.f" B1 T-.- v w,-'.i5rr-" r " " t j c-- - -- v IV' .. -A y ii.m-m ;,; m?fm"iaT! "iM t! LANCASTER DA1LI INTELLIGENCER, TUESDAY, MARCtf 23, 1880. I Hancastrc intelligencer. TUESDAY EVENING. MABCH 23, 1880. The Precedents. H the Hairisburg Patriot will turn ever its files and examine the proceedings at t be organization of the Democratic conven tion, at Pittsburgh en Maj22, 1878, it will find that Chairman McClelland un dertook te have a roll of the members of the convention called as he had made it up. The convention refused te be se organized, but demanded that the only roll called should be that of the dis tricts. This demand was made se unan imously that it was net only heeded by the chairman, but it remains as a prece dent which must control the preliminary proceedings of future conventions. It was strictly in the line of previous pre cedents and in accordance with the geed Democratic usage which keeps con ventions free from any control but their own. It is very surprising that in the state committee at Pittsburgh, net two years after this Democratic law was se emphatic ally proclaimed, in the same town by the highest party authority, a motion could be introduced and passed instruct ing the chairman of the committee te de in the coming convention what Chairman McClelland had been rebuked for under taking te de the convention of 1878. It would seem that no member of the committee ought se seen te have forgot ten this lessen in Democratic practice ; and that twenty-nine members of the committee should deliberately vote, after a prolonged discussion and a vigorous pretest from the minority, te instruct the chairman te act in defiance of the law is indeed astonishing. It could net have been that they forget ; for though all of them were net at the Pittsburgh conven tion many of them were, and among these was the editor of the Patriot, who was the chief aid te Mr. McGowan in getting his absurd resolution of instruc tion through the committee. When the roll of the districts was called at Pittsburgh note was made of the con testants and all such were emitted from the roll until their claims had been passed upon by the committee appointed for the purpose. The Patriot may insist, if it cheeses, that this practice is objection able because it puts in the power of evil disposed persons te get up fictitious con tests for the purpose of keep ing duly elected delegates from taking part in the preliminary organization ; and that it may be possible, as it sug gests, that a majority of the seats may be contested and the convention be left with but a handful of members te man age it. Te which we reply, first, that whether it is judicious or net, it is the Democratic practice and cannot be altered but by a Democratic convention ; and that it is the very height of impudence for a state committee te make the effort. And we reply, secondly, that the inconvenience suggested by the Patriot is theoretical entirely, and that in practice it has net been felt. Such a base game is one that both parties could play at, but net without being detected by the convention, the majority in which would very speedily make its power felt. There can be no such successful trifling with a convention when it keeps its organization in its hands ; but if it permits a state committee te organize it, it might as well permit the committee te elect its mem bers at once and save the people the trouble. "Instructions" and "Unit Rules." Every intelligent Democrat who makes it his business, or is in a position te in "' quire diligently among his fellow-Democrats in this section, ascertains at once that while there is the widest diversity of personal preference among the Demo Deme cr.itic'caudidates for president, the popu lar feeling is no less intense in support of the election of any one of them who is likely te be nominated. Take the first ten Democrats you meet en the street, or write te a dozen at random in different parts of the county inquiring who is their choice for the Democratic nomination, and you will get answers for Seymour, Tilden, Bayard, Parker, McClellan, Han cock, Palmer, Hendricks, Field, Randall, Thurman, Eaten and possibly ethers ; but every one will add " but, above all, give us that fit and worthy name upon whom it appears, at the time of the nom ination, that the party can most solidly unite ; who will engender the least fac tional feeling ; in whose nomination every element will acquiesce ; in whose behalf all personal and sectional issues will be sunken and forgotten." "Who is that one man does net appear with great pesitiveness te any one just 'new, and probably will net be made entirely plain until Democrats of the East and the West? and of the North and the Seuth, shall meet and sit down together, and r?aseu and take counsel with each ether. It is easy te start " booms ;" it is easy te pass resolutions; it is easy for a small plurality gathered together in committee or even in convention te pass resolutions and vote instructions which may net fairly represent large majorities. But it is net easy for anybody te say new, with truth, that any one person is the " first, last and all the time choice " of any large section or body of Democrats, pending the developments of the next few months, and the outworking of that feeling we have referred te, among all loyal and patriotic Democrats, te select the worthy standard bearer who can most certainly be elected. Politicians with axes te grind, with bargains te make, with private ends te serve, may dicker for this man or that man. They may want " instructions " for their man, and, securing a majority by hook or creek, they may attempt te fetter and silence all who differ from them with the "unit rule" a conve nient device of these who have " some thing te trade." "When such an intelligent difference of opinion en personal preferences and at the same time such unity of purpose en the main issue prevail as new inspire the Democratic party here and elsewhere, every voice has a right te be heard and every element te be fairly represented. " Instructions " and " unit rules " are sinister devices te cover a hidden pur pose. They mean the disfranchisement of the majority, whose rights are always safer in the hands of intelligent repre sentatives who respect them than when placed at the disposition of weaker men bound by instructions and locked with unit rules. In the death of Jacob Stauffer this community loses a valuable citizen and a geed man. He was singularly blameless in his walk and conversation and most likely had net an enemy en the face of the earth. He has for many years, in union with his eminent co-worker, Dr. S. S. Rathven, devoted himself unsel fishly te the cause of science, and their labors have been of vast practical use te our local material interests. Widely recog nized for his great knowledge of natural history and mechanics, his services were sought from all quarters, and he was ac knowledged as a valued correspondent by many of the leading societies of the coun try. By birth, by education and by the steady contribution of his services te her best interests, he was a Lancaster coun ceun tian, and by his life and character, his learning and his uprightness, he wen the respect and admiration of the thousands who knew him personally, and new mourn his less. , m PERSONAL. Mrs. TvijEB, the widow of the cx-prcsi-dent. is new living quietly at Georgetown. She is a devoted Catholic. Miss Florence Niohtieale is a great invalid, and rarely leaves her room ; yet there are few busier women in the world. She is never idle. Theodere Martin, who has just com pleted the life of the prince consort, has been knighted by the queen, and also made Knight Commander of the Bath. Georeb Remsen, of Claxton, Remsen & Haffclfinger, the well known book pub lishers, died yesterday morning, of dropsy, in his Geth year. Cel. Charles J. Arms, of Philadelphia, late editor of the Examiner, this city, de livered his lecture en " Beys" te an over flowing audience at West Grove, en Fri day evening. Queen Victeria and Princcsa Beatrice are te arrive in Darmstadt in time te wit ness the confirmation of the queen's granddaughter, the young Princess Vic Vic eoria, of Ilesse. David Davis is a great reader, and as a circuit judge in his early days used te carry his saddlebags full of historical and biographical works. His favorite novel is "David Cepperfie Id," though he has a fondness for Thackeray and Walter Scott. The eighty-third birthday anniversary of the Emperor William was celebrated en Saturday last. The weather was fine, and private houses and all the public build ings were decorated with flags. The first te offer their congratulations te the emper or were the generals of the army, headed by the Prince Imperial and ether German princes. These were followed by the mem bers of the Bundesrath and Prince Bismark. The emperor looked hale and well. At night the emperor gave a soiree, at which seven hundred guests were present. The streets were crowded with people till a late hour. MINOR TOPICS. Will the "plumed knight" be the "plucked knight" after the Chicago con vention. Tem Davis ought te shape up the first sentence of his political announcement. It does net read -well for a "college bred." Tin: first county Republican convention in Illinois, has a majority for Blaine. This is bad for Blaine, as every state in which he has had a majority, has elected Grant delegates te the national convention. TnE arrest of two enterprising junk dealers for .stealing "valuable public docu ments " from the state buildings at Hai risburg is convincing proof te the Scran Scran ten liepvblicnn of the honesty of the last Legislature, notwithstanding the bribery business. Ne previous body has been known te have left anything behind them worth stealing. Mlle. Blanc, the wealthy daughter of the M. Blanc of Mente Carle fame, and sister te the Princess Radziwill, is quoted as saying lately te a titled but impecunious suiter: "Ne, I intend marrying a man in my own rank of live ; but as titles are still in fashion, I intend having a duke as my head cook, and all my men servants shall be marquises." Ex-Senater Christianct's "son Henry" denies the allegations of his step-mother, that his father sold out the senatership te Senater Chandler. Dr. Christiancy says he overheard a conversa tion in which his father expressed a desire te retire from the Senate, as he had lest interest in politics, and his business was embarrassed, and he thought it advisable te accept a position in which he could save something, which he could net de in the Senate. Senater Chandler stated that he was enthusiastically interested in poli tics. Dr. Christiancy says he never heard a dishonorable word from either of them and never made the statement te Mrs. Christiancy that could be se construed and that her statements are entirely drawn from imagination. The Philadelphia Recerd republishes in its editorial columns an article from the Pittsburgh Critic declaring the Critic's admiration for Mr. Wallace and its opinion that Mr. Randall and Mr. James P. Ban are "merchandise," whom the Republi cans can buy. Of course the Recerd intends te promote harmony and unity in the Democratic party by making a sewer of itself te receive the Critic's filth ; but it would save its credit by quoting from a paper which did net have te be bought and paid the cash for supporting Cel. Noyes in 1877, when the most "invincible" argu ments had te be invoked by the Recerd's friends te overcome the Critic's aversion te "a Wal'ace man' And there is Jehn C. Barr we see figuring around Pittsburgh as "a Wallace man." Ne man in Pennsyl vania has done se much te defame Mr. Wallace, no one has pursued him with such malignity, no one has se fully abused his confidence,as this same Jehn C. Barr and Mr. Wallace knows it. As five men, employees of the Steel ere company at Boyertown, were entering the bucket last evening te be heisted te the surface it was accidentally lowered into fifteen-feet of water and one of them, Jack ! Ayers, was drowned. THE PRECEDENTS. Limitations of a Chairman's Powers. What the -Pittsburgh Convention or 1878 Settled. Repert of the proceedings et the convention which nominated Dill. Chairman McClelland ordered a call of the roll when Delegates Eer and Hay de manded that the convention observe the time-honored custom of calling the roll by districts and letting them report their dele gates and net allow any made-up roll te be forced upon the convention. Wallace, Yerkes and Bill Singerly tried te choke off this preposition and immense confusion and vprear tnsaed. McClelland was compelled te let Hay be heard and the latter made a fine speech in favor of a practice that has the sanction of time honored precedent and against what he designated as usurpation. Chairman McClelland insisted en the call of his made-up roll. Cell reth, of Somerset, strenuously protested, but Mc Clelland persisted, and then the conven tion resolved itself into another scene of tumult and uproar. Respectable Dill men entered their pretest against the chairman's decision, while Senater Wal lace sat silent, taking no part in the war of words excited by the unusual proceed ing. The motion te call the dis tricts was repeated, and finally McClelland agreed te put it. Senater Allen wanted the call of the roll as suggested by the chair man, though he declared the rights of the contestants must be respected. Yerkes, of Bucks, said no motion could he enter tained until the roll was called ; Ellis, of Schuylkill, insisted en the district call and begged the chairman te retrace his fatal mistake. McClelland put the motion te these hit ting in the delegates' seats and the conven tion rose en masse and the roll was ordered te he called by districts. AMUSEMENT NOTES. What the Players Are Doing. Sel Smith Russel is again with the Ber ger Family. Coup's circus opens the season in Louis ville, Ky., en April 1 . The New Yerk Mercury locates Balti more in " Pa.," at present. Billy Sweatnam has joined Jarrett's " Fun en the Bristel" company. Jeseph Murphy will probably play " The Kerry Gew" here again this season. Nick Roberts's pantomime company is at the Arch street theatre this week. The Western papers speak of tlicm as the "Oil Cart Pirate's" company. The original New Orleans minstrels will appear here en March 30. People will never tire of " Uncle Tem's Cabin," which has been drawing packed houses at a New Yerk theatre. The San Francisce minstrels are playing " Beadle's Pirates for Ten Cents." They are the kind of pirates the boys like. James Celeman, of Chicago, invested $1,000 in a blende burlesque troupe and he is new chambermaid in a livery stable. Jehn McCulleusdi has, se far, made mere money this season than he did during the same period of the two preceding years. When Haverly bills a town for the ap pearance of his Mastodons, the inhabi tants think that a circus is coming. The juvenile "Pinafore" company, under the management of Mr. Haverly, has penetrated Texas. Mr. Sothern, it seems, values his new piece by Gilbert very highly. He is re ported as saying that he would net take $30,000 for it. Manager Mishlcr is having painted scenery for the production of "Rip Van Winkle," in Reading, in a manner never attempted outside of the large cities. W. J. Thompson, of Philadelphia, is or ganizing a variety and dramatic company, which will include amemr its members Lew Simmons and Wm. Hemy Rice. The fiftieth performance of "Hazel Kirke" (played here this winter under the name of "An Iren Will) took place at the Madisen Square theatre, New Yerk, last evening. Kate Claxton has taken her husband, C. A. Stevenson, into full commercial as well as connubial partnership. The firm name is Claxton & Stevenson's " Twe Orphans" combination. The monument te the memory of the late H. J. Montague will ha erected ever the grave of the dead actor in Greenwood cemetery next month. The affair will be entirely private. J. J. Sullivan, leading man of the Maud Granger " Galley Slave " company, and Katie Putnam were divorced in Dupage county, Ills., last Friday, by mutual con sent. Amateurs played " Uncle Tem's Cabin" in Springville, New Yerk, recently. Uncle Tem were a " biled " shirt, a baseball cap and a heavy geld seal ring. 2'epsy was at tired in a pull back. James Ward's " Danites" company dis banded at Danville recently and made a hasty retreat towards the Quaker City, from whence they started en their perilous trip. Mr. D. R. Lecke (Petroleum V. Nasby) is engaced upon a new play of the serious kind. The part of the heroine is said te be intended for Miss Ilayman, an English actress of the emotional order. Zera, the magician, who swindled sev eral folks out of bills which they held against him, while here last season, has been giving entertainments in the small towns of the coal regions. His appearance here is anxiously waited. A correspondent of the New Yerk Mer cury writing from Reading says that Man ager Mishler has engaged Aldrich and Parslee's excellent company te play Bart ley Campbell's "My Partner" ever his circuit. Their engagement in Pittsburgh week before last netted them $5,000. The company which played through the East, under Teny Paster's name, of which H. J. Sargent was manager, has returned te New Yerk. It was net a success, and some of the newspapers pitch into Mr. Pas Pas eor for sending it out, as the public was led te believe that he was with it. Jeseph A. McGuire, an actor with Col Cel liers "Banker's Daughter" company, who is known en the stage as Jeseph Wilkes, was arrested in New Yerk a few days age for deserting his wife, who under the name of Lizzie Hendersen is a "child actress." It is said that Mrs. McGuire's mother is the cause of the trouble. He gave bail for a hearing. Cellier's company, which will play " A Celebrated Case " here, is net the one which visits us en Friday night. Mr. Col Cel lier will put a second troupe out shortly and that is the one which will give that excellent play here. It will include among its members E. K. Cellier, who plays Jean Renaud. The one which will be here en Friday night is conceded by all theatrical people te be one of the strongest traveling companies in the United States. The McGibenys being down in Wash ington, the Republic says : " The remark able musical ability of this family was sufficient te fill the National theatre en the occasion of their former appearance there, and they will no doubt repeat their success te-night." It is said these people have been engaged at $1,000 a month by the Estey organ company te combine its advertisement with their public perform- ances. Manager Misbler is also said te have engaged them for seven weeks. Many pleasant anecdotes of Miss Neil son are told by these who knew her behind the scenes, and she is said te be thoroughly pleasant and unaffected and fend of a jelly time. One morning recently when she" went te a rehearsal at the theatre she found thaf she had left 130,000 under her pillow at the hotel. She was net at all troubled or nervous about it, but quietly asked the property man te go and get it, which he did, restoring it te her at rehearsal. The tribute te her acting which perhaps she is most proud of is the fact that when she is "en." the scene shifters, cas men, mechanics and supers generally, instead of skylarking or chatting behind the scenes, as usual, crowd into the wings and crane ever each ether's shoulder, watching her every motion with absorbed interest. These men are the most case-hardened critics te be found, and it is said that Fechter was the only actor who shared with Miss Neilson the honor of num bering them among his audience. STATJfi ITEMS. Peter Lubry was killed at Girard colliery yesterday by falling down a manway. Jehn Kane, employed at Guffey & Tay Tay eor's oil wells in the Kinzna region, near Bradford, was suffocated by gas en Friday. Jehn Jenes, a tramp, and a companion known as "Croekey," get into a quarrel ever a game of cards, near Bradford, en Sunday. " Croekey " pulled a knife and cut Jenes in the arm, inflicting a serious wound. The supreme court, in the case of Hot Het tenstein vs. Kehler, error te common pleas court of Berks county, decides that a bank deposit book, or pass book, as it is called, is such an instrument of writing en which judgment can be obtained according te the act of 1833, unless a sufficient affidavit of defense be filed by the defendant. Dr. Sherwood, whose nomination for supervisor of census is before the census committee of the Senate, when be fore that body in answer te questions, stated that he had never exchanged a word or a line with Speaker Randall, and he had never had any communication with him or any of his friends concerning the appoint ment of census enumerators. During a ball at Gilbertsville, Mont gomery county, en Saturday night, Milten Reminger, who had been drinking, was ordered from Frank Becher's barroom, but returned and burst in the deer. Bucher drew a revolver and fired three leads at him, one passing through his hat and another entering his stomach. It was re ported that Reminger died from the effects of the wound. The Democratic committee of Lawrence county, at the meeting en Saturday, passed a resolution "that Senater A Wal lace, for permitting the confirmation of James N. Kerns United States marshal for Philadelphia, deserves the contempt te every honest Democrat." The following Tilden delegates were elected te the Har risburg convention : William Gorden, D. S. Merris aud Rebert McBride. Aaren Geist was found dead in his bed yesterday afternoon. He was a supervisor of Leng Swamp township, Berks county. He went into Weitz's drug store and taking up a bottle supposed te contain brandy took a geed drink. The bottle contained poison. When found his face aud body were cev ered with red spots, his limbs were drawn up, froth came from his nose, and his ap pearance was ghastly. Rebert Tucker, who has been an cm ploycee of Ziegler Bres., shoe manufac turers, en h nth street, above Arch, Fhila delphia, for the past sixteen years, was held yesterday te answer the charge of stealing ever $4,000 worth of shoes irem the firm. He confessed that his stealings covered a period of six years. The dealer te whom he sold them has been held te answer for receiving stolen goods. Mary E. Miller, daughter of Andrew Miller, of Williamsport, has confessed that Geerge Smith came into their house the night of the murder and said te her mother that they had hung Miller up in the barn. She also says that there was another man with him, but as he was outside she can't tell who he was. The little girl was undoubtedly instructed by her mother te testify falsely before the coroner's jury, but new being freed from her influence she tells the truth te Constable Steven son. m i i LATEST NEWS BY MAIL. The French Senate and Chamber of Depu ties have adjourned for the Easter holidays until April 4. The extensive vinegar factory of Riedel burg & Ce., at Milwaukee, was damaged last night te the extent of $14,000. In sured. Davied Kiers, in a drunken quarrel, stabbed Geerge Matthews, in Bedford, N. f J., en Sunday night, inflicting a probably latai wound. A'ruiner of Grant's death ; no founda tion for the report ; origin of the story at Washington ; the City of Mexico rumored te have been lest with General Grant and his party ; prompt exposure of the base lessness of the story. A collision occurred en the Ninth ave nue elevated railroad at Recter Street station, New Yerk, yesterday afternoon. A hackman named Van Orden had his shoulder dislocated, and Jehn Sullivan, a clerk, who was passing in the street, had his skull fractured by a falling piece of iron. The acquittal of ex-Judge Jehn Hill, of Buckingham county, one of the Tirginia judges indicted for failing te put colored men en juries, has allayed the excitement there en that subject. Five of the indicted judges have asked that their cases be con tinued. There will probably be a trial of the three ethers at this term of the court. The bams and ether out-buildings of Jeseph Van Meter, Near Keyport, N. J., were burned yesterday morning, with five valuable horses, several wagons, a quanti ty of hay, etc. The fire is attributed te an incendiary. A wooden ware factory and a woellen factory, in Lachute, Ont., were burned en Sunday night. Less, $25,000. Bertha Berger, of New Yerk, who was indicted for causing the death of Cera Sam mis, daughter of a Leng Island farmer, by malpractice, has been sent te the peniten tiary for five years. Her accomplice and betrayer of the girl Cera Sarrmis is new serving a four years sentence in the state prison for the crime. It is announced that ex-Governer Jeseph E. Brown, of Georgia, has presented te the Southern Baptist theological seminary at Louisville, Ky., $50,000 for the endow ment of a professorship. The whole amount has been paid and is new in the hands el Rev. James P. Boyce, D. D., chairman of the faculty. H. F. Lewis, an old and respected citi zenef Memphis, administered a dose of morphine te his twelve-year-old son. When found next morning the boy lived but a few minutes. Lewis was found in a comatose condition en his wife's grave and died, having evidently taken a similar dose. Fer some time past he has shown symptoms of insanity, caused by the death of his wife. The Rhede Island Democrats yesterday nominated Herace M Kimball, of Burrill ville, for Governer ; Stephen P. Slocum, of Newport, for Lieutenant Governer ; W. R. Wallett, of Providence, for secretary of state ; Hugh J. Carrell, of Pawtucket, for attorney general, and Daniel P. Pend, of Woensacket, for general treasurer. The delegates selected te the Cincinnati con vention are understood te favor Tilden if he is available. Seme uneasiness is fait at the mer.-arri- val of the steamship Switzerland, -which left Antwerp for Philadelphia twenty three days sge. The Belgenland, which left Antwerp six days after the' Switzer land, arrived at New Yerk yesterday. The company's officers express no alarm at the Switzerland being overdue, as she is a slew but staunch vessel. They say her arrival off the capes is hourly expected. She has 316 steerage passengers. The lockout in the piano trade, which appeared te be partly broken en Saturday, seems new established mera firmly than ever. The men employed by Haines Brethers said yesterday that they had been taken back unconditionally ; therefore ether firms surrendered. Later Haines Brethers said they had made their em ployees accept the stringent agreement heretofore published. It was decided by all the manufacturers that unless the agreement had been accepted, the lockout should be enforced again this morning. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. OBITUARY. Death of Jacob Stauffer. Jacob Stauflcr, the well-known botanist, ichthiolegist, and entomologist, died last evening at his residence, Ne 235 East Orange street, in the 72d year of his age. He had suffered from a bronchial descase for twenty years past, but had never been confined te his room for mere than a day or two at a time, until about two weeks age, when he contracted a severe cold, which settled en his chest and caused a serious congestion of the lungs, from which he suffered severely. A week age it was feared that he would die, but he rallied and en Sunday last was comparatively easy. A representative of the Intellieexceu who called upon him found him sitting in an easy chair and able te walk about the room. He was cheerful, talked freely en some of his favorite scien tific themes, and handed tojeur representa tive for publication the description of a new game fish recently caught in the Sus quehanna, published in yesterday's Intel ligences. This was perhaps the last lit erary work done by Mr. Stauffer. Yes terday he took a relapse and died last night as above stated. Jacob Stauffer was born in Manhcim, Lancaster county, November 30, 1808. He received a common country school educa tien, and was put at an early age behind the counter of his father's store and tav ern. He received military instructions from a West Point graduate who bearded with his father, and was successively ap pointed adjutant, major and colonel of the ISth Pennsylvania militia. Having early imbibed a taste for drawing and painting, he left his native village, went te Philadel phia, and took lessens in painting and en. graving. After remaining a few years in Philadelphia he married a wife, re turned te Manheim, and commenced stere-kcepitig and subsequently opened a printing office the first one ever opened in Manheim. Having given much study te the subject of medicine and botany, he sold out his stock et store goods and en tered into the drug business. In 1840 he removed te Richland Cross-Reads, new in corperated in the borough of Mount Jey, where he also introduced the first printinir press seen in that borough, as well as a lithographic press and the art of taking daguerreotypes. His love for natural history resulted in his drawing and coloring with his own hand almost every insect, bird, fish, reptile and plant te be found in the country. His collection of drawings and paintings is very valuable, and he has received the highest commen-datien-for his work from such men as Prof. Henry, of the Smithsonian institution, Dr. Gray, of Harvard university, and Rev. Dr. Merris, of Baltimore, the last named of whom paid him the compliment of say ing that "he knew of no ether savan ex cept Mr. Sturm, of Nuremberg, who could write set up, illustrate and print his own work." In 1854 Mr. Stauffer assisted his eldest son in starting the Mount Jey Herald. In 1858 he removed te Lancas ter where he continued te reside until his death, his time being especially devoted te procuring patents and making drawings of machinery and patented articles, in which pursuit he was very proficient and success ful. Notwithstanding his extensive busi ness, however, he found time te write fre quently for the newspapers, mostly en scientific subjects many of his papers ap pearing in the Lancaster Intelligences. Mr. Stauffer was three times married, and leaves three sons and a daughter. His eldest son, Frank II., the well known novelist, lives at Berwyn ; Albert is con nect wiwi tne rmiaaeipnia .rrcw ; i,avm McN., late assistant engineer in the Phila delphia water department, engineer of the Seuth street bridge, is new in Bosten, en Mr. Malenc's sewer contract; and his daughter, Mary, of this city, has long been his house-keeper. His adopted daughter, Lily, also resided with him. Mr. Stauffer held a leading position in the old Athcnseum, of which he was for years librarian, and its successor the Linnasan society. He was a corresponding member of the Academy of Natural Sci ences, Philadelphia, and several similar or ganizations. Mr. Stauffer was a Presbyterian, and for many years a leading elder of the church in this city. He was of the most unini peached purity and piety, fiim in his re ligious convictions, but most tolerant of the faith of ethers. He was a geed and useful man, and within the range of sub jects which he made h is special study it will be difficult te find a man te take his place. F. & M. College Catalogue. The annual catalogue of F. & M. col lege, the academy and seminary, shows a Freshman class numbering 18, Sophomore 31, Junier 18, Senior 23 total 90 ; Acad emy, 43 ; Seminary, 23. There are 404 alumni of Franklin and Marshall and 192 of Marshall. The third term of the current year of the college opens en April 8. The seminary will close May 13. The Geethean anniver sary celebration comes off en May 14, and the Diagnethean en the 21st. Commence ment exercises are held from June 13 te 17, inclusive. Sale of Horses. Samuel Hess & Sen, auctioneers, sold at public sale yesterday, at Fred. Brimmer's stables, North Queen street, for Geerge Gressman, 32 head of Canada horses at an average of $189.25 per head. Fifteen out of the let averaged $227134 per head, and the highest priced horse sold at $280, and the lowest price, one at $100. Amount of sale $G,05G. Yesterday afternoon Jehn Rebman, auc tioneer, sold at the Merrimac house, this city, for E. J. Kanffman, 37 head of horses averaging $136.81. ICE. A Failure in the Harvest "Wnat Oar Lecal Dealers are Doing. The reader need net be reminded that the ice crop of Lancaster and vicinity during the past winter was almost a total failure. True, several hundred tens of thin ice, much of it mixed with snow, was cut from the small lakes and ponds near the city and sold at high price te the ice cream manufacturers : but our regular ice merchants cut very little some of them nene at all The capacity of the several ice houses, the number of tens cut last year, and the number cut this year may be stated approximately as fellows. Dealer. Tens. Capacity. Elliett Bre? J.300 1 B. Fenlney.. 2,400 Jacob Hiirtnmn.i,' 00 Wm. T. Yeuart.1,500 Iauc Simmons. 1,500 Christian Arletli 700 Tens Cut. Tens Cut. 137 1830. 2,900 none 2,400 35 2,000 none. 1,500 1,500 700 Total 11,400 11,000 In will be seen that the dealers who last year cut 11,000 tens of ice and sold all of it have cut this year none worth mention ing. Besides, brewers, hotel and restau rant keepers, butchers and ether business men whose trade requires ice, and many of whom have ice houses of their own. find themselves without a pound of the con gealed fluid, as de also hundreds of private families who usually lay in their own supply in private ice-houses. " Tak ing one consideration with another," the prospect for the deg-days is net assuring. Last summer pure solid ice sold as low as 25 cents per hundred weight. It is new selling as high as 70 cents, and there is no telling what it may be when het weather sets in. Seme of the dealers who have contracted for a supply for their customers think they will be able te furnish ice as low as 75 cents per hundred, or at worst net mere than a cent a pound. Elliett Brethers will get their ice from the Brandywine near Coatesville, where immense quantities were cut during the winter of '78-9, and net needed last summer. It is magnificent ice, ranging from 10 te 14 inches in thickness. Mr. Ferdncy will receive his supply from Phil adelphia, and Mr. flat t man will get his from Mr. Bletz, of Columbia, where large quantities were left ever last season, and some vcrygoedjice was cut the past season It is some consolation te knew that our fathers aud grandfathers get alone pretty well without the use of ice and that we may possibly de se tee, en a pinch. Twenty years aie there were but two ice dealers in the city and neither of them did a tithe of the business new done by even the smaller dealers. 1.1st of Unclaimed Letters. The follewimr is a list of unclaimed let ters remaining in the posteffice for the week ending Monday, March 22 : Ladies' List. Miss Amelia Buscr, Lilly A. Cooper, Helen M. Cleveland, Miss Kate L Fisher, Miss Malinda Geed, Mrs. E. llcnelmann, Miss Annie Kreider, Miss Emma Keller. Fannie Landis, Mrs. Dr. Mausten, Miss Annie Mowrer, Mrs. Isabel la Ogail, Mrs. Rachel Rhoads, Miss M. E. Sollcnberger, Mrs. A. M. Steele, 3Iiss Barbara Warfcl. Cents' List. Jacob Beil, J. F. Ceagley, Rev. J. A. Cooper, Daniel B. Frey, Daniel Fry, P. D. Gill, Jesse H. Graham, Jereme Graneger, L. M. Hatten, James Handy, jr., Harry Hendren, C. C. Kauffman, Jehn Kapliuger, Jacob G. Kreider, Geerge Lea felear, Jehn N. Landis, Harry Manning, Rev. J. W Merwin, Milten S. Muckel, J. Nivcrs, Daniel A. Newman, Ames Ream, IL R. Reyer, D. B. Shirk, Samuel Schelle, G. W. Siberts, Win. B. Styer, Levi Wha lin. Lancaster Commercial College. Messrs. Messer & Weidler have leased the thiid-stery of Rhoads & Bre's. new building, West King street, opposite the mayor's office, and fitted it up as a com mercial college, where they propeso te give yeuim men and youth a thorough training in all the branches of a business education, including penmanship, book keeping, banking, arithmetic, grammar, correspondence, &c. The rooms are eligi bly located and eligibly fitted up being wanned by steam, lighted by gas, fur nished with desks and tables for fifty pu pils, and containing posteffice, bank, rail read office, mercantile emporium, &c, &c. The bank is furnished with imitation meney of all denominations, both paper and specie, and the ether departments arc supplied with everything necessary te instruct students in all branches of busi- ncss. The facilities are superior te any beferc offered in Lancaster, and Messrs. Messer & Weidler are first-class practical teachers The college will ,be formally Monday next, March 29th. opened en riant Club Last Might. There were from 125 te 130 persons pres ent at the regular meeting of the Plant club last evening. Every scat was occu pied and a goodly number were compelled te stand. The lessen assigned the club for study was the calyx aud corolla, the sta men and pistil. A dozen questions cov ering the leading points te be developed had been placed upon the blackboard by Mr. Burrowes, who called upon members present for explanations and answers This occupied a prof itable half hour, after which an in teresting paper was read upon the Calyx and Corella, the points being illustrated with well-executed drawings of the differ ent forms in which these floral envelopes present themselves. Questions that had been referred te certain members of the club at last meeting were then answered. The final work of the evening was the analysis by the tables of the round lobed Hepatica, Hepatica trileba of the Ran nuculus family. Each member who desired it was supplied with a specimen of the flower and leaf, and the analysis was conducted both from the blackboard and the text-book. This club gives premise of admirable results. The subject for the next meeting will be the Stamen, upon which a paper will be prescuted by Mr. Jno. E. Snyder. Excursion. The Philadelphia and Reading railroad company ran a cheap excursion te Phila delphia te-day. The train left the King street depot at 6 o'clock with about 50 passengers en beard. An Empty Heuse. There was net a ledger in the lock-up last night the first time for months that none of the cells were occupied. May net this fact be regarded as a "harbinger" of spring. m A Large Egg. Mr. A. Musser, of Jleuntvillc, has a Brahma hen that laid an egg weighing five ounces, and measuring 6 inches one way sad 8 hashes the ether. tittle Locals. Jehn S. Landis, formerly proprietor of the National hotel, Columbia, will take charge of the Lititx Spring's hotel en the 1st of April'next Rev.. Father Dougherty, who was some time age relieved by the bishop en acoeuat of ill health from the pastoral charge of St. Mary's church, Phcenixville, is new lying at the point of death. Mr. William Stevens, of East Brandy wine, Chester county, who was injured while being chased by a cow about three weeks age, is new lying very low and it is thought he can net live, mortification hav ing set in. The Pennsylvania railroad company, en the West Chester branch, have recently put up whistling pests " all along the line. The pest is placed some 300 vards in advance of a crossing and is about 8 feet high. On one side it is painted blue witn a large white " W ;" en the ether it has nothing but a coat of white lead. Jeseph Seal, of Pennshury township Chester county, is the possessor of a ca f some three or four weeks old, that is per fect in form but is devoid of eyes or eyeballs, but has eye-lashes entirely natural in their appearance. It eats heartily and is thriv ing, and likely te live. This strange freak of nature is exciting a great deal of atten tion among the curious-minded observers who fleck in large numbers te see it. Mr. Henry McVey, aged 76 years, died in Fulton township, en Sunday, March 21st. The deceased was an honest, up right citizen, whose death will be sadly felt by the people among whom he has spent a long and useful life. The funeral will be attended at his late residence, in Fulton, en Wednesday, March 24th at eleven o'clock a. m. Agreeably te announcement, "Aunty" Graham, en last Saturday, celebrated her 103d birthday anniversary, at her home, en Miner street, West Chester. During the day a number of her friends called upon her, bringing with them some little memento with which te show their appreciation for the aged lady. Though ever a century of years are deeply im printed in her face, she nevertheless has a firm, quick step, enjoys excellent health, and delights in attending te some house hold duties. ARTIFICIAL HATCHING. What Has Become of the Incubators T The Germantown Telegraph asks " what has become of the incubators?" and then intimates that for all practical purposes these machines are worthless, and after having been once tried are condemned, and are only seen at poultry exhibitions. A poultry fancier in this city, who has had a geed deal of experience in hatching, both in the natural and artificial way, tells us that he has no doubt, under certain condi tions, that artificial hatching causes less trouble, less expense, and is mere certain in its results than natural hatching. The conditions necessary are a geed machine (Samuel's " Eclipse Incu bator " is recommended) a careful atten dant and warm quarters for the chicks if they are hatched in cold weather. The attendant in charge of the machine, which automatically regulates the heat, will have little te de except te turn the eggs ence a day and sprinkle them lightly with water. The advantages are that chicks ran be hatched all the year round and consequent ly spring chickens can be had every month of the year. There is no danger of the artificial hen breaking the ejsjs or tramping the chicks te death after they are hatched, as is se often the case with the natural mother. It is asserted that mere eggs per dozen can be hatched by artificial than by natural means, and that any ene who un derstands the chicken-breeder's art can raise "by hand "as large a per cent, of the chicks hatched as the hen will raise. In evidence of this it is stated that some of the chicks batched in the incubator at our late poultry show en the 1st of January are as large and healthy as any ether chickens of equal age. The incubator then used is new in possession of Celin Cam Cam eeon, Brickerville, who has it stocked with 150 eggs and who expects te have chicks in a few days. We will endeavor te as certain what "luck" Mr. Cameren will have with his machine and report the re sult. DISORDERLY BOYS. Pupils Dismissed Frem Scheel. Fer some time past a number of pupils in Mr. Herr's secondary school, North Mulberry street, have been quite incorrigi ble, have defied and insulted the teachers, and behaved shamefully both outside and inside the school room. This morning the superintending committee, the visiting committee and ether mem bers of the beard of directors, visited the schools and dismissed fourteen of the refractory pupils. On Fri day two of the boys committed a vile of fense, deserving of the severest punish ment. The directors are determined te put a step te these disorders and have dis cipline maintained, even if a greater num ber of pupils have te be expelled. Mayer MacGenigle has been requested te detail policemen te be in the vicinity of the school when it opens and closes and te summarily arrest all disorderly pupils. C B. Appointments. In the East Pennsylvania conference of the U. B. church, in session at Reading, the following appointments for the Lan caster districts were announced : Presiding Elder, Lewis Peters ; Lancas ter mission, te be supplied ; Mount Jey station, M. P. Deyle; Columbia station, C. S. Miley ; Mountville station, E. L. Hughes ; New Helland circuit, J. B. Funk ; Intercourse circuit, I. Greff ; Pe quea Valley mission, Z. C. Mower ; Read ing, Otterbein, H. C. Phillips ; Lebanon. Trinity, J. T. Shaffer ; Manheim circuit, P. A. Bewman ; Spring Garden circuit, I. H. Albright ; Conestoga circuit, 31. P. Sanders ; Pheenixville mission, II. 8. Rice; Springfield mission, J. F. Mower ; Agent Lebanon college, G. W. M. Riger. Gene Inspecting. The county commissioners and the viewers, who were appointed by the court, left this city en the 10 o'clock train te in spect the bridge recently built across Fishing creek, near Boyd's saw mill, in Fulton township. Paid for February. This forenoon the employees of the Reading railroad in this city and en the Quarryville and Columbia branches war paid off in geld for the month of Febru-y ary.
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