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Lancaster intelligencer.
SATUBDAY FVENING, APRIL 10, 1880.
A Disgusting spectacle.
Somebody in Philadelphia has gene te
the trouble te prepare a petition te Gov Gov
ereor Heyt, asking him te remove Secre.
tary of State Quay,uien the ground that
he was shown by the testimony taken be
fore the legislative committee of inquiry
into the riot bill bribery matter, te
have been one of the chief lobby agents
engaged in that nefarious business. The
petition assumes that such a man should
net be secretary of the state of Pennsyl
vania and a member of the pardoning
beard which decides upon the application
of his convicted fellow criminals for par
don. The petition further asks the gev"
erner te resist the effort that is being
made te remove from office the attorney
general because he will net assent te
Kemble's pardon.
This petition has net been prepared,
as we assume, with any idea that it wiU
avail te present it te Governer Ileyt,
but with the intent te expose in
this shape the association of Secre
tary Quay with the convicted criminals
and te invite the attention of the people
te the abominable fact that the secretary
of state, a member of the pardon beard,
was a confederate of criminals whom lie
has voted te pardon. Ne one probably
is foolish enough te think that Governer
Ileyt is capable of expelling Quay, who
is his master. In all the discussion that
has taken place about the pardon of
Kemble it has occurred te no one te sug
gest that Gov. Ileyt would disregard a
recommendation of the pardoning beard
in Kemble's behalf. It is known that
there is none of the Reman virtue about
him that would lead him te give his
. friend ever te justice, and the only sur
prising thing about his connection with
the matter has been the fact that he
stumbled upon an attorney general who
had se much self-respect as te refuse te
be the instrument of these self-confessed
criminals and te decline the heavy bribe
with which they would have seduced him
from his plain duty.
If Pennsylvania had net been before
new se deeply disgraced by the evil char
acter of her officials, the fact that such a
scoundrel as Quay filled the secretary
ship of state would be very mortifying,
but we have get se used te the sensation
that it has lest the power te disturb us.
"With the fatalists of the East we ex
claim, "It is the will of Ged!" And
we resign ourselves te the contempt of
the world, knowing that we deserve it
and feeling powerless te avoid it. Just
hew long the people of the state will en
dure that it should be such a spectacle
among its sisters we dare net say. They
have endured se much villainy in high
places that it is net easy te say what
quantity or degree of it will disgust
them. They may net be moved even by
the scandal of the contempt cast by the
bribery convicts upon the courts of jus
tice, and the horrible revelation that
they plead guilty because they were
premised an immediate pardon before
entering the walls of the jail.
All these com icts tell this story. " De
yu think," s-ays one, '"that we would
net have taken the chance of escape
offered by a trial,if we had net been prom prem
ised a pardon ?' And it appears that they
could net have lest mere by a trial than
they new lese if they are net pardoned.
But there were ethers that would have
suffered. Among them was Quay. The
pardon offered needed the concurrence
of the governor and of Quay, Palmer
and Dunkel ; all were anxious te give it
but Palmer. They counted tee surely
en bulldozing him. Knewing the influ
ence they commanded they did net think
that he would dare te resist. They prom prem
ised Kemble and deceived him. He
declines te take any mere chances and
proposes te escape a jail by staying out
of the state until Palmer can be get out
of the attorney generalship after the
election. This is the spectacle offered te
the people. "Will it disgust them 1J
Senater Voeriiees thinks that "West
Point cadets are very bad boys and much
addicted te brutal practices. He ex
presses surprise that the cadets live
through the experiments they are called
upon te undergo. He seems te refer te
the tyranny practised by the elder cadets
.towards the members of the first class,
and the tales that are told of their per
formances are certainly startling te peo
ple who de net leek at things through
"West Point spectacles. Generally the
cadets themselves applaud these peculiar
practices, even while they suffer from
them. They accept them as established
customs of the institution, calculated
te teach them Spartan endurance, and
fair enough all around, since, as the years
roll en, the persecuted becomes in turn a
persecutor. If the young men like the
fun, and both victims and victimized are
content, Senater Voorhees wastes his
sympathy upon them. There is, how
ever, in "West Point management, a le
gitimate field for his indignation, and it
lies in the tyranny of the government.
Cadet life is supposed te be happy; it is in
fact anything else. The cadets are close
ly confined for four years upon a few
acres of ground, and the restrictions put
upon them give their life as close a re
semblance te a penitentiary existence as
can well be imagined.
The Northern raciuc railroad en
counters formidable opposition in Cen
gress te the granting of its demand for
the extension of the time for the cemple
tien of the read, which expires next
January. Ne geed reason exists why
this additional time should be given.
The aid which the government has
already given the read and which it has
utilized has been enough te set it en its
feet and it ought te be able te take care
of itself. Of course if the nation will
give it still further assistance it will be
very welcome te the owners of the stock
and the speculators who have already
made se much money out of it. They
should be content with the profits already
realized from the immense advance in
the price, of the stock. If the nation
wants te make a gift te anybody connect
ed it should be te the original investors
in the railway, who took Its stock from
Jay Coeke and saw it become almost
valueless in their hands. The present
holders .e the stock have no claim en
the nation's generosity. The lands they
demand should be reserved for the bene
fit of the national tre:isury.
The Intelligencer has published
already seven or eight columns of the
comments of its contemporaries upon
Judge Patterson's opinion in the disbar
ment case. Tiiey represent Republican,
Democratic, Independent and neutral
journals, and almost uniformly con
demn the action of the court, net be
cause of any political sympathy with
nor personal interest in the editors of
the Intelligencer., but because the
position of Judge Patterson involves a
travesty of constitutional law, an anom
aly in jurisprudence, and a blew
as the freedom of the press and the inde
pendence of the bar. These comments
have been read with interest, and when
we tell our readers that we have twenty
columns additional of this matter clip
ped from our exchanges, they can form
an idea of the wide-spread importance
attaching te the case. It is manifestly
impossible, however, for the Intelli
gences te accommodate the republica
tion of these expressions of popular sen
timent without enlarging or publishing
an extra, and hereafter we shall be
obliged te print only such portions of the
views of our contemporaries as fairly
expresses the gist of their opinion.
Judge Patterson has had a week te
find out ' what the people think of his
opinion.' "We are satisfied if he. is.
PERSONAL.
Pkocter Knett is of the opinion that
Tilden is net the best man for the Demo
cratic nomination.
General Grant visited Molfile yesterday
accepted the hospitalities of the cotton ex
change, afterward held a reception for col
ored people at the United States court room
and returned te New Orleans last night.
Samuel .1. Tilden sent his check for
$5,000 te Eugene Kelly & Ce. yesterday,
with the request that it be forwarded te
the account of the Duchess of Marlborough
Irish relief fund. This is Mr. Tildcn's
second contribution. The first was also
$5,000
The ex-Empress Eugenie, before start
ing for Zululand, presented her imperial
crown te the church of Notre Dame des
Victeires, Paris. It is of great value en
account of its artistic composition and the
number of precious stones it contains. She
left it behind, with most of her valuables,
in her hurried flight from the Tuilleries,
but in the subsequent arrangement of her
afl'airs, after the commune, it wns restored
te her.
The Democratic county committee meet
ing in Yerk yesterday was a particularly
full one and considerable feeling prevailed.
All resolutions were tabled, and there was
no expression of presidential preference.
W. F. Bay Stewart was elected senatorial
delegate; A. "W. Hetrick, Jehn J. Ilics
tand, Jehn Geisey and "William Heltzel.
representative delegate. They will all
support Cuaiwccy F. 15lck for delegate
te the national convention.
Mrs. Frances Hodgsen Bvisniitt, the
novelist, has gene te Niagara Falls te have
her feet en Canadian soil when her new
novel, 'Louisiana," is published in Lon Len Lon
eon, se as te get the benefit of the British
copyright law. She will stay only se long
as this object requires, and en her return
she proposes te take her first glimpse at
New England, staying for a few days with
friends in Springfield. Mrs. Burnett is
new engaged en a new work, the publica
tion of which will probably begin in
Scribncr's Magazine next autumn.
Alteena Sun : "The suggestion of the
name of Hen. A. II. Dill, of Union
county, for the position of chairman of the
state Democratic committee seems, as it
should, te meet with general favor. The
gallant leader of the Democracy in the
last gubenaterial contest ; the representa
tive of no faction ; brave, generous and
capable, he is the man te harmonize and
consolidate all jarring and conflicting
interests in the party and lead it in an in
vincible and unbroken phalanx te a grand
victory."
The queen of England cannot move from
her little isle without rumors of marriage
being afloat. In England as well as in
Germany it is thus new believed that a
marriage is in contemplation between the
Princess Beatrice and the Duke of
Baden, because the queen and princess are
going te remain a short time in that most
intoxicating of European watering places,
Baden-Baden. But as the queen and
princess are said te be afterwards coming
te spend a month in Italy in the charming
villa which they visited last year, it is here
rumored that the Princess Beatrice is going
te be married te Prince Themas of Savey.
Last year she was, according te rumors, te
be married te Prince Amadee, King Hum
bert's brother, who is a widower and ex
king of Spain.
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A DASTARDLY CRIME.
An Aged Female murderously Assulted
by a Housebreaker.
Mrs. Rachel Smith, a widow, aged sev
enty yeais, who resides alone with her
daughter en the Greensburg pike, near
Adamsburg, "Westmoreland county, will
probably die from injuries received at the
hands of an unknown man, supposed te be
a burglar, .who, forced his way into the
house by battering down the deer. The
daughter escaped by jumping through a
window te the perch and rolling off te the
ground, falling a distance of twelve feet
and sustaining serious though net fatal
injuries. She gave the alarm and the
neighbors hurried te the house, there te
find Mrs. Smith weltering in her bleed,
unconscious anil with a deep gash in her
head. The would-be murderer, however,
had fled and has net yet been captured.
Considerable money was known te be in
the house and doubtless prompted the
deed.
Nobody's, Chattel.
Northern Tier Reporter.
The Democratic pai ty of the state of
Pennsylvania or of any ether state in the
Union is net a personal chattel. Our lie
publican friends may beast of their
Camerons and their Cenklings, but
the Democracy want no such lead
ers. A party te be successful
should dictate te its captains and net
fellow the lead of an ambition premted
by selfishness. "Were it net for these
things, Pennsylvania would be Democratic
te-day, and her vote be given beyond all
perad venture te the nominee of the Cin
cinnati convention this fall. The delegates
te the state convention, which convenes
this month, have an important duty te
perform and an independence te express
which may reflect honor te themselves and
inure te the success of their political principles.
MINOR TOPICS.
The centennial anniversary of the birth
of Dr. Themas Chalmers has been ob
served with much enthusiasm in Scotland.
It is proper that Presbyterians of the
United States should take some notice of
an event of se much interest te the whole
church.
Ex-Governer Edwin D. 3Iergan has
net only given $100,000 te purchase a li
brary for the Union theological seminary,
in New Yerk, but he has presented $23,000
te the cye and car infirmary, and has do
nated liberal sums for extinguishing the
indebtedness of Dr. Spring's old brick
church society. His friends say that he
has given a quarter of a million dollars for
charitable purposes within a year.
The "Jerusalem Chamber" in "West
minster Abbey is a place of great histori histeri
interest. There sat the "Westminster as.
sembly when forming the confessions and
catechisms which Presbyterians accept
there sat convocation when busy with the
revised prayer book and then in our day
sits the gathering of divines and scholars
who are diligently revising the English
version of the Hely Scriptures. It is a
famous chamber.
The Moravian complains that the statis
tics of its church have net been correctly
given in some quarters. It says: "The
Moravian church in this country had a
membership of 9,491 at the close of 1879,
an increase of 84 en the number for the
previous year. The scholars in the Sunday
schools number 8,820, an increase of 303."
Previous statistics gave the membership as
8,212 and the number of the scholars as
7,803, thus excluding the membership of
the Southern province.
It docs net appear likely that the coming
Methodist general conference will take anv
action concerning modification of the sys
tem of itineracy. Thus far only one an
nual conference, the New Yerk East, has
recommended any change, and although
the conviction is rapidly gaining ground
that a change permitting longer pastorates
is desirable, the friends of the movement
de net believe that a very large minority
of the general conference would vote for
it.
The dual funeral at Calvary church, New
Yerk, en "Wednesday, of Herman D. Aldrich
and Rebert II. McCurdy, two of the eldest
merchants in that city,has been announced.
They came te New Yerk early in this cen
tury one from Connecticut and the ether
from Orange county, NewYerk. They found
employment together, and after reaching
their majority went into the dry goods'
business with a partner. In 1837 the two
senior members drew out with $1,000,000
each and retired, living in adjoining houses.
Mr. McCurdy died en Monday afternoon
at -1 o'clock, and Mr. Aldrich en the same
afternoon at 3 o'clock. Death in both
cases was the result of heart disease, and
the former was kept in ignorance of the
hitter's death. They were interred in ad ad ad
joiuiugllets. The New Yerk Observer says : "We arc
entering upon a fierce political campaign.
At present the fight is as te the men who
shall lead the contending forces. In a few
weeks the two parties will be in battle ar
ray. The pulpit has its part te perform.
It is net a disintcrected factor. But if the
pulpit has brains as well as heart, a con
science and judgment as well as feeling, it
will employ its power te calm the passions
te restrain the rashness and suppress the
violence of the hour. It is net our busi
ness te dictate in matters of taste or any
ether, and we knew very well that every
minister will judge for himself as te hew
much of politics he will mingle with the
gospel in his pulpit. Te his own Master
he stand and falls. But te our minds there
is something surpassingly unbecoming in a
preacher of the everlasting gospel, profes
sing te knew nothing save Jesus Christ
and Him crucified, courting the applause
of the pews by preaching a man for politi
cal office, though that office be the high
est en earth I"
Hopeless Ignorance Enlightened,
riiiladelehia Times, Ind.
Th public press Js generally taking a liand
in "trying" Judge l'attersen ler debarring
Stenman and Hensel of the Intelligences
They mostly bring bim in "guilty" et doing
what lie ought net te have done, -which may be
true, but -whether he had a right -se te de u e
propose net te decide, but wait and see what
the supreme court will have te say as te the
law. ft appears te be popular te denounce
him as a modern Jeffrcys.jer a judicial as,vith
the newspaper fraternity. We will accept the
judgment of the court of last resort as mere
likely te construe the law, than our news
paper brethren. Lancaster JExaminer.
The foregoing is the nearest an apology
or excuse for Judge Patterson's summary
dismissal of Messrs. Steiuman and Hensel
from the bar, that we have noticed in any
of the public journals which have discussed
the subject. We quote it mainly te cor
rect what seems te be the pcnetentially sub
missive inclination f the lawyer-editor of
the Examiner. It is barely possible that
the supreme court may construe the act of
1830 as Judge Patterson construes it. It
is the business of the court of last resort te
interpret laws and net te enact them, and
there may be such severe construction
of laws te preserve the harmony
of judical construction throughout a
complete system et legal jurispru
dence ; but no lawyer or editor who isn't
stone blind in his reasoning faculties will
opine for a moment that the supreme
sovereign authority of the state will net
promptly reverse the supreme court, should
the despotic judicial powers assumed by
Judge Patterson be sustained. The Legis
lature certainly believed that the act of
1830 protected the freedom of the press in
exactly such cases as that of Stcinman and
Hensel, and if the law shall be technically
perverted te strike at the very corner
stone of that freedom the Legis
lature will promptly revise the powers of
the judges, as it has been compelled te
revise them several times in the past. The
courts and the press are two of the most
essential attributes of our boasted civiliza
tion, and each has distinctive duties and
prerogatives. The judges must have the
amplest power te enforce process and te
maintain their dignity and authority, and
the press must have the amplest freedom
in the legitimate criticism of judicial as
well as all ether public wrongs. There is
no conflict between them, save when judi
cial ignorance or arrogance attempts te
silence freedom of discussion, and the
rights of both will be jealously guarded by
the people of the commonwealth.
The Ring of Geed Metal.
Cambria Freeman.
At the convention of the Democracy of
Erie county last week the following sensi
ble resolution was adopted :
"Resolved. That we condemn and de
neunce the tyrannical practice of compel
ling a state delegation te a national con
vention te vote as a unit for any candidate,
because it ignores the right of the minor
ity and transforms each delegate from an
independent and true representative of tha
people into a gagged and manacled one
man tool. And that we earnestly request
the Erie county delegates te the ensuing
Democratic state convention te use every
honorable effort te secure an uninfluenced
delegation of wise, able and independent
men te the national convention at Cincin
nati." If ether counties would imitate the ex
ample which has been set by Erie, it
would simplify matters amazingly at the
state convention, and we would possibly
net hear any mere silly talk about ""Wal
lace men," or "Randall men," or any
ether man's men, but only of men who,
above and beyond all ether considerations,
are devoted te the triumphant success of
the Democratic party.
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ST. PETER'S HANDlrtUTING.
The Story of a Manuscript Said te Hare Been
Written by the Fisher of Galilee.
Proof of Its Antiquity.
The British and foreign Bible society
deny the allegations of certain Italian
papers that they have sent out a commis
sion te inquire into the authenticity of a
manuscript supposed te be written by Peter
the apostle, or that they have ever offered
any sum for its possession. The allega
tions appeared in the Seminarate and Fiac
cola, Protestant Evangelical journals pub
lished at Reme, and, according te their
statement, was copied by them from the
Sabaeth, an organ of the Jewish commu
nity printed at Jerusalem, where the manu
script written by the hand of the Apostle
l'eter is saul te have been discovered. On
July 13, 1879, se runs the account, there
died in Jerusalem, in the 110th year of his
age, a reputedly peer man of the name of
Cere. Fer fifty years he had led the life of
a hermit in a grotto at the feet of the hill
of Gcthscmane, enjoying for the greater
part of that period a saintly reputation and
looked upon by Christians as one of the
holiest of men, as in outward appearance
he was one of the poorest. When his death
became known and it was ascertained that
no kinsfolk claimed his effects and that he
had left no will, the local authorities took
possession of his grotto. On entering they
were surprised te find it furnished with
censiderable luxury. Magnificent tiger
skins were spread ever the fleer and the
anchorite's bed was composed of costly
furs. Underneath the skins a trap-deer
was discovered, leading te an under
ground apartment, sixteen feet square and
twelve feet high. In one corner of this
room steed an iron bound oaken chest.
AVith some difficulty it was broken open,
when out rolled a stream of bread pieces of
vaiieus dates, countries and denominations
English sovereigns and shillings, French
geld and silver, Turkish sequins and
Mexican dollars of a total value, as was
estimated, of 3,000. This sum was sup
posed te be the produce of the alms and
oblations which the holy man had received
from the credulous faithful during the
half century of his saintly seclusion from
the world. At the very bottom of the
chest, where it had been covered ever by
the hermit's ticasurc, a still mere impor
tant find was made a packet wrapped up
in old and almost rotten newspapers. These
papers contained a splendid and antique
cashmere shawl of great value, though
somewhat injured by damp. Inside the
shawl were divers documents from which it
appeared that the deceased anchorite was
aJIebicw, belonging te a rich family of
Stockholm. Among these documents was
a voluminous papyius manuscript, folded
in green silk, se old that when touched it
became dust.
The manuscript bore the following in
scription :
" Peter the fisherman, disciple of Jesus
the Sen of Ged, and continuater of his
w erk, speaks te the people of the earth
who listen te the weixl of the Lord, ac
cording te the love, and in the name of
the most helyGcd."
The subscription te the manuscript,
"written in ji style equally strange and
elegant," runs thus :
"I, Peter the fisherman, in the name of
Ged, finished the writings of the word of
love in the fiftieth year of my age, the
third Easter after the death of my Saviour
and Master, Jesus Christ, son of Mary, in
the house of Belieii, the sciibc, near the
temple of the Lord."
The papyrus of the manucript is de
scribed as being strong and flexible and the
ink very black, from which it was fiist sup
posed that it might be the work of Cere,
but scholars and experts at Jerusalem, "by
whom the writing has been submitcd te a
searching examination, arc of opinion that
no man of this age could write old Hebrew
se pure in style with such an intimate
knowledge of the meaning of many
obsolete works and se complete a
mastery of the archaic forms that
characterized the literature of the epoch
in which the new epistle purports te
have been produced. A further proof of its
antiquity is that the papyrus of the manu
script has long ceased te be made. Te
solve the doubts which still remained as te
the genuineness of the document, the ac
count gees en te say that the Bible society
of Londen were asked te send out a com
mission te leek into the matter and deliver
judgment. This was done, and after long
investigation the commission pronounced
in favor of the authenticity of Cere's
papyrus. They considered it te be the
veritable work of the Apostle Peter. It
was added that the philosophical, philo
logical, historical and biblical questions
te which the find will give rise cannot fail
te be of the highest importance and inter
est. LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Baseball At Washington : Providence,
4, National. 4, eight innings.
There is at present quite an exodus of
the young men of Halifax, N. S., te the
United States.
The Mobile fire department yesterday
celebrated its forty-second anniversary by
a parade.
ine jjucuess ei jianuoreuglis insn re-.
hef fund new amounts te the sum of 107,
891, of which the sum of 80,022 has been
expended.
Baren Ven Heffman, at his own request,
has been relieved of his functions as Aus
tre-Hungarian minister of finance, and Ilerr
Sziavy has been appointed his successor.
The St. Leuis Yeung Men's Christian
association have purchased for the purposes
of their organization, the Union Methodist
church.
Eliza Round was arrested en Thursday.
at College Point, N. Y., charged with the
murder of her daughter's infant child by
drowning it in a mill pond at Syosset.
A fire yesterday at Hiltsvillc, N. Y., de
stroyed the saw mill of the Ragnet river
lumber company. Less, $10,000 ; insur
ance, $17,000.
The British steamer Darita has been
sunk by a collision en the river Danube.
Eleven passengers and five of the crew
were drowned.
General Rebelle, the chief promoter of
the insurrection at Cindad Bolivar, Vene
zuela, has been tried by court martial and
condemned te degradation and imprisei.e
ment for ten years.
It is new apparent that the British Lib
erals will be stronger in the new Parlia
ment than the Conservatives were in the
last. The net gain up te last night was
ninety-seven seats.
In Constantinople, Savas Pasha demands
the surrender of an American citizen whom
the United States consul-general recently
sentenced te imprisonment for manslaugh
ter. The failure of Governer Hamilton te sign
within the time prescribed by law certain
bills passed at the recent session of the
Maryland Legislature will possibly neces
sitate an extra session of that body.
Nineteen warehouses at Chicago have a
total storage capacity of 15,600,000 bush
els. There are eleven grades of winter
wheat, ten of spring .wheat, -nine of corn,
five of eats, four of rye and ten of barley
te be kept separate.
The Spanish Congress has apreved the
decree fixing the strength of the perma
nent army in Cuba at 40,000 men. Con
gress has also limited the floating debt of
Cuba te $6,009,000, except in the event of
an emergency.
Themas and Jeanette Clark were arrest
ed in Buffalo for abusing the latter's
mother, aged 94 years. They locked her
up in a cold room for hours, broke her
arm, kicked and beat her, aud in ether
ways abused her. The woman was cover
ed with bruises.
A project is en feet among leading and
wealthy Democrats of Chicago te start a
two-cent morning newspaper en a perma
nent basis. Mayer Harrison is still te be
one of the interested ones. Arrangements
are expected te be complete for its issue in
about three weeks.
In the 73-hour pedestrian contest in Am
sterdam N. Y., for the championship
medal and $300 in geld, at 11 o'clock last
night the score steed : Campana, 203 miles
Dufrau, 208 ; Layten, 164, O'Donnell. 193;
Winn, 152; and Mahony, 200. The
test was begun en April 7, at 8 p. m.
con-
SKCKtTAKV OP STATE QUAY
His Dismissal Petitioned for Jlecause of His
Counectien'With the Met Bill Bribery.
A petition te Governer Heyt asks him
te dismiss Secretary of State Quay, and te
resist the removal of Attorney General
Palmer who refuses te recommend Kem"
ble's pardon. The petition gives the fel
lowing extracts from the testimony taken-
before the legislative investigating com
mittee, pages 26, 28, 91, relative te Quay's
connection with the bribery conspiracy :
Mr. Quay's Sote te Mr. Emery, Requesting
Him te Vail and See" Him.
Harrisburg, April 16, 1879. My Dear
Sir : I am told the Allegheny resolution
is new up in the Heuse. It will be a
finality, of course, if the motion te recon
sider is defeated, and it will be difficult te
make any arrangement with its friends, if
they arc successful. If it is at all worth
while te present Mr. Shiras's preposition te
the council, you had better have the vete
upon the motion te reconsider postponed
until afternoon, and see me after the ad
journment. Yours truly. 31. S. Quay.
The Corrupt Propesilion Communicated
Through Air. Shiras.
Testimony of Lewis Emery, jr. :
Q. Did Mr. Shims say te you that in case
you voted for the riot bill the Penn
sylvania railroad would give the oil men
all the legislation they desired? A. He
said, sir, that if they would assist in the
passage of the bill that he would guaran
tee that he felt assured that he could
almost guarantee the passage of the anti anti
discriminatieu bill and free pipe bill, and
would kill the oil tax ; that there would be
no tax upon petroleum ; and further than
that, that he would see that the inter-state
cemmeice bill was passed if possible; that
they had new power enough te de it.
Q : We did net understand you te say
that the Pennsylvania railroad A :
I say that I had learned before I left there
that the Pednsylvania railroad was making
this preposition.
Mr. Quay Urges the Corrupt Preposition en
Mr. Emery's Attention.
Lewis Emery, jr., (sworn with uplifted
hand) :
I went te my dinner, at the Lochiel
hotel, and as I came out from dinner the
cleik in the office told me that Mr. Quay
would like te see me, and he says : I will
send for him ; he sent te the billiard room
and Mr. Quay came out and we sat in the
window, right next te the big safe, where
we hang coats behind the deer, and I said
te him that I had received his notes ; he
siid, yes, he had received mine in reply,
and that we were in such a condition we
could net de anything in the preposition
that had been made te us. Well, says he,
I was at Philadelphia a week age last Sat
urday, and I was up te Mr. Cassatt's office
te get some passes ; while there Mr. Cas
satt brought up the conversation ; he said
that he would be very much pleased if he
would assist in passing the l iet bill, and
that they were very anxious te have it
passed, and he wished he could sec what
he could de with the oil delegation te get
their assistance, and he said that he would
de se, and he said that Mr. Cassatt would
see that all the prepositions that had been
made te us would be carried out, provid
ing we would support the bill when it
came up again. Says I, it is dead.
"What Secretary Quay Wanted te Knew.
Well, says he, perhaps net ; perhaps it
can be revived, and what I would like te
knew, in case it is revived, is as te whether
wc could get any assistance from your
country, and 1 told him that I thought he
could net get it up in the Heuse, lie says
he didn't knew. Says I, I believe you de
knew ; I believe you cannot pass that bill
in the Heuse ; I believe there are tee many
independent men in the Heuse te pass
the measure ; it even could net be got
ten up again. I told him it didn't
matter where it came up, I could net
support the bill in no way : and he said I
better take the matter before our people,
our delegation, and see if they would net
consider it, and I told him I would, and en
the evening of the 17th, I think it was, I
submitted the preposition again te the
delegation. I think there were ten of them
altogether and they said that they would
net consider any overtures whatever that
if they had get te be punished with an oil
tax because they would net support the
bill, why they would submit ; they would
net change their front a particle. The riot
bill could stay where it was.
Mr. Quay Endorses Mr. Emery's Testimony.
Hen. M. S. Quay, sworn.
The testimony of Mr. Emery, I
think, is nearly correct. I have taken it
from the newspaper reports and I believe
it is correct, with the exception of one or
two unimportant particulars.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
That "Murder Confession"
The following despatch, sent through the
associated press yesterday is only a repeti
tion of a similar one sent a few days age :
New Yerk, April 9. A Reading, Pa.,
special despatch states : Seme time age
the dead body of a traveling peddler was
found in a creek near New Helland, Lan
caster county. A few days previously he
had stepped at the inn of Geerge Marks.
The body of the peddler indicated foul
play, but no clue could be obtained of the
murderer. On Monday last, Marks, the
hotel keeper, died a natural death, and it
is new known as a fact that before he died
he made a full confession that he and a
neighbor of his, named Wcidler,
had murdered the peddler, and sub
sequently thrown him into the
creek. The three men had been gambling
at the hotel, the peddler winning from
both. When leaving, Marks and Weidler
dealt him blows from behind, killed and
robbed him, and threw his body into the
creek. Great excitement prevails. Weid
ler is net te be found.
About the only truth in it is that Geerge
Marks died recently. There was a drover
who disappeared in that section some thir
ty years age, and there has long been a
vague rumor that he was murdered ;
Marks's death revived the rumor ; he made
no confession. Weidler has been dead for
years. The affair creates little excitement
in the neighborhood new, as it is regarded
as only a periodical revival of the old
story.
HUXFIT DUMPTY.
By Kick Roberts's Pantomime Company.
Last evening there was a very
large audience present in Fulton opera
house te see the pantomime of " Humpty
Dumpty" as presented by Nick Roberts's
company. The house was full in every
part except the parquette. In the panto
mime three clowns appeared. They were
very active and their tricks were geed,
but neither of them can compare with
Geerge II. Adams, the clown who visits
Lancaster se often with Teny Denier. The
columbine and harlequin were both geed
and many of the tricks were new and well
worked. The baby elephant and the alli
gator were very funny. In the first act the
three clowns were seen, but afterwards
there were but two. It is usual
in pantomimes for the clown and pantaloon
te de the funny business, but last night
nearly all the fun was created by two of
the clowns, who acted together, and the
pantaloon was seldom seen after the first
act. Between the acts of " Humpty
Dumpty " a variety show was given. Miss
Mabel Pearl sang in geed style, and she
was followed by Jennie Miace in a well
executed skipping repe dance. The acro
bat and bar performance by a number of
athletes was very fine, and especially that
of the contortionist. The act of El Nine
Eddie, who is said te be one of the best
tight rope performers in the world, was
simply wonderful. The treupe appears to
night in Reading.
Marietta Mutters.
The Rcgittcr broke its press a few days
age and Jes. II. Hubcr, of this city, made
the necessary repairs.
A fair for the benefit of St. Mary's Cath
olic church, of which Father Russell is
pastor, will commence in the church build
ing this evening.
Since last week, the prospects of a large
spring business en the river have been an
ticipated by the rise of the river te an ex
cellent rafting stange, and a large number
of rafts arc reported as being en their way
te this place.
Yesterday, at neon, there were about
twenty timber and spar rafts lying along
the shores en this and the Yerk county
side. Every one here is anticipating a
large run this season, with prices almost
double of what they were last spring.
Yesterday morning the wife of Mr. Harry
C. Erb, living te the west of town, about
a half-mile, fell through the fleer of a cis
tern into the water, and would no doubt
have drowned had it net been for the time
ly assistance of Mr. Jehn Montgomery,
who happened te be passing by and heard
the cries of the children. Mrs. Erb sup
ported herself above the water by holding
her arms around the stock of the pump,
and was very weak when taken from the
cistern by Mr. Montgomery and some of
the ncighbeis.
The hands of the pilots at this plane
are demanding $3, clear for each trip
down the river, which is about 83 cents
mere than they iccievcd last year, when
they were given $3.50 and had te pay ex
penses out of that sum. The expenses arc
about 83 cents for fare and 50 cents for
dinner at Peach Bettem, making in all
$1.33, or 83 cents mere than was paid last
season. Wc have net heard that any ar
rangement has been made by the pilots or
that they have acceded te the demands of
the hands, but if they de a larger sum will
have te be charged for taking rafts down,
or the pilots will make less money than
they have heretofore.
Narrow Escape.
Mies liaddie Ringwalt, daughter of
Majer Win. Ringwalt, of Churchtown,
made a terribly narrow escape from being
burned te death by the bursting of a coal
oil lamp. She had gene te her room, and
setting the lamp en a bureau, attempted te
blew it out, when it exploded with a loud
report, the glass and burning oil fly
ing all ever the room, setting fiic te the
carpet, the young lady's clothing and the
bureau cover. The inmates of the house
hearing the report, ran te her assistance
and seen extinguished the flames by smoth
ering them with carpets. The young lady
had her face and arms seriously cut by the
flying glass, and was somewhat burned,
though net seriously. Had it net been for
the speedy assistance rendered by Miss
Ringwalt's father she must certainly have
lest her life, and the house might also have
been burned.
Organization of Committees.
The following committees, of city coun
cils have organized :
Finance Committee. Gee. W. Zcchcr,
president ; .). K. Barr, cleik.
Water Committee. Mayer MacGenigle,
ex officio president ; Byren J. Brown, clerk:
Market Committee. Wm. D. Sprecher,
president ; Edw. Welchans, city treasurer,
ex officio clerk.
The street committee will net organize
until Tuesday evening, and the members
of the printing and lamp committees have
been called together for Monday evening.
The water committee adjourned te meet
again Thursday evening next, when an
engineer of water works will be elected.
Geed Product.
The rail mill of the Pennsylvania steel
company produced, Thursday night, in less
than twelve hours, 936 finished streel rails,
of the aggregate length of 5 miles, 352
yards, and weighing 208$ tens. The day
shift had previously turned out 8S2 rails,
which is believed te surpass the product of
any ether mill, but the production of 936
rails certainly gives the banner te this mill.
The average time te roll each rail, for the
entire twclve hours, is but 46 seconds per
rail.
Sale of Baltic Stock, Bauds and Live Stock.
Samuel Hess & Sen, auctioneers, sold at
private sale 29 shares Farmers' national
bank stock, at $93 per share, four $1000
first mortgage Quarryville seven per cent,
railroad bends at $103 and the accrued
interest. Total amount $4,893.
Samuel Hess & Sen, auctioneers, sold at
public sale yesterday, at Bird-in-IIand,
Lancaster county, Pa., for C. Hull, 8 head
of horses at an average of $102.23 per
head.
The First Colored Inmate.
Majer B. F. Cox, superintendent of the
county hospital, en Thursday took from
the almshouse te the children's home a
colercd.child named Boek, and handed it
ever te the managers of the home. This
is the first colored child ever admitted te
the home.
Mayer's Court.
Before Mayer MacGenigle this morning
there was one drunken and disorderly per
son committed for 30 days and four vag
rants discharged.
Sale of Tocacce.
M. Gershel & Bre., tobacco packers,
North Water street, this city, have sold
their entire packing of 1879 tobacco en
private terms.
KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION.
Terrible Accident
Sereral Workmen
Near Downlngtew n
Killed or Injured.
A frightful premature explosion occur
red en Thursday evening en the work of
straightening the Pennsylvania railroad,
near the bridge ever Valley creek, east
of Downiugtewn. Nearly two hundred
men are employed there, the work being
pushed with the utmost energy, and
twenty-fire were engaged at rock cut
ting with a steam drill. Desirous of
making the best progress possible, the
boss, Jehn Powers, had filled two holes
and a large seain with giant powder, while
the drill was running in auethcr hole, the
purpose being te get them all set off before
quitting work. Unfortunately, the new
hole ran into the leaded seam and the
whole of the blasts were exploded. Jehn
Celeman and Jehn Carlin, who were run
ning the drill, under the exploded
poles, saw the mass of rocks fly
ever them apparently squarely in
the face of their companions, they escaping
in the most marvelous manner, though se
close, but Bess Powers was thrown a dis
tance of twenty-five feet and literally dis
emboweled. Rebert Tayler, a weikaian,
sustained fatal injuries about the head,
while Jehn O'Neill, a Canadian, had a
broken arm and was badly cut. William
Moere, of Brooklyn, was cut in the head ;
Jehn Celeman had his head cut and
James Fex his hands cut by the
flying stones. Others sustained simi
lar but less serious injuries. Many of
the men, fortunately, were at that mo
ment a little withdrawn from the place of
the explosion or mere must have been
killed. Powers was an experienced fore
man and regarded as a careful man. He
was abent 33, and is said te have friends
in Wisconsin. Twe men had been killed
before while working in this cut Themas
Regan and Miles McDonald. The latter
was crushed by a huge stone falling upon
him a short time age. Corener Lear held
an inquest en the body of Powers seen
after the disaster, and a verdict was ren
dered in accordance with the facts.
MOUNT JOY ITEMS.
Frem Our Regular Correvpoudrut.
The work of razing the Evangelical
church, corner of West Denegal and New
Haven streets, is new completed. It will
be rebuilt with an addition of fifteen
feet in depth, making a brick structure 38
by 55 feet. Until it is finished their ex
vices will be held in the M. E. chuich.
E. F. Bewman, of Pcnningteuvillr,
Chester county, was in town yesteiday,
and will seen open a jewelry store in the
house which was occupied by Jacob Strick
ler.
The grist mill known as Bewman's mill,
situated in West Hempfield township,
having been puichased by Cenrad Kecher,
he recently took possession. Fer the p it
few years Mr. Kecher kept a grocery store
en West Main street.
On Thursday Deputy Constable William
Donaghy asrested Henry Krcider, en com
plaint of his father-in-law, Geerge Deerr,
of this place, for net providing for his
(Kreider's) family. He was ledged in Castle
Weisc.
Jacob Zercher is hauling lumber, pre
paratory te the erection of a large bain
fen his farm, adjoining Mount Jey, en the
south.
R. F. Plummer's horse completely de
molished his buggy, en Thursday after
noon. The blacksmith shop recently, built near
the Washington house, by Martin llilde
brant, is new used by Wm. II. Bates, for
merly of Spriugville.
The stock of gents' furnishing goods,
belonging te J. K. Hecrner, is new being
auctioned oil" by Charles Zeller, auction
eer. The gas-fitters arc busily engaged at pitt
ing in pipes, in order te accommodate
these who arc new convinced that the gas
is a first-class illuminator.
The public schools will close next
mouth.
A Seml-Centciinial.
On Thursday, James Cellins, of Celeiain
township, one of the auditors of Lancaster
county and one of the most prominent and
enterprising citizens of the lower end, was
fifty years old. His many friends and
neighbors concluded te give him a sur
prise and assembled quietly at his resi
dence without his being aware of anything
unusual going en and gave him a genuine
surprise. The company was large and a
geed time was had. A fine supper and
speeches of congratulation by James Mc-
Sparran and Geerge W. Hensel, which
were feelingly responded te by Mr. Cellins,
and plenty of geed music, were features of"
the occasion, and the party separated in
the wee sma' hours, wishing Mr. ('. many
happy birthdays.
Sermon by a New Paster.
Rev. D. L. Reed, pastor-elect of Christ
Lutheran church, will preach his first ser
mon before his new charge to-menow.
Rev. Reed is a geed speaker and sound
thinker. He is a graduate of Franklin
and Marshall college, and of the Lutheran
theological seminary, Philadelphia. He
has preached acceptably for some time past
for the Millersvific Lutheran congregation
and will be succeeded in that charge by
Rev. Frazer, of Brickersville.
Rafting.
A very large number of rafts arc pass
ing down the Susquehanna te Peit
Deposit. This morning the scene en the
river in front of Columbia was very ani
mated, there being 30 or 40 rafts en the
dam and each of them in turn shot like
lightning through the rapid waters of the
schute into the seething waters below. AH
passed through without accident.
Lancaster Eggs Abroad.
The Reading 'Times and Despatch has a
notice of an egg which was sent te Mathias
Snyder of that city by a friend named
Shields of Lancaster. It has a fire engine
scratched en it with the name of the Rain
bow fire company, Ne. 1, of which Mr.
Snyder is a member. The work was done
by Abe" Miller of this city.
Sale of Curb Stand Market Stalls.
The curb stones which are used for
market purposes were sold this morning
by Samuel Hess and Sen, auctioned s.
The highest price paid for a stall in Centre
Square was 816, while the lowest was $15.
On the streets the best stall sold for $16
and the lowest price paid was $3.
Oar Public Buildings.
The Heuse committee en public build
ings and grounds agreed yesterday te re
port in favor of an appropriation of $73,000
for a public building in this city.
Kettle Found.
This morning Officer Helman found a
kettle containing some eggs en North Duke
street, where it probably been left by
one who had been te market.
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