LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER MONDAY, MAY 30, 1881. Lancaster IntelUfencer. MONDAY EVENING. MAY 80,1ML Serena ay lament Methets. The Xew Era being convicted of fighting for " reform" with aiyes whom it at different times denounced as the enemies of reform, attdertakea te furnish the-" distinction .between our (its) first and last battle with the bosses," and do de clares that it has-"lived and labored in vain," if it Is net a very gratifying dis tinction te the public as well te The public generally has long in clined te the opinion that the New Era has lived' and labored In vain for reform and it is net surprised meatlv te find that this is se plainly manifested new as te be self-confessed by the journal itself. We publish in full elsewhere what it has te. say, and surely hereafter no question ean be raised as te the standing of the JVcte Era as an organ of genuine reform. Its claim, briefly stated, is that it ac cepted the alDABoeef each disreputable "boss" te defeat the ether ; that in its first union- with .Bess McMellen, it thought it was a strong enough tail te wag the deg ; that it found its mistake when the deg would have its own way and de all manner of bad things. Then it went in with the ether deg, Bess Sen- senig ; and its distinction, as nearly as we can make it out, is that this is a, geed deg new, since the tail has se prevailed ever him as te make him support only the best and most pious candidates for offices, who wouldn't take an illegal fee or de an illegal thing te save their lives What a stunner! or rather what a Whistler! That editor does whistle with se be nign an air that you would almost give him a certificate of geed character if you found him in your chicken coop. Just think hew prettily he says that if the men'he supported ever cheat anybody, he " will be prompt te withdraw their certificates of geed character!" Yes! he does. But he wasn't very prompt when Bess McMellen and the ether candidates he favored in the " first; victory " charged illegal fees and were' 'very naughty as he new says they were. They were naughty for nearly two years, out of their term of three, before the Xew Era get in its prompt withdrawal of their certificates. And then, hew very pleasant it is te see, in this very het weather, this frigid editor sitting en his rolling iceberg and holding forth upon his promptitude in withdrawing certificates of character from evil doers when he admits that he was in alliance with the two head devils, and never once while the union lasted did he breathe a word against the fame of his partner ! He couldn't, you knew, he was se busy exposing the ether fellow ! It is net tee Lite fur its readers te remember hew calmly unconscious the Xew Era has been of any wrong-doing in the election or in the count en the part of Levi and his friends, but every man in the county knows that his methods were chuck full of guile, and Jiis practices every whit as bad as these of the castaway Elias. The frigidity of this polar navigator of the Xctc Era craft enables him te say that there were two objections te his plan of uniting himself with one enemy of reform te beat another ; one being the liability te be cheated and the ether that " in morals it might net pass cur rent;" but it was geed generalship ! See I this leader in a battle for reform admits that his methods might net pass current in morals ! Did we net accord ingly truly say that the reform for which he was fighting was net reform ? "Who needs te have this further demonstra ted ? Or that this leader was a peer general, as well as an immoral one, who admits befog cheated once by his evil ally, and witli whose second wicked associate true reform stands as much chance as a cat in a celebrated place without means of defence. Its Benedlcltc. The Philadelphia Press has waked up te the fact that Senater Mahone still lives, but evidently concludes that it is a very feeble life and se lets the late great regenerator slide back home with some very cold words of dismissal. The course the Republicans of Virginia will take in regard te an alliance with Mahone is still in doubt, says the Pres, and se it is in doubt. Garfield doubts, the Press doubts. We fear, as Garfield is famous as a doubter, that our esteemed contemporary will have a heavy time keeping up with his deubtings. It went sadly astray.en the Mahone sheet; which was very premising te fellow at first te a journal which " welcomes the overthrew of Bourbenism no matter which party or what man is the lever." In ether words, the Press proclaims itself for the Republican adminis tration, which dipenses the offices, no matter by what man or en what ground that administration Is assailed. If that is net a het declaration of devotion te Garfield then one could net be framed " Ne matter which party or what man is the lever." It is for him against every and any lever. Whatever he does it is for the Republican president. Whatever his principles, it is for him. When he is uncertain, it is in doubt. When he strikes, it is ready te tumble te the work. Its speedy desertion of Conk Cenk ling, after se valiantly bearing his lance even se lately as in the tilt against Sen ater Bayard, looked as though the ad ministration label was very necessary te make any political man or thing leek lovely te the Press, but we hardly ex pected it te avow se broadly and plainly as it new does its thick and thin par tisanship of the president. Ne wonder that peer Billy Mahone, its idol of a month age, is let se coldly slide by a journal having such a test for determin ing the virtue of standing by its friends. This is its Benedicite : Senater Mahone, having vanquished the Bourbons in the Senate, gees home te day te prepare for a uTe-and-deaUi strug gle with these of Virginia. TfaeReadjua ter convention will meet at Richmond next Thursday, and the campaign will then open, but the issues upon which it will be fought are still undetermined. The Bourbons show a dunnsitinn tn tnl the senator's thunder in his previous con-1 tests by assmning the position he has se vigorously maintained en the debt ques tion, while the' course the Republicans will take is still in doubt. One thing, however, is certain. The country will welcome the overthrew of Bourbenism in Virginia, as well as in the rest of the Seuth, no matter which party or what man is the lever. Ah Heaest tiereraer. We cannot see any justice or consist ency in the failure of se many of our Democratic contemporaries in Maryland te make common cause withtheir excel lent and practical (Democratic) Governer Hamilton, in his determination te wage relentless war en the abuses which have crept into that state government, as they creep into all governments, especially Where one party is strongly and continu ously entrenched in power. When Gov. Hamilton was a candidate for office these abuses had assumed such dimensions as te put his party en the defensive and almost threaten its supremacy. It met the crisis and recommended itself te pub lic confidence anew by nominating a man like Gov. Hamilton, who was in telligent and honest, who embodied in his characterthe principles of the plat form then adopted, and who repeated, en every stump in every county where he spoke, his adherence te these pledges of the convention which had nominated him : It will be the duty of the next General Assembly te lighten the burden of taxation in this state by abolishing all offices net necessary for the public service , by re ddcing all salaries and fees subject te its control te the limit of the compensation of persons engaged in similar employment in private life ; by compelling the prac tice of economy in every detail of state, county and municipal expenditures, and by enforcing the observance of the consti tutional rule that every person in the state, or person holding property therein, ought te contribute his proportion of pub lic taxes for the support of the govern ment, according te his actual worth in real or personal property. Public offices were net created for the benefit of individuals nor for the purpose of rewarding political services, but were intended solely for the public advantage. The perversion of their use te any ether purpose is injurious te geed morals and te geed government. The maintenance of free institutions in this state and the essential interests of its people require that all elections should be free and pure. The General Assembly ought, at its next session, te provide further security" for fairness in such auc tions by providing for a correct and accu rate registration of the names of all per sons entitled te vote in this state, te be made by competent officers at certain fixed successive periods of time, and by direct ing the first of said new registrations te bmade at the earliest practical period. Gov. Hamilton had net been long in office before he discovered that an ele ment of the politicians in his party, who found their profit elsewhere, meant that these pledges should be kept only te the. ear and broken te the hope. He formu lated them into prepositions for legisla tive enactment, but his party failed te effect the necessary legislation. The de sired and possible retrenchment in ex penses and sinecure offices was net effect ed; salaries and fees were net duly re duced ; instead of ' economy in every detail " being enforced, there was ex pended in the first session of the Legis lature under his administration for sta tionery, mileage and per diem of senators and delegates, the sum of $57,767, and for officers' and employees' pay,including one newspaper correspondent, the sum of $59,194.26; the Democracy were shamed by an enormously false registra tion in Baltimore; taxation was net lightened nor made equitable, and plain constitutional directions regarding the diversion of certain revenues te the sinking fund were ignored. The news papers are richly patronized with legisla tive advertising, and are thus narcotized into silent submission te a neglect of the state assembly's highest duties. Under these circumstances Gov. Ham ilton appeals te the rank and file of his party and the people of his whole state, te agitate by popular discussion the questions which he deems himself obligated by his own and his party's pledges te press te the forefront, and "te take such action as will most likely pro mote the common object and most cer tainly secure te the people of the state a correction of admitted abuses, the aboli tion of sinecures or unnecessary offices, the enforcement of a rigid economy in every branch of the public service, and the establishment upon a fixed basis, in a reorganization of the treasury depart ment, of an absolute observance of every requirement of the constitution and the laws in the application of the lean taxes te the payment of the public debt." There is nothing in his position te war rant aspersions upon his character as a publicist or a Democrat, ne is right in holding his party te its pledges and in carrying them out himself. He may have in view a purpose te aggrandize his own interests, though our knowledge et the man leads us te believe lie is above that. But, whatever his motive, his pe sitien is impregnable and the politicians of his party would de much better for themselves and for it te join in with him. The Democracy of Maryland are strong enough te command the situation and reap every party advantage from carrying out Gov. Hamilton's ideas of reform. Failing te de it thev will work injury te the commonwealth and ruin te then: party. They may delay and even defeat Gov. Hamilton and may hand him bound and captive te the enemy, but they will save no credit nor advantage te themselves. They may pull down the pillars of the Democracy in their state, but they will be mangled and mashed in the ruins.- " Palpable distinctions." Why does the Xew Era make such a "palpa ble distinction " as te take " Christ " Ceble and leave " Ike " Bushong ? Has Mercantile Appraiser Greff net put a valuation en the latter? Why did the Xew Era in its account of the primary elections and the return judges' meeting make such " a palpable distinction " be tween'the disgraceful conduct of Sense nig's hired heelers at the polls and in the hall, and McMellen's mercenary train band? Why does the Xew Era make such a " mlnaMa 1latimefinn " hatnriuin Sfe An scriptten of Sensenig's saloon in 1878 and in 1881 ? Why does the Xew Era make such a " palpable distinction " between Harvey Raymond's return tinkering in Lewer Mount Jey and the Sensenig gang's ballet-box stuffing in the Sixth and Seventh wards V 1IINOB TOPIOb. The Suez canal takes in about $90,000 a day. Oke applicant for the position of United States consul had the personal indorse inderse ments of Longfellow and Helmes, Aldrich and Whittier. He must have been a super literary feller. The United Brethren general conference earnestly pretests against legislative, ju dicial or clerical allowance of divorce for any ether than the single and scriptural cause. In view of the heavy grists brought te our local divorce mill the united breth ren who dispense justice in our county court will please take notice. Rev. Professer Swing in his last Sun day's sermon embraced the theory that when we die here we are in seme way transferred te some ether planet, and go right en living. - The professor does no take any stock in the conventional angel of the old masters. " There is little prob ability," he told the astonished grain operators, "that there are intelligent beings having wings." We have been reading the Legislative Recerd of the proceedings en the night Hewit, Hazlett, Rice & Ce. were abus ing McClure. It would be interesting, if it wasn't se old. After two weeks is almost the. earlutst that one can get an official report of legislative proceedings. It is a blunder a crime. And since some body has discovered that the Recerd con tractor is bound te furnish it the next day after the proceedings it reports have hap pened, and that se far in the 1,700 or 1,800 pages published, he has failed te meet his obligations, let the money be forthwith stepped en him for his fatal breach of con tract. State Superintendent HioBEE,being present at a Sunday school convention up in the Cumberland valley, where the re lation of the Sunday schools and public schools was under discussion, made a ring ing speech declaring there was no antag onism whatever. A local paper reports that he said : "Many teachers in our public schools were unfit te teach children. They were lacking in character. The di rectors should see te it that such perseus are net employed. The teacher should be geed, honest, upright, and should possess brains sufficient te teach what he knows. As botween characters and brains, he would prefer character. The remarks of Superintendent lligbee were listened te with attention, and when he closed he was greeted with a hearty round of applause. The audience felt that he had the courage and firmness te meet and battle with overy difficulty in the way and that the youth of our state would be well cared for by him." What mero senseless law was .ever en acted than the bill which has passed the Heuse at Harrisburg, that hotels, restau rants and bearding houses using oleomar garine must make conspicuous announce ment of the fact by placards en their din iug room walls ! It is net intended that they shall de this, but it is expected that such legislation by a great commonwealth will blackmail them into net using oleo margarine. If people like it, let them eat it. If people cat it and don't knew it they are net hurt ; and at any rate clean oleo margarine is better thau the nasty, stale and dirty butter that is served at some of the hotels aud restaurants where members of the Legislature take their meals. But it such placards are te be posted in dining rooms, why net make the protection " of guests complete by compelling the dining room walls te be plastered all ever with guarantees of "Ne Hair in the Hash ;" "Ne Bootlegs Served as Beefsteak ;" " Eggs Warranted Laid Within a Menth ;" "Nene but Clean Cooks Employed J" There might as well hotter be a law against frying steaks as using oleomarga rine, if people like the bogus butter. We are in receipt from Representatives Landis and Snyder of the report of a com mittee of the Legislature, appointed by the governor, te inquire into the expe diency of establishing a stale industrial reformatory ; and mere especially of di verting the proposed Huntingdon peniten tiary te that end. It is generally admitted new that the middle penitentiary scheme and the beginning made of that job were only intended te make capital ferH. G. Fisher's election te Congress. It served its end and,uet being needed as a penitentiary, probably it will be as well te establish the proposed reformatory there. It unanimous ly strikes this committee se, at any rate ; and Governer Heyt who has made close study of the New Yerk institution at EI mira,is much interested in such an experi ment for Pennsylvania. The idea is tBat many incipient criminals, between say 16 and SO years old, the primary object of whose punishment should be their re form, might be placed in position te be- come useful citizens instead of permanent dangers and charges te the state, and the idea of vengcauce is entirely discarded in the reformation plan. Judges are te have discretion in sending criminals te these institutions, -their managers being em powered te release a prisoner when it ap pears that there is a strong or reasonable probability that he will live and remain at liberty without violating the law, and that his release is net incompatible with the welfare of society. The New Yerk statis tics show that, as te the three hundred and seven rcleased,seciety has te-day geed pre tectien against all but twelve, namely, nine who ceased their correspendenco and three who absconded. In Maryland a charitable society, having for its end the reformation of convicts, has provided hon orable position for and made useful men of mauy ex-convicts. There cannot be tee much of this sort of geed work done. An Inventor IflM Bleb. Ransom Cook, inventor, has died at Sar atega, aged 87 years. He was a native of Wallingferu, Conn., and came te Saratoga when seven years old. He leaves a widow and two sons. His estate is valued at 9150,000. His library of 3,000 volumes, principally scientific, cost upwards of $10, 000. He patented seventeen inventions. The most netable one was the celebrated "Cook auger." The Armstrong cannon was his invention in 1832, but this govern ment did net adept it. Gen. Armstrong, an Englishman, obtained the Cook plans, and made a fortune abroad. The house of Samuel Matthews, of Cam I bria county, was entered in day light by thieves who stele $3,000. -. FZBbONAJU- Hates has been nominated for re-election as trustee of Kenyea college, the in stitution which graduated him. Jehn B. Geed, of this city, and F. G. Pennkl, of Mount Jey, are recently ap pointed notaries public. r The late Thes. A. Scott never voted at a presidential election from I860 until 1880, when he cast his ballet for Han cock. At the late annual commencement of the Maryland state normal school Hen. J. P. Wickesshau, LL. D., of this city, delivered an address. Inadvertently the date of Drs. Webb and Underwood's proposed visit te Eu rope was giveaas the middle of June. It should have been printed July 16. All reports agree that if the New Yerk senatorial complication eventuate in nothing better it will at least have made Mr. Conkline much " mere sociable " the dear man ! Edwin Beeth, new in Londen, re-visits America next month, taking home his wife whose condition is hopeless. He returns te England in August te fulfill provincial engagements. Mr. Stanten, the son of the late secre tary of war, has lately married the daugh ter of the Mrs. Phillips who was sent te Ship Island by General Butler for insult ing Union soldiers in New Orleans. The vestry of St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal church, en Tenth street, above Chestnut, Philadelphia, have chosen the Rev. Courtland Whitehead, of Seuth Bethlcmen, te the vacant rectership of that church. James Gorden Bennett is again re ported engaged te be married. The young lady mentioned this time is MIIe. Bona parte, daughter of Pierre Bonaparte, who has resided nearly alibis life retirement in the south of France. Congressman W. D. Kelley is said te have lest $20,000 of borrowed meney ; $17,000 of his daughter's, and $8,000 of his own by the failure of the Herdie coach enterprise in Philadelphia. They were tee poorly built. Queen Victeria has taken possession of the pet peacocks which Lord Beacensfield kept at Hughenden. When the gorgoeus birds arrived at Windser, the queen, her daughter Bcatrice and her seu Leepold dreve te the aviary te give them courteous welceme. The statement that ex-Speaker Randall had visited Albany te take a hand in the senatorial contest, was a sheer invention. Mr. Randall has net been in New Yerk since the resignation of Ceukling and Piatt. He is new greatly enjoying the country air out at his summer residence near Berwyn. Mrs. Millais, whose beautiful face has become familiar tbreught the picture of the " Huguenot Levers," was one of the Grey sisters of Perth, who were commonly called the "fair maids of Perth." She was a slender,blende-haircd girl.butis new described as fat, fair and forty, the mother of grown daughters. Vance is the name for a new county just erected by a vote of the people of Granville and Warren counties, North Carolina. The county is named for United States Senater Z. B. Vance. It is said there are several thousand children in the old North State named after the same genial and eloquent senator. Mr. Wattcrsen kindly explains that Mr. Tilden and Mr. Bayard have never taken te one another. They are tee much alike. It is sentimental accordance joined te difference of opinion which produces friendships. Mr. Bayard thinks Mr. Tilden a cold, crafty calculator. Mr. Tilden thinks Mr. Bayard an unapprecia tive, unobservant and self-opinionated and self-contained young gentleman. Beth are wrong. Each, in his way, is an idealist. Private Secretary Nichel went te Gar field ene morning recently, aud said : "Conkling says he wants a chance te leek you in the eye and tell you you are a liar. Hew much longer, general, are you going te stand this sort of thing ?" And he re ports Garfield as replying in these deep guttural tones that he uses when most ex cited : "He wants te leek me in the eye, does he ? Let him ceme into this room, and I will leek him in the cye when he comes in and give him my beet when he gees out." In the investigation of the Mahone-Car-michael-" damn-deg "-postal-card case at Alexandria it was brought out of the pos tal authorities that " abusive postal cards are almost daily received against Mr. Garfield, but they never reach him ; we burn them up." Senater Morgan per tinently asked : " What right have you te keep the president from knowing what some of the people think of him ? The president has the same rights as any ether man te obtain the popular senti ment. We are net living in a despotism." Te Rescoe Conkling in his present po litical distress may profitably ceme the reflection that he missed the golden op ep op nertnnitv tn make the " HrpafAsf. 1?.flYt-t " of his life when he failed te fellow his in stincts and his conscience and declare against the electoral fraud. The voice of the siren lured him from his better inten tions, and such a tide when net taken at its flood never returns. Had Conkling declared for the Right then he might have saved himself if net his party, and had he net become the foremost public man of his day his rank in his own party would have been undisputed. Jehn Cessna, of Bedford, Pa., gives notice through the public prints up that way "It." that he has brought out no candidates and set up no newspaper against Judge Hall's ro-electieu ; but, te relieve all possible misunderstandings and correct misrepresentations, Jehn modestly adds : " I have lived here nearly sixty years; have earned and expended my means among the people of the county, and if my fellow citizens have sufficient confidence in my capacity and integrity te bestow upon me the honorable position or president judge I will esteem it a great favor, trusting that it may be the last one I shall ever ask at their hands, and will endeavor te discharge the important and responsible duties of the position te the very best of my skill and ability." Dean Stanley, preaching recenty in Westminster Abby, described Gladstone aud the late Beacenslield as the great twin brethren or the day, each supplying what the ether needed for the public weal. Though they differed se widely in opinieus, posterity will s acknowledge that each fought for what he deemed right in the cause of England's empire and of England's commonwealth. Moderation where mod med mod atien was possible and necessary, the genius that knew when te give way and when te resist, the unconquerable strength of will, and the passenate love of the honor and greatness of England these were vir tues which belonged te no party, and were in themselves wholly independent of what ever lines divided one party from another. The name of Lord Beaconsfield would be remembered by posterity as that of one who had an extraordinary career, which led the alien in race, the despised in debate, the eccentric in demeanor, the romantic adventurer, the fierce assailant, by unflag ging preserverance, unfailing sagacity, un shaken fidelity, by constantly increasing dignity, by larger and larger breadth of view, te reach the highest summits of fame and splendor. m That Settles It. Eds. Examiner : In your paper of Sat urday you leave it for the Republicans of the Seventh ward te decide whether or net I voted at their late primary election. The report that I did is utterly false ; it is a lie cut from the whole cloth. Yeu undertake te excuse the report by the statement that my father voted and "it is claimed that he had a right te vote," and, then you some what ambiguously conclude with the state ment : "Mr. Eitch's vote was counted, &e My father lives in the Fourth ward. He is a Republican, but he did net vote at the Seventh ward primary. There is no Kitch except myself in the Seventh ward, and all the election officers of that ward positively deny that any of that name voted or is en the tally list. Davis Kitch, Supt. et Water Works. LATEST NEWS BY If ATL. New Yerk's governor has signed the bills te prohibit discrimination against any perren en account of race, creed or color, intended te prevent the anti-Jewish hotel war. In Marquez, Texas, Mr. Frank, a drug gist, through mistake, administered mor phine te his three children, aged four, six and eight years, in lieu of quinine. The' youngest is dead and the ethers are in a precarious condition. At Woodbury, N. J., an extra train from Atlantic City struck and probably fatally injured a man supposed te be Jehn Bur den of New Yerk city, sitting en the track. He has four ribs broken and is bad ly cut about the head. la Skowhegan, Me., a tire starting in the Turner house and stables swept them, burned twenty horses and adjoining shops and houses, less $50,000. In Kenten, Ohie, fire destroyed the depot, two hotels, two churches and in all $45,000 worth of prop erty. Frederick Beedie, aged four, aud his little sister Eva, aged two, during the ab sence of their parents, fell together from the third-story window of their heuse, 517 Tenth avenue,New Yerk, and were in jured se badly that they died iu a few minutes. A Chattanooga dispatch describes a boiler explosion which killed a man half a mile distant with a nine-pound piece of iron, and hurling another piece weighing ,'ue peuuus tureugn two cars leaded with grain with such force that it knocked down the corner of a house, after the fireman had been killed. There are new at the treasury some seven millions of 5 per-cent. bends waiting advice from the owners as te what shall be done with them, as they have started tee late for contiuuaneo and cannot be re ceived and stamped. There is eue let belonging te a single individual amounting te two million dollars. William McCaffrey, ene of the trustees of the Reman Catholic church of Our Lady of Mercy, of Brooklyn, went te church in geed health and assisted at early mass. He helped take up the collection and went into the vestry te count the money. While speaking te Rev. Father McNamara he gasped, fell forward en the fleer and died instantly. And new it happens that iu Darke county, in the Republican state of Gar field and Hayes, a gang of Ku KIux shot down two men in their doorways at night, have given Mr. Tiramans, a farmer near Palestine Preble county, netice te leave, en penalty of death, after having broken down his deer and destroyed his household geed?, and served a similar netice en Mr. Emerick, living near the same place. The half-decomposed remains of a man were discovered in the weeds at a point a mile north of Wincika, III. The head had been severed from the trunk as if by an axe and the body was jammed in the thicket and covered with underbrush. Late ly a man's head found en the beach near the spot where the headless body was dis covered, was supposed te be that of a ship--wrecked man. Dr. Jehn F. Dunphy, of New Yerk, aire thirty, cut his threat in the Aster Place hotel. The police took him te Bclle Bclle vue hospital, where he has a fair chance of recovery. The weapons used were a pocket knife and lancet. Troubles grow ing out of his marriage caused it. He comes of a highly respected family, and his widowed mother lives in Newburg. One of his brethers is assistant pastor of the Church of the Nativity and two ethers are priests. e m CItlMK AND M1SFOKTUNK. The Track of Fire and llloed. In New Mexico a prisoner in charge of James Bell, struck and killed him with his hand cuffs. A baby locked in an Alexandria, Va., house, was burned te death in a general conflagration, ensuing when its parents were away. Cellier white lead mill, St. Leuis, has burned, less $120,000. The clothiers, Mackey, Jehnsen, Turner & Ce., Chesnut street below Tenth Philadelphia, have made an as signment. Liabilities, $130,000. Ab dallah Jr., brother of Goldsmith Maid, has died from poison. Beecher failed of an audience in Nashville. Jersey.City col lected $10 each, line, from forty corner loungers who insulted ladies. U. S. Mar shall Martin and his twelve-year old boy each shot dead a robber resisting arrest. A drunken ruffian, named Neusen, or dered Geerge Latimer, an infirm and aged colored Baptist minister of Ar kansas, te kneel and pray ; he wouldn't and Neusen shot him dead. Liberty Nelsen, aged 50, in Upton, Massa chusetts, and Geerge Whitman, aged 66, in the Chicago peer house hanged them selves in despair. Mrs. Jehn Hacker, sit ting en her doorstep at Elma, N. Y., was seized Jby Jehn Hechmeir, a neighbor, who dragged her te a tree and pounded and kicked her into insensibility, ocean se he had quarreled with her husband about their line fence. Jealousy aad Crime. At 104 Prince street, Brooklyn, Edward M. Dezendorf in a fit of passion resulting from jealensy shot his wife, inflicting a wound which will probably prove fatal, and then sent a bullet through his own heart, killing himself instantly. Husband and wife were each thirty-one years of age aud had been married about eleven years. The family lived in comfortable circum stances, but for some time quarrels had been of frequent occurrence between Dezeuderf and his wife. A Palpable Distinction.' New Era. The Intelligence attempts te justify its disparagement of the Hew ara's efforts at political reierm ey ecneing me juum tners spiteful cry taat.Lvi aensemg 1 with the movement, and that he and the jucjieuen leauers were muucu iu iue wiuu school," that it can "see no difference m their methods." concluding with the re mark that " the Keie Jura having Deen in partnership with both, can' pos sibly -point out a distinction that we have net discovered." True, this journal has had the co-operation of both, has wen a victory with both, aad de feated them both by dividing and taking tnem in detail. .But the difference the Intelligencer ignores and which we would point out is this : In order te make the first breach in the machine which could only be done by dividing the hitherto invulnerable Hues of the bosses, it was necessary for us te consent te tactics which can be justified only by the laws of war. If your enemy is starving and you can win seme of his lieutenants te fight en your side by sharing your commissary stores with them, and thus gain a victory you could no otherwise achieve, the act will be applauded as geed generalship. Iu morals it might net pass current ; be sides, you run the risk of taking traitors into your camp and endangering the morale of your army. This was the character of our first fight with the bosses. Besses McMellen and Greff and Ceble were starving for office. They were ready te desert their fellow- bosses, Hiestand, Sensenig & Ce., but only en condition that they should be fedj from the public commissary. Mentzer would natnrally help his son-in-law te the quartermaster's stores. As the Xew Era wasn't hungry it didn't care a conti nental who get the plunder if the old gang was broken up. Se it consented te take enough of its old enemies into-its camp te divide their forces and thus be able in two campaigns te lick them in detail. The mistake we made was in supposing these hungry chaps would be satisfied withtheir lawful share en the commissary stores, and that they would be true te their profession of leyaly te the people. Once safely en the victorious side they began te rob and te plot treason. Then the Xew Era threw them overboard and resolved te net only drive them out of th3 public commissary department, but never again te attempt te strengthen its lines by offering the commissary te any boss as the condition or reward of desert ing their lines and giving allegiance te 'ours. Hence (and here we "point ent a dis tinction ") in planning this campaign we laid it down as a fundemental principle that none of the old firm of Hiestand, Sen senig, McMellen, Mentzer, Greff, Fred 8mith & Ce., should be put upon the ticket, which should be irreproachable, with no candidate upon it who bail a smirched record, who would net pledge himself te take nothing but legal fees when in office, and use none but honorable methods te sccure his election. We appeal te the character of the men we supported te prove enr geed faith in this matter. If a life-long character for integrity and honor means anything there is no fear of a McMellen, a Tem Davis, a Sammy Greff or a Christ Ceble being de veloped among any of the candidates-elect hwem we supported or these whom the Mnlhoelics supported because the very strength of the reform movement com pelled them te teke a better class of men than they usually "like te see rewarded." There will be no mob eveked by them te interefcre with the auditors when their accounts are te be investigated, or if there should be they will find in Messrs. Greider and Reed different men te deal with than the majority of the present beard. Professional bridge contractors will net be allowed te ignore their obligations because they own the commis sioners, and if the robbery of illegal fees is net stepped, as the candidates we supj ported have pledged themselves te the public te de, the Xew J?; a will be prompt te recall their certificates of geed charac ter. If we have net " pointed out a distinc tion " between our first and last battle with the bosses, and a very gratifying one te the public as well as ourselves, then, indeed, have we lived and labored in vain ! STATE ITEMS. Francis Murphy, the temperance man, will shortly tackle Oil City. Geerge P. Rogers, an Erie clerk, com mitted suicide by sheeting himself twice in the head. Jehn O. Deshnng, aged 74, an influen tial, wealthy and wide! -known citizen has died at his residence in Chester after a lingering illness. Williainspert is new te issue, iu place of its outstanding obligations, refunding beuds. They are te be 10-20 4 per cents, exchangeable for the old beuds and un paid at I'.ir. A strauger believed te be Alexauder McUee. was kuoeked down, killed and ternby maugted by a read freight train en Philadelphia. Pennsylvania rail Powelton avenue, Lieut. Cel. Henry S. Smith, clerk of the courts of Montgomery county, diet! en Sat urday morning at 3 o'clock, at his resi dence in Norristown. He had been seri ously ill but a short time. William Daubcrt and Themas McLaugh lin were blasting cinder iu a stack at Ma Ma cungie furnace, when a premature explo sion occurred, tearing away a portion of Dauber'ts face and destroying the eye sight of McLaughlin. Miss Mary Slathers, a beautiful and accomplished young lady of Woodbury, Md., aged 30 visiting friends in Philadel phia, went yachting en Saturday, was struck by the boom of a colliding cralt, knocked overboard and her body has net yet been found. It was Dr. Cattell, of Lafayette college, Easten, who declined for his institution a bequest of some thousands left te it by a graduate, who had most unjustly, in mal ice ever a quarrel with them, disinherited his son and wife. The college accordingly gave up the property te them. The German singing societies of Phil adelphia will celebrate the bi-centennial anniversary of that city by a great musi cal festival, te be held June, 1883, and last one week. Thirty-one societies have com bined for this purpose, and in order te raise the funds necessary te make the af fair a success a social musical festival will be held in Rising Sun park en the 31st and 33d of August next. At the grand festival societies from New Yerk, Bosten, Baltimore and ether cities are expected te participate. Brotherly Leve. Yesterday was observed as Union Deco ration day in New Orleans, the graves at Chalmette being decorated under the au spices of the Grand Army of the Republic. J. R. Beckwith delivered the oration. The ex-Confederate associations took part in the ceremonies. A Coel Statement. A correspondent of a West Chester paper writes us from Pert Depesit: It mav make an interesting' Hera for your readers te knew tnat were yec remains a bank of ice en the Lancaster county side of Susquehanna river, near JHcUall s ferry, which is at least 100 feet long, SO. feet wide and 5 feet thick, being the remains of the ice gorge of last winter. It will last, I think, at least 15 days yet. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. DKCOKATIOH PAT, 1S81. trssnsira. Onte ear dead these sours belong ; We grace their shrines with bad and leaf, And with the ecstasy of grief The voice or triumph swells In song. Through lustrous years these heroes sleep Mid homes their spirits still possess ; But who wUl crown,' what chant win Meat, The brcezc-blewn graves et outer deep ? He wreathe for them, no rhythmtnatraln, .While dimmed eyes wait en lonely shore .for ghostly ships that come no swn Te lives made dumb with unsolved pain. Ne mere tar seas lift white the Mils; !Ne foam-flags thrill before the prows, ,'Ner wistful wind the course endows. Of brothers lest te mid-deep hall. vfhat time they sailed ear youth knew beat ; ,The het world pulsed with sailors' cheers. Though In the rain of.wessen's tears Deemed dim the future's sad bequest. We bade them go, though pale Ups thrilled .Through all the varies mag of song. Of or dreamed our peeans wenht prolong Their echoes tul a requiem stilled. Seme steered for ports of tar Cathay ; Seme te the sun-kissed Islands sailed, land some te gulfs where no man halted. Fer half their year was changeless day. t 'Sound trople cape aad weed-lapped shoal, Through seas of anther aad of blue. Their shining keels our lest ones drew Vf lth vain Inquest for premised goal. Oh, nene return, or ever will ! .Though better loved for being late. And dearer bold that time and fate Have wed their lives and ours te Ul. We cannot grasp Divine designs Which give a purpose te our less ; But we ean feel with dust aad dress Of selfish pain some geld combines. And from the failure aad the pain With earth-treed alms ear seula outreach, And claim the chastened right te teach The lessens learned through less aad gala. We bear this burden of ear youths With greater patience that we knew The hidden paths we tread below Grew luminous 'neath sublimed truths. Net vain our dead who tearless sailed ; Unstained, we held them la our heart ; Unsung, they wake the nobler part Of what their lives essayed and failed. In peace we guard these graves, and we W1U glorify their hallowed field ; Bat till the waves our martyrs yield. Our noblest dead bless every sea. J. D. J. Kellty, in United Sir vice Magazine. VBCOBATION DAY BSUUION. Tbe Bey Orator" Preaches te UMQrand Army. Salem Church of Ged presented an ani mated appearance last evening. A large congregation was drawn there by the an nouncement that Rev. Jehn C. St. Jehn, "the boy orator," as be is called, of Brooklyn, N. Y., would preach a sermon te Gee. II. Themas pest, G. A. R. Promptly at the appointed hour the pest, numbering between fifty and sixty men, filed into the church. The services began with an anthem, "Walk in the light," by the choir, and after prayer and the singing of "America," the sermon began. Rev. St. Jehn took for his text, "But thanks be unto Ged, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ," in 1st Cor., xv. 57. There are two great victories which ever confront us: one found en the pages of history ; the ether en the pages of prophecy. One tells as of the struggle for liberty for a time ; the ether for eternity ; one mortal, the ether immortal. It is twenty years since this nation was awakened from her slumbers by the cannon's rear, which was sounded close te Sumpter's side, and echemg aad reverberating ever mountain and valley, hill and vale, struck terror te the free man's heart. In '61 the ship of Liberty was bearded by traitors, ber masts were tern from the yard arms and her sails shriveled and rent, and attempts made te sink her in tbe deep. But te-day she sails en the high sea of prosperity with mere power than ever. The sneaker than. gave an eleqerit and vivid recital of the bombardment and evacuation of Fert Sumter; of the arrival of tbe Massa chusetts (5th in Baltimore, where it was attacked by a mob ; of tbe gallant heroism of General Gee. H. Themas at Ckkkamaa ga; the four years of carnage aad blood shed, and the subsequent surrender of tbe confederate armies te Grant at Appo mattox. This is a nation of patriots. The ink en the presidential call for aid had dt yet dried ere thousands of Anmrieafs noblest sons left these they loved aad an swered, " Here am I." The soldier's trials were then dwelt at length ; the tedious marches, doing sentinel duty in the hail and rain, the monotonous camp life, etc.; the expectation of the loyal North as they watched the progress of the march of the Union armies, one marching te the head of the Confederacy the ether te its heart. Results fellow causes, and te-day we see as the result of these four years of civil strife the emancipation of three million bondmen and the showing te the world that ours is indeed tbe "Heme of the brave and the free." He spoke of the beautiful custom of decorating the graves. Decorate them with the Rese of Sharen and the Lily of the Valley, prognostic of the resurrection. Here followed a tUp peroration en the resurrection of Christ and what it teaches us that we tee shall rise. The exercises closed with the sing ing of "Am I a Soldier of the Cress ?" Rev. St. Jehn is scarcely ever 31 years of age and is of a very youthful ap pearance. His Ktaet. as a whole, was a geed one, and abounded in many eloquent utterances, He has a geed voice which is heard te advaatage. His BMaaereaUte pulpit tends te the tragical. It Svi dent that he was laboring from illness, as he stepped during bis sermon from sick headache. Tne Foetal Swindler. The right name of the postal swindler whose operations withfenred money orders. under the name of A. ,B. 'Cotes,? aad his arrest, have been described ia 'taia paper, is Linten J. Greff, and he was postmaster at Linten, Jeffersen county, Ohie, where he also had a little job printing eftce. Ac cording te the statement which he made te . L. TidbaH, special ageat of the post pest office department, be first conceived tbe idea of counterfeiting aad passing money orders in April, 1881. He procured the paper te priat them ea at a PfdladataaiK hoeee, and then est telwbrfc ia hie ewa: entee te prepare the elemiaai.advieas, of which a large number were ferged: ' ' J! , The ladies of the Meraviaa church, fa mous for their hospitality and geed cheer, are first te invite the pablie te a straw berry festival which win be held under their auspices ea Wedaesday aad Thursday evenings of this week, ia Rebert's hall, North Prince street;oppesito Faltea opera house. Generous eatertninmeat aad ear ear ear toens treatment are sare te greet the visi tor here, and the ladies premise the ripest, the reddest and most laseieae Uaaaeuies that the most exacting admirer of this kind of the small fruits oeald desire. Anether HI Wra. Witman, of WriAtsdale, writes us as fellows : " I noticed ia the commas of your paper of a couple of large Neeeei of wool, l tning i can mates is cemwneruir the aire. I sheared 134 Deanda ,eaT eaa young buck, net mere than a year old,' el common stock."
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