LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1881 lUncastet; intelUfencer SATURDAY EVENING. JULY 23, 1ML The Sew Yerk Result. Tlie New Yerk senatorial election has resulted in the defeat of Mr. Conkling, and the victory of the administration wing t)f the Republican party. The con test has been one between Republicans, in which Democrats have been in terested, but idle spectators. It was te them a conflict that was sure te be te their advantage, although they had no part in the struggle. The policy of our party friends in the legislature was very wise. Ne attempt was made te bargain for the senaterships. The Republicans were permitted te fellow their own de vices without fear of Democratic intim idation. After months of contention they have finally elected two Sena tors, but have net really any cause for triumph. The wounds of the strug gle will fester and mortify and the party will lese the power, in all probability, te control the state. There is no such dis parity in the strength of the two great parties in New Yerk as te have war ranted the Republican leaders in engag ing in the struggle which has been se fiercely waged between them. Who is responsible for its initiation it is of little profit te inquire. Mr. Conkling is credited generally with precipitating the fight by his resignation of the senator ship. Doubtless that brought the issue te n head ; but yet he may net properly be charged with its origin. The last war between France and Ger mauy was declared by Napeleon, but it was really provoked by Bismarck. In the light of events it is easy te see that Mr. Rlaine had determined te crush Conkling. The nomination of Robertsen te the New Yerk collectershipwas a dis tinct provocation te battle. Conkling was delivered by his presumptuous rash ness into his enemy'u kinds mere speedi ly and completely than Blaine could have hoped. He could net have anticipated that the New Yerk senator would vol untarily go out of his fortification in the senate and undertake te fight without armor and solely by the virtue of his jiersenal strength against all the weapons and the power of the administration. That was an unparal lelled act of foelhardincss and could have have had but one termination. Fer the present the administration triumphs. Hew substantial the victory will be the future will show. As we regard it, there can be little doubt that the first result manifested will be that the Republican party in Xew Yerk is delivered in the hands of the Democracy. The mere doubtful question is as te the degree te which Mr. Conkling is elimin ated as a force in the politics of the country. He certainly has shown great strength as a political gymnast ; and the Democratic party congratulates it self very greatly, indeed, that he is re moved from the senate. Can that which is a cause of congratulation te us, also be one for joy te the Republican party V. It is net likely that both parties can be bsiielited by the same thing. And it seems te us tiiat the Republican victory which has put Conkling out of the sen ate is much mere aptly called a Republi can disaster. There was no geed reason why his strength should be lest te his party or te the administration. It was costly, it is true ; but it was worth a great deal. If an unprejudiced servant of the party had been in Mr. Blaine's place, in control of the administration, Mr. Conkling would net have been dis missed from the party councils. The duel which has begun between these two Republicans will be continued. Mr. Conkling cannot submit quietly te occupy the prostrate position in which the forces of his antagonist have placed him. He cannot withdraw from politi cal life under this defeat. It has been stated, and is most probable, that his in clination has been te abandon politics, and some say that it was with this view he resigned his senatership. Then he might have retired witli dignity and grace; new he cannot. He is a mau of nerve and persistency, and it will be quite impossible for him te accept his present situation. We expect te see him get up and continue the fight. He has an opening in the vacancy in the congres sional district of Senater-elect Miller, by which he may place himself in the Heuse of Representatives, where he could make himself quite as important a factor in politics as he would be in the senate ; especially in the close state of parties in the next body. Conkling would be a powerful element in the Heuse and could net wish a better arena, it seems te us, in which te place himself at this juncture of his affairs. There would be a lively resurrection of the dead if litis funeral march that Blaine has prepared for him should land him in the Heuse of Representatives. EniTOlts who have just started in pur suit of the stationery and supply steal ing at IlaiTisburg may be excused for the " freshness" displayed in the follow ing paragraph from the Presc : If schedules for state supplies were pub lished rascality would hare less leeway. A wise use of printer's ink is always in the line of economy. The staff correspondent of the Press, Sel. Fester, Jr., who has prepared its exposure of this system of stealing, ex presses the same idea when he says: "By a proviso in the first section of the act the people are kept securely in the background. While sealed proposals for supplies are advertised in twelve news papers, it is provided that the schedules shall in no event be published. The bid der gets a printed schedule from the state department en application, and he keep3 its contents a close secret. This schedule is an unique thing." But these who have given attention te the subject for years knew that the legislation for bidding the publication of the schedules was in the interest of economy, and that under the old system the advertisement of these schedules - in detail was a species of even mere extensive public plunder than that which the Press, with signal independence if net with novel enterprise, has called attention te. Under the old plan tens Of thousands of dollars were distributed virtually as bribes te favored newspapers under gui32 of this sort of advertising and the publication often cost mere really than the supplies asked for, at their highest retuil prices. As pointed out, year after year by the Intelligen ces, the state spent $10 advertising in many instances for bids te furnish arti cles worth S2. That clearly is net the way te prevent the stealing complained of. Probably there is no ether way than tn entrust honest men with the purchase and distribution of the supplies, and one way te get them will be te send the thieves te the penitentiary. Seme able Republican editors, disgust ed at the failure te identify Guiteau as a rebel, Democrat or copperhead, have in vented a story that in 1877, at least, the Democrats had resolved en Garfield's as sassination when he wasa raemberef the electoral commission, helping through its iniquitous work. Seme of the stal wart editors' minds find great repose in this story. MINOR TOPICS. Bosten contains 170 churches, divided denominationally as follews: Congrega tional, thirty-one; Reman Catholic, twent-nine ; Methodist, twenty-eight ; Baptist and Unitarian, twenty-six each ; and Episcopalian, twenty-three. There are seven Jewish synagogues. A se-called wit was once talking te one of our wise professors. " As for me," he said, " I de net believe what I de net understand." " De you understand," objected the professor, " hew it is that fire will soften butter, and harden an egg ?" " Ne, sir." " Yet you bolieve in au ome let !" In 1878 there were in England and Wales, with a population of 24,000,000, eight hundred divercc3 granted ; while iu the same year there were six hundred di vorces in Massachusetts, with a popula tion of 1,783,000, and four hundred and soventy-eight diverces in Connecticut, with a much smaller population. In direct contradiction of Jeseph Cook's late temperance sermon in England one of his most enthusiastic newspaper friends says: "We de net believe there is in America or Europe one scholar 'of the first rank ' who would say that the Lord's supper was instituted with non-alcoholic (which we suppose is meant by ' non-intoxicating) wine." This morsel of seasonable advice is markedly te the point at this juncture, though given by the World : ''The experi enca of the last 12-month should warn our esteemed Republican contemporaries never, never, under any circumstances, however censurable, te find fault with and abuse any Republican whatever. There is no knowing when they may have te sup port him with the wildest enthusiasm fur president or senator or something. Dn. Franklin Cauteu, transferred from the German professorship, at Yale, te the presidency of Williams, in his in augural made an earnest plea for the study of the Hebrew theocracy in the col lege course. Dr. Carter urges that the great reas en for the study of .Greek and Latin in the colleges is that the student gains possession of the great ideas which shaped the civilization of the Greeks and Remans ; and he insists that the moral ideas of the Hebrews are worth mere te tUe world than the constructive ideas of the Greeks and of the Remans, and, there fore, mere worthy of study in our cel leges. Veuv Rev. James A. Cocekan, D. D., in The American Catholic Quarterly Ileciew, en the new Revision, devotes considerable space te proving chat the earlier English translation corrupted the text, for the purpose of attacking the Catholic faith, and that even King James's version retained many of these odious mistranslations. Of the revision he says : ' " Oue of the greatest benefits conferred by the revision en the English Protestant world, though very few or none seem te realize it, is that all the wicked transla tions, whether by falsification of meaning or by interpolation, or by foisting of glosses into the text, have been ruthlessly swept away by the besom of the revisers. And why ? Solely en the ground that they were corruptions. They de net explicitly say that they weie strUirian corruptions, nor need we insist en their saying it ; but they recognized them as such, and every honest mau, every friend of religious truth must ba thankful that they have with unsparing hand driven these unholy abominations out of the book of Ged's revelation. This proves that their honesty was wholesale, net partial or interested." The New Yerk Independent scornfully rejects as " moonshine " Jehn Burieughs' justification of the "elusive quality" and "dim escapes" of Walt Whitmans poetry. Ami then te show that it knows what geed poetry is when it sees it, the Indepen dent publishes in its first column a most marvelleusly original piece by " Geerge Lansing Tayler D. D. " of Ridgelield, Conn., en the subject of " Fifty Miles au Heur, " prompted by Mrs. Garfield's rail road ride te Washington, July 2, 1881. The following are some sample verses which the Sweet Singer of Michigan or Eusebius Hershey would net blush te own : "Engineer be bold and true ! Teat your art's consummate flower ! I'ut this little woman through, my nines an neur : " Fifty million patriot hearts Weep, and rage, and curse, and pray ; Save, O Ged, our president ! Shield his wife and speed her way !' Engineer, net this for you ; Tours te stand a brazen tower And put this one weak woman through, Fifty miles an hour ! " Ten hours' time te Washington. Yeu must cut it down te six I Fer our Garfield's here soul Trembles en the shores of Styx ! G rim Charen's bare grates en life's strand : Uut Leve shall snatch his lifted ear. Fer .Leve can bear the fearful strain Of tirty miles an hour !" Strongmen, bare-brewed, cheer the train, Like a thunderbolt hurled past ! Women's tears tall thick as rain Sheek from rose-tree by the blast, O Wedded Leve ! ne'er angel flew Frem Heaven te earth with richer dower ! Angels ! watt this true wife through, Fifty miles an hour ! Philadelphia hails the car. Like a meteor en its read ; Baltimore, thrilled at its jar. Waves It en, with prayer te Ged ! Venus's chariot, drawn by doves. Fluttering from Leve's myrtle bower. Changed te steed of steel and flame, At flirty wilies an hour ! In view of the fact that " doubts con cerning the permanence of the American government have always been expressed, and at no time mere forcibly than the present," Rev. Chaa. F. Thwing thinks " it is a fit occasion te call attention te tbe fact, constantly overlooked, that our gov ernment has new existed for a leuger time without a chaega of form than (with one exception) any ether government of the first rank." England has had its rev olution in the reform bill of 1832 : early in the century Napeleon caused Prussia te disappear from the list of great powers ; Austria has passed from the extreme of absolute monarchy te the extreme of par liament, of suffrage, and of freedom of the press, and has again swung from the democratic position te the . monarchical, her emperor twice a fugitive and her capi tal in the control of a mob ; two Napo leons and the P epe have made Italy the scene of bitter strife ; Spaiu and France have been tern with insurrection and rev olution; only Russia remains the same absolute monarchy as of old, but she is dancing en a volcano. PERSONAL. Faiiiweatiiek, the English baritone, who recently attracted public attention in New Yerk, has been engaged as a member of the C. D. Hess company. Between the Ged of the Hebrews who established slavery and Beb Ingersoll's No-Ged Majer Gkiest's Inquirer unhesita tingly takes the latter. General Simen Camekun and Colonel James Duffy, expect te leave en their annual trip te White Sulphur springs en Monday next. Ex-United States Senater Revels, of Mississippi, has been chosen presiding elder of the Jacksen district by the white Methodist conference of that state. Senater Geerge is said te be esteemed the greatest lawyer in Mississippi. He has a sledge-hammer way of doing things and suggests the Western man rather than the Southerner At the natural educational meeting in Atlanta, Ga., Jamk-j P. Wickkiisham, L. L. D., of this city, read a strong paper en " Education and Crime." He gave edu cation the better cf it by a large majority. "Extra Billy'' Smith was a notable fig ure at the unveiling of the Culpqpper mon ument te Confederate dead en Thursday. Though he is ever eighty yearj of age the ex-governor leeks as bright and spry as a man of fifty. Bismakck is said te view with disfavor the growing substitution in Germany of the Latin type for the mero intricate Ger man characters. Se strongly is he opposed te the change that he refuses te read any article in the German language printed with our type. In President Carter's inaugural address at Williams college, he quoted the words of Ulysses te Nausican : " Recently I saw such ayeuug sheet of a palm growing upon Deles, near the altar of Apelle," te sug gest the truth that " the fairest growth in character and noblest culture in modern scholarship will never be secured very far from the living oracles of Christ." The able iusurance department of Mr. Henry C. Bewen's newspaper this week conspicieusly emits te notice that among the worthless assets of a deficient insurance company investigated in New Yerk was a $G,000 note of Henry C. Bewcn which the company " let go as a lean," but which, II. C. B. was inclined te regard as the quid pre quo ter powerful editorial service rendered by the aforesaid able insurance department. According te the New Yerk Graphic, " in his private life Dean Stanley was a. most estimable and lovable mau ; and as au author he was vigorous, learned and lucid, and as a preacher his discourses wcre marked by a remarkable simplicity and directness. According te his lights he was no doubt a Christian ; but accord ing te the standard of all the orthodox churches iu the Oriental and Occidental communions, he was no mere a Christian than Hume, Paine or Huxley. A Little Flogging Wouldn't Hurt. Mury Cleinmcr en Garileld's assassin. If he cannot be hung the ene thing that should net be left out of this man's pun ishment is whipping. Net bruised, he should be whipped with the ringing smart he could never forget. There is no "glory" in a "licking," but its sting and humiliation would be most wholesemo te such as he. If the tenor of his self-gleri licatien in prison could be broken by a monthly Hogging, its effect would be most salutary en his enormous self-conceit. Mad men used te sheet away at Queen Victeria. Sir Edward Thornten said : "The last mau who did it was Hogged regularly, as well as imprisoned, and no man has attempted it since." We are used te speak of Hogging as a remnant of barbarism. Within due limit, it is the opposite. Nothing short or the fear of physical discomfort can reach cer tain natures. Thousands of criminals iu the United States commit petty crimes every year in order te secure te themselves the comforts of houses of correction and jails. In the midst of inditing his autobiog raphy te the assistant district attorney, which he is exceedingly anxious should be published " at once," as he declares " it will read like a romance," Guiteau's at tention was arrested by a spider in its web, feasting en a fly. Without warning, jumping up, he pierced the web-fastener with a pen, and, holding it out before him with a gloating expression, he cried : " De net speak te me. I will net answer another question till I have seen this spider sicallew tlie last morsel of this fly.'' If you think a whipping, many whippings, besides imprisonment, would net be geed for this creature, you differ from your friend. The Primary Version. The translation of the New Testament, originally made by Wm. Tyndale, who gave his life te the work in the time of Henry VIII, was the true primary version en which all subsequent versions have been based. The revisers of the new ver sion have recognized this in their pre face, and awarded due credit te this vet eran translator. A memorial te Tyndale is contemplated, and has taken definite shape in the plan of a statue te be erected en the Thames embankment, Londen. This statue is te cost about $20,000. Part of the money has been raised, and the raising of the rest is in the hands et a committee. The indications are that the sum will seen be obtained and the monu ment erected. Snoeting His Man Frem a Cevert. Rebert Costelle shot and mortally wounded a man named Gathering, near Arkansas City. Costelle missed some hogs, and accused Gathering of killing them. While Gathering was plow iug in a field Costelle fired at him from a fence corner, the ball striking him in the side, passing through and striking and killing a horse two reds distant. Costelle, his nephew, and his brother-in-law, Dan New man, have been arrested aud bound ever te await the result of Gathering's injuries. LAfHAX CHOSEN. Aud Conkling Betlred te Frtval Life. As foreshadowed in an Albany dispatch yesterday, the Republicans gathered enough into caucus te elect Lapham, and after voting te make his nomination unan imous they reconvened the legislature, and the ensuing ballet resulted as fellows : Senate. Assembly. Total. ElbridgeG. Lapham.. 22 70 92 Clarksen N. Petter.... 5 37 48 Total 27 107 13 Lapham's election was then declared and the joint assembly adjourned. There was a peal of applause, and then Gen. Husted was en his feet te propose three cheers for James A. Garfield. They were given with a will, the Democrats joining heartily. Then three cheers were given for Senators-elect Lapham and 3IiI ler. "The Old Guard" called for cheers for Rescoe Conkling, and they were given with zest. Last of all, Mr. Newman proposed cheers for Clarksen N. Petter, and when they were given the assembly was ex hausted and willing te disperse. A few minutes after Mr. Lapham's elec tion Mr. Conkling received a telegram an nouncing the result. He immediately telegraphed te Mr. Armstrong, member of the Assembly from Onieda county, the following : "The heroic constancy of the Spartan band, which has se long steed for principle and truth, has my deepest grati tude and admiration. Borne down by forbidden and abhorrent forces aud agen cies which never before had any sway in the Republican party, the memory of their courage and manhood will live iu highest honor. The near future will viudicate their wisdom and crown them with ap proval. Please ask them all for me te re ceive my most grateful acknowledge ments." Elbridge Gerry Lapham, a lawyer of Canandiagua, was born in Farmington, Ontario county, en the 18th of October, 1814. His parents weiO' iu the humbler walk of life and peer, but young Lapham studied in the winter, while he supported himself by farm work iu the summer. He was subsequently a classmate of Stephen A. Douglass in the Canandaigua aca demy; studied civil engineering and law, aud iu 1844 was admitted te the bar. Iu 18C7 he was elected te the constitutional convention, and in that body made his en trance into public life. His talents were displayed te such geed advantage that his constituency elected him iu 1874 te the forty-fourth Congress, and has continued him iu the national legislature ever since. GLADSTONE TO MRS. GAUFlELU. Ill Prime Minister's Personal .Toelings for the President and Ills Wife. Secretary Blaine has received by cable from Minister Lewell the following letter from Mr. Gladstone te Mrs. Garfield : Londen, July 21. 1881. Dear Madame Yeu will, lam sure, ex cuse me, though a personal stranger, for addressing you by letter te convey te you the assurances of my own feelings, and these of my countrymen, en the occasion of the late horrible attempt te murder the president of the United Statps in a form mero palpable at least than that of messages conveyed by tele graph. These feelings have been feelings in the first instance of sympathy and after wards of joy aud thankfulness almost com parable, I venture te .say only second, te the strong emotions of the great nation of which he is the appointed head. Indi vidually, I have, let me beg you te be lieve, had my full share in the sentiments which have possessed the British nation. They have been prompted and quickened largely by what I venture te think is the ever-growing sense of harmony and mutual respect and affection be tween the countries aud of a relation ship which from year te year becomes mero and mere a practical bend of union between us. But they have also drawn much of their strength from a cor dial admiration of the simple heroism which has marked the persenal conduct of the president, for we have net yet wholly lest the capacity of appreciating such an example of Christian faith and manly fortitude. This exemplary picture has been made completo by your own con tribution te its neble and touching fea tures, ou which I only forbear te dwell because I am directly addressing you. I beg te have my rcspectful compliments and congratulations conveyed te the pres ident and te remain, dear madamc. with great esteem, your most faithful servant, W. E. Gladstone. Secretary Blaine has sent an appropriate reply, saying : "I am requested by Mrs. Garfield te say that among the many thousand manifestations of interest aud expressions of sympathy which have reached her none has mero deeply touch cd her heart than the kind words of Mr. Gladstone. STATE ITEMfa. Scranteu's new ceuit house is at last under way. The iron trade is reported exceptional)! y active generally throughout the slate. Bcllofente has a beard of trade aud calls itself a summer resort. The first brigade, Pennsylvania National guard, will encamp at Pottstown en the eOth inst. One hundred and fifty miners in the Fair mount shaft, Pittston, have struck for an advance. The summer encampment of the G. A. It. department of Pennsylvania begins to day. Mrs. Dedd, of AVilkesbarre. paid a for eign doctor thirty dollars te put en two plasters and aggravate a caucoreus aftec aftec tien. Thee. Cornman's four year old Ham- bletenian horse. Carlisle, ran off the ether day and se badly hurt himself that he died. The Philadelphia Recerd exposes an im im poseor named W. A. Engarde, who has been falsely passing himself off as a Journalist and appealing te distinguished people for aid. Chairman Dill announces his intention of seen calling the state committee to gether te decide upon a day for holding the Democratic state convention for the nomination of a candidate for treasurer. Carbendaln is putting en airs because a Texas "here scout," called "Cherokee Jack," who kills four men before break fast as an apetizer, has a tatuer ana mother iu that town. Mr. L. Palmeter, of McKean ceun ty, came te his death through injuries inflicted by a catamount with whom he had a terrific battle that only terminated with the life of both. There are 7.238 coke evens, G.680 in active operation, in tbe southeastern coke country, about Uniontown, with a daily capacity of each even te take in 100 bush els of coal and convert it into 120 bushels of coke. Mr. T. G. Dallman, of Merris Ruu, Tieea ceuntv. disappeared suddenly, a week or se age and has net been heard from since. He was a prominent busi ness man and very popular among his neighbors. It is hinted that domestic troubles were the cause of his flight. Northern Pennsylvania whisky is power ful, if the really magnificently propor tioned snake yarns are evidence. The latest is of a man near Williamsport who, with a deg, chased a seven-feet rattle snake for two days and only captured it when its belly was worn through. The dead body of Tyson Moist, a freight brakeman, was found en the track of the Pennsylvania railroad near Alteena yes terday with his right arm and leg severed. It is supposed he fell from the top of a refrigerator car, en which he was braking. An old homeless man known as " Buck " Miller, .deliberately laid his neck en the street car track in Pittsburgh as a heavy pair of timber wheels wre passiug, hop ing thereby te be killed. There being no lead en them, and only ene wheel passing ever his neck, the desired result was net obtained. The Merchants hotel in Shenandoah was burned early yesterday morning by an in" cendiary. The inmates were aroused by miners returning from work. During the fire thieves carried away many et the valuables of the proprietor's family and some of the guests lest all their baggage. The hotel, had recently been refurnished at great expense. Less, $00,000 ; insur auce, $25,000. On last Sabbath evening about five min utes after eight o'clock, a Fayette county editor, who was sitting up unusually late, observed a large and brilliant meteor fly ing slowly across the heavens in a north westerly direction. The body of the me teor seemed half as large apparently as the moon, the front part glowing as if with intense heat. The tail or luminous trail appeared te be several degrees in length, and it disappeared about twenty degrees above the western horizon. LATEST NEWS BT MAIL. The Kausas wheat harvest is ever. The yield is about 20 bushels te the acre. The season for feeding threshing mach ines human bones and flesh is at hand. Au old army chaplain has just remitted $100 te the treasury conscience fund, be cause he drew tee much en forage account during the war. The principal towns of New Mexico aie raising funds for Patsey Garret for his services te the territory in killing " Billy the Kid." The electric light has been successfully introdueed at Springfield, IU. The au thorities of Aurera, III., propose te light that city by electric lights upon tall iron trestle pillars. Mrs. Helen Jehnsen, of East Des Moines, Iowa, was found dead in a cellar, suspended by the neck. Her husband is under arrest en suspicion as there is doubt whether the act was murder or suicide. Near Whitby, Ontario, the three-year-old son of James McCart wandered from home at night was found dead in an eat field near by. The doctors say that the child, finding himself lest, died of fright. By the ravages of the army worm, eue Iowa farmer lest fourteen acres of eats and ten acres of timothy. Reports from Mar shall county arc that a small black or light brown worm is eating everything gteeu before it. Colonel Antheny P. Kerr, a well-known farmer, residing at the feet of Mount Eve, N. Y., went into a field a few days age te catch a horse, when he was knocked down by the animal and trampled te death. He was sixty years of age. A decided sensation was created at a Chicago public prayer meeting by the an nouncement that Minnie Brooks, the keeper of a notorious house of ill-repute, had become converted, and desired te turn her establishment into a house of prayer. The body of a murdered man found in the weeds" near Winnetka, Ills., some months age, is new believed, from letters received, te be that of Iguatz Hopf, mayor of Maffersderff, in Bohemia, who emigrat ed te this country in December. At Fall River, Mass.. three boys, from 9 te 12 years old, named Andrew Jehnsen, Jehn Heard, and Jeseph Yates, were drowned while bathing. Charles Cushing, a son of Hen. M. II. Cushing, was drown ed at Middleboro. Mrs. Catherine Hall, of Louisville, Ky., is suing for a divorce and alimony, alleg ing that her husband, who is worth $50,000 and has a large monthly income, refuses te supply her with sufficient feed te support life. They wcre married iu November, 1877. A cheerful picture by Vcnner : Anether period of txcessive heat en 23d, 21th and 25th, with severe wind-storms ; a decided cool te cold change en the 27th, 28th aud 29th, with showery weather and severe storms, chiefly iu the West.. This cold wave may carry frosts iu western sections, both in Canada aud United States. Twe employees of the branch ollice at Matanzas of the Spanish bank of Cuba, fled with two accomplices, en beard the Spanish steamer Alicante, which ene of the accomplices had chartered under the preteuce that he intended te fetch cattle from Alvarado, Mexico. The employees robbed the office of $200,n00 in specie A man who lives in Lincolnshire, Eng land, is getting ready for the destruction of the world, and he has provided himself with a huge balloon, in which he proposes te go up the very moment the final catas trophe bcfals. lle has packed into the car of the balloon previsions enough te last him for thrce years, together with certain supplies of brandy, soda-water and claret. A colored man named MacJcnnings, em ployed at the sawmill of Jesiah Etheridire, at Indiana Creek, Va., committed some sort of crime and was advised te ilee the state te North Carolina and avoid arrest. Instead of taking te flight he went into the sawpit, and, while the mill was iu full operation, threw himself against a large circular saw and. was instantly killed by having his head sawed in half. , Pine Bush, Orange county, N. Y , is the scene of much excitement, caused by an elopement of the wife of Silas Hewell, the leading dry goods and grocery merchant there, in company with Jehn Decker, a single man, who has been in the employ of Nelsen van Kennen, tbe father et Mrs. Hewell. She is young, refined and at tractive, and Decker a tramp and loafer. She took $000 of her husband's money and the silver plate. m Twe " Bemarkable " Things. N. Y. Independent. Twe things are noticeable about the at tempted assassination, one of which has been noticed that the Seuth is very hearty in its sympathy with the vietim and its abhorrence of the miserable murderer. The ether is the general and hearty ex pressions of bishops, archbishops, and vicars general te the same effect. We de net a bit believe in the nonsense of some vapering Protestant privateersmen that Catholic allegiance te Reme makes patriot ism with them an impossible virtue. Wc have net noticed any lack of laudable love of country among our Catholic fellow-citizens, as compared with Protestants. . Down a Hill Inside of a Barrel. As Themas McGIassen, of Dever Plains, N. Y., was standing en a barrel with a pet et green paiut in one hand and a brush in the ether, the head gave way, and be dreppen into the barrel. He was at the top of a long, steep hill, and when he fell into the barrel it upset and rolled swiftly down the hill with McGIassen insiee. He tried te extricate himself, but pretruding nails had fastened into his clothes and pre vented him se doing. McGIassen had te be carried home, he was se dizzy. The green paiut had besmeared him from head te feet. A Denial for Piper. Harrisburg Patriot. It is simply false that any representa tive of the Patriot had anything te de with the absence of any witnesses before the investigating committee of 1879, and it is equally false that any representative of the Patriot was a sharer in C. 3. De tre's contracts for stationery. Mr. Piper, who was manager of the Patriot book office in 1879, was himself a witness before the investigating committee and testified fully as te bis knowledge of the contracts. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. SUMMER LEISURE. Little Locals Found in the Deg Days. Geerge Nauman, esq., has gene te Ocean Beach, N. J., 3Iayer MucGenigle and wife te Saratoga, and B. J. McGrann and family te Bedford. H. B. Swarr, esq., left this mernius for Manhattan Beach, and thence he gees te Saratoga. He will be absent about two weeks. Eli L. Nissly has returned te his home in Springvilie, this county, after an exten sive tour of several months through the Seuth and West. He comes back in im proved health, and expresses himself much pleasecLwith what he saw. Martin Pifer's mother, aged 90, has been binding wheat in the harvest fields out around Ephrata. Te-morrow week, during the Evangeli cal campmeeting at Beartown, trains will run thither from New Helland and Down Dewn Down ingtewn. Jesse E.. Webb, of West Chester, who drew a $15,000 prize in the Louisiana lot tery, get his money at the Adams express office, Philadelphia, $10,000 in five dollar bills and $5,000 in ten dollar notes. Mr. J. E. Cassel has just threshed the wheat raised en an acre of ground at "Sunnyside," near Mount Jey, which yielded thirty-nine and one-half bushels. The wheat is of the Feltz and Amber varieties. Tbe band last evening attracted a large crowd by its excellent rendition of choice selections. Rival circus bill-pesters struck the city yesterday and flooded it with the inevitable " the greatest, &c," A tevr of the laborers who struck for an advance in wages for work upon the street have resumed work at the old figure, $1 a day. Mr. Pfash, formerly of Lancaster, but new doing a flourishing business as a mer chant in Hamsburg, is in tbe city. With due respect for the city of exotic jobs, a gentleman, recently from Harris- burg, pronounces Lancaster a place of infi nite beauty and enterprise compared with the state capital. A little zranddaughter of Jehn Garber, near Geyer's mill, played around his little barn with a little box of matches, while her mother, Mrs. Geed, bad gene for blackberries. The little barn is a little Dilc of ashes. While Stephen J. Grissinger was hauling in his ra kings, a mule tramped en a match, set the grain en fire aud nearly burned the barn ; while Mr. G. was greasing a fly-bitten mule it kicked and nearly killed him. Horaee Yundt, esq., of Reading, has been spending several weeks at his boy hood home at Blue Ball. E. II. Yundt, esq., of Lancaster, i3 also rusticating at Blue Ball. A new life insurance company, known as the Conestoga Mutual Beneficial so ciety, has been organized in Ephrata. Jehn Seldemridge is president ; W. K. Seltzer, secretary ; H. Eberly, treasurer, and Dr. McCaa, medical examiner. Successful Fishing. Messrs. Shober yesterday wended their way te "the paper mill," bent en inveig ling the finny tribe from their lair. Result, 14 large black bass. Majer Charles 31. Hewell aud Pref.Wm. B. Hall, of this city, caught yesterday at Safe Harber, thirty black bass : the bait used was minnows. The party were iu charge of Frank Brenner, who is a capital boatman and a geed fellow. The painters iu the employ of Allen Guthrie went bass-fishing yesterday. Starting at the " running pump " en 3Iul berry street they proceeded te the Cones Cenes toga near Eden, dropping their lines in pleasant places and catching several fine bass, the largest two of which were taken by J. H. Bewman. One of them measured fourteen and another seveuteen inches iu length and weighed 2 pounds 9 ounces. Dr. Uusheug, of New Hellaud, went te Mill Creek, at Iloebcr's mill, for the pur pose of catching a few fish with a threw net. After he had made several hauls he again threw in the net and also his valu able geld watch and a Masonic mark worth about $25. The guard became en tangled in the net and in throwing the net it pulled the watch out of his pocket au.l they all went into the creek to gether. Fortunately he was fishing in the mill race, aud Mr. Jacob Heeber, after being notified, shut the gates, and allowed all the water te liew away, with the exception of a low feet, which would have taken a long time te eutircly run away ; hence they wadedjn te search in the mud for the lest treasure, and were re. warded, after searching about two hours, by finding it ticking away just as if nothing had happened. Kunaway Accidents. This morning as Samuel Hurst aud wife residing near Kauffman's tavcru en the llarrisbnrg turnpike, were ou their way te market, they met with a serious acci dent at the point at which the railroad cresses the turnpike. A train of cars standing there had been cut, te allow vehicles te pass. The herse took fright aud Mr. Hurst in endeavoring te held him breke ene of the driving lines. The herse turned suddenly te one side of the read, upset the wagon and threw out 3Ir. aud Mrs. Hurst, the latter falling heavily upon the pike and Mr. Hurst falling en top of her. She had two or three ribs broken, was badly cut about the head and received ether injuries, ren dering her unconscious She was taken te her home and a physician summoned. Mr. Hurst escaped with slight cuts and bruises. Between 9 aud 10 o'clock this morning, a herse attached te a market wagon took fright at the cars at the Pennsylvania railroad and ran off. When nearly oppo site Gruel's confectionary the runaway came in collision with another wagon with se much force that one of the wageu s had a wheel shattered and the ether a dashboard wrecked. Dedication. The dedication of the Mt. Zion U. B. church, ene mile west of Cambridge, will take place te-morrow. Bishop Dixen, of Ohie, will officiate. Rev. L. Peters, P. E ; Rev. Baltzell, of Harrisburg, Rev. Bewman, of Manheim, Rev. Funk, of New Helland, and Rev. Hughes, of Inter course, are expected te be present. Toe Comets Toe Many. Nature as a caterer te the public taste for amusement is net a success. A run of one comet for a scries of nights is well enough, but te supplement it by one of inferior quality or attraction, is presum ing tee much upon humanity's placidity. Harvest Sermons. The harvest sermon will be preached at Heller's Reformed church by the pastor, Rev. D. W. Gerhard, te-morrow morning at 10 o'clock, and iu two weeks at Zolten -reich church. In Town. Gee. W. Vegel, general manager of the advertising department of Bacheller & Deris's show, is in town te-day with six meu. They are billing the county. Tbe Werk Progressing. The work en North Queen street is pro gressing very rapidly, and it is new in bad condition for driving between Orange street and the depot. Werk te Commence. Werk en the new boiler house at the water works will commence en Monday and the building will be erected in a short time. 'IuUBUKUOUD NEWS Near and Acress ihe Cenatjr Line. Jehn Dunlap, aged 60 years, a resident of Conshohocken, was struck by a train en the West Chester railroad, near Rad Rad uer station and wxs instantly killed. In a despatch from tbe West about the army-worm, it is stated that the worm has left every trte in certain localities "as de void of verdure asa hoop-skirt." Cyrus Whitman, a respected and well-to-de resident of Robeson township, Berks county, has become insane in the prolonged effort te discover a means of perpetual motion. Rev. Dr. Smiley, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church in Pottsville, lately, by invitation of Rabbi Blech, addressed the Sunday school and members of tbe Jewish synagogue in that place. Rev. Charles A. Sterk, D. D., of Balti more, has accepted the call te the Profes sorship of dogmatic theology in the theo logical seminary at Gettysburg, Pa., He takes the position formerly filled by Dr. A. J. Brown. Frank Atlee, colored, ene of the most noted criminals in the Montgomery coun ty jail, died suddenly yesterday from a hemorrhage. He was sentenced last Sep tember te ten years for robbery, and was taken with consumption seen after his sentence. When the lightning struck the house of Captain Frank Simpers iu Havre de Grace there were twelve persons and a stove in one room. The stove was scattered iu a hundred fragments and the faces of the persons present were black with soot, but strange te say nobody was hurt. The sale of the franchises of the Penn sylvania & New England railroad (the Seuth Mountain) by Sheriff Heaman, an nounced ter Wednesday, at Easten, te satisfy debts en iug G. W. Sylvester, f Philadelphia, amounting te $207,200, and D. Y. Kilgore, of Philadelphia, amount ing te $10,6S3, was stayed, the plaintiffs paying the cost. Yeung Samuel Hal I man. working in Sheeder's paper mill. West Vincent, Ches ter county, was feeding tbe circular cutter which cuts the rags te be made into pulp. It has a combination of sharp knives and teeth tnat revolve through each ether at a high rate of speed. His arm was drawn in and every bone was broken and every bleed vessel severed. The boy braced himself, only te see his mangled arm drawn from the socket. He lingered in the greatest agony for about a half hour, when he died. It is new denied that the New Garden (Chester county) meeting of Friends, threatened te discipline members who en gaged in growing tobacco. The Kennet 2feics says that the subject of raising to bacco was merely .mentioned at a busiuess meeting, and one or two of the members expressed their views upon the question of growing tobacco, and no restrictions were made te growers or would-be grewers, and net eue word was said about expelling members who thought proper te raise a crop of tobacco, and it is a question wheth er it is against their discipline te grew it. 3Icmbers of the society of Friends have raised and are still raising tobacco, and have no conscientious scruples in se do ing." SUICIDE. A Farmer Hangs flltnelf. Yesterday morning Jehn Ebersole, a well-to-de farmer, residing near Scalp Hill, two miles northeast of Menterev, Leacock township, committed suicide by hanging himself in the wagenshed en bis farm. He had worked hard at harvesting his eats en Thursday, slept soundly Thundiy night, get up early en Friday morning apparently in geed health aud spirits and telling his wife te have breakfast ready early, went out te the barn te feed the stock. As he did net return te break fast he was first called, and as no answer was received he was searched for and found hanging by the neck iu the wagon shed. He was cut down as soeu as possi ble aud efforts were made te resuscitate him. but he was quite dead. Mr. Ebersole was a married mau having a wife mid three children with whom he appeared te live happily. He owned a geed farm, and his father Christian Eber sole, is one of the wealthiest farmers cf the neighborhood. Deceased was in telligent aud industrious and his best ac quaintance never noticed iu him any dis position towards melancholy, ae certain reason is assigned for his rash deed though there are rumors in circulation which are supposed by seme te account for the act. One of these is that he had endorsed a note for a frieud te the amount of $500, and though the note was net yet due, he feared he would have te pay it, and this thought preyed upeu his mind. Anether rumor is that his wife was jealous of him en account of improper attentions be bo stewed upon a hired girl, who is said te be encicnte ; aud that the elders of the church te which he belonged, the Ornish, had been informed of his misconduct, and wcre te have arraigned him therefer te-morrow. We have net been able te trace cither of these rumors te an sure foundation. Capt. Isaac Hull, deputy coroner, being notified, empanelled a jury and held an in quest. The verdict has net yet been an nounced. The funeral, we are informed, took place this morning, being a very quiet ene and without any religious services. rOKlUNi: TELLING. Careline Wolferseerger Keturned te Court. Careline Welfersberger, residing en Rockland street, uear the old factory, was before Alderman MeConeray this morning te answer a complaint of fortune-telling preferred against her by Levi Lawrence lesiding near Lititz. Levi swore positive ly that Mrs. W. had told his fortune and that he had paid her a dollar for the same. Mrs. Welfersberger's defense was that Levi had come te her place and offered te pay her $10 if she wenld procure a wife for him. Under the statute the Alderman had no alternative, but te return the case te court, and Careline was accordingly held te answer. Building Activity. Building is going en rapidly ou the out skirts of the city. Hardly a street lead ing beyond the limits that has net its en couraging mounds of brick. This, to gether with the extensive improvements making en the street beds, affords needed evidence of labor's prosperity, albeit of a mild type owing te the comparatively low rate of wages paid. squire PI earn. Gov. Ileyt has commissioned Christian B. Pleam, of Earl, te serve as justice of the pcace of Earl township, vice James Diller, resigned, te accept an official pesi tien in the National bank of New Helland. Squire PIcam's commission bears date July 21st, 1881, and will remain in ferce until the first Monday of May, 1882. Equal te the Emergency. This moraine a market wagon driven by a woman became placed se precariously en the excavated sidinz of iSertu uueec street near the depot, as te be in imminent danger of capsizing. The woman was equal te the situation, however. This is a favorable time for mishaps arising from careless driving. Change of Name Dee Net or Heart. The philosophical aud pious editorial reflections of the Mt. Jey Herald, which used te be published as "Our Diary," are new entitled "Thoughts Heavenward Con cerning All Things." Mayer's Court. The mayor this morning bad three drunks before him. Twe were sent: tn jail for 3 days, and one 20 days. I ' a 8 5
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