LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER MONDAY, MAY 10, 1880.
Lancaster intelligencer.
MONDAY EVENING. MAY 10, 1880.
A Sinking Ship.
The unseawerthiness of the Grant
beat is being signally illustrated in these
days in the old-fashioned way by the
rats that are leaving the sinking ship.
There is that old nit McManes, of Phila
delphia, for instance te get near home
with an illustration and that young rat
Bunn, and plenty ether of the vermin
that are making themselves conspicuous
just new in opposition te Grant. Mr.
Bunn gees back te the supper the city
gave the boys at the Grant reception and
at which, and the company assembled
the distinguished guest turned up his
nose, fresh from sniffing the royal air of
Europe and the East. The Bunnies of
Philadelphia didn't like the treatment,
but still the Philadelphia delegates te the
state convention went in for Grant and
the unit rule, because it then still seem"
ed the strong card. They, at least, did
net see their way clear te show their
teeth. New they de. They see the ship
going down ,and they are gleefully in haste
te quit it. Mr. McManes has been quite
distinguished for the rapidity of his
growth in anti-Grantisin. lie was at the
Harrisburg convention, but he said noth
ing against Grant there, because of his
friendship for Cameren and because it
was none of his business, because he
wasn't a delegate. Se he say:;. But as
he says he is still a friend of Cameren,
and as he ought net te have been at
Harrisburg if he had no business there
and did net even take se much interest
in the party success as te express his
opinion against the policy of nominating
Grant which he even then strongly held
he says it is obvious that his reasons for
his acquiescence at that time and for his
kicking new are a little fishy. At pres
ent he is animated, he says, by a high
idea of his duty te his party, whose
delegate he is te Chicago. But he
has been its delegate ever since
Harrisburg and has been very quiet
until lately ; and new his tongue gets
looser every day. A few days age he was
still non-committal ; he hardly thought
Grant would be a candidate ; but in the
little time intervening light has broken
strongly upon him and the weight of his
duty has become se extreme that he cries
aloud against Grant.
Meanwhile there are all sorts of ideas
current as te what the fair Donald is
going te de about it. As we foretold at
the time of the Harrisburg convention,
the time has come when he has te decide
te fellow the Blaine Hag or have his fol
lowers leave him. Te keep his place at
the head of his forces he must go the way
the column wants te march. It is net
the way Donald is used te de. It would
be mere in his father's line. There is no
doubt as te what Simen would de in the
emergency; but whether Den has the
suppleness te get ever te the ether side
in the big hurry that is necessary, or
whether in fact he cares se much for the
shadow, when the substance of his power
is gene is the question.
m m
(Irani.
It is net doing full justice te the poten
tial politicians of the Republican party
who espouse the cause of Grant te as
sume that they have no higher interest
in his third term candidacy than their
bepes of securing mere inlluence under
such an administration as his would be
than under that of any of his competi
tors. Ne doubt Grant suits Conkling
and Cameren and Legan better than any
ether candidate, but they are all astute
politicians, who de net, at least, want te
see their party led te defeat and who could
easily make terms with any of the ether
candidates te get a fair consideration
for support of one of them. It is net
te be assumed therefore that they are
for Grant, because they believe him
te be the weakest candidate their party
could devise, as the anti-third termers
argue. On the contrary many of them
fervently believe that Grant is the only
man whom they can elect, if indeed they
can elect anybody.
It is very evident that te win this fall
the Republicans must net only held their
own vote solid, but they must also
get a great many votes which they
did net get in 1S70. Cameren's argu
ment, strengthened by his experience of
the Buckalew-Hartranft campaign, is
that the Republicans will vote for any
candidate their convention puts up, and
that the opposition te Grant new, no
fiercer than it was in 1S72, will be stamp
ed out and rftade as ineffective as i't was
then. As te the winning of Democratic
votes for their nominee they profess te
be able te de for Grant what no ether
candidate's friends claim, viz : te make
a break in the solid Democratic Seuth,
and te secure a certain class of Demo
cratic votes for Grant in all the ether
states.
Moreover, they point te Grant's com
petitors and te some fatal weakness in
the armor of each one which Democratic
lances will pierce and thus discomfit the
party hosts. Sherman is a low trickster
who has enriched himself by office-holding
; his Louisiana record was one of
the most shameful things in our politi
cal history; his course en finance
shows him te be a wavering, in
consistent, demagogical publicist ;
and his abuse of the civil service te aid
his own nomination is notorious. Blaine
has the ineffaceable odor of the lobby and
legislative jobbery about his clothes
people at Washington, in a position te
knew, say that there is an accumulation
of evidence against him which will blast
his name, as seen as it is inscribed en his
party's banner, and even "Vm. H. Kem
ble is said te still have that $5,000 check
which the Harrisburg Telegraph said he
exhibited at Cincinnati in 187G as proof
of the venality of Blaine and of the exact
price of his political integrity. Wask
burne is simply a legatee of Grant's for
tunes, a retainer in waiting for his old
shoes. Garfield's Credit Mebilier and De
Golyer pavement record would be a kill
ing frost te the incipient buds of further
political promotion. Edmunds's course en
the electoral commission would prevent
him from gaining any Democratic sup
port, and se en te the end of the list.
The elder Cameren recently expressed
jthe opinion that if his party could net
elect Grant it could elect nobody, and
from his standpoint it must be conceded
that he is honest in this belief. He has
lad geed reason te despise the opposition
of the sentimental element of his party
and te contemn the " d d literary fel
lers " who write against a third term
and yet who, he knows, will vote for
Grant if nominated.
Everything new waits for Illinois. If
it should fail Grant the scheme te nomi
nate him may be abandoned. But if it
be carried for him it may be sately as
sumed that Cameren, Conkling and Le
gan, with all the power of their three
great states, will press his cause and will
conscript into it all the straggling poli
ticians of their party.
Nearly a week has passed since the
Xew .Era, a Republican paper published
by Lawyer Warfel, renewed its charge
that certain " outrageous proceedings of
Sunday, which shocked and terrified
peaceable citizens in the vicinity of
' bheny Park,' are the natural fruits of
the prostitution of the machinery of jus
tice through the agency of the district
attorney's office. ih' tin failure f the
court te take cixjnizann of tin ilisijraafid
fact ;" and at the same time the Era en
dorsed the Times' view of the case, that
Judge Patterson was ' oblivious te the
startling evidence given te his court,
clearly proving the prostitution of jus
tice te low political ends and by the olli elli
cers of its own tribunal," and that Judge
Livingston has no right te complain " if
very many of the honest people of the
county shall be slew te forget that poli
tics can mock the law and that potential
criminals can defy the courts."
Though occasion has since offered,
neither Judge Livingston nor Judge
Patterson has called Lawyer Warfel into
court te show cause why he should net
be disbarred for a rellectien of the same
order as they have disbarred the publish
ers of the IXTKLLKiEXc-Ei: for making.
Judge Livingston concurred in that
opinion, though he is understood te
doubt the wisdom and propriety of it.
Nevertheless, in consistency he has no
right te make fish of a Republican pub
lisher and Uesh et a Democratic publish
er. We understand that he plumes him
self en having privately snubbed Lawyer
Warfel for the criticism of his paper en
the court's integrity. Why docs he hes
itate te publicly proceed against him ?
His failure te de se only points the Ix Ix
TELLieicxcisn's original criticism about
the different law which prevails here
when " all the parties implicated are Re
publicans."' Judge Patterson has shown
his liner discrimination by fining a Heg
Ring lawyer$10 for a contempt of court
and by passing unnoticed an aggravation
of the same contempt by a Bull Ring
layman.
Eight convicts are te be sent from
Harrisburg te the Eastern penitentiary
this week. Jehn Minnich gets a year be
cause he swore lie had no wife when he
had. Henry Remich stele a watch and
a pistol ; a year for him. Themas John John Jehn
eon went through a trunk and gets
twelve months. Mary Mitchell dealt in
stolen meat and get a year. Jehn Neid
niiiii for the same offense is penned in the
penitentiary for two years. Frank Sha
del, for stealing watches and clothing, is
te be immured for two years and a day.
Geerge Brooks stele a watch and will
have a year te repent. Jehn Mount., " a
very bad boy, and leader of a gang of
boys as bad as himself," will take a
fresh start in the world from tne house
of refuge.
Kemble and his associates who tried te
bribe a Legislature te plunder a com
monwealth, are pardoned and ride te
home and freedom in a palace car.
The ten commandments are net in
force against the rich and potential in
Pennsylvania politics.
a.
By their utter silence and lack of ex
planation the beard of prison inspectors
of last year admit the charges of this
journal, that gross fraud or negligence
has prevailed in their book-keeping, and
that by a falsification of figures the court
and the public have been made te believe
that the prison cost about $12,000 less
last year than its actual expenses were.
The Bull Ring organ makes no defense
for its people; the Heg Ring organ
offers no explanation nor apology, though
it does net join with our condemnation of
such book-keeping. The Era's publisher
has had a file of the annual reports for
nearly a week te confirm the evidence we
have already published of the fraudulent
report. Why is it silent ? Has there been
a bargain te suppress thisdike that which
suppressed the fact proved in a recent
investigation that the court's sentence
te separate and solitary confinement is
ignored by the keeper ? Have the keep
er and the inspectors agreed te set aside
the court's decree in certain instances 1J
Xet Cured Yet.
Daniel Conrey, the Erie man who was
driven te ravine: madness ever the fifteen
game, and who returned from Dixmont
asylum last week, had another attack yes
terday morning while in the cathedral.
The solemnities of high mass were dis
turbed by Conrey dinging his hat high
above the bishop's throne and exclaiming
that he was Daniel in the lien's den. The
excitement spread from end te end of the
large edifice, and the peer fellow was get
out and taken home. He will probably be
sent back te Dixmont.
"3Iy Maryland."
The Maiylaud delegates te Chicago
stand thus : Fer Grant Crcswcll, Wea
ver, West, Brown, Miller and Teme C ;
for Sherman Gary, Harris, Heeper, Lown
des, Crane and Buhrman 0 ; for Blaine
Westcott, Mallalicu, Jehnsen and Belt i.
Westcott and Mallalicu are strongly fcr
Blaine all the time, and as te the
Sherman and ether delegates, in a contin
gency 14 votes for Grant may be relied
upon and Sherman can get the 14 if it is
found that he is available.
An Outrage in Pern.
A private letter received in Allegheny
City , from Arcquipa, Peru, March 30th,
reports that before the Chilian descent en
Mollendo, James Campbell, of this state,
a young railroad employee, get all the mov
able machinery and engines back into the
country and buried the ether machinery.
Being captured by the Chilians and refus
ing te tell where he had buried the ma
chinery, he was treated with great cruelty,
taken te Ansenda, ledged in jail, tried and
sentenced te be shot. It was net believed.
however, that the sentence would be ex- I
ecuted. I
MOTOR TOPICS.
It is notable that while the Republican
senators are generally for Giant, the Dem
ocratic senators are against Tildcn with
even greater unanimity.
It is of course a third termer who writes
from Washington that the talk among the
Republicans whether Blaine, Sherman,
Edmunds or Washburne men is that the
recent anti-third term convention at St.
Leuis wns a Jiasce in all respects, and ut
terly failed te make any impresMjn upon
the country.
Mis. Waickel continues te expose him
self te the penalties for contempt of court
by allowing his editor of the JVbw Era te
publish such incendiary paragraphs as this :
'The needy and often ignorant wretch who
is detected in stealing a horse gets anything
from one te ten years in the jail, but the
educated man of position, intelligence and
wealth, who tries te get away with four
millions, is restricted te a four days' im
prisonment.'' MAY Mllt.M-LUS.
It' I h;ul u bit of thu rainbow,
It I had a dash of .snow.
If I Imtl the rare.-.' fragrance
That blossoms ever knew.
If I hail an emerald jewel :
And all were put together
It would net be an apple bough
Illoeinin in May weather.
Ifl had a Hake of the sunset
Frem a tropic zone.
If I had a sapphire richer
Than man has ever known.
It 1 had a strain of n.iisie
Tuned te the. Slav weather
It would net be a bird and his mate
Siiifiin-; sweet together.
Mrs. M. F. Jlutl.1, in May Wide Aweke.
Til kick is a story floating around which
cannot be traced back te an Ohie man,
that Hayes does net want Postmaster Gen
eral Key te leave the cabinet until he
knows definitely whether Secretary Sher
man is going te receive the Republican
nomination at Chicago. If Mr. Sherman
carries off the honors then there will be
another vacancy in the cabinet, as Mr.
Sherman could net with propriety remain
secretary of the treasury after becoming
the nominee. R. B. II. would then have
two positions te fill, and the selections
would undoubtedly be made with a view
te locality and influence upon the forth ferth
c lining contest.
J. W. Fic.vziKn, the pestiferous president
maker en paper has new figured it out
that "the Republican ticket will be Hamil
ton Fish, of New Yerk, for president, and
Jehn Sherman, of Ohie, for vice president.
Against this ticket the Democrats are
pretty certain te nominate Samuel J. Ran
dall for president and Jehn M. Palmer, of
Illinois, for vice president. " All this is
within the range of possibility but Frazier's
prediction makes it doubtful, since he rare
ly foretells anything,hewevcr likely, that it
docs net fail. A blind hog does sometimes
find anacern,and Frazier has these reasons
for the faith that is in him : " Speaker Ran
dall's best grip en the popular mind is his
clean hands and his well-earned record for
economy in the public service, and Pal.
nier's strength is in his patriotic services
te his country and in his representing the
conservative element or both parties. Ran
dall and Palmer is a reproduction of that
popular ticket which defeated General
Dix for Governer of New Yerk in 1874 by
50,000 majority civilian Tildeu Democrat
General Dershcimcr,LiberalHcpublicau and
soldier. All the Democratic. statesmen in
the nation arc combining te defeat Mr.
Tilden ; they will doubtless succeed in
preventing his nomination, but they can
not prevent Mr. Tildcn from determining
who the nominee of the Cincinnati con
vention shall be, and as the popular senti
ment is strengely in favor of integrity and
economy in public life, and as Samuel J.
Randall is the embodiment of these princi
ples, he is most likely te be the Democratic
choice for leader in the campaign of this
year."
FEBSONALi.
Axx.v Dickixsex is te write her recol
lections of notable scenes and characters
in book form.
Hen. Joux B. Steicm, the cx-ceiigress.
man, is a local M. E. preacher, and in the
absence of his pastor recently occupied
the pulpit te the satisfaction of the con
gregation. Mr. J. LewniE Bell has been appoint
ed general traffic manager of the Philadel
phia and Reading railroad, in addition te
his duties as general freight agent, and
will hereafter have charge of the question
of rates upon coal as well as general mer
chandise. Senater Paddock, of Nebraska, is
in a letter for Grant because he thinks
trip around the world has greatly
proved him and he will de mere for
out
his
inv
-
the
little state of Nebraska than any ether
candidate.
M. ViEUXTKiirs, the violinist, has had
an unpleasant experience while traveling
Algeria. He was riding in an open car
riage, when au Arab, for no assignable
reason, threw a large stone at his head,
giving him a severe wound.
The eldest practicing -lawyer in the
United States, and probably in the world,
is the Hen. Joux A. Cutiiiieict, of Mobile,
Ala., who is ninety-one years old and is still
engaged in the active discharge of his pro
fessional duties. Be was an officer of the
war of 1812.
Neilsex confesses that she is te be mar
ried shortly after the close of her present
engagement, and declares that it is positive
ly her farewell te the American stage. She
will play a farewell engagement next fall
in Londen and the British provinces. The
name of the happy man is net disclosed.
Ficed Douglass's wife is a full-blooded
negress and she has never learned te read
or write. He engaged himself te her while
in bondage, she being a free negress of the
same neighborhood, and after his escape a
sentiment of honor led him back te marry
her. He seems greatly attached te her.
Beacexsfield is quoted as making a
cautious and practical answer te an illus
trious lady who when English relations
with Russia were in a dangerous state of
tension, asked him at dinner : " What are
you waiting for?" "I am waiting for
mutton and potatoes," said the astute
premier.
A Republican newsmonger writes from
Washington that there has been of late
considerable quiet work going en in the in
terest of Judge Field, as the Democratic
candidate for the presidency. It is asserted
by the Democrats hostile te his nomination
that considerable money has been spent in
dining and wining members of Congress
in order te start a Field "boom" Quite
a number of Southern men are mentioned
as favoring Mr. Field's nomination, the
most prominent being Senater Gorden, of
Georgia, and these gentlemen are reported
as being confident that he would be the
most popular nominee the Democratic con
vention could place before the country.
The voting for the geld-headed cane te
be presented te the most popular candi
date for president, at the Hahnemann
hospital fair, in New Yerk, closed as fol fel
lows : Bayard 103, Grant 131, Blaine 73,
Edmunds 17, Sherman 5, Jewett 0, Tilden
3, J. S. Phelps 11, Seymour 2, E. B. Wash
bureo 3 se Mr. Bayaicd will receive the
cane and the honor of being "up head."
If Gen. Grant receives the nomination at
Chicago, the friends of Secretary Scucicz
say he will immediately retire from the
cabinet and relieve Hayes from any em
barrassment, by having in the cabiuct a
person who is against the nominee of the
Republican party. There are Republicans
who believe that Mr. Schurz had better be
collecting his things together preparatory
te removal.
Gkeuce Eliet's new husband is Walter
Cress, of Wcybridgc, Suricy. He is or
was a mei chant and the representative in
Louden of the American banking house
of Brown, Shipley & Ce. The papers
which recently depicted this bride of 02
as plunged in gri.ef at the death of her
late consort, Geerge Henry Lewes, pro
nounced her marriage after seventeen
months widowhood as pressing the pre
rogatives of genius tee far. But if society
tolerated her living with Lewes without a
ceremony, it will endure her taking a new
Cress after her sorrow has had nearly a
year and a-half te be assuaged.
William II. Vandkkiult avIie recently
sailed for Europe with his wife, a son and
a daugh'cr, en beard the steamer Britan
nic, of the White Star line, expect te be
absent about six months. Should he re
main away se long, it will be the most ex
tended trip he has ever made te Europe.
His son, Win. K. Vanderbilt, second vice
president of the New Yerk Central and
Hudsen River railroad company, will act
as president during his father's absence.
Last year Mr. Vandcrbilt made a trip te
Europe occupying just 28 days from the
the time of his sailing until his return. In
1878 he made a trip also, in April, and was
gene 42 days, and in May, 1877, he went te
Europe, and was back in New Yerk in 20
davs from the date of his sailing.
DELEGATES
TO
CHICAGO.
The Xeiv
Yerk Tribune's
View of the .Sif
uaiien.
Saturday's Tribune.
Six hundred of the 75G delegates who
will compose the Chicago convention have
been elected. They come from twenty
eight states and six territories. Ten states
and three territories are still te elect. Of
these GOO delegates the Tribune, after a
most careful examination of the conflicting
claims of the partisans of the various can
dates, assigns 241 te Senater Blaine, 224 te
General Grant, 1)1 te Secretary Sherman, 31
te Senater Edmunds, and 13 te the Hen.
E. B. Washburne. This gives no candi
date a majority of the convention, 379
votes. Mr. Blaine lacks 138 votes, Gen
eral Grant 135, Secretary Sherman 288.
and Mr. Edmunds, 3UG. In making this
estimate the Tribune assigns te Mr. Blaine
only 14 of the New Yerk delegates and 23
of the Pennsylvania delegates, although
the Blaine club at Washington claim 22 of
the former and 2S of the latter. The esti
mate is made en the supposition
that the Chicago convention will decide
that the unit rule cannot be enforced, in
accordance with unvarying precedent.
When the question came up in the Cincin
nati convention of 187G, Chairman Mc Mc
Phcrsen decided that each and every mem
ber had the right te vote his sentiments in
the convention. An appeal was taken from
the ruling anil the convention sustained
the chair by a vote of 305 te 339. During
the debate, the Hen. Eugene Hale called
attention te the fact that the same question
arose in the convention which nominated
Grant in 18G8, and was decided in the same
way by an overwhelming majority.
The Blaine and Sherman estimates are
made by the Washington clubs of these
candidates, and the Grant estimate is
made by the Hen. A. M. Clapp, editor of
the Grant newspaper at Washington. The
Sherman estimate is given en him only.
The states which arc still te elect dele
gates arc Nevada en May 11, Flerida,
Michigan and West Virginia en May 12,
Illinois, Nebraska and Minnesota en May
19, Alabama en May, 20, Louisiana en
May 24, and Colerado en May 25. They
will elect 140 delegates. There arc four
te be elected in Massachusetts and six
from the territories. Of these states,
Michigan, Colerado, West Virginia,
Nebraska, Nevada and Minnesota are
counted as certain for Blaine, giving
him GO mere votes, carrying his total up
te 281. Grant hopes for the solid delega
tions of Flerida and Alabama 28 votes
but he is sure of only a portion of Louis
iana's 1G votes, and a portion only of
Illinois's 42. There is the best reason
also for thinking that Alabama and Fler
ida will both be divided. Neverthe
less, giving him all the votes of these
four states, Alabama 20, Flerida 8, Loui
siana 1G, and Illinois 42, he will get only
8G votes, bringing his total up te 310, or
G9 less than a majority. Instead of these
going solid for Grant, however, it is new
quite likely that Blaine will get enough of
them te bring his vote up te above 300,
with a corresponding reduction en Grant's
vote below 300.
STATE ITEMS.
The eleventh annual reunion of the so
ciety of the Ninth Pennsylvania Veteran
cavalry will be held in Harrisburg en
Thursday, June 3d, 1880.
Rev. Neviu Woodside, of Pittsburgh, en
trial before the Northern presbytery in
New Yerk en charges of immorality and
lying, was suspended en Saturday. He
will appeal te the synod.
The funeral of James Dicksen, the
father of Themas Dicksen, president of
the Delaware and Hudsen canal com
pany, took place at Carbondale yesterday
in the presence of about five thousand per
sons. Residents of New Hanover township,
Montgomery county, are greatly excited
ever the mysterious and prolonged ab
sence et an ei!ilit-year-eld daughter of
Benjamin M. Yest, who disappeared sev
eral days age.
A Philadelphia company has purchased
$70,000 worth of land en Duquesne
Heights, Pittsburgh, and intends erecting
five hundred comfortable dwellings upon
it te give the denizens of the Smoky city
a taste of real home comfort.
Near Scranton, en Friday, a prize fight
was fought between Dave Richards and
Themas Themas. After twenty-seven
rounds the fight was declared a draw. A
very large audience, among which were
several policemen and members of the
Scranton city councils witnessed the fight,
but no arrests were made.
The following speakers have been se
cured for the tariff picnic at Beaver,
en June etu : lien. James G.
Blaine, Gov. Heyt, Hen. James
H. Hepkins, James A. Garfield, Hen.
Samuel J. Randall, Gov. Fester, of Ohie ;
Hen. W. S. Shallenberger, Jame. E. Emer Emer
eon, and many ethers of national reputa-
tien tee numerous te mention. There will
be some queer tariff talk from that medeljr
of protectionists, revisionists, moderate
tariff men and freetraders.
C1UML' AXD ITS COXSEQUEXCES.
Tue Dally Budget of Criminal Tragedies.
Amer Smith, an old and prominent citi
zen of Westford, N. Y., hanged himself in
his barn. Pecuniary losses were the
cause.
The jail at Crockett, Texas, was fired by
ene of the inmates, and Jehn Walker, one
of the prisoners, is believed te have per
ished. A negre, who feloniously assaulted and
killed a woman, near Fairview, Ivy., en
Friday, was taken from a guard ai d
lynched.
Jeseph Kletz, recently employed by a
New 1'erk firm, committed suicide by
hanging in the weeds near Hartferd,
Conn. Pecuniary and domestic troubles
are assigned as the cause.
Jehn Caldwell, aged GO years and living
at 719 Seuth Eleventh street, Philadelphia,
who has been deranged since the death of
his wife, a year age, badly cut and gashed
his threat and abdomen with a razor. He
was taken te the hospital and will die.
The jury at Williampert in the case of
Catharine Miller and Gee. Smith, indicted
for the murder of Andrew Miller, en
the night of the 18th of March last, near
Jersey Shere, has found them guilty of
murder in the first degree.
James Tobin, a boss stevedore in Chi
cago, went home drunk en Saturday night,
turned his family out of doers in a violent
thunder storm, and beat his seventeen-year
old daughter Mary te death, because she
did net obey an unreasonable order.
Daniel Lylc, colored, his wife mid
another woman named Tally, all crazed by
religious excitement, have been ledged in
jail, at Clarksville. Ky. Lyle killed two
of his children, aged respectively three and
five years, under the impression that he
was Hered.
A farmer, named Townsend, living near
Geneva, N. Y., received a telegram from
Trey, Michigan, stating that the remains
of his brother-in-law, Beckett, would be
shipped thence, and notifying him te meet
it. The corpse arrived in due time, and
with a letter warning the relatives net te
open the coffin as Beckett had died of a
very contagious disease. Mrs. Townsend,
however, insisted en seeing the body, when
it was found te have a deep gash en the
forehead. It is believed that Beckett, who
was intemperate, was murdered in a
drunken brawl.
LATEST NEWS Bx" MAIL..
The evening Tribune, of Minneapolis,
changes te a morning paper te-morrow.
The Ottawa dispatch says that steel im
ported for use in the manufacture of skates
lias been placed en the free list.
Seventeen employees of a lumber mill at
Bridgcwater, N. S., arc seriously poisoned
by some moxieus substance in their feed.
A beat containing two or mere persons
capsized oil' West Bay, Parrcsboreugh, N.
S., en Saturday, and the occupants were
drowned.
Dr. Chesley Martin, a leading physician
and prominent Masen, died suddenly at
Chatham, Va., en Saturday, of paralysif.
lie was buried with Maseic honors yester
day, the attendance being very large.
The demand for residences at Newport
is unusually large, and as a consequence
there is a considerable advance in rentals.
While a majority of the cottages bring en
the average about $2,250, prices have run
this spring from $1,000 te 65,000.
The action of the four New Yerk Re
publican state senators who are delegates
te the national convention in publicly an
nouncing that they will disregard instruc
tions has brought out half a dozen mere
delegates, in various parts of the state,
who say they shall pursue a like course.
Base ball en Saturday : At Hanover, N.
H. Dartmouth, 13 ; Harvard, 5. Prince
ton Princeton, 10 ; Brown University, 2.
Washington Albany, G ; National, 4.
Worcester Worcester, 10 ; Providence. 8.
Bosten Tiey 7; Bosten, 0. Chicago Cin
cinnati, G ; Chicago, 2.
The plan of a Georgia couple te elope
was discovered by the girl's lather ; but
they did net knew it until after riding a
while in a close carriage that was te have
conveyed them te a clergyman, they alight
ed at her own home, aud the driver re
vealed himself as the stern parent in dis
guise. The purchase of the Cleveland Herald
by Jehn D. Rockafellew and ether wealthy
capitalists indicates that the friends of
Jehn Sherman intend te grease the ma
chine aud put new vigor into his boom.
Mr. Rockafellew is president of the Stand
ard oil company and is the reputed posses
sor of untold wealth.
When the Texas express train en the
St. Leuis, Iren Mountain and Southern rail
road was 1 J miles this side of Bismarck,
and about 70 miles from St. Leuis, it ran
into a washout. The locomotive was
wrecked and Engineer Charles McPherson
and Fireman Nicholas A. Sterrs were in
stantly killed.
KIKE.
A Kecerd et Destructive Conflagrations.
The stables of the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre coal company, at Wanamie, were
destroyed br fire yesterday with 21 mules.
The Queen's Lake ice house, in St. Clair
county, Me., was consumed by lighting en
Saturday night. The less is stated at
$45,000.
A fire at Kinderhook, N. Y., en Satur
day night, destroyed ten or eleven build
ings, including the posteffico and two
hotels. Less, $40,000.
Huse, Loomis & Ge's extensive ice houses
en the river front at St Leuis, were burned
yesterday morning in a tremendous thun
der storm. Over 10,000 tens of ice were
consumed. The less is estimated at about
$50,000.
Twe wooden buildings in Danville, Va.,
one occupied for the storage of tobecco,
and the ether as a grocery and liquor
store, were destroyed before daylight yes
terday morning by an incendiary lire.
Samuel J. Croxten, who slept in the tobac
co warehouse, lest his life, and Jehn Dee?,
a fireman, perished in attempting te save
him. Over 220,000 pounds of leaf tobacco
were consumed.
Yesterday aftcrnean, a gas explosion in
a stove, in the dwelling of Justice Clinc, in
Rexferd, 11 miles southeast of Bradford,
set the house en fire. The flames spread
among the frame structures in the village
until 80 buildings were in ashes, including
the principal hotels and stores, and the
Kendall ' and Eldridge railroad station.
Forty derricks, the pump station of the
United pump lines, and two tanks con
taining together ever 30,000 gallons of oil,
were also burned. A large force of men
was set at work constructing a dam te pre
vent the burning oil from running down the
valley and setting fire te three ether tanks
containing each 25,000 gallons of oil.
A fire in Allegheny City, Pa., last even
ing, which started in the stable of Keifer.
Stcifel & Ce.'s tannery en Allegheny ave
nue, destroyed that tannery, Witlack's
tannery and twenty-eight ether buildings,
slaughter houses, stables and dwellings oil
Valey, High and Filbert streets. The lo le
cality being situated between two hills, it
was almost impossible for the firemen te
get at the flames until they had nearly
done their worst. The less en property is
estimated at $125,000. About twenty peer
families are homeless, escaping with noth
ing but the clothing they had en. It was
rumored that a young girl perished in the
flames. The fire is supposed te have been
started by two boys who were playing in
the stable.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
MOUNT JOV ITEMS.
Frem Our Regular Correspondent,
Ou Saturday Captain Jacob K. Walt
man died suddenly from the effects of a
hemorrhage at the home of his brother in
Yerk, in the 54th year of his age. He
was born in Mount Jey, and at an early
age learned the trade of cabinet-making,
which he followed for some time. When
the war broke out he was commissioned
captain, and commanded company U of
15th regiment, a body of infantry who re
sponded te the three months' call. After
ward he served as commander of company
G of the 9th Pennsalvania cavalry. He
was the recipient of a heavy geld-headed
cane which bears the inscription of the
numerous battles in which he participated.
The deceased was well known in this sec
tion of the state, and for a while was en
gaged at photographing at Lancaster and
later at Harrisburg. The funeral services
will be held in the M. E. church this
(Monday) afternoon. Interment in the
Eberle cemetery with the honors of war
by the few of his company who survive
him.
Abraham Lengcueckcr, father of I. S.
Lengeneckcr, of this borough, breathed
his last at his home near Campbcllstewn,
Dauphin county, en Saturday morning,
aged about 75 years. Five years age Mr.
L. was stricken with apoplexy, and grad
ually growing mere aud mere impaired,
both mentally and physically, it resulted
in his total blindness several years before
his demise. He was twice married and a
wife and six children survive him.
A curious egg that was laid by a com
mon hen may be seen at D. II. Eugle's,
West Maiu street. Within a thin shell
which is partly broken, whose longest cir
cumference is nine inches and shortest
seven and a half, is an ordinary sized egg
with shell and all complete ; also the yolk
and white of another egg. It is a rare
freak of nature and well worth a leek.
We have often heard of the common
land turtle reaching the age of a hundred
years, but yesterday it was our privilege te
sec one which has wandered about for
mere than fifty years. In a leisure mo
ment, fifty years age, when Jehn M. Hies
tand was a young man of twenty years, he
carved the initials " J. II.," and the date
" 1830 " en the shell of one, which he
chanced te pick up en a tract of woodland
adjoining the place where he was born.
On visiting this tract, which he still owns,
one day last week he was amazed te find
the turtle bearing the above inscription
partly obliterated still en its tramp : He
has the turtle at his residence, West Marien
and it is evidently discontented, for it has
net eaten a bite since at its new home.
COVKT JUA1&TEK SESSIONS.
Adjourned April Term.
At 10 o'clock this morning the adjourned
April term et quarter sessions court began
with Judge Patterson presiding.
The first case attached was that of
cem'th vs. Harriet Bedy, colored, of this
city, charged with felonious assault and
battery. Henry E. Leman was the party
assaulted, and the evidence showed
that en April 23d he was en his
way from his residence en Duke
street te his rifle works en East James
street. When near the corner of Christian
and James streets, a deg belonging te the
defendant, who was leading ashes, began
lighting with Mr. Lemau's deg. Mr.
Leman asked the defendant for her shovel
and with it he parted the dogs. The de
fendant's deg ran under the wagon and
Mr. Leman followed him ; Mr. Leman
thcu returned the shovel te the defendant,
who struck him in the face with the it,
cutting him se badly that it was necessary
te have the wound dressed by Dr. Reed.
The defense was that after Mr. Leman
had parted the dogs he followed the one
belonging te the defendant and struck at
him with the shovel. When the defend
ant saw that she told him te step and at
tempted te take the shovel : Mr. Leman
held en te the blade end of the shovel, and
in the struggle between them te get pos
session of it Mr. Leman had his face cut.
The defendant admitted having struck the
prosecutor with her fist. A number of
witnesses testified te the defendant's geed
character for peace.
Jeseph H. Sides plead guilty te a charge
of fornication and bastardy with Martha
Minker, of Martic township, and received
the usual sentence. In a casc'ef seduction
against the same defendant a verdict of
net guilty was taken for want of evidence.
Charter Granted.
A charter was granted te the Colored
Men's AVerking Association of this city.
XEIGUJIOKIIOOD XE1VS.
Events Acress the County Line.
Reading is discussing a $4,500 soldiers'
monument te be put up in Penn Square.
The Brown baseball club of Yerk has
disbanded.
The heisting apparatus of Mesclin fur
nace, Berks county, was burned en Satur
day. Less, $2,500.
Heward K. Fisher, a popular Reading
fireman, has died after seven years' suffer
ing from lung disease.
The Wilmington and Northern railroad
company have just placed a new locomo
tive en their railroad te accommodate their
increased freight traffic.
Peter Handwerk, as aged and much re
spected citizen of Springfield, Berks coun
ty, aged 77, died last Friday night about
10 o'clock. Dr. S. B. Suavely prenunced
it a case of apoplexy.
Themas Ben, a colored man, died in
West Cain township, Chester county, en
last Wednesday, aged 81 years. He passed
much of his time in the employ of the
Perdue family.
Judge Futhey, of West Chester, sug
gests that the name of "Green Tree"
station en the Pennsylvania railroad be
changed te " DufTryn M.iwr." We object,
unless the orthography be changed te
"Dufrin Mar" We have already tee
many silent letters in our orthography
without borrowing from the Welsh?
W. J. P. White, esq., as census super
visor of the Philadelphia district, appoint
ed en Saturday as enumerators Miss Mag"
gie A. McKee, of he. 909 Arch street, and
Miss Emily Kirkbaum, of Germantown.
The former was highly endorsed by ex ex
Governer Hart mn ft and a number of prom
inent clergymen of Philadelphia, and the
latter, who is the daughter of the first con
ductor en the Reading railroad, by the
Hen. A. C. Harmer, and ever ene hundred
ether applicants in her favor.
THE LAW AXD TUG GOSPEL.
Bishop Sbanahan at St. Mary's Testerclay.
A large congregation was present at the
half-past ten o'clock mass at St. Mary's
yesterday, where Right Rev. James F.
Shanalian, bishop of the diocese, was an
nounced te preach. The mass was ccle
bratrd by Rev. Father Hickey, aud the
bishop preached from the 17th verse of
the 5th chapter of St. Matthew: "I am
come net te destroy, but te fulfil," the
general theme of his discourse being the
mission of the Saviour, and the effect of
His coming in working out the scriptural
law. Christ came into the world the union
of perfections, the absolute development
and fulfilment of the laV. He came bear
ing with Him the great truths of moral re
sponsibility and of the life te come, of
which the old philosophers were ignorant.
Plate and Secrates and Cicere and Aristo
tle knew nothing of the resurrection and
the judgment which Christ proclaimed
te mankind. In His coming Jesus
revealed te the world the Trinity
of the Godhead, the mystery of the
incarnation, of redemption, and of the in
fallibility of the church, which constitute
the great doctrines of the New Testament.
The gospel of Jesus presents decisive
proof of the institution of the sacrament
of baptism as an essential condition of sal
vation ; of confirmation, the cucharist,
extreme unction and matrimony. These
great dogmas aie the embodiment of the
supernatural order of Christian truth
which our Lord gave te the world. Jesus
came te work out the fulfilment of the
law of grace. He unfurled te the world
the banner of peace, and the concise ex
pression of His doctrine and of His works is
comprised in the simple word faith. Faith
is the sum and substance of Christianity.
Christ in his mission of grace tells man
kind te believe and they shall be, net
blessed, but saved ; they shall be saved for
all eternity, their sins remitted. He
speaks a language that subjugates
men's minds, subdues their feelings and
appeals none the less forcibly te the sense
of illustreus men of science, philosophy and
letters, than te the untutored, lowly and
humble. Divinity is stamped en His every
action aud en every doctrine that He has
given te the world. May net the author
of the mystery of mysteries, of the har
monious blending of the greatest truths of
the law, well say, " I am come net te de
stroy but te fulfil' ?
The latter portion of the bishop's dis
course was devoted te an exposition of the
easy pathway which Carist has left open te
all who will enter. "If any man will come
after Me, let him take up his cress and fol fel
low Me."' Here is the invitation of grace
the gesjiel of love. It teaches the doc.
trine of one brotherhood in Christ, where
there are neither Jews nor Gentiles, Gneks
nor Remans, slaves nor masters, but only
men and brethren. Seul and charity are the
watchwords which the Saviour has given
te His disciples.
Bishop Shanahau occupied ever an hour
in the delivery of his discourse, of which
the above abstract gives only a brief
glimpse in its leading featutes, and which
was marked by the same logical reasoning,
depth of thoughtful research, and ele
gance of diction that are characteristic
of his pulpit efforts. While the distin
guished prelate avoids all attempt at
oratorical display in addressing an audi
ence, there is an attractiveness in his
mode of speaking that engages the
hearer's attention and at times mounts te
the height of positive eloquence. Despite
the heated atmosphere of the church yes
terday, the congiegatien were singularly
attentive.
During the services in all the Catholic
churches it was announced that next
Saturday special services would be held
commemorative of the vigil of Pentecost,
and that forty hours devotion would begin
next Sunday at 0 a. m.
I'isiicuirs.
Twe Fourth ward Republicans of politi
cal note had a rough and tumble in the
square this morning ever an old story, Liid
the passage of the lie. Ne bleed, no ar
rests and no political significance.
A little fracas en North Queen street Sat
urday nightjwas caused by the insulting re
marks of a Harrisburgcr, who get a drub
bing for his insolence atid left town this
morning without recourse te law.
Twe colored men named Steward aud
Beas, get into an altercation at the Wash
ington house, North Queen street, Satur
day night, and were gobbled up by the
police. They were taken before the mayor
this morning and fined $2 and costs eaih
l'ay of Census Knumeratera.
By a provoking error in the Ixtklli -gkxcek's
estimate of the condensation
likely te be received by a census enumer
ator in a rural district of 2,000 population
the total was figured out at $44.50. It
should have been $40.50, as the following
items show :
2,000 names $25 00
80 farms
50 deaths
10 manufactories
Copying
Attendance en con cctien
. 10 00
2 50
. 2 00
. 2 00
. 5 00
$1G 50
Lancaster County in the Supreme Court.
The following cases were before the
supreme court en Saturday :
Philadelphia and Reading railroad com
pany vs. Andersen. Argument resumed.
James E. Gewen for plaintiff in error ;
Chas. II. Pennypacker and W. Aug. Atlee
for defendant in error ; II. M. North in
reply.
Susan Coonley vs. cem'th. J. L. Stein
mctz and M. Brosius for plaintiff in error.
W. M. Franklin and District Attorney
Eshlcmen for defendant in error.
Discharged.
Casper Dittman, who was arrested a few
days age, for drunken and disorderly con
duct en complaint of his wife, was net
"locked up" as reported, but gave
bail for a hearing before Alderman Mc
Conomy, which took place this morning
and defendant was discharged.
Passed Through.
Yesterday afternoon Haverly's masto
don minstrels passed west through this
city en the fast line at 2:10. The company
had a whole car lead of baggage and al
most two car leads of performers. They
closed at Nible's garden, New Yerk, en
Saturday night and will open in Pittsburgh
this evening.
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