VT'.'i!"
LANCASTER DAILY INTEL LlOENCEK. THURSDAY, JOLY 15, 1830.
I, ; lil.n il ii . i"l i j-i I HI Jimri i II
ianca$ter intelligencer.
THUESDAY EVENING. JUL.Y 15, 1880.
Straightening its Facts.
The Xew Era is needlessly disturbed
lest tlie Intelligencer should be un
willing te publish anything that its
friend, Judge Black, says. We have a
habit of publishing whatever we think of
interest te our readers, and as Judge
Black has a habit of saying interesting
things we generally print what he writes.
Judge Black has another habit with
which we are in sympathy. lie says
what he thinks. We like te say what we
think. What the truth can hurt, let it
hurt. We have net thought of hesita
ting te lay before our readers Judge
Black's opinion of Garfield. If the Re
publican newspapers can read that opin
ion with satisfaction, they are very easily
satisfied and are inclined te be thankful
for remarkably small favors. Ne doubt
in their present desperate strait, a word
of kindness for their candidate from an
opponent has a very seething sound.
They get se few of them and need them
se much. The parched ground gapes
with thirst and the most moderate sort
of a drizzle is welcome in the Garfield
garden.
It is a pity for our Republican friends
that Judge Black gives them tee much
bitter with his sweet, and se joins the
two in a close embrace that the honey
cannot be get without the sting. If they
only dared te publish by itself Judge
Black's declaration of Garfield that "if
he could carry the principles which reg
ulate his private life into his public con
duct he would make the best chief mag
istrate we have ever had,'' emitting his
assertion that he would net de se, and
that " I de net knew any really geed man
who h:is done, and assisted in doing, se
many bad things in politics as Gen. Gar
field," they would be sweetly happy.
As it is Garfield's wisdom and honesty in
polities about which the ieeple are
chielly solicitous, in view of his candi
dacy for the presidency, it is net easily
perceptible hew Judge Black's opinion
of him is going te aid his election.
The Xcir Era is net any mere fortu
nate in its facts in stating that "the Ix-
tju-mgexcek wjvs guilty of the same sin
of emission te ' admire' Gen. Hancock"
in 1SIIS, of which it says Judge Black ac
cuses the editor of the Philadelphia
Times. The Judge simply expresses te
Cel. McClure his gratification that he
has changed his opinion of General Han
cock and his then particular friends
since 1SKS, as he did net then " admire
either him or them up te the point of
their merits."
The editors of the Intelligence! in
1SHS wereameng the "particular friends"
of General Hancock for the presidential
nomination. Beth Mr. Smith and Mr.
Steinnian were delegates te the national
convention, and did their utmost te break
the dead lock in the delegation which the
combination of the friends of Pendleton
and Packer made, and which kept Penn
sylvania steadily and uselessly voting for
Packer. In IKK!) the Intelligenceu
took the lead in prcssiiur the nomination
of Hancock for governor of Pennsylva
nia, and was as fervent and vigorous in
the effort as it was in its power te be.
The Lancaster county convention in
structed for him. On the day of the
meeting of the state convention, a spe
cial edition of the Intelligenceu was
issued and circulated in the convention
in advocacy of the nomination of Han
cock. He would have been nominated
but for the lukewarmness of some who
assumed te speak for him and who de
clared that he would net accept the nom
ination ; in support of which they pre
sented a letter written from St. Paul,
where he w;is then stationed, te certain
gentlemen of Northampton county, in
which he declined te permit the use of
his name for governor. But Mr. Stein
man shortly before had had a ier ier
senal interview with the General,
at the Girard house in Philadelphia,
and was satisfied that although he did
net desire the nomination he would net
decline it if he was nominated. Mr. Wal
lace, however, read the letter in the con
vention, and it was iersuaded te accept
it as a positive refusal te serve. It was
thought by us and many ether of
his friends that General Hancock could
be elected and that this would
certainly give him the Democratic
nomination for the presidency in 1872.
This would have saved our absurd cam
paign with Greeley, te whom we were
driven in a desperate effort te escape
from the bloody shirt. The Democratic
party certainly would have been better
off, even though it had net been success
ful. But General Hancock perhaps has
reason new te congratulate himself that
the effort of his old friends in these days
failed ; since he new has a certainty of
the presidential honor which possibly he
would then have lest if even he had been
appointed te lead the Democratic army.
Se 'eed for Heat.
We stated the ether day en the author
ity of the Harrisburg Patriot, that Sena Sena
eor Wallace was net a candidate for the
chairmanship of the national committee
and would net accept it if tendered him.
We thought it almost necessarily true
that the senator was net a candidate for
this place since he could net get it with
out asking Mr. Seett te resign, who has
just been appointed en the committee
from Pennsylvania. But this being the
fact and everybody being satisfied with
the selection, there surely is no need for
the Patriot te show any temper at the
" fei ty-seven Democrats " who are said
te have written te Mr. Scott asking him
te retain a place that the Patriot says its
patron did net want. We de net
knew who these forty-seven were, or
any one of them, but surely it was
very projierferall Mr. Scott's friends te
express their confidence in him and ad
vise hiin what te de under the very em
barrassing situation in which he was
placed by the indiscreet friends of Sena Sena
ater Wallace, who urged him for a place
which was net vacant, but which Mr.
Ssett filled and which Senater Wallace
declares he did net want. The move
ment seems te have been a wholly un
warranted outrage upon Mr. Scott. We
were glad te hear that Senater Wallace
had net authorized it. It would have
been in exceedingly bad taste, te use a
very mild term, if he had done se. We
rejoice that he did net thus forget his
self-respect. It was an occasion which
fully warranted thetshairman of the state
committee, Mr. Dill, and any ether
Democrats who desired te de se, in ex
pressing te Mr. Scott their wish for his
continuance in the position te which be
had just been re-appointed by the dele
gates of the state te the national convention.
The Harrisburg Patriot had a tele
gram yesterday from Nw Yerk, saying
that " the president and secretary of the
Cincinnati convention have forwarded
the following letters te Gen. 'Hancock
and English ;" and we, of course, under
stood that the letters which followed
were these of the president and secretary
and we were induced te comment upon
the felly of these officers in doing what
the committee appointed by the conven
tion had gene te New Yerk te de. It
seems new that the Patriot get the mat
ter wrong, and that the letters were in
fact these presented by the committee.
m m -
MINOR TOPICS.
Tin-: Butler goblin is again agitating
timid people in the Bay state.
Yellow Jack has struck New Orleans
and several cases of the dread epidemic
have come te light, though strenuous ef
forts arc- making te check its advance.
The Republican papers arc beginning
already te cry out against "mud throw
ing." They started in at it quite briskly,
but their stock seen run out and what they
hurled did net stick well.
Ix 187G, Mr. Hayes being the Republi
can candidate for president and Mr. Gar
field a candidate for Congress, the former,
in Garfield's district, received 22,501 votes,
a majority of 12,282 ; Mr. Garfield re
ceived 20,012, a majority of 8,663.
Ax esteemed contemporary finds a new'
fault with the Democratic ticket Mr.
English is tee conspicuous. Well, tfiat is
a pity but no one has yet found or will
ever find that fault with the nominee for
vice president selected at Chicago.
Tiiey say that if the waiters of Del-
uionice s tlie urunswick, ana etner
"swell" restaurants would tell the truth,
they would say that nearly always at
fashionable dinners in private apartments
cigarettes arc handed around te the
ladies, with the cigars for gentlemen, and
that in most cases they are accepted and
smoked.
Ax individual by the name of Barnes
has turned up as a most enthusiastic
champion of Hancock. The reason he ad
vances for taking up the cause of the
great Union general is as novel as it is
convincing. He once leaned the general
an umbrella, and he returned it. New
that is just the sort of man we arc in
search of for president of the United
States.
Ne poet has ever had se many beautiful
tributes paid te his memory by ether poets
as Burns. And new Longfellow adds
a flower te the nosegay which Whitticr
and Fitz Greene Halleck have made se
fragrant, but his poem is mere stilted and
less touching than cither of theirs. It is,
however, worthy of the theme and author.
Harper' Magazine publishes it in other
wise fitting typographical setting, barring
the execrable taste of the illustration ac
companying the last line. The fancy of
Burns as "guest and ghost" in Long
fellow's library should net have been at
tempted in picteral representation.
Postal statistics show that there was
an increase of nearly 3,500,000 during
the last fiscal year ending en June 30th
ever the preceding year in the receipts for
postage stamps, stamped envelopes and
postal cards. The rate of progression
was about twice as rapid as usual. The
issue of newspaper and periodical stamps
increased mere than fifteen per cent., the
total amount for the fiscal year 1879-80
being $1,252,903. The people are reading
and writing mere than ever before, and
the disposition te increase correspondence
and purchases of periodicals is unusually
active.
Jenx W. Feuxey's admiration for Gen.
Hancock is of old date. We find in the
Ixtklligexceu of July 13, 18C9, when it
was urging Hancock strongly for the gu
bernatorial nomination, the following
item :
Jehn W. Ferney passed through Lancas
ter the ether day and dined at the Railroad
hotel. The proprietor, Mr. Owen Hepple,
who is an old friend of Ferney and we
believe a Republican, had a conversation
with him in which he said ; "The Demo
crats will nominate Hancock for governor
and he will be elected. That will make
him the next president. -1 told Grant se
at the White Heuse the ether day."
Chicago ladies remember the numbers
of cars whose conductors are rude te them,
and never afterwards ride in them. Would
it net be a better plan, and kinder towards
their sisters, te make complaint te the
companies and have the impudent conduc
tors discharged ? One can well understand,
however, that ladies shrink from such a
course, owing te the possibly notoriety it
might force upon them. A trick, at which
the Chicago conductor is said te be an
adept, is te ring his bell and start his car
suddenly the moment a pretty girl steps
upon the platform, se that his fair passen
ger falls backwards into his arms. What
adds te the injury of his meanness is that
the most skillful practiener is "a slovenly
fellow with a sickly complexion and a
yellew mustache."
PERSONAL.
Mr. Petter Palmer, of Chicago, has
joined a Hancock and English club. As a
punishment the Republicans have removed
their headquarters te an opposition hotel.
Archbishop Weed, who has been con
fined te his bed for the last few days with
an attack of rheumatism, was considerably
improved last night.
Tlie Rev. E. P. Adams, of Dunkirk, N.
Y., has been requested by the presbytery
of Buffalo te resign, because he has been
preaching sermons against the doctrine of
eternal punishment.
A young American lady (Miss Perkixs,
of New Yerk,) has taken the black veil in
the Dominican convent en the Rue Laugier,
Paris. Tlie ceremony took place, accord
ing te established usages, behind a double
grating.
Miss Neilsex spent the fourth of July at
a California retreat with a friend and
ordered a fine lunch. The only waiters en
hand were Chinaman, whom the landlord
did net wish te force upon his guests. A
young lady visitor at the hotel volunteered
as waitress without being known te Mifs
Neilson, who gave her a fee of half a de'.
Iar and thanked her. She was the daugh -tcr
of the wealthiest publisher in Cafifer.
nia, and liked the fun.
In the session of the Americal philologi
cal association in Philadelphia, yesterday,
Prof. S. S. Haldemax, of Chiques, this
county, spoke upon " Notes en the Inven
tion of Words by Children. " He pre
faced his remarks by saying that it seemed
preposterous te him te held the opinion
that man did net have sufficient intelli
gence te invent a language or means of
communicating ideas if it was net given te
him.
THE OHIO SPARKOW HAWK.
An Arithmetical Omen that Driven the Gar
neld llird Out r Sight.
W. A. Tayler, writes from Columbus,
O. : The story going the rounds of the Re
publican papers about an eagle alighting en
Gen. Garfield's house at the very moment
he was nominated at Chicago is a very
pretty one ; but the only foundation for it
is the fact that a sparrewhawk rested en
the ridge pole for a moment. Possibly he
was looking for a Credit Mebilier grass
hopper. Admitting the authenticity of
the omen, the eagle should have been de
parting from the house te make the
Reman augury geed. But even then the
omen would have been far less ominous
than ethers. Take the letters of the
alphabet in their numerical order from 1
up te 2G, spell out the uaire of each candi
date and number the letters in their regu
lar order, and we have the following as
tonishing result :
23 ) 14 7 0 a 12 4 19 .1 15 SI 2 8 1 1 1 3 15 .' 11 21.
Wl NFIEL BSCOTT HANCOCK
lu i i:; 5 w 12 18 18 1 i.i 7 l is ; j 5 12 4 i:.i
JAMESAItKAHAMGAIlf I ELI)
Tela! equals the electoral vote CICO
This is a much mere striking coincidence
than the aligning of a sparrewhawk upon
a farm house, which is an almost every
day occurrence. What adds te the force
of the above remarkable figures is that
they represent the electoral vote and their
division between the two candidates. Te
still further add te the ominous result, we
have only te take the following list of
states, with their electoral vote, which is
sure te be cast for Gen. Hancock :
Alabama S Missouri 15
Arkansas B Nevada '(
California 1; Xew Jersey 9
Connecticut New Yerk 35
Delaware 3 Xertli Carolina 10
Flerida 4 Oregon 3
Ccergia H Seuth Carolina 7
Indiana 15 Tennessee 12
Kentucky 12 Texas 8
Louisiana S Virginia. 11
Maryland 8 Wer-t Virginia 5
Mississippi 8
jL OLiI lf
While the writer docs net pretend that
there is anything particularly phrephetic
in this, it is certainly a singular coinci
dence. If it needed any strengthening I
might state that in 1876 I was an editorial
writer en the Pittsburg Pout, and taking
the names of Samuel J. Tildcu and Ruth
erford B. Hayes and applying the same
rule as above it resulted : Tilden, 203 ;
Hayes, ICC. The electoral vote was
divided between the two candidates
in exactly that proportion. The Re
publican conspirators, visiting statesmen,
and 8 te 7 Electoral Commission, stele 8
votes in Louisiana, 7 in Seuth Carolina and
5 in Flerida, se as te make the court stand
185 for Hayes and 184 for Tilden.
The figures appeared in the Pest and
ether papers in 1870, and were extensively
republished. It remains te be seen
whether a verification of the same singular
coincidence of figures will fellow in 1880
and whether the Republican leaders will
undertake te steal 31 electoral votes from
Hancock in 1880, as they stele 19 from
Tilden in 1876.
RAN AW AT FROM UGK HOME.
A Minister's Daughter Quarrels With Her
Aletlier auu ecemc a J. ramp.
Mr. W. C. Reed, a resident of Patcrsen,
Putnam county, N. Y., was making in
quiries yesterday in White Plains, West
chester county, concerning a young
woman 1k ran away from her home in
Paterson last Friday afternoon. Mr.
Reed told the following story : The
girl is Miriam Baird, aged eighteen
years, daughter of the Rev James
Baird. formerly a Presbyterian minis
ter, but new an Episcopalian, living at
Ne, 40 Greve street, New Yerk. His wife
and family, however, live at Paterson, N.
II. Mr. Baird has no permanent charge,
but is in hopes of securing one very seen.
Last Friday afternoon Miriam and her
mother quarrlelcd ever $800 that had been
bequeathed the young lady, the mother
having compelled her te divide the sum
equally with her elder sister. After the
quarrel the daughter proceeded te carry
out a threat te run away that she had fre
quently made. She was net immediately
missed, but when inquiry was made for her
some children said that they had seen her
going away, and that she said she was
" going where they would never see
her again." Frem this it was feared
she intended committing suicide. Fur
ther search, however, revealed the fact
that she had taken the read te Carmcl,
where she stayed Friday night. At about
3 o'clock she was observed wandering
about the streets and making inquiries as
te what time the train went te Lake Ma Ma
hepac. She was told that no trains were
ruuniug there, se she walked te that pjace,
arriving there about neon. In the afternoon
she bought a ticket from Lake Mahopac te
Chappaqua, Westchester county. Learning
this much concerning the runaway, Mr.
Reed left Patcrsen yesterday morning and
arrived at Chappaqua, but could there
get no trace of Iter. He then walked te
Plcasantvillc, about two miles further
south. There a trackman said he thought
he had seen her. and gave a minute de
scription of her, saying she had light com
plexion, light hair, blue eyes, light calico
dress, straw hat, and new button gaiters.
This was a complete description of the
runaway. She had been making inquir
ies about Unienville, a small station en
the New Yerk and Harlem railroad, and
the read te it. She was thou without
shoes, and her feet seemed te be quite
sere. She went into a millinery store at
Pleasantville and sold some crochet work
and lace she had with her, and with the
proceeds bought some crackers. This is
the last that has been seen of her. Mr.
Reed walked all the way from Pleasant
ville te White Plains yesterday morning,
making inquiries along the way, but no
one had seen the girl.
HANCOCK'S REVOLUTIONARY LETTER.
Gen. Sherman lias Ne Recollection of Any
Such Incendiary Document.
A special dispatch te the New Yerk
World from Jamestown, Dakota, states
that General Sherman, who has just ar
rived there from Fert Tettcn. where he
had been for some days beyond the reach
of the telegraph, is in excelleut health.
He declines te be interviewed
in regard te his correspondence at
any time with General Hancock, but states
emphatically that he has no recollection of
ever hearing anything from Gen. Hancock
about taking orders from Mr. Tilden, or,
indeed, anything at all like the stories
which have been printed and published
about his correspondence with General
Hancock. This was net needed by any
one who knows General Hancock or Gen
eral Sherman, bat it may be of use te the
gossips and romancers of the press.
THK DK GOLYEJl KB1KE.
Justice Swayaeea Gar! "Fee."
James A. Garfield, a member of the bar
in the state of Ohie, was retained by a
contingent fee of $5,000 te procure the ap
propriation of $1,241,000 te pay the con
tracts which one Chittenden had obtained
from the authorities of the District of Col
umbia for paving. The price per feet
agreed upon was three dollars and fifty
cents, whilst the real value was one dollar
and fifty cents. Chittenden handed ever
the contracts te McClclIan and jithers (De
Golyer was one of them). The profits
were $400,000, Chittenden te have
the third. The case of Chittenden
vs. McClellan ct al., state of Illinois,
Cook county circuit court, May, 1873, con
tains the evidence in full. Defendants de
clined te pay the third and demurred te
the pleadings. Judge Farwell sustained
the demurrer, because James A. Garfield
was chairman of the committee en appro
priations, atid the evidence developed the
fact that Garfield was retained en that ac
count. This case, with a number of ethers aris
ing from these contracts, went te the su
preme court of the United States, and
Judge Swayue, delivering the opinion of
the court in Burke vs. Child, thus decid
ing all the cases, says, inter alia :
"The agreement with General Gar
field, a member of Congress, te pay
him $5,000 as a contingent fee for pro
curing a contract, which was itself made
te depend upon a future appropriation by
Ceugress, which appropriation could only
come from a committee of which he was
chairman, was a sale of official iutiuence,
which no veil can cover against the plainest
principals of public policy. Noceunscllor-at-law
while holding high office (much less
a minister of the Gospel, etc.,) has a right
te put himself in a position of temptation,
and under pretense of making a legal argu
ment exert his official influence upon pb pb
lie officers dependent upon his future action.
Certainly the courts of justice will never
lend themselves te enforce contracts ob
tained by such iutiuence.'
Tlte above decision made known October,
1879, is therefore net yet in the books, but
Ne. 12,181 in the circuit court of Cook
county, state of Illinois, presents all tlie
information.
TANNER'S PREDECESSOR.
The Maryland Monomaniac Who Fasted
Forty Days and Then Went te His Grave.
About the V2 of July, 1870, Jehn French,
a son of Geerge French, esq., of Hagers
town, Md., induced by religious monema
nia, began a last of terty days and forty
nights, abstaining from feed of all kinds,
but drinking freely of water and occasion
ally indulging in a smoke. He completed
the fast en August 21, at which time he
was reduced te a skeleton. Dr. Fred
Derscy was then called in, but in spite of
the most careful attention he died ten days
later tin the 1st of September.
Fer two or three years previously it had
been noticed that the young man had pe
culiar views upon various subjects, and
especially religion and the future state;
but it was net surmised that they were im
bedded very deeply, much less te such an
extent as te derange his mind. On the
contrary, being mere than usually gifted
with intelligence and acutencss, credit was
given him for mere than the average rea
soning sense. He, however, became fend
of reading works en theoretical religion.
Te such an extent did he becjpne absorbed
in some of the mysticism that his mind
gave way, and while laboring under the
misfortune became impressed with the idea
that he had some special religious task te
perform which could net be accomplished
until after he had fasted forty days. Every
effort made during that time te induce him
te cat utterly failed, and these who wcie
in close contact with him all the time
say that net mouthful of feed passed his
lips. Strategy, after persuasion had ex
hausted itself, was resorted te. Tempting
fruit and ether things were placed in his
way and in such manner as te leave the
impression that their presence was un
known te all but himself, yet he refrained
from partaking of it in every instance. Of
course during this time he became very
much reduced, looking mere like a skele
ton than a living human being. Nature at
length ceu'd stand the strain no Iengcrand
a few days before the expiration of the
forty days he was compelled te take his
bed. After the forty days he was fed with
great care, but his system had sunk tee
deeply te recuiierate. There arc very few
who de net believe that French did what
he professed te undertake, with the excep
tien of drinking lrccly et water anil smok
ing considerably. It was pronounced by
physicians te be one of the extremely few
cases of extended fasting that has come te
the knowledge of the world.
Dr. Tanner's Leng Fast.
Baltimore Sun.
Either Dr. Tanner, who set out in New
Yerk te fast forty days and nights is act
ing out a fraudulent deception for selfish
purposes of his own, or else he is putting
himself te a frightful torture with great
peril and many loathsome surroundings,
in pursuit of an object by no means clearly
defined. As a " scientific experiment" Dr.
Tanner's fast does net seem te possess any
great value, as it can add comparatively
little valuable phenomena te the store of
physiological knowledge. There are cases
en record of men having fasted forty days
and mere though none very well establish
ed, it is believed, of sane men having suc
ceeded in doing without feed for just that
period. Many years age there was a well
known German music teacher here in Bal
timore, who, when a youth, acting under
a strong religious impulse, attempted te
fast forty days. The result in his case
was paralysis of the facial muscles and
permanent less of health. There arc
cases of lunatics who have lived for fifty
and sixty days without ether feed than
water. The journal of a political con
vict who starved himself te death,
living nineteen days, and who kept
an accurate record of his sensations
up te the 17th day, has been pre
served. It is a chronicle of bodily misery
and mental horrors which is simply shock
ing te read. Starvation, in fact, like any
ether disease, is attended with pain, dis
tress, less of functions and destruction of
tissue. It is marked by debility and an
exaggeration et tlie weakneases el poer4
numamiy. wuere maniacal aeuriura uees
net supervene there is almost sure te be
suspicion, mistrust and melancholy.
Acute diseases are engendered, snch as
scurvy, diarrheea and dysentery, with
ulcerations, desquamations and ex
foliations of the skin, and disgusting
odors. In fact the body feeds upon itself,
and in se doing gees through a process
which is partially decomposition. The
organs are reduced in bulk, and their
functions are s.ipjrjsscd. The mucous
surface and linings are consumed. AH
the fats in the body are burnt up in the
effort te maintain the necessary degree of
animal heat. The bleed loses three
fourths of its volume and 'force ; the
spleen is reduced 70 per cent. ; the
pancrease 04 per cent. ; the liver 52 per
cent. ; the heart looses 44 per cent., the
intestines 42 per cent, and the voluntary
muscles 42 per cent. The vecal or
gans are almost paralyzed, the voice be
coming low, hearse and harsh ; the gait
feeble and tottering where locomotion is
possible at al), while the eye glares with
a wild metallic glitter that that is as pain
ful te witness as the stare of the Chinese
opium-smoker. Frequently the extremi
ties slough away or are attacked by gan
grene, and the eyesight is often destroyed.
If Tanner's "experiment" gees en and is
net actually vitiated by fraud, this is tin-
spectacle which the geed people of New
Yerk are invited te, go and see admission
25 cents, children half price.
TIUS IUCK ESTATE.
DUpotfden erUte Callfernian's Millien.
San Francisce Call.
In order te answer the questions of
numerous inquirers as te the condition of
the Lick estate, and the number and
kind of bequests, made by Mr. Lick, we
have taken some pains te obtain the in
formation, which we herewith communi
cate te our readers. The title te the es
tate is perfect, and there is new no liti
gation pending against it. AH contests
in relation te it have been settled, and
the trustees are waiting for the property
te advance in value before it is disposed
of in the manner intended by the deviser.
The bequests of the Lick will are as fol fel
lows : Te the Old Ladies' Heme, $100,
000 ; for a monument in Gelden Gate park
te Francis Scott Key (author of the "Star
Spangled Banner"), $60,000; for
observatory and telescope, $700,000;
for a mechanical school of arts, $540,
000; for public baths, $150,000; for
statuary for city hall, $100,000; for
Protestant orphan asylum, $25,000; for
Ladies' relief society. $25,000; for San
Jese asylum, te be located by the city
of San Jese. $25,000; Jehn Lick, son of
James Lick, gets $150,000 by the last
deed of trust. He also gets $385,000 by
terms of compromise. The Lick will makes
the Pioneer society and the Academy of
rcicttce the residuary legatees efthc estate.
If the bequests had been paid seen after
Mr. Lick's death, both these societies
would have realized a handsome amount.
It is doubted new whether anything will be
coming te them, as the bequests are all
paid.
m
The Patriot's Strange Wrath.
The Harrisburg Patriot editerally says :
The following special dispatch te the
Philadelphia Times was sent from New
Yerk en Tuesday night :
" Ever since " the Democratic national
convculieu the friends of Senater Wallace
have been urging his election as a member
of the national committee, in order that
he might be made its chairman. This was
te be accomplished through the resigna
tion of Mr. Scott and the election of Mr.
Wallace te fill the vacancy. The
name of Gen. Hancock was used in
futherance of his move. Gen. William
B. Franklin, of Connecticut, had a talk
with Mr. Scott previous te the election of
the committee's officers and told him that
Gen. Hancock desired him te resign in or
der that Mr. Wallace might be en the
committee and elected chairman. Mr.
Scott told him that Gen. Hancock should
have expressed the wish te him personally,
and that Mr. Wallace could net be made
chairman if he were a member of the com
mittee. He also showed Gen. Franklin
letters from forty-seven prominent Penn
sylvania Democrats, among them A. H.
Dill, urging him (Mr. Scott) net te with
draw." This is simply a condensation of the
New Yerk Suits article ou the same sub
ject. It is true that some of " the friends
of Senater Wallace " urged his election
as chairman of the national committee.
It is also true that some of Gen. Han
rock's close friends earnestly desired that
Senater Wallace should be appointed te
that position. But many friends of the
senator advised him net te permit his
name te be used in connection with the
matter, and he himself replied te every
solicitation te become a candidate for the
place that he could net accept it if ten
dered him. As te the " letters of forty
seven prominent Pennsylvania Demo
crats " urging Mr. Scott te remain en the
committee, there is no doubt that they
were written. Mr. Scott has probably a
thousand and forty-seven political friends
in the party in this state (including Mr.
Dill) who would write him such a letter,
and Senater Wallace has at least forty
seven enemies (net including Senater Dill,
who is his friend) who embrace him in
day-light and strike at him under cover of
the darkness, and all in the name of "har
mony. " They are the same people
who sought te defeat Hancock
at Cincinnati and who new mas-'
qucradc as original and simen-pure Han
cock men. They struck at Pennsylvania's
favorite candidate for the nomination at
Cincinnati and when they supposed that
Pennsylvania had a candidate for the
chairmanship of the national committee
they in like manner aimed their envious
blows at him. At present it is well simply
te record these facts. They will keep for
a year at any rate.
m m
Presidential Vete iu I87C.
The following, showing the popular vote
in the presidential election of 1876, will be
found interesting and worthy of preserva
tion at this time :
Tilden. Hayes.
California 7,465 7,2G9
Colerado (presidential elec
tors chosen by the LcgisJa-
Connecticut. 61,931 59,034
Illinois 25S,ii01 27S232
Indiaiia.V.V.V.'.'.'.'.".".'.'.!!'.'.!!!".'.". 2I3J51H 208J0U
Iowa 112.099 171,327
Kansas 37,902 78,322
Maine 49,823 ti,300
Massachusetts 103,777 150,063
Michigan 141,095 -106,534
Minnesota ;48,7M 72,962
Nebraska 17,f51 3I.91
Nevada 9,308 10,33
New Hampshire 38,509 41,539
New Jersey 115,S 103,517
New Yerk." 521,949 489,207
Ohie 323,182 3;10,9(M
Oregon 11,149 15,20(1
Pennsylvania 30U58 384.122
Rhede Island 10,712 15,787
Vermont 20,254 44,090
Wisconsin 123,927 130.UU8
Alabama 102,002 S.2
Arkansas 58,081 38,Cf
Delaware 13,381 10,752
Flerida 24.434 24,340
Georgia 130,088 50,44
Kentucky 159,fiw; 97.15K
Louisiana 83,?23 77,174
Maryland 91,780 71,981
Mississippi 112,143 52,705
Missouri 203,077 145,09
Xertli Carolina 125,427 108,419
Seuth Carolina 90,89t 91,870
Tennessee 133,ti; S9,5U6
Texas 104,755 41,81,0
Virginia 13U,?0 95,558
West Virginia. 50,5U5 42,001
Totals 4,28tj,101 4,033,571
Congressional Nominations.
The Sixth congressional district r-inventeon
Miss., reneminated J. It. Chalmers
by acclamation.
The Greenback convention of the Seventh
district of Missouri, nominated Judge T.
N. Rice for Congress. Judge Rice is a
Republican.
N. C. Deering, of Osage, Mitchell coun
ty, was reneminated by the Republicans
of the Fourth Iowa district, at Masen city,
for congress.
Godlove S. Orth was nominated for Con
gress by the Republican congressional con
vention of the Ninth Indiana district en the
forty-second ballet.
It was thought that Mr. Wittherne
would have a walk ever in the Seventh
congressional district Democratic conven
tion in Tennessee, but it was a desperate
struggle clear around te the homestretch.
Though his strength was equal te both his
contestants they worried him all the way
through te the fiftieth ballet, when one of
his opponents withdrew from the race and
enabled him by a close vote te come in en
the fifty third ballet. His election is gen
erally ceuceded. It is understood that he
will be opposed by a Republican candidate
hereafter te be nominated.
Oil Tanks Struck by Lightning.
A terrible storm of thunder and light
ning passed ever the Bradford oil region
last night at half-past eleven o'clock. A
25,000 barrel oil tank, full of oil, belong
ing te the united pipe lines, and located
at Custer City, was struck by lightning,
and was still burning te-day. It is feared
that the burning fluid will be carried
through the city, en the Tuna creek. A
bic tank at Kansas branch was also struck.
Custer City is located only a few miles I
from Bradford, and the town is in danger '
of Jbeing desteyed by fire.
A VK.RY BKUFJUHKIMOON.
Kocaptare or the Sixteen-Year-Old Fair of
BBfWI.
At 6 o'clock Tuesday evening Detective
Short, of the Fifth Precinct Brooklyn
police, visited the house Ne. 220 North
Eighth street and arrested Frederick J.
Kuriger, of Ne. 193 Orchard street and
Louisa Kempf of Ne.,190 Orchard street,
the sixteen-year-olds who eloped from their
parents' residences in New Yerk en Sunday
last. Kuriger is a delicate-loekjng lad of
low stature, and wears eye-glasses.
The girl has fair hair and blue eyes.
Yeung Kuriger is employed with his
father iu a lithographic establishment in
Chatham street. The girl earned a living
by worsted knitting. The acquaintance of
the pair was formed about two months
age, but their parents suspected nothing
until last Sunday, when Louisa left the
house, taking with her two $20 geld pieces
the property of her elder sister, and all her
clothing and jewelry. Yeung Kuriger
vanished at the same time, taking with
him 35 cents and a small revolver. Noth
ing was heard of the runaways until yes
terday morning, when Captain Woglem
received information that they had settled
in his precinct. Detectives learned that
the young runaways had bought $24
worth of furniture in Broadway, Williams
burg, and a quantity et crockery and
cooking utensils from R. McDonald, of
Ne. 340 Grand street. These goods were
traced te the house en North Eighth
street, where-Kuriger and the girl, under
the name of Mr and Mrs. Aschcr yester
day morning hired the front basement and
two adjoining rooms. Mr. Kempf was no
tified, and at C o'clock the detectives en
tered the house and made the arrest. The
captives were apparently unconcerned, and
the girl, admitting that she had stolen $40
from her sister, said that Frank knew
nothing about it and was wholly innocent.
Mr. Kempf, the girl's father, made a
charge of grand larceny against his daugh
ter and Kuriger. They were locked up.
m
STATE ITEMS.
Maj. Gee. AY. Murphy withdraws from
the Republican committee of Allegheny
county and declares for Hancock.
Jehn McAndrcws, aged 30 years, was
killed yesterday, by a fall of reef rock in a
colliery at Pittsteu.
Peter Cewell, employed as a driver
by Gire fc Freeze, an Allegheny hauling
firm, was run ever and killed by the cars
en Wednesday last.
The little Indian boys of Carlisle are
stoned by white Sunday school boys, but
have net yet get sufficiently civilized te
stone back.
Collector Tutten, of the Philadelphia
pert, will prebaby surrender his office
te his successor, General Hartranft to
day. The funeral of Jeseph R. Chandler, the
distinguished editor, statesman and phil
anthropist, took place in Philadelphia yes
terday, and was largely attended by premi
ncr.t citizens. The obsequies at St. Jehn's
Catholic church were of a very impressive
character.
The annual reunion of the Pennsylvania
Reserve Cerps takes place in Harrisburg
te-day. The association will be welcomed
by Governer Heyt and Majer Patterson,
and ex-Governer Curtiu will respond.
Hen. R. 31. Hendersen will deliver the
oration.
On Tuesday last William B. Lemas, a
veteran actor, died at the Ferrest Heme,
near Holmesburg, iu the seventy-fourth
year of his age. The deceaaed was an
Englishman by birth, and for mere than
thirty years had been identified with stock
companies in various parts of the United
States.
Fer the purpose of supplying, in a meas
ure, sufficient accommodations for the
daily increasing number of orphans desir
ous of becoming students inGiiv.nl college,
the trustees of that institution have ordered
the erection en its grounds of auadditijaal
building, containing living rooms, dormi
tories, baths, offices, etc., aiid capable of
accommmedating ICO new boys.
The body of Winficld Scott Hancock, jr.,
infant son of Russel and Elizabeth Han
cock, and grandson of the General, was
taken te Norristown yestenlay for burial
iu the Montgomery county cemetery, near
that town, where Gen. Hancock's only
daughter, Ada, and a number of his pa
ternal and maternal ancestors arc buried.
The funeral services were held in the Nor
ristown Baptist church, of which Gen.
Hancock's father was a deacon. The sur
viving son of Russell Hancock bears the
name of Gwinn, after Mrs. Russell Han Han
cecck' lather, Mr. Nicholas Gwinn. of New
Yerk. He is 5 years of age. The two
daughters, Ada and Myra, are respectively
5 and 3 years old.
m m
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Tlie official census returns of Detroit
city show the population te be 116,020.
The king of Italy has accented the
resignation of General Beuclli as Minis
ter of war.
One hundred and forty Jesuits from
Touleusa have settled at Carrien and
Marcia, iu Spain.
L. B. Roberst. of Washington, D. C, a
special agent of the census bureau, drop
ped dead in Norfolk, Va., yesterday.
The National beanl et health has net
uee befiicially advised of the yellow fever
among the sailors of the barkExcelsierat
at New Orleans.
The Ducal line steamer Duke of Lan
caster, from Calcutta for Londen, has
been wrecked en the rocks iu the Red sea.
Ne lives were lest.
Henri Rochcfert's newspaper, ISIntran
sifjeant, was issued yestenlay morning. It
declares hitter war against the supporters
of M. Gambctta.
In compliance with the advice of the
king of Greece and the powers, Premier
Triceupis has withdrawn the decree calling
out the reserve.
Baseball : At Buffalo Buffalo 5, Cincin
nati 3. At Bosten Worcester C, Bosten 5,
At Cleveland Cleveland 4. Chicago 1.
At Albany Rochester 10, Albany 7. At
Trey Providence 7, Trey City 2.
Twenty-five delegates, representing ever
5,000 miners in Ohie, met yestenlay in
Columbus and adopted resolutions favor
ing the eight-hour system and semi-monthly
payments.
Mrs. Richard Hepe, the wife of a promi
nent citizen of New Brunswick, N. J.,
while alieut te take a bath at her home,
was seized with a fit, fell into the bath tub
and was drowned.
The French national fete w::s celebrated
yesterday with great rejoicings. Presi
dent Grevy presented new Hags te the
troops, who renewed their oaths of fidelity
te the republic.
One hundred and seventeen deaths were
reported in New Yerk during the twenty-
lour hours ending yesterday neon, 71 of the
victims being children under one year.
Four fatal sunstrokes were reported yes
terday afternoon.
The Lake View Sunday school assembly
at Cazenovia Lake, N. Y., opened en Tues
day evening with a geed attendance. Gen
eral Woodferd lectured te the assembly
yesteidayen his impressions of the Seuth.
The Western nail association met yes
terday in Pittsburgh, and reaffirmed the
order of May 1 lixing tne card rate at
$3.20 per keg. Ne action was taken in
regard te suspension, and it is understood
some of the mills will resume work.
The beard of health of Tennessee has
prohibited, from this date, the importation
from New Orleans of all merchandise liable
te transport the germs of yellow fever.
The health beards of Arkansas, Kentucky
and Mississippi are requested te co-operate
with this precaution.
The U. S. circuit court in Atlanta, Ga.,
was engaged yesterday in trying the reve
nae oilcan charged with the murder of
William A. 'Jenes, an alleged "moon "meon "moen
shiner, " at Had Oak. It was shown by
tke tectimeay that Jenes was killed while
"'desperately running te escape. "
The U. S. grand jury at Trenten, N. J.,
yesterday presented two indictments
against James A. Heddcn. cashier of the
First national bank of Newark, for mal
feasance; two indict menU jointly against
Hadden and WiUiam A. Themas, and one
separately against Themas for complicity
in misapplying the bank's funds.
Dr. Tanner, the New Yerk fasting man
was feeling better Yesterday, and the
watching doctors begin te think that their
battery and hypodermic syringe will net
be needed as seen as was anticipated, per
haps net at all. He took a ride te-day and
has continued drinking ice-water. He
expressed himself as being confident of
success.
At a colored indication meeting held in
New Yerk last night, resolutions wcie
passed denouncing Governer Cernell for re
fusing a further hearing te Chastine Cox.
the murderer of Mrs. Hull, and a com
mittee was appointed te wait en the
governor and ask a week's respite, "with
the privilege of hearing Cox's counsel
Prentiss Nelms and Samuel Hankcy.
colored, accused of being accomplices of
Ed waul Nelms in the assassination of
Rufus Armstead, near Hern Lake, Miss.,
two months age, were taken from a guard
near Hernande, Miss., en Saturday, and
hanged and hacked te death by a gang of
masked lynchers. An indignation meet
ing was held in Austin en Monday te con
demn the deed, and committees chestn
from both whites and blacks were ap
pointed te ferret out the lynchers.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
ST. SWITHIN'S DAY.
A Forty Day's Rata In Stere Seme Aeriumt
or St. SwithlB.
Te-day is St. Swithiu's day, and acconl accenl
ing te an ancient saying, as the weather i
ou this day, se will it be for forty days
succeeding.
As we had a glorious rain this morning,
followed by several warm showers, we may
expect te be favored with a geed long wet
spell, if the old saw holds geed.
Saint Swithin was an English ecclesialii
of the ninth century, who was chaplain
te King Egbert and tutor te his son Klhel
wulf, under whom, when he came te tin;
throne, he held the office of chancellor. He
also had the charge of the education et
King Alfred, whom he accompanied t
Reme. In 1852, he was consecrated bishop
of Winchester. According te William e:"
Malmesbury, he was " a rich treasure of
all virtues, and these in which he tool;
most delight were humility ami charity te
the peer." He adds that he bniltscver.il
churches and traveled through his dieci-M-with
his clergy en feet and for the most
part by night, iu enler te avoid thcappc: r
ance of ostentation. The origin of the trib
ute called "Peter's pence" has been often
assigned te St. Swithin, and he is said t
have procured an act of the Witteiiagemett
enforcing, for the first time, the universal
obligation of paying tithes. St. Swithin
died en the 2d of July, 862, and v.jih
buried, according te his own desire, in tin'
church yard of Winchester. A centiiry
later he wa3 canonized, and the monks net
considering this a fit place of septtlttiie
for a saint, exhumed his body for the pur
pose of depositing it in Winchester cathe
dral, but this translation, which was te
have taken place en the 15th day of July,
was delayed in consequence of violent
rains, which continued for forty d.tjh
without intermission. Out of this circiini
stance arose the still current belief that if
it rained en the 15th day of July, it will
continue te rain for forty days.
NKHillBOKHOOD NKW'
Events Acress the County I.liii.
Albert Kuhn,aged 45 years, of Hanover.
Yerk county, was killed at Baltimore yes
terday by being caught between the "but
ting block and the last car of an excursion
train that was being made up.
Yestenlay five acres of eats, along the
line efthc N. C. R. W., and lieleuging te
Mr. Davis, of the Coderus paper mills,
Yerk county, were destroyed by lire. The
flic originated from sparks from a pasing
locomotive.
The city councils of Reading having re
fused te appropriate a sufficient sp icu of
ground en Penn Square en which te erect
a soldier's monument, the memlx-rs of
Pest's 1G and 76 have appointed a com
mittee te select another site for tlm pir
pose.
On Saturday morning at Dowingtewu,
Rey, the eldest son of Rev. Rebert F. Innes
pastor of St. James Episcopal church, was
up an apple tree when suddenly the limb
en which he was standing broke, and pre
cipitating him te the ground a distance of
some fifteen feet, he alighted en his head
and shoulders. The accident occurred
about 11:30 and at 3:30 he died, h.iviugsuf
fered considerable pain.
Jehn Husen of Yerk borough, an em
ployee of the Northern Central railway
was killed yesterday morning while en
gaged in coupling cars. The cars were
leaded with sections of iron bridges, which
extended ever the ends, of the cars se fur
that when coupled together the iron near
ly met. Mr. Husen, net noticing the pro
jecting iron, attempted te couple the cars,,
when his head was caught and terribly
crushed, the iron cutting his right cheek
and car, penetrating and crushing the
skull en both sides. Deceased wa 40'
years old and leaves a wife, and hcren chil
dren. Hew te Make Jeed Tea.
Iced tea is a nice as well as a fashionable
drink for summer meals, but it is net se
generally understood that the best iced tea
is net steeped in het water. Just try
"steeping" it for a few hours in cold
water, using a little morn tea than for the
het beverage, and having it strong enough
te be weakened with ice water when it is
served. The flavor and effect arc much
better than by the het water method. And,
by the way, the same plan is coming te be
recognized as the best preparation of the
of the herb teas used for medical purposes,
especially such as thoreoghwort (bensvt)
and ethers, which, steeped in het water,
produces an unpleasant and undesirable
nausea. This effect is obviated by steep
ing in cold water, and the tea can be made
much stronger, and used te better advan
tage. Window Ulass Broken.
During last night some one threw a
stone or shot a pistol through the large
pane of glass in the cigar store window of
Adam Oblender, en West King street.
The hole is about as large as a bullet
would make and it is a short distance be
low the centra of the pane. An adverth -ing
picture, made of tin, which wad stand
ing behind the glass, was struck by the
misslc which brekethe glass. Neither a
stone or bullet has been found iu the store.
The glass was insured.
V
r