LANCASTER DAlY jNTKLUGEKCER THUBSDAT, MARCH 24 1881
?Uncastet intelligencer.
THDB8DAT EVEN'O. lfABCH 24, 1881.
AerrABS Leaders.
The Republican leaders are in a very
nervous state. There is trouble for them
all around. The discordant elements of
the party are in accord for the present
under jtbe cohesive power of the public
plunder, but,as it is distributed,the noble
army of soreheads will be sure te wail,
and swear like that in Flanders. And
the party is net in a position te stand
much of a racket within its lines. It
needs all the strength of its united
forces te withstand the aggressive enemy
outside, who has it new very much at
a disadvantage. An administration
which starts out fearing te call Congress
together for the very necessary purpose
of substituting three per cent bends for
the five and six per cents that are pay
able, is evidently net in very strong fight
ing trim. It is a confession of fear and
necessarily therefore of weakness. Mr.
Blaine believes in boldly meeting the
issue and forcing the fighting. His less
sagacious colleagues would postpone the
day of peril, as weak men always incline
te de.
In the Senate, Senater Voorhees has
made a motion te smoke out the reluct
ant patriots who want te distribute the
officer, as of the party holding power,
but who de net want te declare their
policy, which it is equally the duty of
the party in power te communicate te
the ceuutry. Mr. "Voorhees offered a
resolution declaring that the hostile at
titude assumed by the national banks te
the refunding of the national debt at a
lower rate of interest, and their recent
attempt te dictate the legislation of
Congress, are contrary te the best inter
ests of the people and calculated te ex
cite their alarm for the future. That
resolution should have been acceptable
te the Republican senators as giving
them an opportunity te express their dis
approbation of the conduct of the nation
al banks In the refunding matter. That
eenduct has been se generally reprehend
ed that it seems very unwise in Republi
can senators te hesitate te express their
condemnation of it ; especially as the
Republican paity has been charged with
being the thick and thin advocate of
the national banks, te whose material
aid in the elect ion it was indebted for
success. But Mr. Voorhees's resolution
was net welcome te the Republican
side, which sought te drive it off by
raising the point of order that nothing
was in order at an executive session but
the distribution of the offices. Senater
Sherman was tee wise te take such un
tenable ground, but he trusted that "the
geed judgment of the senator from In
diana would conclude that it was net
advisible te open a discussion se bread
as this resolution would give rise te. If
se geed-by te any shortening of the
session."
The "geed judgment "of the senator
from Indiana has put the Republican
senators in a difficulty from which their
geed judgment did net suffice te relieve
them. Tiie opposition which they have
snewn te the resolution is pregnant of
meaning. The declaration that it would
give rise te a long discussion and a long
fififtu ion suews t,iat l,iev de nefc affrae te
the sen Mment of lll resolution and pro
pose te e)OSC, il ;viUl all their might.
They have dilesedJ"st what we want
te knew andharcI),ac,edtheirlartyin
position, net only ? defenders of the
national banks, but eveu as defenders
Of their " hostile altitude te the re
funding of the national debt t
a lower rate of interest," whicli
is all that senator Voorhees' resolution
condemned, except " their recent at
tempt te dictate the legislation of Con
gress." As there is no question th.'it
they did attempt such dictation te defeat
the refunding scheme, it is clear that
the Republican senators in resisting the
adoption of a resolution declaring such
conduct te be " contrary te the best in
terests of the people and calculated te
excite their alarm for the future," have
assumed the responsibility of defending
the action of the national banks which
has been se generally condemned by the
people.
We wish them a safe deliverance hi
their undertaking. It seems a suicidal
one, but it is their affair. They weuM
have been wiser te let the resolution
pass, acknowledging the error of their
pet banks, admitting the necessity of
providing against its future occurrence,
while protesting that the national bank
system properly guarded was valuable te
the country. It may be that it is. We
confess that after the recent experience
we cannot see that it is. It seems te
have failed just in the point where its
value te the country was believed te ex
ist. The Philadelphia Telegraph, while
admitting the wrong done the ceuutry
by the banks in their recent action, and
the necessity for legislation te correct it,
still pretests its belief in the value of
the system. We should be glad te hear
from it upon what its faith rests. Such
legislation as is needful te deprive the
banks of the power te de the evil they
have done can hardly be had but by
cutting off their heads.
Majer Jenx M. Pomekey, of the
Chambersburg Repository, who was in
the Pennsylvania Heuse of Representa
tives in 1846-7, the only one of its pres
ent members who was there then, has
been telling his readers and the public
generally about what was then and is
net new, and of what, is new and was
net then. We suspect, however, that
our genial friend of the press and state
Assembly forgets te tell a great deal that
he might te make the contrast mere
vivid. Occasionally newhe finds himself
in the company and helping the plans of
the roosters, se that possibly it would
net be safe for him te venture farther
than the mild statement that the " char
acter and qualifications of the members
were, upon the whole, better then than
they are new."
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Mn. James Cellins, of the beard of j
ceuntv auditors, sensible te the fact that !
as a member of the beard he is held in j
a degree responsible by the-public for its j
shortcomings and inefficiency, desires it
te t understood that he has earnestly
sought te prevent the trifling and delay
Tvhjch have characterized the present
session and which will bring whatever
report results from it into discredit. He
declares that unless his colleagues con
duct themselves and their office better
he will appeal te the court for a remedy
or resign, as he has tee much reputation
at stake te let it be supposed that he
would be a party te such a circus as has
been running at the court house simply
te prolong the session for which the
auditors get a per diem allowance.
The curious fact is elsewhere fully ex
plained that the state of Alabama, which
would be entitled te eight members of
Congress in an apportionment based en a
total representation of 299 members
would be reduced te seven en the in
creased apportionment of 300 members.
It is notable that the representation of
Arkansas, Colerado, Connecticut, Dela
ware, New Jersey, Nevada, Oregon,
and Rhede Island must remain the same
as new, whether the total membership
of the Heuse be fixed at 293, 325 or at
any figure between these two. On the
ether hand, Maine, New Hampshire and
Vermont must decrease their representa
tion, even if the total number be in
creased te as many as 325 ; while Ar
kansas, California, Iowa,' Michigan,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska,
Seuth Carolina, Texas and West Vir
ginia will increase their number of rep
resentatives, even if there be no increase
in the total number.
MINOR TOPICS.
"Mahone's PAnTT" endorses him, of
course. They are of a kind.
Bicycling gains in favor in New Eeg
land, and at a coming parade in Bosten
common ever six hundred machines will
be in line.
TnE revised Bible is premised in Slay
or June at ten cents per copy. Toe cheap
te become fashionable, the Philadelphia
Evening Wews thinks.
iHE urapnic contains a spirited car
toon of Blaine, who with uplifted right
arm and clenched fist, the ether embracing
a large hog, proclaims a spirited foreign
policy en the perk question, together with
his letter tfe Noyes, our minister te Fiance.
The West Chester Daily Republican
plunges into the question of the speaker
ship of the next Heuse, and begs that, for
consistency's sake, its party will net elect
such a free trader as Kassen. But when
was its party consistent ?
Gas Trustees McMaxes and Smith, of
Philadelphia, swear that they knew of no
irregularities in the management of the
gas trust. "That's what's the matter."
Blind and deaf men aits net the sort for
these positions.
The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph is
very suspicious that the nominations for
New Yerk offices te please Conkling in
volves a trade by which Stanley Matthews'
nomination is te be confirmed. It leeks
that way.
It is noted as a curious fact that of the
1,377,404 shares of Pennsylvania railroad
stock held, there weie 924,058 shares net
voted at the late election. The 452, 74G
shares represented are the largest number,
with but one exception, ever voted iu the
history of the company.
The Pittsburgh Times is evidently un
acquainted with the Honorable Jeseph
Souder, or it would net devote a half
column editorial te proving that he is a
brutal ignoramus who should net have
been elected four times te the Legislature
from Philadelphia. He's the kind of a
representative Philadelphia delights te
honor.
Ag.vixst Mahone's rebel brigadier for
sergeant at-arms of the Senate, the Dem
ocrats propose te nominate a Uuien officer
; and new mention Gen. Averill and will
support him. A prominent Democratic
i.vmater says that some of the members
have prepared speeches en the subject and
wish" te see whether the Republicans will
vote a gainst a brilliant Union soldier and
in fave of an ox-Cenfedcrato.
TnE word "rotgut" is net an Ameri
canism, but was used by Addison a hun
dred years before the American drink se
called was put upon the market in certain
parts of this republic. In England the
word was applied te bad beer or wine, but
iu this country it is used te point out a
kind of whisky, one drop of which would
poison a healthy stomach if fired at it
from the distance of 730 yards, Dolly Delly
mount laws te govern.
The delay in the appointment of a mar
shal for the District of Columbia, te suc
ceed Fred Douglass, is costing the United
States government nearly $1,000 a day.
The court is unable te proceed with the
trial of causes en the calendar. The mem
bers of the jury report every morning and
are'discharged, as process issues in the
name of the marshal and his commission
having expired there is no authority te
summon witnesses. The court also meets
and adjourns for the same reason.
PERSONAL..
Mlle. Sara Bernhardt, her sister and
the'principal members of her troupe have
taken passage in the steamship of the
French line which sails from New Yerk
en May 4.
Senater David Datis is reported te
have recently written te friends in Bloom Bleom Bloem
ington, 111., that he will serve out his term
in the Senate, which ends in 1883, and
then return te Bloomington.
The French minister and Mme. Out-
ret will spend the coming 6ummcr in
Europe, traveling for the benefit of her
health. They expect te retnrnte Wash,
ingten, which will greatly please all of
their acquaintances.
Victer Huge caught cold a few weeks
age and his physicians seized the occasion
te examine him -thoroughly. The man of
medicine was surprised at the result " I
found," he said, " the frame of a man of
45 years."
Mr. Alma Tadema gave a brilliant little
masked ball -a short time age at which Mr.
Julian Hawthorne was one of the most
conspicuous figures. He appeared as
Lord Beacensficld in an admirably ar-
ranged model mask and whig.
Mr. Victer Arthur Wellington j
Droimexd, who has eeen ler some time
secretary of the British legation in Wash
ington, will go te England for the sum
mer, and will probably be appointed full
minister te some government after his va
cation. In the suit of Genevieve Ward,
against Theodere Mess and Lester Wal
lack, te restrain them from producing the
play of " Ferget Me Net " at Wallack's
theatre, the court grants a permanent in
junction against the production of the
play by Wallack and Mess.
And new Hen. Stanley Matthews is
announced as being at the head of a Cin
cinnati society for the promotion of civil
service reform. This is the same Stanley
Matthews, we suppose, by whose manage
ment the men who ceuuted the electoral
votes of Louisiana and Flerida for Hayes
were appointed, despite their infamous
characters, te some of the best offices
under the government. Pittiburgh Lead
er, Sep.
Mr. Beecheii has sold hit house at 124
Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, te Mr.
Ludevic Bennett. The beuse overlooks
the bay and has a yard in the rear which
overlooks the reef of some Furman street
factories. Beecher has lived in the house
for many years. The house was mort
gaged some years age for $10,000 and sub
sequently for $5,000, the last-named sum
being raised for the benefit of Theodere
Tilton when the scandal which afterwards
came te light was being smothered.
Jehn T. Crew, managing editor of the
Baltimore Sun, died very suddenly last
evening of apoplexy, in the sixtieth year
of his age. Mr. Crew was in his office in
the afternoon attending te bis editorial
duties, but complaining of general indisl
position. A little after 5 o'clock, as he
was about leaving the office for dinner, he
was stricken with apoplexy and became
speechless. He was a native of Maryland,
bad been connected with the Sun since
1848, and managing editor since 1865. In
his personal and editorial life he was rec
ognized in the community as a gentleman
guided by a keen sense of honor and jus
tice. ISL'RNKD IN A THEATRE.
The Operrt Heuse at Nice Destroyed
and
jnnny Laves Lese
A fire iu the Italian opera house, Nice,
broke out at the commencement of the
opera last evening. Fourteen persons,
who were suffocated, have been taken out
and their bodies placed in the church op
posite the theatre. It is feared that a
hundred men and women perished in the
flames.
Nice is a seaport town of France, sit
uated en a narrow plain between the Alps
and the Mediterranean. It was ceded
with Savey te France by Italy, bv the
treaty of March 24, 1860. It is chiefly
noted as a watering place and, resort for
English invalids, who frequent it in large
numbers, as many as 5,000 or 6,000 Brit
ish visitors being found there in the win
ter, besides many Russians, Poles, Ger
mans and Americans. It is quite prob
able that many of these visitors were vic
tims of the fire in the opera house.
The little opera house was built mainly
by the clubs of the winter watering place.
It was opened by the French company of
the "Italiens" of Paris in 1897, but was
only devoted te opera at intervals, as the
gaming and social festivities of Nice de
net encourage evening exhibitions of a
dramatic or operatic sort. The building,
which was difficult of access and badly
provided with ingress and egress, offered
from the first an inviting scope for the dis
aster which has befallen it, particularly as
the fire department of France is ludicrous
ly incompetent te deal with a conflagra
tion mere extensive than a hen-coop or
barn. As, however, all building is
rigorously confined te stone, brick or as
phalt, fires are rare ; but when they de
get uudcr way there is no stepping them.
The opera house was a cheap affair and
the destruction of life is probably due te
the flimsy and inflammable nature of the
interior decorations.
THE MISSING REPORTER.
He Turns Up With an Explanation and a
Curious Story.
Henry J. Roberts, the marine reporter
for the New Yerk associated press, who
had -been reported as missing from City
Island, at the eastern entrance of Hell Gate
has called at the Sun office. He says that
while the Piletage bill new in the Senate is
pending he does net want it known where
he is. He left City Island hurriedly
two weeks age last Thursday, with only
the suit of clothes he had en, because the
inhabitants are se thoroughly in sympa
thy with the pilots that he was net likely
te find protection there. He avers that
en the Saturday in February after he had
given testimony before the Assembly com
mittee, which was obnoxious te the pilots,
he found fifteen pilots awaiting his arrival
at City Island. One of them, he says,
had a rope te hang him with ; another ad
vocated the application te him of a coat
of tar and feathers. Fists were shaken
under bis nose and threats were uttered te
make him leave the island. On the follow
ing day a stone thrown by unknown
hand broke his stiff Derby hat. He found
his beat stove in and a note in disguised
writing pinned te it warning him that- if
he did net leek out he would get hurt
worse than the beat. He h?A received
abuse and annoyance ever since he had re
turned from Albany. This continued
until the Thursday after his beat was
damaged, when he concluded that, as the
time approached for the bill which had
passed the Assembly te come up in the
Senate, it was no longer safe for him te
stay en the island.
You've Get Me."
The burglar, Pat Ebert, arrived in Rella,
Me., about a month age from Kansas,
ostensibly looking for a location te open a
saloon. Taking up his lodging in a board beard
ing house near the national bank of Rella,
his suspicious conduct attracted the atten
tion of the officers of the bank, who called
te their aid Hank Dcvin, the city marshal.
Upen investigation it was discovered that
the burglar had gained access te a vacant
building adjoining the bank and for three
nights bad been unmolested in his desper
ate effort te tunnel te the vault. On the
fourth night, just as he bad made an en
trance te the vault, Marshal - Devin and
his posse, at a signal given by the cashier,
who was secreted in the banks surrounded
the building and attempted bis capture
alive, but Ebert, who preferred death te
arrest, with a dagger in his hand made a
desperate effort te escape and was shot
down in his tracks. He lived one hour
after being shot, but would reveal nothing.
The only words he uttered were : ' You've
get me, boy."
A Brave Family.
Charles Fester's-house, three miles from
Lexington. 111., burned, and Mr. and Mrs.
Fester were turned out in the severest
storm of this terrible winter. They pro
tected themselves seven hours with bed
clothing until daylight before finding
shelter. They were just coming down
with small-pox and would net subject
their neighbors te the danger of the
scourge, breasting the storm with great
heroism till the reached the hense of Gee.
Kemp, some eight miles away, in a lum
ber wagon, Mr. Kemp's family being
already down witn smaii-pex, and be
being Fester's father-in-law as well.
Eliza Freim's will has been admitted te
probate in Philadelphia. The estate is
worth $100,000,nnd the heirs are contesting
the will,
THIS ALUIABU PARADOX.
Hew a State's Representation ta Reanced by
an Increase et Members in the
Hense.
Among the tables and statistics submit
ted te Congress by Supt. of Census
Walker, in connection with the census of
1881 and its bearing en the congressional
reapportionment, appeared the curious
fact that en a basis of 299 members Ala
bama would be entitled te one mere mem
ber than en a basis of three hundred. In
explanation of this paradox the superin
tendent of census says :
In increasing the number of representa
tives, as shown in the table sent you, the
number of inhabitants required te a repre
sentative is diminished at each such in
crease or members by between live and
six hundred. New, iu dividing by the
number se reduced, the population of a
state having a comparatively small popu
lation, the influence upon its unrepre
sented fraction is very much less necessar
ily, than in the case of a state having a
large population. Thus, for example, if
we assumed for ceuvenience that the num
ber of inhabitants required for a represen
tative were 160,000, a state having 4,801,
000 inhabitants would receive thirty repre
sentatives, with an unrepresented fraction
of 1,000 ; while a state having a popula
tion of 161.000 inhabitants would receive
one representative, with au equal unrepre
sented fraction.
If, however, the number of inhabitants
te a representative were reduced te 159,
000. the fraction of the first Mate would
rise te 31,000, while that of the second
Btate would be only increased te 2,000. In
ether words, the effect upon the unrepre
sented fraction would be thirty times as
great in the former as in the latter case.
New, in the instances especially referred
te, it happens that, with 299 representa
tives, three states have fractions very
closely approaching each ether, namely,
Alabama with 106,983, Illinois with 106,
681, and Texas with 106,530. The num
ber of inhabitants te a representative en
this basis is 165,116. When the number
of representatives is increased te 300, the
number of inhabitants required te repre
sentative sinks te 164,565, the net reduc
tion being 551. This, which I may call
a gain for the present purpose, te the
states cepcerned, has te be multiplied in
the case of Alabama only by 7 (the num
ber of representatives assigned that state
en an even division), while iu the case of
Texas it is multiplied by 9, and iu the case
of Illinqis by no less than 18.
The result is that, when we come te
take 300 as the number of representa
tives, the unrepresented fractions of each
of these states must of course increase,
but that of Alabama increases least of all.
106,982 plus (7 x 551)110,839
106.530 plus (6. x 551)111,489
106,681 plus (18x 551)116,599
Alabama's fraction become 110,839,
while that of Illinois becomes 116,599, and
that of Texas 111.489.
Consequently, iu the assignment of ad
ditional representatives upon fractions,
according te the total number of 300, Illi
nois and Texas receive an additional
representative each, while Alabama loses
that which she gained at 299. At 301,
however, 6he regains what was thus lest,
her fraction rising te 114,668, which is
sufficient te entitle her te the representa
tive, whose addition te the previous number
makes the Heuse ceusist of 301, instead
of 300 members.
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GOLDEN ROLLS.
What Can be Seen In a Pittsburgh Factory.
Pittsburgh Pest.
There are mauy people in Pittsburgh as
well as in ether cities throughout the
country who imagine that if they should
by accident cat oleomargarine instead of
butter they would die at once as though
they had partaken of an equal quantity of
prussic acid or arsenic. This feeling like
any ether general prejudice is based mere
upon tradition and custom than upon any
real objection. It is true that some of the
manufactured butter is very injurious, but
that is no reason why all kinds of the
article should be condemned. Nothing
would se surely and se rapidly remove this
feeling as a visit te the oleomargarine fac
tory en Water street, near Ferry. The
writer had just as much prejudice against
elemargarine in general as anyone before
he made a tour through the Pittsburgh
factory a few days age. The idea that
butter could be made of fat originated
with a French scientist. He had been
deputed by the government te devise .some
sort of bread that would be better than
the hard-tack that was then in use. The
scientist succeeded admirably, and then'
the government desired him te get up
something te spread en his bread which
would be cheaper than butter. He made
experiments, but it was net utitil the
siege of Paris that he devoted himself
entirely te the work. Then he dis
covered in the fat of a "fresh" cow
the true butter globule He extracted it
and churned it, and found it made butt er.
Cows were scarce, but bullocks were
plenty. This led him te make further ex
periments and he found that bullocks' fat
made even better butter than that of
cows. His butter was tasteless and te re
move this fault he ground up cow's ren
nets and mixed them through his butter
thus giving it the taste of pepsic acid that
is needed. Since that time some Ameri
cans have made this sort of butter entire
ly from fat, but the manager of the
present manufactory in this city
has made some important changes
in the process. In his factory the
butter is made of sixty per cent,
of Alderney milk and forty per cent,
of oleomargarine. The milk used costs
much mere than that ordinarily used in
butter factories that use milk alone, and
it makes one's mouth water as one leeks
at its delicious yellow richness. The com
pany which manufactures this butter is
composed of a number of the butchers of
the two cities and the managers of the
works. Nearly all of the large butchers in
the cities are interested in the enterprise,
and they reserve the finest of the cattle fat
that they handle, for the factory. The fat
is very clean and pure and is carefully and
repeatedly washed and cleaned before it is
used. The process of boiling the fat and
extracting the butter oil or oleomargarine
has already been described in exlense and
we will net repeat it.
Standing beside the men who were mak
ing the butter up into cute little rolls and
inviting patters the writer called te mind
a visit made once te an " Orange county "
creamery the butter which he saw there
was no finer te leek at than that
which was made in the Pittsburgh factory.
Along the Hudsen river at Milten, at
Tarrytown, and at dozens of small towns
in Dutchess county, New Yerk, there
are famous butter makers from
whose churns comes "Dutchess county
gilt edged butter" which sells te
Delmbnice and ethers all the year
round at a dollar a pound. We have tried
this butter at the places where it is made.
We can recall the visions of het biscuit
covered with it. The butter of the Pitts
burgh factory has the same taste and the
same leek as that of the New Yerk farm
era, As a proof of its excellence we can
say that it sells in the New Yerk market
(the finest grades of course) at sixty and
seventy cents a pound. Many families in
the city have thought of late that their
butter was better than usual. Perhaps if
the beads of families were consulted, they
could a tale unfold 61 oleomargarine.
Manager Abbey says the receipts of the
Bernhardt entertainment at Titusville
were mere than $1,500 smaller than at any
ether performance given by her since she
came te this country.
. STATE ITEMS.
The Philadelphia & Darby railroad is
te be sold by the sheriff, en April 3.
As car 34, of the Thirteenth and Fif
teenth street railway, was passing down
Thirteenth street, near Buttonwood, in a
dark part of the thoroughfare, last night,
Jeseph Reizer, 57 years eldj residing at
New Market and Laurel streets, attempted
te run across the street iu front of the
horses. He fell and was killed.
Gee. Williams and Jehn Roberts, two
young men claiming te hail from New
Yerk, were committed te prison in default
of bail charged with stealing the team of
Dr. William Corsen from in front of his
office in Norristown last Friday evening.
They were arrested iu Trenten while in the
act of selling the stolen team. They arc
net implicated iu the Clugsteu murder at
Valley Ferge.
Sarah Gerraley, 13 years old, residing at
Nineteenth aud Dickinsen streets. Phila
delphia, died yesterday at the Pennsylva
nia hospital from the effects of either a
blew or a fall. When the girl was first ad
mitted te the hospital, en March 10, she
said the wound had been inflicted by her
father several days before,but subsequent
ly she retracted this aud said it was from
a fall upon the ice.
At Nelsen Station, Mercer co., the ether
day, a middle-aged man get off a train and
rau te the weeds near by. He was
watched aud was seen te strip himself of
every stitch of clothing and dash madly
through the weeds, several men pursued
the stranger and when they had at last
found him he was dying. Briers had
tern his flesh ami rocks bruised his body.
His name could net be learned, nor is
there any clue te lib former home.
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LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
A bomb with a lighted fuse attached
was placed outside the Royal theatre,
Madrid, but it was discovered by the po
lice before it could explode. The police
have discovered a secret store of 1,600
rifles outside the barriers of the city and
are investigating the matter.
Cornelius Vanderblt and Augustus
Schell, trustees for the bondholders of the
Teledo & Canada Southern & Detroit rail
road, have begun suit for the foreclosure
of a mortgage of 81,500,000 en the ground
that the interest has net been paid since
July, 1873. The court has also been asked
te appoint a temporary receiver.
Jehn Rawlings, otherwise known as
"Stokley's Infant," went te Washington
te get en the Capitel police force. After
some difficulty he gained au audience with
Senater Cameren and l:rid his case before
him. He was afterwards asked what luck.
" Ob, he told me te come around again iu
four or live mouths. New what kind of a
way is that te treat a fellow coming way
down here'?" He was se disgusted he
left for Philadelphia the same day.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
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te
serunlen.
ine annual meeting et the grand com cem
mandery of Knights Templar of Pennsyl
vania, which is te be held in bcranteu,
commencing May 31, will be the most
brilliant and greatest Masonic event that
has ever occurred in that portion of the
state, reparations, under the manage
ment of Mr. James Ruthveu, arc already
in progress.
The following cemmauderies, according
te the Republican, that will participate,
have already reported aud have been as
signed quarters :
St. Al ban's cemmaudcry, 60 inen.
St Jehn's cemniandery, 75 men.
Philadelphia cemniandery, 125 men.
Corinthian Chasseurs, 75 men, mounted,
with baud. These cemmauderies are irem
Philadelphia, aud will step at the Wyom
ing heu.se.
Kensington cemmaudcry, of Philadel
phia, 100 men, with band.
Taucred cemniandery, 100 men, will be
quartered at the Valley house.
Lancaster cemmaudcry, GO men and
band, Scrauten house.
Allcntewn cemmaudcry, 00 men, St.
Charles.
Norristown cemniandery, 40 men, Lu
zerne house.
Reading cenunamlery, 50 men, Hcer
mans house, Hyde Park.
Easteu cemniandery, Van Hern's and
Susquehanna house.
On Juune 1 will occur the dress parade,
and en the 2d the street parade, which, in
addition te the cemmauderies mentioned,
will be participated in byCeeur de Lien of
Scrauten and the cemmauderies from
AVilkesbarre, Pittston. Carbendalc and
Great Bend.
The battalion band, Bauer's band aud
Bristel band have been encaged, while
ether visiting cemmauderies will undoubt
edly he accompanied by bands. Among
the distinguished Masens who arc ex
pected arc Governer Heyr, ex-Governer
Hartranft and General Latta.
This event is looked forward te by the
Masonic fraternity with high anticipations
and no doubt they will fully realize in the
grandeur and magnitude of the affair their
most sauguinc expectations. Certainly
nothing en the part of the members of
Ceenr (le Lien will be neglected in making
it a grand success and worthy the great
organization they represent.
WHAT UbCA.UK OF HIM?
A Pr,rbable Mystery Kxnlalned.
llarrisburg Telegraph.
On Friday evening a colored man ar
rived from Chambersburg ever the Cum
berland Valley read in charge of a car lead
of horses, bound for Philadelphia. The
car was taken through last night, the
colored man accompanying it. This
morning intelligence was received in llar
risburg that somewhere between Cellins' s
station aud Lancaster the colored drover
disappeared from the train, and up te
neon all search had failed te find him.
The affair has a very mysteriens leek.
Reicring te the above the Chambersburg
Repository says : "The colored man refer
red te above is Armstead Lee, of this
place, who left en Friday morning with a
drove of horses belonging te Mr. Wilsen.
Armstead was wanted here te answer a
charge of larceny and he was arrested
at Middletown where he had been work
ing. He came en and settled
the case, after which he wished te
return te Middletown and go te work,
but did net have the money te purchase
a ticket. He hired te Mr. Wilsen te go
with the horses, but told some persons at
the National hotel stable that he was go
ing te jump off the train at Middletown.
This he has undoubtedly done and if
search was made there wc think he would
be found."
Suspended Operations.
Jehn Grant, who has the contract fee
removing the earth for widening the read
bed of the Pennsylvania railroad at Ard Ard
merc, has been obliged te suspend opera
tions en account of quicksand, which ex
tends -for a distance of at least 1,000 feet,
into which jir. tyrant tells us, he ran an
iron bar twelve feet down,
sumc work again as seen as
settles.
ue win re
the ground
The Unlit Lamps.
There were fifteen of the street gas
lamps unlit last night; in the First,
Second, Fourth wards each one ; in the
Sixth ward two ; and in the Ninth ward
ten.
The Mayer's Court.
His honor had only four customers this
morning, one of whom was discharged and
the ethers for disorderly ennduct were
committed for 5 al 10 days respectively.
" OUVRTTE.'
TM Hew vaatfe Operm Law Nlgat.
An audience of goodly numbers was
present at Fulton opera house last evening
te witness the production of Audran's new
comic opera of "Olivette" by Ferd's
company. The work is an adaptation
from the French "Les Nectes d'Olwette,"
by MM. Cbivet and Duvir. The libretto
is light but funny, aud the humor
characteristically Frencby. It is of
a purer and mere conventional
school than Ofienbachian burlesque, and
may be fairly claimed te be within the de
main of legitimate cemit opera. The story
is one of intrigue se far as the plot gees,
and the humor hinges in large measure
upon the duality of Captain De Jferimae,
commanding the man-of-war Cormorant,
whose dutiful nephew, Valentine, is
obliged te resort te the strategy of disguis
ing himself as his respected avuncular
relative in order te gain the object of his
desire, which is te marry Olivette, whose
graces had likewise captivated the ''sad
sea deg" himself. The outcome of this
doubling-up business consists of the cus
tomary odd blunders, misapprehension?,
cress purposes, etc., leading up te some
very funny situations. Audran's music is
light and frolicsome, aud many of the airs
possess the ear-catching characteristics
that are likely te give them an extended
popularity. The company that sang the
work was one of the best Mr. Ferd
has ever brought here, which is saying
a geed deal, for te that gentleman
our city ewes the privitege of many of its
most delightful treats in the line of comic
opera. Miss Blanche Chapman in the
title role gave a capital impersonation of
the heroine, entering with her customary
enthusiasm into the spirit of fun that ani
mates the composition. She is a sprightly
little actress, and her voice shows no
symptoms of losing the qualities that have
made it se popular with patrons of comic
opera. She sang all her numbers with no
table expression, and her rendition of the
"Seb Seng " evinced a keen appreciation
of the humor of the deception she was
practicing upon her venerable parent; while
half a dozen of her ether soles are worthy
of special commendation. Her voice
is a pleasing soprano, of considerable flexi
bility, of geed range,and of hearty volume.
Miss Amy Gorden, a new face here, sang
the part of the Countess Bathilde in a thor
oughly artistic manuer. Her voice, a
highly cultivated soprano, is especially
strong in the upper register, and the lady's
occasional dashes into the legcr lines pro
duced tones of bell-like purity and sweet
ness. Seme of the heartiest applause of
the evening rewarded her efforts, and the
duet in the second act by the Countess and
Olivette was one of the best rendered
numbers of the opera. Miss Gorden's first
appearance before a Lancaster audience
has provided her with a passport that is
certain te secure her a cordial welcome
should she ever again visit us. A word of
praise is due the singing and acting of Miss
May Stembler, the young lady furnishing
a very attractive and piquant rendition of
the part of Veleutine and singing a
sole or two in capital, style. As
De Merimae, the choleric old sea captain,
Mr. Goe W. Denham was satisfactory, as
he always is ; he brought out the humor
of the part and sang his numbers in a
manner that evoked the approbation of
the audience. The tenor, Mr. Lang, acted
and sang the part of Valentine, his uncle's
nephew and double, very artistically ; his
imitation of the old mariner, iu
appearance, gait and action, being notably
clever. Mr. Chas. H. Drew's perform
ance of the role of the Due des Jfs, plot
ter and intriguer in chief, was (altogether
admirable, and the remaining characters
were filled creditably. Most of the chorus
effects were excellent, among them being
the "Marriage Bells," the." Whale and
Torpedo," and half a score of ethers that
might be properly mentioned The orches
tra was painfully dehciont,cemprising as it
did only a piano and two violins. Under
the circumstances the singers are entitled
te an even greater meed of praise for the
creditable manner in which they acquitted
themselves with se many of the instru
mental parts conspicuously absent ; but
Mr. Ferd will de but justice te the singers,
te Audran's pretty music, and te the pub
lie, by filling up his orchestra at once.
The scenic effects 'were handsome, as
wcre also the costumes, the latter in the
final act affording the opportunity of a
liberal display of shapely limbs, in the
spe etaele of a score or mere of pretty and
well proportioned young ladies attired in
striped jerseys and flesh-colored tights.
Tobacco Sales.
Frederick Lechler, of Lancaster town
ship, has sold four acres of tobacco te
Jehn A. Heman, for 20, 8, 3 ; Christ B.
Brubaker, sold 8 acres te same for 16, 6
and 3 : Philip Heuser, of New Providence,
S acres te same for 15, 5, 3 ; Jehn Herr,
of same place, te same, 1 acre for 14, 5,
3 ; Geerge H. Wcttig, of same place, 1
acre for 14, 5 3 ; Samuel Baxter, 4 acres
14, 6, 3 ; Albert Flick, Lancaster, acres
for 14, 5. 3 ; Antheny Ireman, Lancaster,
1 acre, 8$, 8 ; F. SchIett,Lancastcr,l acre,
10 and 3.
Mount Jey Star.
Jehn M. Stauffer, of Saluuga, last week
purchased the following tobacco in East
Denegal : Levi N. Hestctter, let at 20
cents through ; Jonas . Hestettcr, 3i
acres at 13 cents through ; Jen M. Keener
2 acres, farmed en land of Jonas . Hes
tctter, at 9 cents rennd ; Ames-Winters,
1 aero farmed en land of Jonas . Hos Hes
tetter, at 7 .cents through. The fellow
ing sales nave been made in Mount
Jey township ; Samuel Greff sold 1 acre
at 14, 6 and 3 ; Martin Peck, 1 acre at 14
and 3, and another let at 11 aud 3 ; Jacob
Risser, 1 acres at 5 and 2 ; Jehn Gipple.
1 acre at 10 and 3 ; Jehn Lindcmuth, 2J
acres at 8 through ; Henry Meckley, 1
acre at 7 through, 1 at 8 through and 1
at 11 through ; Daniel Reth, 1 aero at 0
through ; Jeseph Barnhart, 1 acre at 12
and 3. Martin Hess of Elizabcthtewn,
sold 2,140 pounds te "Greve &. Cellins, of
Marietta, at 16, 5 and 3 ; Jehn Shields,
of East Denegal, is quite a successful te
bacce farmer, en Saturday he delivered his
crop te Samuel Moere, receiving 28, 10 and
5. He has always succeeded in receiving
big prices in the past. Among ether sales
he sold te Shirk, of Lancaster, at one time
his crop for 26 cents around ; te Jeseph
Leatherman, at 28, 10 and 5 te Gcrshel
at 22 around ; te Fatman at 30, 16 and 5.
Eli Wegcmutb, of Elizabethtown, raised
en two acres of land 4.625 pounds, sold it
at 11 cents around te Greve & Cellins, of
Marietta.
Going te Maryland.
West Chester Lecal News.
Henry E. Slump, who has been engaged
for the last three years in clearing off
about 95 acres of woodland, near North
brook, will leave in a few days for Mary
laud, where he will work en a weed-leave
recently purchased by him from the Ever Ever
bartsef this borough. Mr. Shimp has
ordered a thirty herse power engine for
the purpose of running the saw mill. The
tract he has purchased contains about
300 acres very heavily timbered. Mr.
Shimp has rented the flour and feed mill
en the premises he new occupies, in
focepson, which will be turned ever en the
first of April te his successor, who hails
from Reading. Mr. Geerge Lebs, who
has had charge of this mill, has net yet
decided whether he will remain or net.
During Mr Slump's business career, iu
this county, he has acquired an enviable
reputation as a business man of strict in
tegrity, and will carry with him the best
wishes of that community. His family
will remove te Lancaster county, where he
recently purchased property.
William Sharpless of West Greve, will
move te Lancaster county, en or about the
1st of April.
"HONEST" JOHN STKOHM.
Sketch of an Ez-Censremaii lreui Lancas
ter County.
W. 17. Ilenscl in Ferney's Progress.
Jehn Streluu wen his sobriquet wheu it
was net the cheap trick of the demagogue
te wear it, nor the offering of the parasite
te bestow it The people who knew him
gave him the appellation they who were
bis neighbe:s, his constituents, and who
upheld the ladder en the rungs of which
he steadily mounted from one public trust
te another. He never shamed them, nor
any place te which they called him.
His advancement te the representation
of this great county in the nation's
highest popular representative body wr.s
gradual ami merited, and it was without
that self-seeking element which is the
bane of our later day political promotion.
He was measured by the Jeffersonian tests
of capacity aud honesty and he met them.
His retirement was as houeniblu as had
been his promotion, aud if lis service as a
rural justice of the peace for nearly a
quarter of a century has net been as dis
tinguished as his position of congressman
contemporary with Lincoln, Douglas,
Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Winthrop aud
Jeffersen Davis he has brought te that
office a faithfulness and honesty which
might be a pattern for modern legislators
and a standard for all officials.
The township of Lane-aster county which
is honored with the name of llebert Ful
ton, who was born within its limits, has
been cut off from Little Britain.aud it was
in this part of the ceuuty that Jehn Streluu
was born, en October 16, 1793. His grand
father ame ftem Wurtcuiberg, and died
en the voyage, leaving his widow and two
small boys ami a daughter te settle in
Strasbuig. this ceuuty. One of these
boys, when he grew te manhood, married
the daughter of Rev. Jehn lierr, of the
Mcunouite church, aud the aunt of that
Jehn lierr who became founder of tbe
New Mennonites. The parties te this
union were the parents of Jehn Strohm.
In the original settlement et Lancaster
county, the Scotch-Irish mostly took the
southern pair, lying below the Mine hills.
They saw in its lightly weeded area easy
clearings, and a soil that could be worked
with facility. The mere prudent and far
sighted Germans knew that the soil which
neurisheil heavy timber was the land for
geed crops and would require less enrich
ment. The Germans took the limestoue
lands, which hud in themselves these ele
ments of fertilization that the
"lower ender.-," had te Mipply, iirst
by quarrying ami haul.n.; limestone from
Quarry ville te their farms aud thciu burn
ing it, and aftervraids by hauling the lime
itself bunted at Quairy ville. This village,
new the termiiuis of the Reading railroad
system in this section, lies ju-t at the feet
of the Mine R-.dge en the south ; it marks
the lowest drift of the limestone, aud is
the head of that valley which, further
east, broadens into the Chester Valley,
and was the route through which ran a
branch of the Underground Railway in
ante helium days made netable by the
event of "the Christiana riot."
Jehn Stroh m's lather bought " Weed's
Mill," near Peach liottem (new Fulton
township), aud removed thither from
Strasburg. lie. was one of the first Ger
mans te settle se far down, lie sold it
and removed back te the neighborhood in
which Jehn Strohm new resides, when the
subject of this sketch was twelve years
old. Since their vast changes have taken
place in both sections of Lancaster county,
and their distinctive differences are grad
ually becoming obliterated. But
they were for many years notable,
and it remains te-day very percept
ible, thai; two widely different and strong
ly marked elements of citizenship occupied
different sections of this country .'and grew
up side by side, improving aud developing
with little manifestation of assimilation
for many years. The family names, the
social custom.-, the agricultural methods,
and the religions of the two great divisions
of this count v for many years marked their
native differences. Even iu the lower end
there were sharply deiincd lines drawn
between the Scotch Irish Picsbytcrians
and the Quakeis; while the upper cud
Germans weie divided between the aggres
sive Lutherans aud Reformed, who during
the Revolution weie patriots, and peace
loving sects, whose uuwarlikc dis
position made
as Royalists
lutieu, and
after its close.
them te be regarded
during the Reve-
pcrecuutcd as
Gradually these
Teries
differ-
enecs have become less luaiked. Strongly
distinguished types of them still remain,
but intermarriages, ititcrcommcrce and
the alienation of lauds, have softened
down the old antagonism?. The- tendency
is for the Germans te move southward,
and these who go new, go tettay. The in
creasing population of the towns, with
which the county is new an thickly set, is
mixed and mixing.
Thery was no Uennau seh el, of course,
nor any school in which German was
taught in the extrcire lower ctd of the
county when Jehn Strohm was a lad, and
se his father, desirous that he should
knew the language of his ancestors, in
1800 sent him te Quarryvillc, te beard
with his uncle Witiner, and go te a German
school in that neighborhood. The school
houses weiu built by the neighbors then,
and the teacher " bearded around." Jehn
Strohm att uded school until he was six
teen years of a 41;, latterly only going iu
winter, and agisting his father en the
farm in summer. He beganteaehing, when
nineteen years of age, at the old 31 1. Helly
school-house, a mile northeast of Quar
ryvillc, and had thirty or forty scholars.
Later, he taught school in Lampeter, aud
iu 1821 went te fanning in thaC vicinity.
His intelligence, uprightness of character,
and active participation iu ail matters of
public concern, made him a man of mark,
and he was chosen te the Legislature 011
the Anti-3Taseuic ticket in 1S31. He went
te Harrisburg en the first Tuesday of De
cember and after one term of service was
twice re-elected.
Nowadays, when ilaseury, in all its
later phages, flourishes se extensively in
this community, and secret .lecicties
many of them imitators of the Masens
arc se strong here that the totality of their
membership almost outnumbers the adult
male population, it is haid te rcaiize that
the wave of :inti-3Iascnij excitement ever
reached the high-water mark in Lancaster
county which the veracious local chronicler
assigns te it. The declining Federalists
eagerly embraced the prevailing popular
fanaticism te revive their collapsed party.
The rural population of this county, se
largely composed of credulous German
sects, was admirably calculated te be readily
enlisted in behalf of the prescriptivo policy
of the opposition, lheephilu:; renns
sprightly paper and bleed-curdling lecturers
fanned the papular feeling into almost a
frenzy, ledges were closed, aud mem
bers eveu disowned the order. The flood
soeu spent its force, aud although anti
Masonry reached the dignity of a state
triumph in Ritucr's election as governor,
it failed te become an effective principle
in national politics. Jehn Strohm was net
essentially an exponent of its doctrine nor
a leader of the party which espoused it.
His mind was net of that intense radical
type which titled the leaders of such a
crusade. Hut the rural population, which.
as I h.iw suggested, was easily inclined
te the doctrine, recognized him as a rep
resentative citizen of integrity aud intelli
gence, and the accidents of politics placed
him en the anti-Masonic ticket. He in
curred the least possible enmity from the
ether side, without betraying the princi
ples of his friends, or forfeiting their eon
fidence.
His taste for public affairs and hw effi
cient service iu public position were great
ly stimulated by the early aptitude which
he had displayed and gratiiicd for acquir-
IlHrrli'3 Biographical History, pp. r.l, i't