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LANOASTElt DAILY INTELLIGENCER, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 20, 1880.
Hancastct intelligencer.
FRIDAY EVENING, FEB. 20, 1880.
Escaping the Law.
We have announced te us the terms of
the agreement just entered into by the
oil producers and association and the
Standard oil company, by which the
civil and criminal suits against the Stan
dard people are te l)c withdrawn in con
sideration of the consent of them te con
duct their business hereafter according
te the commands of the law. This, se
far as we understand it, is about what is
premised en each side. Condenement of
all its offenses is offered te the Standard
company and permission given te it te
keep the immense tribute it has gathered
from the oil trade in past years in con.
sideratien only of its premise te behave
itself in future and te quit stealing and
de an honest business. Though its
members by this agreement confess their
wickedness and that they richly merit
punishment, they are told te go and sin
no mere in a truly charitable spirit wmcn
ought te delight all geed ieeple. It may
net appear quite se commendable te the
worldly-minded whose exierience has
..taught them te believe that when they
" have caught a thief in the commission of
his crime and have him safely in custody,
just ripe for certain punishment, it
is best te let the law take its
course and te distrust the pie
fuse premises of amendment which,
under the circumstances, the criminal is
always ready te make. Especially is this
the dictate of common sense when a
hardened offender is in the toils,who is cer
tainly known te have an evil heart which
nothing w ill restrain from wrong-doing
but fear of certain detection and punish
ment. The Standard oil company people aie
offender of this kind. The oil producers
have an absolute certainty that they w ill
net de for them what the law will net
compel them te de, and net that much
if they can avoid it ; and j et they new
release them fiem the penalties of their
previous law-breaking, and give them
a clean sheet te start afresh, simply
and solely en their naked premise
enforced and pi etected by no guarantee
of any kind. Its pait of this agieement
the Standaid company will keep till the
processes against it aie discharged and it
is leleased fiem the toils of the law that
aie wound about it. It may keep it still
longer if it finds its account in doing se.
as very likely it may. By its lawless op
pression of the oil traffic it has waxed
fat and strong, and ought te haveie haveie
seiuces suilicient te enable it te held a
pielitable trade in legitimate competi
tion. If is wise it will be content with
this. But it has se been addicted te evil
courses and te leaping the rich profits of
the highwayman that it is v ery doubtful
whether it will be content with the mod
erate profits of a lawful business or will
understand hew te conduct iUelf with
pieper regard for the lights of ethers.
It is very bad policy te compromise a
crime. The law feibids it as te the meie
grievous offences : and the giess viola
tion of justice and right of which the
Standaid oil company has been convicted
in popular estimation ought te hae
borne its due punishment as a warning
te it and te all like offenders. It w ill be
a public misfortune if the Standard
managers aie net hi ought te tiial and
punishment if found guilty. It will give
a free license te them and te ethers heie
after of like inclination play
the .same game in seaich of
the same gieat lewaid. It will
be proved te be a safe game. It w ill be
se just as are the deeds of great cracks
men, which are safe se long as they aie
profitable, and provide the funds with
which te compromise and buy immunity.
The Standard company, gathering great
pjwer and wealth by violating the law.
secures its deliverance when in the law's
clutches, net even at the cost of restitu
tion of a part of the stolen goods, but
simply by premising te steal no meie.
Could any example be meie enticing
than this te men of evil disposition ?
Corrupt Leadership.
After all the morals of Tuesday's elec
tion in this city have been printed and
its talcs adorned, the significant lessen
will appear in bold relief that the revolu
tion in the Republican party in Lancas
ter has been largely due te the character
of the leadership which has been suffered
te lead it here. And from the disastieus
rout which it has suffered as an organi
zation it will neer recover until that
leadership has been changed. The re
marks which we quoted yesterday fiem
the Express of October, 1872, show that as
far back as 18G9 the Republican politicians
of Lancaster city weie engaged in black
frauds against the purity of the ballet
box and an honest election return. The
year of the Ruckalew campaign disclosed
another batch of villainies. Voters were
bought like hogs at the drove yard ; elec
tion officers were sought te be bribed and
naturalization papers were forged. The
guilty men escaped, some of them by just
such a prostitution of the machinery of
justice as that which the Ixtelligex
ceu has been called te account for
exposing and criticising. The district
attorney's office was abused then, and,
though we pointed it out, the court took
no cognizance of the imposition practiced
upon it, and the offender get his " vin
dication" in an election te the Legisla
ture by the Republican party of this
city.
After awhile came the Muhlenberg-Jehnsen-Marshall
exposure, and not
withstanding the developments in a
judicial investigation each one of this
trio get his vindication afterwards from
the Republican party, and each con
tinued te be influential in the Republi
can councils and leadership of this
city.
Then followed an exposure of the bogus
tax receipt villainy which tainted half
the Republican leaders in Lancaster, and
net one of them was remanded en that
account te the condemnation all merited
for their flagrant offences from a decent
political organization.
The famous Mike Snyder case revealed
mere rottenness, but while these impli
cated escaped animadversion from the
court whose confidence they bad abused,
they re-estawisnea uiemseives in ine
favor of their party and at the first sub-
. .... . . . ..
sequent meeting of its organization had
their policy and plans approved.
It may be that the Republican leaders
thought these thingscemmended them
te their party, and it may be that the
majority of their party de approve them,
but Tuesday's lesult satisfies us that a
powerful minority de net. We knew
new that se long as the Democracy of
Lancaster walk straight they will get the
aid of a respectable element of the He
publican party who piefer an honest, ca
pable Democrat for office te bummers
and leturn tinkers, peer-house jobbers
and prison ringsters, forgers of naturali
zation papers, jail-birds, bogus tax ic
ceipt swindlers and plunderers el the
city ,w he put en the livery of the Repub
lican party te sen e their own interests.
IIekaci: White, writing in the Na Na
teon, takes a melancholy but net un
founded view of the political condition
of Pennsylania. He regaids Cameren as
'aseit of Raibary corsair or Reman
proconsul, entertaining a well-grounded
contempt for the people whom he slashes
that is, ler his own party in his own
state." That is the wonder of it. Cam Cam
eeon's sliength lies in the blind belief of
many people that he is at least a
friend of Pennsylvania, and through and
thieugh a Republican of Republicans.
The truth is he is a Pennsylvanian only
when Pennsylvania is for Cameren, a
Republican only when Republicanism
means Cameienism. Ne man would cut
the thieat et a Pennsjlvanian mere
nuicklv when that Pennsjlvanian was
was anti-Cameren ; no man would sell
out the Republican party mere promptly
than Camei en when its success would
mean his oveithrew.
PERSONAL..
EatlGr.osvENen has been ieving the
Niagara ice biidgc.
Britm'Tii:, the feiincr newspaper man
and new huinoieus lectin ei, has biekcn
down in health and temporarily given up
the platfeim.
General Hancock keeps "'open house"
at Gocinei's Island. William Henry
Huilbcit pioiieiinccs the general's tcirapin
soup the finest dish cvci set hemic gods
or men.
Mr.WiM.i-VM M. Mnekui.y, owner of the
Recerd, : couple of horse milwavs, and
about half a dozen fauns, was elected en
Tuesday te his fust public office supervi
sor of Whitplain township. Montgeinciy
eeunt. His dutv is te eaie for the reads
of the township, and he will be paid $2 a
day when at weik.
Secictaiy Fisii, has said te his fiicnds
that he censideis the nomination of Gen.
Grant at Chicago as ceitain te ensue ; that
he is the only man among the several can
didates named who can cany the state of
New Yeik. He believes that Senater
Blaine would make a magnificent cam
paign and cicate much enthusiasm
tin ougheut the country, but nevertheless
lie is net se stieng as Gen. Giant with the
people.
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Tin: Oil. TRADK
Tei ins 1 Compromise With the "standard
Ceinnauj .
A (iraud Council or the Producers Union at
Titusvillc Indorses the Terms or betllc
liient. The Peti eleum Pieduceis Grand Coun
cil assembled in Titusville yesterday. The
articles of agreement which were signed
Fcbinary 5 by the officers of the Standard
oil company, its stockheldei s and the
manageis of its several branches, and B.
B. Campbell en the pait of the petielcum
pieduccrs, provide, lhst, "that the pie
duceis shall make no opposition te an en
tire ahiogdtien of the system of rebates,
drawbacks and scciet Kites of fi eight in
the transput tatien of freight en
mill eat Is ; second, that the Standaid oil
company and United Pipe Lines will net
teceie any lcbatcs which laihead com
panies ate net at liheity te give ether
shippeis of petielcum; thud, that there
shall be no discrimination used by the
United Pipe Lines between or against their
pattens, and the rates of pip.igu shall be
reasonable and uniform and shall net be
advanced except en thii ty days notice. That
te the extent of their influence the
Standaid oil company and United Pipe
Lines agree that there shall be no differ
ence in the pi ice of petroleum between one
distiict and another, except such as may be
based en difference in quality ; that the
United Pipe Lines will make everv reason
able effort te trauspeit stoics and deliver
all oil tendered te them se long as the
pi oductien does net exceed the average of
Ge, 000 barrels per day during fifteen con
secutive days ; if the production exceeds
that amount and is greater than the ca
pacity of the lines can sustain, the pioduc pieduc
eis agree that they will net purchase any
se-called immediate-shipment oil. Fourth.
Tnat the United Pipe Lines will give
vouchers for all oil taken into the line
until the pioductien reaches a max
imum of 0j,000 bands, with
out making any differences as te
immediate shipment ; that the producers
agtcc te lcquest Governer Heyt and the
attorney general te dismiss the bill filed by
the commonwealth against the United
Pipe Lines and Standaid oil company, and
also tequest the Venango county court te
dismiss the proceedings by quo warrante ;
that upon a wtitten motion and agreement
the supreme ceuit of Pennsylvania may
make of rccerd,by consent ofbeth paitics.an
order discharging the rule te show eauc,
and in the case of the commonwealth
vs. Reckafeller et al., that the agreement
shall, upon execution thereof by both par
tics, bca full release between both paitics
of all causes of action of every kind
aiising out et past transactions involved in
said suits. Itisfutther agiced that the
court of Clai ion county be lequcstcd te
give their consent te the entering of a nelle
presequi of the case of the commonwealth
vs. Reckafeller et al., in which the defend
ants ate charged with conspiracy.
Exciting Times at N'cu tow n.
The quiet little village of Newtown Newtewn
Stepliensbttrg, Ficdciick county, Virginia,
after holding its name for a hunched years
or se, resented the idea of there being se
many ether Ncwtewns in the country and
applied te the postellicc department for a
change. A local wag who was consulted
by the department gave the place a new
name, .and the Ncwtewn-Stcphensburgians
waked up suddenly one morning te find
that the official designation of the place
had net enlv been changed, but changed
into Pan-Tep' But the Newtewn-Steph-cnsbuig
people wet c lesehed never te be
degraded into Pan-Tepians, although the
name, if it were suggested fiem the
Greek, might be construed te mean "Every,
where," or "All-sorts-ef-a-placc." They
rose in their warth, called indignation meet
ings, made speeches, threatened te secede,
appointed committees, sent delegations te
Washington, lefused te be called Pan-Tepians,
and demanded back their ancient
name. This the department refused te
concede, but avowed itself willing te ac
cept any new and suitable name which
the inhabitants would agree upon. Anether
public meeting was held, and Newtown
City, Ncwtenbnrg, Newtenfield, Newtole-
na.
jNewtonanelts, were suggested, out
finally " Stephens Citv " was fixed en: and
se the Newtewn-Stcnhensbunrians escaped
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being called Pan-Tepians. The local wag,
it js thought, will "go West."
MINOR TOPICS.
The Poltstewn people elected Mr. Difen
dcrfer te council ; the Lancaster people
didn't.
The Pul.iski, Tciin., lleuild exptesseth
its financial views thus, eloquently :
" Gieenbackism may ileat the Haunting
banner of sporadic triumph, but ultimate
ly wail a sad requiem at the grave of mis
guided ambition.'"
Tin: baggage-master of the Ceutial Pa
cific railroad recently saw a Chinese cigar
manufacturer pasting labels en his bences
en which was priutcd, "The Chinese
Must Ge." Asking the Chinaman what
he did that for, the reply was : " Sand-let
man he icad that, buy the box, smoke my
cigar."
In the Upper distiict of Pottsirrevc
township, Montgomery county, en Tues
day, the rather curiously named election
beaid was again elected. It consists of
Mr. Isaac L. Eagle, Joel Fex and Samuel
G. Bair. Tiie eagle, fox and bear seem te
get along well together, and the citizens
of the township ev idently feel disposed te
humor the joke.
When the "apparent vacancies" en the
editorial stall" of the Examiner, made meie
apparent by the late elections, weic sup
plied ycstciday by Democratic aid, it was
quite unkind for the special supply te enter
into the consideration of such a topic as
"hew the weild leeks en lying." Fer the
Examiner having, en the eve of the elec.
tien, coined and circulated a wilful lie about
MaeGeniglc, the people answered it with
817 majority for him.
At a leeent teun of the quaiter sessions
ceuit of Petter county the district attorney
informed the ceuit that he had no indict
ments or bills te present te the grand jury ;
the shci iff also stated that he had no crim
inals in the piisen : the diiccteis of the
peer reported that they had no one te keep
at the county's chaige or v -pensc. Petter
county has had no taverns licensed for ten
years, and this is given as the reason for
the lack of ceuit business.
Afteii all the outcry against Seuth Car
olina because somebody down there pro
posed that voters should be required te
wiite their names before being allowed te
vote, the legislature of that state declines
te adept any such arrangement. If they
had adopted it they would have only fel
lowed the precedent set years age by Mas
sachusetts and Connecticut in affixing ed
ucational qualifications te the light of suf
frage. The Maine legislature is about te
de that very thing new, but no hew 1 is
raised about it.
The Lancaster Lessen.
Philadelphia Tunes.
Twe jcais age Mr. MaeGeniglc was
elected mayor of Lancaster by fifty-three
majority. It was net a strict patty victory,
but the conceded intelligence and integ integ
lityefMr. MacGenigle turned the scale
against what was regarded as wasteful
mle under the Republicans. At the No
vember election ler state treasurer, the
Republicans canicd Lancaster city for
Mr. Butler by 48-3 majority, and en
Tuesday last, after a most exhaustive
sttuggle, Mayer MacGenigle was re
elected by 817 making an apparent
Democratic gain of 1,300 votes out of
an aggregate of 5,327. It was net assumed
that Mr. Bering, the Republican nominee
fet niaver. was dishonest or lacking in
competency : but he was the candidate W
these who sought te mle both the Repub
lican paity and the city for their individual
political and pecuniary advantage, while
Mayer MacGenigle protected the interests
of the whole municipality lather than the
interests of paity, and the people simply
emphasized their pietest against political
trading and municipal extravagance.
It is idle for these who ha e been se
pointedly condemned te ery out that they
have been betrayed in the house of their
fiicnds. It was net the weik of faction.
It was the weik of independent Republi
cans who fellow no leadeiship but their
own convictions, and who submit te no
discipline from these who crack the patty
whip te gratify their ambition for greed.
It is an admonition te these who have
deliberately defrauded the Republicans et
Lancaster county by denying them their
own representatives in state and national
conventions, and who trade in municipal
lawlessness, and even in the adminif adminif
tratien of justice, te maintain the
supremacy of distiusted manageis, whose
cause dare net be submitted te the people.
Against such abuse of autheiity, whether
in party leadership or in municipal govern
ment, there will be stubborn rebellion, and
the mere the people aie suppressed by
trickery, the mere violent will be the 1 evo
lution when the proper occasion eilers. In
order that none should misunderstand
their purpose, they made Mayer MacGon MacGen
igle's majority 817, because the 53 majori
ty they gave him two ycats age, while it
would have secuicd the same practical re
sult in the chief magistracy, would net
have expressed the measure of their resent
ment against political manipulator and
city jobbers. The lessen is most legibly
written for these who have provoked it;
will they understand and ptelit by it'.'
Ce iii Majer.
Senater A. II. Mylin, of Lancaster
needn't read the result of the Lancaster
city election between the lines te get at its
true inwardness. These w he made Mr.
Beting the candidate for mayor te employ
him as a handy pack-horse ler machine
legislative candidates, seem te have made
a misventure in political sagacity, and
when-the pack-horse falls, hew will it be
with the miens? Ex-Rcprescntativc Rcin Rcin
echl may new glean the field te advan
tagc.
Netice te Juit.
The people have taken the trouble te give
very positive instiuctiens en political
affairs, since the late Republican state con
vention, but about the leudet call they
have made en the Icadcts was in Lancaster
en Tuesday.
A 81,000 Herse Slaughtered by Thievcw.
Six members of a supposed gang of horse
thieves weie arrested in Reading and vi
cinity yesterday en various charges. The al
leged thieves arc reported te be from Phil
adelphia. They give their names as Jehn
Wilkins, Charles Harris, Jehn Mern, Jehn
Francis, James Firing and Isaac Schniehl.
Firing and Schmchl were arrested in Ami
tyville, ten miles south of Reading, en the
charge of having murdered a Hamblcton Hamblcten
iau stallion valued at 81,000. The
horse was the property of F. B. Rhoads, of
Amityvillc, and the prisoners weie com
mitted for a hearing by 'Squire High. It
is alleged that the accused parties were
unsuccessful in taking the animal from
his stall, when one of the men, in a fit of
anger, stabbed the beast several times in
the neck, severing a large artery. Large
gashes were cut in the peer horse's threat
and the animal bled te death in his stall.
He was sired by Sackett's Hambletenian,
and was five years old. Much feeling
existed and threats were freely made te
lynch the prisoners while they were in the
custody of the constable at Wentzel's
hotel.
MORE SIXTH WARD RETURNS!
CAMERON HEARD FROM JOE SAM
SON'S WARD.
NO
SL'PKKVISORSHIP IN RETURN OB
10G AOAINST VURING.
Jee Samson's Chances lesterdaj.
Washington Telegram te Philadelphia Tilc
graph. At the lequest of the Senate committee
en census te-day, Senators Cameren and
Wallace, Speaker Randall, Representa
tives Ward and Smith, appeared te answer
inquiiies respecting the nominations of
Dr. Sherwood for Philadelphia, Mr. Sam
son for Lancaster, and Mr. Clark for the
Columbia district. The result of the inqui
ries was that these gentlemen were fully
competent, but that Messrs. Sherwood and
Clark were personally objectionable te
Senater Wallace. Representative Smith
seemed the appointment of Mr. Samson,
thus overruling Mr. Snowden, of Chester,
Representative Waid's friend. The latter,
who is unwilling te surrender without a
contest, succeeded in having the nomina
tion withheld. The committee expect te
determine their action by the next execu
tive session.
A JJCiKl Ceck in the l'it.
Later dispatch te the Philadelphia Times.
Twe of the Pennsylvania census super
visors weic adversely reported from the
Senate committee te-day, namely Clark, of
Columbia, and Samson, of Lancaster.
SMALL FAVORS THANKFULLY
CE1VA.D.
RE-
' Sluigger '
for the " Rest Workers
in the
Third and Fourth.
Examiner, lle-ring Oigan.
Mi. Warfcl's editor is delighted te have
a nice word te say in favor of two of the
"best workers" in the Third and Fourth
watds. We join him in bestowing a word
of commendation, because we like te sec
" that kind " of fidelity te principle com
mended. But in doing it. we would net re
flect en any one, net even Mr. Warfel and
his "editor," who se joyfully rallied around
the Bering flag in the Second ward, but un
fortunately with net the same success that
eiewncd the "best workers." It was
only regard for their feelings that we did
net congratulate these " best workers"
ycstciday in their being able te "get
away" with their waul if in one only by
the "skin of their teeth," when all the
etheis went te the " damnation bow
wows." Forty, when it " might have
been" one hundred and sixty, anil seventy
eight when it has been ever a hundred and
eight, was very geed. Thanks, shake !
Why This is Tims.
New Era, Ue ling Uep.
Men often wonder at the held the ('.un
ci ens, lather and son, have obtained upon
the Republican masses of Pennsylvania.
They cannot understand hew men without
these natural gifts such as tiuly great
leadeis possess, and by means of which
they held in their hands the leadership of
patties and command the unbounded
enthusiasm and unswerving fidelity of
the masses, can acquire much less
retain the levalty of the party.
The fa thei , it is tine, w.ts some
times seemingly yielding and compliant ;
the son never was, but pm sues his aims
with the peisistcney of the sleuth hound,
eating net whether friend as well as fee is
trampled into the dust beneath his ttcad.
The Camerons have ridden into power and
maintained their places simply because
they ate adepts in all the devices known te
unsciupiileus politicians. Their craft,
backed by great wealth, has secured them
an army of retainers as unscrupulous as
ever followed leaders never encumbered
with a single honorable principle; these
have imbibed, along with their pay, the
bold and persevering energy of their ierds
and masters, owning no allegiance but te
them and holding any deflection from this
narrow political byway worse than treason
te family or country. It is this devotion te
principles of evil that has banded these
men te followers as pliant, as subservient
and as unscrupulous as any that overwere
a badge of servitude, and which they have
neither the independence nor courage te
repudiate.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Jehn W. Greed was draw into a revolv
ing shaft at North Wilbraham, Mass, ycs
tciday, and killed.
The wives of Lieutenant Governer Hos Hes
kins, Attorney General Ward and Senater
Lord weic injured by a runaway accident
in Albany, N. Y., yesterday. Mrs. Leid
is the only one seriously injured.
Nineteen valuable horses, shipped from
Communipaw en Wednesday night te
Hemer Hendersen, of Red Bank, N. J.,
weie stolen in transit. It is supposed the
thieves opened the car at Communipaw
with a duplicate key and took out the ani
mals. Collector Patterson telegraphs te Wash
ington fiem Memphis that two illicit stills
and 4,000 gallons of beer have been de de
stieyed, and two distillers artcsted in
Henry county, Tenn., near the Kentucky
line. The revenue party was surrounded
in a house all night by thirty armed men,
but get back in safety.
Near Columbus, Ohie, William Theise n
a Get man, murdered his divorced wife.
Mrs. Tury Redwald. Theisen returned
recently from the far West, where he has
been in the at my. He has been annoying
Mis. Redwald in various ways, and was
artcsted en her complaint for breaking her
furniture. Regaining liberty, he proceed
ed te her house and deliberately shot and
instantly killed her.
The reef of the corset manufacturing
company's building in west Trey, New
Yerk, 50 by 130 feet in size, was tern off
by the wind and carried across the street,
wrecking a two-story frame building.
Less, $0,000. Fortunately no one was hurt.
A building en First street, below Madisen
in the same city, was also unroofed. Many
trees were upioetcd and numerous sign sign
beat ds destroyed.
Off the Rhede Island coast Captain
AichibaldMillikcn, of the schooner Henry
Conden, started te go te his vessel in a
yawl, accompanied by G. Addison Rese,
mate of the schooner N. F. Dixen, and
his brother, E. W. Rese. They failed te
reach the vessel, and the yawl was found
capsized between bridges at India Point
with the ears gene. All three men are
undoubtedly lest. A search is being made
for their bodies. They all reside en Bleck
Island. Captain Milliken leaves a wife
and E. W. Rese a wife and child. The
third was unmarried.
The Democrats carried Erie ou Tuesday,
electing Jehn Beyle city treasuter. They
have also a majority in common council
and have made gains in the select branch.
BRUMIDI AND HIS WORK.
Death of the Old Fresceer
of the Federal
Capitel.
Brumidi, fresco painter of the capitol in
Washington, who died yesterday morning,
was born in the city of Reme 73 years
age, where he studied, surrounded by an
atmosphere of art and with the examples
of the noblest works of the greatest mas
ters constantly before him. He attained
considerable celebrity in Reme, and such
was his standing as an artis that he was
favored with a commission te paint a por
trait of Pie None, and was also employed
for a long time in repairing the frescoes of
the celebrated Leggc di Raffaelle in the
Vatican, which were painted under the
direction of Raphael by Giulie Romane
and his ether principal sehelais. He came
te this country in 1848, and proceeded te
the city of Mexico, where the painted
altar-pieces for churches, as he did also in
New Yerk and ether cities after his return.
The largest of these is that of Stephen's,
in New Yerk, which is seventy feet in
height.
Coming under the notice of Mr. Walter
and General Meigs, who were en charge of
the capitol extension, then just completed
he was em pleyed te decorate the room of
the committee en agriculture of the
Heuse of Representatives. This was
finished in 1855, and gained him much
celebrity. It was considered at that time,
as far as meie execution was concerned, te
have been the best example of mural
decoration in the country, and te-day, en
account of the excellence of his method of
applying the colors, they are as pure and
brilliant as 'when first laid en. While
Signer Brumidi's remarkable designs have
cause much grief te the judicious and in
finite mirth te the irreverent, he was cer
tainly a master of the difficult process of
fresco-painting, which is the most durable
known te art. llis work in this room, as
far as drawing and coloring are concerned
was mere satisfactory from an artistic
standpoint thau his latter work especially
that upon the rotunda en which he was
engaged at the time of his death.
Since 1855 Brumidi had been almost
constantly at work upon the interior of the
capitol. He decorated with his brush a
number of the apaitments in the building,
and also accomplished the wonderful work
of covering the walls of the corridors in the
basement story of the Senate with mural
ornaments of arabesque, combined with
representations of the birds, fiuits and
flowers of America. The most colossal
work executed by him in the capitol is
that of the allegorical painting en the
canopy in the dome. This canopy is com
posed of a "basket-work of interlaced iron iron
reds, covered ever with a smooth ground
work of plaster, and it is suspended like a
huge inverted saucer ever the circular
aperture in the centre of the vaulted ceil
ing of the rotunda by a multitude, of iron
reds attached te the ribs of the outer
dome.
Fer a long time past he had been en
gaged upon the decoration in fresco of the
belt that encircles the wall of the rotunda,
nearly a hundred feet above the pavement.
The belt is about 7 feet in height and 250
feet in ciicumference, and upon it Brumi
di was engaged iu painting, in imitation of
sculpture in alte-relieve, a scries of scenes
representing important events in the his
tory of the country. The belt is divided
into fifteen groups and the subjects chosen
are as fellows : The Landing of Columbus;
Certez and Montezuma at the Temple of
the Sun ; Pizarro Going te Peru ; Burial of
De Sote ; Captain Smith and Pocahontas ;
Landing of the Pilgrims ; William Pcnn
and the Indians; Colonization of New
England ; Oglethorpe and the Indian
Chief ; Battle of Lexington ; Declaration
of Independence ; Surrender of Cerwallis ;
Battle of the Thames aud Death of Te
eumseh ; Entry of the American Army
into the City of Mexico; the Discovery of
Geld in California. About half of the
circumference of the belt is new finished.
The effect is such that the figures stand
out from the background, and seem te the
eye of the spectator below te be sculp
tured in stone.
Brumidi's work en the capitol has been
executed in genuine fresco, by a method
similar te that employed in the fiescees of
Michael Angele in the Sistiuc Chapel, the
" Starryc" of Raphael in the Vatican, and
of Cerreggio in the cupola of the duome of
Pauna, which are the most important ex
ample of the art new extant. Painting m
fresco is done with earthy or mineral coleis
mixed or ground in water, which are ap
plied te the surface of plaster or stucco
while it is still sufficiently fresh or wet te
imbibe and incorporate them with itself.
The painting is, in fact, a mosaic in colored
plaster. It is comparatively indestructible
and will retain its original color and bril
liancy unchanged and undiminished for
centimes ; in fact, as long as the wall upon
which it is painted may remain intact.
In the process of execution only as much
surface of plaster is prepared at once as
can be completely finished while it is still
wet. Thus the picture has te progress by
piecemeal ; each little section must be
completed se as te harmonize with the
rest of the composition, and there is no
possibility of retouching after it is dry.
Before the process of actual painting en
the walls begins, careful and elaborate
studies of color and full-sized cartoons or
outline drawings are prepared. Frem the
cartoons the outlines are transferred di
rectly te the plaster by dusting through
perforetions made along the lines of the
drawing, and, guided by the color studies,
the small section in hand is completed.
When it is considered that the colors,
when applied te the wet plaster, are much
darker than they will finally appear when
dry, it will be seen what great difficulties
arc encountered by the artist. Signer
Brumidi, whatever may be said of his de
signs, understood his process thoroughly,
and was enthusiastic and indefatigable at
his work.
The scaffold upon which Signer Brumidi
worked, suspended high up against the
wall of the rotunda is one of the objects of
cuict interest in the capitol at the present
time, aud the one te which the attention is
first called en entering the buildidg. Fer
some time he had been tee feeble te ascend
the long flight of stairs leading te the scaf
fold, but seated in a little box or cage that
was elevated by a rope passing through a
pully aloft in the dome, he was lifted
quietly and safely up te the dizzy height
where his work was progressing. A i'ew
month age he met with an accident that
was near resulting fatally. His scaffold
was about sixty feet above the tiled fleer,
and in attempting te touch with his brush
a point en one side, he was fetced te lean
ever. The chair in which he was seated
toppled, aud he was thrown ever the side
of the scaffold. As he fell he grasped with
one hand a rung in a ladder, and sustained
himself until one of his assistants reached
him
statu; items.
General Hancock is the favorite of the
Emporium Independent.
Richard Pascac, of Lackawanna, stepped
in front of a passenger train near Taylor Tayler
ville and was instantly killled. He leaves
a wife and children.
Wm. L. Sebring, aged eighty-four, died
yesterday in Easten of apoplexy. He was
a prominent citizen, having filled several
county offices, ene term in the Legisla
ture and one term as associate judge. He
was the father of cx-Govcrner Hartninft's
wife.
Four young men broke into the resi
dence of Benjamin Smith, who lives en a
lonely read one mile from Wanamie, Lu
zerne county, and beat Smith with the
handle of a pitchfork, after which they
robbed him of sixty cents. Smith, who is
83 years old, has a family consisting of a
wife, three daughters and a son, all of
whom were at home at the time except
the latter, and Smith claims that the
ruffians outraged his eldest daughter, and
made several attempts te burn the house.
Twe men named Felix Dathin and An An
teony Lafters, suspected of being impli
cated in the outrage,' have been arrested at
Olyphantand will be taken te Newport
for a hearing.
Where was Hilly Snyder ?
The National-Greenback state com
mittee met iu a small ptinting office iu
Harrisburg jesterday and dceided te held
the state convention of tiie party en Tues
day, March 23, in the hall el the Heuse of
Representatives. The pte -i edings indica
ted the nomination of a si.au ticket aud
the selection of a straight-out electoral
ticket.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
TIIE DRAMA.
Jliss Fanny Daienpert 111 ' Pique."
It is a gieat pity that se distinguished
and talented an actiess as Miss Fanny
Davenport, for whose appearance our play
going people had been waiting en the tiptoe
of expectation, should have chosen from her
extensive repertoire a very inferior role in
a very stupid and inane play in which te
greet the large audience aud fashion
able audience that assembled at Ful
ton opera house te see her last
night. Mr. Augustin Daly's play of
"Pique" is little if any better than
half a dozen ether productions of his some
what prolific pen. He wrote " Divorce "
and ""Led Astray, " and several mere of
that ilk, and the favor they ever met with
was only temporary, while nearly all of his
eailicr productions have been borne te the
beurne of oblivion, whence net even the
... . .
talisuiamc power et a great actor s name
will ever be likely te resurrect them.
"Pique " is just like the rest of them, and
that Miss Davenport has net long since
discarded it is one of the mysteries of the
modern drama. Te be sure it caters te
the popular taste for the "society"
drama, but the morsel it furnishes is se
insipid that it scarcely repays the mastica
tion. A proud beauty, besieged by a
score of suiteis, gives her hand te one of
them in a moment of anger en the dis
covery of the treachery of a man te whom
a few moments previous she had eon
fessed her love. Such a marriage
could of course bring no happiness with it.
The fend and loving husband takes his
bride en the European tiip, and returning
with her a year after finds her affection
estranged from him as far as ever. At last
he is spurred te resentment te her repeated
slights, and when, losing all command of
herself through a fancied indignity put
upon her by her husband's father, she tell
her husband the truth, that she never did
and never would love him, and that she mar
ried him purely out of spite, her husband
rushes madly fiem her presence, swearing
never te see her again. The reunion is
brought about thieugh a series of highly
improbable events and exaggerated situa
tions. Se many of the scenes are over
drawn, the lights and shadows se injudic
iously arranged, that the judgment of the
average spectator is apt te repel the impu
tation sought te be put upon it, and the
trick of smuggling in a let of irrelevant
and usually stupid dialogue in order te re
lieve the strain, has the sole result of add
ing te th.' length without enhancing the
interest, hut en the contrary rather adding
te the tedium of the play. The villain
Raymond Lending) te all interests and pur
poses, mei cover, comes out at the top of
the heap. lie it is who first wins the love
of the society belle Mabel Renfrew) whom
he discaids a moment afterwards en learn
ing that she is destitute of fet tune, and
proceeds te make love te her rich step
mother Lucille Renfrew). During the
course of events he reconsider the matter
and finds his way te the home of his
old love new in the vale of humiliation as
the suffering wife of Captain titandiii,
whom she had di iven from her by her cru
elty, only te leain his worth aud nobility
and her love for him after he had gene.
Here the villain renews his protestations
of love and is indignantly spurned by the
aroused wife. He promptly makes his
way back te New Yeik, where he again
makes love te the l ich stepmother who
seems te be a rather nice sort of a woman,
and we find him turning up in the last act
as a "reformed" villain and the affianced
husband of the rich stepmother.
This was the play in which Miss Daven
port appeared last night, and she made
the best possible out ei the peer material
in her hands. She is a flue actress, aud in
the scenes calling for the display of pas
sion, pathos, scorn, humility, love and
hatred, she lese te the situation iu grand
style, the play of her features, the expres
sion of her eye, and every movement of
her body betokening the feeling intended
te be conveyed. The transforma
tion from the brilliant beauty of
the ball room in the first act te the dissat
isfied wife in the second, and te the broken
hearted woman of the later stages of the
play, was remarkable. At the conclusion
of the second act she was called before the
curtain with Mr. Price, who in the last
scene of this act did about the only effec
tive work he can be credited with during
the entire evening, his personatien of
Captain Standinh, the injured husband,
being generally unsatisfactory ; in the less
classic teim of popular cant the gallant
captain was a stick. Mr. E. K. Cellier
did what he had te de as Matthew Stand ink,
iu capital style, the role calling for the
exeicise of judicious care m net overdoing
the part. Mr. Harry Hawk was excellent
as Sammy Dymple, and Mr. Gee. W. Wes
sclls made about as forbidding looking a
tramp as it is possible te imagine. Miss
Emma Maddern, asRaitch, raptured a full
share of favor by her bright ingenuous face
and the naturalness of her acting ; and
Misses Emma Pierce, Minnie Menk and
Fanny Montcastle as Mary Standith, Aunt
De rethy and Lucille Renfrew respectively,
did everything that could reasonably be
expected of them.
Musical KchearRal.
The study hall of the girls' high school
presented a lively scene last evening at the
reheat sal of the boys and girls, under di
rection of Mr. Matz, in preparation for the
pregramme at Fulton hall en Thursday
evening next. The chorus comprises about
one hundred and seventy fine voices. The
singing of the schools for half an hour
will be a very attractive local feature of
the evening. The illustrated lecture by
Rev. Dr. Warren will fellow at about
twenty minutes past eight o'clock.
Chickens Stelen.
A few nights since thieves visited the
barn of Jehn Pcnnell, of Little Britain
township, and stele no less that 25 of his
valuable fowls, the most of which were
young ones. A large number of ether
chickens were roosting near the house, but
these they did net disturb. The barn is
some distance from the house and the
prowlers could easily de their work with
out fear of detection.
Watcbinaklncat Lancanter.
Natuelec" in the Philadelphia Ledger.
In company with Mr. Jehn I. llartman,
president of the Lancaster watch company.
Mr. JC. A. Bitner, and Mr. Jehn D.
Skiles, also efficeis of the company,
and Mr. C. S. Meseley, superintendent, we
visited yesterday the watch factory, new
in successful operation in this city, and
passed through the various departments
necessary te make a complete watch. The
company new have employed 142 hands,
one-third being women, and they turn out
35 watches per day. There are nine
grades of time-keepers manufactured.
in which nickel ami gilt metal
is principally used, and in jeweling rubies
are placed instead of garnets, as in some
watches. All the watches made nuke five
ticks per sect.ud, 18,000 per hour and
432,000 per day ; thus, by a half-dozen
turns of the key or stem, a modicum of
power is stored up in the spring that is cut
up into near a half million of beats,
which are spread ever the whole day, any
successive two of which are precisely the
same distance of time apart. The depart
ments in the factory number about twenty,
and they include the machine shop, in
which all the heavy and delicate
machinery necessary te turn out a com
plete watch is made ; frame rooms,
where the nickel aud gilt frames aie
made ; flat steel work room, general fin
ishing room, train making, hardening and
tempering of steel pieces, screw making,
some of them se small as scarcely te be
seen with the naked eye ; adjusting the
movements, dial making, &c. After the
manufacture in these rooms, each piece is
I separately and repeatedly gauged by in
struments, some el winch can measure the
seventeenth-thousandth part of an inch.
Each piece is thus capable of replacing the
corresponding d.ut of any ether similar
watch without fitting, or it may be re
placed by another smaller piece direct from
the workman's hand with the surety that it
will fit and weik correctly. Te make
a complete watch en this principle, abut
ene thousand processes are required ; the
escape wheel alone requires fifteen opera
tions. As an instance of the extreme ac
curacy of the machinery employed, we
may state that the cutters used in making
the wheels are, in some places, shaped by
separate machines, but in the Lancaster
works the cpicycleidal machine is iu use,
which, it is claimed, gives a finer finish te
the wheels.
A striking illustration is given of the ef
fect of skilled labor in multiplying the
value of raw material, in the making of the
pallet arbor, an important pait of the
watch. This pait of the time-piece is se
small that it takes 138,240 te weigh a
pound, and yet each of these tiny pieces
has a perfect thread cut upon it, hut se
fine that a magnifying glass is needed te
sec it. Seven dellats worth of the she!
entering into this particular product will
make $13,821 worth of arheis, the estima
ted value of each atber being ten cents. An An
other fine piece of weik is the jewel screws
the heads, slots aud threads of which are
as perfect as en the largest-si.cd screws.
These screws arc se small that it requires
230,400 te weigh a pound Trey and w hen
finished are worth one cent each.
All the watches made by this company
are adjusted with great care te heat and
cold, and isochrenism. They are fust put
in a refrigerator, under ice, where they re
main four benis, after which they are
placed iu a bes. heated by steam, where
they also remaju four hours. The varia
tions under these extremes of heat and
cold arc carefully noted, and such re-adjustment
made as may be necessary. The
Adjustment te isochrenism is the "pinning
of the hairspring, which secures unifoim unifeim
ity in the movements of the balance under
all conditions of tension inthcmainpiing.
whether it be just wound up or ncaily urn
down.
The factory of the Lancaster watch com
pany occupies a high plot of ground iu the
suburbs or the city, and from its numerous
windows, as well as from the tower which
surmounts the main entrance, an extended
and dunning view is had of the rich fields
and weeded lull sui rounding the city.
There arc many important operations in
the manufacture of watches here, where
the delicate manipulation of female hands
is of the highest consequence, and ler
their labor the amount of wages paid is
determined by the skill and experience re
quired, net by the sex of the eperatives.
FKOSTKIl FELT.
A Mire Cure.
The following Icttercxplains itself :
Elmer, N. J., Feb. 19, 1880.
Editeks Lancaster I:teli.iekj.ci'I! :
Gentlemen Having read an account in
your paper of the terrible murder and -ui-eide
in your county a few days since, and
the statement that the only surviving
child, a little boy three years old, was se
badly frozen that his legs were black, and
it was thought they would have te he am
putated, I give you a remedy that will
in three days remove the fiest
from his limbs and restore the flesh as
sound as ever : Saturate flannel cloths
with geese grease and bind them en the
limbs and it will draw out all the effects
of the frost. I knew this from the fact
that one of my bt ethers was frozen in the
army ; his limbs weie black anil stiff from
the feet te his knees. The doctors were
about te amputate, but were prevented by
the timely arrival of my father, who aj
plied the above remedy. My brother was
restored in a short time and te-day is as
strong as ever, and has been since. I hope
for humanity's sake you will see te it and
have it applied at once.
Yours, very respectfully,
Jes. Ginse.w
Ludicrous IJlunders.
The ways of the intelligent compositor
arc numerous and 'some of them are past
finding out. A few days age we"made
mention of a poi trait of the late Henry
Fisher, painted by his brother Geerge, anil
in criticising it we said " The likeness is a
sti iking one but in our opinion a little tee
highly colored." The I. C. thought he
knew better, and changed our phraseology
thus : "The liking is a sti iking one but in
our opinion a little tee liget colored !"
The Aec Era List evening attempts te
ceircct the I. C.'s error regarding Henry
Fisher's portrait, and makes matteis worse
by declaring it "a life-like oil portrait of
Mr. Michael Fisher, of the firm of Rathveu
& Fisher, merchant tailors." The Eiu
cannot charge the above mistake en the
I. C. The itemizer must father it.
A few days age the West Chester Re
publican contained a paragraph in which
the editor was made te say that he favored
a bill te "establish the heinous offense of
polygamy" and hoped its prev isiens would
"be rigidly enforced." We thought te
twit the editor by calling him a " misera
ble old Mermen," but the I. C. made us
call him "a miserable old woman."
Star Club Te-night.
The Star club of the Yeung Men's
Christian association will meet this even
ing at the usual hour and place. Hereafter
the meetings of this club will be held
monthly until May, as all the leading stars
and constellations new above the horizon
have been indicated ; and by the month of
May the circle of the zodiac, with all the
outlying constellations, will have been
completed. The stir list of the club new
numbers 112.
The Census Supervlsersliip.
A correspondent wants te knew who will
be census supervisor. Ne fellow can find
out. Jee Samson was appointed but net
confirmed. Dr. Compten says he will pull
through Den Cameren says he woe,t.
Camere-votes en it ; Compten don't.
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