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LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER, TUESDAY, JUNE 7. 1881.
iancastet Intelligencer,
TUESDAY STONING, JUNE 7, 1881.
TkeMUlenrUle Bevrit.
A mete than slight suspicion must
pervade the community that Dr.
Brooks k net competent for the headship
of the Millersville normal school. How
ever skillful he may be as a teacher,
and whatever his knowledge of the
things taught, the many disturbances in
the school sufficiently testify that he has
net the temper, tact and judgment im
peratively required in the chief a large
educational institution. Dr. Brooks
does himself injustice in centin.
uing in a position for which he is net
naturally fitted: and the trustees of
the school de it and its students
injustice -in maintaining Dr. Brooks
in a place he is manifestly net com
petent te properly fill. The Millers
ville students are net boys and girls, but
young men and women. Moreover, they
are preparing themselves te be teachers,
and consequently are naturally inclined
te that subordination te tiejr teachers
which they knew is necessary te the
proper conduct of any school. This re
billion, therefore, against the action of
Mr. Brooks, nearly unanimous as it is, is
sufficient of itself te show that it has a
reasonable foundation and is net a child
ish ebullition. It does net, of course,
show that the students are altogether
right or Mr. Brooks entirely wrong, but
it does show that they have fair cause
of complaint.
Ne one will have any difficulty in dis
covering this te be se from the facts as
we print them. Briefly stated the case
stands thus : Complaint was made in
one of the school publications of a rule
which forbade any male te be in company
with any female en the grounds; the
teachers, however, net being subject te
this rule. Clearly there was reason for the
students' objection te the rigorous appli
cation of this rule, but this is net the
question which has caused the collision
between them and Dr. Brooks. He de
clared en Friday te the assembled stu
dents that they would net be permitted
te unduly criticise his action ; that the
trustees had wished him te establish a
rule te this effect, but that he had net
done se in the kindness of his heart. On
Saturday evening, at a students' gather
ing in the chapel, being an annual re
union of the literary societies, the .prin
cipal was sharply criticised by two of
the speakers for the objectionable rule
and for his attempt te stifle criticism of
it ; and for this they have been expelled
or suspended.
It must be conceded that the authori
ties of a school are empowered te enact
such rules as they please, the students
being at liberty te leave if they don't
like them. The rule as te intercourse,
however silly, was therefore te be obeyed.
And the trustees of the school might
have had the power te forbid criticism
of their action by a rule te that effect.
Such .a rule, however, Dr. Brooks de
clared te the students they had net adopt
ed. Himself he did net have the
power te enact it ; se that they seem te
have had a right te speak their criti
cisms unhindered by any properly estab
lished rule. .
However this maybe certainly Prof.
Brooks would net, if he had been a reas
enably sagacious and sensible ruler,
have thrust himself into a students'
meeting and have searched among their
utterances for such as might be sufficient
ly disrespectful te him te require him te
demand their expulsion, as a necessity te
preserve his authority and smooth his
ruffled feathers.
We print what these students said ;
and our readers will agree with us, we
think, that most of it was very sensibly
said. Seme expressions were probably
net as respectful te the principal as en
tire geed taste would have had them,but
neither were they as abusive as they
might naturally have been expected te
be made, considering that it was the
right of free speech that was sought te
be denied them; aright which is of all
ethers the most precious te the Ameri
can mind, whether it be young or old.
Why Was It J
The New Era vouchsafes te its readers
no explanation of the virtual abandon
ment by its political friends of the inves
tigation of alleged corruption at the late
primary election, sufficient te change the
ticket. On May 24 it declared " these
frauds must be investigated, and thor
oughly investigated, te the satisfaction
of honest men, before he Fridy can be
recognized as the nominee of the Repub
lican party of Lancaster county." In
its view the "fairly expressed will " of
the party had been "trampled upon by
a gang of political desperadoes." One
day later it premised that the evidence of
this would be forthcoming "at the proper
time and in the proper place," and that
there was "ample evidence te prosecute
and convict for forgery and conspiracy,
'but the question of immediate import
ance is te vindicate the right by re
dressing the wrong perpetrated en the
party at large the matter of punishimr
the agents employed by these who bossed
the infamous job can be attended te
hereafter." Again, that " after the
frauds by which Jehn D. Skiles was
counted out are investigated and acted
upon, the ticket then declared by a ma
jerity of these present shall be final, and
only then." After all this and
its repeated publication of " the means
te reach the end," the public had a right
te expect something in the way of inves inves
gatien and redress from the committee
of the New Era's friends, or, that fail
ing, an explanation from their organ of
their.inactien. It is well understood
that the investigation has been abandon
ed by the unanimous consent of the com
mittee. Why is this thus ? One expla
nation is that the New Era party sud
denly discovered that their ex was gored
In shore, it was brought te their notice,
for example, that instead of 313 votes
being cast in the 7th ward as returned
284 for Skiles, 20 for Fridy and 3 for
Fielis ; only 181 were polled 121 for
Skiles, 67 for Fridf and 3 for
Fielis; 132 being manufactured en the
tally sheet and a fraud of 194 being corn-
miftw1 -if flinf nni nnll fTirfhn 77Vtn J5Vic
Mni-H1ifii It this charm is trim and If-
candidate, if tins cnarge is true, and it j
is also true that the knowledge of it was
brought home te the Neva Era, and its
" re-form" majority of the committee,
even this peer apology is due its readers
for the sudden taking-off of all its anti
cipations and assurances of a thorough
investigation.
It is remarkable that the present crisis
threatening the Republican party's disso
lution arises entirely from a petty quar
rel ever the distribution of patronage. In
1872 a large number of the ablest men in
that party separated themselves from it
en questions of high principle. Mr.
Greeley differed from its majority en the
matter of universal amnesty, Schurz and
Charles Francis Adams en civil service
reform, Trumbull and Chase en the rel
ative powers and rights of the states and
the general government, and Sumner re
belled at the corrupt personal domina
tion of the rings that sprang up mushroom-like
in the rotten soil of Giantism.
That it survived these defections and
threatens te split en the New Yerk cel-
lectership proves that its tie was the co
hesive power of public plunder.
We have carefully conned the editorial
columns of the Legislative Recerd and
fail te find a single word from its able
editors in defense,explanation or apology
of the shameful delay in its publication.
MINOR TOPICS.
These of our esteemed fellow citizens
who are about te risk sea-sickness will be
glad te read what the "eminent physi
cians " have te say about their prospective
malady.
Among the presents displayed at a recent
wedding iu Ellcnville, Ulster county, N.
T., was a silver butter-dish heaped high
with twenty dollar geld coins, a gift from
the bride's father.
Governer Fester's rcnominatien by
the Ohie Republicans is well assured. A
contest has arisen for lieutenant governor
iu anticipation that Gov. Fester will resign
before his second term has advanced far,
te accept a place in President Garfield's
cabinet or the presidency of a railroad
company.
The total amount of specie held by na
tional banks throughout the county en the
Gth of May last was $122,028,502. This is
17,500,000 mere than at the date of their
last previous statement, May lltb, and
$30,000,000 mere than en the 23d of April,
1880. The banks also held en May Gth
last $70,501,290 in legal tender notes.
TnEY seem te mauage these tuinge
better ever in the Democratic county of
berks, where the jail is nearly self-supporting.
In our prison the se-called labor
system costs about as much as it comes te.
The system of concentrating the labor into
ene branch of industry seems te be better
than the diffusion of it among a number
of trades.
Fer the first time the Union society of
the Army of the Cumberland will meet
Seuth this year, at Chattanooga. If Blaine,
Conkling and ether radical orators told the
truth, the people down that way would he
storing the Chattanooga cellars witli dyn
amite. On the ether hand all the cx-Cen-federates
for miles around, thousands in
number, are preparing te give their fees
the most cordial welcome, aud te show
them the best attention.
PJSBbONAlj.
Senater Bayard, made an address yes
terday at the picnic of the German Orphan
asylum in Schuctzen park, Baltimore.
First Lieutenant II. F. Winchester, of
the Sixth cavalry, died at Tombstone, Ar
izona, en the 29th ult.
An idle and groundless report was circu
lated among brokers in Baltimore yester
day that Jehn King, jr., first vice presi
dent, and William Keysek, second vice
president, of the Baltimore & Ohie mil mil
read company, had resigned and severed
their connections with the read.
Miss Ella Chapman, the actress, for.
merlyjef Ricc'6 surprise party,has accepted,
through her counsel, James H. Ilevcrin,
$1,000 from the Pennsylvania railroad com
pany, in satisfaction for the injuries which
she received by the accident at Bear's
swamp, a week age yesterday.
"Latest news by mail.
The first peaches of the season i cached
Chicago yesterday from Texas.
The steamship Cheng, manned aud
officered entirely by Chinese, sailed from
Heng Keng for Victeria, British Colum
bia, en the 1st inst., with 500 Chinamen
te work en the Canada Pacific .railroad.
Baseball : Bosten Princeton, G ; Har
vard, 5. Providence, R. I. Cleveland, 4 ;
Providence, 0. Trey, N. Y. Trey, 0 ;
Detroit, 2. Philadelphia National, 8 ;
Philadelphia, 5 ; National, 8 ; Athletic, 0.
Sitting Bull has applied for a reserva
tion with or near the Canadian Sioux.
His talk of surrendering te the United
States government was only a pretence.
He has been supplied with feed at Quap Quap
pelle. Arrangements have just been consum
mated for the appearance of the sever
eigns of the turf, St. Julicn and Maud S.,
at the coming meeting of the Pittsburgh
dnving association. They will net trot
together, but against time.
Griscom, the Chicago faster, when
weighed yesterday, was found te have
gained three-quarters of a pound since
unday neon, the result of swallowing 2d
ounces of hydrant water durinsr the
twenty-four hours His pulse yesterday
morning was 62; temperature, 98, and
respiration, 20.
A robbery of between $90 000 and 8100.-
000 in bends from Erie company savings
bank, Buffalo, has just corns te licrlit. The 1
bends were taken from tbe treasurer's
desk, where they had been placed with
out any suspicion of danger after a num
ber of coupons had been cut from them.
Several of the stolen bends have been
traced te Baltimore.
The annual meeting of the Erie and
Western transpertatian company, te-day,
has a special financial interest growing out
of the fact that one million of dollars in
new shares at the par value of fifty dollars
a share will be allotted among the present
stockholders. It is also said that a large
cash dividend will be declared, some
placing it as high as twenty dollars a
share.
Preparations for the reception of the'
Society of the Army of the Potomac in
Hartferd, Conn., have been completed and
the indications are that their reunion will
be made very enjoyable. Many members
are expected ey te-mgnt, including Gen.
Burnside, who will be tendered a serenade
at Allyn hall by members of the Ninth
Cerps. General Sherman and Secretary
Lincoln will arrive early en Wednesday
morning.
B Chia' a Chinaman, and Mrs. Eva H.
a white wematlf been indicted
at Cheyenne, Wyoming, for marrying each
ether, a statute of that territory forbid
ding such marriages. They went te Den
ver te get married, there being nothing
prohibiting it in the laws of Colerado.
The Chinese consul at Denver, by direc-
Itien of the Chinese ambassador at Wash
ingten, will contest the uuuetment.
In view eC the brewers' strike seventy
six firms in and around New Yerk decided
te "close their nreweries rather than step
Sunday work." They-were willing te re
duce the working hours te twelve per day
but must insist en the men working en
Sundays. It was. announced last night
that F. & M. Shafer, Henry Clausen,
Elias&Betz, Smith Bres., Phil. S. Schae
fer, the Manhattan Brewery, Chas. Rivin
ius, M. & J., Haffen, M. Kuntz, H. Jenes
and Schwaner & Amend had yielded te the
demands of the strikers and that seven
Brooklyn and three Jersey City firms had
yielded also.
DISASTER AND CRIME.
THE TRAIL OF FIRE AND BLOOD.
A Colonel Killed Huge Halftones Strange
Suicides Illoedy vrethers-ln-Law.
A retired colonel of the Russian army
has shot and killed en the streets of Scbas Scbas
tapel Captain CastomarefT, a here of the
Crimean war.
The Niagara oil refining company's
buildings at Buffalo and one thousand
barrels of oil were burned yesterday. The
less is about $25,000 and the insurance
$10,000.
Jeseph Cellins and his wife were killed
while driving home near Kingsten, On
tario, last Saturday night, by coming in
collision with a runaway team.
A terrible storm occurred at Gatschina
en the 4th inst., killing policemen, over
turning the granite column of the monu
ment of the Emperor Paul aud otherwise
doing an immense amount of damage.
Lewis Helmer, aged 2G years, quarreled j
with some boys m a butcher shop in Cin
cinnati en Sunday night, and ene of them,
named Mahenoy, threw a piece of window
glass at him, which struck him in the head.
Yesterday morning Hclmer was found iu
the shop lying in a peel of bleed, aud he
died while being taken te the hospital.
The Greve distillery at Peoria, III.,
owned by Woollier Brethers, was burned
yesterday. The origin of the fire is un
known. An employee named Henry
Brenneck was killed by a falling wall, and
Pat Keeley, the spirit runner, was serious
ly burned. The total less is estimated at
$150,000 ; insurance, $85,000.
Peter Smith, a canal-beat captain, was
crushed te death at Pert Delaware, yes
terday. He was standing between a gon
dola and a coal car, net having observed
that a locomotive was attached te the
train. Suddculy the cars were pushed to
gether and he was caught between the
bumpers. His age was 28 years and he
leaves a wife and child.
At Mount Pleasant, Pa., a sheeting
affray occurred en Main street last even
ing iu front of Morrison's jewelry store,
in which a man named William, alias
"Shorty," Cellins, was fatally shot in the
bowels by a man named Harry Larue.
The trouble originated by Cellins calling
Larue opprobrious names. Larue is a na
tive of Hagerstown, Md., and aged about
5G. Cellins is an unmarried man, aged 25,
and was a coal miner by occupation.
News comes from Berlin, Kentucky, a
small town sixteen miles from Augusta, of
the murder of William Sims by his brother-in-law,
McLew. Sims and McLew were
last seen together en Friday evening, when
McLew, who was drunk, was accusing
Sims of having stolen his money. On Sun
day Sims' body was found in the weeds,
bearing eleven stabs, which caused his
death. McLew, when sober, found the
money en his own person. He has con
fessed the murder aud is iu jail at Brook Broek
ville. A terrific hail and wind storm passed
ever Deadwood yesterday, doing great
damage. Hailstones 'of the size of hens'
eggs loll for ever two hours. One stone
measured twenty-two inches in circumfer
ence. The whirlwind struck iu Deadwood
gulch, near the confluence of Whitewood
and Deadwood gulches, completely de
stroying four houses, killing ene woman,
the wife of Jehn Wolcott, of St. Leuis,
and seriously injuring Mrs. Themas and
her two young children. Hundreds of
trees en the hillside were uprooted and
hurled m some instances a distance of five
hundred feet. Telegraph peles wcre tern
up for a distance of nearly a mile. The
whirlwind separated before reaching the
thickly-settled part of the town, other
wise the damage would have been very
great.
A Farrafli ' Suicide.
The dead body of Jared Price, a farmer
residing about seven miles from Heading,
has been found lying in the orchard be
hind his barn with his threat cut from ear
te car. He 'was about 50 years of age and
had for some time past been subject te
undue religious excitement, which is
thought te have caused him te commit
suicide. At an early hour he arose from
bed, and in answer as te where he
was going he replied, "I am only
going out for a short time."
His wife, after he had been absent some
time, discovered that he had taken a razor
with him. She gave the alarm and shortly
thereafter he was found dead. Price had
many peculiar ways. He would net vote
at any election nor take any interest in
worldly matters, but kept his mind con
stantly en religion, lie considered it a
miracle that he lived se long. Price first
tried te hang himself, and, failing in this,
resorted te the razor. He leaves a wife
and three or four children.
STATE ITEMS.
Montgomery national bank stock sells
at $372 a share.
The Murphy movement is booming in
Oil City. Thousands of greasy drunkards
listen te the temperance talkers.
Jehn Reynolds, a wealthy resident of
Lackawanna, added te the desertion of his
wife the meanness of converting all his
property into cash, and taking it along.
Mrs. Gladstone, ' the woman with whom
he eloped was meaner still. Although her
husband was comparatively peer, she
stelo the small amount of money which
he had saved by years of frugality.
The court declared inoperative the he
quests of $5,000 each, by the late Henry
W. Heek te the Pennsylvania Society for
the Protection of Children from Cruelty, te
the women's branch of the Pennsylvania
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty te
Animals, and the managers of the Old
Man's home of Philadelphia. His residuary
legatee Gee. K. Tryon has, however, made
them all geed out of his bequest.
The bill te repeal se much of the act of
May 8,18e4, as makes a color distinction
in the admission te the public schools of
this state has passed the Senate but still
hangs fire in the Heuse. It is a bill which
simply wipes from the statute book a law
that is, as Judge Church declares in his
recent opinion in the Crawford county
court, "a dead letter throughout the
commonwealth, incapable of enforcement
as violative of the constitution of the
United States."
Our State Legislature.
In the state Senate the Heuso appropria
tion of $300,000 te change the middle pen
itentiary into a reform school, was con
curred in. The Heuso .bills te punish
trespassers in fruit and flower gardens,
grain fields, etc., and compelling the regu
lar payment of employees, were passed
finally. After reading several Heuse bills
a second time, tue Senate adjourned.
In the Heuse, the pilot bill, after a sharp
parliamentary struggle, passed second
reading. The Heuse adjourned at 1:45 a.
m.
A TMELY TOPIC.
Hew te Prevent and Hew xe Treat Sea-sickness
A Talk With Dr. Beard.
A visit te any of the outgoing ocean
steamers just before sailing finds one topic
and one thought occupying the attention
of the passengers. This is the manner in
which their respective stomachs will en
dure the motion of the waves. Seme,
struggling te put a brave face en the mat
ter, endeavor te conceal their apprehen
sions by silence or by insincere assurances
of confidence, while ethers retire te their
state-rooms and calmly and deliberately
prepare te be sick. With the present
great rush of ocean travel, remedies for
sea-sickness are in het demand, and phy
sicians are besieged by patients eager for
specifics against the malady of the deep.
Among these that have been advised are
champagne and ether alcoholic stimulants,
capsicum, cathartics of various kinds,
bromides, nitrate of amyl, atrepia, caf
feine, phosphoric and ethor acids, chloral,
creosote, acid phespnatcs, bitters, elec
tricity, the use of ice bags and belts about
the body. Careful dieting has also been
said te be a preventive. Nevertheless, it
is stated that, immense as the ocean
travel is, thousands are yearly prevented
from venturing en the sea by fear of a
long and exhausting sickness. Fer the
same reason the laud routes te the Seuth
are much better patronized than the coast
steamers. Mauy physicians consider sea
sickness, which is regarded as a disturb
ance of the nervous centres, unprevcut
able, aud advise only palliative treatment.
The views of a leading practitioner aud
two prominent neurologists have been ob
tained iu regard te the disorder and its
treatment.
" What advice in regard te sea-sickness
would you give a patient going te sea ?"
was asked of Dr. Alenzo Clark, by a
New Yerk Tribune reporter yesterday.
"I should tell him te take a wash-basin
into his state room," responded Dr. Clark,
cheerfully.
" Then there is no remedy ?"
"One remedy, yes te stay ashore." Dr.
Clark continued : "I think people will be
sea-sick until the Millennium comes. The
disorder is in a way a puzzle te doctors.
It is caused by a -disordered action of the
brain and nervous system, and the stomach
feels it as a part supplied with nerves.
There is no prcccptible change in the nerve
tissue, butancrve disturbance, and prob
ably all the brain is affected. It is unac
countable that the practice of going te
sea cures the disorder, although
this may be owing te a circulatory
accommodation. I have never made
use of the various remedies suggested.
Sea-sickness is modified by a low diet, and
if health is much depressed, the patient
should keep his bed. Feed should be
takcu as constantly as pessible and the
best form is soup with toasted crackers.
Any alcoholic drink will seethe some
stomachs. The supposed benefit te be
derived from sca-sickness amounts te very
little, except, perhaps, iu the case of large
feeders. Of course, laud sickness caused
by riding backward and in railway cars is
practically the same as sea-sickness. An
instance has been lately related of a
woman cured by wearing a sheet of paper
ever her chest, which illustrates the power
of faith."-
Dr. Geerge M. Beard said : "A year
age there was no disease of which se little
was known and which was se incurable as
sea-sickness, new there is no discase of
which se much is known and which is se
perfectly curable. It is a functional dis
ease of the central nervous system, mainly
of the brain, but sometimes also of the
spinal cord, and comes from purely me
chanical rfnd physical causes, being the
result of a scries of mild concussions.
Ne mere benefit can be derived from it
than from an attack of typhoid fever.
Infancy and old age are least affected by
it, aud it is most frequent and severe
with the nervous and sensitive. In some
cases there is simply congestion of the
brain. The chief symptoms are headache,
backache, nausea, vomiting, pain in eyes,
mental depression, neuralgic pains, sleep
lessness aud nervous cxliautien. Dr. h.
D. Lcntc, of Flerida, first suggested the
use of bromide of potassium as a preven
tive of sea-sickness in voyages between the
North aud Seuth, and it was used with
geed results. This had also been recom
mended by Dr. Barker, who carefully
studied the subject. My experience had
led te my developing this treatment for
long voyages, and suggesting bromide of
sodium in large doses instead of bromide
of potassium. The former is less irritat
ing te the stomach aud contains mere
bromine than the latter, but when net
procurable bromide of potassium may be
used. The patient should take thirty,
sixty, or ninety grain doses of bromide of
sodium three times a day a few days be
fore embarking, and keen it tin at sea un-
til the danger seems te be past. The re
sult aimed at is a mild bromizatieu of the
central nervous system, rendering it less
susceptible te the disturbance caused by
the movements of the ship. There is a
great difference in people about the effect
and the great point is te knew when te
step taking it, avoiding an excess, aud net
te take tee little. A few people have an
idiesyucracy against bromide, but there is
little or no danger from its use if patients
will carefully watch for the sleepiness and
indisposition for excrcise which are
the symptoms of mild bromizatieu. I
havekuownef but ene failure from the
proper use of bromides, and I have here
several Jetters from persons who have
crossed safely by their use, although
always sick before. Of course the drug
should be taken intelligently and und in
competent directions, as there is a rrcat
difference in different people, and every
case ought te be studied separately se far
as pessible. "
" What is sea-sickness? " was asked of
Dr. William A. Hammend.
"Well, I should call it a disorder of the
nervous system. "
" Is there any remedy ? "
"I can't lay down rules for ether people,
but I can tell what I found beneficial in
my own case, and that is ten or fifteen
drops of chloroform en lump sugar, and
the use of bromide of potassium. "
Geed l'risen Management.
New Era, Itcp.
The report of the beard of prison in
spectors of Berks county for the fiscal
year ending December 31, 18S0, has just
reached us. We find the auditor's report
an instructive document aud ene which
will no doubt preve very satisfactory te
the Berks county tax-payers. Frem it we
learn that the entire maintenance of the
jail cost $44,045.35, but the labor of the
inmates and their product realized
$30,902,90, leaving the actual cost of the
prison te the county only $7,742.30,
a sum se moderate that the tax-payers
may well congratulate themselves. It is
further premised by the auditor, that if
the shoe department is discontinued and
the carpet department encouraged as it has
been under the present warden, the insti
tution will speedily be self-sustaining. In
fact, se profitable has carpet-making been
found te be, that the auditor recommends
and the beard of directors have in contem
plation the procurement of sufficient
machinery te set the entire number of in
mates at work in this line.
The taxpayers of the county of Berks
can be thankful te the present prison
beard for their indomitable perseverance
in bringing the institution te the standard
it maintains and the prison beard confi
dently hope that by the next auditor's re
port it will appear that the institution is
self-sustaining and no longer a burden te
the taxpayers.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
TOBACCO.
The Lecal Market and tbe New Crep.
There is new no doubt that the last
pound of the crop of 1880 grown iu this
county will seen pass from the hands of
the growers te these of the dealer; for
although srvcral prominent packers have
finished packing and closed their ware
houses, quite a number of ethers are still in
the field,and we new hcarmere complaint of
the scarcity of desirable leaf than of the
unreasonable figures at which it is held.
Ner must it be forgotten that the recent
fires at Shirk's and Hilke's warehouses,
injured te a greater or less extent some
1,500 cases of carefully selected leaf, and
that these losses naturally quickens the
demand for that which remains in the
hands of the growers. There seems te be
a willingness en the part of buyers te lift
the remaining portion ef the crop if they
can de se with any chance of making any
thing out of it, and it would seem te be
wise en the part of growers te let them
have it, aud net higgle tee long for the
last nicklc. The nimble sixpence, at this
time in the season, is better than the slew
shilling.
Following are a few recent sales : Moses
Landis, East Lampeter, has sold te Daniel
Mayer 4 acres at 20, 5 and 4; Geerge.
A. Lehar, of Leacock, te Capit
Wilcox, 13, 5 and 3 ; II. E. Hershcy, of
Paradise, te Jacob K. Shirk, 10, 4 aud 2
Edward Martin, of Drumerc, te C. g'
Heir, 10, 3 and 2 ; Thes. R. Neel, of Fuf Fuf
ten, te Jehn De Haven, 10, 5 and 3 ; S. Tre
witz, te same, 13, 7 and 3; Chas. Bernard.ef
Chester county, te L. Bamberger & Ce,,
13. 5 and 3 ; J. T. Baker, Chester county county
te same, 10, 3 and 2 ; H. II. Bailey. Ches
ter county, te same, 12, 4 and 3.
Transactions in packed tobacco
have been active during the past
week. Mr. Kauffman's packing of
800 cases and Mr. C. Schubarth's
of 500 or GOO cases have been dis
posed ei, auu etner saics ei some magni
tude are reported but no names given!
The New Crep.
Four of five successive days of wet
weather last week, following a long-continual
drought, put the ground in excellent
condition for setting out the young plants
and the tobacco farmers were net slew iu
availing themselves of the favorable op
portunity. Thousands of men, women
and children of all ages wcre iu the fields
for several days, and thousands of acres of
ground were planted. It is estimated
that fully ene-half of the crop of the
county was planted by Saturday evening.
A large proportion of the remaiuiug land
is prepared for planting, but a very con
siderable acreage is as yet unplowed the
farmers being prevented by ene reason
and another from getting en with their
work.
In most parts of the county the young
plants are abundant, large and healthy
and in a few localities they are reported te
be badly eaten by insects. The total
acreage of the ceuuty devoted te tobacco
will be this year about the same as last
year say irem 12,000 te 15,000 acres.
Notes.
The types made us say the ether day
that Mr. ileffmau had a packing of G,000
cases in Lebanon. There was a "nully"
tee many it should have been COO.
The Harrisburg Telegraph says with
pardonable pride : "The wholesale tobacco
business in Harrisburg is assuming large
proportions. Of course we can't compete
in Dauphin county with Lancaster in the
matter of native leaf, but in the imported
article at wholesale Harrisburg is far
ahead. One is easily convinced of this by
a glance into J. 15. Herman's tobacco
warehouse, ene of the neatest and most
convenient buildings, by the way, for the
purpose iu the state. Eighteen tens of
Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Wiscon
sin leaf is stored in the building and Mr.
Herman recently purchased two crops of
Connecticut leaf amounting te ten tens,
making in all twenty-eight tens of lear
tobacco iu stock, net counting a large
amount of line Havana leaf, stored in the
cellars." This is pretty geed for Harris
burg, of ceurse, but it is only a llea-bite
compared with the tobacco stored in this
city. Indeed, 'any one of a dozen of our
little country towns and villages have
warehouses containing vastly mere tobacco
than the Harrisburg warehouse. But the
Tclcpraplt mustn't be discouraged. Great
oaks from little acorns grew.
MKICIIKOKUOOI) NK1VS.
Near and Acress tlie County Lines,
.e. lew years age i nemas y ertli, a
son
of Richard and Sephia Werth, of West
Bradford, and nephew of Jehn I. Werth,
of West Chester, emigrated te Colerado in
company with Bennett Wertli, his brother.
who had come East en a visit after living
in the West from the date of the Pike's
Peak fever. Themas did net like Colordo,
aud went te Texas, and it is new feared
that it was he who was murdered there as
reported in a press dispatch last week.
A little girl at Ardmore, Montgomery
ceuuty, died an agonizing death from eat
ing sour grass and ether plants growing in
the yard.
On Saturday morning Jehn Murray, of
West Geshen township, Chester county,
was thrown from his carriage in West
Chester by being struck by a runaway
team. His nose was badly broken and he
was otherwise injured.
Peter Hech's livery stable iu Beading
was burned en Saturday. Three firemen
were severely hurt. Several sleighs were
burned, but most of the vehicles were sue
ccssfully removed. The building was 40
by 90 feet, and was completely ruined in
respect te the interior. The entire less
will be covered by $'2,500 insurance. The
stable will be rebuilt.
Messrs. Crail & Hawman, of Beading,
who have several sections of the Cole Cele
brook railroad te build, start in with the
work te-day at Colebrook. James
March also expects te comincuce work
this week.
The Wilmington & Northern railroad
company began the running of Sunday
trains yesterday, going as far as French
Creek, or St. Peter's station.
Jehn Fichthorn, nine ycar-old-sen of
William A. Fichthorn, blacksmith, in
Reading, fell into the Schuylkill canal,
and would have been drowned had it net
been for the heroism and presence of mind
of Katie Broschkewsky, aged twelve, who
although lame, and laboring under ether
disadvantages, threw herself upon the
stone wall, and reaching out into the canal
caught young Fichthorn by the hair, as he
rose from the water for the fourth and
last time. She retained her grasp, .and
drawing him te the wall succeeded in lift
ing him out of the water m a dying con
dition, shook and beat the lad until his
mouth, nose and ears foamed, and suc
ceeded in restoring nim te lite.
Stephen R. Cupples, an employee of the
Harrisburg car shops had a thumb and
two of his lingers crushed te a jelly be
neath a hammer weighing 2,500 pounds.
Mr. Cupples was fixing a die at the time,
when a fellow employee accidentally tread
upon the lever which operates the ham
mer and it came down with a crash upon
his fingers.
Lincoln university has commencement
te-day. Seven graduates, a master .ora
tor and two' alumni will speak en the
occasion.
Wedding invitations arc out for the mar
riage of William Windlc, esq., a young
lawyer of West Chester, and Miss Mary
Butler, a daughter of Hen. William But
ler, judge of the United States district
court.
Enech Davis, son of the late Capt.
Samuel Davis, of Charlcstewn township,
Chester county, has sold his farm of 115
acres, in Marple township, Delaware
county, te a Philadelphia broker, for $40,
OOd.- Mr. Davis bought the place twenty
two years age for $15,250, and afterwards
expended about that sum en the mansion
and property. -It is next but one te the
farm lately bought by G. W. Childs.
The Berks County Agricultural society
has resolved te offer a premium for the
best acre of wheat raised in the county
this year. .
CREMATION
AT THE COLLEGE
The
Sophomores Consigning their Mathe
matical Heeks te the Flames.
Sophomore test being passed at Frank
lin and Marshall college, the sephs deter
mined te cremate trigonometry, for which
object they collected around Harbaugh
hall last night about 11 o'clock. At 12
o'clock they formed in line and marched
te the lower end of the campus, where
" Trig," was cremated with the following
ceremonies : Salutatie, by C. D Meycr ;
Pecma, by G, C. Stahl ; Oratio Funcrca,
by J. Q. Adams. When these ceremonies
were concluded, the line was re-formed,
the coffin containing the ashes was con
veyed te a spot near the Diagnethian hall,
where, while the closing exercises were
going en, it was consigned te its grave.
The Kcquicscat was pronounced by E. E.
Porterfield, and the Vale by C. R. Neff.
Quite vividly the excellencies and atrocities
of the deceased were told in song and
story, and with mingled wee and wan
tonness, the remains wcre consigned te
earth and the ghost te the freshmen. The
curators selccti for the occasion were W.
G. Mayburry, E. F. Stetz, C. W. R. Crura,
II. Mitman and J. N. Bauman. The com
plete projrramrae of exercises was as fel
lows :
Kxsequiae.
Curator Cacrimeniaruin K. W. McCusUcy.
Curiucu....... ........................... A Cliore.
l'yram l'uneream incendens K. Tnggnrt.
Salututie C. D. Mever.
UCIlltlt,iltat((t(lll(aa(,((,u( C SLA ill
Oratio lunerea 1. If. Attains.
i iii(.(issa,a ) lyiierOa
trocessie ai bustem.
Kcquicscat E. K. rerlerlleld.
Carmen Lujjubre A Chore.
I'entifcx Maximus J. . Adams.
Saeerdes B. K. Porterfield.
1'ertans fcralcm urnam T. I!. Jluchcr.
VNDArlLAr.il.
T. Jl. Ballier, J. O. Geer-e,
U. K. Mus'sdmau, L. Itebb.
The following was the funeral song,
"written expressly for this occasion :"
CAIUIKX LUCJUBRE.
(Composed by X. C. Heisler.)
Tunc: Old Hundred.
We gather Badly round the tomb.
Te plant our old acquaintance there.
It's primal dress detli " Trig "assume,
The monster doth te dust repair.
We weep net o'er the open grave.
Ne hopes of ours there buried He,
Since naught its tottering frame reulil save,
It dies, yes, Wheeler's babe doth die.
Upen that memorable morn.
When last we met te test our powers.
Mysterious sounds were settly berm
Frem college halls at midnight hours.
And spirit forms stele softly round,
As it some mischief te prepare,
Yet, still, at morn no trace was found.
Of what had been their mission there.
And strange te say, at nearly nine.
When each was in his work immersed,
A sound, as of a hidden mine.
Throughout the room of tortures burst.
That sound, O tyrant of the Sephs.
Rolled lertli a parting knell ter thee,
And spoke te students anil te Trets
The deem of Trigonometry.
And new ttie deem has been tullillcd.
Thy ashes here before us lie,
The voice we wept te hear is stilled.
And all our sorrows with thee lie.
Thy cosines and thy formulae
Shall bother eighty-three no mere.
But still thy shadeagain made free.
Shall haunt the chiss et eightv-feur.
(Te be administered, two lines at a dose, by
the l'entifex Maximus.)
College News. .
It was the intsntien of the Sophomores
te proceed by rail te Yerk Furnace this
morning for their annual encampment,
but the unfavorable weather prevented
their departure, and should it continue
may seriously interfere with an occasion
of much expected pleasure aud practical
scientific study.
The annual meeting of the ladies of
the college and city te arrange for the
alumni dinner, was held at the residence
of Rev. Dr. Dubbs last evening ; commit
tees were appointed aud ether prelimina
ries agreed upon.
Frem present indications there will be a
large attendance of visitors at commence
ment exercises next week. The orders
for excursion tickets are numerous and
early.
Rev. Drs. Apple and Dubbs, of the col
lege, and Gcrhart of the seminary are iu
Ciiambersburg te-day attending the funeral
of Bcv. Dr. S. R. Fisher.
On graduating day the entire nineteen
members of the senior class will speak.
Their rehearsal comes off Friday next.
The improvements in the Diagnethian
hall are progressing rapidly, but it will
keep the frosceer busy te have the scaffold
ing down aud tiie bcanties of his work
disclosed by commencement.
Tne Lutheran Mlnisterium.
The 131th annual meeting of Evangeli
cal Lutheran ministcriutn of Pennsylva
nia convened in the Church of the Trans
figuration, Pottstown, en Thursday, June
9. Of our local clersry. Rev. J. A. Darin-
shcttcr, of Columbia, will be entertained
by Gee. Bauer, Ne. 267 High street ;
IIcv. C. A. Fetzer, of Ephrata, by Win.
Schmacrer, Walnut and Charlette ; Rev.
Dr. E. Grecnwald, of Lancaster, by Her
man Wells, of High street ; Rev. D. II.
(1 eissinger. of New Yerk, formerly of this
city, by Ephraim Fritz, Ne. 110 King
street ; Rev. .J. W. Hassler, of New Hol Hel
land, by Isaac Fcgley, Ne. 71 High street ;
Rev. S. S. Henry, of Ilinklctewii, by R.
Gruff, Seuth, cast of Evans ; Rev. C. E.
Houpt, Lancaster, by Dr. W. J. Ashen
feltcr, at Madisen house; Rev F. P.
Mayser, Lancaster, by Peter Egolf, Ne.
125 Walnut street ; Rev. G. P. Mueller,
Marietta, by Jehn Stcinley, Queen, cast of
Warren ; Rev. E. L. Reed, Lancaster, by
Gee. 15. Lcssig, Ne. 435 King street.
Kiict of a Salt.
The death of Washington Supplec, of
Columbia,- from injuries received en the
railroad at Philadelphia last week ends a
suit against the borough of Norristown,
which has been pending for about seven
years. He was a son of Washington Sup Sup
plee, who fell from a wagon at Main and
Swede streets and broke his neck. His
heirs alleged that the accident was caused
by the failure of the town ceuucil te keep
the streets in proper repair. "They had
been dug up te lay gas pigc, leaving a
bank of earth which caused the tilting of
the wagon, and it was alleged en the part
of the defendants that Mr. Supplec had
net taken proper care in passing ever this
dangerous spot. The widow has since died
and as the death of the son, who was an
only child, extinguishes the family, the
suit will abate.
Mozart's Twelfth Mann,
A slip of the pen caused the statement
in yesterday's paper that the choir of St.
Jeseph's church sang " Millard's Twelfth
Mass " en Whit-Sunday. Onr musical
readers of course made the necessary cor
rection for themselves, while these who arc
less familiar with the works of the great
composer are informed that it was Mo
zart's neble composition (net Millard's)
that St. Jeseph's choir rendered in such
fine style. .
Male of Horses.
Samuel Hess & Sen, auctioneers, sold
at public sale at the Mcrrimac house, Lan
caster city, Pa.. June 6th, for Gee. Gross Gress
man, 18 head 'of Canada horses at an aver
age of $183.64 per head. The highest ene
sold brought $215.
THE MILLERSVILLE IMBROGLIO.
COATJSS KXVi.kl.Kl AN1 Ult'l'LK SU3
rODEU. The excitement Increasing and the last na
tion In a Ferment.
With reference te the attitude of the
faculty of 31illersville state normal school
towards the offenders against the
rule forbidding public criticism of
the management, of which an account
appeared in yesterday's Istellieesceb,
Principal Edward Brooks, Ph. D., in
chapel this morning made a statement of
the faculty's action at the meeting yester
day. That action he said had been unan
imous and was taken with due delibera
tion. Twe considerations presented them
selves : The violation of rules and the or
ganized attempt te coerce the faculty.
The latter bad been advised by the trus
tees te take a firm stand against the spirit
of insubordination. He felt it his duty te
advise the students net te be hasty. Criti
cism by students of action by the faculty
will net be allowed in this chapel. The
faculty had resolved that all who have
been engaged iu such effort deserve' aud
receive censure ; that any student absent
ing himself or herself from classes, or with
drawing from the school without permis
sion, or indulging in open contempt
for the regulations be suspended ;
that any student suspended or expelled be
prohibited from entering the grounds or
buildings ; that Mr. J. W. Ceatcs, of Ly
CDiuing (editor and reader of the objec
tionable article, at Saturday evening's
public entertainment en "The Autocracy
of Millersville "), be expelled, and Mr. J.
B. Hippie, of Mt. Jey (critic for the occa
sion, who had measurably commended the
article), be suspended.
These announcements have intensified
the prevailing excitement, and there is
talk of demonstration by the students
when Ceatcs and Hippie take their de
parture. Origin of the Troubles.
It seems that the frce criticisms of the
faculty's regulations, recently indulged in
by the society papers, relate mainly te the
stringent prohibition of the associating of
the sexes at the late public anniversaries.
The following from the article read en
Saturday evening,. by Editor Ceatcs will
show the nature of his offending :
" When the bombs in the hands of
Nihilistic assassins had terminated the
life of the great Alexander, autocrat of all
the Russias, the world, holding up its
hands iu horror at the act and hesitating
yet te pronounce upon the justice or in
justice of that deed of Meed, said : ' In
no ether part of the werid exist like cir
cumstances te produce or make necessary
such a result.'
" And yet, the world was wrong : it had
net heard of the state normal school at
Millersville. It did net knew that upon
the soil of America there existed an in
dividual or number of individuals, who ar
rogate te themselves powers aud privi
leges accorded only te despots and auto
crats powers whose prosecution tramples
upon the rights which constitute the
fundamental principles of our national
constitution. But that such a state of
affairs has a real, absolute, undoubted
existence is patent te every observer; it is
a glaring fact te which only they who wil
fully close their eyes can be blind.
"Accepting as solid sense the general
principle that at an educational institu
tion the sexes should net associate tee
much with each ether; passing by un
argued the mere strict application of
this principle, and allowing for the sake of
argument that the notoriously stringent
and absurdly unjust rules relating te the
ladies alone are all they should be, we ask
whether the rule announced and enforced
at the recent anniversary exercises is net
slightly tee bad ? I ask, is there an iota
of sound judgment, is there the faintest
suspicion of the exercise of common
sense, ' in a rule which will net
allow a lady student te sec her
brother (or any ether male visitor for ail
that) at any place but in a het, crowded,
noisy apology for a parlor? Is there any
idea likely te be excited iu the public
mind ether than contempt, by a rule
which will net permit a gentleman te es
cort his sister te Lancaster en her way
lienic? What syllable of commendation
can be uttered in behalf of a regulation
which separated a man from his wife aud
drove a grauuate of the school, in as hon
orable a standing as any member of the
faculty, like a small boy across the yard
for the oHence of talking te two old, cray
headed ladies, the parents of some of
his former pupils? What member, present
or past, of this school can hear of these
things and net be ashamed of the institu
tion? What sentiment ether than con
tempt and ridicule can be aroused in the
minds of the public ?
"It has even been declared that the
reading of an article like this is incen
diary; that te speak the truth iu public
here is treason te the school. It is pro
posed that the right of free speech shall
be interfered with. Like these of old,
persecuted for their religion, you can
think what you please, but can't say
it. Our modern Jehn Adams has
attempted te revive the alum and sedition
laws which the world had thought forever
buried beneath that terrible wave of in
dignation, under wlue seething waters
the Federalist party went down into the
black night of total destruction, llcre in
Millersville, ' in the laud of the free aud
home of the brave,' it is proposed te put
a curb upon the tongue of American citi
zens ; it is proposed that wrongs shall net
be' righted ; shall net even be complained
of ; that he who 'expresses a doubt as te
the absolute perfection of the authorities
and of the complete holiness aud saueffti saueffti
catieu of their laws, shall be branded as a
traitor, a felon, an eutca-t, a Pariah, a
moral leper. He .who does net be
lieve that the powers that be arc
animated by a desire for our geed, that
their every wish is pregnant with a desire
for the uphftiug of their race ; he who
dares raise his feeble voice te pretest
against what he considers wrong, te ask
for a closer approximation of an equivalent
for the money he pays, or te express a
doubt as te the wisdom of certain regula
tions, shall under our alien and sedition
laws be considered as dangerous te the in
terests of the institution, and shall be
banished from its. precincts. Truly that
must be a miserable cause which cannot
hear the light of investigation, which can
not stand criticism, in which there is net
sufficient inherent character and enough
obvious merit te staud proof
against criticism and even mere se
against ' the attacks of malice from out
siders smarting under previous discipline,'
as these have been termed.
" But te recur te what we conceive the
absurd, ridiculous rules se recently en
forced and even yet in vogue. It is given
as a sort of attempt at an excuse for the
stringency of the rules relating te the
sexes that people passing te aud fro would
get a bad opinion of the school.
Why think of it ! In the first place, peo
ple passing this school are net quite se
zrrecn, se ignorant of the common laws of
life, as te think it strange or disreputable
te sec a lady talking te a gentleman. In
fac many of these persons have seen such
things occur outside of this school. Strange
as it may seem te some persons, it is net
considered disreputable in Lancaster county
for a lady te talk te a gentleman. Hciice
no ene need fear that some of the natives,
the Barbarians, will rush in te print and
bring in te disrepute the institution be
cause thev saw things of that kind occur
here. Se far as the idea of respecta
bility is concerned, the remarks that
have been made en this platform will de
mere te create erroneous imprcssieus than
all the actions ever carried en in our front
yard. When it is here declared that it
would net be safe for ladies te enter the