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LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER THURSDAY DECEMBER 9, 1880.
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THUBSDAT EVENINO, DEG. 9, 1880.
Wfcat They Call Before.
Seme of our esteemed contemporaries
appear te be alarmed by the loud de
mands' of the se-called civil service re
formers for fixity of tenure in the federal
offices. We assure them there is no
cause for immediate anxiety in that di
rection. The men who make the agita
tion are without power and have little
influence. The politicians who pretend
te listen te them with respect are
utterly insincere and never stand for an
instant en their theory when the spoils
are te be distributed.
Te cite Hayes in illustration is, we
admit', hardly fair. He was a fraud
from the beginning, and was bound by
the very law of his political creation te
be a fraud in all tilings te the end. But
of Carl Schurz, who put the stuff en this
subject into Hayes's letter of acceptance,
consistency might have been expected.
It might also have been supposed that
Mr. Evnrts could continue for a few
days together in an attitude which he
had deliberately taken and extensively
advertised. Te these two was consigned
the duty of framing civil service rules en
the reform plan for the fraudulent ad
ministration : but nothing came of it.
They abandoned the whole business, and
the scrambles for office under Hayes have
baen as shameful as ever, and the bull
dozing and blackmailing of subordinate
office-holders have been worse, while the
active participation in politics of Hayes
and his cabinet has been, in view of
their Pccksniflian professions, quite dis
gusting. Garfield also affected profound sympa
thy witli the high-flown views of the re
formers ; and gratified them greatly by
writing a magazine ;u tide in their favor,
for wliic'i in return lie received their
praise for the ' scholarship " and ' cul
ture' which he brought ii.te pelitics:
But, having been nominated for the
presidency, lie immediately threw all of
that overboard, and even entered into
special contract with the machine bosses
-te distribute the spoils net only en their
system, but through them.
There is no serious prospect of the es
tablishment of a permanent official class
in this country while our present institu
tions continue. A revolution which would
make the head of the government perm
anent would end in assimilating te his
the tenures of his one hundred thousand
subordinates. But until Gen. Grant has
been re-elected te a third term, we shall
be slew te predict any such disastrous
conclusion of our republican experi
ment. The people of the United States
will never of their own accord, and with
their eyes open te the facts, establish an
aristocracy of any kind. Meanwhile the
reform that is wanted is the enforce
ment of the laws te prevent the plunder
ing of our public servants te recruit par
tisan corruption funds, and forcing them
te give te party the time and energies
which belong te the public.
a Striking Likeness.
We used te have a painting hanging
ever the judicial seat, in the old court
house, representing Justice in the form
of a blindfolded female holding suspend
ed a pair of scales; and of that figure
our beloved Judge Patterson ever re
minds us. Te be sure he is net a female ;
but that difference is trifling. We have
heard repeatedly from himself that he is
an impartial administrator of justice,
and under the pains and penalties which
his honor essays te put upon these who
doubt this declaration, we accept it
with cheerful alacrity. We de net knew
whether any one will dispute that the
judge sees darkly enough te satisfy
this element in the likeness te the figure
in the oil pointing. If any one steps
forward for that purpose we will go
along with liiin te the commissioners'
effce, where this picture,ve eelieve, new
hangs, and we will discuss the question
bit ween us while standing beneath it
and gazing upon the lovely features
of the amiable female countenance, that
appear without the folds of the blindii g
handkerchief. It would, perhaps, be
mere satisfactory te have this discussion
under the benignant light of our virtu virtu virtu
ousjudge'sewn physiognomy ; but we are
net at liberty te make an appointment
in his presence ; and te' tell the truth it
might be an unsatisfactory one in which
te discuss the matter, in view of the
fearful effect upon the judge of a chal
lenge of his judicial impartiality; it
would net be at all safe for our doubting
friend te dispute with us liefere him as
te his blindness.
That, then, we willaccept as a conced
ed fact ; and se we have a very striking
resemblance of the dear judge te the
figure of Justice, with its fair face and
delicate features and bandaged eyes.
There is a striking difference,though, in
the voice. Pleased as we are te say de
lightful things of the judge, we can't
compliment his sweet vociferation. Ben
Davis thinks it is as the sound of the
Bull of Bashan ; and Ben ought te knew ;
because he sat down under it very sud
denly. The music of the Presbyterian
organ left has even been stilled by it;
and the young bleed of the congregation
chills at the sound. The painted Justice
speaks net, and our judge would
resemble it mere if he spoke less. But
just as he is we have him , and are thank
ful for him ; for without him what would
life be and Justice ?
They Cannet De It.
Hew constitutionally impossible it is
for some people te perform as they prom prem
ise. Listening te their fair words it is
impossible te believe that they de net
mean them. It cannot be that all these
afflicted people knew that they are lying.
They must think that they arc meaning
what they say,and the fact that they really
de net must lie owing te some strange
emission in their mental equipment,
which make it impossible for them te
leek into their minds te find what they
really de think. We must adept some
theory of this kind te relieve us from the
belief that thpse numerous fellow crea
tures, who are found in all classes of
society and net fewest among the most
apparently consistent church members,
are net tli vilest liars in existence.
Mr. Hujts is litis kind of a
man. He is net a wicked man
seemingly. But he can't tell the
truth. He cannot say what he thinks,
and de it. Net even en the same day.
Everyone is laughing just fiev; at his ap
pointment of General Hazen te be chief
of the signal bureau ; a soft place which
Hazen has been seeking as quite accord
ing te his tastes. Everyone knows that
there is nothing in Hazen's re
cord entitling him te any partic
ular consideration, and that he
does net knew anything at aU
about the duties of the signal office, and
is net qualified te learn anything about
them, and does net purpose te bother
himself with them. He will enjoy the
society of Wasbingten,with the rank and
pay of general. He is a coward in bat
tle, and even ran away at the battle of
Shiloh. He admits that-he knows nothing
of the service te which he is promoted.
And yet the very day Mr. Hayes sent
I his name in, he also sent te Congress his
message in which he loudly lauded civil
service reform.
Hazen was promoted by political and
social influence, and because he was an
Ohie man ; and his father-in-law was
McLean of the Cincinnati Enquirer, a
Democratic paper of the style and prin
ciple of the Chicago I'itnes, which is te
say just no principle at all.
MINOR TOPICS.
Hindoestan borrows money at three and
a half per cent, and its secretary of the
treasury makes no brag.
Sakaii BKRNii.itiT has made it plain
that French may be spoken much tee
rapidly te make it easy for a Bosten au
dience te understand it.
A I'AFEU in Mississippi is published in
the interest of the negre, and is se loyal
te its platform that it refuses te .spell
negre except with a big X.
It is estimated that the Western Union
will have en Ditccmbcr 31 a balance of
8747,aae.48. Tlie quarterly report re
commends a dividend of IV per cent, "pay
able en January 15.
It seems te be fixed that Devcns will
succeed Judge Streng and Stanley Mai
thews will get Judge Swaync's place en
the supreme bench. Hayes is playing it
fine for his friends.
In the opinion of the Springfield Republi
can, Judge Black's sentiments declaring
that railroads arc public property, " is the
best and most forcible exposition of the
old common-law doctrine en this subject
wliici has recently been made."
Evex congressmen arc mere or les sub
ject te superstition and studiously slum
the ' fatal desk'' in the Heuse. When
the late Representative Rush Clark, of
Iowa, died, Mr. Fair, of New Hampshire,
took the desk iu the Heuse which lir.d
been occupied by Mr. Clark. As already
announced, Mr. Farr died a few days age,
and new no ether member wants te take
the "fatal desk."
Ax important feature in the i emulations
of Rugby, in Tennessee, is that no 'intoxi
cating liqueis shall be sold theie. "Tem
Brown" and his helpers have made that
absolute. Twe sharpers came there, en
the very edge of the new Rugby, and es
tablished each his grog shop. They would
heed no remonstrance, hut insisted upon
their right. A general law of Tennessee
forbids the liquor traffic within three miles
of an educational establishment. Mr.
Hughes took advantage of this, and imme
diately built a school-house beside them,
and they were thus forced te decamp.
PFBSONAL.
Jehn W. Gaiuiett was yesterday re
electcd president of the Baltimore fc Ohie
railroad company for the ensuing year.
Mr. Geerge W. Guilds has given
$3,000 towards beautifying the old Lancas
ter pike read, at Wayne Station.
The Reading Times and TUspntch nomi
nates Majer Ficras, of the Gcrmantewn
Telegraph, as head of the department of
agriculture.
Mr. Hayes' diuneis at Washington
were hut a synonym for dryness and dull
ness. Meanwhile members of Congress
and the elite of the national capital
generally are living in the hope that Gar
field will exercise better taste, whether he
uses wine at table or net.
The following advertisement lately ap
peared is several newspapers printed in
the province of Silesia, Germany : " My
betrethment with Miss Edith Peht;:r,
only daughter of the Right Honorable Sir
James Perter, of Skancatclcs, United
States, I honor my&elf by hereby publish
ing instead of making any special an
neuuecment. Liegnitz, November, 1880.
Carl von Jena."
Mr. aud Mrs. Ciiaiu.es were en their
bridal tour and had reached Marietta
Ohie, when Mr. Coens, the bride's di
vorced husband, presented himself and
demanded possession of her. The rival
claimants drew pistols, but weie dis
armed. Mr. Coens then went te consult
with a lawyer, knowing that three hours
would elapse before the couple could get
away en the next regular train ; but they
chartered a special locomotive and se con
tinued their journey unhindered.
Thirty-five years age, when Captain
Stene made Meuudville, W. Va., his
home, he planted two seeds, informing his
family that he would like te raise weed
for his coffin. Only one seed sprouted,
and in the course of thirty years became a
fine tree. During a severe wind storm
eighteen months age the tree fell. It was
sent te a Pittsburgh firm te be cut info
lumber, and in due time returned te the
captain iu the shape of a handsome coffin ;
and new, te complete the story, its owner
has just been buried in it.
Dr. David S. Hutchinson, dental sur
geon, died iu San Francisce, California, en
the 19th ult., aged 58 years. The deceas
ed was" formerly a resident of the Gap. lie
went te St. Paul, Miuu., some twenty
seven years age, where he married, ami a
few years afterwards removed te S.ui
Francisce, where he resided and practiced j
his profession until his death, ami was also
engaged in the real estate business. He '
had built up an extensive business and en
jeyed the confidence of a large cire'e of !
friends in his adopted city.
One of the senators from Texas
whether Coke or Maxet is net btatcd, but
it's the bigger of the two brought his
family te Washington from St. Leuis in a
private palace car, and when a conductor
insisted en being admitted the senator
knocked him down. The conductor was
about te attack him when he said : " See
here, sir ; don't come this way. If you
come within range of these fists (shaking
them significantly) I will mash your face
in such a jelly that your own mother
weuldnd't recognize you." The conductor
left.
Bishop Pixckxey's forthcoming mar
riage te Miss Hunter, of Washington, is
announced. She is twenty years bis junior
and for nine years has been matron in the
-Louise home in Washington. It is said
that some years age she refused an offer
of marriage from Mr. Corcoran, en the
ground that if she accpted him it would
be thought it was only for his money.
Bishop Pinckney's first wife was twenty
years bis senior, and made his christening
robe when he was a babe.
STATE ITEMS.
Wm. C. Baer, of Noiristewn, mystcii mystcii
eusly disappeared last Sunday and has net
since been heard from.
Huntingdon aud Blair counties complain
of the ravages of hog cholera. Mere than
1,000 porkers have died from the disease
this' season.
This is a queer time of the year te die
from sunstroke, but such was the fate of
Martin Garrick, of Millerstown en Tues
day. The sunstroke was received last
summer, and he has been ill ever since.
The erection of a big hotel at Cressen
will be begun in a few days. The build
ing will have a frontage of 320 feet and will
be four stories high. It will be ready for
occupancy by the first of next May.
In Reading Ernst Kleinsmith fell from a
ladder in the third-story of a house being
erected, and alighted in a mortar hed car
ried by Henry Null. The shock nearly
knocked Null from the ladder, but he held
firmly te it and proven ted both from fall
ing into the cellar.
Media's borough fathers are trying te
fund the borough debt of $80,000, new
held at six per cent, and issue instead four
per cents. Tins will save $i,euu annually
iu interest, and enable taxes te be reduced
or greater improvements made.
Thes. J. Ryan died in the Pennsylvania
hospital, Philadelphia, last evening, from
the effects of a beating received at a ball
in Musical Fund hall early yesterday morn
ing. A warrant has been issued for Theo Theo
eore Menken, his alleged assailant.
Mayer Liddell, of Pittsburgh, has begun
a war against the keepers "of gambling
houses in that city. On Tuesday eight of
them were fined $50 each and costs, the
mayor giving them notice should they re
peat their ciimc they will be sent te
prison.
The recent change iu the weather has
stepped all caual navigation in Eastern
Pennsylvania, and boatmen who expected
te get their beats te their destination after
being thawed out are disappointed. The
severe cold weatheref the last two days
)ias made several inches of ice en the caual.
Fex hunting is mere popular in Chester
county this year than ever before. Net a
day passes without the sound of the horn.
All ether sports have become secondary.
Yesterday West Chester, Wcsttewn and
Thernhury levers of the chase joined in the
bast Geshen hunt.
A party of men who were hunting en
"the barrens," a few miles south of
Clearfield, came upon the dead body of a
man. A revolver was lying a few feet
from him. and it was evident that he had
killed himself, cither accidentally or pur
pesely. A geld watch and S'Jul) in green
backs were found upon the body. It was
decided that he was a man named Mc
Laughlin, whose home is in Elk county.
The body of Themas Judge, a well
known miner living in Shanty Hill, Scran Scran
ten, was found face downward, at the feet
of a steep wall near the Lackawanna iron,
and coal company's ere dump. There was
a great gash in the back of the head, and
life was quite extinct, altengh the body
was till warm. The police had the re
mains removed te the iate residence of
Judge where a distressing scene ensued
among his suddenly bereaved wife and six
little children, who arc rendered entirely
destitute by this sere calamity.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
A liie in Seuth Bosten, Halifax county,
Va., en Tuesday night destroyed about
$20,000 worth of property.
Dr. J. A. Nantc, a prominent citizen of
Eagle Pass, Texas, committed suicide yes
terday. Frem October 1st te November 20, 1,150
cases of small pox and 55 deaths were re
ported in Matamoras, Mexico, in a popula
tion of about 10,000.
Emma Gcrst, colored, aged 12 years,
was fatally burned, near Ringgold, Va., by
her clothes catching fire while she was pre
paring her father's breakfast.
Jehn 1). Robertsen, Democrat, was
elected mayor of New Haven, Conn., en
Tuesday, by 1CG9 majority Nearly all the
ether Democratic candidates for city
offices were also elected.
The departure of the Sioux delegation
for Washington, te close the bargain giv
ing a railroad the right of way across their
reservation, is delayed by the accidental
sheeting of Chief Medicine Bear, at Crew
deck.
A fresh and violent shock of earthquake
occurred at Agram, Croatia, at midnight
en Tuesday. It was accompanied by sub
terranean rumblings, which continued
throughout the night and caused a renew
ed panic.
A sleeping car train en the Trey andBos andBes andBos
ten railroad collided, yesterday morning,
with a freight train at Hpesic, New Yerk,
The engineer of the passenger train and
four freight cars were wrecked, and sever
al persons were injured, but net seriously.
An Italian named Phillinghi, who ate
trichinous sausages thirty days age, died
in consequence in Chicago, en Tuesday
night. His wife and thrce children, who
ate of the same sausages, are net expected
te recover.
The number of recorded deaths from
starvation, during the East Indian famine,
actually fell below that of ordinary years.
During the worst of the crisis, mere than
4,000,000 were saved from starvation at a
cost of about $30,000,000 te the state.
Tappey & Steel's storage building in
Petersburg, Va,, was burned yesterday.
Nearly thrce million pounds of sumac, be
longing te James M. Williams, were de
stroyed, at a less of $25,000. The Fire as
sociation of Philadelphia has a risk of
$25,000.
A naked man ou his knees in the snow,
with the thermometer at zero, was se
strange a spectacle that the conductor en
the Pan Handle railroad stepped his train.
The man said that a 'strange voice com
manded him te hang his clothes en a limb
and pray.
In New Salem, near Roudeut, N. Y.,
Jehn Van Tassel fatally assaulted his wife
with an axe and then cut his own threat
with a butcher knife, dying almost in
stantly. He was seventy years of age and
his wife thirty-eight. Van Tassel was
jealous of the attention paid his wife by
ether men.
The annual meeting of the clubs com-
prising t'.ie Natienaij Baseball League was
! held iu New Yerk yesteiday. Delegates
j were present from the Bosteu, Bulfale,
: Chicago, Cleveland, Providence and Wor
cester clubs. The Detroit club was ad
mitted te membership and the Washing
ten clnb was rejected. The meeting will
be "continued te-day.
' A street car, containing about twenty
passengers was struck by a locomotive at
a railroad crossing in Chicago, en Tuesday
night, and completely wrecked. The driver
of the car was probably fatally injured,
and eight of the passenger, were injured,
one of them having a thigh fractured.
Newell J.Ferd, engineer of the locomotive,
is under arrest.
A lunatic was fennd running wild in the
weeds near Stevens' Point, Wisconsin, en
Tuesday, se badly frozen that both legs
and arms had te be amputated. He was
identified as one of the patients who es
caped lrem the St. Peters asylum, in Min
nesota, when it was. burned. Hew he
managed te work his way te the place
where he was found is a mystery.
Chicoge adopted an ordinance that the
street car companies should pay a license
fee of $50 a year en every car used. The
car people refused te obey, and during two
years have net paid a dollar. Judge Drum
mend has new decided that the ordinance
is valid as a police regulation, and may be
enforced. The cerapainies claim that then
charters give them the full right te run
cars. The matter will be appealed.
William Wittenbriuk, employed at A.
G. Brophy's drug store, in Washington
street, New Yerk, has been arrested for
having nearly caused the death of Mrs.
llackct by selling her daughter oxalic
acid for epsem salts. The woman took
part of the drug and but for prompt raid
ical attendance must have died. Witten
brink is a porter in the store and sold the
drug-in the absence of the clerk.
In nagcrstewn, Ohie, Jehn Haberstra'w
heroically sacrificed his life te save ethers.
He and his handcar were caught in a nar
row cut near town by a passenger train.
He could have saved his' life, but instead
get off the car and in the face of certain
death, tried te drag it from the track. He
had almost succeeded when the engine
struck him, but he saved the train. He
died a here and a martyr.
Ort Hendrick&en of Tedd county, Minn.,
en Sunday started deer hunting with his
brother, and they parted company in the
weeds two miles from home. In about
half an hour three shots were beard, and
when the brother reached the spot he
found Ort's dead body, with three rifle
balls in it, and a knife plunged te the hilt
through the body in various places. The
brother followed the trail of the mur
derers six miles and then lest it- The
cause of the crime is unknown.
The colored people of Bridgcwater have
a lyceum. The ether evening they had a
debate upon the following novel questien:
''One Jehnsen had a daughter and two
young men desired te marry her. The fa
ther agreed that the one who should take
her te the forest, protect her from the wild
beasts during the night and return her safe
in the morning should have her. One
took her te the forest, protected her all
night, but was disabled when returning in
the morning. Then the ether young man
came and returned her te her father.
Which of the men had the best right te
the girl ?"
An Accident Fatal te Seven Persons.
A dispatch from Orange, Massachusetts,
say one of the most distressing accidents
that has occurred in that section for a long
time took place yesterday, by which seven
persons lest their lives. In the north
western part- of the town of Wendell
Messrs. Marble & Clark had a portable
steam saw mill, with which they were en
gaged in clearing off a timber let. About
five o'clock the boiler exploded with ter-
rilic lercc, demolishing the mill, and a
portion of it was hurled against a building
occupied uy these at work en the let,
which was set en fire and entirely con
sumed, aud Messrs. Marble and Clark, the
proprietors, Oscar Brown, Geerge Brown,
Willie Brown, all young men from seven
teen te twenty-one years old, sons of Hosca
Brown, of JSew balem, and Mrs. Fclten,
who was keeping house, were killed. A
young child named Geerge Reynolds had
a leg broken and Charles Reynolds a shoul
der snufshed.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
KILLED IK THE DARK.
Rudelph Kranter's Fatal Fall Frem a Rail
road Bridge.
The following item appeared in the
Philadelphia Tunes of Tuesday last :
"The body of an unknown man, appar
ently 30 years old, was found beneath the
Pennsylvania railroad bridge at Sixty
third street, whence he had probably fall
en, at G o'clock yesterday morning. It
was taken te the morgue. The deceased
was five feet nine inches high, with brown
moustache and hair, and attired in a Derby
hat, black overcoat, black Chesterfield
coat, brewu diagonal trousers, white shirt
and gaiters. He had a brass watch and
chain, a Dockot-beok containing a small
sum of money and a card with the name
Rudelph Kreudcr "written upon it. This
name is net iu the directory."
Yesteiday the following appeared in the
Times :
"The inquiry by the coroner into the cir
cumstances attending the death of the un
identified young man, who was found dead
with his skull crushed in, under the Penn
sylvania railroad bridge at Sixty-third
sticet, en 3Ienday, failed te produce any
evidence concerning the manner in which
the accident happened. It was surmised
that he attempted te walk across the bridge
and tumbled through in the darkness.
The jury found a verdict of accidental
death. Deceased is supposed te be from
Baltimore because he had business cards
of firms in that city."
These items coming te the notice of Mr.
Christian Liller, the well-known barber en
North Queen street, this city, he wrote te
his son William, new working in Philadel
phia, te go te the morgue and sec if the
dead man was Rudelph Krauter, who had
worked for Mr. Liller for several vears
and left his employ for the last time just
three weeks age te-day.
This morning Mr. Liller had a letter
from his son, in which he says he went te
the morgue yesterday as requested ; he
asked te he shown the body that had net
been identified, aud was shown te a wagon
at the deer, which was just ready te con
vey it te the place of burial. The box be
ing opened he recognized its contents as
the mangled body of Rudelph Krauter ;
the left side of the face was battered and
the head mashed, but the features were
recognized as these of Mr. Liller's former
workman.
Deceased was a native of Zurich, Switz
erland, 31 years of age, unmarried, and
without relatives in this country. He
landed in America in 1877 and first found
employment at Mr. Liller's. After work
ing for him a year he left, and resumed
employment with him in September, 1879,
in which he continued until Thursday,
November, 18, 1880, when he left and
went te Philadelphia. He was a geed
workman, but as his tools were found with
his dead body it is supposed he had found
no engagement since leaving Lancaster.
Thumb Mashed.
List evening William Shultz, a conduc
tor of a freight train en the Pensylvania
railroad, had one of his thumbs badly
mashed between two bumpers, while coup
ling cars near the Penn iron works. Dr.
Atlee dressed the wound and Mr. Shultz
left for his home in Columbia.
Sale of ie.il Kstate.
Allan A. Hcrr & Ce., real estate and in
surance agents, sold at private sale, for the
heirs of Mrs. Anna Ehrenfried. the two
story brick dwelling Ne. 223 East King
street, te Michael Haberbush, for the sum
of $2,900.
JUDGE PATTBRSON.
SIT DOWX, MR. VATIS, SIT DOWSI',
Ad episode In Coart What Stirred the
Judge's Bile? A Detente of Mr.Davis
Telnn leered and Snabbed A Coart
that will net Allew any Reflec
tion ea Its Judicial Ad
ministration of lnstrlDn
tlve Justice.
Quite a spirited little episode broke the
monotony of the quarter sessions court
yesterday afternoon and gave the lookers lookers
en something te talk about for a half hour.
It was during the progress of the trial of
Schnader, the Ephrata saloon keeper, for
selling beer te miners. Benj. F. Davis,
esq., counsel for the defense, at the outset
of his speech, said te the jury that a court
had been defined te be a place where law
was judicially and impartially adminis
tered. Further en in his speech he said
something like ihis : "Ifyeu convict this
defendant, incarcerate him in our county
prison, impose the costs of this presecu
tien upon him and impoverish him, hew
de you knew but what te-night some
man by the name of Moere (who
had once eloped with the defendant's
wife) may net go te his home,
desecrate it, cause a separation of his fam
ily. Then Schnader would be suffering
the punishment and Moere go scot free.
Would that be justice judicial and impar
tially administered "a..
"bit down, 3Ir. Davis, sit down," he
heard thundered at him from the bench,
where te all appearances Judge Patterson
had been sitting, writing or examining a
paper net relevant te the case.
Sir. Davis looked astonished, and am
first impression was that seme waggish
member of the bar was taking advan
tage of the inattention of the court te
play a ventriloquist's trick upon him.
A glance at the bench whence distribu
tive justice is judicially and impartially
administered undeceived him. With the
remark that he had made no reflections
upon the court or if he had that he hadn't
intended te, he dropped te his seat.
Judge Patterson remarked that he
wished it te be understood that the court
administered justice judicially.
Mr. Davis from his scat said that he
referred te the jury.
Judge Patterson said: "Who administers
justice but the court?''
Mr. Davis said " the court and the jury."
The supreme court had held the jury te be
judges of law and the facts.
W. A. Atlec, esq., who was sitting in
the bar and shared the astonishment of all
present at the swift visitation of dis
tributive judicial wrath upon Davis, arose
and said : "Your honor, I feel certain that
the court must have misunderstood what
Mr. Davis said. He was addressing the
jury, net the court, and certainly made no
reflections upon the court and was pro
ceeding strictly within the bounds of pre
priety."
Judge Patterson motioned te Mr. Atlee
te sit down and suggested that Mr. Davis
could speak for himself.
Mr. Atlee said he would sit down. He
had only arisen because, seeing himself te
be the eldest member of the bar present, be
had felt ii due te the court and te his ju
nier te correct what was te him mam
festly a misunderstanding of the one by the
ether.
District Attorney Eshleman nodded ap
previngly te Mr. Atlee.
Judge Patterson repeated that the court
wished it te be understood that it admin -itcred
justice judicially, and said that if it
was understood that Mr. Davis did net
mean te reflect upon the court he could
proceed.
Mr. Davis declined te proceed.
District Attorney Eshleman then went
en for the commonwealth.
But, as will be seen by the court pre
ceedings reported elsewhere, the jury was
se upset by the performance that it requir
ed all the efforts of court, counsel, clerk,
reporters and spectators te drag an intelli
gible verdict out of it.
MASONIC.
Election ana Installation.
At the regular meeting of ledgo 43, F,
and A. 31., held at Masonic hall en Wed
nesday evening, December 8, the following
officers were elected and installed for the
ensuing Masonic year :
W. M. E. Oram Lyte.
S. W. Joel S. Eaby.
J. W. Geerge A. Marshall.
Treas. Chas. A. Heiuitsh.
Sect. Hugh S. Gara.
Trustees Jehn B. Warfel, Jehn Rees,
C. Widmycr.
S. D. Jehn C. Carter.
J. D. Dr. H. E. Mnhlcnberg.
S. M. C. Jeshua L. Lyte.
J. M. C. David E. Leng.
Pur. Geerge II. Rethermcl.
Tyler Geerge Lutz.
Chaplain Huh S. Gara.
Charity Cem. Dr. Geerge ,R. Welchaus,
Jehn B. Warfel, Wm. O. Marshall. '
Grievance Cem. Charles 31. Hewell,
Wm. A. Atlee, Dr. II. Carpenter, Win. A.
Wilsen, Jcr. Rohrer.
Organist Adam Oblender.
THE TUNEFUL CUCKOOS.
Nest-llidlng for the Winter Season.
The fourth annual meeting of the
Cuckoos was held last evening at their
hall. A committee of three, composed of
Philip Smith, Henry Leenard and Fred
Hincs, was appointed te select a suitable
place. for meeting for the ensuing year.
The next meeting will be addressed by
Henry Flick, Senior Cuckoo; Wm.
Leenard and Fred Miller, jr., will sing the
new Cuckoo song. Their third annual pic
nic will be held en the third Monday in
3Iay next.'
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year : President, Jehn R.
Smith ; Yice President, Wm. Leenard ;
Secretary, Jacob B. Price; Treasurer,
Philip Smith ; Police, Pud Stableferd and
Henry Leenard; Cooks, Jehn Hamilton
and James Mattisen ; Alderman, Ames
Stableferd ; Janitor, Jacob Hcline ; Leck
up Keeper, Andrew lackiey; Committee
en Election, Fred. Hincs, Albert Drach
bar and Albert McCutcheon ; Captain,
Philip Smith.
Horses Stelen.
. Seme time during last night between 10
p. m. and 4 a. m. thieves stele two valuable
horses from the stable of Hiram Peeples,
member-elect of the Legislature in the vil
lage of New Providence. The youngest
animal is a six-year-old bay mare. She is
rather tall having long legs. She has a
prominent top-knot and a whole star en .
the forehead. She is newly shed all around.
The ether animal is a twelve-year-old bay
horse. He has a heavy body and a white
stareu the forehead. The right front
feet is white and en it there is a new shoe.
3Ir. Peeples resides in a thickly settled
village and his barn is en a mucli traveled
read. The bold thieves probably struck
for Maryland.
Free Seap.
The soup house in rear of the city lockup
will be opened for the free distribution of
soup te the deserving peer en the 1st of
January. There isat the present time in
the hands of the mayor about $200 be
longing te the soup fund. Further con cen
tribut'Oas of money and previsions are so
licited. Should there net be sufficient
contributions te warrant the distribution
of soup every day during the winter, it
will be distributed every alternate day.
The soup house is a deserving charity and
ought te he liberally supported.
m
Fair at Mennt Jey.
St. Mary's fair will open this evening at
Meuut Jey iu the chapel building, second
fleer, and continue until Saturday, the
18th inclusive.
"EIGHTY-ONE.
BUMMER'S HALL AT fUE JAIL.
The Place Described In Verse and Freie
A Motley Crowd Short Ration A
Loek at the Jail.
The ether day a man, who might have
been a tramp, brought the manuscript of
the following verses te thelsTELMOEXCER
office for publication. He left them and
has called since almost daily te-see if they
were published. We give him his bene
fit: "NUMBER 81."
DT JAMES X. BtrrLER.
Atr Wreck of the Atlantic.
Written expressly for the Lancaster Istelli
gexcxr. In the year eighteen hundred eighty
It was en Xovembcr the First
The inspectors of Lancaster jail
Introduced hunger and thirst.
Old HetTmcier he proposed it.
Se like clock work it was done,
Se they save ns bread and water.
In number Eighty One.
Every Tuesday and Friday we get a pint of
soup,
A standing up in Indian flic, we are a sorry
looking group.
And when nil hands de get it, away with it
they run.
I would sooner give it te the hogs, .
Than put it in Kighty One.
We arc allowed a pound of bread,
At least se the keepers say ;
But we only get six ounces
Fer our rations every day.
With a cup et cold water.
And some salt te spread upon ;
Fer there is no molasses
Allowed in Kighty One.
Wc nave nil nationalities
That came across the main
Frem en the snow-dad hills et Russia,
Te Germany, France ana Spain :
The Englishman and Scotchman
Aud likewise Erin's son.
Arc all huddled up together,
In number Eighty One.
Oh : they talk of Libby prison,
And UkcwisT) AndersenTllle,
But it you'd seen this pest house,
it would give te you a chill.
Te listen te the arguments,
Yeai reason would be gene;
I would sooner be In Libby,
Than in number Kighty One.
As I gaze out of the window,
And leek into the yard,
I sec victuals scattered around nie;
I tell you it is hard.
But my time is very short,
And I seen will be gene.
But I pity these unfortunates'.
That's confined In Eighty One.
They are all shapes and sizes,
Seme lest a leg or arm.
Men with snow white locks.
That have faced many a storm.
Likewise soldiers and sailors
Who ftoed nobly by their guns.
Se this is their reward for it.
While confined in Eighty One.
We have blind men. deaf ones tee,
And likcwl-e u few crunks.
Tradesmen. likewise fishermen.
It's from Newfoundland banks.
There is no respects for old age.
Frem father down te son.
Thev ull live en bread and water.
While confined in Kighty One.
It they call this Christianity,
I don't knew what te say ;
But I hope Ue-I will forgive them,
Upen the judgment day.
lie may forgive, but net forget.
But the time will surely come.
When they must stand up side by side.
With these in Eighty One.
Se new my song is ended.
And I urn much obliged te you
Fer giving me yeux attention,
Te tnese few lines se true.
Se new I eat my breakfast.
Fer the beefsteak it is done ;
I wish I could pass some or it
Inte number Kighty One.
The author of the above was very much
in earnest. He wanted te print the burn
ing recital of his wrongs, and as it is a lit
tle fervid, a representative of the Lntelli
gexcer strolled out te the jail yesterday
te sce hew much of poetic license our bard
took.
Net much.
Things at " Bummer Hall"' are a geed
deal as he tells them.
As Watchman F. G. Albright opened
the deer of " 81 " a sight te make one
shudder presented itself. This " hall " or
cell is the northern part of the ground
fleer of the new brick building erected iu
the jail yard seme years age. It is a large
room, with grated windows, well heated
by a basement furnace, has a hydrant, a
water closet, walls, ceiling and fleer.
That is all the furniture.
As we steed at the grating, inside the
deer which the turnkey had opened, the in
mates pressed te the front. They were
twenty-one in number and the first glance
at them inspired disgust and almost terror.
They were nearly all bareheaded, three or
four of them were no shirts, several had
no shoes, the feet of one of them were
each a mass of sores and he piteously mis
took the visitor for a doctor ; lew were
fully clothed ; the vermin could almost be
seen te crawl ever some ; the scant cloth
ing, brutality of features and filthy sur
roundings of the group made them very
repulsive
At first glance.
Nearer inspection of them aud individ
ual examination, disclosed that after all,'
they were very- like the common run of
men and, when conversed with and in in
telligent conversation, they revealed that
the apparent tcrrible character of the in
mates of Bnmmei's hall is due very much
te the character of the institution. There
are a few low, dirty, brutal looking fellows
there who de nor seem te have much exis
tence above that of the animal, but of the
score or mero of men in "Eighty-one"
yesterday the most of them, in decent
clothes, would pass anywhere for decent
men. Twe or three of them, spokesmen
for the party, appeared te he
werkiugmen and mechanics of fair
intelligence, who admitted that they
had been drunk, but they were disposed
te work if they could get it. One old man
of fine presence would pass for a senator
in a claw-hammer coat ; he says he has
followed beating for thirty years and only
happened "en a shine'' in Columbia.
Anether, a little Irishman, says he worked
in the country all summer and just took a
few drinks before going te a job at Best's
boiler works. One stout young fellow, who
givps the name of an old Lancaster family
and calls two prominent business men of
the city his uncles, says he went te the
station house for a night s lodging and
was sent up here for he don't knew hew
many days. Several say they were "dis
orderly" iu that they rode en freight
trains, and quite a number declare that
they were induced by officers te give them
selves up en premise of getting geed shel
ter and keep.
Ne doubt some of them lie about it.
But the worst olTense they have been
guilty of is drunkencss aud disorderly con
duct and their commitments range from
five te ninety days.
Wc have said the furniture of the place
is a hydrant. Their mattress is the fleer
and their covering the ceiling, their bed
curtains are the walls.
When we asked them what they get te
cat there was a loud responsive murmur.
"Get me that ration," cried one of the
spokesmen. A stumpy little fellow
darted into a comer and brought out
a quarter of a leaf of bread. The uuder
kceper answered : " They each get a pound
of bread a day." Several responded : "Yes
that's what you say, but we don't get it
net mere than ten ounces." The ration
submitted te us certainly did net weigh
ever ten ounces, it rases a Dig leai, or
very mean bread, for a quarter of a leaf te
weigh a pound or anything near it.
Since November 1 the rations at Bum
mers hall have been reduced te this pound
or ten ounce lump of bread every
morning, un i uesuay anti r riuay uikj
get soup.
Thev can also get water at we n juraut.
As much as they want te annic.
Bread and water ; and water and bread.
The inmates are obliged te keep the
place clean. It is dirty. They are dirty.
Their clothes are dirty. They are also
lousy. They complain that they hare te
eat the twenty-fours ration when they get
it as they have no place te lay it down.
When asked hew they passed their time
they answered mostly by telling each
ether their experience, and the Ixtelu Ixtelu
eexcer man was earnesly advised te have
himself shut up for a few days ; he would
get enough adventure and hear enough te
make many columns of exciting matter.
Seme of the bams have left their nanus
and addresses cut in large capitals en the
fleer. Generally they are searched-and
knives and everything else taken . from
them. One lad produced a contraband
deck of cards which he had smuggled in
and which are highly appreciated. The '
lace cards are worn almost into illegibili
ty ; the kings and jacks are distinguish
able, and the whole deck is dirty enough
for every card te be mistaken for the ace
or spades.
The Tuesday ration of soup ought te be
economized and a fresh deck supplied te
Bummer's hall.
They dare net have the daily papers.
The aceunts of crime which they publish
are demoralizing.
Better dressed, better looking and ap
parently mero cleanly disposed drunks
and diserderlies are put into cell Ne. 80 in
the jail proper; but there are certainly
men shoved into "81" who are net vicious,
lousy nor disposed te unclcanliness. One
of the old men new there is desperately
sick and needs attention. Anether is a
jabbering lunatic. He butts like a goat
and talks incoherently of "Canterbury,"
"Perrysville" and "Knights of the. Gelden
Cress." He ought te be in the lunatic
asylum.
It is pathetic and speaks the better na
ture of the inmates of "81 " that they ap
preciate and press upon the visitors' at
tention the condition of these two men.
All in all.Bummer's hall is a disgraceful
looking place. Disgraceful te the county,
we mean. The sight of twenty-one men,
created a little lower than the angels, in
ene room, day and night, week after week,
and month after month, seme lousy and
Reme net. some dirty and seme with clean
instincts, with no chair nor bench, no bed
nor cover, nothing but bread aud water
and net tee much of tliem for no greater
offense than drunkenness and disorderly
conduct argues something wrong in our
machinery of justice.
Ge and sce them for yourself !
And then walk out West King street te
Mr. S. S. Spencer's fine stock farm ; leek
at the manner in which his well bred pigs
arc housed ; and sce hew much better it
is te he a sober and orderly hog than a
druken and disorderly person.
People ought te go out and take a leek
at this Bummer's hall. Itisnotnice but
is instructive. The court ought te see it
before grand juries are charged. Magis Magis
tratcseught te sce it before they send
images of their Maker there for ninety
days.
One thing is certaiu, these who get out
of it will net go hack. When they get tired
staying out they will burn a barn or steal
a horse se that when they get into jail,
they will get geed jail accommodations.
Drunkeness is an effense tee terribly
punished for them te repeat it and in
course of time and after a continuance of
Bummer's hall we hope te sce it effectually
corrected.
The jail is well filled. In fact, it over
flows. The seventy-seven available cells
have about one hundred and fifty in
mates. As far as pessible the keeper says
he carries out the sentences of the court
te separate and solitary confinement, but
it often gives rise te serious inconvenience
and sometimes demands impossibilities.
Fer instance, at the last court Judge Liv
ingston sentenced nine tramps te nine
months each, separate and solitary con
finement. They occupy nine cells ; while,
te make room for them, convicts te the
county jail, likothe Columbia fishermen,
have te be crowded three and four into ere
cell.
Mr. E. F. Frailcy, who is new superin
tending the cigar factory has four journey
men and eight apprentices at work. He
is represented te be an excellent mechanic,
makes mere and better cigars with less
waste than heretofore, but it is very doubt
ful if there is anything iu cigar making for
the county prison. These industries are
conducted with best results there in which
the chief value of the product consists in
the labor expended upon it. Manufactures
which invelve the purchase of valuable
raw material and the risk of frauds or
stupidity in its purchase arc net practic
able. Fer example there are or have been late
ly about 40 cases of tobacco in the prison
bought at high prices and spoiled and
worthless.
Who is te blame ?
Why don't the court or the grand jury
or the new inspectors or somebody else
find out who is te blame for this aud make
somebody stand the less ?
The prison makes geed brooms, baskets
and carpets.
The striped stuff that the prisoners wear
is made in the prison. It doesn't make a
pretty suit. Our friend Benjy Disraeli
might like a pair of pants off it. But it
is rather loud for common folks.
Alenzo Hambright and Frank font have
their cell walls covered with bright pictures
in neat frames. They are making cigars
together in Frank ford's cell. Hambright
has a canary bird tee.
The longest term prisoner in jail 'is
James Henry, who get twenty years for
firing Temmy Clark's barn in Drumere
township. He gets very sick of it, and
about every six months has a spell of
melancholy. But Jack Wcise cheers him
up.
The property taken from the prisoners is
put into the office safe, each package
marked with the name of its owner te be
handed ever te him when he leaves. When
peer Geerge Welsh get there yesterday he
had $2.27, a purse, pocket-knife and rag
scales. They sent Geerge te " 80." He is
a frequent visitor.
The outside wall is a rickety old affair.
The mortar was made without lime and the
mud-swallows build their nests between
the stones. Yeu remember that a little
piece of it en the Orange street side of the
wall fell down once, and it cost $1,700 te
set it up. If the whole thing should be
re-erected sonic of thtse days what would
it cost? Single rule of three.
Frank ford's two little girls come te see
him every two weeks and the keepers say
the new rule forbidding all visitation by
friends oftener than quarterly will be
cruel te these children.
Toe mauy people in the jail. Toe many
of them suffer less by the imprisonment
thaathcir families.
The whole prison system needs reform.
The management should be mero perma
nent and should be composed of .trained,
intelligent men net subject te removal at
the caprice of bull ring and hog ring
hpeilsmeii.
Half the people who are sent te jail
ought te be flogged and the ether half
ought te be made te earn their keep.
KOL1.IXU 31 J 1.1 ACCIDKNT.
Whirled .t round a Shaft.
Yesterday afternoon Lewis Ziegler, of
Ne. 524 North .street, who is employed as
an iron straight ener at the Penn iron works,
met with a rather queer accident. He
.went up en a ladder te adjust a ltelt en a
pulley, and while engaged in doing this
his clothing was caught in another belt.
He was whirled around the shaft several
times. Finally his clothing gave way and
he fell te the fleer of the mill, a distance of
8 or 10 feet. He was picked up and taken
te his home where Dr. Carpenter attended
him. He was found te have had his spine
injured, but net seriously,