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LANUAtiTBK i)AJLY I NTKLL1GENCEU MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1881.
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MONDAY EVENING, JAN. 10,1881.
The ew Senators.
The fresh members who are about te
be added te the United States Senate
will net add anything te its lustre. The
palmiest days of the Senate were the old
days, when it seemed te gather into its
besom the distinguished political talent
of the country. There cannot be any
less of that new than then ; indeed
there must naturally be a great deal
mere with our greater population, for
the average of intellectual ability among
a people does net change with the gen
erations. The difficulty new is that
senatorial ability does net serve te secure,
as it once did, the senatorial place. Se
many peer sticks have reached the cham
ber that new any nian thinks he is fit
for it, and it has been thrown open as a
common object of ambition te politicians
of any grade. Once a man of medium
ability would have found himself very
uncomfortable in the Senate, and could
hardly have get there,either, for the hoot-
ings of these who recognized his unfit
ness and were indignantat his impudence.
But there is no room any mere for in
dignation te be thus inspired. This has
come, te some extent, from the admission
of new states te the Union with scanty
population, which did net admit of a
very wide choice of material te fill the
two senatorial places. It came again
from the flood of carpet-bag senators
that followed the war. The office became
se lowered in dignity that new the whole
herd of hungry politicians consider it
their sieil and no one need be forced te
feel that if he gets the seat he will be se
conspicuously small for it as te be a
prepei object for concentrated public
derision. Certainly smaller men than
some of these who are about te ascend te
these seats, and from the elder states
tee, have never sought te reach them.
Eugene Hale, of Maine, for instance,
is a man of exceedingly moderate capa
city, which would be exhausted in admin
istering the affairs of a country village.
Hew lie maintains himself in Maine,
and is te be sent without opposition as
her senator, would be inexplicable but
that his wife inherited the large fortune of
Senater Chandler. The political force of
the father-in-law held the aspiring young
man up while he lived, and when he
died he dropped him en the solid support
of his money bags.
Conspicuous illustrations of the same
willingness in the Northern states te let
their best men rest at home, when they
would send lustre upon their common
wealths in the Senate, are present new
en every hand. Pennsylvania is net in
condition te threw stones at her sister
states for this failing. Her example, per
haps, quite as much as that of the new
states and the carpel-baggers, has
tended te make the office of senator
one of common scrambling. The Cam Cam
erens, father and son, are net of the
proper senatorial order of men. They
are men et natural power, but net of
that degree and kind which makes them
honorable and illustrious representatives
of this great state in the Senate, where
Pennsylvania should be heard through
her men of greatest intellect, integrity
and eloquence.
'Hie Nimble Mahone.
Senater Mahone, of Virginia, evidently
thinks that his opinions are of great im
portance and that the eyes of the coun
try are fixed upon his small person with
great attention. We think he deceives
himself. He leeks like a monkey, which
is net his fault ; and he seems te act
very much like one, which is. A
monkey is an amusing creature, but
net very alarming except te ner
vous people and children. General
Mahone is net alarming. He rep
resents Virginia in the Senate, and
te that extent is important : as a great
many small men new are. He will net
be the least interesting among the little
senators, for he is an active mite, and
very fend of strutting and swelling. As
long as he keeps within bounds and does
net burst, he will attract a
geed deal of attention from the
country en the elevated platform
which will be afforded him for his gyra
tions. Hut really people de net care se
much as bethinks they de te knew what
he thinks or is going t$ de. Fer they
knewalready. They knew he is going te
try te cultivate Mahone and make as
much as he can out of his senatorial
e3ice. He will be independent of any
consideration outside of Mahone. His
party is Mahone. Down in Virginia,
when it was organized, they called them
selves " Readjusters ;M and a very ap
propriate name it was ; they are ready te
readjust their relations with ether par
ties and things every time they think
they can make anything by it ; and these
are Mahone's principles. He will slide
around from the Republicans te the
Democrats as his occasion seems
te demand and as their tolerance
or needs will permit. Mr. Garfield, hav
ing tiie offices, will present te Mahone a
strong object of attraction, and he may
be expected te exhibit a crab-like cling
ing te the administration meat.
His very latest information te the peo
ple is about the Virginia debt, in which
he seeks te sustain the novel preposition
that the Democratic party of the state,
supporting the present state law which
gives the state's creditors what they de
mand, is the repudiation party while
Senater Mahone's party, which wants
te readjust the state's settlement with
her creditors in a way te which the
creditors are violently opposed, is the
state credit party. That is a big feat in
argument for even a man of Senater Ma
hone's wonderful self-esteem te under
take, and hew he acquits himself of it
may be concluded from his concluding
declaration, that " "We are net repudia repudia
ters. We acknowledge every dollar that
we believe we justly ewe, and we intend
te pay it; and if we ask an abatement
in the rale of it is our poverty net our
will consents."
Dees net that sound nicely ? And en
that platform, where is the repudiator ?
And who could be a thief ? We pay
everything that " we believe we justly
ewe," and when we don't " our pover
ty net our will," is the fault. Credi
tors will take notice of the new rule of
Senater Mahone, doubtless te be consist
ently advocated by him in a national
law te "readjust" the accounts of
debtor and creditor, wherever the debtor
and creditor disagree, se that the debt
or's conception of what he " justly
ewes," modified by his poverty, shall be
secured as the basis of settlement.
Onr Example.
The Londen Spectator, in an article
admitting, with rare English concession,
the marvelleus material development of
the United States, reproaches us with
our "failure te use the marvelous
strength new revealed in doing some
thing for the relief of oppressed and in
competent races and nations elsewhere."
It intended te recall for our example, no
doubt, England's word-encircling drum
beat and her philanthropic efforts in the
direction of India, Afghanistan and
"Seuth Africa. The Natien very fit
ly replies that this nation is
rendering much mere valuable ser
vice te her contemporaries in the
" successful exhibition of a government
without standing armies, and of a society
which does net make pets of fighting
men "an exhibition that is net without
its lessen te oppressing nations as well as
oppressed. England's alleged missionary
statesmanship has as often stained her
annals with the record of oppression as
it has glorified them with relief for the
sufferiug ; and the immense drain upon
her domestic resources te maintain the
glitter of her foreign establishments has
imposed upon her common people
weightier burdens than she has ever lifted
from far-off peoples The'energies of the
United States have been turned in upon
their own development, se as te present
te the struggling cause of liberty every
where the inspiring example of a suc
cessful establishment of free institutions,
and te upbuild a home for these who flee
from oppression wherever it is regnant.
England cannot show as geed a record ;
it may net be tee late for her te profit
from the lessen tauirht, by her offspring.
Mil. Coxklixe has raised the cry in
New Yerk that Mr. Depew's candidacy
for the United States Senate is in the in
terest of the corporations; se that the
issue there becomes one of the political
machine against the corporation machine.
In Pennsylvania we have generally suf
fered from the "aggressive power of
corporations in collusion with political
rings."' "We trust New Yerk will profit
from their antagonism.
RurunLiCAX members of the Penn
sylvania Legislature will net ask them
selves this week, " Is he honest, is he
fit y but " What are they paying a
head?" The Cameren ian tests have
succeeded the Jeffersonian.
MINOR TOPICS.
It is te be hoped the new monopoly in
match-making will net prove an embargo
en matrimony.
Boycott is meie than $30,000 out, but
what is that te a man who has become a
verb ?
The Londen World does net believe that
Themas Hughes will be able te create in
rugged Tennessee an Arcadia whose
foundations arc lawn tenuis and 5 o'clock
tea.
Senater Lamar is said te have ex
pressed the belief that the white people of
Mississippi would rather see Senater Bruce
in Garfield's cabinet than any white Re
publican in the state.
The committee en gubernatorial votes
of the Maine Legislature will, it is said,
present two reports te-day, the majority
in favor of declaring Plaistcd elected, and
the minority submitting the matter te the
supreme court.
Mn. Ciiaki.es Reus, a member of the
corn and flour exchange of Baltimore, who
suspended in 1879 for about $30,000, and
compromised with his creditors for fifty
cents en the dollar, lias sent a check te
each of his creditors, paying in full, with
six per cent, interest, the deficit of his
suspension.
A yeuxs lady in Primghar, Iowa, who
was made a convert te the Baptist faith,
was led te the chilly water te be baptized
just after our first cold snap set in. The
water had scarcely moistened her stock
ings before she nervously snatched her
hand from that of the elder who Mas lead
ing her and exclaimed : "It's tee cold ;
I'll wait till spring."
TnK attorney general has introduced
into the English Parliament the corrupt
practices at elections bill and explained
that its chief object was te put an end te
the lavish expense accompanying most
elections; that te effect this a certain
sum would be fixed for the entire election,
according te a schedule varying according
te the size of the ceustitueney. Various
punishments with hard labor would be
inflicted for corrupt practices, such as
bribing; a Candidate guilty of corrupt
practices never te be able te sit again for
the constituency where they occurred.
Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn are new se
close in the evening sky that they can all
be taken in at a g'ance; and they make a
brilliant picture. Venus, which in the
telescope appears nearly in the shape of a
half moon, is nearest the horizon aud
most conspicuous. Jupiter comes next
net se dazzlingas Venus, but yet exceed,
ing every fixed star in brightness. Sat
urn is a few degrees te the left of Jupiter,
looking quite pale by contrast, although
equal te most of the first magnitude stars.
While these three give beauty te the
western sky, Orien and Taurus, with the
Deg Star at their hec's, lord it in the
eastern heavens, and Capclla glitters
overhead.
A Generous Benefactor.
Reruard McCane, a widely-known and
highly-respected citizen of Manayunk,
leaves his entire estate of $300,000 te vari
ous churches and charitable institutions of
tho'Cathelic church, including $5,000 te
the Fiome of Aged and Infirm CIcrgvmen
in Lancaster, and $10,000 te Bishop Jere
miah II. Shanahan ; but this last is con
ditienal, aud if the conditions are net
complied with it may revert te the general
peer fund, which is already very hand
some. The deceased had previously given
away $200,000.
PKBSONAI
The Saiia Bebxhabdt company passed
through Lancaster yesterday en their way
te Chicago from Philadelphia, where they
closed their engagement last night. The
total receipts in Philadelphia were $25,
536, of which 80 per cent, gees te Mr.
Abbey. The total receipts thus far in
America have been $206,854.
Miss Eulalia Rislsv, a Texan girl, has
made a successful debut in a concert at
Vienna. Her voice is a contralto, power
ful but net harsh. Even the Vienna press,
net apt te be complimentary te foreigners,
gave her great encouragement. Miss
Tuunsnv, who was contemplating a re
turn te New Yerk, has been induced by
several flattering engagements at Prague
and Dresden te postpone her departure.
Her succes with the Viennese public has
been great ; a fact which gees te show
still mere clearly the ignorance of the mass
of the New Yerk public in regard te the
merits of a truly fine artist.
The great Paris star of the day is the
successor of Rachel and Sarah Bernhardt.
Her name is Pasca. She has obtained
fame at St. Petersburg, and rules Paris at
the present moment both artistically and
socially. She is a pupil of Delsaite and
Regnicr. She made her debut some six
years age, and has hardly been heard of in
Paris since, the director of the Imperial
theatre at St. Petersburg having carried
her away almost immediately after her
first appearance en the beards et the Gym
nasc. She is said te be an extremely
severe and virtuous woman, aud in these
qualifications lies probably the secret of
the social influence she obtained at the
court of St. Petersburg and is new gain
ing iu the aristocratic salons of Paris. She
is an admirable shot, and has a big stuffed
black bear guarding the deer of her de
paitment at the Batignelles. It is said te
be only one of the many she has shot in
Russia.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
American securities are in the greatest
demand in the Londen stock market.
Mr. Tennyson's new play, "The Cup,"
has achieved a wonderful success.
There were sixteen deaths from small
pox aud four from yellow fever at Havana
during the past week.
William Colliseu and an Indian doctor,
while crossing the railroad near Iroquois
station, Out., were run ever aud killed.
The steamer Arizona, which sailed from
Liverpool en Saturday for New Yerk, took
100,000 iu geld.
Jehn B. Brown, the wealthiest citizen of
Portland, Maine, was fatally injured by
slipping en the ice iu that city yesterday.
Mrs. C. G. Galley and Mrs. E. O. Ellis,
were killed by a train while crossing the
railroad at Havana, Ohie, yesterday, in a
sleigh.
It is reported that two young men and a
boy were drowned while skating en Bass
creek. New Jersey, last Friday night, but
no names were given.
Thirty-two of the crew of the Spanish
steamer Leen, which sunk in collision with
the steamer Hareida, have been saved.
Thirty are still missiug.
An elephant traveling out West, whose
trunk was net checked, drank up all the
water iu the tender of the locomotive, se
th.it the train was obliged te step.
Fer the past two or three weeks no
ashes have been removed from Brooklyn
dwellings, en account of the trouble ever
the street-cleaning contract.
The body of a male chiUl with the threat
cut was found iu the hallway at Ne. 323
West Twenty-seventh street, New Yerk,
Nothing is known of the parents.
The steamer General Lyttle was cut down
at Cincinuare, O., and sunk by moving ice.
At neon fifty empty coal baiges worth
$50,000 were sunk.
Secret societies of various sorts are very
active in England, some of which arc sup
posed te be cenectcd with the Land League
and some with the Russian Nihilist move meve
jncnt. Richard Lester, who married a woman
named Hart in a police court at Ottawa te
save himself from imprirenment, at
tempted te murder her. The woman is in
a critical state.
Iu Machias, Me., Warren Longmore,
aged nine years, has been indicted by the
grand jury for the murder of Freeman
Wright, aged eight years, in October last.
He will be tried this week.
A man named Watts while chasing a
boy in Terente fell, had his cheek pierced
by the stem of a pipe which he was smok
ing, and died from the effects of the
wound.
The body of a man found near the
Michigan Central track, Kalamazoo, Mich.,
has been identified as that of Charles Rebe,
a traveling salesman, of Chicago. He fell
from the evening express at 3 o'clock iu
the morning and dragged himself about
until daybreak.
The temporary factory of the Ansonia
watch aud clock company, opened in Seuth
Brooklin after the destruction of their
works last October, was burned ycsteiday
entailing a less of mere than $40,000 ; in
sured for $19,000. Other occupants of the
building lest $15,000 ; insured.
William J. Sweeney, keeper of a sailors'
bearding house in Charleston, Seuth Care
lina, delivered four sailors te the British
barkentine Sunbeam, at Bull River, yes
terday morning. As Sweeney started te
return from the vessel three et the sailors
jumped back into the beat. The captain
thereupon opened fire en the beat, killiug
one of the sailors and seriously wounding
Sweeney and another.
Near Hendersen, Ky., Jehn Davis, alias
Wright, a married man aged thirty-five,
quarrelled with H. L. Balmer. an old man
sixty years of age, in reference te a beard
bill. Balmer was en Davis's beat and
Davis during the quarrel seized a stick of
weed and advanced en him. He retreated
te his beat and taking down his rifle
warned Davis back. Davis continued te
advance across the plank connecting the
two beats, and just as he stepped en Bal
mcr's beat, the old man shot him at six
feet range. "He was fencing me in," said
Balmer, "and I was compelled te fence
him out " Davis's wife says Balmer as
sassinated him and picked him off as Da
vis was sawing weed. Balmer is in jail
and a reward is standing for the captuie
of Davis for sheeting a man in Louisville.
A Desperate Duel.
At Bittsc, in the Trenezin county, Hun
gary. M. Smialevsky, who was in his
nineteenth year and son of a landed pro
prietor, and M. Meravsky, aged twenty
one, whose father was district magistrate,
agreea some weeks age te settle some ro
mantic differences by a duel. Having
ordered pistols from Vieuna they went to
gether the eveniug before the combat te
a local ball and appeared te be en the
most friendly terms. In the early morn
ing, when the dancing was ever, they went
arm-in-arm te the apartments which they
were occupying in common and took a few
hours' rest. At 8:30 o'clock they went out
alene te a neighboring forest, and took up
their position at a distance of only three
paces irem each ether, lietb hred, and
both fell. M. Smialevsky was unable te
move from the spot, but M. Meravsky was
able te drag himself te his lodgings. An
hour elapsed before a surgeon was able te
reach the man who bad been left en the
ground. On the sixth day after the duel
both of the duelists died, each having pre
viously made a formal declaration that the
cause of this desperate encounter was an
affair of honor.
STATE ITEMS.
J. W. Hogue, of Oil City, was killed by
the explosion of a let of powder.
The Pittsburgh deg show opens en
Thursday. There will be $250,000 worth
of canines en exhibition.
Reading Democrats apparently have de
cided te re-elect Mayer Tyson. His term
will expire rext month.
The Schuylkill county graud jury's re
port, which has just been made, is only
nine lines long.
At the Montgomery almshouse last
month the paupers used 600 pounds of to
bacco and 300 pounds of soap.
Friday was the eighty-ninth birthday of
Henry Cresinger, a prominent citizen of
upper rreviuence, .Montgomery, aim en
that day he died.
William and Samuel Phillips engaged in
a fight in Michael Buckley's tavern Phila
delphia and are ejected. They returned
aud were both shot, one of them fatally.
Near Alteena, recently, an apple butter
boiling was held by a gentleman wtie had
an immense crop of apples. There were
a large number of people present aud they
highly enjoyed the sport.
Alfred M. Markel, an attorney of New
Bleem held. Perry county, died yesterday,
at the age of thirty years, from the eifects
of an overdeso et chloral, winch he was
using as a nervine. He was recently Dem
ecratic candidate for state senator in the
Thirty-first district.
The report that the body of Jeseph Sny
der, lynched en December 'i7 at
Santee s mills, for the murder of
the Geglcs, had been stolen from the
grave at the ceuuty almshouse is unreund
ed. His photograph" is new offered for
sale and sells very rapidly.
The frame dwelling of Jeseph S. Reek,
employed as a fireman en the Catawissa
branch of the Reading railroad was des
treyed by fire. He had about $100 in
silver buried in the cellar aud a big stone
placed ever it and it was saved. The
house was entirely destroyed.
The Veteran Cerps are taking a hand in
the Philadelphia municipal nominations.
and they specially desire the selection of
Majer Plnpps for receiver of taxes. "If
they really want him or auy ether Repub
lican receiver, the Veterans should demand
the passage of an act making salaries for
the tax officials and ending the excessive
fees of that department," the Timet
thinks.
In Easten, en Saturday, Heward, Ernst
and Frank Grace, sons of G. II. Grace, su
perintendent of the Western Union tele
graph company, and Albert Sage, cousin
of the Grace boys, were seriously injured
by running into a milk sled, while coast
ing iu Ferry street. Willis Fex, son of
Prof. Fex of Lafayette college, was se
verely injured while coasting by falling
ever an embankment thirty feet high.
"Ths is te certify that Georgianna
Wartman. instead of being an eloper with
Frank Goodwin was en a visit te her sis
ter and knew nothing of the circumstances
until returning home te-day."" Snch was
the card, signed uenrgianna Wartman,
that appeared in the Norristown papers
It was reported that Miss Wartman had
eloped with F. P. Goodwin, a barber, and
the matter supplied the gossips with a sa
very morsel until Miss Wartman's assur
ance that she wasn't " an eloper " killed
en the story.
A number of Wilkesbarre Democrats
held a meeting the ether evening te con
suit regarding the action of Mr. Eckley B,
Coxe in declining te take the oath of
office as senator. There was but one
opinion, and that te the effect that Mr
Coxe should be reneminated aud elected.
A resolution urging that course was
adopted. Many Republicans have ex
pressed a desire te vote for Mr. Coxe and
one went se !ar as te eiler all the money
necessary for campaign purposes.
MADE ANOTHER MA'S AVI IK.
A Minister Left Hecitleiliy in the Lurch in
Ills Matrimonial Matters.
Geerge Bevard is the name of a young
Methodist minister who atteuded the an
nual conference of the M. E. church at
Mercer, Pa., a couple of years age. While
there he and a yeuug lady teacher of the
soldiers' orphan school, located in fiercer,
fell in love with each ether. Her name
was Clara Shaffer. He was about te start
for India te Christianize the heathen. A
correspondence was kept up between the
two, and he wanted her te te come te him,
be married and assist him iu his labors.
He had no money te pay her expenses,
aud she had none. In this emergency, a
few months age, she made a confident of
" Dick " Wright, a heavy clothing mer
chant of Mercer, and he, being a big
hearted man with generous impulses, of
fered te supply her with what money she
needed te reach her far-off lever. She
gladly accepted his offer, and at once be
gan her preparations ler the Ieug journey.
"Dick" and Miss Shaffer were thrown
much togcther'fer a while, and about the
time she was ready te start he was deeply
iu love with her himself. But he said
nothing, and she started for New Yerk
with enough of " Dick's " money in her
pocket te take her te India.
Twe or three days after her departure
he grew despondent, and cliided himself
for having given away his cliaucc for mar
rying Miss Shatter himself. A thought
struck him, and that was te fellow her
and, if possible, overtake her before she
bearded a steamer iu New Yerk, for
distant India. He acted promptly en the
thought, took the care, reached New Yerk
and found the vessel en which she was te
sail. Miss Shaffer was already en beard :
lie made known his affection, asked her
ier her hand for himself, was accepted. and
the two returned te Mercer a few days age
as man wife.
The outcome is a little rough en the
young minister who is wrestling with sup sup
perstitien and idolatry iu the jungles of
India.
MONOPOLIZING MATCH MAKING.
The Organization of the Largest and Richest
Company in the World.
There has just been formed in New
Haven a syndicate, te ' control the manu
facture of matches in this country, with a
capital of $2,250,000, all paid up. It is
kuewn as the Diamond match company,
and when in full working order it will be
the largest and wealthiest match concern
in the world. Its officers arc William II.
Swift, of Wilmington, Del., president ; O.
C. Barber, of Akren, Ohie, vice president ;
L. Wheeler Beccher, of-Westville, Conn.,
secretary, and William B. Gates, of Frank
fort, N. Y., treasurer. In this company
every leading match concern in the United
States has been swallowed up, aud te
day such concerns as the Swift, Courtney
& Beecher company, of Westville ; the
Richardson match company, of Detroit,
Mich.; William Gates's Sens, of Frank
fort. N. Y.; August Eichele, of St. Leuis,
Me.; and the Barber match company, of
Akren, Ohie, arc among the things that
were. The above-named, with E.G. Byan,
formerly of Carlten, Byan & Ce., of Bos Bes Bos
eon ; Al H. Sweet, formerly of Messinger
& Sweet, of Norten, Mass. ; F. P. New
ton, formerly of Clark match company, of
Woodbridge, Conn. ; J. Emery Eaten,
formerly of James. Eaten & Sen, of Utica,
N. Y., and J. W. Eisenhart, of Yerk, Pa.,
comprise the new organization.
The prime movers in the new scheme
have been the Swift, Courney & Beecher
company of Westville, a suburb of New
Haven. This firm is the largest match
making concern in the ceuutry, owning
several factories, one at Westville, one in
Wilmington, Del., one in Chicago, 111.,
and also a large mill in Canada, where they
receive all the timber used in making
matches. Several of the concerns that
have none into the syndicate will be from
t. a. i :j;nr. ., .:..
KIX UIMUIUS U) l JCUr 1U niumug u tucii
individual affairs, but the articles of asso
ciation of the new company date from
January 1, 1881.
Secretary Beecher said te a reporter
that under the new company prices
would remain unchanged.. The jobbers
would suffer, for they alone had been ben
efited by the competition that had existed
between two or three powerful compa
nies. Mr. Beecher's Westville concern
holds about one-third of the capital stock
of the new company, and has been the
pi ime mover in the consolidation, which
may prove te be a big monopoly. At
present matches arc being sold at the
lowest possible figure, considering the
large governmental tax. The profit is
small, yet, with large sales, it pays the
manufacturers well. The new company
can de what it pleases se far as fixing
prices is concerucd. It need fear no com
petition.
The silent Weman of Mentauu.
On Willow Creek, M. T., resides a
woman who for fifteen years, except en
one occasion, has net uttered a word, in
1865 she was relentlessly forbidden by her
parents te marry a man of her choice
Soen after this the family moved te Mon Men
tana, and since the day of their starting
the young lady, new grown te a woman
of 30 years, has net articulated as much
as half a dozen words. Her long silence
is attributed te intense and abiding indig
nation at the cruelty of her parents, and
probably conceiving words te be useless
and inadequate te express the poignancy
of her suffering, she concluded never te
speak again, a resolution which she has
adhered te se lar with remarkable
tenacity. She lives with her parents, ec
cupies a room by hcrsetl, ictuses te see
strangers, and te all intents and purposes
is absolutely dumb. Her memory is
strong and accurate for one who neither
talks nor reads nor takes ether intellectual
excreise. Through the partition iu her
room she will sometimes listen te the con
versatien of these in the adjoining apart
ment, and occasionally, several days after,
it will be found en paper in her room,
written out. There is no doubt of her
ability te speak.
Deuble lturnlns.
In Washington D. C, Mrs. Elizabeth
Edgeton, aged 19, had two lamps en the
kitchen tabic and was filling one when the
ether exploded, throwing the oil ever her-
sell and child. Freddy ran into the street
with his clothes en fire, while Mrs. Edge Edge
ten ran upstairs for something te extin
guish the flames. Her own dress caught
and rushing dewnthc steps and out of the
house !he threw herself into the snow te
STiethcr the flames. Neighbors came te
the rcseuc, but se severely were both
burned that Freddy died iu a short time
and the mother a few hours later. Beth
suffered intensely. Mrs, E's mother was
in the room, but was se paralyzed with
fear that site was unable te render assist
ance. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
CHARLIE LGRZELTKU'S DEATH.
Full Particulars et the Tragic Occurrence.
The Reading papers have the full parti
culars of the tragic death of Philip Leb
zelter's younger son Charles, in that city
en Saturday morning while coasting. It
seems that en Christmas Charlie received a
large "skipper" as a Christmas gift, and
since then he daily coasted en the steep
hill running along the residence of Hen.
I Hester Clynier. The sleds startiug from
the top of the hill would descend at
great speed, frequently running down
Franklin street as far as Tenth. The heys
had been repeatedly warned by Mr. F. M.
Heller, proprietor of the Drevers' hotel,
at the corner of Franklin street and Per Per
kiemen avenue, but all te no effect. The
Perkiomen passenger railway cresses the
path of the coasters, aud the drivers of
cars en their ni-trips cannot possibly see
anything en the hill read. On the trips
out, the bottom of the roadway is hid from
view by the fence surrounding the city
park.
On Saturday morning Charlie was the
only boy en the hill, lie had been enjoy
ing himself for ever an hour in climbing
the steep hill and descending at lightning
speed en his Christmas gift, lying at full
length en his sled while coming down the
hill. At live minutes past nine o'clock
car Ne. 3, of the Perkiomen line, came
leisurely, along, driven by Lewis L. Faust,
residing at 430 Seuth Eighth street. The
only passenger en the car was Washington
Clese, who steed with Mr. Faust en the
front platform of the car engaged in con
versation. Neither of the two saw any
one en the hill, and it was net until young
Lebzelter was immediately under the
horse's feet that he was discovered. At
each cud of the car the brake pest extends
te within a few inches uf the ground, and
when the unfertuuate boy ran between the
team and the ear he was caught by the
brake pest and whirled around, his head
striking the track.
The car was immediately stepped, and
when the driver aud passenger alighted
they found the hind wheel resting en the
head of the boy. The car was backed and
the lifeless remains removed te the side
walk. The wheel of the car was covered
with clots of bleed, and strewn along the
track were parts of his face and entire
upper jaw.
The driver immediately dispatched in
formation te the coroner who, after some
delay, arrived at the scene and summoned
Mr. Faust, Wash. Clese, the passenger,
and Kate Ilellenbach, a yeuug girl resid
ing in East Reading, who witnessed the
accident, te appear at the inquest te be
held at three o'clock p. m
Frem the statements of residents of the
immediate neighborhood and the witnesses
of the catastrophe, the driver of the car
is iu no wise te blame for the sad accident.
The Poultry Shew.
The arrangements for the poultry show
te be opened next Friday are nearly com
plete. Entries are coming in rapidly from
home and a distance and the affair prom prem
ises greater success iu the number of ex
hibits than that of last year. Operations
were begun this morning te prepare the
hall for the occupancy of the fowls, and
everything will be in readiness te receive
the tewis next lhursday. the secretary
may be found at Roberts's hall te-morrow
night when the books will be closed. All
persons desiring te show their fowls or
ether pet stock should net fail te have
them en exhibition. Ladies aud ethers,
owners of cenaries,- parrots and pet birds,
are especially requested te exhibit them.
Our star Club.
West Chester Republican.
Lancaster city has what is known as the
"Star Club," under the auspices of the
Y. M. C. A., and devotes its time te astro
nomical study and self-improvement. We
have frequently seen the pregrammes and
reports of their meetings, which lead us te
infer that our star-gazing friends are full
of energy and persistence in the commend
able work in, which they are engaged. In
the report of the Lancaster county teach
ers' institute is a scries of -interesting and
exceedingly valuable papers read before
the club. The latest and best authorities
are always consulted in the preparation of
all papers, and frequently lectures given
en astronomy, a subject of which tee little
is known by the average reader. The
" modern Athens " has its scientific and
literary associations, but it lacks a society
devoted te the study of starolegy.
LEAF TOBACCO.
THE MEW YORK 9IARKET.
The Lecal Outlook Crep Reports Trade
Metes.
United Shite Tobacco Journal.
The new year began with a pleasant
showing of activity in our market The
presence of a large number of out-of-town
buyers was the main cause ; and though
no transactions of any magnitude took
place, a geed many lets ranging from 25
te 150 cases changed owners. The demand
is for all classes of goods, fine wrappers,
however, being the main article sought for.
There is no scarcity of wrappers, but there
is a scarcity of what people looking for fine
wrappers generally hunt for and seldom
find. Ot uuexceptieuably line wrappers
the '79 crop contained only a most dimin
utive proportion, which are hardly te be
obtained at this comparatively late
date ; but useful wrappers of all crops
can be procured in this market with
out great difficulty. Prices have net ad
vanced, but we deem it advisable for
these who expect te use geed wrappers ex
tensively in their factories during the
coming year, net te rely upon any reduc
tion in prices. Fer low grade wrappers no
one need be in a hurry. There is an ener
meusly large stock of such, inclusive of
binders and tillers, in the market. The
chances for expert during the year are very
slim. Reports in ether columns show
what has been deuc in connection with the
'80 crop. We desire te call the attention
of prospective buyers te tl.ere being a
great deal of geed tobacco in '80 Wiscon
sin and Ohie crops, a thorough inspection
of which will audeubtedly pay. As a
whole, these crops are better than the '80
Pennsylvania. The sales of the past week
may be summed up as fellows : Pennsyl
vania crop '79 : GOO cases wrappers, :!4 te
47$ cents ; geed running, 17 te 20 cents ;
low 11$ te 14 cents ; fillers 7 te 8 cents.
Connecticut crop '79 : 450 cases, com
prising Housateuic and ether leaf; wr.iji
pcrs, 25 te 45 cents ; seconds, 13 cents ;
tillers, sound, 0 te 8 cents.
State : 120 cases running, 11 cents.
Ohie : Crep '79 : 200 eases ; running
(bought mostly by manufacturers), 7 te
10 cents.
Wiscensin: 114 cases Havana seed, 10
cents.
Havana : Very r.ctive. The demand quite
lively, sales numbering 800 bales. Prices
for '79 fillers range from 94 te $1.10; for
fine, $1.25 and higher are being paid.
Gans's Repert.
Sales of seed leaf tobacco, reported by
J. S. Gans's Sen & Ce., tobacco brokers,
Nes. 84 aud 86 Wall street, New Yerk,
for the week ending January 10, 1881 :
500 cases 1879 Pennsylvania, asserted,
12(5;18c.; wrappers, 18(rt40e.; 180 cases
179 New England, seconds and wrappers,
ll(g,37$c.; 1(54 cases 1879 state, lOfelec.;
200 cases 1879 Ohie, 8&13e.; tetil, 1,044
cases.
Trade Metes.
The strike of the cigarmakers of Kerbs
& Spiess has virtually collapsed. The
house werkeis of the firm did net partici
pate jn the strike, although it was se re
ported. The strikers are new applying te
the firm iu a body for work.
A big cigar manufacturer intcrvied by
the Journal says the business in New
Yerk last year paid only 3 per cent, owing
te the "cutting" and jealousies of these
engaged in it.
(541,120,000 cigars and 285,1(54,948 ciga
rettes were made in New Yerk city in
1880110,520,000 cigars and 100,200,177
cigarettes mere than in 1879.
Among the sales of last week reported
by the Zware-thc following Iotsef Penn
sylvania 1879 crep: Lichenstein Bres,
50 cases ; Ressin & Sens, 100 cases ; II.
Schubart & Ce., 100 cases; E. Heffman &
Seu, 100 cases ; C. H. Spitzner & Sen, 100
cases ; A. S. Rosenbaum & Ce., 100 cases ;
E. & G. Friend 200 cases.
The Crep of 1880.
The agricultural department has issued
the following repeit relative te the
'80 tobacco crop of the United States :
"We estimate the crop of the entire coun
try te be 342,972,777 pounds, against 391,
278,350 pounds in 1879, a decline of about
48,300,000 pounds. The seed leaf growing
states from Massachusetts te Pennsylvania
have increased their acreage 14 te 15 per
cent, ever last year, the average yield
for all being about the same, while Penn
sylvania, the most important of these as a
grower of seed leaf, reports 18 per cent, of
increase in acreage with an average falling
off in yield of about 150 pounds per acre,
making her crop about 31,000,000 pounds
as against, say, 29,000,000 last year."
Tobacco Hiems and Refuse.
I have found that there is no better fer
tilizer for auy and all purposes than to
bacco refuse. I have used it for corn, po
tatoes, tobacco, grain, grass, trees, straw
berries, &c., and found that it increased
healthy growth and productiveness. There
is no better way of using this fertilizer
ihau te apply it without the admixture of
any ether matter, cither as a top
dressing, plowed down, or in the hill
or drill for heed crops. The coarse
stalks must be cut te short lengths,
which can be done at leisure during the
winter. A double handful of stalks,
four te six inches long, is sufficient for a
hill of corn or potatoes, or even tobacco,
where ether fertilizers are plowed down.
Tobacco growers in the Connecticut river
valley purchase large quanties of the leaf
stems from tobacco manufacturers, and
apply for tobacco, broadcasting and plow
ing under, some putting it iu the drill as
the plants are set, using this refuse without
any ether manure for the crop, and they
grew as geed crops as if fertilized with sta
ble manure. I think it hardly geed policy
te raise mere than one crop en the same
ground. If the leaf stems are coarsely
cut with a hay cutter or -ether machine,
they will net trouble as much as spreading
in the drill. In plowing down they must
be spread evenly, and then one hand is
needed te haul them into the furrow an
the greuud is plowed, if the stems aienet
cut. At the second plowing, just lefere
transplanting, these stems have se far de
cayed as te cause no trouble in the plow
ing. The quantity per acre used varies
from 1,200 or 1,500 pounds te 4,000 or
mere pounds ; but where put iu the hill or
drill, care should be used net te put in tee
much, or it will burn and kill the plants
set ever it. The coarse tobacco stalks
may be spread en grass ground, right after
being stripped, and gathered again before
the grass has grown te interfere, and will
serve the purpose of a costly fertilizer ; in
ch case these partly-spent stalks may
cut in short lengths and composted, or
they may be used te plow down, and will
aid in fertilizing the soil. They should
net be burned, as is sometimes the case,
as one can see by their burning that there
is considerable nitre iu them. W. II.
White.
Lecal Tobacco Market.
There has been very little doing iu to
bacco during the past week. The weather
has been unfit for stripping or handling,
and the severity of the weather has been
such as te deter buyers from riding
the ceuuty, even if the tobacco
was in geed couditieu. the sleigh
ing in the city and along the principal
turnpikes has been geed, but many of the
country reads and farm lanes are badly
blockaded with snow, and this is another
reason why buyers have been fighting shy
of the tobacco sheds. Besides, they say,
the crop is se badly damaged by the flea
that they don't want it ; but it is very ev
ident that they de want all of it that is
geed, and are willing te pay fair prices for
it. The flea-bitten portion of it will, of
course lie ea the farraci's hands until he
is willing te part with it at low figures.
Net mere than fifty cases of old tobacco
were sold last week all en private terms.
A few city packers have received small
lets of the crop of 1880 at their warehouses
and last week were in a small way en
gaged in packing. Skiles & Frey and H.
C Moere were thus engaged, as was also
Mr. Altschu, of Meuntvilte. But there
has been very little done only a few
bands being employed. By this time last
year a large proportion of the crop bad
been delivered and th ware houses in this
city employed from 800 te 1000 hands in
packing. The contrast this winter is net
encouraging either te the farmer or the
workmen.
The tobacco organs contain the particu
lars of the failure of Hilliard Brethers &
Ce.. of Philadelphia, whose liabilities are
set down at ever $60,000. The Creditors
in this city are Skiles & Frey $1,675.88;
James Pranglcy $2,57612; H. C. Moere
(in connection with Samuel Moere & Ce.,
of Philadelphia) $3,373. The bankrupt
firm propose te settle by paying 33 cents
te the dollar, and a majority of the credi
tors it is said have accepted the proposi preposi
tion; but! some of them (including the
Messrs. Moere) believing the failure te be
a clear case of fraud, decline te settle, and
have brought suit against the bankrupts in
the criminal courts.
Last week a tobacco farmer brought te
town about three acres of tobacco which 0
had been bought "en the poles" by a
packing firm of this city. The tobacco
was in such bad condition that the
packers refused te receive it. The owner
took it te half a dozen different packing
houses and tried te sell it, but did net suc
ceed. Finally he found a purchaser at
eight cents through. It is understood the
price en the poles was about 20 cents.
There are two morals attached te this
misadventure. First, for the packer
don't buy a crop en the poles. Second,
for the farmer don't handle your tobacco
as though it were hay and expect te get
20 cents a pound for it.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
Caused by the Slippery 1'avements.
The snow aud i.iin of yesterday made
the pavements very slippery and since that
time the walking bas been bad. This
morning the pavements were covered with
ice and pedestrians were compelled te
take the middle of the street. A number
of serious accidents occurred, among them
being the following :
Mrs. Suydam, wife of Luke Suydam,
residing at Ne. 315 .West Kini street,
while walking in the yard in the rear of her
house, yesterday morning, fell anil frac
tured her right arm above the wrist. Dr.
Yeagley attended her.
Mrs. Peter Delan, who lives in Arch
alley, near Orange street, was walking
along Orange street, near Water, yester
day morning, en her way from church,
when she fell and broke her arm. Dr.
Davis set the limb.
Mrs. Mary A. Suydam, while coming
out ei St. Paul's Reformed church,
yesterday, slipped upon the icy pavement
and falling, suffered a displacement of the
cap of the knee and a very serious fracture
of the thigh bone near the socket of the
hip. She was carried te her home, 120
East Vine street where she was attended
by Dr. M. L. Herr.
On Saturday night about 11 o'clock.
Mrs. Frauke, wife of Edmund Frank;,
residing en North Mary street, heard the
distressing cry "help, help." when fhe
awakened her husband, te see what was
wrong. Mr. Frauke hurriedly dressed him
salf, and went en the street when he saw
Mr. Leuis Berner lying en the pavement
in front of the residence of Mr. Rete, in a
helpless condition, having fallen en the
icy pavement, aud broken his right leg iu
two places between the ankle and the knee,
Mr. Franke called te his assistance Mr.
Jno K.TrissIerand Mr. Jesh Campbell.near
neighbors, and they carried the unfortun
ate man te his home corner of Chestnut
and Mary streets. Dr. S. T. D.ivis the
family physician was called in, and set the
broken leg. At last accounts 31 r. Berner
was doing as well as could be expected.
Jee Kautz, who keeps the restaurant
above the P. R. D. depot, fell en the ice
late en Saturday night and injured his
ankle se that he is unable te be out.
Rufus Andersen, a boy, while sledding
ou Dinah's hill en Saturday, was thrown
from a sled. He had one leg considerably
bruised and his face scratched.
The "Big Six" Fair.
Saturday, February 12, is the day fixed
for the opening of the grand fair for the
benefit et the Humane fire company, Ne. 0,
of this city. The fair will be held in the
hall of their new building. West King
street, recently erected at considerable ex
pense. There are many useful and valu
able articles te be voted for, shown in the
windows of a number of our business
houses ; among which are two watches
(geld and silver) at Aug. Rhoads's, two
deuble-barreled breech-leading shotgun
at Buchmiller's, two bicycles at Leeker's
drug store, organ and bass violin at
Shreincr's music store, sewing machine at
the Demestic office, butcher's tools at
Russell & Shulmycr's coal office, Turkish
pipe at Stehman's cigar stere,cigar-makcr's
tools at Zell's. East Chestnut. Owing te
the recent erection of their new and hand
some building, the Humane is in debt,
and no doubt our citizens will contribute
liberally towards aiding them te again get
back te a solid financial basis. The mem
bers of the " Big 6 " are sturdy firemen ,
and their unselfish labors in fighting the
flames and protecting property are worthy
of generous acknowledgement.
A Fireman Hurt.
At Sinking Springs station, en the lead
ing is Columbia railroad en Saturday
Samuel Thompson, fireman 011 the engine
"William G. Case," attempted te
draw the ash pan, and te de
se was obliged te reach between the
spokes of the large driving wheel. The
engineer, unaware of the position of
his fireman, started his engine, ami
Thompson was thrown around with the
revolving wheel, his arm becoming wedged
between the springs. His cries were heard
by the engineer who immediately brought
the engine te a bait. Mr. Thompson was
found lying between the wheel and boiler,
liisarm se tightly wedged between the
springs that it became necessary te back
the engine te extricate him. He was
brought te Reading and taken te Jehn
McIIale's hotel, Nc 437 North Sixth street
and the aid of a surgeon called in. His
arm was badly bruised, but no bones were
broken.
Unclaimed Letters.
The following is a list of unclaimed let
ters remaining in the posteffice January
10, 1881 :
Lndiea" Lilt Anna 31. Beatty, Ella
Buehler, Mrs. Amanda Dennis, Katie
Ehrhart, Mellie A. Green, Mary Landis,
Maria L. Pitkin, Mrs. Careline Showers,
Mrs. Hannah Shreiner, Mrs. Lillian W.
Smith, Emma Welsh, Mrs. Harry Wil
lens. Lillie Weaver, Jennie Weitzel.
Gents' List Jehn Barten, Henry Broad Bread
hecker, Prof. E. J. Denecker, Chas. J.
Farrew, (2) Master Chas. Falls, And. E.
Findley, L. Helsinger, J. C. Jaquelt, P.
N. Nbtenderf (for.), Henry Rowser,
Ephraim Rorer, Jehn Singleton, (2), Ewd.
C. Spencer, Jehn Steinwand, H. R. Thur-
Iew, Win. Trapnell, Frank V an L.erm, h.
W. Webb, 3Ir. Wagner.
Twenty Inches or wow.
Atlee 3Ierccr reports that back of his
engine room there is a large bread stump
with a level top. en which he baa care
fully measured every considerable snow
fall this season, brushing it off after meas
urement. Up te Saturday nigbt his meas
urements aggregated 19 inches; yester
day's fall would probably iucrease it te 20
and some odd fractions of .an inch, net
included in the above, would probably
run the total fall of snow thus far this
winter te 22 inches.