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LANCASTER DAlLYINTEJiL10EN(;EU WEDNESDAY. MAY 19, 1880.
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Hancaster Intelligencer.
' WEDNESDAY EVENING. MAY 19, 1880.
New and Then.
The decision of the supreme court in
the Robesonia ere right case is of inter
est net only te the Colemans and the
Fergusons, who are pecuniarily affected,
"but te the world at large as showing
iipen 'hew small a matter a great fortune
may be gained and lest, and hew
the progress of, mechanical develop
ment may alter the effect of- a
contract. Nearly a hundred years
age Peter Grubb, jr., the owner of a sixth
interest in the great Cornwall ere bank
in the neighboring county of Lebanon,
sold it te Rebert Celeman, the owner of
a large part of the mine, reserving, how
ever, sufficient ere for the use of one fur
pace forever thereafter. Then the cold
blast charcoal furnace, with an output
of but thirty tens a week was the only
smelting furnace .known. The Celeman
heirs insist that this is the proper meas
ure of the ere right reserved; and
when the owners of it, some thirty years
age, tore down -the old furnace and erect
ed a new one capable of turning out ten
times the amount of metal, they object
ed, and twenty-four years age the disa
greement culminated in the suits which
have just been decided. The supreme
court holds that the right te take ere for
any one furnace is unlimited. The deci
sion fellows the language of the stipula
tien ; but the opinion gees farther and
finds that this construction also carries
out the intent of the parties. This is
net se clear ; and Judge Paxson's argu
ment that under it each party in interest
is equally at liberty te draw upon the ere
with the improved modern appliances,
and that therefore it is equally fair
te each, is hardly sustained by the facts.
It is true that when Celeman and Grubb
made the bargain, each desired the use
of the ere for the same kind of furnace ;
and that the parties te-day all want it
for the improved furnace. It seems
plausible that each should have their de
sire gratified new as then, and that each
should have the same measure of privi
lege in using the ere that they had a
hundred years age. That is plausible
and would be right ; but the present ad
justment of the supreme court does net
accomplish this result, since the Robe
sonia owners get the first " hack " as
the sixth part of the ere bank ; nnd
when they are done there may be noth
ing left for the owners of that sixth in
terest te take.
That is just the situation. The an
nual product of the Cornwall ere bank is
about 400,000 tens of ere. A furnace
with all the modern improvements may
be erected by the Robesonia owners ca
pable of smelting a thousand tens of iron
a week. The furnace of the Edga,r
Thomsen steel company, just completed,
if 121 feet bosh, and, using coke and fifty
four per cent, ores, turns out this pro
duct. The Cornwall ores are net se readily
smelted as the ores used at the Edgar
Thomsen, but a still larger furnace is
possible, and it is net possible te fix the
limit of capacity of a single furnace,
when owners have the incentive new
offered te the Robesonia owners te
build the biggest one possible. If they
but equal what has already been done
they will draw en the Cornwall
ere bank for a hundred thousand tens
of ere a year, which is considerably
mere than a sixth of the present
product. That product can no
doubt be greatly increased ; but it leeks
very much as though Mr. Fer
gusen and his associates of Robesonia
have secured all the meat, leaving te the
Celeman heirs but the bare bones of the
fowl the supreme court has carved for
them. It will be a matter of serious
consideration for the Colemans as te
whether it will net pay them te surren
der the whole of the sixth interest in the
mine te the owners of the right te " the
ere for one furnace forever." Se that it is
net clear, as Judge Paxson says, that
Peter Grubb's candle burns no faster
than the Colemans' ; it smelts all the ere
and don't leave the mine owners even
the cinder. Judge Paxson's comparison
is that of a number of candles all lighted
together and burning down equally fast
It is a bright comparison but don't seem
te cover the case. The Grubb candle,
with its improved mode of censumin
oxygen, don't leave any for the Celeman
candles te feed en. The Colemans can't
use the improved methods for their can
dles, for the simple reason that there is
only enough oxygen for the Grubb can"
die, which has the call en the supply.
Probably the division is right, but it
will hardly de te base it en the inten
liens et the parties. They did net con
template the use of anything but the
cold-blast furnace ; and se did net pro
vide for anything else. The supply of
such a furnace would hardly have been
felt by the owner of the sixth of the
mine. By neither parties could it have
been supposed that it would be a
serious tax en the mine, else the
amount te be supplied would have been
mere definitely fixed. All of which
teaches the necessity of carefully describ.
ing and limiting a right that is sold te be
exercised '"forever." If Rebert Cele
man had been prudent enough te put a
limit te the tonnage te be used by the
f urnace,er te have described it as a char
coal furnace of its existing dimensions,
he would have saved his heirs the several
millions of dollars which his little omis emis
s ion new premises te cost them.
A Baptist church in Jamestown, X.
Y., has been disgraced by the moral
downfall of it pastor, Rev. Gee. Peltz,
D. P., who steed very high in society
and in the church ; and the convincing
proof and self-confession of whose gross
immorality compelled him te quit his
pulpit and the town. But his congrega
tion has injured itself far mere than he
could;have hurt it, by accepting from
him a letter of resignation en the ground
of ill health, when the real cause of his
withdrawal was confessed moral rotten
ness. Te-iay is the centennial of New Eng
land's famous "dark day." It maybe
another dark day for the Republic if the
Illinois Republicans force upon the
country the issue of electing such a clod
as Grant te a position which Washing
ton would net take and which Jeffersen
declined.
"WAsmnjjiXE sends word te his friends
in . Minpisjte stand by Grant, buttheyjde
net seem te hear him Meantime Ham
ilton Eisbr chimes in witnibBobesen-Belknap-Babcock?cry,'
Give us hack bur
old commander."
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Wiiat is this we hear about the pub
lisher of the JVcic Era talking for Griest
for Congress and entering the councils
of the County lieuse ?
Politics make strange bed-fellows,
and they say thatMcMellen, Griest and
Heistand slept under one blanket last
night.
PEESONALu
Attorney General Pai.meu is se far re
covered as te be able te supervise the grist
of the pardon mill.
CnAUSCET Brooks, one of the best
known citizens of Baltimore, died sudden
ly yesterday morning at his late residence
en Eutaw place in that city.
Rev. Dr. F. W. Cosrae, editor of the
Lttheran Obserzcr, has committed te mem
ory the entire hymn book of the Lutheran
church, ami when giving them out quotes
the number of the hymns and recites them
correctly without looking at the hymnal.
Jeseph Seugmax will give $5,000 tothe
society for Ethical Culture, of which he
was president, and $23,000 te be distribed
by his executers among such charitable,
benevolent and educational institutions as
they shall think best, "without regard te
creed, race or religien."
Rev. Henry Wiieei.eii, by invitation
from General Welsh pest, G. A. R., will
pronounce the oration en Decoration Day
in Columbia. The services will be held in
the opera house en Sunday evening, May
30th. The music will be furnished by a
chorus of voices consisting of the combined
chorus of Columbia.
Henry James, jr., is very popular in
the cultured society of Londen and Paris
Women think that he is charming. His
old Xew England friends believe that he
has become ever-refined by his study of
French literature ; and one lady said that
if she met him and she dropped her fan,
laughed or sneezed, he would regard her
as another discovery and that each of
these actions would be regarded by him
as profoundly indicative of female charac
ter. D. W. SEir.ER, esq., and Majer Eluiudce
McCenkey, secretaries of the state agricul
tural society, returned from a trip te Ohie
and Kentucky en Saturday, whither they
had been en business connected with the
approaching state fair. These gentlemen
met the prominent blooded stock raisers
of the two states and received assurance
that they would send te the state fair at
Philadelphia some of their finest herds of
short horn cattle, the best sheep and nigs
and blooded horses.
Wm. II. Kemule, who is repei ted by the
Cameren people te held a $3,000 check as
proof of Blaine's legislative venality, has
been talking politics te a New Yerk World
reporter. He says that in 18TG forty-two
of the Pennsylvania delegates out of fifty
eight were for Blaine, and if his friends
had net broken up the unit rule in the del
egation, it would finally have voted for
him solidly except Kemble himself and
Blaine would have made the landing. This
may be consoling te. the Mulligan Guards.
Les belles Amcricaiucs in Paris : At
the ball given the ether uight by Mme.
Eakin, rue dc la Pcreusc, Mrs. Xeyes was
in cream-colored satin marveilleux, with a
tablier covered with lace and white jet.
Mrs. Mackay were a court train et ruby
colored velvct, with a tablier of gathered
pale blue satin. Mrs Gorden (all the
American colony was represented at this
ball) were an orange brocade foulard, with
a gathered satin tablier of the same color,
low-necked Marie de Medici style, with
sleeves a la Juive. Diadem of pearls.
Mrs. Stevenson in pale pink satin marveil
leux, the tablier trimmed with beads.
Pearls in the hair.
Rev. Myren Adams, a " theughful and
eloquent" Congregational preacher of Ro
chester, X. Y., has been telling his people
that the popular idea of hell is leading peo
ple te skepticism. He thinks the church
is declining, and says Bishop Simpsen's
statement in his sermon at Cincinnati, en
Sunday of last week, was a sort of whist
ling te keep up courage. Skepticism, he
says, is crushing the church, and the
church is te be blamed for preaching a false
doctrine about the future condition of the
race. The affair produced a profound sen
sation, and Mr. Adams kindly tells his
church folks that if if they de net like it
he will take his hat and leave in geed feel
ing. The trouble is that they seem te like
it very well.
The richest woman in America is Mrs.
E. II. Greene, wife of the vice president
of the Louisville and Xashville read. She
was a Miss Robinson, and her father a
whaling master at Bedford, Mass., owned
a fleet of ships known as the blue line of
whalers and was known as "Blubber
Robinson." He died when his daughter
was a mere girl, and left her a fortune of
about eight millions. She lived slenderly
and prudently, and gave the management
of her affairs te Mr. Jehn J. Cisco, of Xew
Yerk. As her tastes were simple and her
wants few she was able te transfer her
enormous inceme almost every year te the
body of the fortune itself, and it has new
accumulated te mere than $27,000,000.
Her husband, Mr. Greene, was a very rich
man when she married him, and has been
successful since. It is said by one who
should knew that the income of this couple
is $2,500,000 a year. Mr. Greene is about
47 years of age and she is about 43.
The Tax Commission.
The commission appointed te revise the
tax laws met in the executive chamber,
Harrisburg, yesterday. There were pres
ent Attorney General Palmer, State Treas
urer Butler, Auditor General Schell, Sena
tors Cooper and Greer, and Representa
tives Edwards and Thicksten. Messrs.
Simpsen and Hand, of Philadelphia, ex
plained why limited partnerships, engaged
in manufacturing, should be exempt from
taxation. The commission took no defi
nite action en the subject discussed and
adjourned te meet at the St. Cloud hotel,
Philadelphia, September 21, for the pur
pose of giving manufacturers an opportu
nity te be heard en the subjcct.ef taxation.
A similar meeting is expected te be held
in Pittsburgh a few days subsequently.
A Happy Thought.
Philadelpla Times,
Senater Den must net fercct te reserve
a couple of extra seats in the national con
ventien for the two additional delegates
who arc te be chosen in T.,nn raster nn Snf.
I urday.
, 34INOB TOPIOB, -i
EBEBLYi'happy, Jolinsen is scared, and
Davis is jubilant..
The' salt, song of " Xancy Lee" has
brought its owner $30,000.
The Bosten Traveller is a strong and
successful newspaper, deriving its support
from well-to-de church-going people, and
jet itdcclares.that, next te Grant, it pre
fers Blaine.
Supervisor ok the Census White, of
Philadelphia, speaking of his appointees as
enumerators, with characteristic Republi
can naivete, admits that twenty of them
may be jail birds for all he knows, and
that he should net wonder if some could
net read or write.
The Germantown Telegraph can see no
argument for allowing stock te run at
large en public highways, lhe "peer
man's cow" cry it pronounces a delusion.
"In all these places where cattle arc al
lowed te run at large, it is mostly found
that the stock belongs te people wlie aie
net peer, but miserly people who can very
well afford te keep cattle in their own pas
tures if they were se disposed. Thousands
of poorer men who de net own anything of
the kind, are in continual danger of an
noyance and trespass from the cattle of
their richer neighbors." As for the road read
sido stock eating noxious weeds, en the
contrary they carefully avoid them and
cat away geed herbage, making room for
the spread of the pernicious.
HEIMOAIIO.
. Ilelingang ! Se the German people
Whisper when thev hear the bull
Telling from some gray old htecple
Death's familiar talc te tell ;
When they hear the organ dirges
Swelling out from chapel ilemc,
Ami the singers chanting surges,
"Hetmgaiig!" Always going home.
Ileimgang ! Quaint and tender saying
In the grand old German tongue.
That hath shaped Melanchthen's praying,
Ana the hymns that Luther sung ;
I!les.ed is our loving Makei,
That where'er our feet shall ream,
Still we journey tewnrd "Ged's Acre"
"ileimgang !" Always going home.
Ileimgang ! Wc arc all se weary.
And the willows, as they wave.
Softly sighing, sweetly, dreary.
Wee us te the tranquil grave.
When the golden pitcher's broken,
With its drags and with its foam.
And the tender words are spoken,
'Ileimgang';" We are going home.
A. J. H. Duganae.
Mr. Henry Watterson docs net pitch
his tune in as high a key as he struck
some months age. Then he said: "Thirty
days before the assembling of the Demo
cratic convention here in Kentucky, we
shall place at the head of the Courier-Journal
a preamble reciting the situation and a
resolution instructing the delegation te
vote in the national convention as a unit
for Mr. Tilden. We shall submit this pre
amble and resolution te our state conven
tion. Democrats who have been amusing
themselves by gratuitous w anten abuse of
the unselfish statesman and upright citizen
may prepare te waltz up te these." As
he might have foreseen, that crazy sort of
talk raised the dander of as geed men as
himself who are still te be found in Ken
tucky. The "waltz up" idea was net
pleasant. Se new he softly says: "Wc
shall net ask the Lexington convention te
instruct, but in the meantime we shall net
be deterred from appealing te the Demo
cratic people of Kentucky te send nobody
te Lexington who does net go there te
meet the self-sacrificing spirit of this grand
old man with a kindred spirit ; te send no
body there who shall carry with him a
heart full of bitter prejudices or a mind
full of schemes and devices, and te send
nobody there who is net capable of appre
ciating the magnitude of the occasion, and
applying te it a sound temper and sober
discretion."
STATE! ITEMS.
Easten new has fire plugs up en Lafayette
college hill.
Jacob L. Rvnick. a well known Xerris-
tewner, dropped dead while weighing out
sugar te a customer in Sheetz's store.
Philadelphia Times : Twe deaths in pri
son. Jehn Riffsrs. wife-beater, and Ismael
Jenes the bad old blacksmith.
I Philadelphia's Milten relief fund has
mounted ud te $18,513. Where's Xew
Yerk ?
Philip Peshir, a well-to-de farmer, liv
ing near Flecksvillc, Xortbampten county,
while walking in his garden, fell dead
from heart disease. lie was aged about
sixty-five and leaves a family of grown
children.
A heavy fall of top earth eccured at the
Packer colliery, operated by the Philadel
phia coal company. The concussion occa
sioned by a terrific rush of air through the
gangway killed a man named Wm. Heu
ncssy and slightly injured five ethers.
Mrs. Isabella S. Smith, a well-known
member of Philadelphia society of a past
generation and the widow of Richard Peim
Smith, a well-known Philadelphia wit and
litterateur, died en Monday evening in
Xewark, X. J.
Ellen Swaync, en trial in Crawford
county, for murdering and secreting the
body of her infant, has been acquitted.
Popular opinion supports the verdict, and
she is believed te be the victim of persecu
tion te hide. another's shame. Stranger
spectators made up a purse for her upon
her discharge.
Bens Creek, a small mining and lumber
village in Cambria county, was destreyed
by lire en Sunday. The flames swept
down upon it from the forests, and noth
ing escaped except Smith's coal whan cs
and one or two shanties. The sawmill of
David Wilhelm and several dwellings were
among the property destroyed.
The destruction of Blake & Lacy's plan
ing mill and lumber yard in Pittsburgh
was complete. The entire mill, machinery
and four million feet of lumber were con
sumed. By extraordinary efforts the fire
men managed te confine the flames as
abeve indicated, although for a time the
property en all sides was in eminent dan
ger. The less is estimated at $100,000.
Insurance, $50,000.
About six months age Ames Bedder, a
step-son of Peter Lewis, of Xortbampten
county, was committed te jail for incerrig
ible conduct and the larceny et a revolver.
At the next term of court he was allowed
te return te his step-father en the presump
tion that the boy would de better. After
this Bedder again commenced stealing,
but was net arrested. One day last week
he get en a beat and went te Philadelphia,
at which city he was drowned in the Dela
ware. The Philadelphia steam fire engine com
pany, of Pottstown, will dedicate a new en
gine house, built a cost of $5,000, en the
12th of June, upon which occasion there
will be a grand firemen's parade. The
fire departments of Reading, Allentown,
Xorristewn, Conshehoken, Pkeenixville,
Boyertewnand Hamburg have been invited
te participate. Alse the members of the
old Xerthern Liberty hose company and
Philadelphia fire engine company, Xe. 18,
of Philadelphia. These companies were
I prominent members of the volunteer fire I
department.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
"King Geerge," a St. Catharine (Ont.)
stallion, has kicked his owner te death.
Walcutt, who attempted te murder his
wife in Columbus, O., also attempted te.
commit suicide.
Daniel Leenard, who killed a shipmate,
was sentenced, in Xew Yerk, yesterday, te
tsn years imprisonment.
In the six days' mustang race at San
Francisce, Andersen is ahead. He has
covered 7G7 miles in three days.
Fire destroyed Palen's sash and blind
factory at Kingsten en Monday night.
Less, $23,000 ; insurance, $4,000.
Weed fires are spreading rapidly in the
mountains around Kingsten, X. Y., and
the whole brew of the Catskills is one mass
of smoke and fiame.
At a meeting of representatives of the
four trunk lines in Baltimore, yesterday,
it was decided te make no change in the
tariff of East-bound freight.
Baseball : At Baltimore Xatienal 10,
Baltimore 4. Princeton, X. J. Brooklyn
7, University 11 (8 innings.) Cincinnati
Buffalo G, Cincinnati 5.
Fletcher Lafferty and Mrs. Enchncr
were drowned, while out rowing en Lime
lake, Xew Yerk, en Sunday evening. Twe
ethers had a very narrow escape.
Eight thousand persons attended a Con
servative mass meeting at Richmond, Va.,
last night. The city was alive with citi
zens from all parts of the state, who came
te attend the state conucntien.
Charles Miller, a young man living with
E. A. Brigham, of RusscI, Mass., was shot
in the left breast by a man supposed te be
a burglar, who mistook him for Mr. Brig
ham. The wound is net dangerous.
James F. Turner died suddenly n
Buffalo. X. Y., while being put under the
influence of chloroform for the purpose of
performing a surgical operation. Twelve
doctors were in attendance te witness tbe
operation.
A fight en beard of a train carrying a
large number of excursionists from River
side, Burlington county, X. J., en Mon
day evening ended in the death of Will
iam Gavin, who was playing the part of
peacemaker.
Cel. Themas A. Scott, has just sent te
the treasurer of Washington and Lee Uni
versity the sum of $4000, being the bal
ance of a subscription of $10,000 made a
short time age te the endowment fund of
the university.
A young man named Purdy was found
before daylight yesterday morning, bound
hand and feet, en the reef of Dickej'
drug store, at Milten, X. Y., with some
pieces of money lying around him. He
claimed that he had been drugged with
chloroform and did net knew hew he get
there. The drug store had been robbed,
and they think Purdy robbed it and Whit
takcrcd himself.
ANOTHJSR TOWN JtUKNfeD OUT.
Tlie Capital of Petter County In Ashes Less
Q.200,000, Insurance, 175,000.
Coudersport, the county seat of Petter
county, which contains about 1,500 inhabi
tants, was visited yesterday afternoon by
a nrc wlncn destroyed most et the build
ings and completely devastated that por
tion devoted te business. The fire erigi
nated in an oil warehouse in the rear of
Stebbins Bres, store, and being unimpeded
made rapid headway, until all the build
ings in the neighborhood were destroyed.
The less falls heavily upon the town,as the
insurance was light. The following are
among the buildings destroyed :
The Coudersport hotel, P. A. Stebbins's
store ; all the buildings in that block, in
cluding the postelhce, E. A. Reese s store,
C. 11. Armstrong's store, Olmsted and
Larrabec's law offices, the Enterprise
building. Airs. Haven s dwelling house,
Z. J. Thompson's wagon shop, all the
blacksmith shops, French's drug store,
Fester's grocery, Jenes & Sens' bank,
Gressel's harness store, Jenes & Ce.'s dry
goods store, Andrews & Olmsted's grocery
store, iu. iN. btebmns s dry goods store, 31.
S. Thompson's drug store, Xorten &
Deane's hardware store, Chas. Rcinmau's
dwelling house.
The Chicago Convention.
Most of the delegates te the Republican
convention in Chicago have been elected
and they are classified thus by leading
journals :
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: : r
LJ i -: :
New Yerk Jferutcl(lnil.)
New Yerk Tribune, (Maine).
Philadelphia Time (lnil
Bosten Tritvetler(ira.t)
Chicago Inter-Ocean,(Graiit).
St. Leuis Glebe (Grant)
Detroit J'nst (Maine)
Jlosten Journal (Neutral)....
Albany Jenrnal (Blaine)
aa
220
240
24.J
273
273
207
107
17C
242
9U
2(Ji
J7 32 14
9S 34
90 32
(K1 30
83 30
114 12
8i;3Ti
7430
8t.3e
337
345
310
275
2w
251
The State Medical Society.
Te-day at 11 a. m, began the meeting of
the Pennsylvania medical society in the
opera house, in Alteena. A large number
of delegates are present among them Dr.
Xebinger, who will deliver the annual ad
dress at the evening session. The address
of welcome was made by Dr. Rewan Clark,
of Bell's Mills. The visitors during their
stay, will be invited te make the delight
ful excursion ever the Bell's Gap railroad,
will visit the Pennsylvania railroad shops
and will have a social supper at the Legan
Heuse. In connection with the reception
of the Blair county medical society en
Thursday evening, Dr. Pancoast, Dr. Levis,
Dr. Packard and ether prominent Phila
delphia physicians will be en hand.
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Gatcliell.
Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald.
We regret te see that our esteemed con
temporary, the Lancaster New Era, is net
only unfavorable te the rc-elcfetien of our
friend, Dr. Gatcliell, te the Legislature,
but it connects his candidacy with the ring
power which pardoned the riot bribery con
victs. Dr. Gatcliell did his best te white
wash the jobbers, and he deserves some
thing for it. Just what that something is
we are tee tender-hearted te say. There
are many worse men than Dr. Gatcliell,
and Kemble had a narrow escape from go
ing te live among them.
A Schoolgirl's Death.
In Hyde park, Vt., Miss Flera V. Heath
of Jehnsen, died under such suspicious cir
cumstances as te warrant a pest mortem
examination. Dr. M. E. Smith, a physi
cian with whom she had been living for
live weeks, was arrested for malpractice.
He is new in jail, and asserts that a" legal
investigation will vindicate him. Flera is
the daughter of Herman A. Heath, a mer
chant of Cambridge, and has been living
for the past four years with her divorced
mother at Jehnsen. She had been attend
ing the normal school.
Through Wbitelaw Keid's Spectacles.
New Yerk Tribune.
What as pectacle it would be, if the
state of the martyr-President, Abraham Lin
coln, should se vote as te turn ever the
government te Democratic hands ! What
a spectacle if the state of Thaddcus
Stevens and Edwin M. Stanten should
prefer te gratify tae stubborn pride of a
Cameren, even though the act should
cause the national capitol te ring with con
federate yells of victory.
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Free Transportation.
The Philadelphia and Reading express
and freight line will transport, without
charge, all contributions of previsions,
clothing and general supplies te Milten,
Pa., when consigned te the cemmittee in
charge of the relief of the sufferers from
the fire of the 14th inst.
DEVASTATED MILTON.
Metes of th Great Fire and Its Results.
In their flight before the irresistibly rap
id march of the fire fiend at Milten many
children became separated from their par
ents and were net restored te them until
Sunday.
Many laboring men and mechanics who
had built homes by the exercise of the
most rigid economy are penniless. The
wealthier classes generally were better in
sured, and they will less difficulty in bridg
ing ever their losses.
Sunday in Sunbury put one in mind of
wartimes. Over seven hundred yards of
material for garments were cut and made
up by ladies who had congregated at dif
ferent points, in vacant store-rooms, dwel
lings, etc.
The people of Milten are very grateful
for the aid which they have received from
many towns and cities in Pennsylvania.
The telegraph wires are almost inadequate
te carry the massages of substantial sym
pathy received by the local relief commit
tee. Mr. W. II. Smith, of the Independent
Weekly and Daily Argus, has secured two
cars, which have been switched off the railr,
and are te be occupied by him for carry
ing en his printing business. '
Postmaster Begle, who had done a pro
digious amount of work ever since the
breaking out of the fire, gave way under
the severe pressure Monday afternoon, and
had te be carried te his home, being com
pletely prostrated.
Reems will be secured in many of the
houses still standing in the upper and lower
parts of the town by business men, and they
will open as seen as possible.
Six clergymen of Milten having lest all
their library by the fire, Rcv.I.II. Terrence
has sent an appeal te the publishers of the
country asking a contribution of a library
for the Milten clergymen. Contributions
of books may be sent te Bible Heuse, 701
Walnut street, Philadelphia, or te Dan
ville, Pa., when they will be distributed as
seen as the clergymen have room te re
ceive them.
The principal buildings will be rebuilt
as early as possible, and there appears te
be no doubt that the car shops, which
added se much te the prosperity or Milten
will rise from their ashes and again exert
their potential influence in a business point
of view. The firm has been in receipt of
a number of telegrams proffering it pecu
niary assistance in leans if it should de
termine te rebuild the shops burned
down.
Reber's tannery, which cmploysabeut
75 men and was valued at about $125,000,
will be among the first enterprises te start
up again. The people of the town realize
that no time should be lest in rebuilding
the waste places, as such a movement
would give the peer people employment
and induce them te remain in the vicinity.
One of the objects in securing 200 tents
from the governor te shelter the homeless
was te prevent them from seeking ether
places te obtain a livelihood.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
THK MILTON RELIEF.
The Geed Werk Gees Steadily On.
The subscription of Jehn Sener, of Wil
low street, acknowledged in the Sixth
ward list yesterday as $1, should have
been credited at $5. Mr. Sener having
lately been a sufferer from a most disas
trous lire himself, his examplary liberality
has a special significance.
Jehn Brooks's subscription from the Sev
enth ward was $2, net $1 as reported.
The $5 subscription credited te Gee. M.
Steinraan & Ce., was the subscription of
Gee. Steinman. The firm subscription as
noted below is $50.
The Third ward committee report the
following additional subscriptions, and
their work is net done yet :
E. II. Brown, $5 ; Myers & Rathfon, $25;
Jes. Preston, $2 ; Jehn II. Barnes, $2 ;
Wm. B. Snyder, $1.25 ; Antheny Lcchlcr,
$1.
The Eighth ward committee add the fo? fe? fo?
lewing te their former report :
Adam Snyder, $2 ; Mrs. Diehl, $2 ; Pat
rick Dennelly, $1 ; cash, $1 ; Martin
Kajmpf, $1 ; C. A. Oblender, $1 ; Michael
Snyder, $1 ; Henry Rohrer, 50c ; Charles
Sheaffer, 50c ; Lucas Fritz, 25c ; Rebert
Wetter, 25c ; Jacob Sheafl'cr, 15c.
The following subscriptions have been
paid in at the mayor's office in addition te
these previously acknowledged in these
columns :
P. D. Baker. $5 ; F. P. Cehe, $5 ; II.
W. Sheibley, $2 ; Dr. Apple, $2 ; J. Hcr Hcr
zeg, $1 ; S. II. Metzger, $5 ; Schlcich &
Bre., $5 ; Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Xevin, $10 ;
Mrs. E. M. Black, $5 ; cash, 50c ; C. Hil
lcr, $1 ; A. Reichenbach, 50c ; P. Xagle,
50c ; C. G. Hcrr, $5 ; C. F. Eberman, $2 ;
Geerge M. Steinman & Ce., $50 ; Themas
J. Davis, $5 : B. F. Davis, $2 : Capt. E.
McMellen, $5 ; Jehn M. Lewell, $2 ; Jehn
R. Diflcnbach, $10 ; Mrs. Henrietta Dor Der
wart, $5.
The total subscriptions new amount te
about $2,000.
THE WIDOWS MITE.
Aunt Hannah Sterret's Contribution.
Almest everybody in Lancaster knows
Hannah Sterrett, a peer old colored
woman, who lives en Xerth street.
When the committee of the Seventh
ward were making their tour of collection
for the Milten sufferers, they passed Han
nah's humble residence without stepping ;
but when she learned what they were
after, she called te them te take her con
tribution as well as ethers ; and saying
that she was very peer, and only had five
cents, she cheerfully gave them that for
the benefit of the homeless sufferers.
Xew, who in all Lancaster has given se
liberally as Aunt Hannah?
A Remarkable Speller.
Miss Etta M. Stauffer, having withstood
the storms of daily spelling contests in the
Berwyn academy for several months, has
maintained her leading position every day.
Xe word seems tee difficult for her, and
with such remarkable talent Webster's un
abridged dictionary withers into utter in
significance. She can spell thousands of
words without a single miss. She is a
daugher of Mr. F. H. Stauffer, and grand
daughter of the late Jacob Stauffer, of this
city.
Jehn Sauber Pardoned.
Upen the rehearing of the case of Jehn
Sauber, of this county, convicted of rape,
the beard of pardons have decided te par
don him. He was sentenced en Feb. 28,
1870, te three years in jail and $50 fine.
He was convicted en the oath of a gi ! since
proven te be notoriously bad, and who has
boasted of having sent him te jail en false
testimony. B. F. Davis, esq., appeared
before the pardon beard in his behalf and
made out a strong case for him.
Strawberry Festival.
The ladies of the St. Paul's M. E.
church held a meeting last evening te
make arrangements for the holding of a
strawberry festival during the first week
in June. They agreed upon Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, the 3d, 4th and 5th
of June, as the time, and the lecture room
of the church as the place.
MICROSCOPIC WORLD.
BOUNDLESS REALM Of MICROSCOPY.
The Compound Microscope Better than
Fast Herse or Fancy Buggy, as Geed In
the Heme as Cabinet Organ
or Grand Piane."
The third monthly conference meeting of
the Lancaster Microscepical society was
held at their rooms in Diffenderfer's
building, Xerth Queen street, last even
ing at 8 o'clock. The business of the
meeting was the report of work done dur
ing the month, the report of the recent re
ception given by the Philosophical society
of West Chester, and the reading of a
paper by Mr. Jehn C. Burrowes en the
staining of vegetable tissues.These matter
having been disposed, of formal adjourn
ment was followed by the examination of
microscopic objects, m great variety,
through the half-dozen instruments en the
tables. Upen two of these the polarizing
attachment was placed, the wonderful ef
fect of which, as seen in the crystallizatiens
upon a number of slides, were an unfailing
source of delight during the evening. Di
atoms, seeds, pathological specimens, etc.,
were shown under powers of the iustru
nicnt ranging from fifty te four or five
hundred diameters.
Among visitors present we observed
Charles S. Meseley,esq., superintendent of
the Lancaster watch factory ; Mr. Aldcn
Webb, chief adjuster, and ether experts of
the West End, all of whom were much in
terested in the microscopes.
We give the report of the reception at
West Chester, as made by Mr. J. P. Me
Caskcy, which will afford the reader sonic
idea of what is dene and shown at these
very attractive and highly instructive ex
hibitions :
Reception of the Philosophical Society.
The Philosophical society of West Ches
ter a few days since suddenly resolved upon
a reception. The call went forth at once,
and the response was hardly less prompt
than that te the bugle-blast of High
land Rederick. Almest within the day
there was the gathering of the clans at the
headquarters of the scientists. Lancaster
sent down five, instruments and seven
members. Professional engagements that
were imperative much te the disappoint
ment of us all prevented our worthy
president, with his excellent binocular,
from being one of the party.
Leaving home at 3 p. m., we reached
West Chester about half-past 5 o'clock.
The reception cemmittee met us at the
depot and conducted us te the rooms of the
secicty,whcrc our instruments were placed
in position, after which all guests adjourn
ed te the Mansion house. Supper ever, a
short stroll around the town, te visit old
friends, te find a greenhouse, or te sec the
handsome normal school building of which
AVcst Chester is net a little proud, and the
hour for the reception was come.
The Philosophical society has its head
quarters en the second fleer of a large
building en Gay street, near Church. The
spacious front room was occupied by the
exhibitoftwenty-ene instruments belong
ing te this society. These of the Camden
and Lancaster societies occupied tables in
the room directly te the rear, the large
folding deer, enabling the two rooms te
be thrown into one. Acress the passage
at the head of the stairway were two simi
lar rooms, the front containing the exhibit
of the West Chester Microscepical society,
and the rear, the Beck and Crouch instru
ments of Londen, exhibited by the agents
of the manufacturers.
Twe hundred and seventy-five tickets of
invitation had been issued, se that the
rooms, although well filled, were at no
time unpleasantly crowded.
As has been said, the exhibit of the
Philosophical society included twenty-one
instruments. Three of these belonged te
Dr. Jehn R. McCIurg, one of which showed
the circulation of the bleed in the sala
mander, another the circulation in the
frog both animals, of course, being alive
and a third, the circulation of the sap in
a living leaf. The extraordinary magni
fying power of twelve hundred (1200) di
ameters was used in showing the last
named object, or 1,440,000 surfaces. That
is te say, if wc touch the paper with a fine
pencil-point and magnify it under this
high power, we have our point increased
insize nearly a million and a-half times,
extending much beyond the field of the
instrument. And jet in this very minute
section of the leaf wc sec distinctly the
flew of the sap and the movement of the
bieplasm. The objective used en this in
strument is what is known as a "twenty
fifth inch," needing te be handled vcrj
carefully, and showing hardly a hair's
breadth between the lens and the thin
glass by which the section of the leaf
under examination seemed te be covered.
Other objects of much interest wcic the
fruit of the fern, seri and spores, transverse
sections of seeds and ether weedy struc
ture : proboscis of blew-lly, trichina
spiralis, sheath of wing of the diamond
beetle, etc. Among these of special inter
est te the average visitor in this exhibit
was a microscopic edition of the Ten Cem
mandments, photographed into a very
small spot upon the glass, but being
easily read in the field of the instrument.
The exhibit of the Microscepical society,
which is the elder of the two scientific
organizations of West Chester, included
some twenty instruments, two of which,
belonging te Dr. J. C. Green, attracted
much attention. One of these showed
cumulese geld, deposited by the galvanic
battery en a fine geld base, a rare and
unique product of the electric current.
Dr. J. B. Weed, burgess of West Chester,
showed, along with ether objects, some
chlorate of potash, crystals that were a
delight te see. Dr. II. C. Weed exhibited
specimens of pond life, one of these show
ing the breathing apparatus of the
water flea in the living animal. Other
objects from the various kingdoms of
nature were here in variety, as seeds, leaf
sections, pure copper, minute seaweeds,
injected preparations, etc. Dr. Rothrock,
the botanist, had two microscopes, one
showing the leaf of the floating heart,
and the ether a successful staining of
one of the western weeds. This
gentleman sails for Europe about
the middle of June, te be gene for several
months, for the purpose study under a
distinguished specialist of Strasburg en
the Rhine. He inquired cordially after the
family of the late Dr. TIies. II. Burrewc,
witli whom he was associated at the Agri
cultural college some ten years since, when
Dr. B. was president of that institution,
and was pleased te learn that his youngest
son Jehn, a valued member of our Lancas
ter society, has manifested se active an in
terest in the study of nature.
The Camden society showed some very
striking objects, but nothing mere won
derful in the brilliantly-illuminated field
than the anthers and pollen of two of the
ordinary mallows and one, of the abntil abntil
ens. Xe one can have any adequate idea
of the marvelous beauty of these thinirs
who has net seen them under the magni
fying power of the compound miscroscepc,
with nice adjustment and well-managed
light. At this table, also, crystals of silver,
arranged diatoms, the spiral tissue of the
caster-oil plant, and infuseria representing
the simplest forms of animal life, attracted
much attention.
The Lancaster Microscepical society
exhibited as objects of special interest a
very beautiful diatom under a high power,
some striking crystallizatiens and scales of
fish in the magic play of polarized light,
the wing of a Hy and seeds of the portu pertu
lacca. An interesting feature of this table
and one which attracted much attention,
was the microscope, probably a hundred
years old, belonging te Mr. Charles A.
Heinitsh, druggist, of this city.
The dealers in microscopes also made an
attractive display with choice instruments
and the finest selection of objects in their
catalogues, including crystals of geld,
seeds of the wild catch-fly, pollen of scar
let sage, diatoms from Cuxhaven, and
crystals of arsenieus and oxalic acids in
polarized light a half-dozen slides wbicli
would of themselves suffice for an even
ing entertainment of the most enjeyable
character te levers of the beautiful.
The exhibition ever, at 9:20 p. m. we
took the train for Philadelphia, one of our
number, Dr. Rile, remaining te spend a
day under instructions with the Cam
den men, the rest reaching Lancaster at
2:40 a. m., having been less than twelve
hours absent from home.
And new, for the moral of the story
which is, that Lancaster can de no less
than Camden and West Chester have done ;
that our Microscepical society will, in a
few months, when enough instruments are
owned by individual members, announce
"open heuse'' te our enthusiastic friends
from abroad. We will have such an ex
hibition of the wonders of microscopy as
will astonish and delight our citizens, such
as will be te them a revelation of beauty
and design in the world of little things for
which no ene unacquainted with the
powers of the compound microscope is at
all prepared.
Lancaster has the means, in men,
money and public spirit, te de such work as'
should be dene in this direction, and wc
shall net be surprised te see the day when,
with the son of many an intelligent farmer,
the compound microscope shall divide hon
ors with the fast herse or the new buggy,
at equal prices. Or when this wonder
working instrument shall rival, in the
home of culture and refinement, the cabi
net organ and the grand piano net taking
the place of either, but dividing profitable
attention with both, a desirable improve
ment upon "things as they are,"' because
a happy realization, in part at least, of
"things as they ought te be."
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
Events Acress tlie Caunty Linen.
Yerk's donations for the benefit of the
Milten sufferers amount te ever $2,000 in
cash and about $1,000 worth of supplies.
A portion of Pcnnypackcr's plumbage
mines, near Chester Springs, caved in, kill
ing Jeseph Miles and James K. Brown.
Their bodies were crushed and mangled
horribly.
In Harrisburg a colored man named
Fisher while cleaning out a cess peel en
the premises en which Kate Gould, a do
mestic, lived, brought te light the body of
an infant, of whom she is alleged te be the
mother. She has been arrested, as the
pest mortem proved the babe te have been
born alive.
The Harrisburg Telegraph says the lish lish
ermen of that wicked city seine and seine,
but catch no shad. They gather plenty of
black bass in the nets but piously threw
them back. A geed enough " fish "
story.
The Reading councils and the Firemen's
Union of that city propose te put a step te
beer drinking around the hose houses.
Uight.
Oliver D. Scheck, of Hamburg, Berks
county, who threw $5,000 worth of
carrier pigeons in the air en Sunday, has
heard from the owners in Hobekcn and
Jersey City that the fastest time made was
two hours and twenty seconds, distance
one hundred and live miles air line. The
smoke from the forest fires considerably
interfered with the tournament.
SERIOUSLY HURT.
The Perils of a Free Riile.-
A young man about 18 years of age,
named Jehn Van Buskirk residing at Xe.
4G7 High street, this city, met with a seri
ous accident between 9 and 10 o'clock this
morning while taking a free ride en a
freight train en the Pennsylvania railroad.
It appears he bearded the extra freight
train cast, drawn by engine 75, as it
passed through this city, and in the vicin
ity of Ranch's, a mile or two east of the
city, he was caught and squeezed between
some lumber that projected beyond the
ends of the cars. Ife was released from
his perilous position and brought back te
Lancaster en the mail train west and taken
te his home, no was unable te stand,
being badly injured internally.
An Old Relief Subscription.
This morning one of the policemen found
in the back office of the mayor, en old sub
scription book, containing the names of
contributors residing in the "Southeast"
ward, te the relief of the people of Xorfelk
and Portsmouth, Va., in September, 1855,
at which time these cities were devastated
by cholera. The book contains Mayer Al
bright's receipt for $319.06, as the total
sum subscribed by residents of the "South
east" ward, new the Third and Seventh
wards. Many of the contributors are still
among us, and their names are te be found
in the list of contributors te the Milten
fund, but many ethers, alas ! have passed
te that undiscovered country from whose
bourne no traveler o'er returns.
Manic and Fir Works.
Last evening a great crowd was at
tracted te Fulmer's (late Frankes)garden,
Xerth Prince street te see the display of
fire-works and hear the music of the City
cornet band. Xething need be said as te
the merit of the music, as our city readers
are well acquantcd with its excellence.
The display of fire-works was very credit
able. 1 lunch eds of rockets, roman candles,
fire-wheels, red and blue lights and ether
pyrotechnics being "set off" for the enter
tainment of the guests. The garden has
been fitted up in first-class style and is a
delightful place te pass a sultry day or
evening.
Case Continued.
The case of II. E. Minnich, of Land is
ville, charged with robbing the U. S.
mails, which was set down for trial yester
day before the U. S. district court, at Phil
adelphia, has been continued until Tues
day next, en account of a number of ether
cases having precedence which will occupy
the attention of the court for the balance
of this week.
Fer An Kxpreits Agent's Relief.
The agents of the Philadelphia and
Reading express company have started a
relief fund for the benefit of II. E. Huff,
who was express agent at Milten and lest
his property by the fire. Pesters have
been sent te all the stations, and the
amount raised will no doubt be large.
Child Run Over!
A little child named Rappe while play
ing en Maner street last evening, was run
ever by a buggy, in charge of a country
man whose name we did net learn. The
child had no bones broken but was con
siderably injured otherwise.
Alter a New Lep.
Jehn P. Geed, the one-legged recorder
of Lancaster county went te Philadelphia
te-day te get a new artificial leg, the one
he new has in use causing him some discomfort.
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