.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.