LANCASTER DAllA' 1MEIXI0ENCER TUESDAr NOTEMBER 23 1880.
Lancaster I-ntcUigcncet.
TUESDAY EVENING, NOV. 23, 1880.
Counting Chickens tee Early.
The death of Governer "Williams will
have the curious effect of giving the
Democrats the organization of the In
diana Senate with the assent of the Re
publican senators ; since it is only by this
concession that the Republicans can get
their new governor into his office and a
United States senator in the place of
McDonald. The Indiana Senate being
a-tie and the law requiring it te be or
ganized before the governor is inaugu
rated, the state willba left without a
governor, at the expiration of the term
of the lieutenant-governor who has
taken Williams's place, if the Re
publicans of the Senate de net accept
a Democratic organization. As they
have also a senator te elect there can be
no doubt but that they will be very glad
te be very amiable, and that they will
think themselves very fortunate if the
Democrats consent te any organization
at all when they can secure se great po
litical advantage by avoiding it.
Luck seems te be deserting the Repub
lican party, for it is in trouble, tee, in
Ohie, ever the seuatership. Garfield,hav
ing been chosen president, cannot serve
in the Senate te which he is elected ; but
yet he fills the place and cannot resign it
until the. Senate meets ; and the Ohie
Legislature cannot fill the vacancy until
there is one ; se that at the epaning of
the session of the Senate, after the 4th
of March, one senator from Ohie will be
absent from the roll call.
This is supppescd te be important,
since the Republicans expect te tic the
Senate with Mahenc's vote and te give
the deciding vote te Vice President
Arthur. They have excellent ground
for believing that they can get Mahene
if they pay his price. His insincerity and
dishonesty have been amply demon
strated by his political course. He is un
worthy of Democratic confidence and no
reliance should be placed upon him.
It has net been unnatural for Republi
cans, flushed with apparent success, te
rashly count their chickens before they
arc hatched. Net content with claim
ing the presidency they have also' con
sidered both houses of Congress as
theirs. Really they de net yet have either
one or even the presidency. They are
premature in fixing tip a cabinet and
chalking down the foreign min
isters, who are te be appointed by a
president and Senate net yet in office.
Especially are they tee " previous" in
fixing up se many contests te be decided
in their favor by a Republican Heuse of
Representatives which they have net yet
organized. They ought net se clearly te
disclose their purpose of putting out
elected Democrats te swell their sup
posed small majority in the body. It is
impudent, before they have organized it.
l'revidenccjwhich has interfered te spoil
their calculations in the Senate, may
disappoint their expectations in ether
directions; and it will be well for them
net te fix their minds tee eagerly upon
the enjoyment of fleshpots that may
after all escape their lips.
The New Yerk Times does the Dem
ecracy of Indiana the honor te declare
that their state senators are men of tee
much character te attempt te defeat the
will of the people by a refusal te organ
ize the Senate and te permit the Repub
lican governor te be inaugurated and
United States senator te be elected. It
is trulv very remarkable hew the Re
publicans fall back upon their convic
tion of the magnanimity of Democrats,
when they find themselves at their
mercy. Although they are. chuckling
ever their scheme te buy Mahone, and
thus defeat the will of the people, they
find sufficient confidence te declare that
Democrats would net be se wicked ;
and they really expect from our decen
cy the means te profit by their own in
decency. Tut Them Out.
William McMullin, one et the Phil
adelphia councilmen, has been placed
en the committee te investigate the gas
management ; and at the first meeting,
in response te some remarks from his
fellow members which he deemed de
rogatory te him, declared that he was as
geed as any of them and that he wanted
that understood. We really wish we
could understand it. We would like
te take it en the faith of Alderman
McMulliu's declaration. But we
can't.; his deeds will net let us. He
is a man who wants cleansing and fumi
gating. He ranks as a Democrat, is
credited with the control of the Fourth
ward, and is a devoted adherent of
Speaker Randall. Pessiblj the speaker
could net be elected te Congress if Mc
Mullin was net for him ; -and it is cer
tain that if it was net for Mr. Randall's
influence ever him Mr. McMullin would
be a great deal mere of a nuisance than
lie is. He has an unfortunate proclivity
for living en his .political influence
and for selling out his party whenever
he feels like it or can make it pay. He
was with the greatest difficulty kept
from selling out Pattison in the late
election and possibly only refrained
because he had sense enough te
see that it would be kicking
against the pricks. McMullin claims
te have a great dislike for sneaks and
hypocrites and is fend of laying his
profitable antagonism te the candidates
of his party te some such noble impulse
of his heart. His unreliability is new
sejivell known that he is net in the party
confidence and cannot in the future de
it the damage he has in the past. It
would be well if lie should be openly
repudiated, since his association re
flects upon our organization as little
credit as profit. And he is net se ob
noxious as ether men in Philadelphia
who embarrass it with their presence
notably Sam Josephs, the henchman of
Mr. Cassidy,who can always be seen en
political occasions following a yard
or two in his master's rear.
New that things in Philadelphia
are looking premising for the control of
the city by its people, it is an opportune
time for the Democracy te slough off
members who have been offending its
no3trilsfer many years. The national
election being ever there is no need te J
fearany injury that may lie done by a'ber, 187G; and were commissioned as asse-1
failure te conciliate the disrepu
table element of the party. It will
be geed policy te set it at defiance,
and it is just the time te cleanse
the party. It needs a geed cathartic
dose te strengthen it for a future life of
vigor and success. We de hope that in
the coming municipal election the party
in Philadelphia will be able te strip itself
for a geed fight and te threw off the em
barrassing weight of the indecent associ
ations that have se long weighed down
its spirit and its efforts.
The less of several thousand votes te
one of the Republican .electors in this
state, by a misprint of his name, again
suggests the dangers of trouble under
our electoral system. Where unknown
men are voted for in remote districts,
and se many different committees print
tickets, it is almost impossible te prevent
such errors, and would any of them
prove fatal te an elector and a candidate
it would be easy te see what intense dis
satisfaction would be created in a circle
far wider than the disfranchised voters.
MINOR TOPICS.
Senater Blaine docs net think it pos
sible te get the assent of every state te the
senator-for-life scheme for ex-prcsidcuts
and cx-vice presidents, nor of even enough
states te make it part of the constitution.
The small states seldom get representation
en the presidential ticket, and in the life
scnatership schcrne they Mould discern
the entering wedge te the destruction of
their present potent equality.
The curious fact is thewn by the official
canvass of the votes cast in New Yerk city
and county en the 2d inst. that net one
" scratched " ticket for presidential elec
tors was voted. Every one of the 35 can
didates en the Republican ticket received
81.G80 votes ; every one en the Democratic
ticket received 123,015 votes ; every one
en the Greenback ticket received CIO votes,
and every one en the Prohibition ticket
received 26 votes, and there were no de
fective and no blank ballets.
A complicated and scandalous, case was
decided by the supreme court, in Chicago,
yesterday. William A. Slean married a
woman in Ohie, and subsequently removed
te Iowa, and there obtained through a
Chicago lawyer a divorce. On the day of
his divorce he married another woman in
Iowa, but the courts of that state being
appealed te declared the divorce- illegal
and the re-marriage void. The Chicago
court held the divorce valid according te
the laws of Illinois. Under these cress
decisions Slean, who has children by both
wives, cannot legally live with either
within certain territorial boundaries,
though he may legally live with his Ohie
wife in Iowa and with his Iowa wife in
Illinois.
Rev. Dn. Tyxg has preached a sermon
in " the power of faith," which he thinks
fully explains many miracles of recent re
port. In our own community, he said, we
have examples of cures wrought as a re
sult of prayer which must take place with
what arc called modern miracles and must
be studied philosophically. It was this
faith, which at Lourdes, in France, and
perhaps at Knock, in Ireland, had been
honored by Ged. Dr. Tyng told of the
vision which the invalid peasant shepherd
ess saw in the grotto at Lourdes twenty-
two years age and of the message sb
thought she received of the Virginia the
vision. She' was a sincere, simple-hearted
peasant girl, and she believed she saw the
mother of Christ. The apparition was ac-
e?ptcd as a verity by the church of Reme
upon what was deemed sufficient ground
by learned, wise and sincere men. Many
cures as a result of faith have, the speaker
said, undoubtedly been wrought in the
presence of the shrine. In the inclesure of
the shrine he saw crutches without num
ber left there by these who had been cured,
" I am no bigot," he said. " I have no
prejudice. The Reman Catholic church is
wise in its generation above all societies of
believers. I de net find it in my heart te
impugn their sincerity. The man who can
by any sort of doxy relieve the suffering in
this world, I will hail as a fellow-worker.
Who shall say hew much heterodoxy there
is a prayer that shall bring a blcssiug ? It
is net possible for me te say that the con
gregation I cannot pray with is net pray
ing te Ged."
PERSONAL.
Colonel Themas A. Scott and party ar
rived in New Orleans en Sunday. They
visit the jetties te-day.
At a meeting of the Weman's National
Relief society in New Yerk last night,
Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes was elected
president, and Mrs. Waite, wife of the
chief justice, first vice president.
Bisuer Colexse, of Seuth Africa, is a
man near seven feet tall and of a massive
frame. He is G6 years old, and is regarded
by the natives with awe and reverence.
They salute him as a great chief.
Twelve men gave the Bernhardt a
maguificicnt dinner the ether day an
cient New Yerk sybarites, the youngest
of them 45, and he called the "baby" by
the rest of the party, who ranged between
GO and 90.
Mr. Herrert Spexcek is te start en
his philosophical tour of the world in
the spriug of 1881. He will be accompa
nied by two secretaries, and it is net un
likely thatJiis friend Prof. Huxley will,
for biological purposes, form one of the
party.
" General Garfield left Menter, Ohie,
last evening for Washington. In defer
ence te his wishes, the public reception
and serenade intended te be given him en
his arrival in Washington will be aban
doned, as his visit will be a short one and
exclusively en private business.
When the Emperor of Germany was
hunting a few years age in the Hartz
mountains, he fired sixteen shots at the
deer, which appeared in large numbers
wherever he went. In the evening the
chief forester, who had ceuducted the
hunt, showed him twenty-three of them
dead, which he said the emperor had shot.
"Are you quite certain about that?"
asked his majesty. " Yes ; positive."
" Well," said the emperor, laughing,
"that's very curious, for I fired only six
teen shots."
David W. C. Dumjiacld and Griffith
Roberts were elected associate judges, in
and for the county of Fayette, at a gener- j
al election en the first Tuesday of Novem-
ciatc judges for said county for five years.
But in 1874 Fayette county having 40,000
inhabitants, was made a separate judicial
district, in which case the constitution
abolishes the office of associate judge.
Hence the supreme court is called en te
decide a motion te oust Duinbauld and
Roberts. The mover is counsel for a pris
oner convicted in the court in which it is
alleged " they usurp, intrude iute and
unlawfully held aud exercise the said of
fice of associate judge."
STATE ITEMS.
Siuce Harry White declines the Heuse
clerkship, the Alteena Tribune names him
for secretary of war.
The State agricultural college has about
one hundred pupils at present an un
usually large number.
The oil country peeple will build a monu
ment te Cel. Drake, the discover of petro
leum. James Catcman, a 3lcKcespert lad aged
ten, attempted te jump en an engine used
for shifting. He missed his footing, fell te
the track aud was instantly killed.
A boy named Eddie Hinchmau, of
Johnstown, met with instant death by
being crushed under the wheels of a car
en the Somerset and Cambria railroad.
Jacob Krcmer, proprietor of the Man
sion house, Watsontown, and owner of
" Pedre," the largest hog in the state,
has decided te slaughter the wonderful
animal en Thanksgiving Day.
The first coasting accident is reported
from Oil City. The victim is Kitty Perter,
aged eight. Her right eye was knocked
out of its socket, her shoulder dislocated
aud one leg broken.
In North Cambria the different leg
camps arc new running with a full force of
hands and teams, lhere win be mere
lumber floated from the three counties of
Cambria, Clearfield and Indiana te the
eastern market next spring, should there
be a geed flood in the creeks and river,
than any former season.
'Twe Philadelphia ladies have, for the
past month, been advertising in the Ledger
for "An elderly Christian gentleman, who
docs net use tobacco, with a refined wife,"
te beard with them. Judging from the
time it requires te get such a couple,
elderly Christian gentlemen who de net
use tobacco and have refined wives must
be exceedingly scarce.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Leuis Lamb was shot dead by Mariin
Duggan, a notorious chatactcr, in Lead
ville, Cel., yesterday.
William Driscell, white, was murdered
by two colored men named Twiggs, while
asleep, in Burke county, Ga., last Thursday
night. The murderers have been arrested.
The New Yerk beard of canvassers at
Albany yesterday declared the presiden
tial vote as fellows : Fer Garfield, 555,54-1 ;
Hancock, 531,511; Weaver, 12,373; Dew.
1,517.
Sixty-two soldiers of the regiment sta
tiencd at Pert Tewuscnd, Washington
territory, are legally married te squaws
belonging te Indian tribes in the neighbor
hood. The wife of James Irvin, a New Yerk
stone mason, was given te drink. She
recently returned te visit old friends at
Hunter Point, engaged in a debauch,, full
or was assaulted en the highway, froze te
death, aud her body was mangled by the
hogs when found.
Miss Sarah Cox, living in Jehnsen coun
ty, N. C, committed suicide by hanging
herself with a plow Ih.c. She was a
daughter of W. T.Cex, a rccentlv defeated
candidate for the Legislature, and was se
mortified at her father's failure te be
elected that she didn't want te live any
longer.
A gang of outlaws at Fert Pierre, en the
upper -Missouri river, made themselves
such a nuisance that a vigilance commit
tee was formed te get rid of them. The
opposing parties met last week, and in
the conflict "Arkansas Jee," leader e the
gang, was killed, and lour of the roughs
were wounded. Nene of the vigilauts
were hurt.
Ridley Park station, the handsomest
station en the Philadelphia, Wilmington
is Baltimore railroad, which cost when
built in 1871 685,000, was entirely de
stroyed by fire yesterday. Tiic lire orig
inated from a defective flue. The build
ing was partially covered by insurance.
A new station will be built en the old site
immediately.
The unveiling of the statute of Alexan
der Hamilton, in Central park, New Yerk,
took place yesterday. 3Ir.Jehu C. Ham
ilton, son of the statesman, made the pre
sentation address, and the statue was ac
cepted en behalf of the city by Mayer
cooper. Addresses were made by ex ex
Governer Bulleck, " of Massachusetts;
Chaunccy M. Dcpew, and Hen. Benjamin
Harris Brewster, of Philadelphia.
TJIK COLD.
A General Prcvalente or Pelar Weather.
A violent wind storm raged at Father
Point, Quebec, en Sunday, the wind ecca
sienally reaching a velocity of 84 miles per
hour. 1 he temperature lell te zero in a
number of places in Ontario during Sundav
night, while in the Canadian" northwest it
ranged from zero te ten degrees below. At
Whitehall, N. Y the temperature was nine
below zero yesterday morning, and the
Charaplain canal is frozen, the ice being
two inches thick. Thirty leaded beats arc
blocked between Whitehall and Fert Ann.
The ice en the Welland canal in Ontario is
from two te thrcs inches thick. Ten inches
of snow fell yesterday at Oswego, N. Y.
The following temperatures were reported
yesterday morning ; LaCrosse, zero;Clevc zere;Clevc
land, 1; Milwaukee, 1; North Platte, 1;
Detroit, 1; Cheyenne, 20; Denver, 2;
Sandusky, 3; St. Paul, 3-: Indianaplis,
4 ; Madisen, 4 ; Wyoming, 4? ;
Pittsburgh. 5 ; Cencinnati, Gc ;
Teledo. 6; Davenport, G; Chicago, 8
Erie, 8 : Buffalo, 5P ; Louisville, 9 ; Re;
Chester, 10 ; St. Leuis, 10; Omaha, 11C;
Caire, 12 ; Leavenworth, 15 ; Albany,
13; Fert Gibsen, 13: Keokuk, 14:
Washington, 14 ; Bosten, 15 ; Burling
ten, leu ; .hastpert. le J ; New x erk, le ;
Grand Haven, RP; New Londen, 17;
Baltimore, 17 ; Portland. Mc., 18 ; Nash
ville, 18 ; Memphis, 19 ; Oswego, 20 ;
Knoxville, 22 ; Corsicana, Texas, 27 :
and Shrevcpert, Louisiana, 29. Tele
grams from Chicago and Teledo last night
report the weather unusually cold for the
season, aud navigation en Lakes Michigan
and Eric practically closed.
On Sunday night an old man named
Schrecder was frozen te death in the
weeds at West Plains, N. J. ; a tramp
was frozen te death en a hotel steep at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and a farmer
named Lett, was frozen te death in Rom Rem
ncy, Ont.
AN "OUTRAGE" EXrLODEO.
The Other Side. Heard Frem.
J. Floyd King, congressman from the
Seventh district of Louisiana, has written
a letter te Hayes in regard te the alleged
"outrage" en the rights of H. B. Lanier,
internal revenue collector in the Fifth dis
trict of that state. Mr. King says there is
perfect quiet in the district, and no dispo
sition te violate the laws or the rights of
any one, and adds : ''Mr. Lanier no mere
needs the United States troops than does
Mr. Raum in the treasury, or than I de
while attending the sessions of Congress.
Mr. Lanier is short in his accounts in a
large ameuut as state tax collector, and
nas mere man once been engaged in des
perate broils, net political, resulting in the
death of his antagonist. Should such a
man, appointed te such a responsible of-
flr-e na infnrnal nvnnA rdlprtnr. Via nrmprl
V w - w..MHw n...VVw -, w --.
with authority te use troops or armed
men iu tue ujiust ei preiuuuu peace,
against a population observing the laws
of this country and busv in peaceful eccu
patiens?"
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE DRAMA.
"Matrimony" at tna Opera Heuse.
Mr. Bartlcy Campbell's comedy-drama of
' Matrimony" was produced at the opera
house last night before a small audience,
though the performance wsul a thor
oughly entertaining one. People at all ac
quainted with the theatre kuew fully the
position Mr. Campbell occupies in the
ranks of Americau playwrights, and each
successive production of his prolific pen
seems but te add te the reputatieu gained
by his previous contributions te the dra
matic literature of the country,
"ilatrimeny" is one of his happiest
works ; and it is a great pity that se much
humor aud se excellently served did net
find a mero fitting reception than was ten
dercd it in se many vacant seats ; espe
cially, toe,vhen the company and the play
came bearing such excellent credentials.
Lancaster must brush up a little in this
respect ; it will net de te have se many
geed performances thus shabbily treated.
" Matrimony " is a comedy abounding
in many cleverly drawn situations, aud
pointing se palpable a moral that the most
casual spectator cannot but be impressed
with it. The art or flirtation is depicted
in a manner which while it is pervaded
by breezy humeris net calculated te at
tract many votaries te that popular .ac
complishment. The characters are uat
uraC the incidents well-ordered, a number
of the situations intensely comical, with
just enough of pathos te give the picture
the requisite quantity and quality of
shadow. The principal. character is a jelly
journalist and a geed fellow of ceursc,ia the
development of whose character the author
decs credit te his early training by hand
somely complimenting the profession of
which he was years age a worthy repre
sentative ; and although the campaign or
ganized by Dick Seabrig7it,dQBsQcd te cor
rect the frivolities of his friend's thought
less young wife, results in a series of heart
rending complications, it is the young
man's head and net his heart that is at
fault, and no one is disposed te complain
in the light of the altogether happy and
satisfactory denouement. Mr. Ed. F.
Theme's interpretation of the character of
Dick was capital, as his acting always is.
As the careless, light-hearted and honest
young knight of the quill he filled the bill
te the letter and never did fair lady want
mere chivalrous lever. Mr. J. N. Gott Gett Gott
held's impersonation of the yeuig hus
band driven te jealousy by his wife's
thoughtless actions was marked by the se
rieus feeling called for by the rele ; Mr.
Win. W. Maurice, as Dyke the law
yer, contributed net a little te
the fun of the performance,
aud Mr. E. F. Knowles gave a geed
representation of La Tour, the designing
scoundrel who makes all the mischief.
The ladies of the cast were all excellent in
their several parts. Miss Louise Muldener
is an actress el considerable .emotional
power, and her personatieu of the frivol
ous wife fend of compliment, but thor
oughly repentant, was artistic and well
rounded ; Mrs. Thernc is a bright actress,
aud she never fails te make friends and
perform her part competently ; she fit the
part of Alice Playford, Dick's devoted
sweetheart, te the very dot, while Misses
Emily Baker and Emma Skcrrctt filled
their respective roles in a manner that left
nothing te be desired.
ST. ANXUONX'S FAIR.
Result r the Vetlas The Fair Over.
St. Antheny's church fair, which has
been in progress at Grant hall for the past
ten days, closed last evening. The attend
ance was very large and the result of the
voting was a subject awaited with much
interest by these directly interested and
the " best workers" of all parties. As the
names of the successful contestants were
announced, there were hursts of applause
in which the defeated candidates and their
friends, who accepted the situation iu
the most philosophical spirit, were
net slew te join, and the best of feeling
prevailed among all hands. Limited space
permits mention of only a few of the mere
important articles disposed of by ballet and
by chance, and the names of the success
ful competitors. The lady's geld watch, for
which the contest lay between Mrs. Foehl
and Miss Caddie Dennelly was wen by the
first named, the vete standing, Mrs. Foehl
1.532, Miss Dennelly 725. Fer the cabinet
organ Miss Lettie Tragesser had an easy
victory, the result as announced standing
Miss Tragcsser 1,146, Miss Lizzie Ilinkle
132. Silver watcubs were voted te Miss
Lena Reiner and Eddie Eckrean ; Mrs.
McGitiiiis wen the sewing machine, for
which, the competition was spirited, and
the closest contest of all was en the ac
cordion, which was wen by Mr. Fein by
a majority of ene vote, he having col
lected $20 te $19.90 by Miss Mame Gor Ger
man. Articles of mere or less value were
chanced oil", among them being Father
Christ's picture, wen by Mrs. Themas Mc
Clarcn ; Father Kaul's picture, by Mrs.
Krauss ; a silver caster, by Henry Dusel ;
the beautiful wax cress, made by Miss
Martha Rudy, wen by James Stewart ; a
pair of shoes, by Jehn Klump ; a pair of
shoes, by Miss Heuser ; a geld toothpick,
by Miss Springer, and many ethers of less
value, of which the lack of room prevents
enumeration. All the mere important ar
ticles remaining en hand were disposed
of at remunerative prices, and it was a
late hour when Father Kaul, the pastor of
the church, te whose energetic labors the
success el the enterprise was se largely
due, declared the fair at an end and
heartily thanked all the ladies and gen
tlemen who had contributed their labor
and means toward making in a success.
Net Stelen.
There was a report late last night and
early this morning that a horse and buggy
belonging te Jehn Sales had been stolen
from the yard in rear of the Merrimac
house. Mr. Sales had driven into
the shed in the yard about half-past
10 o'clock, and left his team there for a
short time while he sought shelter at the
hotel. When he went for his team it was
nowhere te be found, and the inference
was that it had been stolen. It appears
that the horse had wandered off, and was
taken in charge, en North Queen street,
by Mr. Krcamer, of the Keystone house,
who stabled it for the night. It was re
turned te Mr. Sales this morning.
Closed "With Ice.
The Susquehanna river at Columbia is
entirely closed with ice, the sheet from
shore te shore being as level as a beard
and as clear as crystal. The steamboat
which plies between Columbia and
Wrights villc has thus far managed te keep
open a channel between the two places,
but the task has been a difficult one and
will nrebablv be abandoned te-day. It is
net likely that the ice new formed will
pass ever the dam, as the river is falling
rapidly.
Sale or Real Estate.
llerr & StaufiVir, real estate agents, sold
during last week the following real estate :
Farm of 90 acres in East Cocalico town
ship, near Reinhold's station, the property
of Wn. Kahl, of this city, te Heflry Obcr
lin, of Lincoln, for 855 per acre.
Alse a two-story brick dwelling. Ne. 12
Seuth Duke street, property of Lorenze
D. Hcrr, te Gee. H. Leman for $1,575. I
COURT OF COMMON PLKAS.
The Pickering Valley Cages Concluded with
veratcis.
The follewiug cases were disposed of
yesterday afternoon by taking verdicts in
favor of the plaintiffs.
Wilmcr E. Pcunypacker vs. the Phila
delphia and Reading railroad company,
verdict for 31,200.
Lewis H. Evans vs. same, verdict 3700.
Jcnnie Evans, by her father and next
friend Lewis H. Evans, vs. same, verdict
800.
Hetty Ann Pcnnypacker vs. same, ver
dict 3500.
Hettv Ann I'enuybcckcr vs same, vei diet
$4,000."
Jonathan Vickers and Catherine S.
Vickers, his wife,in light of said Catherine
S. Vickers, vs. same, verdict $200.
Jehn H. Latshaw vs. same, verdict
$3,500.
All of the above cases grew out of the
Pickering Valley railroad disaster in 1877
and they were among these sent here from
Chester county for trial.
In the case of James F.Eby vs. N. Davis
Scott, assignee of Cooper Stubbs and wife,
the plaintiff suffered t; non suit.
Heise & Kaufi'man vs. Christian Hcr Hcr
shey, &c, scire facias stir mechanics lien.
In the year 187(1 the defendant built sev
eral houses in Columbia. W. II. Hogcn Hegcn Hogcn
debler, being the contractor. The plain
tiffs claim that Ilogendeblcr get material
te the amount of 8365.39 at their hardware
store for use iu the construction of the
buildings. The bill was net paid at the
time agreed and a mechanics lien was filed
by the plaintiffs. On trial.
Iu the case ei Frederick S. Bletz vs. the
Columbia national baffle, certain legal
points being reserved, a verdict was taken
for the plaintiff for $0,434.87, amount of
penalties for taking alleged usuri
ous interest, the penalty being
double the amount taken. It will
be remembered that in a series of suits
by the bank against Bletz en notes he
set off the usurious interest alleged te
have been paid te the bauk in transactions
running back several years. His claim te
this set-off was sustained by the court be
low and the supreme court. He then
brought suit te recover the penalty provid
ed in such cases. The facts are the same
as iu the previous trials, but, as points of
law, the defendant claims that Bletz hav
ing recovered the alleged usurious interest
and in some cases it having been credited
te notes before maturity, he has condoned
the penalty and cannot recover it. On
these and ether technical questions the
case will finally be adjudicated by the
state supreme court whence an appeal
may ultimately be taken te the United
States supreme court.
FELL FROM TlIE TOP OF A CAR.
Nnrrew Ixsipc of a Tramp While Steal
ing a Ride.
At an early hour this morning a man
was found lying in a helpless condition,
covered with bleed, and almost frozen, in
the vicinity of North Queen and Frederick
streets. Constable Lcntz procured a car
riage, took him te the station house, where
he was put under the care of Dr. Fitz
patrick. He gave his name as Frank Fos Fes
ter, and said he came from St. Leuis, Me.
He had been working a little a few days
age at the Denegal furnace, aud .came
down te Lancaster yesterday. He get
drunk, aud when the Pacific express
came in this morning at 2:10, he
bearded it and climbed upon the
top of one of the passenger cars te
steal a ride. He thinks he fell off the car
a few squares above the dept, and when
he had sufficiently recovered, managed te
walk out te Frederick street where he lay
down and was discovered in time te pre
vent his freezing te death. He presented
a pitiable spectacle, being very ragged aud
dirty and covered with bleed, aud scarcely
able te stand. Dr. Fitzpatrick en making
an examination of him found that he had a
terrible gash en the top of the head and
another en the left side of the neck ; one
of his eyes was blackened, two or thrre
of his teeth knocked out, his lower jaw
badly bruised, one of his shoulders
sprained and one leg very b.ully bruised
and sprained. His wounds were cleansed
and he was put iu comfortable quarters
for further treatment. Perhaps it was for
tunate for Fester that he fell off the car
when he did, for had he fallen asleep en
top of the car he would undoubtedly have
frozen te death befere riding many miles
exposed, as he would have been, te the
biting wind with the mercury almost down
te zero.
NKIUailOKllOOD A'iiWft.
CventR Acress the County Lines
Frank Rumberger, one of the men
charged with the murder of Daniel Trout
man, who was killed in Dauphin county
en the 14th instant, was committed te an
swer at court. The prisoner has resolutely
insisted that he was at his home when the
crime was perpetrated, but a number of
witnesses testified with gieat pesitivcucss
at the hearing that they saw him jeiu Henry
Rumberger in a carriage and pass along
the read leading in the direction of the
scene of the tragedy. Henry Rumberger,
who is in jail for the same crime, and lias
confessed, testified that he and Frank
were in each ether's company when Trout
man was shot. The expedition, which re
sulted in Treutmau's death, was planned
for the purpose of robbing him of about
ene thousand dollars.
Franklin Baker was instantly killed in
the weeds of Evan Baker, near Dee Run,
Chester county. He lias been at work for
some time clearing off some timber land
for his brother Evan, and en the day he
met his death he was sawing en a tree.
Just above where he was sawing the tree
branched off. When the tree was nearly
sawed off he drove a wedge in te force the
fall, and in getting away, befere he get
far enough, one of the branches fell en his
shoulder, crushing in the breast bone and
killing him instantly.
Mrs. Margaret Thompson, wife of Isaac
Thompson, a farmer of North Christian
Hundred, Del., was instantly killed en
the W. is N. railroad while returning
from the Wilmington market.
The residents of Chester Valley and
townships bordering it en the north arc
becoming considerably alarmed ever re
cent frequent and systematic robberies
being perpetrated in that section of the
country, of which the Valley folks are
made the most frequent victims.
While engaged at work in Beau's sand
quarries, near Diamond Reck school
house, TrcdyfiVjn township, Chester
county, one of the laborers employed
had his head nearly blown off by a pre
mature explosion of dynamite, used in
blasting the sand deposits.
A man and wife named Hastings, occu
pying a farm en the Nanticekc river, op
posite Seaford, Del., went into the fields
te hu3k corn, leaving two little children
locked up in the house. During their ab
sence the house took fire, and the children
perished in the flames.
I. O. et R. M.
Last night 30 or 40 members of Osceola
Tribe Ne. 11, 1. O. of R. M., came te this
city en a visit te Ee-sha-ko-nee and
Mctamera tribes in return for a visit paid
by theso tribes last summer. After visit
ing the tribes at their ledge rooms, they
went te Jehn Hcss's saloon where there
was a supper.
Delegate Elected.
Peter Geedman was last evening elected
te represent the Shinier fire company at a
firemen's convention te be held iu Read
ing en the 10th of Dccemb cr.
Will-Visit Mt. Jey.
Lancaster division Ne. 6 uniformed rank
K of P. will go te Mt. Jey en Thanksgiv
ing day te Visit the ledge of that place.
A SENIOB,ORATION.
"OUU COUNTRY'S POSITION IN HIS
TORY." By E. L. Kemp, Class of 1881, F. and M.
College.
Pessimism has infected the thinking of
the age. Its disciples en every band preach
degeneracy aud its prophets gloomily pre
dict ruin and dissolution. Their attention
is absorbed by the agitated and repulsive
dress en' the surface of lutnian life, and
they see net the liquid streams of pure
metal beneath. Applying their theories
te the history of our beloved land her
prospects are far from cheerful and inspir
ing. But can we, as professed followers
of Him in whom are hid all the treasures
of learning; yield te their gloomy reflec
tions? Can we, in the light of the past
and with the evidence of the present, join
iu their depressing wail? We answer,
no ! Implicitly believing in the exalted
character and the universal influence of
the ene, we interpret the indications of
the ether with the glowing hopefulness in
spired by His teaching. We cannot find
lacking in humanity that law of glorify
ing development which is revealed in the
material existence around us. We believe
that the world, as a whole, commenced
her existence like a child, and leek forward
te the time when, like a man hoary with
age, she will lay aside her staff aud pass
ever iute a state of eternal glory.
Man is advancing, advancing in intelli
gence, leve and wisdom. We feel that he
has net yet fulfilled the end of his creation.
The great drama of human activity is net
yet complete. We are approaching or
performing its last aud sublimest act.
It is net rational te suppose that in the
process of development the whole race will
attain the same lefty position and be equal
ly prepared for the grand consummation,
nor that the process is te be continued in
an unbroken and majestic flew. Natien
after nation has attained the proud emi
nence of head of the race, but each, after
performing its mission in developing sonic
new phase in the progress of civilization,
has fallen perhaps never te rise again, as if
the forces which sway the tide of humanity
had raised them by a mighty effort and
then, exhausted, sunk back te prepare for
one still mightier. One after the ether the
nations fell, but man never again sunk te
his former level. We conclude, therefore,
that ene nation, as the representative,
standing en the threshold of the spirit
world, will uufeld the highest possibilities
of the race.
The course of progress has been West
ward. Eastwardly it stepped centuries
age, and the peeple waited for the resus
citating influence of Western activity te
reuse them into life again. Is it then ex
travagant te believe that America will
witness the culmination of humanity ?
Physically, no country-is se well fitted
for this as ours. It was the last te be in
habited, and the onward march of man
naturally steps here. She is near enough
te ether lands te be benefited by their ac
quirements, and isolated enough te de
velep an individuality of her own. She is
se placed that all the great inhabited
plains of the earth are turned toward her.
as if out of respect in anticipation of her
exalted mission, incur richest treasures
arc naturally poured into her lap and her
rivers stretch out en the cast and en the
west like mighty arms te return them de
veleped and refined. Here nature has
worked en her grandest scale- Our bread
plains and lefty mountains; thundering
Niagaras and mighty rivers ; our pleasant
hill sides and lovely valleys, all tend te
breathe into man a loftiness of soul and
cultivate within him a leve for all that is
grand and beautiful.
Her people are net advancing from a
state of barbarism into a state of civiliza
tion. Our ancestors were reared among
the most highly cultured nations en the
glebe. They were the favored recipients
of the accumulated wealth of ages. They
came here te develop all under conditions
mere faverable than ever befere existed.
That their descendants possess genius of a
high order cannot be doubted. The de
mands of a new and extensive country,
immeasurably rich in physical resources,
have te a great degree diverted their at
tention from the higher walks of literature
aud art, the true tests of a nation's advance
ment in culture and refinement. But the
statesmanship and oratory called forth by
our great struggles for national existence
stand unsurpassed, and the inventive
genius displayed in thedevelepmeut of our
material wealth unequaled in the history
of mankind. And notwithstanding all un
favorable circumstances, the inimitable
sculpture of a Powers has already wen the
applause and admiration of a world, and
the tender and exquisite poetry of a Long
fellow the leve aud respect of nations.
May we net expect great things when
leisure shall have allowed the genius of
our people te flew in its proper channels ?
But it we are te occupy such an exalted
position, surely Ged's presence must be
mere manifest in our history than in that
of any ether land, and I ask, has He net
marvelously aided us? I leek back through
the long vista of years and beheld a little
bark laden with anxious exiles, rudely
tossed en the stormy besom of the Atlan
tic. I sce her precious freight landed en
the barren, ice-bound coast of New Eng
land, engaged in grateful prayer te the
Almighty Founder and Preserver of na
tions And from that forlorn little band
I sec a flourishing colony spring iute be
ing in spite of almost insurmountable diffi
culties. Is net Ged's presence there? I
sce almost the same story repeated in
every ether colony of America. Is it net
there .' And again, en perhaps the most
i mpertant occasion except ene in the history
of man, I see gathered from the new and
thinly settled colenics the noblest and
wisest body of men that ever assembled
te decide the future of their country, and
after careful deliberation proneuuee that
Declaration which commenced the last and
greatest epoch in the world's history. And
is net His presence there? I see the here
of the ages summeued from his peaceful
home en the Potomac, and at the head of
a little band of ill-clad and half-starved
patriots contend against the numerous aud
well-furnished troops of the mightiest na
tion en earth, and finally crowned, with
the wreath of victory. Again, I ask, is
net Ged's presence there ? And who can
doubt that His beneficent providence
called our martyred president te control
the affairs of the nation when threatened
with dissolution and consequent ruin?
Surely Ged has done greater things for us
than for any ether nation.
Supplementary te this is the superior
spiritual activity among our people. Our
government is founded en the broadest
and deepest principles of humanity. Our
country is specially distinguished from
ethers in this : that here are gathered all
nationalities, all races and all creeds, and
all are being successfully meulded into
ene great brotherhood prophetic of the
perfect fraternity of the eternal kingdom
of kingdoms. Wars have net ceased, but
never have our hillsides echoed te the.
tread of armed hosts in blind submission
following some here thirsting for conquest
and territorial aggrandizement. Instead,
they have beheld young and old, learned
and unlearned, pastor and laymen, volun
tarily rallying around the standard of
light in defense of home and human lib
erty or for the maintenance of great prin
ciples. The great national canker and
disgrace of slavery has been cast off by
forces operative within the body of the
people itself ; and belligerent states after a
long and bloody war have again joined
hands in unity and fellowship, things be
fore unknown, in the history of man.
Hew proud then is our position. Stand
ing en the very pinnacle of time, the treas
ures of the ages lie at our feet. The spirit
of the past rises and points us forward,
and. the forms of the unseen world beyond
rise aud beckon us onward. Tim nreMnt
age of practical utility must give way te
nnninfinifK hieliai. en .. rt i ,
..,, ...j,Uw.,..u .ijjc ui aikiiuu phil
osophy. Man m his infancy, brought forth
from the besom of a dark and awful eter
nity, constructed massive temples of som sem
bre majesty, te indicate the awe of its in
comprehensible sublimity. But man ma
tured, stauding in the vestibule of another
eternity illuminated by Divine grace and
the light of intelligence, will be inspired
with a subiima confidence and an eager ex
pectancy. He will delight in music
and paiuting such as the world never
knew befere, the one echoing the sympho
nies of the angelic cheirc around the
everlasting throne, and the ether having
its hues tinged by the first streakings of
the golden dawn. His poetry will be dis
tinguished by loftiness of thought and
majestic grandeur and inspired by un
speakable leve and tenderness; and his
philosophy vivified in the full effulgence
of the light streaming from the Almighty
threne, will teach the living truth of Him
about whom are "clouds and darkness"
and whose "pavilion is iu the dark waters
and thick clouds of the sky."
TOBACCO
Ilie Lecal Tobacco Trade.
There has been seme activity among
buyers during the past week, and quite a
number of small purchases of the crop have
been made in this county during the past
week. Among the buyers were Messrs.
Moere, Skiles is Frey," Becker, of Balti
more, Oppenhcimer and Rosenbaum.
Doubtless ether buyers also made pur
chases. All of them appear te bu aftcr
choice lets, aud when they find them de
net seem te stickle much at the price. We
hear of line wrappers selling as high as 2G
cents, and none lower than 20 cents. The
lets purchased arc net large, and the leaf
is said te be exceptionally fine. It appears
te be conceded that the proportion of line
leaf compared with the entire crop is much
less than it was last year, and this no
doubt will keep up the price of really geed
lets among the knowing ones ; but en the
ether hand the crop as a whele has already
get the uama of being " flea eaten " and
this will be api te make buyers shy of it
unless they knew exactly what it is, and
this will be apt te keep prices down at or
below the usual average.
A few operation.", in the new crop of
Yerk county leaf are reported at fair
prices, and ever a thousand cases of the
Jersey Shere crop have already been taken
by Lancaster operators, the agents of Mr.
Reseubaum and Tag & Ce., being the
heaviest purchasers.
Of the 1871) crop about 200 cases chang
ed bands this week in this city en private
terms Thih crop has been going offgrad effgrad
ually but steadily ever sinee it was sam
pled ; but se quiet that it is difficult te
tell just hew much of it has been disposed
of. The heavy sales of it made iu Nov. Nev. Nov.
Yerk kist week, aggregating ever 4,500
cases, would seem te indicate that it is be
ing eagerly sought after, notwithstand
ing the oracular warnings of the Tobacco
Journal. A week age that paper declared
there was no demaud for Pennsylvania to
bacco, and that the sales were insignifi
cant, just as it had prophesied would be
the case. New that the sales of almost
5.000 cases stare the Journal iu the face, it
undauntedly says in ctlect, "didn't we
tell you se? The foolish buyers of '70
Pennsylvania arc selling out at a less, te
make room for the enormously large crop
of 1880, which, being flea-bitten, they will
be able te buy very low !" Cuycrs will,
of course, pay the same implicit regard te
the Journal's sayings as they have hereto
fore done se will sellers !
The Tobacco Leaf notes the following
transactions in Pennsylvania leaf in New
Yerk last week :
3Icssrs. Basch & Fischer, et 155 Water
street, have purchased Mr. M. II. Levin's
entire packing of 1S70 Pennsylvania to
bacco, comprising seme 1,500 cases. This
well-known firm arc new the holders of
Mr. Levin's and the Messrs. Lachenbruch's
choice packings. They also have secured
the services of Mr. David Lcdermun as
packer, who was formerly in the employ
ment ei Mr. Levin.
Messrs. E. Spingarn & Ce. bought from
Messrs. Fatman is Ce., 1,900 cases of
Pennsylvania.
Messrs. Emanuel Heffman & Seu sold
during the week 50 cases of Connecticut
and 100 cases of Pennsylvania.
3Icssrs. Charles F. Tag & Sen have sold
the past week a considerable quantity of
their choice packing of 1S79 Pennsylva
nia. Messrs. Lichtenstein Bres., of 117
Maiden Lane, bought 200 cases of Penn
sylvania ; 100 casus from 31. II. Levin, and
100 cases from -Messrs. E. Rosenwald &.
Bre.
Messis. L. is E. Weithcimer sold 100
cases 1879 Pennsylvania en Friday.
In addition te these the Journal notes,
the following :
One hundred ewes of '70 Pennsylvania
were sold by 3Ir. J. Friedman of 3Iaidcn
Lane.
3Iessrs. 3IcCey is Ce., the uptown man
ufacturers, made a purchase of 300 cases
of '79 Pennsylvania, and L. Bremcrs' Seus,
the Philadelphi i leaf firm, took 100 cases
of same crop
3Ir. S. Schelle, a packer of leaf iu Wil
liam street, .-old his packing of 500 cases
of '79 Pennsylvania this week through
3Iessrs. J. S Gans's Sen is Ce., the Wall
street biukers.
Comparatively a small pertijn of our
local crop lins yet been stripped ; a geed
deal of it is net yet lit for stripping, and if
it were, the dry, cold weather is alone
sufficient te prevent growers from taking
it from the p-des. The late " boom " iu
the New Yerk market and the activity
manifested among buyers in this vicinity
are indications that the crop of 1880 will
be "wanted" when the time comes te
get in shape for handling.
The New Era, of this city, aud the Dix-
patch, of Yerk, have taken the tobacco in
terests of Lancaster and Yerk county un
der their especial care. After haviug writ
ten columns of crimination and recrimin
ation the Era succeeded in proving the
Dispatch man a falsifier, and the Dispatch
proves the Era man "a fellow" who don't
kuew hew te spell "chap-ar-i-al." That
settles it.
.Slight Accltlenr.
This morning as Geerge Kepncr was
driving one of Adams express horses
along West King street, the animal
frightened -.it the cars at the King street
depot. He began te kick and kicked Mr.
Kepncr en the leg badly bruising it. The
animal a'se get his leg ever one shaft,
which caused him seme inconvenience for
a short time until he was released.
"A Rat! A Kat!"
Ben Reese has scut us a remarkably
formed sweet potato. It strikingly re
sembles a sleeping rat, neatly curled up
with its head lying en its front paws aud
its long ta'il brought forward and curled
around in front of its face. Even the
eyes arc quite distinctly marked.
Thanksgiving Concert.
will be a Thanksgiving concert
bfiiiefifc el" Christ Evangelical
There
for the
church, given under the auspices of the
" Sinking Class." in the church en Thuis-
day evening next, a wen arranged pro pre
gramme of geed music is premised.
Police Cases.
Nine unfortunates sought the friendly
shelter of the station house last night. Six
of them were discharged this morning and
the ethers "sent up" for 10, 30 and 40
days respectively.