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LANCASTER DAILI USTELLIGEKCJER SATURDAY, MARCH 19 1881
Lancaster fnteUisencec.
SATURDAY EVENING. MABCH 19, 1881.
The Touchstone of Crazwess.
The suicideef General Upton has occa
sioned the greatest surprise among these
who knew him, and who declare him te
have been the last man they would have
suspected of such an act. The nearly
unanimous conclusion is that he was in
sane when the deed was done, although
he never was before suspected of such
mental malady. One of his acquaint
ances, however, has adopted another
theory, and a plausible one, tee. He says
that Upton was in the constant habit of
sleeping with a revolver in easy reach,
and lie believes that he seized upon it
while in a dream, and in pursuance of
an apparently needful purpose conceived
in that troubled state of his mind. It
will be seen, en a little reflection, that
these two theories are net se diverse as
they at first appear. The mind may be
disordered for the time in a dream as
greatly as it would be in any ether tem
porary state of mental distress or un
soundness. In this case of General Up
ton, it would seem that the seizure, of
whatever kind it was, was sudden, and
of the night en which the fatal deed was
denei since the day before nothing
unusual had been noted in his demean
or. Then, it is said that he was subject
te physical ailments that may have
caused him enough pain te render him
temporarily irresponsible, or that may
have thrown him iuleadistrcssingdream.
Xearly everybody haa, in his own ex
perience, that which will cause him te
believe almost any strange tale that may
be told as done in a dream. Sleep walk
ing feats are tee common te excite sur
prise, whatever be their nature. Why
then may we net credit that a man may
kill himself in a dream? It is net even
necessary te believe that he has done it
purposely ; it may have accidentally oc
curred te General Upton that a shot in
tended for an antagonist was directed
against himself. Or it may have been
purposely done in obedience te some di
rection in the dream which appeared te
justify and require it. If we admit the
physical possibility that a man in pos
session of a pistol may sheet himself
while dreaming, as we cannot avoid ad
mitting, we are equally forced te admit
that the impulse te the act may be
given it a dream.
Only a day or two age a fellow-citizen
was relating te us a recent experience of
his own. lie dreamed that he was as
sailed by a great giant ; appalled at the
odds against him he quickly determined
that his best chance laid in disabling the
giant with a powerful kick. The con
cussion awoke bim : he found that he
had kicked a hole in the window shutter
beside his bed and tern off the entire
nail from his jrreat tee. Fortunately his
wife was en the ether side of him or next
morning there might have been a coro
ner's inquest and some big newspaper
headlines describing a horrible wife
murder. The stomach is generally responsible
for these physical outbreaks that arc
laid upon a disordered mind, for it is
therein the mind gets its ugly twist..
The lower organ has been held te be the
seat of the mind and it is certainly re
sponsible for most of man's evil deeds. A
sound mind exists only when the body is
sound, and the body is only sound when
its digestive functieus are all right.
The undue Hew of bleed te the br.iin
under the malign action of the stomach
provokes these fits of anger which drive
men te murderous deeds. Frem the
same cause come dream?, which can
often be traced te indiscretion in eat
ing. A great deal of discredit has been
thrown upon the defense of temporary
and emotional insanity as accounting for
and excusing crime. But there can
hardly be a fair doubt that it is respon
sible, for a very great deal of violent ac
tion. It cannot be otherwise; every
man knows hew difficult it is te subdue
the angry passions that rise-te an ill
disposition, and he can easily imagine
that what he does with difficulty te-day he
may net be able te de at all again should
his impulse te evil then be much stronger.
We are convinced that a great deal of
the crime of the day js involuntary and
should be treated in a hospital rather
than punished in prison. See the case
which we new have in this man Pfeifer,
who killed his cellmate and left a confes
sion of ether brutal murders. Scarcely a
doubt remains that he was insane. Yet
the doctors examined him and pro
nounced him sane, declaring that his
crazy conduct was simulated. This man
was probably net one of the cases of
emotional insanity of which we have
been speaking. His mind would seem
te have been permanently affected se as
te entitle him te be called insane ; under
which name are usually placed these
whose minds have been disordered for a
censiderab.e period of time, or at least
mere than momentarily ; though we pro pre
test our inability te define insanity,
nearly everybody being mere or less
afflicted by it, in some degree at some
time. Pfeifer had been crazy for years
and it is net te the credit of the doctors
that they did net find it out. His case
serves our present purpose in showing
hew a really insane man may pass even
medical inspection as sane ; and gives
rise te the query as te hew many abso
lutely insane people are circulating
around us in the-world without our de
tecting it. Gen. Upton, sound as his
army companions deemed him and as his
work seemed te prove him, may possibly
have been insane, as the final act of his
lite proven mm te be in that hour, if
the drama theory is net accepted.
The lessen te be learned from such
facts as these may be, as we have sug
gested, that same of our penitentiaries
need te be turned into insane asylums
and hospitals. There is no use in pun
ishing a man as a criminal who cannot
help his offense. It is net just te him nor
beneficial in deterring ether crazy peo
ple from crime. "What we need te knew
and inquire for is the touchstone of era-1
ziness.
Net long since the Inquirer was hunt
ing.with a feel-killer's club, anybody
who said the Republican primaries of
this county were steeped in fraud. Hon
est confession is geed ferthe soul.
A fixe specimen of the kind of legis
lation proposed by the crude theorists
who would regulate all the concerns of
lire by legislation is afforded in a bill
introduced at Harrisburg, relating te
the sale of drugs. Briefly stated it pro
vides that nobody shall hereafter " open
or carry en in the state of Pennsylvania
any retail drug or chemical store, nor
engage in the business of compounding,
or dispensing medicines en prescriptions
of physicians, or of selling at retail any
drugs, chemical poisons or medicines"
without a certificate from the state
beard of pharmacy. That beard is te
consist of seven persons, selected trieh
nially by the governor from a list of
twenty handed te him by the " Penn
sylvania pharmaceutical association."
This puts the power into the hands of
that self-constituted association te en
tirely control and monopolize the retail
drug, prescription .and dispensary busi
ness. Any set of men who compose
this unofficial " association," or who
may happen te get control of it, could
pick out twenty of themselves under this
law, and make sure that seven of the
members would be the state beard of li
cense controlling the whole retail drug
trade. "We have no fear that any such
bill would ever becemt a law, but its
previsions are worth citing te show what
feels they are ill the world and hew the
biggest of them get into the Pennsylva
nia legislature.
The New Era states the position of
the " members from this county "en the
repeal of the recorder iniquity as fellows :
" In favor of the reform bill, approved
by the Citizens' Committee of One Hun
dred Laudis. Against the reform bill
Courtney, Eshleman, Peeples and Sna
der." Unintentionally, no doubt, the
Era oterleoked the sixth member from
this county, Mr. Snyder, representative
from Lancaster city, who votes right en
this and kindred subjects before the
Legislature. Tire geed results of rogues
falling out are proved anew at Harris
burg. The Pittsburgh members, who
have been held like hounds in the lesh
at the service of the Philadelphia gang,
having been angered by the votes of the
Philadelphia members te expel the Pitts
burgh correspondent who berated Hewit,
came around yesterday and voted te fix
a time te consider the abolition of the
recorder's office. Their change of front
" settled it," and when the roosters saw
they had te go down the least game of
them quickly voted in favor of the re
form measure, in the hope of deceiving
their constituents by assenting te the
inevitable. Among this class were Peo Pee
ples and Snader.
"We have urgently demanded investi
gation of the abuse of the se-called State
Agricultural college management and are
sincerely opposed te any further grant of
aid te it, seeing that profligate waste and
peer results have thus far characterized
it. But we entirely agree with our local
contemporary that this movement must
bii in a higher interest than that of an or
ganized raid upon the state appropria apprepria appropria
priatien in behalf of ether institutions
some of them probably net mere deserv
ing than the Centre county humbug.
Whex the Honorable Jeseph Souder,
of the Pennsylvania Legislature, pro
claims his contingent purpose te kick in
the ribs of the newspaper men he only
develops another point of resemblance
between the modern statesman and the
time-honored mule.
The friends of Ireland ought te have
Known better man te nave enercu rese
lutiens of sympathy with Irish liberty in
the rotten borough of Rhede Island,
where an Irish-American citizen and
soldier loses his vote when he loses his
laud.
PFRSONAU
Cardinal Manning is te have a coadjutor,
as his duties arc multiplying greatly upon
him.
It is understood that Grant will, at aa
early day, withdraw from the presidency
of the New Yerk exhibition company.
Bjernstjerne Bjoiinsen pronounces
his name with comparative ease because
he gives te the j's the value, or nearly the
value, of y's.
President Garfield's two elder sons arc
said te be persecuted for their influence te
the extent of forty letters a day by former
schoolmates who want positions.
Professer Francis Wayland, of the
Yale law school, sailed for Europe en Wed
nesday, and will be absent till early in
June.
Hen. Bichard Vaux, of Philadelphia,
delivered a lecture en Masonry in the M.
. church at Middletown, night befere
last.
Lord Geerge Campbell, a cousin of
the Marquis of Leme, is new, with his
wife, staying at the British legation in
Washington. Many entertainments are
being given in their honor.
Alice Way, M. D., well known in the
eastern and southern sections, and for
many years the popular teacher of a pri
vate school in Christiana, who died this
week was buried te-day in New! in town
ship, Chester county.
Meedy will net go te Europe this sum
mer. He will spend the summer at his
home in Nerthfleld, Massachusetts, hold
ing a continuous meeting for advanced
Bible scholars. Mr. Moedcy's schemes for
education which are in progress at North
field require mere of his personal attention
than they have been receiving during his
protracted absence. He will be able te de
a great deal for these during the sutumer.
He wih probably go abroad in the fall.
Jeseph Ashmead Clay, one of the old eld
est and ablest members of the Philadelphia
bar, died at his residence in that city yes
terday morning. He had been failing in
health for some months, but bid fair te
rally for awhile, when the death of his wife,
en the 24th of December last, gave him a
shock from which he did net recover, and
he died simply from a general failure of his
system, after an active life, without any
organic disease. At the time of his death
Mr. Clay was master in case of the Cen
tral railroad company of New Jersey
against the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre coal
company and also one of the masters in
the present proceeding against the Read
ing railroad company, his associate being
Geerge M. Dallas. Mr. Clay was a. man
of cultivated tastes and widely extended
reading.
MINOB TOPICS.
There are four popular ministers iu St.
Leuis who receive $8,000 each for salary.
The four " first-class " missions are
France, Germany, Great Britain and Rus
sia ; our ministers te these courts receive,
each, $17,500 a year.
TnE Frcedraen's aid society of the Meth
odist Episcopal church wants $123,000 for
the present year's expenditures. In thir
teen years this society has disbursed $893,
000. The Baltimore Episcopal Methodist is
hard en a certain class of de nothings who
infest the ministry. It expresses its judg
ment by saying : "A ministerial loafer is
an abomination in the earth, an ecclesias
tical nuisance that ought te be abated."
The colored Republicans in Maryland
have recently shown signs of revolt from
the authority of their white rulers, owing
te their net being accorded a full share of
the federal patronage of the state, and
have decided te call a state convention en
the 24th hist., at which it is proposed te
reorgamze the Kepuulicau party of the
state from a colored standpoint.
The Dunkards of Jehnsen county, Mis
souri, some time age aet up a controversy
among themselves, whi:h has new assum
ed such proportions that it threatens te
make a division in the body. The cere
mony of feet washing is one of the old re
ligious observances of these people. The
controversy is as te whether iu the perform
ance of this iite one feet or both should
be washed. On this important point opin
ion is about equally divided.
President Eliet, of Harvard univer
sity, says the degree of D. D. has ceased
te mean anything, it has been distributed
se indiscriminately. An eminent religious
authority remarks that ,;se many of the
D. D.'s arc neither talented or learned, nor
remarkable for anything but heaviness
and stupidity, that their title is about all
there is te them." As the title means
neither mere nor less than "teacher of di
vinity," it canuet carry much harm with
it, even if it fail te confer high distinction
en theso who wear it.
It is believed at the Land Office that
the western land swindlers' ring, re
cently exposed, have obtained fraudulent
titles te mere thau a million acres of pub
lie lauds, the most of which they have
sold te innocent settlers, who therefore
have no valid title te the land they oc
cupy. It rests with the secretary of the
interior and the attorney-general te decide
whether civil suits shall be begun at ence
te vacate the titles te these lands. It is
believed that whatever is determined upon
it will be se arranged that the blew shall
net fall tee heavily upon the thousands of
duped settlers, whose hitherto undisputed
titles te their homes have been rendered
invalid by this exposure.
THE FEDERAL. SENATE.
Tlie Committees Organized by the Republic-unit.
The following tire the United States
Senate committees as elected, the first
named en each list being chairman :
Privileges and Elections Messrs. Hear,
Cameren (Wis.), Teller, Sherman, Frye,
Saulsbury, Hill (Ga.), Vance aud Pugh.
Foreign Relations Messrs. Bnruside,
Cetikling, Edmunds, Miller, Ferry, John John
seon, Morgan, Hill (Ga.) and Peudleten.
Finance Messrs. Merrill, Sherman, Fer
ry, Jenes (Nev.), Allisen, Piatt (N. Y.),
Bayard, Voerhecs, Beck, McPfiersen'and
Harris.
Appropriations Messrs Allisen, Legan,
Dawes, Plumb, Hale, Davis (W. Va.),
Beck, Ransom and Cecfcrcll.
Commerce Messrs. Cenkliug, McMillan,
Jenes (Nev.), Kellogg, Cenger, Ransom,
Coke, Farley and Vest.
Agriculture Messrs. Cenger, Hale,
Sewell, McPbersuu and Williams.
Manufactures Messrs. Mahone, Blair,
Plumb, Van Wyck, Davis (W. Va.), Sla
ter and Geerge.
Military AiFairs Messrs. Legan, Burn
side, Cameren (Pa.), Harrison, Sewell,
Cockrell, Maxey, Grevcr and Hampton.
Naval Affairs Messrs. Cameren (Pa.).
Antheny, Rollins. Miller, Mahone, Mc
Phcrsen, Jenes (Fla.).- Vance and Farley.
Judiciary Messrs. Edmunds, Ceukling,
Legan, lugalls, McMillan, Garland, Davis
(III.), Bayard aud Lamar.
Postelliccs and Pest Reads Messrs.
Ferry, Hill (Cel.), Piatt (N. Y.), Sawyer,
Mahone, Maxey, Saulsbury, Farley aud
Greeme.
Public Lands Messrs. Plumb, Hill
(Cel.)", Blair, VanWyck, McDill, Jenes
(Fla. ), Grevcr, Walker and Morgan.
Piivate Lmd Claims Messrs. Bayard,
Jenes. Call, Edmunds and Allisen.
Indian Affairs Messrs. Dawes, Ingalls,
Saunders, Legan, Cameren (Wis.), Coke
Pendleton, Walker and Slater.
Pensions Messrs. Taller, Piatt (Conn.),
Diair, iuicsneii, ingarren, uroemc, Slater,
Jacksen and Camden.
Revolutionary Claims Messrs. John John
seon. Jenc3 (Fla.), Hill (Ga.), Antheny
and Dawes.
Claims Messrs. Cameren (Wis.), Frye,
Teller, Hear, Cenger, Pugh, Jacksen,
Geerge and Fair.
District of Columbia Messrs. Ingalls,
Rollins, McMillan, Hawley, Me Dill, Har
ris, Butler, Vance and German.
Patents Messrs. Piatt (Conn.). Hear,
Mitchell, Edgartea, Coke, Call and "Wil
liams. Territories Messrs. Saunders, Kellogg,
McDill, Sawyer, Butler, Garland and
Vest
Railroads Messrs. Kellogg, Teller,
Saunders, Hawley, Sawyer, Sewell Grev-
er, Williams, Jenes aud Brown.
Mines and Mining Messrs. Hill (Cel.),
Jenes (Nev.), Van Wyck, Miller, Hamp
ton, Fair and Camden.
Revision of Laws Messrs. McMillan,
Piatt (Conn.) Hale, Davis (111.), and
Pendleton.
Education and Laber Messrs. Blair,
Merrill, Burnside, Edgarton, Mahone,
Maxey, Brown, Geerge snd Fair.
Civil Service Messrs. Hawley, Rollins,
Jenes (Nev.), Hill (Cel.), Butler, Walker
ana Williams.
Contingent Expenses Messrs. Jenes
(Nev.), Piatt (Conn.), and Vance.
Engrossed Bills Messrs. Saulsbury,
Call and Conkling.
Rules Messrs. Frye, Hear, Sherman,
Call and German.
Improvement of the Mississippi River
Messrs. Mitchell, Kellogg,- Van "Wyck,
Frye, Jenes, Cockrell and Jacksen.
Transportation Routes te the Seaboard
Messrs. Harrison, Cameren (Pa.), Blair,
Piatt (N. Y.), Beck, Voorhees and Cam
den. Joint Committee en Public Printing
Messis. Antheny, Hawley and German.
Joint Committee en Enrolled Bills
Messrs. Piatt (N. Y.), Rollins and Pugh.
Joint Committee en Library Messrs.
Sherman, Hear and Voorhees.
Joint Committee en Public Buildings
and Grounds Messrs. Rollins, Merrill,
Camaren (Wis.), Jenes (Fla.), and Vest.
Select Committees.
The following are the select committees
elected
Civil Service Messrs. Sawyer, Rollins.
Dawes, Hampton and Greeme.
Census Messrs. Hale, Merrill, Cameren
(Wis.), McDill, Pendleton, Morgan and
Harris.
Epidemic Diseases 3Iessrs. Harris, La
mar, Garland, Jonas, Teller, Miller and
Sewell.
Nicaraguan Claims Messrs. DavU (W.
Va.), Greeme, Johnsten, Hawley and
Mitchell.
On the Erection of a New Library Build
ing Messrs. Voorhees, Butler aud Merrill.
A Hill That Needs Watching.
Xcw Era.
It is one thing te demand the reasons
which have led the State Agricultural col
lege te fail se signally in doing the geed
work expected of it and quite another te
give the annual appropriation it has been
receiving te sundry ether institutions scat
tered here and there ever the state. This
latter, we regret te learn, the enemies of
the college new propose te de. A bill has
been drawn up by the . men interested in
securing a share of the spoils which they
would wrest from the state aud appropri
ate te themselves. This modest bill gives
$5,000 yearly te the University of Pennsyl
vania. It gives the same amount te a col
lege in the western part of the state, as
yet unnamed ; the normal school at West
Chester is put down for $2,500, aud some
unnamed normal school in the western
part of the state is te be the recipient of
au equal sum. Besides the above, $5,000
mere are te be paid te each of the already
indicated normal schools annually for the
maintenance of experimental stations,
laboratory fixtures and ether things. The
state beard of agriculture may, if it
sees fit, adept either of the three experi
mental farms in connection with the ex
perimental stations, but if this is deemed
inexpedient, then the boaed shall be au
thorized te sell either or all of the said
farms, aud purchase ethers, "convenient
ly located and adapted te the purpose
aforesaid." There arc a great man v ether
provisos of various kinds in the bill, de
fining certain ether things that shall be
done at these schools, and by the profes
sors who teach in them, but the gist of the
bill is in what we have given above.
We new begin te appreciate what the
president of the Lancaster County Agricul
tural society said when he made his report
of the proceedings of the meeting called
in Philadelphia te consider this State
Agricultural college question. He ox ex
pressed his disappointment at the class of
men who were engineering the business.
They did net appear te be farmers nor men
given te agricultural pursuits, and from
what he saw and heard he was led te
question their disinterestedness. His ap
prehensions seem te have been well found
ed. It new leeks te us as if the whole
business was an organized raid upon the
$30,000 new annually appropriated te the
State Agricultural collcge for the benefit
of certain educational institutions iu the
vicinity of Philadelphia aud ethers in the
western part of the state.
LATESX NEWS BT MAIL.
The Newburypert, Mass., mills suffered
severely from lire last night.
In Providence the Heuse of Reprcsonta Reprcsenta
tives rejected the Senate resolution of
sympathy with Ireland.
The Savauah river has risen 24 feet in
half as many hours and Augusta, Ga.. is
flooded.
Jehn W. Mackey has bought out the
interest of two Scetchmen who held large
blocks of Sutro Tunnel stock This gives
color te the story that the Bonanza firm
control the tunnel.
In Providence, R. I., Mrs. Mary Head,
was poisoned by belladonna put up in
stead of extract of butternut by Michael
W. Cenergan, a clerk in llandy's drug
store. The jury returned a verdict of
gross negligence.
The tow beat Jehn Means enreutc te
St. Leuis exploded her boiler near Osceola,
Ark. Four of her crew of twenty-six
are missing. Several ethers were se
riously injured, including Captaiu McCIcl
2an. The freshet in the Hudsen has destroyed
the pile dykes erected last summer in
front of Albany, N. Y. The ice lifted
the piles and floated them down stream.
The whole dyke opposite Stone Dyke, the
one at Castlcteu and the one near Van
Wcis Point, arc entirely gene, while ethers
are se damaged as te be useless.
In Olena, III., Charles Bryant and sev
eral companions were seated iu an old
coach near the depot when Samuel Mc
Quillau.a noted desperado, came along with
a disreputable woman and commenced
firing at the young men, all of whom fled
except Bryant, who returned the fire, kill
ing McQuillan. Bryant was held in $509
bail.
Jehn Adams, superintendent of the
Silver Lick mine at Eureka, Nevada, and
a member of the Nevada Legislature, has
died in the San Francisce city prison hos
pital from the effects of a pistol wound re
ceived at the hands of Adelph S. Chandcr,
mailing clerk of the evening Bulletin.
They had quarreled' iu a sa!oe:i about
business affairs.
An unknown white woman, about GO
years old, was killed by a west-bound
freight train en the Pennsylvania railroad
atTaceny. She was walking upon the
eastern track when warned off by the flag
man as a tram approached. She became
bewildered, tore herself from the flagman's
grasp, and, rushing upon the ether track,
was knocked down and killed by a train.
She carriee a rmall caba, and her attire
consisted of a gray overskirt, black cloth
body, black silk .bonnet, red and brown
striped stockings and buttoned craiters.
The children at the public school near
Carsen's Run, Mich., proposed te play
ghost, and selected Annie Sicablc, a little
eirl about 11 years of age, as their victim.
Without the knowledge of Annie they
posted one of their number in the pine,
enveloped in a sheet. Te this place they
led the unsuspecting littie girl, and at a
given signal the sheeted figure made its
appearance. The children who were in
the plot ran and hallooed " Ghost !" and
with them ran littie Annie, believing she
had seen a real ghost. She reached the
school room deer, fell insensible and died
the same day.
STATE ITEMS.
Upen the arrival in Erie of Sara Bern
hardt she was greeted by a host of claim
ants te bleed relationship. The Bcrn
hardts of Erie are numerous and all sons
of toil. Sara has net distributed her
jewels among them, nor does she propose
te give a benefit for her sisters, cousins
and aunts.
There is a flood in the river of about
nine feet and rafts in large numbers have
commenced arrivinz at Leck Haven and
Williamsport. Lumbermen expect a suffi
cient rise te bring, their legs down te the
booms, and great activity among the man
ufacturers is already observed. The raft
ing business in square timber particularly
is expected te be heavy. ,
Hen. Jeseph Souder has given the-news-paper
.correspondents around Harrisburg
timely notice that if they should ever se
far forget themselves as te criticise his
conduct as a statesman he will "kick
their ribs in." Newspaper men will
cautiously observe that Souder wears a
Ne. 10 beet, even if a Ne. Ghat does fit
him loosely.
W. W. Wilsen, tobacco merchant, of
Sunbury, disappeared mysteriously en
Thursday morning. He had been te
Shamokin dam en Wednesday evening,
across the river, attending a party and
left between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morn
ing, since which time nothing has been
h An tW aT 1. TT t1 ! A A AM
i ucaiu ui mm. iie naa aoeut stjuu in
I money witn nun. There is strong
cien of foul play.
suspi-
THE VALLEY FORGE MURDER.
THE
DESPERATE CRIME OF A DAS
TARDLY THIEF.
On the Trail or the Villain Circumstantial
Evidence.
Further particulars of the murder of
Mr. Clugsteu, at Valley Ferge early Fri
day morning, shows that about 3 o'clock
Mrs. Clugsten was awakened from a deep
slumber by a heavy current of air passing
through the room, and, remembering that
the deer had been carefully closed when
they retired, she intuitively felt that some
thing was wrong. Arousing her husband,
they saw by the ghastly dimness of the
lamp, which they had "left burning low,
that the deer was wide open. Mr. Clug Clug
seon arose te leek at the clock and close
the deer, but he bad scarcely taken three
steps befere he stumbled upon the form
of a burglar crouching near the bed.
Finding himself discovered, the intruder
assumed an upright position with cat-like
agility and in an instant the two men were
engaged in a deadly combat. The noise
of the struggle thoroughly terrified Mrs.
Clugsteu, who immediately screamed at
the top of her voice : " Tem, get up !
There's a burglar in the house ! Muider !
Help !" Thoroughly comprehending this
signal of approaching danger the burglar
struggled desperately te free himself from
his elder but tenacious antagonist. Real
izing that he was making but slew pro
gress and hearing the approaching feet
steps el 'l nemas uiugsten, tne year
old son, who occupied the rear room en
the second fleer, the burglar as a last re
sort drew a revolver and discharged it at
Mr. Clugsteu, who immediately released
his held upon the desperado. At this crit
ical moment Themas Clugsten, the son,
entered the deer as the flash of the sec
ond diSffliarge momentarily illuminated
the apartment, aud taking in the situation
at a glance threw himself upon the bur
glar for the purpose of disarming aud
making him a prisoner. A desperate
struggle then followed between the men,
and although Themas was doubtless the
stronger physically, the murderer, for
such he proved te be, impelled by the
thought of the gallows or prison, seemed
possessed of superhuman strength and ac
tivity. Hew long the struggle would
have continued it is impassible te conjec
ture had net the two incu, clutching each
ether iu a vice-like grip, rolled down
stairs. As they descended in this abrupt
maimer Mr. Clugsten, although he had re
ceived his death wound, attempted te
descend the steps te assist his son.
The effort was mere than his fast-ebbing
life would permit, the death-rattle sound
ed in his threat, and he staggered and fell
headlong down the stairs, a corpse, upon
the two men still writhing in each ether's
grasp. First one and then the ether
seemed te gain the advantage. The mur
derous intruder vainly endeavored te
raise his revolver, which he still held
with a desperate clutch, iu order te put
bullet through the young man's
heart, and just when it seemed that
he would succeed in his murder
out attempt Themas, by an extraor
dinary effort, disarmed him. The son re
newed his efforts te overcome the despe
rado, but he slipped from his grasp and
with one leap cleared the parlor bounded
out of the open window, aud dashed down
the lauc like a greyhound, leaving his vest,
undercoat aud overcoat in the hands of
young Clugsten. The latter bounded
after, but after chasing him for ever
one hundred yards without gaining upon
him returned te the cottage. A lamp was
brought down stairs and the dying lather
placed en" a sofa. He never spoke a word
or uttered a groan, but gave a short gap
and quietly passed away just tweuty min
utes after he was placed ou the sofa. The
death-dealing bullet entered the right side
of the neck near the collar-bone, complete
ly severing the jugular vein. The ball
was a Ne. 5 cartridge and the weapon a
five-chambered, thirty-two calibre revol
ver with two empty chambers, showing
that the seeend shot had missed its mark.
The murderer had approached the cot
tage from Mill Lane, and pried open the
south window of the parlor. He .removed
his Ne. 7 Congress gaiters aud carefully
placed them upon the windowsill, which
was nearly level with the front perch. Iu
the struggle the murderer left his well
worn still hat containing the initials " G.
E." in the house; also his brown overcoat,
a gray sack ccat and dark vest, over
whelming cvidence against him. In the
pekcts were found a black clasp pocket
book containing $13.10, comprising
a ten-dollar bill of the Allegheny
County bank of 1804, a two-dollar
and a one-dollar bill and a dime, six linen
handkershiefs, a sheath dagger, six pairs
of ladies' new striped hose, a silver watch,
a pocket mirror, a flask of whisky, a pawn
ticket for five dollars for a silver watch
pawned en March 0, in the name of E.
Abbett, with the Consolidated lean com
pany", Ne. 53 West Baltimore street, Balti
more, Md.; the card photograph of a
pretty live-year-old girl wrapped in a piece
of brown paper, en which was written:
Mrs. .Jenes, JNe. 20 W. Lafayette street.
EllaShipp.'
The armed party who started out te
hunt the murderer met a man en the read
with bleed en his shirt front.. He was
taken te Valley Ferge, where he proved
that his name was Fisher Lee, aged 72
years, of llershan township, Montgomery
county, aud that the bleed en his shirt was
caused by a cut under his ear. Several
respectable persons testified as te his geed
character, and he was promptly released.
Befere starting out again young Melva
ney took a geed leek at the clothing left
behind by the murderous burglar and was
startled te identity them as these worn by
Henry Griebel.a notoriously bad character,
who was in the Valley Ferge posteffice
en Thursday. Yeung Tem Clugsten, who
also saw Griebel, recognized the coat as
that worn by him en the day befere at-the
posteffice. Griebel was well known iu the
village, where he bore an unenviable char
acter and associated with the worst cle
ment. He sprved three years in the West
Chester prison for cattle stealing; his prison
record is net limited te that state. He
formerly kept a small junk store at Valley
Ferge, but at the same time was known
te frequent a disreputable place in the
weeds near Greentrcc, within a short dis
tance of Penn station en the Pennsylvania
railroad. Between Valley Forge and this
point there are nearly five miles of solid
woodland, in which a criminal might hide
secure for several days. The vigilance
committee from Valley Ferge, armed te
the teeth, went in search of the murderer,
determined' upon tracing him te his den.
flinch Fraud at the Primaries.
.Lancaster I nquirer.
Sometime since one of our contempor
aries, the New Era, proposed that we
should have in this county a citizens' com
mittee, after the Philadelphia pattern, for
the prevention and punishment of frauds
at elections. We seconded the motion
aud suggested that it be constituted with
special reference te the Republican pri
maries, as at these there was probably
much mere fraud than at the general
elections.
TVerkmen Injured.
Yesterday afternoon Jacob Ridley and
Harry Dichm, laborers belonging te Kirk
Few's construction camr at Middletown.
while unloading material fer-fhB construc
tion of the Union canal bridse at that
point, were accidentally struck by a heavy
lever, and very severely hurt. They are
both married men with families, and both
reside at Fert Royal, a suburb of Middle
town. Though seriously disabled, it is said
their wounds are net dangerous.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
AT POTTSVIU.K.
la the 31. E. Conference.
In the conference yesterday quite a dis
cussion ensued ever prepositions te divide
the work of the conference into four or
five districts, embracing or net embracing
equable portions of Philadelphia iu each.
Rev. Coombs favored the five district
plan. He said the Lehigh distriet was se
arranged that no manfen Ged's earth could
de it justice. Its railroads ran everywhere
without going anywhere in particular.
Mr. Welsh spoke in favor of his four
district resolution. He said: "We have
enough districts already." "Amen,"
shouted a brother, provoking laughter
from all sides.
The five distriet amendment was laid ou
the table.by a vote of 121 te 33.
Presiding Elder Swindells did net favor
au increased number of districts, but he
believed the churches favored it. He
thought if the work was divided it would
give the presiding elder's family mero of
his fame. Iu 3G5 nights his family had
had five.
Rev. Carrow thought the presiding el
ders under the present arrangement had
te de tee much traveling en "feet back."
Brether Mills made a speech which was
frequently applauded. He thought there
was a great Chinese wall about Philadel
phia. He wanted te break it down. He
also wanted it se arranged that theso min
isters who went te get out of the city can
de se and these of the country get in with
out friction.
The resolution finally passed was that
the presiding bishop rearrange the work
of the cenference ie four districts, equal
izing the size and financial ability as
nearly as possible and dividing the we.k
in the city of Philadelphia equally among
them as nearly as possible.
Geerge Cummins, presiding elder of
the Susquehanna district, name was called.
His character was passed, and he pre
sented and reported the state of the work
en his district. The report was clear,
concise and full of encouragement.
Rev. C. J. Thompson was elected-a
trustee of the educational fund, and L. D.
Brown and J. R. Hainct were chosen
trustees of the centenary fund.
The report of the Lecal Preachers' asso
ciation was presented and read, showing
the number of preachers en the roll as
seventy-six ; number of effective preach
ers, sixty-three. Twenty-three appoint
ments arc filled by the members at institu
tions under the care of the association.
These are the county prison, Eastern peni
tentiary and similar institutions, which
are supplied every Sabbath, and an aver
age of thirty-eight services each Sabbath
held. The report also showed that five
hundred and thirty-two appointments
were filled during the year in city and
county churches.
The number of iumates iu the various
institutions brought under the preaching
of the gospel by the members of the asso
ciation was four thousand three hundred
and forty-five.
The bishop announced the following as
the committee en the communication from
the local preachers' association : T. C.
Murphcy, W. C. Best, N. Frame, J. Lin
demuth and G. A. Wolf.
The largest audience of the week ap
peared at the Academy of Music last night,
the occasion being the anuiversary of the
"Church Extension Society." P. J. Car Car
eon presided. M. D. Kurtz opened sen
ices with prayer. J. R. Beyle, of Phila
delphia, spoke. He stated that in the
last sixteen years the society aided 3.0S6
churches and built 335 churches: Chap
lain McCabc spoke for an hour, raising
$1,000 from the audience. The meeting
closed with the benediction by Dr. Rust.
The committce en Rev. Mr. Miller's
case met iu the afternoon. The hearing is
conducted secretly. The general opinion
seems te be that Miller will be convicted.
AFTER TOM WILEY'S SCAM'.
Or Perhaps After Hi Otlice.
When Majer Ellwood Gricst was a can
didate for Congress against Hen. A. Hcrr
Smith, it was quite natural for Themas A.
Wiley te support Smith, and his effective
work for him, especially in Majer Griesst's
Fourth ward, was well calculated te raise
the major's dander. Gricst has been en
the war path for Wiley ever since, and will
net be Lappy until the collector's bleeding
scalp hangs at his belt. He is especially
vicious in this week's JJ7jr,bcing stirred
te fresh assault by the news that
" various names have bceu mentioned in
connection with the succession te this
office, among them B. Frank Eshleman,
of this city, Jehn M. Stehman, A. J
Kauffman, Geerge II. Ettla, and ethers.
But," cautiously adds the net tee sanguine
Inquirer, " whether any of them have
a chance for success or net we of course de
net knew." Fer Garfield, it is sus
pected will Icave it te Smith, aud
Smith, "it has been generally supposed,"
"in accordance with some visionary ideas
of civil service held by certain self-styled
reformers, would favor the continued re
tention of Mr. Wiley in office for an in
definite period of" time." Nevertheless,
Mr. Gricst has heard that Smith favors
the "policy of change" aud he invites
Eshleman, Stehman, Kauffman, Ettla.
aud ethers tee modest te be mentioned
te step up and help give Wiley the g. b.
Gricst, in conclusion, sums up the griev
ance of " the people " against the present
collector, that he makes $4,300 salary,
gets $500 rent from the government for
the office, and $000 salary for his son.
Wiley has the fleer.
AFTER MANY YEARS.
Recollections of " Sweet Old Ireland."
Among the invited guests te the golden
wedding of Mr. and Mr3. David Housten,
of which a full account appeared in yes
terday's Intelligencer, was Elizabeth
Jehnsen, a widowed sister of Mr. H.,
whose present residence was only ascer
tained with much difficulty and her an
swer te the invitation only received this
morning. She lives with her son at Hcu Hcu
velten, N. Y., and is 85 years of age. We
make the following touching extract from
her response :
" Deak Brether and Sister : Your
invitation te help te keep the fiftieth anni
versary of you wedding day has carried me
back in memory te our childhood days,
when you and I were young ; when our
home was in ' sweet old Ireland.'
" I can but faintly remember our saint
ed father, who Iett us when you, my broth
er, were an infant in our dear mother's
arms, hew she toiled for us, and I, as the
eldest child, put my peer shoulder te the
wheel te de the little that I could te help
with the ether dear ones at home.
"But we are. new scattered ; one here,
another there,. and I knew we shall never
meet en earth again ; but in the ' sweet
bye and bye ' we shall meet en the ' Ever
green Shere. '
" Ged, grant we may be an unbroken
family there.
' ' Your aged sister,
" Elizabeth Jehnsen. "
The t'enrv.
On 3Ienday morning the week of argu
ment court will begin, before both judges.
On the printed list there are nine cases in
orphans' courts, twenty-six in common
pleas and seven in quarter sessions.
On Monday, April 18, the regular quar
ter cessions court will begin.
Married.
Miss. Mary E. Parker and Rev. Jehn W.
Hoever were united in marriage at the
residence of the bride's father in Harris-
burg the ether day. Among these present
nw .ulue auuiv jjauiey, Ol mis city.
THE TOBACCO MARKET.
Seme Recent Representative Sale.
Yesterday's Lebanon Times says : "Isaac
Brown, tenant farmer en Jacob Shaak's
farm, Millcrcek township, sold the pro
duct of one acre of tobacco for $433.26 te
a Lancaster county party. His tobacco is
known as the uiameth silk leaf, and two
quarts of the seed brought him $00. Messrs.
Wallace & Seus, of Newmanstown, have
sold their tobacco crop te Lancaster par
ties, for $1,117. Off of one aero was sold
for $354."
The following are purchases of tobacco
made by Jehn Hildcbrand iu Drumore
township : Henry Nerthhammcr i aero at
20 round ; Mrs. Shuraan, 2 acres "at. 19, 7
aud 3 ; Ephraim Bleacher, 2 acre at 17, 5
and 2 ; Rudelph Shaub. 1 aero at 17, 5 and
3 ; Mrs. Rewe, 1 acre at 10 round ; Jacob
Nerthl:ammer, 3 acres at 15, 5 and 3. In
Providence township, Elam B. Huber, 3
acres at 18. 5 aud 3.
Our Marietta correspondent writes :
Shipping is brisk at the railroad depot.
The siding is full of cars te be used mostly
for tobacco. This week Greve. Heffman
& Ce.. sent 310 cases te New Yerk, and.
Boek & Jacobs sent 25 cases.
Tobacco buyers are numerous this week
and a great many scales arc being made.
Seme of them have been as follews: C.
A. Sehaffuer. I J acres at 15 and 3; Jehn
Shields, 2 acie.s at 18, 0 and 3; Samuel
Shadier, 2 acres at 10. 0 and 3 ; Alex Bu
chanan. 3 acre- at 10, Gand3 ; Cyrus Hcrr,
2 acres at 18, 0 and 3, and Themas Stacks,
of West Denegal, G acres at 22, 20, 8 and
e.
The Market at WrlghUvUIe.
Wrteht-villeStar.
- Mr. Jas. II. McCenkey has sold te 11.
C. Monre 15 acres at 17, 7, 5 and 4. while
f ether crops have been sold as high as 25
and e ler superior ami uewii as low as a
and 2 for inferior grades. A erep of to
bacco raised iu Yerk county was taken te
Columbia where it was stripped and pre
pared for market and afterwards sold for
23 and 5, when at the same time the best
offers yet made for ether crops of equal or
superior quality raised ou the same farm
have been much below these figures.
Messrs. Thomsen & Bre. have thus far
received about 2C0 caws, while they ex
pect te receive te-morrow (Saturday)
40,000 pounds, or about 100 cases mere.
The receipts up te this time of Messrs.
Keller & Kliue amount te about 300
cases ana in addition they have purchased
about 200 cases mera yet te be delivered.
Messrs. Wit man & Stricklcr, Bunzl &.
Dermitzcr, S. R. Keehcr & Ce. and Skilcs
& Frey have all made heavy purchases
and the two former firms have received a
portion of their purchases. Messrs. S. R.
Keehcr & Ce. will commence receiving to
day. Wk are unable te give approximate
figures of the amount of the crop bought
by the linns iven It is probable that
the receipts by S. R. Keehcr & Ce. te-day
aud by Thompson & Ure. te-morrow will
make two of the heaviest tobacco days se
far this season.
In addition te the tobacco purchased
and delivered at our warehouses te be
packed here, ever 200 cases have been
received here by Lancaster dealers apd
shipped iu bulk te Lancaster te lie packed.
Anether Ills Day.
The weather te-day is cold aud damp,
just such a day as the tobacco-growers
like te have te deliver their tobacco ; the
only drawback being the horribly bad
condition of the reads, which in many
places are almost hub-deep with mud.
But notwithstanding this drawback, im
mense quantities of the leaf were delivered
at the city warehouses. At Fatman fc
Ce's., te-day, 47 leads, many et them
4 horse leads were delivered. At TellerV,
Skiles&Frey's, Frey& Weidler's. Wertheim
er's,Bunzl tfc Durniitzers,Shreeder & Ben's
Oppenheimcr's, Ilerr's, Jehn Moere's aud
ether warehouses, there were also large
numbers of wagons unloading from day
break until afternoon. During the week
Skilcs & Frey received about 170.000
pounds. On Thursday C. G. Hcrr received
about 50 wagon leads. Many of the ware
houses further from the centre of the town
wc have net had au epjMirtuiiity of visit
ing, but J"i em 1 he large number of country
teams, piled high with tobacco and mov
ing iu the direction of the warehouses,
there is no doubt, they tee arc receiving
largely.
K:ileR I Tobacco.
Frank Buchanan, of Honeybrook, Ches
ter county, has sold te Bitncr & Zeek
3,500 pounds at 15J, 5 and 3.
J. M. Frautz, Lancaster township, has
sold te C. G. if err about 4,000 pounds at
20, 10, 8 and 3, and 3,100 pounds at 18, 0
and 3.
Jehn D. Hershey, Petersburg, has sold
and delivered te Fatman & Ce., 4 acres,
at 20, G and 3.
Activity lu the East End.
New Helland Clarien,
The following recent sales have occurred
in this ueihboed : Te Goldback & Mus
ser DaVid ilurkheldcr, 5 acres at 23, 9
and 3 ; Jehn Heeber, 2 acres at 22, 18 and
3 ; Ames Lcfevre, 2 acres, 20, G and 3 ;
Isaaa Muckct, 1 acres, 9 cents round ;
Samuel SweigarT, acre, 20, G and 3 ;
Abm. Summer:;, 1 acres, 8 cents, round ;
Jacob .Siie.v.tlter. one let, 171 cents round,
two lets 10 cents round ; Elias Yitudt,
J-acrc, 18. G and 3.
Te Hard ler Urtibaker & Ce., D. S.
Schlanch, 1 acre at 18, 10. G and 8 ; Cyrus
Mcntzcr, 1 acres at 17, 7 and 3.
Te Stiik, et Lancaster, A. J. Yundt, 3
acres, 18. 10, G and 3; Gee. Drybread, 1
acres, 17. 7 and 3; Jehn Mentzer, 17, 7
and 3; Grain II C. Mcntzcr, 17, 7 and 3;
Isaac R. Brubakcr, 18, 12 and 4.
Te Skiles & Frey, Lancaster, A. O. Sut Sut
eon. 1 acre. 17. 7 and 3 ; I. G. Davis, 14,
G and 3 ; N. Heiiningcr, 17, G and 3.
Gee. Duukle, Bcthesda, Lancaster
county, sold 2 acres of tobacco te Fatman
& Ce., for 17, G and 3. He delivers it to
day. Net Welt KnilerseU.
The " Around the World" company.
which appeared here last evening, catches
a livejy breeze from the Harrisburg papers..
We ar6 net te have "Alvin Jeslin." May
be it is just as well. Tha Wilkesbarre
Union Leader says of the show : " If the
New England farmer is anything like Mr.
Davis presented him, the average traveler
will steer clear of the New England
farmer. One's ideas of the typical descend
ant of the pious Pilgrim is altogether dis
arranged when he leeks upon Ah in
Jeslin and fellows him through a succes
sion of fiery combats in which he, not
withstanding his advanced age, always
comes out of the unharmed victor. " Al
vin Jeslin" is a big show en paper. The
litejraphs, bangers, dodgers and pesters,
are superb. We recommend the pApcr."
A Feast el ISeans.
Last night after the adjournment of
Geerge II. Themas pest 84, G. A. R.,
there was a grand lunch served of genuine
old army viands bean soup, sew-belly
and hard-tack. A felicitens speech was
made by Maj. A. C. Rcineehl, and the old
vets declared the feast far superior te
some they had sat down or steed up te
when in the service. The supply of soup
and crackers being super-abundant, what
was left was distributed te several" sol
diers' widows.
Railroad Accident.
Yesterday a tramp who gives his name
as Wm. Burns and residence- Philadelphia
attempted te beard a western freight train
at Middletown. and falling under the caw
had his right leg terribly crushed. He was
put aboard the mail train, conveyed te
Harrisburg and placed in the hospital,
where he lies in a rather precarious con
dition, the leg having been amputated.
TJallt I.amp.
gas lamps last nfeht
The unlit
were. 2 in the
Second ward: 3 in the
Sixth and 1 in the Ninth in all 5.
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