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LANCASTER DAILY lfiTELLlGEKCER SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1881.
lancastet intelligencer.
SATURDAY EVENING, MAE. 5, 1881.
Ttee Inaugural.
At last we can again speak of the oc
cupant of the White Heuse as the pres
ident. Mr. Garfield may no t really have
been elected, and a great many of us
think that he was net ; but the evidence
te make this clear i3 net in our hands
and he is consequently entitled te recog
nition as the rightful holder of the office
into which he has been inaugurated.
The president spoke some four thou
sand pleasant words te the nation, which
these who have dutifully read them have
net been greatly enlightened by. That,
however,is net much of a disappointment.
A president who has nothing te say can
not be expected te say much ; and there
is a geed deal of excuse for a president
who cheeses te say net liing at the very
commencement of his administration.
Custom requires him te speak a piece ;
but the old saw about taking a horse te
water is equally illustrative of the vanity
of calling upon a new president te
gratify public curiosity as te his
administration policy, when he cheeses
net te de se. Our public nun
become adepts in the art of speaking -m m-
much and saying little ; and Mr. Gar-1 Scxater Mitchell, according te
field's strength lies somewhat in that di- ' Mr. Handy writing from Washington te
rectien ; though he is mere ppculiaiJy t.e Philadelphia Press, was highly in
famed for speaking much and doing lit- dignant at the statement current in
tie in the line of his speech. j Pennsylvania that he " was induced by
Inaugurals might very piclitahly 1 e Senater Cameren te join in a certain
dispensed with ; since, between the pres
idents who premise a gmit deal and pel pel
ferm little, such as IIaes, and these
who premise lit tie, and de little, us prob
ably will be our experience with Gar
field, we de net have much satisfaction
in inaugurals. Pie.-iiltnt Gai field could
net well have set us down te an emptier
dish. It i a pietlj piece of china, nicely
gilded, and decei at ed with pretty designs
of eagles and flower and things, but
there is nothing en it te satisfy a very
hungry appetite. Mr. Gai field t idently
did net have much te put en it. II is party
has net much of a creed te be unanimous
ever. It believes in negre suffrage, and
its president ventures te proclaim his
adhesion te that constitutionally secured
dogma that nebidy resists. lie be!ices
in education; and hopes that a wise
Providence will point out some way te
reconcile this doctrine with the suffrage
of uneducated negrees ; if it don't, lie
inclines te the opinion that it will be the
worse for educated suffrage, ihich must
give way te manhood suffrage in this
democratic country. The inaugural
reads a geed deal liku a brief presidential
message, touching as it does lightly uprn
a geed jnany subjects, and only lindir.g
courage te declare a positive corrects n
upon one or two thirnrs that may be said
te be new pull c questions. The pn si
dent gees the lu'.l length of his
chain aaiut the Memuns a-ul ut
ters a very weak bark of encour
agement te the civil service refeim"
ers. He proposes that the subordi
nate clerks shall be promoted for
merit and removed only, for prescribed
causes, during the term of their appoint
ment ; which is geed as far as it gees.
Perhaps it is wise in President Garfield
net te premise tee much in this line, in
which his predecessor premised every
thing and did nothing. The modest un
dertaking of the new president is in
refreshing contrast, and leaves small oj. ej. oj.
pertunity ler public disappointment.
Just what sort of an administration
the new one is going te be may taiily be
surmised from the colorless character t f
this address. If the political seas are
tolerably caceful it may be measur
ably successful ; but it is net a cratt te
survive in a tempest-test ocean.
Thc Increased City Tax.
The Xcir Era, with commendable
frankness, ascribes the maiked and
alarming increase of city tax just order
ed by council';, te the proper cause ; and
acquits the present councils of any re
sponsibility for the condition of things
which rendered necessaiy the extra levy.
There reus, as the Era suggests, ' a wide
difference of opinion concerning the
propriety of incurring certain portions"
of the expenditures which led te this
disastrous result. The Em might have
gene farther and added that it was only
incurred against the earnest and repeat
ed pretests of the mayor. The Intbl
ligexceu supported these pretests."
when it was net ' idle te discuss the
manner in which much of this debt w:,s
incurred." We de net remember that
the Era joined in the pretest ; if it did
net actually te-echo the specious cry of
" public improvement," which was
made te cover a multitude of abuses
against the law. We believed then, as
we believe new, that under the resolu
tion of councils, passed January 4, 1S77,
page 68, section 22, of the city ordi
nances, "no debt or contract thereat ter
incurred" was " binding en the
city of Lancaster," which had net
been " authorized by law and
ordinance and an appropriation
sufficient te pay the same " been
" previously made by councils;" though
"persons claiming unauthorized debts
or contracts may recover against
the person or persons illegally making
the same." Councils, however, has net
thought it worth while te test this ques
tion; and,since the debt iste be pah!,this
experience may serve as a monumental
warning against future recognition of
the right of unauthorized contracts en
behaltefthecity. It is fair te say that
the present councils, nearly a year age,
recognized the time as at hand "te take a
new departure in the matter of street
improvements." It was only when one
branch of the city government became
Democratic that the true policy of muni
cipal administration, "no expenditures in
excess of appropriations" and "no per
manent debt for temporary improve
ments," could be made effective. It wss,
ytQ believe, in the year which saw a Dem-
ncratic common council and Democratic
Street 'commissioner, for the first time
under the reapportioned city government,
that, for the first time since then, the ex
penditures have been kept within the
appropriation, and the street department
has net left te its successor a legacy of
unauthorized debt.
Mb. Zecheb, of the Sixth ward, who
impetuously rushes forward in select
council te the charge that the Intelli
gencer has been "unfair "and "un
truthful " in its comments en the city
treasurer imbroglio, very cautiously
emits te point out wherein the untruth
fulness of our statements has consisted.
Mr. Zecher, being a member of the
finance committee, naturally resents corn!
ment en what we have conceived
te be the unfairness of that committee
te Mr. Welchans in its manner of con
ducting the investigation, and in its de
claration of his embezzlement of moneys,
his accountability for which is a matter
of legal dispute. The committee new
claims te have discovered evidence that
his dcGcit is larger than at first re
ported. However this may be, we have
never been able te see why the whole
matter was net one that could
have been left for audit and
settlement at the end of his
term, when the balance due from
him could have been judicially ascer
tained and collected from his bondsmen,
if he failed te pay it. Perhaps Mr.
Zecher may be able te tell us what the
city iias gained by anticipating this set
tlement with his ouster and the accem
' panying excitement.
movement against Mac Veagh," and net
only pronounced it " a lie" in se many
words, but added something about get
ting tired of being misrepresented with
the object of making the people of Penn
sylvania believe that he wears any man's
cellar. It was baldly credible that
Sen iter Mitchell would be se foolish as
the conversation made him out ; but
who is responsible for the story V
PFRSONaL..
Jay Gould drove the last spike in the
most western mil of the Texas & Pacific
rail lead yesterday, 200 miles west of
Dallas, Tex. The iron is being laid at
the rate of a mile a day, and the read will
be completed te El Pase this year.
Last Satuidayat her closing reception,
Mis. Hayes shook hands with ever 4,000
people by actual count of oue who steed
near, and when she rcthed from the Blue
Pailor at 2:10, 1,500 ethers still steed
wedged in the passage that lead te that
room, hopelessly trying te struggle their
way.
All reports of the inauguration seem te
agree with that of the New Yerk Times,
which
says :
; Gen. Hajjceck was eer-
tainly the most imposing figure in the
chamber. Favored by nature, his pertly
form was adorned by a uniform which
was much mere effective in appcarauce
than the gaudy dress of some of the di
plomats who came in later."
The Philadelphia Ecening Bulletin ob
serves that " Majer General IIaxceck has
done precisely what might have been ex
pected of a gallant soldier and gentleman,
in going te Washington te be present at
the inauguration of his successful competi
tor for the piesidency. He has been warm
ly received at the national capital, and
Republicans unite with iespectahlc Demo
crats in doing him honor as a conspicuous
figure in the pageant of the inauguration.
Wc de net recall a similar case of a de
feated candidate's assisting at the iusta' iusta'
latien of his victor."'
D. O. MiLL9, of California has cleared
something like sixteen millions of dellais
since he came te the coast. His whole
wealth is estimated at twenty-1 we millions.
It is the daughter of this gentleman who
is engaged te be married te Mr. Whitelaw
Reid. Miss Mills is considerably wealth
ier than Miss Huntington, who was the
last young lady represented te be the pos
sessor of the infinite been compassed in a
matiimenial engagement te Mr. Reiil. Mi-.
Mills has intimated that he will gire three
bundled thousand dellais te his daughter
as a wedding present.
Geerge Eliet's will disposes of a per
sonal estate of somewhat less than $200,
000. She bequeathes $2e,000 te Miss
Emily Clark, $3,000 te "Vivian Byam
Lewes and an annuity of $200 for life te
her housekeeper, Mary Dewling. Theic
is te be set aside $02,500 in the names of
her executer, Charles Lee Lewes, aud her
husband, as trustees, the inceme te be
paid te Mrs. Eliza Lewes, the widow of
Herbert Arthur Lewes, for life or during
her widowhood, and en her death or sec
ond marriage one-half is te go te Mrs.
ewes's son, Geerge Henry Lewes, and
t'ift ether te her daughter, Marian Lewes.
The residue of the property is given te
C Miles Lee Lewes absolutely.
G. W. Sinalley, writing of a visit te the
late Themas Caulyle, says: "Without
any question or hint of mine my host be
gan te talk of America. ' They think,
some of yeu'thiuk,I am no friend te Amer
ica. But I love America net everybody's
America, but the true America ; the coun
try which has given biith te Emersen and
te Emersen's friends ; the country of
honest works and brave thinkers. Never
shall I forget, that the first money that
ever came te me for a printed book came
from America. When your people re
printed "Sartor Rpsartus" out of Fraser,
they sent me a geed sum of it. They
need net have sent it. I had no claim en
it or en them ; but they cent it ; and I did
and de thank tbem for that. By and by
they republished my"French Revolution."
De you knew that I had net had a penny
for that book from the English public till
a geed while after American friends re
mitted te me a pretty sum for it.' "
rODKTEEV LIVES LUST.
The Bark
Aiace Wrecked
Bbealf.
en Keclcaway
Thursday night the Italian barkAjace,
from Antwerp, with kerosene barrels, be
came waterlogged off Rockaway Beach.
The crew became demoralized when it
became evident the vessel was going
ashere and four of them cut their
threats. The captain whose name is
Mericc, was unable te control his men.
The bark first struck en Rockaway
Sheals and went te pieces by 4 o'clock
this mernimr. The crew numbered fifteen
men all teldT and all but one were c
The Life Saving crew of Canarsie
drowned.
went en
beard as seen as the wreck was discovered
and took off the one survivor, an Italian,
named Peter Sallace, who tells the above
story. Rockaway and Ceney Island beaches
are covered with wreckage. The tide at
Cencv Island is higher than it has been at
any time for ycarspast and the waves have
done considerable damage te the eutbuild- i
ings attached te the great hotels.
MINOB TOPICS.
The Southern university, an institution
for the education of colored youth, has
been opened at New Orleans, with twelve
under-graduates. The state is te give it
$10,000 annually.
Jcdge Macomber, of Rochester, New
Yerk, decides that the majority of achurch
beard of trustees, although sustained by a
majority of the congregation, cannot carry
the society and its property ever te an
other denomination.
Rev. Dr. Taljiage has beeu pastor of
the Brooklyn Tabernacle church for 12
years. Last year 701 members were
added, all but CI en confeseion of faith.
During Dr. Talmage's pastorate, 2,793
members have been received. Deducting
losses by death and dismissiens, the pre
sent membership is 2.206.
It is a Mahemmcdan tradition that Sol Sel Sol
omon understood the language of dumb
animals and could held intelligent con con
verse with them. "When a cartraan was
arrested in Jerusalem for beating his horse
and taken before the king, that wise mon
arch always called the maltreated beast as
a witness in its own behalf. This beusfi-
cent practice wholly obviated th neces
sity of a society for the prevention of cru
elty t animals in the Hely City.
Henuy Wilsen's right uame was "Jer
emiah Celhaith," U. S. Giant's was Hiram
U. Grant. New it is discovered that
"Matt" Caipenter's name was net Mat
thew but Menitt. Soen after he settled in
Beloit he was nominated for district at
torney of Reck county, and en account of
the number of defective ballets cast for
him, his opponent was declared elected.
C.upenter contested the matter before the
sumemc ceuit, which decided iu his fa
vor. His atument in his own behalf was
se brilliant and able that one of the law
yets lemarkcd that "it was worthy of Sir
Matthew Hale.' The ether lawyers pres
en 1 caught up the name and declared that
the young lawyer should never again have
a name ever which theie could be any dis
pute whatever, and that hencefeith they
should call him Matthew Hale.
Tiie New Yeik Observer says : "The
American committee of Bible, revise! s
showed their just appieciatien of the work
in which they engaged, by declining any
attempt te obtain copyright for their
weik. Te them it appealed unreasonable
te lay any restrictions upon the widest
possible diffusion of what they believe te
be the latest aud best production in En
glish of the Werd of Ged te man. In this
their ceui.se is far niore praiseworthy than
that of thc-British committee, whose ex
penses weic paid by the University press
which claims te have the exclusive light
te print the old vetsien, aud new, by con
tract with the British revisers, claim the
monopoly of the new. This claim has
been made the meic effensive by a threat
of legal process agaiust theso who have
dared te copy a lew verses of the forth
coming Testament."
LATESr NEWS BY MAIL.
Fiederiek Kless, a Cincinnati boy, aged
11 years, shot his brother Otte, a lad of 9,
yestciday. in a fit of anger, with a toy-
pistol.
The Pearl hominy mill, of Baltimore,
was burned yesterday, with all the tock
and machincrv. The damage is estimated
at about $70,000 ; insurance, $55,430.
The American mills company, of Provi
dence, R. I., has made an assignment ;
liabilities, $0,000 ; assets $75,000. The
failure is said te be due te that of A.J.
Graellc, of New Yerk.
Franceis Xavier Jebhi, aged 95, who
lived alone, was found dead iu his house in
Quebec. The carpet and lloer were partly
burned, and it is supposed that he was
suffocated. A dead cat was found lying
near him.
Policeman Maleney,of Leng Island City,
went home intoxicated and shot his wife,
the bullet entering her head near the eye.
If the ball can be extracted she may re
cover. She refuses te make a cemplaiust
against her husband.
As the train bringing the Lancers, re
turning fre.n New Orleans, left Ccntralia,
III., last night, the engine wat derailed. In
hauling the cngine upon the track the .rope
broke, fracturing the skull of William
Bailey, oil of the Lancers. Mr. Bailey has
since died. Ne one else was hurt.
The Eureka blasting powder works at
Highland, three miles from Oakland, Cal..
exploded yesterday with terrific force,
Twe Chinamen were killed, and five
Chinamen and two white men were injur
ed. Tiie reef of the magaziue was blown
off, and the packing house destroyed.
Geerge W. Musser, of Fairfield, Greene
county, Ohie, has been held te bail for
striking his paster.Rcv. J. Hale of the Re
formed church, with a club. Musser was
laughing in church, and en Mr. Hale re
buking him from the pulpit, he went out
waited for the minister at the church
deer and felled 'him with a hickory stick.
Frederick II. Churchill, a welkknewn
citizen of New Britain, Conn., shot him
self dead with a pistol. Cause, aberra
tion of mind from tee close application te
the electric light business. He was a
sraduate of Yale college, a lawyer, pos
sessed of wealth, aud having a wife and
four children
In Gallatin county,Ky.,at the request of
Mrs. O JScal, whose husband was neglect
ing her, Andrew Gibuer, a neighbor, went
te feed O'Neal's stock. O'Neal came
home meanwhile, and taking an axe fel
lowed Gibner, kneckd him down and de
liberately cut his head te pieces and cut
off one arm.
In Jacksen county, Ga., Jesse Cook, ac
companied by his 14-year-old daughter,
went into the weeds te split rails. Cook
told his daughter that if she did net split
as many rails as he did in the day's work
he would kill her. After a hard day's
work the daughter, en counting her pile
of rails, ascertained that she had net split
quite se many as her father. Fearing the
unmerciful punishment te whichfshe had
frequently been subjected, she did net go
home. Her father hunted her up and
flailed her se mercifully with a;railthat she
died seen afterward. Cook attempted te
escape, but was placed injail.
In the inaugural parade in Washington
yesterday the Harmony Legien, of Phila
delphia, when they came up the avenue,
were red shirts, carried small staffs with
flags and resembled firemen in general
appearance. They insulted everybody of
prominence along the line of march and
stepped te fight where it was resented.
Between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets
the entire Legien breke up and went into
a general free fight, cracking heads right
and left with their stalls and getting a
geed many knocks in return. In some
instances a dozen of them would break
ranks and plunge into the crowd, driving
whomsoever they pursued into the saloons
and scaring half te death the women and
children who were incidently knocked i
ever in the chase,
WINTER LIFE AT A FOKr.
Hew the Christmas Season
vil Passed at
Celrille.
Away out in the northwestern corner
of our country near te the border of Brit
ish America, Fert Colville is hidden away
from the knowledge of man, buried in
snow for most of the year and with the
thermometer standing for months steadily
below zero. Frem a private letter of an
officer we extract the following description
of the life and amusements of the exiled
people at the pest.
I wish you could have some of the sleigh
ing I have been enjoying every night for
some time past. I have been taking ad
vantage of some of the privileges of my
office of quartermaster, which would be
quite considerable if I had time te devote
te them. "Celd turkey" is what these
advantages are called here. I have some
twenty mules and twelve horses in my Q.
M. stables new, and although -lest of
them are at work every day, there is always
a fresh four-in-hand available when
I have no evening work en my hands. I
found a very fair cutter in a dilapidated
state and put our blacksmith upon it, and
this, with my four ambulance mules and
four cow bells for sleigh chimes, is net te be
sneezed at. Occasionally I use horses, but
the mules are the fastest, and meie in ac
cord with the cow bells which are becoming
my distinctive announcement through the
clatter of the usual sleigh bells.
Staff duty out here nearly always falls
'en officer of the line. Nearly all the pest
quartermasters are lieutenants of the line,
with no extra pay or assistance, aud with
theiidditienal duties of commissary, ad
jutant, &c. They de the work of the
quartermaster's department, while quar
termasters seldom get farther than Wash
ington, New Yerk, San Francisce, &c. In
some unexplained way Majer Forsyth, a
a ical live quartermaster, inade his ap
pearance at Camp Chcl.ui, a pest in this
wilderness, and did net succeed iu getting
relieved for nearly a year ; but new his
place is taken by a 2d lieutenant of the
line, who assumes, in addition te his duties
as commissary aud adjutant, theso of quar
termaster ; for performing which alone F.
get the rank and pay of major aud the
assistance of a trained clerk ei a salary of
$100 a month. The lieutenant will
have te take his clerical force
the soldiers.
from among
On Suuday Hunter and I drove out te
our company hunting camp ; each com
pany has new get a detachment in the
mountains after venison. We found them
very comfortably housed iu a snow bank,
under a shelter tent, but in fient of the
shelter the snow had beeu cleared away from
a square of about ten feet and banked up
se that the walls wcie as high as the head.
In this space the camp tire burned against
a large tice as a back, and everything was
as snug aud warm as if they had been in
garrison. By the way, it is curious hew
little we realize the fact that the mercury
is below zero, aud aoed way below it tee.
We dress warmly te be sure, and although
we wear heavy overcoats wc don't bundle
up : and never think of pattiug off a
moonlight sleigh ride or staying at home
en account of the dreppiug of the mer
cury. We feuud our party had net had
much success ; the snow here, being per
fectly light and feathery, there is no crust
te impede the deer and assist the hunter.
who has hard work in two or three feet of
it. I, however, have lately been well sup
plied with ducks and deer, as the hunting
parties, of whatever company, always
think it well te remember the chief of the
pack mules aud bob sleds.
The garrison minstrel troupe gave their
first entertainment, which was a grai d
success, en Dec. 22. It took place in the
library building which I built Iase year.
A neat little stage was erected, with foot
lights, side .scenes, flics aud supper lights,
and a painted drop curtain. The orches
tra was very geed a parlor organ, two
violins, a guitar, bass-viol and flute. The
audience was full, all the officers aud la
dies, and people from the country round
about. When the curtain rose at the tap
of a bell and the semi-circle of chairs was
filled with a dozen dusky gentlemen in
black coats, white vests and ties and
cloves, it wasn't haid te imavriue oneself
in the East again. The end men bones
and tambourine were perfect profession
als and their jekes were fresh and geed,
every one. The singing was excellent, the
cherusc3 well-trained aud some of the
voices very fine. I believe" I told you
about their having serenaded us some time
age. Then the entertainment went en
with clog dances, sketches, negre and
Irish songs. The whole thing was" just
what you would expect te see in New
Yerk or Philadelphia no localisms in it,
which is quite a hird thing te avoid in a
garrison. Our company was largely rep
resented in the troupe and music, and we
are quite proud te think that we have
such a fund te rely upon te keep up geed
spirits.
On X-mas eve we all met at the colonel's,
where a X-mas tree had been rigged up
for the children. The little chicks weic
all expectation when, about 8 o'clock, a
sleigh dashed up outside with a grand
jingling of bells and Captain H., who had
slipped out unnoticed, was heard
hammering the deer with his heavy
whip, in the character of Santa Claus,
and a grand one he made when he was
ushered in out of the driving snow which
had ledged all ever his fur costume, he
being almost buried under a Canada fur
coat, fur hat, goggles long beard and
stuffed with a pillow or two. The chiL
drcn (from 4 te 7 years old) formed the
most awe-struck party you ever saw as
the visitor found each one of their names
in a book he carried aud gave them his
opinions. v When he led the way te the
room where the tree was blazing away
one of the little girls was se excited that
she kept repeating, " Oh yes, I'll shake
hands with Santa Claus !" " Oh yes ! I
will!" "I will! but I don't want any
presents, Santa Claus, I really don't!"
"Ne! Ne! I don't!"
The colonel was then installed en a
throne and instructed by Santa Claus te
distribute his gifts aud represent him that
evening, as he had te visit an the pests
between here and New Yerk before morn
ing. With this he threw up the window,
and saying that he would step later iu the
night when he get through, and fill the
stockings, away he went with a clang of
bells behind the little mules that would
have passed for reindeer en a brighter
night than that was. Then came the
planting of the tree (which by the way
was very pretty, in spite of the ornaments
being of original invention and home man
ufacture), and the toys for the children
and some surprises for the elder ones
were humorously distributed.
Leaving the youngsters highly delighted
(though our mails have been snow bound
and have net brought all the things they
were te have) we adjourned te the parlor
and drank a Xmas beverage from a punch
bowl whose inscription showed that it
was presented by the planters of Jamaica
te a lieutenant commanding H. M. S.
Blank for gallant conduct in whipping and
capturing a French cruiser off their coast
in 179S. Hew that bowl has wandered !
If you could have seen our party gath
ered-mat evening areuna the piano, sing
ing and listening (four ladies, five officers
and the doctor, the colonel's brother),
I'm afraid I would never be able te enlist
your sympathies for the exiles at Colville
again. The colonel plays the violin and
the doctor the flute, se you knew we are
pretty well prepared for music.
On Xmas night the officers and ladies
were invited te attend a Colville ball.
We went, of course, with our curiesitv
wrought up te a high pitch te see
hew the affair would go. " When
our sleigh deposited us after a brisk
little dash, wc were ushered- into a hall of
very fair size whrrj all the belles and beaux
of the valley were assembling. We were
given seats at one ud of the hall and had
time te survey the company before the
music began. The only noticeable feature
in the manners was that the " ladies " oc
cupied ene side of the room and the
" gentlemen " the ether ; each gallant re
turning his pai tner te her place and going
back te his side as seen as the music
would cease. Shades of their ancestors
weie there well represented, from the full
half-breeds (whose color sometimes sug
gests that they get mere than their half of
the paint) te the one-quarter and one
eighths, sometimes bright, clear blendes
with only an Indian feature te mark them.
Seme of the t;iils aie pretty and the meu
are nearly till dirk,,haudsome fellows. The
French infusion iu the bleed cannot be
mistaken, and this was as apparent in their
mirthful dispositions aud natural aptitude
for dancing a3 in everything else. The
quadrilles were interminable and of un
bounded complication ; a mere word from
the master of ceremonies, perched en a big
barrel, being all that was needed te change
the spirit of their dream into something
new and strange. The time was rattling,
but there was no roughness or clumsy clog
dancing. These who boasted of the Scotch
strain of the Hudsen Bay company took
care te air their knewlege of the Highland
Fling and Scottish Reel. Ner was every
thing square dancing. There were waltzes
schottisches, varseuviennes, the time
very strongly marked in the motions ; and
the Colville Reel, hew shall I describe that ?
Well, it is danced in sets, each couple
with right arm linked in right arm and
left hands en hips, reeling aud reeling and
reeiing away ; suddenly there is a rever
sal of position, all disengage, whirl around
aud link left arm with the left of the next
partner, and se it gees, a wheel within a
wheel and all heads in a whirl. The music
was geed, and the ladies having come pre
pared with short dresses, "we of the gar
rison" seen found ourselves en the fleer.
We showed them "the Glide," "the
Three Step," &c, &c, and they good geod goed
naturedly pulled us through their amazing
quadrilles ; their cautionary exclamations
being mere frequently French than Eng
lish in the excitement of the changing
figures. Then, at a challenge from our
ladies, we danced with the (meie or less)
dusky belles and, and with the cook aud
the maid, who had but a few hours
before basted the Xmas turkey and
served the fiamiug plum pudding
for some of us at the colonel's.
The girls had been taken te see the per
formance under the wing of our party,
were educated, graceful, pretty, aud being
the best waitzcrs en the fleer, were alto
gether tee geed for the natives.
The eveuing passed off pleasantly, with
no disorder save the appearance of a horse
shoe omen of geed luck which came
crashing through the window pane.
This, however, caused no interruption ;
only one revolver was drawn by ene of the
chi vah eus defenders of the fair, but no
ene presenting himself outside te be shot
at, the "weepen" was quietly replaced
with a cautionary remark, " lie there.'.'
A supper net euly bounteous but geed,
filled up the hour from one te two, a. in.,
"Sunday, December 26th," when we closed
the fete wit'i a " sparkling sleigh ride"
home, an example followed by all but
these who, having fifteen, twenty and
thirty miles te drive, went en with the
dance till daylight should make the trail
mere plainly visible. Fred.
EXPLOSION IN A COAL MINE.
Thirty-live Chinamen Killed and Fifteen or
Twenty Badly Hart.
. A special from' Evanston, Wy., says :
"The gas in the Reck Mountain coal and
iron company's mine Ne. 2, at Almy sta
tion, en the Union Pacific read, exploded
at 8J Thursday evening, throwing the
flames many hundred feet high out of the
main slope, carrying away the buildings
around the mouth of the shaft, and setting
the machinery buildings en fire. About
fifteen minutes before the explosion from
ten te thirty white men and fifty China
men went down te work for the night.
At 2 a. m. seventeen Chinamen, mere or
less seriously injured, had been rescued,
many with limbs broken and badly scalded
About twenty dead Chinamen have been
discovered, but have net yet beeu brought
up Ne white man has yet been feuud,
and there are no hopes that any are alive.
The jar of the explosion was plainly felt
at Evanston."
A despatch from Cheyenne says the
night shift consisted of fifty Chinamen
and five whites. Twe of the whites were
brought out in a crippled condition, and
fifteen Chinamen were rescued through
the ventilating shaft, all of whom were
mere or less injured. It is belived that
thirty-five Chinamen and two white men,
new in the mine, are all dead, as the mine
is en fire. The mine is owned by the
Central Pacific railway, and was being
worked te its full capacity. The accident
will cause a suspension of work for a
year.
Accidents During the Inaugural Ceremonies.
Twe serious accidents eccured. Leuis
Westen a member of the Seventh Penn
sylvania National Guard, of Pottsville,
was struck en the head by a piece of pipe
forming ene of the street arches. His
skull was factored. He was taken te the
Providence hospital and it is thought he is
dying. The horse of C. C. Bolten, a
member of the Cleveland Troop, stepped
en the wet pavement and fell en his leg.
breaking if badly. He was taken te the
head quarters of the -'Troop and received
medical attention.
The Inci
Tax Levy.
Xew Era.
The action of councils at their recent
meeting te increase the rate of taxation
from seventy te niuety cents per hundred
dollars valuation has created both surprise
and alarm among taxpayers. It comes te
them with all the mere force, iu the first
place, because it was unexpected, and,
secondly, because in the increase is such
an unusual one. An examination of the
resolution which passed councils, fixing
the new tax levy at nine mills en the dol
lar, reveals the true secret of this 23
per cent, increase in the rate of taxation
at a single bound. Five mills are required
te pay interest and principal aud state tax
en leans, two mills for general city pur
poses, and (we mills te pay arrearages of
ttreet aeelt due June l, issu. These ar
rearages, we regret te say, reach the very
large sum of $20,000. It is idle te discuss,
at this late day, the manner in which much
of this debt was incurred There was a wide
difference of opinion concerning the pro
priety of incurring certain portions of it,
but it is te late te worry ever that new.
Suffice it te say there is an ever-due floating
debt banging ever the city of $20,000 or
mere, new te meet it was. the question
that confronted councils. It was impossi
ble te borrow the money and make it a
part of the bended debt of the city, as the
legal limit of indebtedness has beeu
reached within a few thousand de'lars.
It would be impolitic te leave the debt un
satisfied, as it would grew by delay. There
seems, therefore, te have been only one
ether course open, and that was te levy a
tax te pay off the debt at once. This i
the plan councils have adopted, and. as we
believe, wisely. Indeed, any ether course
must have been of a temporizing and un
satisfactory character. They have faced
the question boldly, and have at one stroke
concluded te get rid of the burden at once.
These are the facts in the case, and the
people ought te knew them. The present
is, however, an excellent time for councils
te take anew departure iu the matter of
street improvements. If the necessary
economy is practiced durin z the new fiscal
year, the tax can be reduced te the old fig
ures in 1882, without detriment te any es
sential city interest.
STATE ITEMS.
Pittsburgh is much tickled because Mrs.
Hayes has ordered a pair of eye-glasses
from one of its manufactories.
The Bingham house property, at the
southeast corner of Eleventh and Market
streets, Philadelphia, has been purchased
by William Wi;htman. The price is
pi iced in the neighborhood of $3.0,000.
Thirty bricklayers of Reading have held
a meeting and decided te notify the boss
brickliyers that they will net work for
less than $2.25 per day en and after the
first or April, which will be an advance of
50 cents, the present wages being $1.75.
At the last meeting of the Berks county
prison inspectors, they discussed the ad
visability of discontinuing the manufac
ture of shoes in the jail. Jehn E. Lcntz
& Ce., who were extensively engaged in
making shoes at the Lehigh county prison,
have removed all their tools from the in
stitution, with the intention of temporarily
if net permanently, discontinuing the
manufacture of beets and shoes there.
There is but one city of the first class n
Pennsylvania which is Philadelphia, ai d
but one of the second class, and that 's
Pittsburgh. Allegheny, Reading, Scrauten
aud Harrisburg stand together in the thiid
class since the last census ; AUeutewu,
Erie, Lancaster, Williamsport and Wilkes
barre in the fourth, and Alioena, Chester,
Leck Haven, New Castle, Parker aud Oil
City in the fifth. Carlisle, Chambcrsburg,
Columbia, Danville, Easten, Johustewu,
Norristown, Pittsteu, Phcetiixville, Potts
ville, St. Clair, Tamaqua, West Chctscr
aud Yerk are boroughs. . .
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
Times m New Helland.
The New Helland Clarien strongly ad
vecates the establishment of a bank iu
New Helland and has two men ready te
te take $15,000 of stock in it. The fol
lowing discouraging sketch of society aud
busidess in New Helland is pi intcd in the
same column as its appeal for a bank :
"If there is a town in this country
where the green eyed menster subsists
en richer provender, and meic of it,
thad it feeds en in this town, we have
net heard of it. We de uet refer merely
te the jeilensy of levers, but the jealous
feeling that exists among all classes,
trades and professions, is simply ridicu
lous. And we would fail te be true te
our duties as a public journalist if we did
net denounce this reprehensible practice.
Our ministers, physicians, musicians,
business men, mechanics, private indi
viduals and families have nearly all par
taken mere or less of the unpalatable dish
set before them by this green-eyed mon
ster. If one person gets a point of ad
vantage ever another his compctiteis im
mediately go te work and concoct cam
paign stories, as it were, and circulate
them, and an excited populace, prone as it
is te evil, swallows the gossip with a relish.
The consequence is that the person who
made one step forward is pulled back
three, and se the evil work gees en."
Disorderly Darkles.
Elmer Helsinger, Calvin Carey and
Geerge Harris, three young colored men,
were arrested en complaint of Samuel
Allen, also colored, for drunken and dis
orderly conduct, and creating a disturb
ance at a party given by Mr. Allen in Leve
and Charity hall a few evening since. The
hall had been leased te Mr. Allen en con
dition that he should sell no intoxicating
beverages, and he says he faithfully com
plied with the stipulation ; but the ac
cused came te the entertainment in a
drunken condition, behaved boisterously.
one flourishing a revolver. A few min
utes afterwards they upset a stove iu the
lower room of the hall. They will have a
bearing before Alerman Barr at half-past
4 o'clock this afternoon.
Before Alderman Barr, Benjamin Green,
colored, had a hearing en a charge of
drunken and disorderly conduct and was
discharged en phyment of costs. Benja
min Smith and Geerge Smith also colored,
who were held en a charge of resisting an
officer, wcrn discharged after paying the
costs. AH these parties were engaged in
a row en Mimin street a Tew days age.
Fer being drunk and disorderly Georg;
Barten and Charles Maritan were sent te
jail for 10 days each by Alderman Barr.
m
The Fish Market.
Since the commencement of Lent
there has been quite a boom in the fish
market. Dealers in this city say their
sales are mere than twice as large as they
were last week. Fer the first time this
season fresh shad were offered for sale,
the prices ranging from 50 cents for very
little ones, te $1.25 for large ones. They
came from the south Atlantic. The ether
varieties of fish en market te-day were
fresh herring, pike, haddock, salmon,
white fish, black bass, perch, smeltz and
catfish, all of which sold at the usual
prices.
Assignment.
Mr. Andrew Mehaffey, of Pequea, has
made a deed of assignment of his pro
perty, for the benefit, of his creditors, te
Jeseph B. Erb.
SaleefKeal Estate.
Oscar Hehciu has sold te Gottleb Finkh
the property Nes. SCO and 562 North
Queen street, new occupied by Mr. Finkh,
for $5,500.
CITY COUNCILS.
AN - ALUOCRNKI) MKKT1NO OF CITT
FATUr.lt..
Repert et Finance Committee en City Treas
urer's Account Treasurer AVelcnana Ke
moved Frem OUlce Ordinance Ap
pointing Clerk et Market Com
mittee. An adjourned meeting of select and com
mon ceuuciN was held last eveuing.
Select Council.
The following named members were
present: Messrs. Barr, Deerr, Eberly,
Zecher and Evans president.
3Ir. Zecher presented the report of the
finance committee containing a statement
of the accounts of the city with Edward
Welchans, the suspended city treasurer.
He spoke substantially as fellows :
Mi:. Pkesident : In pursuance of a
resolution of select and common councils
instructing your finance committee te ex
amine the accounts of the late city treas
urer, Mr. Welchans, and report the same
at an adjourned meeting te-night, I have
the honor te submit this their final report.
But before handing it te the clerk te read
I shall ask the indulgence of this body in
explanation of a few things connected
with this investigation.
It is necessary for me te go back te the
commencement of this investigation. The
reports of the special and finance commit
tees are et fresh in the memories of you
all ; but I cannot let this opportunity pass
without refcrrim; te the many delays aud
vexations caused by Mr. WVIehans's fre
quent ieiiis.il te furnish such information
as would hasten and lighten the burdens
of your committee ; of his tepcated re
fusal te luin ever the books, moneys and
ether prepei ties justly belonging te the
city; of the personal attacks of his
friends in aud out of councils; of his
many fal.se statements te the public of bis
innocence, thus creating a false sympathy
in this community ; of the unjust aud un
fair editerial.s and criticisms of one of the
prominent daily journals I allude te the
Lancaster Istemjeexceii which in one
of its editorials compared your committee
te libellci and perjureis, thus net only
creating fal.se sympathy in behalf of Mr.
Welchans, but poisoning public opinion
against the committee ; when the fact is,
Mr. President, the editors kucw nothing
of the condition of atVaiis existing between
the late city treasurer and the city. The
ceuisc pursued by this paper has been uu
fair and unjust throughout, and I here
charge it as untruthful in its unjust at
tacks agaiust your committee. But Mr.
President, wu believe we have done the
duty confided te us. We had nothing te
gain personally by the investigation. My
sympathies were with Mr. Welchans until
I was convinced that the affairs of the city
treasurer were net in the condition they
should be. When I saw wc had a duty te
pcrlerm, I piopescd in this affair te per
form it with malice toward none, but jus
tice te all. We therefore present this as
the result of our labors believing it te be a
just and honest report of the books aud
accounts of the entire ail'air.
Mr. Eherly asked that the correspon
dence between the committee and Mr.
Welchans he read, as the latter had often
declared that he had net been notified of
the committee's action.
The cleik read the following letters:
Netice.
Lancaster, Pa , March 2, 1881.
Sin : At a meeting of the finance com
mittee of the city of Lancaster, held this
evening, I was instructed te notify you
that the .said ihiauce committee will meet
to-meriovi (Thuibday) afternoon, March
3, 1881, at 3 o'clock, at the city treasurer's
ellice, te nettle your account with the city
of Lancaster, and that the committee re
quest your presence at that hour, with all
the veucheis and papcis in your possession
belonging te the city, or necessary te set
tle J our accounts.
Veiy respectfully yours,
J. K. Baku,
Clerk Finance Committee
Te Edwaul Welchans esq , Lancaster,
Pa.
Aflhlant of service.
Lancaster City,
Peisenally appeared before me, the sub
scriber, an alderman iu and for said city,
A. J. Flick, who being duly suern, hays
that he did, en the 3d day of March, A. I).
1881, between the hours of 8 and 9 o'clock
in the morning, serve upon Edw. Wel
chans, personally, the original notice of
which the within is a true and correct
copy, aud Anther deponent saith net.
A. J. Fuck.
Swetn and subscribed te before me this
3d day of March, A. D. 1881.
J. K. Barr, Alderman.
Kecpeune of Mr. AVelchans.
Laxcasteh, March 3, 1881.
Te the fintfice Committee of the City of I.an I.an
cester :
Gentlemen : Your communication of
Mai eli -J, 1881, requesting me te meet the
finance committee this afternoon, bring
ing with in. the veucheis for settlement
with the city, is at hand.
My r-nii of olfice will expire April 4,
1881, nltfi which time I will cheerfully
meet tiie ii nance committee and preduce
the viichtis required,
Kesjiectfully, &c.,
Edwaud Welchans.
Tiie icpeit of the finance committee was
then read as fellows :
Tothellennritlle the Select and Common Conn
cils of the City of Lancaster :
Gestlemes We, the undersigned flnance
committee, respectfully report the following
result of un itie-)tiiratien unit examination of
the accounts of K. wclclmns, lute city treasur
er :
18SU K. WELCH AX, City Tm.
Va.
Aprils. rle Balance
31urkt-t rents ceilvctcil
Water "
City taxes "
Amount t icceivc 1 Ireni Jno. T.
W.7J V4
8.OTJ 10
Si 3X1 59
7,2 17
.MasGonile.iii.iver,:inUotners,
per receipt Loek
Atlitiiii:il market rents, per
market rent book, pageisi....$13 ue
Pagi- I'JO. 10 Ge
1UK Sn 15 00
l'ugcauH St 77
'J,S0i,28
73 77
Errer per report of cxp rt te
p-c-UI committee en market
rent book, paellS 1.1 SO
rugelll 13 00
58 50
'J 00
Deduct error, page 'Mi
56 50
C7 31
41 00
Tax (Itipiic tte ler 1877, page li;..
1878, " 7....
Water lent ihiplieatca 187?, page
09
Amount of city tux puiil utter
umlit of Nevi mber, 179. and
emitted in umlit of June 1,
Errer In w.irrtiits in l.:uiU of
tu.; 7
12 73
1 00
50
18 S3
special committee
Less ab itcinent en city tux..
Errer water rent duplicate for
se e, p.ie )... .. .................
Errer in interest receipt book
City tux collected from Henri
etta Parker, per receipt, dated
lunr i9 ii0v. m
Amount, lestb. reason of neglect
efCitv Treasurer E. Welchans
in net handing ever te the
iiinyer unpaid city tax and
water rent 53J 71
Less amount paid by W. U.
Spreclier ICO 00
Intete-t en u!i'e
493 71
120 0"
tlli.ltG is
fc. WELCHANS. City Tresis.
Ity amount paid out it en
tered mi tse..-jitrcr's journal
te pae 357 I39.2S021
Tepajre il 67.4-3 64
Te page 445 8,917 14
Cr-
Amount paid per intrrcatre intrrcatre intrrcatre
ceintboektoJan. 14. 1881.. 3.J05
SO
Amount paid te w.
Shirk, treasurer
11.537 21
$!S;.5 70
.. 4,63 49
Balance. .-
91l,irjT, 19
nesnccjfnllv submitten.
IJEOltOK VV. ZECHEB,
1. McMULLEN,
A..L KIIEKLT.
JOHN II. U.VUXES,
Finance Committee.
On motion the finance eemmiltce was