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Lancaster Intelligencer.
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPT. 3, 1880.
A Dangerous Friend.
General Grant lias written from Colo Cole
rado under date of August twelfth, te
his henchman, Jehn A. Legan, te tell
him that he is coming East in the latter
part of this month, and that " he will
gladly attend any meeting intended te
further the success of Garfield and Ar
thur."., lie concludes with the following
remarkable declaration :
" I agree with you that it will net de te
be beaten new. Wc should never be beaten
until every man who counts or represents
these who count in the enumeration te
give representation in the electoral college,
can cast his vote just as he pleases and can
have it counted just as he cast it."
That is a very true statement, but a
very.strange one te come from General
Grant if he is the friend of Garfield and
Arthur that lie claims te be. "We have
read the language he uses with a steady
endeavor te understand it, and we take
it te be a very clear announcement that
the party General Grant belongs te,which
lie says is the party of Garfield andArthur,
" should net be lieaten until every man"
" can cast his vote just as he pleases and
can have it counted just as he cast it."
If it does net say this it says nothing; and
with tliis statement we agree. It is just
what we have been saying te Mr. Legan
and his political friends for a long time.
The Republican party has lived as long
as it has, just liecau.se of the ability of
its managers te prevent the decision of
elections by an honest count of every
vote cast. Everybody knows this, and
the men who have done it de net deny
their work while they enjoy its fruit.
Frankness in the declaration of their in
iquity is quilcaremarkablc feature in the
character of many of the managing He
publican politicians. This lias been es
pecially conspicuous in this state where
this breed of dogs has biien produced el
tlie highest quality. There was Mackey,
who charmed while he shocked the pee
ple he talked te with the ejicnuess of his
avowals of corrupt methods of work
He made no secret of the fact that he
worked upon the one idea thateveryman
was te be bought, and that the sole
question in considering the possibility of
any scheme was the prevision of sufli
cient money. Keinble, when he followed
after Mackey, attempted te wear his man
tle and imitated his sincerity; but it
failed te work with him and he has gene
out into utter darkness.
Gen. Grant, in coming along with his
frank avowal that the Kepublican parly
should never lese power until itlesesits
ability te manipulate the people's ballets,
imitates the examples of these distin
guished leaders ; but we confess that wc
de net see what he expects te gain by
such a publication if his party's game
and the ground of its hope. It is bold
but surely net wise. We doubt whether
the general will be welcomed by his fel
low Republication his coming trip East,
at "any meeting intended te further the
successor the ticket headed by Garfield
and Arthur." His talk is tee free and
his avowals tee frank te make him use
ful at such meetings. It will be very
pleasant te hear him say that it will net
de te be beaten ; but the temper of the
people is net such as te make it safe te
say that a free ballet and a fair count
must be prevented te save the Kepubli
can party from defeat. "We expect that
the general will be asked te tarry awhile
in Colerado; in that wilderness it may de(
for him te avow his idea of the right way
te carry the election.
Tiik registration is new closed and the
tax duplicatesarc in the hands of the col
lectors, livery voter should sec te it for
himself that his tax is duly paid. Octo
ber - is the last dale te attend te this in
time te qualify for the coming presiden
tial election, but there should be no need
less delay. The earlier it is attended te
the better.
Naturalizations also can be effected up
te October l", te enable the naturalized
alien te vole for president; and these who
are entitled te it. or who knew and are
interested in ethers entitled te citizen
ship, should give their attention te this
important matter.
It may happen that some person duly
qualified te be registered, h:is l)ecn left
off willfully or carelessly by the assessor
of hisditsricl, though the voter complied
with all the legal requirements. In such
cases the law provides a remedy. It
should be taken advantage of before Oc
tober -. The voter can make oath te
his grievance, and upon presentation of
the matter te the court, it is bound te
take cognizance of it, te cite the com
plainant and assessor te appear before it,
and if the complaint is well founded, the
registry will be corrected accordingly.
Tin
Examiner of yesterday says:
The
effort of the Intet.mekxckii has
been quietly directed towards smuggling
en the ticket Heme one as a candidate who
would de the bidding of the enemies of
Senater Wallace.
The Examiner knows that it says what
it is net true. The Intelligencer has
no further concern in the Democratic
nomination for the Legislature from this
city than te see that it is of a man who
is honest and capable, and net instructed
in advance by briliery te vote for any
ring rooster like Quay, as Demuth is.
Whatever "efforts" the Intelligen
ce!: has te make in any direction will be
made openly and boldly, as is its
went, amLiiet under cover of darkness,
and with corruption, :is .T. W. Jehnsen
has publicly proclaimed that the devices
of the Examiner friends were employed
at the late Republican primaries. It
will net import $e,000 here for a bribery
fund te control instructions, as thcJS'x
anincr's friends did, nor will it concern
itself as te whom else the nominee is for
or against se long as he is known te be
fearlessly against the ballet-box stuffers
and return tinkers, the peer-house bum
mers and prison ringsters, the forgers of
.naturalization papers and fabricators of
bogus tax receipts, who vegetate around
the Examiner office and occasionally
make its back rooms the base of their
operations.
The New Yerk letter-carriers who
were at "Washington last winter begging
a "mecralic Congress te increase their
pay bcu.., j1Cy wcre ovcl-Yerked and
underpaid, ...... ,,atl te find mems te
pay $50 each te the Kepublican cam
paign fund. Democratic congressmen
will please stick a pin there.
m m m
The Philadelphia Times expresses sur
prise that a journal like the Pem Month
ly, represented by its publishers as " a
magazine for thoughtful readers," should
get down te the low grade of party false
hood en .which the disreputable organs
run and repeat the stalest and flimsiest
lies about the census in Southern states.
Has the Times never noticed by the
course of such papers as the Tribune and
Harper's Weekly that when the "journals
of civilization " start in they step'at noth
ing ?
Republican documents franked " R.
Cenklin" and " G. G. Bline " are passing
through the mails quite vigorously, the
forgeries being a very naked pretense for
the signatures of Senators Rescoe Conk Cenk
ling and James G. Blaine. But as Mr.
Hayes is away from home the interests of
civil service reform must be expected te
suffer in his absence.
MINOR TOPICS.
"We have," says the Londen Spectator,
" expended twenty millions and have lest
hundreds of valuable lives in the endeavor
te fight Russia without dcclaiing war en
her, and the total result is that the uamc
of the Afghan Ameer is Abdurrahman in
stead of Shcre Ali."
Gen. Banks, who signed the report
branding Garfield as a perjurer, and Robe
son, who escaped trial for malfeasance in
office only by the statute of limitations,
spoke en the same platform for Garfield
and Arthur at Jersey City, Tuesday even
ing. It has been held by the courts that a
hotel keeper is net liable for the less of a
hat that was hung en a rack while the
owner was at dinner. The property must
come into the actual possession of the pro
prietor and be received by him, whether
he be hotel keeper or barber, before he be
comes liable for any less.
Mr James II. Hepkins, the Democratic
candidate for Congress in the Pittsburgh
district, has challenged Congressman Er-
rctt, the Republican candidate, te a joint
discussion of the issues of the day. Mr
Errctt has decided that he cannot accept
until he gets the advice of his comity com
inittce en the subject.
A letter is printed from General Gar
field in reply te seme inquiries as te
whether he would net, if elected, "recom
mend legislation for the suppression of the
importation, manufacture and sale of in
toxicating liquors as beverages in the Dis
trict of Columbia and the tci riteries."
Garfield's reply is truly remarkable. He
says : "I hope you will recognize the pre
priety el my declining te answer your
question, and the impropriety of my mak
ing any statement te any person that I
will de any particular thing in case I am
elected." The general doesn't like te
hurt anybody's feelings.
Twe of General Garfield's competitors
for the presidential nomination seem te be
unable te restrain covert attacks. In a
brief report of Secretary Sherman's speech
at Washington, he is represented as saying
that General Garfield was an honest gen -cral,
while the mere important tribute that
he was an honest man was adroitly with
held. Senater Blaine has been making a
stirring speech en the tariff, in which the
worst of all frce trade offences is describ
ed as the policy of raising revenue en such
articles as tea and coffee, which arc net
produced in this country, a system that
found in General Garfield a persistent ad
vocate. Progress.
At the battle of Yorktown the clergy
were present in large force, and all their
intellectual and rhetorical powers were
called into service the first Sabbath after
the surrender. The finest effort new en
record was that of Israel Evans. He had
been a chaplain from the first and fought
in nearly every great battle of the war.
At Yorktown, as he steed near Washing
ton, a cannon-ball struck at his feet and
showered him with mud. Without mev
ing a step, he took off his hat te examine
its condition. Washington advised him
te take it home, te show his wife and
children. After the surrender he preached
te the assembled army from ' Net unto
us, O Lord, net unto us, but unto thy
name give glory for thy incrcy and for thy
truth's sake. Wherefore should the
heathen say, Where is new their Ged?
But our Ged is in the heavens. He hath
done whatsoever he pleased."
Hawthorne was a close friend of
Franklin Pierce, and having written his
campaign biography was expected te have
great influence with him. The office
hunters must have pestered him after the
election since wc find him saying, in a let
ter written about that time, te a literary
friend : " When applying for office, if you
are conscious of any deficiencies (moral,
intellectual, or educational, or whatever
else), keep them te yourself and let these
find them out whose business it maybe.
Fer cxample, supposing the effice of
translator te the state department te be
tendered te you. Accept it boldly, with
out hinting that your acquaintance with
foreign languages may net be the most fa
miliar. If this unimportant fact be dis
covered afterward, you can be transferred
te some mero suitable pest. The business
is te establish yourself, somehow and any
how. I have have had as many ofiicc efiicc ofiicc
scekcrs knocking at my deer for three
months past as if I was a prime minister,
se that I have made a geed many scientific
observations in regard te them. The
words that Bradamante (I think it was)
read en the enchanted hall arc, and ought
te be, their motto : ' Be bold, be bold, and
everywhere be bold.' But ever one deer
she read : Be net tee bold. A subtle bold
ness with a veil of modesty ever it is what
is needed.' "
Calamities Abroad.
A wooden bridge ever the river Ebro,
near Larange, fell while a battalion of
troops was crossing. One captain, three
lieutenants, and seventy-five troops were
drowned.
The British steamer Hardwick, or G78
tens, from Odessa for Bristel, laden with
barley, shifted her cargo and foundered,
and all en beard were lest with the excep
tion of ene fireman.
Frederick Archer, aged 28 years, was
killed by a railroad engine at a street
crossing in Buffalo, N. Y.
THE OUTLOOK.
What u Assured Already.
Washington Correspondence N. Y. Snn.
Reports from the best informed sources
in Indiana relieve the anxiety that has
been felt here in regard te the vote of that
state in October. Little if any doubt is
entertained that the Democrats' will clcc
their governor by a decided majority,
which will be doubled for Hancock. This
confidence is inspired mainly by the able,
efficient, comprehensive and discreet man
agement of the campaign by Mr. English,
who, in his quality of chairman of the
state committee and of candidate for vice
president, has a double responsibility te
carry.
He is an organizer of the first order, be
ing cool, sagacious, vigilant, and prepared
at all points. He has methodized the can
vass as an intelligent merchant would de
his business. Instead of begging for help
outside the state, and carrying round a
hat, after the old fashion, he has put his
own shoulder vigorously te the wheel, and
he relics upon the Democrats of Indiana
te take care that there shall be no default,
and that the vote of 187C shall be reaf
firmed by an emphatic expression against
the Fraud. ,
But for the energy and the capabilities
of Mr. English, as the directing mind, and
the pivot upon which the organization
turns, there might be misgiving and dis
trust of the result, from the uncommon
dibits and the immense expenditure of
money en the part of the Republicans,
who have Heeded the state with campaign
fabrications, and have imported some four
thousand negrees te illustrate the purity
of the elective franchise. They have done
worse things than cither of these schemes,
which Mr. Marshall Jewell and his confed
erates will find out in geed time arc well
known, and will be counteracted.
While committees at Washington and
elsewhere have been blowing their trum
pets about the prospect, and getting them
selves gazetted and puffed for doing next
te nothing, Mr. English has silently pur
sued his way, and encouraged everybody
near him with the conviction that his way
is the sine read te success. He will ewe
nothing te external hiippert, and very little
te local chiefs, who have been accustomed
te appropriate the honors, for which Ihcy
contributed but little labor. The plain
people, as Mr. Lincoln called them, and
net the sclf-anneinted leaders, are his
great reliance, and they will net fail in
duty or in devotion when se much is at
stake.
With Indiana secured the presidential
contest would be reduced te narrow limits,
and Hancock's election, from that day
forward, might be regarded as a reason
able certainty. The effect of a positive vic
tory there would be felt in every close
state, and would at once capture the large
floating vote, which is always en the look
out for a comfortable place with the ma
jority, no matter what its political com
plexion may be.
Pennsylvania and Illinois are both pro
nounced Republican states in ordinary
times. But there is a strong leaning te
Hancock in each of them, which has broken
through party lines and threatens a seri
ous revolt. If Indiana should lead the way
gallantly, as is new fully expected, Cam Cam
eeon and Legan will find their hands mere
than full te prevent a stampede, which
would leave them powerless and in the
fellowship of kindred demagogues, whom
the pcople arc likely te consign te enforced
exile from public life.
The outlook is geed, and new that the
discords in New Yerk are silenced, as they
should have beeu a month age, there wil 1
be nothing te mar the prospects of a great
triumph. Te make that object sura be
yond dispute, work, real, earnest, and
steady work, is demanded from every hand
that can spare an hour te redeem the
country from misrule and te restore honest
government at Washington.
PERSONAL.
New it is known that Nr.u.sex had a
presentiment of an early death.
Queen Victekia is said te have been
greatly disappointed that General (J rant
was net reneminated for the presidency.
Rev. J. A. Situceen has just become
entitled te a legacy, ameuuling te about
$75,000, bequeathed te him. by a member
of his former congregation.
The report of the death of Marshal B.
zaini: is unfounded. Letters have been
received which state that, lie is enjoying
excellent health.
Hen. Jacou Zieei.ei:, editor of the IJut
Icr Herald, has been nominated ler slate
senator by the Democrats of the district
composed of the counties of Armstrong
and Butler. The district is a close one
politically, but generally gives a consider
able Republican majority. This timc.liow timc.liew timc.liow
evcr, it is likely te be Democratic.
Jeseph K. Emmet's foolish spree will
cost him at least $."1,000, and a great deal
of respect that was once accorded him.
He has net yet returnee te his family at
the Albcniarle hotel. Mrs. Emmet re
mains there in seclusion, leaving the search
for her husband entirely in the hands of
her son and Mr. Wilten.
Mile. Tait, the young violinist, new .se
much talked of in Paris, is the eldest
daughter of a Turin mason, who taught
himself; the violin, his wife the guitar,and
put an instrument in the hands of his little
girl then six years old. When they had
mastered a few tunes, they left Turin and
visited, one after another, the winter cities
of the coast. At Nice a lady was se struck
with the child's talent that she gave the
father an introduction te M. Massart, pro
fessor of the violin at the Conservatoire,
and the whele family came te Paris te find
a friend in the professor, who, with a few
of his acquaintances, raised a fund which
enabled them te live while the daughter
followed the classes of the Conservatoire,
where she has new gained the highest re
ward at thirteen.
The rittsburs Fair.
The Pittsburgh exposition and fair open
ed yesterday at 2 o'clock with addresses by
Jehn II. Hampton, esq., and the president
William Miller. Fully 8,000 people were
in attendance. Manufacturers, stock rais
ers and horsemen of Western Pennsylva
nia, Eastern Ohie, and West Virginia arte
represented. The trotting track was dedi
cated at four o'clock by three exhibition
races. The first race for premiums will be
en Saturday. The exposition society de
clares no dividends but expends its money
enlarging the grounds and buildings. The
area of the grounds is new fifteen acres.
The present exhibition bids fair te be the
best in the history of the society and
thousands of strangers will be in the city
in the next five weeks.
the field club.
Taste ler O a t-doer Sports.
Baltimore Gazette.
An almost extravagant fondness for out out out
deer sports is a national characteristic of
our English cousins, both of the sterner
and the gentler sex. The beneficial re
sults arc seen in their robust strength and
"staying" powers, their bright eyes and
rosy faces. As a rule the English arc a
healthy, vigorous race, capable of enor
mous expenditure of physical strength and
possessing a fund of energy and self-reliance
upon which they arc able te make
almost unlimited draughts. Their experi
ence for centuries proves that a taste for
athletic sports is one of the best inheritances
that can be transmitted in a nation from
father te son, and it is therefore especially
gratifying te note the marked growth in the
popularity of out-deer exercises among our
selves. During the past ten years the taste
for the dificrent open-air spoils has in
creased with great rapidity in every part
of the country. Baseball net only shows
no signs of waning, but is if anything
mere popular than ever. Cricket is gain
ing ground in the Eastern states, while
rowing has everywhere developed amaz
ingly in popularity. Bicycle riding is also
destined te have iuashert time alargc circle
of devotees, while in-deer gymnastics, as
well as athletic competitions in the open air
swimming, walking, running and many
miner forms of physical exercise,
have each their special advocates and fol
lowers. The colleges, where young men
arc thrown together in large bodies and
where special facilities for practice arc af
forded, have naturally been the nurseries
of the athletic spirit, and must continue te
be se. At seme of them the cllert has
been made by the authorities te curb if net
te break down the new tcndcncy,Jwhich
they accuse of being detrimental te the
pursuit of knowledge. Undoubtedly,
when carried te an extreme, the taste for
athletic exercises beceme injurious,but the
fact should net be overlooked that the
country needs healthy as well as intelligent
men and that the youth who gees into the
world strong in body as well as fairly in
formed is doubly armed for the struggle for
existence. The young women, tee, arcreap
ing great advantages from the new order
of tilings. Lawn-tennis, walking, riding and
ether forms of cxercise are as popular new
among the girls as a fashiouable languor
was some years age. The great reproach
of American women in the past has been
that they are tee delicate, tee ailing, tee
weak, te meet the exacting demands of
wifehood and motherhood. Their loveli
ness has been conceded en all hands, but
in tee many cases it has been the loveli
ness of the fragile, drooping flower. New
all this is being changed. At the seaside
women are often better swimmers than
the men, the result of constant and intell
igent practice at the swimming schools.
At the country and mountain resorts the
average young lady thinks nothing of a
five or even tcn-mile tramp ever the rough
est paths. In the Catskills or the Adiron Adiren
dacks, for instance, it is a common thing
te sec troops of yeuug ladies in their trim
walking-dresses and square-sole shoes
climbing the most precipitate mountain
sides quite as nimbly as their male escorts.
All this cannot but be beneficial te the
young people, and its favorable effect
upon the physique of the coming genera
tions of Americans must inevitably be
very marked.
THE CAMl'AION.
The Prospect in l'ennylvanla.
New Yerk Stoat Zeltung.
Speaker Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsyl
vania, called at the national Democratic
committee rooms yesterday en his way te
Albany, where he is te address a mass
meeting. On being questioned in relation
te the progress of the canvass in Pennsyl
vania he said :" I dislike te repeat what
se many ethers have said that it has be
come almost trite, but it is nevertheless a
fact that in Pennsylvania the campaign is
emphatically the people's canvass, and
the people arc se far ahead of the
political leaders that wc find it
almost impossible te supply the
demands for speakers and documents.
When Hancock was nominated I expected
that the action of the convention would
arouse great enthusiasm in our state, but
I did net expect that it would continue se
intense as it has, nor that the pcople would
go te work se energetically and schemati
cally as they have done. They have taken
the business into their own hands and are
doing the work of organization in sponta
neously formed civilian and veteran clubs
as efficiently as if each local organization
was organized as part of a preconceived
general plan with the guidance and
support of central headquarters. In the city
of Philadelphia all dissensions have abso
lutely ceased. The committee, ably presided
ever by Mr. Cassidy, has the unqualified
support, respect and allegiance of the
whole party in Philadslphia, and the pre
liminary work of the canvass has been
performed with surprising thoroughness.
As has already been explained in the New
Yerk papers, Pennsylvania laws require
all voters te be assessed for poll tax by
September 2. The assessment of this year
in Philadelphia includes many thousands
mere of Democratic voters than have ever
before appeared upon any previous list,
and the great preponderance of increase
in the total number assessed is with us.
The Republicans will no longer be able te
disfranchise Democratic voters or poll
repeaters under names of the dead. I have
great, conlidcnce that Hancock will carry
the state, especially if the Democrats win
in Indiana in October."
ACTING IN HARMONY.
The Tsiiuinany and Irving Hall Democrat
Make an AinlcaOle Adjustment.
The Democratic committees agreed that
Tammany hall should first select two con
gressional districts, then Irving hall two,
an.l the remaining three should be drawn
for, with the understanding that which ever
should draw the Eighth district should
also tike the Eleventh district. Tammany
hall selected the Sixth and Ninth districts,
represented by S. S. Cox and Fernande
Weed. Irving hall selected the Fifth and
Tenth districts, represented by Nicholas
Mullcr and James O'Brien. The remain
ing three numbers wcre put in a hat, when
Tammany hall drew the Seventh, repre
sented by Edwin Einslcr. Irving hall
drew the Eighth, represented by McCook,
and as by agreement took the Elcvcnh.
represented by Morten, The conference
was harmonious throughout.
STATE ITEMS,
In Williamsport yesterday. S. M. Smith.
Republican, was elected recorder by 571
majority.
The Democrats of the thirty-first sena
torial district nominated A. M. Marklc,
esq., of Perry county, for senator by ac
clamation. An examination is new being made of
the school-children of Philadelphia for the
purpose or determing hew many of them
sutler from myopia.
T. A. Hall writes from Windser, Out.,
that he will "pull" Dr. Buchauan for
$.1,000 but Wm B. Mann, his counsel, de
clares that the Delaware fishes are feasting
en his client's body.
The Delaware Republican state conven
tion nominated Jehn W. Housten for Cen
gress and the following presidential elect elect
ors: Henry Dupent, J. P. Barnard and
Jehn D. Rednoy.
The great general council of the Presby
terian church will begin in Philadelphia
en Wednesday, 23d instant, and continue
for one week. It is anticipated that ever
300 delegates from different parts of the
world will be present.
A movement has been set en feet te pe
tition Governer Heyt te appoint a woman
as ene of the commissioners of public chari
ties, te fill the vacancy eccuring in the
beard in December next, by the expiration
of the term of Commissioner Clyracr.
The miners at Stewartville colliery,
operated by Mentelius & Ce., at Mt. Car
mel, are en a strike because new wagons
were built that are larger than the old
ones and no additional price offered ; also,
the want, of miners' supplies equal te that
of ether collieries.
Jack Evcrman alias Sailor Jack, who
died recently in Philadelphia, left behind
him a death bed declaration in which he
confesses that he committed certain rob
beries for which three men are new under
going imprisonment in the Eastern peni
tentiary. The certified declaration of the
dead man will be laid bcfercHie beard of
pardons at their next meeting.
The "Berlin," that moral plague-spot
en Sansom street, above Ninth, Philadel
phia, which the Tunics has been exposing
ler four weeks past, and which has been
the ruin of se many of the young of both
scxcs,was raided last night by the police and
nearly seventy persons were captured, in
cluding the proprietor himself, one Fus-
scll. The raid was made by a force of
twenty-two pouce under Lieutenant
Creat. The time was ten minutes past
10 o'clock. Net for years past has there
been a raid in which se many miners were
captured. There were fifty-eight men and
boys and ten girls.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
The body of Henry W. Casey, drowned
at Narragansctt Pier, was recovered. He
was a member of the senior class at Yale.
Antheny Clayten, aged 2-1 year?, while
fishing near Elizabcthpert, N. J., fell out
of his beat and was drowned.
Thrce children of Charles Wilsen, a far
mer of Surrey county, Va., have died
within a week from eating the berries of
the deadly nightshade.
Geerge Persons, a two-year-old boy, was
run ever by a farmer s wagon and kicked
te death, while playing in the read near
Buffalo, N. Y.
The body of a well dressed man, much
emaciated, and looking as if death had
resulted from starvation, was found in an
nnlrequcntcd path, near Lisben Falls,
N. J., en Wednesday. The linen was
marked with the initials, "31. T. K."
A woman in Marshall county, Kansas,
has had bad luck with husbands. Twe of
them were hanged by vigilance commit
tees, a third was sent te the penitentiary
and a fourth committed suicide. Nothing
bad has happened te the fifth.
Eight prisoners confined iu the Clinten
county jail, Iowa, during the absence of
the lai ler, overpowered-and gagged the
turnkey and escaped. They carried the
turnkey's pockctbeok and revolver with
them iu their flight.
Base ball : At Trey Haymakers, 11 ;
Union of Brooklyn, 4. At Chicago
Morning Chicago, 1 ; Trey, 0 ; afternoon
Trey, 5: Chicago, 1. At Cleveland
Bosten, (5; Cleveland, 2. At Buffalo
Providence, 7 ; Buffalo, 1.
Mr. William J. Fletcher, the spiritual
istic medium, has been arrested iu Bosten
and a large amount of diamonds and ether
property identified as belonging te Miss
Davics has been recovered. Mr. Fletcher
has premised te restore the property of
Miss llavies new in Ins possession.
Stanley Carver, aged 27, of Baltimore,
courted a young lady, her trousseau was
bought, the day fixed, hundreds of dollars
worth of bridal presents wcre sent in last
Tuesday evening, but the groom cemcth
net. He has lied and the baked meats
have grown cold.
Jehn Mack, an employee at Balbach &
Sen's, was drowned in the Passaic. He
was wheeling a barrow of metal along the
wharf, and the barrow was overturned and
he fell upon it, and he and the barrow
rolled into the river together. The body
was recovered.
The Italian Democratic Union of New
Yerk displayed a Hancock and English
banner in front of their rooms at 40 and 48
East Housten street last evening, with
cheers, music, and fireworks. Afterward,
in the large hall, the members listened te
speeches in Italian and English.
Daniel Parkhurst was burned te death
at Jehnsen lime kiln, Illinois. He was
pushing some stone that had formed a
sort of crust ever the mouth of the kiln,
when it gave way suddenly and carried
him with it, he being wedged in from the
hips- down. He war, burned te death in
ten minutes.
At the Freethinker's convention, at Hor Her Hor
nellsvillc, N. Y., the Rev. Egbert, of New
Yerk, presented himself as a representa
tive of orthodoxy, requesting a hearing in
defense of the Christian religion. He was
granted Saturday forenoon. Sunday af
ternoon Cel. Rebert G. Ingcrsell will ad
dress the convention en " What Shall I de
te be Saved'."'
The venerable and Rev. Jeffersen Lewis,
D. D., one of the eldest Methodist preach
ers in New Jersey, while picking peaches
from a tree in his garden, was struck by a
club thrown by a boy in the street. The
cudgel was a heavy one and felled the rev
erend gentleman te the ground, fracturing
his cellar-bone and otherwise s-erieusly in
juring him.
Seme time age an English ironclad put
into Vige and duly saluted the fort. Ne
return was, however, fired, and all en
beard were discussing this breach of eti
quette when a beat was seen approaching
the ship bearing an officer in a gorgeous
uniform. On reaching the deck he ex
plained the object of his mission, which
was te request the lean of a little powder
te return the salute, as they were unfortu
nately out of it en shore.
William Crcvcr plunged headforemost
out of a third-story window of the Bible
house, New Yerk, and was instantly killed.
While his mangled body was lying en the
side-walk, surrounded by a crowd of horri
fied spectators, a young man, an ex-convict,
made an impassioned appeal for the
protection of men who, having fallen into
crime, sought te reform their lives, and
said that it was neglect of such tiiat in
Crevcr's case made him commit suicide.
Klastcri.
During work en the Canada Pacific rail
way, at Yale, B. C, recently, nine China
men, standing upon a rock ever a blast,
wcre blown into the air by a premature
explosion, anil all wcre seriously injured.
Three of them were net expected te re
cover. Friends of the injured men threat
ened vengeance en the foreman of the
gang, a white man, and chased him for
several miles with picks, but he escaped.
Old Telegrapher.
A national reunion of the "Old Times
Telegraphers " is te be held in Cincinnati
en the 7th. It is expected te bring to
gether men widely separated and net here
tofore gathered into an organization. The
citizens are taking steps te promote the
success of the meeting and the Enquirer
newspaper and Adams express company
have contributed $100 each for the pur
pose. TOISACCO.
Successfully Oreivn en the Same Field Con
tinuously. Mr. Adam E. Hoever, ene of the eldest
and most successful tobacco raisers of
West Earl, has nearly three acres out this
year of which seme of the " Hancock
leaves " measures 50 inches, ene 51 and a
number a few inches less. " Seme farmers,"
said 3Ir. Hoever, " have the idea that you
cannnc successfully raise tobacco en the
same field a number of consecutive years."
The large leaves which I have just shown
you are from a patch en which I have
raised a fine crop for twelve years."
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
OUT OF DOORS.
A Half Holiday la the Weeds.
It was a merry party that left this city
yesterday afternoon via Millersville street
ailway for the classic shades of Shenk's
weeds, that charming retreat en the banks
of the placid Concstega. They composed a
baker's dozen of ladies and gentlemen, and
an almost equal number of baskets well
stocked with previsions. Nothing was
wanting te give zest te the enjoyment un
less it were the absence of the East King
strcct'pect, who by seme malign interposi
tion "missed the car" and was compelled
te await the next one, the arrival of which
brought his smiling visage te camp.adding
renewed cheerfulness thereto. Of
course they went beating and
of course, net having brought their fishing
tackle with them, they saw bass of phe
nemenal proportions leap out of the water
as if imploring te be drawn into the beat
by the gcntle suasion of red and line. The
young limb of the law who is an authority
en piscatorial subjects, vouchsafed the in
formation that the bass is the most per
verse member of the tinny family ; that
a well ordered fishing party supplied
with all the necessary equipments
for a day's angling may sit in a beat in the
middle el a stream from the gray dawn te
the purple twilight and the chances are
about nine out of ten that net a blessed
bite will reward their perseverance ; but
let them go near the water without these
valuable accompaniments and the bass will
fairly jump into the beat in their eager
ness te be caught and cooked. The party
wcre se deeply interested in this learned
disquisition of the legal gentleman that
they did net notice their approach
te a fleck one of the young ladies
said "Heck" of savage-looking cows that
wcre indulging in the luxury of a bath,
ncath the cooling shade of the umbrageous
foliage, and in less time than it takes te
tell it the beat was in the very midst el the
furious creatures. The ladies "screamed
like Turks," and the cows fled iu tenor
up the bank. A vote of thanks was re
turned te the ladies for their assist
ance in the hour of peril. The inkslingcr,
with an air of superior wisdom after
the danger was ever tried te get in
his opinion that there had been
no danger at all, that the cow is the most
inellensive of animals, but he was prompt
ly ruled out of order in his base attempt
te derogate the ladies' bravery. The table
was attractively spread and abundantly
provided with geed things. It was
discovered that the party was compescd'of
an unlucky number for sitting at tabic.
This appaling disclosure occasioned sur
prising celerity en the part of the legal
luminary in securing a position at the fes-
tive beard wtionce he could net be ousted
by subsequent arrangements. The dry
goods clerk was net behind in this laudable
ambition; the poet, as poet go, didn't
have much appetite and kindly offered te
wait for second table, and was joined by
two fair companions. He presided with
rare grace ever the lcmonade department.
In the gleaming the party started for
the village whence the cars brought them
te town. A vote taken en the presidential
question resulted as fellows : Hancock 13,
Garfield 0. This is a straw, and was greeted
with wild enthusiasm. Lancaster was
reached shortly after 8 o'clock, aud never
was merrier party better pleased with a
half holiday in the weeds.
XEIGHKORUOOO NKWS.
Events Acress the County Lines.
Wild pigeons have been seen lately in
large Hecks around Harrisbnrg.
Colonel Gcerge F. McFarland, of Har
risbnrg, who founded the soldiers' orphan
school at McAIistcrvillc, Juniata county,
has again assumed control of the school.
The river is nearly thrce feet higher at
this date than it was iu the beginning of
September last year, when the water had
simmered down te the low water mark of
1803. There haa been a rise of eight or
ten inches since Monday, but the water is
clear as usual.
A fine two-year-old marc, belonging te
Henry Mountz, near Stouchsburg, Berks
county, entered the barn while he and
some laborers wcre threshing wheat, and
before it could be prevented leaped from
the overshoot te the solid ground below,
breaking its neck. It expired in a few
minutes.
The assignee of the Reading savings
bank announces the inability of the bank
te continue paying the creditors unless
through a damaging sacrilice of assets.
Thirty per cent, of the fifty-five per cent
have been paid. The next installment
is due in November. An extension of one
year is asked for, and a meeting of credi
tors is te be called.
A marked improvement is noticeable in
the business at the various railroad shops
of Reading. At the car shops en North
Sixth street orders have been received te
begin working six days per week instead
of five, as heretofore, the order te go into
effect immediately. At the machine shops
en Seuth Seventh street, about fifty ma
chinists, who were lately suspended, wcre
sent for and will resume operations, and
the force will he still further increased ere
long.
At the convention by the Grcciibackcrs
of Dauphin county, en Wednesday, for the
nomination of candidates for county offi
cers, the name of C. V. Coolbaugh, of
Middlctewn, was placed en the ticked for
senator. Mr. Coolbaugh subsequently de
clined the nomination and the name of
Chambers Dubbs, of Harrisbnrg, was
placed upon the ticket. Mr. Dubbs, who
had been .nominated for director of the
peer, has accepted the senatorial nomina
tion, and new the peer director nomina
tion en the ticket is left vacant.
Mr. Jacob Bixlcr, who has been living
at Paela, Kansas, for the past year, has re
turned te Harrison rg. He says : "There
has been but one small rain about Paela
since the 5th of July. The farmers have
te drive their stock five and six miles for
water. The corn is all dried up as dry as
in December. The early corn is middling
geed, but the late is very peer. The grass
en the prairies is burning up. The condi
tion of affairs farther west is still worse,
as they have no crops at all everything
is destroyed by dreuth and they have noth
ing above ground te cat."
Ul'FEK END NEWS.
from our .Exchange.
A few days age a party of eighteen
tramps encamped iu a weeds near Litiz.
They spent the day playing cards, sleeping
and swearing.
Rudy, a flvc-ycar-eld son of Levi Heck,
of Akren, was playing about a cider mill
when he accidentally get his fingers in the
cog wheels while the mill was in motion,
and had two front fingers terribly smashed
and broken.
II. W. Mehn sold te Henry Schwartz
his enc-and half story house and let, in
Manhcim, for $500.
Milten, a six-year-old son of Jehn
Kreidcr, of Penn township, fell from a
wagon while it was being used in hauling
tobacco, and one of the wheels passing
ever his right thigh fractured the bone
thereof.
S. G. Summy, auctioneer, sold at pub
lic sale the real estate of Christian Strenge
deceased, consisting of 8 acres and 117
perches of land, with improvements, in the
village of Petersburg, for 93,451, te uaviu
limybill.
David Gibble, of Manhcim, had his
house damaged te the extent of $500 en
Tuesday by lire, which originated from a
spark from the apple butter boiling.
First.
Harvey Groff.en the Strasburg turnpike,
has his corn cut already.
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OCK REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE1.
Tobacco Cutting Railroad News Personal
j-emiv tire Matters.
Reports from about here are te the effect
that while few extensive growers of the
weed have finished cutting, they are all
getting their tobacco iu as fast as possible,
and that a week or two mero will see
housed very nearly all of what is still out
standing. A farmer with whom we wcre
speaking last evening said that with the
assistance of two ethers, yesterday, he .cut
half an acre of the weed and considered it
a right geed day's work. We confessed
our ignerance as te whether it was or net
Hew is it ? Docs it amount te anything ?
Rev. Richard C. Scaring, pastor of St.
Paul's Episcopal church, with his family
has arrived from a four weeks' visit te his
old home at Walten, Delaware county.
New Yerk. Service will be held as usual
in the Episcopal church en Sunday morn
ing and evening.
A fishing party of ladies, most of whom
are school teachers, spent yestenlay en the
river angling for bass and chubs. They
caught a few of each. The party declined
male escort of a suitable age, but chose a
paterfamilias te paddle their canoe.
High Constable Strawbridg told your
correspondent this morning that the pre
sent month is a bad ene for the office se
far as "guests " are concerned, as during
the past several nights the lock-up has
been entirely empty.
The Columbia fire company will held
its regular monthly meeting this evening
in the engine house parlors.
The president of the ladies committee
last evening appointed the table commit
tee for the coming fair of the Citizens
band.
The following bands will Ihs iu attend
ance at the Citizens band fair en the
dates given : Mechanics band, of Marietta,
en September 9th ; Meuntville silver cor
net band en September 10th; Ironville
band en September 11th ; Spring Garden
comet band, of Springvillc, en September
1 1th ; and Wrightsville band en Septem
ber 15th. The Citizens band will also be
out en several dates. N
At the meeting of the Columbia fire
company this evening officers te serve for
the next six months will be elected.
Miss Jennie Delict, of Mcchanicsburg,
Pa., is visiting friends in town.
Miss Flera Pfentz, teacher in the gram
mar school, who has been out of town for
seme weeks, has returned. ,.
Te-day is net by any means cool. The
mercury registers 84 degrees at Black's
hotel and the 1st National bank.
One of the sights te 1 seen at the First
National bank is a hornet's nest placed
conspicuously ever the deer leading into
the cashier's room.
A party was given last evening at the
residence of Mr. James A. Richards en
Seuth Second street in honor of his daugh
ter Miss Emily. Quite a number of young
ladies and gentlemen wcre present and the
evening was most enjoyably spent.
The employees at the Reading & Colum
bia coal chutes are busy this morning in
in dumping the black diamonds into canal
beats iu waiting. The demand is ahead of
the supply.hewever, :m there are a numliei numliei
ef beats lying at the wharf awaiting their
turn te lie leaded.
The Shawnee fire company held its regu
lar monthly meeting last evening. The
members discussed their prospective trip
te Hagcrstewn, Md., in October next, and
transacted a heap of business pertaining
te the same. The company will give a
picnic in Hcisc's weeds te pay the expense
of keeping an engine here while they are
away.
Paul McMann, baggage master at the
Pcnnsylvnnia railroad depot, is se far re
covered from his recent illness as te be
able te walk the streets with the aid of a
cane.
The Pennsylvania railroad cenqKiny will
issue their excursion tickets te the state
fair at Philadelphia, te-morrow.
It is net thought that the Shawnee fur
nace company will purchase a new engine
for their narrow gauge track en their
ground, but will purchase a second-hand
engine.
A child of James Daily died last night of
cholera infantum.at the father's residence,
en Locust street, below Fiftlu
The statement by the correspondent of
the New Era, en Thursday evening, that
the Democracy of Columbia hail adopted a
uniform, is incorrect. The writer was re
quested te correct it, hut refused, prefer
ring te stand by a lie. He comes by the
art honestly.
OI'JCN TO ill.!..
The Etitrirs ler IKS I.
Next year will be the "big year' in
the lexicon of Republican politics iu this
county and the principal offices of Court
Heuse Rew are then te be filled. The
crop of candidates premises te lte abund
antly large, as may be inferred from the
following who have already mounted the
ragged edge :
Sheriff Abram Keller, J. O. Krcady.
Jehn High, G. W. Lecher.
Register Dr. W. Compleu, Captain
limbic, Ben Wisslcr, Arthur Aycrs, Al.
Smith, I. N. S. Will.
l'rothenolaruJohn II. Skiles, Abram
Sctlcy, Sara Matt Fridy, Owen P. Brickcr,
YV. L. Kreidcr.
Clerk of Orhaut Court Jehn Heed,
Ames Senrbecr, Jes. Rccscr, S. G. Gcnsc
mcr. Prison Keeper Jehn M. Hess, II. K.
Burkheldcr, Henry Dillcnbach.
Treasurer Stephen Grissingcr, Jehn
M. Greider, Jehn J. Geed.
Clerk of Quarter Sessions Jehn D.
Clinten, Geerge W. Eaby, Tobias
Hcrshey.
COURT OV COSISIOM 1'L.EAS.
Argument ia the Injanetlen Case.
Court met at 10 o'clock this morning te
hear the argument in regard te the tem
porary injunction granted te Dr. II. B.
Parry te restrain Levi Scnscnig from tear
ing down the wall between his property
and that of Dr. Parry. The case was ar
gued bp W. A. Atlce, esq., for the plain
tiff, and Geerge M. Kline, esq., for the de
fendant. Mr. Scnscnig, in his answer, claims that
the wall is net a party wall but liclengs te
the property owned by him. This property
has had possession of it for 21 years and he
new claims a right te tear it down The
plaintiffjfilcd additional anidavits"this'morn anidavits"this'mern
ing. He claims that the wall is a party
wall. By a recent survey made at the
plaintiff's instance it was found that the
wall Ls en the ground of both parties. The
plaintiff has always used the wall and
new has a grape vine growing upon it,
which will lie destroyed if the wall is tern
down.
The court reserved their decissien until
te-morrow.
Committed te Aaswer.
Samuel Tayler, a colored man, was be
fern Alderman McConemv this morning te
snswer a cemnlaint of assault and battery
en Annie Presbury, also colored. The
accused was committed te answer at court.
Before the same magistrate Ellswerth
Padcn. charged with the larceny, in con
nectien with Paul Quigley, of two pigs of
lead from the grounds of the city reservoir,
had a hearing. The circumstances of this
case have been' several times published.
Iu brief it was shown that the stolen lead
was offered for sale by the defendants te
Mr. Bestic, a dealer in old metal ; that he
refused te buy it ; that the defendants
took it away, and that it was afterwards
found concealed in a let in the northern
part of the city and identified. The ac
cused made no defense, and the alderman,
in default of $400 bail, committed him te
answer at court.
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