LANCASTER BAIIA lATJgUlGEKCEft, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1881. Lancaster I-ntelligenrcc. WEDNESDAY EVENING. APBIL 0, 1881. TIic Virginia Straddle. The Senate debate is doing the Demo cratic party great geed in exposing what was wittily called by Senater Morgan the Riddlebargain, and putting the just odium of it upon the Republican lead ers. Senater Bayard uncovered a main object of the insistance of that party upon installing Mahene's Virginia bri gade in the Senate offices, when he said that it was te fortify him for his contest in the fall election in Virginia, in which a union of the former Mahone and Re publican parties is proposed for the pur pose of electing a governor and a Legis lature that will cheese a United States senator. The continued debate in the Senate ever the " Riddlebargain" has the effect of sadly spoiling the prospect of the success of this alliance. Mahone has the difficult feat te iierferm of re taining his Democratic votes in Virginia after lie has joined the Republican part-. Heretofore he has stoutly maintained that he was a Democrat, and has even se declared since he has entered the Sen ate and voted with the Republican side. But the Virginia Democrats who have followed him as a Democrat can be de ceived no longer, after they see the alli ance he has made and read all that is said about it by the Democratic sena tors. It is quite impossible te conceive that any Virginia Democrat can regard Mahone as a Democrat when the unani mous opinion of the Democratic senators and the Democratic newspapers outside the stale is that he is a renegade. There an; some men in the state, heretofore Democrats in geed repute, who cling te Mahone ; but they are men who have been his lieutenants in the " Readjustee " movement and who have made up their minds te fellow him into the Republican camp, lured en by the hope of spoil and position. They regard their political fortunes as borne en the beat of which Mahone was the captain, and rather than lese the geed things with which they hope it is destined te be leaded they will sail with it out of the Democratic fleet. We confess te great surprise at the determination of some of these men, but the majority of them are jsist such camp-followers and carrion birds as would naturally be in such a movement. Fowler, of the Bristel Nins, is one of the better sort of men whe.s!' course surprises us; Jehn S. Wise i of the kind who does net. lint while Mahone takes most of the leaders of the "Readjusters" with him, it is otherwise, we believe, with the rank and file. There are very geed men who always gel wroi.gen a financial question, and they are strangely plenty. It is one of the most remarkable things in nature, indeed, that men who are otherwise sen sible and honest, are as feeble minded as babes in considering a money question. New, te anyone out of a lunatic asylum, it is clear that if it is right and honest for an individual te pay his debts if he has properly enough te pay them with, it is just as right and proper for that in dividual's state le pay its debt if it is worth the money. But while every Vir ginian believes that Virginia is worth her debt, a hundred or a thousand times ever, and that every Virginia citizen should scrupulously pay what he ewes, there are many thousands of them who dcclaie that tiiestate should repudiate its debt in whole or in part. Clearly there is no use in arguing with such people about a question of debt or finance. Still they are geed, sine citizens and Demecrats: theyarenet stupid in everything, as Mahone would have them and ?eems te think them. They knew a Democrat from a Republi can : as a repudiating Democrat, Ma hone was of their kind : as a repudiat ing Republican, they will have none of him. And here there is the stumbling block te the effective union of his party with the Republican in his state. lie can take along all of his officers, but the privates will fall out of his ranks. The Senate officers won't go around te buy all the voters he needs : and he has no ether way le get Democrats, dyed in the wool, te vote the Republican ticket. His little scheme comes te grief, and the lit tle leader with it, when he and they run across in their party such unpromising material in the " Readjuster " ranks for Republican conversion as is found in men of whom Mr. T. II. Murphy is a sample, who writes as fellows, en March 2S, te the chairman of the ".Readjuster"' committee of Rockingham county in re ply te a notice that he had been ap pointed a committeeman of the party : While I have been and am still a Read juster, I have always been a Democrat, and when I find the recognized leader of the Readjustment party, (Jen. Mahone a man whom I have followed almost blindly, deserting the Democratic party and voting witli the Radical p.irty en party questions in the Seua'.e of the United States ; when I find the leaders of the July electoral ticket and its organs last fall, openly en dersing -Mahenc's court, and coalescing with the Radical party, and one of these leaders and au electei-at-large ea the July electoral ticket, accepting a nomi nation of a Radical caucus ; when I find the Radical organs everywhere applauding Mahenc's desertion and treachery ; when I find that readjustment has been presti tutcd into a scramble for office, and that it means new an alliance with Radicalism and au effort te radicalize the state, I am forced te declare as a Democrat I will have nethiug te de with the Readjuster-Rad:-cal party, and I have no idea any sincere Hancock mau, who voted the July elec toral ticket in thn late presidential elec tion, will fellow Mahout? into the Radical party. The fact that Speaker Hewit yester day decided a point of order according te the interpretation of parliamentary law by the Honorable Jeseph Souder, and against Messrs. Ruddiman and "Wolfe, does net prove, as the Honorable Jeseph Souder is disposed te claim, that he was right for once. It only proves that Speaker newit was en his side, which is quite another thing. Tn e bill for the relief of ex-State Treas urer Rebert W. Mackey'sestatefrem its just liability te the state for moneys lest by the failure of one 'of his favored de positories, has passed first reading in the Heuse. Stick a pin there. Let it go no further. It is net at all remarkable that state Senater Themas V. Cooper, should pub licly declare his contempt for the new constitution, and his regret'Tlrs it curls the powers of corporations! That isjutt what might have been expected of Coop er, and his frankness in avowing his opinion is at least commendable. "When it comes te electing him governor of Pennsylvania, Mr. Cooper will find that the people have the same fine scorn'ef him and his opinions whieli he exhibits for the supreme law of the common wealth. Mr. Geouee McGewax has resigned from the Democratic city executive com mittee of Philadelphia, te avoid an in vestigation of the charge that he sup ported Mike Mulhoely for receiver of taxes against Jehn Hunter, who was en the Democratic ticket. It is claimed that Mr. McGowan will be re-elected by the Democrats of his ward. Dees he ex pect that he will net be met again by this demand for an investigation of his conduct ? The ostrich does net hide by burying its head in the sand. TnE constitutional prohibition amend ment is a long way yet from final enactment. It has passed the Heuse, but has te reach and rim the gauntlet of the Senate, and then -go through another Legislature before even the people get a chance te vote upon it. After all of which it will require a popular majority of the commonwealth's voters. MINOR TOPICS. Therk seems te have been a Demo cratic tidal wave cleaning the Western municipalities. Uismahck says that Einilc Ma aud ether French novelists are responsible for the running away of his son Herbert with another man's wife. The law and order people eongralulate themselves that the election of a Demo cratic mayor in Cincinnati meant a better observance of the Sabbath in that Godless city. Tnc school committee of Lewistown, Me., have invented a new verb. They allude in their annual report te the in ilueiiccs which "derrick up te a better life." Last year Chicago furnished ten divorce suits te every seventy-nine weddiugs, there being an average of two "and one-eighth di di di vorce suits per da' instituted in that city throughout the year. After the telegrams arrived at Nice announcing the assassination of the Rus sian emperor, his brother, the Grand Duke, was seen driving en the parade ground as if nothing had happened. A bill has been introduced in the Leg islature making it a misdemeanor for any miner te knowingly and falsely rep resent himself te be of full age for the pur pose of obtaining intoxicating liquors. Wisconsin is without a State Agricul tural college, but steps are beinu taken te establish one, advantage being taken of the general government's gift of land. Pennsylvania's advice te Wisconsin is : "Don't." A singular featiue of the vote in the Massachusetts Legislature, -last week, re jecting a woman's suffrage resolution, was that ihe yeas and nays 7G and 122 re spectively exactly equalled the average of corresponding votes en such measures for the past thirteen yeais. A hill has been introduced in the National Legislature of France, which provides that any citizen who loses his life while saving life or property at a fire, any physician who dies while laboring in the hospitals in time of epidemics, or any one who dies whilst endeavoring te save a fellow-being, shall be regarded as a soldier slain en the battlefield, and insure a double pension te his family. The court in Dayton, Ohie, has decided that under the law councils could net au thorize the use of public streets for market places, and that owners of property abut ting en a street have the right of free ac cess te and freirt their regular places of business for themselves aud customers, and that any law passed by the Legislature authorizing the use of streets for market purposes would be unconstitutional. The Dauphin county court, this state, has de cided te the contrary effect. PERSONAL.. Flekknck Pekcy, who wrote " Reck me te sleep," is living with her third hus band the two ethers having been suc cessfully rocked. Capt. W. W. Nnvix, new secretary of the Denver & Rie Grande railroad com pany, will henceforth make Aew 1 eik his place of permanent residence. Hen. P. M. Jannev, of Minneapolis, a frequent aud always a welcome visitor te our city, is in Lancaster. Celd weather came with him, but he is the same genial clever gentleman as of old. The physicians of Franklin B. Gewen, president of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad company, state that he will be iu his office by Satur.lay next, when he will name a day for his meeting at the Academy of Music. Queen Victeria is about te purchase the famous historical estate of Stoke Park. She went through the mansion the ether day with her daughter Beatrice, aud was greatly pleased with it. The price set is 81,250,000. The (fourth) who aud daughter of Sec retary Hcnt arc the most dashing look leek ins: ladies in the cabinet. Thev dress well and have a stylish fashionable ap pearance. Miss Hunt is the gra .ddaugh- tcr of the late Commedore Ridgeley. Senater Mitchell has appointed Mr. II. J. Ramsdell clerk of the committee en Mississippi river improvement. Mr. Rams dell is a Penusylvanian by birth aud asso ciations, cditor'ef the llcjmblic and Wash ington correspondent of the Timet " Rather a nice city," said Biikt Harte te a frieud in Scotland as they rede through a Scotch town en the cars. "What place is this, anyhow?" The friend re plied : " This is Glasgow, where you have been consul for the last two or three years, Ex-Attorney General Deveus is very anxious te get upon the federal supreme llPllpll m flirt "flccen1nicntfc luinrtK Tti w..w.. ...a .v .t'U0.7fV4a)VsVk- UVIIliUl " - deed he displays such extraordinary anx iety te get upon some bench that he must fear failure at the bar a novel experience for an ex-attorney general. ' The widow of Jehn BnewN, the Aboli tionist, is living in obscurity and poverty en a farm near San Jese, dependent in her old age upon the exertien.3 of a daughter, who, though a lady of culture, is able te but poorly support her mother through the agency of the mortgaged farm as their only possession. Enrice Manzoni, son of the renowned Italian poet, has become incurably mad. The first symptom of his insanity was that he went about telling his friends he had discovered an infallible secret for restoring the dead te life and was about te give a brilliant proof of its adequacy by re awakening his own father, who after his experience of the unseen world, would produce such poems as Italy has never known. The famous Capt. Botcett has ceme te America for travel and recreation. He could net say whether he would settle in the United States or net. Everything de pended upon the restoration of peace and order in the old country by the present ministry. With reference te the future of Ireland, he remarked : " Ne human being can fertcll that. With a firm ministry her future would be bright and prosper ous, but with a vacillating government there is no hope of protection of life or property or of the establishment of indus tries backed up by English capital. Ne man can possibly tell what will happen." STATE ITEMS. Emma Abbett and her opera company arc singing through the oil regions. The daily production of crude oil in the Pennsylvania oil fields has fallen off nearly eight thousand barrels within the last three months. The creameries of Bucks county are making butter and cheese at the rate of 050 tens of butter and 2,000 tens of cheeie per annum. There arc fifty live insurance companies in th state organized upon the "mutual and assessment plan" the majority of which were chartered the past year. The New Yerk 1883 World's Fair pro ject lias received a lift in the unexpected conditional tender of a 123.000 subscrip tion by the Pennsylvania railroad com pany. Dr. Liverpool, an itinerant, long and black-haired doctor, sued the Philadelphia Timet for telling the truth about him. The case was called yesterday, but Pills did net answer and he was non-suited. A company consisting of Hamilton Dis Dis sten, William S. Steklcy, William L. Eikins, Jehn L. Hill and ether Philadel phians has been formed and charter ob tained from the state te construct a ship canal across the state of Flerida. Sixteen thousand acres of coal land iu the northern part of McKeau county, be longing te the Buffalo coal company, are te be connected with the McKean and Buf falo railroad by a narrow-gauge read, te cost $300,000. Jehn Smith, seven years old, of Phila delphia, was thrown from the back end of a truck upon which he was riding, by col lision with a North Pennsylvania railroad train at Cadwallader and Thompson streets and was ran ever and crushed te death by the engine. The track" driver had at tempted te rush his team across the track ahead of the locomotive. L.ATEST NEWS BY MAIL. California-crops premise a geed aver age yield. A slight shock of earthquake was terday felt at San Cristobal, Cuba. yes- A lire at Amherst, Mass., damaged Phui ni: Rew aud contents te the extent of $.'."f,000. The seminary at Rimouski, Quebec, was entirely destroyed by fire. Ne lives lest. Baseball : At Princeton Athletic, of Philadelphia, 11 : Princeton University, e In ike Dclawaie Heuse of Representa tives the sugar beet bill was defeated by a tie vote. ' Hen. Jehn M.- Francis became sole pro prietor of the Trey (N. Y.) Times, paying $1:50,000 for a half interest. W. S. Matthews & Sens' tobacco man ufactory at Louisville, Ky., was damaged by fire te the amount of $18,000. A The sheep herder who ravished and murdered Mrs. Sargent, has been hanged te a tree by citizens of Santa Barbara, Cal. . Miss Hat tie Deuel, of Iowa City, Iowa, yesterday passed her forty-first day with out tasting feed. Her death is hourly expected. Rev. Benjamin Arbegast, president of the Valley female college, has died at Winchester, Va., in his 55th year. A fire in the Page belting works at Con cord, X. II. damaged the main building and stock and fixtures te the amount of $12,000. There is a partial strike of the Belfast linen operatives against a ten per cent, re duction of wages. Frem G,000 te 7,000 looms have been stepped. The weather still continues unusual lv cold throughout Canada. At Ottawa yes terday the thermometer registered two degrees below zero. Mr. Jehn R. Staneck has been missing from his home at Ne. 123 Carlten avenue, Brooklyn, since the 24th of March. He occupied a responsible position in the American news company, was. a church deacon and straight in ail respects. The British Crown, of the American line, arrived yesterday afternoon from Liverpool, which she left the 23d ultimo, with seven hundred steerage passengers, including a large number of Sclavs, Nor Ner weg:ans and Swedes, who arc going te try their fortunes at farming in the West. Democratic Victories. In Omaha the Democrats elected James E. Boyd, their candidate for mayor and carried the general city ticket and all the ward candidates with one or two excep tions. The whole city government is re organized under the new law at this elec tion, and the victory is regarded as most important. In Chicago the majority xif Harrison, Dem., for mayor, will reach G. 000 and probably exceed these figures. The Socialist ticket received no support anu tnc votes ei that party seems te have gene chiefly te the Democratic ticket. In Columbus, Ohie, the entire Democratic ticket except street commissioner was elected by a majority ranging from 900 down. Nabbed. Andrew Roberts, a notorious forger, was arrested in the corridor outside the supreme court'reoms in New Yerk, en a charge of committing numerous forgeries of recent date. Fer some time past sub urban banks have been victimized te a considerable extent by a system of check erreries, iu wuiuu juoeercs lias ueen in terested. His capture leaves only William Bartlctt at large of that most notorious band of forgers, of which Wilkes, Byrnes and Shern Hamilton were recently arrest ed in Florence, Italy, for complicity in a great scheme of robbery in connection with letters 'of credit' of American travel-1 rta ' J . IN TUEXKGISLATCUE. The Mill te Prevent Telegraph Consolidation. In the Senate yesterday the special order was the consideration On final passage of the bill te escheat te the commonwealth the telegraph lines and property of tele graph corporations, associations and com panies which violate the previsions of the constitution, prohibiting the consolidation with or the holding of a controlling inter est in the stock or bends of a competing line of telegraph or the acquisition by purchase or otherwise of any ether com peting line of telegraph. Mr. Gorden advocated the passage of the bill. He said the consolidation do de mauds the proposed legislation. Fer six years the Legislature had neglected te per form its duty in this respect. Consolida tion had become alarming in its magni tude. He criticised the speech of Mr. Cooper, who had opposed the bill because it would prevent railroad corporations from competing in the business of tclegraphing with the great telegraph companies. He was astonished at the arregauce of any corporation that claimed exemption from the previsions of the constitution. Mr. Cooper thought that if the railroad corporations were invested with the power te carry en telegraphy for profit the effect might be the breaking up of the existing monopoly. Mr. Gorden said the constitution stepped in and confined railroad companies te the business of common carriers. The bill was for the purpose of punishing corpeiate lawlessness and its defeat would be a tri umph of lawlessness. Mr. Lee made an aigument in favor of the measure. He said corporations had arrogated te themselves extraordinary powers in addition te these conferred en them by legislation. They had accumu latcd enormous capital, made prevision for the exemption from personal liability of stockholders, had been granted the right of eminent domain and the franchise of common carriers. It had been proved by iucentestible evidence that this was the case. Mr. Lee asked the Senate whether the grasping corporations shall continue te trample en the rights of the people. A re we willing that this great monopoly (meaning the Western Union) shall con tinue te swallow up ether corporations ? An irresistible conflict is in progress be tween inordinate corporate power and the rights of the people. Mr. Stewart thought there was no bill of such importance befere the Legislature as the one under consideration, but he recognized the danger of its defeat with out any substantial argument against it. The measure was reasonable in its previs ions and contemplated no violence en cor porate rights. According te the argu ment of the senator from Dauphin there were twenty-four telegraph companies do ing business in this state, aud yet only one was exercising its corporate lights. The recent consolidation was net for the benefit of the people, but te still further tax the industries of the state and te en rich the stockholders. The people de mand relief from a moneply which gather in his enormous maw all rival corporations. Mr. Cooper said he was opposed te the bill because he was in favor of free tele graphing. Ne senator could be mere bit terly opposed te telegraph moneply than he. He was in favor of allowing railroad corporations te carry en the telegraphing business, believing that it would result in breaking down monopoly. Being pointed te the fact that the constitution prohibited. such business, he said tnc constitution had been inoperative and intimated that it would be better if no change were made. Mr. Heir said he would net join in the cry against corporations, which had done se much for the dcvolepmenl of the state. Much of the argument iu favor of the bill was clap-trap and declamation. He was particularly opposed te the bill because it might affect vested rights ; in ether words, retreactive in its operations. Mr. Norris said he would .support the bill but he did net endorse the indiscrim inate attacks made en corpnrtiens, most of which had been of great benefit. flc thought they had done mere geed than evil. That he was opposed te the further exercise of consolidating power en the part of corporations. The recent consoli dation of telegraph companies he denounc ed as infamous. He was in-favor of a government telegraph system. Mr. Craig remarked that if he entertain ed and had given utterance te the senti ments expressed by Mr. Cooper he would consider that he had violated his oath te support the constitution He was heartily in favor of the bill and was glad te hear that 11 senators recognized the necessity of some legislation te compel corporations tp obey the previsions of the constitution. Mr. Hall did net think it was necessary te make any speech in favor of the bill, as the argument had been all en the side of the measure. He referred te the fact that the only senators who had .spoken against. the bill argued from different, standpoint s, the senator from Dauphin fV:iriu.; that. it. would have a retreactive ell'url, and lh senator from Delaware com).!. limui; Ilia!, ii. was prospective. Mr. Davis said the arguim-nt. ei lln mm ater from Delaware was in i.iver f anarchy and rebellion. He intim:i!-l thai, the Legislature was tied hand and tool l Jay Gould, according te his reasoning. The yeas and nays were tUnl, with llm following result : Yeas Messrs. Arnhell, Coxe, Cian;, Davies. Emery, Everhait. floiden, Giul', Hall, Hcrctcr, Ilelbeu, Kaulfmaii, l.ainl, Lawrence, Lee, McCracken, Mylin, Nmv mycr, Norris, Reyburn, Ress. SehuaUurlv. Scamaus, Sill, Stewart, Themas and Wol Wel Wol verten 27. Nays Messrs. Cochran, Cooper, Ifculy, Herr, Kecfcr, Lantz, Smiley, .Smith, t'p- pcrman aim iewcii ie. When the clerk began reading the yeas and nays it was discovered that the hill lacked ene of a constitutional majority, aud Mr Ress asked that his vote "be re corded. Mr. Grady ebjee'ed, but the chair ruled that Mr. Ress be permitted te vote and In: announced himself in the affirmative .Air. Schnatterly followed by voting for the bill. At the evening session of the Legislature the prohibitory constitutional amendment was adopted "after a running debate of about an hour en the part of Representa tives Wolfe, Fauuce, Mackin, Bierly and ether, by a vote of yeas 109. and nays 59. The bill rcpcaliug the recorder's act of 1878 was passed finally by a vote of 122 te 33. The ether bill in relation te the re corder's office, amended by Mr. Melvee, was passed by 145 te 27, the title being "Te enlarge the duties and powers of treasurer's of cities of first class." Hopeful at i.-.r.fi. Xcw Era. The result of the voting at the organ ization of councils yesterday was te place tbe entire city administration in the hands of the Democrats, the only Republican holding place being the president and clerk of the select branch. The city government beiinr thus placed in the hands of the Democrats, they will have ample opportunity te give us a prudent and eco nomical administration. Beth bodies are fully up te the average, and we have rea son te expect that they will be freer of jobs aud set-ups than they sometimes have been. There will be ample scope for the exercise of all the wisdom of the members en both sides, and it is te be hoped' that when the term of the mesent councils ex pires they will at least leave the affairs of the city in as iroed condition as thev found them. Joint Authorship. New Era. Senater Conkling-Cameren'a little speech delivered the ether day. A BARS TO COST S3 l.OOO. A Description of the Building. L. H. Fecht, carpenter and builder, of Birdsboro, has received contract te erect for A. J. Cassatt, vice president of the Pennsylvania railroad, a large barn and stable near Berwyn station, en the Penn sylvania railroad. The barn will be 112 feet long 80 feet wide and 20 feet high te the square. The interior will be divided into cattle stalls, 72 in number, each of which will be furnished with a feed and a water box, the latter te be sup plied with a constant stream of fresh water. Directly beneath the "drive-in," under the barn fleer , will be a root-cellar, 1G by 2-1 feet, iu which carrots, beets and ether like feed for the cattle will be stored. On the south side of the barn an interven ing space-30 feet wide occurs, adjoining which the stable stands. This communi cates with the cattle stable by means of a covered passage-way. The stable is di vided into a carriage room, 51 by 3G feet, au apartment 20 by 73 feet containing 13 open stalls and a place 44 by 43 feet pro vided with 8 box stalls, in which te keep thoroughbred stock. Te the extreme end of this building a harness room lCbySO feet is attached. The second fleer of this large structure will be divided into com partments te serve as granaries, machinery rooms, haymow, etc. Te the rear of the main building will be a stone wall enclos ure G4 by 176 feet te serve as a bam or cattle yard and will be supplied with manure pits and ether appurtenances te deposit refuse material. The entire building, including the barn-yard wall will be constructed stable high of blue limestone, of rubber style masonry, cement-pointed and will consume nearby 1,300 perches. Above the stone work the structure will be built of heavy white aud yellow pine timber, weather-bearded with German siding and covered with a slate reef. A well regulated system of drainage will be constructed te convey all surplus water from the prem ises. The most modern style and best workmanship will be observed in the con struction of the work, and it will be sub ject te the final inspection of Messrs. Fur ness & Evans, architects of Philadelphia, who designed the building. The estimate cost of the work is $21,000. Toe State or Traile. Philadelphia Times. Financial statistics gathered by Bratl ttrcefs from seventeen business and in dustrial centres show that the severe win ter has done its work. Trade has fallen off alarmingly, and the anticipations are that the phenomenal weather of March will greatly diminish the resources of the country. The transactions of the first quarter of the year are far behind these for the same period in 1880. Te the ether sinister features of the outlook the current disastrous floods add an omin ous token. Seme of the most productive grain regions of Nebraska and Minnesota have been hopelessly crippled for the sea son's produce, though after a recuperative interval there is no doubt the inundated regions will be greatly mero productive. Temporary ruin is, however, a high price te pay for a prolific future. Our foreign trade, en the ether hand, shows a surpris ing revolution in our favor. Ameri can imports decreased during the month of February $7,890,916, while the" experts were swollen te the enormous sum of $7,094,177, the excess of experts being for the menth $19,900,295 as compared te an excess of $4,309,202;dming the same month in 1880. This difference, Bradttreefs points out, though partly accounted for by a decline in price, is for the main part due te a decrease iu imports. The four mouths just closed leave a balance in our favor of $10,000,000. If the ingenious Sherman were at the head of the treasury these figures would be taken boldly into a political pamphlet as the work of party prescience and the country would be iu invitcd te think twice befere disturbing workers of such fiscal wonders. A rail-AllKM-lllA STATK5MAN. Wlm was "I'lirlllm" nt the Last Election. The fact that Geerge McGowan, at Mon day night's meeting of the Democratic city executive committee, of Philadelphia, tendered his resignation as a member has excited considerable comment. When the committee had fully organized James Hamell, of the Second ward, charged his colleague, Mr. McGewen, with political treachery iu having voted in the city com mittee in favor of printing Jehn Hunter's name en the ticket and having subsequent ly in the ward committce opposed Mr. Hunter's election, and also with having distributed en election day tickets bearing the name of "Mike Mulhoely " for receiver of taxes, several of which were voted. Mr. llammcll asked the reference of the sub ject te a special committee of five. " That's all right, .Jim," spoke up the accused if I'd been home you'd net I'll have been elected te this committee lick you next time, however." The motion was agreed te unanimously, and Chairman Bull announced that he would lake several days te reflect befere naming the committee. " 1 admit the I'liarges are founded en fact," said Mr. Mi-Cowan, frankly. " The Mulhoely busi ness was all a joke and accepted as such. I linpe you'll appoint the commit tec at mien and end the matter." The chairman declined te appoint the commits thou mid there. When the meeting had ad journed Mr. McGowan tendered his resig nalibii le Mr. Bull; with the remark : 'I'll navn you the trouble of an investigation." tiii: ;kkat ri.ums. Anether UVnti'rn Town ftcpertcil Swept Away aiKl Thirty Lives Lust. In Vanklen, I). T., the water has risen te a peinl a feet higher than the rise of .March 29. Lewer Yankton is submerged and I he people have been moved te the upper portion of the city. Ne lives a:c imperilled, but considerable dam dam age must result te property. Iutel Iutel lieuce has bcun received from Bon Ben Bon hemme that out of fourteen persons ten have been rescued alive and well. A fam ily named Bates and one named iladdc mau are undoubtedly drowned. Several ether families are probably Inst six miles this side. The Green Island people have been iu part removed te this place. Ne lives were lest there, but the village is completely washed away, water and ice te the depth of twelve feet lies across the village site. The ice probably choked up the channel of the river a short distance below Yankton, turning the great volume of water across the low lands en the Dakota side and causing it te flew eastward thirty miles before it re enters the old channel at Vermillion, a point en the river bank which is reported carried away, with the less of thirty lives. This report needs confirmation. The river is about six miles in width. Its surface is covered with broken ice. Further east few miles the water broadens te fifteen miles, retainibg this width without excep tion for forty-five miles. A (jrst Itnilre ttl in Contemplation. " There is said te be " a great scheme afoot te build an air-line from New Yerk te Chicago, crossing Pennsylvania en the lerty-lirst degree and opening up untold mineral wealth. It is said te be backed by English capital and the plan en paper calls for a bridge three hundred feet above the Allegheny river, the highest in the country. The supposed " letter of instructions" te the engineers orders them te "avoid all curves and gradients." Such a read, it is stated, would be "ene hundred and eighty miles shorter than ether reads and would brimr Chicago fenr- 'tecn hours nearer New Yerk." Te reduce the time tiiat number of hours it would be necessary te reduce the distance five hun- ir., w VSSrJ-S a"E?,"?: """ ,C3' ""-"" Ul "10 x eU3y' is railroad company say "the whole scheme is as ridiculous as a railroad te the moon and has nothing whatever in it." eight ucndked DULl.AltS. . Misunderstood Werd Casts County that Amount. Atieglieny Judge Eirkpatrick, of the Allegheuy county common pleas, is a great stickler for what he deems correct Euglish, and does net scruple te interrupt an attorney in the midst of his argument- te set him right in his pronunciation. The judge's English is net, however, always the jury's Euglish, and through lack of an inter preter Allegheny has just had te pay $800. A suit was brought against the county by' a father te recover damages for the less of his child, who was drowned in eressi ng a creek, the only bridge being a leg, which broke and let the little ene into the water. The county's attorney argued that if the plaintiff knew the reute (pronouncing it reict) ever which the child crossed was dangerous, and had net sent her another way, he was guilty of contrib utory negligence aud could net recover. This his honor considered seuud law, and incorporated it in his charge te the grand jury, modifying it only se as te make it conform te his own notion of proper pro nunciation, saying "if the plaintiff' knew the route (pronouncing it root) ever which the child crossed was dangerous," etc. That the plaintiff did se knew was abundantly proved, but he nevertheless, get a verdict for $800. Seme weeks later one of the jurors was questioned as te hew they came te agree en such a verdict in the face of the judge's charge : "Why," responded the late jnrer, "we had no trouble en that score. The judge inform ed us that if the plaintiff knew the rect was dangerous the county was net liable. New, all of us knew it was net a root which broke and caused the child's death, but a rotten leg. and we could net return a different verdict." Flve Thousand Victims or the Kartlupiake The latest accounts from Scie estimate the number of victims at 5,000. All the foreign men-of-war stationed at Smyrna have started for Scie. Gen. Lengstrcet, the United States minister, has ordered the corvette Galena te proceed thither with succor for the sufferers. Castre, the chief town of Scie, is almost in ruins. Four hundred corpses have al ready been found. About thirty towns and villages in Scie and en the mainland opposite have likewise suffered. The Perte is taking measures te alleviate the sufferings of the destitute inhabit ants. Cameren's Utntte the LegUiuture. Mr. Beck called the attention of the Senate te the fact that a resolution offered in the Pennsylvania Legislature, indorsing the action of the Republicans in this chain ber, had been laid en the tabic. Mr. Cameren Before long it will indorse every action of the Republicans. Mr. Beck It did net de it te-day. Mr. Cameren It will in the future. Mr. Beck After you get there you may make them de it. Laughter. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. OFFICIAL. VISIT. Installation or tort se Officers. Yesterday afternoon E. J. Erisman, district deputy grand master, accom accem accom penied by Past Grand Gee. Spurrier, of Lancaster ledge, Ne. 07, aud J. P. Acker man aud S. D. W. Brenemau, of Monter ey, Ne. 242, proceeded te Mount Jey for the purpose of installing the officers-elect of Mount Jey ledge Ne. 277, I. O. O. F. They were taken te Jehn Shelly's Red Lien hotel, where an excellent supper had been prepared for them. In the evening the following officers were dulv installed : J. D. Boyce, N. G.; C. G. Slicrk. V. G.: F. G. Pennel, secretary : C. 31. Hershey, assistant seaietary ; h. Ricksecker, treas urer; F. G. Pennel. representative te G. L. ; J. V. Leng, Win. Kuhn and C M. Hershey, trustees. The number of members of the ledge is 00 ; the amount paid for relief during the term, $204 ; the assets $3,llc.e0. This ledge is in a geed healthy condition. The revised unwritten work of the order was exemplified and the past official de grees were conferred en these entitled te receive them by the D. D. G. M. The meeting was well attended and the greatest interest manifested by the mem bers during the entire session, which, owing te the amount of work done, was rather lengthy. After the ceremonies a collation was provided for the visiting brethren, after which they returned home much pleased with their visit. Te-morrow evening the installing officers will visit Manheim and install the officers, elect of Selah ledge Ne. (.", of that borough. Illinium' Shew .nr. The advance ear of Barnum. Bailey & Ce.'s greatest show en earth is new stand ing en a siding at Walnut and Prince streets. It is in charge of Mr. Crete Pul ver. superintendent, aud a corps of bill stiekers. who are te-day billing the coun ty. Te-morrow the town will be covered with bills'. The car is a very pretty one, elaborately painted with all manner of cir cus and menagerie scenes, and is arranged inside with sleeping bunks, office de.ks anil neatly arranged closets and cases iu which te store the thousands of gaily printed bills aud pesters with which the show is advertised. In one end or the car is the great steam calliope, whose music may be heard for several squares from where the car stands. Crowds have visit ed the car today. The l'eliticiana' Card. Scarcely a square feet of bare wall can be seen in any of the county offices in the court-house the walls, desks, counters aud gas fixtures being almost covered with cards of all colors, shapes and sizes, an neuncing the multitude of candidates seeking nomination for the several county offices, " subject te Republican rules." Seme of these cards contain only the name of the candidate and the office he seeks ; but ethers contain brief biographical sketches and detailed statements of ser vices rendered the party by the applicants. Collectors of cards can add largely te their collections by visiting the card racks in the corridors or the counters in any of the offices. Our Deputy S herl IT. Columbia Herald. We are led te say a geed word for Dep uty Sheriff Hippcy. Ave have heard his praises sounded en all sides, and especially by attorneys who arc brought into daily in tercourse with him. They give him the rep utation of being one of the best, if net the best deputy that ever was in office. He is attentive te his business, courteous and accommodating te all with whom he is brought in contact, and correct te a dot. Sheriff Strinc made.a poed selection, bu he knew his man from boyhood and ceu'd net go wrong. Mr. Hippey is a self-made man, and there is net one man in a hun dred taken as he was, from brick layin-, his regular vocation, that would have been able te perform the duties required cf mm. Head liadly Cut. Yesterday while standing under a hatch way in N. Lacheubruch & Bie.'s tobacco Warehouse, corner Walnut and Plum streets, Luther Singleton, one of the em ployees, was struck en the head by a truck, used for moving tobacco boxes, which accidentally fell through the hatch way from the fleer above. A gash some I three inches in length was cut in Mr. Sin Bleton's head, which bled Drefusely, but net considered dangereus: TICAOIC rATK or an Old Lancaster Ceuntlaa. About a month age the follewibg was published in the Intelligencer, reprint ed from correspondence of the New Yerk Sun : "Henry Pettigrcw. a well-known trap per, met with a shocking death en Friday. He usually kept thirty traps along the mountain slope and near the Lackawanna river the year round. On Thursday he placed ene of his traps in the crevice of a precipice of rocks, ene hundred and twelve feet from the ground, where he expected te capture au otter. On Friday he spied the otter in his trap and proceeded up the rocky cliff and along the precipice, and although the rocks were covered with ice he reached the trap in safety. On the return trip, while climbing around a narrow point with the trap in his hand and the otter trying his best te escape, he slipped and fell te the ground, striking en his head and breaking his neck. A party of lum bermen found Pettigrew's body a few hours later. He was still clinging firmly te the trap containing the live otter. The remains were taken te his home." It will be seen that the above fails te definitely locate the scene of the tragic event, though it must have been either in the southeast end of Susquehanna or the northeastern part of Lackawanna counties. It new transpires the Henry Pettigrew was an unmarried man, who years age left this county te take up his residence in these parts, and his relatives in Colerain township feel apprehensive that he ha met his death as above described. He was a brother of tbe late Jehn Pettigrew, of Colerain township, and uncle of Mrs. Andrew Rewinsky, who lives near the Union. Newspapers or correspondents in Susquehanna or Lackawanna counties who have fuller in formation of the affair, will relieve anx ious relatives by communicating details te the Lntelucencei:. Snow In the West. We had a fair share of snow in the East, but it seems that the West has had mero than a comfortable or reasonable amount of the beautiful article. A pri vate letter received this morning from II. M. Reigart, esq., informs us that the snow still greets them eight feet deep that travel is impeded, and that these residing near streams are living in alarm or actually moving away in anticipature of Vcnuer's prediction of a freshet. Mr. Reigart further says, speaking of the suf fering caused by snow and cold in Min nesota, "ene of my acquaintances living iu Minnesota burned all of his household goods, even te the organ, te keep from freezing, but all te no purpose. He and his wife perished from cold and I ain in formed that many ethers shared tiic same fate." Twe handsome photographs sent te Lancaster friends by Mr. Reigart show very graphically the terrors of a Wisconsin winter, viz : Twe locomotives, tireless and powerless, stuck fast in sixteen feet of snow. These pictures were taken en the 23th of March. After all, the much growled at cold with us at present, and the insinuating dust, are preferable te tee much of the " beau tiful " and the prospect of a wash-out. Possible the young man had butter over haul his catechism and make several notes before " going West." Cooking Slum. "An Old Housekeeper" In Germuntewn Tele graph, The only way te cook this fish of fish is te broil it upon a common griddle. If a whole fish is needed and the griddle is large enough, broil it whole, of course re moving the head. As te "planked shad," baked ever hickory weed coals, which we hear se much about, as the only way te get shad in perfection, it is a delusion. Shad can be cooked ever a c )al tire in all re spects equal te the planked. We have tried them ever aud ever and compared them side by side en the tabic at the'sarae time, and the most earnest advocate of the plank and hickory coals was obliged te ad mit that there was no difference. Shad should never be boiled, for the reason that ihe llesh is tee raeisc and net surSciently solid. And the objection te frying is the same as te almost everything else fried. There is nothing mere indigestible and un wholesome than the hard fried, fatty parti clcs of anything. The tlthiT $iUe. In our tobacco news yesterday it was stated that Messrs. Bunzl & Dormitzer had refused te receive Mr. J. F. Andrews's crop of tobacco purchased by them for the "alleged" reason that "it did net pan out according te sample " or was net the tobacco that Mr. Buuzl had bought. Mr. Andrews writes us saying that every pound of tobacco taken te Mr. Buuzl's was the identical tobacco he had purchased after examining three bales of it. and ex pressing himself satisfied with it : that when Bunzl refused te take it he was per fect ly satisfied te sell it eisewhere as he thought Bunzl had bought it 3 ccuts a pound tee low. The issue is eue of veracity between the buyers aud seller, which we are unable te settle, ane its discussion in these celunis is closed with this state ment. Sale et Market alalia. This morning the market committee of councils sold at public vendue the use of the stands for the ensuing year in the cen tral market. Tiie mininum price of whole stands was put at 22.50, aud most of them sold at that figure. In a few in stances there was brisk competition, and stand Ne. 8 in the first market house was knocked down te Mr. Herting for $55.50. The city treasurer, who is ex-offieie clerk of the market committee, has net yet footed up the total amount of the sales, but thinks the amount about the same as last year. The Sprlngville Iletel. C. S. Blessing has taken possession of the hotel at Spiingvillc, aud is having the house remodeled and greatly improved, se that guests will find much better accom modations than heretofore. After Mr. Blessing moved into the hotel a sumptuous supper was scved te the friends and neigh bors who assisted at the flitting. The Springville cornet band discoursed some fine music during the evening, refresh ments were served, and the very pleasant party separated at a seasonable hour. Frem Cornwall te Cen enraee. It is net yet definitely known hew seen work will be commenced en the Colebrook railroad. The read was first intend ed te run at the base of the Cornwall Hills and cress ever at Colebrook, but Rebert Celeman thinks a mere desirable route would be te strike into the hills at Corn wall and build the railroad en the top of the mountains. The engineers are new engaged in surveying, te sec if the latter route is practicable, and, if found te be se, work will immediately be commenced. Vnmallable Letters. In the rack at the postefficc is a letter addressed te "Mary Grethe, Yerk county, Pa," which i3 held for mere implicit direc tion. Alse a letter addressed te "Mrs. Lizzie Buzzard, Ephrata P. O. Lancaster county, Pa.," which is held for want of sufficient postage. ucfere the Majer. This morning the mayor had live cus tomers. He gave three tramps '30 days ich in the workhouse, and discharged one drunk who paid costs. A ledger was discharged.
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