LANCASTER I)A lit INTELLIGENCES TUESDAY- MAY 31, 1881. TUESDAY EVENING, MAT 81, 19BL Oar Sarplas Kereate. The New Yerk Sun calculates that at Urn present ratio of increase of the an hual surplus in the United States treas ury, in twenty years enough will have accrued te discharge the whole national debt. It is troubled as te what shall then lie done with the surplus, and concludes that " the measure which will most nat urally commend itself te tlie sense of the nation is the reduction of taxation and the prolongation at a reduced interest of the funded debt." But we are net se sure that this is the S3ii9e of the nation.' There is. an old saying forbidding lis te be solicitous about crossing a fence until we get te it, and another which declares tliat sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. There may be no surplus te worry us twenty years hence, and if there is, it will hardly be a difficult matter te de termine bow it shall be atrophied. A removal of taxes will de it promptly. And at that time there will be a great many taxes that can be advantageously removed, as there will certainly be many industries that will then have outgrown their need of protection. Meanwhile Ave believe in the policy of reducing the national debt, since it can be done by a taxation that is net only net oppressive, but that has its ad vantage in affording incidental protec tion te the national industries. We are net converts te the idea that a national debt is a national blessing Ne doubt it is very handy and desirable for capital ists and widows and old folks, as a place where 'te invest their money safely and te assure themselves of their income. But it is net the duty of the government te maintain a debt for the convenience of these classes. If it needs money it is very convenient for it te have such read' lenders in its midst ; but if it does net need it, it in no way advances the general geed by keeping it and paying interest upon it. The nation in no way differs in this respect from the individual, in the intelligent man agement of its finances. The money it does net need it should net take, but should let it find some ether means of finding increase. It will net rust, but will always find a user. There are in numerable opportunities for the employ ment of capital in this country of great material wealth, in producing and dis pensing it. And while it is net the duty of the government te take money that it does net want,from these who desire it te take it that it may be safe, it is the government's duly te protect the citi zen from the fraudulent plans of schem ing rascals te borrow his money without a respectable guarantee of its safety. Here' the national legislature can pro perly exercise a protecting care ever the interests of the widow and the father less. Ke Defense at All. The bribery of the Legislature by Mr. Scott is defended en the ground that he could get no legislation for the Pennsyl vania railroad without paying for it. It is claimed that he did net debauch the Leg islature because he did net find it pure. He would have been glad te get his legis lation for nothing, but he couldn't and 60 he paid for it. It is difficult, indeed, te see hew any just defense of the offense of briber' can be based upon this ground. The very statement of the plain fact that no niau would bribe another if he could get what he wanted without it, shows that the offense of bribery is in no way dependent upon the readiness of the party te le bribed. If there was no party te be bribed there would be no bribery ; -just :is there would be none if there was no one ready te bribe. The public safety demands that both the briber and the bribed shall be punished as a protection against corruption, and neither briber nor bribed can find any excuse in the obvious fact that there would net be one without the ether. Ne doubt Mr. Scott would have had difficulty in achieving his objects of leg islation if he had net bribed the Legisla ture. But, .nevertheless, it was his duty net te bribe. If it had been known te be the steadfast purpose of the Pennsyl vania railroad net te pay for its legisla tion, it would in the eud have obtained by the demand of public sentiment, if net by the will of an unce rrupted and un tempted Legislature, all that the public weal demanded that it should have. And all else the corporation could well have done without. But the fact un questionably was that the legislation the Pennsylvania railroad demanded was often, if net generally, of the kind that it was absolutely injurious te the state te grant. Fer such it could net ap peal te public sentiment ; nor could it, while demanding unjust and injurious legislation, resist the demand of the cor rupt legislator that he should be paid a share of the spoil that was te be gather ed from the state. All that seems tee plain te dwell upon. And it is surprising that anyone in view of such schemes of the Pennsylvania rail road as tlie nine million steal and the tonnage tax repeal, should venture te say,in defense of Mr. Scott's policy, that without it he could secure no legislation. We fear that Jimmy -Andersen is as irreverent as he is redheaded. His un godliness crops out as persistently as the natural color of his hair reappears from licneath the dye which he puts en. His shocking picture of Mr. Hayes singing hymns while" Jimmy and the associated rascals were stuffing stolen goods into his back pocket, is as reprehensible as Harvey Raymond's contempt for Levi Sensenig's reform. But then Andersen is native te the manner of Lancaster county Republican politicians born ! -- The New Yerk Hera Id calls the fifty, seven Republican members of the New Yerk Legislature who( support the ad ad jninjstratien .against 'Conkling " bolt belt ers." They can probably stand it as well as the thirty-six who went into the Conk ling conference, and of the fourteen who did net show their faces at either wait ing for the count of noses the majority will likely belt with the " belters." Tiikke is a frequent unseemliness about the American raanner of celebrat ing holidays. Our idea of festivity tee often' runs te disorder. But when Decoration day is made the occasion for drunken rowdies te decorate each ether's faces with evidences of their prowess the limit of the inappropriate has been reached. 1CINOB TOPICS. A complete review of the local to bacco market, recent operations of buyers and of the new plant will be found en our outside pages, with ether matters of local interest. If our esteemed "reform" centem perary is net mere careful in applying the term "Picayune " te a "political country editor" he may find himself complained of for infringing the right te that appella tion by a city political lawyer, whose claim te this term has been "exclusive." One of the churches in Patchogue, L. I., has made a novel addition te its music by introducing into the church two dozen canary birds in cages. They sing with the choir and also when the choir is net singing, and their music is net complained of by cither the minister or the congrega tion. Of course, the New Era bad in its mind's eye " Heggy" Leenard, " Jake" Price and " Larry" Burns when it said : " When, therefore, young men, rising into notice, of fair abilities, and with all their future still before them, voluntarily lend themselves te the schemes of old and no toriously corrupt politicians, seduced by the premise of future preferment and re ward, they make the mistake of a life time." Tub Hebrew Messenger is of the opinion that such a time-honored prayer as the "Our Father who art iu Heaven," it would scum, has entered tee deeply into the hearts and minds of Christians, and is tee closely identified with the tendercst phases of family life, te permit of even the slightest verbal change. " Deliver us from the evil one," instead of "Deliver us from evil," will net be a welcome speci men of the work of revision. Tub Philadelphia Esening Telegraph congratulates itself that it recognized in Mahone a renegade Democrat, a blatant, unrepentant rebel, and a repudiator of public debts. It recognized in Riddleberg er a low politician of the same sort, and iu Gerham a free-lance Republican, who had defeated the Republican candidate of his state for governor, for purely selfish reasons, and it therefore opposed a bar gain which took these men into the Re publican fold and made the Republican party responsible for them and their polit ical principles." Tiik " boy preacher" who delivered the Decoration memorial sermon in this city, must have discovered "a revised version" of Whittier, if our esteemed contemporary correctly reports him as quoting " the poet :" " Ever Its bright folds rose and fell. On the leval winds it loved se well , Ami u reusing majority for the right. Shown ever it with a warm reed night." But then our e. c. made one of tboMillcis tbeMillcis tboMillcis ville orators say that some ene had put it "upon record" that Washington had been waited upon in his tent by a deputa tion, who urged the matter of the crown upon him, " and hew he finally kicked them out of his tent !" We are glad te see the Examiner awak ened te a proper appreciation of the "con test against Steinmetz for representative which came te a sudden end. and another ler a 7th ward constable, which cost the county several hundred dollars and re sulted in showing an increased majority for the Democratic candidate." While the Examiner was hunting in the political grave yard it is a wonder it did net conie across Mayer Stauffer's libel suit against the Intelligencer ; and the skeleton of a peculiarity nice little game which the Examiner's friends tried te work te beat "Steinmetz for representative," even at the. price of beating Bering for mayor or any ether man. Let it net be forgotten that when Mr. Blaine publicly seized and carried off his own compromising correspondence, after having begged Mulligan en his knees te save him from disgrace and ruin, he had the audacity te read prepared extracts from these letters en the fleer of the Heuse, upon which a lame defence of the alleged corruption was made. But he ab solutely refused te submit the abstracted letters te the committee of investigation! or te any open inspection. He then de stroyed the proofs by which the charges made against him were te be sustained. Hew he was able, as a public man, te sur vive that scandal, and seen after te come near being nominated for the 'presidency, is one of the marvels of these times. PSBbONAl. Captain Maykb Reid interests himself in sheep raising en his small estate in Hartferdshire, England. The monotony of Washington society will be relieved next winter by the pres ence of King Kalakaua. It seems te be settled that Mubat Hal stead, field marshal of the Cincinnati press, is te have the German mission. Hen. William G. Fauge, president of the American express company, is lying very ill at his residence in Buffalo, and little hope is entertained that he will sur vive. The father of Miss Anna Hakkkkss, who took the second prize for violin play ing iu Paris, is a newspaper carrier in Bos Bes Bos eon and has devoted every dollar he could earn te her musical education. Gen. Kilpatrick felt se happy ever his appointment as minister te Chili that he sent the secretary of state a pretty floral ship with "Blaine. Forever" lettered around the base. But if Blaine makes many such appointments his ship will go te wreck. At the coming commencement of Muh lenberg college in Allentown, en Wednes day, June 29, at 3 p. m., the address be be be fere the alumni will be made by Rev. W. K. Frick, of Philadelphia, formerly of Lancaster ; in the evening at 8 o'clock the address before the literary .societies by Hen. William A. Wallace, of Clear field. There is new being erected ever the grave of Mrs. Cress (Geerge Eliet) in Highgate cemetery a beautiful memorial i stone. It is in the form of an obelisk 12 feet in height, and is a beautiful specimen of the blue or Aberdeen granite. The pedestal bears the following inscription in geld letters: "Ol these immortal dead who live again In minds made better bv their presence Here lies the body of Geerge Eliet,' Mary Ann Cress. Bern 22d November, 181!. Died 22d December, 1S8X" When the geld cress given Miss Antheny by her Philadelphia admirers was passed down te the reporters' table for examin ation at the Weman Suffrage convention in Bosten, E. P. Robinson, of Saugus, who sat among them, remarked: "Mrs. President and ladies : When one of our Massachusetts regiments was starting for the war, Jehn A Andrew, taking the mus ket carried by Theodere Parker's grand father at Lexington, which bad been pre sented te the state, kissed it as an earnest of his devotion te their cause. Sel kiss this cress as an earnest of my admiration of Susan B. Antheny." The kiss was given, the audience laughed, and Miss Antheny blushed appreciation. m m 3TATE ITEMS. Lillie Ackcrman, aged 7 years, was drowned by falling into the creek at Ches tcr. The 5-ycar-eld seu of Mr. Dunkle, super intendent of the Cottage planing mill, Hun tingdon, was drowned in the race near the mill. Daniel Smith, a meulder, who worked in the Bessemer steel works, Bethlehem, committed suicide by sheeting himself through the heart. Frederick Walter, a coal miner, em ployed at Armstrong's works near Pitts burgh was killed by a fall of slate en Sat urday. The deceased leaves a wife but no children. The everlasting ecclesiastical case of Stark vs. O'Hara is at tbe supreme court again from Lycoming county; and it wouldn't be a Williamsport .list if the Herdics and Lycoming fire insurance com pany were net en it as litigants. The case of the " sleeping " Hungarian at Allentown seems te have lest interest since his trance-like condition has come te be attributed te the abscess en his head which is new three, inches long, two wide, and a running sere. In April 1880, iu Beaver Falls, Barney Miller, a grocery clerk, was offered ten shares of stock in the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroad for $250 spot cash. He bor rowed the money, bought it en faith and sold at $98 per share the ether day paying his interest and pocketing $700 profit. LATEST NEWS BY MAIL. Geerge W. Tewusend, a wealthy citizen of Ncwburg, New Yerk, died suddenly at uaoyien, Leug island, en Sunday. Jeremiah nail, D. D., cx-prcsident of IJcnmsen university, at Granville, Ohie, died yesterday, at Pert Haven, Michigan, aged 7C years. Base ball Easten Lafayette, 10; Broek lyn, C. New Haven Yale, 5 ; Brown, 2. Worcester Worcester, 8 ; Detroit, 4. New Yerk Metropolitan, G ; Atlantic, 4. Phil adelphiaAthletic, 6 ; National, 2. A duel was fought in Scott county, Me., between two young men namen Trent and Strickland, who in a quarrel en the high way resorted te knives. The result was the mortal wounding of Strickland. It begins te leek as if Conkling would be elected te stay at home. Only 35 mem bers attended his caucus last night. The administration conference) had 57. The Democrats have nominated Francis Kcr nau and Jehn C. Jacobs as their candi dates. In Indianapolis Jehn Enrich, formerly a policeman aud saloon keeper, whose wife had applied for a divorce, shot her and her father and then shot himself. Enrich has since died. Mrs. Eurich's condition is critical, but she will probably recover. Her father was euly slightly wounded. The first annual meeting of the League of American Wheelmen took place in Bos Bes Bos eon yesterday and was an event of a most novel character. Many clubs from differ ent cities had arrived within the past two or three days, and at the parade there were about 800 bicycles in line. The Discount and Deposit bank of Chat tanooga has made an assignment. The assests of the bank arc amply sufficient te pay all liabilities ; if from any cause they should net, the liability of the stockholders under the terms of the charter, makes it absolutely certain that every creditor will get every dollar due him. Emma Ague, 26 years old, a patient in the Bloemingdalo asylum under treatment for suicidal mania, was found hanging te a sheet te the closet deer of her room. She had been dead several hours. She had put a dummy in her bed se that her absence from it would net be missed by the attend ants. Jehn P. Munley challenged Geerge Mun ley, his nophew, nineteen years old, te fight a duel. They met en Campbell's Creek, West Virginia, and Geerge Munley was shot in the mouth before he fired a shot. He cannot recover. Beth are miners in geed circumstances, and the quarrel be tween them arose out of family matters. At Bridgeport, Ala., 20 miles from Chattanooga, au Irish tramp named Mo Me han, while bathing with some young men, became enraged because they spattered him with mud, rushed for his knife and cutWm. Cepcland in the neck, causing instant death. The tramp was seized and bound hand and feet, and while in priseu, Sam Reese, a cousin of Cepcland, slipped up aud shot Mehau through the head, causing death immediately. Reese es caped. The two cousins are connected with the wealthiest and most substantial families in that neighborhood. An Important Admission, l'hiladclnhla Evening Bulletin. If Dr. Smith was right in his testimony in the case of Lizzie Aarens, and bis great practical knowledge and professional repu tation entitled him te a respectful hearing at least it is paiuful te think hew many peer mothers have been unjustly punished for the alleged crime of killing their new-born babes. It has been for years a doctrine among the physicians that if an infant's lungs will float in water it is proof that they have been filled with air, and consequently that the child was born alive. The test has becu accepted as conclusive in multitudes of cases ; but it new appears te held geed only under certain conditions, and if these are net fulfilled it is worse than useless. This fact was demonstrated se clearly at the trial that the district attorney, at Judge Allisen's suggestion, asked for a verdict of acquittal, being convinced of the worthlessness of the evidence en which he had relied for con viction. It will be well for physicians who may have te testify at similar trials in future te study the medico-legal aspect of this case before they undertake te swear away a human life. The Vital Issue. New Yerk World. It is just a little curious that in this su preeo agony of the great and grand old Republican party we de net hear one word about the peril te the Union of a solid Seuth, net one word about the sacredness of the ballet-box, net ene word about finance and tbe tariff, net one word about civil-service reform net one word in fact about any subject except the New Yerk custom house and the machine ! MISPLACED SWITCH. Aad a Fatal Railroad Aeetdeat What is believed te have been a mis placed switch at Bear Swamp, four miles east of Trenten, en the New Yerk division ief the Pennsylvania railroad yesterday I about 4:30 p m., caused an accident result ing in the kuunc of two persons and the wounding, mere or less seriously, of twenty mere. The tram was the fast Pittsburgh express, which left New Yerk at 320 and was due .in Philadelphia at 5:20. It consisted of ' a baggage car, a Pullman parlor-car and three passenger coaches. The engineer, conductor and a number of passengers agrce in saying that the switch-tender was seen -running off toward a weeds when the wreck occurred the theory being that he turned the switch the wrong way by mistake and, seeing the error, hurried back te rectify it, but discovering he was tee late, fled te avoid the consequences. The engine was the famous 724, which made the quickest run between Philadelphia and New Yerk before the last big engines were built and was in charge of Engineer E. F. Osmond, who says he was running1 about thirty miles an hour, but the conductor says the speed was about fifty-five miles. The two rear passenger cars were smashed te kind ling weed. The baggage car, smoking car and Pullman parlor car in front kept the track and were net damaged. The engine, though cantingever and quivering in every joint, kept the track, and the engineer and firemen held their pests. Among the dan. gcreusly injured is Topsy Venn, of Rice's Surprise Party, new engaged at the Wal nut Street theatre, who, with aElla Chap man, of the same troupe, had gene te New Yerk te spend Sunday, and were returning te take their places in last evening's per formance. Miss Venu was crushed be tween two scats, while Miss Chapman re ceived severe strains te her back and right ankle. In the midst of the excitement and sufferings of ethers, however, both, accord ing te the statements of passengers, forget their own injuries and devoted them, selves te the care of ethers. Arriving in Philadelphia they were conveyed te the Continental, where the condition of Miss Venn immediately became alarming. Dr. Turner says that in the crush between the seats she received a dangerous concussion te the liver and a jarring te the whole body which renders her condition most serious; in fact, the doctor would net last night give an opinion as te the exact extent of her injuries, but gave all inquirers te un derstand that nothing definite could be known for a day or two. Miss Chapman is expected te be able te take her place in the cempauy iu a few days. Mrs. Lucretia Pennington, who was ene of the killed, was the widow of Jehn Pen nington, formerly a well-known book dealer en Seventh street, below Sansom. Os mond, the engineer in charge of the train, was ene of Colonel Scott's old favorites, having run the read for twenty-four years without an accident. The ether killed was Rittcr, Augustus, book-keeper for J. P. Ditmau& Ce., 035 Merris street, Phil adelphia ; 36 years of age ; crushed be neath truck and instantly killed. Mrs. Rittcr was injured and Mrs. Pennington's niece had her spine severely, injured. About a dozen ethers were mere or less hurt. It seems that Mr. Rittcr aud his wife had their baby with them, and a passenger who saw him killed thus describes the scene : "The father had his hotly half way. out of the window when the trucks came' crashing down en him, smashiag in the reef like au egg shell and falling right across his waist. His brains were oozing out, bleed was streaming all ever his head and face and he was quite dead. I don't think he lived au instant after the trucks struck him. In one hand he held his baby's little lace cap, and it could net be gotten out of his fingers. The wife was rushing wildly about, screaming for somebody te come and get her husband out. It was net until two or three pas sengers, ene of them with the baby in his arms, had taken her in hand that she could be gotten away. The passengers get axes and cut the husband out. The car was as complete a wreck as I ever saw or expect te sec. The old lady who sat in the seat behind the dead man was also badly crushed, and, I think, died a few minutes afterward. If it had net been for the passenger in the scat behind me pulling me back I, tee, would have becu crushed te death under the heavy truck and the baby along with me. Hew the mother was saved I don't knew. When the car pitched ever the second time she was thrown aslant the aisle past my scat and toward the deer. She was crushed between the seats and seriously hurt. Afterwards she and her baby were cared for by passengers, who raised a purse of money for her and took her te the hotel. Her husband's watch was also given her by the German who took it off his person in my presence." Decoration uay. Despatches from New Yerk, Washing ton, Brooklyn, Albany, Jersey City, Cin cinnati, Chicago. Baltimore, Atlanta, Bosten, Wilmington, New Castle and Mil ford, in Delaware ; Gettysburg, Chester, West Chcstei, Wilkesbarrc, and ether places in Pennsylvania, and also from various ether cities and towns in the United States, show there was a very general ebservance of memorial day. At Arlington cemetery, near Washington, President Garfield, Sec retaries Hunt and Windem, Postmaster General James and General Sheridan were among these present. Hen. Mark II. Dun nell, of Minnesota, was the orator. At Gettysburg among the 15,000 visitors were Lieutenant Governer Stene and the mom hers of the Legislature. In Philadelphia there were mauy differ ent ceremonies at the various cemeteries by the several G. A. R. pests. The 700 graves in Odd Fellows' cemetery were decorated by Fred. Tayler pest Ne. 19, Geerge W. Waterhouse, commander. The pest numbers 95. members, including the firing party. Elevcn wagons of flowers and four carriages of disabled and sick members of the pest accompanied the pre cession te the cemetery and M. Brosius, esq., of Lancaster, was the eloquent orator. Asked and Answered. In his M. E. pulpit, in Philadelphia, en Sunday, Rev. Gee. Cummins, late P. E. of this district, preached en the revised ver sion, which, he said, was highly valuable as a commentary en the old, although he could find no satisfactory answer te the question, " Was the revision necessary ?" At the same time in Pittsburgh, Rev. Dr. Ph. Schaff was explaining that there were two reasons for such a revision'; first, the changes in languages, and second, the progress in biblical scholarship. The forty seven persons who made the King James translation had none of them been in Pal estine, and knew little of biblical geogra phy. They were thus liable te make errors, and did make many. Since then Egypt has given up her treasures, Sinai has been explored, Palestine has been traversed, Babylon and Nineveh have risen from their graves te testify te the truth of the Bible, and lend their manuscripts and inscriptions te the explanation of some of its passages. " Flaying Soldier. " A number of children were " playing soldiers, " in the basement of William Reed's residence, Baltimore. Among ethers was a bright little fellow of nine years, James H. Frebarger, son of a city official. Charles Herling, aged twelve, fennd n. rnetw n11 irmv miislrftt tlmfc lfirl net been touched for eight years, and was supposed co de unleaded, ne piacea a tiny tnvniftfnl ran a 1a ttinnla mr1 nfr. ffiA . gestien of a companion pointed the barrel miuugu a giauugiowarauieuiiuesemiers and pulled the trigger. A loud explosion followed and when the smoke cleared away the dead body of young Frebarger was found tke fleer. Half his head was blown away by the ' lead of heavy shot with which 'the old musket had been charged. , Let Levi Ge. Beading News. As Senater Cameren is going te Albany, the Lancaster county boss ought te accom pany him. Levi Scnscnigger in the wood pile as quick as tbe next man, and there is a big-sized African in the New Yerk sena torial leg heap. . LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. THE TRAGEUV AT COYLE'S FERRY. Lodgment or the Murderer In tbe Yerk Jail. Yerk Evening Dispatch. Mrs. Ceyle, mother of the murderer, testified that she called the murdered girl at 5 o'clock, when she get up as usual and went about her work, that of milking. At six o'clock she get up herself, and shortly afterward her son Jehn came in and said, "Mether, I've shot Emma and shot my self. She just quivered and fell down dead." She also testified that hereon bad asked the girl te marry him. telling her that if she refused he would -sheet her. She straightened herself up, and pointing te her breast, said, "Well, sheet right here," when he drew the revolver aud fired the fatal shot. Officer Sheubcrgcr, of Wrightsville, had accompanied Justice Magee, and at once arrested the murderer, turning hie ever te the custody of Officer Dietz, of Hellam township, who was deputized te bring him te Yerk, and about twelve o'clock, in company with Justice Hauck, .of Hellam, he arrived with the prisoner and placed him in jail in charge of the sheriff. Dr. S. J. Reuse was at ence summoned te leek after the prisoner's wounds and a careful examination was made, but after probing could find no ball in either. The wounds though paiuful, will net result seriously. The prisoner is twenty-six years old, about five feet ten inches iu height, dark hair and mustache and very much sun burnt. He is widely known in tbe county, especially along the river, from his con nection with the ferry. He answered the first few questions pnt te hirn by the Dis patch reporter readily, but afterwards de clined te talk When told that his wounds were net dangerous, he replied that it weutd have been better had he killed him self. After his wounds had been examined he was locked in cell IS, though he several times said that there was no need te lock him up, that he would de what was wanted if they treated him right. He did net appear te understand the serious nature of his crime, with its probable re sult, but thought that he should be sent te the hospital. Once he remarked that he was weak in the head, and that his doc tor knew it. Dr. Reuse, however stated that he saw no sign of insanity iu the prisoner. Before taking him from his home, his wounds were examined by Drs. Redman and Thompson, but no balls were found in them. The murdered girl is said te have been very beautiful. She' was about 19 years of age and has been living with the Ceyles for about a year. Her parents arc both dead. The revolver with which she was killed is in the poscssien of Justice Magee. Six of the chambers are empty, but hew often he shot the prisoner is unable te state. A strange part of the affair is that the ball should have had such immediate and fatal effect en the girl, and yet when held te his own breast and head with sui cidal intent the balls did net penetrate the bone, but glanced off into the flesh. The shirt worn by the prisoner shows the bul let hole aud is stained with bleed, but shows no sign of scorching by powder. Who Iler Friends Are. Iliirribtirg Patriot. At a late hour we learned that the un fortunate victim was a sister of Miss Aunie Myers, of this city, who resides at Ne. 1107 Wallace street, and is employed in the dry geed store of Mr. Charles Segelhaura en Market street. Miss Annie Myers re ceived a telegram yesterday afternoon in forming her of the death of her sister ; she immediately left for the scene of the mur der. WASHINGTON 1IOROUGH. The Lecal News from that Town. The funeral of Mrs. Israel Gehr, a highly esteemed lady of Washington borough, took place yesterday morning at 10 o'clock. The deceased was a sister of Mr. Henry Mellinger, blacksmith. She had suffered many months from consump tion and was euly relieved by death, which she welcomed en Thursday of last week. It was a very pitiful and affecting scene te beheld the father, surreuuded by five little children, as they steed around the coffin and gave the fare well leek te the departed mother. Deceased was in her 38th year. Rev. C. L. Gaul, preacher of the M. E. church at this place, preached an impressive sermon. Mr. Gehr and family have the sympathy of the whele community iu their sad bereavement. Organ grinders, like potato bugs, are again very numerous. They are becom ing a nuisance. A geed soaking rain is needed. Tobacco planters arc waiting for it. Shad fishing has been en the dccline for the past several days. A rise in the river is very desirable as it would bring about another run of shad. A heavy haying aud harvesting season may be expected iu this section as the fields leek very premising. Ninth Penna. Cavalry. The twelfth annual re-union of the so ciety of the Ninth Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Cavalry, will be held at Mechan icsburg, Cumberland county, en Thurs day, June, 2, at 3 o'clock p. m. It prom prem ises te be a grand, affair. The comrades and citizens, through their former com manding officer. Cel. D. H. Eimmel, are making extensive preparations te give the old soldiers of the Ninth a hearty wel come. All soldiers are invited. Theso who intend going will leave here en Thurs day morning in the 10:20 train. Railroad Changes. Superintendent W. F. Leckard, of the Philadelphia division, Pennsylvania rail road, has been assigned te duty in Phila delphia, where he will have charge of that company's interests, including the new elevated mad, the grain shipments, etc. Superintendent S. M. Prevest, of the mid dle division has been appointed te succeed Mr. Leckard en the Philadelphia division, the change te take place en June 1st. Mr. Prevest will be succeeded in the mid dle division by Superintendent H. H. Car ter, of the Frederick division Pennsylva uir railroad. A JJhj Fire Acress, the Line. The Waring fertilizer company's works, at Liberty Greve, Cecil county, Maryland, were burned en Saturday nj'ght with a large quantity of stock and material. Less. 930,000. Six freight cars of the Baltimore Central railroad were also de stroyed. Incendiarism is suspected. The Herse Market. Samuel Hess and Sen, auctioneers, sold at public sale at the Memmac house, Lan caster, for Gee. Gressman 20 head of Canada horses at an average of $201.10 per head, the highest one sold .brought 9250. DECORATION DAT. CLOSE Or THE CEREMOHTES. Cel. Gebln'a Oration la the Court Heae An audience of about three hundred persons assembled at the court house last evening te listen te the address of Cel. J. P. S. Gebin, of Lebanon. The members of the G. A. R. were present in a body and occupied the grand jury seats in the east front of the court room. Maj. A. C. Rciueehl called the meet ing te order and Rev. J. B. bhumakcr, D. D., offered a prayer. The choir of the Dak street 31. E. church sang the Decoration Hymn, with organ and cornet accompaniment. Maj. Reinoehl introduced the orator as a gentleman and soldier who had risen from the ranks te the command of his regiment, the 47th Pa. Vels., and who had been his iutimate friend and companion during his term of service. Cel. Gebin opened with a pleasant re ference te his old-time association with Maj. Rcmoehlfiu the army, and then re ferred te the sad duty which had te-day engaged the attention of the people all ever the country. We find year by year the number of soldiers' graves in our cem eteries increasing, and it should be regard ed as a duty by these who survive them te render their memory fragrant by plac ing upon their graves floral tributes as recognition of their services and sacrifices. Ne matter what sentimentalists may say te the contrary, the soldier can re member the war only as be saw and felt it. The ex-rebel soldier who fought se bravely and suffered se much may te-day be a worthy and respectable citizen, agaiust whom we entertain no hard feelings ; but we caunet forget that he was a rebel, and that he fought te destroy the nation we fought te preserve. We should see, therefore, that these who are engaged in writing our history are net permitted te make it appear that there may be a doubt as te whether the Union soldiers or the rebels were in the right ; or that there may be a doubt as te whether the Union army was or was net fighting for a government of the people and by the people. The righteousness of our cause must net be called in question or permitted te pass unchallenged, even though the historian may be an ex-rebel general or an cx-rcbel president. (Ap plause) We cannot forget that tbe re bellien was utterly wicked and inaugurated without just cause ; that it was carried en with unparallellcd malignity ; and that the horrors suffered by our prisoners at Libby, Andersenville, Salisbury and ether prison pens can never be condoned or wiped away trera memory. These horrors caunet be eliminated from the pages of his tery. Ne man can doubt the bravery with which the soldiers of the Confederacy fought, but no man can make a here of the assassin Beeth. The heroism, the sac rifices, the military skill of the Southern people must be confessed, and we may give them credit for believing tlley were riguc, out we iacc remains mat iney fought te destroy the government estab lished and bequeathed te us by the fathers of the Revolution, while we fought te maintain and perpetuate it. The orator briefly recounted some of the principal events of the war, paid a tribute te the memory of the 90,000 men who had fallen in battle or died of wounds and sickness, and te the 1,000,000 men who sprang te the rescue of the government in the day of, peril, and the story of whose achievements will live forever inhiBtery: but a grander spectacle, even, than their deeds in battle was te beheld this great array, as seen as victory was wen and pcace again dawned upon the nation, stack their arms and resume their former avocations in the arts of industry. These men caunet, however, wipe away from their memories a recollection of the scenes through which they passed ; and what then se natural as that their com rades should have set apart a day upon which te commemorate the events, and te place a floral tribnte upon theso who lest their lives en the field of battle or by dis ease contracted in the service? The speaker at some length referred te the organization of the G. A. R., and con trasted the principles aud objects of the American soldiery with these held by the soldiery of Europe. While the latter fight for fame or conquest, the ambition of the former is te perpetuate free governments, and they arc opposed te wars, having in view any ether object. In these times of communism, nihilism, states rights, and ether schemes of designing demagogues, the speaker regarded the American sol diery, as a necessary factor in the conser vation of law, order, and the perpetuity of free government. There are some things worse than war, and one of these is the destruction of the national life. The speaker concluded his oration with a tri bute te the patriotism of American women who se heartily seconded the efforts of their husbands and brothers in saving the nation's life. The choir sang " Strew flowers where they sleep," and the audience was dis missed with a benedictien by Rev. Dr. Shumakcr. "KR1XG IXOWEKS." Decoration Day at Marietta. The day was one of unusually impressive observance and general interest in Ma rietta, and all classes of people participated in the ceremony and noted the significance of the day by abstaining from ordinary pursuits. The Sunday schools under the management of Dr. Werral ; the societies and employees of the cigar and ether manufactories and citizens formed in pro pre cession at 3 o'clock, the Sunday schools in the right of the line. The parade moved down Elbow lane te Market street, te Gay, te Fairvicw and thence te the ceme tery where the Sunday school children opened ranks and allowed the remainder of the precession te pass through while they sang, " Ged Bless Our Native Laud" te the aceempaniment of the band. The precession moved around the centre plot of the beautiful cemetery and formed a circle, followed by the Sunday schools who formed in an inner circle, the committee of reception, orator, clergy, color guards and bands taking position in the centre. Rev. J. C. Weed then offered a prayer and Capt. Drucke niillcr made the G. A. It. address. "Blest are the martyred dead who He" was sung and a prayer was made by Rev. Newton Shannen. The Soldiers' Monu mental Seng was sung and te its strains the children strewed flowers ever the graves of the dead soldiers, which had previously been marked with small flags. After this was concluded W.D.Weaver.esq. of this city, delivered an oration. It was about a half hour in length and he spoke with eloquence, earnestness and appropriateness. The band then play ed a suitable selection and after abenedic tien by Rev. Weed the audience dispersed, many remaining in the cemetery te inspect and admire the tasteful and profuse deco rations. At Manhelm. Tbe exercises at this .town were of a very interesting nature. The precession formed in Market square at half-past one o'clock in the following order : Marshals. Band. Returned Soldiers. Clergy and Orators. Choir. Town Council and Scheel Beard. Hepe Fire Company. Secret Societies. Citizens. Theprocessien marched ever the route tr Onnrm T.nnff's orchard, wliore a fine stand was erected, which was beautifully trimmed with flags, etc. The meeting was called te order by 'Squire Danncr, who made a few appropriate remarks. Rev. Mr. Bewman of the United Brethren church made a prayer and he was followed by Charles Denues, esq., of this city, who was the orator of the day. He spoke at some length .and was listened te with the utmost attention. Rev. Mr. Zinkban followed with a short speech. While these ceremonies were being held the com mittee en decoration visited the different cemeteries in the borough and decorated the graves. The precession was agaiu formed and they marched te Fairview cemetery, a short distance from town. Here there was a prayer by Rev. Sir. Peters, after which the decorating ceremonies, t accerding: te the memorial services of the Grand-Army of the Repub lic, were conducted. After singing by the choir aud music by the band the graves of this cemetery were .decorated. The pro pre cession was then formed for the third time and it proceeded te Market square where it was dismissed. In'Meaatvllle. Mountville was net behiud yesterday and the ceremonies there were very ap propriate. The citizens, soldiers and school scholars gathered at the heuse of Jacob Marks, where a precession was formed under the marshalship of Levi Myers. It proceeded te the Meuntville cemetery where seventeen persons who served in the late war He buried. After the ceremony of decorating the graves was performed the precession came te a halt at the en trance te the cemetery, aud the large au dience was addressed by Hugh It. Fulton, esq., of this city, who delivered a very olo elo ole quent oration. This concluded the cere monies. In Mount Jey. At Mount Jey decoration ceremonies were also held. In the afternoon the pro pre cession, which was composed of forty vet erans of the late war, the children of the soldiers orphan school, the borough coun cil and beard of school directors, Knights of Pythias and of citizens, was formed. It started from the council chamber and visited all the cemeteries, in which the. graves of the dead soldiers weje decorated. The last cemetery visited was the Mount Jey and here the regular exercises were held. The oration was delivered by Rav. Mr. Beyer, of the M. E. church. There was a very large turnout, aud after the exercises at the cemetery the precession moved te the council chamber where it was dismiss ed. The music for the parade was fur nished by the Mount Jey band and the soldiers' orphans drum corps. YESTEROAY'S F1UUTS. A Number or Persons Engaged la Rows. There was considerable drunkenness in the.city yesterday afternoon aud as a re sult there were several fights. Sometime during the afternoon William Phillips and a companion went into Kircher's hotel, at East King and Lime streets. They were drunk and .seen became eugaged in a quarrel with some .ether men in the barroom. Mr. Kircher, with the assistance of ethers, endeavored te step the fighting and te keep order, but was unable te de se. A general fight followed, in which Phillips had his head cut and his right arm badly injured. A man named Litzcnberger was struck en the head and had it cut. Mr. Kircher finally sent for the po lice and Otliccrs Sterrafcltz, Mcr ringcr and Elias seen arrived. Litzcnberger- and Phillips were taken tp the station heusu. where Dr. Fitzp itrick attended their . injuries. This morning Litzenbcrger was discharged by the mayor as it was .shown that he was only assisting Mr. Kircher iu keeping order. Phillips wasalse discharged by the mayor. He was arrested seen afterwards aud was bold by Alderman Dennelly of the Seventh ward, te answer a charge of assault and battery preferred by Peter Statteu, Stat Stat ten alleges he was struck by Phillips. At the corner of North Queen and Orange streets a fight occurred in the evening between Jehn Sale?, a man who resides in Baltimore but works here, and Jehn Daily, of this city. It appears that Sales first became engaged in a qnariel with a bet:)!ack, whom he hit with a cane. Daily interfered en behalf of the bootblack and Sales struck him with the cane. Shortly afterwards the parties met en Orange street near Alderman McCon McCen McCon emy's office, Sales again hit Daily. Beth parties then entered complaint before Al derman McConemy, charging each ether with assault and battery. They were both arrested and gave bail for a bearing. Sales claims that he was struck first by Daily. A large crowd was drawn together by the light, which was net of much conse quence. William P. Trost, Frank Hambright, and Jehn Hardy were arrested en com plaint of having committed a violent as sault and battery en Albert Heck, about 1 o'clock en Sunday morning in tbe vi cinity of the Schiller heuse. They were held for a hearing before Alderman Sam son en te-morrow evening. There were several ether fights in dif ferent parts of the city in which no per sons were injured and from which no law suits resulted. IIAKKY MCHS'J.N'S DEATH. An Inquest by the Cerner Objected Te. Henry Munson, Dr. Atlcc's estler, an account of whose attempted suicide ap peared in the lNTi:Lf,inK.cKR a week age, died from the cilVct of his wound yester day afternoon between one and two o'clock, at the residence of his father, Jehn Mun son, North Water street, abeve Walnut. Corener Misliler, being notified of his death, visited the residence between three and -four o'clock te notify the family of his intention of holding an inquest. He states that his visit was resented by sorae of the members of the family aud that very opprobrious language was applied te him, and that he was ordered te leave the house. The coroner informed the family that it was his intention te held an inquest at 7 o'clock last' evening,' and that they had better con sult a lawyer before making any opposi tion. Between C and 7 o'clock in the even ing the coroner says, he met Frederick Munson, a brother of tbe deceased en North Queen street, who assured him that he should net held an inquest en Henry's body unless he waded ever his own dead body. The coroner thereupon entered complaint against Jehn Munson, the father, and Frederick Munson, a brother of the deceased, charging them, with resisting an officer while in tlie discharge of his duty. The accused were held in their own recog nizance for appearance before Alderman Samson en Thursday. Corener Misliler in consequence of threats made against him called upon the mayor for police assis tance in the performance of his duty. At 9 o'clock this morning accompanied by Officer Titus the coroner again called at Munson's, and was kindly received by a sister and brother-in-law of deceased, who asured the coroner that there would be no further objection en tbe part of the family te the holding of an inquest The coroner notified them that ,the inquest would be held this afternoon at 5 o'clock. The family believe there is no occasion for holding an inquest, as the circumstan ces attending the death of Henry Munson, are well known, and in this opinion Dr. Atlec, who faithfully attended Mr. Mun son during his illness, concurs. The cor oner, en the ether hand, holds that there mar be room for doubt whether Munson shot himself intentionally or accidentally, or whether some one may net have enter- . cd his room and shot him for the purpose of tebbiug him. With a view of clearing up these doubts, the inquest will be held. a M
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