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FRIDAY EVEMINOi JUuY 23, 1880.
That Obelisk.
New Yerk is net liappy though it has
its obelisk; for it is troubled te knew
where te pat it ; net that it has net places
enough, but that it has tee many. The
stone is net a very big thing and will net
take up much room ; but as it is the only
obelisk that the city has, or ever expects
te have, the importance of finding the
very best situation for it weighs heavily
upon all the public spirited citizens of
New Yerk, who are in a great state of
agitation,first,te find out where they want
the stone put, and next, te persuade their
fellow-citizens that they are right about
it. When they have a vacant square in
the neighborhood of their residences
they de net find much trouble in
determining what their own wishes
are ; se that the eligible places seem te be
nearly as numerous as the possible places.
It had been fixed once that the obelisk
should be erected en a certain knell in
the park, which was net, however, near
where anybody lived ; se that when the
wonder actually arrived and wjis ready
te be erected, the original site proved te
have no friends te speak of, and the park
commissioners, we believe, have been
moved te refuse te have it put there.
The New Yerk World insists that it was
just a lovely place for it, seeing that the
mound is a rock upon which the tall shaft
would stand for ages. The World points
out 1 eat it is the habit of obelisks te fall
down, seeing that they are se tall and
se thin that when they once get a
a little out of the perpendicular their
tendency te tumble increases in a geo
metrical ratio. This suggestion is prob
ably meant te scare the people who want
the thing put up in front of their houses ;
but it won't have any such effect. It
would only make the column the mere
interesting te the average New Yerker
if it would lean a little bit, and threaten
te topple ever altogether in the next
generation. Nene of them live long
enough in the same place te care very
much what is going te hap)en te it in
the next decade; and meanwhile
they would enjoy the situa
tion and feed their imaginations
pleasantly en the dreadful events
of the future. Se many things blew up
and down in Xew Yerk that its people
are naturally callous. They are proud
of a town that can have twenty-eight
men destroyed in an instant in a tunnel ;
rer it is the only place that has a tunnel
and can enjoy such a strong sensation.
They rejoice, tee, in their unique steam
boat disasters which can happen nowhere
else in sucli frequency and with such
less of life. What are men born for '
They are born te die; and in the judg"
ment of the Xew Yerk newspaper,
shared by the Xew Yerk newspaper
reader, they but de their duty and
nobly fulfil their delightful destiny when
they die in such a way as make life mere
interesting te these they leave behind
them.
Se that no stone foundation is wanted
for that obelisk. It may take its chances
en the mud of the Battery, or in Madisen
Square, or at the Fifth avenue entrance
te the park, if Mr. Vanderbilt pays down
his money and secures the trophy se near
te the site of his new house. This obe
lisk seems te lie as uncertain of its owner
ship as of its resting place. Commander
Gerringe says that lie has paid out $90,000
se far for the privilege of bringing it
across the water, and has nothing
but Mr. William II. Vanderbilt's premise
te pay him $100,000 for it when landed.
Naturally he feels as if he had a stronger
grasp en the stone than en the money,
and he intends te keep it until it is other
wise. Commander Gerringe is right ;
but he would de well net te keep it tee
long ; for we are confident that nobody
outside of Xew Yerk would give him
anything like the money for his obelisk
that it has cost him ; and if he gives
the Xew Yorkers a little time te con
sider the matter they tee will conclude
that $90,000 is tee much money for a bat
tered old stone that has carved upon it
some very ridiculous inscriptions that
nobody can find any sense in, and which
is old, it is true, but no elder than any
ether stone ; for they were all created
long B. C.
Gen. Garfield is entitled te a full
and complete correction of the state
ment that Judge Swayne had officially
denounced his conduct in the DeGelyer
case. The language attributed te Judge
Swayne was net his but that of ex-Senaeor
Doolittle's brief, who was counsel in
the case. Mr. Doolittle, by the way, is
an old line Republican, who is new sup
porting Hancock, and the opinion
he expressed of Garfield, though net as
significant as if it had come from the
judge in the case is forcible and true,
and as the Xew Yerk World suggests,
why de net the Republican newspapers
boldly take up and deal with the much
mere imiertant question whether the
receipt of a $5,000 bribe from contract
ors of any sort by a lawyer who is also
a congressional chairman of the commit
tee which must pass upon the claims or
bids of such contractors, is or is net, in
the alleged language of Judge Swayne,
" a sale of official influence which no veil
can cover."
As we had anticipated the movement
for a union of the readjusters and debt
paying wings of the Virginia Democracy
has begun with the rank and file of the
party, and they speak se plainly for a
combination in effect as there as in
sentiment that the leaders cannot fail te
heed it. Beth elements, it is understood ,
are for Hancock, both sets of electors are
claimed te be friendly te his election and
no such felly will be tolerated as risking
the defeat of both for a, mere punctilio.
In Xew Yerk a similar matter will likely
be settled by the unqualified withdrawal
of the Tammany electors, and whatever
the Republicans have counted in the way
of profit from Democratic dissensions
tnay as well be discounted at once.
Judging from some of the census re
ports of Louisiana, the Democracy are
net in se much danger of losing con
gressmen in the Seuth from the new ap
portionment as the Republicans have
been fondly hoping. Thirteen county
parishes in that state show a 43 per cent.
increase or population in ten years, and
although the slight gain of nine percent,
in New Orleans, -where a large propor
tion of the population is massed, reduces
the general increase te 19 per cent., that
is no inconsiderable gain, and gives
premise that Louisiana will gain one
member of Congress at least instead of
losing as the Republicans have been ex
pecting. Texas and Missouri will gain
largely, while the losses in Xew England
will corresiendingly weaken the Republicans.
Caul Sciiuiiz in his speech at Indian
apolis indulged in a great many sephis.
tries about the " tendencies " of the Re
publican partynd its inherent diidMisi diidMisi
tienand and ability te reform itself.
This is the same Carl Schurz who in 1S72
at Lancaster and elsewhere said :
Has it fought against corruption ? Ne.
The party, in ninety-nine out of one hun
dred cases, has shielded fraud and corrup
tion. A system of whitewashing and hush
ing up was resorted te because these who
had committed these malpractices arc
dent followers of the party.
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PERSONAL.
Cexkling will stump Canada for Gar
field. Gen. J. R. Hawlet's assumption of the
presidency of the American exchange in
Londen will be celebrated with a banquet
and a reception.
The generally well-informed St. Peters
burg correspondent of the Tagcnblatt men
tions a report current there that the Tur Tur
eomans have captured and beheaded the
Russian Gen. Skeuelefp.
Seme months age the manager of the
Glebe theatre, in Bosten, offered Oi.e Bull
$500 if he would appear at a Sunday even
ing entertainment in that city. lie de
clined the offer; net for $500, for for
$5,000 either, would he sell his conscience.
BitET n.KTE was at a jelly Paris dinner
just before he came ever, and as it was
getting particularly hilarious toward the
last, an important-looking fellow yelled
"Order!" Bret shut him up by asking,
' What is the gentleman going te order'"
General Gkaxt has about completed ar
rangements which will make necessary his
liviug iu New Yerk city. He has been
tendered a position, which he has accepted
conditionally, that will compel the change
of residence mentioned. The ex-president's
trip te New Mexico was one involv
ing the investigation of the enterprise
which he has been called upon te manage
and was net one of pleasure.
A gentleman familiar with many of the
secrets of the Republican party says that
Dex C.vmeuex has been premised the pest
of secretary of war in the eveut of Gar
field's election, if he will turn in and labor
heartily for the success of the Republican
ticket. Jewell telegraphed Cameren te
meet him te consult "en a matter of per
sonal interest " te the seuater from Penn
sylvania. Cameren telegraphed back .te
Jewell that lie would meet him, although
it disarranged ether engagements previ
ously made. They met, and Jewell, en
behalf of Garfield, made the p.-opesition
just mentioned. It is understood that
Cameren declined te give any definite an
swer, but premised te consider the matter.
MINOR TOPICS.
It will be 'pull Dick, pull devil" in the
Republican return judges meeting te-morrow.
The Hudsen liver falls only 11 ve feet
from Albany te the bay. Owing te the
slight current and the tide resistance it
takes a drop of water three weeks te get
from Albany te New Yerk.
Fiiaxk Esiilemax, nay Brown and
Tem Cochran arc listening te what the
wild waves are saying. They de net want
te be held responsible for what is done or
net done at the return judges' meeting to
morrow. The Republican papers arc publishing
a table te shw that of the $39,108,005.39
lest in the collection of government reve
nues in 88 years about fifteen millions was
lest under Republican administration
from 18G0 te 187C. Q. E. D.
Pesidext Judge of Return Judges Jehn
a. t rv having been te Chicago and seen-
Senater Hear wield the gavel since the last
meeting, may be expected te keep such
geed order te-morrow that Judge Patter
son's friendly offices will net have te be in
voked te keep rioters out of jail.
TnE powerful mind of the New Era
finds its latest objection te Gen. Hancock
in the fact that his wife and daughter
wear jewelry, and it declares that the
general wears corsets. " This is the first
time we have admitted an allusion te that
subject in these columns." Next !
It will be a comfort te many nervous
people te read from the pen of Dr. Win.
Lee in the Popular Science Monthly for
August that premature burials are net
really se numerous nor se likely as be
lieved ; that the certainty of death can al
ways be assured by proper tests, and that
no heart can intermit its beats and remain
in perfect repose for five minutes.
The Examiner's local editor is distressed
because the pumpe at the city water works
were net kept running en Wednesday
night, after the reservoir was full. Well,
for the pump house te be occupied for an
hour or two with an innocent dance is net
se bad as the use te which the Examiner' a
second story back room was given up a
few years age the wholesale manufac
ture of bogus tax receipts.
The "midsummer" number of Scrib
ner's Monthly for August is a marvel of en
terprise in its line of literary work. A
classic design of illustration for the cover
invites the reader te a rich least or con
tents and what better company for the
"season" does anybody want than Jehn
Borroughs and Mary Holleck Feete, Cclia
Thaxter and Geerge W. Cable, Alfred B.
Street and Charles Dudley Warner, Eu
gene Schuyler and Philip Gilbert Hamer Hamer
ten, Richard Henry Dana and Albert
Rhodes?
Annie Hardy, a colored girl of Memphis,
fifteen years old was found by her parents
en returning home from church with her
jaw brekeu and several wounds en her
threat, neck and breast which looked as
though they had been inflicted with a pick
axe. The girl had been sick for several
days, and died from the- effects of-the
wounds. There is no clue te the perpe
trators of the bloody act. 8
AMC9KMKWT HOTK8.
XVhml the flayers are Iteiag.
Anna Louise Carey is iu Switzerland.
Teny Paster may step here during the
season.
Brignoli tikes Tem Karl's place in the
Emma Abbett company next season.
Jeseph Murphy lias been offered $25,000
for forty weeks in Australia.
Eflie Ellslcr is new the leading lady at
Madisen Square theatre, New Yerk.
J. Cheever Goodwin will rewrite Our
German Senater" for Gus Williams.
The wife of Hilly Kcrsands, the negre
minstrel, died recently in Louisville, Ky.
The International Cemique in Philadel
phia is used for peel selling during the
summer.
Geerge W. Hunter, the Irish comedian,
who was here with Teny Denier, has gene
te Europe.
Miss Dickie Lingard has a new play en
titled "Tortured te Death." The audi
ence plays the title role.
Z. W. Sprague's circus came te a sud
den "conclusion" in Michigan a few days
age.
Rebert Fex. formerly of Fex's Ameri
can theatre, Philadelphia, is te manage a
theatre in Chicago.
Duprcz and Benedict's minstrels will
rehearse at Norristown for several weeks
before they start out the coming season.
Coup's circus visits Columbia en Au
gust 8. It also gees te Yerk, but will net
be here. We will have one or two bigger
shows before the season is ever.
The Big Four minstrels start en their
four annual tour from Cincinnati en Aug.
35, with Johnny Morten, the comedian,
and Nat Hemer as proprietors.
M. B. Leavitt's English opera company
will include a prima denna, twenty vocal
ists, a number of comedians and a bal
let. Johnny Wild, an excellent comedian,
who is a member of narrigan & Hart's
company, owns a farm at Sandlake, N. Y.,
where he and a number of brother profes
sionals have been spending some time.
Abcrle's mammoth minstrel troupe,
which is new organizing in New Yerk, is
te include thirty-five artists. The man
agement intend making a feature of the
street parade, the company being uni
formed in gray, with red facings, and the
baud in scarlet and blue, they will make a
particularly showy appearance.
The Berger family, new being organized
for next season, will include Charles H.
Duncan, comic and cliaracter vocalist;
C. W. Brewster, ventrilequial humorist ;
A. M. Helbroek, solecoruetist ; Cera Fer
ris, mezzo-soprano ; Etta Morgan, saxo
phone soloist, and ether superior artists ;
also an orchestra of ten sole performers
and a military brass baud of fifteen men iu
uniform. Henry G. Berger is the mana
ger. Capt. James Donahue, of Newark,
who was sutler of Meagher's Irish brigade
in the war, has just begun practice as a
justice of the peace in Newark. He is
celebrated for his hearty laugh. Several
years age he caused much merriment in
Dan Bryant's opera house. Dan told a
fresh and witty story, which se affected
the pertly captain that he laughed until he
shook all ever. His laugh was se hearty
and jelly that it became contagious, and
seen the entire audience and the perform
ers were rearing with laughter. The mer
riment continued for several minutes.
Finally Dan Bryant arose, bowed graceful
ly, and asked : " Who am givin' dis yar
show, Dan Bryant or Jim Donahue?"
" Be the powers." shouted the jelly cap
tain, while the audience renewed their
laughter and applause, "Jim Donahue's
givin' the show, aud Dan Bryant's raking
in the dollars."
A Comity That Is Ablaze.
The Hancock boom is making things
fairly howl in Fayette county, and is
knocking the opposition endways. Mr.
Beaten, one of the National nominees for
the Legislature, has published a letter of
declination, and Helsing, the ether Assem
bly candidate, has signified his intention
of doing likewise, while Coldsen, Green
back nominee for district attorney, has
also retired from the field. The Monitor
says: "It is estimated that Connellsville
will give Hancock a majority of 300 ; the
two Tyrenes 300 ; the two Dunbars 450 ;
Union district 250 and Geerges township
300. This will be 1,G00 majority in less
than one-third of the voting districts.
Dr. Themas P. Walker, formerly a lead
ing Republican of Fayette county, and at
present the Greenback candidate for coro
ner of that county, has come out openly
for Hancock, and has issued a call for a
Hancock meeting in Dunbar, te form a
Hauceck club, te be composed entirely of
Republicans aud Greenbackers. Ne Dem
ocrats will be allowed te join it.
Martin B. Pepe, a leading Republican,
formerly ticket agent of the B. & O., rail
road cemnanv at Uuiontewn, and years age
Republican candidate for peer house direc
tor of Fayette county, has declared his
purpose te vote and work for Hancock.
(iarfleld's Kid for Sew Yerk.
Herald.
At a meeting of a Republican campaign
club in this city a letter has just bceu read
from General Garfield, in which he spurs
his supporters here te activity because
" New Yerk settles the case if the Repub
licans can carry it."
The distinguishing points of his letter en
economic questions are its advocacy of a
high protective tariff, and also, by infer
ence, its opposition te any modification of
the navigation laws that will enable Amer
icans te buy and sell foreign-built ships ;
its toleration of the circulation of legal
tender greenbacks and eighty-eight
cent silver dollars as integers with
geld coin of the same denominations in
the federal currency ; its approval of un
limited appropriations for internal im
provements at the federal expeuse, partic
ularly in the Mississippi valley, and its ar
gument for the restriction of Chinese ira
migration as involving peril te "thefreo "thefree "thefreo
dem and dignity of labor " by competition.
On questieus political and less strictly
economic its distinguishing points are
the assumption that a Republican ad
ministration of the federal government
does something potent, however indefinite
and incomplete, te enforce equal rights be
tween races in the Southern states, which
the Democrats will emit te de if they gain
power, and a suggestion that, if he is
elected president, he will invite members
of Congress te partnership with the execu
tive in making appointments te office.
Acceiding te General Garfield's deliberate
intelligence this is a pregramme of public
policy which is likely te be agreeable te
New Yerk principles and interests.
Hancock In unto.
The following special from Lancaster,
Ohie, te the Cincinnati Commercial (Re
publican) shows very conclusively which
way the cat jumps in that state : " Here,
as elsewhere, the Democrats are jubilant
ver the nomination of General Hancock.
Fairfield county is one of the most reliable
Democratic counties in the state. F :
years its majorities have steadily gre-.v i
from 1,000 te 1.800, and it is safe te count
en 2,000 for the state ticket in October,
and 2.500 for Hancock in the melancholy
days of November. Hancock is especially
popular in this county, because the people
are mostly descended from Pennsylvania
stock, and the old-time Democrats like
Abraham Seifert still retain their old Penn
sylvania state pride, and while they might
object te Hancock as a military man, they
forget .their prejudice and rejoice because
the Democratic nominee is a Pennsylvania"
E DEMOCRACY.
State Conventions la Stlifcmri, Ohie and Ver.
tent.
At the Vermont Democratic convention
in the afternoon session the following nom
inations were made : Fer governor, Ed
ward J. Phelps ; for lieutenant governor,
Gee. W. Gates, of White River Junction ;
for treasurer, James K. Williams, of Bel
lows Falls ; for presidential electors-at-large,
Cyrus Jennings, of Habbarten, and
J. W. Bliss, of Bradford. Resolutions were
adopted endorsing the principles adopted
by the late national convention and ratify
ing the nomination of Hancock aud Eng
lish. Ohie.
Upen reassembling, the convention organ
ized with Thee. Cook as permanent chair
man. The committee ou resolutions re
ported the following :
Reselccd, That the Democracy of Ohie
heartily endorse the candidates of the na
tienal Democratic convention and that we
will zealously labor for the election of
Hancock and English and for the can
didates for state offices this day nomi
nated. Resolved, That the Democracy of this
state adept as their own the national plat
form. Judge Wm. Leng, of Tiffin was nomi
nated for secretary of state ; M. F. Fol Fel
lett for supreme judge ; Richard J. Fan
ning (incumbent), clerk of the supreme
court ; W. J. Jacksen, beard of public
works ; J. J. Burns (incumbent), commis
sioner of schools; R. P. Ranney and
Jehn F. Fellttt, presidential exectors-at-large.
Missouri.
Themas J. Chittenden was nominated
for governor. The convention then took
a recess, reconvened and resumed the
nomination of the state ticket. Cel.
Hebcrt A. UampbeII, or at. Jjeujs, was
nominated for lieutenant governor, aud
Hen. Rebert D. Ray, of Carrell county, for
judge of the supreme court. M. K.
Meurath was nominated for secretary of
state and P. E. Chappell for treasurer.
Shepherd's Life In California.
California?!.
The life of a shepherd or sheep-herder,
in the vernacular in California is no sine
cure. Duriug ihe greater part of the year
in fact, at all times except " lambing,"
and when engaged at the home ranch, at
the momentous epochs of "shearing" and
"dipping" the shepherd lives as solitary
a life as that of any early Christian hermit
in the wilds of Sinai or the Nubiau desert.
He is relegated te the company of his
sheej), and his deg, if he has one,
for some sheep-owners will net per
mit the use of dogs. They are
his only associates of the animal world
as the days and weeks speed en. Once a
week, perhaps, the man who carries the
rations around te the various camps may
chat with him for a miuute or two, if he
has time ; but mere frequently will net see
him at all, leaving the " grub " at the
camp, while the shepherd may be two or
three miles away with his band. Once in
a while, tee, the " boss," or majer-demo,
may ride round generally when he is
least expected te catch him napping te
give him orders about changing his feed,
or te leek into the condition of the fleck,
as the case may be. But, apart from
these casualties, the shepherd, is, se
far as human intercourse is concerned, as
completely alone as if he were in solitary
confinement in the penitentiary. The
nearer the man approaches the brute in
nature, the better lie is fitted for this bu-1
ness ; and perhaps the best shepherds of
all are Mexicans or native Californians.
The home of a California shepherd is a
cabin, sometimes made of rough beards,
sometimes of redwood "stakes," about 12
feet by 8 ; supplied, iu regions where
weed is plentiful, with a rude stone fire
place or a small sheet iron cooking stove.
Sometimes merely a tent is provided
and the herder docs his cooking
as he can outside. During the sum
mer this latter class of domicile is
net unpleasant, that is, if it can be pitched
under the shade of a tree ; but wee te the
luckless herder who is compelled te camp
in a tent upon the bare California plains
beneath a nearly vertical sun ! His cabin
is provided with a small deal table, a steel
or two, seme shelves en the wall, aud a
bunk made of deal beards attached te
one of the walls : and if he is in luck, or
has a "be.-s" who has a little respect for
his help which the "bosses" rarely have
a stove or tire-place. Ine fleer or the cabin
is usually literally a "ground-fleer, "though
instances of shepherds' huts being built
with plank Hoeriug are getting mere com
mon in the case of recent erections. His
cooking utensils consist of a coffee-pet,
baking-pan, frying-pan and goblet ; his
dishes arc usually limited te a tin-plate.
cup, knife, fork and spoon. The rations of
a shepherd consist of a sack of flour, a bag
of bcans,a sack of potatoes, some coffee, tea.
sugsir, salt, &c, with either the privilege of
killing a sheep when out of meat, or the al
lowance of a quarter of mutton killed at the
home ranch, and "packed" around by the
" packer" as the man who brings around
rations te the camp is called once a week.
This is supposed te be the most niggard
estimate in the' way of rations, but we have
known cases where even this peer supply
has been suffered te fall short, through the
niggardliness of the " bosses " or the ne
glect of "packers;" and where the peer
herder has been reduced te the single arti
cles of beans and salt, together, of course,
with the mutton it was always in his power
te supply himself with.
The American Weman In Paris.
Paris was shocked yesterday by the an
nouncement of the suicide of an American
lady well-known there and in Londen cir
cles. Mrs. Annie Wetmore, of New Yerk,
took her own life by poisoning herself, at
the residence of Lady Albert Pelham Clin Clin
eon, in the Rue Billanlt. The deceased
was a very handsome woman about 35
years of age. Up te a short time since she
was said te have been affianced te the
Marquis of Anglesey, te whom she
became engaged seen after her divorce
from her husband. In June last the
fickle Anglesey met and married Mrs.
Wodeheuse, nee Miss Minnie King, of
Georgia. Mrs. Wetmore was dreadfully
depressed en hearing of the marriage, and
at last in despair put an end te her life.
The sad occurrence has created a genuine
sensation in the American colony. The
new Marchioness of Anglesey is an Ameri
can by birth, and, as Minnie Kiug, was
one of the brightest stars in the imperial
court at Paris. Subsequently she married
the Hen. Henry Wodeheuse, brother of
the Earl of Eimberley. He was in diplo
macy, and died of typhus fever at Athens.
Fer some years after her widowhood Mrs.
Wodeheuse resided in Londen and was
highly popular.
TROTTING AT CHICAGO.
Immense Crowds In Attendance and Fine
Spert.
Fifteen thousand people attended the
races at Chicago yesterday. The first race,
253 class, was wen by Wcdgewoed ; Lucy
second and Monarch Rule third. Best
time, 2:211.
Second race for a special purse of $2,500.
St. Julien, 111; Darby, 222; Hopewell,
3 3 3. Time, 2:17J, 2:18, 2:16$.
The owner of St. Julien offers te match
him for $5,000 against any trotter or pacer
in the country.
Third race, 2:34 class, was wen by Black
Cloud. Jeseplius took third and fourth heats
aad Wilbur third money. Time. 2:214,
2-23, 255, 2:22$ end 2:30.
Rebert J. Lawten, of Shippensburg, one
of the largest grain shippers in the valley
and a large land owner in Franklin county,
died suddenly of heart disease en Wednes
day morning.
LAliiST NW8 BY MAIL.
BasebalL At BostenBoston, 4 ; Buf
falo, 1. At Providence Providence, 6;
Cincinnati, 2.
The crops in Virginia, especially the corn
crop, are said te be very premising.
An international temperance camp meet
ing was opened yesterday at Griinsbv,
Ont.
A five-year-old son of Charles Perry
was drowned at Cedar Greve, R. I., en
Wednesday.
Troupe, Texas, has been almost entirely
destroyed by fiie. Less, $25,000 ; insur
ance, $8,000.
The business portion of Gibsenvillc,
Sierra county, Cal., was burned yesterday.
The less is ever $50,000.
The official returns of the census super
visor gives Bosten a population of 303,505,
an increase or 77,bHSb in ten years.
McCul leugh, a brakeman en the Leng
Branch morning freight train, was caught
between the caboose and a coal car, while
coupling, at Elizabcthpert, and had his
right leg mangled from the hip te the knee.
He is dying.
Jehn Turner, son of Sheriff Turner, of
Utah City, was found murdered near Eche
City, it is believed by a tramp named
Frederick Welcome, of whom the father is
new in pursuit. Welcome had twice been
arrested by SherifTTurner for herse steal
ing and had threatened the sheriff's life.
The body of Miss Helen Deaken was
found floating in the inlet, near Atlantic
City, some distance from the scene of the
drowning last Monday. It was brought
te the shore and taken in charge by an un
dertaker. The body was in a geed state
of preservation. It is understood $150
reward was offered for the recovery of the
remains.
Mrs. Mary Raddy. of Ne. 159 Clinten
street, Cincinnati, died under circum
stances indicating poison, administered by
herself or seme one else. She is a daugh
ter of Mr. Christy, of Madisonville, and
was married last November te a widower
with three children. A pest mortem ex
amination and inquest will be held te elicit
the facts in the case.
As Mrs. Sarah A. Crohn (white), wife
of a tenant en the farm of Wm. A. Cono Ceno Cone
reed, was walking along a path near the
New Jersey Southern railroad track she
was set upon by Geerge Carney, a burly
negre, who dragged her into the weeds
and outraged her after she had fainted.
The miscreant was captured and locked
up, narrowly escaping being lynched.
Jehn Housten ( colored ) attempted te
commit a rape upon the six-year-old daugh
ter of Jasen Cannen, jr., about four miles
west of Shelby ville, Tenn. He was ar
rested by the child's father and several
neighbors. While in custody at Cannen's
house a party of masked men took Hous Heus Hous
eon out, carried him half a mile down the
pike and hanged him. The negre had
been in the penitentiary.
In Detroit yesterday at the private bank
of Fisher, Preston & Ce., while the clerk,
Fred D. Gi fiord, was alone, a stranger ap
peared at the opening of a wire screen in
the counter and expressed a desire te buy
some government bends. As Mr. Gifferd,
was about te reply the stranger suddenly
reached through the aperture and struck
him en the temple with a slung-shot. The
blew felled him te the fleer and tempor
arily rendered him insensible. When he
recovered it was ascertained that between
four and five thousand dollars in currency,
which had been lying en the counter had
disappeared.
STATE ITEMS.
A number of Republicans of Middletown
Dauphin county, have organized a Han
cock Veteran association.
A. S. H. Yeung, a well known citizen
of Somerset county, fell dead in his garden
at Stoeystewn. He was aged eighty-five
years.
A child chained is the latest sensation in
Westmoreland county. Silas E. Myers, 10
years old, has been chained by his neck in
the cellar of W. II. Chub, at Bridgeport,
because he "would run away."
The receivers of the Philadelphia &
Reading coal and iron company will issue
no circular of prices for coal for August,
as current prices have been determined
upon for the next month.
Geerge R. Messersmith cashier of the
First national bank, Chambcrsburg, has
been very ill suffering from the blew he
received en his head in his tussle with the
burglars Rollins and Jehnsen, but we are
glad te say he is improving.
Sixty-one members of Boyd &
Peters's circus have been arrested at
Leeclibnrg, Armstrong county, en charge of
being implicated in the abduction and
outrage of the Burkctt girl, 14 years of
age. They were taken te Greensburg for
a hearing.
Immense quantities of grain are already
being shipped ever the new Baltimore and
Cumberland Valley railroad, though it has
been opened but a little mere than two
weeks. This grain gees direct te Balti
mere, one of the finest grain markets in
the eastern part of the United States,
hence the large shipments. The survey
for the continuation of this read te Ship
pensburg has been competed.
Yesterday afternoon at Kittanning point,
William Lasher, about 30 years old, in the
employ of the Pennsylvania railroad as a
freight brakeman, was standing en the
bumper of a car attempting te put en the
brake. The train suddenly broke and
parted, and Mr. Lasher was thrown upon
the track, the rear end of the broken train
passed ever him and his left leg was near
ly tern off below the knee and horribly cut
and mangled.
It is said that Gen. Iluidckeper the
new postmaster at Philiadelphia is really
a citizen of Meadvillc, where he belongs te
a family reported te be very wealthy. He
served in the army as a colonel and lest an
arm in the service. He is a brigadier
general in the National Guard, command
ing the Fifth brigade, which embraces the
guard in the western counties of the state.
In politics he is a negative Republican,
having in 1872 joined the liberal branch of
the party and supported Herace Greeley for
president. Since that time his political
position has been a question of doubt, but
it is probable that this appointment will
determine him te support Garfield for the
presidency.
Aggressive Harmony.
Throughout the Shenandoah valley dur
iug the past few days local meetings have
been held with the view of organizing a
movement looking te a compromise be
tween the Rcadjusterand Funder wings of
the Democratic party in Virginia, by which
the two electoral tickets new in the field
for Hancock and English may be consoli
dated. A number of prominent Demo
crats and Readjusters in the valley have
since taken held of the matter, and by
their energy and influence have inaugu
rated a movement, which, from the num
bers and prominence of these of both
sides who have flecked te their standard,
must necessarily result in the much de
sired compromise.
The Tammany electoral ticket in New
Yerk will be withdrawn in a few days.
Ready for Basinets.
The Democratic national committee
opened its new headquarters at 138 Fifth
avenue. New Yerk yesterday. On tfie
first fleer of the house are four large
rooms. They are te be used as reception
rooms for visitors and for the public busi
ness of the committee. The committee's
consultation rooms are en the second fleer.
The third and fourth -floors will be used
as working and sleeping rooms for the 1
committee's clerks. The beuse is nicely
furnished. Telegraph instruments, tele-
phones, and an Aaerican district tele
graph call nave been pat into the rooms
en the parlor fleer, aad ether fixtures are
te be added which will facilitate the trans
action or the business of the campaign.
Beecher en Garfield's Letter et Acceptance.
Christian Union.
In short, en all points en which the
party platform is explicit he is also ex
plicit ; en all points en which it is ambig
uous he is also ambiguous.
These who desired from Gen. Garfield a
cautious statement of Republican policy
that should offend no voters will admire
the political wisdom of his letter of accep
tance ; these who hoped from bim a ring
ing declaration of principles that would
attract voters will be disappointed in it.
He puts himself en the Republican plat-
lertu and identities himself with the re
publican party, but he docs net make him
self its leader.
That Kemarkable Tey l'istel.
X. Y. Tribune.
Here is a strange fact, which wc gather
from the local columns of the Philadelphia
papers and leave te the doctors te explain,
only premising that we believe it te be a
fact. During the last month six cases of te
tanus have occurred in that city and two in
Reading (Alleutewn, Easten. Lancaster),
in every instance resulting from wounds
inflicted accidentally by toy pistols. Is the
weather te blame for this odd seqtienee of
disaster? Or 'is there any peculiarity in
the charge of these death-dealing play
things ? The wound of an ordinary pistol
rarely produces lockjaw.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE CAMPAIGN.
Third Ward Democrat.
Last evening a meeting of the Third
ward Hancock and English club was held
at Effiuger's, corner of Seuth Queen and
Vine streets. A number of additional
names were affixed te the roll, and pend
ing the action of the general organization
in the selection of a uniform, no action was
taken in that direction, further than the
appointment of a committee te devise
ways and means of procuring equipments.
The committee consists of Gee. S. Nor Ner
beck, Capt. Gee. F. Sprenger and Herbert
Johnsten. It was also agreed that a com
mittee of three be appointed te represent
the club in the general conference meeting
te be held next Wednesday evening. The
appointment of this committee was tem
porarily deferred. There is a movement
en feet te organize a Third ward Hancock
drum corps, and the spirit that appears te
animate the sturdy Democracy of this Re
publican Gibraltar is one of aggressiveness
and determination that cannot fail te
make decided inroads upon the enemy's
boasted numbers in this ward. Here, as
elsewhere, the Democrats appear te have
caught the echo of our great leader's com
mand te " carry the works," and they
propose te assume the offensive at the out
set.
The First Ward Club;
The committee appointed at the first
meeting reported the following officers,
who were elected :
President E. D. North.
Vice Presidents Neal Dunleavy, Wm.
McCemsey, Jehn Rees and Christian Sheaf
fer. Recording Secretary Jacob Rees.
Corresponding Secretary Chas. Liehty.
Treasurer II . R. McConemy.
Captain S. W. Altick.
1st Lieutenant P. H. McFarland.
2d " Jehn H. Brewb.
Orderly Sergeant W. C. Pyle.
Quartermaster Sergeant James Ail
ment. Scrgcant-at-Arms Thes. McGinnis, jr.
Finance Committee A. J. Steinman,
Charles Buchmiller, Daniel Legan, Gee.
W. Brown, Jacob Rees, Jehn Keith.
Property Committee Theodere Trout,
Isaac Bender, Wm. Scheurenbrandt,
James Altick, Jehn McCullcy, James
Nie'mer, Michael 3Ieancy.
Conference Committee S. W. Altick,
Charles Liehty and Jehn B. Slough.
LARCENY.
A Geld Hunlin Case American Watch
Stelen.
Last evening, about 6 o'clock, an
American lever watch, with geld hunting
case was stolen from the showcase in the
store of A. Hirsh, North Queen street,
near Centre square. Mr. Hirsh was absent
at the time aud none of his salesmen were
present except his son Harry. He was
sitting at a desk in the back part of the
store writing, and no one entered the store
except Gee. Andrews, Mr. Hirsh's colored
coachman, who came te the front deer
and leaned upon the showcase. Nothing
was thought of this at the time, but seen
after he left Mr. Hirsh returned, found
the deer of the showcase unlocked and
the watch missing. Suspicion was at
once directed te Andrews, and a warrant
was issued for his arrest. He was arrested
this morning and locked up for a hearing.
Officer Fulmer took out a search warrant
and searched the premises of Andrews's
bearding house en Lew street, but the
missing watch was net found. Mr. Hirsh's
stable was also unsuccessfully searched.
Seme time age Mr. Hirsh had a bridle
stolen from him, which it was afterwards
ascertained had been taken by Andrews
and sold te Mr. Nash, a colored carter.
When the theft was discovered Mr. Hirsh
intended te discharge Andrews, but was
prevailed upon te keep him for a week or
two longer te enable him te earn money
enough te take him out of town. It is
supposed he stele the watch te raise addi
tional funds.
Contract Awarded.
At a meeting of the street committee
held last evening the proposals for the
grading of North Lime street, from James
street te the Pleasure read, were opened.
They were as fellows per cubic yard :
Reck Earth
Sutcr&Bre 35
Jehn Mnsscr 27$
Martin Kcndig 22
Henry Resh 27
Keough & McManus 22
Shaub& Smith 30
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182
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21
The contract, was awarded te Mr. Resh,
as was also tliat of building, a 20-feet
(ewer en the same street, at 80 cents pei
running feet, with two end walls at $2
per perch.
Stere Robbed.
The store of Gee. W. Steinmctz at Clay,
this county, was broken into last night.
The store adjoins his residence, and the
robbers effected an entrance by removing
the hinges of the cellar deer, then forcing
open a deer which leads from the cellar te
an cntiy adjoining the store room, then re
moving the belts from a deer in the entry
leading into the store. Severai pieces of
cassimere and diagonal cloth, let of woolen
shawls, three boxes of hats, revolver, let of
notions' worth about $200, and $15 in cash
were stolen. A reward of $30 is offered
for the recovery of the goods and convic
tion of the thieves. As no one sleeps in
the store room, the robbery was net dis
covered until Mr. Steinmetz's son went te
open the store this morning.
A HKKO OFFUTH.
TeachlBff Tribute te the Late Iter. Dr. at uh
leabers. Bev. B. Bailsman D. I., In the liuanlian.
The late Dr. Muhlenberg of New Y'erk
was a man of rare saintlincss. A Lutheran
by birth and baptism, an Episcopalian by
confirmation and ordination, but above all
a Christian, he was in loving sympathy
with all Ged's people of every name and
order. When a student I saw him at a
certain college commencement, sitting en
an elevated platform, then already a vener
able gray-headed patriarch, through whose
face shone the meek, mild, Christlike
spirit of bis soul. A certain brother of
our Reformed church, tells me that mere
than forty years age, when Muhlenberg was
rector of the Episcopal church at Lan
caster, Pa., he was a scholar in his Sunday
school. When the reeter left he spoke te
the scholars ou these words. "Theu Ged
seest me." My friend said that the father
ly tenderness with which he pressed home
these words greatly moved their young
hearts, and that it has followed him as a
gracious blessing te this day. This verse
seems te have guided the geed doctor
in all his doings. He lived as in (Sed's
sight, and his heart was transparent te
Gotland men. He was a life-long friend
of Dr. Adams, new of the (Presbjt'r'an)
Union seminary of New Y'erk. Once
Muhlenberg preached for his friend, for
which Bishop Petter officially cen.su red
him. Dr. Adams says that " mere than
ence I have said te my family, when re
turning from some interview with him, in
which he had honored me with a kiss, that
I felt as if the Apostle Jehn had embraced
me, and repeated in my car some words
which had been whispered te him 1y the
Master whose besom he had leaned en at
the Supper."
Iu earlier years he wrote the well known
hymn in our Reformed hymn book.
" I would net live ulway, I itslc net te stiiy."
Like many ether geed men. his old age
did net approve all be had written in
younger life, and he was free te confess it.
Of this hymn he said : "I de net believe in
the hymn at all ; it does net express the
better feelings of the saint, and I would
net write it new."
Te many geed people this hymn has be
come very precious. But as the author
says, " It does net express the better feel
ing of a saint." Te the child of Ged lite
is a great blessing. Whether joy or sor
row be our let, we ought te accept it with
a thankful heart, and improve it piously
for the glory of Ged. It is well te think
much of the rest of the grave ami of our
home in heaven. But I question whether
the reading of " Hcrvcy's Meditations "
among the tombs cultivates the healthiest
kind of piety. A restless eagerness te get
away from the burdens and duties of earth
by being transferred te heaven may be
carried tee far. Te work in whatev.i
sphere Ged may place us with fidelity and
cheerful contentment, until the Lord shall
call us home, is the prayerful spirit of a
Christian.
In a select social gathering of patriarchs
of his age, where such men asWilliam t'ul
len Bryant, Peter Cooper, the well-knew n
millionaire philanthropist, and Dr. Adams,
were present, Dr. Muhlenberg was request
ed te ask a blessing at the table, which h
did iu the following original lines :
" Solemn tlmnks be our gruce ter thejt-nrs
that ure past.
With their blessings ten-fold, and though tht
b our last.
Yet jeytul our trust that through Christ 'tu ill
he civen.
All here meet again at his table In heaven."
Dr. 3Iuhlenberg spent the greatest pa 1 1
of his life in works of charity. lie
founded and presided ever St. Luke's
hospital, New Yerk, and was chiefly in
strumental in founding several ether lai-e
institutions of this kind. Many lieids et
usefulness with large salaries, were offered
te him but his compassionate heart pre
ferred te serve and suffer for the relief el
the unfortunate.. In this service he
spent his private fortune. His
pure unselfish life secured liberal pub
lic confidence and support for the
institutions with which his name was con
nected. Thus money flowed into their -treasuries
by the hundred thousands. He
might have amassed a fortune, lived in
showy affluence. Instead of this he lived
a very simple life, and was frugal in hi; hi;
feed and raiment. His rooms were plainly
furnished, and when he died his whele
estate consisted of two twenty dollar geld
pieces $40 in all which he had laid by te
pay for his funeral. All he had and was
he gave te Christ.
It is well for us te held up before our
minds models of Christian living like that,
of Dr. Muhlenberg. Through painful dis
cipline Ged prepared him for his work.
The shadow of a great sorrow settled upon
his soul in his early years. He came out
of the clouds transfigured and transform
ed. In Europe men of his class are oftener
found than in America. Flieducr of Kai
serswerth, Zcller of Berlin, Wichcrn of the
Rauhe Haus and Miller of Bristel, have
laid themselves en the Altar of
Charity, as whole burnt offerings.
One of these is the father-in-law
of Bishop Gebat, of Jerusalem ;
another a high official of the Prussian
ministry; all the almoners of million,
yet all peer for Christ's sake ; making tint
peer, orphans, outcasts and cripples their
daily companions. Each of these four
renowned men leading a life of such se
vere simplicity as many a day laborer's
family would scarcely accept. Such
are the true heroes of faith. Their motive
is net te wennd or destroy, but te relive
and save life. Net only te de geed but te
be geed oneself; net only te preach the
pure and meek spirit of Christ but te live
it ; te live His life, te love with his love,
"te endure as seeing Him who is invisi
ble ' this gives us a Christlike character.
Te lie Rebuilt.
At the meeting of the property commit
tee of city councils, last evening, the chair
man, Mr. Zechcr, was authorized te direct
thn city solicitor te prepare a draft of a
lease for ten years, te be presented te
councils for approval, and granting te Jacob
Hartman, for the period stated, the use of
the plot of the reservoir grounds lately oc
cupied by him as an ice-house, aud de
stroyed by fire some time since. The lease
under which Mr. Hartman has held this
ground, though dating from 1802, has hcen
for ene year only, and in consequence Mr.
Hartman says he has never felt justified in
erecting any ether than a wooden struc
ture, which has been repeatedly burned
down by incendiaries. In case the present
lease is effected, Mr. Hartman will catix:
te be erected a substantial building te lie
composed principally of stone.
FeUce Case.
Louisa Fisher was arranged before Al
derman Spurrier for drunken and disorder
ly conduct, and committed te the county
prison for 20 days.
Wm. Green, an infirm Englishman, was,
at his own request, taken before Mayer
MacGenigle and committed te the weik
house for 30 days.
Elijah Grimm, a tramp in staid: of
work, was ledged in the station house last,
night and discharged this morning.
A Lancaster County Grandfather,
The Philadelphia Evening TeleJtraph
says:
General Huidekoper, who is described as
a " soldier and manufacturer, " was brrn
in Meadville, Pa.,.this state, his mother
being the daughter of Judge Shipman, el"
Lancaster county, and his father being a
native of Meadville and descended from
Dutch ancestors.
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