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TUESDAY EVENING. SEPT. 21, 1880.
What Should be Said.
The Democratic national committee
lately expressed its hearty sympathy with
the movement te substitute a single elec
toral ticket for Hancock and English for
the two new in the field in Virginia,
" confident that it will receive the sup
port of all Virginians who honestly de
sire the success of Democratic principles
and the election of Hancock and Eng
lish." The committee had geed ground for
this confidence, since it is very clear
that all Virginia Democrats who desire
the success of the national Democratic
ticket and platform of principles will
unite in the support of one electoral
ticket..
Nevertheless the movement te unite
the two organizations in Virginia, claim
ing te be Democratic, en one electoral
ticket, lias failed because of the demand
of one of them that the choice of the
electors en that ticket shall net be con
fined te Democratic voters only. It is a
matter of course that the Democratic
national committee will net approve of
the selection of electors, whose duty it
will be te vote for Hancock and English,
by any but Democratic voters. The ex
periment of permitting Republican voters
te say who shall be Democratic electors
would be apt te result in the choice of
such Democratic electors as would vote
for Garfield.
Since then the Democratic national
committee has expressed its confidence
that the Virginia Democrats who desire
the success of the Democratic principles
and candidates will unite in voting for
one electoral ticket, and since some who
claim te be Democrats refuse te de se
unless the Republican voters of Virginia
are permitted a voice in settling that
ticket, what is it the duty of the Deme
cratic national committee te say te the
Virginia Democracy ?
Obviously, it seems te us, they should
be told by the committee that the elec
toral ticket, nominated by the party of
which Mr. Keiner is the official head, is
the one which has the sympathy and ap
proval of the national Democracy.
The committee will be additionally
sustained in saying this by the fact that
the Democratic national platform pledges
the party te "the strict maintenance of
the public faith, state and national." The
Mahenc party in Virginia of se-called
" readjustee," claiming te be Demo
crats, lias, as its sole cause of difference
with the regular Democratic organiza
tion, its determination tortreuZ the main
tenance of the public faith of the state.
It is, therefore, net a Democratic organ
ization under the national interpretation
of Democracy, and it deserves te be se
pronounced by the Democratic national
committee.
If that body shrinks from this respon
sibility, we hope that our candidate for
president will net. He is a bold and
honest man who will net fear te proclaim
te the people North and Seuth his firm
adherence te the declaration of the na
tional platform in favor of the mainte
nance of the public faith, state and na
tienal ; and his determination te upheld
it, if he is chetei president, with all the
constitutional power of his office, and
with the same firm hand with which he
will resist an increase of the country's
burthen of debt by extravagant adminis
tration or by that Republican bug-bear,
the payment of the rebel bends.
It is wieng, and bad policy withal, te
permit Democrats who are faithfully de
fending all the declarations of the na
tienal platform, te be weakened by the
efforts of men, claiming te be Democrats
and yet denying a prime article of the
national faith, te divide the Democratic
vote. Let the true Democracy every
where be strengthened by an avowal by
the party and its candidates of the living
force of every declaration of the plat
form, even at the cost of losing the votes
of these who refuse te subscribe te any
of them. It is at once the henestest and
wisest thing te de, and will bring the
triumph which it deserves te win.
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Can It Be!
The Philadelphia limes speaks in just
terms of condemnation of Judge Patter
son's action in going before an alderman
of this city who had committed under
the law a professional pickpocket, and
in advising that he should be given a re
hearing by that alderman. There was
absolutely no justification for this action
of the judge. The only reason for it that
has been urged is that the judge did net
want te be detained in the city by
hearing a habeas corpus application in
the case,sincc he was en the eve of leav
ing te attend a conference of the Pres
byterian church as a delegate.
Of course this reason is absurdly in
sufficient. Judge Livingston was in the
city and no injury could therefore have
come te the accused through Judge Pat
terson's absence. It might be a debat
able question whether his religious or
judicial duties had the stronger claim en
Judge Patterson's time. "We appreciate
his value te the church of which he is
an industrious servant, and we might in
cline te hand him ever te her besom
whenever she lays claim te him, and
spare him from the bench. In this case
he certainly could have been spared te
her.
The Times suggests, as the true in
wardness of the remarkable conduct of
Judge Patterson, inadvising a rehearing
by Alderman "Ran- of this pickpocket's
case instead of leaving it te be heard by
his brother, JudgeLivingsten, in accord
ance with the law, that he had a kind
aide for Hay Brown, esq., who had his
eye en the pickpocket's money and
wanted te get his hands en it in the
speediest and surest way. We de net
understand that the judge is suspected
of having received any of this money.
We de net believe that he is thus venal.
But can it be true that he was thus the
tool of Brown ?
It really made very little difference
en which side the scales in Maine finally
settled, for whether the Republican less
was 15,000 or 15,500 was a matter of no
great concern, inasmuch as their disas
trous defeat lias been well assured all
along. But since it is well te be exact
in these matters, we are pleased
te 'announce that Plaisted is elected,
that Hancock will carry Maine,
and that things are very tepsy-turvy
when the Examiner allows its spite at
Blaine te keep it rejoicing ever a Demo
cratic success in his state.
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Sam Menree was married in Gales
burg, 111., te Miss Nettie Chase, a highly
educated daughter of the late Dr. Chase,
rector of the Episcopal church at that
place. Menree had acted as coachman
for the young lady's mother and induced
the girl te become his wife. When Sam
wanted te take his Republican brothers-in-law
in fraternal embrace they blazed
away at him with revolvers, forcibly
took away from him his bride and ex
pect te "kill the nigger" en sight. This
is happening in Jehn A. Legan's state,
net in Ben Hill's.
MINOR TOPICS.
Edward Haxlan, the Canadian oars
man, had an easy pull en the Tync en Sat
urday last. He says he never pleased him
83lf se well with his sculling as during the
past three days. Laycock and Trickett,
the Australians, had short spins en the
Thames en Saturday.
If you arc laughed at for deriding the
Republican claims of New Yerk and for
asserting that cither or all of Pennsylvania,
Ohie, Illinois, Wisconsin, Oregon, Califor
nia, Nevada and New Hampshire arc doubt
ful, turn te the vote of 187G. New Yerk
gave 6,000 raore Democratic majority than
all these states together did for Hayes.
Yeun Prohibitionist politician is quite
as modest as his Democratic, Republican
or Greenback brother. Of the committee
of seven appointed by the Lancaster county
convention te name the county ticket, one
is put en it for Congress, another for dis
trict attorney and a third for prison in
spector. They ought net te have gobbled
up the best paying offices.
Whitkl.vw Reid does net edit the Tri
bune almanac, and when Ed. JlcPhcrsen
get it up 1873-79 he did net anticipate be
ing called te act as a Republican campaign
clerk, or of course it would net have been
allowed te tell in eloquent figures of the
economics of about $30,000,000 a year en
forced by Democratic Congresses. Figures
will net lie, though Rnid and McPhcrsen
have te.
The Bosten Transcript, Rep., which is
Several hundred miles nearer te it than the
Lancaster Examiner, confesses : "The
Maine election is undoubtedly a set-back
te the Republicans, and necessitates harder
we'-k, if they would succeed, than sonic of
the leaders at the headquarters in New
Yerk have been vainly imagining. A vic
tory will net be wen by mutual congratu
lations as te the brilliancy of Republican
prospects. Victory has new get te be
plucked from the jaws of defeat if gained
at all."'
Since Cel. Baxter, alias Tem Pepper,
discovered that Hancock was net at Gettys
burg somebody has exhumed Meade's tes
timony before the congressional committee
en the conduct of the war in which he
said : " Early in the evening of July 1, I
should suppose about G or 7 o'clock, I re
ceived a report from General Hancock, I
think in person, giving vie such an account
of a position in the neighborhood of Gettys
burg as caused me at once te determine te
fight a battle at that point. - The army
was ordered immediately te concentrate,
and that night did concentrate en the field
of Gettysburg."
"Judge" Bunn, of Philadelphia, is
quite rabid because he failed te beat Jehn
E. Reyburn for the Republican nomina
tion of senator. He blames it en all the
departments, but mere still en the " lying
hypocrisy of Jee Cavcn, the servile weak
ness of Geerge S. Graham, eager and
trembling for his candidacy, and, most
potent of all, Daddy's bar'l." Among his
discoveries, when a candidate, was this by
Bunny: " Broken faith, divided trust, un
fulfilled pledges, the destruction of the
party safeguards for personal aggrandize
ment, the violation of the principles in
scribed upeu its banners te further his
ends, the action of the hand belying the
premises of the tongue and the wheedling
of the serpent that devastated the garden
of Eden, these are the characteristics of
the leader.'''
The Republican state committee must
be hard up and badly scared. Jehn Cess
na has quit his funny business since the
canal beat was wrecked and is new iu
dustrieusly engaged in sending circulars
te Republicans, Democrats and Green
backers all kinds turning them into the
Intelligencer office in which he plain
tively calls for money te help elect Gar
field and Arthur, a Republican Congress,
and state Legislature. He savs : "Up te
this time we have received no funds by
voluntary contributions for the manage
ment of the campaign en behalf of the
state central committee. Without mate
rial aid, under the methods and necessities
of the campaign work, a canvass is net
generally successful ; certainly by no
means as vigorous as it can and will be
with such help." Well new, we thought
Cessna relied en the canal beat alone, and
the mules and the rolled-up trousers. He
shall have our subscription next time he
comes te town, for Cessna has done geed
work for the Democrats this campaign.
TnE Examiner's affrighted editor has
seen in the quiet, unostentatious and effec
tive organization of the Democracy in this
county evidences of a bar'l being rolled
this way, and he (says he) " knows" of $3
being offered Republicans te join Democrat
ic clubs. Inasmuch as there lias net been
a dollar of money in the Democratic cam
paign of this county, for at least six years,
except that which was put into the hat as
it was passed around here at home net-a
cent ever being sent here by state or
national committee or outside contributors
the chances of even a stave of an
"eighth " keg floating this way is very re
mote. If the Examiner knows any Demo
crat who is offering $5 a head for Republi
can votes the price which its party paid
a head for anti-Buckalew votes in 1872
the chairman of the Democratic county
committee would give a liberal percentage
for his name, in order te solicit a subscrip
tion for the legitimate expenses of the cam
paign, which being legitimately met can
effect mere than the illegal use of money
te euy ine weait-Kiieeu itcpueiicans wnese
alleged defection gives
double-leaded spasms.
the Examiner
PERSONAL.
Fanny Davexpebt was welcomed with
an enthusiastic demonstration en her re
appearance at the Fifth avenue theatre in
New Yerk last night. Anna Dickinsen's
new play, " An American Girl," which
bristles with satire, but which ha3 tee lit
tle action te prove popular in its present
shape was produced.
It is, of course, a Republican newspaper
in Pittsburgh which new draws this pict
ture of Bex Butler as a Hancock stump
speaker: "When he talks his threat Heps
like a sail shaken by the idle wind. His
eyes arc all that they have been pictured,
and worse. His skull is as bald as a geese
egg en top, and what hair he has sticks
out behind like a school girl's iu a net.
Taken from hoof te horn, as stockmen
say, lie must be set clown as one wue
abuses the privilege mortals have te be
ugly."
In noticing Jens S. McCalmont as one
of the speakers at the Floppers' meeting in
Pittsburgh, the Pest recalls the fact that
Cel. McCalmont resigned the judgeship in
Venango county te accept the colonelcy of
a regiment raised partly there and partly
iu Mercer county. He was raised in Lan
caster county, where he first saw Cel. Jehn
W. Ferney, while he (McCalmont) was a
boy and Ferney was a young man. Cel.
McCalmont is both a veteran and a fleppcr
from the Republican te the Hancock
cause.
The popular young actress, Miss Belle
Mingle, better known as "Belle Mac
kenzie" was married in Norfolk, Va., te
Sir. H. R. Archer, a member of Ferd's
dramatic company. The ceremeny was
performed by the Rev. Otis A. Glazebrook
in the presence of the company of which
the bride and gioem are members, and Mr.
Jehn T. Ferd, the veteran theatrical man
ager. 3IUs Mackenzie and Mr. Archer
lately appeared in this city in the pleasant
musical comedy of " Fun en the Pacific,"
wherein they figured m the intcicsting
role of "make-believe" levers.
"APPROPRIATING A GOOIS SPEECH.
A Letter W!lc!i Kxplatas Itself.
Allcntewn Chronicle.
The Democrats had a meeting at Mauch
Chunk en Saturday evening Sept. 11 .
The principal speaker was W. U. Ilensel,
one of the editors of the Lancaster
Intelligences. The Easten Free
Press says : " We arc pained te
enlighten the public en the fact that the
able editor of the Jeffersonian, published
at Streudshurg, after having taken copious
notes of Brether Hcnsel's speech, com
pared his report with one made stenograph stenegraph
ically of the speech of cx-Gev. Trumbull,
of Illinois, and found them te be identical
in substance and meaning. Frem a Dem
ocratic standpoint the speech is undoubt
edly a geed one ; but te knew that it is
net entirely original, te put the case mild
ly with Mr. Hcnscl, detracts greatly from
the charm of his pertly and fluent elo
quence. Brether Hcnsel needs a new
campaign speech before he comes te Eas Eas
eon." Xcw Em of Saturday.
Brether Ilensel is evidently alarmed at
the fate of his friends Wade Hampton aud
Representative Beltzhoover, in the denial
business. It is new five days since the
Easten and Allcntewn papers charged him
with appropriating a "geed" speech of
Judge Trumbull, and the Yeung Warwick
of the Lancaster Democracy hasn't whis
pered, nay ! A remarkable illustration of
the negative force of example.
Xcw Era of Monday.
According te the Easten and Allcntewn
papers, the Yeung Warwick of the Lancas
ter Democracy, the junior editor of the
Intelligence!:, in his late speech at
Mauch Chunk, applied this principle of re
production te the fructifying thoughts of
Judge Trumbull, aud found that all na
ture, or at least his nature, bowed se sub
missively te the primeval law, that a
"geed" speech of the Illinois ex-jurist and
statesman was se correctly reproduced as
te be at once recognized by a Democratic
reporter, who had a copy of the original in
his possession.
Mr. IlenselV Reply.
Ed. iVcic Era. When it was first good geod goed
humoredly noticed in the Republican news
papers of this city that the Allcntewn
Chronicle learned from the Easten Free
P.'css that the (Democratic, you say)
editor of the Streudshurg Jeffersonian
had found a speech made by myself at
Mauch Chunk (Streudshurg?) te be " iden
tical in substance and meaning " with one
made some time before by Hen. Lyman
Trumbull, I scarcely deemed any notice of
the matter necessary, te preserve what
little of literary repute I may have with
you or with this community. Since, hew
ever, you seem te construe my lailurc te
notice it into a possible admission
of having appropriated "a geed speech
of Judge Trumbull," I beg leave
te enter with you my broadest
possible "nay." I "appropriated" no
speech of Judge Trumbull, nor of anybody
else, at Mauch Chunk, Streudshurg nor
anywhere else. The speech which I made
substantially at both places is almost
"identical in substance and meaning"
with one that I had made iu this campaign
several times and at several places bcfeic
any made by Mr. Trumbull had been pub
lished. In fact, except a brief extract
from Mr. Trumbull's speech, republished
in the Intelligexceu some weeks age
I never saw, nor icad,ner heard his speech
until last Friday, when Iliad some curiosity
te examine it carefully te see wherein
mine made at Mauch Chunk (and at
Streudshurg) had any identity of "sub
stance " or "meaning" with it. The only
things discovered in ihat search were
notices of the facts(vcry differently stated)
that se many illustrious Republicans of
1800-5 had abandoned their party, and
that Missouri, a state of the "solid Seuth,'"
had sent mere troops te the Union armies
than some half a dozen Northern Rcpubli
cau states.
I believe neither of these observations is
copyrighted. They have certainly been
features of many Democratic speeches for
some years.
It would net be very strange, you will
admit, if considerable identity of "sub
stance and meaning " could be established
between the political speeches of different
persons en the same side in the same cam
paign ; and yet, by some chance, it would
be quite difficult te find two speeches en
the same side of the pending political
issue se widely different in "substance
and meaning" as Mr. Trumbull's and
mine. My first impression te this effect,
en lately reading Mr. Trumbull's speech,
is strengthened by a close comparison of
it with ray notes of my own speech and
with an undeservedly " copious " report of
it published in the Menree Democrat. Had
the matter enough interest te you or te
the public I would cheerfully place all
these at your use te make the examina
tion for yourself.
Yeu will understand that I am net re
sponsible for this comparison of my feeble
efforts with 3Ir. Trumbull's heavy ar
tillery. As I have never before been accused of
"appropriating" anything net my own in
this community, I fear I have trespassed
unnecessarily en your columns te meet
this accusation of having "appropriated,'
Judge Trumbull's speech. It is a "geed ' '
one by the way. I wish I had the mem
ory te commit it and the eloquence te re
peat it. If I had, however, I should net
fail te give the author due credit.
Yours truly
W. U. Hexsel.
Lancaster, Pa., Sept. 18, 1880.
V. b. Since you seem te he engaged in
the interesting and,I trust, profitable work
of proving hew the principle of " repro repre repro
ducteon'' asserts itself, let me add te your
collection a specimen from one of my local
critics :
(Original editorial
from the y. Y. Inde
pendent, i eceived at the
office of the Ijxncaster
Inquirer, Thursday
evening, Sept. 1G.)
Ex-Senater Lyman
Trumbull, who is new
the Democratic candi
("Original" editorial
from the Lancaster In
quirer, published JVj-
uay evening, tsept. u.)
Ex-Senater Lyman
Trumbull, whose
speech the ambitious
ana lussy euiter or tne
Lancaster Intelligen
date ter governor of
cer is said te have com
Illinois, quit the lte
mitted te memory, and
publican party some
is occasionally uenvcr
ins te camnt? Deme
years since, because he
had outlived the day of
cratic ciewds. Is the
his honors lrem that
party. lie wanted te
be re-electcd te the
Scnate.and because the
Kcmiblicans of Illinois
Democratic candidate
for governor of Illi
nois, lie quit the ltc
publican party some
years since, because he
had outlived the dav
dirt net cheese te re
elect him he chose an
early opportunity te
become a Democrat,
anil such he has re
of his honors from that
party, lie wanted te
be re-elected te the Sen
ate, and because the
mained ever fcince
itcpueiicans et Illi
nois did net cheese te
re-elect him lie chose
Like most men bavins;
such a history, lie is
new very rabid in his
denunciation of .the
Republican party. He
thinks that the election
of General Hancock
an early opportunity
te become a Democrat.
and such he has re-
maincdcvcrsinccLikc
most men having such
will furnish a geed op
portunity " te leek In In
eo theucceunts se long
a history, he is new
very rabid in his de
nunciation of the Re
publican party. He
thinks that the election
Kept ey i ne iccpuuii
cans." Sneulil such
oppert unity occur,
of General Hancock
mere isaiiuic account
will furnish a geed op
portunity "te leek in
to tlie accounts se long
kent bv the itcpubli
between himself and
the gevcrnmentthat it
inixut be well te leek
into. It se happens
cans." Should such an
opportunity occur.
that the cx-scnater is
one of the "salary
mere lsamuc account
between himself and
the government that it
might be well te leek
into. It se happens
that the ex-senator is
grabber-"," that he
voted ler the back nav
law, that lie received
his part of the barf
pay, put the money in
to Ins pocket, and has
one el the "salary
kept it there ever since.
grabbers," that he
voted for the back pay
law, that he received
his part of the back
nay. nut the money in
The Democrats de
neunce these grabbers
iu the severest terms ;
and yet the Democrats
et Illinois arc going
this fall te try te elect
oncefthcni. and that
te his peckcl, and has
keptit there eversince.
The Democrats de
nounce these grabbers
in the severest terms ;
man is Lyman Trum
bull. riie itcpublicans
of that state, having
once dispensed with
the services of Jlr.
Trumbull, will see te
it that he is defeated.
They have the neces
sary votes, and tiiev
in d vet the Democrats
of Illinois arc going
this lull te try te elect
one of them, and that
man is Lyman Trum
bull. The Republicans
of that state, having
once dispensed with
mean te use them ler
ucncral Uarlleld nnd
the whole Uepublican
ticket.
the services of Mr.
Trumbull, will see te it
tnat nc is ueicatcu.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
M. Henri Say's new yacht, the Bretagne,
was launched at Baltimore yesterday.
M. R. Joyce, a young man, was drown
ed by the upsetting of a beat at Celdwatcr,
Mich., en Sunday.
A fire in Bay City, Mich., destroyed
about 1,500,000 feet lumber, causing a less
of $20,000.
Owen Dunn died in New Yerk yester
day from a pistol-shot wound inflicted by
Antheny Brigand in a Sunday night
brawl.
Bosten horses have a distemper resem
bling a mild form of the epizoety of 1872.
Few, however, have been incapacitated for
work.
Judge James P. Sinnett, of the New
Yerk marine court, who has been ill since
Friday, died in New Yerk yesterday of
hcart.disease.
Baseball yesterday : At Chicago Chi
cago 8, Cincinnati 8. At Worcester
Trey 7, Worcester 1. At Providence
Providence 5, Bosten 0.
Leuis II. Brefup was arrested in Toron Teren Teren
eo, en Saturday, for the murder of his wife,
whose body was found floating in the bay
about a week age.
W. Tayler, Geerge Tayler and Jehn
Smithcy have escaped from the Murfrecs Murfrecs Murfrecs
bore jail by sawing the bars of the deer.
They were all indicted for murder.
James II. Reese, a real estate dealer and
the first citv surveyor, oue of the eldest
nnd best known citizens of Chicago, has
died, aged sixty-seven. He settled there
in 183-1.
Twe brothers named Hall, colored, quar
reled at Louisville, Ky., when one of them
stabbed the ether several times, from the
effects of which he died yesterday morn
ing. The California state fair at Sacramento
opened yesterday. The display is excel
lent and the attendance was large. The
racing was geed, Jennie B. winning the
mile dash in 1:122-
Pcrsens from New Yerk visited Eliza Eliza
bethperr, N. J., and identified and re
moved the body of the well dressed woman
found last Monday in Newark Bay. They
refused te give her name for publication.
Francis Ferwig, aged GO years, commit
ted suicide in Hoboken, N. J., by severing
the arteries of his wrist. The deed was
caused by the mysterious disappearance of
his daughter, who had been taking care of
his invalid wife.
Rebert Fccney, of Patterson, N. J., was
put out of Farrington's restaurant, 149
Chatham street, New Yerk, and fell en
the sidewalk, fracturing his skull. He died
next day and Farrington has been arrest
ed. During a bar-room fight at Milltown,
Ky., Jehn Hancock was shot through the
lungs and Simen Hancock was shot dan
gerously in the breast. There were five
men in the affray and twenty-six shots
were fired.
Chairman Barnuiu and Senater McDon
ald are new in Indiana te give personal di
rectien te the Democratic campaign, and
Senater Derscy, of the Republican national
committe, te plan and prosecute the Re
publican campaign.
During a political demonstration in
Ellcnville, N. Y., ou Saturday night a
woman fired a rcveU'cr from a window,
sheeting another woman, it is thought
mortally. Beth arc widows. The shoot sheet
ing is thought te have been accidental.
The shooter was arrested.
The largest receipts of wheat and corn
ever received en the New Yerk produce
exchange were announced yesterday as fol fel
lows : Wheat, 517,000 bushels, aiid corn,
8U8,41H) bushels. Total aggregate or corn,
wheat, eats, barley, malt and rye was
1,448,403 bushels, the largest ever re
ported. Lee Brumbaugh, a prominent attorney
of Miamisburg, Ohie, was shot and killed
by Geerge Ware, of Dayton. Brumbaugh
had for some time been suspected of crimi
nal intimacy with Ware's wife during his
absence. Ware returned home unan
neunced yesterday afternoon, found them
together and shot Brumbaugh. He then
delivered himself up te the officers.
David Trieber, member of the firm of
Brensteck, Trieber & Ce., St. Leuis com
mission merchants, has been arrested en
the charge of unlawfully disposing of fifty
thousand pound of wool, for which the
Valley, national bank held warehouse re
ceipts. The, wool was valued at $10,000,
but the bank probably does net lese mere
than $4,000. The case is quite complicated
and everybody connected with it is very
reticent. Trieber was admitted te bail in
$3,000.
Nancy Hey weed, a maiden lady living
with her brother in Rockland, Wis., was
mysteriously murdered en Sunday night.
Her brother left home iu the evening,
leaving her with the servant girl and the
latter's sister. On returning he found
bleed en the fleer, and traced it te a weed
pile, under which lay the body of the mur
dered woman, with her threat cut. The
girls were arrested, but profess ignorance
of the deed.
Policeman Enech Perry, of Jersey City,
early yesterday morning saw Leuis Shaugh
nessy sitting en a steep, apparently asleep,
with his feet en the sidewalk. He rapped
arousing Shaughnessy, who walked up be
hind Perry and asked with an oath, who
he was. "I want you te move en," said
the officer. " Yeu can't make me
move en," rejoined Shaughnessy. At the
same time he snatched Perry's club from
his hand and began striking him with it.
The policeman drew his revolve and, aftter
vainly warning Shaughnessy te desist,
fired once into the air. After being struck
again he fired a second shot, killing the
man instantly. Shaughnessy was an ex-convict.
Judicial Contempt of Law.
Philadelphia Times.
Judge Patterson, of Lancaster, seems
ambitious te test te the uttermost the for
bearance of the geed people of his proverb
ially upright county, by his strange judi
cial contempt of both law and justice.
His summary disbarment of two et
the most respected officers of his
court was charitably judged by many as
the mastery of passion that is common te
men ; that when he recently restored two
partisan voters te liberty, after their legal
commitment by competent authority, and
since then was taken by a partisan wor
shiper te a magistrate te exercise extra
judical power for the liberation of a public
pickpocket, caught in the act, the only
charitable judgement that can be exercised
in his behalf must be en the ground that,
by reason of mental or moral obliquity, hu
is net responsible for his acts.
Seme days age one of the peripatetic
thieves that fellow crowds, was taken iu
the act of picking the pocket of a citizen
of Lancaster county at a circus. The de
tective saw the thief pick the pocket and
threw the packet-book away when he no
ticed that he was detected, and the owner
of the pocket-book identified the stolen
property. The thict was taken before Al
derman Barr, and he was committed te
prison for sixty days, under the 158th sec
tion of the criminal cede, as "a profes
sional thief, burglar or pickpocket," and
committed also "for trial at the November
court of quarter sessions." There could
be no reasonable dispute about the charac
ter or guilt of the prisoner ; hut lie had
several hundred dollars of money, and
Mr. J. Hay Brown, who has heretofore
figured iu Judge Patterson's judicial
blunders, became counsel for the thief. He
did net proceed by habeas corpus, as the
law provides in cases of summary sentence
by a magistrate, nor did he offer bail for
the appearance of the prisoner at the
court ; but he called upon Judge Patter
son, took him te the magistrate and there
Judge Patterson advised the rehearing and
discharge of the pickpocket. If the pris
oner had only been committed for trial at
court, there might have been some excuse
for Judge Patterson advising the discharge
en the ground that the traveling detective
would net be likely te appear against him
and that without the detective's evidence
there could be no conviction, although
even then it would have been an unwarrant
cd voluntary interference by a judge with
the duties of a magistrate, but when he
volunteered te advise the rehearing and
discharge of a thief who had been lawfully
sentenced as a professional pickpocket,
and thus turn a vagabond criminal loose
upon the community again, he net only
degraded the judicial office, but he made
the lowest mockery of both the law and
administration of justice.
The only possible pretext for this petty
prostitution of judicial authority visible te
the public is in the fact that the pick
pocket had several hundred dollars of some
victim's money, and his attorney, Mr. J.
Hay Brown, had a liberal fee in prospect
if he effected the discharge of the thief.
The law denied the discharge, for had
Judge Patterson, ou hearing en a writ of
habeas corpus, reversed the magistrate's
sentence, he could net have ventured te
discharge the prisoner from his commit
ment for appearance at court, aud there
was but one way te obtain the pickpocket's
rclcase and the possession of his doubtless
stolen money by his attorney, and that
was by Judge Patterson voluntarily ap
pearing before the magistrate and advis
ing the discharge. He did se ; the pick- !
nnelrnf xpna cet: of- lilim-ftr liia iirtlif wen .
lifted en his order by Mr. J. Hay Brown,
and one of "the best voters" in Judge
Patterson's political field, had a liberal lee
at a fearful cost te the majesty of the law,
the integrity of justice and the judicial
dignity and trustworthiness of a judge.
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STATE ITEMS.
Patrick Kelly was killed by a fall of coal
in the Enterprise colliery at Wilkcsbartc.
Vinceut Cox, a colored herse thief of
Chester county, was found hiding in a
cave, after the manner of the old Gap
gang.
This time it is out around Pittsburgh
that Jee Emmet is disgracing himself, his
family and the stage. He has had enough
of that sort of frce advertising.
Alteena has a suburb, called from its
shape, the "Kettle," and nowadays it is
beautiful with five fingered ivy, messy
rocks, babbling brooks, red teaberrics and
wild grasses in the reporter's mind.
A shirt and a handkerchief found in Al
legheny City lead te the belief that they
belonged te Warner Jelly, of Osceola
Mills, Clearfield county, aged 11, who left
his mother and home, and in despair of
getting en in this world tried the river
way te the next one.
The Republicans having charged that
Marshall Swartzweldcr, president of the
Pittsburg Floppers meeting, had always
been a Democrat, he took the fleer te say
that he "had cast his first vote for Harri
son and had voted the Whig and Republi
can ticket every election, even te Herace
Greeley."
The staid Philadelphia Ledger is moved
te declare that "the Democratic demon
stration of Saturday night te ratify the
nominations of the party candidates for
president and vice president, was the
grandest iu point of numbers and enthusi
asm that has been witnessed in this city
for many years."
Mayer Breder, of Bradford, is "an
noyed" because of the circulation of it
bogus proclamation with his named signed
te it, "calling in" the straw hats. On
Saturday his honor swore out warrants for
the arrest of F. W. Farrar, manager of
the paper, and C. H. Stciger, an attache,
who caused the publication of the article
and connected the names of the city offi
cers therewith.
The family of J. D. Carl, of Pleasant
Valley, Luzerne county, consisting of him
self, his wife and ene child, also Mr. and
Mrs. Woodward, of Mill creek, together
with a hired girl, Jennie Powell, were ac
cidentally poisoned by eating cakes made
of cernmcal which had been mixed with
arsenic and set aside for the purpose of
killing rats. Jennie Powell cannot live.
Tlie ntlim-a nfiev nncci!tt i-nini-n!-
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MAINE.
STEADFASTLY DEMOCRATIC.
REPUBLICANS CONCEDE
ELECTION".
PLAISTED '3
AND THAT SETTLES IT.
Tatce In the Examiner Slag.
A despatch has been received at the
headquarters of the Democratic national
committee from Fert Kent, Maine, giving
Plaisted 1G0 majority, making his majority
in 497 towns 174. Five town still te be
heard from gave in 1876 : Talbot (Dcm.)
62 ; Cenner (Rep.) 27.
Special Dispatch te the Times.
Bangek, September 203:30 p. m.
General Plaisted is absent. The Re
publicans at Augusta new concede
Plaistcd's election by a plurality under the
new constitutional amendment. The
Unionists there have carefully figured the
result and will have a celebration te-night
ever Plaistcd's election.
B. L. Smith,
Chairman County Committee.
The Republican State Committee Gives
Plaisted 99 Majority.
Special Despatch te the Times.
Augusta, Mc, Sept. 20. Returns re
ceived at the secretary of state's office from
the clerks of all the towns in the state but
thirteen give Davis 491 plurality. Nine of
these thirteen towns give by newspaper
reports a plurality of 548 against Davis,
and the ether four, remote plantations,
last year gave a plurality against Davis, of
43, indicating a plurality of 99 against
Davis this year, counting everything
for Plaisted that was intended for him,
although there arc gract irregularities in
his name as returned by the clerks. The
name is returned Hiram M., Harrison M.,
Mauris M., etc. These variations affect
mere than one " thousand votes. The le
turns of votes upon which tl.e question is
decided are canvassed by the Legislature,
and it is se close that it will net be known
te an absolute certainty until the Legisla
ture meets in January.
The constitutional amendments arc both
adopted that providing for the election of
governor by a plurality instead of a major
ity vote by 38,S72 te 37,153 ; the amend
ment making the term of senators and
members of the Heuse two years instead
of one by G7,710 te 18,18-1.
J. O. Smitu.
Secretary Republican Committee.
Perils of tlie Press.
.fames Brccn, editor of the Pittsburgh
Sunday Glebe, was attacked by Alderman
Cornelius O'DeunclI, who is acting mayor
in the absence of Mayer Liddell, nnd
several blows were passed, each of the
pugilists receiving his share. Brccn had
ridiculed O'Denncll in the Glebe. The
affair is the talk of the city.
J. P. Cerrcll and O. L. Fehr, of the
Easten Argus, have been sued for libel by
Mr. William M. Schafler, of Seuth Bethle
hem. The Argus of June 10th published
an account of a robbery at Schaffer's
place in Seuth Bethlehem aud made some
uncomplimentary remarks concerning that
gentleman. On the 18th of September
the Argus printed an article about Mr.
Schaffer addressing Republicans, called
him a blatherskite and wound up by say
ing : "Bill has an advantage orators gen
erally don't have. When the lamps go
out the rays from his illuminated nose leek
like a torchlight precession and light up
the meeting beautifully." The editors,
who have had a previous libel suit, entered
bail for a hearing.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
Charged with Larceny.
Before Alderman McConemy this morn
ing James Mooney had a hearing of a com
plaint of larceny preferred against him by
Henry Shaffncr. The parties live in Mt.
Jey and the facts of the case arc brielly
these : A son of the defendant had rent
ed a furnished hotel in Mt. Jey, belonging
te J. B. Knuiiman, and as he owned no
real estate he get Mr. Shaflner te go his
hail. Te indemnify Mr. Shaflner from less,
3Ir. Mooney, the defendant, gave him a
promissory note for $100.50. Soen after,
wards the Moencys determined net te
take the
cf,!l lrl
hotel, hut Mr. Kauffman
held Mr. Shaffncr as their bail.
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In an interview between Shaflner and
Mooney the promissory note was produced.
It was at first handed by Mr. Shaff
ncr te young Mooney, who examined it and
handed it back te him ; then, as is alleged,
old Mr. Moenev reached for it and took it
out of Mr. Shatthcr's hand, went behind
the counter, put en his spectacles, read the
note and put it iu his pocket, refusing te
surrender it te Mr. Shaffncr.
suit for the larceny of the
alderman held Mr. Mooney te
swer at court.
Hence the
note. The
bail te an-
A NOVEL AUCTION.
S.'.OOO Net Likely te be Ever Called I'er.
S. A. Grefi", proprietor of the Chill-Chilli
bitters, had auction at his manufactory en
North Queen street last night of a bottle
mid a case of his hitters en the advertised
condition that "the buyer keep the bottles
unopened until three years have expired,
then te epcm the bottles in presence of
competent judges and compare them with
any bottles made by him since the
sale, and if the bottles are net as
geed and pure as the first made
the proprietor has obligated him
himsclf under bends te pay $3,000 te each
purchaser of bottle and case." The bottles
were encased in a handsome walnut case,
lettered in gilt and decorated with red
silk. Sam Hess called the sale and Jehn
S. Rehrcr started the first bottle at $2.50 ;
after lively bidding by S. G. Genscmcr,
Wm. Blickcnderfer, Jehn Herting and
ethers, it was knocked down te Mr. Hert
ing at $29.50. I he bottle was then scaled
in its box and delivered te him. The case
was started at $20 by Jehn Kramer and
knocked off te S. G. Genscmcr for 849.
There was a spirited time at the auction.
Sales of Real Estate.
L. D. Gallagher, auctioneer, ea Monday
last, sold at public sale, the farm of J. K.
Nissley, containing 90 acres of land, situ
ated in Mount Jey township, about a mile
from Springville, te Christian L. Nissley,
for $211.10 per acre.
On Saturday Mr. Gallagher sold the farm
of Adam Ream, containing about 50 acres
and situated in Mount Jey township, a
mile and a half from Springville, te Aaren
Kuhns, for $240 per acre.
Died Frem Her Injuries.
Susan Winger the old lady who was
struck by a locomotive en the Pennsylva
nia railroad en Friday aftcrnoen,and terri
bly injured, died from the effects of her
wounds yesterday. It will be remembered
that the old lady was crossing tlw track
when she was struck by engine Ne. 90.
After the accident she was taken te her
home, where she lingered until yesterday.
Deputy Corener Samuel Slocum held an
inquest en the remains, and a verdict in
accordance with the facts was rendered.
SCIENTIFIC COKRE3PONDKXCE.
The Leng-Stlnged IcbaetuaeB.
Dkab Sin : I enclese you what is said te
be a small specimen of fly found en a dead
tree in Walnut street, of this town. The
party who caught it says that he has seen
as many as twenty at one time en the trunk
of the tree mentioned, all busily boring
holes, but at the time he went te capture
one of them for me, he only saw one which
is the one enclosed, and which he says is
enly.half the size of most of them. Yeu
will find that the head is severed from the
body, having been done se by the party
who caught it ; he being afraid of it. He
says it does the boring with the long caudal
appendage ; that he, with probably twen
ty ethers, watched them working a great
while, but they all seemed afraid te molest
them. I visited the tree this afternoon
and found the whole trunk perforated with
holes from au eighth te a quarter of an
inch in diameter. I will visit the place
again, when probably I can secure a larger
and mere perfect specimen. We are anx
ious te knew what it is. Let us her from
you seen.
Yours, &c. Q. F. R.
Columbia, Sept. 17, 18S0.
Answer.
Your fragmentary specimen was received
this morning. Although mutilated, still
there was sufficient of it undamaged te en
able mc te identify it. It is ene of the
" Leng-stingcd Ichneumon flics " the
Pimpla (lihyssa) lunatoret entomologists.
The family (Icuneumoxides) te which it
belongs, includes a very large number of
species, hut this species and the atrattr
possess the longest ovipositors. Practically
the long caudal aweudages you allude te
is net a sting or stmgs, but simply a modi
fication of the sting of ether families of the
same order. The insect is entirely harm
less aud may be handled with perfect im
punity. The insect is a parasite, and did
net bore the holes in the tree which you
say yen saw.
These holes were previously bored by
some ether insect in its larva state per
haps a species of Trcmex, Sirex, Clytus,
Elaphidcen, or seme ether weed-boring
larva; aud the instinct of the Pimpla
taught it that there were grubs in the old
tree, which would be a proper place te de
posit au egg or two, and it availed itself of
its normal relations te the host inside.
Where the host is within reach of the
ovipositor they reach it through the aper
ture already existing ; but where it is tee
far off te be thus reached they penetrated
the weed, and their instincts unerringly
teach them where te penetrate. The ovi
positor of these insects is composed of
three parts two outside sheaths and a
central saw or rasp, with which they saw
or rasp a small aperture, pushing the two
sheaths inward as the pipes arc introduced
into an artesian well. Having reached the
grub inside, they deK)sit one or mere eggs
into its body (according te its size),
and these eggs arc hatched, the
young Pimplas feed upon the carcase of
the grub. Frem this habit they are
also called "cuckoo llics" that is, they
have no hole and make no nest of their
own, but trespass upon the premises of
ether insects aud feed upon the bodies el
their young. Sometimes, when the weed
is hard, they are unable te withdraw the
ovipositor, and die in that position. I have
often taken them in that condition. When
they pass through all their transformations
and are ready te emerge as a fully devel
oped pimpla or cuckoo fly, they generally
come out through the aperture made by
their host, but if that should be impracti
cable, they have sufficient mandibular
power te cut their way out by a shorter
process. They seem te be partial te the
larva of the "Pigeon Trcmex" (Tremex
Columba), which usually bores into dead
or decayed weed, but I have captured
them fastened te pretty solid oak weed,
and when the host inside was probably the
grub of the " Horned Passalus " (Ptssalii.t
cermttus). They are classed among innocu
ous insects, or insect friends. R.
AN EA'IL OJUEN.
Tlie Ciarlicld I5:tiuicr Itlenrn Down and 11c
Hinlrcheil With Mud.
Last evening about half-past 6 o'clock a
brisk breeze sprang up and set all the
Democratic flags and banners gracefully
waving ; but when it reached the headquar
ters el the Yeung Men's Republican club
it freshened into a gale, and catching up
the big banner containing portraits of Gar
field and Arthur, it lifted it abeve the
reefs of the houses and then dashed it te
the ground, where it was dragged around
in tlie mud, doubled up into an unsightly
pile and thrown into the gutter ; and then
the jelly breeze which had ceme all the
way from Maine, carrying the news of the
Republican defeat in the Pine Tree state,
flew still further west, whistling as it went,
te carry the geed news te Ohie and In
diana. The young Republicans steed aghast
when they saw their costly banner drag
gling in the mud, and it was some time
before they succeeded in cutting it loose
from the tern ropes en which it had been
suspended, and carrying it up te the club
room where the besmirched portraits of
their candidates sadly reminded them of
the besmirched political records of the can
didates themselves.
The young Republicans tell us the ban
ner fell because it was insecurely fastened
en the reef of Mr. Lecher's house,' the
rope sustaining it being fastened te the
top of a pule about eight feet long which
was planted en the reef and only secured
by braces nailed against it ; and that
when the storm came it lifted banner,
pole nnd braces from their place and
dashed them te the ground. Even the
most stalwart of the De Gelycritcs re
garded the fall of the banner as an evil
omen.
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CITV COUNCILS.
A Special ."Meeting Called Ne jBerara!n
the Common Branch. .
A special meeting of select and common
councils was held last evening te take ac
tion en a communication from Davis Kitch,
jr., superintendent of the water works,
wherein it is stated that the south bank
of the cast reservoir is in a bad condition
and should be at once repaired.
Select Council.
Present Messrs. Decrr, Eberly, Frank
lin, Judith, Sales, Zeehcrand Evans, pres
ident. Mr. Eberly asked unanimous consent te
take up the petition of citizens asking per
mission te erect at their own expense
in a public alley running from Pine
te Mary street, a two feet sewer. 3Ir.
Eberly stated that the street committee
recommended the work, that common coun
cil at List meeting had ordered it te be dotte
under direction of the street commissioner,
petitioners te have permission te connect
with the sewer without the usual $25 fee,
and the sewer when finished te become the
property of the city. He moved that the
action of common council be concurred in.
Select council concurred.
The recommendations of Superintendent
Kitch relative te the repair of the south
wall of the cast reservoir were taken up
and after an informal discussion. 31 r.
Eberly moved that council disapprove of
the superintendent's proposed repair of the
wall. The motion was agreed te.
Adjourned.
There was no quorum iu common coun
cil. Serenaded.
The Eutcrpcan band last evening visited
the hotel of Geerge Kircher, where a
ground hog lunch and. ether festivities
were being held, and tendered a fine sere
nade. They also visited Roberts's hall,
where the Jr. O. U. A. 31. are holding a
fair, and discoursed a number of airs.
Their music was highly appreciated. The
band is composed of about sixteen mem
bers, and they were cemplinented en their
excellent performance ou this their first
public appearance.
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