LANCASTER BAIL? INTELLIGENCER THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1881.
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THURSDAY STONING, APBIL tl, 188U
' Oar AMMlag Legislators.
It is very amusiqg te see bow these
heathen legislators at Harrisburg rage
against the attorney general who has re
duced them te this miserable cempensa
tien of a thousand dollars for an unlim
ited length of legislative session, while
he appropriates te himself seven thou
sand dollars, a year's salary, for a very
limited part of a year's service. It is a
sad case, no doubt; and perhaps the
legislators are net altogether inexcus
able for suspecting that a censtruer of
the constitution who brings out results
se pleasant te himself and unpleas
ant te them, needs looking after;
and accordingly they have set them
selves te de a great. deal of inquiring
into the law and the constitution, but
net, se far, with any very brilliant
success. The wretched law seems te
award the lean and fat respectively te
the attorney treneral and the legislators,
as he has declared; but the law-making
power makes of the attorney general's
victims worms net te be despised, and
he finds them turning upon him with a
sharp fire of aggressive laws. The
indignant law-makers seem, however,
te have hurried along a little tee fast,
as we find the Senate desiring te re
call the statute that has been sent te the
governor for his signature, and which
subjects the state officers te the writ of
mandamus at the hands of any court in
the state. The governor will net sign it,
and Senater Xerris, who is the father of
the bantling, wants te get it back se as
te amend it by giving te the Dauphin
county court only the power of issuing
the writ. The excited lower house,
however, would net consent te erase the
crossing of a u t " or the dotting of an
"i" in its benne LeucJic of legislative
work, being determined that its enemies,
the officers of the state, should be
harried te the utmost by legal pro
cesses fired against them from every
nook and corner of the state.
There has been no such amusing con
test between law-makers and law-execueors,
in a small way, in our experience.
The constant squabbles at Washington
between the executive and Congress
have lest their novelty and never
were very funny anyway. And at
Harrisburg we have been used te
leek only te the Cameren antics
and inspirations for a . legislative enter
tainment. But here new is one separate
and apart, which does net appear te be
much of a political fight, but one stirred
up by love of money, wounded sensibili
ties, injured innocence, and whatever
ether feelings may be natural te the
the legislator, the state officer and the
big school boy.
When rogues fall out wc are told that
honest men get their dues. . We would
net say that the legislators and the state
officers are guilty of greater roguery than
is Implied in a tee exalted idea of the
value of their services and a tee great
aptitude te help themselves te extrava
gant compensation therefer; but of this
weakness they are doubtless guilty ; and
se when they fall out about it, the old
proverb comes legitimately in play
and gives premise of benefit te the
people. One such geed is the authority
given te the courts te command the
state officers te obey the law. We are
net particularly solicitous that it should
be amended se as te give this authority
only te the Dauphin court. That court
iB new very ably presided ever, and we
have confidence in its integrity and in
telligence ; but the time may come when
we will net. We de net care that the
voters of Dauphin county alone
should be entrusted with the privi
lege of selecting a judge who shall
be able te exercise control ever the offi
cers of the state, who are powerful
in that county and may succeed in put
ting their tool in the judgeship. It is a
bad atmosphere, that around Harris
burg, for official purity, and if we can
elect unfit judges in Lancaster, as we
can and de, Dauphin can de it as well.
Let the people's servants come under the
process of the people's judges everywhere.
Let us never again see a governor wrap
ping himself in his exemption from the
law, and refusing te tell a grand jury
whether a proclamation which called out
the military of the state te a bloody
butchery of its citizens was his act or
a forgery. Let no man be above the law
in Pennsylvania.
Honest bat Stapld.
Senater Burnside emphatically de
clares that there has been no bargain be
tween the Republican senators and Ma
hone; while Senater Butler declares
that such a bargain can be shown by ir
refragable testimony. Ne doubt both
senators believe what they say. Bum
sidehasa reputation for honesty and
thickheadedness, and he would be the
last man en the Republican side te knew
of .the dishonorable purchase of Mahone's
vote. Dawes is another sort of a fellow.
He knows all about it ; se does Camer Camer
on. But these men will lie cheerfully
when they deem it necessary, and con
sider that they have done no wrong in
se doing. The fellows that knew won't
tell, and these who don't knew are igno
rant because they are tee honest and
stupid te be trusted with the informa
tion. It is very doubtful whether Sen Sen
aeor Butler can prove the bargain by any
new evidence. What the public lias had
already is sufficiently " irrefragable" te
permit it te be in no doubt of the sub
stantial fact that, in some shape or ether,
a bargain was made by which Mahone
and the Republican senators were united
with .a mutual understanding. But that
evidence does net penetrate Burnside's
thick skull ; he is net te be convinced ;
he is a hopeless case, as every man is
who asks mere evidence te prove, what
demenstates itself te a reasonable intel
ligence Because the water department wants
a larger revenue it should net be op
pressive. We are told that a water tax
has been levied against the owners of
properties used as lawyer's offices, a sep
arate' tax for every office, although a
common faucet is used. There is no
honesty in that. The water used in a
lawyer's office would net amount te a
barrel a'year, and it is simply a gouge te
demand payment aafer as the separate
use of a hydrant. Public epinidh is
unanimous la condemning such extor
tions and the water committee needs te
be mindful that it does net sacrifice its
repute for geed sense in its search after
greater revenue.
MINOR TOPICb.
Aft a fighter Burnside always
was
great."
BVbkside must have been drinking
from Den's canteen.
Whom the gods would destroy they first
cause te make feels of themselves in the
Senate chamber.
If speech be silver and silence golden,
our junior Senater still has the better of
it.
The Massachusetts Heuse of Repre
sentatives passed the bill granting double
taxation en property in that state.
The New Yerk Legislature has adopted
resolutions relative te a representation of
the state at the celebration 'of the battles
of Yorktown, Va., and Cowpens, S. C.
Several of the Western etates have
every 6pring an arbor day, appointed by
the governor, and devoted te the planting
of trees along the highways.
The streets of Caire are te have Ibeir
names inscribed in Arabic and French and
the houses numbered. It will be the first
Mussulman town with such indications.
The duchess of Marlborough has com
pleted arrangements for the entire outfit
of fifteen Irish families, who will be pro
vided with free passages te Manitoba and
located there in neatly furnished farm
steads. A. Wilmington man writes te a news
paper of that city te disclaim the title of
" Professer " with which he had been
gratuitously dubbed in an advertisement
announcing his appearance at a local en
tertainment. This is refreshing.
It is understood that the friends and rel
atives of the late Lord Beaconsfield are
willing te assent te a public funeral and
the burial of the remains in Westminster
Abbey, unless any directions te the con
trary are found among the papers of the
deceased. Many persons acquainted with
the will say that the wealth which Lord
Beaconsfield leaves is inconsiderable.
Sener Castelar has published a man
ifesto in view of the coming municipal
elections in Spain in- which he demands
universal suffrage, obligatory instruction,
universal liability te military service, and
municipal and provincial autonomy as far
as consistent with the supremacy of the
state. He makes a strong appeal for
unity among the democrats.
The hoop iron manufacturers claim that
they cannot compete with foreign govern
ments unless the treasury department
gives them relief by .carrying out what
they contend is the spirit of the law,
namely, that "all hoop iron shall be sub
ject te one and a-half cents per pound, and
net admitted as manufactured iron at one
half cent per pound merely because a rivet
is put through one end of the lap." The
rivet, it is contended, is of no use whatever
and did net increase the value of the tie.
Hen. Carl Schurz has returned te
journalism, his first article in the St.
Leuis Wettliche Pett being en the situation
in the Senate. He shows clearly that it is
the Republicans who are obstructing the
public business and that the Democrats
claim, properly enough, that the Republi
can plan would be followed by a repetition
of the corrupt carpet-bagger rule. " In
fact," says Mr. Schurs, " the fight ever a
few Senate offices is nothing else but a
fight for the possession of the federal
power in the future."
Thirty years age three students, named
Jacksen, Mahone and Fenner, were te
gether in a room at the University of Vir
ginia. A brother student sketched the
three in a group. - What shall I put un
der each figure ?" he said, when the draw
ing was completed. "Put undermine,"
said Jacksen, "Jacksen addressing the
Senate of the United States." "And
under mine," said Mahone, " delivering a
lecture te the students of the University of
Tennessee." "And under yours, Fenner?"
" Oh, Fenner announcing a decision from
the supreme bench of Louisiana." The
inscriptions were appended. Jacksen is
te-day in the Senate of the United States,
Mahene is at Vanderbilt University, Ten
nessee, and Fenner is a member .of the
supreme court of Louisiana.
PERSONAL
Rowland E. Trowbridge, late com
missioner of Indian affairs, has died at his
home at Birmingham, Mich.
General Jeseph Lane died at his home
in Rescburg, Oregon, en Tuesday night,
aged 79.
E. T. C. Richmond, first lieutenant,
second artillery, United States army, is
the officer detailed by the United States
te serve at Dickinsen college, Carlisle
Themas Paxson, the father of Judge
Paxson, of the supreme court, died at his
home in Berks county en Tuesday. He
was known as an active and exemplary
member of the Society of Friends.
Mr. Franklin B. Gewen, president of
the Philadelphia & Reading railroad com
pany will address the share and bondhold
ers of the company and these interested in
its welfare at the Academy of Music, Phil
adelphia, en Saturday evening.
A committee of representative Tcnncs
seeans has waited upon General Hancock
and tendered an invitation te himself and
staff te visit the coming industrial exhibi
tion at Nashville, particularly te witness
the military display and competitive drills.
He will consider the .matter.
The postmaster general, by direction of
the president, has demanded the resigna
tion of Themas J. Brady, second assist
ant postmaster general, te take effect im
mediately. Ne ether oeurso was open
which would secure the speedy severance
of Brady's connection with the posteffice
department because of the Senate dead
lock, which might indefinitely postpone
the confirmation of his successor.
Rev. James W. Dale, D. D., of Media,
a prominent clergyman of the Presbyter
ian church, died en Tuesday, aged sixty-
nun years, ue was oern in Wilmington,
Del., and graduated at the University of
Pennsylvania with distinction. He after
ward studied law bnt abandoned the law
and entered Andover theological semin
ary. He also studied for some time at
Princeton. Intending te become a mis
sionary, he graduated in medicine te fit
himself mere properly for the work. He
gave up the missionary idea and became a
successful pastor and author.
Whitelaw Reid has denied that be
was about te retire permanently from the
editorship of the Tribune, te be succeeded
by Colonel Jehn Hay, and also the story
that he was going te take, or was seeking,
the mission te Berlin, which he declined
two years age. He has requested his old
associate, Colonel Jehn Hay, as a personal
favor te him, te edit the Tribune during
his absence for the summer in Europe, and
Colonel Hay reluctantly consented stipu
lating, that he should net be asked, under
any circumstances, te remain longer than
bix months.
Princess Louise is fend of house-keeping
and the kindest of friends and hostesses.
There was sickness at Rideau hall almost
from the day the princess arrived there.
Lady Macnamara was taken ill with scar
let fever and the princess nursed her
through it ; then a young mother and her
baby, guests at Rideau, contracted the
fever ; the baby died and the mother lay
very near death ; the servants would net
attend te the sick woman, and the princess
nursed her night and day. Every meal,
every cup of water or bowl of gruel the
princess took te her siek guest with her
own bauds.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
The governor of Massachusetts has re
prieved Stearns K. Abbett te June 24. He
was te have been hanged en Friday next.
Baseball : At Providence, R. I. Provi
dence, 12 ; Brown University, 1. At
New Yerk Metropolitan, 3 ; Trey, 0.
Forty-four Mermen missionaries passed
ever the Union Pacific read yesterday en
their way te Wales en a preselyting expe
dition. The insurgent natives of the Soeloo Isles
in the Indian ocean attempted te surprise
the Spanish fortress, but were repulsed
with a less of one hundred killed.
Humphreys, the last of the mail stage
robbers who have recently been commit
ting extensive depredations in the south
ern part of Texas, has been arrested, aud
is new iu jail at San Antonie.
The railroad freight-house employees at
Chicago have petitioned for an advanced
of twenty per ccut. in wages, and it is un
derstood that they will strike if it is net
granted.
Garfield nominated Richard A. Elmer,
of New Yerk, te be second assistant post
master general, in place of Themas J.
Brady, resigned, and Harrison Adreen te
be postmaster at Baltimere.
Heward, the Jamestown, N. Y., pest
office burglar, captured, has been receg
nized as Jim French, the celebrated safe
burglar and the leader of a gang that have
been working New Yerk state.
The authorities of Aderra have requested
the Spanish government te settle the pend
ing differences in that republic, but were
informed that they must arrange matters
with the French and Spanish cemmiss
ieners.
Jehn Conden, aged 42, of Brooklyn,
while removing his furniture, was struck
en the head with a sofa, which fell as it was
being lowered from a third-story window.
His skull was crushed and he died almost
instantly.
In an altercation at White Oak Point
agency, between an Indian and a white
man, a saloon keeper, name unknown, the
Indian shot the white man in the legs and
the saloon keeper shot the Indian dead,
the same shot wounding a white man
named Wakefield badly.
Mr. H. Evaus; of the firm of Evans,
Day &.Ce., oyster packers of Baltimore,
who disappeared last September whilst en
route from St. Jeseph, Me., te Council
Bluffs, Omaha and Denver, has turned up
in Naples, Italy. At the time of his dis
appearance a reward was offered for Mr.
Evans, as his friends feared that he had
been robbed or murdered.
Mr. William Wise, whose jewelry stere
in Brooklyn was robbed a short time since
of about $5,000 worth of watches, most of
which belonged te his customers, having
been left with him for repairs, has brought
about a successful negotiation with the
thieves, who have placed him in possession
of the stolen proper. The lowest figure
was $2,100, and the exchange was made
through an aperture where the thieves
could net be recognized.
Disastrous Fires.
A fire broke out in a billiard saloon at
San Marciel, N. 31., and the flames spread
ing rapidly every business building in town
and many private residences, numbering
altogether about thirty houses and tents
were destroyed. The losses upon the
buildings will amount te $10,000 ; little or
no insurance. One man was seriously in
jured. The only building left in the
business portion of the town was one con
taining several tens of powder. Among
the buildings "burned was one containing
several thousand rounds of cartridges, the
explosion of which caused great censterna -tien
among the people assembled, who
hastily retired from the scene.
A terrible fire has occurred en St. Denis
street, Nantchitechie, La. It originated
in Fortenel's hotel, and destroyed nearly
all the principal stores iu the town.
Among the unfortunates were Hyinan
Bath, S. W. Elkins, Mrs. G. P. Campbell,
H. Lichtenstein, Levi & Phillips, J. A. Du Du
ceumeau, G. W. Kile, C. J. Smith, the
Vindicator office, H. A. Walmsley's resi
dence and livery stable. Nearly every
building en St. Denis street was destroy
ed. Less very great; insurance un
known.
The Floods Around Chicago.
The damage inflicted at Elgin, HI., by
the overflow of the Fex river is placed as
high as 870,000. Buildings were swept
down the stream like shingles. One large
barn was broken up by striking the Dines
dell iron bridge. The next jam of ice
swept away the bridge and piers, but the
wooden crossing at the watch factory
escaped. The mill and step bridge were
carried ou, severing communication te the
westward.
Great damage has been done en the
line of Reck river in Illinois and Wiscon
sin by the floods. Travel en the Chicago
& Northwestern railroad has bsen
abandoned. At Beloit four men were
drowned. r
Ane' her Railroad Feeder.
Fer the past few weeks a corps of engi
neers in the employ of the Pennsylvania
railroad company, have been making a
survey for a new line between Reckville
and Dauphin, te run parallel with the
Schuylkill and Snsauehanna railroad.
The Pennsylvania company (which oper
ates the Northern Central read) in order
te save tell ever the two or two and a half
miles of the Schuylkill & Susquehanna.
between Reckville & Dauphin bridge,
has for some time past been sending its
Northern Central and Philadelphia & Erie
freight across the Dauphin bridge down
through Marysville, and thence across the
Reckville county side of the river, in order
te. ship te points eastward.
Tbe Insanity Dedge Again.
Baltimore Gazette.
When Dejarnette deliberately shot his
sister at a house of questionable character
in Danville, Va., the crime' was justly de
nounced a cruel murder. Miss Dejarnette
it will be recollected, left her home and
subsequently took up her home at a dis
reputable establishment. Her brother,
upon ascertaining her residence, secured
admission te her room, and coolly disre
garding her appeals for mercy and her ear
nest premises of reformation if her life
was spared, discharged his revolver at
the defenseless girt as she knelt weeping
and in terror before him. The murderer's
apology for the crime was that he had been
prompted 'te kill his sister in defense of
the " family honor." Rather than lend
ber a helping hand and aid her te redeem
the past and keen the scandal from the
world, he net only took her life, but
spread the story of Jier shame ever the
whole country. We are at a loste un
derstand hew such a murderous act vindi
cated the family "honor." Had'Dejarnette
killed the man responsible for his sister's
disgrace, tbe unwritten law that justifies
such summary punishment would, and
with some reason, probably have
refused te held him te account for
the crime ; bnt his brutal killing of a de
fenseless though unfortunate girl was a
crime agaist humanity that should have
sent tbe slayer se the scaffold or at least
consigned him te alife-longimprisenmeut.
The insanity dodge was resorted te by the
defense and with such success that the
prisoner was acquitted after a brief deliber
ation en the part of the jury. The jurors
de net, it appears, express any opinion as
te the sanity or insanity of the prisoner at
the present time, but simply find that he
was insane "at tbe time tbe crime was.
committed." This is, of course, utterly
absurd. The story of the murder showed
that Dejarnette was net only perfectly
sane, but that he planned the crime with
the utmost deliberateness and executed
it in the coolest manner possible. The
criminal records of the country show tbe
perpetration of few crimes equal in atroc
ity te that of this man, and none
probably where the provocations se slight.
Had tbe wretched girl refused te aban
don tbe life upon which she had
entered there migbt have been some justi
fication for harsh measures certainly
net even in such a case for her death. But
when she premised te amend her life, in
stead of receiving the encouragement and
aid that she had a rigbt te expect from a
brother, she found herself in the grasp of
an assassin. If Dejarnette was insane
when he committed this foul deed it is
safe te assume that he is still iusane and
should be confined as a dangerous lunatic
in an asylum. It is deeply te be regretted
that such a man should be allowed te go
unwhipt of justice. It is evident that the
insanity dodge still holds its own as a
means of influencing the average jury in
capital cases.
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Danger In French Theatres.
Paris Correspondence).
The terrible disaster in Nice has called
attention te the combustible qualities of
Parisian theatres, and disclosed the fact
that they arc all in a state of ripe prepara
tion for a similar catastrophe. There are
no central aisles in any ene of them, even
including the opera heuse ; the passages
between the lobbies and different parts
of the house are exceedingly nar
row, and often obstructed with furni
ture, aud the exits are contracted te
a dangerous extent. Some of them are sus
ceptible of improvement by reforms in
these directions ; ethers are iu a hepeless
state, and may be warranted te secure
their victims in case of fire beyond the
possibility of escape. The papers entreat us
net Ce feet any apprehension, and assure us
that Paris theatres seldom burn down,
which consoling reflection docs net prevent
the hair from rising slightly, however,
when you find yourself in adensely packed
beuse and fancy you detect a taint
odor of smoke. One cannot help feelingas
if they might take that occasion te vary
their usual correct line of deportment. Be
tween the construction of the theatres and
lack of fire engines, Paris is likely te sup
ply the world with a full bulletin of horrors
one of these clays. When you add te the
category of favorable conditions the excit
ability of the French populace, you have
the elements of a sufficiently tragic scene.
There have been seventeen theatres de
stroyed by fire, I understand, since 17 63.
True, the sum is trifling, yet it is suffi
ciently encouraging te give grounds for
anticipations mere or less unpleasant, as
the case may be.
There is te be a grand musical enter
tainment at the Trocadero for the benefit
of the victims of the Nice disaster. Mme.
Patti and the principal artists of the Opera
aud Cemedie Francaise take part.
Indignant Anna Dickinsen.
Anna Dickinsen, who is menaced with
a suit for damages for violating her con
tract te play the part of Claude Melnotte,
in " The Lady of Lyens, " at Chestnut
street theatre, Philadelphia, has written
te the New Yerk Herald au indignant let
ter en the subject, in which she also de
clares that throughout the whele period
of her professional life as lecturer, play
writer and actress, she has been the
worst abused woman that ever was.
With an exalted opinion of her
own abilities, she says : "I am conscious
that no American living has mero justly
earned the right of respectful censidera
tien by her countrymen aud women. I
have been absolutely condemned without
sight and without knewledge in all I have
attempted for years, because by this at
tempt I have dared te face, nut with bra
vado, but unflinchingly, that most merci
less of tyrants, the compound of public ig
norance and public intolerance known as
public opinion. Debarred from politics
and place, and with the lyceum platform
crumbled te dust," she turned her atten
tion, she says, te the stage, and because
her plays were net successful and her act
ing failed te be commended by managers
and playgoers, she declares that she has
lest her faith in a country which " has had
it in its power te give her almost mortal
wounds," and new prays with all the ardor
of her soul for an open pathway te another
land, where she is an absolute stranger,
instead of continuing te live "where,"
sne aaas, with delicious inconsequence,
"it is my misfortune te have wen great
fame." Surely if she has wen great fame
she ought net te complain of want of
appreciation en the part of these whom
she new se vehemently professes te de
spise. s
The Latest Steamship Device.
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uub ui buu latest Bteanwuip devices is
that proposed by a company which has
just issued its prospectus in Londen. The
name of the cemppny is the -Atlantic ex
press steam navigation cempauy, and the
purpose of its founders is te make a small
revolution in trans-Atlantic travel. In
the first place they are te build large and
powerful steamships, with little re
gard for their carrying capacity, but
with great regard te safety and speed.
With these steamers it is proposed te
make voyages at all seasons of the year
between New Yerk and Milferd Haven, in
Wales, in seven days. The last-named
pert has been chosen because it is about
170 miles nearer te New Yerk than Liver
pool, and, by the Great Western railway,
is within a few hours' journey of Londen.
The steamers of this line are te carry only
nrst-ciass passengers and are te bave for
tms purpose superior accommodations.
With freight the same distinction will be
made ; that is, the ordinary coarse mer
chandise will net be taken only articles
which will warrant the payment of higher
freight-money te secure quick delivery.
fhe company proposes te build at the
outset five steamers, and for this purpose
is te have a capital stock of $12,500,000,
though at first only a part of this will be
called in. .,
BUBKS1DE JCXCiTElf.
Anether Sensation la the Senate.
The Senate made another effort te pre
serve its well-earned reputation yesterday.
A bitter war of words, embellished with
"falsehood," "prevaricator," "slander,"
"repudhiter," etc.. went a great ways
toward success. Mr. Frye this time is
chargeable with stirring up the bad bleed.
The young senator from Maine indulged
in an exhaustive speech of that loose sort
which is went te distinguish the debates
iu the Heuse. It was chiefly founded upon
bygene times and upon bygone issues, and
as a whole was a bitter arraignment of the
Seuth in the Senate and out. He compared
the white workingmen of tbe North with
the condition of negre labor Seuth, and
made some bread insinuations against the
senators who re'presented'sueh constituen
cies. He denied the Democratic assertion
that no outrages were new committed in
the youth, and went en te show by facts
and figures that outrages were still preva
lent. Mr. Frye has an excellent pair of lungs,
which appear te disagreeable advantage in
the small chamber, and is a fluent, inter
esting talker always. His remarks had a
decidedly reusiug effect upon the Demo
cratic side, for half a dozen senators com
peted for the fleer in reply. Senater
Brown obtained it and carried out the
comparison of the Southern states with
Massachusetts, instituted by Frye, te the
evident discomfiture of Dawes. Mr.
Brown quoted entensively from Massa
chusetts text books te show the relation
of the whole number of voters te the num
ber of votes polled, the number disfran
chised aud the children uneducated. Sena Sena
eor Butler followed Brown, also in answer
te Frye, and his impassioned voice had
scarcely reached its first flight of rhetoric
before he had precipitated a row. He dc
clsrd that Frye was seeking te obscure
the real issue before the Senate by abus
ing and misrepresenting tbe Seuth. The
real issue was whether a corrupt bargain
had been made.
Right here Senater Burnside jumped up
and excitedly declared that Mr. Butler had
stated a falsehood The senator from
Rhede Island was very emphatic. He re
peated several times that this charge of
bargain was false and any senator en the
ether side who made it uttered a wilful
falsehood. Mr. Burnside wrathfelly
clinched this at every point with a blew
upon his desk which made things
rattle generally and caused the nervous
listeners te start. The outbreak was se
unexpected and violent that the astonished
Lsenater from Seuth Carolina appeared
nonplussed. He turned red in the face
and stammered something, stepped and
turned helplessly toward the president.
There was no stepping Mr. Burnside. He
had no sooner taken his seat before he
jumped up again and fell te pounding his
desk and reiterating that it was a false
hood and the senator from Seuth Carolina
was stating a falsehood. Every time Sir.
Butler attempted te proceed up went
Burnside again, sawing the air like a fish
woman. Great confusion reigned in tbe galleries,
and applause and hisses told hew much
interested the spectators were. ' When the
old man quieted down a little Mr. Butler
began the usual retort in kind, but hap
pily cheeked himself in the midst of it,
saying : " But no, I will net, here en the
fleer of the Senate." This" brought Burn
side up again, and this time he told Butler
te go ahead and say what he pleased. In
fact, the senator from Rhede Island ap
peared te be spoiling for a row and he
carefully spread bis coat-tail before
the senator from Seuth Carolina
and insisted en his" treading en it.
This Butler declined te de, and remarked
that the senator from Rhede Island was
his friend and was excited. Up went
Burnside once mere te prove hew calm he
was, but while he was illustrating it he
lest his balance and pounded his desk as
ficrcly as before. This exhibition of calm
ness set both the gallery and the Senate
in a rear of laughter at Burnside's expense.
It was seme time before the confusion
subsided, when Butler proceeded with
his speech, avoiding the matter of the
quarrel for the time being and repeating
his charge of a bargain only at the close.
He declared then that he would prove it
by irrefragable evidence or resign his scat
in the Senate. This proof, he stated, he
would present at an early day.
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STATE ITEMS.
The bill te promote Titusville te the po
sition of county seat by surrounding it
with brand new county has again been de
feated at ilamsburg.
Over two hundred new houses will be
built in Milten this summer. One car
penter has already contracted for the
building of fifty two.
A horse thief named J. C. Riddle es
caped from the Clarien jail by crawling
through the het pipe of tbe heater te the
cellar, aud thence out of the coal win
dow. The ft ieuds of Rev. Dr. Carnachan, the
deposed Presbyterian preacher, of Mead
villc, Crawford county, have split off from
the congregation that condemned him and
propose te organize another.
Masked men broke ercn the house of
Mr. Barsteff, an aged citizen of Erie, and, '
after beating him terribly, plundered bis
house of $200 and valuables. He is pro
nounced te be dying.
At Green Ridge colliery, Mt. Carmel,
Jehn Carrell while sitting en the high
side of a wagon which was leaded, was
caught between the wagon and chute and
squeezed se that he died in a short time.
Mr. H.H. Housten, of Philadelphia, has
given $10,000 te Lincoln university in
Chester county, for the erection of a new
building. This makes $20,000 that the
university has received during the cur
rent year, bnt the trustees figure it out
that they need $9,000 mere.
When Berringer, te whose house the
beer was taken that led -te the 8nnday
murder at Monongahela City, was arrested
his little son clung te him, between his
sobs crying, "Come home, father," The
little fellow would net be comforted, nor
would he leave his father, but went with
him te jail, and in that miserable abode
fell asleep.
An immense quantity of lumber lies in
tbe Allegheny river, in the vicinity of
Herr's Island and below that point. Mil
lions of feet of tbe finest pine legs ever
felled have come down the Allegheny en
the .besom of the present generous flood of
water, and mere are en the way. While
most of the pine is in the form of legs,
there is also a vast amount of lumber and
shingles.
Patrick Burke" coal weigher at Mahanev
Plane, took charge of a draft of light cars
for the regular car runner, and while ap
proaching a trestle at the feet of the
planes discovered a train ahead, when he
jumped, striking his head against one of
tue timbers, was thrown under the cars
and killed instantly. He was taken te his
home at Frackville, where he leaves a wife
and five small children.
The term of the new Auditor General,
Jehn A. Lemen, begins en Monday, May
2. Yesterday Mr. Lemen announced the
following appointments : Chief Clerk'
Themas 'MeCamant, Blair county; Cor
poration Clerk Rebert S. Frazier, Alle
gheny county -y. Clerks Henry N. Graffin,
Montgomery county ; (Jebrge CWilkins,
Philadelphia; J.' Briggs Myers, Venango
county; uames a. McAllister, Dauphin
county; Gwin L. Harvey, Huntingdon
county; W. J. Rush, Fayette county;
James B. Story, Butler county ; J. D.
Lacier, Luzerne county; Messenger
Samuel Baker, Blair county ; Night
Watchman Lerenz Tayler, Danpkin I
county.
The WMat CNp In Kansas.
Reports collected within tbv past ten
days from every eenntyin Kansas show
that en the whole tipe winter crop of wheat
of that state wi excellent condition ;
better, in fact, than usual at this sesaeu.
Everything new depends upon rain. The
farmers say that- with favorable weather
the crop will be the largest ever harvested
in Kansas. The spring wheat crop appears
te be in an unfavorable condition. In
seventeen counties its condition is fair.
In forty-three counties it is" peer, and but"
little confidence is felt in regard te it. The
aggregate acreage of rye is rather limited,
and the reports concerning it, as a whole,
are quite favorable.
The Methodist Council.
The executive committee of the West
ern section of the Ecumenical conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church, te
meet in Londen in; September next, has
had a session in Cincinnati with four mem
bers present Bishop Simpsen, Rev. A.
C." Geerge, Bishop McTyeire, and Rev. D.
B. Byers. This section embraces all
branches of the Methodist church in Amer
ica. The object of the meeting was te as
sign nineteen speakers and the same num
ber of essayists. That was done, but the
list will net be made public until the ac
ceptances are received. Bishop Simpsen
will make the opening address.
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Clrll Service Beform.
E. R. Blakeslee, arrested, is the mail
agent ou the Lake Shere & Michigan
Southern railroad. His bold operations
caused great dismay in the Chicago post pest
office. Since his first robbery he is known
te have committed robberies en the same
read en pouches destined for Buffalo,
necnester. utica and iiosten.
P. SI. Pomeroy, postmaster at Hcbreu,
Ind., was arrested at that place en a charge
of rifling registered letters. His bail was
fixed at $2,000.
Oar Loquacious Den.
Philadelphia Times.
During the prolonged struggle at Har
risburtr ever the .senaterehip it was fre
quently asserted by authority that Senater
Cameren wanted an associate in the Senate
who could talk. As the Legislature didn't
elect that kind of a man Senater Cameren
seems te have undertaken te fill the bill
himself.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
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BARKIS IS WILL1K' "
Judge Livingston Called Upen and (Is Will
ing te Take Anether Term.
The following correspondence seems te
explain itself:
Te the Honorable Jehn B. Living tien :
Your term as president judge of this
district will seen expire, and we, mem
bers of the bar, believe we are expressing
the sentiments of our fellow citizens gen
erally, as well as our own, iu a hearty ap
proval of your course as judge.
We have had an able and faithful ad
ministration of the trust reposed in you
and the duties performed "without fear,
favor or affection." Added te this, your
high character for integrity inspiring
public cenfidencetand your experience con
stantly increasing your fitness for that im
portant position, we should deeply regret
te lese your services,' ind desire that you
should be your own successor. Will you
allow us te present your name te the
voters of this county
re-election ?
Tlies. E. Franklin,
Newton Lightner,
X. EUmaker.
Geerge M. Kline,
A. Sluymuker,
D. G. Esbleman,
J. B. Ainwake,
II. M. North.
A. Il-rr Smith,
J. B. Kaufman,
Win. U. Wilsen.
Nim'l II. Reynolds,
Daniel G. Baker.
W. W. Brown,
Win. Aug. Atlec,
Jehn B. Wartel,
Andrew M.Frant,
W. Leaman,
Geerge Mauman,
Simen P. Kuby,
Geerge Brubakcr,
James Black,
J. 11. Geed,
JI. B-Swarr,
A. C. Kelnoehl,
P-D. Baker,
M. Krestus,
D. JucMullen,
Thes. J. Davis,
H. C. Brubaker,
J. W. F. Switr.
!. P. Resenmillcr,
Zuricl Swepc,
A. O. Newphcr,
K. K. Martin.
Wm. B. Given,
Ik EUmaker,
J. L. Stcinmetz,
W. F. Beyer,
W. A. Wilsen.
G. C. Kennedy.
J. W. B. Bausmau,
David .Leche,
Eugene G. Smith,
Wm. D. Weaver,
as a candidate for
A. F. Hestctter,
II. G. Lenir.
C. N. Sproul,
Peter Hershey.
Jehn H. Fry,
Edward Cnniupiicyn,
Win. S. Amweir.
Emlcn Franklin,
A. J. Ebrly.
J. W. Jehnsen,
it. u. nreany,
J. Hay Brown.
Charles Demies,
u. jr. inicman,
A. J. Kiiutfman,
Rebert B. Rink,
Rebert SI. Air new.
Thes. B. Cochran,
uenj. r . uavis,
A: r'. Shenck.
II. R. Fulton.
Samuel H. Price,
S. W. Siiadie,
E. D. North.
Alexander Harris.
Charles I. Landis,
ii. ir. unin,
W. H. Reland.
J. Duncan Cettrcll,
D. Brnincnl Case,
A. S. Hershey,
T. B. Ilelahnn,
Owen P. Bricker,
It. F. Montgomery,
Walter M. Franklin,
Jehn A. Ceylc,
Win. T. Brown.
Charles R. Kline,
i. w. venungcr,
A. II. Frltchey.
Thes. Whitson,
Gee. A Lane.
Charles B. Kauttnan,
James M. Walker.
Lancaster, Pa.. April 3I, 1SS1.
Hen. T. . Franklin, LL.M., JVcitfeH Light ner,
Nathaniel EUmaker, esq., and ethtrs of the
Lancaster Bar .-
Gentlemen : I am in receipt of your
kind note, requesting me te permit you te
present my name te the voters of Lancas
ter county as a candidate for re-election
te the high position which, byjthe partial
ity of my-fellow citizens, I at present oc
cupy. Coming te me, as your request does,
fromfalmest the entire bar, without dis
tinction of party, I de net feel at liberty te
decline te grant it, and. will, therefore,
permit you te use my name for the pur pur
pese'stated'in your,note.- r
Thanking you most kindly, gentlemen,
for your strong approval and endorsement
of my course as judge, as well as your kind
expressions of confidence in'ray integrity
and uprightness, I have the honor te be,
Your most obedient servant,
J. B. Livingston.
The LaiMlis Bill.
Iu the house at Harrisburg yesterday)
air. jenn u. juanais cauea up tne bill te
provide education -and -maintenance for
destitute and neglected children and the
Heuse being in committee of the whole.
made a set speech in favor of compulsory
education. He said that the bill would
add mere te the glory of Pennsylvania and
was of mere importance than any measure
before the Heusa. He then by quotations
and statements set forth the advantages
ei eaucaiien,
Mr. Myers vehemently opposed the bill
and compulsory education. If these
schools were begun there was no telling
where the expenses te the state will' end.
The common schools were open te all and
no child need go uneducated. He was"
opposed te making a Prussian empire of
Penu8lyvania. . ,
Mr. Landis then defended tbe Prussian
empire and asserted that the best class
of emigrants came from that country.
The worst class came from Ireland and the
udeducated countries.
Mr. Westfall said that 'if the educated
get what they deserve there "would be
mete of them in jail than the uneducated.
Tbe members of the beard of pardons
were educated but every one of them
ought te be in the penitentiary. The com.
mittec rose and asked leave te sit attain
but was refused,-and the- bill indefinitely;
postpencdTby 90 yctt teVJl nays?
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Flre'TUs'MeraUK.
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street,
burned
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children in the aleenimr rbem was found
.te be en fire, and the family being all
down stairs except a small son, the pre-
sumptien is that he was, playing with
matches and set tne eeu en nre. it was
partially consumed and had net the smoke I
been seen very seen the house wenld have
The house of Milten Greene, en Nevin ted by tue juster at G:30 a. m. The high
this city, narrowly-, escaped" being I mass at 9 chick' was celebrated by Rev.
this morning about 'half-past 8 J.bomet hnzabethtewn ; and Rev. A.
sleck. The small bed occupied by the Chnt, ei M. Antheny's of Lancaster, and
been burned. There is a possibility that
.the bedjmay bave taken tire from the
stove FPe.,.
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PROCKED1KUS.
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The First
Week of Quarter Sessions.
Wednesday Afternoon The cases against
Charles D. and Geerge A. Tripple,
charged with embezzlement, were contin
ued te the May adjourned term.
Cem'th vsl' David G.'ShaefferjTrebelving
stolen goods The accused testified that
the goods werCjbreutfht, fftrhis house by
William Wcider and Isaac Buzzard. They
told hjiUjthey had bought them, in Lan
caster' ' A number of witnesses testified te
defendant's geed character previous te
this charge. Verdict net guilty.
Cem'th vs. ChristianSharp, larceny as
bailee. The prosecutor was Cl A. Reece,
who formerly kept a shoe store in this city,
but is uew a resideut of Exsteu. He tes -titled
that en February 14,1831, Mr. Sharp
came te his stere for a pair of shoes for
his wife ; they were given te him en con
dition that he would return them if they
did net tit, and if they did he would pay
for them. The, shoes were net returned
nor were they paid for, and this suit was
brought.
The defendant testified that he took the
shoes home, with the understanding that
if they fit he was te keep ihera ; they fit
his wife and he concluded te keep them ;
in abeukau hear., pterward Mr. Rcece's
boy came te his store aud' asked for the
shoes or ineuey ; he then gave the boy a
pair of shoes which he had bought at auc
tion and which did net lit and 25 cents in
payment ; the boy refused te take this ; in
an hour the complaint was made aud wit
ness had a warrant served upon him.
In rebuttal Jlr. Kecce testified that he
gave the shoes te Sharp in the morning
aud did net .send for them until 3 o'clock
and did net bring suit uutil an hour after
that. Henry C. Demutb, Dr. H. B. Parry
and Win Guinpf testified that from what
they knew of defendant's character they
would net bjMieve him en oath.-
The uraiid jury returned the following
bills.
True bills Jehn Scherfi, pointing a pis
tol ; Walter Marshbank, Albert Reiden
bach and Gcerge Kemp, malicious mis
chief; Jehn 15. Slough, assault and bat
tery; Jehn M..Rewe. larceny as. bailee;
Charles Lewis, seduction, fornication and
bastardy ; Isaac Hauck, assault and bat
tery; 1). C Fleming, assault and bat
tery ami helling liquor en Sunday ; Jacob D.
Wari'el, felonious assault and battery and
selling liquor, te miners ; ,Theinas Smith,
assault anil battery; Jehn Heed, mayhem
arid assault and battery.
Ignored A. E. Welkhcmer, assault and
battery, with the presecutrix, Charlette
Stencr, for costs ; Mauuel McShane, as
sault and b itteiy, with county for costs.
Isaac Buzzard, who was convicted of
burglary at the houses of Benjamin Fritz
and Jeseph Uensemer, wa sentenced te
five' years" . imprisonment in each case,
making' a total of ten years at hard labor
in the county prison ; William Weidcr,
convicted of breaking into the house of
Jeseph Genscmcr, was sentenced te four
yctrs- imprisonment in the, county prison
at hard labor.
Charles Lewis plead guilty te fornica
tion and bastardy with Mary Fisher and
received the usual sentence. A nel. pros.
was entered in a seduction case against
the same defendant for want of evidence.
Thursday Morning. The jury iu the
case of Cluistian Sharp, charged with Iar Iar
ccne as bailee, rendered a verdict of net
guilty.
Verdicts of net guilty were takcu in the
following cases : Cem'th vs. florae e
Reynolds, Jehn Meyer, Christian Wallace
and Jehn K. Weikcr, fornication and
bastardy ; Theodere Heuse, larceny ;
Jacob Blechcr. adultery ; and William
Caldwell, false pretense. Thcse cases
were returned during the term of Ex
District Attorney Brubakcr it 1803. 18e9,
1870. The accused were never arrested
en the process issued for them. They
absconded at the time and statutes of limi
tations uew pnvent their prosecutions.
Cem'th vs. Henry Resh, Frank Dyer
and Win. Burns, of this city. These de
fendants were charged with stealing
pigeons fnu.i Casper Weaver iu December
last. Wm. Trust and Frank Dyer were
also indicted for stealing 15 carrier pigeons
from Milten J. Ruth iu January. Trost
and Dyer wen; also indicted fev .beiajr -accessory
te tin; larceny of the pigeons from
Casper Weav.T, aud Burns aud Resh were
indicted for being accessory te the larceny
of Mr. Ruth's pigeons.. Seme of the stolen
birds were limight at the store of Mr. Von Ven
dersinith. That gentleman was unable te
identify any of the boys as being the ones
who sold them te him. A few of Mr.
Ruth's pigeons were fennd at the house of
Trost. Olliccr Shay testified that Resh
and Burns admitted that they had stolen
pigeon.-, from Casper Weaver. Frank Dyer
told Geerge Ochs that he was in a bad
scrape, as Ruth's pigeons had been stolen.
He e.Tercd the witness a keg of beer te
swear falsely against him.
The defense was that the boys pur
chased the pigeons en market, for.hoot fer.hoot for.heot
ing matehes, mid also some from ayeung
man named Reamsnyder, who is new a
tugitivc from justice ou account of these
cases. Burns denied that he told the offi
cer that he took pigeons. Twe' of the
witnesses -said that Ruth offered te settle
the case for $59. Defendants also proved
geed character previous te this charge.
The jury found verdicts of net guilty.
Cem'th vs. Rebert Gochenour and
Frank Bender. These defendants are
two boy?, and they were charged with
stealing money from the money drawers
of Jehn F. Ilcrr and Reuben- Bewman, in
their market stands iu the central mar
ket, this city. It was shown that the boys
were seen near the stands of tbe prosecu
tors eue d.iy in February last. Tliey saw
considerable money counted and a short
time after they went away the money was
missed. One witness saw tbe boys at Mr.
Bender's stand. Bender crawled under
the stand and Gochenour steed guard out
side. When Bender came out tby went
away The money was missed seen after
wards. Several witnesses testified that
Gochenour often acted strangely. Ne
ether defense was offecred. The jury
found th boys guilty.4 Beth of these boys
have been in court before for stealing, and
the court sentenced them te be taken te
the house of refuge. '
The grand jury returned the following :
True Bills : .Elmer Helsinger, illegal
voting ; Jehn Pfeieer, Hull Nash, sr., U.
Celeman Kutz and' Harvey Martin, forni
cation and bastardy ; Jacob Fautz aud
Leandcr Lindemuth, assault and battery ;
City ;op -Lancaster, jnuiaauoe ;I David
Hauck, buiglary; Eliza Dennelly and
Henry Rogers, keeping a bawdy house.
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Kaster at St. Mary's la Mount Jey.
At St. Mary's Catholic chapel, in Mount
Jey, there were interesting services, yes
terday, the occasion being enhanced in in
terest by a visitation from the bishop. At
9 a.m. tbe persons who had been prepared
by Father Kaul marched in precession
fremtkeT hallCppstairn intd' theeburck
threagh we-freat d'oereaeb Inuring candle-bearer
alongside, who took the front
row of seats, and the communicants im
mediately back of them. Thcre were 11
who made their first communion, and 16
who were confirmed by Right Rev.
Bishop Sh luahas, of' ihjB diocese Be-
holy communion at the holy mass eclebra-
Father Gret eirteyer, of the same city, tier j
in the sanctnaryT Thc'Iatter preached an
eloquent scrmeu in1 German, whilst the
bishop spoke after mass in a very; feeling
manner, ana witn.- words' or appreciation
and encouragement te- the few members
composing this little congregation.
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