a
lancaster intelligencer.
SATURDAY STONING. AFBXL 80, 188L
A Remarkable Bepsrt.
The committee which has been se long
laboring ever the attorney general's
opinion en the salary question has made
its report te the Heuse and received the
thanks and nearly unanimous approval
of the members for its conclusions;
which ought net perhaps te be surpris
ing, seeing that the report declares that
the attorney general was all wrong in
his law, and that it wasa very mean and
unworthy thing in him te step the
tn-ewth of the members' salary after
the hundred days. Legislators are hu
man, and they are net generally supposed
te be an extraordinarily virtuous and
unselfish type of humanity ; se that they
could hardly have been expected net te
be gratified at the declaration of their
committee that they had a solid right te
all the money they had voted themselves.
But it does seem odd te see the members
se unanimous. It is a state which is en
tirely new te them. "All the session
through they have exhibited themselves
as of the most discordant minds ; and
even these who came together close
friends are new wide apart as the poles.
Notably, for instance, Messrs. Wolfe and
Ilewit have parted company, te come
together only en this salary matter, when
they .stand "side by side we believe ;
though Wolfe calls Ilewit the abettor
of ringsters and won't lake it-back,
while Hewit considers Wolfe te be a
bad fellow . who always wants te have
things his own way.
And that is something like the thought
of the people about these legislators,
whom they see se unanimous about their
salaries and se very much enraged at the
attorney general fercutting them down.
The thought is that it would be a geed
deal mere becoming in men, se greatly
interested in a legal point, net te be
quite se brash and unanimous and de
cided about being in the right about it ;
and te be mere modest in declaring te
be wrong the reputable lawyer who is
the attorney general, and who has de
cided the matter against them in the
usual course of his official duty.
The committee which has mads this
report has had the satisfaction, of venti
lating its legal opinion and of having it
approved by their clients ; but that is
all the satisfaction they or the clients
can get out of it. There is a geed deal
of comfort in self-satisfaction even when
there is mighty little foundation for it,
and probably these people feel a great
deal better ever the conclusion they have
come te. Perhaps they think they have
settled it. Indeed the language of the
committee seems te convey its
very positive conviction that what
they have said cannot be gainsaid.
They find very great fault, for
instance, with what they style "the
peculiar mode adopted for forcing be
fore the people the opinion by the attor
ney general," and avow that " the con
victions of enlightened people can scarce
ly partake of the disagreement concern
ing it." Wc understand from this that
the committee considers that no " en
lightened ieeple " can possibly disagree
with its belief tiiat the attorney gener
al's conduct was wrong. Consequently
all we who de net see it are net enlight
ened ; which is a conclusion mere satis
factory te the committee than te our
selves. But perhaps we de net rightly appre
hend this committee's language. We
confess that we state our view of its
meaning with great distrust. We have
read its sentences witli great care and
labor, and at the cost of much time. We
have generally been able te fix a sensible
meaning upon them, but often we can
not feel sure that it is the true one. The
author of this paper is, we suppose, the
chairman. Lawyer Ruddiman, of Phila
delphia. Mr. Ruddknan's law may
be as geed as he thinks and
se may be his English. Evidently
he considers both first-class. His law
we consider very shaky ; but we will
concede that his English is very mag
nificentif it i3 anything. The question
with us is whether it is English at all.
Language being given te express ideas,
the language that don't express the au
thor's meaning te the ordinary compre
hension, can thirdly be said te fulfil its
function. Ne doubt Mr. Ituddiman has
ideas. He is reported te be a geed law
yer and a man of intelligence, se that he
must think at least, and think sensibly,
when his judgment is net warped by
self-interest as en this salary business.
Se tee he can talk sensibly. But the
pen is tee much for him. He
can't write plainly and clearly what he
thinks. He wants te get in big words and
big sentences ; and by the time he gets
through with an idea it is se twisted about
that it needs an interpreter te translate
it into the author's mother tongue. Se
that we will net positively assume that
we are right in supposing that we under
stand what Mr. Ruddiman means te say
when he speaks of enlightened people
" partaking " of a disagreement ; but
we have done our best te construe his
language.
Perhaps some of our readers may think
that they can understand anything and
anybody. Fer their benefit we give
them the following little sentence from
Mr. Ruddiman's report and wisli them a
joyful time digesting it:
Prececdiug te a review of the questions
involved in the instructions under which
your committee arc acting, they conclude
that upon the point of motive or purpose
looking te the remarkable effort of the
attorney general te place his printed ad
dress in some way before the Legislature,
it is sufficient for them te suggest that if
it bad been designed in geed faith and te
effect a result no less in consonance with
the respect due from one department of
the state government te another than
with the well-being of the commonwealth
that document would hardly have been
suffered - te remain in conceal
ment for almost eighty days of
the session of the present Legislature,
and then have been brought te the notice
01 tuese most iniuresieuuniyaiier repeated
failures te give it announcement by means
of inquiry from officers who did net care
te be advised of its contents, through self
xccking and solicitation by its author, and
at length by the irreverent aid rendered by
the band which signed the name te the let
ter already devised and written for him;
the assertion founded upon ether than
competent information that tlie Legislature j
was net accempnsiung uie ensincss
for which it had come together was net
only unwarranted and dJsrespactfel bat
wenld seem net unnaturally te be signifi
cant of a reason wholly different from the
one te discourteously assigned, and that
motive and purpose might perhaps be
looked for, net in vain, in certain relations
net apparent te these upon whom the pre
tense of a reluctant concession te the de
mand of official obligation in the prepar
ation and promulgation of the se-called
opinion was meant te have the effect of
the dignified gravity and weight of his
sincere recognition of legal requirement.
It may net be amiss here te ask who con
ferred upon the attorney general author
ity or guardian ever the legislative body
of this commonwealth or the power te
gauge the necessity or exteBt of the. ser
ice rcnderedSby it.
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MINOR TOPICS.
The 882,920 Congregationalists in the
United States gave, last year, for their re
ligions work, $3,692,922.24, or an average
of nearly $10 per member.
The Jews of Hungary form less than 5
per cent, of the population ; but they fur
nish 18 per cent, of tbt university stu
dents, and two-thirds of tils Jewish stu
dents study jurisprudence.
Ix Trinity church, Pawtucfcet, R. I., at
the recent Easter Monday etottien, three
women were made members of ihe vestry.
Likelv the ease is without precedent in
the history of the church in this- country.
In locating the Mr. Wigwam automatic
gate and bull story in Dnrnrore township
the Examiner shows a fertility of imagina
tion only equaled by the author of the
romance whieh is probably net ever ten
years old.
In a certain Western conference of the
African Methodist Episcopal church a pre
siding elder was suspended from the miu .
istry one day, expelled the next, restored
te the ministry en the third day, and made
presiding elder again en the fourth day.
The: entire debt of $40,000 assumed by
Chaplain McCabe te save the church, at
Salt Lake City has been paid, principa
and interest. The total amount is $43,
027.2S. It might have been paid long age,
but net a dollar -has been diverted from
the regular work te pay this debt. The
league of a thousand ladies with their
punch cards have paid the most of it.
Geerge WASHBURN.prcsideut of Rebert
college, Constantinople, conveys te the
world, which does net seem te have
thought of it, the welcome fact that Bea Bea
censfield, was "se far as his
private character was concerned, a
geed man, a Christian man. He
had net the intense moral ear
nestness of Mr. Gladstone ; but he was a
sincere member of the church of England
and a firm believer in the truths of relig
ion." It is estimated that the careless emission
of the word "and" in the appropriation
providing for a new pension building and
site will cost the government $24,000 in
additional rent, thus rendered necessary.
It will be remembered that the appropria
tion as enacted provides for the purchase
of laud simply, while the intent was te in
clude both land aud building. Asa con
sequence the work will be delayed for a
year.
Oun neighbor, the daily New Era, has
entered upon its fifth volume, giving evi
dences of unabated prosperity and justify
ing its cftert te fill the apparent vacancy
in Republican local journalism which its
editor felt was created when the Express
was merged in the Examiner. Our young
and vigorous contemporary also an
nounces that henceforth it is divorced
from wicked political partuers who have
se often put it into au equivocal posi
tion. Tue Lancaster weakly Inquirer is again
informed that the Ixtelligexceu re
published nothing from the Examiner
about itself which had net been sent te
the Examiner office distinctly marked
" local " and with no ether instructions.
But as the Inquirer in its present issue
informs its readers that the junior editor
of the Ixtelt.:gencer is a "Peter Funk"
"a renegade," "a scoundrel," has the
political "jim jams," aud an "utter lack
of common sense." and is a "blather
skite," that of course "settles it."
The spring course of lectures at Crozier
theological seminary this are year te be
delivered net only by a Presbyterian, but
by a layman, Principal Jehn W. Dawsen,
LL D.. F. R. S. of Magill college, Mon
treal. Sir. Dawsen is a graduate of the
University of Edinburgh and is a scholar
of very high repute, especially in the field
of geology, in which he has been a most
diligent worker and has beceme a most
distinguished authority. Agnosticism in
its relation te Natural Science ; Monistic
Biology ; Eveluti en ; The Origin and An
tiquity of Man ; Mind in Nature, . and
Nature and Revelation are the subjects
that take up the large field mapped out
by this distinguished lecturer.
"That dectrine is true which makes a
man true, aud that church is right that
most develops true manhood," says Mr.
Becchcr. " The value of a doctrine is te
b9 measured by its power te develop Christ
in human nature. Whether orthodoxy or
infidelity, one church or another, that is
best by which Christ is born in the souls
of men. Fer most things I think men
have a better chance in our church than in
the Church of Reme ; but if a man can
find Christ best developed in the Reman
Catholic church I bid him Ged-speed and
say, ' Ge in !' And this net because it is
best, but because it may better form
Christlikeness in him. The object of t he
church is net te display graces, but te
sarve as a school te train men."
fatal Uebaaehei.
Chiistepher Mallady, aged 15, of Al-
toena, left home early en Wednesday
morning in company with several com
paniens. They met a number of tramps.
who were well supplied with whisky, and
Mallady drank repeatedly from a .quart
bottle. Afterwards he lay down under a
tree where his lifeless body was found the
next morning. The boy went from his
home in the morning without anything te
eat and did net procure any feed the en
tire day.
T. G. Telsen, a farmer and horse dealer,
located near Baltimore, Md., was found
drowned in the Delaware, at the Kensiug Kensiug
tea water works wharf, yesterday morn
ing. He had come te Philadelphia te buy
horses, " n:ade a night of it," and fell into
the water while drunk.
3S
LACASTIR DAILI
''.'-. ,
PXBbOHAlN.
Mr. Jehn Wakamaxek has returned
from Flerida resterad in health, and will
at once resume the active management of
his great business.
Secretary Blaine, returned t Washing
ton en Thursday evening. He was ac
companied by William Walter Phelps, re-
cently nominated as minister te Austria,
who will be his guest for a few days.
Barex Mats, the Austrian minister at
Washington, having; received six months
leave of absence, yesterday called at the
state department and presented Count
Lippe, secretary of the legation, who will
act as charge d'affaires during the baron's
absence.
The Maryland press just new is exer
cised ever the truth or falsity of a state
ment that has been started en the rounds
te the effect that Governer Hamilton, of
that state, went te Bosten te purchase the
furniture for the executive mansion. The
able remarks upon the subjaet that have
found their way into the papers are worthy
of being preserved as an unique literary
collection.
The Independent uses cold steel te make
the announcement that the wife of GeOBGE
Eliet's "husband" is still living, and that
the great authoress "lived in Open concu
binage with Lewes, was his mistress (or,
rather one of his mistresses), and the
Eliet-worshiping set accepted the situation
and objected mainly te having the fact
stated in plain English. The nonsense
about ' Eliet ' considering herself married
te Lewes, etc., etc., imposed en these who
wished te be imposed en, and en nobody
else."
STATE ITEMS.
The price of beer in Philadelphia has
been fixed at $8.50 per barrel by the
Brewers' association.
There are thirty Mutual life insurance
companies in Dauphin county, all char
tered within eighteen months.
Majer West Funk, for some time super
intendent of the Jeffersen medical college,
has been dismissed in consequence of the
directors having discovered discrepancies
in his accounts. A bend secures them
srem less.
Mrs. E. E. Haldeman of Harrisburg, se
much given te geed works, has been en
tertaining the managers of the Heme of
the Friendless, with a number of her old
friends at a supper, and with music, her
self at the piano.
Messrs. Alem B. Tate and H. W. Kahler
have started a daily newspaper in Blooms
burg, Columbia county, called the Sun.
It is bright and newsy as it naturablv
would be under the editorial direction of
that veteran journalist, Mr. Tate. The
Sun is the first daily paper ever published
in Columbia county, and will no doubt re
ceive the cordial support that it deserves,
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Jehn Frank, a saloon keeper, about 50
years of acre, has committed suicide in
Baltimore.
The creator portion of the village of
Mount Merris, Michagin, was destroyed
yesterday morning by fire.
Andrew Partcck, Adam Urichs and
Jehu Martin were killed by a fall of rock
in a tunnel of the Susquehanna coal com
pany, at Nanticekc.
A movement against the Jews has broken
out at Argenau, West Prussia. A mob.
led by a school teacher, has wrecked the
houses of some Jews and maltreated the
inmates.
The nominations sent te the Senate.
which have net yet been acted upon, num
ber 217, of which 4 are judicial, 17 censu
lar aud diplomatic, C of U. S. district at
torneys, 7 of U. S. marshals and 17 of col
lectors of customs.
A family mamed Weaver, eight in num
ber, living en an islet in the centre of a
marsh at Cre se, Michigan, was found a few
days age destitute, with nearly all of the
members sick nf malignant scarlet fever.
Three of the children died within twenty
four hours.
The total less of property by the floods
in the Missouri river and its tributarias
Sioux City, Iowa, and Bismarck, Dakota,
is estimated at $2, 500,000. Belew Sioux
City, including the damage at Omaha,
Ceuucil Bluffs, Kansas City, and thence te
St. Leuis, the less is estimated at $1,200,
000, making the aggregate $4,000,000.
The state attorney in Louisville, Ken
tucky, has begun several suits against the
Louisville & Nashville railroad for violat
ing a law of Kentucky by running Sun
day trains. He claims that the company
has become liable te fines aggregating
$350 and costs, namely, one fine of $50 for
running the train, and six ether fines of
$50 for the employment of persons "en
gaged iu work and labor en the same.
Mayer McLean, of East St. Leuis, re
ceived a lead of shot in his face from a man
named Maucheraut, and returned the fire
with a revolver, inflicting a wound in
Mauckerai.t's neck, which will probably
prove fatal. One of the mayor's eyes was
destroyed. The mayor, with a squad of
police, was protecting the erection of a
fence around a let, the title te which was
disputed by Maucheraut.
The Charlottesville, Va., Jeffersonian
declares that the sleeping Hungarian at
Allentown. formerly worked down in that
country, and was made crazy and a de
jected wanderer by a colored woman who
for a joke put cayenne pepper into his
coffee, no fancied himself frozen and
wandered about the mountains until
almost frozen, and being friendless re
lapsed into melancholy of which his pres
ent stupor is the sequence.
Postmaster Geerge W. Snooks, Dr. W.
Decker, Merris Axtell and Charles Weed,
of Mount Clemens, Mich., went te Lake
St. Clair en a fishing excursion. The lake
was full of floating ice, making navigation
by sail beat very dangerous. The party
wcre last seen late Wednesday afternoon
from one of the islands when a squall
struck them and they disappeared. Twe
tugs have been searching for them but
without avail.
Christ Kech, an engineer who runs be
tween Grand Island and St. Paul, return
ing te his home at St. Paul, found the
deer of his house locked. On gaining an
entrance he found his three children in
bed and his wife en the fleer, all with their
threats cut and a razor en a table near by.
The children were aged four years, two
years, and six months, respectively. The
mother first murdered her children and
then committed suicide. She left only the
words " Geed-bye" behind her te ex
plain.
OBITCAKY.
Tbe Beil of Notable Dead.
Lewis Cassard,awell known perk packer
of Baltimore, died yesterday. He had
been held in high repute for nearly fifty
vears.
Francis Mcllvain, for
many years a
died yesterday
Philadelphia merchant,
morning iu his CGth year
Rev. Richard L. Barvis, a local preacher
of -the Methodist church, died yesterday in
Frankford, aged 08 years.
Dr. William H. Clark, of Philadelphia, a
well-known and highly respected dentist,
died yesterday, aged 68 years.
MissTdaria Stinson Dimau, daughter of
the late Professer Diman, of Brown uni
versity, was killed in Providence last even,
ing while riding. Her horse became un
manageable, and dashed her against a
tree, causing concussion of the brain. She
was 20 years of age.
ltfTfcLLlGEKOEK, SATURDAY, AHRIL30, 1881.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
kicked te death.
JL Greem Iaataatly Killed by a StaUien
At the Merrimac stables in rear of the
Merrimac beuse, North Prince street,
about 9 o'clock this morning, Jehn Liv
ingston, the groom having charge of Gee.
Gressman's stallion, " Yeung Lord Clyde,"
was kicked in the forehead by that animal
and almost instantly killed.
Corener Mishler being notified empan
eled a jury consisting of Henry C. Sehner,
Themas Gable, L. C. Eaby, Samuel Allen,
A J. Killian and Rebert Dysart, and held
an inquest en the remains of the unfertu
nate man. Frem the testimony of wit
nesses it appeared that Livingston was a
Canadian and came from Mitchell, Ontario,
last Thursday week te take charge
of the stallion for Mr. Gressman. This
morning David Huber, a ceuntrymau,
visited the stables te take a leek at the
horse. Livingston opened the stable deer
and invited Mr. Huber inside, telling him
tbe horse was perfectly gentle. Mr. Huber
did net go inside the stable but Mr. Liv
ingston did.and handled tbe horse freely.
While Livingston was standing behind the
horse and stroking its tail the horse
kicked viciously, and planted his iron shed
hoof directly in Livingston's face, hurling
him backward from the stable. Several
persons ran. te his assistance and carried
him into the carriage house, but he never
moved and was evidently instantly killed.
Dr. Henry F. Eberman, who acted as
surgeon te tbe coroner, made an examina
tion of Livingston's wounds and found
that the frontal bone, the molar and the
nasal bones were fractured and that there
had been a laceration and compression of
the brain substance, and that these inju
ries had caused Mr. Livingston's death.
The jury returned a verdict that Living
ston came te his death from injuries re
ceived from tbe kick of tbe horse.
Very little is known of the unfortunate
man except that he came from Canada
last Thursday week te take charge of Mr.
Gressman's stallion; that he has a wife and
family residing at Mitchell, Ontario, that
he is about 36 years old, and was recently
employed in the livery stable of Jehn
Hicks, of Mitchell. Mr. Gressman his
employer, who left Lancaster yesterday
for Sunderland, Canada, has been informed
by telegraph of the sad affair, and Mr.
Hicks has also been telegraphed te. Mean
time Mr. Livingston's body lies at the
Merrimac house.
"Yeung Lord Clyde," the stallion that
caused Mr. Livingston's death is a hand
some dapple brown horse imported from
England. He is ever six years old, 17
hands high, and weighs 1,700 pounds. It
will be recollected by many of our readers
that a few weeks age he kicked and broke
the arm of Mr. Heffman and also injured
nis former groom, Geerge Kerr, in the
same stable in which he is new standing.
There is also a rumor that he killed a man
in Canada before being brought te Lan
caster, but this is positively denied by
members of Mr. Gressman's family, who
say the horse has always been perfectly
gentle and never hurt any ene until he
kicked Mr. Heffman.
EAST END NEWS.
Frem tbe New Uellaud Clarien and
Elsewhere.
" Beb" Stephenson and " Ab " Patter Patter
beu, jelly landlords and loyal Democrats
in Honeybrook, have traded taverns.
' Jere. Mcntzer and Levi H. Baer, of New
Helland, who had been confined te the
house, are both convalescent.
Mrs. Henry Shirk, of Philadelphia,
formerly of New Helland, aud nephew of
Reland and Solemon Dillcr, has died
suddenly ; also Miss Rachel Stitlcr, a
popular lady who frequently visited in
East Earl. -
Rev. W. R. Halbert formerly pastor of
the Presbyterian church of Atglcn and
Christiana, but who, because of ill health
was compelled te resign his charge about
two years age, died at Carlisle, en April
24.
The Clarien wants a "field club" for
New HolIand,te encourage outdoor sport.
Aren't you satisfied with the Republican
primary election contest?
The stockholders of the New Helland
bank will meet te organize it next Thurs
day. Cornelius Reland is " talked of for
president and James Diller, esq., for cash
ier. Better names than Dillcr aud Reland
there ceuld'nt be en bank paper in that
town. It ought te be "The Cfan'era National
Bank." It was its clarion call se incess
antly that brought the answer.
New Helland's excellent local paper has
this capital description of that "power"
machine of Adam Dennis : " The machine
is composed of a ceuple of railroads with a
few old freight cars standing en the track.
The whole thing being suspended in the
air, it necessarily ships its own balance
and makes use of its own weight twice
in one revolution. The lengitudiual
diaphragm converges into the arma
ture at a point where the hori
zontal perpendicular incline radiates,
hence every eight revolutions the
string, upon which the counter-balance
is suspended, tears, and the machine
steps for repairs. The carbon points
being triangular the iucandesenca is
somewhat opaque, consequently the
inventor will send a man te Seuth
America te search for some kind of
material that will overcome that opaque
ness. Every twentieth revolution the ma
chine, of its own motion, gees te the near
est saloon and gets three glasses of beer.
By se doing its outlandish appearance ex
cites the power of eight horses that run off
and smash the wagons they are hitched
in."
Mission te the Deaf.
The large number of deaf mutes scat
tered about the country and excluded by
their' infirmity from ordinary religious
privileges, has attracted the notice of the
church. An effort is being made te pro
vide for these in Lancaster and ether sim
ilar large places the benefits which have
been enjoyed for some years in New Yerk
and Philadelphia, of regular services and
pastoral care. Twe services have already
been held in March and April by the
Rev. Henry W. Syle, of St. Stephen's
church, Philadelphia, who. is also diocesan
missionary under Bishops Stevens and
Howe, and a third will be held en Sunday
at 4 p. m. in St. James cnurcu uev. Ur.
Knight, rector), te which the deaf aud
their friends are warmly invited. It .will
be the usual Episcopal services, slightly
shortened. The deaf mutes are also rc-
auestedtemeet Mr. Svlofer conversation
in the Sunday school room at 2:30 o'clock.
The Rev. Dr. Kniebt, ana etner neigh
boring clergymen have taken a cordial in
terest in this mission, and it is hoped it will
receive such encouragement and support
as te render possible the continuance of
the regular monthly service which has
thus been begun. Mr. Syle, who is himself
a deaf mute, officiated and read a statement
of the mission last Thursday during. the
convocation at St. Paul's church, Colum
bia, Rev. R. C. Searing, rector.
A Lively Feet Race.
At a late hour bust evening a spirited
feet race took place en Seuth Queen
s'treet, between Geerge Wall.ef the South
ern Exchange hotel, and Reed A. Fisher,
of the cotton mill. The course was from
Middle te German and return. Fisher
made rather the best, time en the up
grade, and reached tbe turning point a
length or two ahead ; in making a bril
liant " spurt " he fell, and before he re
covered his nimble-footed competitor was
far ahead and wen the race in a de-canter.
Patent Padlock.
E. L. Fraim. of this citv. has obtained
1 letters patent for an improved padlock.
THE STAB OLUB.
THE. LAST MKETIMG FOR THE SEASON.
Splea and the Virgin The " Lene One "
Alkes The Baren Bootee Arcturus
Balances Antares Lecture
en " Forces " by Mr.
Hardy, .Etc.
The closing meeting of this useful or
ganization was held last evening in the
main hall of the Yeung Men's Christian
association. Tbe numerical list of stars is
here carried up te one hundred, as origin
ally proposed. During the winter several
excellent papers have been read en special
subjects, and the general publication of
these proceedings has doubtlessdenemuch
te increase the interest already aroused by
the work of the club in the grand science
of astronomy.
The abstract here given of the remarks
of Mr. J. P. McCaskey, leaderef the class,
will enable the reader readily te fellow the
work of the club :
Conclusion of the Star List.
" And next the Crab, the Lien shines,
The Virgin and the Scales."
The Crab and the Lien we have recently
bad upon our list. The Virgin is feur.d te
the east of the Lien. It was regarded the
harvest constellation though it is en the
meridian at 9 o'clock in the evening about
the middle of May. The Virgin is some
times represented en the charts as hold
ing a handful of wheat heads or an ear of
corn in her left hand. This is marked by the
star Spica or Arista, which is the bright
est in tbe constellation, and may readily
be fixed by the figure known as the
" Diamond of the Virgin."
Te trace this, with the two stars Dene-
bola and Cor Carel i known, leek east for
the very bright star Arcturus, the bright
est new in the eastern sky, and then com
plete the Diamond, southward or te the
southeast where we have the last of the
four stars, Spica of the Virgin. The word
itself means an car of wheat or corn. This
star is the only bright one iu its imme
diate vicinity. It 'is some thirty
five degrees or mere distant from Denebola
in the tail of the Lien, and
about fifty degrees south from Cor Caroli,
in the in the ueck of the hunting deg of
Boetes. The next scar of note iu this
constellation is Viudemiatrix, which is in
the right arm of the Virgin. It is about
half way between Berenice's Hair and
Spica. Berenice's Hair, it will be remem
bered, is a faint but beautiful star cluster
halfway between Cor Caroli and Den
ebola. Vindemiatrix is about thirty do de
grees from Arcturus and about the same
distance from Berenice's Hair, the line
connecting these forming the base of an
isosceles triangle which points southward
and has Vindemiatrix at its vertex. Zav
ijava, the third star named in the Virgin,
is thirteen degrees south from Denebela.
Arcturus, Vindemiatrix aud Zavijava form
a very low isosceles triangle with Vin
demiatrix at the vertex.
Directly south of the Crab is a group
of small stars which marks the head of
Hydra, or the Water Serpent. Frem this
point a carving line of stars, mere or less
faint, carried in a southeasterly direction
brings us te the star Alphard, the Lene
One, as the Arabic word is translated.
The star is comparatively bright, and it
stauds alone, hence the significance of the
name it bears. It is also known as " Cor
Hydrae, or the " Heart or Hydra."
The four stars. Alphard, Regulus,
Pollux and Procyen, form a quad
rilateral which may readily be traced by
a right line from Al Gieba in the blade of
the Sickle, through Regulus, and pro
duced some twenty or mere degrees be
yond it will reach Alphard.
The star Alkes in the Cup, which rests
upon Hydra, is found some twenty-four
degrees southeast from Alphard when this
star is en the meridian. It is directly
south of Zezma in the back of the Lien.
A line from Spica te Alkes will fix the
star Algerab in the Raven, which is repre
sented in seme of the charts as perched
upon the Hydra. The four prominent stars
of this constellation makes an irregular
quadrilateral of large size directly south
of the Virgin. It is en the meridian at
nine o'clock in the evening about the mid
dle of May. Of the two stars in this quad
rilateral which are named, that at the
upper angle te the left, nearest Spica, is
Algerab. At the lower angle te the right
diagonally across the quadrilateral, is
Alchiba. It marks the eye of the Raven.
We turn next te Boetes, the Bear Dri
ver, a conspicuous star group, new in the
northeastern heavens during the early
evening. This constellation will be en the
meridian at nine o'clock about the middle
of June. The bright star in this group,
and the brightestnew in the eastern sky,
is Arcturus, a splendid star of the first
magnitude, the name of which at least
everybody has heard, though there may
be some who de net recognize it when
seen in the heavens, just as there are peo
ple who knew neither the North Star nor
the great Dee Star, Sirius.
Arcturus is in the feet of what is known
as the " Big Y," this fignre being easily
traced in a northerly direction. North
from it, at the distance of ten degrees, is
Mirach in the belt of Boetes, at the juuc
tien of the arms of the " Y." Beyond
Mirach, ten or twelve degrees distant, are
Alphccca and Seginus, in the extremities
of the arms of the letter. Alkatureps is
fourteen degrees beyond Mirach in a right
line drawn from Arcturus. and about ten
degrees east from Seginus ; Nekkar in the
head of Boetes is six degrees from Segi
nus, with which and Benetnasch, the first
star in the handle of the Dipper, it makes
almost a right angled triangle ; Mufride is
in the feet of Boetes, seme five degrees
southwest from Arcturus.
All the stars just named, with the sin
gle exception of Alphccca. are in Boetes.
Alphccca or Gemma, as it is sometimes
called, is the bright star in the constella
tion of the Northern Crown. This may be
recognized from the curving line of fainter
stars te which it belongs.
Next after the Virgin is the Scales in the
order of the Zodiac. Twe stars are here
te be noted. A line drawn from Spica te
Antares will, during a part of the year,
pass between these stars, Zubcnelg being
above it and nearer Antares, while Zu
beneschis below and nearer Spica, from
which it is twenty degrees distant Or
better still, a triangle formed by connect
ing tbe stars Spica, Arcturus and Antares
will usually include these two stars in the
Balances which mark respectively tbe
Northern and Southern Scales. This con
stellation is en the meridian at 9 o'clock
about the middle of June.
Antares is the bright-red star which
will seen appear in tbe southeastern sky
and with this our list is again closed.
Other stars and constellations, mero or
less prominent, are of necessity emitted
from the present list but these interested
can readily trace these for themselves by
tbe aid of planisphere, star charts or text
books upon this science.
Our numerical list comprising 101 stars
is therefore concluded as fellows : Ne. 85.
Spica ; 86, Vindemiatrix and 87, Zavijava
in theVirgin ; 88, Alphard in Hydra ; 89,
Alkesh in the Cup ; 90, Algerab and 91,
Alchiba in the Raven ; 92, Arcturus ; 93,
Mirach ; 94, Seginus ; 95, Alkatureps ;
9G, Nekkar, 97, Mufride in Boetes ; 98,
Alpecca in the Northern Crown ; 99 Zu
bcnelg; lOOZubenesch in tbe Balances;
and 101, Antares, the Heart of the Scor
pion. .
Mr. L. 31. Hardy, one of the assistant
teachers of the Yeates Institute, then ad
dressed the Club as fellows upon the gen
eral subject of
"Forces."
Man is a restless, unsatisfied being. En
dowed with intellect he has ever' been
prying into the mysteries of nature, te see
if they can be discovered. His discoveries,
real or imaginary, he delights te record,
and, at this tise, such a mass of evidence
has been collected that he claims aright te
collect and classify these discoveries into
different sciences, arranging them under
their several beads as chemistry, physies,
astronomy and all of the " olegies." It is
interesting te trace the different ideas as
accepted at the present day -and te see
under hew many forms they have been
held and taught Yet in all the central
thought has been that there must be a
Creater.
Frem the conception of thought te the
statement of an hypothesis, from the hy
pothesis te a theory, from the theory te a
demonstration, may be years or centuries.
About 240 B. C. Pythagoras advanced
the ' theory that the Sun was tbe
grand centre of the solar system, but pop
ular prejudice in favor of the old idea pre
vented its acceptance, and its advocates
were looked upon as vis.ienaries who de
sired te lower the dignity of the Earth by
making it occupy a secondary position
among the heavenly bodies. The old doc
trine was held until the middle of the six
teenth century when Copernicus re
vived the Pythagorean doctrine, but it
was net accepted until after the invention
of the telescope in the middle of the seven
teenth century, and even at that time it
was deemed irreligious te believe that the
world moved.
Yeu remember that in Reme, the city
of the " Infallible." Galilee, in his seven
tieth year, was compelled te retract his
statement and declare that the earth does
net move, but rising from his knees mut
tered, " And yet it does move."
Hew few people ever question te find
out the " hew " or " why " of things fall
ing under their observation every day.
Myriads of people before Newton bad seen
apples falling, yet none of them questioned
the pheuomeneu. Perhaps something falls
under our observation every day that wilL
miss making our names greatand eyand by
when it comes te us as some great discov
ery or invention we shall wonder why we
did net make our names everlasting.
We can net all become famous as Ncw Ncw Ncw
ton.Galilee, Huxley, Edisou.er Bell, but as
teachers we may, by teaching our pupils
te think, lead them te make investigations
that may render them famous, and se long
as the world is made richer, what matters
it te us if we de remain in obscurity ?
Above all things we must be careful net
te assert or deny anything in science-till
we have proven its truth or falsity by
mathematics. We must net trust te
logic or poetry te decide a theory un
yielding mathematics and actual proof
are our only safe reliance. Let ine re
mark that the scientists who have moved
the thinking world de net belong te the
class with Clifferd and Draper, but have
been mathematicians.
nince the beginning of civilization each
age has had its characteristics. We have
bad centuries of goodness and centuries of
evil, centuries of ignorance and centuries
of learning, centuries of art, centuries of
literature, and this nineteenth century
seems te be that of scientific studies ; acd
as it draws te its elose it seems as if there
was no end te the new theories advanced,
proved and accepted. We have become
soaccustemed te theories that they no
longer startle us, nor de we rush headlong
te join ourselves te one of the two sides
brought out with every new theory. Ner
de we blindly rush te protect the Bible,
which has withstood se many shocks that
its foundation is demonstrated te be net of
man's laying. Feeling sure that the puny
attacks nf the se called scientists can never
overturn it, we rest content, hearing the
arguments advanced in support of each
new theory, which must stand or fall by
its own merits.
Through all the works of Ged there is
apparent a law, and the true scientist sees
that law and tries te bring all into accord
with it. This law could net spring from
chance, but must result from the wise
plans of that Great Architect who laid the
foundations of the Universe. Ner does He
create as men build, fitting part te part
with great labor, making a body here and
adding another te it there. but He works by
the laws which He created from the first.
Law secures uniformity in the result, and
the attending circumstances acting by
law produce infinite variety. Thus we
come te realize among the sublimest at
tributes of Deity the wisdom that could
devise and the power that can enforce
law.
A common and loose manner of speak
ing of law is te speak of Forces. We speak
of the Forces of Nature, as the force of
light, the force of heat and the force of
electricity, the force of chemical action ;
and, secondarily, of gravity, centrifugal
aud cetripetal forces, thus using the word
iu a very wide sense, and often very inac
curately. Force may be changed but net
annihilated. The Sun is the ultimate
source of the forms of Force with which
we are surrounded. The mechanical en
ergy of winds, of falling water, is due
te solar heat. A part of this energy
may re-appear as friction. Plants grew by
tbe light and heat of the Sun, and be
come feed and fuel. Thus weed and min
eral coal are transmuted sunshine. Even
animals may in a certain sense be reckon
ed transmuted sunshine.
The lecturer tnen proceeded te discuss
the various Forces, showing hew they are
connected and bringing eutthe conservation
of energy. He also referred the force of
gravity and universal gravitation, showed
hew these are connected, hew they are
related te electricity, and hew this rela
tion explains the Nebular Hypothesis,
continuing his remarks much as fellows :
I have been led into this discussion
hoping te give some of you, teachcrs es
pecially, another idea of the importance of
the study of Physical Science and te show
you hew that each branch of study is de
pendent upon and may help all ethers.
There is still a large field for thought, and
it needs explorers. Net all knowledge
died with these whose names are already
famous, nor will it die with us.
Let us remember that ten hundred
years age but ene king in Christendom
could read, much less the common people ;
and that three hundred years age it was a
great accomplishment for a lady te be
able te write ; se great that she need net
knew hew te spell; she was accomplished
enough ! It has been but few years since
our improvement began. Perhaps the in
habitants of Mars or some of the elder
planets have been studying these sciences
for millions of years and have carried
them se far that all our knowledge is but
the alphabet of theirs. We must guard
against these two errors ; we must net be
tee reauy te jump- at conclusions, nor
must we pin our faith se closely te the,
skirts of belief of the dead and gene
scientists that we can net believe in the
new.
Shall wc be content te remain in ignor
ance or shall we enlarge our minds and be
better able te see Ged iu His majestic
works ? In the study of astronomy our
minds reach en and en and we try te im
agine space. We think of it as extending
millions upon millions of miles ; we imagine
ourselves away beyond the reach of our
sunlight and still space opens before us;
we come into new systems and pass beyond
them and we are no nearer the end, until
we feel that space is as boundless as eter
nity, that light can never reach across it.
Se as we study the Forces, the subject opens
before us ; and we see mere and mere te
learn ; and in it all we recognize mere and
mere the hand of Him who created all.
He pervades it all, and wc are led te
believe that His works are infinite
in extent as tiiey are m tneir
perfection. Ner, as we contemplate the
wonders and glories of the starry heavens
these unfathomable abysses lit up with
millions of suns or the Forces which ani
mate all, can we refrain from bowing in
cratitude te Him who has endowed us
with intellectual powers te discover their
vastness and magnificence, and with these '
moral' and spiritual capacities, by tbe due
cultivation of which we may prepare our
selves for an existence in that future world
where we shall be enabled, in a far higher
degree, te contemplate His power and te
understand His infinite wisdom and benifi-cenee.
OBITUARY.
Tbe Late Jehn Lee.
We briefly noticed yesterday the death
en Thursday, in Easten, of Mr. Jehn Lee,
one of the most esteemed citizens el that
tewu.and father of Mrs. Peter S. McTague
of this city. Mr. Lee was only taken ill
en Friday of last week and bis complaints
were malarial fever and an atTectien qf the
kidneys, from which it was an impossibil
ity for him te rally. Mr. Lee was well
known here and the following sketch et
him from the Argus will be read with
local interest :
Mr. Lee was born in the county Cavan,
Ireland, February 3, 1815, and was conse
quently at the time of bis death in his
sixty-seventh year. He came from a family
in which there were four sons and six
daughters. In May, 1838, Mr. Lee came
te this country and was seen afterward en
gaged en the Philadelphia & Reading rail
read, eight miles beyond Reading, as fore
man for Richard McGrann. contractor. It
was at this j tb that Mr. Lee obtained a
thorough knowledge of the contracting
business ;iml he seen started out in the
world te make his fortune. His first con
tract was en. the Lachine canal, two miles
from Mentieal, Canada. After finishing
it Mr. Lee lcc:imc a partner in a contract
at Owego, New Yerk, en the New Yerk &
Erie nulre.nl. Frem this place he went te
Peughkecpsic, where he had a contract for
the laying out of a read bed for the Hud Hud
eon River railroad company. Next we find
Mr. Lee en a contract at Montezuma for a
railroad company, and later en the
Rochester branch of a railroad with
his headquarters at Heney Eye Falls.
Frem this plane he proceeded te
Corning, N. Y., and finished a contract for
the Philadelphia & Eric railroad com
pany, ills next contract was at uever,
N. J., for the Merris & Essex railroad
company, at the time the railroad was
built te New Yerk city. He was afterward
a partner en contracts for the Union canal
company i;i Berks county, the Lebanon
Valley railroad company, at Solemon's
Temple for the P. & R. company, en the
Reading fc Columbia railroad, and in 1864
at Gayner's cut en the Merris & Essex
railroad. After the complctienjot this job
Mr. Lee was engaged en a contract for the
Connecticut air line company at
Middletown, and afterward' en the
Longwood Valley railroad, new
called the High Bridge branch of the
Central railroad of New Jersey. His next
and last contract was en the Bosten &
Seuth Mountain railroad. At this he
only worked three mouths. Mr. Lee had
several ether contracts, such as building
bridges and electing stone walls. When
the contract for the building of the Eas Eas
eon jail was given out Mr. Lee was ene of
the contractors in partnership with the
late Jehn Biglin, te whom Mr. Lee sold
his intciest in the job and who completed
the building. Like ether business men
Mr. Lee had many difficulties te contend
with, but he was successful in making a
fortune, and leaves considerable prop
erty. Mr. Lee was married three times, the
first time at the age of nineteen, te Miss
Eleanora Callahan. The fruits of this
marriage weie three children, two of
whom are living Mr. Phillip C. Lee, new
in Texas, engaged at cattle raising, and
whose family resides in Philadelphia, and
Mrs. P. t. McTague, -of Lancaster. Mrs.
Lee died at Lancaster in 1840. In 1847
Mr. Lee married Miss Annie Jacksen, of
Montreal, Canada. Five children blessed
this union, three of whom arc living
Maggie, the wife of Peter J. Gill, William
Lee and Miss Annie M. Lcc, the latter of
whom ai rived home just five minutes be
fore her lather's death ; and two dead
Jehn and Catharine Jane. Mr. Lee's sec
end wife died at Reading in 1858.
The deceased came te Easten in the
spring of 1866. Iu the fall of that year he
married Miss Alice Cellins, who with her
two childrrn Kate and Hugh survive
him. Mr. Lee's first and only residence in
Easten was at the homestead at the corner
of Third and Walnut streets.
Mr. Lea was a man deserving of the
highest praise. He was a Democrat of
the old tcl'oel and clung firmly through
life te the principles of Jeffersen,
Jacksen and their successors, and
although net accustomed te obtrude
his views tee much en ethers, he
was ever ready te answer for the faith
that was in him. He was one of Eas Eas
ten's valued and substantial citizens and
his departure will be felt in many circles.
He always enjoyed the confidence of
his associates iu business and was highly
esteemed by them. In social gatherings
he was a genial and pleasant compauieu,
and enjoyed mirth and geed fellowship,
although always careful te preserve the
decorum of a gentleman. His frank and
benevolent disposition rendered him much
esteemed, net only by his immediate friends,
but also by the community in general. He
had a kind word aud pleasant greeting for
every one no matter hew lowly their posi
tion in life. Such is the brief sketch of a
noble man, a true fi ieud, a kind and agree
able neighbor, ami au honored citizen.
Peace te his ashes.
Mr. Lee will be buried en Tuesday
morning :it ten o'clock, high mass being
celebrated ;it St. Bernard's church.
.".!r.s. J.;ob Kuath.
Mrs. Jacob ileath, of Marietta, died of
cancer at her icsidencc iu that borough
yesterday mm- ing, after a lingering and
painful illm-ss. Mrs. Reath was a daugh
ter of the late Jehn Mcsscrsmith, of this
city, and a cousin of Geerge R. Messcrs
smith, of Chamberaburg, whose death wc
noticed a few days age. She was a woman
of marked piety, of quiet, unobtrusive de
meanor, who attended te her domestic,
social and religious duties without the
least possible ostentation. She leaves
many fiienes aud relatives in this city.
Mis KUner .Spenee.
News leceivcd from the west announces
the death at Washington, Iowa,e:i the 24th
inst, et Miss Eliner Spenee, for fifteen
years matron of the Heme for Friend
less Childien in this city. Her death re
sulted from acute pneumonia followed by
dropsy. She was possessed of many wom
anly qualities which eudcarcd her te all
with whom .she associated. Her death
will he sincerely mourned by a large cir
cle of acqu lintaiices in this city.
school Matters.
The primary schools ( heretofore desig
nated) w ill occupy the new school build
ing, coiner of Lime and Lemen streets, en
Monday next. On Tuesday morning the
primary German and English school will
be opened iu the school building, corner
of Duke and German. Pupils attending
English primary schools of the grades of
F, E, 1), C ami B, and desiring te be ad
mitted te the German and English school
will be admitted, but these belonging te
Class A will lemain in the schools they
new attend until the beginniug of the
next cession.
Cew Killed.
L.ist evjtiii between 5 aad 6 o'clock a
cow belonging te Mrs. Kelly strayed upon
the railroad track near the Penn iron
works and was struck and instantly killed
by loceinot ivc Ne.305. The carcass was re
moved te Lntnparter's glue factory.
Lar;
This morning a
;e SUaU.
friend of Geerge
W.
Eaby, deputy clerk of Q. S., sent te biro
lrem Columbia a
weighed 10 pounds.
pair of shad which