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LANCASTER DAILY lKfELLlGEttCER THURSDAY. JUNE 16. 1881.
ianraster intelligence;.
THURSDAY SVXMINa, JTJNB 10, 1881.
PaiUatarejIc EsOerprbe.
The Beading papers say that a small
number of New Yerk capitalists started
out from that town the ether day for a
carriage drive ever the route of a rail
way they have projected te run thence
tePerryvilleatthe head of Qhesapeake
bay. We hope the Xew Yerk gentle
"men have had a pleasant trip of it, as
they ought te have had in this delightful
weather ever the charming country of
hill and dale through which their jour
ney ran. The elevations they crossed,
gave them a fine' opportunity et survey
ing the country which they contemplate
opening up te commerce, and the valleys
they descended into afforded a very con
venient rest te eyes thus strained In con
templating bread vistas of Ged's great
handiwork. The ups and downs they
struggled ever may perhaps dismay their
engineers, but these capitalists are evi
dently men above all thought of com
plaint that nature has net made for them
a gently graded valley all the way from
the Schuylkill te the bay. The greater
the difficulties the greater their triumph ;
cne consideration of filthy lucre restrains
them from the work they find appointed
te their hands.
Just what that work is we cannot say
that we very surely knew. Fer some
months past reports of this project have
come te our ears, but the sight of the
benevolent Xew Yerk capitalists has net
refreshed our eyes, notwithstanding they
are said te be going te give us a branch
from Xew Helland. They are modest
gentlemen ; which is unusual for Xew
Yerk capitalists unless they have a
purpose in it. Se these gentlemen may
ba presumed te have a sufficient object
for their reticence and seclusiveness.
They de net care te proclaim aloud the
geed they are going te de us, fearing,
perchance, that they may disorder their
neckties with our warm embraces
of gratitude or their digestions with our
complimentary dinners. It was early
announced en their behalf that they
didn't want any money from anyone
hereabouts ; all the stock was snapped up
before the books were opened, and all the
bends taken by a Xew Yerk Trustcom Trustcem
pany. Se we have been comparatively
calm. We steed te gain a railroad and
te lese nothing. It was quite a novel
experience. We envied these magnifi
cent fellows and.almest felt like begging
for a few of their chrome3 just for a
keepsake.
Such great avidity te own a railroad
twixt Beading and Perry ville makes us
unsophisticated country folks open our
eyes; because we wouldn't want any
of it, if these distinguished Xew Yerk
capitalists didn't want it all ; and even
new we don't want a great deal of it.
Any of us would be satisfied with one
share ; hue that much we would like te
have, just for the satisfaction of being in
such elegant company, te be entitled te
read the beautiful reports that will some
day emanate from its secretary and te
feel that we are part and let of this great
benevolent scheme.
Fer of course benevolence is at the
bottom of it. It has no mark of a com
mercial venture about it ler profit. Be
cause the absolute impossibility of profit
seems te be quite conceded. There is
something said, it is true, about the a.l
vantage the new read will be in carrying
the Schuylkill coals te the Chesa
peake, and there is premise made
of great decks that may be built at Perry
ville, by which te ship it from the cars.
But then we knew that there is already
a railroad from Heading te the Susque
hanna at Columbia and a canal thence
te Perry ville ; and a railroad, tee ; coal,
moreover, we knew is net produced at
Beading, but away beyond it, and se our
new read can't be intended te carry it.
And it would scorn te de it anyway, be
cause coal is heavy and has a predilec
tion for a down grade te the water, such
as it gets along the Beading railroad te
the Delaware river ; and the Delaware
seems te be just as geed a water te bear
the coal as the Chesapeake ; and some
what better; for it is deep3r,and car
ries ocean vessels ; but no ocean craft
ever get within fifty or mere miles of
the delightful shad depot at Perry ville,
a word se sweet te our ears in the early
spring time.
Just what is the peculiar strength of
the benevolence which builds this cress
country railroad we cannot new declare,
because we don't knew. It is net, as
may be suggested, te carry the delicious
shad te Beading, because that would
only freight it for a few spring weeks ;
nor is it te carry the Iieading sportsmen
down te the wild celery beds, because
Beading hasn't any duck shooters ; they
are all tee pious te be se cruel te them
selves and the ducks. Possibly the idea
may be te extend the evangelizing influ
ence of Beading through the heathen
country te. the Seuth of it. But then
that is already being done by the rail
road te which the new one runs parallel
as far as Hinkletown ; and we have net
noticed that the people of this section
have been particularly regenerated se
far by the Iieading & Columbia read.
After the railroad of our Xew Yerk
philanthropists leaves Hinkletown it
makes a little venture, all its own, for a
half dozen miles ever te Xew Helland,
through a virgin country new innocent of
rail ; but there it kisses against a branch
of the Pennsylvania railroad, and,bound and,beund
ing off, caroms once mere against it a few
miles further enat Lcaman Place, where
it embraces and swallows up that dear
little Strasburg railroad. It takes it net
because it wants it for hew can it want
it when it runs east and west, while the
Philanthropic aims from north te south-
but it just takes it because it is the Phila Phila
threpic and don't like te leave the peer
little thing out in the cold. And, then,
tee, present direction doesn't bother the
Philanthropic ; and it is well it don't ;
for it has get into a country
where it couldn't go south di
rectly without going pretty near all
the way under ground ; the hills are se
many and high that thevalleys the read
would meet would be little mere than
air shafts in its tunneled course. Just
hew the rails are ever te reach Perry
ville, even with plenty of the Strasburg
tapeworm in the line, we hardly see,
unless they come up here te Lancaster
and take down fie Conestoga and Sus
quehanna. But they de say the Philan
thropic is te be run as straight as an
arrow, after it leaves Strasbnrg ; and
maybe it will ; for this is an era of won
derful engineering feats. Perchance the
purpose is te run the whale train into a
big breechloader and fire it off across
the valleys from hill top te hill top. But
possibly before this explosion some
thing else may explode, even the Philan
thropic itself after the Xew Yerk be
nevolent capitalists have played their
game and the little joker has appeared.
PERSONAL.
Paymaster S. T. Bbown died en beard
the United States steamer Powhatan at
Newport, B. I., yesterday.
The literary secities of Boaneke college,
at Salem, Va., were last night addressed
by Hen. Daniel Agkew, LL. D., of Penn
sylvania. It is manifest that the Grcenbackers of
this state nave no seDse ; or the name of
H. J. Housten " having been mentioned '
for state treasurer they would have "tum
bled " te it.
Miss Lizzie B. Gara, left Lancaster to
day for Philadelphia and en Saturday she
sails, with Philadelphia relatives, te Ant
werp by the steamer Waesland, said te be
the largest steam vessel in the world.
By the account of the appraisers of the
personal estate of the late Peket tAUD
kek of Philadelphia, it appears that the
stocks, bends, cash, mortgages, silver
ware and furniture left by the deceased
are valued at 91,100,849.55.
General and Mrs. Gkaxt left Chicago
last night for Xew Yerk, where they will
remain about a week and then go te Leng
Branch for the summer. The Pennsylva
nia editors are going ever next week te see
them.
Gov. IIevt showed such an acquaint
ance with theological subjects that wheu
our college people heard that the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania had given himLL.D.
somebody proposed te give him the " semi
lunar fardels."
Twe car leads of Maine men started form
Bosten ler Chicago en Tuesday night te
attend the annual banquet at the latter
city en Thursday evening of the " Sens of
Maine." Hannibal Hamlin and ex Gov Gov
ereor Garcelon are among the visitors.
Mrs. Charlette B. Goddare, a lady
of great wealth and liberality, died at
Providence, B. I., yesterday evening, aged
eighty-eight years. She was the daughter
of Themas P. Ives and the daughter of
Prof. Win. G. Goddard.
The suicide who leaped te death from
the Chicago water tower was the son of
the chamberlain of Emperor William, 'of
Germany, and his f amily name is Mala
pert Ven Newville, of Frankfort-en-the
Main, eue of the eldest German families,
which has held a number of leading posi
tions in the empire. The letter from Yoka Yeka
hama was from a brother of the deceased
en beard of a man-of-war accompanying a
member of the German royal family around
the world. Malapert had a quarrel yester
day witli a fellow boarder named Peter
Measdell, ever which he became much ex
cited, and also at his failure te receive
from home money which he had expected.
Dr. W. F. Atlee, of Philadelphia, gave
a death certificate in the case of a man
who died suddenly from heart disease,
though he was net in attendance within
the twenty-four hours required by law.
Dr. Atlee was asked by the deputy coroner
whether he was net aware that he had
violated the law in giving a certificate
The physician replied that he was, but
that it is impossible for him or any ether
physician te call en every chronic case
merely for the sake of being in attendance
twenty-four hours before that patient dies.
The coroner fined Dr. Atlee twenty-five
dollars, but stated that he would appeal te
the courts.
MINOR TOPICS.
There were about $2, 000,000 of coupon
5 per cent, bends received at the treasury
department yesterday for continuance at
3J per cent, making a total of about $45,
000,000 received te date.
Father Maleney, the bogus .miracle
worker of Eric, has been discharged be
cause it could net he proved that he so
licited the money given him te perform
miraculous cures.
A large number of the souiers aud ju
niors of the chemistry classes of "81 aud
'82 of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, are examining the industries
of this state. Tiny are new in the coal
regions.
A mixed delegation, composed of white
and colored Republicans of Virginia,
headed by Gen. W. C. Wickham, leaves
Virginia te-day te call upon Garfield and
pretest against his taking sides with the
Mahone Republican coalition.
Three runaway Indians from the Chip
pewa tribe, Wisconsin (Chase Centec,
Mack Coen aud Scar Bare Wrist), accem
panied by Ben Xew Mexico, interpreter,
arrived at Washington, yesterday, unan
nounced, and called upon Indian Commis
sioner Price for a pew-wow, stating that
they wanted a new reservation. Mr. Price
told them te take off their paint, feathers
and rings and go te work like white men,
as they were new well provided for. He
advised them te return home immediately,
and they left rather displeased.
A ltRiGUT new English book has some
novel definitions : " A privileged person
One who is se much a savage when thwart
ed that civilized persons avoid thwarting
him. " "A liberal-minded man One who
disdains te prefer right te wrong." "Rad
icals Men who maintain the supposed
right of each of us te help ruin all." 'Lib
erals Men who flatter radicals." "Con
servatives Men who give way te radicals."
"A domestic woman A woman like a
domestic." ' Humer Thinking of fun
while we feel in earnest." "A musical
woman One who has strength enough te
make a noise, and obtuseness enough net
te mind it."
A Queer Accident.
Near Pittsburgh a well known farmer,
Jehn Bern was walking: towards home,
and as he neared the Evergreen read forks
he was in the direct path of two young
meu who were running a feet race. One
of them Albert Beck, struck or collided
with Bern, causing the latter the fall
heavily te the ground. A uumber of per
sons ran te pick him up and were herri
fied te discover that he was Joad, the fall
having broken his neck.
IATKST NKWS BT MAIL.
The thirteenth annual eenvsatkm of
the American Society of Civil Engineers
was inaugurated yesterday at Montreal.
The medical superintendents of Ameri
can and Canadian lunatic asylums, includ
ing one lady, are holding a convention at
Terente, Ont.
Werk at the Peperell and Lacenia mills,
Biddeford, Me., is new partially stepped,
these net engaged in the strike quitting
work for want of material in the proper
stages of manufacture.
The Gelden Circle and a group of mines
en the north fork of Salmen river, in
Lemhi county, Idaho, were purchased
by English capitalists en Tuesday for
$250,000.
Elizabeth, X. J., has reached another
stage in its progress, as a bankrupt, and
by a decision of the supreme court is new
in dauger of a rate of taxation which
would amount te a virtual confiscation of
all private property.
At neon, yesterday, Jehn Griscom, the
Chicago faster, weighed 172$ pounds, a
tain of of a pound in 24 hours, during
which be drank 32 ounces of water. His
respiration was 16, pulse 65, and tempera
ture 98.3-5, bleed healthy and he can lift
500 dead weight.
Baseball : At Xew Yerk Xew Yerk, 4 ;
Metropolitans. 10. Bosten Bosten, 7 ;
Detroit, 1. Providence, B. I. Chicago
13 ; Providence, 1 ; Brown University, 9 ;
Howards, 6. Albany, X. Y. Trey, 3;
Cleveland, 7. Worcester, Mass. Worces
ter, 3 : Buffalo, 4.
STATE ITEMS.
Miss Bussie Brink, of Dim mock, Lu
zerne county, fell in her yard en Monday
night and expired in a few moments.
Israel Morocco, colored, has been in
dieted at Morrisville, Bucks county, for
causing the death of his wife by violence.
Forty-two needles have been extracted
from the body of the 12-year-old daughter
of Jehn Hurlcs, liviugatMarysville, Perry
county.
The state Greeubackers have named B.
W. Jacksen, of Mercer, for state treas
urer en a characteristic platform. Brether
Beb Housten bossed the caucus.
The house of Jehn Heek, at Lafayette,
McKeau county, caught fire while a dom
estic was trying te kindle a fire with kero
sene. The brick residence of Mr. Andrew Ma Ma
chesney, Unity township, Westmoreland
county, burned. Xearly all the contents
including $180 in geld, were lest.
Accident and Crime.
S. Grecnbaum and his partner, of Silver
Beef, Utah, have been arrested for an al
leged plot te burn their store te secure the
iusurance thereon.
Hugh E. Mullen, a clerk in the distrib
uting department of the St. Leuis pest of
fice has been held in $500 bends en a
charge of purloining money from letters
passing through his hands.
The body of an unknown man was found
at the ferry lauding en the Canada side of
Niagara Falls with a rope areud the neck.
The body was unrecognizable, having
evidently been in the water for some time.
Feul play is suspected.
Mays and Overhelz, notorious "read
agents," under life sentence, have passed
through Chicago for Auburn, X. Y., it
being necessary te give them safer quarters
than was atterded by Idaho prisons.
Albert Felix Vogel, who has been en
trial at New Yerk for the past two days,
charged with attempted abduction of little
Resa Strasburger, was convicted and re
manded. .He will be tried en another in
dictment next week, charging him with
attempted robbery.
A heavy wind stern passed ever the
Dcadwoed hills. The Methodist church,
anew structure, nearly completed, and
the Sisters' hospital, at Lead City, were
blown down. The reef of the church
struck a dwelling house, nearly demolish
ing it. Xe great damage was done in
Central City.
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Fire In New Yerk.
The bended warehouses near the Wall
street ferry, in Broeklyu, New Yerk,
known as the Picrrepent stores, caught
fire yesterday afternoon, and two of them
were destroyed. The less en the buildings
aud their contents is estimated at $300,000.
A workman named Patrick Merris was
burned te death ; auether, named Themas
Ryan, was fatally injured by. jumping
from a third-story window and Henry E.
Pierrcpent, jr., was severely burned in the
hands.
The QaeDee Fire.
The following is the official statement of
the number of houses destroyed aud fami
lies rendered homeless and destitute by the
fire en the night of the 8th instant : 642
houses, 1211 families, consisting of 6023
individuals. Twe-thirds of the above
have lest their all and had no insurance
en their properties. At a meeting of the
relief committee the resolution passed at
the meeting of Protestant gentlemen en
Monday was unanimously adopted. The
resolution provides that ten per cent, of
all the subscriptions received by the com
mittee shall be paid te the Protestant
committee for the relief of the Protestant
victims by the fire.
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Washed Off One by One.
The particulars of the less of the
steamer Tararua, en the Xew Zealand
coast, have been received in San Francisce
When she struck en the rocks the sea was
calm, but a heavy swell set in, and the
passengers and crew were washed one by
ene en the wreck. .Between W) and 70
bodies had been washed ashore at last
accounts.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
END OF AN INQUEST.
A Baby Which Did Net Dle In a Mysterious
AVay.
Last evening the jury which was im
panueled by the coroner te ascertain in
what manner the little child of Elizabeth
Shaub came te its death, met at Capt.
Schuh's Washington Heuse, en North
Queen street. The following witnesses
were examined : Dr. Oliver Reland, Dr.
J. W. Hess, Elizabeth Shaub ( the mother
of the child), Eva Norten, Mrs. Hubcr
and Mrs. Zach Beeth. The evidence
showed that the child was born en May 25
aud was nursed with a bottle.
Dr. Beland attended the mother
during her confinement and saw the child
and her three or four times after
ward. The child was delicate from the
time of its birth. Dr. Hess was called in te
see ibpver a week previous te its death.
He found it te be very delicate and knew
that it could net live even if it received
the best nursing. The doctor left medi
cine for the child and told the mother te
give it some corn-starch, but no milk. This
was net done, as the mother did'net under
stand the doctor te say she should give it
corn-starch. The medicine was given te
the child, but it would net remain en its
stomach, neither could it take milk. The
child suffered from dysentery. On Satur
day morning at an early hour it died, while
a man named Lutz was in the room
with it, the mother having gene
into an adjeiniug room. Dr. Compten
who made the pest mortem stated that he
found no marks of violence en the child.
He also analyzed the stomach, but there
were no signs of poison. He believed the
child te have come te its death from na
tural causes.
The jury i endcred a verdict of death from
dysentery. Miss Shaub was discharged
from custody, and will leave the city as
she had intended te de previous te her
arrest.
CTBGLAKIKS AUD KOBBKKUES.
Sales Blew Opea and Dwellings Bobbed.
This morning between 2 and 3 o'clock
the office of Dedge & Sen's Fulton cork
factory, Fulton street, this city, was en
tered by burglars and the safe blown
open with gunpowder. The burglars ap
pear te have entered the premises, first
by climbing ever a high fence and forcing
a back deer of the factory. They then
opened and climbed through a window in
the partition separating the factory from
the office in which the safe was
placed. Tbey appear te have gene
deliberately te work, and with a
brace and bit drilled a hole into the deer
of the safe and charged it with gunpowder.
The handle of a Japanese fan, found in
the office, was cut off and the reed form
ing the handle was used as a tube through
which the gunpowder was poured into the
safe A" fuse was then inserted into the
bole drilled into the deer and lighted, and
a number of empty bags, and bags filled
with corks, were placed around the safe
for the purpose of deadening the sound of
the explosion. The thieves had taken the
precaution te unscrew the hasp from
the lock of the front deer of the
factory, se as te have an easy means of
egress in case of necessity. Ana it se
happened that the necessity came earlier
than they expected. It was about -half-
past two o'clock and a moonlight morning,
and Policeman Daily, who. in 'making his
round, was coming up Fulton street from
Shippen, thought he might as well extin
guish the street lamp directly in front of
the cork factory, and he stepped te de se.
At almost the same moment private
watchman Shubroeks entered Fulton street
from Lime street, and also approached the
factory. The burglars, four of them,
were inside the factory ; they had lit the
fuse and could net extinguish it: they
momentarily expected the explosion te
take place ; if it did se while they were iu
the building and two policemen almost in
front of it the capture of at least some of
them would be almost inevitable. Under
these perilous circumstances they did the
safest thing they could de. All four of them
sprang for the front deer of the factory
and ran for life. Officer Daily ordered
them te held but had no weapon with
which te enforce his command.
Officer Shubroeks, who was ten
or a dozen paces away, was
armed, bat did net dare te sheet
for fear of hitting Officer Daily, who was
running after the burglars. In an instant
there was a terrible explosion, and it was
net till then that the officers took in the
true situation of affairs. Twe of the
burglars ran up the private alley alongside
the premises of Jehn Best, the ether two
ran down Fulton street .with the officers in
chase, but made geed their escape. The
officers hastened back te the factory te
ascertain what damage was done and
were at once joined by some of the
residents. Mr. Dedge, who lives net far
off, was notified and was seen en baud. It
was found that the safe had been beied,
and charged with powder as above stated
and that the explosion had blewu the deer
of the safe entirely off, leaving the interior
exposed but uninjured. There was only
about six dollars in money in the safe, and
this, of course, the thieves failed te get as
they ran off before 'the explosion took
place. A silver half dollar that was lying
en the effice desk was net taken, the
thieves having no doubt overlooked
it. A very heavy chisel and a
blacksmith's ' brace were left be
hind by the thieves. It was afterward
ascertained that these and also a monkey
wrench had been stolen from Fred Auxer's
blacksmith "shop en the New Helland
pike, which had been broken into and
robbed by the burglars prier te their visit
te the cork factory. The carpet in the of ef ef
fieo was soiled by the drippings of sperm
candles used by the burglars te give them
light, and a small quantity of powder was
left in the room. The safe was one of
Messer & Ce.'s make, Columbus Chie.
Robbery Near Sprtngvlile.
On Sunday last the residence of H. G.
Kauffman, two miles west of Springville,
this county, Jwas entered during the absence
of the family and robbed of a geld ring,
bracelets, cigars, a bottle of wine, eatables
and ether small articles. Suspicion fell
upon Henry Welsh, a young man of rather
loose habits, and he was arrested yester
day by Constable Jacob Shelley. Seme
of the steleu goods were found in his pos
session. He was taken before 'Squire
Martin, of Mount Jey, and in default of
bail was committed te prison te answer at
court.
Ceal Office Robbed.
On Monday night thieves broke into the
coal office of Scheck & Hostetter, Mount
Jey, blew open the safe with gnnpewer
and robbed it of 18 or $10, all the money
it contained.
NEIGHBORHOOD NKffS.
Near and Acress the County Lines.
There are at present ever 30 engines en
the stocks in the locomotive department
of the Reading railroad company in Read
ing. This is said te be a larger number
than was ever before in the shop at the
same time, and there is no room for mere.
Under the Lebanon Valley railroad
track a short distance cast of Robcsenia
there was a cave that caused a great deal
of trouble te the men whose duty it is te
keep the track in repair. Formerly, after
heavy rainstorms there was a hole left 20
feet in diameter and about CO feet deep.
Altogether sqme 300 car leads of furnace
cinders have been emptied into this cave,
some of which were brought from Colum
bia. A bridge with very stout timbers
has been built ever the place te prevent
any accident that might otherwise occur
if the earth and cinders should be washed
away.
Michael Flaherty, an employee in the
Reading car shops, was seriously and it is
feared fatally injured yesterday by being
accidcntly struck in the abdomen with a
truck car. It is thought his bowels were
ruptured by the blew.
Charles Matthews, who was acting as
fireman en the Schuylkill & Lehigh rail
road, was killed yesterday afternoon in an
accident. Mr. Matthews resided in Read
ing and leaves a widow without children.
His age was about 42 years. He has been
for several years a clergyman connected
with the German eldership of the Church
of Ged, and preached each Sunday evening
in a private house.
AFlneMastUT.
The Yerk Daily notices " the arrival at
the Adams express office in that borough,
from Wheatland, this county, of a large
St. Bernard deg, formerly a house deg of
the late ex-President James Buchanan.
The mastiff was shipped by Mrs. John John
seon, nee Harriet Lane, the niece of the
deceased ex-president, and is consigned te
Mr. J. M. Jenkins, Hanover Switch,
Md. It is one of the finest specimens of
the St. Bernard deg we have seen for
sometime. He weighs just one hundred
pounds, and must be old enough te vote."
The deg was net the property of the late
Mr. B., but of Mr. Johnsten and was a
Chesapeake bay retriever."
An Immense Dastard Conference.
The Dunkard Annual conference is new
in session en the Ashland college grounds,
Ohie, and it is estimated that there are
8.000 people in attendance. Delegates are
present te represent their churches from
all parts of the United states. The taber
nacle or council room is a large tent,
which will seat about 5,000 people. The
dining hall is a large tent 70 feet wide and
200 feet long, and will seat 1,500 at one
time. Ample previsions have been made
te accommodate all who are present.
Yerk, Lancaster, Berks and many ether
counties m this state are represented at
the conference.
COMMENCEMENT.
ALUMNI SIT QN THE CAMPOS.
IBIS GRADUATES IN FULTON HALL.
The Dinner and Speeches Secial Reunion
The Bacealaareate Orations.
The alumni dinner at Harbaugh hall,
at neon yesterday, was the most delightful
and successful event of its kind ever held
at the college, and this fixed institution
has new become the central feature of the
social and literary festivities of the week.
Shortly after twelve o'clock the guests as
sembled jn the shade of the trees in front
of the college and were escorted te dinner.
The dining hall was decorated in the
usual profuse manner and after the ele
gant taste of the ladies iu charge ; pyramids
and bouquets of flowers and bunches of
waving grasses adorned the tables, at each
plate was'a button bole bouquet and a
bill of fare with the toasts as printed
yesterday. Rev. P. S. Davis. D. D., pre
sided at the central bible, flanked by Gov.
Heyt and Dr. Ncvin. Rev. Dr. Higbeei
sat at one cud aud Rev. Dr. Weiser at the
ether. .
After the mateiial. feast was concluded
Dr. Davis rapped the guests te order with
the remark that he had been chosen be
cause he was one of the " old boys, " and
his venture at an excuse that he-was yet a
young man had been pronounced "tee
thin" (alluding te signs of baldness and
ether indications of clerical virtue). He
accepted the situation and would carry
out the prescribed pregramme at all
hazards. The gentlemen upon whom he
called responded readily:
Rev. Dr. C. Z. Weiser, answering for
"Christianity, a friend te intellectual cul
ture," addressed the presiding officers as
"President Davis et this confederacy,
most prodigal Cemissary General and fel
low granivoreus and carnivorous, Yian
ders." It was net well te speak en a full
stomach, but the occasion furnished no
ether condition. Mrs. Partington bad
remarked that "the quack rost
rums which are new se cornucepiously
distributed through the land were
regimental te the human cisterns," and
the present occasion emphasized the warn
iug. With regard te his treatment of the
topic assigned, like his sermons, the text
was the best part et it. Seriously speak
ing Christianity is favorable te all sorts of
right culture; te the education of the
body, soul and intellect. It has only been
indeed since Christianity U introduced
that true physical culture in the way
of temperance . has come te be
rightly understood. Before the ad
vent of the Hely Ghost the world
had no true conception of sin, righteous
ness or the judgment. Christianity takes
geed care of the body and the mind ; it is
the mother of all intellectual institutions
only two in our country are separated
from it, Girard college and the public
school system, but even these could net
have originated in a community where
Christianity is a stranger. Nearly all the
magnificent literary institutions of the
world leek back te Christianity as their
mother. Here we have a Christian insti
tution, but the intellect is net neglect
ed net at all. Ignorance is net
the mother of devotion ; zeal sprint's
from light. Ingersoll is a spe
cimen of the class called atheists, aud
who consider Christianity a hindrance te
the desire of man, but even his develop
ment is dwarfed in the very degree in
which he has departed from the faith of
his fathers, and cannot for a moment stand
against the Christian scholarship of the age.
Dr. Weiser matle way for what he called
the heavy guns, protesting that he had
only ceme te commencement with ene
piece and had spoken that the night be
fore. Gov. Heyt was called upon te answer
te the toast : " The state and the Higher
Education."
"And sovereign Law tliat State's collected
will
O'er threucs aud glebes elate.
Sits empress, crowning geed, suppressing ill."
"I will point ye out the right path of a vir
tuous and noble education; laborious indeed
at the lirat ascent, but else se smooth, se
Kiccu, bu ma ei goeuiy prospect and melo
dious sounds en every side that the Imrp
of Orpheus was net mera charming."
His Excellency said that he could, with
entire truth and and taste, consume the
five minutes allotted te him iu express
ing or trying te express the delight and
the honor he felt te be in the place and
company in which he found himself. He
had sccu the people of this state in many
forms and localities aud of many descrip descrip descrip
tionseome net always favorable and
notwithstanding they were a people of
such large capacity he had seen no gather
ing anywhere in which he felt mere
pride for the commonwealth than in
the present. Fer it was a typi
cal assemblage of typical people.
Ne man can witness such a gathciing of
thrift and purity without appreciating and
admiring tue definite purpose kept stead
ily and faithfully in view by these who
compeso it. The state is engaged iu an
educational work, which if it was net re
lated directly te Christianity was never
theless the irresistible impulse of the peo
ple. Statutes after all only embody your
purposes, the laws de net create them,
they grew out of them Because of these
impulses of this people any man can may
be proud te claim citizenship iu
Pennsylvania. Various streams of
emigration poured ever this com
monwealth te make up its composite citi
zenship, but they had all conformed te
one common moral purpose, and the aver
age purpese of Pennsylvania is as geed a
scheme of civilization and Christianity as
any commonwealth had ever proposed. A
distinguished judge of the supreme court
new deceased had ence spoken te the
governor about the remarkable steadfast
ness of the people of eastern Pennsylvania
from Northampton te Yerk counties
their succession of names, their perpetua
tion of estates, their continuity and the
absence of any break in their proprietorship
of principle or property. He had further
remarked that it was largely due te the
fact that they sent their sons te Pennsyl
vania colleges. The governor concluded
an effective and appropriate response with
a renewed expression of his delight at
being present in the midst of these festivi
ties, and amid such a beauty and wealth
of surroundings that made one feel who
looked at these fat farms that he owned a
share in. them. He was pleased, moreover,
te hear a favorable report from the col
lege's condition and prospects, that it patf
its way and no professors had died of mere
starvation.
State Superintendent E. E. Higbce was
summoned te respond for "The Dinner
and our hostesses.'.'
"lie may live without books what 1 knowl
edge but grieving?
He may live without hope what Is hope but
deceiving?
He
may live without
love what is passion
but nininir?
15 ut where is the
ic man that can live without
dining?"
He improved the occasion te observe
that the prosperity and the dignity of the
college, in honor of which the present
festival is held, were largely owing te its
faithful adherence te the integrity of the
old American collegiate system. The
present tendency is te enlarge all
studies and there can no longer
be a doctor universalis. Hence the
disposition te let the young man
pick emt tbis or tnat spectnc study, in in
steadef seeking a bread underlay of gen
eral culture. This is all wrong. It should
net be tolerated. Youth is net fit te make
the selection. Th.basis of all education
should be this bread general, culture, that
ouxsUtesmenmayheschelars as well; that
lawyers should knovrBet.ouly Blackstone,
by Thueydides, Aristephanes and Herace ;
and that doctors. 'of medicine .should
have a knowledge of all the
fair humanities. Without this, states
will wane. The eclectric system must
lead te superficial training and a der
ogation of true learning Turning te his
toast proper , the doctor said he ceu!d de
no better than te meet it with some lines
which .be generously attributed te the
poet laureate of the college, Prof. Ncvin :
We may live without books that Is true as
the books are.
We may live without hope whatever life's
creeks are.
But te live without dinln?, whatever our
trade is.
Is as foolish as trying te live without ladies.
" Alma Mater Past andPrescnt"
" Die and endow a college," u
was the toast te which A. C. Reinoehl, A.
M. of the class of 1860 was asked Xe re
spond and he did it in bis usual felicitous
manner. He said he arese with his nsual
embarassment and unexpected emotion at
being called' upon for an impromptu
speech of which he had only notice last
Monday. But he bad always followed the
rule, when an extempore speech was te be
made, te write it out and commit it te
memory. Frem twenty years age the
echoes that come down the corridors of
time te him were these of a brass band.
And yet these memories are very fresh,
and, if it wasn't for a little boy or two
along with them, the graduates of twenty
years age might-pass for the classmen of
tomorrow. Twe decades have borne
lightly upon them, big as these years have
been with events for the country. Then
we steed across the Red Sea of war, new
we have passed through! it te the Premised
Land of peace. Meney is se cheap that
anybody can get it for geed security
and an assignment of his fire insur
ance policy. Our country stands
respected in the presence of ah nations,
our flag floats triumphant from the dome
of the federal capitol, and butter sells at
eighteen cents a pound and strawberries
two boxes for a quarter, notwithstanding
Rescoe Conkling has resigned. Ne ether
country could have steed such a strain
without a cold sweat breaking out upon
the whole body politic. See hew the col
lege trees have grown, like itself!
Twenty years age they hardly furnished
shade enough te accomedate a junior en
gaged in sending up notes te sophomores
wrestling in the agony of "test," and what
a campus is here for moonlight flirta
tions ! It was a cause for general con
gratulation that the college is freed from
financial embarassment, but it can stand a
little mere endowment. We dent want a
rich man te die specially te endow it, but if,
having te die, he should make his death
easier by such a benefaction the alumni
will attend his funeral with mere cheerful
alacrity.
Hen. Jehu Cessna : " Provided he don't
die thirty days after making his will. "
Maj . Reinoehl : I accept the amend
ment. Rather than in the language of the
toast be itsaid te the rich men, " live and
endow a college," se that they may reap in
their lifetime the golden harvest of the
seed they sew.
"The Alumni 'These my invincible
sons ' " found a spokesman in James H.
Wolfe, esq., of Philadelphia, of the class
of 1870, who spoke of the high regard
cherished for the college by its old stu
dents and of their profound obligation te
it for the mental and moral equipment
which made them invincible in the battle
of life.
The dinner was toothsome, elegant in its
details and reflected credit en the whole
management. The speeches were brief,
pointed, and very happy, their telling
features being punctuated with laughter
and applause; and uever company dis
persed in merrier frame of mind than these
guests when Dr. Davis proclaimed the end
of this feature of the day's entertainments.
The Alumni Oration.
The chapel was well filled at 3 p. m. by
an audience gathered te hear the address
of Rev. J. Spangler Kieffer, A. 31., before
the alumni association, lie was intro
duced by Vice President J. H. Dubbs and
delivered a scholarly and philosophical ad
dress, of which a full abstract will be
found en our firf.t page, and which will be
published complete in the Reformed
Church Quarterly.
The Alumni Meeting.
Pursuant te -adjournment the alumni
association met immediately after the ad
dress. The committee en orators for next
year reported and the association elected
lien. Thes. C. Boyd, of Lewistown, III.,
primarius, and Hen. Matt. VanLear Mc
Clelland, of St. Leuis, seeundus. The com cem com
mittce en alumni professorship reported
and were instructed te embody (beir views
in an article for College Student.
Mr. Hensel offered the following which
were adopted :
" Resolved, That the thanks of this asso
ciation are tendered te Rev. J. Spangler
Kieffer, A. 31., for the scholarly address
this day delivered and that in the judg
ment of tips society it should be published
in full in the Reformed Church Quartet ly.
" Resolved. That the thanks of this as
sociation are tendered te the editienal
and business management of the College
Student ter their successful and highly
ceditable efforts te establish a collage
paper and that the Student be recommended
te the patronage and euceuragement of
the alumni and friends of the college."
The cemmitteee en the centennial anni
versary of Franklin college and the semi
centennial of ilarshall in 18S7 were con
tinued, with instructions te secure speak
ers aud prepare a history of each college
from its beginning, as well as a history of
the united colleges. M
The society then adjourned, and some
twenty-five members of it met informally
at the residence of 3Ir. Hensel last even
ing, where Geetheans and Diagnethcans,
Phi Kaps and Chi Phis, Merccrsburg and
Lancaster "old heys" and "young fel
lows" strieked the pipe of yeace and
showed hew fields were wen in their "day."
A number of the members of the class
of 18G0 met informally and revived the
" geed old times."
Gov. Heyt and Gen. Latta, after a
pleasant drive around town and tea at Dr.
Nevin's, left for Harrisburg at 7:30 p. m.
much delighted with their visit te Lancas
ter. The Graduating Orations.
The orations of the graduating class
were delivered in Fulton opera house to
day. The stage was very handsomely dec
prated with flowers. Twe large vases ec
cupied conspicuous positions at tbe front.
At both sides wcr-j grouped a number of
small pets containing flowers and growing
plants. Suspended from the flies were
baskets, whilst hanging from a wire
stretched directly across the front of the
stage was an elegant flora! horse-shoe,
from which depended a cornucopia.
The orators, preceded by the faculty of
the college, marched down the central aisle
of the opera house at 9 o'clock precisely,
te the time of a march played by the col
lege orchestra, and occupied seats upon
the stage.
The college orchestra played an over
ture ''Gelden Fleece" (Ripley) after
which the salutatory orator, Lewis Reiter,
of Kittanning, Pa., was introduced. He
extended a cordial welcome te these who
had taken this means te signify their in
terest in the cause of education, as well as
these who had returned at this time te
their alma mater, in order te revive mem
eries of similar scenes in which they had
been the actors. The speaker condemned
the creed se prevalent among a large ele
ment of the people which is te make a noise
and let the people knew that you live ; in
which a " flourish of trumpets" is regard
ed as the highest aim of life. As in hu
man life it is always proved that patient
labor is the key te true success, se is
this demonstrated in the history of educa
tional invitations. The orator dwelt with
pleasure upon the growth or Franklin and
Marshall ; all that she needs is a larger en
dowment. Lehigh university had her
Packer; Lafayette college her Pardee ;
whom shall Franklin and Marshall have ?
Oration "True and False Socialism.'
Edward D. Wingenretb, Wilkinsburg,
Pa. 3Ian is a progressive being. The
law of social intercourse early manifested
itself, throughout the human family, and
man realized that it was net geed te be
alone. In contrast .with this is the ten
dency te disorder, te a false socialism,
that the age has brought forth. Religion
is the solution te this difficult problem of
life. Everything springing from that
fount will partake of its purity of charac
ter ; without it life is a comedy, death a
catastrophe, eternity a blank.
Music "Fruehling auf der Reise "
ZikeO.
Oration" The Leaders and the Led"
J. Wirt Ferney, Hanover, Pa. The mo
tive which animated the children of Israel
in abandoning their miserable existence and
seeking a higher one still inspires human
action. Men of boldness are the leaders
in this. In the times that tried men's
souls, in every epoch of the world's his
tory, men have stepped forth te take the
leadership of all great movements. If
you will see the leaders and lawgivers of
te-morrow leek about you ; net iu politics
alone but in every sphere of life. True
greatness does net require a golden crown
te make itself felt. He is a monarch who
give us a constitution ; a pontiff who
preaches truth and virtue. The speaker's
plea was for perfect freedom of thennght
in all the duties and relations of life.
Oration "Man's Intellectual Advance
ment" Lewis F. Brown, New Oxford.
The noblest study of man is man ; nature
is a great storehouse of knowledge. The
speaker drew a charming picture of rural
life ; flowers are the alphabet of nature
by which we write q'er hill and dale mys
terious truths. Everything around us is
adapted te man's intellectual advance
ment. With the Psalmist we may exclaim
"The heavens declare the glory of Ged,
and the firmament sheweth his handiwork:"
The undeveloped state of man is nearly'
alliqd te a state of sleep, undisturbed by
dreams. It is the understanding that sets
man abve all ether sensible beings ; and
all the light we can ' let in will
contribute te our elevation and higher ad
vancement. The Creater gave powers of
mind in order that they might be cultivated,
and te this must be joined a spiritual ele
vation, by which they will be as light in
darkness, joy in sorrow, victory in conflict.
Music 'Medley of popular airs.
Oration "Cheesing a Profession,"
Jesiah E. Sprenkle, Hanover, Pa.
It has pleased the All-Wise te encompass
us with difficulties. There have been a
tew extraordinarily gifted meu who have
been enabled te deliberately cheese the
sphere of activity upon which they pro
pose te enter In determining the choice of
a profession the force of early impressions
arc deep and controlling. The propensi
ties of men are net always glaringly ap
parent in youth ; no man is perfectly aware
of his powers until he has put them te
actual test. He never made a bad
figure who understood his talents nor a
geed one who mistook them. It is impor
tant that we should employ our energies
in that direction in which we feel a capa
city for success.
Oration "3Ian a Secial Being" Har
vey E. Bartholemew, Bath, Pa. 3Iutual
dependence is friitten en every atom and
molecule of the universal creation. Turn
ing our eyes from nature te man we find the
same truth stamped there. Ged has bound
together the human race by the ties of
mutual dependence. Man. is pre-emi
nently a social being. The savage fn his
solitude, net less than he in mere ex
alted sphere of life, is animated by the
social principle that ultimately is te bring
all men into harmony and concord. We
te-day stand upon an eminence and
leek back ever 0,000 years of bloodshed ;
net one has failed te leave behind its ep -taph,
and upon every cloud in the sky, in
every flower of the field, upon the great
heart of humanity, is indelibly stamped
the dcclara'iea " Nen nebis selum."
3Iusic "Au Reveir (Rollinson).
Oration "Responsibilities of Wealth"
Jehn C. Hagcr, Lancaster, Pa. 3Ian was
endowed by his' Creater with body and
mind, capable of overcoming the obstacles
that surround him. Te gratify his desire
man has ever been compelled te obey the
Divine command of earning his bread by
the sweat of his brew. Wealth is the
centre around w hich all great enterprises
revolve. In carrying out the great indus
tries of the world wealth plays a promi
nent part. The capitalist has great
responsibilities resting upon him, for
upon the proper disposition of wealth
depends the happiness of a pccplc. The
owner of wealth finds it te bis great advan
tage te strive te elevate the mateiial and
intellectual condition of these he employs.
In the present war against monopolies and
accumulation of great wealth for itself
alene is discerned the dawning of a brighter
day.
Oration Natieual Safety O. J. II.
Swift, Wilkinsburg, Pa. The web of na
tional history, though woven by different
hands, is uniform aud similar in texture,
and in all we see the struggle for freedom
and liberty. Leve of country has always
been eue of the purest emotions of the
human heart- When Columbus at the
head of his little band dedicated the
new found soil te haughty Spain,
he little dreamed that that land was te be
come the theatre of the events that the
histeiy of the American republic pro
duced. L'ive of home, of heaven and of
country are the safeguards of our national
existence that will win for it perpetuity,
prosperity aud power.
JIusic " Covent Garden Waltzes "
Parlew.
Oration "Value of Time and Opportu
nity" Wm. B. Shcibley, New Btoemficld,
Pa. Te a great extent life is made up of
fragments, which combined, are capable
of producing the grandest events. The
path te success is dark and bteep ; the
race of life is intense ; the runners are
treading en each ether's heels ; wee te him
who steps te tie his shoestring. Time
and opportunity should never be allowed
te pass without accomplishing koiue geed.
Time is the Iea.st part of eternity ; the
most, yet perhaps, the least prized of
man's possessions. The fragments of op
portunity must net be forgotten. Life
is crowded with them ; it is no shame te
be peer but it is te be ignorant ; fbr the
latter condition is due simply te neglect.
Oration Diamond Cut Diamond."
A. M. Yivcn, Reading, Pa. Education is
the development of our ethical or moral
nature. We can train the animal or the
plant ; but man must be educated by the
action of mind upon mind. The teacher
is net an automaton who gauges bis work
by his salary ; be must be a man, in love
with truth and beauty. The college pre
fesser must be a fountain of knowledge
and sympathy. All pious admonition te
the contrary, students will criticise the
methods and actions of their teachers, and
the latter must therefore strive te gain
their reg.sid. At this point the speaker
entered upon a dissertation as te the prep
er method of eultu-e, and closed with au
earnest eulegiura upon that pursued in
alma muter, paying a high compliment
te the earnest labors of the professors in
the direction of the moral and mental wel
fare of the students of Franklin aud Mar
shall. Music National Airs (Walsten).
The president. Dr. Apple, announced
that Oliver J. Shannen, of Mercerabnrg,
Pa., the next speaker en the programme,
who had prepared an address en "The In-