LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER, MONDAt, JULY 25, 1881 Hanrastrr intelligencer. MONDAY EVENING, JUL.Y 25, 1881. Xet te be forgotten. The Xew Yerk Times, while it op posed Conkling's re-election and depre cated the felly of his resignation, makes itself plainly understood as having no sort of sympathy with the act of the administration which led te that step in removing Men-it and appointing Robert Robert eon collector of the pert of Xew Yerk. Of that act Hie Times says it was an error, and that the opposition te Conk Cenk ling and Piatt's re-election would have been mere effective if that error had net bean committed. This is a truth which is verv likely te be lest sight of in Mr. Conkliiig'.'idiscemfiture and Mr. Blaine's triumph. Jt is, however,a very significant thing in measuring the sincerity of the administration methods of civil service reform and the moral results of Mr. Celkling's deposition. The late collect or of Xew Yerk, Mr. Mcrrit, was ap pointed against Conkling's interests and his wishes. He was was put in, osten sibly at feast, te displace a declared in competent and unfit official, whose ad ministration offended the Hayes-Sherman notions of a proper civil service. With whatever sincerity that change was made, there, was no complaint of Merrills administration. Even Conk Cenk ling had become reconciled le-it. The merchants approved it and upon no prin ciple laid down by Mr. Garfield's decla rations could his removal be justified. It is t he subject of authentic report that the president was -impressed with this ; that his most sagacious counseller, Mr. MacYeagh, viewed the subject the same wav. and that when he un dertoek te negotiate an ar rangement between Mr. Conkling and his friends en this one side and the administration j1i the ether, he was satisfied and even delighted te find that it could be arranged en se easy a basis as Mr. Merrills retention. That was the understanding. The breach of faith en the part of the administration and its ignoring of its civil service reform pledges are attributed te Mr. Blaine's in lluenee; and his reward of Robertsen, at this cost, is attributed te his determi" nation if net his obligation te pay a debt contracted in his campaign for the presidency. Xe matter hew well Col lector Robertsen may turn out, his ap pointment was a betrayal of the ad ministration pledges ; it was a breach of faith ; it was an invocation of the very means, for his employment and resort te which Conkling has been abused from Dan te IJeersheba of his parly, and nothing can wash this ' damned spot " out. Ik it lie, true, as the Philadelphia Ycss asserts, that a faithful Republican elec tion officer eik! who t.c-e)ich is a" potent factor in the primaries in Chief Clerk of the Senate Cochran's ward has se cured the contract of distributing docu ments at, ilarrisburg for $1,150 per year, by can very well afford te divide with these who were induced te keep off in the bidding. Fer the chances are that all the work involved in the contract he can get done for 100, or $150, if indeed he be net carried along en the pay roll without rendering any service himself or by substitute. In a previous instance apolitical and personal friend of Clerk Cochran from Lancaster was carried along as fireman and get $1,100' or SI ,-00, for his services, though it was notorious that he never quit his work here nor left the city te attend te his Ilarrisburg duties, unless it was te draw his pay, and even that, it has been shown, can be done by proxy. Indeed, very often these te whom state employees ewe their positions insist that they, the principals, shall draw the pay se as te re. tain their " divvy.'" In a recent instance one of the rural " best workers " of the county, who obtained a Si'00 position, hired a man te de his work for 9150. Hut he assures us that the bosses did net make him divvy. Mr. Leenard will be lucky if he gets off as easily. ' Tiik news from Washington this morning are mere reassuring concerning the president's condition. The opera tion performed by Dr. Gress seems te have reached its purposes and te have been followed with altogether satisfacto ry results. Of the much dreaded bleed poisoning there are new no symptoms, and it is hoped no danger. The alarm ing stoppage in the discharge from the wound, se necessary te progress toward recovery, has been relieved and the gen eral condition of the patient is much improved It must be observed, how ever, that he is far from being out of dan ger, and the character of the recent bul letins as well as the relapse which has occasioned such wide-spread anxiety, will strengthen the popular impression that he has net been nearly se far en the way te resterat ion as the White Heuse advices had led the public te believe Indeed it is very manifest that his mere critical stages are concealed from the public, and that again and again it is te lie noticed, that information about them only conies when the doctors are ready te report an improvement. This mode of giving the public the news is very misleading, and it would be better te give them his exact condition or less frequent tidings. The late .Secretary E. M. Stanten must have leen an odd man. though it was perfectly natural that his arbitrary and tyrannical exercise of power, ensu ing se often in terrible results te inno cent persons, should have filled his mind with remorse and peopled his bed cham ber with spectres. A most curious dis covery in relation teliim and tlieconditien of his mind, is the publication of the let ters printed elsewhere, in which he an nounced his purpose te have Herace Greely arrested for inciting assassins te murder him. These letters will go far te strengthen popular credence of the story that in some such slate of mental agitation, se easily accounted for, he rashly sought the most desperate re source of remorseful men. Pkxxs.ylv.nia Republicans seem te find comfort in the fact that the out come of the Xew Yerk struggle pro motes their representation in the federal Senate. Only by such comparison can Cameren and .Mitchell shine. Se long as the Empire and Keystone states have their senators at the feet of the list and little states like Delaware and Rhede Island go te the head of the class there will be little dissatisfaction ever the ar rangment which gives each state two senators. MINOR TOPICS. This depressing statement from an cx- exchange : Ohie ghouls have been at work again. The cerpse of the Greenback party has disappeared. What the country demands at this crisis is that the Herald's medical staff step plugging the president's wound with paper pallets, and found a college with this motto : " When jgnorance is Bliss 'tis felly te be wise." Rev. C. A. Jehnsen, Hamilton, Canada, reinforces Brether Jasper aud asserts that the sun moves, rises and sets, while the earth remains stationary and is flat. The position is fortified with scriptuial texts. Tm: American, or Philadelphia, insists that even Guitcau must net be deprived of his constitutional rights, lest an evil pre cedent be set ; also that the time, is com ing when the internal revenue taxation can and should be abolished. Tin: " most notorious outlaw" new di vides the honors with the eldest Masen and last surviving body-servant of Wash ington for ubiquity and pluenixical im .mortality. Like Bauque's ghost, he will net down. The new cornel is said te be the one seen' in China in 11)37. We must draw the line somewhere. This wholesale im por tion et Chinese fireworks free of duty is ruining American industry. Senater Mil ler will please notice. A scientific railroad man in tins west says that railroads arc rain producers, and thai rains fellow the iron tracks in belts en each side, lie assigns as the main cause fer'thc meteorological changes the electre magnetism developed in the rails in their continuous .line, and the concus sion of the atmosphere by the jar of the train. Sen.ytek-ki.ect AIim.ku, of Xew Yerk, seems te have the "banner" pretty bad. In a short speech te a party of serenaders he alluded te "that banner" sixteen times. Among the many things alleged te have been "emblazoned upon that banner" is "protection te home industry." "In dustry" is what the new senator calls weed pulp. Theue is a stupid and conspicuous type graphical blunder in the Oxford edition of the revision at 1 Corinthians, Hi, 5, which reads : "What then, is Apelles? and what is Paul".' Ministers through whom ye Lord believed ; and each as the gave te him." The word "Lord" has been drop ped in "making up" the form, and insert ed a line ahead of its proper place ; it should obviously conie in after "each as the." The first weeping willow lice in England was raised from a sprout found in a box of figs brought from Asia Miner, near the Garden of Eden, where the willow is in digenous, mere than one hundred and fifty years age, and was planted and rear ed by Alexander Pepe, the poet. Frem that tree a twig was set out in Bosten in 1775 by a British eftiecr, and shortly after was transplanted by Jehn Park Curtis en his estate in Virginia. If Allegheny county were situated geo graphically somewhere south of Masen and Dixen's line, it would be a percnuial foun tain of joy te radical" stalwart" is a lit tle eif color just new outrage slirickers. In ten years the list of murders committed iu Allegheny includes about one hundred and fifty cases, embracing some of the most shockingly cold-blooded instances of crime en record. Te offset this appalling catalogue, it is of record . that but four executions in vindication of outraged law have taken place. This state of affairs ar gues something radically wrong. Tiik Tobacco Journal, which manufac tures a great deal of such " exclusive " information, has it that some of the to bacco buyers have made a combination te buy the '81 crop, " without competition," as seen as it is cut and befere ethers arc aware of their operations, and have their agents in the field wailing for the word " go." This startling information is sup plemented by news from Lancaster te the Journal "r exclusively," that the leading growers have entered into a combination te sell their "81 crop only at ccitaiu high figures and iu bulk for one price through out. The Journal is manifestly in the mar ket before the buyers or the crop. PERSONAL. Mrs. Edwix Beeth, who was thought te be dying iu. Londen a few mouths age, has improved in health since her return home, and is new strong enough te drive out. The Democracy of H. B. Pi.umek's county of Venango give him a reusing tsend-eff for the nomination of state treas urer and recall the fact that iu 1850, when Knew Xethingtsm had swept ever the land, it was his noble sire Arneld Plainer who led the Pennsylvania Democracy te victory. Bedford, as an off-set te Joux Ckssxa's nomination for judge, rejoices that " the veritable sheet en which President Lin coln died is new in Bedford, iu possession of one of our citizens. The fabric is stained with the martyr's bleed, nod the impress of his baud, also stained with bleed, is distinctly, discernible." By all means let Cessna wave it as his gon falon in the pending battle for the bench. William Pitt, prime minister of Great Britain, was a peer man and in debt. Seme of his rick- Tery admirers thought it would be a geed thing te pay off his credi tors. A large sum was quickly subscribed. Then Pitt was told. His cheek was red dened with indignation, and he refuted te touch a penny of the money. " Te a man in my position, " he said, "a gratuity is a bribe. " Among the rich Californians may be mentioned Charles Crocker, $20,000,000; Peter Donehuc, $5,000,000 ; A. F. Davis, $000,000; James G. Fair, $42,000,000; James L. Floed, $22,500,000 ; James C. Floed, $3G,000,000; J. C. Floed & Ce., $10,500,000 ; J. C. Floed & Ce., trustees of J. W. Mackay, $22,000,000 ; Lcland Stanford, $20,000,000, $350,000 of which is in diamonds and family wardrobe ; Mrs. Mary F. S. Hepkins, $17,000,000. It has been currently reported that Mr. Fkaxkmx B. Gewex, one of the receivers of the Reading railroad, was te sail for Liverpool te present his case at Londen te the English holders of Reading stock, and te offer te be their representative at the next annual election. Mr. Gewen was en beard the City of Richmond Saturday afternoon just before she sailed, but said that he himself was net going ever. He was there te bid farewell te his daughter and a party of friends. Up te the prcseut time the number of medical men announced te attend the In ternational Medical congress te be held in Londen from August 2 te 9 is about 800. The aggregate attendance is expected te reach 2,000. Earl Guaxvii.i.e, foreign secretary, holds a reception of foreign members of the congress en August C. The Xew Yerk Academy of Medicine will be represented by its president, Dr. For Fer dyce Barker, and Drs. Adams and Farn ham, secretary and treasurer of the acad emy. The Bosten Courier, with a cheerful hope and commendable frankness, leeks forward te "a net for distant future when the toiling race of Xew England farmers' wives, that sallow, skinny, sal-eralus-fed sisterhood, shall be extinct; and in their places shall stand a hale, hearty and happy following, who live en the fat of the land, and sell only that which they cannot use themselves ; who have time and taste te array themselves in something beside a skimp cotton gown, and gladly make concessions te fashion in the matter of coiffure; who lead some thing beside the Bible-, and, en the whole, have almost as easy a lime as their spouses' beasts of burden. " A young English hostess, who had heard of the feud bcucen limn Haute and Geokei. Ai:mjstl.s Sala, (because of a venomous attack by llarte ea Sala in California years age) thought It would be geed 'fun' te send Mis. Sala down te din ner with llarle as escort. She also intro duced him for that purpose. Seeing tliis Sala stepped forward, removed his wife's hand from llarte s arm, and told him he cauld net take her te dinner unless he would first offer apology for the insujt offered years age, and false assertions which had never been retracted. Harle declined te retract or apologize, where upon Sala took his wife upon his arm and left the house. The Bosten Herald, Philadelphia 1'imes and Xew Yerk Sun have been among the newspapers of the ceuutry that deprecated the Field purse for the Garfield family. The Springfield Jlepublican adds itself te the list and says : "The Xew Yerk cham ber of commerce is left iu a ridiculous plight in view of the dispatch sent last week by its secretary te Postmaster-General James, announcing that that organi zation had decided te present Mrs. Garfield with $250,000. Cyrus W. Field has been telegraphing and writing ap. peals all ever the country for help in making up the sum which Xew Yorkers were reported ready te tender. Widows and children are sending their mites for the man who gets a salary of $50,000 a year, and this whole spectacle of begging for the president of the United States is unseemly. If the president recovers he will have a difficult ;uid somewhat ungra cious duty te perform in refusing this gush money." LATEST NEWS BY MAIL. A cocked and leaded revolver was found in a mail bag. at Bosten. Three hundred and thirty-six new pos tal money offices will be put in operation Aug. 1. Over 109,000 drum fish were caught at one haul of the seine at Chincetcaguc Island, Va. They call it " a romantic affair ' up at Alliance when a young German is left a fortune and drinks himself into delirium tremens. A monster turtle was caught en Fire Island en Friday. It was 7 feet long and -1 feet wide, and weighed about 800 pounds. Eleven Shetland Island fishing beats have been missing since the gale en Thurs day last, and it is feared all arc lest. It is probable that sixty-three persons per ished. The people of England regard with great disfavor the seeming disregard of our government of the attitude of our foreign born citizens toward the mother ceuutry in the Irish troubles. William Gale, the English pedestrian, completed 3,027 of the 0,000 quarter miles he engaged te walk in as many consecu tive quarter hours, and then the physi cians forced him oil" the track. Xcar Chascburg, Vernen county, Wis., a farmers family, numbering seven per sons, were drowned during the late storm. The water at Chascburg is four feet high er than ever known there before. A whirlwind in J. F. Reynold's hay let, iu Slcvcnsvillc, X. Y., picked up a stack of hay and whirled it into the air te a height of several hundreds of feet and then dropped it about a mile distant. The hay was kept intact. Xew Jersey denizens vary the monoton ous occupation of killing oft the peach crop by anathematizing the millions of new immigrants, immense German fleas, that threaten te make the little common wealth one huge blister. There's millions in it. In Waukesha, Wis., X. B. Ward, one of the eldest printers in the United States, was killed by a wild train. The old man was deaf, lie has been editorially con nected with Buffalo, Xew Yerk, Racine aud Waukesha papers aud at the time of his death was a correspondent of a paper. A bass weighing one pound in 1880 was returned te the Potomac, near the Great Falls, withK small sleigh bell fastened te his tail with a wire. A few days age it was caught iu the canal at Weaverteu, with the bell still attached. It weighed six pounds. Thsy hung an alderman out in Colerado the ether day. He conceived his official duty te lie in the "direction of shielding from justice a band of desperadoes of which he was a member, the citizens elevated him by the aid of a strong cord without the formality of a trial. A singular case of piracy has been dis covered iu Saigon (French Cechin Chiud). A native vessel, driven ashore in a stress of weather, was searched for contraband opium. In the held, concealed, were about fifty female children intended for sale. Considering the condition of the track, the performance at Chisago en Saturday is the greatest effort of Maud S's history. The second and third heats arc the two fastest consecutively en record, being 2:11 and 2:11. There were 25,000 people look ing at her. At Dublin, Ga., Mr. Suggs was out hunting, and his gun burst the first shot, tearing his hand dreadfully. Frem . the dust of dry clay found in the gun, it is supposed that a chimney swallow had built his nest therein, which caused it te burst. The doctor took off Mr. Suggs's thumb. Yazoo City, Me., desperate love ; ob durate parents ; young man sheets inam orata's mother ; arrest, and girl brought en stand as witness for state; gets ex cused for a few minutes ; skips te a mag istrate and marries prisoner ; wife cannot be witness against her husband ; sensa tion ; reconciliation ; joy. An earthquake occurred at half past 2 o'clock Friday morning iu Switzerland and in the eastern part of France. At Geneva bells were rung and houses shaken. At Mergcs furniture in dwellings was up set, aud there was great consternation, but no casualities. It was also severe at Berne, Switzerland, and at Lyens and Grenoble, France THE WAY OV THE WOULD. Startling Striking and Sensational Sc Novelties. The losses by the burning of the ware house aud ether buildings at Berdeaux, are estimated at from two te three million francs. In Manchester, X. II., Maud Lovejoy, nine years old, daughter et Captain Jehn G. Lovejoy, died of hydrophobia last night. She was bitten by a rabid deg sev eral weeks age. Baseball en Saturday : At Xew Yerk- Treys, 8 ; Metropolitan, :. At Detroit Dctreits, 3 ; Chicago, 2. At Bosten Bestens, 1 ; Wercesters, 0. At Buffalo Baflales, 3 ; Clevelands, 7. A tool car en the Texas and Pacific railroad jumped the.track at the edge of the Sand Hills, causing a bad wreck. There were about sixty nun aboard, of whom three were killed and ten wounded. A petition is ciiculatiug in AVilkesbarrc praying thai the encampment of the Third brigade be net held thijre. Small pox is the burthen et the petition, liie surgeon general says, however, there is no danger. The German Siengcrfcst inWilkesbarrc, beginning te-day, will continue for three days. Thirty societies will be represented in the concert, Among them five from Xew Yerk. Over 0,000 people arc expected. The city is decorated in elaborate style. Andrew Mcssinger, aged nineteen years, left his home iu Carbondale eight weeks age m seai en ei employment. lie was run ever by a coal train at Sidney Plains, yesterday, and instantly killed, his head being completely severed from his body. William J. Xelsen, who accompanied an excursion paity from Philadelphia, was drowned while bathing at bcavillc. ,lle was a married man, eO years old, and a resident of Gcrmantewn. The body has net yet been recovered. At Carlisle recently, a man and wife were incarcerated in jail, ledged iu cells directly lacing one another across the cor cer cor rider, and both convicted of the same of lense aeuitcry. mar. must nave eetwi a phreuolegically compatible marriage. Sparks from the cugine which ran Wm. II. Vanderbilt's special train te Xiagara 1 alls set lire te the Canada Southern rail, read freight shed iu Chippewa, Out,, A high wind was blowing at the time, and before the local lire company could get their engine in order a clean sweep was made of one-third of the village. In all about twenty houses were destroyed, te gether with, barus,. out-buildings, etc. A mile and a half south of Greenwood, Johnsten county, Ind., early Saturday morning, a tramp attempted te enter a tell house, kept by -Mrs. Alelhc Hunt,a widow Mrs. Hunt gave the man all her money, $8, through a pane which he broke out of the deer : but he persisted in his attempt te enter and she shot him dead. He was known as ;i tramp, passing under the names of "Jehn Miller," " O'Brien " and "Lewis Cook." A 1'rlsim Tragedy. At Paducah, Ky., eleven convicted prisoners in the county jail Nvere te have started at 8 o'clock for the penitentiary. Between 0 and 7 o'clock there was a noise in one of the cells, which attracting atten tion outside, quickly brought Jailer Ed wards, his assistant Jacksen, and County Judge McGannagle te the scene. Twe negrees, Levi Beldcn and Jehn Stewart, couvieted of larceny, were confined togeth er, and en reaching their cell the officers found that Beldcn had killed Stewart, having beaten out his brains with a piece of an iron bunk. As seen as the cell deer was opened Beldcn attacked the offi cers with his weapon and would have kill ed some of them but for their pistols, which firing almost together, sent one ball through his beilv and another through his brain. Strikers and Soldier. The governor of Wisconsin has called out two battalions of state militia, te pre serve the peace at Eau Claire, the scene of the lumbermen s strike. Light companies of militia, numbering 375 men, arrived at Eau Claire, yesterday, aud camped en one side of the park, and exchanged friendly greetings with hundreds of the strikers, who were gathered iu the same ground. Several of the lead ing strikers were arrested yesterday before the arrival of the troops, although se far as can be ascertained, nothing hostile was done by the men. There is some criti cism of the governor's course iu calling out the militia, but he says it was done at the call of the mayor and leading business men, who assured him there was "danger of a great conflagration unless the militia were called out." The governor addressed the strikers at the park yesterday after noon " in a temperate speech." One firm, Sherman & Brethers, have yielded te the demands of the strikers, and their men arc working en extra time. The ether mill owners say they will begin work to day. KKCENT FATALITIES. The many Ways In which Men and Women Meet Death. James and Cicere Perter shot dead in a saloon quarrel in Bryan, Texas, by Lucien Reid. Richard Tayler beaten and kicked by two brothers named Jehn aud Andrew Cellins, at their bearding house :i Brook lyn. W. Bartlctt, a well-digger, shot by Emil Umfried, assistant postmaster, in a quarrel at Lincoln, Missouri. Mrs. Wm. Mcllugh, stabbed by her husband in a Cincinnati market house be cause she asked him for money. A young man named Trujillo shot in a Denver dance by the chief of police, who was as saulted while quelling a row. Rhodes and Crowder lynched in Volusia county Flerida, " by personal enemies." Themas Tate, Hans Olscn and August Saline by a fall of ere in the West End mine at Hara Hara mendsville, Essex county, X. Y.-s-Kebert Davis, late of Philadelphia, by sunstroke in Xew Orleans. Jeseph II. Merse, fire man of the new Baltimore & Ohie build ings in Baltimore, by!falling with an ele vater from the fifth story. Anten Bredt, an empleye en the Northern Central rail road, year Calvert Station, Baltimore, by a freight car running ever him. Jacob Emanuel, aged 38 years, a shoe manufac turer, of Duane street. New Yerk," by fall ing through a hatchway in his establishment. Hundreds of Aleuts, Alaska, from an epidemic. Henry Fischer, aged. 11 years, and William Brier, aged 15, were drowned while bath ing at New Orleans. An engineer, named make, was blown overboard while sleeping en the deck of the U. S. launch Seaweed, at Pert Royal, Seuth Carolina. THE PRESIDENT'S WOUND. THE CAUSE OP THE RELAPSE. A CLKAK -STATEMENT BY UK. KETIJUKX The Heroic Treatment or the Philadelphia surgeon. On our first page will be found an inter esting aud curious story about the pro jected assassination of Hayes. It gains in iuterest, if net in credibility, from the critical condition into which Mr. Garfield has been placed by a serious relapse. The account which we print gives the causes and nature of this reaction, and the pro gress of the patient's partial recovery from it. Dr. Reyburn gives the following ac count of the treatment : The direction taken by the ball after it entered the body was forward and slight downward until it struck one of the ribs, it was thence deflected still farther down dewn waid and a little te the right se as te make an acute angle with the line of the back. In ether words, when a probe was intro duced iu the wound te a depth of three or three aud a-half inches, its direction was such that its inner end was only about an inch and a half from the outside of the body at a point lower down. The exam ination, which was mads in the presence of Drs. Agnew and Hamilton showed that a pus cavity had been formed in the track of the ball near and beyond the point where it glanced from the rib, and that this cavity could be reached by a direct incision three inches below the month of the wound. It was decided at once te perform the operation. The sur gical knife was inserted at a point just above the hip and three inches below the wound. The skillful surgeon, Dr. Aguew, selected a spot between the muscles of the back from which he cut straight te the traek of the ball, striking it at a point just below the drainage pipe, a depth of three inches, rue keen uiaue was accom panied by an instrument that held the wound open with the withdrawal of the knife, which was immediately followed by a flew of pus that at once demonstrated the success of the operation. Ne anasthetics were used and the presi dent bore the operation bravely, but the part te be operated was te be numbed by the spray of ether. AVith the aid of a probe and a pair of forceps a drainage tube which is a small flexible tube of rubber perforated with holes was then introduced into the wound by the ball, and after being carried through the pus cavity was brought out through the newly made incision, one cud of the tube then projected from the cut made by the surgeon's knife, and the ether from the mouth of the original wound. As the pus oozed into the tube through the per forations it could escape from either cud and was repeatedly washed out with a weak solution of carbolic acid and water, which was thrown through the tube iu a stream. The discharge which was follow ed .by the opening of the pus cavity was entirely satisfactory te the surgeons and was seen followed by relief te the patient. The drainage tube has been left as it was originally placed and will remain there for the present. If the wound discharges freely through the new opening the tube may, perhaps, be withdrawn from the old one te allow it te heal. The incision made is in a direct line with the deeper parts of the wound and it is thought the pus wili e.;cSpc through it without any of the ob structions which impeded its llew along the track of the ball and which covered the pus cavity. In reply te the question whether an other pus cavity is likely te form aud bring about another of the alarming symptoms of yesterday, Dr. Reyburn said: " I cannot answer positively, but as the pus new has full egress I de net think it probable that another cavity will form." Upen being asked whether there were or had been any symptoms in the president's case of pyeamia or bleed poisoning. Dr. Reyburn said : " Nene whatever. Riger of course may he a symptom of pyeamia,' but it is also a symptom of various ether complications, and it docs net point te pyeamia in the present case. The pus continues healthy and the characteristic symptoms of pyeamia arc all wanting. Yeu may say upon my authority that no indications of bleed poisoning have been observed and that we have no reason te expect any." a - STATE ITEMS. Miners iu the Tiega coal fields weik four te five days in a week. Tiega ceuuty was visited by a slight frost last week. The total value of live stock in Pcnnsyl Pcnnsyl vanie, goats net included, is $85,370,912. Oil is reported te have been found in an old well in Clarien county. There is mere excitement than oil. The Philadelphia Times building is te be run up another story. It is well te be capacious in the upper region. J. E. Gatchell, mayor of Grccnsburg, has been put .under arrest for the false impri sonment of three citizens. There are twenty-seven eases of small pox in one square in Pittsburgh, making 250 developed within two weeks. Petroleum is new succesfully used as fuel in smelting silver. It is said te" be better and cheaper than coke and coal. A sharp Williamsport girl, it is reported, borrowed thirty dollars from one lever or admirer in order te bny an outfit t many auethcr. In nearly every instance of injuries from the toy pistol lockjaw has supervened. Death by starvation is the usual termina tion. A Williamsport fisherman caught a wa ter snake with a catfish in its mouth ; baited his hook with the "cattie" and hooked three bass. Twe young ladies while rowing en the river near Indiana creek, were suprised te sec a large pike jump into the beat. They killed it with an ear, when it was found te weigh 141 pounds. A large bug, resembling a locust, which fastens te the necks of fowls near Greens burg, has been very destructive of life. Thousands of the huge bugs have been found in one nest. Mrs. Harry Lingafelt, of Helidaysbnrg, was recently stung by a "snake feeder," or dragon fly, and her entire body became poisoned. By the application of proper antidotes, she is recovering. One of the Blue mountains, near Bern ville, Aines Pearson caught a black snake measuring seven feet in length; which had three young rabbits ant a bird in its stomach. A boy at Scranton nearly lest an arm from the bite of a mule, the bones being badly crushed. The mule resembles the old swivel guns that revolved en the cen tre and spread destruction en general prin ciples. Ex-Senater Chestnut is announced as a candidate for the gubernatorial nomina tion en the Democratic ticket iu 1882. The senator should remember that chest nuts de net keep well ever a season. He is somewhat previous iu opening his burr. The old hotel at Minnequa Springs is te be rebuilt this summer or next fall. The brick in the tabernacle will be utilized in the construction of the new hotel. Per haps Peter Herdic has net relinquished his Utopian dream of a new county, etc. The editor of the Bloomsburg Columbian has his nocturnal slumbers tendered un pleasant by female vulgarity wafted iu through his open window. The language shocks his virgin modesty even with the light extinguished. There should be some protection for editors. Erie county must have a sheriff, but the premonitions are that the office will here after seek the man, as the emoluments have become barely sufficient te meet ex penses, aud during the last term the in cumbent has actually lest money. This is rough en the sheriff, but it is a gratify ing exhibit of popular geed times. . Stanten's Draail of Asasslnatl;.ii. Washington Dispatch. The following curious dispatches, never before printed, were sent by Mr. Stanten te Hen. Edwards Picrrepent about a month after the assassination of Mr. Lincoln : W.i: nEiMirrsKXT, May 12. ISfiS. 10.05 v. m. Te the Hen Kilivarils I'ierrepen!, Xeic Yerk: " I have written te night te retain you aud Cutting and Brady,or anyeue else you may desire te have associated with you, te prosecute Herace Greeley and tne owners of the Tribune for Greeley's persistent ef forts the last four weeks te incite assassiuste finish their work by murdering me. Please give the matter your immediate attention en receiving the letter aud secure copies of all the Ti ibunes printed since the night of the president's murder aud get the names of the owners. I propose te prosecute criminally and also by civil suit, for I shall net allow them te have me murdered and escape responsibility without a struggle for life en my part. "EnwixM. Stanten." Wai: Ukpautmext, May IS. I .V-JO r. m. Te the Hen. Edwurilx Pierrepeni anil the Hun. K IS. Vuttiny, Xew Yerk : I have proof of express personal maliee against me by Grccley and believe that I can establish a combination between him and ethers which may end in accomplish ing my death, as it did against -Mr. Liu Liu celn and Mr. Seward. This is my reason for distinguishing his case from ethers of general vituperation. Ehwin M. Stanten The second telegram was scut in reply te one which contained an intimation that it might be at least indiscreet te make such an arrest as the one suggested by Air. Stanten. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. MAKIKTIA MATTKIW. A Geed Appetite bonus's Visions-May tuvrii'.. ' War Herse "Bees Hunting the Widow A Streng Discourse. A young man ate two quarts of ice cream at Harry Wolf.; saloon at one sit ting. Next ! Leeks, the mermaid man, saw a large otter while baiting his eut-line in the Sus quehanna river. What this man will see next no one can tell. A horse belonging te Mr. Shane injured his leg a few weeks age ; his injuries proved te be of such a nature that it was found necessary te sheet him. Jehn L Jacobs, the Democratic ' war horse " from Maytown, was in town en Saturday. Jehn has many warm friends here. Menree Eugle, of Ceney township, walked hurriedly through a dark room, and forgetting a screen deer that he had just put in, which steed partly open, the frame and his nose struck. It did net hurt the deer iu the least. His nasal organ is badly damaged. Rev. J. McEImeylc preached a very able and impressive scimen in the Presbyter ian church yesterday morning, taking for his text the follewiug word : ''If you love me keep my commandments." The con gregation must certainly have been profit ed, if they sat down in the temper of Cornelius and his friends, "new therefore are we all here present before Ged, te hear all things that are commanded thee of Ged." A widow in Marietta undertook te de melish a bumble-bee's nest in her yard. She tackled it with aii old broom Se far as the nest was concerned she had it all her own way. But when the skirmishers in the air charged en her, she retreated to ward the kitchen deer, fighting every inch of the ground like a game hen. Soen .af ter she had closed the deer she discovered that her one eye was closed, and her face and arms were covered with knots and wounds received in the fight. The honey is still iu the nest. OIUTUAKY. Dentil or Mrs. Kiln Leidigh Slaymaker. Our obituary columns note the sudden death in Wilmington, Del., yesterday at the residence of her husband, G. I). Slay maker, of his wife, Mrs. Ella Lcidigh Slaymaker, only daughter of Isaac W, Lcidigh. Mrs. S. was a most estimable and popular young lady. Her parents formerly resided in Paradise, where she was married te Mr Slaymaker, then of Williamstown, a few years age. They were both widely known and very popular in the social circles of this city and the eastern end of the county, where her talents us a musician and all the amiabili tics of a refined womanhood made her a general favorite. In the development of his business Mr. Slaymaker removed te Wilmington. His father-in-law came te this city and recently removed also te Wil mington. Mrs. Slaymaker wa- the only surviving child of her parents, her brother. Parke, a premising youth, having died some years age. Her body will be brought te Paradise for interment iu the Presbyterian graveyard there. l'ellre Case. Jehn Loucks, a drunken . tramp, wa-r caught iu the yard connected with the resi dence of an East King street family, and declined te give any satisfactory account of himself. He was taken before Alder man Barr, who committed him .for ten days. Annie Haggcrty, a traveling peddler," came te town en Saturday and get se drunk that she was unable te walk. Officer Mei-ringcr took her te the station house. This morning she was taken before Alder man en the charge of drunken and disorderly conduct and was sent te jail for five days. Anether drunk paid costs and was discharged. Had Opinions of the Nickel. Chattanooga Times. An article is en the rounds headed : "What is a nickel '."' Old General Spinner when register of the treasury, said it was "an ugly stinking token," worth about two cents, and was in all respects a dis grace te our coinage and a nuisance in our circulation. It is new worth less than a cent and a half, and seems te be continued in cii dilation solely for the benefit of the patriotic perseus who own the principal nickel nunc iu the world, located near Lancaster, Pa. Uelng West. Geerge A. Shelly, for ten or twelve years past connected with the Intei.mrrnckr, left the home of his parents in Mt. Jey this morning for a brief trip te Xew Yerk. He will thence proceed direct cia Chicago te his new home Minneapolis. He carries with him the best wishes of the Intei.m uencek and many ether friends in this c mnty. I'ipe Laying. The superintendent of water works, Mr. Kitch, has recently been laying a geed deal of water-pipe in the Eighth ward 1.050 feet in Leve Lane and Union streets, 1400 feet in High street, and 500 feet in iVinifir street. The ieb will be fiuished and the connections made by the end of the present week. m A rigeen Kly. n.t nnvf 3itiii1fiv a. niircen 11 v will take. place between Bird-in-IIand and Philadel phia, a distance of 01 miles, between young birds owned by Arthur Chambers, Air. Tim and Themas Grist of Philadelphia. Till: UAICKlsDUKC STEALINGS. And Is It Juhuny Leenard. Kvniiblicnn In spector or the Sixth Ward. Lancaster?. rilarrisburtj Cerrcspmitlcnre et Philadelphia 1'te-si.i J. Wesley NeillV. bids for the Senate and Heuse plumbing, which took the con tract, amounted te !?0,8;10. Four or five ether plumbing, firms had determined te bid and soma had actually prepared pa pers, when Xeill, peer man as he claims te be, ettered te buy them oil and premised te pay each a stipulated sum it they would keep out. The plumbers are Harry Stew art, Patsey Bradley, .Jehn Kremer and Lyle & Peel. The first three named were te get $100 each, and the last $150. the extia $50 being the balance due en the purchase of the year 18S0, when Xeill made the same bargain with that firm, but neglected te settle in full until this year. Xeill thus cleared the field of four competitors and had it all te himself. But te keep all ethers out he induced a young friend of his te put in bids a little in advance of his, and thus make it appear that there was still competition. Te make sure of the contract against all peradventure, he had prepared ether bids in his own name, amenutiug for both houses te about $1,000. which he iutended te substitute for the $G,Se0 in case ether competitors turned up at the last moment but the bidders were confined te his friend and himself, and Xeill get his contract at the enormous figure of $(5,Se0. In his little confidential talks about this scheme Air. Xeill told some things which implicated Air. Delaney, thus connecting him with something else besides the con tracts for stationery and miscellaneous supplies. Xeill said that Delaney made out all the plumbing bids, even that of the friend who acted as Neill's dummy arranging the bends, and, iu short, was interested iu him (Neill) in -procuring the contract. Air. Delaney, as senate li brarian, has nothing whatever te de with the plumbing, yet, according te Air. Xeill, the successful bidder, he is new found cheek by jowl with that individual in fur thering his interests, ami, net having the fear of the twelfth section of Article HI, of the constitution before him, appears te be a silent partner with the known con tractor' All of which is submitted te the state treasurer as auethei reason why the plumbing contract should net be approved. Among the bidders for the distribution of documents contracts was J. X. SIcntz, a boss carpenter of this city. He it was who said that Delaney ettered him $101) te withdraw aud net bid. Air. Slentz de dined, giving as a reason that Resident Clerk Patterson who was his si lent partner, objected le that kind of a bargain. Apart from the fact that Air. Patterson, as an ellicial, had no right te be interested in a contract, if he really was, this refusal was an honorable act. But Sleut. new says that Patterson hoodwinked him by reveal ing the amount of Slentz's bill of $1,200 te the successful competitor, Jehn II. Leon Leen ard, whose bid was $ 1,150, and went snacks willi Leenard and Delaney iu the contract. Se it would appear that nearly every prom inent official in the Legislature is mere or less interested iu contracts, in spite of the constitutional prohibition, and that they restore te all kinds of tricks te "catch en." Iu a card iu te-day's I'rc.ia Slentz I'enies that he " gave Patterson away," or that Patterson was anv seit of a partner iu his bid. ' The Circus War. On Saturday after O. Kcnyen, of the Balcheller & Deris show had been arrested for mutilating bills of the Sells Bre.'s, " Yank" Xewell, of the latter show, made complaint before Alderman McConemy against Willson, charging him with the same elfenec. Willson is a pester of the Balcheller show aud it was alleged that he covered bills of the ether party, lie was arrested by Officer Titus at the outer depot of the Beading railroad and was taken te the alderman's office. It was shown at the hearing that Batchcller & Deris had .secured a shed in the country, for which they paid and then covered it with bills. Sells's men came along after ward and covered their bills. On Saturday. Willson went te the country and again covered the stand. The alderman tlis missed the ease ami Willson and G. W. Yegte, boss of the brigade, left for Bead ing this morning. Geerge Gardner, who drove lvcnyeu te the country en Saturday, states that lie did net furnish the information en which the man was arrested, but that " Yank " Xewell followed the wagon te the country and saw the alleged mutilation of bills. li.K'laliiied Letter. Following is a list of unclaimed letteis remaining in the postellice at Lancaster for the week eflHing Alenday, Julv 25, 1881 : f.ailiex J.it Susan Benedict, Christiu Brccht, Alaggio Buckes, Airs. Alanda Den nis, Airs. Alargt. Karnst, Alary Gannon, Viela Jehnsen, Liz.ic .Malcolm, Anney Presberry, Airs. .1. (J. Peters, Alary Rea gen, Sarah J. Yeung. Gent1 Lhl J. F. Brown, Bal. Cini mcrs, Eavncst Carpenter, Chas.O. Hewes. Jehn Hummel, (J. Mucdetiald (for.), Frank . Pelinypacker, J. !J. Bohiuseu, Levi Scarlett, Jeseph Filiex. I'all of a llerNe. As a team attached ,te Youart's ice wagon turned the corner of Xerth (Jtieen and West Orange .streets tit a rapid rate, en Saturday evening, one of the horses slipped en the cress flagging and fell heavily en his side. The harness was de tached with some difficulty, though advice floated about as autumn leaves and as variegated, and the animal regained his feet, apparently none the worse for his shaking up. Legislative Memerial. State Representative E. G.- Snyder, of the. city district, has our thanks for copies of the legislative memorials en Senators Wm. Elliett, Gee. D. Jacksen and Chas. II. Paulsen, all of whom-died iu the har ness and were cufegized handsomely by their .senatorial brethren. The elcgaic eloquence is gathered into these volumes, handsomely printed, illustrated with steel plates and hound regardless of expense. An Old IIIarkHmltli. Benjamin Braekbill recently put up a new blacksmith shop in West Willow. On Saturday Jehn Sn&vely, aged 71 years, who is a blacksmith by trade, but has net worked at it for 18 years, went into the shop aud shed a liei.se in excellent style. This is quite a feat for such an old man. Bane nail. A game of base ball was played at Alil Alil leisvilleeu Saturday, between the Millers ville Xine" and the "Actives," resulting in a victory in' favor of the latter. The score steed 9 te 2. Harry Goedhart, bill pester, of the Actives'," did some fine play ing as 'short step. Ai'ci.Ient. This morning, as two young ladies fiem the West End, were driving en East King street, between Duke and Lime streets, their horse stumbled and ell, breaking one of the shafts of their carriage. The ladies alighted, the damage done was seen repaired and the diivc was resumed. A' Curious Seal. Tlmm arc manv curiosities in the OinriA of circus lithegranhs in this eitv. but tm one which leads all is that which represents a seal flying from a cake of ice te the water. The animal leeks like a sea gull. Colored l'lcnlr. The Colored Workingmen's association is te-day holding a picnic at What Glen park.
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