LANCASTER iAItT INTELLIGENCER THURSDAY. MAY 26, 1881. lnratet intelligencer THURSDAY EVENING, HAT 20, 1S8L A Tfp.TeP Ealefj. Cel. Ferney does net leave the readers of Progress any room te doubt his ex alted opinion of the late Themas Alex ander Scott. The colonel is profoundly impressed with a conviction of the truth of the saying that the geed die young; illustrating it by citing the early death of the Saviour ; and Byren, Napeleon, Shakspeare, Cervantes, Raphael, Pitt, Douglas-Stephen A. and Scott-Themas Alexander; " among whom" says Progress, " there is net one who, in fifty-seven year's experience, aided mere individual men and women, or helped forward great enterprises with a mere fervid zeal or a sublimer unselfishness than Themas A. Scott." That will de for eulogy. It may be said te be a strong commencement of the statement of Mr. Scott's case. We publish it in full, with the continuation, elsewhere. The colonel wrote in a state of exaltation ; evidently he is an admirer of Mr. Scott's character. He has been, h says, ever since Mr. Scott emerged from Louden into Lancaster, forty years age. The juxtaposition of our Saviour with Lord Byren, Napeleon, Douglas, ct (., te say nothing of Scott, is fairly start ling. The declaration that net one ex hibited a sublimer unselfishness than Mr. Scott is a geed deal of a declaration, manifestly ; unless we may be permitted te withdraw the Saviour from the com parison, which the context hardly per mits ; though we, nevertheless, will take the liberty of doing it ; because we are sure that Colonel Ferney meant it te be done. After doing that, we discover that the sublime unselfishness attributed te Mr. Scott is net se amazing in its degree. Xapoleen had a minimum of that agree able quality. Stephen A. Douglas did net have a very large stock ; as the Dem ocratic party found out te its cost. We have never heard that any of the ether distinguished gentlemen named had a very remarkable quantity of it. We cannot declare te Cel. Ferney that Mr. Scott did net have as much as any of them. He may well, even, have had mere ; and still have left an estate of many millions, the fruit of a fair de gree of attention te his own interest?. Fervid zeal is another character istic which we freely concede Mr. Scott te have had in a degree commensurate with that of the exalted company of mortals in which he is placed. And a very geed quality it is. But it don't always go with sublime un selfishness. Xapoleen had plenty of it. He aided a geed manymeu and women, tee ; but that was selfishly done as the bast way te aid himself. And he filled the world with the hale of the brightest deeds, and wrought much for man ; and much, tee, against man. Se did Mr. Scott. We cannot say that Colonel Ferney has said tee much for his friend in liken ing him te Xapoleen ; perhaps, tee lit tle. Mr. Scott was the Xapoleen of rail road managers ; but he was a better man. He did net work se much evil in the world probably ; though he did a geed deal. And he worked a great deal mere of permanent geed. We see no utility or beauty in plaster ing a man when dead with untruthful plaudits; which can de him no geed and can de harm te the living, who should have true pictures presented te thorn of the world's great men, that they may emulate their virtues and avoid their er rors. Mr. Scott was a great man. That he was net a greater, was probably due much te his early associations. He was net radically corrupt, and yet did many gravely corrupt things. The end te him justified the use of evil means. He will live in history as the corrupter of legis lation ; and as the chief of a corporation whose officers were permitted te acquire wealth through the office which was con fided te them te administer in the interest of the corporation and the state which created it. Mr. Scott was net a geed citizen in de bauching legislation and in winking at what was in its essence robbery of his railroad. If he had net been thrown in his boyhood under the corrupting influ ences of the management of the public works of the state, probably the work of his life would net have been marred, as it unquestionably has been, by the ugly stain of corruption, as its freely used engine. But the damned spot is there ; and will net out. Words will net efface it; eulesry is par alyzed in its presence. Mr. Scott, doubtless, had the amiable qualities whiclfColenel Ferney's affectionate pen gives him. He was generous, charita ble, courageous, geed-tempered, genial and modest. And it is a pity, indeed, that with se many of the noblest virtues and most sterling qualities, and with se much talent and genius, he was yet, in the opinion of many of his fellow-citizens, net a blessing te his stale or his time, and that his name must go down te posterity as a synonym for bribery and corruption. In vulgar parlance, our esteemed con cen con temperarv, the New Era, of such emi nent reform proclivities, gives itself away, when it speaks of " Bess McMel len, who had never permitted an honest return te be made from that ward since he had control of the poll." The Aero Era will remember that in 187S, after its friends had wen a famous victory, by the characteristic methods of this same " Bess " McMellen, the Intelligen cer pointed out the unfairness of the manner in which the election had been conducted in his ward in the interest of the New Era's friends. It hadn't a word te say in condemnation of the fraud. Then it was a " brilliant victory for re form " wen by the frauds of the McMel len party ; new it is the " battle for re form " wen by the superior frauds of the Sensenig party. Great is Reform ! Independent journalism makes large gains in the change of proprie tors and editors of the Xew Yerk Even- iny Ppst. Any one of the three names, Schurz, Godkin and White, would rank the journal flying it with the foremost newspapers of the land. -The tripartite alliance is singularly strong and homo geneous. D . The public mind does net seem te be settled as te just what is the gravamen of the offense of the Virginian who sent a postal card te Senater Vance asking for bis speech en that " d d deg Ma hone." The New Yerk World seems te think that the pinch of the shoe was in the " d d," and suggests that Mahone was ever-hasty in taking offense at the idea that his fellow Virginian was swearing at him-ince the peer man may have " only stuttered with the pen" in trying te write " deg." But we rather think it was the deg and net the supposed damning of the deg that Billy Mahone objected te. The capacity te be damned is a human attribute, and the square fact is that a deg can't be damned. Se the "d d" didn'tadd any strength te the deg, as an objectionable description of Mahone ; and whether it was a damn or a stutter don't make a bit of difference te that gentleman ; if anything he would rather be a d d deg than a deg unadjectived, because a geed deg don't growl and bite and de light te fight ; and Billy docs. Te be called a deg is undoubtedly be ing called by an opprobrious epithet, however redeemed it may be by ascribing te the animal the peculiarly human quality of a capacity for suffering damnation. Sometimes the style of the appellation is varied by speaking of the deg as the son of its mother. This is generally considered te be much the most effective and obnoxious way of say ing it ; though why it logically should be has never been satisfactorily determined, any mere than it has been why it should be mere disagreeable te be called a deg than a cat or a rat or a bat. We consider that Mr. Mahone had a right te object te being called a deg en a postal card, though it is net clear that he can make it out te be such a scurrilous description of him as the law condemns. In our judgment the Virginian was wrong be cause his description was loose and in accurate. He would have hit the mark nearer if he had called Mr. Mahone a monkey ; or, if he had an irrepressible fancy for calling him a deg, he should have described the kind, alluding te him as " that whiffet Mahone ;" then tee he would net have stuttered in writing it. The fellow might be punished for stu pidity ; but we believe the laws de net forbid an exhibition of that in postal cards ; or there would be many net reaching their destination. MINOR TOPIOb. Bex Bctler has been telling Cuukliug some stale secrets against Blaine with which R. C. expects te make administra tion fur fly in Albany. The Heuse and Senate agree te print 10,000 copies of Smull's Legislative Hand Boek at the public expense a wanton, wicked waste of the money of the state. The Herald sums up the situation at Albany as 28 administration members, 4G Conkling men and 2G "en the fence." The weight en the fence is se great that unless relieved it may break down. The Xcw Yerk Herald was malignant enough against the Democratic party in the late campaign ; it greeted Garfield quite cheerily. Little less than three months of his administration are ever, and just see what mincemeat the Herald makes of this party. In view of Mr. Conkling's proclamation that he is in the hands of his friends the wicked New Yerk World, is moved te sug gest that these "friends," without the helpless Conkling's privity or consent, will proceed te trade off Piatt. When, the election occurs Piatt will feel like the hap less colored boy en the deck of a Mississ ippi steamboat who was inquired of as te his ownership. " Dunne, marstcr ; I did belong te "Cuuucl Jenes when I come aboard, but he done gene and' less me en two little pair." Bishop J. B. Thompson, colored, of the Southern conference, en Monday last, at the session of the African Methodist Epis. copal conference in New Yerk asserted that any man, white or colored, could live peaceably in the Seuth, provided he at tended his own business. The white Seuth ern people worn contributing liberally, both in land and money, te colored churches, and en questions of education were wholly in accord with their colored brethren. This testimony clearly mere than offsets the charges of oppression and cruelty recently brought in the Senate by Senators Dawes, Hear and ethers, coming as it docs from a man who knows what he is talking about. There is new pending in the war de partment great numbers of volunteer pen sion claims which cannot be satisfactorily verified for want of information which missing records of discontinued volunteer commands would afford, and as in many instances officers of the late volunteer forces have still under their control books and records pertaining te their corps, di visions, brigades, regiments and compa nies, their attention is called te the fact that all such books and records should be deposited with the war office, and they arc earnestly requested by the department te cause the same te be forwarded without delay te the adjutant general of the army, at Washington, District of Columbia. The postage or proper express charges will be paid by the government. The interesting experiment is being tried in Hamsburg of saving a valuable horse from the body of death which is usually visited upon an equine quadruped who breaks his leg. The Harrisburg horse which slipped en a cobble stone and broke his leg is in charge of an expe rienced groom, who put a piece of strong canvas around the horse's bedv and bv means of ropes and pulleys fastened te the joists above drew him up se as te bring the lame leg entirely off the irreund. Bv slightly Hexing his three sound legs the patient can threw his whole weieht en the swing, and does this when he sleeps. At ether times he generally lightly rests nis turee legs en the ground, part of the weigut being sustained by the canvas. The fracture was adjusted and a thick casing of plaster of Paris put around the leg. The patient ha been ia the owing three weeks, and it is proposed te keep him there six weeks longer. He has im proved in condition since the treatment began and is in excellent health. If no unforeseen accident occurs the cure is ex pected te be perfect. Conklixe's chickens only came home te roost. In 1874 Grant sent te the Senate the nomination of Win. A. Simmons for collector of the pert of Bosten. The term of the then incumbent, Judge Russell, had net expired. There had been no complaint against him, and there was an almost uni versal remonstrance from the busi ness men of Bosten against his displace ment. A large delegation of Bosten mer chants unavailingly protested against the nomination of Simmons. Ben Butler was at that time potential with Gen. Grant, and Simmons was his man. The two Massachusetts senators (Sumner and Beutwcll) were against Simmons, and also a majority of the Massachusetts delega tion in the Heuse. But Mr. Conkling had no care then f or the "courtesy" of the Senate. Notwithstanding the nomination was for the .most important federal office in Massachusetts, and that it was against the earnest wish of both the senators of that state, Conkling championed it by voice and vote and contributed very materially te the confirmation. New the chalice which he commended te the Massa chusetts senators has been returned te his own lips. Tiieue used te be a great deal of honest indignation vented against Southern post masters who tampered with tbe mails te prevent the free circulation of anti-slavery documents. If reports be true such a prostitution of the mail service is still going en down there in the in terest of Mahone and Republicanism. Mr. Jehn Carmichacl, who is a gentleman living near Middleburg, and son-in-law of Hen. J. R. Tucker, mailed at his office a postal card te Senater Yance of North Carolina, upon which were written ihe words, "Please send me your speech en thatd d deg Mahone." The card never reached Senater Yauco, te whom it was directed, though it came in the course of distribution via the Washington & Ohie railroad te Washington, where it was with drawn from the mail by Special Agent Hendersen, who proceeded te Alexandria and obtained of United States Commission er Fowler a warrant for Mr. Carmichael, which was entrusted te Deputy Marshal O'Neal. Mr. Carmichacl, who lives en his farm, a short distance from the village of Middleburg, made no secret of the au thcnticity of the card, and assumed at once all the responsibility connected with it. lle accompanied readily the deputy marshal te Alexandria aud engaged Eppa Hunten as his counsel. The law says : " Messages en postal cards must net be read except when necessary te facilitate their delivery, or for the purpose of deter mining whether the same are unmailablc by reason of the presence of obscene words or pictures thereon." Under this prevision the postal authorities say pest masters are warranted in "glancing at postal cards," aud in reading such as " they suspect" te be in violation of law. But hew can they get any grounds for suspicion without reading thorn ? Hen. W. M. Hall, judge of the Bed ford and Somerset district, who is perhaps as famous for his irascibility and collisions with the bar, as for his judicial ability, comes up for ro-clectien, aud, naturally it is some concern te him whether or net Fulton county with its several hundred Democratic majority is tacked en his dis trict. It is a pitiful way te attempt te save him by joining Adams with Fulton, the counties being separated by 50 miles of rough mountain read. Judge Hall's re election is vigorously opposed by some lawyers aud journals of his own party who declare that his re-nominatieu will be cal ainitens and defeat the Republicans, Hall, te his great self-derogation, comes out in a newspaper card appealing for votes, declaring that " it is customary te reneminate a judge when he is in the vigor of his faculties. His experience makes him the better qualified te discharge the duties and serve the public in a position of the highest importance te the public welfare. I believe, as against my rc-nom-inatien, Somerset will net urge claim. And I trust that this effort will net avail te threw me aside in my own county. Whilst I de net case greatly te be judge, I de care, under these surround ings, te have the endorsement of the peo ple of my own county. Aud I think I will get it, because I think the people knew me and I think they knew me te be hen est and capable, and that they will uet be willing te aid in this sinister effort against mc which is grounded en the gratification of pure personal malignity, which it seems will never be get out of some people ex cept by au exceedingly het sub-mundane refining process." Meanwhile the Demo crats of Somerset have nominated Wm. J. Bear, a most excellent man, a graduate of Marshall college. Se are Hall, and Cessna in whose bonnet, tee, the judicial bee buzzes. Tired of Ihe Republican Party. New Yerk IlcraUl. The public is tired of the Republican party. The old superstition that some thing quite tee awfully dreadful would happen te the country if the Republican party should cease te misgovern it has no longer nearly as much terror as it used te have. Dersey dinners, Brady star routes, Indiana two-dollar bills and Hubbcll let. tcrs have done a geed deal in the last few mouths te disillusion honest men who really beheved that their party was the sole repository of honesty and all the ether virtues. The Republican tricksters and jobbers have cried wolf while they were feathering their own nests, but the respect able part of the country begins te see through them. A Snake Kills a Des. A few days age a deg belonging te Tim Tim othy O'Neil, Birmingham, Delaware county, was ever in a swamp when it sud denly started for home at a furious pace. When it arrived there and threw itself down in the yard its master saw what was the cause of its terror and well might it have been se scared. Around the deg's body was wrapped a large black snake and five minutes after the deg had thrown itself en the ground it was dead. Tim Tim othy at ence proceeded te kill the snake while ic was still en the deg, but the rep tile succeeded in getting offthedeg'sbody before it was finally killed which was net accomplished without some difficulty, as the suake showed considerable fight. PKBbONAl. The Columbia Courant recognizes Sam Matt Fbidt as the nominee. That settles it. BlainE is in New Yerk. "On private business," of course. Leeking after his private political interests. Mrs. Garfield continues te improve, and her progress towards recovery is con sidered satisfactory. New Fhiladelphie, Ohie, is enjoying a sensation. A divorced woman is sueing her former husband for breach of premise te marry her again. Garfield was said te be quite willing te advise the Virginia Republicans te co alesce with Mahone. His secretary of state sat down en it. Mahone is tee near Conkling and Cameren. Mr. Carl Schurz, Mr. Herace White and Mr. E. L. Godkin have purchased a large majority of the New Yerk Evening Pest stock, and te-day Mr. Schurz will assume the editorial direction of the paper. General Grant receives $10,000 a year salary as president of the United States national bank, New Yerk. He is also a partner in his son's business house of Grant & Ward, and has an interest of $50;000. Chief Justice Waite, senior vice-president of the Centennial Society of the Washington and Lcc University, has called a meeting of the officers and mem bers at Independence hall, en Wednesday the 8th of June, te cltct a president te fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Hen. Morten McMichael, the former presi dent, who passed away since the last gath ering of the association. Hen. Geerge Buciier and wife had their golden wedding in Mecbanicsburg, Cumberland county, en the 19th instant, whither 3Ir. B. removed from Harrisburg in 1836. Thore were fine presents, elo quent addresses, handsome entertainment, &c. The occasion had a certain local in terest in the fact that it happened en the same day of the week en which the mar riage was celebrated in 1831, at Bain bridge, Lancaster county. The bride was Miss Hannah Heugh, et that place. Dr. Hedge, of Princeton, is inclined te ridicule the Catholic pretensions te de nominational advantages for them in the revised New Testament. The great Pres byterian theologian points out two cir cumstances which will work against the immediate general adoption of the revised version. First, the revision of the Old Testament will net be finished for four years and there can be no complete re vised Bible until that time, aud, second, because the American Bible society can not publish the revised version. The American Bible society, by the terms of its charter, is restricted te the King James version, and all of its trust funds are held subject te that condition. When the so ciety was formed the only way that the different denominations could be brought into it was by the adoption of a rigid rule te adhere te the authorized King James version. There may be some way that the charter can be modified. If net the society will have te obtain new funds be fore it can print the new edition. m KEYNOLDS'S A1EMOUY. Tributes by General Hancock, Warren anil Others. Sir. J. G. Resengartcn, treasurer of the Reynolds memorial fund, has received a great many communications from old army officers distinguished for their services in the late war, among them Majer General W. S. Hancock, General W. B. Franklin, of Hartferd, Connecticut, and General Warren, new stationed at Newport, in the U. S., engineer service. In his cemmuni catien General Hancock says : "I am much gratified at the action taken by the Legislature of Pennsylvania in reference te the proposed statue of General Reynolds, and te learn of the handsome offer of $25,- 000 by a patriotic citizen of Philadelphia. 1 have no doubt that the citizens of Phila delphia, and the state at large will prompt ly recognize the appropriateness of placing Reynolds's statue in the great Fairmount park, where it will doubtless be seen by mere citizens of the country and of the state than any ether location that could be selected. It seems te me, considering Reynolds's history and bis great services, concluding with his glorious death at Gettysburg, upon the soil and in defence of his native state, that its citizens (or its Legislature for them ) should promptly subscribe the remaining funds necessary te erect the statue te this renowned son of the commonwealth. I shall, of course, be ready and happy te unite ray efforts with theso of my comrades of the late war in the matter. I consider that it be longs peculiarly te Pennsylvania and Phil adelphia. Reynolds was born and reared in our state : he died defending it. and although bis great fame and illustrious record belong te the whole country, it seems te me especially fitting that the commonwealth should, mainly, at least, erect the proposed statue te his memory." General Franklin, who commanded the left grand wing of the Army of the Poto mac at Fredericskburg, says : "I -am very glad that the prospect of getting a statue te General Reynolds is se geed, aud I will de what I can te help it along." General Warren, who succeeded, after General Reynolds's death, te his command, consisting of the old First army corps and the division of the Pennsylvania Re serves, writes that he "would like te make personal thanks te Mr. Temple for his ap preciation of the worth of General Rey nelds as a man, a soldier and a patriot." He suggests "a permanent organization of the survivors of the old First corps, the organization of which was preserved distinct by General Meade who net only appreciated. Keyneias as a great soldier, but loved him when it was united under me." Mr. Rescngarten states that the re sponses, from a pecuniary point of view, are aise gratitying. Party Leaders Living en Jobs. Nevr Yerk Herald, Why should net the Republican party go te pieces ? Why should any one of its honest voters mourn ever its disappear ance ? It may net be dead at this moment, but it is rotten. It is the creature of rail road and ether corporation and monopoly influences. Its most intimate relations are no longer with the people, but with the railroad and telegraph kings, the Jay Goulds, Stanfords,Huntingtens,and ethers of that kind, who own and control its managers and chiefs. Te say that such a nartv. which deliberately p.hnnuc Dersey as one of its public manipulators and unblushingly gives him public dinners which has protected and honored Rebe-' son ; which openly courts the friendship of public plunderers; which during four years sheltered Brady in his Star Reute jobber jebber ies, and took part of his gains for its cam paign fund after the exposures made of him in Congress ; te say that such a party, which scarcely conceals its relations with a dozen lobbies, and many of whose public men live by jobs te say that this party, quarreling new ever the spoils, ought te live is absurd. It has lest even the respect for publie opinion which leads jobbers usually te divide their spoils in private. LATEST NKWS BY MAIL. James Emmens, aged 63 years, hanged himself in Windser, New Jersey. The Missouri Pacific railroad will be built te the mouth of the Brazes river. Jehn Raine, of Ottawa, ran a mile in 4 minutes 28 seconds yesterday, the quickest time en record. During 1880 the experts from the island of San Dominge amounted te $1,282,995, and tbe-imperts te 93,748,912. The wheat market in Chicago was great ly excited yesterday, prices advancing in the morning ever two cents. The market closed somewhat weaker. Defalcations ametrutiug te 80,000 drachmas have been discovered in the treasury of Greece. Several perseus have been arrested for complicity. Judge EbenezcrPcck, "for many yearsJ the most intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln," died in Chicago yesterday, aged 70 years. The Republican press of New Yerk is practically a unit against the return of Cekling and Piatt. Out of nearly two hundred papers only twenty lisp cither ap preval or apology. David Augsburg, of Parnelia Four Cor ners, JN. i.t snot a neignuernameusamuci Scoler aud his two sons. The father will probably die. The sheeting was the re sult of a quarrel about a farm. The body of Rudelph Shultz, aged G2 years, was found in the river at Williams burg, New Yerk, with twenty pounds of iron attached te the clothes. It is supposed he committed suicide. Charles L. Clements, a waiter, 41 years of age, has died in Xew Yerk, from bleed poisoning, caused by a preparation with which he was cleaning silverware coming in contact with a sero en his elbow. At midnight the score in the walk show ed : Vint. oe3 ; Littlcwoed, 319 ; Hughes 315 ; Sullivan, 310; Clew, 301 ; Fitzger ald, 290 ; HOWard, 291 ; Hazacl. 290 ; Donevan, 277 ; Curran, 273 ; Dufranc, 270i. The business poitien of Harrison, the ceuuty scat of Beeno ceuuty, Ark., was destroyed by fire yesterday. Less, $25, 000. The mayor has issued a proclamation offering $500 reward ferthe capture of the incendiaries. Base ball : Cleveland Cleveland, 7 ; Worcester, 1. Detroit Detroit 9 ; Bos Bes Bos eon, 0. Chicago Chicago, 11 ; Provi dence, G. Amherst Amherst, 7 ; Har vard, 2. Providence Yale, 9 ; Brown, 4. The Indian bureau has arranged for the removal of about seventy of the North Carolina Chcrekees te the Indian terri tory. This is considered the first step to wards the removal et the Chcrekees in North Carolina, about 2,000 in number. The great event in Brooklyn yesterday was tbe anniversary parade of the Brook lyn Sunday school, in which all denomina tions, with the exception of the Catholics took part. This was the fifty-second cele bration, aud ene of the largest that has ever taken place. In Lloyd, La., a difficulty took place ou the street between E. L. Sage aud H. R. Lett, jr., son of II. R. Lett, in which Lett was instantly killed. Immediately T. J. Lett, brother of II. R. Lett, jr., became engaged in the difficulty aud was shot down, his weuuds being probably mortal. Conkling is hard at work in his own be nan, getting uewn te details. Albany is full of politicians. The Republican sena tors rcfuse te go iute the' caucus. The Conkling men are disgusted at Gerham's appearance en the scene, and fear that Mahone will coine next. Murders are frequent en the Panama isthmus at present, and some of them are committed under circumstances of pecu liar atrocity. In thirty days thcre have been ten murders and one suicide. Life is insecure, police vigilance is deplorably slack and justice halts iu the punishraent of crime. An infant child of William Slike, re siding in Union township, Hunterdon county, X. J., was suffocated by a cat laying itself en the face as the mother was but temporarily absent in the garden. The child was but seven weeks old and must have suffered great pain, as the bleed was oozing from its nose after the cat was taken away. Just as the flames burst out from the explosion of the oil tank in Watervillc, Conn., a youngster named Willie Reed was seen emerging from the building, his clothing apparently ou lire with a keg of gunpowder in his arms, calling out aud warning ethers te get out of the way, as the powder might explode. His own dan ger he did net mind, but bore the keg te a place of safety. In Fend du Lac there is great excitement ever the failure of R. A. Baker's bank. The less will be ever $300,000. Baker was owner and Burroughs cashier. Beth have been arrest. The people pulled re volvers ou Burroughs and tried te sheet him. The city will lese $40,000 ruining the city treasurer, C. J. Perren. Every thing indicates general " crookedness " en the part of Baker and Burroughs. Iu "Swede Bend," a secluded neighbor hood, eighteen miles north of Beeno, Iowa, Lars Beuland, an eccentric old man who had lived atone in a hut for ever twenty years, was found murdered en Sunday morning. His head was crushed in and a corn-cob into his mouth te stifle his out cries. The body was then thrown into a ditch near by. His watch and money were taken away. There is no clue of the mur derer. STATE ITEMS. Wt G. Hays, a Grccnsburg butcher, com mitted suicide ou Tuesday evening by hanging himself. The sleeping Hungarian at the Allen town almshouse has been found te have a deformed skull, caused by sevcre injuries. Senater Mitchell is at Harrisburg telling the members hew much he sympathizes with Garfield against Conkling. Martin Oscar, a six-year old Alteena boy, was seriously injured en Tuesday by falling from a hay left and striking upon his head en the beards below. At the junior oratorical contest of La fayette college, Easten, the successful con testants were : First prize, Mr. A. C. LaBarre ; second prize, Mr. O. Serfass ; third prize, Mr. E. S. Herbert. A cow belonging te Mr. Jehn Guth. of Upper Macungie, Lehigh county, the ether day gave birth te a calf having neither ears or tail giving it very odd appearance. In ether respects it is perfect in form, and lively and hearty. It is rumored iu railroad circles that the Pennsylvania railroad company has ob tained, through purchase, the control of the Buffalo, New Yerk & Philadelphia raureaa, wuicii was recently sold te a syndicate of New Yerk and Philadelphia Danaers. The window glass manufacturers of Pittsburg have unanimously decided te close their works en June 1, for the sum mer. They usually close for the het weather en July 1, but owing te the over production aud high wages the step is this year taken a month earlier. An artesian well has been sunkatGirard college, iu which water has just been struck at a depth of 300 feet. The flew exceeds 3, GOO gallons daily, and the entire cost falls short of $2,500. The beard of city trusts have taken this step because of the expense of drawing water from the city mains, last year's water privileges having cost $732.15. The Democratic ceuuty convention of Somerset nominated for president judge Hen. W. J. Baer ; prothenotary, G. E. , Hoever ; sheriff, J. O, Rough ; register and recorder, C. J-. Miller; treasurer, Geerge Gassman; commissioner, H. W. Brubakcr ; auditor, J. L. Myers ; peer director, H. B. Schlag ; chairman county committee, C. H. Fisher; delegates te the state convention, J. O. Kiuamel and D. S. Harrah. The Republican Party's Recerd. Xexv Yerlr Herald. It has resisted every reform ; it has pre vented the repeal of every bit of the obso lete and obstructive war legislation ; it has maintained every bad law en the stat ute book ; it has shown in every imagin imagin ab'e way its total incapacity te deal with public questions, and whenever public opiuien has pressed it te de at least seme trifling geed it has adroitly get up some new' excitement about the Seuth, or seme new, petty and uncalled-for quarrel, with the Democrats, with the sole view te en gage the attention of the geeple and draw their minds away from public interests and real questions. m Honors te Foment. The statuoef Admiral Farragut in Madi Madi eon Square, New Yerk, was unveiled yes terday afternen. There was a long pre cession, composed of companies of the Na tienal Guard, city officials and members of tbe farragut Monument association in carriages, officers who served under Ad miral Farragut and a long line of sailors and marines from United States vessels in the harbor and from the navy yard and forts. The column was reviewed by the secretary of the navy. Commissioner of Public Parks McLean presided and made a short address. Secretary Hunt also spoke. The statue was unveiled by Admi ral Smith and the oration was delivered by Jeseph II. Cheate. m Death of a Famous Dwarf. Iu New Yerk yesterday "Commedore " Geerge Washington Morrison Nutt died at the Antheny Heuse. He bad been confined te his room eight weeks, sick withBright's disease. Commedore Nutt was 37 years old and 3 feet 7 inches in height. He was born in Manchester, N. II. His remains will be taken te Manchester for interment. The deceased was married about three years age, and his wife survives. lecalTintelligence. NKIUltBORUOOD NEWS. Near anil AcreM the County Lines. Dr. L. C. B. Yorgey, who has gained se much notoriety by his speculations in life insurances of a questionable character, said te a reporter a day or two age : " I am carrying at the present time about $G0,000 insurance en diuereut persons and it costs mc about $200 per month te pay the assessments. When asked if he was net anxious that some of these persons should die, he answered "Ne." "The people," said he don't understand the spcculatieu life insurance business. It is decidadly of mere benefit te me, if a man upon whose life I held an insurance, lives thrce or four years after he is insured than if he died in three weeks, because the longer he lives the mere will 1 realize from his insurance, as the classes will be further advanced. Besides, I never take an insurance ou any person's life for my own benefit without iu seme way provi ding in the policy for the benefit of some member of the family." Judge Black is said te have stated at Harrisburg, before the judiciary commit tee, that ene judge was enough for Yerk county. He stated te a representative, who questioned him, that half a judge could de all the business. A few days age a little daughter of Isaac Inslew, who is sexton of the Brandy wine Baptist church, was playing in the kitchen when she foil ever against the chimney jamb and fractured her skull. At last accounts she was slowly improving but was still iu a critical condition. Jehn Ambrose, a ten-year-old son of Mrs. Wanger, of Reading, is missing from home and the family is greatly concerned as te his whereabouts. He disappeared ou Mon day morning at 8 o'clock, aud just at that time a closed carriage was observed being rapidly driven away from the vicinity of the house. When last seen he had en a pair of brown pantaloons, black coat and dark blue hat. He is a small, slim boy, and has small-pox marks en his face. THE KNIUI1TS TEMi'LAIC. Twenty-Eighth Annnal Conclave. The twenty-eighth annual conclave of the Grand Cemmandcry of Pennsylvania takes place in the city of Scranton en May 31 and June 1 and 2. Lancaster Com Cem mandcry, Ne. 13, will attend the conclave. The committee of arrangements of Lan caster Cemmandcry have had printed for the use of the Sir Kuights a very beautiful circular containing a pregramme of the pilgrimage te Scranton. Frem this circular we learn that the time of depart ure will be Wednesday, June 1st ; the Sir Knights te assemble iu full uniform at their asylum at 9 o'clock, a. m., and pro ceed direct te Scranton ; their headquar ters te be at the Scranton heuse. The fare for the round trip will be $5 and beard $2 per day. The Sir Knights will have special cars, and will be met at Pitts Pitts ten by a band of music which will accom pany them thence te Scranton. Sir Knights who intend te participate should hand in their names te II. S. Gara, that quarters may be secured for them. The annual parade and review will take place en Thursday morning June 2,- and the installation of Grand officers en Thursday afternoon. The cemraandary will leave Scranton, en the return, Friday morn ing, June 3d. Extensive preparations have been made by the Sir Knights of Scranton for the entertainment of their guests. Further information relative te the nro nre nro gramme may be had en application te the committee of arrangements composed of the following Sir Knights : Messrs. B. Frank Erencman, chairman ; Wm. A. Morten, D. II. Wylic, Geerge R. Wcl chans, E. Oram Lyte. Page Anniversary.; The anniversary entertainment of the Page literary society of the state normal school at Millersville will take place to morrow evening in the chapel building of the school and bids fair te be of an es pecially high order of merit. The honorary orator is Rev. Chas. T. Steck, of Hemer City,Pa., whom the Bosten Pest de clares te be "a man of extraordinary ora torical powers, an elocutionist of the first merit for effectiveness and perfection of art, and a writer of great force and beauty." Concerning the power of the elocutionist, Miss Elizabeth Lyman, who is en the pregramme for several read ings, another newspaper says : ''Her lines and sentences were genre pictures that fas cinated you, and her theme held her cap tive and swayed her like an aspen." The Page oration will be by Wm. M. Hayes, esq., of West Chester ; and the salutatory by ex-District Attorney Hellinger, of Har risburg, famous for his active part in the prosecution of the riot bill bribers ; he will preside ever the proceedings. In ad dition te these literary features there will be vocal and instrumental music, and al together a most enjoyable affair may be safely anticipated. A Fatal Cave-la. A sad accident happened Tuesday at the Garman mines,- about two miles from Honeybrook, which resulted in the death of Jehn Barry, aged 20 years. The cause of the accident was a caving in of about five tens of earth, which' completely cover ed him, crushing his head and shoulder. After he was exhumed h lived aoeuc thirty minutes. , THE CHURCH COUNCILS. la the Reformed General Synod. The subject of forming' a new liturgy was referred te the peace commission. The appointment of a committee te pre pare a new hymn book was referred te a special com mitt'ee of six, representing the different synods with instructions te re port a double set of candidates. A committce was appointed te whom was referied the propriety of further representation or the Pan-Prcsby tcrian al liance. Synod voted en place for next meeting. Forty six votes were cast for Reading and eighty-three for Baltimore. It was re solved te meet en the 7th of May. 1884, at 8 p. ni. in the Third Reformed church of Baltimore. The finance committee was instructed te pay one-third of the traveling expenses of the delegates from classes west of the Mississippi river. A missionary festival was held en Mon day evening, at which speeches were made by Revs. J. S. Kieffer and J. G. Shoe maker and by Dr. Wclkcr, urging the great iniertance of the cause or both home and foreign missions. A collection was taken amounting te $38.G0. which Dr. G O. Miller, the presid ing officer, was directed subsequently by general synod te pay ever te the treasurer or the bourn or general synod for the bene fit of the New Yerk craigraut mission. Triennial Klilerithlp et the Church of tied. A large number of delegates from Mary land; Virginia and Eastern Pennsylvania, went en the last line west en Tuesday even ing, te attend the triennial eldership of the Church of Ged, which cpencd its session yesterday morning at Fiudley. Ohie, Rev. C. H. Ferney and Rev. T. Price accom panying them as delegates from Harris burg. The eldership will contiuue its ses sion till the end of the week. Tli (ieneral Assembly at Allegheny. The twenty-third general assembly of the United Presbyterian church of North America convened at Allegheny City last evening. Twe hundred aud twenty seven delegates from all parts of the country, in cluding several from Europe, were present The opening sermon was preached by Rev. E. O. Jeffries, of Westminster college, the retiring moderator. The remainder of the session w;is devoted te devotional services. Te-day the assembly will elect a modera tor and ether officers. TIih AHsetnbly at Vuiralw. At the meeting of the Prcsbytcriau Gen eral Assembly yesterday Dr. W. P. Breed, of Philadelphia, presented a report of the committce en annual report of the beard of foreign missions. This report showed the receipts of the year te be 9590,080 ; disbursements, $581,515 ; surplus, $0,105, an umiMiul occurrence, and this is in the fact that the contributions from the churches show a considerable falling oil. The atternoeii session was devoted te the subject of foreign missions. In the even ing a public meeting in the interest of foreign missions was held. Short ad dresses were delivered by Dr. Nevins, from China ; Dr. Wylkuep, who bad lately visited the missionary fields ; Dr. Nassau and ethers. The Meravians at ilethlehem. The sixth day of the Moravian synod's session was dcvetcil principally te con sidering ami debating the financial affairs of the 'shurch. A long scries of resolu tions embodying a plan of financial ad ministration of the church were adopted. The principal change from former practice is that an advisory beard of finance, te censi.it of laymen, te the provincial cider's conference, which is composed of clergymen, is provided for. Alse, the treasurer of the conference is no longer required te be a member thereof. The maximum amounts paid as annual pen sions te married couples or widowers was lixed at $3G0 and te widows, $1G0. A yea and nay vete en the plan of union en the Northern aud Southern provinces was or dered, 105 yeas, no nays. A committee of live was appointed te confer with a like committee of the Southern district te agree upon the details of the unieu. The election of a new provincial elders' con ference was proceeded with. Right Rcv.E. de Schwciuitz was elected a member en the first ballet, and by subsequent ballets Revs. A. Suhultze and Eugene Leibcrt were also elected. All the gentlemen de ferred decision as te accepting. AIMOUKNMKMT OF THE IIAPTISTH. Proceeding of the Irfis't Day The Offlcern Elected. In Indianapolis, yesterday was the last day of the Baptists' anniversaries. The women's home mission society has held three sessions, each replete with interest. The Eiun of $2,228,010 has been raised by them. They send women missionaries te the Indians and frecdmen. The home mission society resumed its session. The committee ou Mornienism reported that they are of the opinion that the society ewes two duties te the citizens of Utah, first, te send them a gospel ; second te urge the full and faithful administration of the laws of the laud for the suppression of this monstrous evil. The secretary read a message of greeting from the Pres byterian general assembly at Buffalo. Dr. Dickinsen of Richmond, Va., spoke of the work in the Seuth. Dr. Bailey said that the Baptist churches have state societies which if they reported by the ether de nominations. The committce upon a Semi-Ccntcnnial institute reported through Rev. Mr. Moxein of Cleveland. The re port urged that $500,000 should be raised for the home mission work of the jubilee year. The following were elected officer for the ensuing year: President, Hen. J. L. Heward, of Connec ticut ; Vice Presidents, Hen. J. R. Walker of Massachusetts and Jehn I). Reckafcllcr, of Ohie; Treasurer, Jeseph C. Ileyt, of Connecticut ; Auditors, William Phelps, of New Yerk and Jeseph Breckaw of New Yerk ; Corresponding Secretary, Rev. Henry 15. Moerhousc, D. D., of New Yerk ; Heeetding Secretary, Rev. D. B. Juttcn, of Mew Y'erk; Managers, third class, seiving until 1884, Jehn II. Deam. New Yerk ; William A. Cauldwcll, New Yerk ; Rev. E. Lathrop, D. D., Connecti cut; Rev. E. I Iiscex, D. D New Yerk, and Rev. Edward Judseti, New Jersey. Reformed Episcopal. The eighth annual council of the Re formed Episcopal church opened yester day, iu New Yerk. Delegates were pres ent from Canada and the West Indies. Despite many discouragements the statis tics committee consider the following an inspiring report : Number of persons iu connection, 10,45!) ; regular communi cants, 5,810 ; Sunday school pupils, 8,025; teachers in Sunday-schools, 787. The financial condition has improved some what since the last meeting. Friends. The yearly meeting of the New Yerk Society of Im tends was neld yesterday. The attendance was large. Cut Ills Knee. This morning Will C. Pyfer, son of the late Mayer Pyfer, sustained a painful, though net necessarily dangerous accident. While engaged in making pests at his mother's residence, West King street, the hatchet with which he was working slipped and struck him in the leg just be low the knee, indicting a deep gasu, wnicn received prompt surgical attention from Dr. D. It. MeCermick, and will probably disable tin; young man for a few days. Special Meeting et Council. Te-morrow evening there, will be a special meeting of city councils for the purpose of passing the ordinance making the annual appropriation te'fce several denartments of the citv government for 1 the ensuing fiscal year. -ggass" l,KE;!:TOB,;raKa3Ba'
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