LANCASTER DAILY IJSTtfLLlGEJSCER WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1881. Hancastet intelligencer. WEDNESDAY BVEN'G. APBIL 18, 1881. The Atternej Geaeral's Fees. Attorney General Palmer replies te the legislature's inquiry as te the moneys he has collected and the fees he has re tained, in a specific statement which shows that he has pocketed te date twenty-one thousand dollars as his com pensation. The laws allow the attorney general te retain fees each year te the amount of seven thousand dollars. Mr. Palmer has heen in service a little ever two years and is already paid for three ; and yet he has net taken anything he was net entitled te. This somewhat curious result springs from the fact that the first year for which he was entitled te charge his annual compensation ended after he had been in office seven mouths. Fer these seven months he took his seven thousand dollars, and he had a right te de se because the commission en the sums collected by him exceeded that ameuntand the attorney general is only required te pay these commissions annually te the state after they have yielded him seven thousand dollars ; se that really he may earn his whole com pensation for each year in the first few days, or weeks or month of it ; if the magnitude of his collections en the first day will yield him seven thousand dol lars, he is entitled te take it. And se it has happened that already in the first twenty days of the third year of his term the- attorney general received his full compensation for the year. He works in one sense during the remainder of it for nothing ; for he might resign te-day and still lawfully keep what he has received. He has earned it already under the law. This can hardly be disputed. He isalIewed,Ir te deduct his commissions and the state comes in only for any bal ance that may be left. It might per haps be considered a little shabby for the attorney general te resign just because he has get all he can out of his office for the year. But if he wants te resign for any ether reason there is nothing in law or decency te prevent him. The new man may come in and earn his seven thousand dollars in a few months again, and then also resign ; and a third and a fourth successor may reap the full annual sal ary of the office before the year is out. Such is the law ; and it is net one te growl about either. It is net te be sup posed that the class of men who become Pennsylvania's attorney generals will play shuttlecock with the office for the sake of an easy earning of seven thou sand dollars ; and if they did, and half a dozen of them should earn that much apiece in a year, the state would still get full value out of the energetic prosecu tion of her claims that the earnings of audi commissions would indicate. In the case of Attorney General Pal mer, the legislative committee that went out woelingieoms te have come home .. . ' ; i.turi if(iKl:itt that are of an investigatmsr turn '1 . IffIKl mind, but when their ardor against an officer is inspired by malice because of his previous raid against their steal ing propensity, we cannot extend te them the heartiest .sympathy, or feel it in any way incumbent upon us te re frain from mocking them when they finally succeed in showing their ears. Wild Western Schemes. Jay Gould some time since obtained control of the Texas fc Pacific railroad, and his present purchase of Mr. Scott's three million interest, and his succession te the presidency, have no further sig nificance, apparently, than as indicating Mr. Scott's preference te be out of the beat which he built and floated. This may lie because of his lack of confluence in Mr. Gould, or in the read ; or it may be because he does net want te play sec ond fiddle te that man, and occupy thq seat of power without exercising it : or again, it may be only his condition of health that causes him te wish te take in all his property from speculative chances. Whatever the cause of his retirement he is te be congratulated upon it. He may be deemed happy in anchoring down three millions of dollars where they can't Blip away, as well as in escaping the musk smelling company of Mr. Gould. A man with three millions and nothing te de but te take care of it may be said te be excusable for declining all ether business even if his health is first-class ; for it h net se easy a thing te de, and de rightly, as may be fancied by these who de net have the chance te try it. Mr. Scott probably has mere than three millions, since he has this all en one pile ; though of course there is no telling hew much he ewes. But if he feels able te make fifty thousand dollar gifts te colleges, it may be assumed that his pile is very large. A half dozen .years age iie was insolvent. The recuperation of the country has enabled him te tleat off the fortune aboard his then sunken Texas & Pacific ship. We congratulate him . Whether the fellows that new have their fortunes in'tbat beat may equally be subjects of congratulation a half dozen years hence is open te question. Possibly the thing will be afloat then; possibly net. But it is certain that all of these wild South western Pacific-reaching railroads are net going te be the beautiful things te leek upon, a short while hence, that they are new te the credulous people who read their flaming advertisements and I buy their bends, always geld-bearing, and the particular degree of fineness of the geld sometimes stated with painful exactitude, Here is one, for instance; the " Atlantic & Pacific railroad com pany," that starts in the wilderness and premises te end anywhere in the Pacific, and wants te borrow ten million dollars in " six per cent, first mortgage railroad and-land grants thirty-year sinking fund geld bends," "principal and interest payable in the city of New Yerk, in geld imin nf rhe TTnitd Statpa nf Am.: . r it e. u. w,..i. t .' r .TTd 1T T "an.aU mciui, vw, aW me lssue strictly limited te twenty-five thousand dollars a mile A very beautiful advertisement of the advantages of the read fellows, which is only dimmed te the mind that appreci ates the fact that a company which Starts its read in the Southwestern weeds and don't knew where it is going te end, but lays its route through' a notorious desert en the thirty-fifth paralelef lati tude, has already get enough brass en hand te lay its tracks in bronze, and really don't need te borrow the twenty five thousand dollars a mile that would grade, iron and equip its course through the sandy wilds of its route, and leave a handsome balance of profit te the enter prising projectors and builders, te say nothing of the stock and land grants they calmly propose te appropriate. MINOB TOPICS. TiiE Riddleberger bill is Bill Maheuc. Bids were received yesterday at Balti more for $200,000 4 per cent, city bends for the improvement of Harford Run, at an average of 107.98$. The premium te the city amounted te $14,505. The Tradesmen's national bank of New Haven, Conn., has accepted the terms of Secretary Windem s circular, and for. warded bends te the amount of $280,000 in sixes of 1831 te the treasury, te be re newed at 3 per cent. Them: is a family in Wayne county sin gularly divided en the Sabbath question. The husband claims that Saturday is the Sabbath. His wife believes that Sunday is the correct Sabbath and she observes that day just as scrupulously. On a recent Sunday the husband determined that the dishes should be washed and work go en in a business-like way. The wife objected and the result was a row, which was ad justed only when the disturbed neighbors interfered. Akuex, O., is the first city te adept the p'.an of illuminating with electric light from high-toweis. Twe towers have been erected 220 feet high, with four lamps en eicli, aggregating 10,000 candle power. The engine, towers and all the machinery cost only $8,000. A bright light was pro duced, illuminating an area fully a mile in diameter. The time of night could easily be told by a watch nearly half a mile away from the tower. PERSONAL. Hear Admiral James L. L.yndner, U. S. N. died in Philadelphia yesterday, aged 70. He has been in the service since 1820. The presbytery of Chicago yesterday ac cepted the resignation of Dr. F. L. Pat Pat ten as pastor of the Jeffersen Paik church. Dr. Patten gees te Princeton college te occupy a chair in the faculty. Hen. Jehn Goede, president of the York Yerk t wn association, has called en President Gakfielu and invited him te deliver an address at 1 he laying of the corner-stone of the Yorktown monument during the centennial celebratien next October. The president consented te de se. The new superintendent of public in struction, Rev. Dr. E. E. Higbek, "is aid te be " a lineal descendant of the Van Higginbethams of New Yerk, who are described in the Knickerbocker his tory of that state as "a race of school- the way te get knowlcdge into the seat of intellect was te pound it into the seat of honor !" The quadrennial congress of the mili tary order of the Leyal Legien of the United States will assemble at the St. Geerge hotel, Philadelphia, this even ing. The congress will be com prised of three delegates from each and every cemmaudciy, Gen. Han cock presiding. The order bears the same relation te the late war as the Cincinnati te the Revolutionary. Commissioned offi cers comprise it and their eldest lineal de scendants will keep it up. Capt. Gee. 11. Fuaxklik, of thie city, lately became a member of the Leyal Legien. The will of Amelia A. Conn, New Yerk, gives much of her large estate te religious associations. The Presbyterian beard of foreign missions gets $10,000 and the beard of home missions of the same church gets $5,000. The ministers relief fund and the General Assembly fund of that church each get 25,000, and a like sum is given te the Fourth Presbyterian church in Albany. A bequest of $3,000 is made te the Rev. Dr. Jno. Hall,of New Yerk. Requests of $3JD00 each arc raade te the theological seminary in New Yerk and the Presbyterian theolog ical seminary in Auburn, N. Y. The rest of the estate is given te relatives and heirs. IuToi-iiiatlen for Kngllshmen. The Londen Graphic publishes the fol lowing astounding account of winter suf ferings in this country for the information of its credulous readers : Riitish sufferings duriug the January frost of the present year seem very small inured ey the side or tue miseries endured in many parts of the United States -during the last cold snap, or blizzard, which is new the faverite term. The wind was se violent as te completely lift the snowfall from some states bodily into their mere southern neighbors. In Seuth Minnesota the Chauarbain vallcy,20 miles long and GO feet deep, was filled te the. brim with snew: the water tanks were buried, and fuel all along the line of the storm was se scarce, that the neighboring families formed a temporary commune, living to gether in one house and using the ethers for firing. At Montevideo traffic was simply impos sible for four days, the snow being in many places drifted up te the second stdVies of the houses. Farmer traveled in snow-shoes, and many of their stables were completely buried. Iowa experienced the worst snow storm known for thirty years, all the trains being blocked. When the thaw came tremendous floods fol lowed, and the Missouri river in particular did fcarfnl damage. At Poplar creek a larce Indian encamnment had been formal en the banks, and the river rose se swiftly. as te sweep away the tents, despite all their efforts and the help of the military, the cold being intense 22 degrees below zero. On the morning of Feb. 11 the site of the encampment was a waste of frozen water, in which steed five hundred dead ponies, some only knee' deep, and se dead Irem cold, . ethers completely frozen in, the water having first drowned them and then solidified rennd. Worst of all, high up in the trees where they had tried te escape from the waters were the bodies of eight hundred Indian braves frezcu stiff nd stark. Abram Jehnsen, who died in Wayne county the ether day, wasaccerding te his own statement, 1U8 years old. lie enlisted in tbe war of lbl2 as a private soldier, but his conduct was such that he was seen made captain of" a baud of Oneida Indi ans. He met with many narrow escapes and was covered with scars, He married the daughter ofene of the chiefs, and his only daughter, after she grew up, joined the Oneida Indians aud married the son of a chief. COLVILLE SKETOHBS. We have received from Lieutenant Feltz, of the 1st U. S. cavalry stationed at Fert Colville. known te our readers as " Fred," from the extracts we have published from his private correspondence with his family here,- the subjoined felici tous sketches of Indian and Chinese char acter as observed by him there. The Chinaman, of whose illness and death he writes, was his cook and servant, while the Indian referred te came very near being lynched for his crime, being saved only by the apprehension of the people of the country that the military forces would aid the civil authorities in protecting him. It appears that such application was made te the Fert Colville commandant by the civil authorities, who alleged their in ability te preserve their prisoner from the citizens determined te lynch him. But as the law requires the order of the president te be obtained before military aid is ren dered, and as that would have taken a week te obtain by telsgraph and messen ger, it would have come tee late in this instance. Still the people did net knew of this hitch and therefore they feared te act. The prisoner was, however, taken te the guard-house at Colville, the military being at liberty te take charge of him, without presidential authority, after he was delivered ever te them by the officers of the law. THE VALUE OF A LIFE. ElKkjB Horses and a Cew. C.itch-um-Brewu-Bear did net love Little Smoke ; Little Smoke were a yellow blanket, the like of which no Indian in the valley had ever seen, and which the squaws persisted in admiring, in spite of its glaring outrage en the time-honored red in which all Calispelles of geed standing and title had fr.nn time immemorial wrap ped their manly and smoke-coated forms. Little Smoke might, however, have never furnished a theme for the oratory of Easter Sunday (a day "all same Feth July," say the Chinaman en the geld bar near his ledge), had he net, in persistent disregard of the wounded feelings of his rivals, actual or prospective, strung his horse's mane and tail full of immense beads, and of red beads. New Catch-um-Brown-Bear admitted that a red blanket and yellow-beaded horse was net se bad, but that he could tolerate the style ; but the reverse, the yellow blanket and red beads, would net de. Se he took a knife and opened Little Smoke down the baek as he would have treated a salmon. He didn't take the back bone out, nor did he smoke him, but Little Smoke died for all that ami was heisted between earth aud heaven en a matting, where his father had been suspended befere him. A brief sus pense in his father's case, hewever, as the ingenious coyotes had in some way climb ed up and cut him down. Coyotes don't climb as a rule, but this may have been a "case en a par with that of the ether, who, "Damn it man I did climb! he had te, fee the dogs were alter him." Catch-tim-B-B went his way very U1ULU .11, ,,-. ..... ,. ,r B, 1 f, world, and probably would have remained 63 had net Little Smoke possessed a. brother, a most unreasonable brother, who hearing of his annoying experience pre pared te interview Catch-um with intent te kill. His plan, however, was frustrated. His intended victim magnanimously made him an offer of eight horses and a cow te stay proceedings, but the haughty brother, Seven Dogs by name, refused te be com forted by anything lc?sthan "eight horses and two cows," and net being able te come te an understanding, it was decided te refer the question of the number of cows it would take te balauce the dead Little Smoke, te the council of chiefs at the Jesuit mission en the occasion of the new approaching Easter Sunday celebra tion, and th j two worthies new bowed and separated, each one certain that the council would go oue cow in his favor, for Seven Deg's father was a chief of the miner circle, and Catch-um's connections made him sure of the influential lobbying of the Padres at the mission. But as we have said, Seven Dogs was unreasonable) ; he had wanted te hurt 801110 one, aud in spite of the eight 1101568 and cow, lingu lar or plural, which were dancing in his head, he could net rid himself of the con sciousness that he had "hauled off and let some one alone." Se he hied him te the nearest ranch and shot what he probably considered a low grade of white mau, one for which he would have te pay say. from three te four horses and half a cow at the outside, leaving him then with something te show for his powder and a net profit of 50 per cent, en Catch-um's first enterprise. That Seven Dogs was of a practical turn is still further shown by the fact that he possess ed himself of six dollars which his victim no longer needed, and was thoughtful enough te fill his blanket with a dozen pounds of soft soap which he found en hand (N. B. It is, however, doubtful if he knew what the soap was for) ; but Seven Dogs get te the end of his knew ledge, and was brought up with a shocking round turn; for en inno cently announcing that he was ready te epcu ncgotietions with the brother or executer of A., the aforesaid white man, for whom he had never had any use and whom he had just made useless te any one else, he was discourteously seized by several rough white men evidently unacquainted with the Christian mode of adjustment, which had obtained ever since the mission was established, aud much te his surprise he finds himself te-night, soft soap and all, in the " Skookum house " of a frontier fort under a guard of soldiers. A Chinese iturial. Any one who may have a soft spot in bis heart for the celestial race, .perhaps super induced by memories Or present enjoyment of their assiduous attentions as servants and cooks, will de well, before he tee strongly advocates the acclimatization and adoption of the Chinaman as a permanent ingredient of our American national composition, te oek a little into the social habits and su perstitions which cannot be eradicated from their lives even by the most extreme changes of circumjtancc or by positive op position. Ah Ling was certainly a superior China man ; his experience in America dated back some twenty years, and he was net ' only well educated in his own language, but had picked .up a surprising number of ear idea?, legal, religious, political and social ; spoke English fluently and bad some idea of reading and writing it. Leng experience under army officers, during which he bad followed the fortune' of war or peace from camp te cantonment, from frontier fort te regimental headquar ters) had given him an insight into our customs, and little by little all the rough corners of his barbaric nature seemed te have been rubbed off. We were consequent ly little prepared for his relapse into his primitive condition en the very first attack of sickness, or as he called it, the "way off devil." Net that he refused our surgeon's treat ment. All medicine was obediently swal lowed, even the caster oil("all same fish," as he said,) but his hitherto civilized room at once became filled with charms, tapers, josh sticks and paper flags, while under his direction his Chinese friends kept up. nightly the most weird incantation. Mys terious plates of feed were found setting around the house, in the snow, and many curious demauds were made of me, with manner se serious that I never even thought of laughing, as I find myself doing new. Once they wanted the teeth of a bear, then the gall of a crew, then a bone from a snake and a magpie's tail. "China mau net like white man, China devil net like white devil," we were told. "Yeu fixem white devil and China mau fixem China devil same time. Then Ling get well." They were net permitted te carry en their ceremonies aud feasts (or feasts form a large part of the rites) in the presence of the patient ; but were allowed full swing in an adjoining room, and their ever burn ing tapers before each deer and window testified te their vigilant watch ever the goings and comings of the devil. We were highly pleased at their deve tien te their friend, ill-directed though it was, and had just attained a superlative estimate of the Chinese character, when we were rudely thrown trem our ground by the decamping of the Celestials, who in formed us that Ling, having been sick ten days, could net get well, and that, accord ing te their rules, he must new be left alone te die ! They had, they said, left him a bowl of rice and pitcher of water, and re quested us net te go near him, for we might disturb the devil ! This was said in such a matter-of-fact way. and with such a conscieusucss of right, that it staggered us, but realizing the situation in auether moment we pour ed out the vials of our wrath upon these caricatures of civilization. " Would they desert a man who was a dear friend of theirs?" "Certainly, why net ?" "Leave him te die alone, when they had been coming in from the geld mines te spend a part of each week as his guest for two years or mere ?" "Of course." At last, grasping their calibre, I threatened te put the first one of them who ventured te leave camp without my permission into the guard house. This had the desired effect, for they aie nw:iniiv set aud dread a soldier en guard even mero than tue uuvu, wuu be bought oft" with paper money, or scared with josh sticks. Peer Ah Ling was thus secured their care for the few remaining days he had te live, and their less necessary attentions wncn no tueu. lie was kept dressed in full costume, even te his shoes, se as te be ready for his journey, and as he breathed his last, one of his friends (?) began in haste te burn pieces of rice paper, which were "all same greenbacks ;" money for his expenses and entrance fee te heaven. Hey -Tey, the chief mourner, informed me that this money was "heap cheap" he could get $100 worth of it for six bits ( 75 cents). Then the funeral ceremonies were im mediately begun ; the bony was in terred in a very shallow grave, and en the ground above it was served a feast of the approved Chinese delicacies : roast pig. roast duck, dried Chinese oysters fried in sugar and oil, dried duck and fish, lice , , f v w aim wuissy iiuauu irem rice;. reur plates were laid with a set of chop sticks for each ; and while the soul of the de parted was supposed te be entertaining the three principal graudees of heaven at this table, a fire was kindled at his feet, aud one by eue, amid bewings and recita tions, every article of his worldly posses siens was committed te the flames, te be carried by their smoke te the future world. Net a thing of value was saved, it being a point of honor that his friends should each pick as a memento the most insignifi cant thing he could find, a button or a striug ; while fans, pipes, silver orna ments, a very handsome dirk, &c, were all destroyed. An agent of his company (for each Celestial belongs te an association which leeks after him living or dead) collected his money, which in Ling's case is te be expended according te custom, in a very peculiar manner. It seems he was the last of his name, and his savings therefore go te the pur chase of a boy te take the name and keep up the line. One of kin will be selected if possible ; if net, a stranger will answer. The funeral was concluded by consign ing a small portion of each component of the feast te the flames, pouring all the whisky en the ground and then the party adjourned te feast upon what the spirits had left. When the mercury rises above zero, and summer comes again, Ling's body will be disinterred and his mere important bones neatly packed in a small case, will be re turned by his company" The Teng Chung Ducks," of Portland, Oregon, te the land of his fathers. Floods in Austria. In consequence of the continuence of rains for several weeks, the floods in Aus tria are steadily increasing, especially in the district between the lower Theiss, the Karas and the Moras rivers. The waters have everywhere soaked and undermined the dykes which are giving way. A thou sand acres of land are already flooded, and a number of large aud prosperous places clustered together in the above 'district have for weeks been in danger of being swept away. The latest news from Szegedin is that the outer dyke is in dan ger, and two thousand men are at work strengthening it. If the outer dyke fails, the whole country te the dyke which im mediately surrounds the town will be flooded, and a high wind would nrebahlv drive the waves ever the dykes and cause a great caiastrupne. MacVeach's Wrath. X. Y. Sun. Chandler's appointment te the solicitor generalship was se clearly the work of Blaine that no amount of lying can con vince any one te the contrary. It 'illus trated the power of the secretary ever the president. MacVeagh, for attorney gen eral, was peculiarity Garfield's selection. hardly bad he get en his official shoes. however, when he was treated te an insult that seemed te leave him no alternative but te resign. Whether he will de se is still as much an open question as ever. MacVeagh went into the cabinet against the pretest of both senators from Pennsyl vania ; but it is in their arms that he has taken refuge, asking revenge for the insult of Chandler's appoint ment. And Den Cameren and Mitchell have premised him that he shall be pro tected and avenged. They have under taken te secure Chandler's rejection Se, from a hearty Garfield-Blaine and anti anti Cameren man MacVeagh has been changed into an enemy of these old friends and patrons and into a dependent if net a gen uine ally of Cameren. Fer some of the results likely te fellow see the late action of the Pennsylvania Republicans in the Legislature bracing up Cameren against Garfield. The firm, ter the present at least, is Cameren, MacVeagh & Ce., and Pennsylvania is once mere solid. It should be knewu that Chandler's ap pointment is by no mecus the only insult pinned en MacVeagh, nor is is the sole cause of the indignation he hardly at tempts te conceal. He has been overruled in nearly all the appointments in his de partment. Blaine's cunuing and Garfield's duplicity aud lack of stamina have thwarted his wishes in nearly every in stance. He cannot find a particle of the civil service principle about which Gar field has long aud loudly talked,, and which MacVeagh sincerely cherished. This of itself would be enough te disgust a man like him. The reformers, te satisfy whom his appointment was specially in tended, will seen become as disgusted as he is ; and they, with many ethers, will be compelled te agree with him that Gar field is a sham. "Did you ever suppose Garfield was anything else than than a sham?" said a veteran Republican. "I always knew he was one ; but he has proved himself se quicker than I thought. Garfield resem bles the fellow who lately swindled se many persons by playing the role of an English lei d, aud who was all the mere dangerous and successful till found out because he was a natural horn sham, be sides being educated up te the finest points in that line. Alongside of the hard realities of public life his pretty sentiments and fine theories amount te nothing. He can't lean en them new that he has te act, and Blaine is supplying the absence et native will and geuuine backbone. When Blaine gets through with Garfield, as he seen will, I don't knew what will happen. " By the way," continued the veteran observer, " de you kuew that Blaiue's rheumatism is of the kind that nothing will cure but the atmosphere of England in the neighborhood of the court of St. James? Yeu will see before long that the thing is coming te that. Blaine can't bear te go abroad until he has rewarded a geed many of his best friends with office. This he is doing, from ChandIcr,Robcrtsen andthe rest, upwardorIdewnward,and-his rheumatism is growing worse all the time. At first he was laid up only one day in a week ; new pretty seen." it is two ; it will be three MISS DTJELT. DEAD. Her Deliberate Suicide by Starvation. In Iowa City, Iowa, yesterday, Miss Hattie Duell died at 12:45 o'clock, having vu.upieia rii fertv-seven days in attain ing death by starvation. She began ner long fast en the 23d of February last. Miss Ducil was at the time of her death 52 years old, aud had long been a member of the family of her brother-in-law, Dr. B. II. Aylworth. She has been an invalid for many years, suffering ceaseless pain from neuralgia and nervous diseases, which made life a constant torture, and driving her at length te the stern resolve te end an existence which premised no allevia tion from her torments. Though her con duct has long been peculiar her acquaint ances never deemed her insane. Her will was strong, as is proved by the fact that from November, 1879, till within a few days age, she has never uttered a word, though no impairment of her,vocal organs existed. During her period of silence she only communicated with her friends by writing, and no reasoning or entreaty could induce her te speak a word. Shcatc no breakfast en the 23d of Feb ruary, and when a member of her family asked her why she had net eaten she re plied by writing en a slate, :i I have no hope of recovery or relief, and am deter mined te die." All her family, friends aud her pastor. Rev. Mr. Folsein, of the Presbyterian church, used all their powers of persuasion in vain te induce the lady te change her resolve. She was inflexible. A preposition te use force in introducing feed into her stomach was, after full con sideration, abandoned, from the belief that is that course should be taken it would only drive her into seme ether method of self-destruction. After the first week she asked her brother-in-law if drinking water would pro long her life. He replied that if she did net drink probably lever and delirium would set in and that taking water would net sustain her life. After the time she drank, from time te time each day, a little water, but except that nothing else passed her lips since the 23d of February. Her gradual wasting away has been from day te day dm ing the last ten days duly chronicled. LATEST NEWS BY MAIL. A heavy snow storm prevailed yesterday along the Hudsen river. Schafcr wen the second game of the scries of five (800 points each night) be tween himself and Slossen, the latter playing very nervously. David T. Gilmere, Republican, has been elected Mayer of Patcrseu, New Jersey, by 79 majority. Wash. Nobles, a desperado of Galena, III., en Saturday last shot and killed Jehn Quales, a railroad man, without any provocation whatever. Nobles was ar rested. Geerge Clark, a professional musician, committed suicide at Dallas, Texas, en Monday by sheeting himself in the mouth. He was afflicted with nasal catarrh, with no hope of recovery. Jehn B. Frothingham, arrested en Mon day at Brooklyn en the charge of intoxica tion, died at the police station. He was 52 years of age, and was once an engineer en one of the Pacific railroads. The ferry steamer Daisy, at St. Leuis, blew out one of her cylinder heads while crossing the river, and Jehn Heusard, a carpenter, and Geerge Reed, fireman, were drowned. The furniture factory of Metzner, Schellhaus & Ce., at Wheeling, W. Va.,was totally destroyed by fire. Less from $75, 000 te $100,000; insurance about $16,000, inesny in lecai ami iiiisuurgn companies. Michael W. Denergan, a clerk in a drug sierc at rreviuence, it. i., was adjudged "probably "guilty of manslaughter in a justice's court yesterday for putting up belladonna for extract of butternut, caus ing death. James W. Brooks, in the supreme court ai. mew lerx, yesicruay received a verdict of $10,000 for injuries received en the New Yerk & Greenwood Lake railroad, a train of that company having run into, an open draw en November 4, 1679. Mrs. Augusta G. Edelga, aged 25, wife of a cigarmaker in New Yerk, became in sane from breeding ever the danger of her three children coming in contact with the small small-pox and jumped from the reef of a five story tenement house and killed herself. William Ness, of Newark, N. J., hanged himself te avoid arrest. His wife made complaint against him en Friday for as sault and battery en her and a warrant for his arrest was issued, but he kept out of the way. He returned home and his family fled. Next morning he was found hanging in the house, dead. Jehn B. Evans, a farmer, living near Cape Girardeau, Me., had his threat cut while in bed Sunday night and died with out being able te give any account of the affair. Four persons were sleeping in the room where the tragedy occurred, one of whom was a boy' in bed with the murdered man,and nensjpf them seemed te have known anything'abeut the crime until the wounded man gave the alarm after arous ing from a sort of stupor. The Engineer in charge of the Balti more & Oliie railroad company's new line has applied te the president of the Wil mingten & Brandywine cemetery com pany in Wilmington, Delaware for per mission te run a tunnel under the ceme tery. Should the line pass through the western portion of Wilmington, a tunnel nearly a mile in length will be necessary. While David Downey, a plasterer at the Westshore tunnel, at West Point. N. Y., was attempting te draw a glycerine car tridge from a blast hole yesterday the car tridge exploded, killing him instantly. A driller named Michaal Broderick was se horribly mangled that he died seen after. A laborer named Jehn Murray was hit en the back of the head by a stene and was severely injured. Downey and Broderick were both single. STATE ITEMS. A yearling buck deer was captured alive at Tionesta, while swimming the creek. Henry Hern, of Easten, aged 25 years, died en Sunday from the effects of a cut accidentally inflicted. An explosion at the oil well of Hertzel, Nesmith & Davis, en the Baldensperger farm at Stenebam, Warren county, Jehn Reig and James Brown were fatally burned. William F. Ellis, aged twenty-live years a brakeman en the Erie railroad, met with a horrible death by being crushed te au almost shapeless mass between two cars. He was married. erty-Ue Villages Destroyed. Earthquake shocks of considerable violence have begun again in Scie. It is estimated that barely twenty houses re main habitable iu the whole island. Forty five villages have been totally destroyed, and the population in many localities has absolutely disappeared. Au Entire Kesslaa Garrison Killed. Naru Kissar, the most advanced fort iu the read of Merv, has beenrtaken by sur prise and captured by the Tuscemans The entire Russian garrison was killed. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. MORE SMALL-FOX. The Disease Increasing in the llerks County Almshouse. The small-pox continues te rage with unabated virulence at the Berks county almshouse, and a number of new cases have been reported. The managers of the institution are indisposed te give publicity te any facts in the case. But enough has been learned te attach much of the blame for the rapid spread of the disease te the steward, iJenjamin Andersen. Dr. 31. A. Rhoads, the present attending physician at the almshouse, has preferred serious cnarges feofero the beard of health against Steward Anderoen, which will be the sub ject of investigation by the overseers of the peer. Out of 500 inmates between fifty and sixty have been afflicted by the disease, (a number of whom are children. Dr. Rhoads charged that the increased number of cases is largely due te the negligence of his predecessor. Dr. Shearer, combined with indifference en the part of the steward te the service in consequence of careless management. He claims that the steward is inefficient, and neglected the command of the medical attendant, which was the cause of the disease increas ing from one case te the present large num ber. A temporary hospital building for the reception of small-pox patients, which the the steward was ordered te erect, has net yet been completed, and meanwhile there arc a number of cases in the main buildiug of the almshouse, in which several hundred person arc ledged. Nearly 500 vaccinations have been per formed by Dr. Rhoads, the greater portion el which, it is believed, will prove success ful. An effort will be made te quarantine the almshouse te prevent the introduction of the disease into the city. Thus far net a single case of small-pox has occurred in Reading. The mayor has been requested by the beard of health te close the ledgers' de partment in the city hall, where from twenty te forty vagrants were accom modated with lodging nightly, some of whom are believed te have come from the almshouse Several persons have escaped from the almshouse by jumping the high fences and are new at large. There is a perfect panic amenu the pau pers, but with the few exceptions noted, the efforts te prevent them from escaping have been successful, and precautionary measures will prevent the further dissem ination of the disease until steps are taken te isolate the cases new in existence. A number of the cases among the chil dren are of confluent small-pox. A daughter of the steward, a grown up young woman, is among the newjeases reported. The stew ard's wife keeps herself closely confined te her room and will net be seen by any per son. The clerk of the institution has re moved his office te an -outbuilding. The directors purchased a barrel of whisky te be served te the paupers as a preventivn against the spread of the disease. A special meeting will he held by them next Monday, when au inquiry will be made into the charge of official negligence and incempetency. THE PASSOVKR. Observance of the Great Hebrew Festival. This evening at G o'clock begins the Passover, or feast of unleavened bread, one of the most important periods of the Israelitish year. The festival was insti tuted by Moses in commemoration of the Israelites remaining intact 'en the night of the destruction of the first-born in Egypt, immediately preceding the exodus from that country (Ex. xiii.). Originally it was observed, by sacrificing passever lamDs toward the evening of the 14th of the first Hebrew spring month (new Nisan), aud eating them en the following night, as well as by excluding all leaven from the meals of that evening and the following seven days, the first and last of which were observed as holy. Since the final destruction of the temple of Jerusa lem, the passever has been celebrated by eating unleavened bread during eight days, by abstinence from labor en the first two and last two, and by the obser vance the first and second evenings of various domestic rites commemorative of the deliverance from Egyptian bondagc,in bendagc,in cludiug the recital of scriptural and legend arv narratives and familiar conversation en the same national event and the chant ing of psalms. : Special Meeting et Ceunslls. This evening there will be held a special meeting of city councils te take action en the efficftl bend of the city treasurer-elect, and te. pretest against the proposal te run a line of oil pipe through the city. .M&IUHOORHUOD StWS. Kear uad Acress the County Lines. A Bengal tiger took a fit at Coup's cir cus in Ilarrisburg, and for a time it was thought he would die. One of the keep ers managed te get the ear of the beast in his grasp through the bars of his cage and bled him quite profusely several times which treatment acted like a charm, as Jt he animal was apparently all right an hour afterwards, though latter in the day he seemed te be in a torpid condition. There arc no less than ninety cases of measles at the Indian training school at Carlisle all mild type, however. Peter Eienhart. of East Texas. Berks county, has been asleep since the 27th of March. He eats, but he is believed te te in the i-.viie condition as the sleeping Hungarian at the Lehigh almshouse. Tue.sd.iy morning about ten o'clock Samuel Finley, a, rigger in the new Besse mer mill at Steelton, was run ever by the cars and instantly killed. The deceased was en shiftimr engine Ne. 5, and un coupled the engine from a car leaded with castings, the engine gave a lurch and threw him oft the back end of the track, the car passiug ever him. The coroner summoned a jury, who held an inquest aud returned a verdict in accordance with the facts. The deceased was nineteen years of age. The Bulten house, (Ilarrisburg) aud con tents weie offered at public sal Tuesday afternoon at the court house. The hotel was bid up te $80,000 separately, and the furniture te $3,000. Subsequently hotel aud f limit in e were offered together, the highest bid reaching $36,000, when these having its disposition held a consultation, and the property was withdrawn. The sixty-eight puddlers of the Reading sheet mill who struck for an advance of wages arc being paid off and the leaders discharged. The Senate committee en judicial ap portionment has agreed te report a bill favorably, which affects about fifteen dis tricts in the state. Under the bill, Dauph in aud Lebanon counties are each niade a separate di.stiiet, and Dauphin is te have an additional law judge. AKOU.-SU THE WUKLU. "ri Hard te Say Geed-Dye." Last night Wm. J. Fordney, chief en gineer of the Lancaster fire department, left this city at 11:30, en a trip around the world. He gees first te Chicago where he will remain for several weeks, lie then visits Sau Francisce, the Saudwich'Islands, Austialia, aud gees entirely around the world. He expects te be gene for about three year. 31 r. Ferduey has been an active member of the Empire hook and ladder company for years, ami when the ether members ascertained that he was going away they determined te show their esteem for him by giving him a supper. Last evening the members of the company gathered at Copland's hotel aud between 9 and 10 o'clock they sat down te an ex cellent supper, which was prepared for the occasion, the tables being spread in the parlor. While at the table a speech was made by Mr. A. S. Edwards en behalf of the company. He speke of the many happy days that he and all of the boys had spent with Mr. Fordney, whom they greatly regretted tolesoand whose place could net be easily filled. He has weikcd very hard for the volunteer firemen aud has made a most excellent chief. Mr. Fordney replied te Mr. Ed wards thanking him and the companyfer their kindness. Beth gentlemen spoke with a gicut deal of feeling. Shortly after 11 o'clock, when supper had been finished, some of the boys ran te the truck house and brought out the truck. The ether members of the company, headed by Mr. Ferduey, marched te the depot. The train arrived shortly, ar d Mr. Fordney, after shaking hands with all his friends who wished him a safe journey, was seen snugly stewed away iu his berth. As the train left the depot cheer after cheer was given for Mr. Ferduey. The whole affair was conducted in excellent btyle, and probably no man ever left this city who received a better " send off." reach Itottem Railway Donds. Charles W. Leavitt, the holder of $20, 0U0 in bends of the Peach Bettem railway company, has filed a bill in equity in court of common pleas Ne. 3, Philadelphia, againt Samuel M. Felten aud Rebert H. Lambern, trustees, and certain ether hold ers of bends of the company. Mr. Leavitt alleges that the coupons of thee bends, aie.uuder a centiact with the Philadelphia & Baltimore Ceutial railroad company, te be paid out of a fund which accumulated as a part of the earnings of the Peach Hottem railroad company ; that this fund is termed in the contract a "traffic guarantee," and that it at present amounts te about $4,500. Upen the bends held by the plaintiff, the coupons since the 1st .July, 1374, are overdue and unpaid, aud he claims that the fund in question ought te be used in payment of these cou pons aud net coupons of a later date which lie is informed and believes have been paid lie prays Hie court that his rights and ether bondholders'-may be ascertained and declared in the matter, and that the trustees may be ordered te apply the ac cumulated fund te the payment in the first instance of the coupons of an earlier date before applying the same te the payment of the coupons of a later date. Funeral of Luke Suydain. The funeral of the late Luke Suydam took place yesteiday from his residence, 315 J West King street, aud was largely at tended by friends and relatives. Services at the house were conducted by Revs. Dr. Grcenwald, of Trinity Lutheran. C. Elvin Houpt of Grace Lutherau.aud E. L. Reed, of Christ Lutheran churches ; an impres sive discourse being preached by the lat ter, whose words were full of comfort and hope for the stricken widow and children. The pall-bearers were Messrs. D. A. Altick, Wm. C. 3IcKcewn. Jeseph Hoever, and Frank Peters, all coach-makers, the occupation followed by deceased during his life-time. The interment was made at Woodward 1 1 ill cemetery. In the death of Mr. Suydam the commu nity loses a useful, honorable and upright citizen, aud the sense of bereavement sus tained by his immediate family, who have the widest sympathy in this time of afflic tion, is most poignant ; albeit earthly dis solution was hut the signal for his re lease from a painful and lingering illness which he bore with patience and resigna tion. Mayer's Court. Twe drunken and disorderly men were committed for 10 days each te the county prison, by the mayor this merninc Four boys appeared at the station house last nfcht and asked for lodging. They said they had run away from thcNcwsbeys' home iu Philadelphia. The mayor dis charged them en the premise te return te Philadelphia. A boy was arrested yesterday for steal ing an orange from the stand in front of Bewers" store. Centre square. He was takcu before the mayor, but as the store keeper did net wish te prosecute him, he was discharged with a reprimand. Duke Street M. E. Church. The first quarterly love-feast, for Duke street 31. E. church will be held this evening, uoeis open at r.M and close atS. Mrs. E. 15. Stevens, a distinguished Christian lady, corresponding secretary of thcfePbHadflphia branch of the W. F. M. of the M. E. church, will address the cit izens of Lancaster, iu the Duke street M. E. church en Friday evening, at 7:45 o'clock. 5 J
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