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WEDNESDAY EVE'G, MABCH 10, 1880.
The Newspapers and Their Friends.
The Philadelphia Recerd is disturbed
at the general satisfaction expressed at
the punishment that has come upon the
crime of Kemble and his co-defendants,
among whom it declares are " men with
whom we have had large and frequent
business transactions men who are in
every way the equal of any writer or any
owner of any Philadelphia paper, and
men who befriended many of the very
writers who yesterday cried the loudest
for their damning." The Recerd is
frank anyway. It is bad te be a pharisee
as its neighbors are, it thinks. But it is
bad te be an intimate of men who plead
guilty te the crime of corruption. It
tends te de trey confidence in the absolute
integrity of the conduct of a newspaper
that it proclaims its large transactions
with men of Kemble's character ; and
furthermore finds itself in a mood te say
of the law punishing the corrupt solicita
tions of the legislator that such solici
tations may consist merely in " a dinner
given te a member of the Legislature,
and a glass of whisky and water pledged
in geed fellowship will send a man te
the penitentiary." Evidently the Rec Rec
ord, in all its regret for the fate of its
friends, lias a wrong appreciation of the
situation. If its friends had net plead
guilty its lament might have been
mere reasonable. But it ought hardly te
ask the public te believe that Mr. Kem
ble did nothing worse in the way of cor
rupt solicitation than te proffer a dinner
and a glass of whisky te the legislators
who yielded te his seduction. If his of
fense had been se mild he would have
been ever se glad te show it te the world
by testimony ; it would have answered
much better than his pretest te show
that though technically guilty he was
really innocent. The writers upon the
Philadelphia journals may be as bad, or
worse, than Kemble, and we are ready te
believe the Recerd when it declares that
many of them are, since it points them
out and seems te knew all about them,
and is ready te include itself among the
number who herd with confessed crim
inals and possess them as friends, and
have large and frequent business trans
actions with them. It is a fact
that has been a long time very
conspicuous te the outside world
that the Philadelphia newspapers are
very prone te defend through thick and
thin the rings and corporations who have
"frequent and large business transac
tions.' The Recerd sometimes has been
an exception, and in the matter of oil
transportation has been en the people's
side. But it has lapsed from grace ; and
gracefully lapses when it becomes expe
dient. It has a loving side for the Penn
sylvania railroad management, notori
ously conducted as it is te give rich op
portunities for the plundering propensi
ties of its officers. It has a hard hand
for the Beading railroad management,
which.if it is net always wise, is at least,
as every one knows, always honest. It
is hopeless te expect te find a Philadel
phia newspaper that will de justice te
the people in thcirstruggle with corpora
tions. Net one of these journals te-day
denounces the gagging of the stockhold
ers of the Pennsylvania railroad at the
meeting yesterday by the hirelings of the
company that filled the hall, and by its
tool in the chair, Mayer Stokley, who
declared the meeting adjourned after
Vice Presdent Roberts and somebody
else had been allowed te eulogize
ex-President Thomsen, and te denounce
Mr. Parker, who had just introduced a
resolution of inquiry into an allegation
that Thompson had corruptly received
fifty thousand dollars of the company's
money. Mr. Roberts's purchased words
could net justify Mr. Thomsen against
such a charge, manifestly. If it was net
true, it would have been properly met by
Mr. Thomsen's friends by a demand
for investigation and net a call for its
suppression. Nobody can deny this : yet
these wretched Philadelphia newspapers,
in their reverence for the men with
whom they have ' large and frequent
business transactions," denounce the men
who sought this most proper investiga
tion, and attempt te held up te scorn
stockholders who simply ask for an in
quiry into grave accusations against
the integrity of their officers and con
cerning the corrupt disposition of the
moneys of its treasury which are charged
te the account of betterments. Men who
ask their stewards te explain where their
menev has cone are feels and chronic
growlers; while the stewards are faithful
servants. Fer have net the newspapers
" large and frequent business transac
tiens" with them: and de they net
knew ?
It is a touching and graphic story of
the famine in Ireland which Mr. Ilep Ilep
werth tells te thepublic through the Her
ald te-day. But if what a writer in the
Penn Monthly says about the game laws
of Scotland is correct, it would net be a
wonder if the Scottish peasantry would
sooner or later be reduced te a similar
condition of destitution. Thousands of
square acres of land in the Highlands,
which might be feeding sheep and cattle
and yielding excellent crops, are laid out
as deer forests and hunting grounds.
The lands are held by the tenants, sub
ject te the right of the owners te hunt
en them, the occupants being forbid
den te disturb or kill the game no
matter hew destructive it becomes
te their growing crops. Old paths
across the moors, leading te fisheries and
reducing long distances, are shut up lest
the passers-by may disturb an occasional
roe or hare ; incoming tenants purchase
valuable crops, te have them utterly de
stroyed or greatly impaired by fees
against which their leases allow them no
protection, and a general waste of values
and uncertainty of profit ensue which
make the Scotch renter's Jet a most pre
carious one.
Whk.v J'etrelf was exjicllcd from the
Legislature for bribe-taking his appreci
ative constituents, re-elected him by a
handsome majority. Should he be con
victed in the Dauphin county sessions of
bribe-offering his district will doubtless
start a third term boom for him.
Harper's Weekly says, with truth and
force, that "the object of a national nom
inating convention is te ascertain and
compare the views of the entire Repub
lican party of the United States, actirg
both as citizens of a state through the
delegates at large and as citizens of dis
tricts through the district delegates,"
and consequently instructions and unit
rules are a gross abuse of the majority
principle and a disastrous wrong te the
party. There can be no question that
this is the true principle te direct both
parties. It is enough that the state at
large, expressing itself through the party
convention, should elect and, if it deems
wise, instruct the delegates at large, but
the district delegates represent their re
spective districts ; they are responsible
te and should take orders from no ether
constituencies. It is a geed thing
for all the Democrats of a state
te think one way and their delegation
has mere strength when it votes solidly
all one way, but when their different el
ements think and feel differently, it is
right that eacli should be heard. Fer
such reasons we opposed the unit rule
when it was, by a fraud, imposed upon
the state convention held in Lancaster
four years age, and for the same reason
we are opposed te it again.
Seme of the Grant people are very
much disturbed lest Washburnc may be
in training te succeed in gathering for
himself Grant's strength at the national
convention when it shall appear that he
cannot be nominated. Legan, tee, is
suspected of treachery te the old com
mander, and it is hinted that his fero
cious attack en the English language in
his speech en the Perter case was a
bloody shirt bid for second place en the
Blaine ticket. Simen Cameren has been
telling them in "Washington that the op
position te a third term grows porten
tous and altogether the geese does net
hang nearly " altitudinem "' as it did
some weeks age.
PERSONAL.
Lord Byken's Bible was recently sold at
auction in Londen. It was net much
worn.
Wasiiiujknk 'can, under no circum
stances or conditions, become a candidate
for president. General Grant is my first,
last and only choice. "
Hen. Isaac "W. IIayxc, for twenty years
preceding reconstruction the attorney gen
eral of Seuth Carolina, and grandson of
Issac Ilaync who was executed by the Brit
ish during the occupation of Charleston,
died yesterday, aged seventy.
The friends of General Butler arc fully
satisfied that he will re-elected one of the
beard of managers of the national homes
for disabled soldiers. General Butler takes
great pride in having these institutions
run properly, and he evinces a geed deal
mere inteicst about being continued as a
manager than he docs about the alleged
coalition between his friends in Massa
chusetts and the regular dyed-in-the-wool
Democrats of that state.
There was a funny scene in the Senate
during Mr. McDonald's speech. He had
lest his eye glasses, and when he came te
refer te the printed volume he tried te
borrow a pair. At first he took Allisen's,
then Judge Davis's, Pendleton's, Teller's
and Eaten's in order, but could net sec
with any of them, and had te step. Finally
Harris, of Tennessee, came way across the
chamber and handed him a pair that
seemed te suit, and after an interval of
about five minutes he continued his speech.
1 larrisburg special te the North Ameri
can by telegraph : Much surprise was
occasioned te-night among politicians
gathered in this city at the statement
made by a reliable and prominent member
of the Legislature, that Hen. Matthew
S. Quay had announced te him in Phila
delphia, a few days age, that he was net a
candidate for the United States Senate,
and under no circumstances would he be.
This intelligence was se unexpected that
it was net at first believed. The gentle
man who was authority for it had no hesi
tancy in reiterating it te these who ques
tioned him.
MINOR TOPICS.
Tiikiii: arrived in New Yerk during
Jauuary, 8e2S immigrants,against2818 dur
ing January, 1879. The total immigration
for the twelve months ending February
29, 1880, was 147.9C3 against 82,454 dur
ing the preceding twelve months.
A fact probably but little known is that
the United Slates nickel five-cent piece
furnishes a key te metric measures and
weights. This coin is two centimetres in
diameter, and its weight is five grammes.
Five of them placed in a row will give the
length of the diamctrc, and two of them
will weigh a decagramme.
Mr. Vexneu comes forward once mere
te say : " I did net predict ' heavy snow
falls from the 1st of March.' The heaviest
storms will come after the leth. This is
distinctly stated in my letter. St. Pat
rick's day and one day after will give the
heaviest falls of the winter. The ether
dates given are days en which snow may
be expected te fall in appeciable quan
tities." " In appreciable " is a saving
word.
Mn. Cevert, of New Yerk, has intro
duced in the Heuse a bill te punish extor
tion and blackmailing in the District. At
present there seems te be no statutory law
upon the matter, se far as "Washington and
the District are concerned, and if black
mailing is an offense at all, it is one of sim
ple common law character only. The re
cent scandals in connection with several
high public officials have called attention
te the matter and Mr. Cevert's bill is re
garded as timely. It punishes the offense
by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a
term net exceeding ten years.
Bishop Lay, of Easten, Md., writes con.
ccrning divorce and irregular marriage :
" One can but wish that some mede could
he devised whereby the various Christian
bodies could agree en these great questions
of morals, and se influence the body pol
itic ; as it is, no matter hew outrageous
the marriage is, some minister or ether
can be found te celebrate it. It
is a grave question whether there can be
any religion witueut a severe morality.
Conversion, experiences, rejoicing; yes,
apostolic ministries, laying en of hands,
holy sacraments, arc little worth unless
they make us keep our bodies clean, te tell
the truth, te pay our debts and te show
mercy te the peer."
The Pittsburgh Pest understands " from
high authority at Washington that Judge
Thurmau and the Democrats of the Senate
judiciary committee were satisfied that
the appointment of bummer deputies te
intimidate voter and bulldoze election,
was sufficient cause for the rejection of
Kerns as United States marshal at Phila
delphia. If they believe Mr. "Wallace's
speech of last May, they could reach no
ether conclusion. But Mr. "Wallace was
willing Kerns should be confirmed. He
and Senater Cameren agreed en that point.
And Judge Thurmau and the Democrats
of the Senate judiciary committee would
net report adversely in a case where both
senators from the state desired confirma
tion." r. it. it.
Tlie Nicholas Repe Tract Scandal.
What Caused " a Bread Laugh" in the
Stockholders Meeting.
In the meeting of Pennsylvania stock
holders, Philadelphia, yesterday, Edward
T. Parker presented the following, but
when the opening sentence brought forth
the old familiar expression '' Nicholas
Repe Tract Matter ;" there was a bread
laugh through the meeting. The commu
nication was as fellows :
Te the President and Stockholder. of the Penn
sylvania Railroad :
Gentlemen : In December, 1876, when
I first spoke te President Scott in relation
te the "Nicholas Repe Tract" fraud, he
expressed himself in terms of such strong
indignation, and evinced a determination
te investigate and prosecute the case, that
I was induced te give him information
about ether matters which should be in
vestigated and received his assurance that
these matters would all be thoroughly in
vestigated, and substantial justice done en
behalf of the company. I have patiently
waited but have never yet heard from Mr.
Scott, and as nothing has been done I feel
it but just te lay the matter before this
meeting and call your attention te the fol
lowing facts :
First. Seme time before the death of
our late president he received the sum of
,.30,000 as a gift or present for alleged
ei vices rendered in securing a lease of a
western railroad I think it was the Fert
"Wayne read and at about the same time
ether donations were made te ether officers
for the same services. These donations,
if made, were certainly unlawful, and the
truth could be easily ascertained from the
minutes and records of the company, and
restitution and return of the money be
obtained from the estate of the deceased
president and from the ether officials who
may have received it ; as I am informed
the services were performed by ether per
sons. Second That two of the directors have
received from the treasurer of the company
$1,000 each per year for sixteen years, be
ing a total of $32,000, for acting as nomi
nal trustees. I believe for two or three
years past the beard has refused te pay
them, and I also believe they should be
made te refund the money already re
ceived. Third That one of the officials of the
read, while building for himself a house,
had that house furnished in hard weed,
deuble-sashed windows and wainscetting,
as stated te me, in the handsomest man
ner, with the company's material, coming
from the company's shop and by workmen
in the employ of the company.
Respectfully,
Edw. T. Parker,
G14 Spruce street.
When the communication had been
read, Vice President Roberts arose and
said : " Mr. Thomsen's relations te the
Fert Wayne railroad arc well known te
the existing administration of the com
pany, and I for one, can say they stand
te-day without one particle of blemish
upon his character, and that much te-day
redounds te the company's profit, and Mr.
Thomsen went further, aye went twice as
far as any individual stockholder in the
use of his individual means in that matter,
and he laid it down as he picked it up.
He it was who sprang te the breach. If
he was ever paid any paltry token for such
services I never heard of it ; but no matter
what it was or might have been, it was no
sufficient return."
"I think it is extremely unfair," said
Colonel Snewdcn, when Mr. Roberts had
sat down," after years of prosperity, te
force us te listen te a rehash of old things.
If this was a meeting hostile te the Penn
sylvania railroad company, and called for
the purpese of forcing down its stock,
then maybe this matter would be proper.
Te thus attack one dead and in his grave
is the meanest outrage I have ever heard
of."
This burst of Cel. Snowden was greeted
with loud applause, that was repeated and
repeated again, and when Mr. Parker rose
he was greeted with hisses.
"I call for the previous question," called
out Colonel Snowden as Mr. Parker at
tempted te speak.
" There is no resolution attached te the
communication, and, therefore, there is
nothing te pass upon," answered Mayer
Stokley.
" Mr. Chairman," called out Mr. Parker.
"There is nothing before the chair,"
said Mayer Stokley.
" I move we adjourn," called out several.
The motion was put and unanimously
carried, and at 12:15 o'clock the meeting
adjourned.
PRESIDENTIAL OUTLOOK.
Secretary Schurz Asks a Subordinate for his
Views.
As an indication of the interest felt by
members of the administration in the presi
dential question, the following amusing
incident occurred in an interview between
Secretary Schurz and a prominent official
of the interior department, whose field of
duty is in the West, and who is known te
be a pronounced Grant man. After a
long discussion, involving various points
connected wilh the business of the depart
ment, the secretary brightened up and
said : ' By-the-by, what are your views
en the presidential outlook?"
The reply was : " I beg your pardon, Mr.
Secretary, but I have none."
"But," said the secretary, "you certain
ly have a preference among the prospec
tive candidates ?"
The official hitched his chair somewhat
impatiently and answered, "-Ne sir : I
have none. Under the civil service rules
of the president and the peculiar regula
tion of this department, I am supposed te
have no politics at all."
The interview terminated, and Mr. Schurz
mused for some minutes en the eccentric
workings of civil service reform.
An Irlih Sam Patch.
In Louisville, en Sunday, Thes. Beyle,
an Irishman, accomplished the feat of
jumping from the bridge which spans the
Ohie into the falls below a distance of 100
feet. About three Sundays age he jumped
off in the presence of a few friends, and
when he claimed te have performed the
feat the public were leth te believe him.
Se about two weeks age he announced his
intention of making the leap, and was en
hand at the appointed time, as was a large
crowd, but the authorities objected and
the police interfered. Se en Sunday he did
it without announcement. There were
nine feet and eight inches of water where
he jumped. Although young in years he is
an old diver, and has jumped off a number
of bridges in this country, among which
are tbe tiuymdette, near Huntingdon,
West Virginia, and a bridge at Decatur,
Alabama.
THE BATTLE BEGUN.
Representative Petroff en Trial Fer Corrupt
SoUcUatien.
In the Petroff trial yesterday the cm
paneling of the jury was net attended with
much difficulty. The following is a list
of the jurors : Henry Bener, fanner,
Washington ; Jonas Deible, farmer. Upper
Paxton ; Frank Ferree, teacher, Lykens
township; Samuel Longenecker, laborer,
Susquehanna ; S. S. Miller, farmer, Lewer
Paxton; Jehn Meyer, farmer, Derry;
Jeshua Mowrey. carpenter, Dauphin ; Win.
D. Peffenberger, blacksmith, Dauphin ;
Jonathan Petteiger, farmer, Lewer Pax
ton; Christian Smith, farmer. Derry:
Win. II. Seal, stone mason, Upper Paxton ;
Warren A. Zellinger, hatter, Harrisburg.
Judge Pearson charged the jury net te al
low any person te speak te them relative te
the case, after which he ordered the crier
te adjourn the the court until 2 p. m.
Before the Petroff case was opened at
the afternoon session. Judge Pearson gave
notice that indiscriminate cress-examination
would net be permitted. After a short
consultation by the counsel for the com
monwealth, the district attorney addressed
the jury en the subject of the bribery e f
members of the Legislature, presenting the
case of the prosecution with ability. He
referred te the various statutes for the
punishment of bribery and remarked that
while corrupt solicitation of members of
tlie Legislature is net as degrading as
murder and robbery it was far reaching in
its pernicious effects that it undermined
the very foundation of our government.
He read extracts from Judge Pearson's
charge te the grand jury last August in
which he described bribery and de
nounced it as an offense which should be
punished.
J. E. Allen, journal clerk of the Heuse
of Representivcs in 1879, was the first wit
ness for the commonwealth. He was asked
whether he remembered the introduction
of bill Ne. 103 in the Heuse, te which he
answered that he did.
Mr. Brewster objected, stating that this
was net proper evidence.
Mr. Gewen said the original document
would be produced at the proper time.
The court overruled Mr. Brewster's ob
jection. The commonwealth proposed te submit
the journal of the Heuse as evidence te
show that bill " Ne. 103" had been under
consideration last year. The defense ob
jected te its reception, claiming that it was
net proper evidence, as there was nothing
te indicate that the journal was published
by authority. After considerable discus
sion the court said : "I think we will
have te receive the evidence."
The defense next objected te the recep
tion of the printed riot claims bill, but the
court overruled it, the defense taking ex
ceptions, as it did previously.
Representative Watsen, of Mercer county,
was the only witness of importance exam
ined in the afternoon. Judge Brewster
subjected him te a rigid cress-examination.
His testimony did net differ from that he
gave before the Heuse committee in May
last. He stated in substance that the de
fendant had approached him one evening
early in March in the Lochiel hotel, and
after asking him hew he intended te vote
ou the riot bill, said that there was money
in it, and inquired if he did net want te
become a " rooster." After the bribery
investigation had begun Petroff pleaded
with witness te answer no te all of the
questions propounded by the committee in
order that defendant be net implicated in
the investigation.
Mr. Gewen asked what was understood
by the word " rooster."
Te this Mr. Brewster objected. The de
fendant's counsel preferred the jury te
judge of this for themselves.
Judge Black deemed such evidence
admissible, and as it was slang thought it
required translation for the eulightment
of the jury. It certainly was net intend
ed te mean that the witness should he
transformed into that bird.
Senater Carpenter acknowledged him
self ignorant of the word's meaning as
applied in this case could sec no objectcen
te an explanation.
After some further discussion Judge
Pearson decided te permit the explana
tion. The witness then defined a "rooster" te
be a legislator who would allow his vote en
a bill te be influenced by a pecuniary con
sideration. Durinjr the cress examination the wit
ness admitted that the statement made be
fore the investigation committee, that
Petroff had net offered him money, was
true.
When the cress-examination was con
cluded Mr. Gewen asked the witness if he
adhered te his statement that he interpret
ed PetrefFs negotiations with him te mean
that money would be paid for his vote en
the riot bill. This brought ou another
battle between the opposing counsel in
which Messrs Gewen and Carpenter
participated for the commonwealth and
Messrs. Brewster, Mann and Herr for the
defense.
Mr. Brewster said that inference could
net be considered as evidence and vigorous
ly opposed the admission of such testi
mony. Mr. Gewen spoke strongly in favor of
his claim and thought it was necessary
that the iurv should have the benefit of
such evidence. He was ably seconded by
Mr. Carpenter in the same line of argu
ment. Judge Pearson then decided that the tes
timony was admissible, after which the
court adjourned until 9 o'clock this morn
ing. LATST NEWS BY MAIL.
The Grand Central hotel and Webster
house, Oakland, were destroyed by lire
last night. Less, $275,000.
The Belgium Chamber of Deputies, by a
vote of 97 te 8, decided te maintain a lega
tion at the Vatican.
In the walking match at San Francisce
at 9 a. m. yesterday, O'Lcary had made
128 miles and Western 113.
All reports from the interior of Cuba
agree that the sugar crop is about forty
per cent, smaller than that of last year.
A Berlin dispatch says : "Military ma ma
eoeuvres en a grand scale are culminating
and a sham fight is preparing at St. Peters
burg." Lucius Shelden, a telegraph operator,
while suffering from mental aberration,
was drowned in Lake Pontchartrain. He
leaves a wife.
Burglars broke open the a safe of John John Jehn
eon, Rogers & Ce., of Marianna, Phillips
county. Ark., en Monday night, and car
ried off $10,000 in currency and state and
county warrants.
The supreme court of Georgia has re
fused a new trial te Sam Hill, convicted of
the murder of Jehn Simmons, the alleged
seducer of Hill's wife. Hill was sentenced
te hard labor for life.
James Cudleb, of Parkville, N. J., aged
24 years, who married en the 3d, commit
ted suicide by hanging en Sunday night.
He was considered an imbecile from his
youth.
In Middletown, N. Y., at the charter
election five women were elected members
of the beard of education ever five men.
The Republicans elected the president,
collector, and two trustees, and the Demo
crats two trustees. Over 100 women voted
for school officers.
On Saturday one Gessett went down
from Johnville, Tenn., te Tipton ville, with
the avowed purpose of killing Richard
Jehnsen, who he had heard had accused
mm of being a horse thief. Jehnsen hear
ing of Gessett'8 threats, procured a Win
chester repeating rifle, and when Gessett
came shot him through the right breast,
killing him instantly. Jehnsen surren
dered himself, but was acquitted.
Rebert Jarrard, a lawyer, who shot a
man named Rice, in Rochester, N. Y., en
Saturday night, has hanged himself. The
men met en their way home at a late hour
and fell into a chaffing conversation about
nothing, whereupon Jarrard discharged a
small pistol, hitting Rice in the breast.
The latter is still alive. Jarrard was in
toxicated and afterwards lamented the
deed.
FAMINE'S STRIDES.
Repert of a Member of the
Committee.
Herald Belief
Visiting the Hen's Scenes of Abject Misery
and Sickening Squalor The Palsy of Hun
ger. Gee. Hepworth, one of the Herald's re
lief commissioners advises that paper from
Londen cencernins his first visit te the
afflicted and famine-stricken Irish peepla .
He says :
It is easy te understand the causes of the
present poverty. The people have had
three bad crops in succession ; things have
been growing worse and worse until the
almost utter failure of the crops last year
brought them te the verge of starvation.
They had nothing te plant a want which
the British government will supply by the
lean of seed potatoes en very easy terms.
They have nothing te eat, a want which
you have yourselves se generously helped
te supply by gifts which 1 am
sure you will supplement by
ether gifts when you knew what
is the real state of the case. In order
te understand for myself the condition of
affairs I spent a few days under the leader
ship of Colonel King-IIarman, covering
about thirty square miles en the first day
and ever forty en the second.
I viMtcd a large number of small settle
ments en the west bank of the Shannen,
in the counties of Roscommon and Sligo.
Fer about ten hours each day I rode and
walked, entering altogether about a hun
dred wretched hovels, which this aillicted
people delusively call their homes, and
where from morning till night they en
counter the dread monotony of want and
misery. While fully prepared te meet
mere or less distress everywhere, knowing
through former visits something of the
chronic state of poverty in which the peo
ple live, I was net prepared, nor could
anything I have ever before seen in any
degree prepare me, for the scenes of abject
misery and sickening squalor which I
found at every turn. The people did net
knew of my coming, and could net pre
pare for any dramatic display of wretched
ness and want.
Unawares I searched every comer of
scores of houses for any means of subsist
ence, and came back at night with an ach
ing heart. I had seen what it would de
you all geed te see. Even after hearing it
I am sure you will increase your giftr,
generous as they have been, until this
great chasm of distress can be bridged
ever. When I tell you that I have seen men
utterly break down when I slipped a pal
try shilling into their hands, and women
clutch a leaf of bread as though they were
afraid that some one would suddenly ap
pear te take it from them, you can faintly
imagine what I have experienced in the
last few days. The friend who accompa
nied me observed that I felt a large lump in
my threat all the time. I could find no
fitting language in which te express my
sympathy.
The first case I remember was that of
an old woman who sat en the muddy
threshold of her hut as we went by, lift
ing up her hands as if in supplication and
crying, ' Nothing has passed my lips for
twenty-four hours." I never knew the
value of a leaf of bread till that moment.
When we gave her half a leaf she took it
with the eagerness of a famished deg. She
trembled with age and weakness, for she
was ever seventy years of age, and hunger
had reduced her te the likeness of a
skeleton. There was a glare in her eye
that told of famine. She steed in the
middle of the read and thanked Ged that
Americans had net forgotten Ireland. It
was hours before I could get away from
that haunting hairgard face.
Ner shall I seen forget the sight which
I saw in another hut. The mother of
seven children was holding the youngest, a
girl of a few months, in frantic embrace,
meaning as she rocked te and fro. She
looked up with startled ;azc as we entered
the deer, which we could only de by bend
ing, and gave a low cry as though in very
terror. After a lew minutes she was re
assured, for she thought me an agent
of the landlord sent te evict her.
Then she told me she had nothing te cat
for many days except a peer dele of Indian
meal which a relief cemmittee gave her,
and for which she was thankful enough.
She added that being half starved herself
it was impossible te supply milk for her
babe. She would be compelled te see it
die by inches in her arms. But for the meal
which the relief committee supplied the
family would have literally had nothing
te eat. But I cannot recite all the indi
vidual instances.
Let me give you a sample of what I saw
in many scores of huts, and in a few which
are thatched and of stone, and stand en the
edge of a beg which affords them peat for
fuel. They contain three small rooms.
One is the room where the household
lives. Through a small hole in its reef the
kitchen smoke is generally forced te escape
There is almost a peat famine this year en
account of the wet weather. The only fuel
consists of a bunch of green twigs.
Anether room is for the cow if they are
happy enough te possess one, which is
very rarely the case. The cow is part of
the family and always gees in and out
through the front deer. In the third room,
which is perhaps eight or nine feet square,
the family sleeps.
They have one bed, with two thin, worn
out blankets, and here four of a house
hold of nine must sleep, net lengthwise,
but crosswise, covering themselves as best
they can. The rest pile up a small bundle
of straw in the corner and sleep en it.
Pressed by hunger, they have eaten all
their store of potatoes. The only feed in
the whole house is a few pounds of In
dian meal, which they mix with water,
and make into a stirabeut. This is all
they have and all they will have until the
autumn. What wonder, then, that they
should be disheartened and discouraged:'
I have asked again and again what part of
their wretchedness is due te intemperance.
I am assured that it is caused solely by the
utter failure of the crops. And with all
this poverty the majority of the Irish are
cheerful. The people are enduring the
great stress of suffering with a pluck and
courage which are truly admirable. It is
my hope and prayer that the American
people will net feel that enough has been
already done.
Pinched as the Irish are te-day their
condition is one of happiness in compari
son with that in which they will find them
selves in the course of a few weeks. Frem
the early part of April until the fust crop
is reaped that will be the season of their
real trouble, of their actual struggle for ex
istence. Feed them until the middle of the
summer and the blessings of the whole of
Ireland will rest en your generous hearts.
The committee have money, but it is net
enough te last until the end of the famine.
Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands,
are keeping soul and body together by
your bounty and generosity. Fer the
sake of charity make one mere efiert.
Give your cemmittee the means of warding
off the otherwise inevitable horror or star
vation. I shall visit Maye and Denegal next
week, and will make another report.
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At Concord station, Crawford county,
en the P. & R. R. R., Mrs. Win. Dillen,
aged 50 years, was run ever by the ears
and instantly killed.
A man of Union Mills, Erie county, who
was disappointed in a love affair, has net
spoken te a woman for twenty years. He
is a miser, and averts his head when he
meets ene of thc.oppesitc sex.
STATE ITEMS.
James Andersen has been mangled te
death under the cars in Erie.
Maj. Wm. Frew, a prominent citizen of
Pittsburgh, died last evening.
Aaren Rau was caught between two cars
at Stemten, Lehigh county, and fatally
injured.
The staff of the Oil City Derrick gave
Burdette, of the Haickeye, a compliment
ary dinner en 3Ienday in Oil City.
The Democratic state committee of New
Jersey has appointed May 19 as the time
for holding the state convention te cheese
delegates te the Cincinnati convention.
The thirteenth anniversary of the histor
ical society of the Philadelphia conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church was cel
ebrated last evening in the Union M. E.
church, Fourth street below Arch. Ad
dresses were delivered by Rev. Jacob
Tedd, D. D.; Jehn P. Newman, D. D.,
and ethers, and managers were elected for
the ensuing year. Rev. R. L. Dashiell,
Methodist Episcopal missionary secretary,
died in Newark. N. J.; en Monday night.
The Republicans of Cumberland arc
speaking out. The standing committee of
the county has issued a call for primary
elections next Saturday te vote en the
following resolution : i',lieselced, ihat the
choice of Cumberland county for president
of the United States is James G. Blaine,
and that the delegates from this district te
the national conventional arc instructed
and required te cast the vote of this dis
trict ler James G. Blame as long as he is a
candidate before the convention."
Dr. Halm's body arrived at Washing
ton, Pa., shortly after seven o'clock, yes
terday, accompanied by Dr. Happel and
A. Kautfman, father-in-law of deceased.
The body was encased in a plain iron coffin
and immediately conveyed te the crema
tory. It was then placed in an iron crib
and covered with a sheet saturated in
alum. Ne services were held. At 8:05
p. m. the body was carried te the retort
room by four men and shoved in head
formest. A slight odor as of burning
hair pervaded the vicinity. In twenty
minutes the sheet began te expand, the
bones of the feet could be seen devoid of
flesh, and at the end of an hour the friends
left satisfied. Orders were given te have
the ashes forwarded te New Yerk.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
TO'KACCO.
It-. Culture in the North.
Pennsylvania has entered se largely and
se successfully into the cultivation of to
bacco as a permanent crop, that the city of
Lancaster is really becoming an important
tobacco market. Since the ruin wrought
by the civil war, the Southern tobacco
crops have net recuperated as rapidly as
ether branches of Southern agriculture. The
case is perhaps better in Kentucky than in
Virginia, for Louisville is considered the
leading tobacco market. Richmond, how
ever, has regained a large proportion of her
former importance in the tobacco trade, al
though unable te give the planters the
aid of capital as of old. The true centre
of tobacco culture will probably be found
in the Gulf states, wherea superior quality
will hereafter be produced that may rival
the flavor of the Cuban article. At the
present time the aim of the American cul
ture appears te be quantity instead of
quality. The result of the census this year
will enable us te judge better as te the
distribution and prospects of this crop, se
that we may judge et the progress we are
making toward the feimer position as the
great leading exporter of tobacco
The above from the Germantewu Tele
graph's agricultural department hardly
shows such an appreciation of the to
bacco interest in Pennsylvania, and espe
cially in Lancaster county, as would have
been expected from such a high authority
en subjects relating te agriculture as the
Telegraph has rightly become. Really
Lancaster county hardly comes into com
petition with Richmond and Louisville in
the cigar leaf business. The trade there
is principally in tobacco used for
chewing, and though wrappers are quoted
there, seed leaf tobacco is a very incon
siderable portion of the Southern and
Southwestern trade. Even before the war
the cigar manufacturers depended rather
en Connecticut and Cuba than en " the
Southern tobacco crops, " and new that
Lancaster county has superseded all ethers,
this is net only "really becoming" a
market for tobacco, but in quality as well
as quantity the tobacco crop of Lancaster
county is one of the great material in
terests of the country. The capital in
vested here in warehouses, &c., and the
presence here of the agents and principals
of nearly all the greatest tobacco firms in
the country fully attest this, and it is
doubtful if we will ever find a competitor
in the Gulf states.
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
K vents Acress the County Line.
The Friendship fire company of Harris
burg has accepted an invitation te visit
the Friendship fire company of Wilming
ton en the 1st of July.
At Reading yesterday a frightful acci
dent happened te a boy named William
Yeagcr, employed at the works of the
Reading pipe mills. He was accidentally
thrown against a huge fly-wheel, hurled
around at the rate of seventy revolutions
per minute, and was horribly mangled.
His dead body was then hauled out of
the pit.
Evan Rogers, East Whitcland, Chester
county, has slept in the house in which he
new rcsides,every night for the past thirty
eight years. He has rented his farm and
will move te Morristown in April. Hew
he will be able te pass the night away
from his present home is a momentous
question even te himself.
On Tuesday morning 20 shares of
Columbia national bank stock were sold at
private sale, at $125 per share. This is an
advance of $15 per share during the past
year. The purchaser was a farmer, who
thus disposes of his surplus tobacco
money.
In Delaware the leccnt warm spell has
had the effect of net only advancing vege
tation but also the peach trees, the buds of
which are nearly a month ahead of time.
In the lower part of the state the bud,s arc
very forward. A gentleman who came
up from Delmar last night stated te a
Gazette reporter that he saw two peach
trees in full blossom at that place. They
are alongside of a house, and were net
exposed te the cold winds, which accounts
for their being in blossom.
Sentenced.
Themas E. Gable, of this city, who was
tried a few weeks age before the U. S.
district court at Philadelphia, and con
victed of selling cigars in boxes that Jiad
been before used, was yesterday sentenced
te undergo an imprisonment of six months
and pay a fine of 8100.
A Dead Deg.
Fer several days past the carcass of a
dea'd deg has been lying en North Duke
street between James and Frederick
streets te the anuoyance and discomfort
of residents in the vicinity. It is the
duty of the street commissioner te have it
remeved.
' MASK TWAIN."
A Humorist Who Dees Net Always Jeke.
His Sympathetic. Kind and Considerate Let
ter te Mary Ellen Ky lie.
Our readers are familiar with Miss Mary
Kylie, the "banner woman," and her ,V
harmless eccentricities. Fer years she has
been went te see visions and dream dreams
of a condition of universal peace and social
harmony, in which all wrongs should be
righted and all ills cured. With her, great
political ami religious questions have a
close connection, and though she is a de
voted Catholic, the millennium she works
for and prays for involves a restoration of
the "era of geed feeling" in church and
state, when heretics and saints, Republi
cans and Democrats, lawgivers and law-
ereaKers, snail be reconciled and meet in
one communion.
Te this end Mary makes many banners
with characteristic inscriptions and end
less decorations, which she hangs in pub
lic places, and writes lengthy epistles te
the newspapers and te public men. Fer
some months past she has manifested
great interest in " Mark Twain '' (Samuel
L. Clemens) and has addressed him sev
eral letters at Hartferd, Conn., en the sub
jects which lie near te her heart. Nene
of these elicited any response, until her
last, which embodied a preposition
that te settle all denominational dif
ferences in Lancaster she would
give a grand dinner, at which among the i
guests should be Bishop Shanahau. Rev.
Dr. Grecuwald, Rev. Father J. C. Hiekcy
and ether clergymen of differing churches,
and she net only requested $5 aid for this
purpose, but also "Mark Twain's " pres
ence at the dinner te carve the turkey,
which was te grace the feast. This letter,
like the ethers, gave an nccuint of some
of Miss Kylie's visions. In response, Miss
K. received about ten days age the sub
joined letter, which, after some hesitation,
she has furnished for publication. Though
marked " private " it is worthy the appre
ciation of a larger circle of readers than
the many te whom its recipient has shown
it ; and its sentiments de such
credit te the heart as well as
the head of the writer, that we
take pleasure in laying it before our
readers. The tender sympathy it evinces
for her te whom it is addressed, the kind
consideration for her eccentricities, the
strong common sense and the delicate
touches of humor it contains, aiesuiHci'-iit
apology for transgressing its mark of pri
vacy. The letter contained a check fr 5
signed by "S. L. Clemens," which has
beeu duly cashed here and honored in
Hartferd ; and the Mr. Miller referred te
is Mr. J. N. Miller, 452 East King sheet,
in whose care Miss Ivylie had asked for
the answer te be sent.
Mark Twain's Letter.
FAKMlNnTO AVENUK, t
llAIETKOKK, Fub.il, IS.-f). V
Well, Mary, my friend, you must think
I am a slew sort of correspondent, ami the
truth is, I am. Yeu must feigivc this
fault : it is one which I have never been
able te correct. I am a pretty busy person,
and a very lazy one ; therefore I am apt te
let letters lie a long time before I
answer them. However. once a
year, en or about Washington's
birthday, I raku together all the un
answered letters and reply te tlieni. I
meant te answer the letter you sent me
some weeks age, but waited for Wash
ington's birthday te come. Write te me
whenever you feel like it, Mary, but don't
you feel hurt if I keep you waiting till the
next Washington's bii thday for an an
swer. I de net feel half se much hurried
and bothered when I have a year te answer
a letter in as I de when people cxitcct a
reply right away. I only send money te
people once a year, tee, and that is en
Washington's birthday, se you see if I had
answered you cailier I could net have
sent you the live dollars until new.
Take this check which I enclose, and go
te the bank with Mr. Miller, and he will
tell the banker you are the person named
in it, and will give you the money, or, if
you cheese, you can mail the check (after
writing your name en the back of it,) te
Messrs. Geerge P. Bissell & Ce., Hartferd,
Conn., telling them te send you a postal
order, ami they will scud it by leturu
mail. 1 think your idea el getting
these clergymen together at a din
ner table is a very geed one. lliey
will have te put up with each ether's soci
ety a geed long time in heaven, se they
may as well begin te get used 10 it here.
Resides, I think, as you de, that their com
ing together in a friendly spirit will have
a geed influence en ether people. I am
much obliged te you for asking me te be
present and carve the turkey, but I must
net go. Always when I caive a turkey I
swear a little. (xVll people de te them
selves but I swear right out. I never could
help it, though it has cost mc
many a pang.) I think a person
ought net te swear where clergymen are,
unless they provoke him. Well, I couldn't
be there, anyway, because I have te stay at
home and stick close my work, else this
nation would become se ignorant in a lit
tle while that it would break one's heart
te leek at them. Ne, you and I have our
separate duties in this world, Mary your
line is te humanize the clergy, and mine is
te instruct the public. Let us net interfere
with each ether's functions. I have a most
kindly sympathy toward you and your
work, and perhaps that is a better contri
bution than my own presence w.mld
be. Yeu say "Pity me" indeed I de,
and that is a true word. 1 wish I could
tell you whether these were genuine vis- ,
ions and inspirations you have written me
about, but I can net be absolutely certain.
They eecm te me te be just like ail the
visions and inspirations I have ever heard
of, and se I think you may rest assured
that yours are se perfectly true and genu
ine and trustworthy as any that have ever
happened in the world. New let that
comfort you, Mary, let that give peace te
your troubled spirit, and believe mc you
friend S. L. Clemens.
(Mark Twain.)
That Old Problem.
In accordance with the prevailing mania
for puzzles, a correspondent sends us the
following :
Will you please give the following space
in your columns. Ques: If I sell a horse for
$00, then buy him back for 880. and then
sell him for 110, hew much de I gain '.'
This question has caused excitement ou
the part of some in reference te the cer
rect answer Mathematicians please give
me an answer.
We are sorry te hear that this old and
familiar problem is again causing distrac
tion. There is but one possible though
several plausible answer te it. The iirt
figure is net te be taken into account in
the absence of any knowledge as te what
was first paid for the beast. The answer
te the problem is the same as if it read :
" Bought a horse for $80 and sold him for
1110. What did I make ?"
Mayer's Court.
Mayer MacGenigle this morning had six
diserderlies before him, one of whom he
committed for 20 days, one for 15 days,
three for 10 days each, and ene was dis
charged en payment of cest1;.
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