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LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCE!, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1881.
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TUESDAY BVSMINO, MAY 10, 1881. .
Aagry Legislators.
We are glad te note that ear assem
blymen are sensitive te public criticism.
We had much rather they would show
anger at being assailed than indifference,
even though their excitement leads them
very far out of the path of legislative
propriety of demeanor. There is hope
for men who de net submit calmly te
impugnment of the motives of their
action; they may be evil, but they are
net hardened wretches. We have a
geed deal of sympathy for Speaker
Hewit and some of bis fellows who
vow that they are voting con
scientiously though their votes are
decidedly against the tenor of public
sentiment and are criticised with great
freedom and very unfavorably by the
press. They are certainly bold men te
continue en .their course against this
torrent of opposition, and if they are vir
tuously inspired te de se they undoubted
ly are earninc a martyr's crown. Speaker
Hewit is particularly persuaded that he
is a most unjustly abused man, and be
ing possessed of a sharp tongue, he very
naturally uses it with great vehemence
against his accusers. The editor of the
Philadelphia Times is the victim of his
animadversion and he certainly does net
mince words in his denunciation. But
Mr. Hewit's assault is net as effectual
as it is bitter. lie does net threw his
missiles front a position of advantage.
He is an angry man, accused of relations
with ringsters. lie does net, therefore,
have the public ear or confidence. He
would be mere dangerous if he would
first vindicate his own record by his acts
and afterwards dispassionately expose
the animus and the record of his assail
ants. But it is net in Mr. Hewit's na
ture te keep cool ; probably his fiery
hair forbids him. We therefore greatly
fear that he will nut be able te demon
strate very satisfactorily te the peo
ple before the session expires that he is
the picture of injured innocence that he
paints himself. The public is often very
unjust te its servants ; and Mr. Hewit
may be a victim te its lack of perspicac
ity. Fer certainly the impression is
abroad that he has net been the vigorous
champion of reform that he was once
credited with being. His old friend
Wolfe, who stands out as the Atlas of
reform in the Legislature, has thrown
him te the dogs ; and the people are dis
posed te accept Wolfe's verdict, knowing
him te be henesc in his opinions, though
impetuous and apt te be mistaken.
We de net ourselves give Hewit ever
lecalise Wolfe says se, and the Philadel
phia Tunes and the most of the people
say se tee. Wc incline te think that
there is virtue in Hewit and that he is a
geed deal sinned against. But really he
does the injury te himself and cannot
fairly complain of being misjudged. He
wobbles a great deal in his legislative
gait and runs fitfully. He-wants a steady
balance for the steam he carries. If he
liad a well regulated governor en his
machinery it would save him the jerki
ness of motion that makes him se pow pew
eiless and earns him se much damnation.
Dead hea Fruit.
Hew strange it is and hew often it
happens that men are overcome by ruin
in tlie very moment of their apparent
triuuiph. The best laid plans gang aft
aglee. And we have new a remarkable
illustration of it in the condition of the
Republican party and its chief politicians-.
Their victory turns te ashes en
their lips. Their president elected and
a four years' term of power secured,
their disruption impends. The leaders,
who arranged in many visits te Garfield
at Menter a harmonious distribution of
the spoils, already "are at variance, and
some of the best workers are even brought
face te face with the yawning gates of
the iteuitentiary. There is Brady for
instance, te whom Garfield appealed for
financial succor during the campaign ;
and Dersey, tee, who is credited with
carrying Indiana and managing the Re
publican national campaign. Te him a
grand dinner was given that his zeal
might be honored and his glory be es
tablished. Le ! new he is found te be a
big star route leech, and it is
seen that his labors for the Re
publican party were that the men
might be continued in
nived at his robberies,
barely wen for which
ellice who con-
The victory is
he labored and
spent his stolen money when his pals are
turned out of office, the rich reward he
worked for slips away from him, and the
jail looms before him instead of the
palace in which he fondly thought te
solace his declining years.
And hew de these people feel who sat
with him at that dinner ? It would af
ford an interesting item te the Phila
delphia Press if its editor, who was one
of them, would let us knew.
The staid Philadelphia Leibier savs
that people shake their heads ever the I
supreme court decisions favorable te the
Philadelphia highway conspirators.
Why de they shake ? The Ledger seems
te make a plain intimation that they
shake because they question the integ
rity as well as the justice of these decis
ions. Is this the rpnsnn V
Ne disinterested person doubts that the
highway conspirators were properly sent
te the penitentiary, and no such person
questions that the Oxford turnpike claim
against the city was a fraud, but the su
preme court of the state was misled by
hasty action into a release of the highway
conspirators from imprisonment en a cer
tiorari, and has decided against the city in
the turnpike case en very narrow techni
cal grounds nearly half the cenrt dissent
ing. These are events that cause" people
te shake their heads.
Tjie decision of the supreme court,
elsewhere published, declares" that indict
ments for offenses against the purity
of elections are supportable at common
law and therefore are net barred by the
limitation prescrib d by the statutes as
suming te punish them. The decision is
important, as it makes every attempt te
tamper in any way with a pure and free
election punishable as a criminal offense
whether or no it be specially legislated
against.
Tiie president appears te give much
delight te a certain element in his party
by what they are pleased te call his ex-
hibitien of backbone ; albeit, some of
the bravest of them had never whispered
that Hayes was an invertebrate until he
was functus officio.
PZBbONAl
Sir Charles Tuppeb has arrived in Otta
wa, from England.
Mrs. Garfield is reported te be seri
ously ill of nervous prostration, and
threatened with malarial fever.
M. de Beauplau has written a letter de
nying that Mme. Ambre eloped with M.
Teurnie.
Matthew V. D. Fewker, president of
the Commercial fire insurance company of
New Yerk, died suddenly, yesterday, in
in the C7th year of his age.
Jeseph S. LevebingJ a well-known
sugar refiner of Philadelphia, died en Sun
day at his country seat, Oak Hill, above
Nicetown, in his 85th year.
De Witt C. Baxteb, brigadier general
United States volunteers, and for some
time employed at the custom house Phil
adelphia, died yesterday.
Yesterday at a meeting of the Conserva
tive peers the Marquis of Salisbury was
appointed party leader in the Upper
Heuse.
In the Heuse of Commens yesterday
Mr. Gladstone moved an address for an
appropriation for a monument te Lord
Beaconsfield. The motion was opposed by
Mr. Labouchere, but carried by a large
majority en a division.
Mr. Fkeude says the memoirs of Mr.
Carlyle are his personal property aud he
declines te allow Mr. Carlyle' 8 niece or
any ether person te interfere iu the dis
charge of the trust committed te him, but
he will return her the ether papers.
MINOR TOPICS.
The ocean steamship companies deny
Miss O'Brien's story of emigrant horrors
aud it is shown that her facts exist only in
a very lively aud patriotic imagination.
Mr. Yoeruees takes the ground that the
duty of the Democratic senators in deal
lag with the president's nominations is
simply te confirm every nominations they
believe te be proper and te reject every
nomination they believe te be improper.
A bill before the Massachusetts Legis
lature, providing that " any court of record
shall have authority te exclude miners as
spectators from the court-room during the
trial of auy cause, civil or criminal, when
their presence is net necessary as witnesses
or parties," is supported by the Rev.
Phillips Brooks, the Rev. E. E. Hale, and
ether prominent citizens of the state.
Julia E. Smith, the survivor of the
Glastenbury Smith sisters, has paid her
tax this year, but net without a " solemn
pretest against the iniquity of taxation
without representation," and a declaration
that she has net changed her principles.
During six successive previous years she
refused te pay, and the collector seized
and sold eleven acres of laud, a bank
share and a number of cows.
The Mutual Union telegraph company
is the latest opposition te consolidated tel
egraph monopoly. It has put $3,000,000
of stock and $,"5,000,000 of bends simul
taneeusly in the market and they have
been takeu with an alacrity which shows
that capital has faith in the success of the
new enterprise. The Mutual has construct
ed a line from Bosten te Washington via
New Yerk and will in a few days have six
wires in operation betweeu the termini
of the line, and wires te all leadiug cities.
Come en !
The total number of daily journals iu
me country tiuring tue census year is
placed at 962, which includes SO dailies
which were suspended aud 114 which were
established in the course of that year.
The aggregate daily circulation is placed
at 3,581,187, and the aggregate annual
circulation at 1,127,337,355, with an aggre
gate daily circulation of 3,581,187, at an
average price per annum of 8733. It ap
pears that the people of the United States
pay out annually $26,250,100 for their
daily newsppers. New Yerk state takes
the lead in publishing the largest number
of dailies, 115, and Pennsylvania next
with 98.
The political gossips say that Senater
Jehn Stewart, of Franklin county, is te be
the anti-Cameren candidate for governor
unless he should be made minister te Mex
ico. Representative Geerge E. Mapes, of
Venauge county, is named as the prospec
tive antt Cameren candidate for state
treasurer, and Wolfe chairman of the Re
publican state committee if the independ
ents should control the state convention.
On the ether hand it is predicted that Sen Sen
aeor Geerge V. Lawrence will be the Cam Cam
eeon candidate for state treasurer, Repre
sentative Jehn M. Pomeroy, of Franklin
county, as chairman of the Republican
state committee, and General Beaver, of
Centre county, as the choice of the Cam Cam
erenians for governor.
Washington News.
The Senate judiciary committee yuster-
day decided te report favorably the Mer-
gan concurrent resolution dcclariug that
the consent or the United States is a nec
essary condition precedent te the construc censtruc construc
tieasaf a ship caual across the Isthmus of
Panama.
The president yesterday withdrew the
nomination of W. A. M. Grier, of Penn
sylvania, te be third assistant postmaster
general, Mr. Grier having declined the
office.
Anether caucus of the Republican sena
tors was held yesterday te determine the
course te be pursued in regard te the class
of executive business left unprevided for
in the pregramme of last week After a
long debate, which wound up with a two
hours' speech by Senater Conkling against
confirming Judge Robertsen te be collector
at New Yerk, tfie caucus, having taken
no vote en any preposition, adjourned
until te-day.
JSx-Uev. Hendricks as a Political Critic.
Kansas City Times.
Garfield will eventually yield te Conk
ling. The president is a weaker man than
Hayes, and Hayes certainly was a very
weak man.
What Conkling says about the right of
senators te dictate nominations is a heresy.
The senators are simply a jury te pass
upon nominations.
Grant is the deadest politician in the
country.
I de net dislike Mr. Tilden. Once while
riding in a car with Colonel Eaten, of Kan.
sas, he began te abuse Mr. Tilden. A re
porter who sat behind us mistook my
monosyllable replies for affirmations and
sent te the Cincinnati Enquirer statements
that deeply mortified me.
THE FLUTTERING1 ROOSTERS.
A WILD MIGHT AT HARKISBUXG.
The Reformers Disturb the Poultry Yard.
The Heuse at Harrisburg was the scene
of another circus last night arising from
the Reform meeting in Philadelphia en
Saturday night. The tent was crowded by
spectators deeply absorbed in the various
acts. The following handbill was distribut
ed among the performers previous te the
opening of the performance :
DELINQUENT TAX BILL.
ANOTHER THCXDKR 8TOBX IN 'PHILADELPHIA.
LEGISLATORS BEWARE,
THE AXTI-TAXFATERS HAVE SrOKEK.
Four Hundred Cliirens Assembled in Grand
Mass Meeting in the Academy et Music, in
Philadelphia, Saturday, May 7th, 1831,
Addresses were Mad by the Hen.Edward Law,
Hen. Charles S. Wolfe, Hen. A. K. He-
Clureand Hen. Rebert E. Pattlseu.
XMTHKB OF WHO ARE TAXPAYERS.
Except the Last Named Gentleman who Dees
Own His Residence, Assessed at 12,800.
LEGISLATORS SHOULD TREMBLE
At this Array of
IRRESPONSIBLE ORATORS !
The Conception and Management of this Meet
ing is due te
" THE GREAT TAXPAYER."
RUDOLPH BLANKENBURG,
AMD
THE COMMITTEE OP ONE UDKOKEO
The Heuse mat at 7:30 o'clock, Speaker
Hewit in the chair. A number of peti
tiens in favor of Fhnn s Allegheny license
bill were presented. The fore part of the
session was occupied in personal explan
ations. Mr. Rice wanted te knew whether
Mr. Wolfe had denounced him in a public
meeting in Philadelphia en Saturday night.
Mr. Wolfe said he had. Mr. Rice asked
by what authority he had used his name ?
Wolfe said if Rice's name had bceu im
properly used he was willing te test the
matter in the Philadelphia courts. Said
he valued his character tee highly.
Mr. Edwards said he had been called a
" dunghill." He then requested the clerk
te read a written speech. The paper re
ferred te Mr. Law was one of the curled
and perfumed beu ten of upper Walnut
street, and also set forth sarcastically that
his name was found in Mrs. Bloemficld II.
Moere's directory of the first families of
Philadelphia.
Mr. Hazlctt rose te say that he had been
called "one of the most audacious roosters
en the hill." This terra, said he, had been
applied by his friend, the gambler and
bastard editor et the Philadelphia Times,
A. K. McCIure. He further remarked
that neither Mr. Law nor Mr. Wolfe
pays any taxes. Law says that was a mis
take. Mr. Hazlctt replied : " Yeu never
pay tax en your watch ; I see you carry
one."
Mr. Wolfe asked : "Hew de you knew
I de net pay tax?
"The auditor general's report docs r.et
show any return from Union county."
"But de you say I de net pay taxes ?"
"Well.it's a question of veracity between
you and the auditor gCueral's report."
Mr. Hazlctt then had a number of let
teis in his defense read.
Mr. Myers, of Venango, took the fleer
te vindicate himself from the epithets
"country dunghill and roosters." He
said it was net decent for members of the
Heuse te take part in a public meeting
called te denounce fellow members, espec
ially when that meeting was participated
in by the rooster editor of the Philadelphia
Times. He said if the name of Alexander
K. McClure was spelled out, it would be
recognized as that of one of the greatest
of roosters. He had left his filthy tracks
en his own county and was one of the most
villainously corrupt legislators in the
state. Applause. It was unjust for
thec legislators te denounce their fellows
in such a cowardly manner wheu these at
tacked were net there te defend themselves.
As te being a dunghill, be thought, if the
gentleman from the Eighth district, Mi
Law, were anatomically examined, as
much dried grass would be found iu him
as in anybody else. He went en te de
fend his opposition te the delinquent tax
bill, by saying that he was opposed te the
bill because by taking it up eat of order
legislation important te the rest of the
state was retarded. He made some refer
once te " Mr." McCIure.
"Why de you call him Mr.," asked
Ilazlct. "why don't you call him gam
bler?" "Because I never met him in a place of
that kind."
" I have," answered JIazlct, amid shouts
of laughter.
Mr. Wolte made a short ueleuse te Ins
action iu the Philadelphia meeting.
Mr. Hewit then called Mr. Pomeroy te
the chair and took the fleer. He said Mr.
Law had stated in his Saturday night's
speech that the speaker had used his of
fice te retard the bill. He had uufermly
voted for the suspension of the rules te
take up this bill. He had brought the
bleed te A. K. McClnrc's check when the
reformer was here lobbying for a $300,
000 steal. Mr. McCIure's rotten carcass
was reeking iu corruption, he could
net even absorb decency. "I have a
character of some value. McClure lest
his long age in the lobbies of this
Heuse, yet it is such a man who assails
my character." In referring te Law he
said that gentleman in his youth had
strutted en the stage en Saturday night
and imagined himself the Colossus of
Rhodes, but he wasn't. The speaker had
an oath registered in heaven te preside
impartially ever the deliberations of the
Heuse. He denounced Law's assertion
that his (the speaker's) sympathies were
against the bill as an infamous lie, a re
mark that was received with some ap
plause. Mr. Kncass charged Mr. Landis with
saying that, he, Kneass, was hiding in the
library one day when the tax bill was
called up. Mr. Landis raised the point of
order that the remark was made in private
and could net be replied te in public.
After a sharp personal discussion between
the two Kncass continued and denounced
the assertion that he had dodged as iu
famously and premeditatedly false. Mr.
Landis said he was sorry if he had said or
done anything te injure the gentleman
from Philadelphia, Mr. Kneass.
Mr. Colburn denounced McCIure as a
common thief, liar and scoundrel and as a
mau who had done mere te disgrace Ged's
footstool than auy one else en it. He had
never voted te take up the delinquent tax
bill out of order and he. never would. He
denounced the bill as corrupt aud infa
mous and did net think it ever ought te
pass, although it was advocated by the
committee of one hundred, with their
Dutch captain, their Irish lieutenant and
blue bellied sergeant. He said the roosters
from the country had as much blue bleed
in them as auy that ever came from Phila
delphia. Mr. Law rose te remark that that was
perhaps the case en the fleer of the Heuse
but he was responsible for everything he
had said or done en Saturday night, in the
Heuse and elsewhere.
Mr. Fauncc moved te suspend the rules
for the consideration of his resolution rela
tive te fixing special sessions for the con
siderationef the tax bill.
Mr. Souder moved te lay the resolution
en the table.
Mr. Wolfe called the previous question,
en which motion Mr. Souder, seconded by
Mr. Graham, called the yeas and nays.
Agreed te yeas 94, nays 56.
The motion te lay oil the table was then
called and was net agreed te yeas 57.
nays 89.
The motion te suspend tue rules was
then taken up, and failing te receive the
necessary two-thirds vote was defeated,
the yeas being 94, nays 55.
The Heuse then adjourned.
LATB8TNKWS BT MAIL.
The Fert Meigs paper mill at Seeth To Te
ledo, Ohie, has burned. Lew 130,000.
J. C. Barten, a young lawyer, was sen
tenced in Atlanta, Ga., te four years' im
prisonment in the penitentiary for perjury.
Four colored men at work en an Ala
bama & Great Southern railroad construc
tion train were killed by. a landslide at
Maxwell station, Alabama.
Jennie Jewell, aged 18 years, died iu
Oalcdale, Massachusetts, from the effects
of bedbug poison, which she drank by a
mistake.
Michael Nees committed suicide yester
day, in New Yerk, because he did pet
want te live any longer. He was sixty
five years old.
David Lewis, colored, died en Sunday
near Memphis from the effects of a beat
ing received the night before from a mau
named Cegaretta.
S N. B. Jehnsen, county attorney, was
shot dead by A. J. Shumate, deputy sher
iff, at Cimarron, Kansas, yesterday, in an
encounter growing out of an old feud.
Shumate was arrested.
Lyman Cedy a young farmer of Lament
Michigan, was shot dead yesterday morn
ing by his hired man, German, with whom
he had a dispute. Cedy leaves a wife and
one child.
The United States grand jury at Denver,
Colerado, has indicted Messrs. Berry,
Meacham and Cline, as accessories, and
five Utes as principals, in the murder of
A. D. Jacksen.
William Regan, thirtccu years old, who
is charged with kicking aud killing Mag
gie Clark, ten years old, who died Sunday
night in New Yerk, was committed te the
house of detention by Corener Brady yes
terday te await the result of the inquest.
He pretests that he is innocent.
The last of the long pending laud .suits
in the United States district court for
Western Virgiuia was the suit of Emily
HoUiugswertli, of Philadelphia, against
Jonas aud Jacob Blesser, and was decided
for plaintiff, excepting the title te 150
acres of laud claimed under a warrant of
1793, by Mrs. Peter Paul.
The Tunis campaign is practically ever.
The Kreumir tribes arc surrounded en all
sides and have evacuated their stronghold
in the Medjerda Valley. The lepert that
the French ambassador at Constantinople
informed the Perte that the despatch by
Turkey of an armed force te Tunis would
be regarded as a casus belli is confirmed.
. STATE ITEMS.
James Finnessy a driver boy employed
in the Green Ridge colliery, Scranton,
was crushed te death by a fall of reef.
The mule which he was driving was also
killed. Finnessy was 16 years old.
Rebert Gremau, hostler at the First
Ward hotel, Seuth Bethlehem, fell back
ward while ascending the steps in the
stable leading te the hay mew. aud struck
heavily en the back of his head and neck,
receiving injuries from which he died.
Henry King, a farmer and one of the
eldest and most highly esteemed citizens
of Dallas, Luzerne county, was found
dead in the highway near his farm. The
supposition is that he had an attack of
heart disease, and en his way home was
ovcrcemo and fell by the roadside
Max Weil, of Plymouth, Luzerne coun
ty, has purchased an ex six feet and four
inches in height, and weighing ever 2,000
pounds. This is considerably larger than
the big cattle exhibited here recently by
Barnum, and it is said the beast will be
sold for exhibition purposes
Several syndicates have made liberal
offers te the Pennsylvania railroad com
pany for the purchase of such portion of
the stock at the last meeting as shall re
main unissued ; but the company has de
cided net issue any new stock unless sub
scribed for up te June 15.
Samuel Pollock, eighteen years of age,
son of Jehn Pollock, of Wyoming, Lu
zerne county, while driving a team of
mules fell out of the wageu beneath the
heels of the mules, who kicked him in a
frightful manner. The back of his head
was crushed and his jaw broken. He lin
gered in great agony ler about an hour,
when death relieved him.
Au explosion of gas iu Central shaft of
the D. L. & W. company's mines in
Scranton sent the air rushing through the
mines with terrific force, knocking down
the workmen in distant portions of the
mine, tearing away doers, breaking down
protecting walls, overturning leaded cars
and spreading consternation aud terror
among the workmen. Patrick Kearney
wife fatally injured.
A brute in human form, named Edward,
alias "Pickle," Lynch, scaled the back
kitchen of the residence of Amnion Peter
Drcisbach, a fireman en the Lehigh Valley
railroad, Seuth Easten, during the latter's
absenco.cntcred Mrs.Drcisbach's bed-room
and under threat of sheeting succeeded in
perpetrating an outrageous assault upon
the defenseless wemau. no has been ar
rested and locked up. This known te be
net his first crime of the same character.
Karl Mink was found hanging by the
neck te a fence en the Seuth Side. Pitts
burgh, stiff and rigid in death. His feet
were resting en the ground, and his posi
tion showed that in order te strangle him
self he had lifted his feet from the earth
in order that his full weight could rest en
the handkerchief that held him te the
fence. The man was well dressed, bore
an intelligent countenance, had a well
filled purse and was sober when last seen
near the nlacc of his death. He is sunnesed
te have come from Mansfield.
Canen Farrar'N Sermon en Disraeli.
Londen Truth.
Canen Farrar began his sermon by say
ing Lord Beaconsfield disliked nothing se
much as indiscriminate eulogy. As the
sermon proceeded his friends were grate
ful he had been spared by death at least
ene infliction, which he would have suf
fered if he had lived te sit under Cauen
Farrar.
Canen Farrar's disclaimer of indiscrim
inate eulogy rcmiuds me of the North
Country fishwife who went te buy a
dress. " Nene of your gaudy colors for
me." she said ; " give me plain red and
yallcr."
That Settled It.
The death of a boy at Decker, Indiana,
who was suffering from rheumatism, was
net caused by the intelligent drug clerk.
His parents had no faith in the doctor s
prescriptions and gave the patient a- home
made suiphur bath. They seated him in
chair, piled feather beds ever him and
burned a let of brimstone underneath.
When they thought the disease was
smoked out the covering was removed, but
it was tee late ; the peer fellow had been
smothered te death.
A Little Matter.
Yesterday morning Colonel Scott's con
dition was considerably improved, and he
passed a comparatively easy day. His
condition last night was unchanged, and
gave much hope te the members of his
family. At two o'clock this morning he
continued as be had been during the early
evening, resting nicely, and with a fair
prospect of doing well through the rest of
the night. During the day and evening a
large number of Colonel Scott's personal
friends called at the residence. Nineteenth
street and Rittenhouse Square, te inquire
as te his condition.
Torpedoes te Prerem Beay SnatcfalBfr.
Syracuse nerahl.
Frank W. Hammend, who died en Wed
nesday, had peculiar curvature of the
spine. As a precaution against the body
being " resurrected" bv unfeeling medi
cal students, his mother authorized Un
dertaker McCarthy te put two torpedoes
into the grave, which he did.
Qyairdntr'Cfc( '
In view of "the nuptials in Vienna to
morrow of the Austrian -Prince
Rudulph and' 'the ' Belgian Princess
Stephanie, the imperial city is in holi
day attire. Banners and bright-hued
drapery hang from the windows in the
leading thoroughfares, the palaces and
public buildings are decked with ever
greens, 'and the whole city resplendent
lights.
The preparations for the wedding are
new complete. The bride is te go te the
altar attired in a costly dress of silver bro
cade, trimmed with, silver embroidery,
representing various kind of flowers, and
completed by. a train five yards in length,
trimmed with silver lace and velvet.' The
princess arrived, wearing a pompadenr of
pink crepe, with a train and bodice of pink
damasse satin trimmed with rosebuds.
The city of Brussels has contributed a
superb lace overdress te Stephanie's treu?.
seau. She will wear it with a faille
costume, caught up with bouquets of white
lilacs and roses.
snakes.
At Ramabe, N. J., a black snake six
feet long attacked a farm hand, and he
steed paralyzed with fear. The snake
crawled up en him and encircled his neck
and the man made no resistance A ne ne
geo ran up and killed the snake.
Fritztown, Pa., reports that the opening
of the snake season has net been equaled
heretofore. Mrs. Annie Strunk was ,at
tacked by a black snake said te be as thick
as a man's arm. Three men from Reading
met a snake at the Cushion mountain that
staggered them. It was as long as a fence
rail and thick as a man's thigh. They had
drunk twice only, they said.
A r ierida correspondent of a sporting
journal asserts that he saw, recently, a
water moccasin lying en the body of a six
inch pecan tree which might have leaned
a trifle from the perpendicular, though
only a trifle. His head was down, aud his
body laid straight as an arrow up the
tree, which was smooth and straight. He
asks : " Did he crawl down the tree in this
position, or hew did he take it ?"
Itase Ball.
Base ball yesterday : At Washington, D.
C. Nationals, 2 ; Athletics of Brooklyn,
0 At New Yerk Metropolitans, 17 ;
Athletics, 6. At Cleveland, Clevclands 3;
Chicages, 2. At Cambridge, Mass. Har
vards, 10; Browns, 5. At Hanover, N.
H. Dartmouth, 3 ; Princeton, 20.
Cannibalism.
Letters from Algeria state that the rem
nanls of Cel. Flatter's Sahara expedition
were finally driven te take refuse iu a
cave, where they were starving aud re
sorted te cannibalism. Fifteen were
eaten, including a sub-officer named Pob Peb
guin. l'lcased at J. A. G's. Backbone.
I'hilailulpliia North American.
The development theory must be right,
after all, .at least in the neighborhood of
the White Heuse. Invertebrates are suc
ceeded, in nature, by vertebrates.
LOCAUOTmJGENCE.
BAST END NEWS.
IX SALISBURY AND EAST K.1KI..
rreiu Our Correspondent at Cedar Lane.
A grand kick-up took place iu Iho Radi
cal camp of Salisbury last week. Last fall
during the campaign the Salisbury Repub
licans boasted of their large club and their
maguificcnt equipments, namely a piece
of blue oil-cloth tied with a piece of tape
and a 17 cent torch, except iu the case of
the colored troops, who wero red, as a
mark of distinction. AH went smoothly
they turned out te all the mass meetings
far aud near, and made grand displays ;
they were marshaled by efficient officers,
aud the club was composed of some of the
most prominent and wealthy citizens of
the township, and it was supposed that
their treasurer held lets of club fuuds.
The campaign closed, the club shouted
victory, but still they are net happy. As
it turns out that they still ewe Mr. Hes Hes
ten, of the Gap, $17 for 100 torches, and as
the Republican club of Salisbury turns out
bankrupt, Mr. Hcsten was compelled te
bring suit before Squire Slaymaker for
the amount of his claim against individual
members of the club. Last Friday was
the day appointed for the hearing, when
about twenty of the individuals who had
the honor of belonging te said club were
summoned te appear. They embraced
merchants, justice of the peace, politi
cians, agents, farmers and almost all of
the solid men of the township. SVe un
derstand that judgment was given in
favor of Mr. Hesten for the amount and
costs, and the mulcted parties are te pass
around the hat at the coming primary,
when it is hoped all geed republicans will
respond liberally aud restore the lest
credit of a bankrupt party. Pity such is
the case, aud it is sincerely hoped that
Brady might be able te give his party
friends in Salisbury a star mail route te
help them out of their dilemma.
Mr. Isaac Koffreath some time since
bought a very fine driving herse and a new
top buggy. Last Saturday evening he, in
company with Martin Diem, took a drive
for the benefit of their health, and arrived
at Springville about 8 o'clock in the even
ing. WbLe in the stere transacting some
business, from some cause their horse be
came frightened, tore loose, ran against
Mr. Geerge Martin's carriage, demolished
it, and succeeded in niasurag up 31 r.
Kaft'i oath's new buggy. Ne one was hurt,
however, in the runaway.
Messrs. Worst & Shertz arc nearly
through packing their purchases of to
bacco. They have given employment te
quite a number of hands for about four
months and the establishment has packed
some of Salisbury's finest crops. They
most certainly can show as fine a let of
samples as auy firm in the business for
the number of cases packed. They are an
enterprising firm, and have new in the
course of crectieu a fine new warehouse
for the continuance of their business.
The fire that had been racing for several
days en the Weisb mountain is new extin
guished, but the damage dene amounts te
considerable. Many lets of fine sprout
timber are completely ruined aud will have
te be cut off.
Cern is nearly all planted. Tobacco
ground is getting ready, and in the course
of a few days seme of , our farmers will
begiu te set out plants.
Supervisors are busy making reads;
hands are scarce.
Plenty of buildings in course of erec
tion ; lumber business extra brisk.
Election of Officers.
St. Antheny's Franciscus Beneficial
society elected the following offieers last
evening for the ensuing year :
President Henry Derley.
Vice President Alexander Derley.
Treasurer Gee. Hcidig.
Secretary Antheny Mett, jr.
Finance Committee Jehn Frccy, Charles
Himmelsbach. Fabian Yccker, Henry
Derley, Jr., Mathias Gardner, Florain
Hameev.
Last evening St. Antheny's Beneficial
society elected the following officers..
President Franz Ursprung.
Vice President Andrew Walter.
Secretary Adam Mattern.
Treasurer Leuis Schmidt.
Standing Committee Jehn Eibel, Lor Ler
enz Schmidt, Gee. Retb, Lerenz Speicher,
Jacob Hubertus, Karl Scharkeff, Matthias
Flick and Jeseph Ocbs.
Game Association Meeting.
The Lancaster County Game association
will held a meeting this evening at Alder
man Spurrier's office.
THB REPUBLICAN WRANGLE.
a. aURVatx or the fiexd.
An
"Old Politician " Takes
View.
a Mini's Eye
The Old Politician wanted te see them
fish for shad, and as he and the Intelli Intelli
geseer man drove down in the moonlight
from an experience at one of the batteries
"mere than a half mile from the Colum
bia dam," of course, he told of the im
pending struggle for Republican nomina
tions in this county :
"I tell you again," he began, "it is
going te be a close fight and the nearer
it approaches the plainer this becomes.
The vote is net going te be large. There
is a big reserve in this county which no
body can bring out except Herr Smith,
and which will come out for nobody ex
cept him, but when it does come out it is
largely te the advantage of the Neie Era
party, and they will miss it this year. Of
course it is the 'big year,' con
sidering the offices te be tilled,
and the individual caudidates will
rally their friends, but you will ob
serve there are fewer than usual, and en
the whole it is net likely ever 12,000 votes
will be polled. Besides people are a geed
deal disgusted with the corruption of this
thing. Tem Davis's nomination soured a
geed many ; the treachery of McMcllcn and
Senseuig te their old friends aud the new
and queer combinations formed will all
have a tendency te make the popular vote
smaller than in 1878. In fact I leek en it
as a fight between the politicians and
money."
" Who has the best of it in such a con
test ? Well generally speaking I would say
first the side which has the most money.
I de net sec a great deal en cither side this
time. Krcady was taken by the Examiner
side for his money. He has mere than
any ether man en their ticket and they ex
pect, nun te oiceu ireeiy. lie always was
a little careful with it and net long age
was in doubt as te whom he could trust
with it. Yeu may depend upon it that
Jake Kready will be very slew te make up
himself a pet te be spent te put through
the rest of his side's ticket. Sidles is the
moneyed man en the ether side and he is
liberal. Senseuig expects te strike him
for a couple of thousand, but Skiles is a
business man and he may want te sec
where it is going te de the most geed
before he entrusts auy funds into
irresponsible hands te be stolen or
spent for somebody else. Bes'dcs
these two I cannot sce where a great deal
of money is te ceme from, unless some of
the candidates have private backers whom
Lthe peels are depending upon. A ring
cannot be well heeled for such a fight, as
this is te be without $5,000 in cash and as
much mete in notes, te be paid if -its can
didates are elected. That is the profit of
the ringsters. Why Ress for register aud
Breneinau for sheriff each paid Senseuig
alone several thousand, and when Gricst
ran for Congress he gave Senseuig his note
for $2,000. te be paid if he was nominated.
High has crippled himself in previous cam
paigns. I hear that somebody iu Concstega
is backing Umble. Grissingeris run en
pure speculation."
"Has there been any change in the com
binations ? None te speak of. Compten
has been trying hard te get en one set-up
or the ether, but they wcre all fixed aud
he was tee late for either. I hear that
his friends, of course without his knewl
edge, offered as high as $3,000 for a place
en the Examiner's ticket, but that Ilcis
taud kicked most vigorously and wouldn't
hear te it at all. Yeu sec J. W. Jehnsen
has all along been a sort of manager for
Compten and would have even gene into
the Examiner peel with him, but Jack Heis
tand would as seen sleep with a snake as
associate with Jehnsen. Compten blames
his l ejection en Gricst and tells his c.imp
meetiug friends that the reason Gricst op
poses him is that he (Gricst) is always
antagonistic te the elevation of a geed
Christian men te office. Of course Griest
would have ue influence one way or the
ether te get anybody en or oil" a slate, as
he is net supposed te control meic than
three votes iu the county Fer county
treasurer it has been reported that the
Senseuig and Geist party have had trouble
deciding between Geed aud Grider, bnt
there is no doubt en that point, and for
geographical reasons Geed's caudidacy
was a fact they never could get ever even
had they bceu se disposed. Grider under
stands that perfectly well, but they are in
clined te keep him in the iicld because he
will cut-Grissingcr in the northwest where
Steve's strength is most solid. Fer com
missioner both sides will, as has been pre
dieted, support Suminy and Myers. Each
party thinks they have them, aud neither
was willing te run the risk of going farther
and faring worse. Hicstand would have
been glad te run Slokem, but the latter
backed water when Geist and Martin sat
dewu en him, and the Examiner party were
afraid te endanger their ticket with any
further experiments iu that line. It is
pretty much the same way with peer,
directors and prison inspectors. Jehn
Evans and Mart Kreider will be the di
rectors of the peer, a diversion being made
against Evans in favor ef: Ben Longen Lengen
eckcrbythe Examiner's paity te please
Roebuck aud some ether ethers who don't
like Evans, but he will be elected and the
New Era party will have the best of that.
Fer prison inspector Gish was brought out
togive Fred Smith a fight en his own
dunghill and the reformers will run him
and Jehn J. Leng, of Liberty Square.
The ether side are indifferent here tee and
have net much te gain by a hopeless fight
for a 'fictitious issue.7 Fer auditor yen
see the Neie Era party have get out a. M.
Greidcr, of 3lt. Jey, and I hear they arc
going te run Enes Marsh from one of the
lower end townships. It leeks te u'c if
they had gene en and filled their ticket
with a careful regard for location, and the
Examiner crowd have been afraid te dabble
with the lower places lest they might crip
ple their top candidates. This defensive
position is a confession of weakness and
the aggressive policy of 'the etber side will
secure them at least a fair vote in Mt. Jey
and Marietta, through Greidcr and Smnmy,
while Gish, Leng, Mart Kreider and Ames
Gretl who is new with the Era party
have a fighting strength that will boost
the whole ticket.
" Who is the strongest and the weakest
en either ticket? The Examiner people
count Al. Smith their strongest man, be
cause they say Hen Breneman of these
Bull Ringers who have gene ever te
Geist cannot get away from him and old
Fred has a solid corner all te himself. Fer
my part I think Burkhelder has far greater
individual strength than he gets credit for
aud being in a strong combination this
year will show up well and has a geed
chance. Umble is another candidate
who had gained wonderfully, and
Recscr is making effective purseual
appeals. There has been a turn in the tide
of sympathy for High and Fridy respect
ively, en the ground that they arc stand
ing candidates, have spend a geed deal of
money and arc really strapped, while the
candidacy et both Krcady and Skiles is
looked en as a speculation of the politi
cians. These incidents, you see. about
offset each ether, and I expect when elec
tion day comes te see all these personal
considerations brushed aside and te count
for little. Everything will settle down te
a square, hard fight between the factions
en election day. in the count, all day Sun-
uay ami iu iuu return juuw """g'
" Iew, son, wnen you as me wuat ei
the result you propound a question, the
answer te which, if I had it, I could retail
for thousands of dollars. Haven't you
seen Lew Hartman and Levi Sensenig
shaking hundreds of dollars nudcr the
ether fellows' noses en Barbary coast -with
no takers. That leeks like business, don't
it ? And they arc willing te bet en their
whole ticket which means High, Skiles,
Wissler, Geed, Eaby, Reeser, Burkhelder
and Shiner. 1 de net think it possible for
the whole en either side te go through in
such a contest and you must note that the
bets offered are en equal amount en each
candidate. The better must only elect five
out of the eight te win the majority of the
bets. Yeu can easily see where the confi
dence of the New Era people cones from.
They feel that thcyhave gained the essential
part of the BullRing in Esh!eman,Sensenig.
Breneman, the Eberlys and Wissler:
Tem. Furniss, tee. is with them, thanks
te Jehnsen, none te Sensenig and Brene
man of course. Hen. Rohrer, Squire Eaby
and Frew assure them Paradise r Martin S.
Frcy and Seltzer; Pierson M. Sberly and
ethers in the northeast are counted en ;
and though they have lest McMellen they
claim that his henchmen Ben. Hookey,
Jehn Strohm jr., and the forces of the
Goods and Ames Greff in 'the lower end
are with them and powerfully weaken the
effect of McMellen's defection. Gee.
Ettla and Al. Steber both want' te succeed
Chris. Kauffman and propeso te split
their ticket.
Under all these circumstances it is plain
that the New Era Sensenig party have the
most widely distributed strength ; the ad
vantage and disadvantage of the union
of hitherto antagonistic forces ; the
old time combination of the Puritan .and
the black-leg, aud if such a combina
tion can win as it did in 1873, they are go
ing through. They expect from 500 te
1,000 majority in the city, and have it
well set for that. Frem Maner te the
Maryland line aud back te the Welsh
Mountain, they will likely carry
every district, except perhaps, Fulton,
the Lampetcrs and a chance en Strasbnrg.
Salisbury will be far better fought by the
Examiner party than three years age.
Umble gets his work in there. In the
northeast the Wisslcrs and Eberlys will
give them Clay, Elizabeth, Brecknock,
Caernarvon and a geed shake at the Coca Ceca Coca
lices and Ephrata. Frem Lcaceck te
the Raphe districts is abattle ground ; but
then yen get te the border of that vast
and populous Republican district running
from Millcrsville te the Concwaee hills,
and from Manhcim te Marietta where
Grissingcr, Jake Striuc, Jehn II. Zcller,
Fred Smith, Harve Raymond, Hay Brown,
Matt Fridy, Jerry Halm, Al. Gresh and
ether trained manipulators can go far te
make things solid.' It all depends en hew
nearly solid they make it. The vote is
there, if net, the count, te elect the Exami
ner t'ickat, ami perhaps this electien do de
ponds as much en these who carry the re
turns as these who de the voting. Loek te
the northwest en election day and what
ever signs you sce in the sunset sky will
tell you wins the light.
" Let me tell you one thing," said the
the Old Politician as he drew the leather
string of his old-fashioned purse after he
had paid his tell te the gate-keeper who
had waited up for us. ' Jack Hicstand
has handled his paper better than ever
before. He has been goaded up te it by
the young bleeds en his side and by the
desperate chances of his and its political
existence staked en this fight, but his as
saults en Geist and the coalition with Sen
senig have told severely, and have almost
discomfited aud silenced the New Era.
Gricst's $50 business fell tlat, because the
charge itself contaminated the accuser,
aud because of his own avowed and eften
proved corruptness ; th Examiner's awk
ward and often elninsy blows, have het,
however, bceu painless te the head upon
which they fell."
And the Old Politician cast his eyes te
the northwest and concluded : " I tell
you, my lad, the Examiner ring's bulwark
this time is the northwest. Wait till it
thunders around Chestnut (fill.'
X!:i4iiii:oitiiuei nkw.s.
Near anil Acrew the County Line.
Edward Frill, a well-to-de farmer, of
Reading, committed suicide iu a peculiar
manner yesterday afternoon, in a stable
near his splendid residence. A spike was
driven into the deer frame leading te the
harness room and a singlcd-barreled gun,
leaded with Ne. G shot, was placed at
full cock with the spike immediately be
fore the trigger. Frem the fiositieu of
the liedy aud gun, and his left hand being
severely burned with powder, it is sup
posed that he placed himself directly in
front of the barrel, with his right hand
sighted the gun and with his left pulled
the barrel towards him, the spike striking
the trigger and discharging the gun.
The charge did net pass through the head,,
but the brains were scattered ever Wt?.
fleer. ''
Daniel S. Zacharias, county surveyor of
Berks county, djed instantly while riding
in a street car in Reading en Saturday
afternoon.
ltKOKKN Ol'EN.
A .Sec-inn Attempt te Rub Tobacco Ware
house. Last night the shutters of the tobacco
warelieuse, situated en North Prince
street, above the Reading railroad depot,
belonging te Mr. Russel and leased by Mr.
Levy, were broken open, evidently for the
purpose of robbing the place. The books
and papers were net disturbed and nothing
else is missing, the th'cvcs apparently be
ing fri"htcnc(l oft before accomplishing
their object. A thorough examination of
the packed tobacco has net yet been made,
and it is possible the thieves may have
opened seme of the boxes, taken there there
feom a portion of the leaf anil nailed the
boxes shut again te avoid suspicion. The
same warehouse was broken open a week
or two age.
Lancaster Contractor.
Jehn B. Reilly, of this city, has secured
a contract te grade two mile of the New
Yerk, Lackawanna & Western railroad.
The work is in the neighborhood of Mt.
Merris, New Yerk state Mr. Reilly is
about finishing a contract of three mites of
the Baltimore & Cumberland Valley
railroad at Chambcisburg, and he and his
brother Wallace arc Troth en the New Yerk
work.
Richard MeGrann and James Stewart,
of this city, have been awarded the con
tract for grading 15 miles of the Shenandoah
Extension R. R. in Virginia, and they
will go te work at encu. The new read
runs near the famous Natural Bridge.
Nothing slew Under the San.
Dr. C. A. Greene has brought te our
notice an article iu the Journal of Cumistry
of May, 1831, viz : A claim of Dr. Hirsch
ber, of Berlin, Germany, of discovering
the use of magnetized iron te take out of
the, eyes pieces of iron or steel that have
been accidentally introduced into this or
gan ; and Dr. G. shows us two magnets
which he has used for similar purposes
since 1847.
Itcaa Dogs.
Yesterday afternoon a very handsome
and valuable greyhound, belonging te C
S. Blessing, of Springville, was run ever
by the cars at that place and killed. The
deg was valned at $73.
This morning a pretty black-and-tan ter
rier was found lying dead in East King
street near Ann. It is supposed te have
been poisoned.
Fair at Marietta.
A fair for the benefit of the Mechanics'
cornet band of Marietta, will be, held in
Central hall, in that borough, commenc
ing te-morrow evening. The fair is under
the management of ladies and gentlemen
who cannot fail te make it a grand sac
cess. Sale of liereW , 1
Samuel Hess & Sen, auctioneers, sold at
public sale Monday at the Merrimac house
for Geerge Gressman 17 head of Canada
horses at an average of 8183.69
head.
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