LANCASTER 1)A1LY iOTEliLiGMOEtt TUESDAY APRlt 27, 1880.
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TUESDAY EVENING, APBHj 27, 1880.
Judicial Friendship.
Really there seems te be no sufficient
excuse for the failure of our court te call
Publisher Warfel te account in his office
as attorney for words editorially spoken
about the Raymond-Dennis case, and the
evil conduct of the court therein and
about. His criticism upon " the working
of the local machinery of justice " seems
net te have been well founded in this
particular matter, since it turns out that
the case was postponed at the instance
of his particular friends of the prosecu
tion, who did net like the complexion of
the last juror drawn and who were un
willing te go te trial en the last day of
the week. Anether complaint of the
Neva Era, that the Dennis case had been
postponed te the Raymond, has its fire
drawn out of it by the revelation
that this, tee, was done at the
instance of its friends and for
the reasons that the prosecution
thought that the Raymond case was the
strongest one te go te trial en.
It appears that District Attorney Esh
leman has net been responsible for the
postponement of these trials, but that he
has accommodated himself te the views
of the social counsel for the presecu
tien. It also appears that the court has
net been in any way te blame. The A eiv
Era falls back in the best order it can
command from its unfounded allegations,
and does some pretty writing about the
delight which the journalist has when he
can applaud the temple of justice, and
the pain lie feels when he discovers any
wrong within its precincts. Just se ; we
subscribe te the sentiment. If it is
these noble ideas, expressed a day after
the fair, which relieve Publisher "Warfel
from the necessity of responding te a rule
te disbar, we have te regret that the court
is unaware hew fully we subscribe te
them. If it had known hew reluct
antly we criticise it, we are sure
it would have been as easy en
us as it inclines te be en Pub
lisher Warfel. We did net get
a chance te tell it, because we were net
wrong-shipped en our facts, and were net
therefore at liberty te take back en Mon
day what we said en Saturday. It seems
te be a valuable privilege sometimes te
go oft" at half-cock, and en a false basis ;
te get straight again you only need te
craw-fish; and the lawyer who is an
editor saves his skin.
But, nevertheless, Publisher Warfel is
lucky te get out of this scrape. Evident
ly the court is net vindictive, otherwise
it might justly held that a lawyer who
is an editor should be sure of his facts
before he gees ahead te abuse the court.
It is a valuable quality in a lawyer as well
:is in an editor ; and it may be strongly
argued that a man who has te take back
te-day what he said yesterday, is net a
safe adviser and is net fit te be ether peo
ple's attorney. Publisher Warfel has a
well established reputation for taking
things back. He took back that ether
little statement about the Snyder
boys, etc., at the point of the bayonet,
and in the face of a jury. This time he
was moved te repentance by the just
anger of an outraged court, and he came
down quickly.
He was right te come down, for he
was a great offender. His paper ought
te have told the truth. And especially
ought it have been careful in its state
ments about a case still pending in the
court. Our little scrimmage with the
bench comes from criticism upon a case
already decided, and our counsel tell us
that this is a strong point in justification
of our comment. Publisher Warfel may
thank his stars that his newspaper's wild
talk, about the defendants in a pending
case beastiug that they had the court
under their thumb and that they would
never be tried, and his denunciation of
the court for securing the settlement of
his libel suit, has net secured him the
privilege of answering a rule te show
cause why he should net be disbarred.
Judge Livingston is understood te main
tain that it was the quintessence of
meanness in the Aac Era te assail him
for his efforts te settle its libel suit. We
understand from the Examiner that it
was Judge Livingston who lent his
friendly offices te the two parties te this
affair te secure the ending of the crim
inal suit. The Examiner thinks it was
perfectly right for the presiding judge,
net presiding at the trial, te intervene
between the commonwealth and the de
fendants and urge a settlement of the
prosecution. There is abundant room
for entertaining the opposite view and
thinking that it was net proper for a
judge thus te step in between the state
and accused criminals. It may be that
the judge's motives were geed. Ne doubt
he was properly distressed at the quarrel
among his friends in the Republican
family. They were his friends en both
sides; and he has considerable justifica
tion for feeling aggrieved that he is new
se grisvieusly assailed for his interfer
ence by one of the friends whose grati
tude he has fondly thought he had earn
ed. Evidently his geed offices have net
been appreciated, but he shows hew geed
a Christian he is by net turning his back
en the friend who had injured him and by
being still willing te forgive his offences
although se elegant an opportunity is
offered him for revenge under the view
he has taken of his judicial power in call
ing attorneys te account for language
spoken or words written" outside the
court. Would that the judge's Christian
charity had held out te forgive us, miser
able sinners.
Blaine's Blunder.
Senater Blaine was indecent enough te
charge, in the Senate, that there was an
" honorable understanding" when Sena Sena
eor Butler was admitted from Seuth Car
olina, that Kellogg should be admitted
from Louisiana. He was at once dial,
lengedfer his authority for the statement
and could produce none better than a
newspaper article. At Senater Butler's
demand he exonerated him irem any
connection with the bargain. Senater
Bayard and ether Democratic senators
emphatically declare that there had been
none. Senater Bayard asked hew there
could be an honorable understanding
that balanced the right of one state
against the right of another state. This
seemed te be a new view of the malter
te Mr. Blaine. In charging such a bar
gain upon the two political parties in the
Senate, he was accusing both of great
baseness. Such an understanding would
have been anything but honorable, and
Mr. Blaine but disclosed his own per
verted feelings in se designating it. He
was alive te the dishonor of violating
this understanding, thereby showing
his knowledge of the rules of honor pre
vailing among thieves. But he could net
arise te the elevation of sentiment which
perceived the dishonor of trading in the
rights of states and bartering senatorial
seats. Mr. Blaine did net make a geed
exhibition for a presidential candidate,
either in his bringing a charge that he
could net sustain or in his exhibition of
his idea of an honorable understanding.
MINOR TOPICS.
King Karl I. of Wurtemberg has given
his consent te the betrothal of Princess
Pauline te a young physician practicing at
Breslau, of whom she is enamored, en
condition of her assuming the name and
title of Fraulciu Ven Kirchbach.
It is believed in Washington that, pend
ing the action of Cengresa en the treaty of
Washington, American men-of-war prob
ably the Vandalia and Alliance which are
new in Hampton Reads will be sent te
Canada waters te protect our fishermen
against a recurrence of the Fortune Bay
outrages.
Mr. Henry G. Venner writes te the
Albany Argus, under date of April 19, as
fellows : " In response te something like
2,000 inquiries, permit me te reply that my
impressions of the summer weather re
main the same, viz : Het spells and cold
frost relapses up te midsummer. The
summer will net be favorable te crops.
It is said that a nosier and uglier crowd
never assembled en this planet than the
Georgia Republican convention. Under
the manipulations of representatives of
Grant, Sherman and Blaine, the delegates
found themselves in het water from the
beginning te the clese of the meeting.
The sly secretary, however, gained a vic
tory ever " the plumed night" and " the
man en horseback," and Georgia is his.
The rebels are beginning early this year
with their outrages upon peer defenseless
blacks, several of which have come te our
notice. The most horrible of all was en
acted a few days age in Georgia, the par
ticulars of wh'ch are briefly as fellows :
Wm. Wilsen, an old Democrat, for many
years a resident of Newton county, diedt
leaving his entire estate, worth $10,000, te
his former slaves. The officers of the law
in Newton county are all rebel Democrats,
and will de nothing te protect the negrees
from a reputation of this dastardly out
rage. It is perhaps unnecessary te add
that there have been no arrests. Call out
the troops.
PERSONAL..
Gorchakefk is better, but Bismarck
is seriously ill with neuralgia.
Saicmi Bernhardt has written te the
Paris Figare saying that she has no con
tract for America, or for any Paris thea.
tie.
General Rebert II. Pruyx has been
elected president of the beard of trustees
of Dudley observatory, in place of the late
Themas W. Olcott.
The Buffalo Express suggests that Gen.
Oliver O. Heward be put in charge of
the military academy at West Point, be
lieving that under his superintendency no
colored cadet would be subjected te any
unfair usage that the faculty could pre
vent. Better start a little frccdman's
bank for him.
David A. Hellingsiiead, A. M., prin
cipal of the Western female high school,
Baltimore, died at his residence, Ne. 202
North Carrollton avenue, at 9 o'clock Sat
urday night, of pneumonia, after a sick
ness of seven weeks, in the sixty-third
year of his age. He was a native of Mary
land, but was educated in Yerk county,
and the degrce of A. M. was conferred
upon him by F. & M. oellege, this city.
The Williamsport Banner says : " The
Philadelphia Times of Friday has an in
teresting biographical sketch of Judge
Jeremiah S. Black, forming one of the
'White Heuse Gallery' series. It will
command mere than ordinary attention
from the thinking men of both political
parties. His pre-eminent ability as a
jurist, large and almost cxhaustless re
sources as a man of political information,
and familiar knowledge of the classics as
drawn from all tongues and nations, make
his name conspicuous wherever knowl
edge, fearless expression of views, inter
pretation of matters and things draw out
the mind and heart."
New Yerk's business community was
startled yesterday morning by the an
nouncement of the death of Mr. Jeseph
Seligman, the founder of the well-known
banking house of J. & W. Seligman,
Bread street and Exchange place. This
firm -was organized in 18G2, and has been
specially prominent in placing the govern
ment bends en 'the home and European
markets. It has branches in Paris, Frank
fort, New Orleans (whero Mr. Seligman
died) and San Francrsce. Mr. Seligman's
seven brothers were connected with him
in the business, and this is the first death
which eccuiTcd among them. He was
vice president of the Union League club,
and founder of the Hebrew orphan asylum.
One of the episodes in his life was the re
fusal te admit him into the Grand Union
hotel at Saratoga en account of his Hebrew
birth.
The Western Storms.
A tornado passed ever Macen, Mississ
ippi, en Sunday night, which demolished
the Mobile and Ohie railroad machine
shops, round house and depot and nine toen
ether buildings. Seventeen persons were
killed and twenty-two injured. The less
en property is estimated at $100,000. Sim
ilar storms passed ever Decherd, en the
Nashville and Chattanooga railroad, in
Tenn., and Pert Rech, in Alabama.
Buildings wcre demolished and six chil
dren killed. A man was killed by light
ning near Nashville. Several houses in
Dalten, Ga., were damaged by a storm the
same day.
Further particulars of Saturday night's
storm in Illinois show that immense dam
age was done at various points by wind
and rain. At Taylorsville three persons
arc known te have been killed andeleven
injured, one perhaps mortally. A man
was drowned near Farmers' City. Hun
dreds of hogs and cattle perished.
THE STATE CONVENTION.
Sparks Frem Telegraphic Reports.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Appearances point te a lively conven
tion, with the prospect of a termination
that will net be a victory for either Sena Sena
eor Wallace or Speaker Randall.
A Tllden Man in antl-Tllden Company.
Philadelphia Press.
Closely seated in Parler B. of the Bolten
house, with the senator from Clearfield
the central figure, might have been seen
Hugh North, of Lancaster, one of thedele-gates-at-large
in 187G ; ex-Chairman Speer,
Lewis C. Cassidy, Themas A. Barger,
Geerge M. Skinner, of Fulton ; ex-Senater
PJayferd, General Riley, of Philadelphia ;
Geerge McGowan, Editor Meyers, of the
Harxisburg Patriot ; Capt. McClelland,
William M. Singerly, of thelieeerd ; Jehn
M. Campbell and Judge Hageman, of the
Berks eeunty court, and Judge Mayer, of
the Clinten court.
Conferences of tbe Clans.
Philadelphia Times.
There came with the speaker, Congress
men Kletz, Bachman and Coffroth. There
was an immediate announcement en the
part of all of them that the convention
would be harmonious; that everybody
would be admitted and everybody would
be happy. Mr. Randall then retired with
Malcolm nay and a few ether friends, and
were in private conference until a late
hour. The Wallace people have been very
active all the evening and several confer
ences have been held, at which all the
phases of the situation were discussed and
all the pessible action of the ether side
taken into consideration, but without
reaching any conclusion.
Mr. Cassldy's Plan.
Mr. Cassidy said in conversation with
Colonel Barr te-night, that if he can get
the eye of the chairman of the convention
en Wednesday he would move that twenty
three of each delegation from Philadelphia
be admitted te seats, the intention being
te neutralize the delegation ; also, that a
committee of live or seven be appointed
from Democrats of the interior te go te
Philadelphia and reorganize the party
and put it upon a working footing. This
seems te meet with the approval of these
who are with Speaker Randall, and Mr.
Hay, of Pittsburgh, spoke of the plan with
decided enthusiasm as certain te restore
harmony te the party.
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LATEST NEWS BT MAIL.
The distillery and rectifying house of H.
R. Diefer, at St. Paul, Minn., was burned
en Sunday night. Less, $30,000.
Hayes yesterday pardoned E. M. Max
well, who has served all but a month of a
two years' sentence in the Texas peniten
tiary imposed by a court martial.
In New Orleans, David Green, a boy ten
years old, was attempting te beard a mov
ing train en Canal street ; he fell beneath
the wheels and sustained fatal injuries.
Near Freehold, N. J., Jehn Halloway,
aged sixty, a well-to-de farmer, committed
suicide by hanging himself te a rafter in
his barn.
Confederate memorial day was cele
brated vesterday in Mobile and ether
Southern cities, with the usual ceremo
nies. Edwin Alme, II. Silvester and A. B.
Halvorsen, while partly intoxicated, visit
ed an Indian camp near McFarland, and
during a row kicked a four-year-old Indian
child te death.
On Sunday morning the thrco-ycar-eld
daughter of Stewart Mitchell, of Pert Mon
mouth, N. J., was accidentally burned te
death by her clothes taking fire from a
stove.
As Mrs. Frances Depetriate was attempt
ing te leave a city railway car in New
Orleans, she was thrown under the wheels
by the sudden starting of the car and re
ceived injuries from which she diad.
General Grant is expected te visit his
son in Chicago te-morrow, and he may re
main in that city three or four day before
going te Springlieid, in response te an in
vitation te visit the home of Abraham
Lincoln.
Machinery has been put into the Denk
mines near ueiloviiie, ill., wiucii caused a
reduction of the working force. A large
crowd of laborers tried te smash this ma
chinery, but were prevented. There was
some fighting.
The Norwegian bark Arizona, which
arrived at Baltimore yesterday, reports
that en the 5th inst. she passed the Nor
wegian bark Mathilde abandoned and en
fire. A bark of that name sailed from
Wilmington, N. C, en the 20th ult., for
Glasgow.
Jehn Dyer, a notorious desperado, ap
peared in Saybrook, Hi., en Sunday after
noon and an alarm being given, about ene
hundred aud fifty men turned out te hunt
him. He was followed te the weeds and,
refusing te surrender, was shot a number
of times. It is thought he may recover.
The case of the "Widow Oliver"
against ex-Senater Cameren was taken up
yesterday in the supreme court of the
District of Columbia, en the plaintiff's
appeal from the verdict given for defend
amt a year age. After argument of counsel,
the case was taken under consideration by
the court.
At the Nashville (Tenn.) races yesterday
the first race, a half-mile dash for fillies,
was wen by Julia Bruce. Time, 53 seconds.
The next race was for the Maxwell Heuse
stakes, for three-year-olds, a dash of one
mile and a-quarter, and was wen by Ban
croft. Time, 2:18. The raile-linat race was
wen by Jericho, in two straight heats. Time
1:47, 1:47.
A San Francisce dispatch states that
Mayer Kalloch is attending te his official
duties,also that he deeply deplores the turn
things have taken. In respect of the al
leged conspiracy, and the statement that
he was down town en the night of the
sheeting, he declares they are absurd and
malicious. He has been out driving that
day, and net feeling well, went te bed
about seven o'clock. He fell asleep, and
was aroused te be informed of the tragedy.
The Werkingraen have put a guard of
twenty-two men, taken from their militia,
en duty at Mayer Kalloch's house te pro
tect him from intrusion or violence.
STATE ITEMS.
Jehn McGuire, an employee of the Al Al Al
toena shops, was fatally crushed by a coal
car en Saturday.
Hayes yesterday nominated Peter P.
Smith, of Honesdale, te be supervisor of
the census for the Fifth Pennsylvania dis
trict. Miss Ruth Stark, of Philadelphia, was
robbed of $3,600 in money, jewelry and
papers in a hotel in Bethlehem en Sunday.
The robbers are unknown.
Eva K. Ernest, a very pretty veuns
Pittsburgh school teacherjumped into the
Allegheny river yesterday morning for the
purpose of committing suicide, but before
drowning she was caught by two men and
taken te her home.
Rev. Dr. Morten has announced that en
Saturday next, the festival of Saints Philip
and James, it is proposed te consecrate St.
James Protestant Episcopal church, Phila
delphia. Itjwillthen be 71 years since,
en the same festival, the original St. James
church was consecrated by Bishop White,
rector of the united parishes of Christ
church, St. Peter's and St. James.
At the instance of Distrist Attorney Ha
gert, Judge Finletter requested the Phila
delphia grand jury yesterday te lay all
ether bussness aside and te investigate
forthwith an alleged systematic forgery of
tavern bends. It is asserted that the for
geries were committed by a clerk or clerks
in the clerk of quarter sessions' office, and
that the crime was connived at by an offi
cial connected with the recorder's office.
Mattias Casper,. 55 years of age, was
found dead in bed at his residence, in
Prospect street, near Ridge avenue, Phila
delphia, en Saturday. A gun-shot was
heard by persons in the house, and upon
breaking open the deer of Casper's room,
the bed en which the deceased was lying
was found in flames. It was discovered
that the fire was caused by the discharge
of a deuble-barreled gun lying en the bed
pointed at the man's heart, and se rigged
with cord as te fire its contents into his
b:xly.
THOSE "FARCICAL PROCEEDINGS."
The Point in the Case.
New Era, April 26.
Our criticism en the Raymond-Dennis
case en Saturday did net reflect, nor was
it intended te reflect, upon anything the
presiding judge did or left undone in the
proceedings before him en Friday or Sat
urday. It was no fault of his that the case
was net tried when attached en Saturday
morning. In fact, he went se far as te in
sist upon its being tried if it could be dis
posed of in ene day, that being the last
day of the term.
And it is but simple justice te say that
we have reason te beheve that District
Attorney Eshleman was net responsible
for the "farcical proceedings" en Satur
day, which sent the Dennis case ever te the
adjourned court in May after a jury had
been empaneled. There weie reasons for
the commonwealth net going en with the
trial, which did net appear en the surface,
and were net developed te ceunsel until
after the last juror had been called. These
reasons were, however, se conclusive in
the judgment of counsel for the common
wealth, that they joined in asking for the
continuance of the case, it being apparent
that if they went te trial under the circum
stances, then for the first time apparent,
it would be impossible te de justice te the
interests of the commonwealth in the lim
ited time of the session which remained.
Criticism upon the administration of
justice is one of the most unpleasant
duties which can he imposed upon the
press, and is justifiable only when there is
reason te believe that the course of justice
is being obstructed. There is no depart
ment of government which should be se
deeply intrenched in the respect and confi
dence of the people as the judiciary, and the
journalist who acts under a proper sense
of his responsibility will net wantonly sap
the foundations of that confidence. But,
en the ether hand, where officers of the
court are permitted te prostitute the ma
chinery of justice for political purposes,
with impunity, as was done in the Snyder
case ; or where a notorious ballet-box
stufl'er and return tinker like Harvey Ray
mond is permitted te call an attorney a
blank liar in the prcsence of the court aud
go uurebuked, while the attorney for a no
greater effence is fined for contempt ; or
where men boldly attempt te obstruct
justice by dissuading witnesses, and beast
that they have had the judge and grand
jury "fixed," as they did in the pending
case, according te the sworn statements of
respectable witnesses ; in such cases it is
the duty of the press te criticise as freely
and as fearlessly as in ordinary cases trans
piring beyond the jurisdiction of the
court. If the court thereby loses in the
cenfidence of the people it has its own
officers aud net the precss te blame.
The Truth or It.
Examiner, April 20.
The " Ged's truth" about the cases of
Raymond and Dennis is that E. K. Martin
was private counsel te assist the district
attorney in the prosecution, and it was at
the instance of Martin that the case et Ray
mond was "jumped" and the case of Den
nis called first, because it was believed te
be the strongest te convict under, in Mar
tin's opinion. On Saturday, when Dcnuis
appeared for trial, in spite of the
statement of "special" counsel for
the commonwealth, that Dennis had
boasted publicly en the street that
his case would net be called this
week, he was en hand and ready for trial.
A jury was called and the defense ready te
goon, when the " special " counsel assured
the district attorney that the case could
net be tried in one day, and asked for the
withdrawal of a juror, and the case went
ever te the May term.
If there is one outrage mere revolting and
disgraceful than another, it is charging
" the court " with the "scandal of our
mode in administering justice," "when it
consented te and encouraged the settle
ment of the New Era libel suits."
Whether it refers te Judge Patterson
who presided at the trial, or
Judge Livingston, who was a witness,
and in no sense a "court," but
consulted and advised with as a per
sonal friend by the defendants, it is equal
ly outrageous and disgraceful. Can it be
that because Jehn B. Livingston, as a
citizen, as a witness, as a disinterested
spectator sitting in the bar of the court
room, when the defense saw they had dene
a grievous wrong te two young men, aud
were willing te right that wrong in an
honorable way, when solicited for his opin
ion, advised that if Messrs Brown and Esh
leman were satisfied te accept what was
agreed en he advised it as a happy settle
ment of the whole matter in dispute, is
new, at this late day, te be stigmatized as
a party te a scandalous mode of adminis
tering" justice ? Can it be that because
Judge Patterson, as the "court," allowed
the defendants te file that settlement as
fellows :
" We publish the alleged libel en information
which we then believed te be correct. The in
vestigation of the case in court has satisfied us
that wc were misinformed and thus did injus
tice te Messrs. Itrewn and Eshleman. Wc hic
therefore willing se te state, and thus de jus
tieo te these gentlemen,"
and then walk out of court, with the con
sent of the prosecution, that he tee is te be
stigmatized as a party te a "scandalous
mode of administsring justice."
Speaker Randall en General Jacksen.
Frem his Letter te the Nushville Centennial
Committee.
Te no ene of the many great and pure
men whose fame fills the pages of Ameri
can history could commemorative honors
be mere suitably awarded than te the
memory of Andrew Jacksen. As a warrior
his fame suffers nothing by comparison
with the greatest of modern and ancient
chieftains. As a statesman he has taken
his rank with the ablest and purest of any
age and country. He was true te every
trust reposed in him and possessed the rare
gifts which made him equally fitted te
command in the field and te preside in the
council. An American in every thought
and inspiration, he was wedded te Ameri
can ideas.
Illegal, Self Willed and Despotic.
Clarien Democrat.
Judge Patterson of Lancaster, finds
himself famous, or rather infamous, ever
the whole country, by his illegal, self
willed and despotic act in disbarring the
editors of the Lancaster Intelligencer,
who are also practicing attorneys in his
court. His action places the stamp of
truth upon the article of which he com
plains as being libelous. He takes the
law into his own hands, the very offence
for which he has sentenced many a peer
fellow, net as ignorant as himself, te fine
and imprisonment.
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Sudden Illness.
Mrs. Winfield S. Kennedy, of Lancaster
county, went te Cain township, Chester
county, a day or two age te visit her niece
at J. B. Baldwin's, and when about 25
yards from the house was taken suddenly
ill. On arriving at the house she was
found te be insensible. A physician was
called who stated that she had congestion
of the brain, and she has been lying there
since seriously ill.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE NEW SCHOOL llUIUllSO.
Special Meeting of the Scheel Beard.
A special meeting of the school beard
was held last evening te make further pro pre
vision for the erection of the proposed new
school building, corner of Lime and Lemen
streets.
The president stated the object of the
meeting.
Mr. McCemscy read the report of the
committee presented at the February
meeting of the beard, and said that al
though he had signed the report it had
never fully met his views. He thought
the difficulties in the way of securing all
the advantages a school room should pos
sess were much greater in a twelve-room
building than in an eight-room building.
He had visited ether cities and found them
all opposed te buildings having mere than
eight rooms. The lowest estimate of the
cost of the proposed twelve-room building
is $23,000. Fer this sum he believed an
eight-room building could be erected en
the Lemen street let and a feui-
room one in seme ether section of the
city where it may be most needed. He
therefore moved that much of the action
heretofore taken by the beard as related te
the size of the proposed building be recon
sidered, with a view of offering a substi
tute for the erection of an eight-room
building instead. The motion te recon recen recon
sider was adopted yeas 22, nays 6.
Mr. McCemsey then offered the follow
ing substitute :
The building te be erected at Lime and
Lemen streets shall contain eight rooms
with an aggregate minimum capacity for
440 pupils. And shall be se constructed
that if at any time increased capacity shall
be required it may be enlarged without de
stroying the symmetry of the building ; the
building te be erected after the plan adopt
ed by the beard, without the annex.
After seme discussion in which the
ever-crowded condition of the schools was
referred te and the necessity for still fur
ther room pointed out. Mr. McCemsey's
substitute passed unanimously.
Mr. Slaymakcr offeiod a resolution,
which, after slight amendment, passed in
the following form :
Resolved, That a special cemmittee of
seven members of this beard be appointed
te at once proceed te have drawings and
specifications made, in accordance with F.
E. Davis's plan of light and ventilation,
as adopted by this beard at a previous
meeting, for the school building te be
erected en Lemen street, and report te
this beard as seen as possible ;
four members of said cemmittee te be
from prepei ty cemmittee; and that this
committee be authorized te make such
changes as may be necessary, and report
te this beard.
The chairman announced the following
as the specfal committee : Messrs. II. E.
Slaymaker, William McCemsey, Luther
Richards, Jehn I. Hartman, Rebert A.
Evans, Thes. B. Cochran and C. Zechcr,
the four last named being members of the
property committee.
Adjourned.
LOWEU END ITEMS.
Frem Onr Drnmere Correspondent.
We are hum-drum down here, new-a-days.
In fact everything seems in direct
opposition te the interests of us miserable
rural scribes, for nothing "worthy of
nete " will happen. Seme few Republican
candidates, with their Jeseph's coat cards
are stirring around in pretty geed-looking
teams, and shaking the hands off of our
"honest horny-handed sons of toil;"
talking te thorn about our geed
prospect for wheat (which by
the way, is flattering), holding
lengthy debates with the farmers in regard
te whether Chester whites or Berkshire
hogs are most profitable ; that it is highly
judicious and imperatively important that
the breed of chickens should be frequently
changed ; whether Seuth Carolina rock,
ground bone, or peudrette, is the best
manure ; and about all the ether little
subjects upon which office-seekers are se
well posted, always coinciding with the
farmers exactly, and go en their way re
joicing in the premise of another vote,
which premise has been used se frequently
recently, that ene would wonder it still
retained sufficient sweetness te make the
smart candidate smile his thanks se
blandly.
We are all except a few conscientious
individuals ceinjr te raise tobacco this
year, and fully intend te show you uppcr
enders hew te de it, se you will prepare
yourselves net te be surprised when we
send you mammoth prices next fall. Jehn
McSparran, P. B. Shank, Dr. M. Glackcn
and N. N. Ilenscl, of Fairfield, are build
ing tobacco houses.
Vaccination has been ineffectual in keep
ing us from catching the Pattersen-Steiu-man-Hcnscl
infection, and, like the obedi
ent patients we always have been, arc, and
will be, wc take the medicines our respec
tive newspapers mix up for us, and scarce
ly ever make a wry face.
Said your correspondent, the ether day,
te one of the colored fraternity, " Yeu
have changed the name of your church
down at Puddle Duck." " Yas, sah."
"What de you call it new?" "Well,
we's hab been a callin' it Mount Helly,
but we's come te de klusien te gib it a
Bible name." Ah, what name new
Erebus?" "Ne, sah, BethMam." And
your correspondent smiled as, he thought
it was getting near Boyd's ham.
Mrs. Lydia Dersey fell last Sunday oven even
in? and broke her arm.
Brazilian Tobacco.
Mr. James Stewart is the owner of a
package of manufactured Brazilian tobacco
recently brought from that country by a
gentleman who was with the Cellins party
in the construction of the Madeira and
Mamore railway. In appearance the to
bacco is net unlike our ordinary "Navy"
variety but is very much stronger. The
peculiarity of it is the manner in which it
is put up, it being tightly wrapped in
bamboo and in size, shape and general ap
pearance net unlike a steer's horn. It is
used by the natives exclusively for smok
ing. A Locomotive Disabled.
This morning as the Harrisburg ex
press train east was running between
Elizabethtown and Mount Jey, the loco
motive, te which it was attached, Ne.
337, broke one of its eccentrics, disabling
it se much that it reached Mount Jey con
siderably behind time. The engine of the
Dillerville local was run up te Mount Jey
and brought the train into Lancaster an
hour behind time.
THE DRAMA.
" A Celebrated Case " at the Opcja Heuse.
D'Ennery's melodrama of "Une Cause
Celebre " is of the'French Frcnchy. There
is in its construction elements that fail
te commend themselves te the sober sense
and calm judgment of the average English
speaking audience, albeit one may
watch the development of the
story with the most intense interest, which
is enhanced by the thrilling climaxes that
are dexterously introduced at fitting inter
vals. Ne one in his sober senses would be
lieve for a moment that any court in
Christendom would convict a man
of the hideous crime of mur
dering his wife -en the naked
testimony of a five-year-old child
and the faintest shadow of circumstantial
evidence. And this is the incident, alleged
te have been a fact in French jurispru
dence, en which the play of " A Celebrated
Case " is hung. There are innumerable
" strong" situations in the unfolding of the
tale, allowing ample scope for play upon
the emotions, and barring the excessive
improbability of its main incident, it may
be said te be a very clever piece of dramatic
composition ; and its continued favor with
play-going people attests the fact that it
has secured a firm held en the popular
sense.
The representation of the piece by Col Cel
lier's combination at Fulton opera house
last evening was witnessed by a fair au
dience, in the face of the great attraction
underlined for te night which is expected
te crowd the house. The cast is a strong
one. Mr. Edmund K. Cellier could aftbid
te rest his reputation en his masterly in
terpretation eJean licnaud, first as the
here of the "King's Own" regiment,
afterwards as the galley slave, "convicted
of the murder of his wife. He is yet a
young man, however, and the public is
justified in looking for geed work at his
hands in fulfilment of the rich premise
shadowed forth in this impersonation.
His acting is marked by intense energy,
aim wuiie a mauuesc tendency te uois ueis uois
tcreus declamation might be made
the subject of legitimate criticism,
this indiscretion se common in .young
actors may be very easily overlooked
in the light of the positive genius that il
luminates his action throughout the ren
ditien of the trying role. Misses Carrie
Wyatt and Florence White, in the
respective roles of Adrienne and
Valentine, gave finished lenditieu
te these parts ; the latter was especially
geed in the thrilling scene in which she
becemes convinced of the crime of her
pscude father, and in which she suc
ceeded in werking: up the audience te a
high degrce of eager and excited interest.
In the scene where Adrienne confronts her
father in his convict garb, and
falling en her knees repeats in
impassioned tones the prayer she had
learned as a child at her mother's knee,
following it up with the injunction she had
received from her father en his conviction
upon her testimony, aud which comes
rushing across her confused fancy at this
apparition she has se often beheld in
her dreams. Miss Wyatt afforded the
audieuce a fair view of her
undoubted powers. Mr. Geerge W. Wcs
sels was perhaps the best pscude Count de
Mornay who has ever attempted the role
here, and is an actor of conceded ability.
Mr. William Scaljan as Dennis Cflleurke,
the Irish sergeant, was capital, and Mr.
Edwin Varrcy was altogether satis
factory as the Duke d' Aubetcrre.
The ether characters maintained the
cast at an even balance, and the
piece moved smoothly. The costumes of
the ladies were rich and elegant, and the
stage effects well managed.
Neighborhood News.
The Yerk Dispatch boys were eating
watermelons yesterday. They were
grown below St. Augustine, Flerida, and
were quite lipe.
Win. Espenheim, publisher of the Har
risburg Sunday Herald, left that city en
Monday week for New Yerk, taking with
him $730 with which te buy type. He
was net heard of until Sunday, when he
wrote from Buffalo that he had been
robbed and did net have money enough
left te get home.
A correspondent of the Doylestown Dem
ocrat asks : " What has become of all the
champion spellers that were in old Bucks
when we were boys? Held me while I get
a drink of water, and then I wiil be able
te finish this. Scee-c-ough-e-doublc-you-w-cow.
I am gcttinir old and out of prac
tice new. O! Um-m-m! Fan me.
Doylestown Demecrat: "The Demo
cratic state convention meets at Harris
burg te-morrow. Wc have no instructions
te give, and only ene wish te express, that
it may be run in the interest of the Demo
cratic party. These who thrust their quar
rels into the convention, or make a strife
for individuals at the expense of the party,
will net meet with favor when they go
home te their constituents. .Let our own
delegates make note of this, and act accor
dingly." The widow of Udderzoek, who sat be
side him during the long and exciting trial
confident of his innocence, is new the wife
of Andrew Carrick, a constable, residing
at 307 Saratoga street, Baltimore. " De
you think the confession is genuine?" she
was asked. " I certainly de net," said
Mrs. Carrick, very emphatically ; " it is a
complete fabrication, and I cannot believe
that my husband ever made such a confes
sion. He had tee .much consideration for
myself and his family te make a confession
which should be published te the world
five years after his death, when he could
have foreseen that his trial and his death
would have been forgotten by all except
these who were near and dear te him. If
it were possible for him te make a confes
sion of a crime of which he was net guilty,
he would have made it public before he
died."
Larceny of Pigeons and Poultry.
Philip Dickel and Frank Bender, aged
13 or 14 years, wcre arrested for stealing
eleven pigeons, the property of Postmaster
Marshall's little son, and lour chickens,
the property of Mr. Stencr. They had a
hearing before Alderman Spurrier yester
day afternoon and were held te answer at
court.
Engine off the Track.
This morning the engine of the Diller
ville local jumped the track a 'short dis
tance west of the Pennsylvania depot, but
it was placed en again without any dam
age in a short time.
COUBT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Before Judge Patterson.
Antheny Heman vs. Gottlieb Henne, ac
tion in debt. The plaintiff in this case
rented a farm, which is situated along the
Concstega creek, immediately south of the
city, te Geerge Henne, in April, 1874. The
amount of rent for the year was $623, and
the plaintiff claims that Geerge Henne
paid but $350, aud there is yet $375 due
him. When the farm was rented Gottlieb
Henne became surety for Geerge, aud the
suit is therefore brought against him.
The defense claim that the contract
shown in court is net the ene signed by
them as that one was en a whole sheet of
paper, while this one is but a half sheet.
On the side which they allege was tern off
there was a stipulation by which the plain
tiff was te build a fence along the fields,
bordering ou the creek. The defense
further is that Henne paid $473 te Heman.
He holds a receipt for that amount, and
he alleges that he suffered damaged
from stray cattle which get into the fields
en account of the bad fences.
Yesterday-afternoon the plaintiffs coun
sel stated that they were surprised at the
defense and asked the court te itidulgc
them until this morning te summon mere
witnesses. The court therefore adjourned
until 9 o'clock this morning when wit
nesses wcre called te show that the con
tract paper is in the same condition as it
was when signed by the parties and that
the receipt held by Henne is net in the
handwriting of Heman. On trial.
Before Judge Litingten.
In the lower court room the case of the
Waynesboro mutual insurance company
vs. Geerge Shiffncr was taken up. The
plaintiffs are an insurance company in
Franklin county and II. G. Boek was the
authorized agent. The defendant took out
a policy through Mr. Boek in this com
pany and gave a premium note. They
called upon Shiffner te pay two assess
ments for losses by fires, but he, refused te
de se and they bring suit te recover tlw
amount of them, which is $37.80. On
trial.
SAL1SUUKT ITKMs.
Frem our Regular Correspondent.
On last Friday evening Mrs. Mary
lard, a highly respected widow of
township residing at Mcadvillc,
Hil-
this
was
stricken by apoplexy, while passing
from the barn te the house. Ne one
being at home at the time she lay quite a
while in her helpless condition until found
by one of her neighbors. She is new in a
critical condition being perfectly paralyzed
both in limbs and speech.
Mr. Frank Ress's hen is still keeping up
her icputatien having new laid 87 eggs in
se many consecutive days.
Quite an excitement prevailed in this
section for a few weeks, in regard te
the Robinson reberics. Every ene
having had anything stolen for the past
year has been examining the large assort
ment of goods gathered together by
Robinson, aud many have been rewarded
by finding their property among his col
lection. There has been considerable sickness in
our neighborhood for the last few weeks,
aud several deaths. Pneumonia appeals
te be the prevalent disease.
Our neighbors, A. D. Amnion and
Sylvester Frybargcr, each lest a valuable
cow during the past wceek.
Meeting of Plant Club.
The work of the club last evening com
prised a review of the class upon the first
part of the text-book, a paper en "The
Flower," and the analysis of a familiar
compound flower, the dandelion. Fer the
review, the following questions were writ
ten upon the blackboard : 1, " What arc
the different kinds of venation in leaves?"
2, "What are the different kinds of
leaves ?" 3, "What are the different kinds
of arrangement of leaves?" 4, "What is
the one great arrangement '."' 3, "What is
the kinds of inflorescence ?"
After the points presented in these ques
tions had been disposed of clearly and te
the satisfaction of the class, Miss Marie
Kemp, of St. jMnes' school,read a very in
teresting paper en that most beautiful of
objects in nature, "The Flower." This
was geed enough te wish it twice as long.
She holds, with the poet, that "beauty
is its own excuse for being ;" that the
beauty of the flower, in its infinite variety,
is net provided merely that it may attract
the insect whose agency is essential te its
fertilization, but mainly that it may con
tribute te man's enjoyment and te the
higher development of the race.
The analysis of the dandelion was placed
upon the beard aud verified by the class
through the analytical tables until the
plant was satisfactorily determined Tar
axacum dens-leenis, dandelion, or " lien's
teeth." This is the first composite flower
that has been brought before the class and
its structure was a revelation te many of
the members present.
uunng tue evening the due liau an
opportunity te see a monster bean-pod
nearly three feet long and three inches
bread, brought by Miss Lefevre from the
jungles of Burmah, iu India, where this
lady labeicd for six years as missionary.
She wrote the name for us in Burmese
characters, but the font of type in a news
paper office is net adequate te the occa
sion, and the nearest we get te the name
of the monster bean is genyin. The vine
upon which it grew she describes as of the
thickness of the average man'i body.
Fishmongers' Affray .
This morning Emanuel Heisehnan ap
peared befeic Alderman 3IcConemy with
one of his eyes badly bunged up and an
ugly circular cut en his check, and made
complaint of assault and battery against
Frank Mcttfctt. Beth men are fish deal
ers, and it appears they get into a dispute
as te their rights, respectively, te a cer
tain position at the fish market. High
words ended in an assault Hcisclman al
leging that Mettfctt struck him as he was
turning away from him. A warrant was
issued for Mettfett's arrest.
A Geed Male or Horses.
Samuel Hess & Sen, auctioneers, sold at
public sale yesterday, at J. D. Denlinger's
Mcrfmac house, this city, for Daniel Lo Le
gan, sixteen head of Ohie horses at an
average of 187 per head. The lowest one
sold at $157 and the highest one at $233.
m
Resumed Operation.
The roll at the Penn iron works has been
put in and the mill started again this
morning at 4 o'clock.
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