LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCE!?. MONDAY, JONE 14,1830.
ILancaster intelligencer.
MONDAY EVENING. JUNE 14, 1880.
Garfield's Credit Mebilier Keeerd.
The mere thoughtful members of the
Republican party are net disposed te con
tent themselves with answering the at
tacks en Garfield's record by flippant re
marks about "mud-throwing" and the
"licentious press." Because these at
tacks proceed from the Democratic jour
nals and most of the independent news
papers of the country, some of our Re
publican contemporaries are satisfied
with the declaration that they are mere
partisan sound and fury, of no mere
effect in a political campaign
than the din of Chinese gongs in
modern warfare. Men of wider compre
hension see that they are mistaken. It
may be that Gen. Garfield did net delib
erately sell his vote te Oakes Ames, nor
take a direct bribe from Richard C. Par
sons te influence his course as chairman
of the committee en appropriations in
reporting the expenditure of the money
needed by the Washington ring te carry
out its schemes of plunder. Rut the un
mistakable, undenied and undeniable
facts in Mr. Garfield's congressional ca
reer, spread upon the Jiecerd and com
mented upon by the newspapers of his
own party, are such as te fully illustrate
his character before the American people
who are asked te elect him their chief
magistrate.
Gen. Garfield is a man of intellectual
ability; he is of scholarly studious
habits, much given te philosophizing en
subjects of political economy and theo
ries of legislation. When he was
detected as one of the beneficiaries of
Oakes Ames's patronage in the Credit
Mebilier business, had he frankly said
that he had unwarily allowed his fellow
congressman of eminent business
ability te make an investment for him
which recommended itself te his
superior judgment, without much in
quiry as te its character, with no
knowledge that it could or was ex
pected te influence his vote en pending
legislation, the public might have
been led te put a charitable construction
en his conduct. This was no doubt Mr.
Garfield's first impulse; but Mr. Garfield
is net a man of moral courage, lie
would rather shirk a danger than brave
it. lie .saw that public sentiment was
aroused en this Credit Mebilier
question and that any man with
the smell of smoke en his gar
ments was te be branded as a public
thief. He concluded te lie out of it. He
became scared, he hesitated and was
lest. He went the way of Colfax and
though Ohie virtue was easier than that
of the country when it sat in judgment
en Colfax, and Garfield has longer been
endured, he has reached a point whence
his fall will be as certain and all the
harder, because the deeper, than Col
fax's was.
First Garfield published a bread denial
that he had ever had any Credit Mebilier
stock. Then Ames showed that he had
hern assigned ten shares. Garfield said
it was never paid for, and that he never
get any dividends. Then Ames swore :
Mr.Garficld did net pay me any money. I
sold the bends belonging te his $1,000 stock
at 1)7, making $770. In June I received a
dividend in cash en his stock of $600, which
left a balance due him of $329, which I
paid him. That is all the transactions be
tween us. I did net deliver him any stock
befeie or since. This is the only transac
tion and the only thing.
Garfield said this was a lean that he
had made from Ames, after having been
impoverished by a trip te Europe. Then
it was shown that the European trip was
made subsequent te this transaction, and
a memorandum was produced in Gar
field's own handwriting te show that he
claimed the stock and mere dividends en
it than he had received, and, after the
testimony was all in, a committee, of
which Garfield's party friends were in a
majority, reported that Garfield had re
ceived dividends en the stock, and he
was placed in what the Xew Yerk Times
called " a most distressing position."
Ilis course in the Washington pave
ment business was very much of the
same character, and illustrated the same
evasive, equivocating disposition, the
same lack of moral courage, and the
same lack of common honesty. Serious
as the charges are in themselves, they are
most important in illustrating the char
acter of the man. Such a man is net fit
te be president. Hayes has much of the
same dispositienand he has been a con
spicuous failure. His duplicity has ex
cited the enmity of his own party and
the contempt of the Democracy. The
country wants no mere of him and none
like him.
The heartrending steamboat accident
en Leng Island sound had all the ele
ments of most terrible shipwreck, and
could hardly have been mere disastrous
te human life or attended with mere se
vere and picturesque incidents of suffer
ing had it happened in mid-ocean. The
details are as full of interest as they are
of horror, and whilesomeef them exhibit
high heroism, ethers are calculated te
confirm faith in human depravity. It
seems te lie very well established that
some carelessness contributed te the dis
aster, and cowardice and inefficiency in
time of danger aggravated the fearful
responsibility of the officers and crew of
the ill-fated vessel.
Scarcely a third of the delegates te
Cincinnati are instructed; net a fourth
of them are committed te any one man.
All calculations fail.te indicate who will
be the final choice of the necessary two
thirds. There is certainly no calculable
reason te think that Mr. Tilden will be,
and many indications that from choice,no
less than from necessity ,he will net allow
his name te go before the convention,
but will exert his influence te secure a
candidate acceptable te himself and the
whole party in his state te the end that
he and his campaign of 1876 may be vin
dicated by the triumph of Democratic
principles.
Judge Trunkey appears in the
Times's White Heuse gallery te-day. He
is a very dark horse. Though he has
never been entered in a free-for-all race
you can never tell the possible speed of
a nag that has always distanced the field
even in a scrub race.
A Herald correspondent reports the
popular sentiment in Illinois te be one
half divided among Palmer, Morrison,
Trumbull and Davis, with the ether half
solid for Seymour. Wisconsin Demo
crats, the Herald man at Milwaukee
says, are for Seymour first and
Tilden second. Louisiana, according te
a veracious scribe at Xew Orleans, is
parceled out in various sized chunks be
tween Hancock, Tburman and Bayard ;
Flerida's uninstructed delegation is
friendly te Bayard, and en the authority
of a correspondent at Omaha, Ne
braska's delegation may be put down
for Tiklen "first, last and all
the time;" or, if Tilden don't
want it, they are willing te fellow his
lead, believing the Gramercy sage te be a
"statesman of sufficient judgment te
name a man of whom the entire party
can approve and who will be elected."
Maine and Xew Hampshire are reported
as exhibiting a kindiy inclination for Til
den, and all parties are " for the nomi
nee."' Anether indication of the degree of
personal freedom likely te prevail in the
Democratic national convention is pre
sented in the fact that the four delegates-at-large
te Cincinnati from Illinois, arc
avowed in their preferences for as many
different candidates for the Democratic
presidential nomination. Gen. Jehn A
McClernand is for Palmer ; S. S. Mar"
shall hopes Mr. Morrison will be agreed
upon by the delegation ; Melville W.
Fuller, of Chicago, is a red-het Seymour
delegate, and W. T. Dowdall pins his
faith te Mr. English, of Indiana.
Concerning the possibility of select
ing any ether than a straight Democrat
as the nominee for president at Cincin
nati, the popular sentiment of the party
is admirably phrased by the Western
man who says Senater David Davis can
sing with us but he must net expect te
lead the choir.
PERSONAL..
On the arrival at Bellefonte en Friday
evening of General James A. Beaver,
delegate te Chicago, he was met by a large
delegation of citizens and escorted through
the town.
Ex-Senater James A. Bayard died at 1
o'clock yesterday morning after being un
conscious for several hours. He had been
sinking gradually for several days, his
death being hastened by a fall received as
he was descending the stairs en Thursday
a week. There were present at the time
of his death Hen. Themas F. Bayard, Dr.
J. K. Kane and wife, a daughter of the
deceased, and Benjamin Lockwood and
wife, of Xew Yerk, the latter also a daugh
ter of the deceased. The funeral will take
place te-morrow.
A Xew Orleans correspondent of the
Pittsburgh Pest writes te it that " if any
Democrat can carry Xew Yerk and Penn
sylvania Judge'BLACK can, and ccitainly he
would carry the Southern states, and
simply because every Southern man, black
and white, would have confidence in his
justice, judgment and inflexible integrity
and manly courage. His name would be
a tower of strength te his party, for as men
prefer diamond te less valuable stones, or
rubbish, se de they love te rally around
and fight under the banner of a noble he
roic leader."
The Albuquerque (X. M.) Gelden Gate
brings us the news that " Twenty seven
hundred dollars in geld te the ten by
actual test," is what the owners of the
Star mine located in Hell Canen, will
answer if you ask them what the ere from
the mine mns. The mine was found by
W. T. Stracuan, formerly of Lancaster ;
he and a Spaniard went out and get a
sack full of ere which was brought te town
and washed and poured out at the above
rate. Strachan is one of tlm owners of
the mine.
On Feb. 19, 1873, with the report and all
the evidence before it, the 2few Ferk Times
thus spoke of the present candidate for the
presidency : "Of the members referred te
Messrs. Kelley and Garfield present a most
distressing figure. Their paiticipatieu in
the Credit Mebilier affair is complicated
by the most uufertinate contradictions of
testimony, which the committee de net
undertake te unravel. The enlv possible
comment en their cases is that had they
taken a perfectly upright course in the
matter and refused te have anything te de
with the stock, no occasion for contradic
tion could have arisen."
Stephen S. Rcmak, after being with Mr.
Horatio Seymour at his home for several
hours, telegraphs te the Philadelphia
Times that he is authorized te say that
Mr. Seymour believes that he is physically
net sufficiently strong te fill the office of
president of the United States with justice
te the cause of the people. " Our conver
sation covered everything within the
bounds of statesmanlike politics. Mr.
Seymour has become, if possible, since
1868, when I was at Deerfield, a still
brighter luminary in the discussion of
things and men, He is apparently strong,
even physically, but the country has te
take his word that he is net. His views I
cannot give till I shall be authorized.
That may take place in a few days."
The Titusville Fire.
The Titusville fire se far has burned ever
150 acres of ground and at present is con
sidered under control, but it is liable at
any time te break out worse. On Satur
day two tanks were struck bv
lightning, which added fresh fuel te
the seething mass of flames, but help from
Cerry, Oil City, Warren and Erie, kept
the fire from spreading. Tanks have been
riddled with cannon and the oil let out te
prevent fire and explosion.
A 15,000 barrel tank caved in and sent
the oil into the creek, which was high,
owing te a heavy rain storm last evening.
The flames along the creek for three-quarters
of a mile rose te a height of five hun
dred feet, making a scene of the wildest
confusion and grandeur. Fer about ten
minutes it looked as if the whole town
would go, but only burned three or four
small buildings. Se far about forty build
ings have been burued and about $350,000
barrels of oil destroyed.
In the cyclone at Petersburg, Va., en
Saturday, a number of houses and factories
were unroofed and the front window glass
of several stores were demolished. In
Chesterfield county the storm was very
destructive, uprooting huge pine trees,
blowing down fences, barns and telegraph
wires, and doing immense damage te the
wheat crop and young fruit trees. The
new residence of Hudsen Hughes, located
near Halfway station, en the Richmond
and Petersburg railroad, was completely
demolished, the family narrowly escaping
with their lives.
MINOR TOPICS.
Charlie Ress new turns up in Michi
gan but he is three years elder than if he
had never been stolen.
Xe Democratic candidate has yet made
certain of 200 votes at Cincinnati. It re
quires 492 te nominate. Tilden leads slight
ly with Bayard, Seymour, Hancock, Thur
man, Field and Hendricks at his heels.
It is understood that the Philadelphia
and Reading receivers are dealing with
prominent capitalists of Philadelphia and
Xew Yerk with the view of forming a
syndicate which will lease all the coal lands
of the company. The iron works and
ether side operations of the company are
being speedily closed out.
The Cincinnati Commercial new for
Garfield, the day before his nomination
said : " The most contemptible thing thus
far at Chicago is the chatter about Gar
field. He has net a record te run en for
president, and it is extreme foolishness te
be wasting time en him. The Garfield
talk is merely te interfere with Sherman,
and should be discountenanced as dis
honest." Senators Voorhees and Ingalls had
quite a spat in the Senate en Saturday.
Voorhees accused the Republicaus of mas
querading as the friends of the soldier for
clap trap ; Ingalls intimated that Voorhees
was drunk ; Voorhees intimated that In
galls lied. Then there was reconciliation,
apology and forgiveness and the associated
press sent out this :
Te Editors : The tilt between Ingalls
and Voorhees has been expunged from the
Jiecerd. and several senators, including
Senater Blaine, in behalf of Ingalls, and
Senater McDonald, in behalf of Voorhees,
have asked us te emit the offensive lan
guage and the consequent explanations
from our report.
Mm,e. Juliette Ceuiuiet, sister of
Gustave Courbet, the French painter and
revolutionist, and legally his sole heir, has
gene te Paris te negotiate a compromise
about the three hundred thousand francs
that M. Courbet was condemned te pay for
pulling down the column of the Place
Vendome. The judgment of the court
allowed him thirty years' time in which te
pay the amount. Mile. Courbet is willing
te pay one-half of the money down for a
receipt in full, and premises te devote the
surplus te fine ait prizes. In her negotia
tions she has the advantage, as M. Cour.
bet's most valuable pictures are at her
house in Switzerland, and if her offer is
net accepted the treasury may get noth
ing. After Mr. Hayes was nominated at
Cincinnati Mr. Cenkliug did net speak te
him, and since he has been inaugurated
Mr. Conkling has net been te the White
Heuse, has net seen Mr. Hayes, and has
asked no favor of the administration. Mr.
Conkling, after the nomination of Garfield
at Chicago, went te his room at the hotel
and locked himself in, and later he paid no
attention te an intimation that Mr. Gar
field would like te see him. In the Hayes
campaign Conkling, although he made one
speech, uever once mentioned Hayes's name.
That he has never spoken te him since his
nomination is well known, nor has he signed
a letteref recommendation toeffice. Hayes
was weak enough once te invite him te a
state dinner,and Conkling was beer enough
te pay no attention te the invitation.
LATEST NEWS BT MAIL.
David O'Keefe and James Kelly, con
victs in the penitentiary at Blackwcll's
island, engaged iu a fight which resulted
in the fatal stabbing of O'Keefe by Kelly.
The Xew Orleans Continental Guards,
Captain William Pierce commanding, left
for Bosten yesterday afternoon via Chicago
and St. Leuis. They bear a national en
sign te be presented te the city of Bosten
by the city of Xew Orleans.
Mis. Elizabeth Yeung, of Xe. 426 Third
avenue, Xew Yerk, committed suicide by
taking a dose of Paris green. Fer the
past week she was very sick and suf
fered great agony. This may have led te
the deed.
While the Spanish war ship Cuba Espa Espa
nela was entering the harbor of Santiage
de Cuba, her boiler exploded, killing twen
ty person and wounding 113, of whom
eighty-four were troops that were being
transported.
The body of James Williams, colored,
was found in the weeds near Lawrence,
Ind., with his head crushed into a shape
less mass. His wife was found unconscious
en the fleer of his cabin with her skull
crushed, but still alive.
The terrible storms of Thursday and
Friday nights flooded Wausua, Miss.,
carrying off several bridges and 4,000,000
feet of legs. Fifty million feet of legs
are jammed in the river and six inches rise
in the water will carry them away. The
Wisconsin river is thirteen feet above low
water mark.
While P. S. Spinning aud wife weie out
riding in an open carriage, near Sandy
Run, X. J., their team became frightened
and ran away, upsetting the carriage. Mrs.
Spinning, who was in a delicate condition,
received injuries that are pronounced fa
tal. One of the horses received such in
juries that it had te be shot.
Ex-Governer Albert G. Brown, of Mis
sissippi, was thrown from his horse into a
pond near his home and drowned. De
ceased resided near Jacksen, Miss., and
was 67 years old. He was governor of
Mississippi ler two terms and served Ins
state as a member of Congress and of the
United States Senate.
The presence of enormous masses of
Arctic ice en the coast of Newfoundland
is becoming extremely dangerous, especi
ally te steam vessels, which are able te
proceed en their course regardless of wind
or weather, ner majesty's steamer Fla Fla
mineo had her bowsprit and fererigging
dismantled, having struck an enormous
ijeberg while sailing through a fog, scarce
ly ten miles from shore.
STATE ITEMS.
Te-morrow the Philadelphia census will
be finished and the Quaker City expects te
return 900,000 population.
Pottstown had 700 parading firemen aud
10,000 admiring spectators en Saturday.
J. Wright Apple and J. W. Bickel were
the eratars.
A heavy wind and rain storm passed
ever Pittston about neon Saturday. A
building occupied by Mrs. Raniage was
struck by lightning and her son, James
Ramage, 15 years of age, was instantly
killed. His mother and sister both occu
pied the same apartment, but escaped un
hurt. Over in Allentown, en Saturday, Dr.
L. R. Aldrich, a practitioner in cases of
defective speech, &c, was shot by his
wife, but was net seriously hurt. The
woman then shot herself twice in the head
and once in the breast. She is beyond
recovery. The pair came from Bethlehem
recently. Jealousy is believed te have been
the cause of the tragedy.
A wind storm, accompanied by rain,
thunder and lightning, swept through the
Shenandoah valley, Schuylkill county, en
Saturday, demolishing two houses in
course of erection and one that was occu
pied, the occupants barely escaping with
their lives. Trees and telegraph lines
were blown down all along the line of the
railroad, obstructing travel.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
COMMENCEMENT.
FRANKLIN ANO MARSHALL.
A Week et Literary Festivities.
The present week marks the annual com
mencement of Frankliu and Marshall col
lege. The unusually large graduating
class and the excellent arrangement of lit
erary and social features for the week give
premise f a highly interesting and suc
cessful commencement season. The first
order of the pregramme was the Bacca
laureate sermon yesterday, by the presi
dent, preached in the college chapel.
Te day the usual examinations of the
lower classes and of applicants for admis
sien are being held. Te-morrow the an
nual trustees' meeting will be held and iu
the evening Gen. Wm. II. Koentz, of Som
erset, this state, will deliver the biennial
oration before the literary societies. On
Wednesday morning the literary societies
and the alumni will held their annual re
unions ; at neon the alumni dinner will be
held'in Uarbaugh hall ; at 3 p. in. the
class day exercises en the campus ; at 5
o'clock the class of 1870 will held a decen
nial social reunion, and in the evening
Rev. D. E. Klepp, D. D., of Philadelphia,
will deliver the alumni oration. On Thurs
day the regular commencement exercises
will be held, including the baccalaureate
orations and conferring of degrees.
There was a large attendance of students
resident alumni, local clergy and friends of
the college present in the chapel yester
day morning te hear the Baccalaureate ser
mon by Dr. Apple. The following is a
brief abstract of the discourse which was
delivered in an impressive and telling man
ner and received with close attention :
" And se it is written : The first man
Adam was made a living soul ; the last
Adam was made a quickening spirit.
" Howbeit that was net first which is
spiritual, but that which is natural ; and
afterwards that which is spiritual": 1 Cor.
xx., 45, 46.
These graphic words, explaining the or
igin and destiny of man, rise in authority
and strength above all human speculations
en this subject. Science has net solved the
problem of man's origin'; it has net dis
closed hew he emerged from the besom of
that nature, with which he is se closely
linked en one side of his being, and has
been made te se far transcend its order
as te stand forth as its king. The light of
revelation makes clear the mystery of sci
ence, in the sublimely simple declaration :
"And the Lord Ged formed man of the
dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life ; and man be
came a living soul." Only He who formed
man could reveal his origin.
Human philosophy has likewise sought
vainly te solve the mystery of man's des
tiny. His intuitive consciousness and
profoundest thought unite te testify that
death does net end all, but revelation is
again needed te illumine with the text
that which science leaves in darkness.
Man, the last and greatest creation of
Ged, deriving his existence from the first
head of the race, but at the same time en
dowed with powers transcending the
sphere of nature and fitting him for the
existence of freedom and love, is te reach
this highest state through the last Adam,
Jesus Christ, the Ged-man iu a higher
spiritual order of existence, of which the
natural is only the type and symbol.
Jesus Christ, as the absolute head of the
universe, is the link that binds together
the creature and the Creater, the finite
and the Infinite, man and Ged in the com
munion of infinite life and love. " He is
the Alpha and Omega, the begiiining and
the ending of all the ways of Ged te man.
Te accept this sublime revelation and te
believe in Jesus Christ the conqueror of
death and Hades as our Ged and Father,
is infinitely mere than all possible attain
ments in the knowledge aud wisdom of
earth."
" Adam was made a living soul " means
mere than the soul life of the animal ; it
involves a self-conscious existence in the
form of personality, a rational centre of its
own existence. Through the body, man is
joined with the external creation ; through
the spirit, the soul is linked with Ged.
Bcdy and soul make a unity of existence
and man is a centre of union between the
spiritual and material. Ged created man
" a living soul," but Christ, the last Adam,
was made a "quickening spirit." It is
through the spirit that man is united te
the Diviue life in Ged in the personal,
conscious communion of love.
Bern into the world, our being unfolds
itself merely as natural life, and has of
itself no power te transcend this. The
highest culture, without the union with
Ged in Christ, only carries the subject
further into the trackless paths of spirit
ual poverty and death.
Man has proved his superiority ever the
natural creation by his conquest of its do
mains, aud grandeur marks his achieve
ments in the empire of mind. But all this
is merely the natural sphere and viewed
from a high spiritual standpoint is in itself
a melancholy failure. It was because man
turned from his higher estate, te enjoy the
transitory world, by which he was te rise
te the spiritual sphere, that he was left
groveling in the ruins of his fall. The
world, with all its conquests and possibil
ities is net enough. " Whosoever shall
drink of this water shall thirst again."
Free rein te the physical appetite debases
the body ; in the development of the high
er life of the soul the physical nature is ele
vated and honored.
What the soul is for the body the spirit
is for the soul. It is through the spirit,
or spiritual life, that the soul is elevated
te its right relation te Ged and enabled te
reach its proper character and destiny.
There is a supernatural, spiritual world.
corresponding te the natural order of the
universe, in which is a higher revelation
of the life of Ged than that of which we
arc conscious through the natural activities
of the soul. This is the world of substan
tial, eternal realities, of which the natural
world is a shadow or picture. It is the
world that man's life has its hidden springs,
from which it derives its true nourishment,
without which the whole order of the uni
verse could net subsist for a single mo
ment. This world alone is abiding, while
the whole natural order is continually
passing away. The sphere of the spirit's
working is deeper than our natural con
sciousness. We cannot subject it te the
study or investigation of our ordinary
knowledge. Only these who are spiritually
alive in us are subject te experience, but
the manner of its working is and remains
an unfathomable mystery.
There is a veil that conceals this super
natural world from the natural vision, and
when our vision is closed te all earthly
scenes the eye of the soul will open, upon
the wondrous realities of that higher
world.
By this spiritual life all men's motives,
intentions and actions, are continually
measured and judged. The real impor
tance and value of these are determined by
the relation in which they stand te this
supernatural order of existence. Hence
every life that is poised en self, or has
mere earthly purposes as its ultimate end,
no matter hew it may he filled out in the
sight of men, becomes utterly empty and
vain. He alone possesses true wisdom who
in the great work of life makes everything
subservient te this higher end of his exis
tence, and conversely, it is the supreme of
human felly te make any natural or earth
ly ends the highest object of pursuit. " He
that findeth his life shall lese it. and he
that leseth his life for my sake shall find
The divinely declared order of the
natural first and then the spiritual, is im
portant te be kept in view te contradict
the captivating theory of evolution. The
lower order has no latent power te lift
itself into the higher. There is an evolu
tion but it is by the power of the quick
ening spirit. The vital principle lays held
of the organic and transforms it into the
living plant. The error that the inor
ganic can by developing some latent power
bloom into the organic gives ustbe danger
ous theory of hunianitarianism, according
te which all higher life for man is a mere
refinement, transformation, or glorification
of the natural, inborn in his constitution,
by a process of development or evolution.
In its logical consequences this tremen
dous root heresy makes man te be bis own
Ged.
On the ether hand, for every true devel
opment the higher must come down into
the lower te elevate it. Jesus Christ, the
Ged-man, is the prototype of all creation
in whose image the first Adam was fash
ioned ; and in His incarnation, epiphany,
resurrection and glorification he is the
completion of the first Adam, the end of
our humanity as it returns in the cycle of
evolution te rest eternally in the besom of
lied.
Jesus as a quickening spirit, contrasted
with man as a living soul, possesses in
Himself, as absolute source, the principle
of that higher supernatural life, which is
man's true destiny. In Him the spiritual
triumphed ever the natural, as well as ever
the unnatural or abnormal which had been
introduced into man's nature by sin. He
overthrew the powers of darkness and in
His ascension carried our humanity up te
the light aud peace and rest of the fulness
of spiritual life in Ged.
The new spiritual creation, of which
Jesus Christ is the central sun, shines
forth in its majesty and glory through the
Werd of Ged. Commensurate with the
record of the first creation, and undeilying
that record as the spiritual mystery that
underlies the natural, the glory of the new
creation emerges, se te speak, through the
old. Frem the first word of Genesis te
the last in Revelation the Bible, as the
Werd of Ged, exhibits te the eye of faith
the incoming of the kingdom of grace and
glory, pointing everywhere te its great
central luminary. As Christ glorified the
natural and raised our humanity te honor
and immortality, se His Werd through the
Hely Spirit is resplendent with the light of
the heavenly word, and life-giviiig in .Di
vine energy.
In conclusion the preacher held before
tha graduating class Christ and His words
as the end of all seeking ; the Bible as the
lamp for their feet and a light for their
pathway, that all knowledge might be il
lumined and verified by the heavenly wis
dem unfolding for all who seek the truth
The sermon, of which the above is a
mere outline, was a masterly exposition of
the Christolegical philosophy of the insti
tution and a literal copy of it has been
prepared te be published in full in the An
nual Collegian, a paper te be issued next
Thuisday, with a full repot of all the com
mencement exercises, under enterprising
editorial direction.
riRESON SATUKUAK.
Twe llarns Struck by Lightning and De
streyed.
During the storm en Saturday after
neon, which was' rather severe in the east
end of the county and accompanied by
some hail, a large barn owned by Gottlieb
Grillibertzer and located in Lcaceck town
ship, about two miles north of Intercourse,
was struck by lightning and completely
destroyed, together with a part of its con
tents. The building, a large frame
structure some 40x70 feet, steed facing
the south, and the lightning struck
it at the western end, the belt en
tering the reef and setting fire
te the hay inside. Although it was rain
ing at the time, the flames spread rapidly,
and nothing could be done by the neigh
bors who quickly gathered, but save what
of the contents could be getteu out of the
lower part of the building. Of these, all
of Mr. Grillibertzer's farming utensils,
some 60 bushels of wheat, harness, wagons
and carriages were saved. Xe live stock
was burned, as three horses in the stable
were gotten out, and the cattle were in the
pasture-field. The balance of the contents,
consisting of about 20 tens of hay, 250
bushels of threshed wheat, and 100 bushels
of corn were burned. Attached te the
barn buildings en the west side was a
wagon shed, and en the cast side a large
corn-house, both of which were destroyed.
In fact the flames made a clean sweep. A
visit te the scene yesterday afternoon
showed absolutely nothing left but the
cracked and broken foundation walls and
ashes, net a vestige of the timbers being
seen, and even the sills, windows and
deer-caps set in the walls burned out.
Around, the fruit and shade trees were
scorched and blackened, aud it was with
difficulty the house and ether build,
ings were saved. Mr. Grillibertzer's 'ess
will probably reach $2,000, en which
he carried no insurance, as he be
longs te a sect of Mennonites, known
as the "Xew Lights," who believe net in
such things. Xeither had the barn the
protection of a lightning red. The struc
ture, though quite an old one, having
been erected some 45 years age, was a
geed substantial one, in excellent repair.
It will be rebuilt at once, the contract for
the stone work being already awarded.
Ham ICuriied in "Warwick.
On Saturday afternoon a barn which be
longed te Mrs. Dester, wife of Daniel
Dester, deceased, who resides in Warwick
township, near Pine Hill, was struck by
lightning and entirely destroyed by fire,
together with a new tobacco shed, 100
bushels of wheat and a let of farming im
plements. The barn was formerly used as
a distillery and a let of apparatus used in
that business were burned. The buildings
were insured in the Pcnn Township mu
tual, but the insurance will net cover the
less.
Tcrriiic Storm at Washington Uoreugh.
Last evening about 5 o'clock a terrific
storm, accompanied by rain, visited
Washington borough. The wind was
very high aud did some damage.
A frame tobacco shed, owned by
Lewis C. Wilsen, was blown down. An
empty box car en the siding at the deret
was blown a distance of eighty feet.
Finger Crushed.
Charles McLaughlin, had the index fin
ger of bis left hand badly crushed this
morning while using a sledge hammer at
thePenn iron works. By accident the
hammer slipped and Mr. McLaughlin's
hand was caught and crushed between it
and the drill with which he was working.
REPUBLICAN PRIMARY FRAUDS.
A Stormy Session of the Investigating Cem-
mitt Great Neise and small
Result.
The committee of investigation appoint
ed by the beard of return judges of the
late Republican primary election re-assm-bled
at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon as per
adjournment.
J. W. Jehnsen, esq., counsel for A. J.
Eberly, who contests the nomination of
T. J. Davis as district attorney, was net
present, and after waiting for him for
some time, the chairman of the committee
said there being no business before the
committee a motieu te adjourn would he
in order. It was decided, however, te give
Mr. Jehnsen a few minutes grace, and
about half-past two he put iu an appear
ance.
The committee passed a resolution that
they would listen te no mere speeches, but
would proceed te hear evidence of the
alleged frauds at the primary election.
Jehn H. Fry, president of the beard of
return judges, was sworn, aud en being
shown the return papers of the Third
ward, Columbia, identified them as the
return. received by him when the judges
met in convention. He said he received
them from the return judge of the ward,
but en cress-examination said he received
one of the papers from Samuel A. Greff.
After the beard adjourned he kept the
papers in his office for a clay or two and
then had them locked up in the vault of
the U. S. revenue office.
Mr. Jehnsen produced two affidavits
which he proposed te read.
Mr. Davis objected te the acceptance of
affidavits as testimony, and demanded
that the affiants be brought before the
committee se that they might be crosr cresr
examined as te their testimony.
The committee decided that they
would take the affidavits, read them, and
then decide whether they would receive
them as testimony.
Mr. Jehnsen insisted en reading the
affidavits himself and refused te place
them in the hands of the committee, de
claring that he would net pait with them
until he had copies of them made.
The committee would net allow them te
be read until they knew what they con
tained, and Mr. Davis also claimed the
right te see them before they were offered
in evidence.
Mr. Jehnsen refused te let cither the
committee or Davis see them until after
he had read them te the committee. Great
confusion ensued and the most insult
ing epithets were bandied between
counsel, and Jehnsen finally withdrew the
affidavits, charging the committee with a
determination te decide this case against
him without hearing the testimony, hut
assuring them if they did net hear it,
there was another tribunal that would.
The committee said they were ready te
hear any direct testimony that Mr. John John Jehn
eon had te offer.
Levi Sensenig was then called and
sworn. He testified that he knew Mil Mil
eon Mishler, judge of election of the
Third ward, Columbia ; he saw him in
Lancaster en the Sunday night after the
primary election ; he saw him filling up
return papers.
Anether sceuc of turmoil followed. Mr.
Davis and Mr. Cochran objected te the
reception of this testimony, as it was cal
culated te prejudice a criminal case new
pending against Mr. Mishler, and said the
case when tried will fully develop all the
facts in the present case.
Percy Schock.ef the committee,offered a
resolution te the effect that inasmuch as a
criminal charge for tampering with the
primary election return is new pending iu
court against Milten Mishler, the further
consideration of the Thiid ward Columbia
case be postponed.
The resolution was adopted by the com
mittee after long speeches had been made
by Jehnsen, Cochran and Davis Messrs.
Gast, Iluber, Redseeker and Scheck vot
ing aye, and Messrs. Swope and White
no.
Jehn II. Fry was recalled and shown the
returns of the Third ward, city. Chairman
Iluber asked him whether said return
papers had been in his custody ever since
the adjournment of the beaul of return
judges, and he answered that they had
been in his custody all the time, first in
his office and finally in the vault of the rev
enue office. On cress-examination he ad
mitted that ether persons had access te
them and that A. J. Eberly had taken
away the poll-book and kept it a whole
day.
Chairman Iluber declared that he had
positive knowledge of the fact that net
only the return papers but the ballet-box
of the Thiid ward had been in possession
of these contestants since the adjournment
of the return judges, and had been hawked
all ever the town with a view of manufac
turing testimony in this case.
Mr. Jehnsen new offered as evidence an
affidavit te the effect that the vote of the
Third ward, city, had been falsely re
turned. Davis and Cochran opposed the offer,
until they and the committed had had an
opportunity of examining the affidavit and
being made acquainted with its contents,
and the committee sustained them.
Jehnsen, however held fast te his affida
vit, insisted en reading it,and said he would
hand it te the committee as seen as he had
time te make a copy of it.
Amid the greatest noise and confusion,
and against the pretest of the committee
and the opposing counsel, Jehnsen com
menced reading the paper, which, among
ether matters, declares that Win. D. Wea
ver received 14 votes instead of 8 as re
turned, and that A. J. Eberly received 73
votes instead of 46 as returned. Thus
Jehnsen succeeded in getting the facts set
forth in the affidavit before the committee,
though the committee resolved that they
would hear no affidavits, nor any ether
kind of evidence except direct testimony
of witnesses
Ex Census Enumerator Samuel W.
Powell was next called by Mr. Jehnsen
and sworn. He testified that he was pres
ent and took an active part in the late
primary election in the Third ward of
Lancaster ; that he prepared a number of
tickets and marked them by cutting off
the lower part of the ticket containing the
names of the candidates for delegates te
Chicago ; that all these tickets contained
the name of A. J. Eberly for district at
torney ; that he placed these tickets in the
hands of voters and saw twenty-one of
them voted. Mr. Jehnsen here read te
witness the names of the twenty-one
voters and he swore that every one of
them voted the ticket that he gave te
them. At the close of the polls he
weut up stairs with the election officers,
and assisted in counting the tickets ; he
saw some of his twenty-one tickets come
out of the box but did net think they all
came out, though he would net swear that
tbeydidnet. Joe Huber, who was judge
of election, carried the ballet box up
stairs, the inspectors and clerks followed
and witness brought up the rear. It
would have been impossible te change the
ballets in the box ou the way up stairs,
but he thought the box itself might have
leen changed. Clayt. Myers was stand
ing en the stairway and witness had some
difficulty in passing him. On cress-examination
witness said he saw no unfairness
in the count ; did net knew that the ballet
box had been changed, and if changed,
could net tell hew his maikcd tickets
could get into the ether box.
Mr. Jehnsen next offered an affidavit
signed by Sylvester Kennedy, return judge
for Salisbury, te the eflect that the poll
book showed that 402 votes were cast at
the late primary election, that district at
torney en several tickets was scratched
and voted blank, and that notwithstand
ing the scratches the votes returned for
district attorney feet up 404.
Mr. Jehnsen said he thought the evidence
he had offered was sufficient te make out a
case that frauds had been practised of
sufficient magnitude te change the result
se far as the nomination of district attor
ney and one assemblyman were concerned.
He would prepare copies of the affidavits
and hand them te the committee as seen
as possible but he could net de se te-day.
Percy Scheck, of the committee, asked
Mr. Jehnsen when he would bring befeie
the committee witnesses te testify as te
the alleged frauds, as he had premised te
de.
Mr. Jehnsen said he would have no
further evidence te otter unless rebutting
evidence were ettered en the ether side.
(Derisive laughter by the Davis men.)
On motion of Mr. Davis, the statement
that Mr. Jehnsen would have no move ev
idence te offer, was made pai t of the rec
ord. The Davis men seemed te be elated with
the result, and a majority of the commit
tee seemed te regard the contest as a mis
erable farce, hut Mr. Jehnsen iu his pecu
liarly threatening way, warned them that
if they did net give consideration te his
offer of evidence, there was a way of bring
ing the matter before a higher tribunal.
He was determined that light should be
let iu upon tiiis dark subject.
Finally, after -a world of " chiinniig.'
the committee adjourned te meet iu Grant
hall en Saturday next, te decide what te
de with Mr. Jehnsen's affidavits.
After the committee had adjourned Mr.
Jehnsen asked a representative of the l.-tem-ickxcek
what he thought of the case.
The reporter told him very frankly that he
had no case, and asked in return why th-seventy-three
Third ward veteis who ate
said te have voted for Mr. Eberly were
net brought forward te testify. Mr. John John Jehn
eon replied that he could Het reach them.
" Yeu made out reach all the witnesses
you wanted in the Seventh ward contested
election," said the reporter. "Yes, in that
case we could compel them te come in
through process of court," replied Mr.
Jehnsen. "And is it possible," said the
reporter, " that seventy-three Republican
voters who have been defrauded of their
votes and had, them counted for the man
against whom they voted, will net testily
against the fraud except en compulsion ?'
Mr. Jehnsen shook his head and said many
of the witnesses would net come before the
committee.
Mr. Davis en being interviewed said he
could get a score of the men who have said
they voted for Eberly te swear that they
voted for him (Davis) ; that many of them
don't knew who they voted for, and that
neither Sam Powell, nor any ether man.
can tell positively hew any twenty-one
men vote, if they cheese te deceive him.
Seme of Mr. Davis's adherents decline
their belief that Jehnsen's object in the
present contest is te get Eberly "in a
hole ; te induce him te run against or oi ei oi
pese the regular nominee, se that he
(Eberly) will be killed off as a candidate
three years hence, and thus give Jehnsen
a better chance te secure his coveted "sec
ond term."
Installation of a Paster.
La.;t evening Rev. W. F. Lichliter, of
Woodstock, Virginia, was installed as
pastor of St. Luke's Reformed mission.
Marietta avenue. A full house had
assembled and the chapel was well illumi
nated. Beautiful decorations in the way
of a fine cress of flowers, with geranium
plants at its base, added much te thu
religious services. The exercises opened
with a chant, " O, All ye Works of the
Lord, Bless ye the Lord !" was well ren
dered by the Sunday school, which had
seats in the front part of the chapel, and
was assisted by the mission choir. After
singing the hymn " Sun of My Seul,'
Rev. Dr. Thes. G. Apple offered a prayer
and subsequently read the 84th psalm.
Rev. Dr. J. H.Dubbs then preached an elo
quent sermon suitable te the occasion,
basing his remarks en the text, Jehn xv.,
16, and was assistsd in the installation by
Rev. Dr. Thee. Apple, superintendent of
Reformed mission. The exercises weie
of an impressive nature and were followed
with close attention throughout.
Robbery at Intercourse.
The residence of Jeseph Murr, in Inter
course, was entered en last Thursday
night by a very daring robber, but the
scamp was scared off before securing more mere
than a silver watch and chain valued at
$35. Mrs. M. was awakened by a noise in
her bed room and saw a man standing
near the bed with Mr. Murr's clothing iu
hand, apparently searching them. Think
ing it was her husband, she said, a!eudi
"What are you doing, Jee ?" when the
thief turned and ran down stairs and es
caped. He had evidently made arrange
ments te take a geed lead of booty away
with him had he net been disturbed in his
operations, as two of Mr. M.'s best suits
were found tied up, ready for removal. A
window and shutter bail been carelessly
left open, through which an entrance was
easily effected. It is in order te suppose
that that family at least will close their
house up hereafter.
The Lecal Tobacco Market.
Xething has been done during the past
week iu 1878 Pennsylvania, and as only a
few hundred cases remain unsold it at
tracts but little attention. Of the crop of
1879 a few packings have been sold en pri
vate terms.
The copious rains have been very favor
able for planting and nearly all the
planters have finished their work except
the extra work made necessery by the
cut-worm, whose ravages in some secthn;
have been rather severe. The army worm
is, beyond dispute, doing mischief in some
arts of the county, but we have net.
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