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THUBSDAY EVENING. SEPT. 9, 1880.
He Can't Get Out or It.
It is undeniable that Mr. Garfield has
put himself into a most unenviable light
by his attempted explanations of his
connection with the DeGelyer pavement
contract; and it is impossible for any
impartial judge te weigh the evidence
en that question without condemning
him. In his own attempts te extricate
himself he only sinks deeper into the
ineniss and struggles in hopeless embar
rassment. There was something suspi
cious about the original engagement of
Garfield's besom friend, Parsons, by the
DeGelyer party te get through their con
tract at $3.50 a yard for pavement which
was worth only $1.40. lie was paid a
retainer of $5,000, and was te get $10,000
mere if the job went through. There
was something suspicious about his
subsequent demand ler $100,000
te pay the enlarged expenses of
getting it through. He could net well
dispense slices of $5,000 out of his $10,-
000 fee, se lie made a new levy and get
it. Then he was " heeled " te engage
partners in his work, and the first man
retained, by a singular coincidence, was
Mr. Garfield, who claimed afterwards
that he was retained as a lawyer, but
that he was wanted in some ether capac
ity is manifest from the fact that en the
31st of May, 1872, Chittenden wrote te
his principals as fellows :
The influence of Gen. Garfield lias been
secured by yesterday's, last night's and
te-day's labors. He carries the purse of the
United Slates the chairman of the commit
tee en approjiriatiens and is the strongest
man iu Congress, and with our friends my
demand is te-day net less thau one hun
dred thousand (.yards) mere two hundred
in all. Everything is iu the best shape,
the connections complete, aud, I have
reason te believe, satisfactory.
1 can hardly realize that we have Gen. Gar
field with us. It is rare and very gratify
ing. All the appropriations of the District
conic through him.
Ne reference is made te his ability as
a lawyer. " He carries the purse of the
United States ;" he alone could loose
the strings te let the money Hew into the
lobby's coffers. " He was the strongest
man" net at the bar, but "in Congress,"
where he could de most geed. He being
secured, they felt emboldened te raise
the contract te two hundred thousand
yards, involving a profit of $120,000.
New what did Garfield de te relieve
himself of the .suspicion that he was re
tained as a congressman, and thathis-iu-fiueucc
as chairman of the committee of
appropriations was bought for this
$5,000. He said afterwards iu a speech
at "Warren, Ohie, that he made an argu
ment. A reference te his testimony be
fore an investigating committee of Cen-'
gress, in February 1, 1S77, shows that he
made no such thing. On his oath before
that committee he w:is compelled te ad
mit that he never remembered of meet
ing the beard of public works of the Dis
trict, and the best he could say for him
self was : " but I did speak te Governer
Shepherd en the subject, giving my opin
ion in its favor." Gov. Shepherd, being
called, said : " He never spoke te me but
ence en the subject." The owner of one
of the processes involved in the contract
swore that " Parsons was employed with
the assurance te me by Chittenden that
he was able te reach thy man who could
secure the contract."
Garfield " held the purse strings of
the nation."' Te him Shepherd had te
go for the money. He was the fountain
of favor. What did these men want with
him? Te ' speak te Shepherd" who was
under obligations te him, te influence
him iu favor of their rotten contract, for
which the money could only be get out
of the federal treasury by Garfield's fa
vorable report.
The case is plain. The Republicans
de net venture upon a defense of it. It
should be driven home.
The Fight hi Maine.
The Philadelphia 'Times has sent one
of its editors te Maine te spy out the
land, and he finds a very animated can
vass going en there with a geed chance
apparently of a Republican disaster
through the defection of the Prohibition
ists under the lead of Xeal Dew, the
original aiwstle of the Maine liquor law,
te whom the Republican candidate for
governor is very objectionable. Mr.
Blaine is reported te be working very
hard te save the state, which he regards
as t he foundation stone of his political
fortunes. It is net apparent, however,
why he should personally consider that
he has a very great stake in the election,
unless en the theory that he expects te
control Garfield's administration. His
warmth must come from this expecta
tion ; and if it isa just one we can hardly
leek for similar energy in the Republican
behalf from the great leaders of the party
in New Yerk and Pennsylvania, who
are net of Mr. Blaine's household. We
need net be greatly disgusted if Blaine
does carry Maine if it will make it all
the less likely that Garfield will get New
Yerk and Pennsylvania.
The Maine result will be of no over
whelming consequence te either party in
its national aspect. If we carry it we
will accept it thankfully and cheerfully
antLtake out, of it all the encouragement
it will bear us. If we lese it, we will be
philosophically content, for it won't be
anything like a drenching shower te any
body. Awkward Logic.
It seems very likely that the Philadel
phia Press will find its prediction that
the Vermont election settles the presi
dential issue te have been a very awk
ward one. Later news is dissipating the
increased Republican majority upon
which it congratulated itself, and if it
should finally disappear the Press will
find it hard te escape the conclusion
of its own logic that Vermont deter
mines the election of Hancock instead of
Garfield. We de net attribute any such
importance te the result, but as the
Press does, we trust that it will have
an ameliorating influence en its spirit
and cause it te abstain from its greedy
seizure upon every campaign lie that
floats around that it thinks likely te help
the cause. Surely if it considers nan
cock already leaten, it ought te feel the
vanity of kicking against the pricks in a j
violent and indecent way. But, per-
chance, the effect upon it will be quite
contrary, and it will become still mere
scurrilous in its desperation. It still
hangs en te that Beltzhoover story, we
sec, and new is kind enough te furnish
the name of its authority, with a letter
from him reiterating his story. The
fellow turns out te be a man of little re
pute in his community, who has a brother
in one of the Washington departments.
Stocks are booming, but nothing else
seems te be increasing very rapidly in
value. Business has a healthy appear
ance and there is a smali profit in manu
facture. The hope of a greater one ani
mates these engaged in the business, but
it has net yet come. Iren i3 drooping,
rather than increasing in value, and in
no commodity is there visible
any great activity or rise in value, except
in stocks. Their advance is caused mainly
by speculation, promoted by the cheap
ness of money and founded upon what is
no doubt a just expectation of the in
creased prosperity of the country. Proba
bly this has been tee heavily discounted
and a fall in stock prices must be ex
pected te come before long.
"A few mere such victories as that in
Vermont and we are undone," the Re
publican leaders may well say te them
selves. It is altogether likely that their
majority there, despite their tremendous
exertions and lavish expenditures, will
be whittled down below the figures of
1876. In a vote of two te ene the Re
publicans ought te have had two-thirds
of the increase te their majority if they
were te be accounted as holding their
own. In 18G0 Lincoln had 23,100 major
ity in Vermont, in 1864 he had 29,09S, in
1868 Grant had 32,122, in 1S72 he had
25,333, and in 1870 Hayes had 23,838, and
at the September election corresiei;ding
te this his party had 23,735.
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Ox the day after the Arkansas election
the New Yerk Tribune said :
Sixty thousand Democratic majority in
Arkansas? Why, of course. It might
just as well have been 100,000. The news
get along very seen yesterday, but it might
have ceme a week befere election just as
well as net.
And yet Arkansas gave Tilden only
19,414 majority in 1870. This gain of
40,000 is of "no consequence" te the
Tribune. A week later Vermont barely
keeps up te her Republican majority,
and the Tribune considers it of great sig
nificance. New Yerk Tribune, founded
by Herace Greeley, foundered by White
liw Reid.
MINOR TOPICS.
Tun Republicans will new concentrate
their efforts en Iowa and Minnesota, for
November.
Vermont never gave less than 17,651
majority Ter the Itepubhcaus. In 1862 it
gave 26,303 ; in 1864 it gave 20,098 ; in
1808 its majority was 32.122: in 1872 it
gave 30,534, in September.
Seme new pavement is te be laid iu
Washington, but the bids therefer only
range from 27 te 40 ceuts a yard. Hew
prices have fallen. The pavement for
speaking about which te Bess Shepherd
Garfield received 3,000. cost six or eight
times that per yard.
Tin: prospective fall of the Republican
party recalls te a paragrapher this thrilling
story : " In what condition was the patri
arch Jeb at the cud of his life:-" asked a
Brooklyn Sunday-school teacher of a quiet
looking boy at the feet et the class.
" Dead," calmly replied the quiet looking
boy.
A L.vwTEn and a preacher were discuss
ing the direction of the wind. The former
said: "We go by the courthouse vane."
"And we go by the church' vane,'" re
plied the parson. " In the matter of wind
that is the best authority," said the law
yer. And the preacher went home te
cogitate.
Tun New Yerk Herald in noticing that
Secretary Sherman net only exculpates Mr.
Garfield, but whitewashes the returning
beard and all its proceedings, .suggests :
"The Shermans were always an impulsive
race ; we suspect the secretary will sec
presently that he has gene tee far. The
less the Republicans say in praisa or just
ification of the Leuisiaua returning beard
the better for them. Mr. Sherman has
persistently steed by these shameless
swindlers, by no means te his own credit,
and it is amusing te see hew easily Mr.
Hendricks has new drawn him into a con
troversy which is pretty sure, if it is con cen
tincd, te damage the Republican1!. It is
net prudent for them te help revive the in
famous story of the Louisiana returning
beard."
PERSONAL.
Wayne M.vcVEiGiihas returned from his
professional trip te Russia.
The wife of United States Senater .Texics,
of Flerida, has died in Pcnsacela.
Washington McLean has se much im
proved that he left for Cincinnati yester
day, accompanied by his wife.
Speculation is still rife as te the identity
of the unknown citizen who has supplied
Lieutenant Gerringo with the means te
transport the monolith from Egypt te New
Yerk. Lieutenant Gerringe himself is said
te have intimated that Mr. W. II. Van
DEnniLT is the man, but he must have
been incorrectly reported, as he new posi
tively denies that the great millionaire has
anything te de with the enterprise.
Owen T. Williams, a physician, resid
ing at Beaumaris, North Wales, who ar
rived in Philadelphia en the stcamshin
Illinois, en the 20th of June, has been
missing since the 22d of August. He is
described as being 38 years of age, 5 feet 8
inches iu height, of light complexion, and
having side whiskers aud moustache
When last seen he were dark clothing, a
high stiff black hat, and black scarf, with
geld pin.
At the funeral of Colonel A. C. Noyes,
at Westport, Clinten county, en Tuesday
afternoon, there were fully 1,500 people
..i. rri. s a a . i .
iireseuii. iue lutermem, TOOK place in a
romantic aud secluded spot en the side of
a mountain, about three-quarters of a mile
above the mouth of Kettle creek. The
spot was selected by Colonel Noyes years
age, when in the vigor of manhood and
the prime of life as the place he desired
his remains te repose, and his wish was re
ligieusly carried out. Many of the resi
dences in the town of Westpeit were
draned iu meurnimr. shewinrr Mie liiirl. ...
teem in which Colonel Neves was held at I
home.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Geerge W. Knapp, of Utica, N. Y., com
mitted suicide at Niagara Falls by jump
ing into the rapids, after firing a pistol
shot.
Mrs. Harvey Helmes, of Monticello,
N. Y., drowned her child, aged four
months, en Tuesday, while laboring under
temporary insanity.
City Marshall Robinson, of Water Valley,
Miss., was fatally shot by Jehn Adams, a
railroad conductor, yesterday. The diffi
culty originated about a cow.
Great damage te the Virginia tobacco
crop is feared en account of the rain,
which has been falling in that state steadily
for the last twenty-four hours.
The Palinades hotel, at the comer of
Franklin and Ninth streets, Oakland, Cal.,
was burned yesterday. The less will
probably amount te $30,000
James Dewthcr. aged 56. was stabbed
by three unknown men, is Prospect Park,
Brooklyn, en Tuesday night. His condi
tion is uncertain.
The Western Union telegraph company
have declared the usual quarterly dividend
of 1 J per cent. The statement shows a
surplus of $332,726.
Twe hundred lambs were confiscated
by American customs officers at Reuse's
Point, Canada, Tuesday, for undervalua undervalua
teon, while passing out of Canada.
The steam tug White Fawn btew off the
steam cock from her boiler at Seuth Am
boy, New Jersey, scalding Fireman Scan Scan
leu probably te death and otherwise injur
ing live persons.
Capt. M. Capren, a prominent Repub
lican of Conneaut, Ohie Garfield's own
district ha", come out for Hancock. The
Credit Mebilicr and DeGelyer records
were tee strong for him.
Jehn O'Brien, employed as a driver ou
ene of the Myrtle avenue (Brooklyn) line
of cars, fell ever the dash-beard of the car
and the wheels parsed ever his body, kill
ing him instantly. He was twenty-six
years old.
The following steamers brought specie
from Europe yesterdry : Labrador, $1,
037,000; Lcssiug, $223,600; Bethnia,
$500,000; Wyoming, $110,000; total, $1,
870,600, of which $500,000 was American
geld coin and the remainder foreign.
A fatal sheet iug affray occurred en the
Utah Southern train at Salt Lake City,
betwesu Dr. P. C. Snedckcr and R. Smith
in which the former was instantly killed
and the latter is expected te die momen
tarily. The affair grew out of family
difficulties.
Threatening weather has driven a large
fleet of coasting and fishing vessels into
Gloucester (Mass.) harbor. Beats from
the mackerel grounds bring ever 5,000
barrels. Four beats from Newfoundland
banks and nine from Geerge's banks bring
211,000 lbs. of codfish aud 114,000 lbs. of
halibut.
In a discussion at Reck Mount, Franklin
county, Va., a personal difficulty occurred
between Geonre C. Cabell, Democratic
candidate for Congress in the district, and
J. C. StevalI,hisReadjustcr opponent. The
bystanders took part in the fracas. Beth
gentlemen were injured, Colonel Cabell
painfully but net seriously, and Stovall
badly but net fatally. Bleed flowed freely,
but no one was hurt except the two gentle
men named.
In the Massachusetts Prohibition state
convention, 200 delegates being present, a
resolution declaring that no Prohibitionist
could support James A. Garfield, for presi
dent, was referred without debate. The
following ticket was nominated : Governer,
Charles Ahny ; lieutenant-governor, Timo Time
thy K. Earle ; secretary of state, Solemon
F. Reet; treasurer. Themas J. Lathrop;
auuuer, jenatnaumicic ; attorney gencial,
Samuel W. Fairfield.
In the dress cireta of the .Melbourne
opera house en the 21th nit., during the
pcrfermauce of Huguenot's "A New Ar
rival," McGregor Greer, maddened by
jealousy, shot his ewu wife and M. Sau
dry, a member of the French exhibition
commission, and himself. The former
two have severe wounds in the head and
face, but are recovering. Greer has since
died. M. Sundry has resigned his ap
pointment. Alexander Lcbairn was the stage driver
who was killed en the evening of the 6th,
sixteen miles from Fert Cummings. The
two passengers killed were Isaac ICebcrts,
of New Yerk, and E. S. Madden, of Fert
Bewie. The pursuing troops overtook the
Indians ou the afternoon of the 7th, and
had a short fight, in which one soldier and
two Indian scouts were killed and two sol sel
dieis seriously wounded. The Indian
casualties arc net known. It is doubtful
if they can be evci taken.
Thirty thousand persons were en the
greunus ei mc i or en wester n lair associa
tion te witness a twenty mile race between
Mrs. Cook, of California, and Miss Jewell
of Minnesota, for a purse of $5,000. Up
te iiiccnu ei incscvcntn miie the m-ilcli
was close and excitcing, when the girth of
Miss Jewell's saddle slipped, and she was
dashed te the ground, suffering severe
though net fatal injuries. In a stallion
trot for a purse of $1,000, Menree Chief
came iu lirst and Voltaire second. Time,
2:223. 2:20, 2:24, 2:24J. Voltaire wen the
second heat.
STATE ITEMS,
It cost Erie county $200 for the destruc
tion of sheep by dogs in August.
There was a free distribution of beer at
the Greenback meeting at Titusville, en
Saturday night, and the result before the
meeting was half ever showed, according
te the City Oil Derrick, that the free beer
had mere friends than free speech.
Jehn McNcw, who was employed at the
Glen White coke evens, near Alteena, had
his head caught between a car and a pest
of the trestle used for dumping coal and
was ciushcd se badly that death resulted.
He was formerly a resident of Juniata
county.
Martin II. Claucy, a farmer living at
Grccu Ridge, Susquehanna county, was
sitting at a desk looking ever some papers,
when he suddenly said, "It's very het ;
I guess I'll get cool new," and pulling a
pistol from his pocket he placed it against
his head and fired. He fell dead from his
chair. He is believed te have been tem
porarily insane.
Cenrad Peters, aged 35 years, a resident
of Lcwistewn, who was employed at roof reef
ing the opera heuse in Alteena, slipped or
caught his feet in seme manner and was
thrown ever the edge of the reef te the
pavement below, a distance of fifty feet.
He fell en a cellar deer, and, strange te re
late, the only injury he sustained was a
badly broken leg. Medical opinion is that
lie will recover.
The Times notes that Chairman Cessna
should roll up his trousers and skip around
te see gentlemen before he announces
them as members of the finance committee.
Mr. Geerge W. Childs respectfully de
clines in the editorial columns of the Led
ger and it will require several canal beats
tow-paths and a variety of campaign songs
te taicc me cniu en sucn declinations.
The Ledger says that Mr. Childs declines
"all party and political honors." Strictly
speaking, it wasn't the conferring of party
or peuiicu noiiers mas me state commit
tee was after : it was a liberal contribu
tion. .
A Ridley township, Delaware county,
farmer was leafing at the Leipcrville hotel
the ether day, when he began te brag
aoeuc a skiik ei corn raised in his field
fourteen and a half feet high. Anether
Ridley man said that was nothing te what
he could grew. He had read in a paper
about corn in Chester county growing
twelve and thirteen feet high, se had said
te his hired man, "Jehn, just you go out
in the corn-field and cut all the stalks that
measure ever 14 feet, and bring em te me."
Jehn went, but as be didn't come back,
the farmer went after three hours te see
what he was doing. Jehn had cut down
half the corn in the field, and said every
stalk measured mere than fifteen feet, and
some as high as sixteen.
MISSISSIPPI.
Prosperous Under Democratic Bele.
R.G. Perter, a Southern Methodist, writ
ing from Verena, Miss., te the Christian
Advocate, the leading paper of his church,
gives the following picture of a prosper
ous state state under Democratic rule :
The Lord has been geed te us in Missis
sippi this year. The country has been re
markably healthy. Our crops are fine.
We will have corn enough te supply our
home demand. There has net been such a
prospect for a cotton crop in ten years past.
The seasons have all been favorable. Our
people ceme nearer living at home new
than at any time since the war. They are
getting out of debt, and mere of them buy
for cash than formerly. The credit system
in vogue here has been a great
temptation te our people, both white
aud colored. They have bought en time,
and failed te pay up in full, and have
fallen behind uutil debt has accumulated
te a great burden tee heavy te be born.
Our taxes have lessened from year te year
until new they can be easily met by our
people. This has afforded encouragement
and stimulated effort. The advantages of
the Seuth as a stock-raising country arc
beginning te be appreciated. We can
grew all kinds of grasses and grain. In
many parts of the country the range is fine,
aud fully able te sustain thousands of cat
tle from the 15th of April till the middle
of October. There are net mere than eight
or ten days during any winter when stock
need te be housed te protect them from
cold. This lessens the expense of raising
them. Frem the village where I live, 250
miles north of Mobile, Ala., there are ship
ped every year freni four te six hundred
head of cattle te Mobile and New
Orleans, where they find a ready and re
munerative market. These cattle are fat
tened upon the range, hundreds of them
never getting a mouthful of feed from
year's end te year's end, save what is
found in the weeds. This new enterprise
is giving a wonderful stimulus te stock
raising iu the Seuth. The fine breeds of
cattle North and West are being imported
te this country, and stock farms are grow
ing up here aud there all ever the laud. Our
people have commenced raising sheep and
will at no distant day add their mite te
the wool-growers of the world. Geed
lands can be had here at from $8 te $15 per
acre, and we would be glad te have them
settled up by active, energetic, geed men.
The thousand and one stories told en the
Seuth aud Southern pcople for political
purposes have hindered immigration te this
country. A state of profound peace pre
vails everywhere in the Seuth. The rela
tions of the two races here arc of the most
amicable kind. If demagogues and polit
ical cormorants, who want the
spoils of office, will held their
hands off aud quit stirring up
race issues, the Seuth will adjust herself
te the situation, and move forward te
prosperity. The whites, native te this
country, have no disposition te vex and
oppress the frccdinen among us, and the
freedmen. when net stirred up by bad
white men, are as inoffensive as any race
of people in the world.
The introduction of a public school sys
tem in a laud where private schools had se
long been the order of the day well-nigh
unsettled our educational affairs ; but new
the two systems have begun te run to
gether and te move harmoniously. The
freedmen get the same benefit from the
public fund that the white people de,
though they pay but a small share of the
tax.
Our people are well supplied with church
es and preachers. The gospel is preached
ill its power, and sinners are convicted, and
mourners are converted by the hundred.
The excitement consequent en a presiden
tial canvass has net hindered, in the least,
our revival meetings this year. Many
glorious meetings have already been held,
and many mere are in progress new. I
am sure you and your people rejoice at
the prosperity of our Southern Methodism.
Ged is with us in power and great glory 1
O, that the Hely Ghost may descend upon
our people everywhere, that the land may
be filled with the knowledge aud glory of
Ged!
THE ELECTIONS.
The Result in Vermont.
A Disappointment te the Republicans.
At the Democratic national committee's
headquarters in New Yerk yesterday Mr.
B. B. Smalley, the Vermont member of
the committee, entertained his colleagues
with his version of the result of the Ver
mont election. He said :
" Nothing can be mere absurd than the
attempt of the Republicans te magnify the
importance of our election of Tuesday.
The Republicans organized what Mr.
Blaine termed their 'magnificent dress
parade." with the hope of securing a very
largely increased majority, which might
be construed as an indications of popu
lar sentiment. They used every possible
appliance te mat cnu, uuiidezmg em
ployees, hiring labor agitators, aud mak
ing as much fuss and spending as much
money as if the state was doubtful. The
result is entirely disproportionate te their
efforts, and pcople only say that the Dutch
have taken Helland ence mere. On our
side the national committee declined abso
lutely te take any part in the contest. The
committee was constituted elect Hancock
and English by carrying doubtful states,
and net te waste time and money upon
these certain te be Republican. Seme
personal friends of mine have geno home
with mc and made speeches in answer te
the Radical orators and ethers who
had a special interest in the state
have made individual efforts, but
the national committee never undertook
charge of or assisted in the canvass in Ver
mont. In se far as is shown by .the returns
yet received our opeonents have but little
reason for congratulation. The majority
docs net seem te be increased in proportion
te the increased vote, aud the grand result
of all the Republican effort, if the result
has any significance, is te show that our
opponents cannot make any important
change in the public sentiment which gave
Tildcn 250,000 popular majority in 1876.
This is a peer showing in a state
where the Republicans cencen
trated se much oraterial talent
and money, and used such extraordinary
exertions. The result of the Vermont
state election bears about the same rela
tien te the national contest as the result
of the elections in Alabama and Arkansas.
The latest despatch denies the Republican
claim of an increased majority ever 1876.
The majority is less. In 1876 there was
no Greenback ticket in the field. I give
you the despatch just as it was received by
mc :
"The latest returns show handsome
Democratic increase iu vote, and the Re
publican majority will be less than in 1876.
The first thirty towns increased the Re
publican majority of 1876 900 ; 110 town
cut. that down te 400 ; 150 cut it down te
98, which the remaining towns will mere
than take off. They spout tens of thou-
sanasei oeuars. me democrats had no
money. The Republicans had all the pi cs -sure
and were despotic. It is a Democratic
victory. Hiram Atkins.
"It would net have been strange te have
scen a m-yerity of 30,000 for the Repub
licans, for they had spcut money lavishly
and had worked hard. The Democrats
pent uet mere than $2,000 there, while
the Republicans expended at least $50,000."
EXPLOSION IX A COAL MINE.
Nearly Twe Hundred Miners Relieved te
Ilave Perished Sixty-six Rescued Alive,
bnt One Hundred and Seventy Still
In the Pit The Shalt or the Mine
lllecked by the Explosion.
Seaham, where the terrible explosion oc
curred yesterday, lies six miles te the
south of Sunderland, en the coast, and
about ten or twelve from the county scat
of Durham, England. It forms an outlet
for the immense coal region of which Sun
derland and Newcastlc-en-Tyne are the
great central depots. The locality is known
as the central district, and may be said te
form ene vast coal pit. It is owned princi
pally, if net altogether, by the wealthy
heuse of Londonderry. The coal produced
is known in Londen as the Wallrcnd, and
is the best class of heuse coal used in Eng
land. The pit in which the appalling acci
dent took place is probably ene of the
largest in the group.
The explosion occurred at 2 o'clock yes
terday morning. Mr. Stratton, the resi
dent viewer, was seen en the spot, and it
was ascertained that all the three shafts of
the mine were blocked, the cages being
fastened in them. Mr. Stratton. with a
repe around his body, descended te the
main scam and heard men talking he
thought about twenty.
A dispatch from the Seaham colliery
last evening announces that forty men,
who were working in two upper scams of
coal, have been found safe and well. Seme
of them volunteered, and are helping te
rescue their comrades, who are seventy
fathoms lower. The bottom of both
shafts is still blocked with debris.
A later telegram reports that up te 7
o'clock a total of fifty-seven men had beeu
rescued, the majority iu an exhausted con cen con
ditiep. Many thousands of pcople arc
crowding around the mouth of the pit.
The guiding marks in the pit were blown
te pieces. The explorers, consequently,
find their work very difficult. They will
keep at it all night and hope te clear the
way into the workings by morning. Se
far there is no sign of lire, but it is evi
dent that there must be a large accumula
tion of gas.
A dispatch te Londen at 4 a. m., re
ceived from the Seaham colliery, says :
" The rescued new number 66, but it is
new feared that there were 230 men in the
pit at the time of the explosion. Twe
corpses were brought te the surface at
midnight, one of which war, burned te a
cinder. Beth victims leave large fami
lies. MININii ACCIDENTS.
Over 20,000 Killed in theCnitl .Mines in Kng
laud Since 18.-0.
In the Secial Science association at Sara
toga Jeseph I). Weeks, of Pittsburgh, as
sociate editor of the Iren Age, read the
report of the committee en casualitics in
coal mines. It treated of the statistics
of casualties and the causes and made some
suggestions as te remedies. In England
the inspection of mines began in 1850,
but iu Pennsylvania inspections only bo be
gau in 1869 iu the anthracite regions and
net until 1S77 in the bituminous mines.
Ohie has had state inspectors
since 1874. Frem 1830 te 1870 the
total casualties in Great Britian were
20,457. In Pennsylvania one man was lest
for each 84,000 tens of coal in the anthra
cite region in 1860, and in 1878 one for 105,
700, a much greater mortality than iu Eng
land, notwithstanding the greater danger
of explosions and inundations in the latter
ceuntiy. In Ohie the figures, confessedly
imperfect, give one death te 142,253 tens of
coal raised in 1874, aud in 1878 one death
te 255,000 tens raised. While some acci
dents are unavoidable, there is no doubt
that a great majority of explosions conic
from the carelessness of miners, who will
net hesitate te open a safety lamp sur
rounded by fire-damp te light a pipe. The
peril from the falling of reefing and slate is
greater, however, than any ether, being
about 40 per cent, of the total ; and of
these the public hears the lcast,-bccausc
they are se common. These arc tee often
the result of forgetfulness, rashness or ne
glect. DESTRUCTIVE 1'IRES.
Miutlinttuii Market A Village Humeri De
struction f lec Houses.
Manhattan market, covering the block
extending from ..Eleventh avenue te the
North river, ami from 30th te 35th streets,
New Yerk, was destroyed by fire early this
morning. The les is estimated at con
siderably mere than ene million dollars.
The hay store of T. B. Clarke and the
Haymarkct hotel, en the south side Thirtj--
fourth street, caught fire and were burn
ing at two o'clock. The fire eccurcd iu
the basement of Reho Brethers, prevision
dealers, and spread very rapidly, and the
whole building was seen wrapped in flames.
The glare of the fire was observed for a
long distance, and attracted thousands of
spectators. Alarm after alarm was sent
out, and a large number of engines were
brought te the spot, and peuicd water in
volumes en the flames, but without ap
parent success, and it was seen evident
that the entire building would be destroyed
as a strong south wind that was blowing
swept everything before it.
The village of Upton, Quebec, was de
stroyed by a forest fire en the 6th inst.
The flames encircled the village, cutting
off the retreat of some of the inhabitants.
Seventy-five families were rendered
homeless, three persons were burned te
death and eleven are reported missing.
A fire in St. Leuis en Tuesday evening
destroyed six ice houses en the liver front
and burned about one-third of the Excel
sior company's stove works, causing a less
of about $135,000. Twe firemen, Patrick
Lynch and Edward Sanders, were killed by
a falling reef,and five ethers were injured,
one perhaps fatally.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
OUITUARV.
Deaths or Twe Welt-Known Ladies.
Mrs. Sarah A. Grid, wife of Jacob Grid,
who resides at the northwest corner of
Duke and Walnut streets, died at 2 o'clock
this morning from fatty generation of the
heart. Though she had been subject fe
attacks from that source, she was in her
usual geed health yesterday and her de
cease was quite sudden. Mrs. G. was be be be
eoeo her marriage Miss Ansburg, of Phila-
dclpia, and was the second wife of Mr.
Grid. They were married twenty-seven
years age, and at the time of her death
she was 00 years years old. Deceased was
a most estimable woman, a kind neighbor,
a loving mother te her step-children, an
affectionate wife and a sincere Christian.
Although a Presbyterian originally, since
her residence in Lancaster she has been a
devoted member or the Duke street M. E.
church.
Deatli of Mrs. Geerge Gunilaker.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Geerge Gun
daker, wife of the cx-strcct commissioner,
died, after an illness of three weeks, acred
83 years. Mrs. Gundakcr was a daughter
of the late Geerge Kuhns, and the mother
of a large family of sons and daughters,
who are well known and highly respected
in this community. Mrs. Gundakcr was
during nearly all her life, and at the time
of her death, a member of the First Re
formed church, this city, and by her ex
emplary life did honor te the church whose
faith she espoused and cherished. Her
husband, aged 85 years, and a family of
ten children all well known and useful
citizens, survive her. Her funeral will
take place en Saturday afternoon.
Cuhiillc Fair.
The ladies of St. Peter's chinch, Eliza Eliza
bethtewn, are making great preparations
for a fair for the bjnefit of the church . It
will open en or about tli3 2d of October,
and will no doubt be haudsemdy contrib
uted te by friends in this city.
IMPORTANT TO VOTERS.
Matter WMcti Demand Their Attention.
The tax duplicates are iu the hands of
the collectors. Every voter should see t0
t for himself that his tax is duly paid.
October 2 is the last day 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. Voters should attend te the
payment of their taxes themselves. Seme
courts of the state held that this is essen
tial aud that the tax paid by committees
is void and will net entitle the holder of
such receipt te vote. It is only fair and
patriotic,as well as a reasenable precaution,
for voters te attend te this duty for them
selves. The collector for this city sits
from 6 te 9 p. m. in the commissioners'
office at the court house te receive taxes
and every voter should visit him aud get
his own receipt.
Naturalizations also can be effected up
te October 2, te enable the naturalized
alien te vote for president ; and these who
are entitled te it, or who knew and are
interested in ethers entitled te citizenship,
should gill give their attention te this im
portant matter. Court will be in session
for this purpose en Saturday, Sept. 11 and
all of the succeeding week.
It may happen that seme person duly
qualified te be registered has been left off
wilfully or carelessly by the assessor of
his district, though the voter complied
with all the legal requirements. In such
cases the law provides a remedy. It
should be taken advantage of before Octo
ber 2. 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 cemplainaut and
assessor te appear before it, aud if the
complaint is well founded, the registry
will be corrected accordingly.
T1IK DRAMA.
Miss Ada Gray In Kast Lynne."
Iii strong contrast with the merry en
tertainment of the previous night, the
sembre play of "EastLynne," with its
wealth of harrowing incidents and contin
ued tension upon the feelings of the im
pressible auditor and spectator, was hist
night presented at Fulton opera heuse be
fore an audience that almost filled the
lower portion of the hall. The story of
"East Lynnc" is well known te novel
readers and p!ay-gecrs,aud has long passed
beyond the domain of analysis or criti
cism. That it retains a certain kind of
popularity the continued demand for the
book and its maintenance as a dramatic
" card " clearly attest. Its presentation
last night was artistic. Miss Ada Gray's
impersonation of the leading rele was the
central feature, of course, bearing out the
complimentary testimonials with which
she knocked at the deer of popular favor
in this city. She is an actress of large
scope, and the dual role of "East Lynnc"
afforded her plenty of opportunity for the
advantageous display of kpr diversified
powers. The transition which the unfold
ing of the story effects from the lovely and
confiding bride te the jealous wife, the weak
woman yielding te the persuasions of the
tempter, the abandoned outcast, the vic
tim of the consuming lire of remorse and
hopeless anguish was a highly wrought
piece of histrionic art, and secured Miss
Gray repeated calls before the curtain.
She is a lady of fine presence, with a full,
rich voice that she uses with admirable
effect, and ever which she manifests com
plete control. Her emotional nature thor
oughly qualifies her iu movement and ges
ture and the play of her countenance te
render an acceptable ideal of the heroine of
Mrs. Weed's novel. The cast by which
Miss Gray was supported was uncommonly
strong and evenly balanced. Miss
Emma Whittle furnished a very clever
rendition of the part of Cernie, the maid
en sister of the master of East Lynnc,
whose severity was indicated nene the
mere clearly in the rigorous outlines of her
garb than i:i the uncompromising stiffness
of her gait and. the metallic ring of her
well-trained voice. Miss Kate Glassford
was altogether pleasing in her personatien
of Barbara Hare, a role which she filled
with charming grace and naicele. Mr.
Jehn Armstrong, as Sir Francis Letisen,
smiled and smiled and was the villain still,
and the best evidence of his successful ren
dition of the part was the cordial dislike
of him which the audience incurred from
the outset and maintained te the last fall
of the curtain. Messrs. J. W. Middlcteu
and J. P. Clark gave very satisfactory re
presentations of their respective characters
of Archibald Carlyle and Lord Mount Sev
ern, while Mr. Weed Bensen was capital
as Dill, the gossiping old butler. The re
mainder of the cast maintained the bal
anca and the piece moved smoothly.
LANCASTRIANS IN MINNESOTA-
Its Products and Politics.
Mr. Jehn C. Andersen, residing at Ne.
340 Seuth Queen street, returned a few
days age from a visit te Minnesota. . Mr.
Andersen owns a farm in Zumbrota, Good
hue county, Minnesota, and his seu, M. B.
Andersen, is a farmer in tlic same place.
Mr. Andersen brought back, with him
samples of the product of his Western
farm tocempaic them with these of Lan
caster county. Among these were barley,
eats, wheat, flour, fruits, sand and the black
soil which covers most of the surface of the
state.
The wheat i.s of the variety known as
"Spring wheat." The grains arc net as
large as seme of the varieties of winter
grown in this section, but they are remark
ably plump and solid, weighing 64 pounds
te the bushel, aud produce a very white
flour of excellent quality. The average
product is 16 bushels per acre. The flour
shown us was made at the Ferest mills,
Zumbrota. The eats weighs 42 pounds te
the bushel, the seed being unusually large.
The average product per aero being from
65 te 70 bushels. The barley is equal te
any we have seen, the grains being large,
clean, and of a very line color the pro
duct being 35 bushels per acre.
The silver sand is almost as fine as flour
and Mr. Andersen says there is within a
short distance of Zumbrota great ridges
of it containing millions of tens. It U
perfectly clean and free from any admix
ture of ether substances. Ne use ismade
of these vast deposits which might prob
ably be profitably worked in the manufac
ture of glass. The black soil of the prai
rie, specimens et which ,ilr. Andersen
brought home with him, is of interest te
the Eastern farmer because it is se much
darker, and mere pliable than our black
soils.
In politics Minnesota has long been
strongly Republican, but 3Ir. Andersen
states there is much defectieu m the Re
publican ranks, and the party leaders are
by no means sanguine of carrying it for
Garfield. Many well informed Democrats
claim the state for Hancock.
THE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN.
Election of a I'arade Commander.
There was a general and very well at
tended meeting of the conference commit
tees and ward club parade officers of the
different wards at the central headquarters
last evening. After seme discussion it was
agreed that the meeting should select a
commanding officer te organize all the
ciubs iu the city for general parade pur
poses and lull power te arrange for such
demonstrations, te select his aids and staff.
Win J. Fordney was then unanimously
elected this efficcr,and upon being iafenaed
of the action of the meeting reported that
he would at an early day announce his
aids and staff and call ' a meeting of the
ward club officers te further the organiza
tion of the whele city for parade purposes.
When this is effected the ward clubs, the
Veterans and the Hancx-k Legien will nuke
a turn-out.
It was resolved that a general Demo
cratic meeting be held at the corner of
Middle, Strawberry and Seuth Queen
streets, en Friday evening, September 17.
The campaign committee then went
into executive session and transacted con
siderable important business relative te
the organization and by way of complet
ing arrangements for campaign meetings in
this city.
AN ANCIENT MONUMENT.
Carefully Studied by an Antiquarian.
Walking along Market street the ether
day Ave observed in the wall of the Mora
vian church a curious sculptured stone. It
was evidently ence the corncr-steno of the
earliest Moravian church building, pre
served with pious care and elevated at a
comparatively recent period te its present
pest of honor. Though somewhat weather
worn it still bears evidence of having been
carved by a master hand. On an escutch
eon, beautifully decorated with scroll
work, stands the following inscription :
1746
KYSSET DEN SOHN, PSA. 2.
GI.OUIA PLGUU.K.
This is probably the most ancient monu
ment in Lancaster, aud it may, therefore,
uet be amiss te consider briefly the circum
stances which it was intended te commem
orate. Count Zinzcuderf, the most eminent
man in the history of the Moravian church,
had labored hard te promote the establish
ment of a confederation of the German
churches of this country, te be called
"The Congregation of Ged in the
Spirit." The plan was noble, and
if it had been successfully accomplished,
it might have been preductive of immense
geed. A number of pious ministers and
laymen of the Lutheran, Reformed and
Monnenito denominations entered heartily
into the movement, and in conjunction
with the Meravians held a series of synods
which were largely attended. Though
Zinzcuderf was net the originator of this
movement, he soeu became its leading
spirit, and he was, therefore, accused by
its opponents of seeking te bring all the
churches into the Moravian brotherhood.
The result, in a number of Lutheran and
Reformed churches, was a conflict which
resulted iu the withdrawal of the members
who sympathized with Zinzcuderf, and
their subsequent organization into dis
tinctively Moravian congregations.
At this time the Kev. Mr. Nyberg was
pastor of the Lutheran church of Lancas
ter. He was a native of Sweden, but
preached German with extraordinary elo
quence. Vast multitudes of people flecked
te his services, aud it is even said that the
Mcnnenitcs came in large numbers from the
country te hear him preach. Thoroughly
devoted te the proposed union of the
churches, he was, however, regarded with
suspicion by a majority of his congrega
tion, who were desirous of preserving
their denominational peculiarities. Fin
ally, there came a struggle which resulted
in the withdrawal of Nybcrg, with .eight
or ten of the wealthiest families of his
congregation. These were joined by
several Reformed families who withdrew
from their church undar the inllucnce of
Rev. Jacob Lischy, a minister of similar
sentiments, who was at that time pastor
of the Reformed church of Yerk, but who
had frequently preached in Lancaster.
The new congregation new formally con
nected itself with the Moravian brother
hood, and in the spring of 1746 erected a
stone church, which was the finest in the
town.
In every great religious or political
movement there are certain watch-words
which are regarded as peculiarly charac
teristic of the parties which employ them.
Of this character were the sentenccs which
the new Moravian congregation, in the
first glow of its enthusiasm, placed upon
the corner-stone. Though new somewhat
obscure, they were then perfectly intelli
gible, and they seem te have been placed
en the corner-stone in order that there
might be no misunderstanding with regard
te the position which the congregation
had assumed. The first sentence, " Kyn
sct den Sohn," means " Kiss the Sen." It
is a well-known passage from the Psalms
and needs no further explanation. The
Latin phrase, " Gleria Pleura," signifies
"Glory te the Side ;" that is : "Glory
te the wounded side of the Saviour"
Though both of these sentences arc emi
nently pious, their appearance en a corner
stone is somewhat curious, aud it is net
likely that they would be similarly em
ployed at the present day.
Te any one who has studied the church
history of the last century the whole sub
ject is, however, sufficiently plain. Among
a certain school of German theologians
there had been for a long time a fondness
for employing the physical perfections of
the Saviour as symbols of spiritual truths,
and a tendency te dwell with peculiar de
light en the minute enumeration of His
sufferings. In the course of time this ten
dency gave birth te a number of phrases,
which were perfectly innocent and ever de
votional, but which were popularly re
garded as the peculiar property of the
party that employed them, and were
therefore rejected by their opponents.
Seme of these phrases were adopted by
certain of the early Meravians, who also
added largely te their number ; but among
all of these "religious watchwords," there
was none mere expressive than
"Gleria Pleune." The men who employed
it were understood te be Meravians with
heart and soul, and by placing it en their
corner-stone, the founders et the Mora
vian church of Lancaster evidently desired
te declare their intention of remaining
members of the " Unitas Fratrum" for
ever. The conflicts which we have indicated
have passed away. The old corner-stone
has outlived them all, and new remains a
solitary memorial of an almost forgotten
age. We regard it with reverence, and
hope it may continue te occupy its present
position during many future generations.
ItAMnLER.
MT. JOY NEWS.
Thieves About A Rattling Fight Accident
The Real Estate Market.
Thieves entered the cellar of the farm
heuse cccupied by Jehn II. Engle, a short
distance cast of the borough limits, en
Tuesday night, and stelo therefrem thirteen
gallons of wine, eatables and a pair of
beets. On Wednesday neon, four tramps,
between the ages of twenty and twenty
five years, were seen at the Pike school
house, into which they had broken. Here
they evidently had a geed time enjoy
ing the spoils, and becoming intoxi
cated, made havoc among the school
room fixtures. The stove and benches
were broken, maps were tern from
the svalls.and things in general were strewn
promiscuously ever the fleer. Officer Don Den
aghy, Mr Englc and several ethers went
in pursuit and found them in an adjoining
cornfield. By making an effort te escape
ene of thieves was brought te the ground
by a stroke en his head from a club in the
hands of Engle ; another was easily cap
tured ; while two took te their heels fol
lowed by Englc. One of these turned sud
denly with drawn revolver, when Engle
hit him in the face with a stone, inflicting
a wound which bled profusely. He es
caped and the two culprits were taken be be be
eoeo 'Squire Ricker. They were ledged in
the lockup and this morning in the county
jail. About dusk last evening the wound
ed belligerent was seen in the vicinity of
David Shelly's, one mile north of the
school house.
Mr. Jacob Shritc's five-year old daugh
ter fell from a wagon and broke both bones
of ono,ef her fore-arms.
Auctioneer L. D. Gallagher has ea hand
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