LANCASTER i)AI1 A INTELLIGENCER TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1S8
lUmrastci iruiciUgencrc.
TUESDAY EVENING, JUL.Y 12,188l.
Remarkable Accerd.
There is a remarkable unanimity of
sentiment in this city in the matter of a
new lire department, among the firemen
as well as the citizens, and the path
seems te be very clear for councils te
abolish the present system. We are sur
prised te lind hew much we are in accord
with the deliverance of the Firemen's
Union, as made the ether day. We de
net find ourselves disposed te challcnge
any of their statements or conclusions.
They claim for their (ire service no mere,
than it is probably justly entitled te, and
they admit the defects which are appar
ent te us in it. That it has been fairly
efficient, we think is true. That the
companies have-net received from the
city a sufficient appropriation te pay
their proper expenses is also undeniable.
Wc agree again that the begging from
the citizens, te which the firemen have
had te resort te pay the cost
of their service, is a necessity
Unit should net lie put upon them. Noth
ing can lie clearer than that it is the duty
of the city te provide a sufficient sum te
defray the cost of an efficient fire orgaui ergaui orgaui
ealien out of the moneys raised by taxa
tion. Wc all agree that this has net
licen done ; and that the efficiency of the
fire department is much greater than the
city councils have any reason te expect
it te be upon the money they provide te
sustain it. It is absolutely insufficient
for the purpose ; and the firemen should
have declared long age, what they de
clare new, that they will go out of ser
vice unless the city provides the money
te pay the cost of their voluntary la
bors. That brings the city authorities
right up te the rack. It is a manly and
sensible resolution le take. The firemen
.s.iy te the city that they are willing te
continue te give their services without
charge, if the cost of the maintenance of
their apparatus is furnished them ; and
if the city authorities consider that they
can provide a better service for the
money in any ether way the firemen arc.
ready te surrender te them the Held.
That is just the way te talk; and new
it is for the city te act. If the volunteer
firemen are te be retained, we join in
their demand that every dollar of their
necessary expenses shall Iks paid out of
the city treasury and that I hey shall net
be required te pay or beg a cent them
selves. But before this is done the city
councils will consider whether four en
gines, served by three lire companies
one engine being a reserve will net
supply the need of the city. And next,
whether the cost of running these en
gines with paid labor will be any greater
than that of mainlainingseven volunteer
(ire companies. In considering this
question, the fact must be recognized
that whether the service is paid or vol
unteer, proper efficiency requires that
horses shall be provided le draw the en
gines and that the houses shall be
electrically connected with the central
police station. We de net consider it
doubtful that the paid system will be
found the cheapest. Our neighboring
city of Reading has an excellent volun
teer system, with horse and electric ser
vice, and of admirable efficiency ; but it
costs certainly all that a paid system
would. Rut quite independently of the
question of cost the political evils of the
volunteer system condemn it for our
further use. It is true, as the Fire
men's Union declares, that the
demoralization of the firemen largely
comes from politicians of every degree,
even tliose who held their heads high in
the community and assume te be very
pious and geed. They admit that they
have in their membership the unworthy
citizens whose votes these politicians
successfully seek te buy. They admit,
tee, that their efforts te cast such men
out have been unsuccessful. They give
a plausible reason for it in their inability
te de without the service of these char
acters, as long as they require men le
draw their engines. If the companies
were enabled te have a smaller member
ship, by the use of horses, it is apparent
that their officers would be mere inde
pendent and mere able le preserve- disci
pline, and if they were men of the proper
stamp there would probably le little
cause of complaint against the firemen.
The smaller the force the less of a peliti
cal inlluence will it be ; and that is one
great advantage in a paid department,
which must always be smaller than with
volunteers, who cannot give all their
time te the public service.
The Firemen's Union says another
thing with which we agree when it
declares that all the incendiary tires in
Lancaster cannot be reasonably charged
upon disreputable firemen, in view of
the great temptation given by the insur
ance companies themselves te the owners
of merchandise te fire their sleck te sell
it. They charge, in Iheirpremium, for the
"moral hazard," and if they arc net
sufficiently careful in their management
te make the moral premium cover the
hazard they should mend their own ways
before charging their losses tee cenfi
dently upon the firemen of Lancaster.
The union's statement has one refer
ence which we de net altogether under
stand, lu admitting that the hangers-
en of (ire companies have in some cases
been shown by the investigation of mem
bers of the companies te have been
guilty of incendiarism, they declare that
" the culprits would have been brought
te a speedy justice had it net been for
the indifference and neglect of officials
and ethers who feared te have- the light
shine en their conduct, fearing an indi
rect implication in the matter." Who
were the officials and ethers who thus
feared implication in incendiarism ? Let
us knew.
We take pleasure in publishing in full
Representative Landis's address before
the Lancaster County Agricultural so
ciety yesterday, en the pipe line project
and the objections made te giving it the
right of way. The occasion of its de
livery was timely because the represen
tative met his constituents face te face,
and because they were of that class te
whose prejudices special appeals have
been made against the pipe lines. Mr.
Landis meets and answers many
of these objections and puts the ob
jecters te their proofs. We have
long had a suspicion that there
was a geed deal of humbug in the excite
ment ever this subject and that it was
manifested te aid the private interests of
the Standard monopoly and the railroad
company rather than te serve any public
interest. A few fussy but well-meaning
people have most likely been made
the dupes of some such influences,
and as there was nelwdy te gainsay
them their fears were left te run them
selves out in public pretests ever a scare
crow. At least a great many people who
suspected this will be strengthened in it
by Mr. Landis's address and will net
change their minds until the opponents
of the piie lines produce mere substan
tial arguments te support their allega
tions. Tjik extracts from " Worlds Within
Worlds," furnished us by Dr. Fahnes Fahnes
teck for publication in Friday's issue
furnish a great deal of feed for thought.
The electrical condition of Sun and
Earth, te which the motion of earth,
comets, suns and planets in their orbits
is attributed, is certainly sufficiently
plausible te arrest attention. Wlial lit lit
tle we knew of electricity invites us te
credit it with the suprcmest influence in
the universe.
Hew we de long for Garfield's recovery
and the less of Uliss!
MINOR TOPICS.
Ok the 780 patients at the Norrislewn
insane hospital twenty work at brush
making ; ethers take te hci'eII sawing,
weed carving, cobbling and cooking.
Thkuk .seems te be a universal mis.
picien throughout the slate that the reor
ganization of the National Guard is a mili
tary gerrymander and that Senater A.
Wilsen Norris is the " nigger in the weed
pile."
Twknty years age a girl baby was do de
scrted by its mother, who left it iu a Con
necticut depot. Several young meu club
bad together te .support it, but seen tired
of the uxpen.se, and the child was scut te
an industrial school. Twe weeks age .she
graduated with high honors at a well
known seminary a beautiful and accom
plished young lady.
ll.utitisnimu must be a happy place te
live in. Copperheads and rattle snakes
ring the front deer bells en Frent street i
lightning crawls through the stores and
printing offices without knocking, and the
carcass of "a cow which had cancer en its
jaw is sela for porter-houso steak en the
public markets. Se the Telegraph tells its
readers, anyhow, and it wouldn't lie about
such trillcs.
Ouu esteemed contemporaries, the Scran Scran
ten Jiepublican and the Pittston Gazelle,
are engaged just new in an able controver
sy as b which is the grammatical expres
sion "sympathy with" or "sympathy
for." The powerful and perspiring argu
ments advanced upon both sides of the
discussion make mighty interesting read
ing with the mercury dancing up among
the nineties.
Oni: of the refreshing signs of the times
is te see se sUiunch a Republican eriran as
the Gazette and Bulletin, of Williainsperl,
energetically urging that the forthcoming
Democratic state convention be held in
that city. In the active interest which it
manifests in the matter its Democratic
contemporaries are quite outstripped, and
the Gazelle and Bulletin is entitled le no
small measure of approval for the disposi
tion it manifests te bring itself within
range of in Hue nees calculated te have a
purifying and beneficial effect upon its
political and moral welfare.
PERSONAL.
Tiike. Themas has begun live weeks of
summer nights concerts in Cincinnati.
Among the field officers of the Eleventh
regiment, who will be mustered out, by
the reorganization of the state militia arc
Surgeon Oliver Reland, Lancaster, and
Chaplain Jehn McCoy, Columbia.
Fkakk F. Weed, an accomplished sten
egrapher, who for years reported the stale
Senate sessions, has accepted an offer
from the new Mexican railroad company,
and is new attending te his duties as
private secretary te Gen. Grant.
Mrs. Facet, nce Stevens, presided at the
American bar at a recent fancy fair iu
Londen. She wero a (lowered cotton
dress, bib apron, embroidered with yellow
Marguerites, and a Gainsborough hat,
with yellow daisies under the chin.
The new girl babv of Sir Evelyn Weed
is lucky enough te ihisscss two illustrious
godmothers, one of these being the queen
of England, and the ether Eugenie, ence
the empress of France. The child is ap
propriately named Victeria Eugenie.
King Kalakaua intends te visit the
chief cities of Europe during his present
tour. He was cordially received in
Naples, where he arrived from Alexandria
a short time age. The king's son and
nephew have been at school in Naples,
one iu the military collego, the ether in
the naval eollege.
Alluding le the report that the Count
IIkkiikkt Bibmakck will shortly be attach
ed te the German legation at Washington,
the Bosten Pest says : " Stay at home,
Herbert. Americans don't think much of
a man who elopes with another man's
wife, and when he atterwards abandons
her te die alone and friendless, they des des
pise him and won't be apt te make it very
pleasant for him. Stay at home ; you're
net wanted iu America. "
" Mauel Wilijeufekce's " libel suit
against Philp iu the Londen court has
abruptly terminated by the withdrawal of
her counsel upon news from America that
she was au i rape s ter. She claimed te be
an heiress aud was trying te invcigle a
man of SO into marrying her. His rela
tives had tried te detach him. Hence this
libel suit and the discovery that her whole
account of her past life and history is a
fabrication, and that she had formerly
been a domestic servant.
The holographic will of the late Jehn
ReuNsiDic, the Louisiana millionaire, who
died recently at the Virginia Springs, was
written in 1857. This is new believed te
be the only document of the kind left by
the deceased. The form of a will, pre
pared by a notary a few years age, was
among his papers, but there is nothing te
indicate that it was ever used. By the
will of 1837, after making bequests I
amounting te $150,000, Olivere Bierne, of
Virginia, is made universal legatee. The
estate is new valued at $5,t00,000 or
$0,000,000.
A Correspondent Thinks no, tee.
Editeics Intelligencku :
Your recent articles en " Garfield Liter
ature, &c.,&e," have shown se much geed
common sense, a rare thing these days,
that I cannot help penning these few lines
te say that when Prince Albert died the
people of England did net pass around a
subscription paper for the bcuetic of the
queen, the first lady of that laud, nor did I
ever hear of such a thing lieiug done iu
auy ether country ! Why should it be
done in America '.' The first ladies of our
land ought te blush with indignation at
the idea of subscriptions of from $1
te $5,000 being made aud publish
ed broadcast le console them for the
less of a husband. If charity is nec
essary, le be genuine it should be
without publicity.
"Theso doctors' bulletins" are
than royal in their minute mention.
done
mere
Here
let me say that it is net generally known,
or learned either by American travelers iu
Europe, that the old palaces have no water
olesets and that the evacuations of the
nobles of the olden time were carried out
and uuricu ey ine .servants ; snowing a
knowledge of sanitary laws superior te
the pipe, water aud trnp systems of our
times. II
STATE ITEMS.
A state Dctcctive association is te be
formed. Who will detect the detectives '.'
The Juniata Valley editors and printers
will picnic at Medium springs eti Scptcm
bcr 2d and 3d.
Thore are but three female physicians iu
the city of Pittsburgh, two homceepaths
and one allepath.
Eighty-live members of the Alleutewn
cigar makers' union struck for au increase
of wages yesterday. They ask for an in
crease et Irem luty cents te one dollar per
thousand.
The Pennsylvania tube works of Pitts
burgh, $800,000 capital, and the Mt.
Pleasant water company, $15,000 capital,
were chartered yesterday at the state de
partment. A (lock of sheep belonging te Jenah
Randelph aud Nerval Luullcy, of Greene
county, was attacked by dogs recently.
Twenty of the Heck wcie killed outright
and fifteen wounded.
Pittsburgh's suspension bridge has for
the third time mysteriously taken hre.
and there are some people who are inclined
te think there is mere design than acci
dent in these oft-recurring outbreaks of
the ll.imcs.
Michael Cavey, au oil producer, while
withdrawing a leaded cartridge Irem a
rillc at his farm, two miles from Tilusville,
received a frightful aud fatal wound in the
neck by the premature explosion of the
shell.
The Episcep.il church that was destroyed
by au incendiary lire at llapp s Cerner,
Schuylkill township, en the night of July
1, will be rebuilt by Charles M. Whcatlcy
and .several ether liberal gentlemen iu that
neighborhood.
The third annual c.impinceliiig of the
rpi ritualist in JNasIiamitiy Falls Greve, en
the Round Broek railroad, thicks county,
will commence en the leth of July aud
close en "the 15th of August, under the
auspices el tee r irst association et Spirit
ualists of Philadelphia.
A ferty-cight'l.arrel well of petroleum
was struck near Greensburg, Wcstnierc
land county, en the Sth insl.,' at a depth
of live hundred feet. This " strike " will
give a mighty impetus te the search for
IHstreIcum in regions of the stale outside
of (lie oil belt.
Win. Cox, who owned and resided in a
.small house near Reaver Falls, with his
wife went te chinch, leaving their chil
dren at home. The children tried tj start
a lire with oil, and the can exploded
The house was entirely burned, aud ene
el the children se badly burned that he
died.
Daniel Gcist, residing near Saratoga
station, Montgomery county, was drowned
while bathing in the Schuylkill. He was
taken with cramps aud in a helpless cendi
tien sank te nse no mere, lie was a
member of ene of the militia companies,
aged about 21 years, aud leaves a wife and
child.
NKW YOKKVS I.OIHSYJST.
Tlie Methods ly Which liiruer is Said te
1 ills Wern.
Corrcsneiidnncc Cliic.ijje Iiilcr-Ouv.ui.
1 used te he at Alb.my, and knew Bar
ber well, lie is well known there as alob aleb
ist, aud there is no concealment of his
business. At the beginning of every ses
sion the members of the Legislature who
wish te de business with him come te him
and say : "Put me en your list." He did
net have te run after auy one. Enough
would ceme te him te give him ferce suf
ficient te carry almost any measure he de
sired put through, or delcat anything te
which he was hostile By the time the
hotly get le work his list was carefully
made out and an account duly open
with each of his men. When a
measure was proposed that seme corpora
tion wished defeated, its representatives
saw Barber and entered into a contract
with him for the defeat of the bill for se
much in gross. The next inove was te se
cure a lest vote upon some parliamentary
question te show what the strength of the
measure was without the interference of
the lobby. It was then clear sailing.
Barber looked ever his list and picked out
the number of votes he needed, taking
theso only who could vote as he desired
without embarrassing themselves with
their constituencies. He called upon his
men, and without a word as te pay for the
aye or no, told them hew he wauted them
te vote. When the time came for the call
of the roll en the passage of the measure
it went as he desired. At the close of the
season he had a record of what each man
had done for him, and he scrupulously
paid every one his money in a bulk with
out refcrence te what the service was for
which the money was given. In this way
members of the Legislature were spared
the risk of being called before an investi
gating committee te testify as te what
they had received for their vole for or
against auy bill, for they did net knew,
and no money passed until after adjourn
ment. Hew it is l'rerxiKOil te Water 1'hree
Cities.
A New Yerk capitalist who visited the
Scrauleu region a few days age proposed
the construction of a vast reservoir en the
summit of Campbell's Ledge, at the head
of the Wyoming valley. It is about 200
feet above the Susquehanna river, which
curves gracefully by its base into the his
toric pkiius where the massacre is said te
have taken place 103 years age, aud where
the peet Camplicll laid the sccne of his
poem "-Gertrude of Wyoming." The
object of locating this reservoir at
such a height is te give it sufficient ele
vation te supply Scrauten, Pittston,
Wilkcsbarre aud adjacent towns with
pure water taken from the river at a point
above the coal measures. Scrauten and
Wilkcsbarre arc about ten miles distant,
but Pittston is close by. The sulphur
water discharged from the mines into the
rivers of the mining region is liquid poi
son. It has destroyed all the trout in the
streams, aud will in time poison the pee
ple if they continue drinking it. The
Lackawanna, -which was formerly known
as the best trout stream in the state, is
new called " the Ashless river," because
no fish can lire in its sulphuretted waters,
net even the hardy bullhead. If the New
Yerk capitalist should succeed in carrying
out his design he will be considered a ben
11Y LANU and ska.
The l'erils et Trade anil Travel.
Twenty five persons were injured by
a railroad disaster near San Antonie,
Texas.
Seven bricklayers were seriously injured
by the fall of a scaffold at the new Ocean
oil works at Censtable Heek, near Jersey
City.
News is received at Sarnia, Ontario, of
the siuking of the steamer Asia, in Lake
Geerge, near Sault Ste. Marie by collision
with a barge. Ne livc3 were lest.
In Utica, William Raync, a colored
waiter, aged twenty-two, who recently
came from Washington, was drowned while
bathing.
Mrs. McGuire, who lived iu the Short
HilLs, near Plainlield, N. J., while picking
cherries, fell from from the tree and biekc
her neck. She died in half an hour.
Just as they were getting the stranded
steamboat, Britannic, of the AVhite Star
line, ready te 11 eat, she sunk into the
sand, leaving only her masts visible.
Dennis Harrington, aged 28 years, while
at work in a building in Park Place, New
Yerk, was killed by falling into the sub
cellar from the third fleer.
A fire in Jolietto, Quebec, destroyed
thirty-live buildings, causing a lossef $70,
000. David Sternberg's dry goods store,
in Louisville, Kentucky, was damaged by
lire te the extent of $30,000.
Twe firemen were caught by a falling
wall at a fire in Montreal, and ene of them
named James Towers, was killed. The
ether, Jehn Smith, is believed te be fatal
ly injured.
Jehn Stephenson, a fireman, and Jehn
Moriarty, a boy oftwelvo years, were kill
ed by the " ditching" of a locemotivo
near East St. Leuis. Jehn Higgius, the
engineer, was scalded and bruised.
A vielent hurricane from the cast swept
along the Newfoundland coast en the 1st
inst., destroying nearly all the small craft
in many of the harbors. At Isle A'Reis a
schooner and two brigantincs were totally
wrecked.
The bark Princess Louise, from Balti
more te Rotterdam, with a cargo of wheat,
arrived at Halifax, ou Sunday, having been
disabled in a squall en the 21th ult., dur
ing which 6he lest three of her men over
board. James Jehnsen, colored, while leading a
truck with iron rails, in Wilmington, fell
iute the water where it was barely ever
his head, and was drowned. Three fellow
workmen, all colored, were unable, like
himself, te swim, and could net rescue
him.
While tending trawls, a dory contain
ing two men, William Reynolds of Cause,
and James Baker of Guysbore, capsized
and both were drowned before assistance
could reach them. Reynolds leave a wife
audsoveral small children. Baxter was
unmarried.
Fourteen cars of a freight train en the
Chicago, St. Paul fc Omaha railroad,
broke loose at Hudsen, Wisconsin, and
crashed down a steep grade into another
feeight train, causing damage estimated at
$10,000, and killing Geerge Frider, an en
gineer. 'While the daughters of the Prince of
AValcs were taking a drive iu the neigh
borhood of 1 lyde Park, the horses belted
and a wheel of the vehicle came iu colli
sion with a lamp-iKist. The carriage was
stepped by a policeman anil the princesses
alighted, terribly scared, but uninjured.
A four-year-old son of James Comley,
Hamilton township, Van Burcu county,
Mich., was playing iu a wheat field unno
ticed by his father, who was driving a
reaper, when he was struck by the
machine, which severed his right leg
twice below the knee and cut the left leir
in a fearful manner.
On the recent lour of the Marquis of
Lerno te the maritime provinces, extraor
dinary precautions were takeu by the in in in
tercoeonial railway authorities te guard
against accident. Net only were the
switches locked as usual, but all switch
rails were spiked down se that they could
net be opened. A detective in the employ
of the gevcenment traveled en the same
train with him throughout the trip.
At the Little Beaver crossings en the
Pittsburgh and Fert Wayne railroad, sev
eral families of farmers wcie returning
from church at the latter place when a
horse belonging te ene of the number, a
wealthy farmer named Rebert McChcsney
balked at the crossing. The vehicle fol
lowing, in which was a widow lady, also
stepped at the track. At this moment the
Atlantic express train turned a sharp curve
iu the hills, and was en the party almost
iu a moment. Mr. McChesney, his daught
er, aged nineteen, aud the widow wero all
struck by the locomotive and will preb
ably die. Mr. McChesney bail both legs
broken. His daughter bad one leg cut off
while the widow was injured internally.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Fish are reported te be very scarce en
the coast of Labrador.
Mayer & Ce., cigar manufacturers, of
Terente, are reported te have absconded,
leaving debts amounting te $50,000.
The track of the Kentucky Central rail
road was changed en Saturday, te the
standard gauge.
The subscriptions te the fund for Mrs.
Garfield and her family, reported up te last
livening, aggregated $122,755.
The posteffico and interior depaitmcnts
iu Washington will be closed daily, until
further orders at 3 p. in.
One hundred and fifty masons at New
Brunswick, New Jersey, struck yesterday
for $2.50 per day. An hour afterwards
the contractors yielded te their demand.
The latest advices from China say the
young emperor "has partially recovered
from his attack of small-pox, but it ap
pears that he is destined te fade in early
age."
Mr. Burchard, director of the mints, left
Washington yesterday for a two months'
trip te California and the territories.
While away he will collect statistics of the
product of geld aud silver.
Pbiucas W. Hitchcock, ex -United States
senator from Nebraska, died iu Omaha en
Sunday, or general debility, increased by
cxnosure te the heat. He was 50 years of
age, and was a classmate of General Gar
field. The first bale of Tcxascolten of the pres
ent season was received in Galveston en
Saturday, and sold at the Exchange yester
day for $125, for New Yerk parties. It was
raised by Mrs. M. Heuscmann, in Dewitt
county.
Jehn Griscombegan his last day's fast,
in Chicago, at neon yesterday. His weight
was 149, the saiue as en Sunday neon, his
pulse 50, respiration 13 and temperature
1)7 3-5. His maintenance of weight during
the 48 hours from Saturday afternoon is
attributed te the cool, damp weather
which has set in there.
from the governors of Iudiana, Massachu
setts, Kansas, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Ar-"
kn.ns.iR. Tllinms Virmnia. Alabama. Mis
seuri, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi,
New Yerk, Nebraska, Vermont and Wy-
ntllMirr TV.. ..-If........ .nnmnnlf til A RtlfTtrftfiMnn
in reference te fixing a day te be observed
as praise day for the recovery of President
Garfield.
Let Hint Speak.
New Yerk Sun.
The following has been extensively pub
lished en the authority of the Hen. Lewis
Lawrence, of Utica. It was about the
time of the decision iu favor of the Louisi
ana fraud by the electoral commission :
"One night I was. with him ill his room
silently smoking while Conkling walked
up and down like a raging lien. At last
he broke out : ' Lawrence, I can't keep
company with this rift raft-any longer.
They arc rotten with corruption, and, after
having taken everything else, they are
bound te steal the presidency. Sherman
recks with plunder. Wheeler is a virtuous
leg roller. Stanley Matthews would sell
his soul for office. As for Hayes, he is
simply a pious sneak, ready te give money
te be president, and te drop en his knees
in tears if caught at it. 1 have a great
mind te get up in the Senate and denounce
the whele thing te-morrow, and call ou
honest Republicans te give the election te
Tildcn, te whom yen, as well as I, knew it
belongs.' I told him it would drive him
into the Democratic party, and he said,
' Let it drive ; there are mere gentlemen
and fewer hogs than with us.' These were
just the words."
If these were Mr. Ceukliug's sentiments,
aud there can be no doubt of it, whether
this particular incident occurred or net,
why did he net cast himself loose from
the evil and corrupt fellowship '.' Why did
he falter and go back when his feet were
fairly ever the party line, and his best
friends were advised and he was ready te
rise iu this place, denounce the electoral
fraud aud lay bare the villainy opposing
the declaration of Samuel J. Tilden's
election? Mr. Lawrence attributes his
failure te an inlluence which we shall net
mention, because we de net thing Mr.
Ceukliug's intellect was ever controlled by
it. But that " pious sneak Hayes," has
very recently declared that the late Sena Sena
eor Morten, being alarmed by Senater
Ceukliug's threat te review the infamous
judgment, and knowing well that it could
stand no such test, found out a way te
drive Conkling from his purpose aud force
him te smother his convictions.
What was that? Morten was ene of
the coarsest of cearse leaders in
that monstrous fraud, whom Mr. Cenk
ling speke of te Lawrence as a drove of
ravenous " hogs ; " who had stolen every
thing else they could reach, and were then
about te steal the presidency. What
special power could such a man have had
ever the proud and elegant senator from
New Yerk.
Mr. Conkling ewes it te his fame te re
open that mysterious chapter in our his
tory aud let the country knew why, when
he had both the power and the inclination,
he did net save it from the shame of a
fraudulent president. He has no longer
any decent- excuse for sileuce. He has
been read out of the " Republican party as
at present constituted." In the nation
and in the state it is waging a relentless
warfare upon him, and it is no less his
duty te de new what he failed se .singular
ly te de in February, 1877, nartlely, te
"deneunce the whele thing" and "call en
honest Republicans" te sustain him against
a party which fulfilled its mission, lest its
true leaders, discarded its principles, and
is " rotten with corruption."
When Mr. Conkling sees fit te de this,
he will find an audience as wide as the
United Slates. Men will forget the petty
strife at Albany and hear with attention
that which deeply cone jrus every Ameri
can citizen.
The Heated Term.
Iii Covington. Ky., there were six
cases of sunstroke yesterday, four of them
tatal.
Eight new easc of small pox have been
reported iu Jersey City since Saturday,
all iu thickly populated sections of the
city.
In St. Leuis a maximum temperature of
10 1.2 is reported the highest ever recorded
in that city. Twenty three fatal sunstrokes
have been reported there since Friday. At
Vicksburg, Mississippi, where the temper
ature was slightly lower, 21 fatal cases of
sunstroke have been reported since Satur
day. Fifteen cases of prostration and eleven
deaths from sunstroke were reported in
Pittsburgh yesterday, making twenty one
deaths and thirty-live prostrations sire;
Saturday. The excessive licat has caused
great suffering among the cattle and hejrs
at the East Liberty stock yards, from oi;e
te a dozen carcasses being taken from
e ich train of live stock that arrives.
Kevivai or an Old Story.
Frem a Portland despatch it has been
ascertained that the youngest daughter el
Wm. Morgan, who, it is claimed, was put
out of the way by reason of having di
vulged Masonic secrets many years age, is
living iu that state. She is quite an el
derly lady, and is the wife of Captain
Wm. Smith. They both reside in Marien
county. Mrs. Smith says her father was
drowned by tive men, who took him one
night iute the lake. She states that one
of the five men who assisted iu the drown
ing fermany years resided in Portland, Ore
gon, but is new dead.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
CIGAR STOKE KOBUUD.
Cigar, Tobacco anu Other Articles Stelen.
Late last night or early this morning
the cigar store of Bitzer & Norten, North
Queen street, opposite the Pennsylvania
railroad passenger depot, was broken into
by a thief, or thieves, and robbed of sov sev
cral boxes of cigars, loose cigars, plug to
bacco, au epcn-laccd silver watch and a
small amount of change, net above a dol
lar, that was in the money drawer behind
the counter.
An entrance was effected by breaking in
a panel under one of the windows iu the
south front of the store. This panel had
formerly been tilled with glass te give
light te the cellar, there being a trap-deer
iu the lloer just inside ; but for seme time
past the panel had been closed up by uail
iug beards en the inside of it. It was au
easy matter for ene acquainted with the
arrangement te knock tliese beards off with
a hammer or ether implement, with little
fear of detection while a freight train was
passing, as the noise of the train would
drown the noise of the hammer. The
store was closed at 11 o'clock last night
and the robbery was discovered about day
break this morning. The boxed cigars
stolen were of the brand known as "Sil
ver Lake " and " Figare " the former
have a picture of a hake en the inside of
the lid, and the latter are line squmc
pressed cigars, tied up in bundles iu a I ..
AH the boxes are branded with the ru
ber of the factory " 298." Nene of the
stolen boxes had revenue stamps placed
upon them.
It is net known hew many loose cigars
were taken nor what small articles may
have been pilfered from the case from
which retail sales arc made, but the thieves
overlooked or did net cheese te take
some valuable meerschaums that were in
the case. Ne certain clue te the perpetra
tors has yet been found.
Sudden Death.
Elcthca Husten, of Union township,
Berks county, well-known in the upper
section of Chester county, aceempauicd by
her daughter, went te spend a few days at
the Conestoga hotel, in Caernarvon town
ship, near Springfield, kept by her nephew,
Rebert Gilmer. She arrived there iu geed
spirits, but seen after complained of net
feeling well, and en Friday morning died
of inflammation of the bowels. Her re
mains were interred at Springfield M. E.
church burying ground ou Suuday morning.
NKIuUIHMIlOOD NEKS.
Near anil Acress the County line.
West Chester's new reservoir is net fin
ished but the little boys are tumbling into
it all the same.
Harvest hands are scarce iu Chester
county and wages run from 1.50 op te
$50.'
A Reading rat's nest has been found
lined with stolen Greenbacks. That is the
case with many a " rat's " nest.
The interlocking switch and signal coin-panj-,cnipleyingC0or70haiids,
has moved
its works fiem Harrisburg te Pittsburgh.
Yerk's "Merry Ten," something like
our Tuequancrs, have pitched their tents
near Newport, Perry county, for ten days'
fun. They arc called "Merry Ten" be
cause there are fifteen of them.
The Dauphin county coroner held an in
quest, at llighspire, yesterday, ever the
remains of Mrs. Win. Andrews, alleged te
have becu murdered by her husband. The
jury se found.
Iu Pottstewu early yesterday morning,
Henry P. Engle, a prominent citizen, who
has suffered financial reverses, took a shoe
maker's strap, fastened it te a joist, and
hanged himself. He was aged 152 and a
widower.
Henry Hippie, of Roycrsferd, Montgom
ery ceuuty, a plasterer by trade, while
laboring under a deranged condition of
mind, supposed te have been caused by
excessive drinking and malaria, cut his
threat with a razor, from the effects of
which he died. He was at the depot
awaiting the arrival of the train pre para
tery te being removed te the hospital.
Yesterday afternoon, after the fast line
westward bound had left the Harrisburg
depot, and when striking a curve near
Reckville, six miles above Harrisburg, a
passenger named Goerge II. Ven Speckel
man, of Baltimore, attempted te pass from
one car te another and was jolted from the
platform te the ground, receiving such in
juries as te cause death iu half an hour
after the accident.
Chief Clerk Losch,eftho secretary of the
commonwealth's office, yesterday at 12
o'clock neon, according te law, made pub
lic proclamation from the steps of the
main capitol building of the bills which
have been vetoed by the governor. He
collected quite a little audience of clerks
from the several departments, who despite
the heat frequently interrupted the read
ing of tiie proclamation with voeifereus
cheers.
Gottlieb Eniiiugcr's barn in East Pike
land, Chester county, was burned by " a
little boy playing with matches " en Sat
urday. There were about 25 or 30 tens of
hay iu the building and the wheat from
the farm in sheaf which when threshed
would have yielded at least 150 bushels of
grain. A mewing machine and a number
of farming implements aud a let of chick
ens were also consumed by the (lames.
The dwelling house was badly scorched.
Charley Swartz, aged about fourteen, of
Shrewsbury township, Yerk county, re
sided about ene mile southeast of Railroad
borough, and was in the custom of carry
ing cream te the latter place. After de
livering his cream, he attempted te beard
a south-bound freight train between the
station and Hclb's mill Iu jumping up
his feet slipped and he was caught by the
wheels, the cars passing ever his left leg,
badly mangling it from the feet te nearly
the knee. He will die.
At Bushong's p.iier mill iu Reading,
yesterday, Mahleu Yeung ami several
ethers were unloading coal from a canal
beat, using a bucket which would contain
several hundred pounds attached te a
crane. This bucket had been raised some
distance from the beat. Yeung and the
ethers were standing under it, when sud
denly the chain broke and and the bucket
and contents fell, striking Yeung en the
head, from which death resulted iu a few
minutes. He leaves a wife and two chil
dren. Copperheads, rattlesnakes, and black
snakes are frequent visitors te the grounds
of the handsome residences en 1 larrisburg's
river front. Miss Lilly Perter, daughter
of Dr. Perter, killed a copperhead snake
en Saturday, her thirteenth birthday.
She was standing en a perch in the rear
of the house when she discovered the rep
tile crawling slowly ever the grass in a
direction from the house. Seizing a
hatchet the daring girl pursued the snake
and with one blew nearly severed its head
from its body.
Mr. Jehn Z. Rehrbaugh, au esteemed
citizen of Coderus township, Yerk county
en Saturday evening visited Perter's Sid
ing, aud started for his home, walking en
the Hanover Rranch railroad iu the di
rection of Valley Junction. While pass
iug a curve of the read, .near the Junction,
the evening passenger came along at the
usual rate of sliced, striking aud running
ever him, causing instantaneous death.
As Mr. Rehrbaugh was quite deaf, the
presumption is he did net hear the train
approach. He was about 70 years of age,
and leaves six children.
During the thunder storm iu Harrisburg
yesterday, the connection in the telcphoue
iu one of the Patriot editorial rooms which
adjoins the composing room had net
been cut oil, and almost simultaneously
with the clap of thunder both rooms were
tilled with electricity, which Hashed ever
the long gas pipes and the tops of the
cases in a bright lurid (lame. Mr. W. P.
Coulter, who was sitting quite near the
telephone, was very severely shocked,
and the lingers el" the compositors who
were " throwing iu" type tinged se that
they involuntary dropped the bits of metal.
The lightning did no damge except te
break a ;Iebc ever a gas jet. In the
Telegraph office job room the light
ning ran ever the machinery, jump
ing from a press, going at full speed, te a
paper cutter, but hurting nobody.
Improvements at Lincoln University.
The foundation for Housten hall has
been dug and the building will be put up
as seen as the masons who are te de the
work can get at it. This building will
give accommodation te about thirty stu
dents, and will be a great addition te the
university. It is te cost $10,000, which
has already been -contributed, as a gift,
from the gentleman whose name it bears.
A generous lady of Oxford being pre
sent at the last commencement, and see
ing the great need of better accommoda
tions en such occasions, presented the
beard of trustees with $3,000 for the pur
pose of erecting a pavilion te be called
"Livingstone hall." The executive com cem com
mittce are new in search of plans for such
a building as will best meet the wants in
tended te be provided for by the liberal
donor. It is expected that this building
will adorn the grounds before the time
for the next commencement conies
around.
. Still another much needed improvement
is in progress. Mr. Small, of Yerk, large
of heart and gifts, has agreed te make ex
tensive repairs and improvements en the
house new occupied by Dr. Woodhull and
has sent his own architect te Lincoln te
sce what is necessary te be done.
Corener's Inquests.
Last evening the coroner held au in
quest en the remains of Clara Jehnsen,
the colored woman who died at the alms
house. The jury rendered a verdict of
" death from heart disease "
A jury was impaneled this morning te
held an inquest en the remains of Michael
Shrciucr, the man who died from the
effects el injuries received en the Reading
railroad five weeks age. After viewing
the body the jury adjourned te meet to
morrow. lllc Fishing.
Yesterday Charles B. Kaufman, esq.,
and Al. Ranch spent the day fishing at
Safe Harber. Tlicy caught 42 fish, the
i..nn- -.!. ,.r !. nvicnii- I
largest take of the season.
TOIIACCO.
Tne Lecal Trade anil 1'resuects.
On the whele the growing crop is doing
very well, the plants being large and
thrifty, some of them almost ready for the
process, of topping, but ethers being only
fairly started in growth. There is iu
many fields a geed deal of irregularity in
size, caused by replanting, where the
plants had been eaten off' by the cut worm,
but this is net a serious matter, as even
the latest-set planta will have ample time
te mature before there is a likelihood of
frost. In a few sections a portion of the
plants appear te le sickly and affected
with " black-root," but net te any very
great extent. With anything like favor
able weather and exemption from insects
and hail, a very large crop may 1k fairly
expected.
The loose tobacco of the crop of 1880 is
se nearly " lifted " and the lets remaining
unsold are se widely scattered that it no
longer pays buyers te ride the county te
secure them. Farmers still holding their
crops will probably have te bring it te
town te sell, or held ou te it awhile linger.
Although thore is au active inquiry after
packings of 1880, we hear of no heavy
s:iles. One packing of 150 cases was sold
a few days en private terms. Pretty geed
offers were made for a packing of 0-00
cases, and another of 350 or 100 cases but
the holders refused them believing that
they can de better. The acknowledged
scarcity of old tobacco lit for manufactur
ing purposes and the satisfactory condition
of the crop of 1880 make holders of it a
little stiff' iu their demands.
Yerk County Tobacco Sold.
The following lets of tobacco were load lead
ed at Woodbine last week for J. B. Stch
inan, Meiiutville, Lancaster ceuuty : S. J.
Rigden 217 pounds, A. J. Fulton 2309,
Rebert Fulton 312, David Fulton 513,
Richard Ruff' 1151, Jehn M. Scarboro U6l,
J. W. Gillespie 512, Wm. Hewitt and
Gccrge I lowe 2545. Se far as the lower
end of Yerk county is concerned, the '80
crop is nearly all sold. Mr.Willcex bought
of Wm. F. Ramsay, Peach I'ottem, K acres
at 10, 5, 3 ; 4 acres at 11, -I, 3. Dr. J. B.
Ames, near Hiuh Reck, has 1 acres te sell,
as also has Mr. Jehn T. Wallace, at High
Reck, P. B. R. W.
Wicked Mary llaxter.
Mary Baxter was arrested yesterday by
Officer Gill en the charge of stealing cloth
ing from the house of Frederick Wtohrle
en North Queen street. The woman went
into the house, aud while thcra Mrs.
Wtuhrle laid down some clothing en the
table. She then went out and Mary stelo
the goods, which were found at
the house where she is employed
as a domestic. She was taken before Al
derman A. F. Dennelly, who committed
her for a hearing. Other clothing was
found iu her possession. It is believed te
have been stolen aud it is at the station
house awaiting identification. The woman
formerly worked for Mrs. Nehcrat "The
Cerner " saloon, en Market street. While
there Mrs N. often missed sums of money
from her money drawer. When Mary
was arrested a key which belonged te the
money drawer was found en her. Tllcre
were three keys te the drawer and she had
managed te rct ene of them.
eiiitiAky.
Death or all Aged Citizen.
Themas Tammany, an aged and well
known citizen, died last night a (ew
minutes before midnight at the residence
of his daughter, Mrs. Samuel C. Gress,
Ne. 215 North Queen street, aged 89 years.
Mr. Tammany was a native of this county
and in his earlier life followed cabinet
making in the northern section of the
county. Fer many years, however, he re
sided and followed his trade iu this city,
r'er seme years past he suffered from
a complaint of the bladder, but se actively
industrious was he that he icisi.stcd in
working, although there was no necessity
for his doing se, up te within a very few
weeks of his death. A son, Frank Tam Tam
meuy, lime burner, and three daughters,
Mrs. Gress and Mrs. Weaver, of this city,
ami Mrs. Eaveling, or Reading, and many
grandchildren survive him. I lis (uucral
will take place en Thursday afternoon at. 2
o'clock, interment at Lancaster cemetery.
Held Ter Felonious AHHuult.
Henry Stouter, the old man who shot
and wounded thebeyElias Granule, as re
ported in yesterday's iNTKixuii-'.NCKit, had
a hearing lieferc Alderman Samson last
evening, and was held te answer for felo
nious assault and battery. It was in evi
dence that Mr. Stouter, who was ever 80
years old, had been much annoyed by boys
who trespassed en his prcmices and stele
his fruit. Te prevent these petty thefts
he built a shanty ou the rear end of his let
and arming himself with au old-fashioned
single barreled horse pistol, and a. shot
gun, both leaded with buckshot kept al
most constant watch both day and niylit.
Fer three weeks before the sheeting he
hail net slept iu his bed.
Nene of the boys charged by Mr. Stout
er with malicious mischief have yet becu
arrested.
JCuMlicatlni; JCaAreadcrx.
This morning just after 10 o'clock a
special train passed west through this
city having aboard eighteen or twenty
distinguished Pennsylvania railroad of
ficers, among wliem were noticed G. B.
Roberts, president of the read ; Frank
Thomsen, general manager; Charles
E. Pugh, general superintendent ; Wm.
11. Brown, civil engineer ; S. M. Prcvest,
superintendent of the Philadelphia divis
ion ; W. F. Leckard, ex superintendent of
the Philadelphia division, new superin
tendent el the Greenwich branch. The
party was bound forCrcssen te recuperate
iu the cool air of that line mountain resort.
- Mone Out of Town.
D. B. Hestcttcr, Samuel M. Myers and
family and James Potts and family went
te Ocean Greve this morning.
Rev. Dr. Grccnwald and wife went te
Ocean City te day.
J. L. Steiumctz, esq., went te Cape May
te-day.
W. T. Brown, esq., left Lancaster to
day for his home iu the lower cud of Lan
caster county. Frem tlicuce he leaves for
Annapolis and Old Pert Comfert.
Maiehall Club Organized.
The Active baseball club has organized
and are ready for challenges. The players
are as fellows : F. Brill, c. ; J. Good Goed Geed
hart, 1 b. ; C. Kerchncr, I. f. ; J. Rill,
2 b. ; II. Shindle, c. f. ; II. Goedhart,
s. s. ; F. dinger, 3 b. ; J. Gamlier, r. f. ;
A. Demtnel, p. J. Rill, captain.
Te ItanlHit nioMiuitecH.
Take of gum of camphor a picce about
one third the size of au egg, and evapor
ate it by placing it in a tin vessel, holding
it ever a lamp or candle, taking care that
it does net ignite. The smoke will seen
fill the room and expel the mosquitoes.
Sale of Horses.
Samuel Hess & Sen, auctioneers, sold
at public sale yesterday, at the Merrimac
house, for Geerge Gressman, 21 head of
Canada horses at an average of $162 per
head.
Arrived.
The steamer FurnCssia en which Maj.
B. F. Rrenemaii, Mrs. C. II. Brencinan
and Miss ISrcncmanj of this city, sailed ler
Europe has arrived safely en the ether
side.
n x,w"- . .
Among the icccnt notable arrivals in
this city that of the festive mesquite is
conspicuous.
in Town.