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LANCASTER IAlLl-lVLLlGEKCfiR TUSl)A, DECEMBER 14, 1880.
JLancasicr tttfelligencet.
TUESDAY EVENING, DEC. 14, 1880.
The Way It Is Dene.
The incident narrated elsewhere, of a
constable undertaking te swell 12 miles
actually traveled into 8S2 miles legal
mileage, admirably illustrates the pre
vailing practice of extortion among our
public officials. Had the officer of the
law been less grasping in his attempt te
rob unfortunate litigants and increased
his fees four or five hundred per eent.
above their legal amount, his demands
might have been satisfied without chal
lenge ; but when he made the excess
some two thousand per cent of his rights
it was a little tee stiff te be paid without
remonstrance, ending in examination
and an abatement of the unlawful de
mand. The example, however, will prove use
ful te all classes of the public in exhibit
ing te them the process by which fees
are illegally increased, and the danger
of being robbed te which every citizen is
subjected who, by accident or by his own
will, is placed in the position of a liti
gant. As we have frequently demon demen
strated.this system of multiplying indict
ments ami increasing fees was reduced
te a science in .1. W. Jehnsen's term as
district allernev, and since that time
district attorney., aldermen, constables
and clerks s'jeni te have been banded to
gether te prom tie their interests by per
fecting it. The imposition begins when
the cemmi.ttmg magistrate entourages or
allows separate indictments te be made
against the different parties te a sin
gle effens". These form the foun
dation for manifold writs, subpoenas
commitments, mileages, indictments and
office costs. When one complaint and
one indictment would answer every pur
pose, three, live, seven or a de?en are
drawn and thecests increased three, live,
seven or twelve-fold te the cost of the
county, prosecutor or defendant and the
great scandal f our local administra
tion of justice. In the case cited, by a
perfectly natural process and one that
we doubt net is familiar te constables,
lawful mileage was increased twenty
fold. This is one of the commonest
devices. The law contemplates that the
service of subpe-nas shall be paid for
miles actually traveled, and yet officers
think nothing of serving a subpe-na at
the same time en the same witnesses in
each of a half der.en car.es and de
riving six-fold mileage. In the case
in point the constable actually had
cherijul " -'v mi,'. tiiefJli'l te xiibjticnn
himself. A man must be badly lest indeed
when he has te travel that far te find
himself. In another case brought te our
notice, eleven complaints arose out of a
single fight. There were eleven hearings
--all at the same time-and eleven sub
p:enas were issued for eacl
of sixteen ',
witnesses, making one hundred and sev- ,
enty-six s-r ices -had they been in the
country there would have been that many j
sets of mileage -for eleven witnesses,
summoned te the same place at the same i
lime.
This are sample lets. The people
cannot stand it any longer. Lawyers,
cannot afford te b: liberal with the pub-
lie officers at such expense te their clients
and such discredit te the practice of
their profession. It has come te an ex
tremity of extortion when no bill el
costs ought te be paid without ;i bill of
items and a rigid examination of every
item. Meantime the court could de
much if it would, and mere than it does,
if it would see that costs were aliewed
for only out- indictment where one
would suffice under the law.
J -a e.- -
Tjikkk is a great deal of feeling around
and fidgeting around in Philadelphia
concerning municipal reform, apparent
ly in advance of and preparation for the
February city elections. But it is pretty
hard te tell what the various movements
a re heading at. They all speak in a
general way about the necessity of re
form and the demand for it, but when it
comes down te the hard pan of definite
suggestion the oracles are mostly dumb
or as equivocal as Maj. Xerris in his sen
atorial acceptance. Stokley is mayor
new; he wants te be mayor again. Is he
te be " reformed "' out or is it " reform"
te keep him in. We suspect that he is
tee geed for the politicians and net geed
enough for the reformers. If the politi
cians succeed in beating him for the Re
publican nomination the reformers, the
Stokley people and the Democrats could
beat the man who beats Stokley. Is that
te be an outcome of the present nian
wuvring ?
A nen-parlisnu police force is a great
stride toward municipal reform. That
cannot be secured for Philadelphia by
Mayer Stokley's rcnominatien and elec
tion as a Republican, nor by his defeat
by a mere partisan machine candidate.
The presence of better men in coun
cils is needed. The reform of the de
linquent tax office and recorder V. office
abuses is demanded, but they need legis
lation te reform them. The complica
tion of issues arising out of the variety
of things aimed at by different elements
of reform in Philadelphia makes it diffi
cult te shape the battle lines there. Prob
ably they never will be shaped in any
municipality se as te obtain true reform
until local and national politics arc
entirely divorced, and candidates
for town clerk are chosen with re
gard te ether considerations than these
which prevail in presidential elections.
The present divisions of politics in city
affairs must be utterly broken down be
fore municipal reform can make much
practical headway.
The people who have the selection of
a United States senator from Pennsyl
vania in their hands seem te be very
slew in getting through with their work,
or at least in announcing its result. The
attempt of the Philadelphia 77)c.s te
grab time by the forelock has proven
quite a misventure. A very small pro
portion of the Pennsylvania legislators,
and the newspapers which might be sup
posed te speak for them, show any will
ingness te disclose what they knew, if
they knew anything. The Grew people
knew what they want, but they cannot
be very confident that they are going te
get it. The Cameren people knew equal
ly well that they arc most anxious te
beat Grew, and that the field is stronger
than-Grew. but when it comes te draw
the winner they may find a new 'field
bunched against him. The Legislature
will have te seen meet and the election
of senator comes early in the course of
its business. Possibly events wait en
Mr. Garfield's attitude toward Camer Camer
ereu's preference for a cabinet office;
and Garfield's disposal of his cabinet
places waits en the Ohie senatorial elec
tion, se that altogether Pennsylvania af
fairs are put into a very embarrassing
position of painful expectation.
PFBSONAL.
Salvini, the tragedian, lives the life of
a fanner when off the stage. He is worth
about $20,000.
Gkaxt has arrived in Washington, the
guest of General Bealc and the " boys in
blue." -"
Senater Wallace en his retirement
from the Senate will resume the practice
of the law and give his attention te his
private business.
Mrs. Jeiix Jacob Asteu has sent a font
with basin of solid silver te a mission
chapel which she has established in Ne
braska. Dr. Talmaeu's Tabernacle is reported
in desperate financial straits. Four
months' arrears of salary are due him,
notes te the amount of $11,000 are falling
due, and there is but $50 in the treasury.
Hen. 11. W. Thomi'Pex called en Mr.
Hayes and requested him te appoint his
successor as secretary of the navy in time
te permit his retiring from that office en
Monday next. Mr. Hayes accepted Secre
tary Thompson's resignation, and has
since designated Secretary Ramsey t act
as secretary of the navy, in addition te his
duties as secretary of war, from the 20th
instant.
Imegkxk, the actress, who was arrested
for complicity in the embezzlement of $00,
000 from the Bosten city treasury,
was discharged. Evidence of her knowl
edge of the doings of Jehn A. Woodward,
the absconding cashier, was clear, but as
, she proved she was his lawfully wedded
wife, she escaped trial en a technicality of
I the law, and accordingly the grand jury
found no bill. Her husband has been
traced te Montreal.
Lieutenant Commander IIr:xi:r
! Nici.ds, United States navy, died at
, residence in West Chester yesterdav
his
of
plcuro-pnenmonia after three daysilluess.
He was a brave effiicer and gained his
I rank by meritorious services. Recently
1 he was transferred te duty at the League
1 Island navy yard. Philadelphia, where he
! was stationed at the time of his death.
I He was universally beloved, and the whole
l community mourn the less of one of its
' most respected citizens. He was forty
lone years of age, and leaves a wife and
six children.
MINOR TOPICS.
A.Mi:nicAN capital, represented by Jay.
Gould, is about te lay two new Atlantic
cables. England and France must stand
from under new.
Ay the time that circulars were scut by
the Times te the Republican members of
the Legislature te gel some idea of their
preference regarding the senatership sim
ilar circula:s were mailed te the Republi
can newspapers. They have generally
i wen very prompt in respeiuiing, aim uie
' "suit shows 81 papers for Grew as first
choice, 2 for Quay, 3 for Stene, 2 for
Ward, 2 for Lear, 2 forScefield, 2 Ter Shir- i
as, 5 for J. B. Packer, with 1 each for
Daniel Agnew, Charles S. Wolfe, Bcnja-1
miu Harris Brewster, Lemuel Tedd, Harry '
White, General Lilly and Jehn Stewart. i
i Ri;v. J. B. Yofxe, a Method ist preacher
of Alteena, having preached a "Protcs "Pretcs
i tant '' sermon en Thanksgiving Day, is
! taken te account for some of his statc
j ments by a correspondent of the Tribune.
The critic reminds the preacher that all
the great explorations in this country were
made by Catholics ; from Quebec te San j
Francisce are still traceable the foot
prints of the pioneers of Catholic civiliza
tion and the missionaries of Catholic faith ;
of the forty states new under the stare and
stripes twenty-seven were settled by
Catholics ; the Jesuit written constitution
of Maryland efferrcd Protestants a refuge
from Protestant intolerance ; and that
many of the republics in the world te-day
are Catholic France, Peru, Mexico, Co
lumbia, Ilayti, Belivia, Equador, San
Dominge and the Argentine Republic.
Mi:. Mykhs, of Indiana, has offered in
the Heuse an answering resolution calling
upon the secretary of the treasury te fur
uish Congress with a detailed statement
of hew much money the government has
paid General Grant since his entrance into
the military academy. This includes his
cadctship, his service in the Mexican and
the late war, thereafter while general of
the army, and his two terms in the White
Heuse. The resolution went te the mili
tary affairs committee, which also has in
hand the bill te retire General Grant as
general of the army. It is understood
that Mr. Myers intends te combat the re
tiring bill, and te use for that purpose
figures from the treasury departmct, if
he can get them, te show that General
Grant has already had enough of public
reward.
English Secial Kccentrlcltlcs
Londen Truth says : "An extraordinary
circumstance took place the ether day in a
West Midland county. A marriage" had
been arranged between two parties of geed
position, and everything was completely
settled, when, en the morning fixed for the
ceremony, the lady went te the rector of
the parish te say that she was 'very
sorry,' but she had 'changed her mind.'
The cause of this inconvenient alteration
in her sentiment remained a mystery for
two days, and then she was married quiet
ly by special license te another bride
groom. "I hear of a peculiarly scandalous
elopement from a Midland county. The
gentleman has left behind a wife and
family, while his companion is a young
unmarried lady. Beth are people of
'society.' "
Starred te Death.
A woman 80 years old was starved te
death in Bosten. She was weak from old
age, aud could net have lived much longer
in any cvcDt ; but lack of feed was what
killed her. Her daughter was a washer
woman, but could get very little work, and
was se sensitive en the subject of her pov
erty that she would net beg. She and her
mother had nothing te eat for a week but
some meal and a small piece of meat, and
for two days were wholly without feed.
The old woman lay helpless in bed, mean
ing : "lam starving," yet the daughter
would net go te the authrities for relief.
STATE. ITEMS.
The Alteena Sun starts bravely en its
second year.
Blair county has another " disgusting"
infanticide. Miss Annie Gardner, of
Lloydsville, dropped her male infant into
a sink and it died there.
"Judge Sterrctt, of the supreme court,
is in Washington pushing the claims of
Paxtea te a seat en the supreme bench of
the United States."
The prosecution of the Pittsburgh gam
blers has new taken a new turn, and, in
stead of light lines when brought before
the mayer,tbcy are te have an opportunity
te stand trial before the courts.
A heateratrachcdtoabeilcrin Randelph
& Jenks's mill, at Cliften, Delaware coun ceun
ty, blew up, killing Frauk Lee and se se
lieusly injuring Mark Cloud, both opera
tives. The chairman of the finance committee of
the university of Pennsylvania, announces
that Mr. Henry C. Gibsen has offered te
erect the new wing for incurables in con
nection with the uuiversity hospital at the
cost of about $30,000.
The Western Union telephone inan-
gcVs in Harrisburg having refused te put
a telephone into the otlice of their rival,
the American Union telegraph company,
the court has been asked te compel them
te admit the American Union te equcl
privileges with the ether general public.
The Kcystena wringer factory of F. F.
Adams A; Ce., at Erie, caught fire and was
burned te the ground. While endeavor
ing te save the building Firemen Charles
Scliugart, Geerge Smith and Geerge
Claws were killed by the falling of a burn
ing wall. The less is about $25,000 ; in
surance, $50,000.
At last the identity of the burglar killed
in Baker's store, Ebeiisburg, a few weeks
since, has been established. His compan
ion, Albert Wilsen, who was sentenced te
the penitentiary, says that the name of the
individual was given as Charles Weaver,
but his right name appears te have been
Geerge Cenner. He was aged (VI years,
had served two terms in fhc penitentiary
and was generally "a bad man.'"
James Larkins, city tax collector of
Mcadville, cemmittced suicide en Satur
day by sheeting himself in the forehead.
He had city and county tax duplicates
unaccounted for te the amount et $33,000,
which is supposed te be the cause of the
suicide. All is secured by responsible
bondsmen. Larkins was ferty-five years
of age, and leaves a wife and five chil
dren. William Melntyre, :iged thirteen, son of
a track foreman at Hollidaysburg, rolled
effa lounge in his fathers house and fell
en the point of a rusty bayonet with which
he was playing. The bayonet entered his
neck near the right ear, and was forced
clear through his neck, emerging just
below the left car. The father drew the
bayonet, but there is no present hope of
the boy's recovery.
In Harrisburg, yesterday, Geerge Rett
berg went out upon the reef te paint the
dormer window frames of his houses. A
strip of weed en which he depended for a
foothold gave way, allowing Mr. R. te
slide down feet foremost. He endeavored
te catch himself, hut failed, falling te the
pavement, striking the wooden steps with
his feet, then rebounding pitched head
foremost into the gutter, striking en the
top of his head. When the doctor arrived
the vital spark was just leaving the body
of the unfortunate man. Upen examining
Rettbcrg it was found that his neck had
been broken by the fall; that his left wrist
was broken and that he had a deep wound
en the side of his head where he struck the
bricks in the gutter, and that he had re
i ecived several bruises besides.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
The steamship City of Richmond, fiem
Europe, brought 1,730,000 in coin aud
geld bar.
The beard of directors of the Northern
Central railroad recently declared a divi
dend of two-and-a-half per cent., which
was the first dividend for years.
J, Sullivan Hale, aged 74, father of Hen.
Eugene Hale, was struck by a lever in a
mill at Lewiston, Me., en Saturday, and
cannot survive.
The trial of William Parker, at Raleigh,
N. C, for the murder of General Bryan
Grimes, has been suspended and post
poned until next spring, owing te the dan
gerous illness of a juror.
In the case of Sehrecder for the murder
of Dr. Lcfevrc, at Oakland, Cal., the
jury, after being out seventy-two hours,
returned a verdict of net guilty. He had
killed him for erim. run. with his wife.
Hiram S. Holbrenk, agent of the Amer
ican express company at Dubuque, la.,
while lying abed fatally shot his two year
old daughter aud then fatally shot himself
dead. His peer health is the supposed
cause.
Medicine Bull, a chief of the Brule Sioux
was accidentally shot by the agency clerk
at the Lewer Brule ngency, in Dakota. As
a sign of geed faith he gave his best horse
te the clerk and forbade his warriors te
molest the whites.
Dr. Glacier, assistant surgeon, recently
attacked with yellow fever at Key West,
Fla , died at 2:30 Sunday morning. Hos
pital Steward Greene was placed iu charge
of the hospital, but was taken sick with
the fever when Dr. F. W. Lester was
placed in charge.
Jay Gould had been treating witll the
Aliens for the purchase of their controll
ing interest in the St. Leuis, Iren Moun
tain & Southern railroad. Mr. Allen yes
terday sold forty thousand shares of Iren
Mountain stock te Mr. Gould for $2,000,
000, or fifty cents en the dollar. Mr.
Thes. Allen and the stockholders who co
operate with him in the Iren Mountain
read owned two-thirds of the 214,589
shares of the capital stock of the read.
This transfer will put the control of the
read into Gould's hand.
Miss Avis Piukham, whom Ivnapten
Wardman shot and killed in Lawrence,
Mass., before attempting te take his own
life, was tweuty-nine years of age. Her
parents reside in Washington, Maine. By
these by whom she was known she is well
spoken of. Her intimacy with Wardman
appears te be the only blot en her character.
Wardman was a man of dissipated habits,
but formerly was held in high esteem.
A negre rag picker named Isaac Smith
was convicted in the criminal court in
Washington yesterday of rape en a colored
child nine years of age, named Hattic
Beckett. He was sentenced te thirty
years imprisonment, the full period al
lowed by the statutes, in the Albany pen
itentiary. A plea of guilty was entered
against him iu the second case for commit
ting a rape en Elizabeth Hams, aged ten
years. Sentence in this case suspended
until Saturday.
Railroad Commissioner Bcerstcckcr has
been shot in San Francisce by Antoine
Fricher, president of the German Work Werk
ingmen's club, of which Beerstecker was
a member. They had been close political
friends, but after the election of Beer
stecker te the commissiencrship and the
defeat of Fricher as a candidate for re
corder at the last electieu, Fricher be
came a bitter enemy of Beerstecker. Just
before the sheeting Fricher had been im
portuning Beerstecker te obtain for him
some official position. The ball struck
Beerstecker in the left breast, but it is be
lieved the wound will net preve fatal.
A;i Insane Ilrlflegroem.
A weddinir party was assembled at Cleve
land, and everything was ready for the cer
emony, except that the bridegroom had
net arrived. After waiting an hour be
yond the appointed time, the bride fainted
and the guests were about te disperse.
Then a policeman came in and said that
he had driven from the deer a drunken
man who wanted te enter. A search in
the neighborhood resulted in finding this
man, who was the missing bridegroom.
He was net intoxicated, but had gene insane.
OKCIUKULY PARISIAN.
Strange Suicide or Twe Levers.
A remarkable duel lias just taken' place
which for its novelty and feat fill termina
tion has set Parisians agog.
Twe brothers, Augustc and Audie
Bcrni, the ienner ageI 10, the latter 153,
both employed in the great glass manufac
tory at Saint Denis, hecame enamored of
Adcle Vergeri,a cook at La Yillutte. Adclc
Vergeri is described as a young woman of
plain, simple habits, who had, by dint of
hard work and economy, managed te save
a few hundred francs. In appearance
Adcle is but a humble representative of
France, but she is modest and retiring,
and net given te resorting te balls and the
atres. She formed the acquaintance of
the brethersat a baptism. Beth, it ap
pears from the very first, began paying her
attentions.
Adclc Vergeri received the visits of the
brothers with much sang freid. Te her it
was amusing te sec lust one, men uie
ether, come pulling and blowing in his de
sire te be the first te greet her. Neither
would give in te the .ether, and Adele had
te escort them both out, as neither would
leave the ether alone with her. Se terri
ble became the jealousy between thu
brothers that they would net speak with
each ether. It had, however, te be settled
at last, as Adclc Vcisrcri threatened that
unless her courtship ceased te be mixed
with hatred she would have te ask the
brothers te desist from calling upon her.
The brothers met. They had parted with
Adele Vcrgeri, and both confronted each
ether in one of the great winesheps of the
Saint Denis quarter, se appropriately
called by Zehu " Assommeir." They
glared at each ether, and their friends saw
at once that mischief was brewing. They
finally motioned te each ether te withdraw
te a table. They spoke low, but excitedly,
smoked quickly, and the blue smoke, of
their pipes was het.
"A duel ! Yes, a duel !" This was dis
tinctly heard, and then the brothers beck
oned te Jules ilemi and Alfred Poulier,
friends of theirs. They had decided upon
fighting a duel, but net with swords or
pistols. It was te be a duel te the death.
Twe bottles of rum. brought from the
cellars of Jacques Barbicr's Assommeir de
Saint Denis, were put en the table. Twe
tumblers were set by the side of the
bottles, and then this contract was made
by the brothers in the presence of wit
ncsscs :
"It is agreed between the brothers
Augustc and Andre Bcrni te drink rum
until neither is unable te drink any mere.
The first who succumbs will consider him
self beaten, and surrender all claim te
Adclc Vergeri."
The contract was signed, the bottles
tipped, and the tumbler idled. At first the
men drank slowly, but as the liquor began
te excite their brains they fairly poured it.
down their threats. At the ninth glas.-
Angus'
;uste, the younger ei the brothers,
gave a yen et pain , anu same scnscies 10
the fleer. Andre Bcrni then arose, and,
with a smile en his face , turned te
leave. Hardly ha., he reached the deer
of tnc cabaret when he threw up
Ins lianas and leu senseless, no was
quickly carried te the hospital Tenen, ,
but died shortly after reaching it, of con
cussion of the brain and paralysis of the
heart. Augustc Genii, crazed by the rum '
he had drank, recovering from his faint,
ran madly through the streets, and hasj
net been seen since.
Adele Vergeri, the humble cek of La
Villette, when she heard of the death of
Andre and the disappearance of Augustc,
merely shrugged her shoulders.
IlK.Vfll IX A 1'Or OF VA1S.MMI.
Three I'islnliil Accident, line r Which has
a Fatal Kuilin.
A most painful accident occurred en
Saturday, at the home of Paul Hall, a car
penter, living in Bushhill township, North
ampton county. A kettle containing var
nish which had been placed ever a stove
boiled ever and the contents, catching fire,
ran ever the fleer, setting die te it and
filling the room instantly with smoke.
There were in the room at the tunc
Mrs. Hall,, her two daughter. Mrs.
Patrick McGrath and Mrs. Henry
Spongier, and several children of
these ladies. Mrs. Hall rushed te
the stove and endeavored te lift the pet
from it, but her drcts caught lire and iu an
instant she was wrapped in fiaines. Her
daughters, after bursting ihe winnow
sashes and throwing out their children ran
te the assistance of their mother, who lay
en the lloer unconscious, as the flames
consumed her flesh and clothing. They
extinguished the fiames, but wcre them
selves injured. William Hall, a son ran
in te assist and was badly burned about
the head, face aud hands. A six-year-old
son of Mr. Hall has died. William Hall is
expected te recover, but the McGrath
child will net, it is feared, survive. The
house was badly damaged.
Fatal Casualties.
Jehn F. R. Brown, owner of the Pleas
ure Bay house, at Leng Branch, was
thrown from Ins carriage last Thursday
evening and received injuries which may
prove fatal.
A carriage containing a party of young
people was demolished by a train at a rail
road crossing in Dublin, Ohie, en Saturday
night, and a young woman named Clara
Ilausboreugh, was killed. Anether young
woman and a young man were severely in
jured. The rcsidcucc of Charles D. Fisher, en
Charles street, Baltimore, was destroyed
by fire before daylight Sunday morning.
The family escaped, but Mary Taskcr, a
colored woman, and Perry Diggs, a color
ed boy, were fatally injured by jumping
from a fifth-story window. The woman
died in half an hour alter the disaster, and
the boy was dying last night. The lire is
supposed te have originated from the fur
nace iu the cellar. The less en the build
ing, furniture and library is estimated at
810,000.
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A Deal Toe Leng.
All old lady of his fleck once called upon
Dr. Gill with a grievance. The doctor's
neck-bands were tee long for her ideas of
ministerial humility, and after a long har
angue en the sin of pride, she intimated
that she had brought her scissors with lier
and would be "pleased if her dear pastor
would allow her te clip them down te her
notions of poverty. The doctor net
only listened patiently te her lecture,
but handed her ever the offend
ing white bands for her te operate
upon. When she had cut them le her sat
isfaction and returned the bibs it was the
doctor's turn. "New," said he, " my
geed sister, you must de me a geed turn
also." "Yes, that I will, doctor; what
can it. be?" "Yeu have something about
you which is a deal tee long and causes
me no end of trouble, and I would like te
see it shorter." " Indeed, dear sir, I will
net hesitate; what is it? Here are the
scissors, use them as you please." " Come
then," said the sturdy divine, " geed sis
ter, put out your tongue."
A Paris Sensation.
The best society of Paris has been
shocked by the sudden death of two young
ladies, Mile, de Thaunberg and Mile, de
la Ckevardierc. They went with fricuds
te the theatre, aud it was arranged that
Mile, de Thannnbcrg should sleep at the
house of Mme de la Chevardierc, instead
of going te her home. A stove had been
lighted in the room of one of the young
ladies, which opened into that which her
friend was te occupy. . They retiretUin
geed health' and spirits, but. next morning
when the maid entered their room with
their chocolate, they were found in their
beds dead. They had been asphyxiated
by the carbonic acid gas from the stove.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
A TOBACCO SHAIU'.
Il.uv IIe Swindled a Dealer out of a Small
Amount anil Came Near Shutting; Up
the Eyes of Others.
A piece of sharp practice en the part of
a bogus tobacco buyer has just come te
ligkt.theugh the parties most immediately
interested succeeded in keeping it qnfct for
a week. A geed-looking, well-dressed,
well-informed man calling himself S. Sell
ser, aud representing himself as an ageut
of the extensive cigar manufacturing es
tablishment of Huan & Ce., made his ap
pearance iu Lancaster and sought an inter
view with David G. Hirsh, dealer iu leaf
tobacco. After dickering for some
time and examining samples with the
utmost care he made up his mind te pur
chase 130 cases, cash en delivery. He
selected 40 cases for immediate shipment,
the price agreed upon amounting te $1,94G.
As Mr. Sellser required some loose change
for immediate wants he suggested that
the draft en Huan & Ce. should be made
for the even $2,000, aed that Mr. Hirsh
should hand ever te him the
odd $54. This was acquiesced in "by Mr.
Hirsh, who suggested, however, that it
would be the proper thing te telegraph te
Huan fc Ce. and acquaint them with the
transaction. le this Sellser readily
agreed, but urged Mr. Hirsh te keep the
matter from the knowledge of ether
packers and manufacturers, as Huan S: Ce.
had a reputation of using only Havana to
bacco and it wouldn't de te let outsiders outsiders
knew they wcre using Pennsylvania. This
matter being satisfactorily arranged, the
two walked down street, took supper at the
Stevens house, telegraphed te Huan &
Ce., at Jacksonville, went te the theatre
and had a geed time generally all at Mr.
Ilir.di's expense. As it was late Saturday
evening when the telegram was sent oil',
no reply was received until Monday. In
the meantime, Mr. Sellsc had hired a
team from Fred. Brimmer and gene te
Manhcim te ply his arts among the rural
tobacco men. Mr. Hirsh at once followed
him and ovorteok him, finding that he had
negotiated with several parties for a large
number of cigars. The fellow begged,
and cried, and plead se earnestly, that
Mr. Hirsh, who had at least saved his to
bacco, that he was induced te let him
oft" without a prosecution a thing which
i he ought net te have dene: but as
an evidence of Mr. Scllser's tender-heartedness
it may be here mentioned that
when Mr. Hirsh took him te the theatre
the play being "The Child of the State"
he wept at all the mere affecting pas
sages of that delightful drama.
The same fellow, under the name of
Geedman, en the same day en which he
called en Mr. Hirsh, called also en Messrs.
Slnlcs fc Jfrcy, and, representing himself
as agent for Huan & Ce., bought 40 cases,
shi,)C(1 at eucc. Before the shipment was
' made, however, the bubble burst and the
i imQ ciaractcr )t- Sellser, alias Geedman,
was ospescd. Dcales-s in- ether localities
, b1mmiM , .. m Mm
,
A Ui:STION Of COXSTKUCTIOK.
When De Their Terms likjiire ?
There appears te be some doubt as te
whether an election for select councilman
of the Third ward, and Aldermen MoCen-
emy. Geed and Dennelly, of the First, .
Fifth and Eighth wards, shall or shall net
be had at the ensuing municipal election
in February. i
Last I'ebriiaiy Majer R. W. Shetik was i
elected ."-elect councilman of the Thiid
ward, lie died and Adam R. IJaiv was
elected his .successor. Heretofore the
practice has been for council te elect a. suc
cessor "for the unexpired term " but it is
claimed by sonic that this is illegal
md
that the vacancy should he tilled by an
election by the people at the next succeed-
ing city election. Ihe mere prevalent
opinion is that council has a right te fill
the vacancy for tha full length of the un
expired term.
As te the cise of the aldermen there is
mere doubt. They were elected in Feb
ruary, 1870, but their commissions, which
run for a term of live years, bear date No
vember 0, 187(5 and would therefore expire
November 0, 1SSI : but the act of Assem
bly of March 10, 1873. provides that
"city officer:;" whose terms of office
would expire in November, 1S7G. or any
year thereafter, shall continue in ofiice
until the first of April following, school
directors excepted. The question is, de
the aldermen of the wards named
held ever until April, 1832, or de their
commissions expire November; 1881 ; and
if they expire in November, 1881, shall
their successors be elected at the ensuing
February election. Under the previsions
of the act of March 10, 1873, common
councilmen elected in October of that year
held ever until the 1st of April, 1377. But
common councilmen arc net commissioned
by the governor, and aldermen are ! And
arc aldermen "city officers?"
The act of May 2&1, 1874, says : " Each
of the wards of the said cities shall be en
titled te one alderman : "' "' said alder
man shall be elected at the muuicipal
election next preceding the c::piratien of
the commission of the justice of the peace
resident in the district out of which said
ward shall be created."'
It will be necessary te have an " official"
decision pretty seen, as the mayor is
obliged te make timely proclamation of all
the offices te be filled afc the ensuiug elec
tion. The city solicitor has been asked
for an opinion, aud it is probable the mat
ter will be referred te the attorney general
also.
Class in riiysiolegy.
The talk en " Digestion " last evening
by Dr. Crumbaugh at the Yeung Men's
Christian association before the class in
anateinyg and physiology was well at
tended, some forty te fifty youths and
young men being present. The subject
was set forth en the black-beards in brief
heads which were discussed at length, first
as te the organs themselves, and then as
te their structure, secretions and functions.
The lecture was of a practical character,
being illustrated with diagrams, charts,
skeleton and prepared slides of tissues and
parts of organs shown under the compound
microscope. Three very line microscopes
were en duty upon the table in the room
te the rear of the audience hall, te which
the attention of all present was invited at
the close of the lecture. This physiology
class affords young men an unusually geed
chance te learn something of "the house
they live in.'" It is, of course, free te
everybody.
Anether itlllbniau Fined.
Wilsen Brubakcr, jr., a milkman resid
ing en the New Helland pike, near Muddy
Springs, had a hearing before Alderman
McConemy this morning, te answer a
complaint preferred against him by
Daniel Feglcy, for violating the act of As
sembly which requires milk-venders te
have en their wagons their names and the
location of their dairy. Mr. Brubaker ac
knowledged that he knew he was violat
ing the law, but did se only because he
purchased a new wagon for which he had
net yet received the painted curtains. He
was made pay the fines and costs, and
premised te ha'e his curtains put en at
once.
There are three or four ether milk
venders in town who have neglected te
show their " sign," who have been warned,
and will be prosecuted if they are seen
vending milk en the street without it.
IIAKKISUEKG COTTON FACTORY.
The
.Capacity of Its Machinery A Short
SKetcheltne .enterprise.
The Harrisburg papers aud people con
tinue te express great satisfaction at the
purchase by Geerge Calder. jr., of this
city; of their cotton mil,. The Telegraph
gives quite a history of the mill. Its ca
pacity is as fellows":
Looms, two bundled and eighty one.
Spindles, eight thousand.
Operatives two hundred aud fifty.
Productions, seventy six thousand yards
per week.
Hours par day, under the old organiza
tion, eleven.
The mill made brown sheetings, shirt
ing and drillings. Cotteu used per week
sixty hales. The average pay per year,
$00,000.
The first fleer was used for canting.
second for weaving third for spinning,
and the fourth for dressing. The cloth
room is located in the second story of the
new brick building, where the goods were
brushed, trimmed, folded, stamped and
baled for the market.
About the year 1846-17, the success of
the cotton mills at Lancaster, built by Gen.
James, of Providence, R. I., induced a
number of the enterprising citizens of Har
risburg te consult with that gentleman as
te the erection of a similar mill in this
(.then) borough. General James's knowl
edge of cotton spinning was very exten
sive, and at a meeting held in the court
house, he presented the practical points te
be considered by these who were asked te
subscribe the necessary capital te ereet
such an establishment, and a joint stock
company was organized, which embraced
many of our most prominent capitalists
James McCormick, William Calder,
Isaac G. McKinlcy, Michael Burke,
Jehn H. Briggs, Philip Dougherty and
ethers. A contract was entered into with
Gen. James for the erection of a first-class
mill, and the company started in its opera
tions about 1819-30, James McCormick,
president; William Buchlcr, treasurer.
All the original beard of directors arc
dead, the only surviving officer being Win.
Buchlcr. Staiting with a limited knowl
edge of the business, the directors wcre
wholly dependent en the judgment of the
superintendent. The success of the
enterprise was varied, but en the whole
profitable. One of the effects of the
mill was te increase the value of real
estate in the upper end of the city, the
indirect profits of which paid for the erec
tion of the mill twice ever. At the begin
iug of the war the company had a fair
working capital and were in first-rate
standing. Supposing that the war would
be of short duration, operations in the mill
wcre suspended, the result of which was j who is collecting money for his church,
that the establishment was idle until about I from our citizen, was net authorized te
1805. By this time a number of the di-idose. Whether she is acting inasurrop inasurrep inasurrop
recters had died, and these remaining J titieus capacity, or net, docs net appear en
were net willing te undertake P.s manage- the surface.
ment. In this condition of affairs the mill ! Twe sons of William M. Jehnsen, a vet
was sold at public auction, Hen. J. D. Cam-! emu of the late war, of this place, who
cren and ethers becoming the purchasers. 1 were placed iu the Mount Jey soldiers' or er
Samucl D. Maseu, of Providence, R. I., phans' school a few months age, ran away
was the first superintendent. When the t this morning and came te Columbia They
mill was nut into oncratien under the new I wcre pursued by two ether inmates of the
ownership, a Mr. kclly was superintend
cut for about a year. In 18G0 Samuel Fisk
took charge of the mill, conducting its af
fairs untifl870, when Edward Andrews :
took charge of it, by whom it has been !
managed until its late suspension. The :
mill will begin spinning en the 1st of Jan-
tiarv. 1881. Mr. Andrews, whose man-
agement of the mill under the late owner- .
ship was se satisfactory, will remain with
Mr. Calder until the establishment is un
der full operation, and for aught we knew
longer. lie is certainly one of the most
successful men in his line iu the country.
ILLEGAL FCKS.
ifew They are Alatiiitactnreu.
A case just brought te our notice illus
trates in a remarkable degree the felly and
expense of "going te Jaw"' ever trifles
and the rapacity of petty officials iu in
creasing their fees at a rate which makes
the local administration of justice se scau-
j ilaleus and oppressive.
j Twe brothers had a dispute as te
their
great
, rights in a certain property of no
value at its best. Ihe invasion of it or
rather the use of it by one of the brothers .
and his men was regarded by the ether as
a malicious trespass and a criminal prose- '
cutien was begun against them all.
A counter civil and criminal suit fol
lowed. By which time the trouble of at ,
tending court, the law's .delays, the law- !
yers' fees, the bad bleed created, and ;
ether considerations involved, brought
them te their better senses and a brotherly :
compromise was effected, by which all :
suits wcre withdrawn and the costs di- '
vided. It cost each of the parties te the
v -
quarrel about $100 for their experiment at
litigation'evcr trifles,
But this is only incidental te the main
fact which it is desired te illustrate the
facility with which costs are worked up
by constables.
When the aggrieved party sought re
dress he readily found n magistrate who
.showed him hew te make nine complaints
and nine cases out of one and the same
time The
line "sets of
offense committed at the same
nine suits were brought and nine
costs incurred. One bill was ignored and
one case otherwise disposed of. When
there remained seven suits ou the docket
the agreement was reached by which
seven were te be nel.pratscd upon payment
of the costs, half by each of the brothers
litigant, original parties te the dispute.
When it came te the payment of these
costs it was found that the subdivision of
the offense, and the multiplication of in
dictments had resulted in siwen sets of
costs for the prosecution of the single of
fense. The sheriff, the district attorney,
the clerk of quarter sessions, the county,
the justice and the constable's return each
had seven-fold costs included in the bill.
The first brother who paid his costs found
his half amounting te $77.90. The settle
ment was made te the August term.
Meanwhile subpecnas were issued te the
witnesses te attend the October, Novem
ber and December terms of court, and
after the latter the ether brother came te
town te attend te the payment of his half
of the costs aud was startled te hear that
they had mounted up te about $130.
Here comes the rub !
There wcre three witnesses for the com
monwealth. One of them was the prose
cutor and another was the constable him
self te whom the subpecnas were sent te
be served by him. He had te travel G or 7
miles and back at most te serve en the
prosecutor ami the ether man.
Hew de you suppose he managed te feet
up a bill of $17.04 mileage en the com
monwealth's subpeena for each court?
This way
He traveled his seven miics and back
each of the three times. Then he returned
14 miles circular for each of the three wit
nesses, in each of the seven cases at each
of the three courts : 14x.00x3x7-317.C4.
$17.G4x3$32.92.
That is te say that this constable and
he was net a city constable charged
$32.92 mileage, representing 8S4 miles trav
eled at 0 cents a mile, when in truth and
fact he traveled only 42 miles and was
only entitled te $2.52. He came down
like Jenes's coon as seen as the gun was
pointed at him.
THE LATE FKBEZL'.
Hydrants ami Water Fipes Damaged.
The moderating weather has had the ef
fect of swelling the ice in frozen hydrants
and frozen water pipes and bursting a
great number of them. Over one hundred
have already been rcpertetl as buist, aud
one plumber reports that he had eighteen
te repair en Saturday. While se many
private pi' es havebejn burst, it is gratify
ing te Jearn that there has net ticun a
single break in any of the city water mains
nor a single fire plug frozen.
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OBi: KKGU1.AU COKKESrOXUKNCK
Yesterday, the occasion of his 58th
birthday, William Hitcshuc was agree
ably surprised, en reaching his home, at
the" dinner hour, te find a number of bis
friends awaiting him- te commemorate
with him the day. Mr. Hiteshue's Sun
day school class of the Church of Ged
were among the number.
Officers Fisher and Lylc arrested four
men yesterday en North Frent street,
charged with drunken and disorderly con
duct in the neighborhood of Baker's sa
loon. .Messrs. S. S. Dctwiler. L. W. Richards
and several ethers, left here this morning
for MeCall's Ferry te procure greens for
decorating purposes in St. Paul's Episco
pal church. The decorations, which will
be efau elaborate nature, will he put up
seen and will be kept up until after New
Year's day."""
Jehn L. Denny, of the Paxton rolling
mill, Harrisburg, was in town yesterday.
Information reaches us of thedcmolitieu
of four canal beats in the Chesapcake Bay
a day or two since. The beats were being
towed from Baltimore te Havre De Grace
by a tmr. which with the fifth beat get
away. The ice- had gorged at a point abeve
the scene of the accident a couple of days
before ami it was shortly after flie break,
while the current was swift and the ice
running thick, that the beats appeared.
Te battle the ice was impossible and four
of the beats succumbed. One of them
was leaded with merchnudiss, the value of
which is estimated at four hundred dollars'.
Xe lives lest .
Cel. C. S. Kaufi'itiau has returned from
a viit te the western part of the state.
The Vigilant fire company, at a meeting
held last evening appointed Geerge W.
Schreedcr a delegate te the state volunteer
firemen's convention te be held at Read
ing en Thursday next. The Columbia
company appointed their president a dele
gate te the convention with the under
standing thas he was te name his substi
tute should he be unable te go himself.
A young man while en his way home en
Saturday night discovered a couple of
tramps standing at the open deer of a
dwelling house en one of our streets. He
asked the men what they were doing there
and they answered " What the hell busi
ness is that ei yours ?" He stepped, the
men advanced towards him,but by a quick
hand movement te tiic neighborhood of the
hip-pocket of his pantaloons, he effectually
scared molestation from their pates and
they retired. The victor then went home.
Rev. J. !1. Katcrline. pastor of the
Church of Ged, savs that the little girl
institution until they reached here when
they eluded their pursuers. They are yet
at liberty, but will probably be caught be
fore long.
At the monthly meeting of company 11
last evening, it was decided te give a sup
per en February 18th, 19th, 21st and 22d
I 1SS1
ihe receipts will ie used te pay tins
company's expenses te Washington, D. C.
en inauguration day. Twe new members
were elected.
The Peim-.j Ivania railroad ;ay car was
here yestcrdaj aftcrnejn, and the employ
ees of the company were paid for work
performed in the month of November.
Corporal A. M. Slade was acting first
icrgeant of company II last evening.
Market this morning was net very lively.
One of Samuel Filbert's mules fell into
the rivei above the bridge yesterday.
Til 1UKUS WKVEXS.
Further Demand for the I'uullcnlimt (
ll!
Itiograiiliy Itiegraiiliy
Xffw l'erk Sun.
Thaddeus Stevens was buried iu the
graveyard for colored people of Lancaster.
lie declined te lay his bones with these
who were tee proud te associate themselves
even in death with the race whose suffer
ings had exeited his sympathy. In his
public conduct, in his domestic life, and
in all his te.-tamentary arrangements, he
made clear his detestation of the distinc
tion whieh society had always main
tained. Stevftis was certainly tins great com
moner of the war period. He was for a
while in the Heuse of Representatives ; its
action lav ia his voice. Opposition wilted
before hi strong will. Weaker men, and
...... ... ' .1
I semcumes moiecenscieiiuous niu,wiiu
.Mlt.bi. Illi, JtlOIJ, .(ill. i?.iii ....i.i. .iv
wcre
measures they would lam have escaped.
Gen. Garlield, for instance, did net be
lieve iu the constitutionality of the recon
struction laws; he had, indeed, demon
strated their unconstitutionality in the
supreme com t ; but he voted for them
under Stevens's stern command, as obe
diently as if it had been high treason te
I have an opinion of his own. Stevens 1
i cratcd "no nonsense." as he called
un
it.
AVIn-n a member offended him. or was
slack in his service of the party, he had no
hesitation ii wiiting te the gentlemen's
constituents that he had no further use for
him and th"y had better keep him at
home. lie never pretended that he thought
the reconstruction laws constitutional. On
the contrary, he candidly stated his opin
ion that they were entirely " outside the
constitution," and as candidly expressed
his sovereign contempt for the intellect of
any man who supposed they were inside.
His doctrine of political necessity covered
the case. He had no notion of pausing te
consider matters of mere legal right when
the interests he had in charge required
him te go ahead.
With much of the moral ceaiseness of
Danton, he had many of the high mental
qualities of Mirabcau. He was ena of the
greatest, of revolutionary leaders. He
rode th.-r storm, and rode it for a purpose.
There was. a time when Mr. Lincoln's
power was net comparable te the actual
power wielded by Stevens. Ne ether man
in Amc: hi tit history has ever occupied the
singular position which courage, genius
and stern conviction gave him.
The story of Mr. Stevens's life is also
closely interwoven with the most interest
ing chapters in the history of Pennsylva Pennsylva
eis. With the commeu school system, the
public works and the State politics of a by
gone age, his name is inseparably con
nected. (Jii the whole, Thaddeus Stevens's
biography, if executed with a frankness
and courage similar te his own, would lie
one of the most instructive biographies
ever written. Mr. Edward McPherson is
his literary executer, and the public expceS
tatieu hasmire than once been areuscdf
by announcements that he had the work
in iiand. The time has arrived for a can
did and dispassionate review of the polit
ical conduct of the group of anti-slavery
leaders, .if whom Mr. Stevens was the most
powerful and for a time the most conspic
uous ; ami it is te be hoped that his ap
pointed biographer will net longer with with
eold tht materials for a proper judgment.
Mentii'-f tte Finance Committee.
Last evening a meeting of the iinancc
committee of city councils was held in
select cenr.ci: chamber. The city treas
urer had been notified te attend the roect reect
iiv and bring with him the tax duplicates
ami acettificateef his banker, showing
the amount of city funds en deposit en the
1st and 5th of April last, and also en the
1st of November. The treasurer, who is
acting under advice of counsel, declined te
appear. The committee. approved the bill
ei" Mr. Clarksen, who had been employed
as an expert te examine the city treasur
er's books, and having no ether business
before them adjourned.