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WEDNESDAY EVE'O. 1CABCH 31, 1880.
Without Palliation.
Kemble has many sympathizers in bis
trouble because be is rich and influential
and has many friends among a class of
men who obtained their money by the
same dubious methods which he prac
ticed. Te these men it is strange that
Kemble should be sent te jail for what
seems te them se venial an offence. They
knew that they would have been eager
td de the same thing he did if they had
been offered the opportunity given
him of making money by it. It is un
derstood that Mr. Kemble had a contract
from the party or parties interested in
securing from the state the amount of
the riot losses, te obtain the assent of the
Legislature te a bill appropriating four
millions of dollars for this purpose. It is
also known that a liberal allowance was
made, in making this estimate of the
amount of the losses, for the cost of get
ting the bill through the Legislature and
for the emolument of Mr. Kemble and
his associates. Ket only was the state
te pay the riot losses, which she was
under no legal obligations te pay, but
she was te pay liberally for their work the
robbers who took the money from her.
Fortunately the scheme was defeated.
Mr. Kemble's project failed ; and the law
laid its heavy hand upon him and opened
before him the doers of the jail. His
friends think he is hardly used. They
acknowledge that he has violated the
law,, as he himself acknowledged. That
fact cannot be gainsaid. But they say in
his behalf that it is a new law which has
laid him by the heels ; that the thing
which he sought te de has been done
often before and nobody was ever pun
ished for it. They seem te think that
this makes Mr. Kemble's crime less;
whereas, properly regarded, it only shows
mere clearly its enormity. It is true
that his offence against the. public has
often been committed with impunity ;
but it was for this reason, and because
furthermore it was a very grievous of
fence, that a prevision was introduced
into the constitution te put an end te it.
Mr. Kemble was in no doubt that the
people regarded the offence of bribing
the Legislature agreat crime ; and he was
well advised that they had enacted that
it should be punished. When he then
undertook by corruption te secure from
the Legislature four millions of dollars
he was neither ignorant of its criminality
nor of its punishment, nor of the public
opinion of the heinousness of the offense.
He perpetrated the crime with his eyes
wide open; he is a man of intelligence ;
and he did it for money. What addi
tional elements could exist making him
deserving of punishment ? And hew can
it lighten his offense te admit that he is
fie first te ceme under the lasu or me
violated law ? He is the first because he
was bold, reckless and lawless; does that
commend him te mercy 'i
"We see nothing in the situation which
renders him worthy of clemency. As we
have said, we are net surprised that his
friends think otherwise, seeing what
manner of men they are. It is safe te
say that the majority of them would be
in the penitentiary if they had their
deserts, and that the atmosphere of the
stale would be vastly purer if the men
who think Kemble the victim of ill luck
could be eliminated from its population.
Men who think se lightly of the crime
of lleecing the public and of inviting its
sworn servants te perjury te fill their
coffers, area great deal worse in moral
ity than the average of penitentiary oc
cupants. The Columbia Herald is right in
maintaining that the Democrats of Lan
caster county are entitled te a fair share
of the census supervisors and that reli
able Democrats should be appointed
wherever they are te be apportioned
solely with a view te their fitness, and
without respect te their predilections for
president, or en any subject which ad
mits of a fair difference of opinion with,
in the party. We trust that Mr. Snow
den will take this view of it and will net
allow himself te be swerved from such a
course by any ether considerations. We
have convincing proof that an attempt
otherwise was made upon Mr. Samson
pending his confirmation, and any effort
te repeat that dose will only serve te
arouse deep resentment among the Lan
caster county Democracy. It was pro
posed that the Democratic enumera
tors in this district should be appointed
net from the considerations which the
Herald suggests, but upon the condition
that their political influence should be
bartered for private and individual inter
ests, and their action with reference te
the next state convention should be con
trolled by the agents of influences outside
of Lancaster county, one of the strings
te be held by Den Cameren. The bar
gain was an utterly discreditable one,
but only failed because the demand
rather overreached itself. We are glad
te believe nothing further of the kind
will be attempted, for, as we have said
before, anybody in the Democratic party
who undertakes te carry out that sort of
a contract will find it te be a millstone
around his neck.
The children, it seems, had a geed
time in the White Heuse grounds en
Easter Monday, and Were greatly enjoy
ing their Easter eggs when a ragged and
dirty urchin, net of the elect, and it is
suspected of the Democratic unwashed,
intruded and stele a half dozen of their
eggs. The fleet-footed thief was nabbed
by lynx-eyed and long-legged policeman,
brought back and made te disgorge his
plunder, amid the jeers of the five hun
dred geed children. We strongly sus
pect that this mode of dealing with him
was net submitted te nor approved by
the judgment of the great and geed Mr.
Hayes. Had that eminently wise and
conservative citizen of the republic been
duly consulted as te the proper mode
of dealing with such a case his mind
would at once have referred te a prece
dent te guide him In the dispensation of
justice. He would have suggested a
commission te sit en the culprit a com
mission of fifteen seven te be chosen
from the happy children In the "White
Heuse grounds with their Salter eggs,
and eight from the unwashed and un
kempt obildren outside the White Heuse
orreunds. without Easter eegs. Te that 4
tribunal he would have referred the
offender's guilt and the restitution of '
tne stolen eggs ana tne oey weuia ee
wiser and a happier boy.
m m
Senater Carpenter Indulged in an
apparently just criticism of the action of
Democratic senators in favoring the pas
sage of a bill incorporating the proposed
international exhibition company at New
Yerk, ne denied that there was any
authority in the constitution for such
legislation and thought that Democratic
senators, who profess te be strict con
structienists of the constitution, should
be the last te exercise a doubtful power. It
was a fair hit; Senater Wallace could
allege nothing in behalf of the authority
of Congress, but that it came under the
grant e it of power te regulate com
merce, and that moreover the power had
already been exercised in chartering
the Centennial international exhibition
company ; but if a wrong has once been
done it does net justify its repetition,
and if the power of Congress te regulate
commerce can be construed te give it
authority te grant acts of incorporation
te carry en business in the states, it will
permit it te de anything that may be
construed te remotely affect the coun
try's commerce, and that is pretty much
everything.
If the power exists it is certainly only
by implication ; and no strict construc
tionist can approve its exercise. The
Democratic senators who showed a dis
position te pass this measure are fairly
gibed by Senater Carpenter, and we hope
it will de them geed. Senater Eaten, who
always stands fast en solid Demecnitic
ground, was net among tiiese who
needed the lessen and took occasion te
coincide with his Republican critic. Sen Sen
aeor Kernan, of New Yerk, was demoral
ized by the fact that the proposed cor
poration is a New Yerk institution ; and
ether senators seemed te think that no
body would object and nobody would be
hurt by it. But there is nothing like ad
hering consistently and firmly te princi
ple in great things and in small.
PERSONAL.
Coleuel Rebert Ingeuselt,, et Illinois,
seems te have an exact appreciation of the
effect his peculiar views upon religion have
had upon his political aspirations. Net
long since a gentleman who saw upon his
tabic a copy of Voltaire, inquired, " Hew
much did this book cost you ?" The col
onel answered, "The governorship of Il
linois." General Ghaut was handsomely receiv
ed and entertained in Housten, Texas, en
Monday, and left there yesterday for New
Orleans. A reward of $300 has been offered
for the arrest of some scamps who spiked
the guns used for firing a salute en the
general's arrival, turned off the gas from
the street, and otherwise attempted te in
terrupt the festivities in Housten.
A correspondent represents that Senater
Wallace " is apparently in geed spirits,
and is actively engaged in the perfor
mance of his duties en several important
committees, the labors of which consume
most of his time. The delegate elections in
Pennsylvania are all that he anticipated,
and he feels no concern as the general re
sult, and the great point new with hiui is
te secure united action, and carry as many
legislative districts as possible in the fall
election." All of which shows a level
head en his part. As we have suggested
te Congressman Morgan R. Wise and
ether congressmen, Senater Wallace con
cedes that the Pennsylvania Democrats
are quite able te manage their own affairs
in their several districts. It is manifestly
te his interest te prometo and encourage
harmony and avoid dictation and interfer
ence everywhere. The only possible hope
of re-electing a Democratic United States
senator in Pennsylvania next year is te
keep all the close legislative distiicts solid
for the Democracy. Lancaster is ene of
them.
MINOR TOPICS.
The Heuse committee en pensions have
prepared a bill at the instance of the com
missiencr of pensions, that where the pen
siencr is insane, in prison, abandons his
family or is addicted te intoxication, the
pension paid shall be his wife's.
Twe Patterson, N. J., ladies were saved
from death by a brave railroad flagman,
and they offered him two silver quarters
for his services. Should these persons ever
get killed en the railroad the flagman will
have his revenge, for he can give the exact
amount at which they valued their lives.
Suits for damages would therefore result
in a verdict of twenty-five cents each.
In the national hymn which the Marquis
of Leme has just written for Canada he
makes "Dominion" rhyme with "union"
(his very first rhyme, which he repeats
seven times), "terrors" with "mirrors,"
"upon her" with "honor," "nurture"
with "hurt her," "hours" with "ours,"
"sorest" with "forest," and "glory"
with "o'er ye." Ne one outside of a
royal family could de this. Courier-Journal.
A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun
hiving called the attention of Senater
Cameren te the rumors about the transfer
of the Grant strength te Edmunds, said he
in reply, " Didn't you publish an inter
view with me awhile age, in which I said
I was for Grant, had no second choice, and
knew that he would be nominated by ac
clamation, or en the first ballet? Just
print that same interview ever again, and
keep printing it until everybody who cares
about knowing is convinced that I am for
Grant, and that Grant's nomination and
election are as sure an sunrise;"
The commissioner of agriculture is en
gaged in preparing a circular of informa
tion respecting the National sheep and
wool show, te be held at Philadelphia in
September next. At the suggestion
of Representative Shallenberger, who re
presents the wool-growing region of Penn
sylvania, General LeDuc will forward
these circulars te all the correspondents of
the department of agriculture, numbering
2,000, also te the principal agricultural
association and sheep breeders of Canada.
They demonstrate the extent and import
ance of the wool-growing industry in this
country, which new yields 48,000 pounds
annually.
Ednm'tWuKlt: " The many friends of
Mr. Bret Harte will be glad te Ieam of his
LANCASTER JLU1LY INTELLtGENCEk, WEDNESDAY; MAltCfl: 31, 1880.
Brometion frei
dficant and Ji
from the comparatively intig-
inadequately paid office of
commercial agent at Crefeld, Germany, te
the highly important position of consul at
Glasgow the second city in point of popu
lation iu Great Britain, and next te Lon Len Lon
eon and Liverpool in point of consular
emolument, the salary being $3. 000 a year,
and the duty net tee great. When Na
thaniel Hawthorne -was censuf at Liver
pool, one of his most uncongenial duties
was the taking of depositions of sailors
swearing them, as he says, " en the office
Bible, great with perjuries. " Doubtless
Mr. Harte will have mere or less of the
same irksome duty te perform, but he will
have the compensating comfort of being
in a city where the .American language is
spoken with some degree of purity, and
where he will be received with the cor
diality that is always extended te success
ful authorship, especially when supple
mented, as in his case, by exceptionally
rare social powers. "
HBSTOF APRIL.
I out In the weed with Mellic.
And MeUle se full of scorn.
As under the leafless beeches
We wandered one April morn.
I flurried and worried and angry.
While Mellle. serenely cool,
Said, " Jack, it's tUe 1st of April :
Please don't be an Apill
" You're right," I said, in a passion,
" Ker I am a feel te-day.
Te care ter a fair, false woman
Who loves that she may betray,
I saw you riding with Charley ;
1 knew I am only your tool ;
And trysted this April morning
Te be called an April"
" nush. Jack ! Tou're one of these lever
That never should trust their eyas;
And really your temper has been, sir,
A net Verv sweet sumrise."
Then I looked at the fair calm maiden,
In her fresh spring garments dressed
render, green nice tue euuuing irees,
With violets at her breast.
"If you would explain, dear Mollie "
" Ne, sir. that is net my way."
"Then only say that veu love me."
"I have said it before te-day."
"O love I Oleve! O Mollie dear!"
And the robins sang overhead :
" O love ! O love !" but sweeter far
Wero the words that Mellle said.
Then hand in hand through the bcoches,
In the light of Mellie's love.
The soft green mess beneath our loot,
And the budding trees above,
The rosy blush en Mellie's fuce.
And the love-light in her eyes,
And every wintry cloud away
Frem April's soft blue skies.
Many Aprils have come and gene
Since I wen my little wife ;
As I was fooled that happy morn.
Sue has tooled me all my life.
But, eh ! such felly is wisdom,
April or May, as a rule :
Happy's the man whom all his life
A geed little wife can tool.
Harper's Weekly.
LATEST MEWS BY MAIL.
The ninth annual meeting of the Ameri
can fish culturists' asssociatien, was opened
in Fulton market, New Yerk, yesterday
morning.
On Monday Watsen nenry, a mulatto,
was killed in the slate quarries at Banger,
North Hampton county, by the caving in
of an embankment.
Langden W. Moere, convicted of bur
glary, was sentenced in Bosten yesterday
te sixteen years in the penitentiary. He
was a notorious bank robber.
A memorial signed by three-fourths of
the wholesale grocers of Baltimore, asking
an ad valerem duty en sugars was forward
ed te Washington yesterday.
" A State Encampment of our Country's
Defenders" was organized at Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa, yesterday. The organization is
described as " political, net partisan, its
object te preserve the Union."
C. K. Allen, lately expresj agent, who
had charge of the bullion stolen from the
express office at Sidney, Neb., was arrest
ed there en Monday night charged with
the robbery.
Cel Jehn R. Emerv, who was a soldier
of the Flerida and ether Indian wars, and
a brother of Majer General Wm. II. Em
ery, U. S. A., died at his home in Queen
Anne s county, Aid., en Monday.
itichard van ucnssaiacr, tne last mem
ber of the "Old Patron's" family, and
president of the Merchants' national bank
of Albany, N. Y., died en Monday, aged
83 years.
In the United States district court at
Trenten, N. J., yesterday, Jehn B. Cra
ven, of Salem, N. J., was fined for issuing
"shinplasters," payable in ten years and
circulated among his working men.
Sir Francis Hincks and the ether direc
tors of the Consolidated Bank in Montreal
were acquitted yesterday, the private
prosecution having withdrawn its charges
and the crown having no evidence te of
fer. Charles Theis, jr., was shot by Jeseph
Rittcr in Newport, Ky., yesterday morn
ing, and died in an hour. They had quar
reled about the escorting of a young
woman at a ball. Ritter was arrested.
The excess in values of American ex ex
eorts ever imports of merchandise for the
twelve months ending February 29, 1880,
was 1213,290,963, as compared with $203,
752,167 for the twelve months ending
February 28, 879.
The Tammany state committee has is
sued a call for a state convention, te meet
at Syracuse en the 20th of April. The
" regular" organization representing the
Tilden interest is te be held at the same
time and place.
Geerge Mitchell, a painter, was taken
into custody at his place of business in
San Francisce en Monday night, he
having become insane en the " 13, 15, 14 "
puzzle. He had covered the fleer and
walls with figures in attempting te
solve it.
The special election for freeholders in
San Francisce was held yesterday. The
returns indicate a possible majority for the
Citizens' protective ticket, but the Work
ing men will contest en the ground of il
legally tinted ballets used by their oppo
nents. The debt of the Protestant Episcopal
Church of the Ascension, in Baltimore,
amounting te $55,000, was paid off en
Monday, the Easter offerings having been
sufficient for the payment. The debt of
$60,000 remaining en the Mount Yernen
Methodist Episcopal church, in that city,
was also liquidated by Easter contribu
tions. This church cost $400,C0D te eroet
and furnish.
The Demands et Laber.
At a convention of pine and ash furni
ture manufacturers in Worcester, Mass,,
yesterday, it was decided te advance prices
15 per cent, immediately.
The section hands at the Harmony Mills,
in Cohoes, N. Y., have removed all their
tools from the mills, and it was said yes
terday that the carders were about te form
a union. Uetn the mill managers and the
strikers say they are determined net te
compromise. It is understood that many
of the weavers will be sent East, where
work is premised for 500 of them.
The labor troubles in St. Jehn's parish,
La., continuing, Governer Wiltz yester
day ordered a battalion of militia te the
scene. The strikers have in some instances
gene se far as te whip these willing te
work. The strike in St. Charles parish
is ended, most of the laborers returning te
work at the old wages.
Fifty women iu the card-room of the
Lacenia mills, at Biddeford, Me., struck
en Monday for higher wages, and, being
granted an advance of two cents per hank,
muuicu nun, j. vbcruay, uiw men ami
boys, whose wages were raised last Satur-
07, straek for; a further adtanee, and
were paid eflf and (Useharged.
KIOTBBIBKKT CASKS.
Next Hove la the Hatter 811m Encourage
ment for tae Fasltlree Tae Uaee Uaee Uaee
ttoaef Mew Ball.
Harrisburg Patriot.
It wasstateden the streets last evening
that the next probable move of the counsel
for William H. Kemble and ethers will be
te induce Judge Pearson te permit their
clients te enter new bail for their appear
ance for sentence en the April term, be
ginning en the fourth Monday of the
month.
Up te last evening they have received no
encouragement, although they have ap
proached the court en the subject. They
til st asked the court whether if the defend
ants were produced before it while in ses
sion new bail would be accepted until the
April term. Te this question they received
the emphatic answer that the court would
sentence the defendants.
Counsel then tried te ascertain what
would be the action of Judge Pearson if
the defendants were brought before him te
enter new bail when court was net in ses
sion. But they were given no assurance
that he-would accept it. He can either
have them committed te jail or admit them
te bail, and in view of this uncertainty it
is doubtful if the defendants will take the
risk of appearing before Judge Pearson.
The commonwealth will make every effort
te apprehend the fugitives from justice,
and as seen as proper plans can be perfect
ed the governor will be asked te grant a
requisition en the governor of any state in
which they may be found.
It was expected that in a few days time
the whereabouts of the fugitives will be
known, competent detectives having been
employed te leek them up. If they are in
another state, there are two ways te se
cure them first, by a bench warrant, ac
companied by a requisition warrant ; and,
secondly, by a bail piece. The latter,
however, will net be resorted te, as the
bondsmen have all been secured against
less. Bench warrants have been issued in
all the cases, and will be put in the proper
hands seen as expedient.
Yesterday morning a reporter of the
Philadelphia Telegraph met Cel. Matthew
S. Quay, who, as secretary of the common
wealth, is one the members of the beard of
pardons. He intimated that some of the
members advocated at the meeting en Sat
urday that argument should be heard, and
that the decision of the beard should be
rendered en Monday afternoon, after the
sentences had been passed. After the
grand array of pretests had been presented
en Saturday, and the arguments had all
been made, the heard went into private
session, when he himself submitted this
preposition :
" That a previous pardon be refused by
this beard ; and that it adjourn until Mon
day te consider the application after the
defendants had been sentenced, and then
te remit the imprisienment, but net the
fine or disabilities." This preposition was
put te a vote and resulted 2 yeas and 2
nays, Colonel Dunkel, secretary of inter
nal affairs, voting with Mr. Quay iu the
affirmative, and Stone and Palmer in the
negative. Colonel Quay said : " The
beard showed no dispositsen te grant a
previous pardon." He declined te forecast
what might be the further aotieu of the
beard.
Carten Morality.
New Yerk Herald.
A friend of Mr. Kemble, with whom he
has had much intercourse during his stay
here and whose words may be fairly taken
as reflecting Mr. Kemble's feelings in this
matter, said yesterday : " The case has
been pushed beyond precedent, and far
beyond what the offence deserves. At
torney General Palmer went tee far".
He pushed a case against people within
his own party. He has been unreasonably
disloyal te his party and its interests,
and Mr. Kemble thinks se. The ofl'ence of
bribery as charged is net a serious moral
one, nor a serious one in this inst.ince, as
results have shown te the best interests of
the state. The great mistake has been
that Kemble, Petroff, Salter, Crawford and
Rumberger ever pleaded guilty at all.
They should have fought the cose
from court te court and jury after jury.
That's what they new recoguize should
have been their course. But I speak mere
especially for Mr. Kemble when I say that
it was net the wish of the defendants te
he contumacious and te put the state te ex
pense and trouble. Se they pleaded guilty,
hoping te be met by the prosecution with an
equal liberality. In this thoylwere dce jived.
They feel rather bitter about it, for the
reason that while they did net bargain for
pardon, or even light punishment, they
were allowed te believe even induced te
believe they should escape with only a
fine, or perhaps be pardoned after publicly
expressing their guilt as construed by the
law. Well, the thing all through has
been a bad affair and badly condueted."
ALASKA ARGUMENTS.
What li Advanced in Faver of a Permanent
Government There.
A letter dated March 8 has just been re
ceived from a well-informed gentleman
in Sitka, Alaska, in which he advances
a number of arguments in favor of estab
lishing a permanent government in Alaska,
and iu it he says : " The opponents of leg
islation for Alaska have lately relied upon
a report of Captain G. W. Bailey of the rcv rcv
enue service, who made a cruise through
the waters of the territory last sum
mer, te bhew that there is no population
there entitled te demand a civil govern
ment. Captain Bailey took a census of the
settlements at which he touched, and he
puts the entire population of the coast,
without including that of the interior,
at 9,007, which include only 219 Ameri
cans. The Creoles are put at 1,416, and
the Aleuts at 3,820. It must be remembered
that these two classes, numbering 5,236 by
this showing, are the Russian-born sub
jects who were guaranteed a protective
government by the treaty and are most of
them nearly white. But the report shows
that Captain Bailey made his last touch at
a southeastern pert in Alaska en the 20th
of May, 1879, and that lie did net touch
at several ports of importance in that part
of the the territory, notably at these of
Klawak, where there is a salmon and clam
cannery and a number of whites ;
Chican, where there are several
white families, supported by a
considerable lumber trade, and Pert
Hunter, a cannery and trading settlement.
Besides this, there has grown up a large
settlement of miners at Silver Bay and a
town is springing up there, and there has
been, further, a considerable addition te
the population of Sitka and Wrangcl since
Captain Bailey touched at these ports. It
is a very fair estimate te put the present
American white population of Alaska,
which will become permanent, at 1,500."
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Democratic Census Enumerators.
Columbia nerald.
We de knew from no less authority than
General Walker, superintendent of the
census bureau, that it will be required of
supervisors te divide the appointments.
He does net want a peliticul census, and
sueh being the case Lancaster county will,
no aouet, nave uemocratie enumera
tors in some of the townships. We
have geed, active working Democrats in
every township amply qualified te assist in
the work, and it should be our greatest
pleasure te assistany and all such te obtain
the position. It is seldom that appoint
ment of both profit and trust falls te the
let of a Democrat in Lancaster
county, and when sueh oecasion
arises it is the duty of these
who can aid them te de se. In this affair
it matters net whether the applicant is for
Tilden or against him, or for Bayard, Han
cock or any ether man; it will he sufficient
te kuuw mail no is a ugmegrai ana oem
petent te perform the work. A man
perform
should net be condemned beeause he ex-
ereigea bis right of opinion.
MIODFUB ANIMALS.
rattealaf Horses for t&e lIebi.
Philadelphia Times.
Visitors te the zoological garden have
noticed down in the lower end of the
grounds, a little te the right of the place
where the polar bears are kept, a line of
low, rambling buildings built against the
fence which separates the grounds from a
long strip of land lying between the gar
dens and the New Yerk branch of the
Pennsylvania railroad. The last of these
buildings is a geed deal better than the
rest, being a tall, close, frame shanty .of
pine beards and havincr a deer te it.
The ethers, small, mere uneven and
without any doers, are nothing mere
than mere sheds or stalls. Al
ways in front of them will
be seen a pile of clever hay, with a half a
dozen, mere or less, sorry-looking horses,
the sole occupants of the shed, feeding
thereon. An inspection of these animals
will usually show a plethora of defects in
the way of damaged eyes or spavined
joints or broken wind, all, in the majority
et instances, being the regular accompani
ments of old age and being but another
way of describing a horse broken down by
weight of years and past his stage of use
fulness. Occasionally younger animals
may be seen in the stalls, but these are
also suffering from some affliction of body
or limb and stand en the same footing as
the rest.
Thcse horse, ence they get under the
above described sheds, have all ene com
mon destiny they are te be killed and
dressed as feed for the animals of the zoo
logical garden. The amount of feed con
sumed daily by the animals, large and
small, is no little. The chief meat-eating
animals are the liens, tigers, loeparde,
pumas and hyenas. Altogether they con
sumo about 174 pounds of horse meat a
day. Four horses a week is the usual
average in keeping up the supply of these
animals alone. Next in point of heavy
feeding come the elephants. Their chief
feed is hay, of which it takes about four
times as much te keep an elephant as it
does te keep a horse, the elephant
eating about 100 pounds of hay
every twenty-four hours. And in order
te keep up his appetite .the hay must be
the best going, being invariably timothy of
the best grade. Uther animals that cat
hay are the giraffe, the camels, the deer,
zebra and different animals of the cattle
species. Most of these are fed en what is
known as mixed hay, timothy and clever,
which is about twenty per cent, cheaper
than the timothy alone. Twe wagon leads
of each per week is about the amount
used. Each wagon lead is supposed te
contain 30,000 weight, or a ten and a-half.
The price for timothy is about $20 per ten.
which makes the three tens per week equal
te $60. The mixed hay costs in the nigh nigh nigh
borheod of $18 a ten, thus making the
weekly cost of. that necessary supply $e4,
which, added te the $60, gives the weekly
cost of hay alene in the sum of $114.
As te the cost of the horse meat for the
ether animals, that is net se much as might
be imagined. The horses are usually pur
chased at the horse market by ene of the
employed at the gardens, who has all such
work in charge. The horses as above
stated, are usually animals which have be
come superannuated and useless. The
average price paid per head is about five
dollars. As four horses per week sufliec,
the cost for horse meat foots up te
about twenty dollars a week. The liens,
tigars, leopards and pumas are net the
only animals that are fed en horse meat.
The wolves and foxes and prairie dogs and
monkeys and black bears also come in for
their share of the supplies, beiujr fed almost
altogether en thi3 kind of meat. It is re
garded as singular that these animals
liens, tigers and leopards should make
no distinction between herse meat and
beef, albeit it is a point decidedly in favor
with the pocket-books of the corperators
of the gardens. Fer four years preceding
their discovery that the animals would eat
horse meat as well as beef they kept feed
ing them en the latter. Twe years age it
was found that they would eat the flesh of
horses as quick as that of cows and pro pre
vision was made accordingly. Since
then the society has been practicing judi
cious economy by feeding the animals en
horse meat altogether, and they save about
fifty per cent.
The cost of feeding the liens, tigers, leop
ards and pumas as stated is about $20 a
week. Add te this the $114, cost of feed
ing the larger animals, elephants, giraffes
and ethers, and the cost is $134. This does
net nearly represent all the animals fed in
the garden, nor docs it come near being
the chief item of oest. There are a hun
dred and ene ether creatures requiring, in
many cases, much mere delicate and cost
ly feed. The sea liens have te be fed en
fish, usually fresh and salt mackerel, each
animal taking twelve or fifteen te each
meal twice a day, and consuming alto
gether one hundred pounds of fish daily.
Next in point of delicate liv
ers come the polar bears, whose
regular diet is bread soaked in milk, with
fish new and then for a change. The
black bears are also given bread, 100
pounds being used daily. Vegetables of
almost every sort are fed liberally te the
different animals cabbage, potatoes, car
rots, onion and turnips. The elephants
are great cabbage caters, in addition te
their standard diet, hay. The giraffes,
singularly enough, are great onion eaters,
while the deer and goats and animals of
the cow species eat carrots and turnips
and potatoes. Bran and eats and corn are
also liberally distributed mostly ence or
twice a week among the hay-eating ani
mals. The most delicate aud expensive
feeder in the place perhaps is the ourang eurang ourang
eutang, which gets beef,potatoes,bread and
honey. As there is only one in the collec
tion at present, the cost of keeping this
grinning satire en the human species is
net multiplied. Anether delicacy which
must net be emitted in the diet of the
polar hears is the fish oil, of which they
get several supplies a week. After the
hay the eats is perhaps the next chief
source of expense in the way of animal
feed. As for the fowls, the large ones are
fed en corn, while the small birds are fed en
canary seed, and all of them new and then
get a small chunk of meat. The cost of
feeding the animals alone foots up te
about $100 a day. All the horses that go
te supply the meat-eating animals are killed
en the ground, in the small slaughter house
that stands at the lower end of the row of
sheds in the lower part of the garden.
Easter-Monday at the White Heuse.
The children took absolute possession of
the grounds south of the White Heuse en
Monday. Children were there of all ages
ana sizes, regaruiess ei sex, color, or pre
vious condition. There was a young lady
here and there te leek after a party of
youngsters intrusted te her care, and
three policemen walked around te see that
no damage was done te the shrubbery, and
te step the fights which new and then oc
curred among the boys. Nearly every
child had a basket of Easter eggs, colored
by brilliant dyes. They rolled themselves
aud the eggs down the sharp declivities
that mark the contour of the grounds : they
laughed, yelled and plaved. In rellinr
down with their eggs, the girls some of
them of pretty geed size, tee were totally
regardless of the extent of striped stock
ings displayed. The pump near the White
Heuse was a never-failing source of amuse
ment and dampness. There must have
been at least between 500 and 600 chil
dren celebrating Easter Monday en the
grounds. About 12 o'clock a ragged and
dirty boy of fourteen mixed himself
with a crowd of small ones who were
having a geed time with their eggs and
rolling them around without any thought
as te their safety. The bev eved them an.
vieuslv. Suddenlr ha dartad nnt rA
gathering a half a dozen eggs fled towards
the avenue. The robbed ebildren began
te cry. The elder ones started in pursuit.
In a short time the "whole pack was in
full cry " after the thief, who put his legs
te their mettle. He ran up the by-street
between the treasury building and the
White Heuse, At the ledge en the avenue
a watchman grabbed him. He was walked
back amid the jeers of hundreds of shrill
voices. Deprived of his stolen property
and impressed with the full majesty of the
law, he was released and fled, amid a cho
rus of derisive shouts.
STATJS ITEMS.
Journalism is looking up in Philadelphia.
Ths Ledger has put en a new dress of type.
The compositors in the office of the Pitts
burgh Pett are en a strike. They demand
thirty-five cents per 1000 ems. They have
heretofore received thirty cents.
The Philadelphia Chronicle says: A
criminal falls very low before he jumps his
bail. There are pickpockets in Philadel
phia who would scorn te leave their bail
behind them.
Augustus M. Crann, a rcsident of Tead
Hellew, near Bradford, who was in the
habit of eating opium, took an overdose en
Saturday and died from the effects.
A widow named Kline, aged about 64
ysars, committed suicide at her residence
in Blain, Perry county, en Saturday morn
ing last at half-past 4 o'clock, by cutting
her threat with a buther-knife.
The warrant of execution was read te
Wise, Brandt and Hummel, the Raher
murderers, in the jail at Lebanon yester
day. They will be hanged en the 13th of
May.
The Senate yesterday confirmed Henry
C. Snowden census supervisor for the Sec
ond district of Pennsylvania. The nomi
nation of Themas II. Sherwood te be cen
sus supervisor for the First distriet of
Pennsylvania was rejected.
Jack Bosten and Jehn Kelly, the two
burglars who arc confined in the Yerk jail
awaiting trial, for breaking into several
stores in that town, made an attempt te
escape en Monday night. The were dis
covered however and a chisel was found in
their possesien.
The Markeo house, en the north side of
Chestnut street, abeve Ninth, adjeiniuji
the new pest office building, has been pur
chased by William M. Singerly, the pro
prietor of the Recerd. It is understood
that the intention of the purchaser is te
erect within a year or two a new publica
tion office en the site of the old hotel.
Kecerd of Casualties.
Charles Hagar, workman en the new
capitol, at Albany, N. Y., was killed by
falling from the building yesterday.
The machine shop of the Peuemah mills
at Taftville, Conn., was burned en Mon
day night. Less $25,000.
Peter Smith, aged 30 years, and Patrick
Coalwell, aged 23, tinsmiths, were blown
from the reef of the Seventh avenue build
ing, in New Yerk, yesterday. Smith was
killed and Coalwell fatally injured.
Samuel Price and Edward Trainer, aged
respectively fourteen and fitteen years,
were carried out en the lake in a small
beat, from Terente, en Sunday evening.
The beat, containing their dead bodies was
found neaf Niagara yesterday morning.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE MINSTRELS.
A Peer Heuse and Geed Shew.
Last evening the New Orleans minstrels,
which arc under the management of A. D.
Miller, appeared in the hall before a small
audience, which was well pleased with the
performance. There were ten persons in
the first part, all of whom appeared in
white faces, with the exception of Jake
Welby and Charles Goodyear, the end
men. The ballad singing was net geed,
but the end men were funny and the in
strumental music was excellent. Fer
a finale te the first part Mr. Ben
jamin played the cornet, en which he
is really a wonderful performer. Johnny
Kletz, a geed juggler, gave an exhibition
with knives, bottles, swords. &c. Welby
and Pearl, who are a geed pair of song and
dance men, were well received and their
performance was the main feature of the
show. As acrobatic dancers they have
few superiors and their clog was first-class.
Senater Frank Bell is a capital stump ora
tor, and his local hits stirred up the audi
ence. Beb Robinson's imitations of darkey
singers were very correct. Charles Good Goed Geed
year's laughing song is geed, but very an
cient. The same act has been done by
Gcerge Wilsen for the last four years, and
that given by Goodyear is an imitation of
his. Nellie Gorten sang a baritene sole,
receiving an encore, aud the performance
closed with the farce of "Thompson's
Dead."
Hetel Changes.
Daniel M. Moero, of the Lamb hotel,
Seuth Queen street, has taken possession
of the Swan hotel. Seuth Queen and
Vine, Jehn Hess, the late proprietor, retir
ing te engage in mercantile business at the
corner of Seuth Queen and German.
Peter K. Heneman, for many years bar
tender at the Cress Keys, Lamb
and ether public houses, has leased the
Lamb, Ne. 106 and 103 Seuth Queen
street, vacated by Mr. Moere.
Peter Letz, late of the Railroad Depot
heuse, North Prince street, takes the
Schiller house, Ne. 233 North Queen street,
vacated by Wm. Roehm.
Wm. Roehm, of the Schiller heuse, has
purchased the Miller hotel property, Quar
ryville, and will remove there te-morrow.
Henry Erisman, late of the Centennial
hotel at the head of Vine street, has leased
Erisman'sJ Exchange, 113 Seuth Queen
street.
Geerge H. Erisman, of the Exchange,
takes the hotel at Youart's landing, Mr.
Youart retiring from public life.
J. D. Denlingcr will in a few days take
possession of the Mcrrimac house,
North Prince street above Orange, vice S.
M. Jacoby.
FIRE.
An Old Distillery Burned.
The alarm of fire last evening was caused
by the huruing of the old Sener distillery
situated en the Pennsylvania railroad near
Meuntvillc. The building had net been
used for a distillery for several years past.
It was a one-and a-half story brick, lately
used for curing tobacco. It was entirely
destreyed, though there was nothing in it
of much value. It is supposed te have
caught fire from a spark from a locomo
tive. The Ithey Case Settled at Last.
Yesterday Wm. Lcaman, ene of the ref
erees te whom was referred for settlement
the dispute relative te a certificate of de
posit belong te the estate of the late James
W. Rhev, delivered said certificate te J. L.
Steinmetz, esq., counsel for Sirs. Julia
Rhey, widow and administratrix of de
ceased. The certificate was promptly
cashed by Reed, McGrann & Ce., and thus
th? rather tedious case was finally settled.
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Mayer's Court.
Twe t drunken and disorderly
were eeBualtted for 80 days eaeh.
pereene
A.MisreprcsenUU(.B Corrected. "
According te the order of W. W. Hen
sel, chairman of the Democratic Lancaster
county committee, press representatives
were exeladed from being present at the
meeting of the committee in Lancaster city
yesterday.
Is Mr. Hensel afraid te let the Democrats
of Lancaster county knew what was said
and done by their representatives in com
mittee meeting ? or does he carry the De
mocracy of Lancasterceunty in his breeches
pocket ? or is the Democratic county com
mittee designing dirty work and are afraid
of the people ? Knownethingism died about
the year 1855, but Mr. Hensel and his com
mittee, it appears, would like te revive it
again in 1880. Reading Eagle.
Time out of mind it has been the custom
ei me democratic county committee te
held its sessions in private, never failing
nor refusing te admit recognized members
of the party, whose counsel and presence
it is always glad te have. Its discussions
are free and informal and generally consist
of matters affecting only the position of
the party toward its opponents, and in
order te give its members the necessary
freedom of restraint, they de net desire en
such occasions Republicans te be present,
te take advantage of what is said nor te
misrepresent it. " What is said " is a pt i
yate family matter. "What is done"
is always made public te the Democ
racy of the county through the In In
tellieescer, and the chairman of the
oeunty committee has never failed te give
his contemporaries all the information en
this subject which he himself used, or
which was legitimate for publication. For
tunately neither he nor the committee
ever engage in "dirty work" and hence
have no reason te he " afraid of the peo
ple;" but their own private affairs they
keep in private, just as he does net embla
zon te the world the private affairs of the:
Eagle" $ editor or anybody else.
Grade of Pupil.
The following is the porcentag of tfm
pupils of the girls' high school for the
month of March, 1880 :
IR8T CLASS.
Rese McCullen 100
ltella Yeagley 9
Laura Leclier 9
Harriet Clarkaen..
Mary Achuius
Mary Sharp ,
Laura Ltnville
Mary Landis ,
Heckle Slaymaker.
Knima Albright..,
Lomle Neidicli....
Sue Slaymaker....
Annie Baker
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99
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97
97
LUa Laverty U5
Kate Harrison lit
Mary Shulze XJ
Blanche Oilier.
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97
97
h.lla uunduker...
Nellie G. Landis
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91
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KmilieJl. Martin...
Anna. Sluymakur.
95
SECOND CLASS.
Lizzie Helcina 100
Klla Dubbs
France- Kuulluiau.
S. C. Kllnmlser
Minnie Brown..
Florence Spreaner..
Annie Bituer
Minnie IV-aceck
Kuimu Fiek
Lillieltese
May Sut ten
bailie McCormick. .
Annie Witiuur
Sadie Slundle 99
Minnie Iiaub 99
Flera Kaby 99
95
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Carrie Myers 98
Frances Kreider.... 98
Alice Fridy 97
Mary Keyer 9b
Jennie Oclis 98
Leuie Finney 9n
Hallie Albert ffj
Lulu Leng 9j
THIRD CLASS.
Knima Ueia....
Sallie Baldwin.
May Krick
Kate Shirk
IlallieSkccn
Minnie Apple..
EllaStauner....
Lizzie Kaby....
LydiaReck
KateMcUinnU.
Emma Falk....
99,AHce Dimin 0
98
98
Flera Beard 9t
Carrie ieuk.r mi
Mary Smoker 9i
98
98
Ellie Keiiiieii.su viler. 93
98
9ti
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95
93
Kmnia MeC'ulley... 92
Alice McXauxutan. h
Mamie Sharp se
Mary Everts 7
Bertha Edgerley... 18
94
retnrrii class.
Naemi Eberman.,.100
Libbie Weber 100
Bertha Merrow 99
Emma Lively 99
Allie Arneld. 99
Hattic McKcewn... 9!)
Bella Weitzel 99
Anna Hess
Mary Ilalbuch
Elsie l'eters
Susie Kirkpatrick.
Katie Barnes
Klla Shirk
Mazie Leclier
M.irien Kcndig
Sallie Heme
Sallie Leng
E1U Trettitz
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97
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97
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Nellie Kin-j 99
Sallie Greff. 99
Katie Gast 98
Emma Sener 98
FIFTH CLASS.
Mary McPherson... 99i
Maria Clarksun
Jesie Franklin
Emma EUerly
Mary Grretainger.
Blanche Beard
Ilattie Qiiinn
Annie Weisc
Ada Tower
Esther bpindler...
Katie ShertiC
Lizzie Weaver
Klla Sliertzcr
Agnes Carpenter..
Ella Killinger 98
Emma Smith 98
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92
92
92
91
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87
79
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Sue Harkins
97
Ida lluzzard
Mary Goedcll
AdaZcllers
Either (Jlarksen...
Carrie Cox
Anna Baer
Ida Kryder
Edith Rogers
97
97
97
96
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95
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95
Lizzie Kirkpatrick.
95
Unavoidable absence.
Neighborhood Newt.
Before Judges Pearson and Hendersen-,
of the Dauphin county court, yesterday,
was argued the case of the commonwealth
vs. the Pennsylvania railroad company, te
recover taxes for 1877 amounting te $G0,
000 and interest.
Machlin's rag warehouse, Harrisburg,
was destroyed by Are yesterday morning,
together with its contents, involving a
less of $4,000.
Jehn Sterret, a well known farmer of
Warwick township, Chester county, resid
ing close te the line of Berks, a short dis
tance from Springfield, died during Sun
day night after a hrief illness. He was.
one of the largest land-owners in the north
ern part of Chester county.
Representative "Wolfe, of Union, avers
that " the balance of the alleged ' roosters. '
must have their trial at the April tena of
court."
Miss Mary Miller, nearly twenty years
of age and the only surviving child of 3Ir.
J. M. Miller, business manager of the
Telegraph, died in Harrisburg yesterday.
That city also mourns the death of Eman
uel Kclker, the hardware merchant and
brother of R. F. Kclker.
Seme time age the Pennsylvania railroad
company purchased GOO acres of land at
Bryn Mawr. This is being rapidly dis
posed of, prices ruling from $3,000 per
acre up te $3,500, according te the location.
On Saturday last it was stated that the
railroad company had purchased 300 acres,
of land at Wayne station. This was a
part of the vast premises of J. Henry
Askinvin that vicinity. The land will be
divided'inte building sites. The company
is fast taking up all the available land
along the read near the city, and dispos
ing of it at fancy figures.
Farewell Tislt.
Last evening the members of the Lan
caster Mamnercher paid a farewell visit te
their fellow member, Wm. Roehm, pro
prietor of the Schiller house, who is about
removing from this city te take charge
of a hotel recently purchased by him iu
Quarryville. The Mamnercher turned out
almost en masse and took possession of
the large hall of the Schiller heuse and
sang a number of choice yieces, their fate
well song being very pathetic and especi
ally well rendered. Mr. Roenm is ene or
the eldest members of the Mamnercher,
having belonged te it for mere than 20
years. Te-morrow he removes te his new
home in Quarryville.
Vestrymen Elected.
At the Easter Monday election, the fol
lowing gentlemen were elected vestrymen
of the two Episcopal parishes of thi-i
city :
St. James Dr. Jehn L. Atlee,
Newton
Lightncr, William A. Atlee,
Calder, Samuel H. Reynolds
Geerge
Gcorue
M. Franklin, Francis Shredcr. B.
Frank
Eshleman, Simen P. Eby, Dr. William
Blackwood, J. P. McCaskey and William
A. Morten.
St. Jehn'sTune Diller, J. M. W. Geist,
Henry P. Canen, Geerge J. Diller, Jehn I
HartBaan, W, OrJtarthall, JataeeMiUer
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