Will lire
company. Ne arrangements have as yet
been made for his funeral, as one of his
brothers is expected this evening from
Lancaar, when the place and time of in
terment will be decided upon. It is very
probable, however, in accordance with his
expressed wish, that his remains will be
removed te Lancaster.
Mr. Gable has two sisters and a brother
residing in this city. He learned the coi: cei: coi:
feetiencrv business with Charles Eden.
St. Luke's Reformed Mission.
The chapel of the St. Luke's Reformed
mission, situated ou Marietta avenue, near
West Orange street, which has been in
process of building for a few months past,
is about being completed. The let en
which the chapel stands was donated by
Mr. Jehn C. Ilagcr. The building is of
brick, 80x.)0, Gothic style, with a seating
capacity of about two hundred. It is a
very beautiful little church, adorned and
strengthened with buttresses with sand
stone caps. Above the deer is a large rose
window, sui rounded with a chaste border
of brick-work.
The interior is in harmony with the ex
terior. Exposed rafters with cress beams
and braces add both te tlse beauty and
acoustics of the chapel. All the wood
work in the interior is grained in oak. In
stead of pews, or settees, it is the intention
of the congregation te use chairs, at least
for the present. Se as net te contract a
debt at the outset, the pulpit will be tem
porary, while the altar and chancel rail
will be dispensed witli until they will he
able te furnish it for icrmancnt use.
1 he cause et tins mission lias been pre
sented te the generosity of the community
and the response has been very liberal, for
which the congregation and the committee
having charge efthe erection efthe chapel
desire in this public way te express their
sincere thankfulness.
The chapel will be consecrated te the
worship of Ged en next Sunday, the leth
hist., the service beginning at 8 p. m.
The sermon en the occasion will be preach
ed by Rev. C. Z. Wciser, 1). D.. and ether
prominent clergymen will also be present
te take part in the exercises.
WASIIIXGTOX IT1MIS.
Man Nearly
Frezen Cut! in
Ice lie viva 1
Meeting.
Samuel Kiteh, an unmarried man, aged
about fti years and residing about a mile
north of Washington borough, came near
frccziug te death en Monday night. He
had been te Columbia, and at a late hour
and under the influence of liquor he left for
home. When near Truskctt & Ce.'s
stone grist mill he fell te the ground and,
being unable te rise, lay there till Tuesday
morning between 6 and 7 o'clock, when he
was found by two young men who carried
him into the mill. He was entirely help
less and speechless. Dr. Hinkle, of
Columbia, was summoned and was seen in
attendance. Kitch's recovery is doubtful,
as he is very badly frozen and his advanced
age is against him.
Cutting Ice.
Mrs. Barbara Kane has engaged in cut
ting ice, and filling her ice house. She is
receiving it in a beat at an island below
the Columbia dam, and will use it in her
ice cream and confectionery trade. The
ice averages about 5J inches in thickness.
Revival Meetings.
The revival meetings still continue te
be largly attended, and the church altar is
nightly crowded with anxious seekers
after the truth.
Commute Meeting.
The Democratic city campaign commit
tee will meet this evening at 7$ o'clock,
sharp.
UNPAID SCHOOL. APPROPRIATIONS.
Dr. Wlckersliam Avows Ids Otllcial Derelic
tions and Defies the Scheel Heard
"Let the Baud Play."
Readers of the Lntei.i.ieexcek need net
be reminded of the delay, which, under
Dr. Wickersham's administration of the
department of public instruction, has
marked the issue of warrants for the state
appropriations due the several school dis
tricts for some years past. Time and
again the Ixtklligexceii has called at
tention te Dr. Wickersham's dereliction
of official duty in this respect ; time and
again the Lancaster school beard has re
quested him te draw his warrant
en the state treasurer for the amount
due the Lancaster schools; and when
these requests have been unheeded a formal
demand has been made that he shall per
form the simple madatery duty of drawing
his warraut. These several appeals have
been met by Dr. Wickersham in the most
inconsistent,shuffling, and evasive manner.
He has acted upon the assumption that he
was the sole judge as te whether the war
rants should or should net be drawn ; that
he was the custodian of the state treasures
and knew when they might or might net
be safely drawn en for school purposes.
When this unreasonable aud arrogant as
sumption was exploded he took re
fuge behind the mere humiliating
one, that his failure te perferin his
sworn duty was at the request of the
state treasurer, and that he would
draw his warrants as seen as the .state
treasurer was able or willingte cash them !
In this manner Dr. Wickersham continued
te shuffle and shamble and eiler lame ex
cuses until the Lancaster school beard at
its last meeting by a unanimous vote re
solved that legal measures be taken te
compel him te draw his warrant for the ap
propriation due our schools. All these
things arc familiar te our readers, but we
apprehend most of them will be astonished
and indignant at the unblushing arrogance
with which Dr. Wickersham responds te
the action of the beard. In his letter te
the state treasurer dated January.", 1880.
he confessed that he had neglected his
duty ; that that duty was mandatory ;
that the act of Assembly says the state
superintendent shall draw his warrant, ter
the amount due the several districts ;
"that the duty enjoined by that act is posi
tive and clear ;"' that he had no better rea
son for his two years neglect of duty than
the notice the state treasurer gave hi.n of
his inability te pay the warrants if issued.
All this he confessed and then with a
whine that "the school intcrestsare suffer
ing terribly,"' and that "there is a univei
sal demand that he shall issue the war
rants," he told his friend the state treas
urer that he would be '" compelled te adept
a different policy,' and would commence
issuing the warrants en the 12th of Janu
ary. The above are Dr. Wickei-hhain's
excuses, confessions and premises. But
quickly following them comes a long anil
peevishly written communication publish
ed iu the New Era, of yesterday, wherein
he complains of the action of the Lancas
ter school beard in general, and of Thes .
B. Cochran and Rebert A. Evans in par
ticular, aud then adds :
Had it net been for the proceedings of
last Thursday evening, the warrant for
Lancaster city would in all probability
have been reached and issued within the
next ten days. The issue of this wairaut.
however, will new be postponed for the
purpose of enabling the finance committee
te carry into effect their instructions, by
doing me the favor of procuring the set
tlement in a proper court, if they can find
a court willing te assume the right te
settle it, of the question as te the condi
tions under which the school warrants
must be issued by the state superinten
dent. A decision of this kind will liit a
heavy weight of responsibility from the
shoulders of that officer. Besides, it would
be cruel net te allow the chairman of the
finance committee an opportunity te dis
play his prowess, since he has been "spoil
ing for a fight" of this kind for months. I
hazard the prediction, however, that he
will come out of it a wiser man. -Let
me suggest te my fiicnds efthe school
beard here at home that they can de some
thing mere te complicate the situation and
give me trouble by suing me outright for
the money due the city from the state and
levying en my house and let. They will be
quite as likely te succeed in this way as by
the one they propose, and the "fuss" they
can make will be greater.
There's statesmanship ! There's a cham
pion et the schools ! After being driven
from all the subterfuges, behind which he
has for years been attempting te hide his
official derelictions, he slowly aud reluct
antly commences te de his duty,, but, hi
petty spite towards hfs beard of d'ftvvters
that compelled him te de it, Iu .says in
effect : " I'm mad at you ; ye have com
pelled me te. adept a different policy, auu
I will make you suffer for it ; I will issue
warrants in favor of the ether school dis
tricts, but I won't issue yours : you may
sue me ; you may impeach me, but I'll
keep you out of your appropriation as
long as I can, no matter hew terribly the
school interests may suffer."
Had Dr. Wickersham been the disinter
ested champion of the publis schools he
would have the people believe him te be
he would net when he saw the school in
terests suffering have j-hilly-sballied and
hesitated, and conformed his action te the
wishes of the state treasurer, from whom
he draws his salary, or the governor, te
whom he ewes his appointment, or te the
Senate, te whom he ewes his confirmation.
He would have issued his school warrants
as the law commands him te de; and if
they were net duly honored he would have
thundered at the deer of the treasury te
knew the reason why ; and if the treas
urer's plea of "no funds" was made, he
would have arraigned the Republican Leg
islature for gross negligence, and pointed
out te its members, the constitutional
prevision which says.the General Assembly
"shall appropriate at least one million del
lars each year" for school purposes and he
would have exposed the selfishness and
villainy of the soulless corporations that
have defaulted in the payment of their
taxesand cheated the school children of
the state, se that the money dun m the
might be used in electing te the Legislature,
agents efthe defaulting corperatous, or
in buying the votes of unprincipled mem
bers and lobbyists. But instead of acting,
thus Dr. Wickersham has been content te
sec the schools despoiled, te see the cor cer cor
stitutieu violated, te sec corrupt corpora
tions fatten en the funds due ;thc school.-,
and wheu the school beard of his own city
seeks te right the great wrong, te inso
lently defy them and say, "What are veu
going te de about it ?"
Assault aud Battery
Julia Patterson, colored, called en Al
derman Barr last night with her face badly
bunged and made complaint against Jacob
Weeds, colored, charging him with assault
and battery. Officers Stermfeltz and Flick
arrested Weed's, after some resistance en
his part? and rocked him up for the night.
This morning he wa, taken.before Alder
man Barr, and in default of bail was com -mitted
for a hearing.
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