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Lancaster intelligencer.
MONDAY EVENING. AUGUST 0, 1880.
The Ames "VindicatleM."
In some of the forthcoming biographies
of Gen. Garfield, the authors presume te
give an authoritative account of his re
lations with the Credit Mebilier busi
ness, and are very severe, in his behalf,
upon the character of the late Oakes
Ames, between whom and Garfield it
will be remembered there was a very de
cided issue of veracity in their testimony
before the Credit Mebilier investigating
committee. That issue was determined
against Garfield ly the committee con
trolled by a majority of his party friends
and headed by the notorious Judge Pol
and. Fer after Garfield had solemnly
sworn that he " never owned, receiv
ed, or agreed te receive any stock of the
Credit Mebilier or of the Union Pacific
Railroad, nor any dividends or profits
arising from either of them," the com
mittee deliberately found and reported
te Hie contrary in these burning words :
The facts in regard te Mr. Garfield, as
found by the committee, arc that he agreed
with Mr. Ames te take ten shares of Credit
Mebilier stock, but did net pay for the
Kime. Mr. Ames received the eighty icr
cent, dividend in bends and sold them for
ninety per cent., and also received the
sixty per cent, cash dividend, which, to
gether with the price of the stock aud in
terest, left a balance of $329. This sum
was paid ever te Mr. Garfield by a check
en the scrgcaiit-at-arms, and Mr. Garfield
then understood this sum teas the balance of
dividends after payiny for the stock.
It is net enough therefore for Garfield's
biographers, in their attempts te give
him a clean bill of health, te ignore this
finding," te emit the most important
parts of his testimony before the com
mittee and by ether garblings of official
records te endeavor te whitewash his con
gressional record. They must needs go
further aud villify Ames, in order te
break t lie force of his testimony, which
they say is all that makes out a case
against Garfield, se vividly presented by
his partisan friends en the Poland com
mittee. ( 'eiisequently in one of the Gar
field campaign biographies Ames is de
scribed as a " rascally Yankee black
smith' who net only organized a mag
nificent scheme of plunder, but set about
in a most villainous way te entrap guile
less members of Congress like Garfield
into partnership in his rascality.
It is very natural that Oakes Ames'
sons, who revere the memory of their
father with filial affection, should be
stung by these pest-mortem reflections
upon him into an attempt at his defense
which is net calculated te spare his Re
publican detractors who were partners in
hisenlerpri.se. They have published a,
lengthy appeal te the " American people
irrespective of party '" te reconsider the
popular judgment of Oakes Ames and
his Credit Mebilier scheme, and te be
lieve that it was a legitimate business
enterprise, which justly brought no dis
grace upon anybody connected with it
except the panic stricken individuals who
fearing the popular clamor lied about
their relations te it.
In explanation and defense of their
father's endowment of members of Con
gress with this stock, these young men
present the following reasons which in
their opinion " preclude the possibility
of a corrupt intent by either party : the
transfers of the stock were made: 1. As
as a sale net as a gift. At the same
price (par and accrued interest) which it
cost himself and all the original holders.
:;. At a lime when no legislation was
wanted, and with an express assurance
that none would be wanted. I. Te
known and tried friends of the enter
prise. '. Te men whose reputations'
were worth mere than money. . In
sums se small as te offer no temptation."
It will readily be seen that the first and
s2cend reasons are no reasons at all, since
the stock in question was se rich that its
dividends alone very seen paid for it ; as
te the third, it is true, no legislation was
wanted, but corrective legislation was
feared, and te avoid this there was every
inducement te bribe members of con
gress in ISfiS; Oakes Ames himself wrote
te Colonel McComb, in regard te the
shares distributed te Garfield and ethers:
" We want mere friends in this congress,
and if a man will leek into the law (and it
is difficult te get them te de it unless they
have an interest te de se) he cannot help
being convinced that we should net be
interfered with ;" the remaining rea
sons are net very substantial, and the
undisputed facts brought out in the in
vestigation dissipate them.
It is net likely that the country can be
led te lake such a favorable view of
Ames's conduct as his family would nat
urally desire ; but it must be admitted
that Garfield and his associates who had
taken the stock would have done much
better te present some such view of their
conduct than te have equivocated as they
did about it when they saw the tide of
adverse popular criticism set in against
them. It wastheir evasion, their perjury,
theirartful dodging and the pitiful expo
sure of it all that ruined them. The
younger Ames say that when the litiga
tion with itsexposurecame"mestof the
congressmen te whom Mr. Ames had
agreed te sell shares became alarmed.
Seme returned their .stock and get back
their money with interest ; some declined
it, and some afterwards denied that they
ever agreed te take it. A polit
ical Bull Run ensued. Under the influ
ence of a panic brave men became cow
ards, truthful men prevaricated, honest
men acted like convicted pickpockets,
while the meanest men in Congress as
sumed airs of Pharisaical superiority."
This is certainly the truth. Take
whatever view of the Credit Mebilier we
may and of Oakes Ames' part in it the
conduct which his sons ascribe te his be
neficiariesand it fits Garfield closest
of ail was cowardly and disgraceful.
Then they liecame rascals if they had net
net been before , and new they should be
the last of all te heap new indignities
upon the man whom they sent into the
wilderness laden with their sins as well
as his own.
The late Jehn G. Brenner honored his
native city by a distinguished business
career which reflected credit en the
home of his adoption. Bern in Lancaster
and having spent the greater part of his
life in Philadelphia, he was identified
with business interests which brought
him into relations extending ever the
whole country, and wherever he was
known he was honored for eminent per
sonal worth and excellent business qual
ifications. He was a loyal Democrat
and a man of high merit in all the rela
tions of life.
The tidings of the death of the II en ,
Wm. Bigler, at his home in Clearfield
this morning, though net unexinrted te
the people of this state, will Ih received
with sadness, for he was one of its wor
thiest citizens and a man in whom the
whole commonwealth took just pride. Of
humble origin, but of the worthiest stock,
a characteristic anecdote is related of his
parents' unexpected interest, in the state
elections of lMl, when ' Hill was run
ning for governor in Pennsylvania and
Jehn iu Califernia'' and both were
elected. In that campaign Mr. Bigler
was chosen governor by lSti,-ISs votes te
17S,034 for William F.Johnsten, put for
ward by the Whigs for re-election. In
1S34, by reason of the Knew- Nothing
movement, he was defeated in turn for
re-election by .lames F. Pollock. Frem
1S.15 te 18(51, he represented Pennsylva
nia in the United States senate ;
and he was one of the leading
members of the late Pennsylvania con
stitutienal convention. He has al
ways enjoyed the highest confidence of
his party and was urged for its guberna
torial nomination in 1S75, though of late
years he had had no taste for office, which
is net such a mark of worth as in the
days when he served his state and coun
try in public stations. His talents were
of that conspicuously practical order and
his character of that shining integrity
which made him one of Pennsylvania's
best citizens, and his less is a calamity te
the commonwealth.
The editor of the Arcw Era who lias
been relieved lately of some of his polit
ical assciatiens of the past few years, by
their withdrawal from his firm, is reveal
ing some of the information which he
gained during his late partnerships. He
has been "confidentially" told "all about
it" by some of the " experts," and in
one notable 'case " the writer was in
duced te retract a charge of fraud, upon
the assurance of a gentleman that we
were mistaken in our information ; but
a few years later, when he had severed
his relations with the faction he had for
merly acted with, he net only admitted
that what we charged was true, but that
we hadn't known the half, and he pro
ceeded te demonstrate that several can
didates declared nominated in that cam
paign had net been chosen by the peo
ple." New we submit that the Kcic Era
man ought te be as honest at least as the
Examiner'1 s editor and give names, dates
and places, like the Bull Ring daily did
when it told hew its friends in the Sec
ond ward cheated Geed out of 1 17 votes
at one fell sweep in 1879.
Theue is nothing unlikely in Mc
Donald's story of the whisky ring ; theie
are many things te corroborate it ; there
is nothing te discredit it except the char
acter of the witness. That does net dis
prove his testimony. It only requires a
correbation of it that a mere reputable
witness would net need. Much of what
he tells was fairly disclosed in the testi
mony which sent him te jail : that Bab
cock was a guilty partner no man of
sense ever doubted ; that McDonald and
Grant were close friends was notorious,
and that Grant get a fine team from him
as a present ; that Bristow was put out
of the cabinet for pushing the whisky
thieves, nobody knows belter than the
present chairman of the Republican na
tional committee. McDonald's story
therefore will carry weight with it ; it
will command large popular credence
he who narrates had nothing te lese in
keeping it, little te gain in telling it, and
the charges he makes need te be effectu
ally disproved, or these whom he impli
cates must expect merited infamy.
The New Yerk Tribune, which affects
te be a jicicspaper, in giving an extended
account of Garfield's presence at Chau
tauqua yesterday, and of the notables
there and what they said, never mentions
the name of Colfax, who was there and
made a speech from the same platform
en which Garfield was exhibited. What
grudge has Jay Gould against one Chris
tian statesman that he does net main
tain against the ether ?
There is nothing startling in the
news that Lincoln's old friend, David
Davis, has declared for Hancock. It is
gratifying, although net unexpected. It
is time the country heard from Benja
min F. Butler and Daniel E. Sickles.
PERSONAL.
Gen. Wm. O. Butleii, she died lately
iu Kentucky was en the Democratic ticket
for vice president with Cass.
Henry Bcrgh is wanted at Washington.
Haves' coachman has been driving a lame
herse for weeks.
" Adirondack" Muhuay is doing a suc
cessful commission business in Liverpool,
which is mero than he did for the Lord,
thinks a secular contemporary.
Nathax Bishop, L.L. D., one of the
original members of the beard of Indian
commissioners, appointed by General
Grant, died en Saturday morning at Sara
toga of malarial fever. He was 71 years
of age.
Rev. Dawsen Burns, of Londen, ad
dressed the National Temperance society
in New Yerk en Saturday, en the progress
of temperance reform in Great Britain.
Addresses were- also made by James
Black, esq., of Lancaster, and Mrs. Wil
lard. Garfield spent Sunday at Chautaqua.
He was present at worship in the amphi
theatre a 11 a. m. and also at a meeting of
the Yeung Men's Christian asseciatian
when ten thousand pcople wc:c present.
Schuyler Colfax made an address and
Geerge H. Stewart introduced Garfield te
the assembly. In answer te cries of
"speech," "let him speak," Garfield
merely bowed, thanked the audience and
rcmarxcuiuacuiat was net tiie proper
time or place for speech making. He was
then given "the Chautauqua salute,"
which ceasits of the waving of white hand
kerchief?, applause net being allowed, and
after singing a hymn the meeting closed.
MINOR TOPIC8.
Tin: Christian Adeecate tells of a Sunday
schoelth.it canted hi a precession a ban
ner inscribed, " Wnrrcii St. M. E. S. S."
The A hum lean Sunday Scheel Union shows
a better iUmmvHeii. whleh . never allows
ii.M'ir te
Pnlen.
be spoken of as the A. S. S
Tin: following ingenious little enigma is
insei fed under tlm oeuimandmoiits in the
eliumvl of an etd eliurch in Kuglaud :
I'KSVKYPKKtTMNVUKPTIISlMlCITS
TN. Only one letter is wanting te make
geed English of it. Ven eau de it with
ease ('). as fellows :
IVrsi'oieo jii'ileet men,
liver l,oeillicg.o nu'oepls Ien.
Tin: Timi:s reminds Jehn Cessna, who is
howling se against the Democrats that he
himself was a Democratic member of the
Heuse in I Sl'i', oaitetisscd with his party aud
ld it en tlie Moer: and iu 1803, when the
thunders of Lee's gun's in the Cumber
laud Valley could be heard iu the Demo
cratic state convention at Ilarrisburg, he
was a candidate for the Democratic nomi
nation for governor.
Semi: enjoyment has been had by the
Republicans ever the fact that a national
labor convention meeting in Sharen, this
state, had declared for Garfield. Wc
thought Sharen was a queer place for a
national convention, of even deg peltcrs,
te meet; and new it is disclosed that this
Garfield convention was.eompescd of four
tramps and an itinerant soap-dealer.
A temusii young potato ling
Sat s iuging en a vine.
AikI sillied initeu nmiden ling,
" I pray yen will be mine."
Then -ei;iy pakc the liuiMeii ling,
"I lore yen feiul ami true,
Knt.O! my crticl-lieurtcil par
Won't let me marry you."
Willi scorn upon hl-i buggy brew,
Witli glances cold anil keen,
That haughty lever answered her,
" I think your par-is green."
Cincinnati Times-Star.
Gi:ei;ci: Fir.vxcis Tkaijc says our mod
ern marriage service should be read thus :
Clergyman. " Will you take this brown
stone, this carriage and span, these diamonds-,
for thy wedded husband." "Yes.'
"Will you take this unpaid milliner's bill,
this high waterfall of foreign hair, these
affectation accomplishments and feeble
constitution for thy wedded wife?" "Yes."
"Then, what man has joined together let
the next best man run away with, se that
the first divorce court may tear them
asunder."
The editor of the New Yerk Independent
is having the details of the arrangement
under which Mile Saka BniiNiiAitivr is te
visit the United Stales, next fall. He
raises no objections against theatergoers
patronizing her performances. On the
stage she acts simply as a professional,
and theatergoers cannot afford te be over ever
nice as te the inoralsef their actors. " But
if the attempt is made te secure for this
unwed and unabashed courtesan " a social
success the Independent editor threatens te
pretest. She thinks he doth pretest tee
much'' ahcady.
Tin: Bcllcfenlc policy-holders in the Ly.
coining Mutual fire insurance company, at
a public meeting, have recommended that
the company no into immediate liquidation
te accomplish this end ; that all assets and
assessments due the company be collected
as rapidly as possible and the same be ap
plied te the discharge of all legal liabilities
of the company under the superintendence
of .some responsible person selected by the
policy holders, that all cash policies be im
mediately canceled and all mutual policies
at the eai licst day practicable. In e: der te
cany into effect the resolution te go into
liquidation the principal officer namely, the
president or secretary, is asked te resign,
se that his place may be filled by the elec
tien of the person chosen or nominated by
the policy holders. Should the officers of
the company 1 eject this recommendation
the committee appointed will be authorized
by the policy holders te in-titute legal pro
ceedings against the company, te have a
receiver appointed te settle up the affairs
of the company and take such ether mcas
urcs as will lead te that result.
A FtKNir.S CONFESSION.
The riicneiiK'iiiil Joint Mender Tells or Ills
Oark Deeds.
Sheriff Bender, of Labette county, Kan
sas, airivcd in Fremont, Neb., en Friday
night with a requisition for the return of
the supposed Benders new in custody. He
is confident from conversation with the
old man and admissions of the woman and
from his close lcscmblauce te the descrip
tions that he is the original Jehn Bender.
The sheriff started with the pair. The
obi man declares he will net be taken te
Kansas alive. Ne news has been received
in legard te the rest of the gang. Jehn
Bender makes the following statement:
"My name is Alexander McGregor. I
was born in the state of New Yerk. I
lived there when I married my first wife.
When 1 married her my wife had one
child, called William IIeulc, begotten in
adultry. After being married Jehn Ben
der, my son, was born. I then moved te
Illinois, where Kate was born. Kate and
Jehn were geed children, but ran away
when 17 or 18 years old and went te Kan
sas. My first wife died in Illinois with
consumption. After two years I married
the second. Her name was Nancy Peas-
ley. one nau tincc children. The chil
dren all died. I had no children by my
second wife. While living in Illinois I
committed my first murder. I killed a
short, d.iik-haired man and put
him ilewn the cellar through a
deer. I get some money. I buried him
back of the house two reds. The old
woman helped bury him. I went te Inde
pendence, Iowa, and worked en a farm at
my trade (blacksmithing) there. After a
while I went te Kansas. I had heard from
Kate and Jehn, who wrote for me te come
en. I went te Kansas te live with Jehn
and Kate. Maggie, Kate's cousin, was
there at the place called Bender's hotel.
Alter being tfieic a few days I helped
Jehn make a trap, the same as I had done
in Illinois. The first man killed wouldn't
get en the trapdoor. He and Kate slent
together and she killed him with a butcher
knife. She showed me the knife We
buried him near the house. The
only man I ever killed alone in
Kansas was a peddler. I hit him en
the hack of the head with a stone
hammer. I hit him once. I get a geed
deal of money from him. I don't knew
new iiiueu. l rcmemuer outers mat were
killed. One Jehn killed and put him under
the ice. Twe little children, both girls,
were buded alive. The children were
seven or eight months old. Their parents
were killed the dav before. I used te stand
behind the curtain and push the trap-deer.
Kate and Maggie were always down the
cellar te cut the victims' threat. After
leaving Kansas wc went with the Indians.
We thought this spring we must go te
Illinois te die. I started with Kate, Jehn,
ie and four children. The old woman
ana X left tnem at Schuyler. They bad a
team of old horses, one a bay and one a
gray, and an old wagon."
CRIME AND DISASTER.
Results or Wickedness Carelessness or Ulan
ders
At the Sligo iron mills in Allegheny
county, Michael Fenten leaned against a
pile of iron plates. They fell ever en bim
and crushed him te death.
While engaged in tearing down a derrick
at Beaver City, the crown block fell and
struck a man named Crey en the head,
badly cutting it open across the top.
Catherine Grant, New Brunswick, N. J.,
was se badly burned while attempting te
light a fire with kerosene, en Friday, that
she died the next morning.
L. W. Jamisen, a horse-trainer, at Spring
field, III., shot and fatally wounded Wil
liam Lewis, a negre, en Friday night, for
attempting te feloniously assault Hattic
White, a young servant girl.
A switch-tender, named Emery, who re
sided at Seuth Easten, was run ever and
instantly killed en Saturday afternoon by a
train, a short distance abeve the Lehigh
and Susquehana railroad depet.
M. II. Kimball, a hardware merchant en
Broadway, Baltimore, was drowned while
bathing at Bay Ridge. He was net missed
until the bathing suit which he had lured
was sought.
In a Meadville hardware store Willie
Hanratty, aged 15, waa passing under a
heisting apparatus, where a heavy steve
was being raised when the repe broke and
the boy was crushed beneath it, cutting a
fearful gash in his head, breaking both his
legs and internally injuring him.
The body of Patrick Corcoran, aged 24,
was found en the third pier of the Tenth
street bridge, Pittsburgh, with his skull
fractured and several ether wounds en his
head, evidently made with some blunt
instrument. It is supposed he was mur
dered in some house near by and carried te
this point.
The bark Neva Scotia, Captain Kibbcll,
leaded with 3,300 barrels of naphtha and
lying at Williamsburg, was burned last
night. Less, $45,000. The flames extend
ed te the barks Antenette aud Cyclone,
also leaded with naphtha, and caused dam dam
age of $10,000 te each.
Mr. Walter Bryant, Sr., a Philadelphia
millienare, aged 77, who was tomperarly
staying at the llyde Heuse, Ridgeway,
Elk county, rose from his bed while asleep
and jumped from the window a consider
able distance tc the ground, receiving in
juries which resulted in his death the fol
lowing day.
At Franklin Square, near Hempstead,
L. I., en the farm of Charles Hickman, a
row occurred between two of his farm
hands, Gantieg Yajan and Geerge Gevlin,
in which the former cut Gevlin's hand
with a sickle, inflicting a dangerous wound.
Yajan was pursued aud captured by the
citizens. Gevlin may die.
Burt Keith, a farmer of Guard town
ship, Erie county, becoming enraged at
one of his horses for some reason or ether,
took it by the tengue with his hands and
tore the member loose at the roots. The
cruel farmer was arrested and taken be
fore a justice of the peace where he plead
guilty te avoid exposing the evidence, and
was fined 10 and costs $1.39.
Jehn Sharer was digging a cellar, and
during the day his little daughter brought
him a lunch of bread and coffee While
he was eating, the bank above him began
te give way, aud the girl cried te hcrfather
te take care. Sharer, however, was se in
tent en getting his daughter out of danger
that he was overtaken by the falling mass
and died before assistance came.
Alexander Helland, treasurer of the
American express company, who has a
summer residence at West Park, en the
Hudsen, was terribly injured by his horses
running away while out riding with his
family. Mr. Helland was dragged ever
the dashboard at the heels of the horses,
and badly bruised about the head aud dif
ferent parts of the, body.
Themas E. Snclbakcr, keeper of an opera
house en Vine street, Cincinnati, shot Pe-
nceman A. Ulumlcy twice, once iu the
groin and ence in the abdeman. Clumley
will net survive Snclbakcr was under ar
rest at the time for a row in which he,
Clumloy'ssen, two of Clumley's daughter
and Virgie Jacksen, an actress, were en
gaged in a Vine street car.
The excursion propeller E. Corning, be bo be
lenging te Jehn II. Starin, was leaving
Glen Island, with betwecn 700 and 800
passengers, ana wlnfe backing out from
the pier, she ran her stern en a rock,
steving a hole in it, when she filled and
sauk te the guards. The passengers were
transferred te the steamers Laura 31. Star-
in ami bt. .Nicholas, without any less of
1110.
An old lady by the name of Pender
grast, who resided with her son en West
Carsen street, Seuth Side, Pittsburgh, had
gene np the read te gather coal and was
net seen by the engineer until tee close
upon her te rovcrse the engine. He
sounded the alarm, but the woman,
who was bctween soventy-five aud
eighty years of age, no doubt failed
te hear the whistle en account of the
noise from the mill. Her head was entire
ly severed from her body, her bowels cut
open and strewed along the track and
othcrwise horribly mutilated.
STATE ITEMS.
The Jeffersen county agricultural society
announces a baby show, which will take
place Wednesday, Septembcr 15. Com
petition open te all.
Daniel Lengakcr, a well known citizen
of Norristown, a prison inspector and di
rector of the Montgomery national bank,
fell dead en Saturday afternoon of apo
plexy. The Reading supply certificates, propesJ
ed by the receivers, have been approved by
Judge McKenna, and will be issued
promptly in payment of bills for supplies
furnished te the two companies before
their suspension. The bills te be covered
by the certificates amount te nearly a mil-
hien dollar,
Stephen Ferd, a nine-year-old son or
Jehn Ferd, or Pleasant Valley, Luzerne
comity. uisappearcU from home en Thurs
day aud has net been heard or siuci. His
parents are in decp distress, and search is
being made in every direction. It is sup
posed he les"t his way while gathering ber
ries in the weeds.
Continuous rains have produced .i lmiw
freshet in Cape Fear river. Advices from
Fayettcville, N. C, report a rise of thiity thiity
twe fectand the river is still rising at the
rate of two feet per hour. The lowlands
are overflowed, resulting in an immense
damage te the corn and cotton crops. At
some points the water is ever the top of
the corn.
Up near Milferd little Crissy Wagner
fell into the Delaware. When takeneut
he was supposed te be dead. Fifttcen
minutes had he remained uuder Water. At
ence the work or resuscitation was limmn
After some minutes had elapsed signs of
me in me inanimate oeuy eegan te appear
aud he was revived.
The Northampton Democratic county
convention was held in Easten en Satur
day. Thousands of people flecked int- ,
town from all parts of the county. Ad
dresses were made by Messrs. S. S. Cox,-of
New Yerk and Hiester Clymer, of Read
ing. Previous te the assembling of the
convention the different clubs in the coun
ty, headed by two bands of music, made
a parade. Leading Democrats claim that
the county will give 4,000 majority for
When Cel. P. Rudy Heller, the Wind I
Gap postmaster, was arrested for alleged
irregularities iu his accounts,-the officer
experienced considerable difficulty in per
suading Heller te accompany him te Eas Eas
eon. Heller said, "De yen sink dat Cel.
J. P: 'Rudy Heller, who commanded
10,000 men, will be toeken by von man ?
Ne, never !" The colonel was brought te
Easten, and endeavored te procure bail,
but could net get any. He was taken te
Philadelphia te await trial. It is said he
is short in his accounts te tlie amount of
$10G, and his friends declare it is only a
clerical error.
LATEST NBWS BY MAIL..
Baseball: At Providence Providence,
0 ; Cleveland, 0. At Bosten Chicago, 0 ;
Bosten, 3.
Twenty-five ballets for governor in the
Georgia Democratic state convention and
no nomination yet.
A woman in Stanley comity, N. C, eiilv
thirty years old, has been married three
times and has sixteen living children. They
were all twins.
Rev. Jehn A. Waterson was consecrated
as Catholic bishop of Columbus, Ohie,
yesterday. The ceremonies wcie very im
posing. The Ceney Island steamer, Riverdalc,
while laying at the feet of Twenty-fifth
street, New Yerk, blewefi'hcr steam drum
head. There were no passengers en beard
at the time.
Jehn A. McMahon, in a letter te his con
stituents, accepts the nomination as Dem
ocratic candidate for Congress in the Ohie
Fourth district, which nomination he posi
tively declined at the convention a week
age.
This is the way it gees : "Tanner's shaip
appetite." ever eleven pounds of feed,
net counting three watermelons, consumed
by him in thirty hours." "Eight pounds
and a half of flesh gained and the doctor,
te his great delight, filling up and getting
strong."
The cotton crop in Alabama has been se
much damaged by worm. and the recent
rains taht it is new feared that net mero
than half the cotton that was expected,
four weeks age, en the prairies and bottom
lauds will be made. The crop is also in
jured by rust.
The damaged stone at the top of the in
complete shaft of the Washington monu
ment, at Washington, D. C, has been re
moved, and the work of completing the
monument was begun en Saturday, the
first stene being laid in lle presence of Mr.
Hayes, who placed in the cement some coins
bearing the initials and the date.
Twe of a Kind.
Xew Verk World.
General Garfield pcrhap.4 felt a certain
.shamefaccdness when he was brought out
te be looked at at Chatauqua Lake, after
Mr. Schuyler Colfax had concluded an
oration. The despatches arc careful te set
forth that Mr. Colfax has no connection
with the party, but it is net at all clear
whether this cautious declaration is insist
ed en by Mr. Colfax or by General Gar
field. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
Ni:itiiii:ouueoD Ninv.s.
Kvenis Acress the County Lines.
William Shersly's warehouse at Ilarris
burg was entered en Friday night by bnr
blars, who blew open the safe, hut get only
a small amount of meney.
Jacob Grim, a lad about four ycais of
age, residing in Concwage township, Yerk
county, was sitting en a wheelbarrow,
with an open pocket knife in his hand, he
foil te the ground, the blades penetrating
his abdomen below the lower lib. He was
picked up, the knife drawn, and medical
aid was summoned, but he died.
Ceorge Zcchmau, who was acquitted in
the Rabcr murder trial, is at present a su
perintendent of a Sunday school iu Fishing
Creek Valley.
There is every reason te believe that the
great parade te be held iu Columbia to
morrow, by the Brotheihood of the Union
will he one of the biggest demonstrations
iu the way of a society p.irade ever seen in
that part of the country. There will be
representatives of the order present fiem
every section of the state.
During the absence of Jehn Wermanaiid
his family from their rei.irieniM in East
Coventry, Chester county, bnrglai.s forced
open the front deer and stoic $Q worth of
jewelry and a small amount in cash. Some
money was left by Mrs. Werman in the
pocket of an old dies, which the burglars
failed te find, notwithstanding the house
was searched throughent.
Brisbin Skilcs, of Ceatcsvillc, was out
fox hunting a night or two age with a
large pack or hounds. The latter, unfor
tunately, get into some of the tobacco
patches in that vicinity, and narrowly es
caped having their pelts perforated with
bullets by the owners of the aforesaid to
bacco patches.
Matisen Smith, of East Nottingham,
the conductor of the Philadelphia & Bal
timore Central railroad, who fell from a
freight train en the Chester Creek branch,
a short time since, and was obliged te
undergo an amputation of one arm. has
died.
A West Chester paper says: "Cenily
llali, clerk m the Chester county bank,
Alfred and Heward Paxson. of East Brad
ford, will te-day leave for Lancaster
county, with the intention of camping en
the banks of the Susquehanna river in
Eden town-ship." It will take a long fish
ing red te leach ft em Eden township te
the Susquehanna.
EAST CX1 LOCALS.
Uy Our Traveling CoricspeiKleiit.
A large numher of wells arc being dug at
the Gap, some of them for residences
about te be erected and ethers te supply
water for the use of the Pennsylvania raii raii
read company.
The Democrats of Belmont will raise a
fine hickory pole and Ji.ive a mass meeting
en Friday next. Able speakers will be
present.
On Wednesday a handsome Hancock
pole will be erected by the Democracy of
Smyrna.
Geerge Dillcr, of Leaman Place, has just
received two carloads of as haudsome cat
tle as were ever shipped from the west.
S. M. Tewnscnd, residing at Smyrna,
nas a line let el iSiS tobacco, one of the
few lets of the crop of 1878 yet remaining
in the hands of growers.
Dr. Sanferd, of St. Leuis, a dentist, who
purchased a tiaet of ground just below
Kinzcr's station en the Pennsylvania rail
read and erected upon it a fine cottmre.
which he will occupy as a summer residence
has one of the prettiest buildings and ec
cupies one of the most commanding posi
tions in the county. IIe is handsomely
improving his spacious grounds.
On last Saturday evening a festival was
held in Cel. Lightner's meadow, near Par
adise, the proceeds of which were te be
used for the purpose of purchasiuj: an ar
tificial leg for a citizen of that village. The
music was furnished by the Paradise cor
net band aud was excellent. The attend
ance was large and geed order prevailed
until an Intercourse " rough" appeared
and insulted a gentleman's wife. He was
promptly knocked down and quiet was re
stored. The farmers around Lcamau Place and
vicinity are pestered nearly every night by
parties who visit "their premises and com
mit depredations of various ki'ids ; spring
houses and cellars are robbed of their con"
tents, aud in some cases the parties have
had neither bread nor butter left for breakfast.
OKlTUAltY.
Deaths or Dr. Theme and Jehn ;. Ilrenner.
The numerous friends or Dr. S. n
Theme will be grieved te hear or his
death, which occurred en Thursday night
at his residence in Palmyra. Although
the doctor has been ailing and out of ac
tive practice during the last two years, yet
no one expected his death at this early
day. IIe was born in Lancaster county,
en tlie first day of July, 1808. He com
menced the practice of medicine in Man
heim, in 1834, remaining there about a
year and a half, after which time he
moved te Palmyra, where he has been in
the active practice of his profession up te
1879. He was the eldest physician in Leb
anon county (Dr. Cooper, of Jonestown,
eniy excepted.) In his day he ranked
amongst the foremost men of the profession
and his practice covered an almost
unlimited territory. But a year age, after
reaching the goal of his ambition, he laid
aside all cares te enjoy the full fruits of a
laborious and well-spent life. He was net
long destined te enjoy this state. He had
a large circle or friends and was loved and
respected by all who knew him. He leaves
a wife and five children, viz : Dr. Wm. II.
Theme, of Palmyra; Prof. Jehn M.
Theme, new in Seuth America ; Mrs. Dr.
Roebuck, of Lititz ; Dr. C. V. Theme, of
Grantville, and Mr. Samuel M. Theme,
who arrived home fiem Europe but a few
days age.
The tate Jehn O. Ilrenner.
Mr. Jehn G. Brenner, an old and well
known citizen of Philadelphia died yester
day morning at his residence, Ne. 1233
Arch street, aged seventy-one years, of
congestion of the brain. Deceased had
been ill for a short time. He was the senior
member of the old-established haul ware
firm of Jehn G. Brenner, Sen & Ce., Ne.
21 North Fifth street, where he had been
engaged in business for thirty-six
years. Tlie firm was first kuewn
as Bewley & Brenner, then Handy &
Brenner, and several years age was
changed te its present title. Mr. Brenner
was probably as well known as a merchant
as any ether person engaged in the hard
ware business, and had the reputation of
being a straightforward and reliable busi
ness man. He continued a member of the
firm until his death. Fer many years he
was a large importer. Mr. Brenner was
one of the originators of the Penn mutual
insurance company, and also a director of
the Girard national bank. Iu politics he
was always a staunch Democrat. De
ceased leaves a widow and nine children.
Mr. Brenner, who was as well-known in
this city as iu Philadelphia, was born in
Lancaster and has an extensive family con
nection in this county. His wife was a
sister of Cel. Wm. B. Ferdncy of this city ;
and Jehn G. Brenner, of Millcrsvillc, Cel.
Ed. Brenner, of Columbia, and Mrs. C. II.
Brcncman, of this city are children of his
brother. Mr. Brenner was engaged once
in mercantile pursuits in this city and for
merly lived at Abbey ville new the Hagcr
homestead. As a Democrat Mr.
Brenner was distinguished iu the party
councils. As the friend of Buchanan
he carried te Ferney the proffer of the
Liverpool consulate, which Ferney de
clined. Mr. Brenner was offered the col cel col
lectership of thepertatPhiladclphia under
Jehnsen, but declined it ; he also declined
the pi offered appointment of trustee of the
Jay Coeke estate. IIe had served iu the
city councils of Philadelphia and was once
a city director of the Pennsylvania railroad.
As such lie waged stout warfare against
the abuses then existing in the manage
ment of that company, and te the praise of
honest men made his directorship obnexi
eus te these who were enriching them
selves at the expense or the stockholders.
OlIU STAVI.K.
Lecal Tobacco Trade.
The local tobacco trade appears te be iu
a very healthy condition, notwithstanding
the false prophesies and lamentations of
the New Yerk Tobacco Journal. Sampling
is going en actively in most of the
packing establishments, and will net be
finished for a mouth. As far as this im
portant work has gene the result has been
quite satisfactory. On the whole the crop
of 1870 "can't be beat." for size, duality
or style.
Quite a number of buyers are iu the
city, and although as yet the crop has net
been thrown upon the market, some pur
chases have been made. Seme of the buy
ers say they were deceived last year by in
terested parties who were constantly de
crying the crop, and waited se long before
purchasing that they were unable te get as
much as they wanted. This year they are
resolved te be en time, and will, no doubt,
make a " break" for the cream of the crop
as seen as it shall be in condition. Al Al
eost without exception the buyers of 1870
are well pleased with their purchases, and
de r.et begrudge the prices they paid.
The crop of 1880 is doing finely.
Perhaps mero than hair or it has
been topped, aud net a little has been cut
of! and placed upon the poles. The later
planted fields arc net yet ready for top
ping, but the plants' are vigorous and
healthy-looking and growing finely. Twe
or thrce weeks mere fine weather, such as
we are new having, will fully mature the
latest plantings. Although, as has been
stated in previous issues of this paper
there is much irregularity in the growth
of the plants in some sections, it will affect
the crop but little, as there is ample time
yet for the smallest plants te develop, un
less there should be an unusually heavy
frost.
That these most largely engaged in
packing and manufacturing have abundant
faith in tiie growing crop, is evident by
the fact that a number of the heaviest op
erators have already secured their packing
cases, aud four or five warehouses new in
cour&e of erection have already been leased
for a term of five years. Although net
much buying or selling is going en just
new, this is a very active season among
the growers and samplers, who will be
busy as bees for a month te come.
Cannet Ke Found.
On Friday and Saturday the membcrs of
the Martiasville herse detective assecia
tien were out in search of the horse which
was stolen from Jehn Hess, at Hcss's sta
tion, Providcr.ce township, en Thursday
night. They visited Baltimore and ether
cities, but were unable te find any traces
of the animal, which is believed te have
been stolen by a tramp. The man was
seen leafing around the premises of Mr.
Hess all day en Thursday, and was seen
near the barn during the night.
CAMP MEETINGS.
At MIUerftYlllr. KSby and Oakvllle.
Yesterday the annual campmecting of
the colored people at Rigby in Fulton
township, below Penn Hill was held. It
was very largely attended by both white
aud colored folks from this county and
Maryland. There was preaching in the
morning and afternoon and everything
passed off quietly.
At Hlllersville.
A colored campraeeting, which is being
held by the Strawberry street A. 31. E.
churcli, began in Shenk's weeds, Millers
ville, en Saturday, and will continue for
ten days. The attendance yesterday was
was very large, especially by people or this
city both colored and white. The Mil
Iersville street rail way company ran special
cars and they were crowded en every
trip. The number carried ever the read
from this city is estimated at 1,000. In the
morning the sen-ices were conducted by
Rev. Benjamin Darks, of Yerk, who
preached in the evening also : Rev. Hen
dersen Davis, of Phemixville, preached in
the afternoon.
Rev. A. A. Robinson, of this city, has
charge of the camp aud was very success
ful in preserving geed order. There are
ten tents erected in the camp besides a
large platform for the speakers, and a
number of bearding and refreshment tents.
There was much complaint made by
persons from this city that the railroad ac
commodations were entirely inadequate.
Although the meeting closed at a little
after 9 o'clock, the passengers did net get
iu until after midnight. Tlie read in
many places is in bad condition. During
the afternoon the rails "spread " and the
passengers were obliged te wait until
seven new tics were laid.
This morning the services were conduct
ed by Rev. Hendersen Davis. This after
noon Mrs. Williams, an evangelist from
the Seuth, is announced te speak. Rev.
Jeseph Robinson, of the Pert Deposit cir
cuit, will preach te-morrow, and during
the encampment Rev. Jacksen Davis will
be present and participate in the services.
Onkvllle.
The semi-centennial campmecting of the
East Pennsylvania Eldership of the church
or Ged, will commence at the Oakville.
(Cumberland county) camp grounds en
Saturday next, aud will continue ten days.
The services are expected te be or a very
impressive character, as all the leading
spirits or the church will be in attend
ance. SUMMKi: LKISUKK.
Sea Rrecze Ateantnln Air Rural Similes
and Invigorallnceprlnga Water.
Messsrs. D. E. Bitncr, E. E. Steigcr
walt and II. E. Eicholtz left en a early
train this morning for Ocean Beach. They
exiwct te be gene about one week.
Rev. S. II. C. Smith, of the Duke street
M. E. church, whose two weeks vacation
begins te-day, left with his wire this fore
noon for Emery Greve campmecting, and
after sojourn there they will go te Anbury
park.
Rev. J. Y. Mitchell, D. D., or the Pres
byterian church, this city, preached in the
Presbyterian church at Cape May Point
yesterday.
The picnic or the Presbyterian Mission
Sunday school, which was postponed last
week en account or the bad weather, will
be held at What Glen te-morrow, when a
geed time may be expected.
Win. J. Ferdncy, chief of the Lancaster
lira department, left this city for Bedford
Springs ycstciday. He gees iu his own
conveyance a stylish two-horse buggy
the better te sec the charming scenery
along the route. He will travel by easy
stages in the forenoon and lie by during
the heat or the day. IIe will be absent
for some time.
Misses Louisa Ncidich ami Kate and
Ella Hestettcr, have gene te Petersburg te
rusticate for a few days.
Jehn ilcimcnzlcft this morning for Bed
ford Springs, te remain about 10 days, and
from thence he gees te Grantville.
W. A. Wilsen, esq., said in a speech at
Bairville, en Saturday, that Hancock is a
geed man but it would have liccnafine
thing if he had been shot at Gettysburg.
Daniel Mayer, who represents the to
bacco firm of Kerbs & Spciss, in this city,
left en a four week's summer trip this
morning. He will visit Williamsport,
Elmira, Saratoga, Ceney Island, New Yerk
and ether places of interest.
The Sunday school and congregational
picnic of St. Jehn's Episcopal cmirch,
which was postponed en account of the
rain last week, will be held at Lititz en
Friday next. Tickets purchased last week
will be geed.
Rcah Frazcr, past assistant paymaster
or the United States navy, who has been
stationed at Brooklyn, is home en a short
visit. He sails en Thursday te join his
ship at Halifax.
S. R. Miller, of this city, en Saturday
last, caught in the Susquehanna, opposite
Fite's Eddy, six bass, the largest measur
ing 19 inches aud weighing 3 pounds and
7 ounces. Twe ethers measured respective
ly 1G inches, and the remaining ones about
10 inches.
A Sunday school picnic of Christ Luther
an church will be held en Wednesday
next, August 11, at What Glen park. Om
nibuses will be at the church for the pur
pose of conveying passengers te the.
ground at 1 o'clock Wednesday morn
ing. Unrlaimed Letters.
The following is a list of unclaimed let
ters remaining in the postefficc at Lancas
ter for the week ending Monday, Aug. 9,
I-1880 :
ladies List. Emily Coeke, Hannah
Dougherty, Sarah Fergusen, Lizzie Hess,
Mary S. Hcrr, Malinda Hekc,:Lydia R.
Lehman, Hannah Phillips, Mrs. Harriet
E. Swarthy. Lucy E. Williams. Anna
Winkler, A. Lizzie Weaver.
Gents' List. I.. Adle, Maj. Benedick,
Bcerkshirc Life Ins. Ce., James A. Bar
rett, Bernard Betty (for.), 3Ii!ten Biarly,
Jehn S.Bard, Abiam Brubaker, Geerge T.
Cathcll, Chichester Rifle Ce., B. Fergusen,
Jehn S. Ifiuw, Jacob Hear, Jehn K. Hither
(2), Rev. J. Kaib, James McCall. II. C.
.Miller, Jacob Reynold, Jacob B. Sherick,
J. N- Yeung.
Sale unreal Estate.
Chas. Edwards, has bought of 3Ir. Gee.
II. Lemen his two-story brick with man
sard reef dwelling house and store-room,
and let 32 feet front and 25G feet deep en
West King stiect for $3,800.
Sale at Hank Stock.
J. B. Leng, teal estate agent, sold te-day
at private sale, ten shares of Farmers' Na
tional bank stock at 3100 per share.