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THURSDAY EVENING. AUG. 12, 1880.
Civil Service Reform Sham.
Tiie Republican party has been very
profuse in premises of some sort of civil
service reform during the past seven or
eight years, without any performance
however. These eminent civil service
reformers, Messrs. Schurz, Evarts and
Curtis, have ever and again given in their
adhesion te their party with some
misgivings as te its position en ether
questions en the pretext that en this is
sue of supreme importance, as it seems
te them, the Republican party gives the
better premise te the country. Their
own record does net afford such evidence
of sincerity and consistency as te make
them sufficient surety for their party nor
their support of its candidates any guar
antee that in their election the cause of
civil service reform would be advanced.
It will be remembered that at the mem
erable Fifth Avenue hotel conference of
independent public men in 1870, Mr.
Schurz and his confreres declared most
emphatically against any candidate for
president " who, however favorably
judged by his nearest friends, is
net known te possess these quali
ties of mind and diameter which
the stern tusk of genuine reform
requires," thereby conspicuously mean
ing Hayes. But after a geed deal of
dalliance Schurz supported Hayes and
was rewarded for it, by previous arrange
ment it is generally believed, with a place
in the cabinet. And yet the most signal
feature of Hie civil service as organized
by the present administration has been
the liberal and unfailing reward of every
man tainted with the fraud of feislering
it into office. The counsel fees of the
lawyers, the services of the visiting
statesmen, the iniquitous work of the
returning beards and the pettiest rascal
ity of the meanest scamp among these
who compassed the electoral fraud have
all been paid by a prostitution of the
civil service te meet the obligations.
The premises conveyed te the public
in "Civil Service order Ne. 1," have
been kept te the ear only te be regularly
broken te the hope. The abuse of office
te partisan and factional ends gees en
the same as before, the enforced assess
ments of the office-holders and the syste
matic blackmail of the. government em
ployees. The cabinet ministers them
selves set the example of defying and re
pudiating this order, and from the day
that Evarts and Sherman went ever to te
New Yerk te aid the election for gov
ernor of the man whose removal from
federal office they had secured en the
ground of his abuse of it from that time
forth the humblest clerk in the depart
ments has felt that under this administra
tion civil service reform is a hollow pre
tense. Mr. Garfield's shuffling en this issue
gives no assurance that the reformers, as
they call themselves by way of distinc
tion from the .stalwarts, have any reason
te expect him te carry out their professed
principles. These were never belter
slated perhaps than by Mr. Garfield him
self in the Atlantic Monthly se late an
July, 1S77. In that article Mr..Garfield
said :
"The present system invades the inde
pendence uf the executive, and makes him
less responsible for the character of his
apneiutments; it impairs the efficiency of
the legislator by diverting him from his
proper sphere of duty, and involving him
in the intrigues of aspirants for office ; it
degrades the civil service itself by destroy
ing the personal independence of these
who are appointed ; it repels from the scr scr
vicclhese high and manly qualities which
arc se necessary te a pure and efficient ad
ministration ; and, iinally, it debauches
the public mind by holding up public office
as the reward of lucre party zeal.
"Te reform this service is one of the
most imperative duties of statesmanship.
This reform cannot be accomplished with
out a complete divorce between Congress
and the executive in the matter of ap
pointments. It will be a proud day when
an administration senator or representa
tive, who is in geed standing iu his party,
can say as Themas Hughes said, duriug
his recent visit te this country, that though
he was en the most intimate terms with
the members of his own administration,
yet it was net in his power te secure the
removal of the humblest clerk in the civil
service of his government."
Had Mr. Garfield repeated any such
declarations iu his letter of acceptance,
he might be classed by Messrs. Schurz
and Evarts and Curtis as one who was
disposed te put into practice the theories
they profess. But Mr. Conkling and
Mr. Cameren and Mr. Legan would net
have steed it for a moment. They would
support no man who denied the rights of
the local bosses in their several stales.
Se iu his letter of acceptance Mr. Gar
field denied himself, repudiated the civil
service reform theorists and gave him
self completely into the hands of the stal
warts. There was no misunderstanding
his meaning when he said iu his letter of
acceptance :
" The executive should therefore seek
and receive the information and assistance
of these whose knowledge of communities
in which duties are te be performed best
qualify them te aid in making the wisest
choice."
He yields te the sort of civil service
which Herace "White says has been " or
ganized upon strict principles of priva
teering" and te the men who have "voted
down with jeers" every effort te reform
it. Ne wonder Mr. Curtis pronounced
his letter " inadequate and disappoint
ing," and that the Ercnhuj Pest deplored
the " intellectual and moral paralysis "
which had befallen him. And yet Mr.
Garfield's evasions and turnings about
en this question are exactly like his shift
ing position en the tariff, en finance, en
the question of the constitutional sub
versions by Congress, en the deputy mar
shalls' bill and en the question of section
alism. Everywhere aiid at all times he
is a trimmer.
If his surrender left any doubt that
the Republican party- is against civil
service reform, Mr. Conkling's triumph
iu getting Arthur en the ticket selves it
nis removal was the pretended grand
stroke of civil service reform by Hayes,
and he was kicked out because, as Sher
man and Hayes told him and the coun
try, his office was dishonestly adminis
tered, and he made no effort te reform it.
And yet Mr. Conkling new brings Hayes,
Sherman, Schurz, Evarts, Curtis and the
whole of them into support of this man,
who se lately was exhibited by them asj
the frightful example of what was net
civil service reform.
After all the whole theory and practice
of genuine civil service reform is tersely
stated in Gen. Hancock's letter of accep
tance. It is better than any system that
has been devised by the Republicans
themselves. There is every reason te be.
lieve he will carry it out and there is no
prospect that his opponent will, for the
men who are depended upon te elect
Garfield will net admit that " Pl-blic
OFFICE IS A TRUST NOT A BOUNTY ; NO
INCOMPETENT OB, DISHONEST PERSON
SHOULD EVER BE ENTRUSTED WITH IT,
OR IF APPOINTED THEY SHOULD BE
PROMPTLY REJECTED."
The Texas and Pacific.
The Texas and Pacific railway, which
for se many years was at the deer of
Congress asking public aid for its work,
new publishes a report showing its suc
cessful progress, although it received no
such aid. Notwithstanding the financial
disturbance which se long oppressed the
country and paralyzed public works this
enterprise has lived and flourished ;
showing very clearly the Heedlessness of
the appeal it made for public charity.
The work had virtue in itself and has
commanded the capital necessary te its
coustructien. Had it leen otherwise it
should net have been built. Any rail
road that is of sufficient importance te
justify its building, can secure its con
struction by private capital, which is
abundant and always en the alert for pro
fitable investment. The present Pacific
read would thus have been built without
government aid. The money contri
buted te it out of the public
treasury all went into the pockets of
its originators and the stock which they
get for nothing is new worth about par.
When the Texas and Pacific people
found that they could net make a similar
speculation at the national eest they
went te work without it, and new de
clare that they have made a profitable in
vestment of their money. Xe doubt they
have. The great land grant they have
received was mere than they ought te
have had, and it was the sheerest au
dacity te ask a pledge of the government
credit in addition. Men without money
who are ambitious te tnvn a Pacific rail
read succeeded once in getting the gev
eminent te pay for the building of one
and give it te them. Oakes Ames' sons
think that they were net overpaid for their
idea ; which is all the original Pacific rail
read projectors advanced te the enterprise,
A number of ether men of like wild am
bitien have had great domains of th
public lands contributed te Iheir rail
reads and have finally found men of
money te advance the needed cash.
These who come hereafter, possessed of a
desire te own a big railroad, will have te
find all the means themselves. The gev
ernment has gene out of the business,
The Texas and Pacific people were the
last of its beneficiaries. Wc hope they
will prosper. Ne doubt they will. "With
the advantage they have had from these
munificent national gifts they ought te
float their line of railway, if it is of
any value te the country it is te traverse
and if tee much of that country is net a
desert.
The Republicans of Chester county
have always affected a little extra politi
cal piety, and have looked with some de
gree of scorn upon their Cameren ring
ridden and corporation-controlled breth
ren in ether counties of the state. But
their county meeting this year seems te
have been quite as remarkable for what
it did net de as for anything that was
done, and the way 'their leaders fled panic
stricken before Mr. Lockwood's truthful
and vigorous declarations, shows that the
Darlingtens and Hayses, and ether shin
ing lights of Chester county Republican
ism have no mere courageous virtue in
reforming their party than the Heg King
and Bull Ring speilsmen en this side of
he Octoraro.
The news of the terrible ocean disaster
in the East, in which a thousand pilgrims
were reported lest, turns out happily te
be untrue. The master who abandon
ed his ship naturally thought it was
lest because it had lest him, as
the Indian conceived his wigwam
te be lest because he couldn't find it.
The general congratulations that the
ship, crew and passengers were saved,
are only alloyed by the regret that such
a captain survived te hear that despite
his cowardice his ship is safe.
PERSONAL.
Judge Peiitek, the Republican candi
date for governor of Indiana, it is stated,
has been assessed ten thousand dollars for
campaign expenses.
Friday is national day at Chatauqua.
The pregramme includes an address by
Schuvlek Cei.fax, a lecture by Jeseph
Cook, a telephone concert in the amphi
theatre, fireworks, an illumi nated fleet, an
electric fountain, etc.
W. B. Cartek, of New Yerk, challenges
Rewcll, the English pedestrian, for a
walking match for the Astley -belt, and
suggesting the middle of October as the
time and Agricultural hall, in Londen, as
the place for the contest.
The marriage of the Bareness Biirdktt Biirdktt
Ceutts will seen become an accomplished
fact, unless the remenstrances of her
friends prevail. According te the will of
the Dutchess of St. Albans the bareness
has absolute disposal of all her property
except the Coutts land, which passes te
her nephew, Mr. Meney, if she marries an
alien.
The funeral of Ex-Governer Biei.ek was
very large. All places of business and
manufactories were closed. Appropriate
services were held at his late residence,
Rev. Henry S. Butler, of the First Presby
terian church, officiating. Ex-Governer
Curtin, General James A. Beaver, S. T.
Shugert and P. Gray Meek, of Bcllefentc ;
Hen. A. H. Dill, non. J. Simpsen Africa
and P. A. Keller, esq., were among these
in attendance.
The Lcbanon-Dauphin-Nerthumberland
Democrats talk of nominating Grant
Weidman, esq., for Congress. His would
be an excellent name te print at the head
of the ticket. Sam Barr who is en the
Cameren slate for tire Republican nomi
nation is the personification of Camcrenisra
with a big C. His selection will cause
quite a revolt which could net be better
turned te Democratic advantage than with
Weidman as his opponent. Ou the flood
tide of a Hancock boom aud with old
Northumberland stirred te her borders un
liklicr things have happened than Weid
man' s election would be.
MINOR TOPICS.
The city council of Quebec, a few nights
age, as a matter of economy, ordered that
street lamps should net be lighted. Since
the gas has been turned off fifty at
tempts at burglary have been made in the
city.
The national Democratic committee,
with headquarters at 138 Fifth avenue,
New Yerk, want all Hancock and English
campaign and ether Democratic organiza
tion's te send te that address : 1st. The
name and location of their organization.
2d. A statement of the number of mem
bers enrolled, 3d. The name of officers.
4th. Accounts of meetings held.
Following is one of the verses of a Re
publican campaign seng:
The CurticUl train is booming fast
Children, children, won't you fellow me?
We'll tick te .lamed from tkcllrst te the lust,
Halle, lialie, Italic, hallelujuh !
When the war began with u rebel row,
Children, children, won't you fellow me?
He took the front, put his hand te the plow,
Halle, halle, Italic, halleluiah!
Ci:e:ti- In the morning. In the nierningby the
bright light.
When tinrlicld blows hU trumpet in
the morning!
It was written by Joyce, one of the St.
Leuis whisky ring thieves pardoned by
Grant. lie is in regular Republican hire
te write such seugs.
Tin: story of Ames T. Bisscl having
been driven from Brazeuia, Texas, for
making a Republican speech is effectually
exploded by the investigations of a corres
pondent of the Chicago Inter- Ocean, the
Radical paper which first published it,
who was sent there specially te investigate
it. lie says no such state of things exists
there at all, black and white Republicans
de and say what they please, and that he
never heard greater freedom of speech
than the Republicans down there engage
in, even te a large preponderance of Dem
ocratic auditors."
Vekxeu's weather prediction for August
was as fellows : " Heat will in all proba
bility extend through the first half of the
month of August, and equal if net exceed
the heated terms of July. August will
likewise be characterized by severe storms
and heavy showers of rain, or in places
hail ; but en the whole the month will be
comparatively a dry and het one in Canada
and bordering United States. A cool te
cold term with frosts may occur between
the 15th and 20th days, after which heat
may again be expected up te September 1.
The month will resemble that of the year
1S7C. I already foresee very early and se
vere cold, with snowfalls in October, but
of this mere again.
7vTir. JiwTin: Mi-mcim, of the supreme
court of Pennsylvania, was in Chicago the
ether day and gave his views te a Times
reporter of the Credit Mebilicr swindle.
He says that " while in Congress he knew,
and everybody else knew, that congress
men were holding stock in the Credit Mo Me
bilicr, and nothing iras thought of it mere
than would be if they owned any ether
property. The whole trouble arose from
the hick of beldnixx in the men themselves;
if they had come and declared that they
had the stock, and asked what of it, noth
ing would have been thought of it. But a
uert of moral xpasm struck the country at
that time, and it was held te be wrong for
congressmen te held stock of any kind."
At the same time Justice Miircur admits
that Ames distributed his stock " te pre
vent unfavorable or unjust legislation."
STATUVOI.KNUE.
All Aft or the Will.
Ens. I.NTEi.i.ieENCKit As an erroneous
idea was advanced iu yesterday's paper, in
regard te Statuvelcnce. I am forced te
correct it.
Statuvelcnce, as the word implies, is
self-induced, (by instructions.) Persons,
therefore, cannot be " put," forced or
kept in the condition by any one.
With regard te its truth I have bat te
add that " If " the prejudice of per
sons will permit them te go where it. can
be demonstrated, the facts exhibited wil
seen dissipate all their scruples.
Respectfully,
W.m. B. Fahnksteck.
Lancaster, Pa., Aug. 12, 1S80.
SEIllUUS CaLAMITIKS.
The Dangers of Travel.
A Chapter of Accidents.
A barge containing about 1,000 excur
sionists struck a lloed-rock iu the East
river, X. Y., last evening. Great excite
ment ensued, but all were rescued.
A severe windstorm prevailed yesterday
extending from Richmond, Intl., te
Urbana, Ohie, prostrating telegraph poles
and doing ether damage.
An accident occurred in England en the
Midland railway, 'between Leeds and Lan
caster, where a passenger train left the
rails. Seven persons were killed and twenty
injured.
A despatch from Canten, China, says
that news has been received there of the
destruction of a large town ou the North
river above that city by an inundation, in
which 4,000 people are known te have per
ished. A despatch from Aden te Rcutcr's tele
gram company says : " The steamer Jed
dah, which her master abandoned, did net
founder as he reported. She arrived at
Aden all safe at 8 o'clock last night, having
been picked up and towed into pert by the
steamer Antcnar."
The body of an Afghan in the Russian
service has been found near Katta-Kurgan
en the Samarcand read. He is said te
have been en the way from Afghanistan
with important papers for the Russian
governor general. The murder is attrib
uted te political intrigues, as the papers
were steicn, ami me ceaenman el the
murdered man has disappeared. The
Russian authorities have reasons te sus
pect another Afshan of committing thu
murder.
A terrible accident occurred last even
ing about 7 o'clock en the Atlantic City
branch of the West Jersey railroad, by
which one man was killed and thirty
wounded, fifteen of them seriously. An
excursion train conveying St. Ann's liter
ary society of Philadelphia from Atlantic
City was divided into two sections. When
near May's Landing, the 'cngine of the
second section ran into the rear car of the
first, aud, the cylinders of the engine be
ing broken, the occupants of the car were
terribly scalded by the escaping steam.
There is a pig at Jerseyvillc, III., with
two distinct bodies, eight legs and only
one head. A horse at Granville, Ky., and
a cat at Rochester, N. Y., have two per
fect tails apiece. A deg at Milwaukee has
six legs, and a calf at Omaha has no legs
at all.
LAID ON THE TABUS.
Toe Much of a Dese for Charter County
Bepabllcaa.
The public has been favored with the
publication of some high sounding resolu
tions passed at the late meeting of Chester
county Republicans against the rebel
Democracy and slavery. It is well te note
that the following rigorous declarations
were offered for the consideration of that
meeting of Chester county Republicans by
Mr. Wm. E. Lockwood, and a dozen of the
local party leaders sprang te their feet te
oppose them. They were laid en the table
by an almost unanimous vote. Read them
honest Republicans and see if there is any
thing in them that honest Republicans
should hesitate te assent te :
Honest men in office, men in office with
brains enough te knew dishonesty when
they see it, and courage enough te tight it
when they find it.
I hat the corruption of our legislative
bodies is one of the gravest dangers affect
ing our civilization and our free institu
tions, adding te the burden of taxation,and
debasing the standard of public and pri
vate morals.
We believe that impartial justice should
be administered by our courts te all
clases, making no discrimination en the
ground of social position or wealth, save
as the greater degree of light and oppor
tunity carries with it the greater degree of
guilt.
That we express our sincere acknewl
edgment te his Hener Jehn J. Pearson,
judge of the court of common pleas for
the 12th district of the state of Pennsyl
vania, for the just and net unduly severe
sentence, pronounced upon the men con
victed of attempting te bribe members of
the Pennsylvania Legislature He has
entitled himself te the gratitude of all
geed citizens, by imposing a sentence
which has some meaning, and which is
likely te act as a preventive te similar
crimes in the future.
" That we cannot tee strongly utter our
condemnation of the action of the beard
of pardons and his excellency the gover
nor, te whom, assuming without consti
tutional authority, the exercise of judicial
functions, have relieved the criminals of
all the mere significant portions of their
sentence, and that they should have done
this in a manner which violated their own
established rules, and allowed no fair
hearing of the friends of public justice ;
and that for such acts, the Republican
party of Pennsylvania should in condem
nation of the same, never allow any of
these high officials te further held any
office of honor or profit in this common
wealth." " That we return our thanks te all,
who, in their positions as legislators, or in
ether official stations-, have labored te pro
mote public honesty, and te prevent
bribery, or te bring these guilty of public
offences te their merited punishment.
Among these we would especially mention
that fearless, indefatigable aud unflinching
Republican, Hen. Chas. S. Wolf, of Lewis
burg, Union county."
"That as the tools of a great principle
have cither plead guilty or been convicted
under the 3d article of the 31st section of
the new constitution, which makes the act
for which they were committed punishable
by fine and imprisonment, and that prin
ciple being well known by the confossien
of one of its attorneys (himself a convict
ed criminal), which confession is in these
words, which are te be found in the Ap
pendix te the Legislative Recerd 1879, part 2,
Riet bill, Ne. 103, Page 10. 'I am employ
ed by the Pennsylvania railroad te leek
after their interest iu this bill." That is
exactly what it was ; of course, I was net
here for love, or any thing of that kind,
but I hail no authority from them te de
anything at all that was wrong." That
our senator and legislators about te be
elected arc hereby instructed te aid te the
extent of their ability, at the next meeting
of the legislature, te bring that principal
and its uncenvicted tools te a final trial,
conviction, " fine and imprisonment," as a
just penalty for their acts in this matter.
This principal which has held itself aloof
from and abeve the supreme law of the state
tewhichall its citizens arc amenable, hav
ing by its own act, as stated in an opinion
of the most learned jurist of this state and
concurred in by two of his Associated
Judges (Duncan vs. Penn'a. R. R. Legal
Intelligencer, Dec. 12, '79) placed itself
under the new censtitutiau is new amenea
ble te its pains and penalties, for any unjust
and unlawful acts of its officers, directors,
agents and attorney, or empleyes, and they
should hereafter be held te a strict ac
count. That we leek with alarm and apprehen
sion upon the pretentiens of the great
transportation companies te be above the
fundamental law of this commonwealth,
which governs all else within our borders,
and until they accept the constitution of
1873 in geed faith, they should remain ob
jects of the utmost vigilance aud jealousy
of both Legislature and people.
As it is openly asserted in the public
journals " that two judges of the supreme
court or tins state had gene te the depot
and given Mr. Kemble a cordial shake of
hand, as if in approval of his conduct."
We earnestly and heartily condemn such
action in the highest judicial officers in
this state, and that their names should be
learned and the Republican voters new and
hereafter cautioned against sueh represen
tatives holding se high au honor.
The Boyd Oartege.
Great alarm and agitation are said te
prevail in the vicinity of New Ress, Ire
land, en account of the mystery and evi
dences of of organization surrounding the
the Boyd outrage. The disguises of the
perpetrators were se perfect that identifi
cation is unlikely. Marked attention has
been drawn te the faet that the weapons
abandoned by the murderers are Enfield
rifles, bearing the government brand.
In the Heuse of Commens, en
Monday, Sir Stafferd Northcetc
called attention te the New Ress outrage
and stated that the guns used were long
Enfield rifles, with bayonets. Mr. Fors Fers
tcr, chief secretary for Ireland, said the
late government had ordered the sale of
some Enfield rifles, but the present gov
ernment ha'd stepped their sale. The
Irish Timet of Dublin, asks hew many
such rifles are in the hands of the people
and urges upon the magistrates the neces
sity of inquiring hew they came in their
possession. It is rumored that 1,400 En
field rifles have been sent from Dublin te
various parts of the country within the last
few months.
Ne Abduction at All.
Annie Pung, the New Yerk girl alleged
te have been abducted by Mr. Barbour, a
citizen of Philadelphia, en the Fall River
beat, Saturday night last, was at police
headquarters yesterday, in company with
her father. The gentleman accused of
taking her away stated that a serious in
justice had been done him and told the
story of his acquaintance with the girl in a
manner te satisfy the authorities that a
mistake had been made. The girl also en
tirely exonerated him. She said she want
ed te gote Bosten te see her aunt and went
en beard the beat. She asked the accused
te get her a ticket. After being talked te
and severely reproved for her conduct by
Superintendent Walling, the young girl
departed, very much crestfallen, with her
father by her side, te her home.
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On the Read.
Themas Hegan aud Lawrence Malteer,
while driving a leaded beer wagon from
Albany te Newtonville, N. Y-, fell beneath
the wheels and were killed.
Edmund L. Fitzsimmons, a boy, was
crushed te death by a steam street roller,
in Seeth Washington, D. C.
A 1IIG HAUL.
830,000 Werth or Bends Taken.
It was Dr. T. Edgar Hunt, of Glen
Garden, N. J., whom burglars robbed of
bends valued at 30,000, together with
5,000 in jewelry and money. The bur
glars effected an entrance by breaking a
plate glass in a bay window en the east
side of the building. After entering the
house the burglars locked the doers lead
ing te the different rooms in the building,
se that the inmates could net get te the
room where the safe was. They then
bored a hole in the safe beneath the neb,
charged it with powder, aud blew open the
deer. The strange part of the burglary
is te knew hew the robbers knew there
was a safe in the building. It
was placed iu the wall and its deer
covered with an imitation of paper.
There was no appearance of a safe in
the room, and the only way a person
could suppose there was one was by seeing
a projecting knob, which might possibly
be taken for that of a deer. A gentleman
who had lived thirty years at Glen Garden
says he never knew Dr. Hunt owned a safe.
The explosion made a great noise, aud the
inmates of the house thought that a rail
road locomotive had blown up. This was
the first intimation they had of the rob
bery. Immediately after the explosion Mr.
Hunt and family went down stairs, but
could net cuter the room. A deer was
forced open and the room entered. An
alarm was given but no trace of the bur
glars was te be found. The village was
searched amf about a mile from the house,
Lin the direction of Easten, the box which
contained the stolen jewelry was found
down an embankment, whfte iL had been
thrown. It is supposed tiie men who com
mitted the robbery were net strangers, and
that they were well acquainted with the
premises. Dr. Hunt went te the city early
in the morning te prevent the payment of
money en the bends, which were negotia
ble. The only tools used by the burglars
was a small and large hammer found in the
room.
The properly taken consisted of bends
from Ne. 1,129 te 1.1-11. for $1,000 each,
of the St. Jeseph & Pacific railroad ; bends
fiem Ne. 1,772 te Xe. 1,775, for $500 each
of the same railroad, 78 shares per value,
each $100, of the capital stock of the east
ern division of the St. Jeseph & Pacific
railroad ; bends Nes. GSt and (582, $1,000
each, of the western division of the Kansas
& Nebraska railroad, and several ether
bends, and jewelry.
Three men, supposed te live in New
Yerk, arrived at (lien Gardner, en the 7
o'clock Central railroad train. They were
seen going te the weeds net far from the
town, where they remained until evening,
when they returned and asked where Dr.
Hunt lived. These are believed te have
been the burglars. .Since the robbery
three men dressed like the strangers were
seen going toward Washington en a Dela
ware, Lackawanna and Western railroad
passenger train.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
The Western nail association reaffirmed
the card price of $3, made and adopted en
the 28th ult.
Baseball : At Buiiale Trey, 4 : Buffalo
2. At Cleveland Cleveland, 3 ; Worcester,
Three or four thousand workmen in the
Tyne ship-yards have struck for an ad
vance of ten per cent, in their wages.
Greece has purchased in Hungary one
ene thousand four hundred military horses.
Twe hundred and forty were embarked en
the 9th instant, for Trieste.
Elizabeth Walker, a native of Comity
Kildarc, Ireland, has died in Philipdmrg.
N. J., aged IOC. She never knew what
sickness was until last week.
The Otis Company's large hosiery mill,
at Ware, Idas';., was badly damaged by
fire en Tuesday night. Over one thousand
hands arc thrown out of employment.
There is considerable restlessness among
the Indians in the whole upper country,
though the season is se far advanced that
no active hostilities are anticipated this
year.
The body of Miss Elizabeth Compten
was found in a shallow pond at 3Ietuchcn,
N. J. Sirs. Compten was 98 years old,
and was the widow of Ephraim Compten,
who has been dead for ever forty years.
At Rochester yesterday Prospect Maid
wen the 2:30 race in 2:21. ; Hay Billy the
2:22 trot in 2:18i, and in the 2:19 race
Han ns took two "heats Charlie Ferd two,
and Driver ene: best time 2:18;j.
Colonel Scott's report te the stockhold
ers of the Texas Pacific shows that under
existing contracts a Southern Pacific rail
road will be completed from San Francisce
and the Gulf of California te New Orleans
by the end of 1882.
About 11 o'clock at night the hnrccefn
team driver by name Jehn Ycddcr, of St.
Jehnsvillc, N. J., became unmanageable
near the canal bridge here and rushed into
the water. Yeung Ycddcr and one of his
horses were drowned.
S. L. 31. Barlew, Benjamin C. Kirk,
James UdeII, Stephen Tabar, Captain
Charles P. Smith, Edgar Weeks and ethers
indicated by the United States grand jury
touching the Scawanhaka disaster gave
bail in $5,000 each.
Three hundred Chicago shoemakers
remain en a strike. The employers are
firm m resisting the demauds for au in
crease of pay, and some them have ordered
improved machinery from the East, which
will de away with many empleyes.
Ten thousand negrees will emigrate from
Mississippi and Louisiana within the next
two months and will arrive in St. Leuis en
route for Kansas and ether Northern
states. About forty per day for the past
month have been cared for by the beard
and forwarded te their various destina
tions. The Georgia Democratic slate conven
tion nominated Clifferd Andersen, of Bibb
county, for attorney general ; D. N. Specr,
of Troupe county, for treasurer ; Win. A.
Wright, of Richmond eeuntv, for comp
treller, and N. C. Darnell, of Haldwiu
county, for secretary of state.
The steamboat Bennie Lee, from New
Orleans for Red river with 250 tens of as as
eorted merchandise, blew up and sank en
Monday evening at Lene Wall landing.
Jeff" Pcrsey, second clerk, was killed, and
a little son of Mr. ?J'Drmett is missing.
The beat is a total less. She was valued
at $15,000 and insured iu Cincinnati for
$9,000. The value of the cargo is unknown.
Iu Wausau, Wis., Dr. Edwin L. Ila.'e
was shot by Dr. Bcuuct. The facts appear
te be that Dr. Hazle only recently came te
Wausau te practice his profession. This
aroused the jealousy of Dr. Bennett, the
resident dentist, and while under the in
fluence of liquor he procured a shotgun,
went te the hotel where Hazle was and
fired at the latter, killing him intantly.
The Connecticut Republicans nominated
Bigclew for governor ; Gen. Wm. II. Bulk
ely for lieutenant governor ; Charles E.
Searlcs, of Thompson, for secretary of
state ; David P. Nichols, of Danbury, for
treasurer, and Cel. Wheelock liatchcler, of
Winstcad, for comptroller; for presiden
tial electors at-largc, Henry B. Martin, of
Norwich, and Abijah Cattin, of Ilarwin Ilarwin
ten. Alvin Dextcrwert, aged sixty, committed
suicide in New Yerk by taking laudanum.
The act is said te have been caused by a
refusal of admission te the house of his
sister-in law. Au examination of his body
disclosed a bullet hole under the left breast,
and a scar en the back where the ball had
passed out. The wounds were partially
healed, and arc thought te be two days'
old.
Jaync aud Matthews, local steam
boat inspectors, net having paid
any attention te the indictments
found against them by the grand
jury, U. S. Commissioner Shields has is
sued bench warrants for their arrests.
Mr. Udall, president of the steamboat
company, who is ene of these indicted,
came te Commissioner Shield's office pre
pared te give bail.
As Jehn II. Walsh, of the Cambria iron
works, was helping te "jack up ' the
yard locomotive for repairs, the fleer upon
which the jacks rested gave away and the
weight of the locomotive came down en
his head, as he was at that instant just
under the ash pan. The result was that
his skull was fractured and the entire head
flattened out te a thickness of net mere
than two or three inches, causing instant
death.
The second day of the Columbus. Ohie,
soldiers reunion yesterday, was devoted te
regimental and association reunion. Mr.
Hayes, General Sherman and party arrived
at 0 o'clock from Washington, and were
met at the depot by an escort consisting
of United States troops stationed at Col Cel Col
umbnsgarri$en,tho ex-soldiers association,
the governor's guard, Columbus cadets and
ether military organizations of Columbus
and ether places. The Ohie soldiers and
sailors tents are rapidly filling up 1,500
men having been assigned quarters with
the demand greatly increasing.
m
TKEASCRE TROVE.
The Meney That a lUurdcrcr Hid.
A despatch from Mahauey city says:
'This community has been greatly exer
cised duriug the past few days ever the
fact that live boys, named Clinten C. Win
ters, Herb Neakcs, Henry and Philip Kline
and Herbert Enterliister, found a number
of old coins in a field adjacent te the bor
ough. The coins arc mostly English, aud
the dates en some of them run back 200
years. The report of their discovery
spread like wildfire, and hundreds nibbed
te the scene in the hope that a for
tune had been buried there. One
person proceeded te the spot with pick
and shovel aud dug all .around the
spot, but without success. The his
tory of" the field is only known te one
person m
Jehn A.
the place,
Kleckner.
an
Mr
old
man named
Kleckner ..
! 60
His
years of w'C, keen and intelligent.
story is as follews: Iu the year 1810, .i;en
the country for miles around here was
a vat wilderness and contained only ene
house, a country inn steed at a point
which is new the central part of the town.
A Jewish person named Foulhevcr was iu
the habit of going en horseback with his
wares from Reading te Sunbury. On a
particular day he stepped at the inn in
question. A hunter from New Jersey
named Bailey was also stepping at the
house. When the peddler alighted Bailey
carried in his saddle bags for him. While
doing this he heard the jingle of money
and a3 the bag was heavy became te the
conclusion that there was considerable geld
and silver in it.
A desire for this money at once preyed
upon his mind, and a murderous spirit
seized his heart. He accordingly piecccdcd
up the mountain, and lay in ambush for the
approach of the peddler. When Foulhevcr
was passing where he lay concealed, he
drew his rillc upon him and shot him
through the heart. The horse he rode,
strange te say, steed perfectly still, and
Bailey approached and rifled the saddle
bags. Taking all the geld and silver there there
feom, he carried the bags, with the smaller
coin, te the point where the contents were
recently found by the boys, and deposited
them in the earth. Bailey then went te
Rcichstorlen, the proprietor. Seeing his
hands and clothes besprinkled with bleed
he asked him the cause. He replied that
he had shot a deer. He then left the inn
and was net heard of for some time. Per
sons going along the read found the body
of the peddler, and it was interred by the
i eadsidc. A small mound marks the spot
te this day, and people from adjoining
places never pass the place without referr
ing te the fate the peddler met. Bailey
was traced te New Jersey by the authori
ties and arrested, lie was taken te Read
ing, ledged in jail and tried for the crime.
The circumstantial evidence was strongly
against him, and he was found guilty and
subsequently hanged. Before his death
he made a confession iu which he stated
where he buried the saddle-bags, but the
exact spot never could be found.
This case is spoken of as the first white
man murdered by another in cold bleed in
the district that new comprises Schuylkill
county. The field in which the money was
found had recently been plowed, and the
coins turned te the surface had been
cleaned by the rains, thus leading te their
uiscevery. One boy holds ever tnrce
hundred of them. AU the possessors of
the coins held them with tenacity. The
subject at present is the sole topic of con
versation, aud a thousand different stories
are afloat. This is the true one, and can
be relied en.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
IN TUB WOODS.
The Hruwiistewn Campmeetiiig.
Yesterday Rev. C. S. Brown, of Read
ing, conducted the six o'clock prayer meet
ing in the tabernacle. There was family
worship at 7 and 10 o'clock. Rev. Scitz,
of Reading, arrived and preached the fore
noon fccrmen from the text found in St.
Luke viii. 33-38 v., te a large audience,
the eloquent discourse being one that he
has preached in nearly all the states, in
portions of Germany and in the Hely
Land. He gave his own experience, hav
ing been possessed of 0,000 devils and
cleansed of them all, aud declared that the
gospel offered the same chance te all ethers
se held. Rev. James Spccht closed the
meeting with prayer.
Iu the afternoon a children's meeting
was very largely attended. It was con
ducted by Rev. F. Scachrist, the local pas
tor. Short but earnest addresses were
made by Revs. D. W. Bixler, Reuben
Dcicher, ami J. K. Knarr. At 3 p. m.
Rev. Say'er preached " an old-fashioned
sermon" from Numbers, x, 29 v, en the
theme, "The children of Israel, hew they
were divided and hew they marched."
He closed with mi earnest appeal te parents
te come te Jesus and found Christian
homes.
Tn the evening Rev. Krickcr led the
prayer meeting; Rev. W. A. Siebeld
preached the sermon from Acts, xxix, 25.
It was able and eloquent and made a
profound impression. Prayer meeting
followed.
The Soldier Ifeys.
At the inspection of the national guard
iu Philadelphia Tuesday. Ce. I, 8th regi
ment, of Wrightsvillc, Captain Frank J.
Magcc, turned out 51 men. The Columbia
Ce. II, 11th regiment, Captain I). II. Case,
had 5G men in line.
The Philadelphia Herth American says :
Old Lancaster, which sent heaps of men
te the war, and which is one of the most
populous of our counties as well as the
greatest producing county outside of Phil
adelphia in the United States, is said te
have scut less than fifty men te the cucami
ment of the national guard. This is net a
subject te brag of, and it ought te spur
the Lancastcrians up te a better showing
in a military way.
Ne Flowers.
In the published fuueVal notices of the
late Jehn G. Brenner, of Philadelphia, -ap
peared the request : "Please env Msf3"
OUR TOBACCO FIELDS.
lien- They Delighted a New Yerker.
A correspondent of the Elmira, N. Y.,
Gazette, who has been traveling through
this county with the special object of ob
serving its modes of tobacco culture, has
been writing a series of letter, descriptive
and agricultural, te his paper. He says
in one of them :
The Camerons, father and son, grew
some fifty te sixty acres of tobacco apiece.
The farm of the elder Cameren embraces
seven hundred acres, all neatly fenced,
and the fences white-washed, which is the
custom of most of the farmers, and which
gives them, a neat and fresh appearance.
The crops leek excellent and clear from
weeds, showing thorough tillage. On the
farm is an old stone church ever two hun
dred years old, having been used when the
preacher had te keep a leaded rille at his
side, au attack from the hostile Indians
being possible at any time in that locality.
The tobacco from Marietta te Lancaster
city is rather backward, net averaging
much, if any better than that in Chemung
valley, only it has a healthy appearance,
and is perfectly free from the effects of the
green worm. The farmers depend a great
deal en the datura stramenium, (James
town weal) te destroy the millers. Be
sides they have a patent trap for catching
them which seems te meet with much favor.
At all events we never saw se little wenn
eaten tobacco as in this county. It lias
rained here almost incessantly for two days
andauight, which will bring en the late
tobacco, as the land is thoreuligly ma
nured before a crop is planted. There
fore, there is strength enough in the land
te produce a geed crop, even at this late
day.
Lancaster city is one of the eldest towns
in the state and has a population of about
20,000 inhabitants, and is the central head
quarters for tobacco in this section, there
being some fifty warehouses located here ;
and, as we were informed, they give em
ployment te 2,500 men during the winter
months. There are at least 50,000 cases
produced Jn this county, which takes te
the farmers coffers, at an average of ten
cents per pound, some two million dollars,
entirely eclipsing all ether farm produc
tions. Through the kindness of Cel. Teller, a
packer from Philadelphia, we were shown
through his immense warehouse, where he
hasueaily 4,000 cases stored. The samp
lers were en hand, busily sampling the
1879 crop, and the samples shown us were
as fine, and large and well colored as any
tobacco we ever saw. They sort it a great
many times in the following qualities :
A A A, A A, A, B, and C, and some pack
ers go se far even te sort their A's in lV.ur
qualities.
I think the growers here pay mere at
tention te their crops and try harder te
produce that which will find ready pur
chasers in the market than in Yerk State.
At least, for some reason Pennsylvania to
bacco has the best reputation of any in
the market.
Their system of harvesting is far differ
ent fiem ours, aud we are well satisfied
that our method of using twine is mere
expensive and net as geed for harvesting a
crop in its best condition as thcir's is
here.
They use lath, and a spear ; the spe.ir in
about live or six inches long and is put en
the end el a lath and the plants forced
ever it, when you take the spear off and
put en another lath, and se en. It is put
ou trestles or scaffolds in the field, where
it may hang for some days without injury.
They say a smart active man can spear an
acre at least a day.
I am net prepared te say this is the best
way. Mr. Jehn Brand, of Elmira, has a
system that may be as geed or better.
His is a small wire hook, te be driven in
the plant, and this hook hangs the plant
en the lath. Mr. Martin Kelb, of Eliza Eliza
bethtewn, Pa., manufactures the spear,
aud from our own observation and experi
ence we would certainly advise our tobacco
planters te investigate the matter, and see
both methods and then cheese the one
that suits them best, and at all events
discard the use of twine. We cannot har
vest a crop near as sound by cither of the
methods heretofore mentioned, aud if we
are te successfully compete with these
Pennsylvania Dutch we have get te find
the best methods, and nsc them. When
a plant gets ripe they go and cut it and
carry it out of the ''patch," and leave
what is unripe till it is in just the right
condition. Their rule is when the leaves
begin te yellow a trifle around the edges,
it is just the right condition, and they arc
careful te harvest before it gets tee ripe,
as they claim the quality and colors are
net as geed as when cut at an early stage
of growth.
One thing especially favorably impresses
one with Pennsylvania farming, and that
is the thorough attention the give te their
farms. Thu fields are clear of rubbish and
weeds. Cern and potato "patches"
everything is called patches here arc as
clean as a village garden. Ne brush or
wceds allowed te grew along the fences.
Buildings arc in excellent repair aud all
neatly painted, as are most of the farm
fences. Their barns arc as costly as most
dwelling houses, and arc models of bcauty
and stability.
Fer the benefit of croakers who preach
that tobacco farming will destroy general
agriculture wherever it is grown, we give
the average yield of the crop's of this"
44 Garden of Eden." Wheat yields en an
average from thirty te thirty-five bushels.
Cern gives one hundred bushels en the
average yield. It is a common sight te.see
fields of ten te twenty acres en which the
stalks will average twelve feet high, with
from one te three cars te the stalk, and
net a spear of grass or weed te be seen iu
the field. The fruit trees are laden with
line fruit. Farms will sell, en an average,
at $150 per acre. Several large farms wcre
shown us a few miles out of Liucaster city
for which $500 and ever ncr acre had
offered. At an early date this sec
tion el country was settled by thu
sturdy Germans, and by thrifty economy
they have continually added te their
bread acres until nearly all of them
new own Iarirc estates. These arc handed
down, generation after generation. It is
something similar te the English system
of primogeniture or mere properly entailed.
There are lets of people born and raised in
Lancaster county who cannot speak or un
derstand a word of English. The revenue
derived from the land is almost incredible.
One tobacco agent told us he had paid one
man $411.CC for the tobacco from one acre,
and at a price of twenty-four cents per
pound. Anether received $1,800 from
three acres of tobacco, part of which had
yielded 3,000 pounds te the acre. Of
course these are exceptional cases, as
when there is se much produced tlierc arc
many light crops.
Having written se much in general of this
44 lovely land of Liucaster," I will give my
own opinion of the crop in comparison with
that of New Yerk. In the first place the
tobacco growing district of Lancaster coun
ty alone produces at least ten times as much
as does Chemung and its tributaries. On
the average the crop is lictter than gurs,
but you must remember that while they
produce a large quantity of the best tobac
co, much of the lower grades arc also
grown.
The soil is mostly a loam, with a lime
stone foundation, although in some portions
of the county it is a sand without any lime.
The farmers never use lime directly en
their tobacco, but in their rentinc of crops
use it once in three years ; or, as Cel.
Duffy says, "lime is best te produce wheated
and grass, and from that get plenty - ler
nurc," which is one jn-SJksSTAV A BUKKS,
success as tne-ixJi-R w yii orange Street,
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