2,1881. lanrastct f ntrtbgcncer THURSDAY EVENING, JUNK 3, 1881. Xutfclpal Matters. The message of Mayer MacGonigle te the city councils will be found te be of mere vital concern and interest te our t ixpayers and citizens generally than the ;mnual deliverances of national and state executives. In our American .demo cratic system of local self-government it is the efficient, honest and intelligent ad ministration of public affairs nearest te home that is of chief importance. This is thesourceef the higher authority, and if kept pure and well regulated there is less danger of derangement in the upper departments of civil administration, which we are entirely tee apt te invest with undue significance, and, in our zealous care for which local matters are apt te be ba overlooked. As a member of common council, Mr. Mac Gonigle showed a discernment and dis cretion in his treatment of municipal questions which secured the confidence of the public, and his election and re election te the chief magistracy of the city. It is unfortunate that councils have net acted upon some of his recom mendations with greater promptness ; but he lias the gift of continuance and he does net propose that they shall be allowed te forget them. It is gratifying and creditable te the financial administration of the city that its bended debt has decreased $15,000 during the past year, a circumstance which, with the saving of the yearly in terest by the refunding of the lean at a reduced rate, offers a speedy relief from the present extraordinary rate of city tax. That rate, the mayor does .well te point out, is owing te the reckless ex travagance of a street committee against whose malfeasance he and the Intelli gencer (protested persistently ; and which the mayor finally brought te a halt by invoking the process of the law. The financial derangement which arises from the conflicting dales of be ginning our fiscal and our municipal year, and from the lateness of some of the revenues coming into the treasury, is a vexatious matter that ought te be remedied without delay. If legislation is necessary te effect this let it be asked for. Nobody can reasonably object and every convenience and private and pub lic interest would be served by the change. The city can save money and credit by doing its business for cash. The inequalities in assessments re ferred te by the mayor are patent, and a standing surce of complaint that should be abated. The taxation of water rents likewise produces much dissatisfaction, and such city legislation should be had as will prevent the owners of real estate from being held responsible for water turned upon their premises or diverted te speciaLfexable purposes without their knowledge or consent. The schedule of water rents should be se revised, tee, as te prevent thcdeuble tax which nowefteu ensues under a technical and literal con struction of it. As, for instance, when in such a case as the Intelligencer building a special tax is laid, each, upon the printing office, as such, for the boiler, the heating apparatus aud the water closets covering every possible use of water in this building and yet the owner of the property hits te pay the "four-story building" tax besides. Other like excessive water taxes and the general inequalities of the present sys tem call for a reform, the proper direc tion of which will likely be indicated by the experiments new being made by water meters. The water question is discussed at length by the mayor, and the facts en the subject are marshalled in a manner that cannot be ignored, and must be met in a different way than by " breaking the quorum." Councils last night took a step toward the necessary improve ments of providing a new nest of boil ers; what is necessary te be done in the way of additional pumps and mains ought te have prompt, careful and dis passionate consideration. Our ceuueils and citizens should net wait for calain ity or privation te impel them te action. There is nothing mere certain or expen sive than the rapid waste of machinery driven te its utmost capacity. Accom panying any water works improvement, however, there must be redistribution and equalizing of the water tax as above referred te, and some prevention against the present reckless waste of water which seems te prevail here. The repairs en the eastern reservoir last year have bravely steed the severe tests of an extraordinary winter. The abatement en the gas bills, secured by a stubborn resistance te payment for ser vice net rendered, is another fact credit able te the mayor's administration and te the lamp committee's business ; also the mayor's enforcement of police discipline without fear, favor or affection ; and in his controversy with the comity commissioners he seems te have the -right of it, for, in asmuch as the city pays the ma3rer's salary out of its own revenues the county ought te pay the same fees for cases heard before him as before alder men. The caus.e which created the dis tinction has altogether disappeared. The mayor restates the probable ex pense of a paid fire department, in view of discussion en that subject, and the figures are calculated te make these favoring such a project pause and take their bearings. We are reminded of the expenses of litigation, and it would be interesting te knew what the illy managed Welchans suit has already cost the city. We repeat that the message is comprehensive, intelligent and clear? and people who want te knew something about the administration of the public affairs, which are of most intimate im portance te them, will de well te read it and 3tudy it. Coeener Mishleius a practical civil service reformer and no respecter of the politicians in his appointments. He recognizes the Democratic minority of the county, and he will have no mere efficient deputies than our political friends 'Squire Pusey, JCapt. Hill, Gee. Diller and Reuben Shober deputies cor oner, by the grace of Mishler. A Heart Bat K Haai. Mr. Conkling, amid his own troubles at Albany, finds, time te send a sympathetic message te Mahone at Rich mond, who is new engaged there in try ing te keep his party together under the cold comfort of Blaine. Probably it is Blaine's coldness that thaws out Conk ling; or, perhaps, it is a fellow-feeling with Mahone in his misfortunes that inspires the Albany victim of bad luck te telegraph te the Richmond unfortun ate, that " your every effort for the true advancement of the Seuth, and te make elections real and fair, has my whole heart." His heart is all that Bescoe has te give, and it is creditable te him that it utters an aspiration te make elections free and fair ; though probably the cir cumstances attending the senatorial election at. Albany make this a peculiarly hearty aspiration from the besom of a candidate who finds himself slaughtered ay the influence which the administration flesh-pets have had in seducing from him his former supporters. Mr. Cenkling: does jiet con sider that he is being treated fairly ; no man is apt te se think when for tune is running against him. Mr. Mahex'e has the same thought. After the pre mises he had of administration support; it is rather hard te be turned out in the -cold, just as seven or eight hundred hungry Readj usters are meeting him in cenv en en tien ready te de his bidding provided a reasonable hope is held out te them. Mr. Mahone would like te have had a few words of encouragement from Mr. Blaine. They would have been of a geed deal mere account than from Mr. Conkling. But we greatly fear that the administration has concluded that Mr. Mahone and the Beadjusters are no geed. The trouble is that there is a-Republi-can party in Virginia, which party has a number of decent men in it who de net believe in Mr. Mahone or his doctrines. One of its chief organs, the Valley Vir ginian, declares that the party can have no alliance with the Mahone party, and that seems te be the well settled deter mination of its leaders. Anether trouble is that Mahone can not go into the Republican camp and take his followers with him. He only damages the Democratic party by claim ing te be a Democrat. This being his only strength it would be a plain case of suicide te proclaim himself a Republican. The third difficulty is that the Demo cratic party in the state cannot be lieat en except by a union against it of the Republicans and the Read j usters. Se that is the problem before Mr. Wil liam Mahone in his effort te held himself together in Virginia and te be of some account. Evidently he needs sympathy aud the best of counsel. His friends ought te fleck around him with the best they have of betli. Conkling offers sym pathy but no counsel ; probably he be gins te think he is net of much account as a political counseller. Blaine den;t seem te offer anything. And even the Philadelphia 1'rcss, which was Mahone's organ a few months age, cannot be persuaded te say a com forting word. The Republican news papers generally are paralyzed by the ad ministration coldness ; se that really there does net seem te be anyone but peer Conkling te pat peer Mahone en the back. The New Yerk Times has, how ever, a few words of doubtful apprecia tion. It declares that Mr. Mahone " is ambitious and decidedly practical. When his single vote constituted the balance of power in the Senate he ranged himself with the Republicans because in no ether way could he make himself a power and advance his purposes." It must be admitted that Mr. Mahone is in this sense a very practical man in deed ; and if he could only get the ad ministration te give him the control of the federal offices in Virginia, his practi cal talents might enable him te whoop together the mean whites and blacks, Republicans and Read j usters, of" Vir ginia, against the Democrats in the en suing state election, notwithstanding he and his principles are se obnoxious te the decent Republicans. But without the offices Mahone is in a very bad way indeed, having nothing at all but his usual very large stock of unsupported hopefulness te run his campaign upon. Senater Conkling get only thirty live of the Republican votes in the New Yerk Legislature, or just one-third. Ob viously if this is his real strength his op ponents erred in net going into the cau cus he was anxious te have held. But it does net seem possi ble that he is se weak. Possi bly he is playing 'possum in the hope of getting his antagonists te agree te the caucus in view of his weakness. If they still refuse te consent te it, it can only be from their fear that he is a geed deal stronger than he seems. If no cau cus is held the probable outcome of the struggle will be the adjournment of the election until after the November con test is decided. The Democrats will favor an adjournment without day, as a new legislature comes in in December which may be Democratic. MINOR TOPICS. The late Mr. Hayes having with some freedom cxpi osssed his opinion of Conkling an anxious public waits te hear Conkling en Hayes. A Maine paper prints a laconic cerres pendence between two personal friends. One wrote te the ether: "De me thn favor te lend me a dollar te get my cow eat of the pound." The ether wrote back: " I would, but I paid my last dollar te the boys te take the cow te the pound." The " Biblical Student " who writes te the Herald calling attention te an error made in the revised edition of the New Testament at 1 Cor., viL, 14, where he be lieves the word " brother" has been mis printed for "husband," thinks " a mis take of this kind is sufficient te condemn the whole book." Sergeant Edwabd Kennedy, an old army veteran, and a popular member of the Hobekcn police department " is said by his physicians " te be living without lungs. The doctors held a consultation en his case two years age and decided that the entire lung tissue had disappeared and that the patient could net possibly live bej'end a few weeks at the meat, bathe i 1 still living, and up te within a few months constantly at his pest. . The Delce of Mcimngen's dramatic com pany at Drury Lace theatre, Londen, has been giving a representation of " Julias Caesar " with a perfection of detail never before reached. The special excellence of the play seems te be -in the training of these who act the Reman multitude ; in stead of being a conglomerate medlay of " su pes " they are a well drilled company who se performance greatly heightens the cfFec t of the noble Reman orators' speeches. G) sebge C. GemiAM sulks in the office of tlie National Republican in Washington evolving such paragraphs as this which appe ared in yesterday's issue of that har monious jeurnal: '"The Admistratien organ-grinders belaber their peer weak hea-ils ler new phrases of abuse in which te bury the editor of this paper for his un principled refusal te fellow the presiden tial uwill-cart." They regard such conduct as highly immoral. They stand up nobly te the man who spreads the bread and butter. It is grand te see these editors thus rise above principle and in such a crisis. In the opinion of the historian of the New Yerk World, British bookmakers and American sporting men for the next generation remember the year of grace 1831, net as the year in which Lord Bea censfield died and left his party lcaderless, nor ss the year in which Mr. Gladstone undertook by an Irish land law which was but ' a thing of shreds and patches" te quiet the dissenssiens and rcconcile the antipathies of six hundred years, nor even as the year iti which Conkling shook te pieces the Republican temple. They will remember it simply Irequ eis year." and solely as J' the EBbONAlj. The brother of Pierre Lerillaiid is authority for the statement that the latter wins $2,000,000 en one bet made en the re sult of the Derby race. Mr. J. St anlev Brown, Garlields's pri vate secretary, sails for Europe today en business connected with the public ser vice. Gov. Ileyt has appointed S. H. Rey nolds, esq., the representative from this county en the beard of managers of the Bi-Ccutcnnial association, te celcbrate the 200th anniversary of Pennsylvania. The late Themas A. Scott's will is an imposing-looking document, aqd was oxe cutcd about oue year age. It is said the will contains no public gifts, CeL Scott having acted as his own almoner in the gift of $230,000 te public institutions with in the past six months. The Fidelity trust company is te act as trustee of the estate, which is estimated at $4,000,000. Last week Rev. Edward Y. Buchanan, D. D., Mrs. A. J. Cassatt and child, Mrs. Buchanan, and ethers, visited the birth place of the Buchanans, near Mercers burg. Rey. Buchanan is rector of a lead ing Episcopal church in Philadelphia and is the youngest brother of the late Presi dent Buchanan. Mrs. Cassatt is a daugh ter of Rev. Buchauau and the wife of Mr. A. J. Cassatt, first vice president of the Pennsylvania railroad. Jens W. Garrett, president of the Baltimore & Ohie railroad, who has been absent in Eurepe about a year, ar rived in Baltimore yesterday. He was met at Camden Station by a large number of promineut business men, the beard of trade, the president and professors of Jehns Hepkins university, and by Mayer Latrobe en behalf of the city, who made a speech of welcome, te which Mr. Garrett replied. It will be remembered that Senater Rol Rel lixs went from senator te senator and begged that Chandler should net be "struck down," as he expressed it. The New Hampshire Legislature met yesterday under the amended constitution, aud it proceeds at once te the election of a sena tor te succeed Mr. Rollins. It is expected thac a big fight will be made. Chandler wants te be senator beyond anything in the werl and Rollins of ceurse wants te be returned, and expects te meet a desperate foeman in the rejected Bill Chandler. One of the prettiest of the lady riders at the Paris Hippodrome has met with a tragic end, Fanny Gylka net only a real countess, but the wife of a very wealthy gentleman at Bucharest. The lady was only twenty-four and was at the very zenith of beauty. She left her husband and wan dered from circus te circus, refusing every offer te return home. She was riding her faverite charger and the horse backed or shied at a haudkerchief and unseated his rider, whose feet get fast in the stirrup. She was dragged for some distance and when taken up had te be conveyed te the hospital with a compound fracture of the ankle. She was told that she must lese her leg, but she refused te undergo the operation, preferring death, which super vened through mortification of the injured limb within a few days. The recent marriage of Theodere Stanten, son of Henry B. Stanten, te Mile. Berry at the Americau Legation in Paris is the sequel of a romantic court ship. In 1878, when in Paris seeing the exposition, he noticed one day that a cer tain French young lady had just taken a degree at the Sorbonne. He addressed te the young lady a letter asking for infor mation en the subject. Their correspond ence continued for two years, Mr. Stanten returning te America after the inter, change of the first letter without having made the acquaintance of his fair corres pondent. In 1880 he visited Paris again, saw the young lady, fell in love net with her, but with Mile. De Berry, her friend from intimacy and her constant cempan ion, these two girls had long before agreed te be married en the same day, and it happened that Mr. Stanten's correspond ent had long been engaged te the brother of his intended. Se a double wedding was the result, and Mr. Stanten's old corres pondent became his sister-in-law. 'SUPREME COURT. The Cases Given Attention by the Court Xes terday. A full sembling morning, gucd : Primer James A. bench was present en the as of supreme court yesterday The following cases were ar- et al. vs. Brisbiu ct al. Centre. Beaver for nlaintiff in nrmr Wm. A. Wallace and C. A. Alexander for defendant in error ; Geerge A. Jenks 'in reply. Stack vs. O'Hara. Lycoming. Samuel Linn for plaintiff in error ; J. I. Parker and R. P. Allen for defendant in error Wm. H. Armstrong in reply. ' TJEKBIBI.C EXPLOSION. A Death Dealing Mass of Bstf-HotlreB. At Gaffhey & Nelan's dye house in the 19th ward, Philadelphia, yesterday, Den nis Scully, the engineer, turned cold water into empty and red-het boilers. A fearful explosion ensued, causing the death of Frank Harbison, Frederick Duescher and Rebeit Bradley, aged 5 years, and injur ing Scully, Themas Cedy, Mrs. Doely, Nellie Duffy, 9 years, and Michael Duffy, 5 years. A number of dwelling houses in the immediate vicinity were damaged by the flying missiles, and part of the dye house, a brick stable and an adjeiuing dwelling, taking fire from the combustible debris, were consumed. The explosion oc curred when almost all the dye-house hands were at dinner or mere terrible less of life would have resulted. When the huge mass of seething iron went whizzing across Amber street, car Ne. 48 of the Second and Third streets line was just about te enter the depot. The conductor had gene forward te turn the switch and was returning te the platform of the car when the explosion took place and the boiler was hurled across the street, net ten feet from the rear end of the car. The flying debris and the concussion broke all the car windows, and a single passenger who was inside at the time had his hat tern violently from his head and blown out of one of the windows. The house of Jehn Nugent, situated en Amber street, is almost en a line with the boiler-house of the dye works. Singularly enough, the flying boiler swerved in. its flight just enough te avoid the dwelling, tore away the grape arbor within five feet of of the side walll of the dwelling, and did no mere domage except te tear away tne paling lence. mien tne man-hole head, with its heavy ired clamp, blew out, it was shattered into a dozen pieces and two of the fragments did deadly work, Frederick Duescher was sitting en his step en Tucker street below Martha, about seventy-five yards from the dye works, enjoying his pipe and chatting with a neighbor when a peice of the twisted iron, weighing perhaps a hundred pounds, came whirling through the air and struck him with such terrific force en the side of the head as t literally decapitate him. His bleed and brains were scattered ever the horrified man besides him, who marvelously escaped without a scratch. On the corner of Martha and Tucker streets, only twenty feet away from Dueschcr's house, a little flaxen haired fellow of 5 years, named Rebbie Bradley, was playing by him self, when a tiny fragment of het iron was shot into the child's face and he fell, dying, te the pavement. His sister ran out, alarmed by the terrible concussion, with every thought centred en little Rebbie, the pet of the family. She picked him up, and carried him tenderly into the house. The frantic parents, almost beside themselves with grief, ran out te see if any of their ether four child ren were missing,-and when they returned with them all safe, peer Rebbie was gasp ing out his little life. He never spoke after the fatal blew, aud about an hour after opened his eyes for the first time, smiled faintly, and died. Peer Frank Harbison met an awful death in the mill. Hew he met his fate will never be known, for his body was found burned te a crisp, buried beneath a mass of bricks and stone, near the drying room. In each of his bauds was clutched with a death-grip a skein of yarn, which he had seized in his desperation. His death must have been easy, for his head was resting upon oue arm as though he was asleep. STATE ITEMS. The increase in the number of students at Jeffersen college has necessitated the erection of an additional story at the rear of the main building. William Lang, whose estate is valued at $400,000, by his will, just probated, leaves $1,000 each te the German hospital and the institute for feeble minded children at Media. The will of the late Mrs. Eliza Sands, of Pittsburgh, bequeaths some $3,700 for cliaritablo'purpeses, including $300 te the Women's Union Missionary society of America. Isaiah W. Bailey, a well dressed biblie maniac (se called), was convicted of steal ing a book from a bookstore in Philadel phia. Bailey is new in ill health, but has held responsible positions, is given a geed character for previous honesty by his old employers, and is a class leader and a member of a church. He was sent te jail until the proprietor of the bookstore "could be consulted in the matter." Moses Fenley, ageI 23 or 24 years, rather stout aud tall, worked as a gang way laborer at Sugar Notch in the early part of the year, but was taken with a fever and went te the hospital for a few days and afterwards left the place, whence nobody seems te knew. He used te write regularly te his father, Miles Fenley, who lives at Silver Creek, Schuylkill county, but the old man has heard nothing of him since the latter part of February and fears his son has met with foul play. A terrific rain storm visited Reading last night, which resulted in srreat damage te the railroads. On the Reading business has been suspended en account of the cave ins and wash-outs. A fall of rock near Phcapixville stepped all travel. Belew Bridgeport a freight train is off the track. Above Conshehockcn the track is flooded with mud. The passenger train which left for Philadelphia at 6.20 o'clock last evening has been unable te pass through, owing te the debris en the railroad track. At Mill Springs a wash-out five feet deep occurred. Reports from Womelsdorf and numerous ether points of the Reading railroad and branches report that serious damage was done. LATEST NEWS BY MAIL. Peter C. McSorley, aged four years, has died in New Yerk from peritonitis, caused by a kick by a boy eight years old. Arthur Darten, while trying te iump from a car into a caboose en the railroad at San Antonie, Texas, fell under the wheels and was crushed te death. Jesse Little, a destitute resident of Jeffer Jeffer eon, Frederick county, Md., has died, aged 83, with policies en his life amounting te $68,000, taken out lately in speculative companies. Baseball: At Princeton Princten, 7; Yale, 6. Trey Trey, 5; Chicago, 4; eleven innings. Bosten Cleveland, 7; Bosten, 1. Wercester Detroit, 10 ; Wor cester, 3. New Yerk Metropolitan, G ; Washington, 5. In Hopperstewn, N. J., Hedley Hamil ten, a well-to-de farmer, committed sui cide by sheeting himself in the mouth, the ball entering the brain. The suicide's family knew of no cause for the act. Hamilton was 51 years of age. AtPierrcpent, New Yerk, Jeseph Foun tain, aged 13 years, disappeared last Fri day after being reprimanded by his father for losing some tools. Yesterday his body was found hanging in a sugar house and it is supposed he committed suicide in consequence of the reprimand. While James Forwood, who resides near Edgemoor, Del., was fishing with Irwin W. Pierce and Rebert Wilsen, in the Dela ware, about three o'clock in the morning, they were run down by the large ocean steamer City of Richmond. The beat was cut in two and Mr. Forwood was drowned. Pierce grabbed the chains et the steamer and Wilsen was saved by holding te Tierce's legs. In Springfield, Mass., twenty-seven bar rels of gasoline standing en the platform of the Consolidated railroad freight-house caught fire and burned for ever an hour. There were two explosions, the first, seen after the outbreak of the fire, and only a fireman suffered by it, while the second came when the fire was thought te have been extinguished and a crowd had gath ered about the barrels. About forty oer eer oer sens were mere or less seriously injured. When Brady left the office of second assistant postmaster general there was in his desk a package of $39,000, due E. J. Salisbury, a heavy contractor. In the package was a memorandum of a draft which A. C. Buell of the Sunday Capital was te draw en Salisbury for two thou sand dollars. A few days since the draft came back and Salisbury refused te pay it, but after some pcrsuatien from the star-route people he finally concluded te de it. Brady is backing Buell, and " that settles it." The " King of the Turf " will endeavor te beat the time of the "Queen of the Turf " at Hamtramck park course next Saturday. This effort will be in addition te the speed test te be trotted this after noon, when St Julien will trot for a purse of $1,500, his opponent being a running horse hitched te a sulky, going exactly as does St. Julien. The race en Saturday will be for a purse of $3,000, te be pre sented te St. Julien if he beat the time 2:103 made by Maud S. at Chicago. In BelWille, Ont., an interesting case wes decided in the court of chancery. It was that of the wife of David Bebbin, of Sidney, te whom he was married 17 years age, but with whom he had net lived. The parties were married by a justice of the peace in the United States, and the defendant alleged conspiracy en the part of the woman and her friends, who had, he stated get him drunk and had the cer emony performed when he was in that con dition. The vice chancellor held that the marriage was valid, and gave a decree in the wife's favor. The Corener' Investigations. Ed. Ixtelligejjcer. A question for you, and me, and everyone within the ra dius of Cerenor Mishlcr's jurisdiction : What private rights has any ene suffering from the death of a friend, which the cor oner is bound te respect? .The transpar ent pretext for a grab at a fee is no de fence ; the citizen must submit te this shameless invasion of the privacy aud pro tection which an already wounded heart should find in his own home. In guise of his office he demands the right te enter a premises and invite his abettors, Themas, Richard and Henry, and view the sacred remains (unless the deceased is supposed te have died from an infectious disorder, for then the inquest is held at a safe distance say a square away). Should there be any opposition, the coroner has his remedy at law a policeman is furn ished for the necessary protection the helpless sufferer being without redress, must new submit te see his dear one used for the purpose of exacting an illegal fee. Who will define the rights of the peo pee peo ple and the coieuer ? Decency and Order. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. NKIUUnOKlIUUU SEWS. Near ami Aero Uie County Lines. East Geshen, Chester county, beasts of a blacksmith named Geerge Kcrney, who has thirty eight biles en his body, but patiently works right along, and shoes en an average ten horses a day. Tobacco growers iu the vicinity of ueugicrsvuic, uerKS county, are discour aged en account of the slew sales and low prices received, and therefore will net raise any tobacco this year. One hundred aud twenty-five men em ployed in Mellert's foundry, Reading, re fuse te go te work, unless Mr. OtteMellert a member of the firm, aud foreman of the pipe foundry is reinstated in that position, from which he was recently deposed. AH the work en the track and read-bed of the Dauphin & Susquehana railroad is new done by gangs of colored men, from TViimliiti r fVit,! :. rm 1 , the case for several years, and the super visors regard the men as the most reliable ever had for that purpose. The read from Dauphin te Celd Springs is new one of the safest and finest for travel in the state. The managers of the" Readiug railroad have concluded te adhere te the use of the red light as a danger signal, but have abandoned its employment in signaling trains, and in lieu thereof have adopted the use of a green colored light, which will be employed exclusively as a signal in the running of trains according te the schedule rules. Mrs. Maggie Laird, who mysteriously disappeared from her home in Harrisburir. en Monday night, as mysteriously returned last night. She could give no intelligible account of where she had been, and dis claims all knowledge of writing the inco herent note published vestcrday. It is said that she was seen te run past her home yesterday afternoon, as if frightened, and disappear around the nearest corner. Yesterday Councilman Richard Rich ard, of Boycrtewn, Berks county, who for. many years superintended the Phoenix mines at Boycrtewn, while down in the slope and after ordering his men te make seme repairs in the slope, reached for the bell wire te signal the engineer te draw him up, when the wire broke aud Mr. Richards lest balance and fell backward out of the cart and rolled down about 70 feet in the slope, and breaking his right arm in two places and dislocating his left shoulder, and also sustaining internal in juries. Ward Shockncy.ef Philadelphia, who died at the county hospital, Yerk, from the injuries recieved from falling from a train a month age, as noticed in our local celumu yesterday, was fifteen years old, and after running away and wandering around the country for a time he endeavored te steal a ride en a Southern-bound freight train, and had ridden te Hanover Junction where he received a fracture of the skull besides ether injuries, and has been uncon scious at times. When rational he would refer te the matter frequently, and always asserted that he was thrown from the train by two colored men with whom he had talked. He could have identified the guilty parties had they been found, but efforts te discover them were futile. On Tuesday evening the dead body of Mrs. Louisa Mahlbern, of Reading, aged eighty years, was found lying en a lounge at her residence in an advanced state of decomposition. The old Iadv resided alone. and as she was net noticed about the dwelling for seme days two of the neigh bors made a search of the premises. They found the woman lying en a lounge, and uppusca uer te ee sleeping, iney gave the body a pnsh, when, te their horror, they found the lady te be dead. They no tified the proper authorities. It is sug sug pesed she died a natural death during Sun day or Monday, and as she occupied the house alone, the fact was net discovered until last night. Cerenor Kelly held an inquest. The old lady is said te have been well te de. but very miserly. Tbe Yerk County Murder. The Yerk Despatch says that the father of Jehn Ceylc, jr., the murderer of Miss Emma Myers, was in Yerk yesterday and visited his son in the jail. The prisoner is suffering a geed deal of pain in bis left Dreasc, and is much depressed, refusing te talk much. Henry L Fisher, esq., was retained by Mr. Ceyle te defend his son in the coming trial. MUNICIPAL MATTERS. JUNK MEETING OF VITX COUNCILS. Committee' Repert Keorglaatlen of the Fir Department Petition Proposed Sale or City Properties Mayer' Message New Sewers Or dered. The select and common councils of the city of Lancaster met in their respect ire chambers last evening. Select Council. Present Messrs. Barr, Bergcr, Deerr, Judith, G. W. Zecher, Philip Zecher and Evans, president. Mr. G. W. Zecher presented an ab stract of the proceedings of the finance committee for the past month. Alse, the monthly report of the city treasurer, which showed a balance in the treasury, June 1, of $24,710.07. Alse an abstract of the proceedings of the meet ings of water committee, for the past month, containing nothing of special in terest ; and also a joint resolution for the appointment of a special committee, te consider and report a plan for the reorgani zation of the Lancaster fire department. The resolution was adopted, and the chair appointed, en the pait of select council, Messrs. Zecher, Barr, Berger and Deerr. Common council concurred in the adoption of the resolution and appointed Messrs. Barnes, Ostermayer, Albert and Davis, en part of common ceuucil. Mr. Barr presented a petition for the erection of a street lamp and the laying of a gutter en the north side of West Marien street, between Charlette and Mary. The petition was referred under the rules. Mr. G. W. Zecher stated that the city owned certain property en which it was paying taxes, and from which it was re ceiving no revenue property which was in fact valueless for city purposes. lie presented a resolution that the city prop erty committee be directed te offer at pub lic sale the old Beardtnan mill property en the Conestoga, and the let of ground en East Chestnut street in the Sixth ward. The resolution was adopted. Common council concurred. The mayor's annual meesage was pre sented and read. It will be found en our first page. Mr. Zecher offered a resolution instruct ing the street committee te construct a sewer in east Walnut street, from Chris tian te North Queen, provided the prop erty holders en the line of the sewer pay for the same. The resolution was agreed te, and common council concurred. Mr. Deerr offered a resolution instruct ing the street committee te proceed at enee te invite proposals for the building of a sewer en North Water street, as recem mended in the report of the street com mittee and adopted by ceunciIs,and award the contract at the earliest possible day. The resolution was adopted, and common council concurred. Adjourned. Common Council. The following members were present : Messrs. Albert, Barnes, Bees, Cox, Davis, Diffenderffer, Hays, Huber, John John Jehn eon, Licbty, MeMulIcn, Ostermayer, Shul myer, Smeych, White, Yackly, Levergood, president. The minutes having been read and ap proved, the following petitions were pre sented, read and referred te the street committee. By Mr. Hays : Calling attention te the stench emitted from the sewer in front of the properties Nes. 250 and 252, &c, West King street. By Mr. Smeych : Asking for crossings at the corners of Duke and North, Duke and Lew, and Duke and Green streets, respectively. Dr. Levergood presented a petition set ting forth damages sustained by the sub scribers. Jehn M. Clay and Francis II. Black, residing en the west side of North Lime street, by reason of a change in the line. The petitioners allege ihat be fore building their houses they procured, from the city regulator, the line of said North Lime street, with which they duly complied ; afterward the line was moved, by which their houses were thrown one hundred feet off the line of the street, te the great injury of their property. Pe titioners asked.te be indemnified by coun cils for the damage thus sustained by them. Supplementary te the above was a reso lution, also offered by Dr. Levercoed. providing for the reference of the petition te the city solicitor with instructions te take the necessary steps te secure the ap pointment of a jury te view the properties designated and assess damages it' any. The resolution was adopted ; select council amended by referring it te the street committee with instructions te re port at next meeting ; common council concurred in the amendment. Mr. McMulIcn presented the report of the street committee, supplemented by a report from Commissioner Trewitz giving an itemized statement of the work done in his department during the month of April, the cost of which amounted te $815. 87. An abstract of the recommendations of the street committee is herewith pre sentea. A five-feet sewer from Arch alley en Chestnut street, along Chestnut te Water, andrhence southward along Water te the northern terminus of the present stone culvert en said street, is recommended. The estimated cost is $1,000. A crossing ever Water street at Grant is recommended. The street commissioner was instructed te put gutter en Lew street in geed order. The grading of Mary street for about one square north from James is recom mended ; the estimated cost being $250. A crossing ever Duke street between Chestnut and Walnut is recommended. The grading of West Marien street from Ncvin westward te a point thirty feet beyond Mr. Dunlap's houses is recem mended. The street commissioner was ordered te lay gutter petitioned for en West King street. A sewer en Chestnut street from Market te Water is recommended en condition that tbe property owners guarantee one half the cost, viz., about $300. The committee's recommendations were approved. Select council concurred. Tbe macadamizing of West Lemen street from North Queen te the Pennsyl vania railroad, and the laying of a gutter en tne seutu sine el ulten street, from Shippen te Plum, are recommended. In the matter of the opening of North Christian street, the committee say they nave no power te act until an order is sues from the court of quarter sessions and the petitioners are recommended te ap ply te that tribunal. Mr. Cox presented a communication from Chief Engineer of Fire Department Fred. Arneld, calling attention te the bad con dition of the rubber hose purchased by the city from the Cleveland company. Much of it, says the engineer, is se badly burst, as te be unfit for use, although it has been in service but twenty-two months, microns iu. was guaranteed Dy tue Cleve land company for three years. The en gineer states that several sections of the hose were some time age sent te the Cleve land company, which had net yet been re turned, nor had any report been received from them. The matter was referred te the committee en fire engine and hose companies, with power te act, and Mr. Davis urged the chairman te stir the Cleveland company up at a lively pace, and compel them te a rigid adherencn te the terms of their agreement. Select council concurred in the action. The bill of J. C. Houghten, liveryman ($15), for three coaches for tbe use of the fire committee en their visit of inspection, was handed in by Chairman Cox, and re ferred te the finance committee. Mr. Cox presented also a very elaborate ly prepared report of ex-Chief Engineer of the Fire DepartmcnC Win. J. Fordney, being a complete record of the fires that occurred during the period lreni May 12, 1880, te May 11, 1881. The report contains valuable detailed information as te tbe locality, causes and losses of all the fires occurring within the time nicntfened. It appears that the number of fires causing less was 3G ; number of times the fire de partment was in service was 43; total losses occasioned by fires, $113,631.39, upon which there was insurance paid of $94,790.21. The report was filed. Mr. Diffenderffer presented tbe report of the printing committee containing infor mation as te the letting of the contracts for the city printing as already published. Mr. McMulleu, chairman, returned with an affirmative recommendation from tbe street committee, the ordinance introduced by him at the May meeting, entitled " An ordinance te provide against injuries te roadway iu tbe streets and alleys of the city of Lancaster, from defective or care less filling of excavations or diggings in the same." The ordinance new lies ever te be printed, and willcome up for action at the next mccttug. Dr. Davis presented the following preamble and resolutions, providing for tbe erection of four new boilers and ether necessary improvements at the water works : Whekkas, Iu view of the fact that not withstanding the unusual quantity of snow aud rainfall during the last six months, the Conestoga creek, from which tbe city of Lancaster receives its water supply, is fust approaching low water mark, ami, should a dreuth set,in in a very short time it would be impossible te run the pumps propelled by water power. In that case the Wnrthingten steam pump would be the only means of supplying the city with water. The boilers, from being kept tee constantly iu use, arc in a danger ous condition, aud are liable te become useless at any moment; the walls sup porting tliem'have, from expansion, given way and had te be thrce times repaired during the past winter. The frame cast ings are all cracked and the boilers them selves aie sagging down en the fire ; therefore, be it Retelced, by the select aud common councils of the city of Lancaster, That the water committee is hereby authorized te open proposals. First, for the erection of a sufficient addition te the present boiler house te accommodate four additional thirty-five heise power boilers, complcte ; Second, te put iu proper repair the old boilers new doing service, aud such ether improvements connected with the genera tion of steam for the above purpose as the cemmittee may deem expedient aud ad visable ; Third, and be it further Jletelted, That his honor the major be and is hereby authorized te issue bends te the amount of six thousand dollars from the appropriation approved February 7, 1874, for further improvements of the water works, and the amount shall be ex pended, or such part thereof as may be necessary, te make the improvements as set forth above. Dr. Davis niade a speech setting forth tbe impwitauce of this work, which had repeatedly been brought te the attention of councils, aud said authority for the proposed method of securing the neces sary funds was obtainable in section 32, pages 101 aud 102 of the city digest, from which he quoted, aud which, for the information of our readers, is published in full below. Dr. Davis said that of the $ 10,000 therein appropriated but $12,009 or $13,000 had ever been used, se that from the surplus the proposed $0,000 lean or any amount within the constitu tional limit of the city indebtedness could be taken by resolution. Mr. Bees moved the adoption of the resolutions, aud they were unanimensly agreed te. Select ceuucil concurred. Hie ordinance of February 4, 1874, quoted by Dr. Davis iu his remarks, is as fellows : " Sec. 32. lie it ordained by the select and common councils of the city of Lan caster, that the mayor of the city is here by authorized te issue, in sum or sums net exceeding in the aggregate forty thousand dollars, or se much thereof as may be nec essary, coupon bends or certificates of. in debtedness of the city of Lancaster, iu such forms as are new prescribed for the issuing of the same ; and the said bends te be iu denomination of five hundred dol lars, and said certificates of indebtedness te be in denomination of one hundred del lars, and multiples thereof, redeemable in lawful money of the United States, en the first day of April, A. D. ene thousand eight hundred and ninety, and bearing in terest, payable semi annually, in such lawful money at the rate of six per cent, per annum ; aud said bends and certifi cates shall be exempt from the payment of tax for any purpose whatsoever, and shall have set forth and expressed upon their face the above specified conditions ; the coupons of said bends and interest en said certificates shall be made payable at the office of the treasurer of tli.: city of Lan caster." When the mayor's message was pre sented by Dr. Davis, that gentleman sug gested that inasmuch as each member had been provided with a printed copy of the same, reading of the document was net necessary, and upon his motion its reading was dispensed with. The message is published in full en our first page to day. Adjourned. m ' THE STURM UN TUESDAY. Cattle una Sheep Killed by Lightning. A correspondent writing from New Providence states that the storm was very severe in that locality. The rain fell in torrents with some little hail. The thun der aud lightning were terrific. Lightning struck a tree near Jehn Hildebrand's house, and Miss Kate Scott, the hired girl, was se badly stunned thereby that she was rendeted speechless for several hours. Sheridan O.itman's house was also struck by lightning and ene corner of the building was tern away, but nene of the family were hurt. A cow, lielenging te B. Bewman, resid ing near White Oak, was struck by light ning and killed, and a Heck of twenty-live sheep, belonging te Geerge Gall, living en the Cabecn's ere mine farm, were all killed by a sinirle belt of electricity that struck a tree under which they had gath erel for shelter. Southeast of thfs city the storm did a geed deal efM.image, pig pens and ether outbuildings being demolished, telegraph poles being blown down and reads being washed se as te render them impassible. The only fatality was in the killing of a colt belonging te Christian Heuser, of West Lampeter ewnship. The colt was standing under a tree when the lightning struck the tree, rending it asunder and in stantly killing the auimal, which had sought protection under it. The Pennsylvania Knight Templar. Fresh accessions were made te the ranks of the Knights Templar in Scranton yes terday by the arrival of Reading, Pitts burgh, Lancaster and ether cemmandcries. The reception at the armory last night was a brilliant affair. It was tendered te thy Grand Cemm.iudery of the state by Cccnr dc Lien Cemmandcry, of Scranton, and was attended by the visiting Knights, who were the uniforms and jewels of their order. The election of grand officers re sulted as fellows : Geerge W. Kcndrick. grand commander; B. Frank Brencman, deputy grand commander; Charles W. Batcheler. generalissimo ; Addison V. Schcuck, ctptain general ; Edwin G. Mar tin, prelate ; Jeseph Alexander, senior warden ; District Attorney Graham, of PhiIadelDhi.1, junior warden. The contest for the elli-v " junior warden wa a spirit ed one. and occupied most of the day. The 1 installation takes place publicly at the Academy of Music this afternoon. iH Idi 'A 1
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