i"BrtrBBfafaAi A- ,'- nr; LANCASTER DAILY iNTELUGfiNik TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1880. Hancastet Intelligencer. TUESDAY EVENING, MAT 18, 1880. Statuvelence. We publish elsewhere, te-day, a letter from this country te a Londen spiritual istic paper, descriptive of the science of Statuvelence, te which our famous townsman, Dr. Fahnestock, has given se much attention, and which lie has named, described and illustrated. The readers of a spiritualistic paper will find nothing in the science.as Dr. Fahnestock has developed it, which sustains their pe culiar fancies and beliefs. There is noth ing in statuvelence which has otherwise been called mesmerism, hypnotism, ani mal magnetism, &c., mere myste rious than catalepsy, which is a myste rious condition of the human frame fa miliar te all physicians from the remotest time but which they have never taken advantage of te aid them in their healing art. And yet its advantage is obvious. They have sought anacthetics far and wide te deaden pain ; and still have fail ed te seek te control this cataleptic con dition in which they well knew pain was unfelt. Dr. Fahnestock's grand discovery is nothing else than that this state can be produced by an act of the patient's will ; that he can take himself out of it as he puts himself in it by the power of his volition, and that he can select any part of the body te put into a condition of in sensibility, without affecting the rest. Nay, mere ; lie can, by se willing it, cause pain te be felt in any part of the body. In a word, he has complete con trol of his sensations through the power of his will. These things are true. Dr. Fahnes. tock proves them every day. lie is ready te demonstrate them at all times. lie does it constantly in the practice of his profession. He is no charlatan. He has lived in this town all his life and is one its most respected citizens and distinguished physicians. We need net point out hew he avails himself 4f statuvelence in his practice. Obviously the patient is benefited by being deprived of pain, and just as clear ly is opportunity given te nature te ban ish dise:ise by giving te the affected part the perfect quiet and ease of insensibil ity. Dr. Fahnestock has named the science statuvelence, because that word means that it is a "state produced by the will," which is just exactly what lie finds the phenomenon te be. It is nothing mere nor less than a will state, which some persons readily are taught te assume, and some with difficulty ; but the doctor believes that anyone, with due ex ertion, can be taught te put himself in the condition ; and that when in it no disease is'hepelessly in possession of the body. There seems te be a grand field of investigation opened in the direction here pointed out. The effect of the will en disease is an old discovery. By it marvelous cures have been produced. By Dr. Fahnestock's process of utilizing the will every man is made his own phy sician. He is taught te cure himself. "Will this make make it unpopular with the faculty ? The Coonley Case. The judgment of the supreme court? which remits Mrs. Coonley te jail is net very clearly right, if it is the decision of the highest court of the state. It is a matter of regret that the supreme court conclusions de net import absolute verity. If the seven men en the bench each gave his undivided attention te every case, te fully understand and se intelligently judge it, it would happen less often that geed grounds existed for dis puting the soundness of the conclusions of the court. In this Coonley case the real gist of the offence was the charge that the woman procured the marriage of the young girl te a man whom she knew te be married, and the undisputed fact is that there was no evidence of her knowledge of his previous marriage laid before the jury. Mrs. Coonley may be really guilty ; or maybe technically guilty of the offense of enticing a girl into marriage without her parents' consent. But it is net te be denied that no trouble would have been made ever her action in this case if the man had net turned out te be married. The girl would have been glad enough te have get him, if she had get him ; and her natural guardians would have lifted up their voices and cried amen. But the fat was in the fire when the fellow was found te have a previous wife. If Mrs. Coonley knew it, she is rightly punished. But she is entitled te have this knowl edge proved against her. The decision of the court does net show that it under stood this vital defect in the common wealth's case. If the Republican politicians of this county are se demoralized that they will pay $20 and $25 te an ordinary worker, of such uncertain political influence that he will take the cash from two opposing rings,and then probably vote for neither, they must have plenty of money and yet be such feels as are easily parted from it. "When the air is full of rumors that single candidates have had as much as $2,500 or $3,000 put into the peel for them alone, it begins te leek as if all the old experi ence of rotten political demoralization was te be again undergone. Next Sat urday's contest, which has been slumber ing somewhat lazily, is te be desperately fought from this day forth, and after the polls close the Sabbath will be dese crated by mere return tinkering than has ever disgraced even the disgraceful Re publican party of Lancaster county. The Itepublican politicians calculate that with Grant for president, Griest for Congress, Mylin for Senate, Tem Davis for district attorney ,and Harve Raymond and Ceck Gatchell for the Legislature, the Old Guard ought te te roll up 10,000 majority for the whole ticket. The railroad companies say there will be no free passes te the national conven tions. The attendance will be diminish ed far below expectations. New it may be the Heg Ring that will divide and be conquered. Carry the news te J. W. Jehnsen. S. C. Kirk of the West Schuylkill Press, published at Tremont. Schuylkill county, and a representative te the ex isting Legislature of the state, would seem te be the kind of man whom his constituents should be glad te return te the Heuse. He introduced into the Leg islature the bill which gives aright of appeal from the arbitrary judgment of judges upon lawyers, and is upon the Committee which se efficiently presecutel the legislative bribers. When the people get a geed representative they ought te keep him as long as they can, for it is net every time that they hit it. m It leeks as if Capt. McMellen had his "iron heel " en Jehnsen's neck again. MINOR TOPICS. A. Heiui Smith is net se much Grant man as he was. of a A. J. Sasdekses of the Shippensburg Chronicle, spent Whit-Monday in Lancas ter. Tun supreme court gave Tem Davis a black eye, but he had it peulticed at the Exchange yesterday. att OuiF.sT had a boom vesterday, as it were. It would be a geed idea for him te send this week's Inquirer out en Thurs day night. The Grant delegates from Chicago are going te be forced iute the Illinois conven tion. That is te "settle" that state. That state is te settle the presidential nomination. Yeu Lancaster county kickers, what arc you going te de about it? That reliable and prosperous old jour nal, the Baltimore Sun, enters en its forty fourth year of unchecked prosperity, as jocund as a boy of fifteen. The Philadel phia Evening JSreics begins its second year as if it had come te stay. The llarnsuurg rutrietvill experiment with a Sunday edi tion. Undkii an arrangement made between the trunk lines the Pennsylvania railroad company will issue no free passes te the national conventions te be held in June at Chicago and Cincinnati. Round trip ex ex cusien tickets have been issue at reduced rates from the Eastern cities, and from prominent interior points, te both cenven. tiens. Adam J. Eiserly has geed staying powers but no speed. He will keep in the race but it will be ever before he gets te the three-quarter pole. If the Bull Ringers had added their political influence te Clay Brubakcr's personal strength and the surviving power of Gee. Brubaker and Fred Smith, Brubaker might have been elected district attorney. But Adam is sued a writ of mandamus te enforce the Cincinnati contract. Ben Ixgeuselt. says: "Should Sher man be the only candidate before the con vention, the convention would adjourn and advertise for proposals." Sam Ban also makes a remark about Sherman. Of Blaine, Ingersoll says: "I want Blaine nominated because he is a man of genius ; because he will fill the country with en thusiasm ; and because men dead for ether candidates will have wings for him."' Johnny was frantic te go te the circus, but papa urged school and study, holding out a dazzling vision of the White Heuse as the ultimate reward of assiduity. But sad te say, with little effect, for the graceless youth said : " Father, are there net about a million of boys in the United States?" "I believe se, my boy." " And hasn't every one a chance of being president?" "He has." "Well, then, I'd sell out my chance for a circus ticket." PERSONAL. McMellen has $100 te bet en Tem. Davis. That is calculated te give John John Jehn eon a sun stroke. Mr. A. E. Fraxtz left Lancaster te-dayt for Wilmington, Del., where he will spend the summer. Wambold, the retired minstrel, who is dying of consumption, made $20,000 out of his voice. Miss Fannie M. Clifferd, of New Haven, has inherited the sum of $100,000 from an uncle who died recently in Lon Len Lon eon, England. Steve S. Claik came down from Mid Mid dletewn yesterday, took a leek at Pfingst and the politicians. He and Jehu R. Bricker think of starting a Bull Ring and a Heg Ring up the river te save themselves the expense of coming down. Docter Clemenceau, the French Radical leader, who is also a physican of eminence, at one time taught in a private school for young ladies at Stamford, Conn. He be came greatly interested in one of the pupils under his charge and married her, and went back te France te practice physics and politics. Hayes and wife have been sleeping in Washington's bed at Mount Vernen. This is net an extraordinary thing for Mr. Hayes te de. Lincoln, Grant, Jehnsen, Pierce, Fillmore, Buchanan and Tyler all took trips te Mount Vernen te sleep in the bed. The Duke of America should try it again. If "sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care" should come te him it might bring it a few ugly though correc tive dreams. Timet. Leandek F. Riddle, a man of consid erable prominence in Delaware, died at Nice, France, yesterday morning, aged thirty-seven years. Mr. Riddle was born at Avendale, in this state, but his parents moved te the banks of the Brandywine when he was a boy. He graduated at Sy racuse university in 18C0, and entered the firm of James Riddle, Sens & Ce., of Wil mington, ne served in the Delaware Heuse of Representatives and in the Sen ate, but retired from public life and about a year age from business en account of ill health. Bellliis the Bebber. Ralph Rollins, the Chambersburg bank robber, was detected a few days age pounding a piece of glass te powder en the fleer of his cell in the Eastern penitentiary. He had obtained the bit of glass from his skylight, and had managed te pulverize it finely when the keeper came upon him and took it away from him. He has made sev eral desperate attempts te escape lately, and has been affecting te believe that the prison officials are trying te poison him. It is net known whether he intended, te commit suicide by swallowing the pow dered glass or whether he intended first te mix it with his feed and then exhibit the latter as an evidence of the proof of his al legation that an effort was being made te put him out of the way. THE WHITTAKER COURT. The Ideas of Government Defectives. In the Whittaker case yesterday at Wcit Point, Themas Sampson, chief detective of the treasury department, who had been detailed from Washington upon the case, testified that he had found nothing te implicate any outside parties in the act. He was then aked : What de you think of his story ? A. It is entirely different from any story I ever heard ; it stands by itself ; he-had heard of cases of bank burglars gagging ana tying persons wnem tney wished te keep quiet and placing pistols at their heads te enforce silence ; in the Man hattan bank burglary they handcuffed the janitor and put a pistol te his head te keep his mouth shut ; they did net gag him ; when they get through they te'd thev would leave a man outside for an hour ai d if he made any outcry that would be the end of him ; in this case there was sub stantial ground for the man keeping still as his life was really endangered ; in Whit taker's case I thought it strange ropes should net have been used te tie his hands and feet ; I never heard of a man's hands being tied in front of him ; it is the way of baud cuffing, but net of hand-tying ; I knew of a woman who pretended she had been gagged and robbed, her ob ject being te frighten her husband into staying home with her (laughter) ; she made a very bungling job of it, but it had the desired effect of making her hus bandlspcnd his evenings at home (renewed laughter): when Whittaker told me he turned ever and went te sleep when he heard the rattling of his doerlatch I thought it very singular, considering the note of warning that had been sent te him. Q. Why did you think se? A. Because a coward would keep awake from fear, and a brave man te fight. At the close of his examination, which was continued at great length and gave him an opportunity te recount a geed deal of his detective experience, he said he had no suggestions te make in further investi gations in the case ; he had satisfied him self most positively that no cadets had a hand in it. Mr. Themas Fisher was called, and, after stating the fact that he had been ten years a detective, recited his attempts te find something tangible in various outside clews. The end of it all was like Sir Charles Coldstream's experience there was neth ing in them. He worked assiduously en the Ryan crew, but it proved as empty as the crater of Vesuvius ; he also examined various cadets, and last and net least Whittaker ; he was euro the former were innocent and the story of the latter was te his mind full of strong improbabilities ; Whittaker told him that he had no sus picion of outside parties except a bare possibility that the outrage might have been cemmilt3d by colored persons for political effect, this last statement having been made te him en Saturday last ; he also said that en the 14th of last April he watched Phil Ryan's place, and no mounted officer visited his saloon thus contradicting Mr. Fiere's testimony en this point. The recorder of the court states that the secret information which Assistant United States District Attorney Frew several days age had refused te give the court but premised te give him had turned out te be nothing of the slightest consequence, aud he intimated that Frew, te swell his im pertance sought te create the public im pressien he was keeping vital facts in the background when he well knew he had nothing. DErUTY MABSUALS. Full Text of Bayard's Hill for their Appoint ment. The following it the full text of Bayard's bill regulating the pay and appointment of deputy marshals as amended and reported tremthe senate judiciary committee. "Be it enacted, etc, That from and after the passage of this act the pay of all depu ty marshals for services in reference te any election shall be five dollars for each day of actual service, and no mere. "Sec. 2. That all deputy marshals te serve in reference te any election shall be appointed by the circuit court of the United States for the distinct in which such marshals are te perform their duties, in each year, at the term of court next pre ceding any election of representatives or delegates in Congress ; but if from any cause there should be no session of the circuit courts in the state or dis tricts where such marshals are te be ap ap Deintcd, then, and in that case, the judges of the district courts of the United States are hereby respectfully authorized te cause their courts te be opened for the purpose of appointing such deputy mar shals, who shall be appointed by said dis trict courts, and the officers se appointed shall be in equal numbers from the differ ent political parties, and shall be well known citizens of geed moral character and actual residents of the voting pre cincts in which their duties are te be per formed and shall net be candidates for any office at such election. All laws and parts of laws inconsistent with this act arc here by repealed." A Pun" for Wearer. Wilkcsbarre Unlen-Lcadcr. Wm. D. Weaver, formerly principal of the t rankun grammar school, this city, is a candidate for the nomination for dis trict attorney in Lancaster county. He is a Republican, and that county is se over whelmingly Republican that a nomination en that ticket is invariably equivalent te an election. Mr. Weaver is very highly commended by the papers of Petter and Cumberland counties, wherein he has re sided. He is remembered here as a faith ful school official and a genial gentleman, and we make no doubt but that, if suc cessful, he will prove a capable and wholly acceptable district attorney. The county of Lancaster badly needs a district attor ney who will perform his duties without bias for the criminals who happen te be "the best workers in their respective wards," and Mr. Weaver, though a very positive Republican, is an honest man and will fulfil that requirement. LATEST NEWS BY MAIL. Baseball yesterday : At Worcester Worcester, 19 ; Bosten, 10. At Prince ton University, 8 ; Brooklyn, 7. It is new reported that the Louisiana delegation te Chicago will net be instruct ed and that only part of it will be for Grant. Preparations are rapidly going en at Chicago for the coming convention. At the Jewish cemetery, a few miles be yond Louisville, Dr. Gabriel Kayser shot himself through the heart at the feet of the grave of his wife, who died about six weeks age, and who is buried there. Catharine Campbell, 40 years of age, fell from a fourth-story window at Ne. 214 Mulberry street, into the adjoining yard at 43 Spring street, New Yerk, and was killed. In Columbus, Ohie, William Walcutt, a hack driver, shot his wife. She will prob ably die. Walcutt had been drunk often lately, and was en bad terms with his wife. In Davenport, Iowa, Saturday night, an affray occurred in Frank Bald's bar-room, en the corner of Fifth and Myrtle streets. Frank McLaughlin drew a pistol te fire at Bahl, but the latter was tee quick for him, and with a revolver shot McLaughlin dead. One of the most deplorable results of the forest fires in New Jersey is the destruction of the vineyards near Egg Harber. These vineyards represented years of labor, de voted by their thrifty German owners te redeeming the sandy soil from its primi tive desert-like condition and cultivating the vines, which were their chief resource. The river and harbor bill was rushed through the Heuse yesterday under a sus pension of the rules. The Senate passed the pest office appropriation bilk striking out the clause for reletting the star route contracts. It is doubtful whether the Senate will agree te adjourn en the 31st inst. General Garcia, with a corps of officers, seventy-four men, and a suply of rifles and stores, has net euly arrived in Cuba, but has set up a previsional government. Twe proclamations have been issued. At the Cuban headquarters in Philadelphia a reso lution was adopted last night te fit out an other expedition. In New Yerk the Cubans entertained great belief that it isj te Jresult in a Spanish overthrew. m m STATE ITEMS. Three houses en Ridge read, Harrisburg were partially burned yesterday. Jee Gess, Paddy Ryan, Mike Donaven and Geerge Rooke, the prize fighters, have been in Erie for some days past and it is believed that both fights will come off in the vicinity of that city te-day. The Blooming Greve park, a noted game preserve in Pike county, comprising 12, 000 acres was sold yesterday, at sheriffs sale te satisfy a debt of $70,000. It was bought by Edgar Pinchot, who intends te fund the indebtedness of the association. The property is worth $500,000. There is a sermon for the preachers in the fact that W. II. Jenes, an intellectual though somewhat eccentric character, !well known te most Philadelphians as " Dea con," died yesterday morning, at the Phil adelphia almshouse hospital. He wrote the old Sunday Mercury " religious" arti cles and ether burlesques en the churches. - Sale of a Bailread. The West Chester and Philadelphia rail road has been bought by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore company. The statement was positively made, se late as Thursday last, that the negotiations be tween Colonel McComb and the controll ing stockholders in the West Chester and Philadelphia company were still pending, the former having an option of accepting certain terms which they had offered ; but it new seems either that McComb declined or that affairs were net in the position de scribed. The terms of the arrangement with the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore people make the price of the stock $50 per share, which is an extremely geed sale, as recently it has commanded but $35, the dividends being new at the rate of but 4 per cent per annum. LOCAMNTELLIGENCE. an Eiusune, Which May be a Straw te 1'eint the Di rection of the Wind. A young Republican farmer from the lower senatorial district came te town yes, tcrday te see Whit-Monday and the peliti cians. He is of moderate political influ ence, and had last year acted with the Heg Ringers. He had heard that money is dispensed en these occasions, and he thought he would leek up his "divvy." He met the Heg Ring leaders at the Ex change, and they marked the ticket that he should support, thus : Fer Congress, Griest; Senater, Rcineehl; Assembly, Peeples aud Gatchell ; District Attorney, Davis ; Prison Inspectors, Urban and Hagcn ; Peer Directors, Krcider and Nisslcy ; County Surveyor, Wm. R. Ger hart. They gave him $25 te support this ticket in his district. Then he went up around the County house and had a conference with the Bull Ringers. They gave him $20 te support their ticket, and marked it for him after this fashion : Fer Congress, Griest: Senater, Mylin; Assembly, Gatchell and Peeples; District Attorney, Eberly ; Prison Inspectors, Hagen and Bitzer ; Peer Directors. Keller and Musser; County Surveyor, Gcrhart. Then he walked up Barbary coast aud met a friend who is net of either ring, and in whose judgment he had confidence and CDUtisellcd with 7iim as te what was a geed "people's ticket," te beat both rings and clean out the politicians. He get the ticket marked after this fashion and went home te work for it : Congress, Smith ; Senater, Rcineehl ; District Attorney, Brubaker ; Assembly, Peeples and Brosius ; Prison Inspectors, Carter and Urban ; Peer Directors, Musser and Nisslcy ; County Surveyor, W. R. Gerhart ; President, Gee. F. Edmunds. Fer the moral see Levi Scnscnig and Capt. McMellen. Proposals Opened. Last evening the proposals for the digging of trench en Derwart street were opened at the mayor's office. They were as fellows : Earth. 1G1 cts. Reck. 05 cts. Geerge Smith Aug. l'cters 14 " ie The proposal for whitewashing the fences, &c , around the reservoir were opened, and they were : Gustavus Waltz $24 Geerge Smith 30 Aug. Peters 30 Jehn Fink 16 Jehn Swartz 16 Jereme Doersh 34 F.F.J. Suter 17 This contract was net awarded. Jehn Wirth and Ames S. Hendersen, each bid $10 for the grass around the re servoir ground, but it has net been decided who will get it. The LeDaneu Parade. Yesterday a firemen's parade took place in Lebanon, in which seventeen companies participated, including the Hepe, of Man heim, this county, which was accompanied by the Manheim band. The parade was about one mile in length, had ever 2,000 men in line, and the display was grand. The pavements, houses and streets were lined with people, and the enthusiasm was intense. There were about one dozen bands in precession, includingonefrem Al Al Al toena, the State Capital, of Harrishurg,and Perseverance of Lebanon. Handsome hose carriages, fine steamers and gaily equipped companies with flags and ether adorn ments, made up the parade. Charged With Embezzlement. The charge of embezzlement preferred by D. S. Bare, Tsewing machine agent, against Wm. A. McPherson of Drumore was heard before Alderman McConemy, and McPherson was held te answer at the next term of quarter sessions. The prose cutor charges that McPherson, as his sub agent collected $28 for a"sewing machine aud appropriated the money for his own use. Visit of Inspection. Next Tuesday afternoon the city coun cils committee en fire engine and hose companies will make their annual visit te the several engine houses of the fire de partment, for the purpose of inspecting the condition of apparatus and ether property. The chief and assistant engi neers of the fire department will accom pany the committee. Temperance Convention. The Lancaster county prohibition con vention assembled in Temperance hall yes terday morning, and was called te order by James Black, chairman of the county committee, who stated that the object of the meeting was te appoint delegates te the state convention, which meets at Al Al Al toena, en the 20th inst., te nominate can didates for supreme judge and auditor general, name presidential electors, and elect delegates te the national convention at Cleveland en the 17th of June. The following officers were elected: President Geerge Knox, of Bart. Secretary P. S. Geedman, Lancaster. Assistant Secretary II. C.Reth, Reams town. The following delegates from Lancaster county te the state convention were elect ed : James Black, esq., P. S. Geedman, Rev. J. B. Seule, city ; Gee. Knox, Bart ; Geerge Smith and wife, Drumore ; Sam'l. Hear, Bird-in-Hand ; Geerge Marks, Mar ticville ; C. C. Kauffman, Fulton ; Dr. Je siah Martin, Strasburg ; Isaac Broemell Sadsbury ; Jeseph Davis, Celcraia ; II. C. Reth, Reamstown ; J. Heward Coates and wife, Oak Hill ; Samuel Haniish, Cones Cenes toga ; Isaac Heiscy, West Denegal. A series of resolutions were passed, de ploring the evils of intemperance ; de manding the abolition of the dramshep system ; approving the draft of the tem perance law proposed in 1879 ; proposing the call of a county convention in August or September ; favoring the nomination of a full state ticket by the Alteena conven tion, and the nomination of a county tick et. Several speeches were made by delegates who declared that they would vote for no candidates of any party for an office, ex cept such as were outspoken friends of temperance. The convention then adjourned. MBS. COOXLEY'S CASK. Why the Upper Court Found no Errer. Among the cases affirmed by the su preme court was that of Susan Coonley vs. commonwealth. She had been convicted in Lancaster of conspiring te induce a young girl te marry Dr. Eugene DeLeon, who decamped in a few days after the wed ding. DeLeon had a wife in Harrisburg at the time, and is still at large. Our leaders are familiar with the history of the case. The following is the opinion by Judge Mercur: This is an indictment against the plain tiff in error and Dr. Eugene DeLeon for a conspiracy. The court held the first count te be defective but submitted the remaining four counts te the jury, en which there was a verdict of guilty. Stripped of legal phraseology the substan tial charge in the second count is con spiracy te induce a girl under the age of twenty-one years te escape and elope Irem the house of her parents and against their will. The fourth count charges te procure her te have illicit intercourse with De De Leen ; the third te debauch her under a simultatien of marriage with DeLeon, " he being then and there a married man ;" the fifth with having procured the cere mony of marriage te be recited between her and DeLeon. It is objected that his being a married man is net avened in the third count with sufficient legal precision. Concede this te be se, yet no motion was made te quash that count and no instructions as te its in sufficiency were asked. The remaining counts arc geed and sufficient te support the verdict. The evidence that for a considerable time lie lived and cohabited with a woman as his wife, and he recognized and declared her te be se, was properly received. Great latitude was given te the accused in the admission of her evidence. The evidence of a combination by concerted action be tween her and DeLeon te accomplish the unlawful purpose charged, and by crimnal unlawful means, was amply sufficient te submit te the jury and justified the ver dict of the jury. We discover no sufficient cause for reversing the judgment. This morning Mrs. Coonley gave herself up te the sheriff and was removed te the county prison. Her sentence is for thir teen months. OIUTUABY. Death of Hugh Cochran. Hugh Corcoran, superintendent of the Lancaster gas company, died at his resi deuce, Ne. 130 Water street, yesterday afternoon, after an illness of considerable duration. Mr. Corcoran was a native of county Longford, IrclanJ, and came te America nearly forty years age. Net long after his arrival in America he was employed by Patrick Brady as a laborer en the New Yerk and Erie railroad, and for a short time subsequently he was engaged in railroad and telegraph work in the Seuth. About 1840 he came te Lancaster, and secured the contract for trenching for the pipes of the Lancaster gas company. On the com pletion of the gas works he made himself thoroughly acquainted with the process of manufacturing gas, and after being em ployed for some time in a subordinate pe. sitien he was chosen as superintendent of the gas works, a position which he held te the time of his death, fulfilling the duties of his office faithfully and efficiently. Mr. Corcoran was about 54 years of age, and leaves a family of five children. He was industrious, honest and possessed a geed judgment of business matters, which enabled hiin te acquire during his resi dence in Lancaster a very comfortable competence. His funeral will take place at 9 o'clock en Thursday morning, en which occasion high requiem mass will be cele brated at St. Mary's church. Plant. Club Last Night. At the meeting of this club last evening a paper was read by Walter P. King, of the boys' high school, en the Umbellifer Umbellifer ous plants. It was carefully prepared, well read, and the family illustrated from charts handsomely drawn and colored. Master King has already analyzed mere than than three hundred and fifty plants during the present season. He has been scouring the country in all directions, has walked te Smithville swamps twir after specimens, and has also been te X Call's Ferry and Peach Bettem twice during the past month, in search of things new and rare. After this paper had been read, the Sweet Cicely was analyzed by the class. The next paper, which will treat of the Cruciferous plants, will be prepared by Miss Marks. Yeung Shad. This morning twelve large tin cans con taining young shad were brought te Lan caster from the state hatching-house at Denegal Springs, te be reshipped te Har risburg and points further up the Susquehanna. POLITICS AND POLITICIANS. THE OUTLOOK OF THE PRIMARIES. WHAT WAS SET UP YESTERDAY. A COMBINATION AGAINST SMITH. The Heg Ring Divides te Conquer. Eberly and Mylin iu the Peel. Yesterday being the last Monday before the primaries and the time for the distri bution of the tally sheets- and tickets, as well as a general rural holiday and festival for young folks, the Republican candidates were in town iu full force, and hardly an active politician in the Old Guard failed te put in an appearance. Seme of them came te town en Sunday in order te get in a full day's work. It took until late last night for a final settlement of the combinations just as they are te be run. Our best advices afford us substantiel reason for a somewhat altered view of the situation from that which we presented last week thcu acknowledged by the politicians te be a correct measure of it. The dozing interest of the public in the result has been waked up and there is probability of a larger vote being polled than had been anticipated. It is pretty certain te reach 12,000, and may run up te 14,000. In Lancaster, Columbia and ether centres of population the full vote will be out ; aud judging from some ar rangements made yesterday and brought te our notice, where the vote is net polled it is te be counted. It need surprise no body if in this off year 15,000 votes are re ported as cast, even if 12.000 bona fide Re publicans should net get te the polls. Hen. A. Herr Smith has come home from Congress te take the field in person. He gets flattering advices from all quar ters. Griest denies that his candidacy has any Cameren or anti-Cameren significance. His friends have shown some back bone of late, and bets have been offered that there would be two winners out of these three names : Griest, Davis and Mylin. It is a geed bet te take. The whole three may be losers. But Griest stock has certainly gene up during the past week, and at all the con ferences of the politicians yesterday he was the favorite. The Bull Ring, as usual, had their head quarters at the Comity house, and the Heg Ring at the Exchange ; though, owing te the complications of the situation, there were little rings in session all ever town. Each party had trouble en its hands, but net se much of it ever Congress. Smith is distasteful te the politicians for several reasons. First, these who are net in the enjoyment of patronage under him have no special incentive te work for him. Second, his great fight of 1878, when both rings were against him, proved that he could be independent of both or whip them to gether, and that he was strongest when he heed his own row. He feels no necessity for making any combinations with the small fry. He has nothing te trade. If they de net want te run him, he says he will run himself; and se being independent of them, they go net te the goat's house for wool. Se whatever else was in doubt yesterday the politicians generally cursed Smith and favored Griest. Jack Hicstand, Levi Scn scnig and sonic ethers of the shrewder ones declared it all nonsense, but some of the younger and mere impetuous ones like J. Hay Brown, esq., say that with a vigor ous "pull altogether," in an off year they might pull Griest through. Brown and Eshlcman, who both want te go te Cen gress some of these days, think that if Griest is te have a turn he should have it seen and get out of their way" ; at any rate the best way te wear him' out is te run him ever and ever. Hicstand who hasn't as long te live as they, wants te go te Congress tee, and he thinks the only way te get there is te let Smith have his own unconquerable way as long as he wants it. We found Rcineehl men and Mylin men, Davis men, Eberly men and Jehnsen men all for Griest, yesterday ; and money was put out with tickets bearing one or the ether of these names with Griest at the top of all of them. Jehnsen is for Griest, McMellen is for Griest, Mentzcr is for Griest, Hay Brown, Frank Eshlcman and plenty of the best workers in the wards arc for Griest. Fred Smith thinks the Griest boom is "alld d nonsense," and won't bother with it. Capt J. R. Bricker thinks the Griest beat is most tee leaky te take passage in it this time. Fer all that, Smith's friends need te be stir themselves. A powerful combination has been formed against him. The Roc Rec buck and Griest forces of 1878 have for the most part united against him new. His Medoc engine can easily pull him through ; but he must mount Jake Peters as engineer and Rudy Shcnk as fireman with out delay. Griest is new in a position te command two-fifths of the vote polled next Satur day. That leaves a margin which the return tinkers can span. The most of them arc en his side. Vcrbum sap. r'er the Senate. When the boys came together at the County house yesterday te compare notes en the senatorial fight they found that Reinhold had been making a rattling can vass for the state Senate in the lower dis trict, and would press Mylin closely unless there was a revolution in the city. He lias the universal anti-Cameren sentiment which prevails in the lower end aroused te an active opposition te Mylin. His friends arc making cflcctivc use of the argument that Bering and his disastrous campaign were forced en the party in this city by Mylin himself and his henchman, Tem Cochran, who expected political profit by making Bering a candi date te the ruin of his party here. It is also charged that Ed. Welehans's belt in councils, which resulted te the less by the Republicans of the street, water and regu lator's departments, was due te Mylin's special friends and beneficiaries. The col ored vote has been pretty solidly stirred up against Mylin by the circulation among the negrees of the "Lemuel Brown" story. This runs te the effect that a mulatto em ployee in the Senate was compelled te give $150 of his salary te be paid a certain "Lemuel Brown," an alleged colored man, from Lancaster county, presumably a po litical pretege of Cochran and Mylin. The negrees hereabouts knew no such man ; they say he is a fiction and that under Cech ran's and Mylin's dispensation the hun dreds of Lancaster county colored folks have had no favors. It is admitted pa all sides that the Mylin-Reinoehl fight is the straightest Bull Ring vs. Heg Ring issue .in the cam paign. Tem Cochran's place at Harrisburg and his political future arc staked en it. He is excited. People outside of the district arj taking an interest and a hand in it. It is pretty well understood that Senater Themas V. Cooper, of Media, who wants a third term as senator and who is te be .the Republican candidate for Governer in 1882 and wants Lancaster county's aid te make that nomination, is expected te con trol Snowden te make the census appoint ments in the lower end in Mylin's inter est. Cochran has been ready te "hook up" even with J. W. Jehnsen in Mylin's in terest. Ebcily, the Bull Ring candidate for dis trict attorney, has no strength te speak of in the lower end and can de Mylin no geed. This is where the shoe pinches, and ex Sheriff Harry Breneman says that Eberly will only be a millstone te Mylin's neck. Hew the Heg Ring saved themselves from Cochran's project of joining the forces of Mylin and Jehnsen will be told further en. Mylin can expect no grace from Smith. Se his friends arc generally for Griest. Altogether $:?.000 was put into the "peel" for Mylin's benefit. His friends hope te held Rcineehl even in the city. Their contest is the most uncertain of the uncertainties of this campaign. Mylin is scared and Rcineehl hopeful. When Hay Brown and Mylin return from their interview with Quay in Phila delphia, te-day, the sky may show differ ent weather signs. Fer District Attorney. When the Bull Ringers get together at the County house, yesterday, they had what one of them tells us was " a h 11 of a time, " settling a candidate for district attorney. Fred Smith, Harry Brennman and some ethers who recesniize the impos sibility of electing Eberly, and had induc ed Clay Brubaker te become a candidate, insisted that in his name only could John John Jehn eon be beaten. Jack Hicstand and Frank Eshlcman insist en sticking te the Cincin nati bargain in Ebcrly's behalf. Eheily's friends were willing te put up the stuff and linally their contribution te the peel was accepted. Rumer puts it at $2,500. Seme of the Bull Ringers left the confer ence swearing it would be of no geed, an. I the money would only be spent in vain, se far as Eberly is concerned. These who arc most interested in Mylin, however, aie satisfied that it may enure te his political benefit, aud would as seen spend Ebcrly's money as any ether man's. In the councils of the II04 Ring party there was like trouble ever the district attorney candidate. McMellen, Ames Greff, Mertzer & Ce. want Davis, but they are afraid of John John Jehn eon. Jehnsen has the greater individual strength : Davis has mere politicians for him. Ycsteiday, after a countryman wrs given $20 with a Heg Ring ticket bearing Davis's name, he was called aside and in structed that if he could net make a vote for Davis he should make it for Jehnsen. Jehnsen is the .second choice of Heg Ring. De you understand what this means.' Jehnsen aud Davis arc te be both run. each taking the chance of heating the ether aud both te be run te beat the Bull Ring nominee. Next Sat ui day night if they lead all the ethers they arc te take the chances be tween themselves. If either Eberly or Brubaker leads the one of them (Davis and Jehnsen) that is lower is te be counted down, and the votes taken from him te be transferred te the ether te run him up te winning figures, the Heg Ring winner te pay the Heg Ring loser's campaign expenses. It is a neat arrangement. It may count in one of the Heg Ring candidates. McMellen is a host en election day. Davis will carry the town, as it leeks new, and is a formidable candidate. With the Smith tidc.hewevcr, a reaction may set it for Brubaker, and if his boom starts by Thursday it may land him in pert. Lewer End Assemblymen. Fer Legislature in the lower end, Peo Pee les, Brosius and Landis continue te be the leading candidates, the chances being about in that order, since Davis's friends, the McMellen wing of the Heg Ring, arc a little averse te giving Landis any support after his submission te Den Cameren aud his vote for Den's re-election. All par ties seem anxious te capture Peeples te 'give strength te their combination. The pcliticians have a fellow feeling for Gat chell, which may get him many votes, but he can hardly win, even with their support. Legislator from tne Upper District. In the upper end the Heg Ring feel pretty certain of electing D. D. Courtney and P. 31. Eberly, with a geed complimentary vote for Jehnsen Miller. The Bull Ring will concentrate all possible cifert, with a geed show of success, en Jehn B. Esble man. They will also run A. W. Snadcr, and in Warwick township will make a di version en Elias Becker, mainly te crip ple Jehnsen Miller. Gantz is tee heavy a lead te carry, but he and Raymond are both te be encouraged te the end that they may work te defeat each ether and thus be prevented from doing harm in any ether direction. Raymond has had the satisfaction of seeing Bull ring tickets " marked " with his name en. He is happy. It leeks as if P. M. Eberly (Heg Ring), D. D. Courtney (Heg Ring) and Jehn B. Eshlcman (Bull Ring) will pull through. City Member. II. C. Demuth will be the city candidate without opposition. Prison Inspector. The Heg Ring will ruu Albert Hagen and Calvin Carter, iu the lower end, and Hagen and Gee. Urban in the upper dU trict. The Bull Ring will run Hagen and Reu ben R. Bitzer all ever the county. Hagen is safe. Peer Director. The Heg Ring will ruu Martin Kreider and Jacob W. Nissley. The Bull Ring will run Jacob G. Keller and Henry Mus ser. County Surveyor. Cel. Wm. R. Gerhart has been put en the ticket by both combinations. iDitructlena. The instructions te legislative members V v r
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