LANCASTER DAILY 1MELL1GENCER FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 1880.
Lancaster fntriltgencet.
FRIDAY EVENING, NOV. 0, 1880
The Cause of It.
Our Democratic friends in Xew Yerk,
in net very amiable mood, keep en dis
cussing why it was that New Yerk state
did net go for Hancock and hence the
defeat of his election. It is conceded
that the Democrats have chosen 150 elec
tors, and Xew Yerk's additional He
would have been'eneugh. It is also seen
that the interior of Xew Yerk did net
justify Republican calculations and that
the Democracy arc net short as many
votes in the whole state as they are short
of their expectations in New Yerk and
Brooklyn. That is te say, if these two
cities had given the majorities for Hau
epek that the local leaders gave the na
tional Democracy reason te expect, Han
cock and English would have ljeen
elected
This is the fact. The explanation of
it is mere diflicult te get at.
If Mr. Kelly's supposed candidate for
mayor had run ahead of his ticket, and
had been elected by .a large majority, he
would have been open te the suspicion
of having made a trade, but this does
net appear. On tiie contrary, he nar
rowly escaped defeat. In the rural coun
ties where Mr. Tildeifs friends have the
greater influence, the Republican major
ities were kept down, and Mr. Tildeifs
immediate friends being in charge of the
national canvass, and his relations te
them and te the candidate being of the
closest kind, there is no geed reason te
lay the blame at his deer.
As we said yesterday, we believe ef
fective Republican rascality in New
is at the bottom of the reduced Demo
cratic majority and largely increased
Republican vote there. . The candi
date for vice president, Mr. Chester A.
Arthur, knows all the ins and outs of
Xew Y'erk city politics. He has been
indirect personal charge there, ami has
summoned te his aid all the dubious
agencies capable of employment.
At the same time tin quarrels of the
Xew Yerk Democracy afforded him am
ple opportunity te make; his work most
effective. While we see nothing te con
vict either faction te the Xew Yolk
quarrel of treachery te Hancock, yet
there is much in the condition of things
which their quarrel produced te have
enabled the Republicans te successfully
combat their disorganization. We knew
very well that when tin' party
leaders arc in state of constant alterca
tion the masses become dispirited
and ineffective for political action.
It matters little which faction is en
top or which is under, which has
the right or the wrong of it. The fac
tional fact is the disturbing and the dan
gerous one. We happen te knew that
Gen. Hancock himself, from the very
outset of the st rugsrle, clearly receguicd
the weak point in the line the delay in
tin New Yerk city Democracy getting
together in harmonious cooperation. He
had no desire that one or the
ether get the advantage. Like ether
sagacious leaders lie felt that there was
far mere at stake in their differences and
their reconciliation than a juggle for
municipal spoils.
should have been
Their first effort
te lift themselves
above this, te make local nominations
of undoubted strength, that would at
tract te them the whole parly vote and
te allow the local Democracy te orga
nize for the national campaign without
an municipal drawbacks. Herein they
failed and hence our woes.
The City Treasurer's Accounts.
The proceedings of council in regard
te the city treasurer are certainly very
remarkable and very blameworthy. A
committee was appointed te investigate
his books. That was proper. It employed
an accountant te de the work. That was
proper. He found a deficit, the committee
said. The committee did net ask an
explanation of the treasurer. That was
improper, very. It reported te councils
that the treasurer was a defaulter. That
was improper upon the case as it steed.
The committee, was given authority by
one branch te proceed te collect the al
leged deficit. 'That was wrong, when the
deficit was net certainly ascertained.
New, after waiting two months, the
treasurer sends a communication te the
select council declaring that he thinks it
time that he should be as publicly vindi
cated as lie had been defamed, since
the committee's expert had again gene
ever his books and found that he owed
the city nothing, but that the city owed
him a few dollars. The select council
did net even allow this communication
te be read, en the ground that it was
premature. Thai was improper. Prema
ture indeed ! It would net be premature
for men te resign at once their nilices
who falsely charge a city officer with be
ing a defaulter and de net seize, the very
first opportunity te correct their error
and amend their wrong.
We knew nothing of the facts further
than the appear in the proceedings of
councils. Hut if it is true as stated by
Mr. Wclchans, that the expert who found
the delicit in his accounts new finds and
has reported te the presidents of coun
cils that no deficit exists, the treatment
of the treasurer by councils' is simply
infamous.
Tin: Republicans will have a lovely
lime of it selecting a United States sena
tor from Pennsylvania. Or, better still,
in electing two, if Den Cameren should
happen upon a chance of getting into the
cabinet, which In- prefers te the senator
ship. 11 is well understood that for
years Quay has had his cold eye li.vd
upon this glittering prize, while Cameren
is also suspected of favoring the selec
tion of Harry Oliver, of Pittsburgh.
If Cameren's entrance into the cabinet
would atferd two openings it, is likely
that his efforts will lie bent te the pro
motion of these two of his faithful
henchmen. Fer the succession simply
te Mr. Wallace the Cameren people will
have difficulty in settling upon a man
whose selection will give satisfaction
and cure all aching hearts.
P.ut
whether there be one or two te be chosen
Mr. Grew may be cenn led en te have a
large following from the anti-Cameren
ranks and of his own personal and polit
ical friend?, who pretest resolutely
against further muzzling of the ex that
treadeth out the corn. He starts with
seven members from this county
and ethers from strong Kepublican dis
tricts instructed for him. It remains te
be seen what they will avail him. In
the solid delegations from Pittsburgh and
Philadelphia he has no strength, and
without these he cannot be elected.
Grew once out of the light, Mr. McManes
may become a figure in it, and if he has
enough strength from Philadelphia te
gather te him the anti-Cameren ele
ments from the country, he may organ
ize successful opposition te the fami
ly. There are interesting times ahead.
MINOR TOPICS.
Ik
Enthusiasm is geed, but organization
is better.
The instructions for Quay haudieup'icd
Demuth.
IIayks get back from the West in time
te vote but just tee late te pay his cam
paign assessment.
Tin: Harrisburg Democrats calculated
en electing their candidate for Assembly,
but the calculation did net held out.
Om: of the surprises of the campaign
was the defeat of S. B. Chittenden for
Congress from Brooklyn by Rev. J. Hyatt
Smith a Greenback Baptist preacher.
Ix calculating the causes of Democratic
defeat and disorganization in New Yerk
one needs te go back te Robinson's defeat
by Kelly, hack of that te Schcll's defeat
by Cooper, and back of that te the Tweed
regime and its disastrous effect en the
party whose livery it stele te seive the
Republican cause in.
Tin: Republicans have at once gene into
the business of cabinet making and the
knowing ones express high confidence that
Conkling's man Themas C. Piatt will be
postmaster general, James F. Wilsen, of
Iowa, attorney general, Jehn A. Legan
secretary of the interior, Jehn Sherman
secretary of the treasury, Ben Harrison
secretary of state, one of Blaine's friends
or some "-"astern man secretary of the
navy, and Den Cameren scci clary of war ;
in which ease Quay and Harry Oliver are
te be Pennsylvania's I'nited States sena
tors. Ix the 'supplemental list'' et the S.m
Francisce assessors' assessment, en per
sonal propel ty, there are about forty
names with ever a million appended te
them, headed by I.elaml Stanford set down
for $19,710,000 ; followed by Charles
Crocker, $19,187,000; Mrs Mark Hop Hep
kins, $17,211,900 ; Central Pacific railroad
company, $10,120,000 ; J. C- Floed & Ce.,
$10,000,000 ; J. V. Mackay, $10,080,000 ;
Nevada Bank, $7,000,000 ; Bank of Cali
fornia, $0,900,000; William Sharen, $1,
170,000 ; James G. Fair, $-1,220,000 ; J. C.
Floed, $3. WO, 000 ; P. Donahue, $:;,220t
000. .
PERSONAL.
General Ben Toombs will erect in
Georgia a cotton factory at a cost of $200,
000. The Duchess of Montuesk recently
wen t'l 0,000 by fortunate ventures en the
turf.
Mile. Ai.ii-i: Gui:vv, daughter of the
French president, is engaged te marry, it
is said, an exceedingly wealthy French
land owner.
Mr. Moenv's sermons have been trans
lated into Arabic Protestant missionar
ies in Syria read extracts from them every
Sunday evening te their converts.
M. Hkxui RociiKKenr is new one of
the most picturesque men in Paris. His
shock of early hair is as white as snow,
and his black eyes have a burning bright
ness. Cuix Lax Pin, the Chinese envoy, has
rented cx-Gev. Shepherd's house, in
Washington, and will remain there during
the winter, instead of going te Peru, as he
at first intended.
The New Yerk city group for the next
national Heuse is regarded as uncommonly
strong. Perry Belmont, S. S. Cox, Fer Fer
naneo Weed, Levi P. Morten and Abratn
S. Hewitt are qualified te sit as represen
tatives of their great city and iis suburbs.
NoitvKXSK.iet.i) has ordered a vessel te
be built at the mouth of the Lena, whence
he will set out in 1SS2 en another voyage
of discovery in the Arctic seas. By going
overland through Siberia te the mouth of
the Lena he hopes te " steal a march " en
the brief open season.
Bi'i'KALO, October 21). Among the
guests at Pierce's Palace hotel in this city,
yesterday, were Senater RosxeeCoxklino
and Mrs. Kati: Ciiask SruAeri:."' " Sen Sen
aeor Conkling addressed a Republican
meeting at Lockperr, Niagara county, to
day, and returned te this city and Pierce's
hotel this evening."
Mine. Taolieni, once the famous dau
scusa, and who has been-since the Franco France
Prussian war a professor of dancing in
Londen, has quitted England, and is,' it is
said, about te retire into private life. Be
fore her departure the Princess of Wales
bade her farewell and presented her with
a jewel as a recognition of the trouble she
liad taken in tcachiug the young prin
cesses. Mine. Tagliani is new seventy-
thvee years of age and she has well earned
her retirement.
It is said that the forthcoming annual
report of General Siieuman will be his
last, as he has determined te carry into
effect an intention frequently expressed te
go upon the retired list next spring, hav
ing served the thirty years required by
section 1,24:1 of the Rcvbcd Statutes te
qualify him for voluntary retirement. The
title of general is exclusively his own, and
his retirement will make a vacancy en the
active list. It will, however, bring Licu-tenaiit-Gcucral
Sheridan te Washington
as commander of the army, and will open
the way for Majer-General Hancock's
transfer e Chicago as commander of the
great ami important military division em
bracing nearly the whole theatre of Indian
operations and the greater part of the ac
tive forces of the army.
Cldc."
The word 'chic" had its origin in the
Paris studio. It is essentially a Parisian
word ; a Bohemian admitted into geed se
ciety. Its meaning can be understood lint
hardly define:!. As a ! tench writer says,
"Chic is neither nobility, nor opulence, nor
esprit. It is chic." It is taste and tact
and (he knack of doing and sjying the
rightthing in the right way ; it is te be
witty and wise and well-dressed and clever
and self-possessed ; it is all these and a
thousand things besides and yet it is none
of these things. It is chic.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
A miner named Jehn Cannen was in
stantly killed at the Sandy Ridge ere
mines, near Orbisensia, by the bank slip
ping down en him. He was unmarried.
At Cincinnati yesterday the Citizens'
national bank opened for business. This
is a new bank recently organized, with
$1,000 capital.
In San Francisce Leen Boniface killed
his mistress, Hattic Lee, in a house 'of ill
repute, in Waverly Place. He then shot
himself dead. The cause was jealousy.
Albeit Levy, the clerk who sh6t himself
with suicidal intent, at Forty-ninth street
and Sixth avenue, New Yerk, died from
the effects of the wound.
William Guthrie, accused of criminally
assaulting an eight-year-old girl in Wil
mington, resisted arrest and fired several
shots at two officers and escaped.
Twe passeugcr trains collided en the
Eastern railway near Lynn. E. N. Win
ters, of Lynn, was killed. Twe ether
passengers and the baggage master were
slightly injured.
Lizzie Lee and Harry Allen visited a
New Yerk clothing store, and while the
man bought a fifty cent vest the woman
stele forty dollars worth of clothing. They
were "yanked."
During the expulsion of some semina
rists at Lyens, France, en Wednesday, a
disturbance occurred, in which a work
man was fatally stabbed with a eane eane
swerd. Rebert Ransom fatally stabbed his
wife, Ellen Ransom, at her home, near
Nashville, Tcnn., en Wednesday. It was
the result of a quarrel. Ransom was ar
rested. The woman is reported te be
dead.
The lumber yard of Wilsen .'c Hunting,
in the northwest section of Baltimore, was
set en fire last night and $2,000 damage
was done. Jehn Kennedy, a tramp, was
found iu the yard and arrested as the in
cendiary. Conductor L. O. Hawks, of the Lake
Shere read, fell between the first ear and
engine at Erie and twenty cars passed
ever his legs, crushing them -off. Hawks
is new dying. A similar accident occurred
te Patrick Farrcl en the Philadelphia
read.
The baseball convention called te meet
at the Fifth Avenue hotel, New Yerk,
.yesterday te organize an independent
National League has been postponed
until December if. The National League
new in existence meets iu that city De
cember 4.
New Yerk state's majority decreases
with every fresh return from the rural
districts, and it will probably be between
10,000 and 20,000. Dugre's majority ever
Aster for Congress is only .VJ. At the
Tammany hall general committee meeting
the election was freely tailed ever and it
was denied that there was any trading en
Tammany's part, but it was admitted that
Grace burdened the ticket? and lest votes
for Hau cock.
A portion of the Lafliu & Rand powder
works, at Mountain Yiew, a few miles
west of Patcrsen, N. J., was blown up
and two men fatally injured. They were
engaged in the granulating process in a
detached building, which was totally de
molished. The two men were named
Jehn Clarksen, aged 27 years, and Albert
Dunn, aged 22 years, both unmarried.
The Hush was burned from their bodies in
a shocking manner.
Mary Warueck, aged fifteen years, em
ployed at the mill of the Bar
bour flax spinning company, in Patcrsen,
N. J., while engaged in oiling a shaft was
caught by her long and flowing hair and
drawn up by the machinery until the
scalp was tern completely from her head
and her cars both tern loose, se'that they,
together with the outer covering of the
skull, hung down en either side of her
shoulders. She was conveyed te St.
Jeseph's hospital. Her recovery is net. ex
pected. STATE ITEMS.
Temmy Reber, a Sunbury newsboy and
state Senate page, has had his feet cut elf
en the railroad.
Isaac Kauffmau, freight conductor,
killed near Elizabeth furnace, Blair coun
ty, was ene of the eldest freight conduc
tors en the middle division, lie was well
known te the railroad employees in this
city. His age was between .." and ."id
years.
The Change tirPrent.
riiiliulc'iiliiu Times.
The Republican change of front en the
tarifl. question has begun even sooner than
we expected. The ablest Republican
journal in the country, with possibly a
single exception, could net wait until the
result of the presidential election was eiii
dally determined before calling upon Gen.
Gin-field te threw aside the mask he is sup
posed te have assumed for campaign pur
poses and te come out boldly for revenue
reform. The Ktcnimj I'eal was sme all
along, but did net feel that it was safe te
say that the Republican candidate for pres
ident "has reached clear and liberal conclu
sions" in respect te this question. This is
the old- cant phrase of the free traders. If
this assurance had been voiced sooner it.
might have stepped the flew of money
from manufacturing establishments into
the Republican campaign fund, and per
haps have cost Garfield the votes of Penn
sylvania and Connecticut. But there ,
new no necessity for concealment. The
Pest will be followed in course of time and
at decent intervals by the Chicago Tribune.
the New Yerk Time and the Cincinnati
Commercial, and their demand will have
weight, for they have borne the heat and
burden of the journalistic light for Gar
field's election. When the light waxes
warm, if net before, the solid men of bu
siness whose money and whose influence
turned the tide of battle will realize once
mere that when business plays into the
hands of the politicians it is net the poli
ticians who get the worst of the game.
The Worship itf Animals.
In the infancy of mankind almost every
system of mythology included the worship
or veneration of animals. In one land the
deity was a bull, in another it was a ser
pent, in yet another it was bird ; and in
lands like India aud Egypt almost every
known animal was cither an incarnated
deity or demon. The same reasons that
caused the animal te be deified and wor
shiped would, iu a short lime, surround
its worship with numberless myths aud
legends, that would be remembered long
after the occasion that called them into ex
istence had been forgotten. As an instance
of this, wc 'need only cite the.
return of the Israelites in the desert of
Sinai te the worship of the golden calf
the image of the Apis god of the Egyp
tians they probably being no mere aware
that under this eidolen was represented
the sun-god in the zodiacal sign Taurus
than were the mass of the Egyptians them
selves. Still another reason why these
myths and legends would remain long af
ter their real meaning is forgotten, is due
te the metapheric nature of all early lan
guages ; and this cause would act still
mere strongly if the various shades of
meaning of each metaphorical term were
net. limited by accurate writing. Brinten
says the Algenqiiins, who" translated
"Michabe" into "The Great Hare." lest
by a false etymology a great part of their
religion. reintlttr t'cicncc Jlentft'if.
TUB PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.,
The Majorities by States.
Although the returns from California
are net complete, its electoral votes is new
confidently claimed for Garfield. Oregon
in the same way is conceded te the Repub
licans by about 500 majority. The total,
therefore, stands : Garfield, 219 ; Han
cock, J 150 giving the Republican candi
dates thirty-four rotes mere than necessary
for their selection in the electoral college.
On the popular vote Hancock leads Garfield
largely.
Rep.
Alabama
Arkansas
California 1,300
Colerado 2,000
Connecticut '3,000
Delaware '.
Flerida
Georgia ,
Illinois 20,000
Indiana 7,000
Iowa 85,000
Kansas 30,000
Kentucky. . . ; .
Louisiana
Maine 5,000
Maryland
Massachusetts 51,000
Michigan 40,000
.Minnesota 25,000
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska '.. 20,000
Nevada
New Hampshire 3,000
New Jersev
New Yerk 20,000
North Carolina
Ohie 35,000
Oregon 500
Pennsylvania 34,000
Rhede Island 5,000
Seuth Carolina
Tennessee
Vermont 22,400
Virginia
West Virginia
Wisconsin 30,000
Total
Dem.
40,000
30,000
700
3,500
75,000
55,000
25,000
15,000
00,000
10,000
' " '566
" 2J666
iojeoti
12,000
35,000
70,000
3e,'666
13,000
I'KN SS YLVAH1 A.
riehliU-iitliil Maturities by Counties.
Car
lleld maj.
COUNTIES.
Allium
Allegheny
A i nisi roil:;
Heaver
Iledlerd
Berks
Blair.
Bradford
'Sticks
Butler
Cuuihri.i
Cameren
Carben
Centre
Cheater.
Clarien
Cleat licld
Clinten
Columbia
Crawford
Cumberland...
Dauphin
Delaware
I'lk
Erie
Fayette
Ferest
Franklin
Fulton
(irecne
Huntingdon...
Indiana
.Icli'crsen
.1 tini.it:i.
Lancaster.
Lackawanna .
Lawrence
Lebanon
Lehigh
Luzerne
Lycoming
McKcan.'
Mercer
M lllltti
Menree
Montgomery ..
Menteur
...13000
1100
....10
.1200
.3200
..700
"ioe
.3iK!
104HI
.'wVi
.2335
!'iw
.'"45
..415
..M0
.2457
..1011
.ys
i'ioeo
Am
..527
..soe
..10
Northampton .. I
.Nerinuinucri ii.
Ferry
I'liihidelphia ...
I'ike
! "otter
chttylkill
Snyder
Somerset
.Sullivan
Susquehanna...
Tiega
I'uieii
Venango
Warren
Washington
..140
i072
"
"sii
.1045
iiiis
.2S0O
..752
..coo
.nwi
. .300
siyne
e.-4,in,-it1.i,i! I
Wyoming I
Vels- I
CO.-NC.KKSS.
The lltm.se of UopreKentative.s.
The following table indicates the num
ber of members of Congress elected, by
states, compared with the membership of
the Fert-v-sixth Congress.
Tilden Hayes. ""J.":
ninj. maj. CS
518 615
9.4S1
7.2
1,032
Si -S3
7,59' '1
siy
3,ew
.'01 212
S13
1 'IU 1200
'"I
:'iis :T. '...'.'.m:
-,m y.H
.I.O'Jl
1,107 14;0
1,002 WW
l.lin 750
2,-ir. 2U
SOS
'.Ill 10JI
2,01!
" -"U
-iM ;;
711 ........ .....I'lO
2,515
1,215 U00
7!)
277
i!l KM
1,73 2070
511
2,fs;
100 .
103 ..... .... .371
7,7'
500
Liajj
1,521
2,171 2175
:;, 175 loei
1,:I18 1500
J07
021
174 100
2.501 SUM)
2G0
502 597
:;:.m soue
7110 10S5
105 ....'
11,030
014 705
nil
1,7S0 ....2171
'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 1,413 '.'.'.".'.'.'.
377 400
'JEI3
3,1IB
liKi
37
7S
ls'3
920 209
1,240 WO
341 104
357i; "KKHI
40th 47th
COXOKES.J. COXOIttSS.
I.', d. ;.' if. l. a.
Alabama S .. .. S
Arkansas I .. ..I
California 3 1 .. 2 2 ..
Colerado I .. .. .. I
Cenneulieut 3 I .. 3 1
Delaware I .. ..I ..
Flerida 2 .. .. 2 ..
Ceergia ! .. .. 0 ..
Illinois 12 1; 1 13 r. ..
Indiana ' I S 5
Iowa I .. 2 0 ..
Kan.-as 3 .. .. 3 ..
Kentucky 10 .. .. 10 ..
Louisiana ' .. I 5
Maine 3 .. 2 3 .. 2
Marvland 15.. 15..
Massachusetts 10 1 .. 10 I ..
Michigan ! .. .. 0 .. ..
Minnesota 2 1 .. 3 ..
Mississippi .. ..
Missouri 12 I 1 S 4
Xebi-.i-,fca 1 .. .. .. ..
Nevada I I ..
New Hampshire 3 .. .. 3 ..
New Jersev 4 3 .. 4 3
Sew Yerk.. 21 ! .. 20 12 1
Nortlr.Carelina 1 I 17..
Ohie '. 11 ... 13 5 ..
Oregon 1 .. 1 ..
lVmisvUania 17 0 I 10 S ..
iMieile Island 2 .. .. 2 .. ..
Seuth Carolina 5 .. .. 5
Tennessee I '. .. 3 7
Texas 5 1 .. ..
Vermont 3 .. .. 3 ..
Virgmi:'. 1 S .. '1 "
West Virginia 3 .. .. 3
Wisconsin 5 3 .. (i 2
Total. IK'110 7
The Senate Democratic.
The next Senate will undoubtedly be
Democratic. The Democrats have saved
their senator in Tennessee, secured one in
Nevada, with a strong probability that
another has been gained in California.
The Senate will have 39 Democrats te 37
Itepnblicans, aud if the California Legis
lature turns up with a Democratic major
ity the division will be forty Democrats
and thirty-six Republicans.
.'.Icl'liei-seti's Jlejielcs Jiattlp ferCluih.
Philadelphia Ti;ne.
Ex-Clerk Edward McPherson has de
voted his labors as secretary of the con
gressional Republican committee te the
.'iala of his book aud te the control of the
new congressmen in his own interest ;.s
a candidate for clerk of tlic Heuse. He
has been , in direct correspondence
with all Republican candidates in
the hopeful districts, and has ob
tained aid for them when possible, te
place them under obligations te him if
elected ; but he will be defeated by the
Pennsylvania delegation. It is known
that Esrett will be openly hostile te him ;
that General Bingham will bitterly oppose
him ; that Sam Barr has various unsettled
accounts te square up with him, and that
Senater Cameren will remind McPherson
that he encouraged the anti-Cameren belt
when Cameren was elected senator, and
received the voles of belters without
public or private pretest. A careful
estimate of the Pennsylvania delegation
ma tic this evening by ene quite well in
formed, puts nearly two-thirds of the dele
gation in positive opposition te McPher
son, and his defeat is inevitable. It is
stated, also, that while Cameren will
openly oppose McPherson as a belter,
Blaine will net make any light for him. If
a Pennsylranian shall be prescutcd for the
place, it is probable that Chris Magce may
turn up as the man.
What Did It.
X. V. World. '
General Garfield will be chosen presi
dent of the United States by the electoral
vote of this state, and this vote he
will receive only iu consequence of
a disastrous and unexpected falling off iu
the Democratic majorities of Brooklyn
and of this city. That this falling oft was
the result of causes quite outside tf the
national contest is absolutely certain. The
vote of New Yerk state will be given te
General Garfield, net because General Gar
field is the choice of a majority of the
voters of New Yerk, but because, net for
the first time in the history of our munici
pal parties, local and personal iutercsts
have been preferred te the general welfare
of the country. Mr. Tweed, for example,
gave this state te the Republicans in 1871
by' forcing en the city Democracy his can
didacy for a le-election te the State Senate.
He was elected, but an entire county tieket
and a Legislature were sacrificed. New
Yerk has secured a Democratic city gov
ernment, which is se far a geed thing, but
it remains te be seen whether New Yerk
could net have this at a less cost than
that of the 35 electoral votes which added
te 13S from the Seuth 0 from New Jersey
3 from Nevada, net te mention California,
and Oregon, would have elected General
Hancock president of the United States.
This is net the time for dealing in detail
with the causes which have provoked the
results we see in this city and in Brooklyn,
nor for suggesting practical preventives of
the recurrence of such a calamity hereafter.
But it is time te invite Democrats general
ly te leek into the causes of these results
and te make a careful analysis of figures
aud statistics of the recent election, while
these arc yet freshly before us, te the end
that when within another month new
general committees shall be selected by
the Democratic voters, the lessens which
these figures and statistics 'have te teach
may net be lest sight of.
Starving te Death at 111 Years of Age.
Margaret Dcmpsey, said te be 111 years
old, was found dead in a hut 00 the moun
tains near Ellcnville, Ulster county, N.
Y., by a party of hunters. The following
note, written in pencil, was found by her
bedside : " I am dying by inches of hun
ger. My money will be found ."
There is a tradition that Mrs. Dempscy
when a girl ran away from home ie marry
a lever who seen detested her. She came
te this plaec years age and has lived a
hermit ever since. It is supposed that
she became tee feeble te rise from her bed
and slowly starved te death.
A ".Sign Beard."
Washington dUpalch te Philadelphia Times.
It is estimated that fully one-third or
mere of the Republican congressmen will
strike out boldly for a general reduction
of the protective feature-son thetaiiif, and
the control of the ways and means com
mittcc will he their objective point. The
Pennsylvania piotectienists should under
stand in time that no Republican can be
elected the next speaker of the Heuse who
will net agree te organize the ways and
means committee iu favor of what is called
Revenue Reform or '"a tariff for revenue
only."
LOCAL ILLiGENCE.
l.ANCATU IJOUNTV.
Tlie Vete by Klcctieu Districts.
The several wards, townships and election
districts iu the county give the following
vote en the Hancock and Garfield electers:
Tewxsnii's. 5. 1
a 6
I,ACASTEK CITY. '
First ward 2SJ 217
Second ward i 333 207
Third ward j 331 210
Fourth ward j 302 2-KI
Fifth ward 1 320 218
Sixth ward 102 SOU
Seventh ward 301 siti
Kightli ward l'.iF R
Ninth ward j 310 330
Adauistewn borough 103 70
ISart i Id 114
Itrcckneck I 155 173
Caernarvon ! 210 Hi)
Clay 230 (11
Cocalico Fast 300 913
Cocalico West , 'J37 ISO
Colerain IIS 230
COLUMBIA.
First ward j 332 2S
Sccenil ward I 357 2H
Third ward I 23I 303
Concstega -I te 72
Ceney 303 127
HOMECAL, K.
Lincoln S. II 100 100
Mavtewn 225 131;
Spriugvillc 115 42
Denegal West 140 111
Drumerc 103 342
Karl 570' IOO
Karl Fast 431 J 173
Karl West ki! 3
Kden... 143J 151
Elizabeth I52i 51
Klizabcthtewu 1101 ks
Kphrata r,05J 2)2
Fulton 275! 115
iikmitiemi, 1:.
Petersburg 312' Ml
l'ohrerstewn 220 103
IIKM1'FIKL1. W.
Metintville lne ;t
Northwestern si 52
Norwood 133 52
Silver Spring I7p' 07
l.atnpcter Kasi jj:i 7.-,
I.amjM.'tcr West 377 IS
Lancaster township 5l 23
I.caceck 311 105
I.eaceek Upper 353 l:'8
Little llritain 201 i:i
Manhcini borough 271 13s
Manhcini township lj 170
MAKOU.
Millcrsvillc .371 107
Indiatileun I 320 51
Moner (new) .v s;
Marietta, borough 335 279
Murtie 310 1C3
Mt..ley borough :;i! 120
MOUNT JOV TOWXSIIIS'. I
I'rcncmnu's .S. 1 1 150 50
Lehman's S. II is; .15
Paradise , 313 1S7
l"enn 2sel 33
l'euuca I 270 2;
Providence .tjj no
KArue. 1
Newtown ' pj!) 12
Sporting Hill j 1 j::
Strickler's Scheel Heuse I l.Vi
Cnien Square ' 5l 73
Salisbury 253 153
Salisbury csi 220
St rasburg borough 115 P!
Strasburg township :e;e 07
Warwick 1,05 222
WASHINGTON EOKOL'CII. I
Lewer ward 12 52
I'pperward 1 13 03
10.137 le,7Sa
H',.SU
(jarlicM'.s Majority 1 "cs
Xlte "scattering" Vete.
Ill this cit- 7 votes wert! polled for the
Temperance electors, iu Drumeiu 4, Earl
2, Salisbury 2. Strasburg borough 8, East
Cocalico e, Mai tic 0, Rait 2, Coleraine 1,
Fulton 2, Warwick 1, Columbia 10, Ureck Ureck
neck 1, Mount Jey borough 2, Conrstega'
8, Ephrata ",. MillcrsviHe 1. East Earl 3,
Paradise 0, East Lampeter 1, Little Uii-
tam 1, Providence 2; total, S.
Fer the Greenback electors there were
polled in this city "S votes, in Salisbnry
2, Marietta 2, Columbia 1, Lcaceck 1, Mt.
Jey borough 1, Ceney 2, MillersviHe 1 :
total, 33.
The ielal Republican vote for president
was 19, -1ST, Democratic 10,789, Greenback
38, Temperance 78, aggregate 30,302.
The total vote of the county in 1S7G
was : nayes 17,425, Tihlcn 9,G:)3, aggre
gate 27,003, exclusive of the Greenback
and Temperance poll. The Republican
vote shows an increase of U.S.") per cent,
and the Democratic 11.9. per cent.
IVilcstriniusiii.
Frank Schcid and Charles Miller, of this
city, will indulge in a CO-hour walking
match en the 19th aud 20tli of this
month.
THE S4-HOOI, BOARD.
Reorganization Re-election of Ofllears
Scheel Bends Ordered City Saper-
lateadeat's Repert Teaca-
er" Iattltate.
The members and members-elect of the
beard of directors of Lancaster school dis
trict met in common council chamber last
evening for the purpose of re-organization.
On motion Jehn I. Hartman was chosen
te act as temporary chairman and Charles
F. Eberman as temporary secretary.
The returns of the election for school
directors, held last February, were read
and it appeared that F. "W. Haas, Jehn
Levergood, Peter McConemy, Adam Ob
lender, H. Z. Rhoads, G. W. Zechcr. C. F.
Eberman, Jehn I. Hartman, Jeseph Sara
son, H. R. Breneman, Jehn B. Warfel and
31. L. Herr bad been duly elected te serve
for three years each, and they were de
clared te be duly elected.
The roll being called the following mem
bers ansjrered te their names :
Mcssis. D. G. Baker, H. R. Breneman,
Thes. B. Cochran, Chas. F. Eberman,
Em'l J. Erisraan, Robt. A. Evans, F. W.
Haas, D. Hartman, J. I. Hartman, Or. 31.
L. Herr, Jehn W. Jacksen. J. M. Jehn
sten, Dr. J. Levergood, "W. O. Marshall,
Win. McCemsey, Peter McConemy, Adam
Oblcudcr. Rev. C. Reimensnyder, H. Z.
Rhoads, Luther Richards, Jeseph Samson,
Jes. Schmid, Chas. Schwebel, H. E. Slay
maker, Daniel Smcych. E. G. Snyder, A.
K. Spurrier, Jehn B. Warfel, J. 31. West-
haetl'er, W. A. Wilsen, Christian Zccher,
Gee. W. Zecher.
The members elect are 3Iessrs. Brene
man, Eberman, J. I. Hartman, Herr, Sam Sam
seu and Warfel, Republicans, and Messrs.
Haas, Levergood, McConemy, Oblender,
Rhoads aud G. W. Zecher, Democrats.
The beard proceeded te elect permanent
officers, whereupon Jehn B. -Warfel was
unanimously re-elected permanent presi
dent, Charles F.Eberman, secretary ; Wm.
O. Marshall, treasurer, and J. II. Loucks,
janitor.
On motion of Dr. Levergood the salaries
of the olhcers-elect were continued in the
same amount as these heretofore paid.
The minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved.
Mr. Evans from the finance committee
presented the following bills, which being
approved by the cemmtteee, were ordered
te be paid.
Chas II. Barr books and stationery
$32.55 ; Uriah Bitzer and Jehn A. Herting
81,900, due Arthur Wilsen contractor for
erection of James street school building ;
G. Suter for earth for filling in at James
street school $38.65 ; Abram S. Rohrer,
cobs $3 ; Henry Smith, weed $1 ; Henry
B. Hess, cobs $3.50 ; Jehn B. Hess, cobs,
$3.50 ; Jehn S. Stener, cobs, $7 ; Levi
Pewl. labor $10.50 ; Franklin Haines, Laber,
$10.21 ; Michael Strumpf, weed &c, $4 ;
Flinn & Breneman, repairing and mer
chandise $31.15 ; J. If. Loucks services as
janitor $10.
3Ir. Evans offered the following roselu
tien :
"Sec. 1. Unsolved, That for the purpose
of aying the indebtedness, contracted by
order of this beard, for the erection of the
Lemen and James street school houses,
registered bends of the beard te the
amount of ten thousand dollars shall be
issued in denominations of $500. The said
bends shall bear interest at the rate of
live per centum per annum, from Decem
ber 1, 1880, payable semi-annually, and
shall be redeemable at the pleasure of the
beard at any time after December 1, 1881,
and shall be payable en December 1, 1890.
Each bend shall be signed by the presi
dent, secretary and treasurer, and the cor
porate seal of the beard shall be attached
thereto.
Sec. 2. An annual tax of one-sixteenth
of ene per centum en all subjects of taxa
tion for school purposes is hereby levied te
pay the principal and interest of the above
lean, collectible and payable as ether
school taxes.
The resolution was unanimously adept
cd.
Dr. Levergood moved that the li li
nauce committee be instructed te place the
bends en the market by advertising for
bids ter them and selling them te the high
est responsible bidder.
1 he lollewing report of the city super
intendent was read :
Te the Heard of Scheel Director of lAtncutter,
ru.
Gentlemen : Your city superintendent
hereby submits his report for October. He
is happy te report that the schools have
been in geed working order during the
month, and that the indications are that
fair progress has been made. Seme of the
schools arc still tee large, but this evil
will probably be removed as seen as the
new buildings can be occupied. As will
be seen from the accompanying statistical
report, the whole number of pupils en
rolled was 3,225, the avcrage attend
ance was 2,780, and the average
percentage 86. The number of vis
its made by members of the visit
ing committees was 14, namely, J. W.
Jacksen, 5 ; C. Schwebel, 2 ; W. 31c 31c
Cemscy, 1 ; 31. Brosius, 4, and 2 net
named. The number of visits made by di
rectors was 40 ; namely, J. I. Hartman,
1 ; J. W. Jacksen, 2 ; II. E. Slaymaker,
4 ; L. Richards, 4 ; Rev. C. Reimensnyder,
1 ; .1. 31. WcstbacfFer, 1 ; W. 3IcCemsey,
12; C Zecher, 5; Dr. J. Levergood, 4;
W. A. Wilsen, 4; D. G. Baker, 2. The
superintendent made 62 visits te the
schools, thus enabling him te make 93 te
the teachers. The number of teachers
present at the meetings, called by grades,
as heretofore new, however, including
the high school Mas 61.
At the beginning of the month a report
of his attendance, conduct and progress
was sent home with each pupil belonging
te the primary or te the secondary grades
te be examined and signed by his parent,
and then returned te the teacher, te be
similarly sent at the close of every month.
It is believed that these reports will, in
some cases at least, prevent truancy, and
they will, in all cases, enable parents te
knew what kind of a record their child has
at school during the term, thus providing
the means for intelligent co-operation with
the teachers. They seem te be highly ap
preciated, net only by the parents, but
even by the pupils themselves, and the
teachers find iu them an efficient aid iu
securing better attendance and study, se
that the best results may be confidently
expectly from their use.
As the winter season is approaching it
becomes necessary te attend mero carefully
te whatever might endanger the health of
the pupils attending the public schools.
The low temperature without will neces
sarily drive and keep both pupils and
teachers in doers, and prevent, in many
eases, the necessary amount of ventilation.
Under the circumstances, diseases are very
easily gcuerated,especially where many pu
pils arc confined in small rooms, and where
these rooms are net kept scrupulously
clean, i Ins truth has been forced en pub
lic attention quite recently. Again, at the
college of Xew Jersey, at Princeton,
where typhoid fever, cenfesscdlygenerated
by the filthy condition of the buildings,
raged te such a degree as te prove fatal te
some of the students. In view of these
facts, it might net be out of place te con
sider the propriety of amending the
rules as te require the school rooms, and
the approaches thereto, te be swept and
dustetl daily, aud scrubbed at least once
a month. In addition te the question
of health, the silent iufluencu of
clean surroundings upon the character
should net be overlooked. Cleanliness is
next te godliness, aud the most effectual
way te teach is by example. That none
of this work should Iks imposed en the
teachers, who arc new occasionally com
pelled te de it by necessity, and iu sheer
.self-defense, requires no argument. Xe
doubt the salaries of the janitors would
have te be increased somewhat, because
cf the additional labor, but greater expen
diture for such a purpose must commend
itself te every one as eminently judicious.
Respectfully your humble servant,
R. K. Buehrle.
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MUsS. II. BumleU's
W. H. LcTergoeu's
K. 9. Gates'
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Georgia Bundell's...
' Clara B. Ruber's....
" A. C. Brubuker'.s...
Char let Mutz's
Mis M. Zuerc tier's
" F.J. Johnsten's....
" M. Zug'H
" M.Musselumn'.s
' M. Dougherty's. ...
" M. L. Channel's
" L. C. Marshall's
" E. Carpenter's
' K. Bucklus's
" E. L. Downey's
" A.M. Etter's.
" M. K. StuM's
" L. 11. CUirksen's ...
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Totals ami Averages s223i27i
On motion of 3Ir. Baker, it was ordered
that the public schools of the city be closed
during next week, te enable the teachers
te attend the sessions of the comity teach
ers' institute. The motion was unani
mously agreed te.
The chair stated that the standing com
mittees of the beard would be announced
in the daily newspapers.
A motion te adjourn was made, but be
fore it was put Treasurer 3IarshalI re
quested the members te meet him at Cop
land's where refreshments awaited them.
The beard then adjourned, and the mem
bers and reporters repaired te Copland's
saloon, where an elegant set-out was pro
vided, and where a pleasant entertainment
was had for an hour or mere, a prominent
feature of which was the the fine music
furnished by Prof. F. W. Haas, member
elect. Appointment of Committees.
Superintending Committee : Daniel G.
Baker, chairman ; .7. W. Jacksen. Win.
3IcCemsey, II. K. Slaymaker, Luther
Richards.
Finance Committee : Rebert A. Evans,
chairman ; Dr. Henry Carpenter, Jehn 1.
Hartman. .
Text Beeks and Course of Instruction :
E. J. Eri.man, chairman ; J. 31. Johnsten.
William A. Wilsen.
Buildings and Grounds : Jehn I. Hart
man, chairman ; Thes. B. Cochran. Chris
tian Zecher, Rebert A. Evans. H. K. Slay
maker. Furniture autl Apparatus : David Hart
man, chairman : 11. Z. Rhoads, Daniel
Smeych.
Soldiers' orphans aud home for friend -less
children : II. R. Breneman. chairman ;
Geerge W. Zecher, Rev. V. Reimensny
der. Night Schools : Jeseph Samson, chair
man ; Jeseph Schmid, Peter MeConeiny,
II. Z. Rhoads, F. W. Haas, Adam Oblen
der. Judiciary : William A. Wilsen, chair
man ; Alexander Harris, Themas B. Coch
ran. Visiting Committee Northeast Divis
ion : Dr. J. Levergood, chairman, Charles
Schwebel, E. G. Snyder ; Southeast Di
vision : A. K. Spurrier, chairman, Gee.
W. Zecher. Jeseph Samson ; Southwest
Division : Wm. A. Morten, chairman, Dan'l
Smeych. J. M. Westhaelfer; Northwest
Division : Dr. M. L. Herr, chairman, Peter
McConemy, Win. B. Wiley.
I.ITTI.K LOCALS.
Here anl There aud Everywhere.
An unsuccessful attempt was mads te
wreck a market train en the Reading rail
road live miles tteuth of Reading. The
train was stepped and the train hands cap
tured a boy named Geerge Lcvan, who
gave the names of two accomplices who es
caped. There were about forty passengers
en the train
An excursion under the auspices of the
Champien reaper and mower company,
consisting of citizens of Dauphin, Lancas
ter, Lebanon and Cumberland counties,
left en the fast line west, yesterday, for
Springfield, Ohie, where the extensive
shops aud warehouses of the above com
pany are located.
General Simen Cameren has purchased
from Jonas 3Iumma, in East Denegal
township, Lancaster county, the "Lcven
itc " farm of about ninety acres, at $175
per acre. General Cameren has new ever
500 acres (all adjoining) and Hen. J. D.
Cameren has a 300 acre tract close by.
Immense rushes of eels are reported iu
the Susquehanna's tributaries and an
Adams county mill was recently choked
with them, the turbine wheel turning out
bushels of mince meat.
The Columbia Cevrant publishes Grant's
picture "for president or king iu IWI."
--iUTUARY.
Death et Samuel Uean.
Samuel Dean, the well-known colored
local preacher aud cxherter, died at his
residence Ne. 428 East Strawberry street,
at an early hour this morning. Seme
years age he suffered from a .stroke of
apoplexy, but recovered sufficiently te be
able te attend te work. On Monday last,
while away from home, he received a
second stroke, which rendered him speech
less, but he was able te walk home. He
took his lull and grew worse until this
merniii',', when he died.
3Ir. Dean was about "t years of age and
was one of tl'c most highly esteemed col
ored men !' this city. He was a member
of the African 31. E. church, of this city.
and was u-garded as a ve,ry effective cx cx
herter and preacher. He was, about the
time of the late war, stationed at Wash
ington, I). C, and since his residence in
Lancaster has preached at Safe Harber,
Mount Ncbe autl many ether places in the
count'. He leaves a wife aud several
children, some of whom arc giewn up and
married.
The DeutiMs.
Yesterday the monthly meeting of the
Harris denial association was held iu
Grand Army hall. The following mem
hers were present : Drs. Amcr. Smith, Al
len, Webb, Herting, Pixten. Knight and
Yeung, of this city ; MrCalla, of Jlillers
villc ; Welimer, Lititz ; Rogers, Colum
bia ; Worrell, 3Iarietta.
The subjects for discussion were " Ne
croses of the Teeth" and "Hemorrhages."
A number of t he members participated in
the discussion.
There was also a microscopic exhibition
of the tenth.
The ether business transacted was of
but slight importance, and the meeting
adjourned until the fiist Thursday of next
month.
Sale of Ileal Khtsile.
B. F. Rewc, auctioneer, sold for Klins
Hoever, assignee of Annie BurkheMcr,
the following real estate last night at the
Keystone house :
Ne. 1. A house aud let en East Chest
nut sirce', te Augustus 15. 31iller, for
$1,035.
Ne. 2. A house aud let adjoining the
above, te Augustus B. 3Iiller, for S'J-1.1-
Ne. 3. A let of ground with stable
thereon, adjoining the above, te Augustus
B. MilliT. for $120.
jfa.vliiB a ISct.
Jehn Snjder, Democrat, aud David
Comfert, Republican, made a bet 011 the
presidential election, the conditions of
which were that the loser was te wheel
(he winner, en a wheelbarrow, ten times
aroend the soldiers' monument. The bet
will be paid this evening.