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LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 188.
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THURSDAY EVEN'O. MAEOH 31, 1881.
Tfie Puppet Shew.
Mr. Garfield's pleasant notion of mak
ing things harmonious in his party by
dealing out the offices te the partisans of
all its factions does net seem te be work
ing well. It is an old idea, which presi
dents are very iipt te try their hands at
and get their lingers burned for their
pains. In fact, presidents who have a
discordant party te harmonize are pretty
sure te find themselves - unequal te
the job however they go about
it; like anything red het, it
Is very uncomfortable te handle.
Seme men, when they get into
positions of power, try te increase the
number of their partisans by bribing
their enemies ; that was Mr. Buchanan's
weakness. It never paid well. Others
pick out the colorless fence men for re
ward, in the Hayes style ; and that
didn't pay. Mr. Garfield selects the
champions of all the factions and gets
all the savagest of the beasts into his
company. We de net see that this is going
te be a success. They won't lie down
together in peace, nor consider that the
bones have been fairly divided. Mr.
Conkling and his friends have about
made up their minds that what has been
thrown te them te keep them quiet is net
enough ; and Mr. Garfield finds himself
in the arms of Blaine before his admin
istratien is a month old. The New
Yerk Herald furnishes "him with a
kitchen cabinet, composed of four of his
old cronies, and makes Blaine's word
the law te him, through them. The
sketch is vigorously drawn and it is net
difficult te believe that it is pretty true
te life. Garfield is naturally peculiarly
susceptible te such influences as
are ascribed te mm. Being very
social in disposition, leth te offend,
lacking in pesitiveness of con
viction and independence of judg
ment, these who are near him and con
genial te him will sway him. He is the
man for a kitchen cabinet. If it is equal
te the occasion, it may make its jack
jump in a way te excite the admiration
of his party and confound his fees.
Ne abler mover of the puppets than
Blaine eeuld be found. But the dangi r
with him all the time will be that he will
move them for Blaine and net for Gar
field. But why the latter should put such
confidence in his secretary of state as te
yield him the guidance of his administra
tion can only be explained by the weak
ness of Garfield's character, which
makes it necessary for him te have a
strong man te leau upon, even though it
be one who will be most likely te with
draw his support in a critical moment
and let his victim fall into the mud. .Mr.
Garfield certainly is net made of the
vigorous stuff needed for a president of
such a discordant party as the Republi
can new is, te save it for himself. The
chances are that it is past saving, and it
is just sure that he is. lie is net of the
stuff that the world's rulers are made of ;
and the only service he can de his party
is ns Blaine's catspaw. That is his role ;
and lie is dropping into it as naturally as
a duck takes te water. He car.net help
himself: he was born se.
Tun financial indications for the ap
proaching day of general settlements
and real estate transfers in Lancaster
county, betoken an easy condition of the
money market. Gradually first-class real
estate securities throughout this com
munity have been reduced te a five per
cent, rate of interest, and in many cases,
no doubt, geed leans are made at four.
In the banks there is abundance of
money and parties holding well secured
mortgages or judgments are very loath
te transfer them or te accept payment
even if they have te submit te reduced
interest. Although the tobacco crop
was delayed in moving, the sales have
baen very extensive of late and at geed
prices, and growers de net seem te have
been pinched or distressed'te find a mar
ket and money. Te the cultivation of
this staple and the remarkable remuner
ation of their labors, our farmers ewe a
great deal of their prosperity in the past
ten years. While many of them have been
greatly relieved financially from this
source of income, the aggregate value
of real estate and permanent taxable
property in the county has been in
creased by the application of this rev
enue te improvements in farm lands and
buildings.
SeiiEBODT in the Independent , discuss
ing the tobacco problem, pleads elo
quently against its culture, partly en
the ground that it is a " besom of de
struction" which renders the lauds sub
ject te it "eyesores, odious barrens,
looking as though blasted -by some ge
nius of evil." The impression here con
veyed is a very general one, enforced by
the experience of Virginia and Maryland
tobacco farmers, whose neglectful sys
tem and net the mere raising of tobacco
thus desolated their lands. Here in Lan
caster county, where wiser modes prevail
and farmers prudently restore the sejJ,
tobacco culture has net by any means
depressed the lands, and the best contin centin
ing farms in this section are these
whereon tobacco has been most exten
sively and continuously raised.
The peculiarities of the Russian so
cialists are that they are largely drawn
from the higher ranks of life and the ed
ucated classes; that they avow their pur
poses with .singular frankness and even
proclaim their identity, with an almost
fanatical zeal for martyrdom ; and the
freqency with which women appear as
leaders in the cause of social and peliti
cal anarchy,. It must be peculiar .social i
conditions that give rise te these singu
larities, and is likely that the recent
events transpiring in that county will
make it the focus of an intelligent in
vestigation which the Russian character
and modes have net yet received.
We can understand the appllca
tien of tiie knock-down argument i
by Representative Kneass te Sen-'
ater Geerge Handy Smith. Enpass
has a suave manner while Smith is coarse
and brutal in his address, and his as
sault en Kneass in the Republican cau
cus a month age well merited emphatic
resentment long before it was repeated.
The Harrisburg newspapers denounce
Palmer's opinion with a. zeal that enti
tles them te the thanks of the bearding
beuses. The Independent, we note,
however, serves the people of the state
in its editorial columns and the Harris
burg shopkeepers in its local.
The story about the Beer leader com
ing from Fayette county, this state, "is a
geed story, but it has been se lately that
it was told about King Cetewaye, that
it is a little " tee fresh."
MINOB TOPICS.
The Heuse of Representatives of 3Ias-
sachusetts has defeated, by a vote of 122
te 76, the bill te give municipal suffrage
te women.
Ox its death bed, the Cerry Daily Prett
exclaimed: "Yeu might as well fry te
drive a railroad spike tfith a tack ham
mer, as te run a nenparicl newspaper in
a smali pica town."
R. S. Mexamix's Printers' Circular
opens its sixteenth year with pardonable
pride in the fifteen volumes that are
closed, of a useful and exceptionally
bright class journal.
The leaders of Russian society in Paris
have decided upon observing three months
deep mourning, during which they will
see no company. The ladies are te wear
coarse black stuff dresses with very long
square trains and long thick veils.
Mb. Wiiartex Barker's American, a
weekly Philadelphia publication of Inde
pendent Republican proclivities, rounds
out its sixth month with premise of per
manency which its high character as a
political, literary and scientific review
amply justifies.
TnE Clearfield Republicen notes that ex.
Governer Hart ran ft has drawn $4,000 out
of the United States treasury as postmas
ter of Philadelphia, and Auditor General
Bedell's report shows that he drew $2,000
out efvthe state treasury as major general
of the National Guard of Pennsylvania
offices that are incompatible during the
s.iine year. Refund !
Mr. Mapes's bill te prohibit rebates
and drawbacks in railroad tariffs, and in
fact te regulate the whole railroad ques
tion, which is commonly known as the
" Anti-discrimination bill," yesterday
passed a second reading in the Heuse at
Harrirburg. The btll has been drawn te
serve the purposes of the oil-producing in
terest, which has a quancl of many years'
standing with the railroad companies te
settle.
PERSONAL.
Kit Carsex, jr., is icpefted te have
died at Chattanooga, Tenn., en the 8th in
stant, of small-pox.
Gov. Celqtitt, of Georgia, pardoned
nearly 50 convicts upeu the occasion of
his late visit for personal inspection te the
prisons of the state.
Rev. Dr. J. E. Evax3 and wife, of Reme,
Ga., celebrated their golden wedding ou
the22d inst. The bride's" dress was.
silk, the buttons being geld dollars
Lord Beacessfield is se wcil advauccd
in years that serious results naturally may
be expected from his .subjection te scvcie
simultaneous attacks of asthma and gout.
Ex-Senater Pomerev, of Kansas, is at
present in North Carolina, managing a
geld mine with success. He has also in
vented a machine for extracting geld from
quartz rock.
Picsident Garfield has received a tele
gram from General Lew Wallace declin
ing the appointment as Charge d' Affaires
at Paraguay and Uruguay. The president
will in a few days send another name te
Senate.
Senater Brewx, of Georgia, is a man of
blonde complexion and thin and positive
face. He is erect aud dignified ; white
hair fringes his head, and a white curtain
of beard hangs from his chin in a straight
and precise fashion. His voice is clear
and his enunciation distinct.
Jeseph Abrams, an old member of the
Philadelphia bar, died yesterday. Mr.
Abrams was born in Montgomery county.
Ha studied for the ministry and occupied
the pulpit of a Presbyterian church for
about one year when his health failed
him. He then began the study of law in
the office of Rebert Aruudle, was admit
ted te the bar in 18S9, and enjoyed a large
civil practice until about four or five years
age, when his failing health obliged him
te give up all practice.
SENATORIAL. FISTICUFFS.
A Knock-Down Argument Between Repre
sentative Knetu and Senater Smith.
Harrisburg Dispatch te the Timet.
Senater Geerge Handy Smith and Rep
resentative Christian Kueassget into a se
rious difficulty at the Lochiel house about
2 o'clock yesterday morning and finally
came te blows with disastrous results te
the senator. The quarrel grew out of a
difficulty between the two men at the time
of the withdrawal of Oliver from the sena
fight and the substitution of G.-n.
Beaver. Kueass questioned the methods
taken te force Beaver en the Republicans
as a candidate for senator and Senater
Smith denounced him as "a marplot" in
the face of the regular caucus in the state
library. Kneaastoek no notice of the
offensive tiunt of Smith at that time pre
ferring that the matter should drop where
it was. Last night the two met in the
room of a friend, and in the presence of a
number of the acquaintances of the sena
tor. Smith again offensively alluded te
Kneass's attitude toward the stalwart ele
ment of the Republican party. Kneass
declined te have his conduct criticised by
the senator, and resented the interference
se emphatically that Smith became en
raged and struck at him. Kneass struck
back and a short but decisive fight en
sued, in which the senator was se sever!y
punished that he has net been able te
leave his room since. Kacass was in
his scat in the Heuse as usual.
Mr. Kneass visited Senater Smith in his
room yesterday and peace is restored.
The Iowa Fasting UirL
Miss (lattie Ducll was living at seven
o'clock p. m., the close of her thirty-sixth
day without feed The pulse was ninety
four and the respiration twenty-three.
She lias failed rapidly in the past twenty
four hours. She slept six hours last night,
and dozed new and then during the day.
She has changed greatly since iastrnVlit.
j heavy blue circles appearing about the
eyes and tne Hands becoming a purple
color. She l ccegnized these present in her
room, and duriug the latter part of the
afternoon took considerable interest in the
conversation of these present, and by
signs signified that they should speak
louder that she might hear. She has had
neiie of her sinking spells, but has de
clined se much that her death is hourly
expected.
IN THE FAB NORTHWP6T.
Seme Thrilling Experiences la Deer flanting
Frem Private Letters of a Yeung Army Officer.
Fest Colville, W. T.. Feb. 22, 1881.
I have at last succeeded in putting in a
day's hunting. Taking advantage of a
pack mule returning te our hunting camp
after bringing in a lead of venison, Dr.
M and I rent out a buffalo robe and
blankets ; and finishing up our work by
12 o'clock en Saturday we mounted our
heises in full fighting .trip moccasins,
fur caps and gloves and buckskin-lined
coats, with our bread " bear-paw " snow
shoes dangling from our saddles. After
three hours' slew riding along the trail
made by the pack mules, when the snow
almost touched our feet (.the horses step
ping accurately into the deep holes made
by their asinine predecessors), we ar
rived at the "hunting ledge;" and a
mere picturesque one it would be hard te
find, buried as it was deep in a forest of
cedar surmounted by high, rocky, weeded
palisades. A space about .twenty feet
square had been cleared of snow, which
all around lay five or six feet deep. One
side of this suew wall was broken by the
fronts of two small tents buried almost te
the, ridge poles, but looking snug and
comfortable with their deen beddinz of
branches and blankets. A bright fire
burned directly in front of each tent deer,
and the high weed piles between the two.
testified te the necessity of net stinting the
supply of fuel, while the numerous pans
and kettles about one of the flames and
the odeis arising therefrem convinced us
that though our table was hewn from solid
snow its delights were net te be despised.
In fact, iuaveryfewmimitcsOur horses
were secured with the mules and champ
ing their evening feed, and we ourselves
still mere agreeably occupied reclining en
bough-cushioned snow seats about the
walls of our enclosure, sipping het coffee
and hastily firing up with venison steak,
for we proposed te use even the little re
maining daylight in hunting. An hour's
snow-shoeing brought us te fresh tracks,
and separating we new went at the work
with a keen rivalry for the first bleed. Be
fore long a clatter of falling rocks almost
ever my head called my attention te four
handseme black-tailed deer just van
ishing ever the rocky wall, along
the base of which I was moving.
Up went my carbine sights te seven hun
dred yards, but.they were tee quick for
me. I, however, determined te fellow
them, as they appeared net te be alarmed,
ana i went ac me steep sinning suew
bank with a will. The climbing was very
uaru, anu ine wear ana tear ei kicking a
hole through the crust with the point of
my moccasin (which projects through the
netting of the snow shoe) began te tell
upeu my tees accustomed te the rigid
hoot-sole. It seen get steeper, however,
aud I had te depend en my elbows te held
my ground, but just imagine my feelings
at discovering while in this predicament,
that a large leg only 150 yards ahead had
been transformed into three raaguificent
deer, who were watching my painful
maneeuvres with evident curiosity. The
idea of any deer being such feels as te
stand like that almost took my breath
away, or rather would have done se had
my climbing left me any te lese. But I
seen found that the deer were net se badly
off as it appeared, and indeed the laugh
came very near being en their side, for
whenever I attempted te rise enough te
sheet ever the snow my footing would
give way, and after two or three igne
minions though involuntary retreats of
this kind, I again dug my elbows into the
snow, and, regaining my lest ground,
moved ou te a leg where I expected te get
a held; but the crust here was steeper, and
finally in desperation 1 sprang up iu full
view en the leg itself, fired a vicious shot
at the enemy, which was new en the full
jump, and, losing my balance, rolled in
confusion twenty or thirty yards down
ward before I could secure an anchorage
with the butt of my carbine and bring
myself up with a round turn. Regaining my
equilibrium I found mere or less te my
surprise that my shot had told en one of
the "deer, and succeeded in sending six or
seven mero shots after the ether two be
fore they were out of range, though with
out perceptible effect. Thinking eyer the
affair I have felt very much flattered te re
member that Idid uet experience the "buck
fever " aud that the first shot I ever fired
at a deer killed. I suppose the explana
tien is that I was tee much occupied in
keeping my footing te have any time left
for nervousness.
A signal shot from the doctor new ap
prised me that he had heard the fusiladc,
an 1 answering with a whenp te convince
him that 1 had net been eaten by a
grizzly or a panther, I baptised my
hunting-knife and rejoined him when
followed a three mile tramp te the
camp, which the deep suew and dark
ness rendered long and memorable,
for mere than half of the time was spent in
stumbling in the darkness, floundering
head-first in the deep snow and getting up
in deeper disgust.
The warm supper aud snug beds, how
ever, straightened us out, and we were
limber and fresh for a morning hunt the
next day.
This time the doctor was iu luck kill
ing three while I saw " nary a hair."
Twilight saw us riding into the fort, our
horses well leaded with hams, and ready
te go at the duties of the next day (Mon
day) with a renewed vigor due te our
bracing open-air Sunday experience.
I enclose part of a letter just received
from at Fert Lapwai, which
you will see gives another phase of deer
hunting and came very near having a tragic
side. My friend sayp, speaking of a hunt
ing party :
'I came very near making a vacancy in
the regiment by that? hunt. My adven
tures were thrilling and ray escape nar
row, in .unci, l get caught out about
four miles from camp at dark, with snow
waist-deep and a pair of broken snow
shoes.. Had gene out with Indians in the
mountain early in the morning, and in
the excitement of following some deer, I
had wandered farther than I knew, and
entirely separated from the rest. I killed
two of the deer I was after, and was three
hours dragging one of them from t'.ie top
of the ridge te the river. Whea'I reached
it, it was dark and one of my snow
shoes broke, leaving me perfectly helpless.
The river flews through a deep canon ;
there was no trail, and I found, after
floundering en for several hours, that I
was still ever two miles from camp and
could net go a step farther ou account of
cold, hunger and exhaustion. I had fallen
into the river twice iu the darkness, my
clothes were freezing te my body, and
I thought my time hail come and lay down
in the snow, net much caring whether it
bad or net. I tried te make a tire once
and afterwards te discharge my carbine,
but there was nothing but wet weed ;" the
water had frozen te solid ice ou the breech
of my gun, aad my hands were tee numb
te get it out, se I gave it all up. But I
fear the gods de net sufficiently love
me fur me te die young ; a search
party of Indians had volunteered
te go out after me about 7 or 8
o'clock, and by the greatest geed luck
these fellows stumbled upon me just after
I had given in. I heard them firing and
hallooing a short distance down the river
and just had sense and strength enough
left te shout back. Hew they found me
I hardly remember ; I Jj new, though, that
I was wrapped iu blankets, before a geed
fire, had whisky and feed supplied copious
ly, and about daylight took up the march
for home.
" I had te held a pew-wow next day, and
shake in congratulation the hands of about
forty Indians several times apiece. It was
the closest shave I ever had or want again.
The day after I was all right, and took the
field with ren.-wed ardor. The hunt was
successful. Wc killed altogether sixty
deer, four falling by my own bloody hand."
Fred.
Who is "W. W. D."?
Editors Intelligencer : In a general
way we are net excessively curious ; wc
de net sigh for the unattainable; nor de
we worry about the unknewnable ; but
for many a year have we longed te knew
one particular thiug something about
the personality of "W. W. D.," Sterling
correspondent of the Examine); something
about the mental atmosphere he breathes,
mere about the intellectual loed he eats
and altogether as much about 7ums he tells
us of Sterling eggs, hens anil raspbeny
bushes.
We once asked the Examiner for infor
mation concerning the Unknown, but our
inquiries received only editorial silence.
With a heart bowed down with curiosity
we new appeal te you for information.
Will your honergrant us a morsel of news
about this literary phenomenon of Ster
ling? We knew that " W. W. D." wears red
flannel for " he himself hath said it."
We knew from his writings that he is
practical and somewhat material. Judg
ing from his last letter, we fear he is eccen
trie if net cynical. He informs us among
ether things that " Mrs. Eliza Kilgour
emigrated Je this state from Cumberland
county. Pa., in 1835. Her husband died
many years age. It was a pleasant occa
sion. Several of her old neighbors, her
children and pastor, participated in the
rejoicing. Numerous letters were received
from absent friends."
In this there &ccms te be a jelly cynicism
expressed about death and human affec
tion. Generally, the death of a husband
is net n "pleasant occasion," aiidcertaiuly
it is unusual for adeath of this nature te
be made a matter of such public rejeieing.
that " old neighbors, children and pastor"
participate te say nothing of " numerous
letters, received from absent friends,"
centainiiig congratulations.
Frem the extract quoted wc should
judge that " W. W. D." is cruel, cynica
and contemptuous. But this judgment
we must reverse, for iu the very same let
ter in which he speaks of a husband's
death as "a pleasant occasion," he sym
pathetica! weeps ever a pigeon. Hear
him :
"Seven of our gunners indulged en Fri
day in a game of pigeon sheeting. This
is simply barbarous. The idea of taking
innocent life, and calling it sport ! All
such business ought te be punished by
heavy fines."
With a touch of poetical feeling
he ends his letter with the simple state
meut "blue birds and robins
about." Here then, joined te a cold
sarcasm en human affection are
tears for pigeons and sweet mentienings
of the early robin. Out of all views we
must generalize one. "W. W. D." must
be a genius and moreover a genius that
wears "red flannel." Ne one but a genius
can indulge in such literary vagaries, and
epistolary eccentricities as he, and yet per
petually charm us with the originality of
his sentiments and Hie charms of a style
almost tee epigrammatic. Ilenc.i our wish
te knew him. Give, eh ! give a gaping
world all the information you have.
Yorick.
TIIK LEAF.
-Tobacco
In the Cumberland Valley.
Correspondence ei the Intelligencer.
Mechanicsbcre, March 31.
One of your rural itemizcrs took a trip
up the Cumberland valley as far as this
borough by rail ; then several miles into
the country te the southwest, through a
thriving limestone district. A few notes
in reference te the tobacco culture may
prove of interest te the many readers of
the Intelligencer.
Three years age tobacco raising was in
its infancy. In August, '78, en a trip
from here te Shophardstewn, wc remem
ber of seeing only one or two patches, and
no sheds. Since then a number of houses
uave ueeu erected, among tiicm some
that will held as much as
five and six acres. While the
Bheds arc yet inferior te these re
cently erected iu Lancaster county, they
answer the requirements te a geed ex
tent. They are partly under cellar, and in
the ones erozted last summer in the man
ner of ventilation there is much- improve
ment. They have tobacco ladders, fashion
ed after the latest improved, but, all in al,
the facilities for handling the crop in
Lancaster are superior. Half of the crop
of 1880 is sold, mostly te Lancaster firms,
and at paying prices ranging from 24, 6
and 3 down. The crop is almost fiee
from the ravages of the flea beetle, of a
desirable color and a geed quality.
Among the buyers who were here theie
was ene who happened te get his name en
the "black list." He engaged in a little
game of bulldozing, in which he succeeded
te the amount of 7 cents te the pound.
The farmer is the loser, but the buyer,
who happened te be an influential man,
will receive a very cold reception should
he come here again.
Seed has already been, sewn and the
area te be planted will be much increased. .
Chester County Tobacco.
Lecal Sews.
A. S. Herr, of Pocopson, who raised a
fine crop of tobacco last season, has dis
posed of 59 cases containing 40 pounds each
te Julius Levy, Kennett Square ; 29 acres
te Bemberger & Ce., and 13 cases te Zeek
& Bitner, Lancaster, and has 9 cases yet
te dispose of. Mr. Herr tells us that he
raised four acres of tobacco last year, from
which he gathered 790 pound of wrappers,
1032 pounds of seconds, and 932 pounds of
fillers, aud that the crop-has yielded him
mere than 40 acres of corn he had planted
and at about the same expense.
IS JOUnEKT AN AMERICAN ?
Facts Which Gote Shew that the Beer Coin
wander is an American.
The following special despatch from
Pittsburgh indicates that General Joubert,
the distinguished cemmauder of the Beers
in their war with the British, is net only
an American but a native of :he Keystone
state, aud served in the late war of the re
bellion : " About 41 years age," says the
correspondent, "Jacob Joubert and his
wife Barbara emigrated from Helland aud
settled in Brownsville, Fayette county,
fa. A tew months aiterwarusthey remov
ed te Uniontown. same county, where they
lived two years, Jacob werkinjr at his
trade, that of meulding bricks by
hand. Sometimes he did odd jobs fee Mr.
Daniel Sturgeon, a resident of Uniontown,
then United Stat-s senator from Pennsyl
vania. Iu the spt ing of 1841 Barbara gave
birth te a son, which the fend parents
christened Daniel Sturgeon Joubert.
Senater Sturgeon purchased for the infant
a stylish new dress of nice material. " In
censcqueuce, Jacob and Barbara were
the proudest aud happiest of Dutch
couples, and ncicr grew tired of in
forming their neighbors, in wretchedly
broken English, the honorable senator
had condescended te clothe their newly
born infant. In 1843 they changed
their resilience te Conuellsville, game
county, where, by patient aud untiring in
dustiy, characteristic of theirnatlen, they
accumulated sumo menev. About 1850. or
.probably later, both parents died suddenly
et cholera, leaving their only child, little
Daniel. The young fellow was properly
cared for by a kind neighbor, and his
parents' money, amounting te about $700,
placed en interest. In 1855 his benefac
tor emigrated te the West, intending te
take the orphan along. Arriving at Pitts
burgh the boy ran away and returned te
Cenuellsville. Fer an assault and battery
ou one Jehnsen, ou April 11, 1855, he was
arrested and ledged iu Uuioutewn jail.
Senater Sturgeon employed counsel, and
at the trial the prisoner was acquitted.
Yeung Joubert stepped out of the court
room determined te leave the scene of his
disgrace forever. Making his way te
New Yerk he took ship te Helland, the
land of his ancestors, paying for his pas pas
sage by working ou the steamer. At
Amsterdam he made the acquaintenance
of Adam Joubert, his father's brother,
captain of a ship in the Seuth Africau and
East Indian trade. With his uncle he
made several voyages te the Beer country
in Africa. In 18G2, hearing of the Ameri
can war, he returned te New Yerk. Enlist
ing in the United States navy he served
with distinction under Admiral Dupent
and ethers, and lestau eye at the bom
bardment of Charleston, for which dis
ability he new receives a pension from our
government. He is next heard of as cap
tain of a negre company iu the Army of
the I'otemac. 11 e served directly under
(jcneral Wetzell, and his man marched
with Wetzell's ether colored troops who.
after Lee's surrender took nossessien of
Richmond. After his discharge he visited
Uniontown under an assumed namel
The one-eyed young captain, still wear
ing his full uniform, revealed himself,
however, te Hen. Daniel Sturgeon, thcu
ever eighty years of age. The venerable
senator was the means of his obtaining the
3700 placed en interest years before and its
accumulations. Alter a thousand thauks
te his namesake he sailed for Helland, and
from there te the country of the Beers in
Seuth Africa. Becoming a resident and a
a citizen of the Dutch Republic, he was in
18 te elected VVoeIg or Representative te
their Congress from the province or de
partment of Oyaitgi. When the late
war broke ' out between the Beers
and the British, Daniel Sturgeon
Joubert was promoted from ene
military office te another till he is new
the commander-in-chief of all the Beer
armies." It should here be said that there
is mere than one reason for doubting the
correctness or this story. All accounts
from Becrland have described Joubert as
an elderly man, about 55 years old. His
lineage has been trace 1 back te the Puri
tans wheme edict of Nantes drove from
France, and Sir Battle Frere has publicly
stated that Joubert is a representative
liecr, as distinguished from iiek and
Jorissen. who are both Hollanders.
Becrlanil Beauties.
Such even of the belles as have had their
manners polished and their minds en
larged by travel in Natal and a visit te
the "city" (namely. Maritzburg) seem te
fling aside the embarrassing trappings of
civilization when they return te the paren
tal reef. Net that I would be undorstoed
te hint that the Beer maidens could be
guilty of such ah impropriety in its most
literal sense ; far from it. Beneath the
orange trees aud blue gums of the paren
tial residence the lovely ladies continue te
bloom in all the brilliant hues of the most
glaring red and yellow cotton dresses
which Manchester can produce. By the
side of a bevy of young Beeresses a tulip
bed is dingy indeed, and even red and yel
low poppies would have eueugh te de te
held their own against the masses of color
with which these coy damsel 3 love te decor
ate themselves. Nene of your neutral
tints or paltry touches of color here and
there for your genuine Dutch Beeress ;
but the brightest scarlet or orange
will serve her turn, and a geed
solid mass of it, tee. A fine
stout calico dress of a strong pink or blue,
with a bonnet in the complementary hues
of green and orange, form one of these neat
and l.armonieus toilettes which make a
party of Beer girls a vision of startling
splendor te the sober Britisher. This style
of dress has the advantage, moreover, of
enabling the wearer te be visible almestas
far as the flash of the heliograph, until she
is actually if one may use the expression
hull down the horizon. It is fortunate
for the ladies that, considering the net
very chastened character of their taste in
dres, nature has endowed them with a
brilliancy and purity of complexion which
net even the forcible coloring of their rai
ment can avail te kill. The pure red and
white of their round cheeks, and dazzling
fairness of their threats, surpass even the
famed complexion of England, and are
only retained by the strictest care On the
part of their buxom owners. The thickest
of veils and the most r.un-Iike of forehead
and chin-bands are worn whenever there
is the slightest chance of exposure te the
outer air ; and as for the sun, he is never
allowed te imprint even the most fugitive
kiss en the blooming cheeks of the belles
of Beerland. On the occasions of the pe
riodical visits te the towns te attend the
" Nacht mahl," or sacrament of their
church, the groups of veiled beauties peer
ing from the wagons give the Beerthe
aspect-of a Turk traveling with his harem.
Ner by all accounts was the engaging nai
vete of these heuris calulated te inspire
ought save terror te the British breast.
A Needle Which: vmatrateil a Lady's Feet
Werk Itself Vat or Her Child.
The Louisville Cmmer-Jeurnul says : A
most extraordinary natural accident, and
en fecthediscusttOH of physicians, came
te light a few days age, in which a needle
taken into the loot of a lady nine years
age worked out of the thigh of her third
child, a baby of one. year. The lady in
question is the wife of Mr. Harry Isaacs,
the cigarmaker, who lives en Market
street near Wenzel. At the time of the
accident Mrs. Isaacs was unmarried aud
was then Miss Pauline Coblens. The
needle was encountered in a carpet pene
trating her feet the full length. A physi
cian was called, in immediately, but.the
needle could net be found, although it was
known te be in the feet.) She suffered great
pain, and for four months was unable te
leave her bed. 'During that period three
physicians made frequent attempt te ex
tract the needle, and the knife was used
extensively, however, without success.
Mis Coblens was quite, fleshy before the
accident, but fell, off greatly from her
Jeng confinement. At length she was
'able te get about with the aid of crutches,
but she continued te suffer from the needle.
The pain decreased gradually from the time
she was able te get about and she regained
her former fleshiness. Finally she felt the
needle only at period when there was a
change in the weather. The movement of
the needle seemed te be upwards, and the
point was net stationary but moved with '
the needle. About five years age she was
married te Mr. Harry Isaacs. Three
children are the fruit of that union,
the youngest of which is a boy
named Arthur, who is about a year old.
The pain which troubled the mother left
her even before the birth of her child, and
the total disappearance of the pain she was
went te feel was a subject of remark and
pleasure te her. On Monday a week age her
baby, who had since its birth manifested a'
kindly disposition, was very restless and
cried unceasingly all night. The cause of
the child's ailment was uet discovered
the following morning, when in giving it
a bath the mother discovered something
black protruding through the skin of the
child's thigh. She caught held of it, and
was frighted when she found the thing of
resisting substance. She, however, used
a little force, and seen extracted the
dark object. Imagine her surprise
when she found it was a needle, black aud
carreded. The eye broke off in her hand
while examiuiug it. The recollection of
the needle, which her much- pain, came
vividly before the mother, and she felt
keenly for the child. The remembrance
of her relief from the pain also forced
itself upon the mother, and the connection
of the two served as a clue as te hew the
needle came te get in the child's thigh.
The mother says it would be almost im
possible for the child te have taken up
the needle without her finding it out, as
the child would have made it known iu
piteous cries, as he did when the needle
worked out.
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IjATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
A Mrs. Clcary, of Mansion Station,
! Wilkin county. Minn., died en Tuesday
from tne effects of injuries inflicted by her
brother, Jehn Ward, in a quarrel. He has
been arrested.
Themas Merrow, an Englishman, 45
years of age, a farm hand iu the employ
of Henry Ramsen at Queen, committed
suicide en Tuesday evening by banging
himself in his employer's barn. He had
been in Ransom's employ only five days.
Mary Seneff wasdrewned at Black Band.
Ohie, a year age. Every night her form
rises slowly out of the water, clad in
white, floats upward out of sight. Several
person having a reputation for veracity
say se, and the community is frightened
Alvin Houghten's block, iu Athel,
Mass., the lower fleer of which is eccu
pied by R. T. Shumway, dry goods, and
the upper stories by families and the law
oflice of G. W. Hear, was damaged by an
incendiary fire yesterday morning te the
cxtcnt.ef $5,000.
The most tremendous tornado known
for many years passed ever Danville, Va.,
en Tuesday night. It bore down ebstruc
tiens in its path with resistless fury. A
number of houses were blown down and
many trees were uprooted and fences lev
eled. The full extent of the damage in
the surrounding country has net yet been
ascertained.
An Atchison, Tepcka & Santa Fe pas
senger train was bearded by robbers near
Albuquerque and rebbed.after a desperate
fight, in which three or four passengers,
the conductor, engineer and express mes
senger were shot. - The conductor aud ex
press messenger are said te have been
killed. This report is current in express
circles, but the railroad officials claim te
knew nothing about it.
STATES ITEMS.
Irvin Trout, fifteen years old, an em em
peoye of the Glasgow iron works, in Potts
grove township, Montgomery county, was
crushed .between car bumpers yesterday
and died half an hour afterward.
The oil en the surface of Tuna creek,
from a leaking tank in the lower part ei"
Bradford, was set en lire by a live coal
from a locomotive en the Eric railway.
The railway bridge and J. W. Kce's wheel
factory were destroyed. Less en "the
bridge $3,000, and en the factory $5,000.
All the WilJiamspert saw mills have
been put in first-class condition for work,
and a big season of cutting is looked for.
Seme of the mills will start this week.
Men in, the lumber business estimate the
stock for the season's cutting at 325,000,
000 feet, 250,000 000 feet of this being pine
and the remainder hemlock.
The most miserable beings in Pennsyl
vania are certain recently arrived Hungari
ans, who are new living from hand te
mouth at day labor in the various coal
districts. A few days age two of them
who have been working near Easten dug
up a calf that had been buried because it
had died of disease and made meals of it.
The beard of state charities has recom
mended the removal of four insane con
victs from the eastern penitentiary,among
whom whom is Blasius Pisterius, te an
asylum for the insane. It has also recem
mended that the Legislature make prbvis
ion for two hundred insane convicts at the
new asylum at Danville.
Ralph Gibbens, 38 years old, a mining
boss at Centralia, Columbia county, died
at the Pennsylvania hospital en Tuesday
nignt from injuries which he claimed were
inflicted, with homicidal intent, by a band
of coal miners, te whom he had refused,
employment. They waylaid him one
night in August, as nearly as He could re
collect, and after beating him threw him
down the shaft of the coal pit.
James M. Snyder, 50 years old, of the
well-known firm of J. M. Snyder & Ce.,
wheelwrights, at 133 Carpenter street,
Philadelphia, sprang out of the second
story window of his home, 012 Wharten
street, at one o'clock yesterday morning,
while laboring under delirium tremens.
He fractured his left thigh and received
ether injuries, which terminated fatally.
At Dry Hellew Breaker, during dinner
hour, a boy named Slattcry, aged fourteen
years, who was engaged as a slate picker,
became entangled in the machinery belt
ing and his head and body were terribly
mangled, the pieces flying in all directions.
His brains were gathered up in a cloth
and with his body placed in a sheet and
conveyed te his late home, at Tuscarora.
He was the son of Judce Jehn Slattery, of
Mellie Maguire fame, who freed himself
by turning state witness.
The band of burglars who have been
operating in Montgomery, Ala., was effec
tively broken up by the capture of the
leader, who had been passing under the
name of Sutten, and claimed te be a gam
bler, but who real name is Chastine. He
admitted that he was an escaped convict
from Missouri. He attempted te escape
when he was shot at by Officers Martin
ami Jenes, who had bean iu charge. Beth
shots took effect in his back, and he died.
Nothing could be get out of him concern
ing his cenfederates.
Disaster en ijiml anil Water.
"A cyclone iu Randelph county. Alabama,
en Wednesday night, demolished the house
of Jehn Embrey, killing him and his wife
and two clii'divn.
Three lives are known te have been lest
in the inundation of the Platte Valley, in
Nebraska, and it is feared the number
will be.inci eased when all the districts arc
heard from. The less ou property aud
stock is estimated at several hundred
thousand dollars. It is feared at Pierre,
Dakota, that the crew of the steamer Far
West, which was in the ice twenty miles
below that place, have been lest.
iAu incendiary tire in Leadville, Color Coler
ado, 'destroyed Cuwcll's saloon aud Mc
Daniel's theatre, and damaged an adjoin
ing bui I id ing, causing a total less of about
$23,000.
A sleep weut ashore at Couey Island,
at the height of the storm yesterday. Twe
men were seen lashed te the mast.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
OU1TIT.1KY.
The lte.uh 'r .I.iuir Ituuhunau Johnsten.
We have felt it as an impulse of duty
te give a stronger public expression of our
sympathy with Mr. aud Mrs. Johnsten,
than time and circumstances permitted at
the moment wheu the sad news of their
eldest miiu death first came te us. The
deepgiicl el'all who knew the honored
family, ( ami who in this community
docs net knew thorn ?) is net easily por
trayed in xe.ds. We, ourselves, have
known them in their outgoings aud in
comings, and can appreciate the awful less
which they have suffered iu the death of a
member who gave the premise of se much
geed te them. But we can de no better
than te publish the following, which it
may he needless for us te say is t'rem the
pen aud heart of Judge Black :
I have just icturicd from the funeral of
James Buchanau Johnsten, affected by a
deeper sense of bereavement than any
death outside of .my own immediate fam
ily has caused me in many years. It is
strange that we cannot get hardened te
these calamities in the course of time or,
at least. learn te accept some measure of
consolation when our fiicnds are fatally
stricken. But human philosophy, hew
well se ever it may be strengthened by
tiials, is powerless te save our equanimity
in eases like this. The overwhelming
grief of that beloved mother aud the
awful break-down of the proud father's
spirit cannot even he thought of without
strong emotion. Besides that I had built
much hope of my own upon the future of
that bright and beautiful boy. He was
gifted with uncommon talents se well cul
tivated, and developing se rapidly, that
even at the age of fourteen he was intel
lectually a full grown man. With moral
principles cle.u ly defined and quick per
ceptions et the right his sense of justice
and his love of truth would have given
him b dignity of character uet surpassed
by th.it of his illustrious uncle. But
these visions el" a moment are faded for
ever anil we can only sigh " for the touch
of a vanished hand" and listen in vain
for the 1011 'id of a voice that is still,"
J. S. B.
XEIUHKDIUIOOO NEWS.
Nar nml Arrens the County Lines.
An escaped inmate of the Norristown
insane, asylum was arrested iu Phccnix Phccnix
ville en Tuesday, and of course the report
spread that the murderer of Mr. Clugsten
had bi( n caught again.
A little gill named McCue, residing near
West Chester, was burned nearly te death
en Tuesday by her clothes taking lire
from a kitchen stove. She rushed into
the roil an I :i man who w.is passing in a
buggy threw a blanket ever her and ex
tinguished the flames.
Sheiiff Frauketifield will sell at public
sale en Aeiil 7, the right, title and interest
of F. A. llewer, publisher of the Bryn
Mawr Heme Nctcs. The paper is printed
at Parksburg. Chester county, and Mr.
I lower ilas 110 interest iu the material used
iu printing it.
On Monday last, Elizabeth, a sevcu
year old child of Wilsen Whitaker,eoIered,
Birmingham township, Chester county,
met with a horrible death by being
scalded. The child had been entrusted by
the parent te place some weed or coal en
the lite of the cook stove, aud while per
forming the work, the tea-kettle was
knocked elf, the contents running ever the
face and body of the child, who died the
following day.
Clark, Reeves & Ce., of Phujnixvillc,
are required by the Canadian government
te pay a forfeit of $26,000 en the under under
valuateon of entry in the customs of the
iron vupertitiuetiirc of the Chandiere rail
way hi id;;", for which they had the con
tract at 81D1.000 from the Quebec govern
ment. The firm had a ready paid $26,000
in duties, te which sum must he added a
fine of a similar amount.
Gcrmautewu has a free library of 10,
000 volumes, without a novel among them.
" All the Inches we lvc here," said the
librarian, "arc. solid." Byren is ex
cluded, because " some of his pieces arc
net altogether tasteful reading." Shak
spcare is deb irred Itccausc " no plays are
let in." The library is the property of the
Orthodox Friends and the hooks in it
represent the collection of filty or sixty
years.
rtiuT or AFKIL.
Many Moving Seme Vnsiness Changes-
Te-mono w will lie general "moving
day" -among these who are in the habit of
".hanging their places of residences or bus
iness ; and general "settling up day"
with these who de business, en the credit
system. Already many of the former
class have changed their locality, and to
day, notwithstanding the unfavorable
weather, many ethersare moving.
Among ether business changes wc note
the following :
II. L. Zahm, jeweler, late of North
Queen street, has taken the store room
Ne. 10, IXTKM.IGEXCER building, Seuth
Queen street
Edward Kreekel, saddler, has removed
from the Iktellieexceu building te Ne.
5 East Kim; street.
J. P. Kuiglft, has taken the Exchauge
hotel. Christian street, the former proprie
tor, C. F. Myers, retiring te private life.
Win. F. Dunean. variety bterc, has re
moved from E.ist King street te Millar's
building, 20 North Queen.
Henry Gerhart, merchant tailor, has
taken the store Ne. 6 East King street,
formerly occupied by Brimmer fc Bell.
H. B. Knight, dentist, removes from
Hewell' building. North Queen street te
Ne. 331 Neith Queen street.
Metier, 15 ml & lliuhman, hiva re
moved fiem Ne. 38 te 43 West King
street.
Mr. V infman has removed the city shoe
store fiern Neith Queen street te Recce's
old stand, Ne. 2G East King street.
Fire en the taenataln.
The Welsh mountain along the line or
the Waynesburg & Xew Helland railroad
ur.iR ablaze for 'everal days, the fire hav
ing commenced last Saturday at neon
ft einsp 11 ks thrown out by a locomotive,
ami spread ever several hundred acres of
timber, entailing considerable less. It
was extinguished by the rain storm which
set in. ou Tuesday night aud continued
during yesterday.