e, - Z- m-r ' ; x " .vf j,,v- - - ---.'"w V.r?Sr ' igriySs: snygjggt -n . . r - - c- . - - ; , -.- -" '" - ;- i. T" " . J -rr-- r rT i i . ' . i . . . t - , . 41 LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCE! MONDAY. APHIL 19, 1880. . a., j . .. '" : v:: r & .- 4S JSA' Hancastet IhitelUgencer. MONDAY EVENING. APBIL 19, 1880. Conflicting Ramen. The reports about Tilden's intentions as te his candidature have become se man.', se contradictory and se positive as te be very amusing te these who are net foolish enough te become enraged that newspaper correspondents will net tell the truth. It requires a long exper ience of the peculiar readiness of the American newspaper in publishing even' tiling that comes along that is of suffi cient interest, regardless of its truth, te be able te preserve oneself from being continually deceived and from receiving as fact te-day what te-morrow is con verted into fancy, only the next day te be offered again as positively true, and shortly afterwards te be declared ficti tious. This see-saw of story is kept up as long as the subject is of interest, and the shuttle-cock can be kept up. In this Tilden matter the style of the game is very well exhibited, and it is really very enjoyable te all who can regard it with calm philosophy. Seme people may think it tee bad that their credulity is thus remorselessly trilled with ; but such people only need te be reminded that they have no business te be credulous in this lying world. It is a very geed thing indeed for them if the ncwspaiicrs can cure them of it. It is a necessary edu cation they are going through, and when they have been graduated they will have learned, if they have profiled by their lessen, te distinguish with reasonable ac curacy the true from the false ; which is one of the chief duties of their being. They have no need te be disturbed by these Hat contradictions as te Mr. Til den's purpose concerning the presidential nomination. Fer in the first place it is net a matter which should greatly en gage their attention. They are net their brother's keeper. It is net the duty of the American citizen te anxiously watch the lips of a fellow citizen te hear him proclaim that he is net a candidate for their suffrages. It is the voter's busi ness te- determine who he thinks will make the best candidate and te se bestow the office se far as his infiuencegees ; and net until the voter has selected his man need it become of much interest te him as te whether he will accept the place. In the matter of the presidency, since it is well understood that it is net an ellice that is likely te be declined, the voter is relieved from any such consideration in making his choice. In tliu second place all these who de insist upon wondering what Mr. Tilden purposes are, can very readily find out by consulting their common sense. And we fear that the reason why the news papers publish se many statements en both sides of this question, is because they find that there are a great many foolish people who are interested in it, and lack the sense and self-reliance.te de cide it for themselves. Certainly every one has all the conditions necessary te enable him te knew as much about Mr. Tilden's mind in this matter as Mr. Til den does himself. They will assume that he would like te be a presidential candidate, because everybody else would like it, and he liked it once before, show in: that he is a man of like tastes with ether men. Upen this founda tion they can advance a step further and assume that Mr. Tilden will decline te be a candidate only when he is of the opinion that the people de net intend te nominate him; that is just the time any ether sensible man would decline. He could net be expected te de it before ; he may net de it then. lie will, though, if he is wise. Mr. Tilden has an extended repute for wisdom, and it may be taken for granted that whenever he concludes that the Democratic convention will be unwill ing te nominate him, he will relieve it from the necessity of saying se. The only question therefore which any one has te determine, te decide whether Mr. Tilden will be a candidate at Cincin nati, is that of the Democratic feeling as te the preprity of nominating him. This we all can guess as well as Mr. Tilden. We knew what our neighbors say. "We hear what these at a distance say. In the Seuth there is a strong feeling devel oped against the propriety of Mr. Til den's nomination. In the Xerth the same feeling exists. "We have it in Pcnn- - sylvania ; they have it in his own state of Xcw Yerk. It is growing. Te-day we hear that one of his staunchest sup porters, the Brooklyn Eaylc, gives him up because it is satisfied that the public pulse is against him. These revelations will go en until shortly it will be gener ally apparent that the Democratic party, whose first duty is te itself, cannot afford te nominate Mr. Tilden. The Intelligencer has no secrets from its readers. The springs of its political action are always open, and if it lias a reputation for anything and has gained a fair fame in Pennsylvania jour nalism by one means rather than another it has been by saying what it means and meaning what it says. It therefore con cerns it or its editors very little what such a paper as the Harrisburg Patriot says about it te the contrary, or what anybody says te Mr. Grier or what Mr. Grier says te anybody else. If any delegate in the last county con vention was under any obligation te Mr. Ilcnsel, he at least was net asked te let that obligation influence his political action. If Mr. Randall is a candidate for president the Intelligencer has no knowledge of it. If any " fight for Tilden in this state " is being made it has had no aid from the Intelligencer as any one who reads it knows. If Mr. Randall telegraphed te Mr. Ilensel that ''Jeffersen and Clarien arc in accord," the Patriot knows quite as well what it meant as Mr. Ilensel or Mr. Grier or the half-dozen ether persons te whom Mr. Ilensel showed the telegram when he opened it. "We repeat that what this journal is and where it stands are no secret. It can be learned daily through its editorial columns. Senater Wallace disavows any pur pose te be a candidate for national dele gate or any wish te control the delegation. Se does Speaker Randall. Beth are sen sible. Each does what is proper for him te clear the way for harmony. "Wallace favors the unit rule. Randall opposes it. Let the convention decide that. Xew let us have a decent state convention and an untrumelled deliverance. The Harrisburg Patriot speaks falsely when it says the Intelligencer has repeated any ' ridiculous lie" about Sen Sen aeor Wallace ; that we have net dis criminated between Mr. "Wallace and Randall in the prevailing contest is proved by this extract from the Intel ligencer of March 18: If Mr. Randall shall undertake te com mit Pennsylvania solely te Mr. Tilden's re-election, whether he is the choice of the Democracy and can be elected or net as is charged by Mr. Randall's enemies he will get no sympathy from the Intel ligencer nor any support in the under taking. If Mr. Wallace shall undertake te control the state convention in his own interest, te secure a delegation which he can handle te his own advantage as his enemies charge he will be entitled te our opposition in his project. The Patriot speaks falsely again when says we have placed the names of Wal lace and Randall before our readers as rivals for the leadership of the party. On the contrary, we have emphatically said: "Mr. Randall and Mr. Wallace are the two representatives of the Pennsylvania De mocracy who new occupy the highest po pe lilical positions, and for this reason it has become fashionable te marshal opposing forces under their names ; and te attempt te drive everybody who has the manliness te cherish and express free thought into a faction Allied by one of these names or the ether. There is no geed reason for any such distinction. Neither of these gentlcmen,ner any two or three or a half-dozen ethers scarcely less prominent in the party, or all combined, is big enough te assert mastery ever a majority of the Democratic party in Pennsylvania, and it has happened, in proof of this, that every time such a claim has been made the party has promptly set its seal of disapprobation upon the preten sion by unhorsing the very one who made it, or in whose behalf supcrscrviceable lackeys made it. While the Intelligencer has been striving te promote harmony, stille discoid, overthrew personal domination and subdue faction, the Patriot has been traducing character, fermenting strife and encouraging dissension. It is no wonder that in its attempt te serve these purposes it should net step at mis representation. Jrwc.E Livingston observes with truth that the '-unlicensed greggery manufactures tee many votes " te be in much danger of disturbance by guar dians of the law. He might have added that votes for candidates for judge have also been manufactured in the "unli censed greggery." MINOR TOPICS. Mr. Tilden's last declination comes by way of St. Albans, Vt., the place where they find Charley Ress monthly. By the same breezes comes the news that Han cock is net a candidate. Tin: Czar, at the instance of General Meliken, chief of the supreme executive commission, has pardoned tlnce students recently convicted at Kharkelf of com plicity with the revolutionist. The Goles says the pardons have made a deep impres sion en the students in the KharkelT uni" vcrsary. A Statement issued by the bureau of statistics show that the total value of ex ex eorts of domestic previsions and tallow for March 1SS0, was $12,487,512 and for March 13T0, $11,05(5,174. Fer the nine months ended March 31, 1S80, $82,741,27:5, and during the same period in 1879. $85,4(59, 50G. Jehn Sherman is getting demoralized in his canvass. His literary bureau has made se many mistakes that some of his best friends arc showing their temper and leaving his camp. Halstcad, of the Cin cinnati Commercial, is the latest of Slier, man's advocates te kick against the bureau He had a talk with Sherman the ether night and report says he told Sherman that his canvass was was in the hands of a let of d d feels and that the bureau was doing mere harm than geed. The mana gers of the bureau, however, en the ether hand, says that Halstcad is an ass and that his editorials in defense- of Sherman and denunciatory of Grant have done great harm. The Tobacco Leaf this week republishes its assault en Oscar Hamcrstcin, of the U. S. Tobacco Journal, and he comes back at his assailant in a three and a half column " card." He says his paper circulates 7, GOO, and the Leaf only 2,000. The at tack en him, he says, has been forced or influenced by " a clique composed of a no torious ex-iutcrnal revenue informer, a cigar manufacturing firm with what may be called a conflagration record, a half dozen swindling seed leaf tobacco firms located in and about AVater street, a half dozen seedy and needy Kentucky tobacco men of Bread street, a tobacco manufacturing firm whose business and reputation arc declining, and who are publicly known as venders of poisoned tobacco and cruel de graders of their peer employees, a party of conniving tobacco pedlcrs belonging te the Wholesale Tobacco Association brace of tobacco brokerage imps, and a small army of parasites of the tobacco industry." The Syracuse Courier, strongly anti Tildcn, has been feeling the pulse of the nation, or rather of the Southern Democ racy, by interviewing the senators and rep resentatives from that section of the coun try. Here are a few samples of the result : The Democrats in Congress are divided in their preferences for president. Whom te nominate is a question en which there is a variety of opinions. Ask whom net te nominate, and the response in general chorus is " Samuel J. Tilden." Senater Withers and Congressmen Goedc, Beale, Johnsten, Cabell, Tucker, Harris, Huuton and Richmond, of Virginia, say that Til den would net carry that state. Wade Hampton says that Tilden's nomination would cndangcr Seuth Carolina and six ether Southern states, in which view he is coreborated by a majority of the congres sional delegation. Georgia and Kentucky are reported safe, for the nominee, but Til den at the head of the ticket would inspire no enthusiasm. Alabama would be im periled, Congressman Hcrnden says ; Mr. Singleton says Mississippi would be among the uncertain states, and several seats in Congress would be jeopardized. Senater Jonas, Gen. Gibsen, Mr. Ellis and ethers of the Louisiana delegation, express the same opinion concerning that state; Mills, of Texas, "wants no mere Tilden," and says his pcepla don't either; Senater Garland and all the representatives from Arkansas are against Tilden ; se are Senater Vest and Representatives Wells, Fert, Davis, and AVaddell of Missouri ; Senater Harris of Tenneesee, says that Tilden is net the favorite there, and mem bers of the delegation say that while he might carry the state several con gressional districts would be im periled. Senators Davis and Here ford, of West Virginia, arc hostile te Mr. Tilden, and the three representatives concur in the belief that his choice as the standard-bearer would endanger the party there. The West is against Tilden, and Indianians say he cannot carry the Hoesicr state, and his nomination would lese the Democracy Mr. McDonald's seat in the Senate. All this, be it remembered, is communicated through the organ of the anti-Tildcn wing of the party in New Yerk. m m PERSONALi. Prince Gortciiakefk is less feverish, but unable te sleep. The ex-Empress Eugenie and suite oc cupy the government house at Cape Town. The party will proceed te Natal en Tues day next, en the way te the Zulu country. Lord Beaconsfield was given an audi ence by the Queen en Sunday. The Mar quis of Salisbury did net go te Windser. Sir Stafferd Xorthcetc has already vacated his official residence. Mrs. Edward Cooper gave a large re ception Friday afternoon at her Xcw Yerk residence. Seme of her guests attended in the evening the bilver wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Abrasi S. Hewitt, at the Cooper mansion, en Lexington avenue, near Gram- ercy park, where many relatives and friends of the Cooper and Hewitt families were present. Mr. Peter Cooper was the cen tral figure of the interesting festivities. The collection of portraits of presidents in the White Heuse is te be made entirely complete by the addition of these of Bu- chanan'and Andrew Jehnsen, which Mr. E, F. Andrews new has orders te paint. The former will be an enlarged copy of a min iature Mr. Buchanan's niece, Mrs. Har riet Lane Johnsten, has of him. A photograph only of Andrew Jehnsen can be found te aid the artist in making a per trait of him in oils. LATEST NEWS BY MAIL. Kearney is going te jail, llie superior court lias decided against him. About three hundred new money order offices will be established by the 1st of July. Waddingham's steam saw mill at Kings Kings eon Ont and a large quantity of lumber has been burned. Less, 615,000. Ferest fires have been raging in Pike and Menree counties, Pa., and people are lighting the flames in Sussex, N . J. The house of W. W. Pratt, at Worcester, Mass., occupied by Harry Hyde and family, was struck by lightning and burned. Less, $3,000 ; partly insured. The Commercial bank, of Texarkana, Ark., clessed en Friday short $35,00Q ow ing te overdrafts by G. T. Petter a cotton buyer. In Regan, Texas, whiic AA'cslcy Jenes and i. Li. Hunter, both under twelve years ei age, were out gunning, Jenes acci dentally shot Hunter, killing him instant ly. Oliver II. Dah!, mate of the schooner Elizabeth Jenes, Peter Petersen, owner. and master of the schooner Garibaldi, anil an unknown seaman, were lest m the re cent gales en the lakes. A land slide at Mineral Kins:, Cal., crushed the bearding beuse of the Empire mine. A rumor exists that fifteen men are missing and that four are known te have been killed. Other advices say all the men arc alive, but a number badly hurt. At Clyde, Ohie, Geerge Ransey and naiiK iiarK, ueth colored, quarrelled in a saloon where they were drinking together, when the former shot Clark in the breast, inflicting a fatal wound. Ramsey escaped. Previous te the a flair the men were looked upon as geed friends. The fifth trial at Hartferd of William Allen, for the murder of Shipman, a Welshman, at the state prison, ended in a verdict of murder in the second degree, and Judge Pexter sentenced him te state prison for life. Hamlin, Allen's con federate, is te be hanged en May 28. The Turkish minister of war dismissed Colonel Coepc, an Englishman, from the gendarmerie, for refusing te proceed te Erzerenm. Colonel Ceope refused because he had no money, as his salary had net been paid for three months. Sir Austen Layard, the British ambassador here, has remonstrated with the Perte against the dismissal. F. R. Adams, county judge of Faulkner county, Arkansas, and editor of a paper, was arrested for stealing $."500 from the sheriff's office at Conway. The sheriff locked his office and started for dinner. Meeting some taxpayers he returned and found the deer unlocked, the safe open and the money en Adams's person. Adams tried te buy silence, but failed. Hitherto he has been esteemed. Mrs. Jehn Driscell, of Maiden, Mass., was arrested en the charge of murdering the four year-old daughter of Jehn Cn den, a neighbor. The body of the child was found near the railroad, and it is be lieved it was placed there by the Driscells after the child had been killed at their house. A heed lest by the child was found buried in Driscell's cellar, and ether circumstantial evidence is btreng against Mrs. Driscell. The prisoner, at the Moscow, Xijii-Xov-gerod. Samara and ether depots awaiting exile te Siberia number ever 20,000. The A-reve wrenuurg uas eccn oiecKaaeu ler a mouth by unprecedented snow storms, and numerous deaths of prisoners, overtaken by the storms, have occurred. Many vil lage communities arc straitened for feed in consequence of the impossibility of communicating with the usual places of supply. A little daughter of Mr. Geerge Miller, at Richmond, en Wednesday morning, fol lowed Miller's hired boy into a field te plow. After he had gained the field, he gathered some brush in a pile and set it en lire, alter which he set about his work of plowing. The little girl, attracted by the lire, gathered about the burning brush and her clothes caught fire, and before assist ance could be rendered, she was enveloped in flames and almost burned into a crisp. tm m F1KE. The Doings of the Flames. Lightning struck the pest-office block at Waupaca. Wis. Three stores were burned. Less, $10,000 ; insured for $1,000. A large hotel in Hamburg, Iowa, called the Wells house, was burned en Saturday morning. It was insured for $12,000 and its contents were insured for $1,000 addi tional. The less is unknown. J. II. Russell's undertaking establish ment in Indianapolis was burned yesterday. Twenty-six horses, eight hacks and car riages, and a number of caskets were burned. The total less is estimated at $20, 000 te $25,000; insurance,' $17,000. In Ionia, Mich., en Saturday night a fire destroyed William Hadden's grocery, Dun can Shepherd's harness shop, Fred Miller's beet and shoe store and several smaller es tablishments. Estimated less, $11,000; insurance, $3,500. A six-story brick building in the rear of 94 Fulton street, Xew Yerk, occupied by Nathan fc Dreyfus, manufacturer of self oiling valves and brass works, was de stroyed by fire yesterday. Mr. Dreyfus says his tools and stock was worth about $50,000 and partly insured. The stock in several surrounding buildings was damaged te the amount of $1,000 by water. BLAINE. l'lucklng Every Feather Frem 11U Flume. Mary Clemnicr in the New Yerk Independent. Xe force less than my conscience and my love for my country could make me write of public men, even in the modified sen se in which I new present them te the peo ple. Were my inclination dittcrent, I could pluck Mr. Blaine's record till he would net have one political feather left te wave triumphantly in the crest of "the plumed knight." I make but one issue with you, Inde pendent. In defending Mr. Blaine's facil ity for making money out of government contracts during the war, you remark : " He may have made money in these days in some of these ways; but that is net ne cessarily a discredit te him." Then you add : "A. T. Stewart made twenty-five millions during the war, largely out eL government contracts, and no one thinks this firm acted wrong or unwisely. A. T. Stewart, from the beginning te the end of his career, was a man of business. He never set himself up as a patriot. He never assumed te be a statesman, ne never waved the baton of a "Stalwart" in the face of the administration. He never shed crocodile tears ever the negre. He never threatened slaughter and destruction te the inextinguishable rebel. Frem first te last, he was content te seem what he was a man with monstrous faculty for mak ing money by trade. When Grant wished him te be the Secretary of the Treasury, he wanted the honor ; but his connection with commerce and finances were such the people rebelled, and for once Grant suc cumbed te the will of the people, aud the canny millionaire, te his great personal credit, withdrew. If few loved him, no one despised him. True te the law el" his life, he never masqueraded in a skin net his own ; but died, as he lived, the king of money-getting Scetchmen. Had he been a politician, who from the first used his political power as a lever te lift himself te fortune ; had he come te Washington in the war, and used a pal in the war and navy department te obtain him fat contracts ; had he used his political ellice aud power te control vast corpora tions in Ids own moneyed interests instead of building them up through the legiti mate channels of trade, he would have been somebody else, net A. T. Stewart. Save in success, attained by widely diflor difler cnt means and modes, there is no parallel between the two men. Mr. Blaine is of imposing height and burly in form. His hair is nearly white and thin en top, and his beard is net heavy. He has a fair but net imposing head. Large at the base, it docs net tower into a dome of thought, and his perceptive and emotional faculties over power these of reason. His eyes, his finest feature, are very fine, though their beauty is impaired by the water-sacs filling above and below them. His nose is his worst feature fat, sensual "Xesey Blaine" a flattering paragraph says he was called at school, adding: "It was a nose for Xapolcen." Xe. It was the eagle's beak, like Wellington's the nose of bone, net the nose of fat that commanded the admiration of Bonaparte. Mr. Blaine's mouth is pleasant rather than strong the mouth of a humored child, that could smile or pout or sulk for what it wants ; and what it wants it wants and intends te get. A well-fcd, well-dressed, heavy man of the world, en whose face passion rather than time has set its heavy seal. .This is " the plumed knight" whom I sec a woman has already addressed as "Jamie" in a campaign poem. A man who, despite a brilliant brain and acute intelligence, is distinctly a man of desire, of impulse, of emotion, springing from a central root of self-love, that never for a moment lets him forget what he desires and wills te have for himself. The keen est and most self-loving of peliticans, he never was and never could be a patriot. THE MUKDlili IN MOSTUOSE. A Fatal Quarrel Caused by Iinultlns; Re mark About a Married "Weman. The sheeting of Masen R. Wilsen in Montrese, Susquehanna county, by F. A. Warren, must have been a most des perate case. The slain man, who was 28 years old, leaves a wife and two children. He was a grandson of Masen Wilsen, one of the eldest and most substantial mer chants of Montrese, who has for some years past been retired from active busi ness. Warren is a son of Rev. O. Warren, pastor of the Universalist church, as well as a member of the Susquehanna county bar, and is a young man who up te this time had borne an unspotted rep utation and was known as one of Montreso's most exemplary young men. He was until recently engaged in the grocery trade being the senior member of the firm of Warren & Griffis, and is owner of the building new occupied by the Xcw Yerk clothing store. He was but recently married te Miss Kate Glidden, a modest and pretty young lady. It appears that previous te Wilsen s marriage lie kept company with and was engaged te be married te Miss Glidden, but the engagement was broken off by her parents en account of Wilsen's intemperance. Since the marriage of Warren te Miss Gulden it is said that Wilsen has circulated stories derogatory te her. Wilsen was a farmer and his family and Warren's were intimate. He drove into town en Friday ; and the two men were seen talking in an apparently friendly manner, and in that spirit entered the stable where Wilsen had put his horse. Of what took place in the barn after that no one has any knowledge. Anyhow, the men became greatly angered and Warren's friends claim that Wilsen assaulted Warren with a knife, and the killing was done in self defense. What is certainly known is, that a few moments after they entered the barn several people in tne vicinity heard a pis tol shot and a moment later Wilsen burst open the deer in the back of the barn and ran into the alley near by it, pur sued by Warren. Wilsen fell as he entered the alley, but immediately recovered him self and started en a run toward the livery stable. Warren fired en him and Wilsen cried out, as if in pain, " Oh, don't, Fred ; don't sheet me." Warren did net heed the appeal and fired again, and Wilwn ion upon ms lianas ana knees, crying " murde'r." Warren then ran te the right side of Wilsen and, bent upon finishing his work, again shot the fallen man in the side. Wilsen foil forward upon his face, but raised up upon his hands, as if trying te escape, when Warren placed his pistol close te Wilsen's head and fired another shot, the ball taking effect just below the ear. All this happened in full sight of half a dozen witnesses, as the place is just of! from the main business street, in nearly the centre of the town, but before any one could reach the scene of the sheeting, Wil Wil eon was dead. Warren did net try te es cape after the sheeting, but calmly returned his pistol te his pocket aud steed looking at his victim. When asked why he did it he replied : " It is all right ; I did it. I had geed cause and consider myself justi fied." He delivered himself up, and is new in custody. Wallace en the Unit Bale. Interview in Philadelphia Times. "What about the unit rule? Are you for it or against it ?" "We acted under it in 18G8 and in 1876, and it produced Mr. Buchanan's nomina tion. It is the only way in which the power of a great state can be justly felt. I am opposed te dividing aud weakening our state if ethers are uuited. If Mr. Tilden and his friends de net adept aud enforce the unit rule in Xew Yerk, there might be a reason for objecting te it in Pennsylva nia. The statement that I want te control the delegation is absurd. I am net a can didate for a place ou it, cither at large or for my district. There are plenty of bet ter men who are entitled te these honors. I want only a clean candidate for president with whom the party can have a chance te win, and we will have a ghost of a show for carryiug our state aud the legislature. I am ready for anything that will tend to ward these results. My party can send me te the rear with my consent, if it believes that will help te bring them." m Mi Cheap Talk. Ilurrisburg Patriot. The Lancaster Intelligencer, in an insidious way, repeats some of the ridic ulous lies that hare been recently circu lated concerning Senater Wallace and at the same time attempts te shield Speaker Randall from the charge that he seeks te "wield the baton of leadership in the party." We cannot see why the Intelli gencer and ether papers of that ilk should insist en placing the names of Messrs. Wallace and Randall before their readers as rivals for the leadership of the party. Senater Wallace declares that he is net a candidate for any position in the gift of the Democratic state convention and if Mr. Randall means te be a candi date before that body he has kept the mat ter a secret. It is true that a statemet ap peared in a number of newspapers en Sat urday te the effect that the fight for Til den in this state was really made in the interest of Randall as a presidential candi date, which is te say that these who are honestly for Tilden have been deceived and duped by the leaders of the move ment. A Desperate Mae. In Caledonia, Elk county, dwelt a noted forger and outlaw, Harry English. A posse went te arrest English, arriving at his house about 5 a. m. Constable Wrenth aud Yol Yel mer, and Justice Burk met English coming down stairs. Wrenth ordered him te sur render, but he retreated up-stairs and locked himself in a room. The officers drew their pistols and declared their inten tion of taking English dead or alive. As Censtable Wrenth approached the room, English thrust a rifle through the deer and fired, killing him instantly. Consta ble Velmcr then carried Wreath's body down stairs, and as he entered the yard English fired again, wounding him. Eng lish gained the weeds, but was shot in the leg while running by District-Attorney Xursell. Company H of the state volun teers have been ordered out te capture English if possible. STAT1S ITEMS. Three Perry county barns wero burned by lightning en Friday night. Win. Y. Masen, farmer and merchant, in whose family suicide is a weakness, has hanged himself near Meadville. Matthew Smith, keeper of a well-known saloon known as the Saginaw house, lo cated in the eastern part of Pittsburgh, took a position before his looking glass and shot himself fatally. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. RUNAWAY. Tiie Herse at Ilia Old Trlckn. On Saturday evening, J. F. Bewman, of Harnish station, and a man named Har Har eon were driving along Seuth Queen street, and when near the end of the street a little boy with a Hag in his hand ran out in front of their horse. The ani mal started te run, and the buggy being upset both men were thrown out but neither was injured. The horse was caught at Levan's mill, along the Cones Cenes toga, after he had broken the buggy te pieces. When Bewman's horse started te run he frightened two horses behind him which were hitched te the stage of B. F. Hookey. They also concluded te run and they succeeded in upsetting the stage which was badly broken. The passengers were thrown out but they were only slight ly bruised. A Whole Team at It. This morning about 9 o'clock a man was driving a six horse team belonging te J. W. Jehnsen, esq., of this city, along East Viue street, when a small boy, who was bent upon having "fun," struck ene of the horses with a stone. This little joke of the boy started the whole team te run ning. The driver, who was standing en tha lock at the time, saw that he could net control the team and jumped from the wagon. The team ran te Seuth Queen street and in attempting te turn the corner one of the mules aud a horse fell en the pavement in front of Rete & Sens' undertaking cstablislunent. They were seen get up, when it was found that the only damage done was the breaking of harness. In the Country. On Saturday evening last as Geerge Weaver and Walter Wcidler, of Strasburg, were returning from Intercourse, they were run into by a runaway horse attached te a spring wagon. Their buggy was up set and broken and the young men were thrown out. The horse was caught and taken te Peter Weaver's, at Paradise, te await the owner. LiKt of Unclaimed Letters. The following is a list of unclaimed let ters remaining in the posteflico for the week ending Monday, April 19 : Ladies' List. Mrs. Susan Bacr, Mary Brubakcr, Mrs. Anna Cochran, Susan Feltz, Miss Blanche I. Glever, Miss Fran cis Givens, Miss E. Haverstick, Mrs. Mary Henry, Miss Sallic Herr, Miss Sydney Kelly, Mrs. Jehn S. Landis, Mrs. Mary Morten, Miss Fannie Musser, Miss Mag gie Potts, Miss Susan Rehrcr, Miss Emma R. Rudy, Miss II. E. Roberts, Miss Mattie Smith, Miss B. Salcmberger, Mrs. Henry AVittwer, Mrs. David Walker, Mrs. Rachel Winger (for.) Gents' List. Messrs. Wm. M. Bariman, Jacob L. Becker, Jacob Bewers, Wm. II. Bryan. Mr. Bnrtin, E. J. Carpenter, Jehn Ceyl, Sam'l A. Dunlap, Gee. W. Frey, Harry Hefmau, E. Illingworth, Jacob Lemen, Henry S. Landis, Jehn G. Miller, Benj. Mowrer, Monsieur Carl Mehl(for.)2, Mr. Myers, J. Xauman, Henry F. Strayer, Michael Ullman. Spectaeles Stelen. Peter AVirth, saloon keeper, en Xerth Christian street, had a pair of light and a pair of heavy silver framed spectacles stolen from his bar en Saturday night. He is looking for the thief with the naked eye. I'lgeens Stelen. Last night a thief broke open a pigeon coop belonging te a little son of Postmas ter James H. Marshall, residing en East AValnut street, and stelo a dozen fancy pigeons. MOUNT JOY. Cernerstene Laying Miscellaneous Item The Storm. . The laying of the cornerstone of the Evangelical church at Mount Jey, yester day afternoon, proved an interesting affair. The sudden chauge in the weather was favorable, and some live hundred persons were present te witness or participate in the eeremenies, which were simple aud dignified. Revs. J . A. Fegcr, of Lancas ter, and U. II. Hershey, pastor in charge, en their arrival from Lancaster, proceeded te the church, and at 3 o'clock commenced the exercises. Rev. Fegcr presiding, was assisted by Rev. Hershey, and the exer cises consisted of reading a part of the 2d chapter of the First Epistle of Peter, singing and prayer. After a few intro ductory remarks Rev. Feger preached an able and impressive sermon, his theme being Chri:t, the great foundation stone, which Ged had given as the base upon which His church should be built. Rev. Hershey followed with an apprepiate ad ad dress, after which a collection was taken, amounting te $40.83. The cornerstone was then laid by Rev. Feger, and among the various articles placed therein weie the church discipline, a hymn book, names of the presiding elder, the pastor in charge, the efliceis of the church and Sunday school, the president of the United States, the governor of Pennsylvania, the burgess of Mount Jey, also a copy of the Christian Messenger, Betschafter, Satur day's Intelligencer Star and Xcics and Herald. The exercises were concluded by sing ing, and the benediction by Rev. Hershey. The old edifice was erected in the spring of 1843, and had met the demands of the of the congregation seme thirty years. During the past few years the congrega tion grew se large that it was decided te enlarge the building. When the work of of remodeling was begun the rickety con dition was such that the whole structure was condemned. Whatever might have been the character of the work it is evi dent that the work was poorly construct ed. Fer the foundation sand and flint stone weie used, and the wonder is that it remained intact. When an enlargenient of the church was first proposed they had a nucleus of $100, which has increased te about $t,200. The coat of rebuilding, excluding the ground and the material of the old build ing, a great part of which can be used, will be about $2,800. The new brick build ing will have a frontage of 32 feet en Xcw Haven street, and in depth en AVest Done Dene gal street, 53 feet, the walls being 15 feet in height. A perch will be placed ever the entrance and a steople will surmount the reef. The interior will be in two de partments, a small vestibule and the main room. It will be supplied with new and improved fixtures. Miscellaneous Items. About nine o'clock en Friday night an unusually heavy storm, accompanied with rain and slight fall of hail, visited Mount Jey and vicinity. Te the south and cast of Mount Jey it assumed the nature of a cyclone and was very destructive. One-fourth of a mile southwest of the borough, the dwelling ou the " Henry Eberle Farm," owned by Jeseph Dctwcil er, and occupied by Jacob Gerb, was en tirely unroofed. Xene of the inmates were injured. It was a new reef with oak rafters, which were easily biekcn, and se great was the force that half of the reef landed en an apple tree in the orchard. In the weeds, en the same farm, where the Sunday schools picnic, a number of trees are laid low. One-third of the tin with the beards and scantling en which it rested, was blown from the railroad bridge which spans the Little Cinques creek just cast of town. The Pittsburgh express had crossed the bridge only three minutes before it was struck. Three students of Cedar Hill sem inary, who were en their way te the semi nary a few minutes after the bridge was damaged, were enabled by a vivid flash of ligtning, when almost upon the damaged part, te see their perilous position. About one-half of a mile cast of the bridge,. Benjamin D. Ifershey's premises present a chaotic appearance. In his or chard it made sad havoc among the apple and cherry trees. An old barn, 50x30 feet, lately used as a tobacco shed, is leveled te the ground, and pieces of the reef were car ried eastward 100 yards. An adjoining building, 40x14 feet, was razed te the ground. A part of his barn is unroofed, and the slate reef en the dwelling house is minus some of its slate. Hessler's meeting house, which was de stroyed several weeks age, will be rebuilt by Michael and Jehn Ilessler. It will be a frame structure. The conference of the Fourth Pennsyl vania district will convene at the Lutheran church en Tuesday, the 20th hist., te con tinue two days. TOlSACCO. The Lecal Market. Trade has been quiet during the week. A few lets of loose tobacco past arc being bought bydealers when it is brought te them, they have ceased hunting for it. Of old tobacco L. T. Ilcnsel of Quarry ville and Aaren Teller, of Lancaster have sold about 100 cases each, and ether packers are reported te have sold some, but the reports need confirmation. Mr. Ilen sel also sold about 175 cases of the crop of 1879, a very fine article, for private figures. Several Xew Yerk jobbers arc here pro specting with a view of buying, but as yet have bought sparingly, or else are operat ing quietly. Farmers continue te prepare their land for the coming crop, but the season has been se backward that there are as yet few plants up except these grown under glass. There is plenty of time, however, for them te grew between new and the middle of -May, and comparatively few growers care te set their plants before that time. The Amende Honorable. I'hihKlelpliiii Itccenl. -The Lancaster Intelligencer declares that the special despatch sent te the Har risburg Patriot from that city in reference te the proceedings of the Democratic county convention is a tissue of falsehoods. Are are bound te believe that the Intelli gencer is correct, and regret the republi cation of the dispatch in the Recerd. Uave tham a Suppar. On Friday night Jacob K. Shirk, tobac co dealer, gave a handsome supper te his employees, in token of their faithful labors during the "season." COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS. Reelnnins of the April Term. The April term of the com t of quarter sessions, of Lancaster county, commenced at 10 o'clock this morning. Judges Living ston aud Patterson en the bench After some routine business, the grand jury was sworn, and II. G. Boek, of Stras burg borough, appointed foreman. They were then charged by Judge Livingston who instructed them in their duties in the usual form. During his charge Judge Living; steu stated that there were only 20 jail cases en the trial list, but that the alder men and justices had, since last term, re turned te court 103 cases, the whole num ber of cases en the trial list being 131. The judge also called the attention of the dis trict attorney te the fact that the grand juries are frequently hindered in the pros ecution of their duties by the absence of witnessce when they are wanted. Some times net a single witness is present when their names arc called, and often, after the names of flay witnesses have been called, it is found that net a dozen are present. The district attorney should sec that the proseeuterat least is present when the bill is presented te the grand jury. The eharge was concluded as fellows regarding the duty of the grand jury in visiting the pub lic institutions supported by the tax payers : AVe direct you te, and the law is that you shall, make a complete anil thorough, investigation of their management, take, your time, and de yourweik thoroughly, and make such report as wc may safely rely en as correct. And liefurc proceeding; te the prison, it will be well for you te ex amine the late report of the county audi tors, and the report of prison inspectors. And, when at the prison, call for and ex amine their inles aud regulations. Ex amine particularly, the stock en hand, ro re feried te in the report of inspectors. The amount returned appears te us te be unu sually large, for the quantity of stock te be seen en visiting the prison, and it does appear te us, it must be valued at fabulous prices. Ask te see it, and report your judg ment as te its values and condition. As certain also from the officers aud inspec tors whetheiany attempt is made te cairy out the prevision of the law and rules of the prison with reference te persons sentenced te separate and solitary confinement at labor, and report the greatest liberties which have been given te any of them thus sentenced. Ascertain also, whether the inles and regulations of the prison are ad hered te, in reference te persons visiting this class of prisoners, and whether there are net in prison te-day, anil have net been through the entire winter, many person. even hundreds, who are vagrants and who under the law, should have been sent te the workhouse instead of the prison. Of" course, it would net be quite as profitable te the aldermen and magistrates, te send them te the workhouse, but the people you represent have a right te knew wlut'jcr they should net hare been sent te the workhouse instead of an ever-crowded pri son, and te require officers te labor for public geed rather than their own gain. If you find these facts te be se. it may be as well te remind these officials through yeui report that they have failed in the per formance of their duty in this behalf, be cause if they send them te jail .for five or ten days, as seen as they get out our un wearying (in this respect) police immedi ately convey them, cven from the deer of unlicensed grog shop, where they are speedily prepared for re-arrest, te the al derman or justice, who again sends them te jail for five or ten dys, and thus secures double or treble costs, and the vagrantflives at his ease instead of earning his feed by breaking stone for the county. While the unlicensed greggery is ermittcd by the police te remain open and unrcturncd. it is in no danger, it manufactures tee many votes in favor of that class of police otSl etSl cera and furnishes tee many luses of profit for them te be molested by them. In your visit te the almshouse and hos pital examine them thoroughly. Examine the farm, sec if it is properly managed and farmed, the labor of these supported there utilized properly; whether there is as much produced en this fine farm as should be ; whether the inmates arc probably cared for, and whether the officers arc vigilant, circlul and economical in the performance of their duties. The constables of the several wards and townships were sworn and made their quarterly returns. The newly elected constables were then sworn into office. Cem'th vs. Benjamin G. Bichl, felonious assault and battery en Claude Butler, en the 23d of Xevembcr last, at Trewitz's sa loon, Locust street, this city. AV. K". Adams, policeman of the Sixth ward, testified that he was prosecutor in the case. lie saw nothing of the light in Locust street, but was called te quell a distui bance that grew out of it a't the' corner of Orange and Plum streets. . Claude Butler testified that h and some friends went te the " check house" (Trewitz's) and had two glasses of beer. A nian named Bichl struck him. Butlet defended himself and Bichl halloed! enough ; as seen as he get up he struck witness again and was agaim whipped and halloed enough ; wit ness, McAlccr and ethers then left the building, and while in the yard adjoining he was followed by Bichl and ethers, am? Bichl cut him with a razor, sevcripg a part of his right ear and slashing his uose and head. The scars of the wounds were shown. Michael Pennington testified that he was present at the disturbance, which was commenced by Biehl ; witness corroborated Butler's testimony, "and swore that he saw Bichl cut Butler with a razor. Tlies. Kelly saw only the " first round;'' Biehl struck the first blew ; did net see the fight in the yard. Harry McAlccr saw the "first round" in the barroom ; did net see the fight in the yard. The grand jury returned te court the following : True Mils. Henry Wright, Gee. Ream, Jehn Kechel, Pierce Flery, Jerry Hast ings, all for fornication and bastardy. OlilTUARY. Death of u Member or the City Cornet Rami. Mr. AV. Frank Breudcrly died at his res idence, in Beaver street, en Saturday morn ing List, after a long and painful illness, in the 31t year of his age. Deceased was one of the first members of the City Cornet band at the time of its organization, and was considered one of its most efficient mem bers, lie was also a member of Lancaster ledge I. O. O. F., Xe. G7. By trade he was a stone-cutter. He leaves a wife and one child te mourn his less. His remains will be interred en AVcdncsday afternoon, at 3J o'clock, at AA'oedward Hill cemetery, and the band will attend the funeral in a body. Child S;al!ctl. Yesterday afternoon Lettie Rannclls, a seventeen months old child of Samuc Raunells, of 355 Beaver street, was badly scalded. The table of the family had been set for supper when the child walked te it and, pulling at the cloth, upset a cup of het coffee ever its face and shoulders, scalding it in a terrible manner. -