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THURSDAY EVENING. AUG. 19, 1880.
Governer English.
Ex-Gov. English has been reneminated
as the Democratic candidate for gover
nor of Cennccticut,and the nomination is
conceded te be the strongest that could
have been made. Governer English has
been se long in public life that he has be
come tired of it and has been leth te
surrender Ins time again te the service of
the state. The duties of the office of gov
ernor are net, however, se engrossing as
te afford him a sufficient reason for re
jecting a nomination conferred upon him
in se flattering a manner, and his accep
tance will place almost beyond a
doubt the success of the parly in Con
necticut. The Republican gulcrnaterial
candidate is net personally strong ; the
present governor having been set aside
by the convention because of his disposi
tion te be independent of the managers
of the party, the candidate nominated
can claim no particular sympathy from
the people, and is entitled only te the
votes of the machine Republicans who
believe that their party can de no wrong
and is te be sustained through thick and
thin. There are net enough of this
hind of voters in Connecticut te upheld
either party. The stale is close and the
successful organization prevails by put
ting forward its beat candidate and con
sulting carefully the independent vote of
the state. Te tliis class of voters Govei Gevei Govei
ner English has recommended himself
by his past ellicial conduct, ami wilh the
warm support which he will receive from
every Democrat, his election ought te be
very sure.
Tin-: artists are dropping fast new-a-ilays.
Anether from the first rank went
out when .Neilson se suddenly died. She
made three visits te this country, in each
succeeding one being found te have
greatly improved in power. Her mam.
reliance, in her earlier experience, seems
te have been en her beautyef faccand
form, which she liberally displayed in the
tight fitting page costumes she was fend
of wearing. Constant experience in her
art finally taught her te be a fine actress
anil entitled her te high rank in the pro
fession. The heart disease of which she
died, which was caused immediately
by indigestion, possibly was primarily
due te the extremely emotional life
which she was compelled te lead as a
tragic actress, and which must have been
calculated te strain and enfeeble the or
gans of circulation. She varied her tragic
acting with personatiens in comedy and
is said te have declared that she would
net otherwise have been able te endure
the strain. Plausible as is the theory
that heart disease should be the natural
consequence of emotional representations
we de net recollect that it is sustained by
the faets in ether cases than this one of
Miss Neilson ; as she chose te be called,
though she had been married and di
vorced, and it is iid had married again.
.Sudden emotion will undoubtedly affect
the heart and often has been
known te cause it te cease te
beat ; but net in actresses. They
don't often die of emotion. Probably
they have- tough hearts. Miss Xeilsen's
even did net give way until her stomach
had first revolted. The moral of her
story is that actresses who want te be
emotional with impunity slieuld take
care of their stomachs; perhaps, then,
their hearts will take of themselves.
ile.v. J.vs. II. D00T.ITTI.K, formerly a
Republican United States senator from
Wisconsin, knows as much as anybody
about the DcGelycr fee which Mr. Gar
field drew, and is quite as well qualified
te tell what he knows as any mail who
was connected wilh the cast; in which
this DeGelyer business wan brought te
light. In a recent speech in Indianapo
lis he forcibly exhibited the true inward
ness of the case by reciting the use that
the lobby made of Garfield's participat ion
in it te prove what he was retained in it
for. Their contract for 50,000 mere
yards of the pavement depended
.upon the District beard getting an
appropriation from Congress for their
previous expansas, and their get
ting this appropriation depended
upon the congressional cemmittc en ap
propriations, of which Garfield was
chairman. Wlien they had him retained
is it any wonder their agent telegraphed:
"I can hardly realize that we have Gen.
Garfield with u?. It is rare and very
gratifying. All appropriations of the
District come from him.'" They under
stood it if Garfield didn't.
Jki:sexs cannot be tee diligent about
making certain that their unchallenged
right te vote has been determined by due
attention te all the preliminaries neces
sary, under the laws of this state, te se
cure that privilege. Any voter who has
net in his possession a receipt for stale or
county tax paid since November 12, 1878,
maybe disfranchised between this and
September -, by the wilful or neglectful
failure of the assessor in his ward or dis
trict te register and assess him. The pro
tection against this is in the voter's own
hands, and if he fails te avail him
self of it, it is his own fault, and no one
can remedy it. The registry lists should
be carefully scanned by every voter te
sec that his name is en them. If it is
net he should have it put there with
out delay.
Tiik news of the death of Ole Bull,
will be received wilh great regret in this
part of the country, wherehe has always
been esteemed as the greatest of violin
ists. Wilhehnj and ethers have come
armed with metropolitan certificates of
their supremacy ever the violin, but no
one of them lias charmed the popular
fancy as did Ole Bull. They may have
been greater musicians, as thejeriticssaid
and in the critical judgment, but net te
the car of the many. And the suprema
cy that is voted by the people is of mere
value than that given by musical profes
sors who think less of harmony than of
mechanical excellence.
Ir somebody should publish in some
Southern paper that Jehn Cessna had
advised his party workers in this stale te
secretly slaughter and hurry out of sight
all Republicans who avowed any in
tention of voting for Hancock, it would
be quite as near the truth and no wider
misrepresentation of his language than
the Republican journals indulge in re
garding Wade Hampton's Staunton
speech, and ether campaign lies about the
people of the Seuth.
.
MINOB TOPICS.
The Republican papers say that Attor
ney General Dcvcns himself will go te
Indiana with the census returns te sec
that there is a fair vote. If he should
attempt te vote we trust the Democratic
committee will promptly see that he is
locked up.
It is new said in Virginia that Senater
3Iahene is willing te have a compromise
between the Debt-Payers and Rvpudiaters
in Virginia, which will leave but one elec
toral ticket, but that he will net suggest it.
In some of the districts the electors them
selves arc fixing things without anybody's
assistance.
Aoeoi) many of the clerks in the postof pestof postef
ficc department from the Southern stales,
who ewe their appointments te Gen. Key,
arc trembling from fear that Mr. Maynard
will enter upon the policy of removing all
who are net avowed Republicans. Under
Gen. Key's administration quite a number
of Democrats from the Seuth have secured
positions iuthe department, and the ques
tion new agitating them is will Mr. May
nard retain them notwithstanding their
support of Gen. Hancock.
Tun Times informs us that the monu
ment te Rebert Burns which is seen te he
placed in Central Park will "represent
Burns standing upon the trunk of a fallen
tree, looking up in a contemplative atti
tude. He is supposed te be composing
the beautiful ode, 'Te Mary in Heaven,'
commencing,
'"Tlieu lingering star with lLvsi'iiing r.ty.'
This is all very nice and also conventional,
but the World had an impression that Burns
composed that beautiful ode lying prone
in a hay-field net leaniug upon Uie trunk
of a fallen tree.
Ri:rei:TS reach the Eagle from Berks,
Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill and Le
high counties that school teachers are
scarce. County school superintendents in
these counties fear that they will he obliged
te issue certificates te teachers net fully
qualified te teach school, which they
would net de if the applicants for schools
were mere numerous. Three years age
there were mere fully qualified applicants
for schools than could be supplied with
schools, and the superintendents raised
the standards for teaching. This brought
better teachers and as a result the schools
rapidly improved. Many of the teachers
of three years age can get mere pay in
ether puisuits and hence have abandoned
teach in jr.
PERSONALS.
3Ir. Cuaisi.ks Dl'di.ky Wauxku is mak
ing a tour of the Delaware valley en horse
back. Gen. Mveis, superintendent of the U. S.
Signal Service, known as " Old Probabili
ties,'' has been ordered home te Michigan
by his physicians.
Gen. Junsex KtT.i'ATJ'icic, in a speech
at Burlington, N. J., declared that as a
soldier he himself was "equal in every re
spect te Gen. Hancock."
A young man arrested at Albairy charged
wilh stealing a coat has been identified as
the r.011 of Chief Justice WoemvonTii, of
Nebraska. He was recently released from
an insane asylum.
Wai.tek Mouean, a well-known citizen
of Peughkccpsic, N. Y., and one of the
editors of the Daily Press, fell down stairs
at his residence, last night, and died in
stantly. Hen. F. A. Sawyi:i:, ex-United Staies
senator from Seuth Carolina, and mere re
cently an assistaut secretary oil he treas
ury, has obtained a license te marry ?Jrs.
Mary E. Schwartz, of Berwick, Columbia
county, Pa.
The Indian agent at Poplar river, .Minn.,
has abandoned the agency and says ihcie
is much danger. Sittixe Una. is only
twenty miles from the agency and is clam
orous te be fed. Troops have been sent
te Poplar river.
Postmaster Maksiiat.t. went te AVash AVash
ingeon, D. C, last night te see about the
recent changes of mail routes from Lancas
ter te Rewlandsville, Md., which fail te
give satisfaction te the patrons of " lower
end" offices.
Chairman Cnssx.v seems te be his own
campaign orator. He speaks nearly every
night somewhere or another, and went all
the way up te Pettsvillc en Tuesday te lei
the people up there what a scandalous
thing the Democratic party was when he
was a leading member of it. Times.
Miss Dickinsen has written a four-act
comedy entitled, "An American Girl,"
and Miss Fanny Davenport will personate
the heroine. The play Miss Dickinsen
wre te especially for Miss Davenport was a
tragedy called "Esther A mini,' but the
actress discovered that she was net suited
te the leading part, nor it te her.
Miss Claiea S. McCaijlky, daughter of
Rev. Dr. C. F. McCauley of Reading, has
been elected instructor in drawing and
painting by the beard of trustees of Allen
town female college. Miss McCauley is a
graduate of the Reading high school, and
was recently a student in the Philadelphia
academy of designs for women. The
especial department in which she excels is
that of decorative painting, as exhibited
en silk,.chinaware or panel pictures.
Soen after Tem Ociiii-tiiee was admitted
te the bar his father enc day, before start
ing for a distant court, looked up at the
old, weather-beaten sign, which had been
above his office deer for a quarter of a cen
tury, and told Tem he thought it was
about time te have a new one. ' Anil
Tem," he said, "suppose you attend te it,
get a geed sigu and have the name of the
firm painted upon it." The old gentleman
went te Dallas and was gene several days.
Returning, when he came insight of the
little frame office he thought it looked
strange, and riding nearer he found stretch
ing clear across the building an immense
sign-beard, en which was painted in huge
letters :
"T. P. OCIHLTIIEK AND FATIIKIt,
COUNSEI-OIIR AND AtTOIINKYS-AT-L.VW."
Among the death returns te the city
register of Bosten yesterday was that of
Michael Barrett, a native of Ireland, whose
age is given at ene hundred and seven
years and four months.
Till: TOMB OF JULIWr.
IIiiiv Adelaide's XeilKen'rt Hotly Was Laid
in the Morgue.
1'arla Dispatch te the Herald.
Adelaide Xeilsen will no meie delight us
with her grace and talent. All that is hu
man of her lies, or lay till a few hours age
at the Morgue awaiting Christian burial.
Her end was sad and strange, se strange
that for a moment it was whisper
ed that she had been poisoned. Twe per
sons were actually arrested en suspicion of
complicity in the supposed crime. " Despite
the strenuous efforts made te hush up the
whole affair I am new in possession of all
the facts connected with the closing sccucs
of the dead artist's brilliant and wayward
life. Miss Neilson arrived at the Hetel
Continental four or five days age, accom
panied by her chapcrenc and companion,
Mrs. Goodall, and by a certain jcufic pre
mier, net unknown in America, whose po
sition in relation te the fair actress is
net clearly defined. Let us call him
her secretary. On Saturday afternoon
Miss Neilson, the gentleman and Mrs.
Goodall took a hired carriage at the hotel
and started for a drive in the Beis de Bou
logne. On the way they dined, rather tee
well it seems, at Cafe de la Paix. On
reaching the Beis Miss Neilson foolishly
took a enp of cold milk at the Pre Catalan,
and was seen after indisposed. At four
o'clock she drove up te the Restaurant du
Chalet, feeling very ill, and asked te be
shown te a private room. A couch was
hastily improvised for her, and a doctor,
named Menicr, was brought from Passy.
Dr. Menicr applied some mild external
remedies, which appeared te relieve her,
but as thev did net master the attack a
messenger was despatched for the ordinary
doctor attached te the Hetel Continental,
Dr. Ganlillen by name. The latter used
mere vigorous remedies ami among ethers
certain pills. What these pills were is
doubtful. The effect of them was te make
the patient vomit profusely. AVhcn both
the doctors left her she was feeling better.
In the night, however, she was taken
worse. Dr. Menicr was again summoned
at three. Half an hour afterward he ar
rived and found her, as at first he thought,
calm and well. She was dead.
Already a certificate of death hail been
drawn up and signed by Dr. Ganlillen,
stating that the decease was due te dropsy
of the heart. In the morning the local
authorities were informed and Dr. Man
uel, of Ncuilly, was called in te attest the
death. The suddenness and peculiar cir
cumstances of Miss Neilson's end awak
ened his suspicions, and the body was re
moved te the Morgue te be examined.
Meanwhile, for precaution, Mrs. Goodall
anil the jcunc premier who had net left the
Chalet, were arrested, or rather made pris
oner:; en parole, being allowed te return
te their hotel. The autopsy was made
by Dr. Breuardel in the morning at the
Morgue. I have net yet seen the medical
report, but Dr. Gantillen informs me
that he has just heard that it is quite bears
out his own statement. Till anything is
proved te the contrary, then, it must be
taken for granted that Adelaide Neilson
died of dropsy of the heart. Te-night I.
went te see the room in which the peer
artist acted her last tragedy. K is a eabi
ncljhu'lieultcr of the common pattern, fur
nished simply with a table, a lew eaic
chairs, a mirror and a green velvet divan,
which was her deathbed. Frem the win
dow you see a pleasant picture of bushy
pines and placid water. " I shall net have
this room used for a week," said the pro
prietor of the chalet te 1110 te-night. In a
week Amy Robsart will have been forgot
ten. At the Morgue her body was claimed
by an aged naval officer. She will be
buried in the Brompteu cemetery. Londen,
at the end of the week. The pest mortem
examination attributes her death te dropsy
of the heart, accelerated by extreme indi
gestion. ATKUK i:il.t.
The l.c-i'liica:i CamUiiale tiMllrici.
Mr. Ilumlrie'i".-; Speech.
After the election Garfield went te New
Orleans by request of Gen. Giant, without
authority of law, as a partisan, lie went
there te assist his parly in making up a
ease, and after his return te AVashingten,
of all his associates he was the only man
who leek his scat upon the electoral com
mission. By every sentiment of fair play
he should have been excluded from
the jury box. By his own sworn state
ment of what he did in New Orleans, Gar
field had charge of the returns from West
Feliciana Parish. In ene of the inner
rooms of Packard's Custom Heuse ha did
his work, examined the affidavits, and
when they weie net snificiently full, he
prepared or had prepared additional inter
rogatories te bring them within the rules
adopted by the returning beard. The tes
timony, se received by I'arlield, went back
te the returning beard, and the result was
that West Feliciana with its Democratic
majority was threwh out. In AVashingten,
Garfield's vole was that Congress could
net go behind the returns thus made. As
agent for his parly he helped te make re
turns by manipulating the evidence ; and
as juryman for the nation he held such
evidence as conclusive and binding.
COUP'S liYKXA
l'rtive-. 'I'lmt lie is ihe Cciuiiim ArilelP.
AVI1H0 Coup's grand circus was parading
in AVinehestcr, the keeper of the cage of
hyenas was pounced upon and tern te
pieces by the infuriated and treacherous
animals. The keeper, who was in the
cage at the time, had his back slightly
turned toward the hyenas, and was look
ing at the cheering multitude. The spec
tators fell back aghast when they saw the
whole den of hyenas suddenly pounce
upon the man, throwing him te the lloer
of the cage, begin te mangle him with
their teeth and claws. The keeper, whose
name was Drayten, made a desperate at
tempt te save his life, and despite his crit
ical position assumed his usual cool tone
of command; but the beasts, maddened
by the taste of bleed, did net heed him.
The people who witnessed his brave strug
gle for life were powerless te help him, as
they feared that by opening the deer of
the cage the hyenas would pounce upon
them. At length some of the showmen
succeeded in rescuing Drayten, but he was
se badly wounded that his life is despaired
of.
At Chicago.
The prizes for Knights Templar competi
tive drill were awarded as fellows : First
prize, an elegant sword for an Eminent
Commander, te Rapcr cemmandcry, of
Indianapolis; second prize, 10 De Melay
cemmandcry, of Louisville ; third prize,
te Reed cemmandcry. of Dayton, Ohie,
and fourth prize, te Damascus comman cemman
dcry, of St. Paul. The special prize for
mounted men was awarded te the De Melay
cemmandcry, of Grand Rapids. Menree
cemmandcry, of Rochester, N. Y., was
ruled out for net having drilled in the re
quired movements. The first death among
the assembled Knights was that of Geerge
Frith, of the Jacobs Commander', of Cold Celd
water, Mich., who died of dysentery.
Tim Connecticut Democracy.
In the Connecticut state convention yes
terday, 1 Ien. James E. English was nominat
ed for governor. He has telegraphed that
he will accept. Hen. Charles M. Pend, of
Hartferd, was nominated Ter lieutenant
governor : 8. S. Blake, of Bridgeport, se
cretary of state; Merrick A. Merry, of
Union, ter treasurer, anu unarics it. ia
gan, of Middletown, for comptroller.
The platform reaffirms the Cincinnati
principles and endorses Hancock and Eng
lish ; condemns and denounces the con
spirators who at the last election defraud
ed the people of their rightfully elected
president, and declares against. the present
system of convict labor. .
OLE BCIX.
DeaUi eltbe World-Famous VlehnUt.
A writer in LippineetCs Magazine; pub
lished several years age, said : " Among
the living violinists Ole Bull represents the
bizarre type of which Paganini was an ex
emplar, without, however, possessing the
supreme power that dignified even the ec
centricities of that artist. Yet he is a man
of unquestionable genius and has trodden
closely in the footsteps of the wizard whom
he sold his last shirt te hear in his youthful
days. His career has been a long romance,
such as no novelist would dare te
depict for fear of being charged with im
probabilities. Bern in a Norwegian win
ter, sixty-four years age (1816), he had
the ardent temperament of the sunny
south. His early artisttic aspirations were
thwarted by family and friends, and even
the great violinist, Spher, with whom he
wished te study, gave him such a chilling
reception that in a moment of despondency
he gave up music for the law. Returning
te his first love, an unfortunate duel, in
which he mortally wounded his antagonist
compelled him te leave the country.
In Paris, where he next went,
peer and unknown, he was re
duced te great extremities, and at last,
bcins robbed of cvervthinir he possessed,
including his violin, he attempted suicide
by jumping into the Seine. Rescued from
a watery grave, his condition excited the
sympathy of an old lady, widow of Cenite
Paye, who recognized in his features a
striking resemblance te her dead son.
Taking him into her house, she assisted
him se liberally that he was enabled te
make his first anpearance in public as a
violinist, and the romance was completed
by his marriage te her daughter. The
most brilliant successes seen awaited him
in'Italy, where he received Paganini, and
was embraced by Malibrau en the
stage at Naples. He afterwards made
frequent and successful professional tours
through Europe, and had an enthusiastic
reception in this country. These musical
expeditions were varied by 'a campaign in
Algeria against the Kabylcs, and the es
tablishment of a theatre in his native Ber
gen. He cherished plans for the advanced
culture of his countrymen, and among
them endeavored te establish a school of
literature and art, but his prospects were
blighted by the introduction of political
sentiment into the performances at this
theatre that brought him into collision
with the police. These troubles resulted
in serious losses, which, together with
the death of his wife, led te his revisit
ing this country in 1S02, aud forming in
Pennsylvania the Norwegian colony, whose
failure again sent the unfortunate artist
into the world te repair his shattered for
tunes. He met with great success iu his
concerts, but in an evil hour leased, in
18.11, the New Yerk academy of music and
undertook the management of Italian opera.
The disastrous result of this enterprise
caused him te return te Europe, where
he acquired enough te enable him te
settle down in this country, where he
has passed some of the most eventful
years of his life. Among the testimonials
which lie has received during his long
career, one of the most interesting is a vio
lin which he exhibited at a conversazione
of the musical society of Londen in January
18G2. The celebrated instrument was
made by Gaspar di Sale, the most distiu
jnishcd of early makers, with caryatides by
licnvcnute Cellini, carved by order of
Cardinal Aldebrandiui, who present
ed it te the museum of Inuspruck.
When the city was assaulted by the
French in 1801) the museum was
plundered and the violin carried te Vi
enua, where the Councillor llhchazck
placed this unique gem in his collection of
ancient musical instruments, rctusuig te
sell it at any price. He left it by will, in
1812, te Ole Bull, who was the first te test
its powers. The distinguished Norwegian
has another violin by this maker which is
his favorite instrument. '1 he manner el
Ole Bull, says a French critic, " is that of
t'airanmi, whom he has taken ler Ins model,
and whose fantasticalness he has often imi
tated ; he astonishes mere than he touches
A nomadic artist par excellence, he has
formed no school, nor written any thing te
preserve Ins popularity.
ENOCH AUUEN COMK AtiAIX.
12c Turns up te Dispute with I'lillip " tlie
! ortune el llic l.ate "Aunie "
Surrogate Livingston, of Kings county,
New Yerk, has put into the hands of the
public administrator an estate ever which
there premises te be an important and
very interesting litigation. Forty-five
years age a'yeung man named Phillips,
living in Brooklyn, married Miss Jane E.
Heward, who was 0110 of the heirs of a
valuable estate, including the parade
ground of east INcw lerk. Iho young
couple took up their residence in AVashing AVashing
eon street, Brooklyn, aud all went well for
six vcare. A son'wasbernto them in 18-11,
and very seen afterwards Mr. Phillips sud
denly disappeared. JNe tracoel Ins where
abeuts was found after a long and careful
scarch.and he was at last given up for dead.
Mrs. Phillips was satisfied that her hus
band was dead, and married, in 1850, Mr.
Henry AViggins, of Pavkville. Twelve
years age the East New Yerk paradc-
greunil ami ether property el the estate
in which Airs. Wiggins was mtcresteu wa:
sold, realizing about $300,000. Mrs. AVig
gins died in the fall of last year, Icavim:
an estate estimated at between $100,000
and 200,000. She Had made no will. A
few weeks age Mr. Phillips, of whom
nothing had been heard since 1841, suit
denly appeared in Brooklyn, and called
upon his son, Dr. Heward W. rhulips,
who is a well-known physician residing en
Clinten avenue. His return has hitherto
been kept quiet, only the intimate friends
of the family knowing anything about it.
Mr. AViggins recently applied for letters of
administration en his wife's estate, but as
she had died without making a will, the
surrogate turned the estate ever te the
public admistrater. The litigation conse
quent upon the settlement of the estate is
expected te bring out seme interesting
history of Mr. Phillips's doing. since 1841.
Mr. Phillips and his son decline te make
any statement with regard te the matter.
TUKMNCi TAB I1KEI.S.
Xm-Mi Carolina Republicans for Hancock
Several prominent North Carolina Re
publicans have announced themselves for
Hancock and English. Among ethers,
ex-United States Senater Jehn Peel, cx-
Snpremc Court Judge AVilliam B. Red
man and Colonel Daniel K. Goedloc.
Thcse arc among the ablest Republicans in
the state. Colonel Goedloc was for many
years editor of the National Republican,
published at AVashingten, and is a writer
of no ordinary ability. He was an Abeli
tienist before the war, though a native of
North Carolina, and although his friends
differed with him en the slavery question
and deplored his course en that subject,
they always respected hiin as a gentleman,
knowing that he was honest in his cenvic
tiens.
The Turf.
In Springfield, Mass., yesterday AVilbur
F. wen the 2:30 race in 2:2G. Nancy took
first and second heats in 2:28 and 2:294 re
spectively. The second race, for the 2:19
class, was wen by Hannis iu the last three
hcat3 in 2:23. 2:20J, 2:19. Charlie Ferd
took the first two heats in 2:20 J and 2:19.
Driver, the favorite, took the third prize
and Lucy the fourth. In the third race,
for the 2:22 class, for pacers, there were
only two starters, Ben Hamilton- and
Change. The former had it all his own
way, taking three straight heats in 2:291
257 and 2:19.
In Salt Lake, Utah, a twelve-year-old
son of N. C. Flygare was crushed te
death by the falling of an elevator cage.
FOKXKY'S JLISl'.
Weekly lCcpert or Hancock Kccruita.
In this week's Prejrcss Cel. Ferney pub
lishes letters from Cel. Phiueas Banning,
California, and Moses Reining, of Lehigh Lehigh
ten, Pa., both Republicans, telling him
why they propose te vote for Hancock.
In addition te these publications Progress
says :
Colonel AVilliam McAViiliams, of Balti
more, a Republican, will stump Indiana
and Pennsylvania for Hancock, having re
signed his office under the government te
de se.
My friend, AVilliam 31. Runkel, one of
the Union veterans of Philadelphia, G. A.
R., who has been connected with the press
and has been a very useful member of the
Republican party, declares for his old com
mander. There is net much mere feeling in favor
of General Garfield in the Philadcphia
Union League than there is for the new
president of Mexico, and there is a geed
deal of gratitude for General Hancock.
Therefore te turn the League in favor of
Garfield and against Hancock is a sort of
reversal of nature.
On Friday last tiic chairman of the Dem
ecratic county committee of , a gen
tleman el the highest character, a per
sonal friend, called at the office of Progress
te inform me that he had secured the sig
natures of two hundred and fifty Republi
cans, nearly all veterans who had fought
at Gettysburg,' te the "'Hancock clubs of
his single county. That list is new filed at
this efii:e.
Caleb II. JSt-i'lks, esq., cernei of
Tweltth and Race streets, one vf the most
active Republicans in Philadelphia, during
Jehn Hickman's life one of the most iuti
friends of that heroic statesman, has de
clared for Hancock.
LATEST NSWS BY MAIL.
At Pueblo, Cel., Henry Orr, a railroad
oinpleycc engaged in driving piles, fell
against the point of a crowbar and was in
stantly killed.
L. Fex, an old resident of Elizabeth,
N. J., was killed by being struck by the
engine of the Leng Branch express train
at Elizabcthper!.
Jehn Mansou, a miner, was instantly
killed while firing a blast in a mine at
Sugar Notch. He made the fuse tee short
and could net escape.
Meller & Schumann's japan or varnish
factory, at the corner of Marey and Flush
ing avenues, Brooklyn, was injured by fire
yesserday te the extent of $10,000.
At AVhistler, Ala., a negre named James
Kelly was shot and instantly killed by a
crcole named Antoue Hennenberg at a
colored fair.
At Bayville, N. J., Ilenjainiii Tunison
was drowned, it is supposed while out
crabbing. He was visiting from Spring
field, Otsego county, N. Y., and was about
thirty years of age.
The storm of Tuesday was terrible south
west of Farge, Dak. Houses were blown
down, and one man was killed and three
were severely injured en the Cheycne
river.
The three-mile single scull race between
Jehn McKay, of Dartmouth, and P. II.
Conley, of Portland, Me., for S:-"00 aside,
took place iu Bedford Basin last evening,
aud was wen by Conley, by four lengths,
iu 22 minutes and e0 seconds.
At Carthage, N. Y., a boy fishing in the
river hauled up the body of a man about
thirty years old, supposed te be that of
Patrick Milley. ;Tlie bedyshad been in the
water probably ten 'days. Milley was of
intemperate habits.
A Paris dispatch says: "A collision oc
curred yesterday en the railway near
Vichy, in which nine persons were killed.
A train ran off the track en the Tarascau
and Cctte railway yesterday. TJ10 stoker
was killed and several passengers injured."
The Rev. AVilliam Clifferd Coekcsly, for
many years an assistant master at Eten
and recently rector at Tempsford, Bed Bed
eordshire, died yesterday. He is best
known as the editor of "Pindar" and as
the author of accounts, with maps, of an
cient Athens and Reme.
Tn Chicago, Freeman F. Gress shot and
killed Michael Fleming, at 10U Ewing
street. Gress was attracted by cries of
distress, and found Fleming si liking Mrs.
Fleming with a chair. On Gress's ap
pearance Fleming turned en him, and Gress
being hard pressed, fired two shots.
The St. Leuis Pe:;t-J):xi'iteh has private
advices from Ashport, where the steamer
Vicksburg recently sank. River pirates
were discovered earrving oil" the cargo.
The crew fired at the thieves and ene of
them is supposed te have been killed.
Later a band of masked men captured the
wrecking beat, placed Mr. Bcdard under
guard en the beat and took the rest of the
crew te the slieie. Great excitement ex
ists. In New Oricans Jules Richard, formerly
a drummer in the Thirteenth infantry, and
said te be a deserter, attempted the mur
der of Miss Marie Cendcau. who had 11 -fused
te marry him. Entering : room in
which the young lady was seated he drew
a pistol and fired, the hall entering her
head near the ear and coming :v .i her
mouth. The wound was pronounced dan
gerous, but net necessarily fatal. Richard
then cut his own threat with a razor.
A wash-out threw a train from the track
en the E. T. N. & G. railroad near Knox
ville. The engine, 'under, baggage and
postal cars and two passenger coaches
were badly wrecked. One sleeper remain
ed en the track with a portion of another
sleeper. Engiueei AVhit'eck's arm was
broken in two places, lie was found cov
ered iu the wreck. The fireman, two
brakcmcii, Conductor Yeung, Expres Mes
senger Corcerant and Baggage Master
Danton were also wounded, besides eleven
passengers. Mary. Baltic, aged about,
eight, years, was killed.
STATE ITEMS.
Bennie and Jee Frick, brothers, eight
and eleven years old respectively, while
playing iu a beat en the Susquehanna
river, at Pittslen, fell overboard and were
drowned.
The iron bridge en the Lebanon Valley
railroad, ever the canal at Harrh'burg,
broken up en Tuesday, was replaced by a
wooden trestle structure yesterday, and
trains passed ever safely.
The building for Bryn Mawr female col cel col
lege has new reached the top of the firsl firsl
stery and a commencement made en the
second-story. In order te reach the square
or eaves of the reef, sixteen feet only re
mains te be built. Twelve masons and
five stone cutters are at work. Nine thou
sand brick have been laid as interior lining
te the stone walls and 1,200,000 are en
hand ready made. The whole structure
will be completely under reef before cold
weather sets in.
Summer .TaunlK.
Evan P. Baily, of Oxford, started en
Saturday last in a one horse buggy for
Bedford Springs. He went by way of
Lancaster, Yerk, Gettysburg, Mercers
burg, McConnellsburg and ether towns,
and expected te be three or four days en
the read, traveling a distance of about 1C0
miles. Mr. Baily gees for the benefit of
his health and intends te remain two or
three weeks at the springs.
Jehn A. Alcxandcr,ef Oxford, and Ar. K.
Alexander, of White Reck, returned te
Oxford en Monday, from a two weeks' trip
through the New England states, whither
they 'were traveling for health's sake.
James P. Evans and sister also returned
home last week from an extended trip
West.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
MISS AIATKEK'S JDKATII.
The
Funeral The Inquest
tleu.
and Invctl"8
Yesterday the body of the victim of the
terrible burning accident, Miss Tillic
Matcer, was consigned te her last resting
place in the Mount Jey cemetery. The
funeral was announced te take place at 10
o'clock at the U. B. church, and long be
fore that hour a large number of friends
had assembled in the edifice. A long line
of relatives and friends followed the
corpse te the church, making the large
upper room well filled. The remains,
which lay in a silver-mounted coffin, were
nicely decked with llewers aud evergreens.
AVhen the mourners were seated Rev.
M. P. Deyle, after singing an appropriate
hymn, preached from Exodus xx., 12 :
"Hener thy father and thy mother, th.it
thy days may be long upon the land which
the Lord thy Ged giveth thee.'' This text
was suggested te the minister by the un
fortunate girl while standing by her death
bed, she having confessed te him with
great frankness her disobedience te her
parents ; that had she been mere obedient
the accident would have been averted.
He, iu an earnest maimer, impressed his
hearers with the great responsibility rest
ing upon parents in training their children
properly," and the great importance of re
pentance before reaching the death bed.
Rev. Henry Englc, of the River Brethren
denomination, spoke briefly in German,
after wlueh the remains were taken te
the burying ground amid convulsive sobs
of the relatives which weie painful te hear.
On Monday forenoon Corener Mishlcr,
with jurors Jehn B. Shelly, AVill II. tel
ler, Jehn II. Zellcr, Alex. Dyssirt, Henry
Kurtz and Rebert McFaddcn, viewed the
remains of Miss Matcer, and adjourned te
meet at 1 o'clock en AVedncsday, at Shel
by's Red Lien hotel. In the meantime
persons who saw the accident and were
concerned in it were subpoenaed. Five
witnessess, for one hour in the side room
of the hotel, told all or parts of what they
knew connected with the accident, and the
jury ascertained that no one knew hew the
lire originated, when a wave of astonish
ment swept through the room. Charles
Swarner, the supposed innocent cause,
affirmed that he couldn't for the life of him
tell hew her clothing was set en fire. lie
knew that lie lighted his cigar at home,
and by appointment met the girl at Cas-
sel's lumber yard. He didn't recollect
whether he carried his cigar iu his hand at
any time or net ; but another witness did,
and testified that she saw the cigar iu his
hand, lledidknowthatsliewasnetsmoking
cither a cigar or a pipe, as was reported,
that he was acquainted with her since
childhood and never saw or heard of her
using the "weed."' The story set afloat
that she was sharing the pleasure of smok
ing, and that en seeing some men approach
she thrust the cigar in her pocket, is con
sequently unfounded according te the tes
timony. One account of the calamity said
hat he rati in an opposite direction from
the burning girl. This is incorrect, as his
hands, which are badly burned in blisters
as lurgc as a cent, are enough te prove the
misstatement. It was shown that he did
all he could for the girl. After the fire was
extinguished he went for Dr. Nonis, paid
$1 te l)carbeek, the young man who was
driving by, for her conveyance te Mount
Jey, and $1 te replace his burned lap
blanket.
Henry Kauffman and wife were among
the witnesses, and claim that injustice was
done them by the statement, in the Lan
caster dailies, that she refused te allow the
girl te be taken into the house for medical
treatment. Here is her evidence : " 1 saw
her after she was burned. Very little was
said that I heard because I could net stand
te sce her. Dr. Norris came up and asked
if I could care for her. I said I was sick
myself and he said I see that. She was
asking te be taken home." Mrs. K. fur
nished him with stimulants and a wrapper.
In a letter te the coroner from Dr. Nor
ris the doctor says the family has been
wronged by the statement in the papers.
One of the witnesses testified that when
Miss Matcer heard the refusal it hurt her
very much, and that she then commenced
te ask te be taken home. Anether said that
Mrs. Kauffman said she "would like te
take her, but she couldn't."
AVhatevcr was the cause of the fire it is
evident from the searching inquiry that its
origin will never be known by the public.
There are two stories that have been heard
from tlic two principal actors in the terri
ble tragedy one directly from Mr. Swar
ner and the ether from the girl's mother
two hours after she was brought te her
home. The mother said that Tillle said
"he was lighting a cigar with a match
and by it the clothing was ignited."
This is the verdict that the jury returned
a short time after they retired for consul
tation : "That Miss Tillic Matter came te
her death by the accidental burning of her
clothing, the origin of which is unknown
te the jury.'
V: Tin; v.euJjs.
flic Siiil,lnr; :
rin
i Ca)iiiiiicuiiii.
I iu t-.in!::ii"' S
"prings cantpmccung
gieunds are nearly two miles from the rail
read, but yesterday there was a large
crowd el persons present at ail the exer
cises. Among the Lancaster ceuiuiaas
present are the following .
Mnuhciin and Lititz Rev. .1. Speehr, G.
F. Bressey, A. A. Stauffer, Mr. iJuch, .Air.
Adam.-,, Mr. Fisher, Mr. McCauley, Mr.
Bewman. Waller Buch. D. R. IJuch seven
tents.
Lincoln l. Hard.
Reainstewn If. . Reth.
Cluircti ol'Ceil Cainpmectiiis-
T he Oakville eanipinccting, just cle.;ed,
was held in the Cumberland Valley undci
I he auspices of the East Pennsylvania el
dership of the Church of Ged. It was
largely attended both by the ministry and
the laity. .Mere than a hundred tents were
eccuped. Jt was held en the old plan of
free admission te the grounds and of vol
untary collections, which has proven te le
popular, as the people- responded by meet
ing freely all the expenses, and with larjc
congregations, especially en last Sabbath.
This being the semi-centennial year of
the church as an organized body, special
services were held en Tuesday aftcrnem,
and were conducted by Rev. D. A. L. av
erly, of this city.
Many aged brethren of this and ether
states speke of their conversion te (Sed
mere than fifty years age, and ether or
ganization of the first churches.
The church at large contains some fifteen
annual elderships, and mere than fifty
theusahd members, and the outlook for
the future is full of -interest and hope te
this church.
Till: KNIUIiTS OFl'VTIHA.S.
itcturii of the Uniform Kaislc from Catifelv.
Inland City Division Ne. 7, Uniform
Rank Knights of Pythias, will return from
their visit te Carlisle this evening at (1:20.
They will be met at the depot by Lancaster
Division Ne. 0, who will act as their es
cort. A street parade will be had ever
the following route :
Ferm en Chestnut, right resting en
Prince, Prince te AA'alnut, te Mulberry, te
Orange, te Charlette, te AVcst King, te
Prince, te Conestoga, te Seuth Queen, te
Vine, te Lime, te East King, te Duke, te
AV'alnut, te North Queen, te OrangeJ te
prince, te hall and dismiss.
The parade at Carlisle, which was te
have come off yesterday at 5 o'clock,was
jtostpencd until 9 a. m. te-day, en account
of the unfavorable weather. Araud, dis
play was had iu the line, the Lancaster
band eliciting universal applause by tlieir
music in the parade and en the occasion of
some private serenades.
THE RESERVOIR IMPROVEMENTS.
WHAT THEV ARK AX1 WHAT TIIKY
COST.
Superintendent Hitch's Kcpert te Councils.
The improvements in the eastern reser
voir Jiavc been neticcdin th e Inte'J.i.igex
ceu from time te time, at .their beginning,
during tlieir progress, and at their cemple
tien. It has been further noticed that at
3 p. m. te-day the water was te be turned
into the finished basin, and that all the
city ceuncilmcn were invited te be present
te sec hew successfully the work had been
done. At that time Superintendent Kitch
distributed te the members copies of 'the
following rejsert, which shows the occasion
for thewerk.thc extent aud character of it,
and its cost in detail.
L.vncasti:k. P... Aug. 10, ISS0.
Te the Gentlemen of the Council ctha City of
Lancaster.
At a meeting of the water committee in
May last, T called' the attention of the water
committee te the dangerous condition of
the eastern reservoir, believing that unless
it was immediately repaired the whole
of the north bank would be washed out.
The water committee visited the reservoir
en Friday, May 21, 18S0, found it in a very
unsafe condition, with evidences of increas
ing leakage daily. The bank 011 the north
side, built of bad material, which seems
never te have been sound, and which
has given away ivveral times before,
was found te be sliding and a gap
widening daily, opening along the
bank diagonally, through which the
water from the reservoir ran in a steady
and considerable stream. There was every
probability iu the opinion of the committee
that if the water were kept up in the res
ervoir te the height required te supply the
high portions of the city that the lunik
would seen give way. I was ordered te
lower the water immediately, and the com
mittee at its meeting, May 21, 1SS0, six
members out of seven being present, unan
imously resolved te proceed with the
work of repairing the reservoir at once,
under my immediate siqiervisieii. Con
tracts were immediately entered into by
the committee for bricks, sand, cement,
laying of biick and hauling. Tliejiart of
the work net contracted for was the labor,
and this was placed under my immediate
charge, for the reason that it was impossi
ble te tell the extent or nature of the work
te be done, until the bottom and sides
were, tern lip and thoroughly examined
and tested. Evidences of leakage were
found in the bottom, en the sides and run
ning along the l'vvir supply and waste
pipes. It would have been imjiossible te
give quantities or designate the kinds of
material te be used or work te be done.
Pipes required re-caulking, joints te be re
made, the mains te be walled in, hi heavy
cement cases and columns ; parts of the
bottom, where evidences of weakness ex
isted, were re-laid in cement grouting,
varying in thickness from six te eighteen
inches. In fact the work was se varied iu
character that it would have become an
endless and very expensive source of
claimsTer extras, en the part of any con
tractor who would have undertaken te de
that which was assigned me. The mayor
who visited the work very frequently and
the members of the cemmittcu impressed
upon me in connection with this work the
necessity of nfaking a durable, lasting and
permanent job, anil te this end gave un
livery assistance. I believe the result will
prove that that end has been attained. I
began the work in the south cast angle of
the reservoir near where the bank washed
out in February 1871). After I had tern
up the brick bottom I found the clay pud
dling thoroughly water soaked. It will be
remembered that there always has been :i
slight percolation through this portion of
the reservoir visible en the outside before
and since the repairs in the spring of 1870
were made. I made a new concrete bot
tom in the angle running north about "JO
feel anil west 100 feet square. This bot
tom is J8 inches thick at the cast end and
12 inches at the west. Along the bottom
of the bank commencing in the angle
under the twenty-four-inch forcing main
and running all around the reservoir te the
angle in the northwest end I made a con
crete and puddle ditch at some points three
feet wide, and tit ethers where mere
strength was required seven te ten feet
wide and from three te four feet deep.
This ditch was partly filled with finely
broken stone and gravel and ran fulfte the
surface of the gravel and stone with ce
ment, making a water-tight wall. On lop
of this I puddled the clay surface of the
bottom of the res-erveir. Frem the south
east angle all around te the northwest
angle en the east and north sides in width
an average of l."i feet from the banks I
laid an extra fiat brick bottom iu cement.
The clay bottom in the middle of the res
ervoir where the extra brick bottom
was net put in was re-rammed solidly and
strengthened with additional puddling.
This done iu the bottom I stripped the cast
and north banks of tlieir brick lining, re
rammed them, puddled them from the
concrete and puddle ditch in the bottom te
the top of the water line, ene feet thick
along the cast end and along where the
principal trouble has hitherto occurred en
the north bank I increased the puddling te
Viva . feet, lessening it in thickness as I
reached the northwest angle. I next put
a lining of stone gravel and cement con
crete all the way round, from the south
cast te the northwest angle from the bot
tom te the top of the water line, of one
feet iu thickness, and upon this concrete
lining, cushioned with an inch or two of
the best river sand, I laid en edge tin
brick which forms the inside coating of
the reservoir. The liottem of the reservoir
when I took it up was found te be com
posed nearly wholly of brick bats laid fiat.
I threw these all out, except where I could
use them in making under bottom, and
laid a bottom of whole bricks en edge.
Finally I ran thin cement into the inter
stices of the newly laid bricks en the bot
tom and sides. 1 took out the large lat
ticed box covering the twenty-inch supply
main 011 the Orange street side, as the
strips were se wide apart that large fish
could pass into the pilc, and replaced
it by one the open spaces lietwccn the strips
of which arc considerably narrewed: 1
put in an overflow pipe en the cast bank
an inch or two higher than the automaton
telegraph signal, and propeso .connecting
the two reservoirs at the division wall be
tween them with an overflow of the same
height as the discharge overflow en the
cast bank.
The following list of bills will exhibit
the expenditures in making the foregoing
repairs :
;-.y contract.
The James Oni.'iit Company, 7tt' hhlrf.
Cnicnt W f I Ti. $U'-- "
J. Thinim, .ilarii'tia,.ij4ieiw 01 winu
a it .(.ie. ..-
I'entz & llie.. IT.V''" Uriclw (new) (ST. $7
i)ti r I jjMi ....
Iirachhar I! km., Ijiyiiiff ZVp& Kricks
(it) 'lit; per s. v:mt
Jehn .Mnwier, "llauUn:? K tm,s "'
?U1!! ) mOc...... ......... .........--.
Jehn Mu-M-r. llaiillii-j lu'JJtonsef Ce
incut Git 12)c....f .....................
Jehn .Mns.scr. Ilaiiliii-; Vz tens or
Sum! Vc.
SIS l:
l,2'. :
.l,W7 :n
UK :7
::i or.
'1 i"
Ordered by the Superintendent of the VtTuter
Hetus.
County 1'rlsen, Uircctens of Peer, ft.
a!., stones for f'reuthi
Haiisngariliiur, Kltermaii Si Ce., I.um-
Jj4llJwlf
W. 1. Kprcchcr & Sen IS Whcelhar-
rowj$!tt:em Pump $;.'J1
P. I'ctfc I.-) Leads or (Snivel fi 10c
WiUiam.stev.11 Pik: Tell en 1.VI J.eats
hu; in)
iu 71:
!,'.if5.S SI
: .i
15 le
ertru,vcl3c 4 SU
1-. aiermicitz i !.arge woetlen ring-
$ 1.75 ; Screen ever Main $M.U7.
Dlllcr, Marshall & Ce., SheveN. Sc...
S. lMmlapl' I.eail-t Sand
1. Xcchur, llepairinjj Wheelbarrows..
is .i
m m
is 7:.
10 i
$3,1X5 a
I.utnlwreti 1ihiiiUoImSeII Si) 00.
Ilriek Hut:) SeW 2rv.
Street Commissioner. ..1 Cart
Leads of Stones .'...18 00.
$50 23.
The total number of bricks laid at rcser-
i
f
v .3 ..
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