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FRIDAY KVENINQ. APRIL 2, 1880.
What Shall They De With It.
Our farmers are troubled te knew
What te de with their money. There are
plenty of ways in which it may be judic
iously invested ; but they are net ac
quainted with many of these ways .and
in their blind search for them will be
prone te go astray. They are accustomed
te lend te their neighbors and te invest
in bank and turnpike stocks ; but these
avenues have become tee limited te em
ploy their rapidly growing wealth. If
they knew something about ether things
than farming and had a general intelli
jrpnnft which would protect them in en
gaging in the manufacturing industries
which the county is se well-fitted te sus
tain, they would find abundant and prof
itable employment for their capital.
There is no place in the country that has
greater natural advantages than Lancas
ter as a manufacturing centre. We are
near the centre of trade and population,
with competing railroads, fertile lands,
geed markets, cheap rents, healthful
climate, abundant water , and when te
these advantages is added almost un
limited capital it would seem clear that
the money of our people should find em
ployment in manufacturing industries.
But these require intelligent direction
for their success, and past experiences
have been such as te make local capital
timid in venturing into these pathways.
Nene of our manufacturing enterprises
paid the original investors directly,
although they have ali been of great ad
vantage te the community and have been
rich mines of wealth te these who suc
ceeded te their ownership. There was
but one tiling wanting te make them
successful as business ventures, and
that was geed and experienced
business management. If our men of
money would educate themselves in the
knowledge of some art,they would net be
without satisfactory employment for
their means. If our farmers would give
te some of their children a scientific edu
cation, or would have them taught a
trade which would furnish a use for their
money, they would be doing them
selves, their children and the commu
nity a benefit. It used te be con
sidered a wise policy in parents
te give their children a trade, even
though they did net design them te pur
sue it, that they might be provided with
a means of subsistence in case et reverse
of fortune and the failure of their chosen
plan of life. It is considered wise still ;
and it is especially recommended te men
of wealth who have in their own occu
pation no ready wav of employing it, as
i6 the case with our rich farmers, by then
fact that they create in their own family
and in these in whose welfare they are
especially interested, profitable users of
their capital.
It is a duty laid upon every man te
give his children as geed an education as
he can afford them, and it is especially
incumbent en the rich man who leaves
behind him the wealth that requires in
telligent control te make it useful te the
community and its owner. It is net an
education that leads te the professions
that is especially wanted. These walks of
life are overstocked. There are plenty
te tread them and there is no need of
special encouragement te their students.
It is in the mechanical arts that a wise
man, in these days, should instruct his
children, especially when he has the cap
ital that is required in their development ;
and our farmers would de well te put
their sons in these pathways of life, in
stead of keeping them behind the plow,
and finding them, when they are free,
disposed te wander off te the "West in
search of a field of labor, when the one
they leave, te men properly prepared for
it, is as rich as any the world can give
them.
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Xeta Matter or Prejudice.
In the discussion of the admission
of colored children te the Heme for
Friendless Children in this city it has
been charged by the Examiner that their
exclusion hitherto had been " owing
principally te the narrow prejudice of one
person connected with its management
against the color of a black skin," and
in repense te this intimation the Ixtkl
ugexceu said :
By its sneer at " the narrow prejudice of
one person connected with its management
against the color of a black skin," the Ex
aminer intends te held up te public ridi
cule that excellent Christian woman, Mrs.
S. M. Krampli, whom everybody concedes
te be the geed genius of the Heme, and te
whose deep-rooted aversion te the com
mingling of the two races much deference
has been paid. These who knew her knew
that from the outset the Heme lias been
the object of her unselfish devotion, of all
her time and anxiety and labor ; te it she
has given her love, her affection and her
money ; and it is no wonder that the sen
sible men and women who have co-operated
with her should in some measure
share her "prejudices" in all things re
lating te its management.
Justice te Mrs. Kramph requires it te
be said further that she has no " preju
dices " in this matter. In fact it may be
said that she is net a woman of preju
dices but of deep convictions en all these
questions in which tee many people al
low these prejudices te guide them te
conclusions. She has always advocated
the widest extension of political rights
te colored people, and her concern re
garding the social intercourse of the two
races is only that which is felt for their
mutual geed by the great censerva
tive majority of every well-ordered
and intelligent community. Just as
the editors of the Examiner and
Inquirer preserve this social distinction
she would preserve it in the household
of the Heme family. Twice at meetings
of the Heme managers, when a majority
of them were present, a vote being taken
en the admission of the colored children,
it was voted unanimously te admit them
te all the privileges of the Heme, condi
tioned that a separate building be provid
ed for thern, he that while all their rights
should be carefully preserved, that social
intermingling of the races should net be
encouraged, which tins never yet worked
any geed where it lias been practiced.
Our local report of the business of the
eventful " First" exhibits a satisfactory
condition of the money market and a
highly prosperous state of Lancaster
county's material Interests. Our great te
bacce crop has brought millions of money
into the county; our mere thrifty
class of fanners have an over ever
plus te lend, or are anyway able
te pay their debts; the mere impe
cunious can borrow at reduced rates,and
" taking one consideration with another"
it is hard te see why anybody should
want te be born, te live or te die in a
better place than Lancaster county.
Many people in these parts who think
kindly of ex-Gov. Joel Parker, of New
Jersey, as a presidential possibility, will
read with satisfaction the sketch of him
which is printed en our first page te-day.
There are men who are much mere prom
inently named than he for the Deme
cratic nomination and some who have a
much stronger positive following, but
when conventions break up into frag
ments ever the leading candidates and
" dark horses ' are called te the front te
harmonize things, the record of Parker
exhibits "staying" qualities that may
strongly recommend him.
PERSONAL.
Mr. Loxcrr.i.unvdees net dress in black
broadcloth, but generally in dark blue.
Jeff Davis has been invited te lecture
before 200 ladies at Newberry college,
S. C.
Text Hughes is going te run for the next
Parliament and of course will be returned,
as se geed and useful a literary man ought
te be.
Wm. II. Kumui.e is still in Atlantic City
and lefuscs te say when lie will leave. Sev
eral reporters called te see him, but he de
nied them an interview.
Edwin Akxeld, who made his mark as
a newspaper man before winning fame in
two continents as a poet, has resigned his
place at the head of the Londen 1'tlc
grapli. General Lucius Faikciuld, the newly
appointed United States minister te the
Spanish court, presented his credentials te
King Alfonse yesterday. Gen. Fairchild
expressed the friendly feelings of America
toward Spain, and the king lcplicd in a
similar manner.
A. Lakdxek Bkews, the younger
brother of Henry Armitt Brown, died yes
terday at Burlington, in his thiity-third
year. He was very well known in Phila
delphia society, and his death will cause
dcej) regret. Of the sons of the Lite Fred
crick Brown only the eldest, who bears
his fathers name, survives.
The Springfield Republican, chief organ
of the Edmunds boom, thus rubs it into
Conkling : "It was Waskburne who said
te Conkling, ' Yeu lie !' Eliciting no re
sponse, he resumed the conversation after
a few minutes and said : ' I don't knew
as you understood what I said, and I don't
wish te have any mistake made. I said
' Yeu lie !' " '
In Montreal, last evening, efforts were
made te step Colonel Beb Lngkksell from
lecturing, but the mayor refused te inter
fere. A row was threatened, but police.
men were sent te the hall and the lecture
proceeded quietly te half a house. The
lecturer was afterward challenged te a
public discussion by Rew Mr. Bay, a Con Cen Con
gregatienalist minister, but he declined.
Commedore Edwakd Barrett, of the
United States navy, died at his residence.
Ne. 78 West Twelfth street, in New Yerk,
en "Wednesday morning. He had been
sick for some two months past, and en
Palm Sunday, when he took a short drive,
contracted a cold which brought en mala
rial fever, te which he was subject and
from the effects of which he died. He was
a Leuisianian.
Cardinal Newman' has se far recovered
from his recent accident as te sit up. A
rib that is ever eighty years old is, of
course, broken, without any reasonable
hope of its ever joining again ; but his em
inence, though unable te stand, and there
fore te say mass, has new the consolation
of reading and writing almost as incessant
ly as before. It is net explained very
clearly hew the accident occurred, though
it is supposed that semnambuleiicy is a
danger te which he is exposed.
Miss La vina Goodell, of Jancsville, III.
the well-known woman lawyer, died there
yesterday. She was born in Utica N. Y.
forty-one years age. Four years age she was
admitted te the practice of law in "Wiscon
sin, and had achieved an average success.
Twenty years age she was an enthusiastic
anti-slavery agitator, and assisted her
father editing and publishing an anti-slavery
paper in New Yerk. She was also at
one time editorially connected with Ilir
per's Bazar. Her death resulted from
sciatic rheumatism.
The Union theological seminary, of
which the Rev. Dr. Wm. Adams is the
president, has this week received a gift of
$100,000 from ex-Governer Edwin D.
Morgan, of New Yerk. Mr. Morgan's
motive for this generous act is that he is
"desirous of showing his appreciation of
the usefulness of the Unicn theological
seminary, and aiding it in the great work
it is new dew doing for the country." The
money will be used te form a fund which
is te be called the "Edwin D. Morgan Li
brary Fund." The new building te be
erected will also bear his name.
A rumor was circulated in Paris recently
te the effect that Mmc. Christine Nii.ssen,
whose operatic triumphs in America are
still in recollection, had lest her voice and
was net likely te return te the lyric stage.
The fair cantatrice at once published a
flat contradiction of the rumor, attributing
it te the malice of an enemy. Her voice is
as full, fresh and perfect in its range as
ever, and has never been affected by a cold
or any ether cause te such a point as te
justify a shadow of apprehension that she
might be ever temporarily prevented from
pursuing her professional avocations. The
extreme beauty and limpidity of tone that
characterized her voice still remain with
out a blemish. Mine. Nilsson is await
ing the confirmation of a contract en
which her visit te America depends, but
up te the present time nothing definite has
been concluded.
THE NEBRASKA DEMOCRAT.
Eloctlen of Delegates te the Cincinnati
Convention.
The Democratic convention of Kansas
elected delegates te Cincinnati, headed by
Dr. Miller, of the Omaha Htrald. They
aie uninstructed.
The committee en resolutions presented
a separate report advocating hard money
and low tariff and denouncing the wrong
inflicted upon the Democratic party and
the county at large by the Republicans in
1870, and pledged the Democrats of Ne
braska te right these wrongs as far as pos
Bible and punish the wrongdoers. The re
port was adopted.
afmeR topics.
Spain is said te be the only country in
the world in which bankers have net been
habitually conservative.
An English writer says that he remem
bers when a doctor of divinity voted three
times in one day at an Oxford election.
Managers of the Laucaster county jail
who lese money en the prison "labor,"
take notice : ' Sing Sing prisoners during
March earned $19,0G5. Expenses of the
prison were $15,312. Surplus, $3,733."
At the age of seventeen Mr. E. B. Wash
bunie was apprenticed te the printer's
trade in the office of the Christian Intel
ligencer, at Gardiner Me. "lam satis
fied," said Mr. Washburne, at a late period
" that I learned mere in the one year I was
in the Intelligencer office than I ever learned
in any one year of my life." Mere what?
The commissioner of internal revenue
has received a letter from St. Leuis, bear
ing the signature of "O. B.," containing
$300. The writer said: "I intended
keeping this money because the govern
ment owed it te me ; but, upon reflection,
I concluded that two wrongs did net make
a right." The money will be placed te the
credit of the conscience fund.
The result of the English elections yes
terday is the decisive defeat of the Beacons
field ministry. Lord Ilartingten, the Lib
eral leader, in a speech in Lancashire, said
that if a Liberal cabinet ,is te be formed
at once, the question of the premiership
should be decided by the party and the
wishes of the queen. The Right Hen.
William E. Gladstone was elected at Leeds,
receiving nearly 25,000 votes, or mere than
10,000 ever the highest number polled for
the Conservative caudidates.
Amaijogie, a Neapolitan monk, who
since the closing of monasteries had wan
dered about begging, has died in the hos
pital at Naples of injuries indicted by two
men who insisted en his telling them the
lucky number iu the forthcoming lottery.
On his disclaiming such powers, they
shockingly maltreated him, but in the hos
pital he mentioned the numbers 13 and G5.
This being published in the papers, num
bers of persons backed these figures while
etticrs backed 37, which in their cabala
signifies monk, and these three numbers
happened te win. The government will be
mulcted in two million lire through this
coincidence.
The following sent from Harrisburg te
the New Yerk Sun is important, but net
true : " I have just been told that Mr.
James McManes, of Phildclphia, a dele
gate at large, has made up his mind te
respect the almost unanimous desire of the
Republicans of the state, and has announc
ed his intention te vote for Blaine
en the first ballet. Nine of his colleagues
from Philadelphia will de the same, and
se will Tayler and nintner of Bucks and
Montgomery counties, Waddell and Gar-
side, of Chester and Delaware counties,
Eavffman and Seltzer, of Lancaster, and se
will every delegate from the northern tier
of counties from the Delaware te Lake
Eric."
The Kellogg Case.
Hnrrisburg Patriot.
The Spofford-Kellogg case stands en all
fours with the Butler-Cerbin case (from
Seuth Carolina) decided in favor of Butler
by a Republican Senate. Cerbin claimed
te have been elected by the Legislature of
Seuth Carolina uist as Kellogg claims te
have been chosen by the Legislature of
Louisiana. But Mr. Hayes refuses te rec
ognize the Legislature which elected Cor Cer
bin as a legal body and it fell te pieces.
He also withheld recognition from the
Legislature which elected Kellogg and
sent a commission with Wayne MacVcagh
of this state at its head te Louisiana te
arrange the organization of a legal Leg
islature. The result of Mr. MacVcagh's
mission was that the pretended Legis
lature which elected Kellogg disbanded
and left the Spofford Legislature master of
the situation. Hie Louisiana case is there
fore the precise counterpart of the Butler Butler
Cerbin case from Seuth Carolina. There
is net the slightest shade of difference be
tween them. But it may be said that the
Senate admitted Kellogg which settled
the matter irrevocably. The principle of
res adjudicata does net apply in this
instance, because a flagrant and palpa
ble wrong was done in the admission of
Kellogg. There is no court in Christen
dem which would refuse te open a judg
ment if it were clearly shown te have
been fraudulently obtained. Besides
the Senate is net strictly a court of law.
It must de equity as well as apply ' ab
stract principles of law and when a legal
abstraction is en the one side and equity
en the ether the Senate naturally and pro
perly must lean toward the latter. It is
clear that if the Senate did a lawful and
righteous act in admitting Butler as a
senator from Seuth Carolina, it committed
a grievous wrong in seating Kellogg. Cer
tainly the Senate can review its former ac
tion and correct the error into which it fell.
Mr. Spofford has as clear a claim te a seat
in the Senate as Mr. Butler of Seuth Caro
lina, or for that matter, at any ether sena
tor from any state and there ought te be
no further hesitation or delay in awarding
it te him.
A BOOM FOR BLAINE.
Kansas Instructs for the Plumed Knight of
Maine.
In the Kansas Republican state conven
tion the resolution naming the delegation
te the national convention passed by a
vote of 18S te 118. Mr. Merrill offered a
resolution nominating presidential electors
which was adopted, the Grant men refrain
ing from voting.
Among the resolutions adopted was the
follewing: "That James G. Blaine has
the confidence of the Republicans and
that we recognize in him a statesman
worthy te lead the national Republican
party te victory ; that he is the choice of
tnc Kepuencans et Kansas ter presi
dent of the United States, and that wc
pledge him our united support."
The convention adjourned at 1 :30 o'clock
a. m. and subsequently, during the morn
ing, delegates from the Third district met
in caucus and elected two delegates te
Chicago each received a majority of the
delegates in the district. They are both
Grant men and will claim seats in the Chi
cago convention. In the Second district
the same action was held.
Fire Recerd.
In Calhoun, McLean county, Ky., three
dry goods stores, three drag stores and
three or four ether business houses
were destroyed by fire. Less, $20,000;
insurance, $1,300.
In Bridgeport, Conn., a fire caused dam
age of $5,000 te O. F. Lingstri's shirt fac
tory, $5,000 te Couch & Werner's shoe fac
tory, and $3,500 te R. B. Stile's furniture
store ; mostly insured.
The Brown county (Tex.) court house
and jail were destroyed by fire. The coun
ty records were destroyed and several pris
oners burned te death. The less is esti
mated at $100,000. The fire was of incen
diary origin.
Oar Girls.
Frem the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Perhaps no class of persons come in for a
larger share of criticism in these days than
our American girls. While some of it may
be just and deserving, the bulk of it is un
just and an impertinence en the part of
scribblers who knew little of what they
write. One writer charges them as a class
"with being frivolous" "fend of show
and greedy for society." Anether says :
' It is dangerous for a young man te think
of matrimony, unless he has a fortune
at his disposal." Anether mourns
" for the days of simplicity of our
grandmothers." Doubtless each of these
carpers has personal reasons for his
complaint, for it is in the knowledge of
every observer that there are foolish,
frivolous American girls, just as there are
a multitude of young men whose mothers
blush for them. But, taken as a class,
every fair observer will brand the above
charges as false. Without detracting a
single honor, and in full belief of the
nobility and womanly virtues of our
grandmothers, we asert that the American
girl et te-day is her worthy successor
the licir te every womanly virtue. .Nay,
mere, she has, in addition te that inheri
tance, and under the broader civilization
and culture obtained through the open
doers of seminary and college, added
year by year unnumbered graces te the old
model. Fer can these virtues be classed
simply as impracticable and suited only te
hours of recreation ; they are of that sub-.
stantial character which enters into a lul-
fillmcnt of the premise, "It is net geed
that man should be alone ; I will make
him a help meet for him." It is a posi
tive misfortune that se many young men
misunderstand the nobility and the loy
alty of love that belongs te the American
girl, and defer matrimony " until they are
rich," until they "can furnish her such
a home," as her father through a long
struggle from poverty has made for
her. Thousands have made just such mis
takes. Instead of marrying for love and
working for their money, they seek the
money and somebody marries them be
cause they have obtained it. Thus a large
class are thrown, se te speak, upon the
market, for time-servers and fortune-seekers,
who appreciate mere the glitter of
diamonds and jewels than the fragrance of
the orange blossoms that ushers in the new
life. It is safe te say this condition is net
woman's cheesing. Left te her candid,
free choice, net tine woman in fifty
but will give her hand where her
heart has been wen, te a man whose no
bility of character and manhood has im
pressed itself upon her, rcgaidlessef any
accumulated wealth. Doubtless there are
myriads of old bachelors in comfortable
quarters who will go en dreaming of the
home of the future, but let them beware,
lest when that hoped-for day comes, they
find they are by education unfitted te en
joy it. That the young women of America
are frivolous, and refuse te share, willingly,
humble homes with honerable,lioncst men,
is an unjust accusation. The American girl
is the peer of any woman upon the glebe, or
any that has lived in the history of the
past. By the time-honored rules and con
ventionalities of society she modestly
awaits te be called te preside ever her
future home. Many thousand young men
in our cities and ever the land would have
been saved from vicious lives, new under
mining all their foundation of manhood,
had they earlier made their choice, and
taken into their counsels some honest,
cultivated, warm-hearted woman. Let
them forsake their evil ways and reform
ere it be everlastingly tee late.
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SHERMAN'S NINCOMPOOP BUREAU.
ASainjilc of the St nil' that is Sent Out from
the Washington Club Roem.
The Sherman club has employed a re
porter te prepare articles for publication
in the newspapers which are supposed te
be friendly te the Sheimati cause. Last
night two articles were prepared in the
club rooms and taken te the offices of cer
tain correspondents te be telegraphed te
their journals. The bearer of the para
graphs bore a letter te a well-known cor
respondent from the secretary of the club.
One of the news items of the Sherman club
is of such an interesting character that it
should be given general circulation. It is
as fellows :
" A gentleman from New Orleans says
that all the best men in the Republican
ranks of that city are for Sherman. The
followers of Grant are hungry political
wolves and the hoodlums of the city.
Pinchback who was in Washington jnet
long age begging the appointment of
naval officer of that pert, and who upon
refusal went away with curses and
threats in his mouth, has tapped a
bonanza silver mine some say it is by a
roundabout way through the prospec
tive marriage of Miss Floed te young
Grant and has started a Grant organiza erganiza
ti )n in that city. He is established in fine
quaiters, lets of clerks and mere money,
and is swinging out in a way that is calcu
lated te attract all the scum of that sec
tion. He has written a letter te President
Hayes expressing righteous indignation
against the office-holders there for alleged
violation of the civil service rules. It is
known that this is simply a screen te cover
up the operations of the Grant office-heldi
crs, who monopolize the places in
that city te a large extent, and
te cast odium en the Sherman
movement. There arc a few prominent
Grant men in that section of honest con
victions. One of them states that it is
very doubtful about Grant getting the ex
pected delegation from that state. He
says Sherman is overshadowing him. His
chances arc better than either of the ether
candidates."
The ether paragraph furnished by the
club pretends te give the views of a citizen
of Rochester, who says that he belongs te
the Manse association, 12,000 strong, the
members et winch are ter blicrmau solid.
The paragraph is abusive of Mr. Conkling.
FOREIGN NEWS.
.Events of Interest Beyond the Seas.
The Chilean iron-clad Huascar is bom
barding Arica three hours daily. A pait
of the town is burning. It is defended by
12,000 Peruvians, who have inflicted much
injury upon the Huascar.
King Geerge of Greece has warmly
thanked Mr. Charles Tuckerman, formerly
United States minister at Athens, for a
paper en the Greek frontier question, which
he prepared some time age ter the consid
eration of the mixed commission.
Several thousand men in the building
trade in Liverpool have struck against a
reduction of a half penny an hour in their
wages.
M. Teisscircnc de Bert has tendered his
resignation of the Vienna embassy from
France en the ground of ill health. It is
expected that Admiral Pothueu, French
ambassador te England, will shortly re
sign that pest.
15,000 Chinese troops have crossed the
eastern Russian frontier at Ussuri, south
ei the Ameer, and el),UU0 are concentrated
en the western frontier.
M. Dcsprez, the French ambassador te
the Vatican, has delivered his credentials
te the Pepe in state. The Pepe has sent
Mgr. Ceiegnesi en an extraordinary mis
sion te the Mexican government.
An explosion of fire damp occurred en
Wednesday in a colliery at Anderlues,
Belgium. The number of lives lest is un
known, but twenty corpses have already
been recovered. There were 150 persons
in the pit at the time of the disaster.
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The Minnesota Case.
The Heuse committee en elections de
cided yesterday G te 5 that -Mr. Wash
burn was net entitled te the seat from
the Third district of Minnesota, and also
8 te 4 that Ignatius Dennelly, the con
testant, was net entitled te the seat. The
majority of the committee will report te
the Heuse that the seat is vacant, and
recommended the holding of a new elec
tion by the people of the district. Reprc Reprc
senative Keifer will present a minority re
port in favor of Washburn.
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TjATKST NEWS BY MAIL.
In executive session the Senate rejected
the nomination of Alexander C. Wells,
seu of J. Madisen Wells, te be surveyor
of customs in New Orleans.
Edward Casement, twenty-seven yeais
old, was killed yesterday at Lonsdale
Mills, Providence, R. I., by falling through
a trap deer.
Jehn L. Graham, a drug clerk, out of
place, out of money and without friends,
killed himself by poison at Seuth Nor Ner
walk, Coun., yesterday.
Building contractors at Lewell have at J
ceded te the demands of their men, and
will pay bricklayers $1.50 and hed carriers
$1.50 per day.
Henry Lewell, a well-known contractor,
committed suicide iu Galveston, Texas, by
sheeting himself through the head. "A
note was found en his person saying that
bad, health and inability te pay his debts
were the causes of the act.
While engaged in constructing an iron
bridge across the Hudsen river at Lansing
burg, this morning, ten men were precipi
tated forty-seven feet into the liver by the
breaking of a scaffold. Three of the men
were badly but net seriously injured, and
one lest an eye. Werk en the bridge has
been temporarily suspended.
A detachment of Hall's state treups had
a fight en the morning of March 29, at
Cary & Case's ranch with Mexican des
peradoes. The rangers attempted te arrest
an offender, and were attacked. Thirty
shots were exchanged and two Mexicans
were killed and one wounded. A young
man named Peter Johnsten, recently from
Philadelphia, was killed by a stray bullet.
Near Comstock, Kalamazoo county,
Mich., Andrew Brown, a farmer, eidered
his daughter-in-law, who had been de
serted by her husband, te leave his house.
Her father and some neighbors came and
asked that she be allowed te take sonic
furniture with her, whereupon a fight en
sued, in which Brown shot a man named
Jehn Dunbar twice through the lungs,
killing him. A mob gathered and threat
ened te lynch Brown, but he barricaded
himself in the house and they feaicd te
approach. Subsequently the deputy sheriff
effected an entrance and found Brown
lying en the bed, having taken nitrate of
silver. Physicians will try te save him for
the gallows.
Ben Jehnsen, a young negre, who was
arrested in Winchester, Ky., for an at
tempt te outrage a respectable young lady,
had an examining trial and was held te
answer te the circuit court and sent te
jail. He had caught the bridle of the
young lady's house at a lonely place along
a read and made desperate efforts te get
her off the horse, but she struck her with
her whip and escaped. It was with diffi
culty that the negre was taken te jail.
aoeuc one e clock yesterday morning a
crowd of thirty armed men overpowered
the guard at the jail, took Jehnsen, and,
after trying in vain te get a confession
from him, hung him te a tree in the jail
yard, where his body was found next mor
ning. .
The Bordentown, N. J., ex-Collector of
Taxes G. Warner English arose at 5 a. m.
yesterday, and went te his barn, ostensi
bly te feed his horse and cow. At 6 o'clock
his son went out te call him te breakfast
and found him, with a rope around his
neck, hanging from a beam. His hands
were in his pockets, and life seemed te be
extinct. Efferts were, however, made te
resuscitate him," but in vain. The dead
man, who was about forty years of age,
had been tax collector of the town for three
years, during which time he made no set
tlement. The township committee have
lately endeavored te force a settlement,
without success. A c't'zens' committce
was appointed, and finally he agreed te
pay $5,000 te-day. It is said that he was
unable te raise the money.
STATJS ITEMS.
Jimmy Carney, aged six years, of
Beaver Falls, Beaver county, was en jts
terday evening kicked by a horse belong
ing te Dr. Liscomb and his skull fractured.
Ne hope is entertained of his recovery.
The jury in the case of Rebert Butler, of
Bradford, who shot his brother in a drunk
en quarrel en the 7th of last October,
while the latter was paying him a visit, re
turned a verdict of murder in the second
degree. The court sentenced the prisoner
te eight years' solitary confinement in the
Western penitentiary at Allegheny.
A new locomotive for the Bound Broek
line is te be delivered this week, which is
contracted for as calculated te make a
maximum speed of seventy-five miles an
Jieur, and te average regularly net less
thau sixty-five miles an hour. The diame
ter of the driving wheels is five feet six
inches, but the Pennsylvania company has
a new engine with five feet six inches in
diameter, which it is alleged can equal or
surpass this.
Anether Heautifu Care.
A rival of the Mammoth cave has been
discovered near Hepkinsrillc, Kentucky.
A perfect museum of geological curiosities
is described as existing in it. A beautiful
forest of lapidodendrens forty feet high,
tree ferns, messes and ether cryptegamic
flora exist in abundance. Marine shells
and the fossil remains of animals resem
bling monkeys have been found by the ex
plorers of this cave. Three different
routes have been gene ever te a distance
of eleven miles. The main avenue has an
average width of sixty feet, with a height
of forty.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
BURGLARS ABOUT.
Peter Jehns's Residence " Cracked."
On Wednesday night thieves visited the
premises of Peter Jehns, in East Lam
peter township. The shutters of a window
in the back part of the house had been left
open and by breaking off the window fast
ener they effected an entrance. While they
were in the house Mr. Jehns, arose, and,
hearing his footsteps, the robbers fled, tak
ing with them a pair of beets and a hat.
They had gathered together a number of
ether articles for the purpose of tak
ing them also, but they were left behind.
The thieves made very little noise, and Mr.
Jehns get out of bed because he was un
able te sleep, little thinking that the house
had been broken into. As it was, the robbers
were frightened off before they secured
much of value.
Trying te Steal a Keg.
Yesterday James Gable went te Law
rence Knapp's saloon, en East King street,
and told one of the employees that
he had been sent there for a keg
of ale by a well-known firm of
this city. The man went te speak
te Mr. Knapp about it, and while he
was gene Gable picked up an empty half
barrel and was going away with it, when
he was seen and caught y one of the men.
He was handed ever te Officer Derwart
and was committed, in default of bail, by
Alderman Barr. Anether man, who was
with Gable, escaped.
Station Agent Appointed.
Benjamin Mcllinger has been appointed
station agent at Baumgardner's en the
Quarryville railroad in place of Andrew
Mehaffey, resigned.
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THE "FIRST.'
The Business or Yesterday.
Frem information gathered from the
national banks and private banking houses,
from county officials and principal mer
chants, it is evident that yesterday was a
mere satisfactory First of April in a finan
cial and business sense than any that has
preceded it for many years past. Although
the throng upon the streets appeared less
dense than we have seen in former years,
a greater number of the crowd "meant
business," and the result of is that bank
ing transactions and transfers of deeds,
judgments, mortgages, releases, &c, was
greater than ever before.
We learn from the "prothenotary that
the number of judgments entered in his
office yesterday was 352, being 11 mere
than were entered last year, and very con
siderably mere than were entered any
ether previous year, within the recollec
tion of the eldest clerk iu the office (Mr.
W. E. Kreider), who has been familiar
with the business of the office for fifteen
years. But while the number of judg
ments entered is larger, the rate of interest
paid is less than ever before much of it
being at 4 and 4 per cent, instead of 5 and
G per cent, heretofore paid. There were
also many transfers of judgments entered
in the prothenotary's office, an immense
number of releases (mere than ever be
fore), which shows a healthy condition of
the real estate market. By close applica
tion the prothenotary and his clerks com
pleted their hard day's werkbyll:30p. m.,
by which time they hud every official docu
ment duly recorded, and then Capt. Mc
Mellen, the prothenotary, took his force te
Miller's restaurant where they were enter
tained sumptuously.
In the office of the recorder of deeds yes
terday were entered 110 deeds, 52 mort
gages, 75 transfers and satisfactions, and
' searchers " were made ad infinitum.
Only one deed of of assignment was enter
ed yesterday another evidence of the
healthy condition of trade. Fer several
days preceding the First of April a heavy
business was done in the Recorder's office
principally in entering deeds and mert
gages.
The county commissioners and their
clerk, Mr. Will, were very busy yesterday,
and indeed every day during the present
week, in issuing 4 per cent, bends te re
place the 5 per cent bends new falling due.
On Monday $8G,000 in bends were issued
and yesterday 5l)U,UUU were issued. In a
short time all the 5 per cents will be re
deemed or replaced with 4 per cents.
The commissioners have offers of much
mere money than they need, anil it is pie-
baely tli at if further leans should be
needed they can be negotiated as low as 4
per cent.
The county treasurer and his clerk, Mr.
Warfcl, have, of course, been kept busy in
taxing and paying interest en the bends
issued by the commissioners. The num
ber of bends issued within the past few
days was 178, in sums ranging from $100 te
$15,750. The transactions were largest
en Monday, when 5 per cent, bends,
amounting te $127,000. were exchanged
for 4V per cent. The amount of cash
handled in the county treasurer's office
yesterday was about $35,000.
The cashier of the Farmers national
bank informs us that the transactions at
that institution yesterday were larger than
en any one day within the 27 years he has
been connected with it. The whole busi
ness foots up about $1,250,000. The de
posits were especially heavy, and while the
discounts were also very large, thcre was
comparatively little trouble in negotiating
them ; money is plenty and borrowers gen
erally came prepared with approved sure
ties. The ofliccrsef the Lancaster County na
tional bank and the First national bank
also report heavier transactions than ever
before, and an easy condition of the mar
ket. Although there was a constant, press
ure en "the part of customers, everything
worked smoothly and satisfactorily, both
te the banks and their patrons. The
County bank furnishes no figures, and the
First national states its transactions te be,
approximately, $700,000.
The private banking houses report
money very plenty, deposits heavy and
discounts comparatively light lighter
than they have been the 1st of April
in former years. This is accounted for by
the increased number of banking houses in
the country towns, where much of the local
business formerly done in this city is new
transacted, and also by the large sums of
money that has fallen into the hands of
farmers and ethers, through the sale of
last year's immense tobecco crop, thus
rendering many of them independent of
the money-lenders.
All in all the pcople of Lancaster county
may be congratulated en the flourishing
condition in which they find themselves in
thcspring of 1S80.
O nicer Installed.
The following officers of Lancaster
Ledge, Ne. G7, I. O. O. F. were installed
last evening by P. G. M. Jehn Levergood.
N. G. Gee. S Flick.
V. G. Daniel S. Merig.
Secretary. Gee. Spurrier.
Assist Secretary. II. L. Frailey.
Treasurer. Gee. Gundakcr.
Trustee. R. M. Merrow.
This ledge is in a flourishing condition,
having 34G membe'rs, and having paid for
the relief of its members during the past
year the sum of $2,G05.15. Assets $17,
915.74. Bills Fer Ceal.
The water committee yesterday opened
the bids for supplying the water works
with coal from April 1 te July 1, 1880.
There were but two bids, as fellows :
Gerrccht & Ce $3.24
Stewart & Sen 2.99
The contract was awarded te Stewart &
Sen.
Window Pane Broken.
Last evening a bootblack threw a stone
at another boy en Seuth Queen street and
it broke a large window pane in the store
of Charles Edwards, next deer te the In
TEi.LiGENcnn office. Beys who threw
stones en the streets should be arrested, as
a number of windows have recently been
broken by them.
Diphtheria.
Diphtheria prevails te an alarming ex
tent in the vicinity of Springville. Four
pupils of one public school about a mile
West of Springville have died from the
disease within a week, aud many mere
children in the vicinity arc mere or less se
verely affected With it.
Sales of Personal Properly.
L. D. Gallagher, auctioneer, Mount Jey,
sold, during the past six weeks, per
sonal property amounting in the aggregate
te 880,000, at prices SO per cent, higher
than was obtained last year. Pretty geed
for a country auctioneer.
NEIGHBORHOOD AEWS.
Events Acress the County Liu.
Five frame houses and their nnntpnta
were destroyed by fire in Shrewsbury,
erK county, at an early hour yesterday
morning.
William J. Robinson, an aged and influ
ential citizen of Dauphin, fell a few days
age and injured himself te such an extent
that he died yesterday.
Rev. C. B. Shultz, pastor of the Mera
vian church, this city, will occupy the
pulpit of the Reformed church, Third and
Chestnut streets, Harrisburg, next bun
day. On Sunday evening last Sallic Robinson
(colored) while en a visit te friends en
Merchant street, Coatesville, met with a
paiuful accident. It appears that in the
act of going down stairs her feet caught,
throwing her with great force te the bot
tom of the stairs, where she lauded en a
het stove, which inflicted an ugly wound
in her side, besides bruising her body in
many ether places. The stove was entire
ly demolished.
A report of the disceveiy of a murder
after many years comes from Fredericks
burg, Lebanon county. A skeleton has
been found under a bed of hen house dirt
that has been accumulating for years. The
skeleton is that of a young man. It is new
recollected that a young man named
Crocker suddenly and mysteriously disap
peared March 10, 18G9, and that just be
fore that date he had been unmereifully
assulted by a citizen of that place. Crei-kcr
came te that section in 1SG8, and was an
entire stranger. The skeleton was found
when an old pig sty was tern down a part
of which had been used as a hen house.
It is alleged that Crocker was murdered
for a dollar by an envious person, anil the
body hidden away. An investigation will
be made.
Complimentary.
We are in receipt of a copy of the
Tewanda, Bradford county. Journal, con
taining the following complimentary no
tice of the recently established business
enterprise of a young gentleman formerly
of this city. His many friends here will
rejoice in the evidence of his abundant
prosperity in his new home :
The most recently organized of any
of our business houses is the merchant
tailoring and furnishing goods house of
W. II. Peel, which, after all, is really
successor te J. Deutrich. When Mr.
Deutrieh closed out business here, the last
of January, Mr. Peel took possession of
his salesroom but did net buy
any of his stock. All of the
goods that have since been placed en
exhibition were selected in the Eastern
markets, especially for this trade, and even
at the risk of this brief notice being called
a "puff" we must congratulate Mr. Peel
upon the taste shown in selections. It is
evidently his desire te cater te a class of
trade that requires the br st, and he has
prepared accordingly.
Mr. Peel is by no means a novice iu the
business. Fer a number of years he has
had practical experience as a cutter here
and elsewhere, and he personally attends ts
that department. In and out of the heuse
he gives employment te eleven persons,
already, and this force will doubtless be in
creased materially as the season advances.
At all events the house is a credit te To Te
wanda and should be liberally sustained.
MAYOR'S COURT.
A Full Heuse A Whole l-umily Seek Shelter.
This morning the mayor had before him
six cases of drunken and disorderly con
duct, one of whom he committed for ten
days, two for five days cacii, one was fined ,
and the ethers discherged. Nine ledgers
were also discharged. Among them were
Jehn Lynch, stone cutter, his wife and live
children (one at the breast) who were
turned out of house and home jesterday
by virtue of a landlord's warrant, and hav
ing nowhere else te go sought shelter in
the station-heuf e. Lynch, it appears, was
a tenant at will, occupying a house in High
street which had been let by the owner
te another family. He had rented another
house, but for some reason, satisfactory te
the owner, he was refused admission into
it.
Stelen Team Rocercrail.
The team belonging te Jehn Wissier.
which was stolen yesterday morning from
in front of the Leepard hotel was recovered
late in the afternoon by Michael Metzger,
inn-keeper near Witmcr's bridge. The
team was in possession of two boys, named
Fisher and Coulman, aud as Mr. Metzger
knew the team te be Wissler's. he arrested
them, brought them te the city and turned
them ever te the police. The boy Fisher,
who is a son of P. II. Fisher, was released
en bail, and Coulman was locked up for a
hearing. When first arrested Fisher stoutly
declared that the "horse belonged te his
uncle, of Ephrata, who leaned it te him.
Fisher is about 14 years old and Coul
man 11.
Charged With KeDberjr.
Yesterday afternoon Jehn Smith, ;t
countryman, was stepped en Middle street
by Margaret Themas, a colored woman,
who knew him for some time, he says.
lie had a handkerchief in his coat pocket,
in which was tied something ever $3.
After talking sometime with the woman
she asked him te "set 'cm up." He was
willing te de , but when he looked for
his money he found that it was gene, He
accused the woman of stealing it and had
her arrested. She was taken before Alder
man Dennelly of the Seventh ward, who
held her in bail for a hearing en Saturday.
A Rough Customer.
Leuis Reidcnbach get drunk yesterday
and created a disturbance at the Park
stock hotel en the New Helland pike, near
McGrann's park. Officers Adams and
Lcntz jwere sent for te arrest him, but he
proved te be a stubborn customer, resist
ing the officers and refusing te go along
with them. A wagon was procured and
he was lifted into it, but seizing the lines
he drew the horse shortly te one side,
upset the wagon, broke the shafts anil
kicked the dasher te pieces. lie was finally
overpowered and locked up for a hearing
en 3Ienday next before Alderman McCon McCen McCon
emy. Lititz Springs.
- A correspondent of the Lititz Recerd
furnishes it with the following calculation
of the water flowing from Lititz spring:
Number of gallons thrown out in one min
ute, 4,287, or G3 hogsheads ; number of
gallons in one day, G, 20-1,1 CO, or 87, 920
hogsheads ; number of gallons in one year
at this rate, 2,34G,419,400. This would fill
a basin, having an area of one mile square,,
te the death of a little mere than 11 J feet,
Change of Base.
Alderman Spurrier is te-day moving his
office te the parlor of the old Yeates
mansion, Seuth Queen street, a few doers
below his former location.
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