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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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