LANCAbTEItPAILl INTELLIGENCES, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1881. B jtancastet intelligencer, TUESDAY EVENING, APBIL 90, 1861. Gewea's TIew f It. .The Philadelphia Ledger does net like Mr. Gewen 's personal allusions ; which is net unnatural considering its tender feeling for Mr. Drexel. It thinks it par ticularly wrong te say bad things about people who are physically afflicted, hav ing especial reference te Mr. Scott. It is generally considered te be well te avoid saying evil of the dead, but il is a stretch of the maxim te require a pub lic speaker te deal very gently with peo ple who are only paralyzed; and Mr. Scott, s president of arlval rail road, can hardly clainr-exemptiem from criticism a fie hands of another rail road president, who thinks he has a grievance against him. There is no sound objection te saying what is thought of the conduct of men in pub lic positions-, trot a great deal of geed reason for it; provided only that the things are said justly and with geed reason. Frankness of speech is a virtue, when tempered with judgment. Mr. Gewenhas received a liberal share -of criticism himself, and tickles the public favor by the ability and boldness he dis plays in taking care of himself. He takes many strange views of things, but defends them with se much vigor as te win applause even from these who de net concede that he is right. Ne doubt lie astonished Mr. Smith, his predecessor in the Read ing presidency by claiming that Smith owed him a deep debt of gratitndefer relieving him of the presidency. Prob ably Mr. Smith has been thinking that the debt was just the ether way. Most people would consider that a man who gives se magnificent a place te another placed the denee under obligations te him. Mr. Smith retired from his high office because of his failing health, and when It was re stored he probably expected Mr. Gewen te return te him his gift. And as Mr. Gewen seems te have found it such a burthen it may seem strange that he did net de se. He persuaded himself, how ever, that his duty te the company re quired him te stick. But it is net easy for the ordinary comprehension te real ize hew peer Mr. Smith should have been grateful te Mr. Gewen both for taking what he wanted te give up and for keep ing what he wanted te get back again. Yet Mr. Gewen states his opinion of Mr. Smith's ingratitude with se much fervor tiiat no doubt he sincerely thinks that he his bc-en very much abused by him. m A Cetuty Fair. The business men of this city and the country people generally cannot overes timate the importance te their mutual interests of a well devised local exhibi tion of our natural resources, our ag ricultural and mechanical products and our business enterprise. The project of holding a county fair, in behalf of which a preliminary meeting of these interested is called for te-morrow afternoon, is one that can eidy lie made successful by the hearty co-operation of all concerned. It must be run in no personal or local in terest and en no narrow gauge princi ple. It should have the geed will and the participation in its management of representative men from all sections of the county, te the end that the widest popular inteiest be excited in its success and the fullest exhibition be secured of our great wealth of agricultural resources and products. With a richness of pro ducts of the soil far exceeding that of any ether single district iu the whole United Slates, it is a reproach that our community does net every year devise and sustain a far better exhibition in this line than even the state fair can show. Added te this is the ether considera tion that Lancaster city is rapidly grow ing in importance as a business point and manufacturing centre. All of these interests being inter-dependent, and each helping the ether, cau be profited by be ing brought together in an exhibition of their best products. Our farmers have much te learn by seeing new methods and many striking innovations in agri culture, new being se widely discussed, cau be exhibited and tested at a county fair. Se with our mechanics and man ufacturers "and tradesmen in their re spective liues. But the mere import ail objects of the exhibition should hi te bring all of these classes together, te the furtherance of these interests which are mutual and in the harmonious progress of which we secure the mere complete and self-sustaining develop ment. Especially is this the case in Lan caster, where se much surplus money of our agricultural community might prof itably be directed toward the upbuilding of manufacturing interests, which in turn would afford new and better mark ets for the products of our tillage. Tue warm weather lias had a very bad effect en the tempers of the Harris- burg legislators. The attorney general wn. f Ka!. tuef fi-ierwl in uraiit intr fn iif naawiuiuwu . vu Mini sesaiuu eiiuii.. xu;uiijr iucdiiiu fever iu their bleed disables them from judicious labor, and' they should hurry along their adjournment. They are net the band of, brothers they thought' they were when they met. Mr. Wolfe and Mr. Hewit declare that they came together at the beginning of the session as close friends, but new their feelings are uettunicable towards one another. Mr. Wolfe would like te have been speaker, but steed back for his friend Hewit ; but new he thinks it was love's labor wasted, since Hewit has shown himself, as he believes, te be en the side of the ringsters. Mr. Hewit, en the con trary, believes that he is a very virtuous man aud fair speaker, and con siders that .Wolfe aims te be entirely tee much of a dictator. Beth gentlemen sjetn te have naturally ardent tempera ments, and naturally, as we have suggest ed, such weather as we are having is en tirely tee het for their equanimity- Cool ness is a very necessary requisite for geel legislative work, and the proper de- mw f it-. il lifti(Mllh tn maintain nn f. ! zero weather in such a bear pen as the Heuse. If the Legislature proposes te sit j much longer it should consider the I advisil'i'i'v f providing itself with a convenient water tank, such as the sea lien's cage in Bamum's menagerie is fur nished with, that they may lave their fevered bodies constantly in its cooling fluid. The New Yerk Herald recommends, in view of the exposures et the Star, route frauds and Dersey's implication in them, that the company which se lately banqueted and toasted that statesman in Xew Yerk be reconvened and invited te review its judgment of him. Grant, we believe, presided and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher said grace, and Vice President Arthur praised the guest of the occasion for his judicious distribu tion of " tracts" in Indiana, which made Garfield's election in Xevember possible. It was a delightful company. By all means let it come together again and give Dersey and Brady a new certificate of character. President Gewen" seemed te think that President Bend had nothing te de; but President 'Bend at any rate has plenty of resolutions te pass ; and reso lutions sometimes are a very heavy bus iness. It is net Mr. Bend's fault that he can't carry them out, and that they have se much resemblance te the Pepe's bull against the comet. His disposition is all right ; and no doubt if Mr. Gewen would let him go, his work would be seen ; se it is net altogether fair for the man who mars his plans te twit him en his idleness. MINOR TOPICS. Tue Pittsburgh Telegraph should promptly tarn off the correspondent who writes te it from Washington that Senater Legan is a " natural born orator. " Prominent men of both parties in Ken tucky arc again agitating the question of calling a constitutional convention in that state. A man aud his wife in Philadelphia who left the well en their brickyard unguarded have been mulcted in $1,000 damages for the drewniug iu it of a neighbor's boy who went there te fish and fell in. Important te Gen. Weaver : The Greenbackcrs of Ohie are te meet in state convention in Columbus te-day. The Mis sissippi Grceuback state committee meets for consultation in Jacksen te day. Rufl's E. Shapley is credited with the opinion that the Democrats arc as likely as net te elect the next governor of Penn sylvania aud that they can best resolve all doubts about it by nominating Rebert E. Pattiseu, controller of Philadelphia, for the gubernatorial office. McCluiie has beeu ever in Washington settling things. He reports the end of the dead-lock nigh ; Garfield aud Conkling at dagger's points ; the cabiuet and presi dent harmonious ; the Republicans ashamed of the Mahone bargain, and the coalition weakening ; aud Representative McKee mere likely te be surveyor at Phil adelphia thau Edw. H. Ncvin, whom Cameren, Mitchell aud Windeui had picked out for the place. PERSONAL,. T .- v" t justi'ii iv. uhukt s new residence in Albany is te be the finest, or at least the costliest, in that vicinity. Rev. Hexicy Darijng has accepted the presidency of Hamilton college, te which he was recently elected. Mrs. Louisa G. Am-an, the fester mother of Edgar Allau Pee, aud one of the most distinguished ladies iu Virginia, died at her late residence in Richmond en Sun day, aged 83. The deceased was the leader el the best Virginia society in her day. M. D. Wickeusuam, postmaster at Mo bile, Ala., is charged with treachery te the Republican party, with diserganiza tien, and worse than all, with tampering with and destroying all letters of com plaint against his administration rent te the department through his office. Prof. R. A. Procter, the English astronomer, is seen te mai ry Mrs. Rebert Crawley, a widow of St. Jeseph, Me. They met in Australia, where he took his first wife and she had taken her first bus band for their recovery from delicate health. Beth died, aud their grief-stricken relicts, returning en the same steamer, de veloped a degree of sympathy for each ether that has ripened into the basis of the above announcement. The sudden death of Mr. James T. Fields removes from the world or letters one who has had no small share in for warding the best interests of American literature. Mr. Fields, te a large extent from 25 te 30 years age, initiated the pub lishing of the writings of Hawthorne, Whitticr, Longfellow aud Emersen in a fitting form. He was the first te bring to gether the scattered essays of DeQuincy, the first te reprint Tennyson's " Iu Me Me nieriam," the first te acquaint American readers with the remarkable school of English authors who have clustered about Tennyson and Brewninir. In the firm of Ticknor & Fields, iu which Mr. Ticknor was the financial and Mr. Fields the literary partner, he showed his signal ability as a mediator between authors and tneu. readeWj and g&ve fllQ l!0l,S!j witu whieh he was connected a unique position among American publishers, treating Euglish writers fairly aud euceuraging American authors te fresh and larger ef forts. His own literary ventures were meritorious and successful. A Panama Town Iluraed. Buenaventura, one of the most import ant commercial towns en the Pacific coast of Panama, was almost entirely destroyed by fire en the 12th inst. The houses were mostly built of weed, with thatched reefs, rendering its destruction almost certain were a fire te obtain any headway. The fire commenced in the very centre of the business portieu,in the kitchen of a private house. The beuse burned se rapidly that its owner, Mrs. Arana, was unable te es cape and perished in the flames. A strong southeast wind was blowing at tin time, and in a few minutes the entire section of the town nearest the shore was a sea of flame. Merchants were unable te save their books, papers or auything of value aud considered shemselves fortunate in escaping from their buildings with their families and servants. Three persons in all are said te have lest their lives. The losses are estimatrd at $1,000,000. - J " count piaaged a knife into old Michael Kinney ; he died instantly and they get away. statu macs. " Peer Jim Allen," of Tyrene, with three bottles of Sunday whisky in his pocket, fell from the train en his way home from Alteena, and was ground te death en the railroad track. Seme geese caught the eye of a little girl, the daughter of James Heffman, iu Pert Carben. She "shoe'd" the fleck and in her sport walked off a bank after the geese and was drowned. Michael Hart, a brakeman. while assist ing te make up a train in the yard at Car Car bendale, fell from a box car and was in stantly killed. The body was badly mangled. Hart was twenty-five years old and unmarried. The pleasant air caused some Schuyl kill county lads te walk up Second Mount ain. One of them dropped a lighted match. When they returned te Tumbling Run valley they looked back and saw the top of the mountain en fire. Yesterday the flames were raging. The Lackawanna county court having granted 205 licenses a reduction of 40 deems its discretion exhausted and an nounces that it has therefore taken judi cial knowledge of the fact that enough licenses have been granted for the popula tion and business of Lackawanna county. An impromptu ten dollar prize fight be tween Phil Leary, alias "Clarkie," and Johnny Thompson came off in an old woodshed en Weaver s wharf, Kensing ton, last Saturday night, and Thompson was beaten m twenty-six rounds, fought in forty minutes. Leary was nearly as fresh when the fight ended as when it be gan, but his opponent's face was badly damaged. The insurance mania rages with special severity up around Uelihsgreve and throughout Snyder county, boys and girls, men and women, speculate in policies and think, talk, and dream of little else. There are sixtcnu companies in the county in full blast. Many ether state concerns are represented, aud hundreds of agents are busy as bees writing policies, and trans ferring or selling them, and nothing is mere common than for such speculations en the death of neighbors te be put up at auction. Cel. J. Jerdan, a paper manufacturer of Valley Forge, says that en his way te the inauguration he detected some thieves stealing a passenger's watch and threat ened te threw them from the train unless they made restitution. They confessed the theft, but said they 'had dropped the stolen watch during a struggle en the platform, and one of them offered a geld watch in place of the silver one. The offer was accepted and they were allowed te escape. Jerdan believes the Valley Ferge murderer was one of these men and that they were after him (Jerdan) for re venge. m L.A.TES1' NEWS BT If AIL. Geerge Jacksen (colored), 45 years el I, was struck by the second section of the Washington through line express for New Yerk, en the Pennsylvania railroad, at Millstone Junction. His head was crushed causing death. Constable Hegan attempted te quell a disturbance at East Brookfield, Mass., en Saturday night, when he was set upon by a crowd of Frenchmen with stones and clubs. The officer fired and fatally wounded Charles St. Jehn. In Glasgow, Catherine Marshall, aged 14 years, daughter of a railway laborer, has net taken feed since the beginuing of the present year. She takes a little water daily, but scarcely sleeps. She is greatly emaciated, but her pulse is perfectly nat ural. There was an extraordinary hailstorm in Washington county, Ark., recently. Prof. Cenrad, of a college there, says that the average number of haiTstenes that fell upon the level ground was 135 te the square feet, and that many of tbem were of un common size, one measuring 7 inches in circumference and weighing 8 ounces, and another being nearly 3 inches in diameter and weighing 10 ounces. A Ievce which was built te protect the town of Harlem, Me., and the bread bet tem lands opposite the city from overflow gave way en Saturday night and a strong current, ten feet deep, is running at the rate of five or six miles an hour ever the tracks of the Hannibal & St. Jee, the Council Bluffs, the Chicago, Reck Island & Pacific and the Wabash railroads. Fer nearly a mile all these tracks are supposed te be washed out. Fercpaugh has sued Barnum for fifty thousand lellars for saying that Fore Fere paugh bought a let of old stuffed snakes and stuffed monkeys and blind horses from him and was new exhibiting them as first class attractions. Mr. Barnum was in mock despair when the sheriff served the capias at the Continental. He offered seven elephants, a boa constrictor and an anaconda as collaterals for his beard bill, and asked the proprietor te lend him ten dell irs te get out of the town. He had the check te ask Forepaugh te go his bail LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. ' I II KT OF COMMON PLEAS. I te ter Judge Patterseu. The ease of Mary Armstead vs. A. K. Witmcr and Emlen Franklin, executers of Jeseph Yeates Cunningham, was attached yesterday afternoon. This was an action te recover wages for services rendered the deceased during his life, she having been employed in his house. This morning it was feuud that Cel. Wm. S. Amweg, an important witness for the defense, is ill and unable te attend court. The case was therefore continued. In one case of D. P. Lecher & Sen., vs. Adam Bertsch, a verdict was taken in favor of the plaintiffs for $483.07. Anether case between the same, parties was dis posed of by taking a verdict for the plain tiffs for $341.98. The suite were brought en promissory notes which were never paid. In the case of the Hanover Junction & Susquehanna railroad company vs. Mus ser & Miller, action te recover stock sub scription, a verdict was taken in favor of the plaintiff for $890.35. There was no case ready at 10 o'clock this morning and the upper court adjourn, cd te this afternoon. Before Judge Livingsten: Martin H. Grube vs. Jehn Weidler, ac tion te recover the price of a reaper. In the year 1877 the plaintiff was agent for the Champien mover and reaper, and Jehn I. Kemper was a sub-agent. In the month of July Kemper sold te the defendant, who resides at Uregen, in Manbeim township, a reaper, for which it is claimed the plain tiff has never been paid. The defense is that the reaper was bought ou condition that if it gave satis faction the defendant would keep it; if net he was net te take it. $140 and au old reaper were te have been given for the new one The defense claim that the reaper did net work te their satisfaction and they placed it in the read. The su perviser removed it te a piece of weeds en the land of defendant's father and it was there yet when last heard of. On trial. Sword Presentation. Last evening at Masonic hall David H. Wylie, eminent commander-elect of Lan caster cemmaudery Ne. 13, Knights Templar, was presented with a beautiful geld-mounted sword by members et Lan caster Ledge of Perfection. The nreaenta. tien was made by Sir Recorder H. 8. Gara in a speech highly complimentary, te the recipient, te which Mr. Wylie responded in fitting terms. The sword may be seen at Shultz & Bre.'s hat store, North Queen stresr. VE3HLEKA''3 VOTE. Kew ever a Lancaster. County Rooster. J. B. Eshleman, one of the members-of the Legislature from this county, wasn't in aay hurry te get back te .Harrisburg yesterday, having tarried in town te at tend the meeting of the Republican county committee where he exhibited himself as a specimen " rooster." He get te Harris burg and up te the hill last night just after a vote had been taken en the previous question en Fauncc's motion te suspend the rules aud take up the tax bill en first reading. "When the roll was finished the vote steed 93 te 46, and the motion would therefore have been carried by the neces sary two-thirds had net Hill, of Indiana, and- Eshlemae, meanwhile arrived and asked te have their votes recorded. Hill stated that he desired te record bis vote aud no objection was raised. Eshleman merely addressed the chair and his name was at once called by the clerk and he voted no. Wolfe arose aud objected. The speaker ruled that the objection was net raised in time. Wolfe held that the Heuse had no opportunity te pass en the question and a het dispute arose as te the precise facts relative te the recording of Eshleman's vote. The speaker ordered the names te be read and deslarcd the re solution lest for want of a two thirds vote. Wolfe heard Eshelman's name read and asked the speaker what bad been done with the point of order. Hewit iaid it could net be raised. "I refuse te raise it new," said Wolfe, " for the decision of the chair would make that useless ; out l demand that it be considered, as it should have been before this vote been decided. I demand that the judgment of the lleue be taken en this point. Dees the spcaktr think he has supreme control of this Heuse or the majority?" "Ne." said Hewit; "nor has the gentleman from Union." Applause. Hewit continued that lie thought the Heuse had decided, by making no objection, that Eshleman's vote should be recorded. Wolfe said he bad objected, and said all he wanted was that the speaker should allow the Heuse te decide hew it had decided. Hewit ob jected te the phraseology of Wolfe's written appeal as unfairly stating the question, and after just one hour of wasted time Welfe was persuaded te withdraw his appeal en the ground that the decision, one way or the ether, could net affect the result. Seme trifling routine business was then done, but the' temporary lull was followed by a still greater tumult when Faunce get the fleer and moved te read the bill at once for the first time and te fix the second reading for Tuesday morning and the third for Wed nesday merniug. The resolution was read once and the speaker then took it and be gau what was evidently a private inquiry as te some parliamentary point in connec tion with it. The delay became net iceabl e and Welfe demanded the second reading of the resolution. , Speaker Hewit said he was considering a question of order in con nection with the resolution and asked the indulgence of the Heuse. Wolfe sail the resolution should be again read. It wrs net for the speaker or any one else te raise or consider points of order in connection with the resolution till it was in possession of the Heuse. The chair again expressed a desire te settle the point iu his own mind, and Wolfe asserted that he was consuming time just as it had been con sumed in many ether sessions heretofore and was endangering the passing of the resolution and of the important bill which was demanded by all the people of the commonwealth. Hewit angrily replied that Wolfe was the only man in the Heuse who would deny the chair the privilege of examining the qncstien, but he could net make buncombe at the expense of the chair. He (Hewit) had always voted with the gentleman from Union en these ques tions, and he proceeded at length iu his attack en Wolfe from the chair. He re commended him te figure up the hours he had consumed, and said that Wolfe was the only man en the fleer mean enough te deny the chair the right te inform him self en a question of order. If Wolfe ex pected te force the chair te put the question whether the resolution should be read a second time, the chair would refuse te act at the command of the dictator from Union. Wolfe said when the chair charged with being a dictator he simply replied with the charge that the speaker was an abettor of the ringsters. The words produced au immense sensation and the loud cries of approval and disapproval which had greet ed the excited and angry utterances of both Wolfe aud Hewit were hushed for a moment as the members watched the effect of this bold shot at the speaker. Hewit said deliberately, though evidently under great excitement : "When the gentleman from Union says I am au abettor of ringsters le says what is net trne in point of fact." Wolfe replied with equal earnestness : "The speaker is net right in point of fact, and when he oils me a dictator I will call him an abettor of ringsters, as he is." Seme sense of the disgraceful nature of this scene took possession of the Heuse and loud and persistent cries were made for the second reading of the resolution. As the speaker still hesitated, Faunce formally made a motion that it be read a second time, though stating that nothing else was iu order and that it should be se read, as a matter of course. Hewit replied that it would have been se ordered long age bad it net been for the attempt or Wolfe te dictate te the chair. The question was then put, the yeas aud nays demanded, and the resolution was ordered te be read a second time by a vote of 99 te 48. On this Landis and Snyder, of this county, voted right ; and Eshleman, Peeples, Courtney and Snader with the roosters. Hewit then decided that Faunec's me tien, of the same import as this resolution, had beeieted down and this could net be entertained. Faunce then moved that the evening's session be extended until the tax bill was passed en first reading, as it could easily be reached in a short tinle. The speaker decided this would change the rules and the motion must lie ever a day, and a like decision was rendered en a iso lation, by Law, fixing Tuesday, Wcdnct day and Thursday, iu special sessions, Jbf the readings of the bill, and another by Faunce, fixing te night, Tuesday and Wednesday for the same purpose. Faunce then made his last effort in the shape of a resolution te consider the bill en Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 10 o'clock ou the three readings respectively. Hewit then made a long personal ex planation touching Wolfe's charges against him, declaring that he was always with Welfe for reform ; -that the gentle man from Union had no right te indecent ly attempt te force the chair te immature decisions, and it was an infamous lie for anyone te assert that the chair had allied itself te any man, or set of men. Wolfe replied that he must judge him by his ac tions ; and Hewit adjourned the Heuse with the declaration that he had been far mere persistent in voting for reform meas ures than the gentleman from Union, Unclaimed Letters Following is a list of unclaimed letters remaining in the posteffice at Lancaster for the week ending April 23 : Ladei1 List: Mrs. Deiiah Boyd, Mrs. Sue Brittan, Mrs. Callie Frantz, Miss Carrie B. Foreman, Mrs. Mary Kurtz Miss Hattie Lawrence, Fannie Markley, jrrn. MaryPeist, Mary Shuck, Mrs. Hattie Summy. QenW Litt : .Chas. Bemm, P. F. Bur nett, H. C. Drinkle, Wm. Fulton, S. Gebhart. Satn'l Lucas, Leenard, Herner, ray, D. Perazze, Rev. A. D. Rewc. P. B, Spangler, Johny Tayler, G. E. Washburn! juaruu at een. jeud mertteiu. tt. u. Ainr. isaac ueiumau, r rank zeigier. THE OLD POLTTICIAX Discourses of the Circus, and Political Kings. The Old Pelitcian bought seven tickets and took all'tha grandchildren te the cir cus en Saturday (he has net missed one nor a "nigger show" in many years), aud he was se well pleased that he went alone iu the evening te sec the performance again and the crowd. Under no ether consideration than the fatigue of these undertakings would he have been absent from church en Sunday morning, when the Intelligences mau found him just after the Sunday papers had come in. ' Yeung man, I take the Sun en Sun day. I read Republican papers en week days, but I dilute my religion with Dem ocracy. " About the circus ? Well it was a geed one, but the thing I saw most strikingly from my seat en the upper benches was what the Intelligencer predicted some time age hew much the circus was like the circus that comes oft in our primary elections, seen te take place and new being se actively canvassed. In the first place, Barnum is yoked up with his old opposi tion, Bailey and Hutchisen just as Hiestand is new in harness with his late opponents, McMellen and Mentzer, and Geist ambles along docilely with Sensenig, Wissler & Ce. Then Barnum, humbug of humbugs, with his 'greatest show en earth ' reminds me of Geist everlastingly tooting the trumpet of reform.' Then there weie three rings at the circus, just as there is te be in our little circus next month the Sensenig ring, the Mentzer l ing, aud the sorehead ring of the fellows who get left by the combinations. The latter, like the middle ring at the circus, is the smallest. A rcat many people came te town ou Saturday ' te see the elephant ; ' and se a geed many go into the primary election campaign te seethe political elephant, and conic out of it poorer and sadder but net a bit wiser men. They go te the very next circus that comes along. The ani mals reminded me of the politicians. Seme of the wire pnLcrs are as clumsy as the elephants, some as deceitful as the snakes and the way that politicians and editors malign character makes them re semble the hyenas. The circus rider en two horses isu't any mere dextrous than Jehn Smoethface who premises two or three candidates and the ground and lefty tumbling out in that tent en Saturday was nothing compared with that of the bum mer politicians. " Well, young man, I did expect te have sonic news ler you te-day, but there isu't any. The past week has sccu no change in the situation and I don't think there will beany developed in the grand convocation of politicians which will as semble te-morrow at the county commit tee meeting. There will be a little skirm ish ever the day for the primaries. John John Jehn eon is for Jho last Saturday in May, as a rule, but the most of the New Era faction want it as early as possible, as they think they are fixed new. McMellen wauts it put off as late as possible. Jehn M. Glider's friends will make a dead set te have Geed forced off the Sensenig ticket for county treasurer and Grider put en, and will pay te have it done. The man agers may take the money, but -they are bound te stick te Geed se as te get the Pequca, Martic and Conestoga vote. Matt Fridy prevents Grider from bringing much te the combination and they don't lerget it. mere is te be no time wasted ever the lower places) ou the ticket "I notice Griest and Teist are at it again. They don't like each ether for any thing, and by the time they have their dirty linen washed the public may be en lightened and edified. I knew all about the matter Griest refers te and the five men he will name as having raised $50 te buy Geist will be himself. Jack Hiestand, Win. M. Wiley (dee'd), Beb Housten and Jehn M. Stehman. My own idea is that the fellows interested en their side that time did raise a peel te pay the expenses of tiieir campaign and Wiley may have spent $10 en " comunicatiens" in the Express, but that paper never took but one course en the question involved and nobody who knows Geist will bclive that he sold his editorial opinions in that bold way es pecially upon hearsay testimony thirteen years after, aud long after the only alleged witness is dead. " Oh, yes their controversy will be a bitter one, and you may expect Geist te draw the gate and let the water en. He will serve up Griest's record as county treasurer, his law suit with Dave Shultz, his row with Jehn Brady, and all that Levi Sensenig knows about Griest's candi dacy for Congress, and what Levi was te get if Griest was elected. Aud Griest will retaliate, and the Intelligencer may find some choice morsels te warm up for its readers." THE DRAMA. Maggie Mitchell as Fanclien The return of Miss Maggie the cricket. Mitchell te this city after an interval of several yeais was complimented by one of the most brilliant audiences that has been assembled at Fulton opera house the present season. Lancaster's most fastidious aud cul tured amusement patrons turned out iu force last evening te witness this little lady's rendition of one of her most lameus creations, Function. The role is one that has long since been universally recognized as her own. Her name has become identi fied with it, and se long as Miss Mitchell shall. continue te play youthful characters se long probably will, this impersonation continue te be regarded by her friends as one 'affording the widest scope for her un doubted ability, and the one en which rests the sure foundation of her fame. There is indeed no doubt of the perfect finish of Miss Mitchell's rendition of this difficult part. The widely divergent phases of character which its proper representation develops are illustrated in her acting with a fidelity that is the posi tive creation of genius. There is the sud den transition from the wild exuberant spirits of the impish gypsy waif, the lively cricket, with; te all outward appearance, never a thought of sorrow, te the lonely desolate condition of the despised and ne glected girl, the grandchild of a reputed witch, with a full consciousness of her degradation ; and it is into these lat ter phases or the part, especially, that MLss Mitchell has the power of infusing a wealth of tenderness and feeling that go right straight te tha heart of the behelder and are infinitely sad and touching. Miss Mitchell unquestionably produced a marked effect upon her audience, as was evinced by several calls before the cur tain, aud the fact that at frequent stages of the performance there was many a moistened eye in the audience and a libera! aud undisguised use of pocket haukcrchiefs. only te be succeeded by smiles and laughter at some new and merry fieak of the strange creature. Sel dom bus there been witnessed upon the I opera house stage a mere deeply touching spectacle than that of the second act where the i ude assemblage of boys and girls at St. Audoche's festival assault the defenseless orphan with the purpose of taking from her the "devil's claw" which she is reputed te wear about her neck te exercise unholy spells, when drawing it from her besom the Cricket causes te be read before the shamed faces and bowed head of her accusers a beautiful prayer te the Virgin Mether. Miss Mitchell's acting in this scene was admirable as in deed it was throughout the performance. Her support was entirely satisfac tory, notably worthy of mention being & "? vJIZLiw ?ldie? anJ Mr' McC,ann,n Mr. Kussell s L.anaru, Mr. Mitchell's s Fattier Bar- beaud. ROADS AWD MRIDGES. Viewers Appointed and Reports Ces armed. Finally In the court of quarter sessions last week the following reports en reads aad bridges were confirmed absolutely : t Fer a read in Maner township from tfeb Charlestown read te a public read leading te Herr's mill. Fer a read iu Sidsbury township, from the read between Pewnall's and Butter's te the read between Smyrna and the Bart meeting house, en Jane Wilsen's lands. Vacating a part of the Peter's read in Earl. West Earl and Upper Leacock, from the New Helland turnpike and laying out another in lieu thereof. Fer 'erecting a bridge ever Cocalico creek, near Bucher's mill, en the read from Reamstown station te Reamstown, East Cocalico te bear a part of the ex pense. Commending the bridge ever the Octo Octe Octe rare creek, between Lancaster and Chester counties at Mercer's fording. Viewers Appointed. The court appointed viewers iu response te petitions as fellows : On a proposed read in Provideuce and Strasburg townships, between the Big Spring and Beaver Valley turnpike and the Lancaster and Pert Deposit read. I. Bachman, A. N. Warfeland J. B. Brcck- bill. Te lay out a publie alley in Mount Jey borough. Samuel S. P. Lytle, Jehn R. Leng, Stepheu G. Musser. Te vacate part of a read in Mount Jey township, from Elizabethtewu te Nissley's mill, and lay out another, beginning en the lands of J no. L. ivshlemau, and run ning te lands of Jno. Shacffer. Jac. Sou Seu ders, B K. Eshleman, James P. Wat Wat eon. Te view and lay out a read iu Colerain township, from the Bartville and Pusoy Pusey villc read te the Kirkwood and Strasburg read. Themas Byers, Abra. Roup, Fraa- cis N. Scott. Te view and lay out a read in Sadsbury township, from the Smyrna and the Mine read te the Kirkwood and Strasburg read. Samuel Slokem, " esq., Rebert Maxwell, Z. B. Williams. Te view and lay out a read in Strasburg township, from the Lampeter Square and Martinsville read te the Martiusville and Strasburg read. Jacob Hildebrand, Henry Musser, Henry Hersh. Te view and lay out a read in Salisbury township, from one part of the Red Well and Mount Airy read te another, en the lands of Jehn Patten : Samuel II. Hen Hen dereon, esq., Jehn C. Linville, James Byers. Te vacate part of a read in Clay town ship, which runs from Simen B. Snyder's horse power shed te his dwelling house, and lay out one from the read from Eberly's mill te Eberly's store, ending in the same read at a point of land between Evan E. Ebcrly and Simen B. Snyder : Jacob B. Hacker, Hiram L. Erb, Joint Y. Weidman. , Te vacate the read in Maner township connecting the Blue Reek; read and the Columbia turnpike, 'and lay out an ether : Gee. Trout, Gee. Urban, Jehn S. Gingrich. Te view and lay out a read te Sadsbury township, from the Christiana and Smyrna read te Gay street, near the office of .the Christiaua machine company : Sylvester Kennedy, Gee. Scott, Jeseph B. Morri son. Te view the site of a proposed bridge ever Ceney creek, en the read leading from Elizabethtown te Bainbridge : Jaceo G. Oldweiler, Henry B. Hamaker, Abra ham Ferney. Te vacate part of a read in East Cocalico township, from Fry's mill te the read from Red Run te Hahnstown, and lay out another from Flickcnger's meeting-house te the read from the Red Run and Hahns town read : Jehn W. Mentzer, Nelsen Welfskill and Cyrus Ream. Fraternal Visit. Last evening some fifteen members of Lititz ledge, Ne. 253, K. or P., or Lititz, paid a fraternal visit te Lancaster ledge Ne. G8, at their castle hall, Prince street, and witnessed the initiation of one candi date and the conferring of degrees en eleven ethers, including the amplified form. The visit was entirely informal and a snrprise te the Lancaster ledge, the prime object of the visitors being te witness the complete exemplification of the unwritten work of the order as given by Ne. 08. After the' session of the ledge - the Lititz knights were escorted te the saloon of Knight Wm. A. Scheenbergcr, North Queen street, where an ample collation had been prepared in the interim, which was partaken of with a relish that was huge. The visitors left for their homes at an early hour this morning, expressing themselves highly gratified. A Fermer Lancaster' Pnysician in Trouble. Dr. Samuel Evans, who some eight or ten years age practiced medicine in this eity, having his office in East Orange street near North Queen, add Who subse quently removed te Asbury Park, Mon mouth county, New Jersey, has recently get into trouble in that place. A telegram announces that he-has been arrested and prosecuted for practising without a di ploma. Dr. Evans claims that he was graduaed at the Castletqn medical college Vermont, and that his diploma was burned iu his house at Charleston in 1861. The college has ceased te exist and its records are shattered. Dr. Evans is sixty, and he must have practised mediciie?' at least twenty-five years. He is well known in Lancaster, and while practising here he and bis family were consistent members of the Methodist church. Divorced. In the court yesterday E. P. Warren, M. D., was divorced from his wife, Clara S. Warten, en the grounds of ill-treatment. The parties arc from Yerk county and the libel lant is a brother of Dr. War ren, of this city. The gist of the testi mony, mostly given by the libcllant's brothers, was that the temperament of the respondent "very masculine" iu compari son with his made his condition intelera ble aud life burdensome ; she once threw1 a bucket of coal ashes ever 'him awl at another time locked him out. se that he had te sleep iu his buggy iu. tluvbarn ; she wasTigoreus and be meek1 and leng-suf-lering. Beth judges were en the bench when the depositions were read. Theie was no service en the respondent and the libellant did net testify. Scvt from Strasburg. Mr. Wm. K. Beuder, who moved te 'Strasburg this spring, Js'-having the house iu which he moved repaired. A brick kitchen is being attached, and a story is being added te the main house which is te be covered with a handsome mansard reef. We have no doubt that when the house is hnished it will present a very attractive appearance, and will add greatly te the appearance of the central portion of the borough. Mr. Jehn F. Reese has lately been turn ing out a numlier of very handsome top buggies. Who He Was. James McCann, who died suddenly yes terday morning at the almshense, was a resident of Marietta. He leaves a wife and six or seven children, all of whom are grown. Twe of his sons were in this city this morning. The interment will be made at the almshouse. Sale et Uerses. Samuel Hess & Sen, auctioneers, sold t in..... ., iu .u-j Afiiii .u, a ..- . .(KKi .f. XT......!. i .:i Ot n el.A Merruuac house, this city, Ter ucerge Gressman, 19 head of Canada horses, at an average of 8184.32 per head, the high-1 est one selling for $240. COLUMBIA NEWS. OUR KKGOLAR CORRESPONDENCE. There were mere people at the Pennsyl vania railroad depot at 6:20 o'clock last venia tints at any time for the past couple of years, the crowd consisting for the most part of raftmen who had ran their rafts te Pert Deposit or ether des tinations and were en then way back te bringd own ethers. Net a few of them were se pleased with 'the excellent state of the river for rafting-purposes and the wind less weather1 equally conducive with the river's state te successful running that they relieved themselves of an ever-ex-aberance in spirits by getting outside of spirits of adetkrsart, r which bad the effect of quieting some, but acting te the contrary with ether?. Miss Ellen S. Preston, principal of the Columbia higtt1 school, "has positively de de eliued te be the successor of herself when tihe election of. teachers comes off in the school beard That "MisS Preston's reasons for the course she is about "te take are sufficient, there is no doubt. Her re-election would very probably have been unan- imeus. Following is the ureiiramme manned out 1 i for Thursday, the last day of the Harris burg convocation of the Protestant Epis copal church, new in session at this place: Morning prayer at 9 o'clock; business meeting at 10 o'clock ; services for deaf mutes at 1:30 o'clock p. m., te be conduct ed by Rev. Henry Winter Syle, of Phila delpbia ; clerical discussions at 3 o'clock ; evening services at 7:80 o'clock, sermon by Rev. Allen S. Woedle, of Alteena. The bottom of the southwest corner of the reservoir, in the let adjoining the high schoel'grounds, in one respect, is net un like the reservoir of a couple of years age at Conshohocken, from the fact that like that one this oue is often "lest, strayed or stolen." Just what is the' matter the Col umbia water committee has been unable te find out at least if they have they have been unable te remedy it, and new, te put a step te its frequent canticees, they are engaged in filling it in. This will de what all these years' fixing has been unsuccess ful in doing. Mr. Henry Cepenhefl'er, of West Hemp field township, whose residence was en tered by burglars m few nights age,, thinks that the'burglars were no strangers ; in leaving they took a little by-read, running through some timber land near, which is net generally known. The fifth school of the secondary de partment was examined yesterday. Te-day the sixth secondary school will pass through the ordeal, and, in the order named, the first, second and third schools of the primary department will be exam ined en Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The examinations will end en Monday, May 16, when the colored primary, taught by Miss Annie M. Williams, will be heard en what it knows. Itureugli llrevllles. High school commencement,, May 27. Buffalo Bill te night. Burr and Megar Megar gee, of the Press, in town. Heavy run of rafts te-day. Jehn S. Given, of Dever, Del., visiting Mr. Henry Suydam. Heavy catches of shad below the dam ; 100 at Mud island last night. Dr. P. Grcss and wife of Atchison, Kansas, visiting Mr. Gee. Grcss. Rain, thunder and lightning lastjnighi. Mr. F. W. KUnk, of Middle town, lately the guest of Mr. C. L. Mur ray, has returned home. The school beard asks proposals, te close May 10, for a new building en Seuth Fifth street. Three sections, with some 36 or 40 cars en the emigrant train this morning and ever 1,200 passengers. LITTLE LOCALS. Uere and There and Everywhere. II. B. Greff & Ce.'s office and ware ware ware heuse, Jehn H. Bushong and H. K. Kel ler, grain dealers ; B. F. Stener, machin ist, and the Stevens house have made connections with the telephone exchange. Jehn Dickcl, en complaint of his wife, was arrested and held for a hearing te bu had before Alderman Ikmr te-morrow afternoon, te answer complaints of drunk en and disorderly conduct and assault and battery, made against him by his better half. Samuel Miller, of Conestoga township, has sold his tobacce1 crop te Dr. Kendig ; for one acre he received 2'.', 10, 5 and 'I cents per pound ; for another let 12, 5 and 3, and for the balauce 9, 5 and 3. General Weaver, who speaks in Fulton hall te-night, arrived at 1:40 p. m. from Harrisburg and is stepping at the Lancas ter County house. M. Brosius, esq., of this city, has ac cepted an invitation te(deliver an oration in Philadelphia ou Decoration' dayimider the auspices of Pest Ne: 19, G...A.- R. On the list or cases for the supreme court, which meets in Harrisburg next week, there are twenty-three' eases from this county. A number of these have al ready been net pre.ueiL The list with the hour list can be seen in theprotheuotary's office. Yesterday merniug a lire in the spice mills of Geerge J. Hardy, 233 and 235 Weed street, Philadelphia, destroyed about five hundred pounds of roots and herbs belonging te the Kidneycura manu facturing company of this city. Tbey had been seut theie for the purpese5 of having them ground. Less about $100. Charles Ol-df, son of JehniOchs, the well known grecer,3GC Seutli Queen street, left Lancaster last evening in the 11:30 traiu for St. Leuis, Me., where he purposes locating and ceing into busiheas. Mr. Ochs is an intelligent, upright and active young man, held in high esteem by many fmnds of this city, who will wish him abundant success in his new home. Twenty couples, with Miller's orchestra, set out from the Black Herse hotel last evening for a surprise party te Samuel Heffman, 'tailor, residing ou Columbia avenue. His wife was in the secret audi the visitors had a merry time and were handsomely entertained with a royally geed supper. Orders have. beeu issued, by the aatnori aatneri aatnori tieitef the Reading railroad that all mail bags passing ever the read shall be weigh ed for the ensuing thirty days, commenc ing' te-morrow. At the West King street station, this city, the bags en the Quar ryville branch, for West Willow, Rel'ten, New Providence and Qnarryvillc, south, and Pcterbuig and Junction, north, will be weighed. Nertli of Junction the bags will be weighed at Columbia and Read ing. Te-day the city assessors of the several wauls arc sitting in select council chamber te hear appeals of taxpayers, from the taxes assessed against them. . A geed many taxpayers appear te laoer auder.tbe mistake that the assessors are responsible for the increased taxes. The fact is, the assessors have neth ng at all te de with the matter except te obey the orders of city councils, which this year fixed the rate el taxation at 90 cents en the hundred dol lars instead of 70 cents, which was the former rat.?. The extravagance of a RepulS Iican street committee is responsible for the increase. .Matrimonial. Mr. Jehn W. Hicmenz, sIiej dealer, Nertli Queen street, was united in mar riage this morning at 8 o'clock te Miss Julia Stiebcl, daughter of Henry Strobel, of Ne. 333 East Orange street. The ceremony, performed by Rev. Father Kaul, took place in St. Antheny's church during high Inup'nl masp. Millard's "Ave Marie" was sung by Harry Drach bar ; nndIcndelssehu's "Athalia" wed ding march was played en the grand organ by l'iei. uaas. a. reception was alter- - ? - . - , - .. . ... -.j-'".::-.Tr:; mjuw ui ure untie s parents, and at 2:30 this afternoon the happy couple started for Washington; Richmond and ether places in the Seuth"
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