LANCASTER PAILT INTELLIGENCER TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1881 Hancastfr fntelUfencer. 3ATORDAY EVENINO. JUlA- 26, 1881. Prudent Doctors. We are glad te see that these Wash ington doctors are content with the glory they get from their bulletins, and are ready te let Dr. Agnew take charge of their patient when any serious work is te be done. The function of the nurse, te which they have relegated themselves, is very important and useful, but net one of very remarkable dignity or responsi bility. A great many geed people, unin cumbered with medical learning, are quite equal te the situation, and Docter Bliss and his associates cannot be ac cused of unduly esteeming themselves in considering that they are competent te take charge of their distinguished pa tient, se long as they have Dr. Agnew within easy reach in case of any emerg ency greater than determining the pres ident's diet or dressing his wound. It seems a little remarkable that a doctor, who displayed se much self-confidence as te drive off all the ether doctors at the time of the wounding, and se boldly assumed te be equal te the emergency, should show se much humility when things about his patient begin te leek squally ; especially when he has three ether doctors of his own cheesing te fall back upon for help ; and one of them the surgeon general of the army. Bliss evidently is as prudent as he is bold. Having secured ' his great place by daring effrontery, he proposes te take no chance of life from his patient by rash reliance en his own skill. It is quite tee impertent te him te have his patient get well. Dr. Bliss docs well. We can forgive him the advertisement he has sought for himself, in Hie discretion he discovers in the choice of a skilled sur geon te de the work he was supposed te have proposed te de himself ; since it new appears that he does net intend te permit his love of fame te betray him into the attempted display of a skill he does net possess, and that in fact he seeks net fame at all, which he delivers te Agnew, content himself with notoriety only and such rellecled glory as the suc cessful result of AgnewV. skill will bring him. We may hereafter read the signatures of these four attesting doctors with mere equanimity, understanding fully that they de net mean te advertise themselves therein as the physicians te whom the country ewes the president's life, but simply that they arc the recording secre taries of the results of Dr. Agnew's la bor, and the attesting witnesses of its success. This very modest role they are competent te perferin, no doubt, as Dr. Agnew is able of himself te give the president every chance for his life that he can have. It does certainly seem a little odd that these four doctors should be se ready te acknowledge Agnew's superior .skill, when one is a surgeon general and another is the very preten tious Dr. Bliss; but let us be duly thankful for the result that their timidity or modesty has brought about, and hereafter palieutly listen te their story of the daily temperature, respira tion and cniatiens of their patient ; con tent that they shall thus, according te their ability, contribute te the work by the nation's sick bed. The Acting President. It is difficult te make any legal justili' catien of the fact that Mr. Blaine, secre tary of state, instead of Air. Arthur, vice president, is acting president of the United States new, while Air. Garfield is unable te discharge the duties of the presidency. This last fact cannot be disputed. Xe one claims that the presi dent is able te perform his official func tions, lie is net able te attend te business of any kind, pri vate or public, nor can he even attend te his personal wants. Fer nearly a month this lias been the case; and bids fair te be se for mere than a month te come. Since, then, Air. Garfield's condition is ad mittedly within the words of the consti tution which consign his duties te the vice president, the question is where fore the latter is net summoned te as sume them. Certainly, if there are any presidential duties te bj performed, the president being unable, the vice presi dent is the heir te them ; and if there are none te be performed they are never theless at any time liable te arise, and it is the duty of the vice officer te stand ready te discharge them. There cannot be said te be an hour in which no duty devolves upon the presi dent of this great country. There is need of constant executive supervision though no work is done. It was net in the contemplation of the constitution that the chief magistracy should be prac tically vacant for even a day ; and noth ing could lie clearer than the injunction upon the vice president te act as presi ' dent whenever the president should be unable te act ; there is no limitation as te the time or the cause of the disability. The fact of disability, and that alone deter mines the question. And it is just sis clear that the vice president's power te act as president ceases as seen as the president becomes able te perform his duties. He takes his place when and while he is disabled ; and as the president confessedly is se dis abled new, it is seemingly impossible te say wherefore his duties have net de volved upon Air. Arthur. The consli censli stitutkm does net, te be sure, say hew the president's disability is te be determined; but that fact ought te create no embarrassment new, when it is nep denied en any hand that Mr. Garfield is disabled. By that fact Air. Arthur becomes acting president, and he should assume the office. It would indeed be better that the cabinet of Air. Garfield should call upon the vice president te assume the president's 'place during his illness ; a thing they show no disposition te de ; and nat urally, when we consider that they arc new, without a chief, in reality their own be3ses, having no one te make them afraid of admin istering their departments just as they please ; and then Blaine, the head of the cabinet, being himself practically presi- dent, is net likely te see the necessity of ether. But the law imposes upon an other the responsibility he usurps; and if the country is te be directed under the constitution, as perhaps would be wise, the vice president should step te the front and the secretary of state te the rear. Freji his tender regard for his poorer and obscure patients Dr. Agnew seems te be a democrat as well as a Democrat. MINOB TOPICS. The object of punishment is tlius terse ly put "03 a western judge in sentencing a prisener: "We de net send you for steal ing a horse, but that horses may net be stolen." . 'Tmmt" has consulted an astrologer and learns that lively times may be ex pected in October in political circles. As several elections occur about that time wc shall net pin our faith te astrological di vinations should this prediction be veri fied. Ix one of his verses, Oscar Wilde, the aesthetic poet, alludes te "the barren memory of unkisscd kisses." An un kissed kiss, thinks the matter-of-fact market editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin, is the barrenest thing within the range el human experience. The proceedings of the Lime Kiln club which we print offers an easy explanation of some of the apparent stealings in state supplies at Ilarrisburg. Wc rec ommend the audit of Hen. Burdock Can Can teleupc's account te some of the impli cated state officials. It isn't always safe te rely tee implicit ly en the pacificatery influences of the gospel. In the presence of Rev. Henry Wright, a man out in Kausas expressed the hope that Garfield would die. The services elescd right there. A committee of brethren arc trying te determine wheth er knocking a man into the middle of next week comes under the head of righteous indignation. It was Richard Grant White who first gave the name " hetcrophemy " te that sort of blunders in which the writer sets down a word entirely different from that which is in his mind te use. A fine speci men of this sort of blunder was the use of Dr. Gress' name in the editorial columns of the IXTF.r.T.ir.EXCEi: yesterday when plainly Dr. Agnew's was intended. In the course of the evening about a baker's dozen of people called at the office te claim the reward for their first discovery of it. The incident suggests that the. study el heteropheiiiy is a curious one and brings te light many queer instances of it in standard litera ture. The Pall Mill Gazette discusses the chances of an early financial crisis in the United States. It recalls the fact that an excess et exportation:-; only indicates a debtor nation, the excess being needed te meet its obligations. Our tariff and navi gation laws cause us te incur further ebli gatiens ; we ewe Englaud largely for re turns en the millions upon millions of British capital invested in United States mortgages, land reclamations, house prop erty, mines, etc. In one sense, ten, the enormous immigration constitutes us debtors te Europe, for the presence of such great numbers of aliens involves a steady drain of savings remitted te the relatives of these aliens. The European harvests this year will be geed, the expor tation of beef is net profitable, and all these things, the Gazelle thinks, will make it easy for the present raging spirit e? in Hated stock gambling te hurry us en te a finan cial crisis, if net a disastrous panic. PER&ONAL.. AIus. Julia Wakd Howe is writing a comic opera. James Gokdex Bennett is among the foreign notables new paying a brief visit te this country. Edwakij Richaudsex probably is the most wealthy cotton planter in the world. The New Orleans Picayune estimates Ihat he is worth $8,000,000. Frem a recant address before the Hart ford (Conn.) county bar association by ex ex Governer IlUBKAKD it. is inferred by his brother lawyers that he intends te present te the association a law library te east, it is said, net less than $20,000. AIns. SriiAGUE is an attentive reader of the New Yerk dailies. Any morning, seen after the arrival of the train at Atlantic City with the Getham papers, a couple of lads may be seen running neck and neck up the avenue te the perch of the Shcl burnc, and the one who wins is certain sure te leave four papers short. Grant's income cannot be far from $30, 000 a year. He has an active interest in a New Yerk business house which has been very successful. He gets perhaps $25,000 a year from the railroad company, and the two funds raised by Jenes and the Drcxcls for him amount te $330,000. It is net true that he has sold his Sc. Leuis farm. In Providence, R. I., Methodist Episee pal circles are excited by a publication in a local paper accusing the Rev. W. F. Whitcher, the leading Alethedist clergy man of the city, of pilfering rare books from libraries and dealers in old publica tions. Investigation tends te confirm the story. Wit. D. Kelly and Peter Heroic are having a fine fight ever the llcrdic coach business in Philadelphia which llerdic projected and Kelly backed. Then they quarreled and the Kelly party has ob tained an injunction temporarily restrain ing Peter llerdic from holding a meeting of the stockholders of that company, pur suant te a call issued by him. Brether AIoedy's Ckristi.au eonvcutien, Northfield, Alass., is te last a month. Four noted exhorters besides himself will be present, ami Air. Sankcy will have five sweet singing assistants. It is designed te have two hours a day only of religious ser vice, and the rest of the time will be de voted te social recreations. The enterprise, in fact, contemplates a place of summer resort for Christians. Dumas has been taking the waters of Royat with his family. Aldlle. Jeanuin Dumas, the ether Sunday, scandalized the local public by working at her tapestry in the most public part of the park. The DimaneJie des Families, having called atten tion te the lack of respect shown by Aldlle. Jcannine te public opinion, M. Dumas called upon the editor and requested him te mind his own business. Next week, however, the doughty DimaneJie des Famil ies returned te the charge, renewed its ac cusations against the offending young lady and after describing the visit of 31. Dumas te its editor, concluded by admon ishing the dramatist that he ought te make his daughter abstain from acts which are calculated te wound the ideas, usages, and convictions of the most re spectable part of the population. LATEST NEWS BY MAIL. In Cleveland 5,000 irresponsible boys aud young men carry arms. Ex-Judge Robertsen took the oath of office as collector of New Yerk pert yes terday. A Baptist society in New Yerk gathered in many sanctified nicklcs by running a lemonade stand en ciicus day. Henry Kerr, of Warwick, an old man of eighty years, swings the cradle in the harvest field all day. Gen. Hancock has accepted an invitation te the Franklin veteran soldiers' reunion en the 25th of August. A recently published report gives the number of Free-AIasens in this country as 545,887, being a little ever one te every hundred of our population. Jehn Nicbells and Air. Andersen, resi dents of Elizabethtown. New Yerk, were instantly killed by lightning under a tree where they had gene for shelter. Jacob Swarllcy, of Line Lexington, who died July 0, war. the father of nine chil dren, twenty-four grandchildren, and twenty grcat-graudchildren. Themas Heek, a stock raiser, shot his father dead at Terente Basin, Ariseua. The trouble arese from the divorce of-the parents and a quarrel ever the division of the property. William Gaviu, while suffering from de lirium tremens, leaped head foremost ever a precipice 125 feet high te the rocky bed of the Pecstinkill creek. He was terribly cut and bruised, but will recover. A large pile of lumber fell by accident in the lumber yard of Drew te Bucke, New Yerk city, aud crushed two men, Peter Alalley and William Aloian, te death. The bedice of H. At. Lochary and Aliss Jessie Edwards, of Cleveland, who went rowing en the lake 01s Thursday evening, have new both been recovered. They were engaged te be married. The engine of a passenger train en the Colerado Central railroad ran into a cul vert between Berthead and Longmont. Frank Whitney, engineer, and an unknown tramp were killed, aud W. Tillcry, fireman was badly bruised. The accident was caused by heavy rains washing the bridge away. TI1K CONVIUTKD I'OSTMASTKi:. IllM-iiviiry or a Flan ler the Printing of lrautiiilvtit Festal Cards. An important discovery has been made by United Stales Agent. Camp at the home ei' Linten J. GreiV, the dishonest postmas ter of Linten, Ohie, who was recently con victed of forging postal money orders. While searching Greffs premises for evi dences of the man's guilt as te money order printing, Air. Camp unearthed a number of very skillfully executed plates for the printing of postal cards, together with material sufficient te show that Greff had spent a great deal of thought and net a little eash in that direction. There was paper already cut in postal card form, but the shade was entirely tee light and its use would have betrayed its spurious charac ter. There were also found a large num ber of business addresses, and the indica tions are that Greff intended going into the business of printing cards for many firms en the backs of postal cards made by himself. This branch of his nefarious plan would have been an extremely profitable one, costing him a small fraction of a cent and selling for the regular price plus the cost of printing. The neatness of the engraving was special ly noted, and Air. Camp obtaining a clew te the artisan who executed the work, found him in New Yerk. It turned out however, that the engraver had acted in geed faith, Greff representing that he wished the cut meiely for advertising pur poses, ordering his name and address en graved en the same block and te appear as part of the card. He thus allayed all suspicion and received his cut. At Wells ville he had euly te separate that part of the cut bearing the address from the head and use the latter in his printing office. Inasmuch as Graft' had net yet issued or " uttered" any of his cards, his offense was, in the eyes of the law, a negative one. aud no action could be taken in the matter. Killed by Bees. SI. l.euU tifohc-Dcniecrat. Air. Jehn Alassey, a well-to-de farmer, near Bridgeton, it: St. Leuis county, is quite a bee fancier. Among the animals upon his well-stocked farm was a blind horse, and an excellent animal he was barring the less of sight. A few days age the herse turned into a small pasture, -and adjoining this was a let containing twenty seven stands of bees. An open gate gave the animal access te both enclosures, and his familiarity with the premises was such that he passed front one te the ether, nip ping grass, as though possessed of two geed eyes. The peer blind horse at last lest his bearings, stumbled in among the beehives and upset several stands. Out poured the bees from their honeycomb in thousands te punish the dcspeiler of their sweet homes. Hew long they were in re cognizing the herse as their fea is net known, for it was only learned by his groans and neigh ? of pain that anything unusual had happened. Ne one could de a thing te relieve the suffering beast, for the bees were mad. Left unmolested the bees spent their whole fury upon the horse, covering every inch of his hide from head te feet and stiife; him te death in about twenty mmute Dr. Aznew'sUuiuanity. Philadelphia Times Washington Dispatch. The arrangement te have 0110 of the consulting surgeons present all the time is at Airs. Garfield's solicitation. AVhi'e she has net felt any want of confidence in the resident physicians, she naturally wants te leave no precaution undone te secure the president against accidents. It is said that Dr. Agnew was requested te remain yesterday, but that lie de clined because of patients requiring his at tention iu Philadelphia. One of the resi dent physicians asked what kind of patients they were, aud the eminent sur geons replied that one was a laborer at the ship-yard, who had a badly-fractured skull, and the ether one of the same character, who was suffering from a wound iu the abdomen. These were particular cases, and he thought he might be able te save their lives by his presence. When .it was urged that the president's life was mere valuable, -tic remarked that the president was attended by skillful surgeons, abund antly able te cope with any emergency, while these peer men had uouedy. Human life was human life, and his presence was actually necessary in Philadelphia at this time. Foreign Duels. Baren Ven Geyso, a young officer of much premise, has been shot dead in Ber lin, iu a duel with a brother officer. Twe students of Gottingen fought a duel with pistols and one of them was mortally wounded. A duel took place at Gibraltar within the Spanish lines, by Spanish offi cers, a captain and a lictuenant. The cap tain was killed and the lieutenant serious ly wounded. VANuEKBILT AT THE KACES. Disinclined te Flowers or Speech Making. The recent trial of Aland S., at Chicago, was the only time her millionaire owner ever saw her in public. Hi3 presence occasioned great popular interest among the spectators. Air. Vanderbilt chatted pleasantly with these around him en rac ing and ether subjects during the regular races, but it who easily discerned that he was deeply intercsted.in Alaud S. and was extremely anxious that she should de something that would add te her fame. He had net seen her en the track since he purchased her, and he had been led te be lieve that she would lower her record made at Pittsburgh. As the time for the first trial drew near he manifested a nervous interest in the matter that increased perceptibly when the mare came flying down the stretch, aud Bair, her driver, nodded te the judges that he was ready. As she passed under the wire her owner mounted a chair and watched her intently, chronometer in baud, every step of the way, noting the'quarters aud making observations with reference te her conduct. When slip broke en the lower turn an expression of disgust was observed upon his face, but when she settled for steady work a smile took its place, and he climbed down from his place en the chair satisfied that she had done we'd enough for the first trial. When the marc had finished, Captain Jehn Vander bilt put down the field glasses he had been using, and cxultingly said : "Well, I beat Fester meaning Air. Dewey out of $10. I knew she'd break." Sema one sitting near, who had net eaught the tenor of the captain's remarks, asked him what he had wen, and he repeated what he had said. Air. Vanderbilt hurriedly crossed the stand, and in a tene that was by no means mild, said : " It's bad taste for you te make any such bet. You'd have people think she is in the habit of breaking." " Taste," replied the captain. " It's just like playing poker. Yeu don't bet for taste ; you bet te win. I find it pretty safe te bet auy horse will break sometime duringthrce heats." Air. Van derbilt did net continue the conversation, but it was plain that he was in no pleasant; frame of mind ever the captain's wager. The incident was a forcible illustration of the interest felt by the gentleman for his famous marc. When Alaud S. was again driven en the track Air. Vandcibilt expressed the opin ion that she would beat her best time, aud he prepared himself for a full view of the effort. She passed under the wire for a fast pace aud steadily increased it. Her owner watched her inteutly, and when he stepped his watch, at 2 :11A, he expressed great gratification at the result. The third trial was a disappointment te him. He believed she would make the mile in 2:10, if net better, and when she finished his niauner clearly indicated his disap pointment. His watch was stepped at 2:10J, but these of Cel. Conley and tin two ether gentlemen in the stand were precisely at 2:11. Air. Vanderbilt closely examined the two timepieces aud then 'turned away without a word. The mare had failed and he was net pleased. Air. Vanderbilt and his party were en the point of leaving the stand te return te the city when some one said. : " Wait, here are some flowers for you." The gen tleman looked ever the rail and saw a man approaching with a basket of cut flowers. He at once became flushed, and iu an em barrassed tene said : "Oh, I don't want any flowers." The flowers were taken up stairs and the bearer handed them te Air. Vanderbilt. He refused the gift and said: "Give them te Bair ; I don't want them." ' But Bair has some ; these are for you." Air. Vanderbilt took the flowers reluctantly while the crowd cheered, and Alayor Harrison urged him te make a speech. He was wefully dis concerted, and protested that he had never made a speech iu his life, and no timid school-girl was ever mere thoroughly em barrassed than was the great railroad king. Then, with no apparent desire te be discourteous, he handed the basket te the mayor and fairly ran down stairs te the track, where he was seen jeiued by his friends, lie recognized the plaudits of the crowd as he walked toward the club house, and seemed relieved that he had escaped. When at the club-house he was heard te say, " I wouldn't have carried these flowers across the track for a for tune." STATE ITBMb. A new railroad is te be built from Phila delphia aud Norristown. A new posfceffiec has been established at Lawndale, Bucks county. Burglars arc. making life unpleasant for Norristown. Doylcstewn is thtcutcd with water famine. A weekly paper will make its appear ance in Quakei town, about the 1st of Au gust. Francis Alurphy has obtained three thousand signers te the pledge- at Frank lin. Bees stung' a deg te death at Acorn station. They covered him r.e completely that net a hair could be seen. 50,000 men and boys arc required te de the work of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad company. Hen. A. II. Dill , announces that the Democratic stale committee will meet at Bolten's hotel, Ilarrisburg, en the 10th et August. A Kinzua, AIcKcau county man, seu of a well-to-de farmer, stele into the honse or an old lady aged sixty, who lived alone, and outraged her. He escaped. The boy AIcGrath, shot near Norristown last Sunday by Michael TaynOr, while purloining fruit, has had 104 shot removed from his body. Taynor is under $1,000 bail bends. A Doylcstewn Democrats correspondent says, better grain, especially rye, is raised 011 peer farms this year than en geed, and instances clever measuring four feet seven inches grown en peer soil. Henry and Jourden Kratz, of Doylcs Deylcs Doylcs eown, have each taken an Indiatt boy irem Carlisle. They arc of the Cheycnne tribe and arc described as intelligent and in dustrious. There names are " Davis " and " Darlington," after the present and late veteran editors of the Doylcstewn Democrat. An eleven-year-old Pottstown boy was gazing out of a second-story front window at his father's residence a day or two age, holding in his hand a pistol. Espying several children sitting en the step beneath him he drew a bead and fired. The pistol was leaded with shot, large numbers of which struck the children. Neither of them, however, were badly injured. Farming under difficulties : Henry Kcr lin, a farmer living a few miles above Pottstown, lest two horses by death a short time age, and at present three are very sick. As the disease has been pro pre pro neuueed epidemic by the attending veteri nary, Air. Kcrliu is unable te secure horses te de his farm work, aud en Saturday was compelled te haul his grain into the barn en a wheelbarrow. Jehn AlcKay, of Halifax, challenges A. E. Schaefer, of Pittsburgh, te a tliree mile scull race, te take place within four weeks for $500 or $1,000 a side. He will allow Schaeffer $200 for expenses te have the contest take place at Halifax, or he will row en Stiver Lake, Alass., each paying his own expenses. McKay has deposited $100 forfeit. The challenge remains open for ten days. A charter ha3 issned from the secretary of the commonwealth te the "Susquehanna, Pittsburgh and Western railway com pany, " te construct a railroad from Pitts burgh,through the counties of Allegheny, Westmoreland, Armstrong, Clearfield, Centre, Clinten, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Union and Lycoming, te Altlten, North umberland county, the length of the said read te be 225 miles, gauge four feet eight and a-half inches, capital stock $5,625,000, president, James S. Negley. At the the Butler colliery in Carbendale Evan Reese, aged 18, was standing en the upper screening wheel when a companion named Lawrie arrived. The latter told Reese te come down or he would pull out the iron belt holding the screen wheel which makes thirty revolutions a minute when iu motion. Reese refused te come down. The belt was thereupon withdrawn aud the screen turned se rapidly that it threw Reese fifty feet. He struck his head first upon a large rock below and his brains were knocked out and his whole body disfigured. THE AVAY OF XUE WORLD. Eccentricities or Crime and Calamity. Airs. Catharine La', whose home was with Jehn Kinsey, near Sellersville, fell down a flight of stairs en Sunday aud crushed her skull, causing instant death. Riley Aluuress, a wealthy citizen et" Erie county, shot himself fatally in the head at Waterford en Sunday night. There was 110 apparent cause for the sui cide. A farmer named Wilsen, living en the fine of the Kingsten & Pembroke railroad while passing through the bush unarmed, was attacked by a bear and tern te pieces. A Pittsburgh woman who was insulted by a man en the street weut home, get a revolver, returned te the spot and shot hi 111. The man fell, but as his wounds were net thought te be fatal the woman was allowed te go. W. F. Geerge, a Chicago machinist, shot and killed a barber and reputed In dian doctor named Epps, for alleged im propriety with a young girl, a friend of Geerge. The murderer is epileptic and perhaps irresponsible. Georgia Ball, the three-year-old seu of B. W. Ball, died in Oil city, in conso censo conse que nee of falling into a pail of boiling water while the servaut was giving him a bath. Stephen and Henry Grener, broth ers, and Eddie Sterner, who were burned by the gas explosion at their well at Clar Clar eneon have died. Having invited his companions te leek at him while he should sheet himself, Al bert Jehnsen, of Wilmington, spertively pulled the trigger of his pistol, which pointed te the right side of his face. The pistol proved te be leaded and the bullet crashed through the bone just in front of the car and penetrated deep into the brain where it remains. Jehnsen, who is eigh teen years old, was still alive yesterday. ltun Through by 11 Ilack I'nle. In Fert AVerth, Texas, Henry Tayler, a hack driver, ran his hack ever Charles Wilsen aud fatally injured him. The pole of the hack ran through Wilsen's body. Tayler was arrested en a charge of murder. A witness heard Tayler call out, ' Get out of the way or I will run ever you aud pay for you. " Tayler asserts that some one n his hack uttered the exclamation. Killed for a Burglar. A deaf and dumb son of a Air. Daniel, of Greene county, Va., was shot aud killed by Henry Waldren, colored, a few nights age. The young man was mistaken for a burglar, aud was challenged several limes, but en account of his infirmity, could net, of course, hear 01 reply. The colored man then fired, being directed te de se by Airs. Heruden, en whose premises the supposed burglar was. Waldren, who is a tenant of Airs. Heruden, was arrested, but upon examination was discharged. UeMing Hid or the Old Man. Ann Dcvere, who resides in Johustewni Pa., where, it is said, she has three sons in independent circumstances, brought her husband, an infirm man, te Jersey City aud left him en the street. She was about te start back for Pennsylvania when she was arrested by Captian AlcKay, at the instance of the overseer of the peer. When arraigned before Judge Pcleubct, she positively refused te take her husband away with her, and the Judge ordered her te be locked up until she shall give some guarautee that her husband will net be come a charge of the city. Clilldren roisenoit by a Servant. Five children of Themas Killccu, of New Orleans, aged respectively 1, 3, (3, 8, and 10 years, were poisoned by a colored servaut girl named Eliza Bartcly, who put rat poison into their senp. The girl was arrested and has confessed her crime. She says that she put poison into the soup te make the children sick, out of revenge, they having thrown rocks at her and called her " nigger," and as Airs. Killeen was about te discharge .her. The little girl, aged 3 years, died. It is hoped that the ether children will recover. One Girl Kills Anether. In Stanten. Haywood county, Teun.. Amanda Cox, aged 20, shot and killed Willie Lookout aged 10. The families of the parties had been quarreling several weeks. On the fatal night their mothers met at the well and renewed the quarrel, Amanda and Willie being present. Wil lie's mother struck Amanda's mother with a stick, when Amanda interfered te step the fight. Willie advanced en Amanda with an uplifted hoc, when the latter, see ing her danger picked up a piece of scant ling, saying she would strike whoever came toward her, placing herself in an attitude of defense. Willie's courage seemed te fail her, and as she turned Amanda gave her a heavy blew en the head. The unfortunate girl fell te the ground and never afterward spoke. She died in abeat an hour. Amanda has been arrested. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. AIOKE TKOUBLU. 'The Snapper Bex "and the "Castle in the Alley." As everybody knows there has been for some time past a very bitter feeling exist ing between Levi Sensenig and Samuel A. Graff the proprietors respectively of public houses near the court house. Yesterday 3Irs Scnscuig commenced the erection of a high sliding gate iu the yard of his Leepard hotel property, te close ene of the alley ways leading from the hotel yard te Duke street. This alley adjoins the Sprecher house, new occupied by Air. Graft', and both properties have the use of it. The erection of the gate by Air. Scnscnig will net deprive the Sprecher of the use of the alley but it will shut out the light from the basement and the first and second floors of a part of the building. As seen as Air. Sonsenig's intcntrea was discovered, the owner of the Sprecher house, Lewis Sprccher, applied for and was granted by Judge Patterson a tem porary injunction, restraining Air. Sense nig and his carpenters, Corener Shiffer and ethers, from the further .prosecu tion of the work. Air. Seascnig, we understand, holds that the proposed gate will be entirely ou his own property aud that he has a right te erect it ; aud furthermore that it is necessary te his protection, aud his privacy, the employees of the Sprecher house having at present a full view of his carriage yard, kitchen and private office, te his great annoyance. The Sprecher house pcople en the ether hand assert that the gate is going up en their ground ; that the previsions of then-title-deed forbid Air. Sensenig from build ing or placing any obstruction within three feet of the dividing line between their property and his own ; whereas the pro posed ungainly gate will occupy a place ex actly en the line of their property and greatly darken and injure it. ON THE STBBET. SUKXESAXu INCIDENTS IN T1IK C1T. Leisurely Lounging 'Bound the Town. New curbs are being put in en West King street. Is Hazcn, or Veuner, or whoever is run ning the weather, getting up a corner in corn and potatoes ? A mad deg was seen en the street last evening. Somebody trod ou the tail of his coat. It is well that custom inures one te many disagreeable things, else the conven tion of tobacco chewcrs te be seen at cer tain points of an evening would be exces sively auueyiug te passing ladies. Cern is suffering by reason of the dry weather. The leaves are curling up, and unless the parched earth is seen reiuvig reiuvig erated farmers feav a serious injury te the crops. Oats, however, were hardly ever better. Alany late sewn fields are net sufficiently advanced te reap, and such might be injured by heavy rains. One of the employees of the Intem.i Intem.i eencek escaped what might have been a serious accideut last night. He had been working in a warm room and became overheated. He went te a fourth story window, leaning far out te catch the breeze, and was seized with vertigo. It was with difficulty he saved himself from a headlong plunge te the pavement below. It would have been ver-ti-ge, in that way. Alilitiameu and ether embryo generals might learn something of the beauty of precision in drill, and the harmony of mechanical accord attained by habitual concerted action, by watching the laborers en the street. Fifteen or twenty will occasionally stand in a line, aud the rise and fall of the picks is as regular as the beat of a piston, yet no man gives ap parent heed te his fellows. A Mttle By Flay. Stage properties : banana with drunken biped attachment. Theatre : North Queen street. Play : low comedy. Plot : te effect a union between principal and attachment. Star performer : a laborer. Support : an awning pest. One arm embraced the pest as a ship wrecked mariner clings te a spar, the ether hand waved aloft the sheet anchor of his hopes, which rese aud fell with every un dulation of the heaving billows as grace fully as a drum major en dress parade. Yet the horoscope was omiueus. A shade of care bestrode the noble Rum'un's brew, perplexed thought currugated his every lineament ami melancholy marked him for its own. while abeve the mournful soughing of the winds arose the sybillant whisper " II ades !'' Sud denly the oscillating esculent lunged for the open hatchway ; stepped ; waver ed, and fell back iu geometric angles and parabolas as te safe anchorage : almost a wreck. Deep thought. A shifting of arms and a desperate gleam in the bulbs that did for eyes. It was patent the criti cal moment was come. Painfully poising the luscious fruit he eyed it distrustfully. Ne sinister desigus ou the surface. Ob servations taken and true position ascer tained. New began a series of skillful feints and intricate mancenvrcs of wary approach. In a moment of fatal ever con fidence, the recalcitrant banana launched fully at tlte adversary's half seasoned dead lights, that glowered redly through the murky haze. The cargo listed ; a lurch, a futile frenzied struggle with gravitation's laws, the hawser part ed, and the old hulk went ever en his beams end, stranded ou an inluspit able shore. Just then a providential con sort hove in sight, took the battered schooner in tow and lauded him in dry deck mighty dry. Reluctantly, but firm ly the cause of all the trouble was put away. Net spuruingly, but gently turned he him te depart, casting backward glances of mingled wonder, reproach and doubt at the object of his misguided affec tions. The match was off and se were the police. TDK L.AX1II.3V1LI.U CAMPJIEETISG. Its Opening Te-Day A Large Number of I'er.Jonsen the (.round. This was the first day of the annual Alethedist campmectiiigat Ijanilisville and the crowd iu attendance is very large. Nearly all of the tents are up aud there are but very few cottages which arc net occupied. Between fifty and sevcnty-live families are en the grounds from Harris burg, Reading, Columbia, Lancaster and ether places. The prospects ave that the camp will be as large as any that has ever been held at this popular place. This being the first day no services were held. Everybody is busily engaged en deavoring te get confertably fixed. Tents are being erected aud cottages cleaned. Since last year a great improvement has been made ou the grounds. A large wood en awning with canvas covering having been erected iu front of the pulpit in the weeds. It is neatly painted and en each pest there is a coal oil lamp which will be found te be a great improvement, en the torch used heretofore. Jes. R. Reyer, of Lancaster, has charge of the bearding house and refreshment stands. Beard can be had for $1 per day or 7 for the whole term of ten days. Per sons taking single meals will be charged as fellows : Dinner 50 cents, supper and breakfast -10 cents each. J. A. llellingcr, of Lancaster, will act as police officer en the grounds during the camp, and Isaac Pewl & Sen, of the Wal nut street livery, will run their line of busses and baggage wagons from the depots te the grounds. The singing will be in charge of Alcssrs. Kirkpatrick of Philadelphia and Ellcn berger of Ilarrisburg. A great many Lancastrians are en the ground aud among them is our jelly friend Henry Shubert, who is celebrating his 02d birthday today. He has been en the grounds for the past two weeks. He leeks happy and says he has had a wonderful appetite during his stay in the weeds. Persons arc arriving in every train, aud among these who came this morning was Rev. J. Dickersen, of Philadelphia, who is presiding elder and has charge, of the vamp. The first sermon will be preached this evening, and after that there will be ser vices at (J and 10 a. m., and and 7.V p.m., with a children's meeting every afternoon. The campground is very dry and dusty, and a geed soaking rain will be very wel come te the campers. Beth the Reading aud Pennsylvania companies are selling excursion tickets te the campmcctiug at reduced rates. WASHINGTON BOKOITGU NKIVS. Items Frem Down the Kivcr. The transportation of coal and lumber en the Columbia & Pert Deposit railroad is very heavy at present. An extra freight train was run en this read for several days last week. The picnic te be held by the Church of Ged Sabbath school in bhenck's weeds en Wednesday of this week, premises te be a grand affair. The AI. E. Sunday school has been invited and is expected te join with the former. The Washington Star cornet band has been engaged te furnish the music for the occasion. Addresses will be delivered in the afternoon. Airs. Wm.Brewn and her two daughters, of St. Leuis, AIe., arc in town visiting their friends. They arc the mother and sisters of W. C. Brown, esq., merchant at this place. F. Y. Weidcnhamcr has the sale here of tickets for Clark & Schmidt's Atlantic City excursion en the 18th from Columbia and Lancaster. This experienced manage ment offers tickets geed for two days te this famous resort 75 cents less than the rate of last year, geed only for one day. A yenug friend of Air. Fred Charles is also in town spending his summer vacation along the banks of "The Beautiful." The youth lives with his parents iu Dole Dele ware county. All day long the little boys, and big ones tee, may be seen splashing about iu the water of "The Beautiful." Air. Jehn Alellingcr is doing finely. T11K I.KAF. Lecal Tobacco Affairs. The cry among tobacco farmers from eue cud of Lancaster county te the ether is for rain. Tobacco is such a rank and juicy weed, that te perfect its growth a great deal of moisture is neces sary, both in the air and in the earth. Fer soma weeks past large sections of the county have been utterly void of rain. " and "old probabilities" has given them "high bar ometer and rising temperature," with al most invariable regularity. The air has been het aud dry, the ground parched and the tobacco consequently checked in its growth. Frem several sections of the county it is reported te be stunted and running te seed, and tee much injured te be recuperated, even if the weather should henceforth preve favorable. In mere favored sections where local rains have prevailed the growing crop leeks fine, and if it docs net meet with any untoward casualty as hail, fleas, green worm, etc. in these favored sections a full crop will be gathered. It is hardly possible, however, that even with the in creased acreage of the present year the crop of the county will equal that of last year or the year before. There have been a few sales of packed tobacco recently. The Alcssrs. Lachcn brucli have sold ever 500 cases mere of their Lancaster county packing te a New Yerk manufacturing house. Gans, of New Yerk, has bought two or thrce pack ings, and Frank II. Bacr has sold te Op penhcimcr 500 cases packed iu this city at Werthcimcr's warehouse. The prices paia ler these several packings have net been made public. Our esteemed and cnterprisiug co tem porary, the New Yerk Tobacco Journal, has discovered auether mare's nest, namely, that the growers of Lancaster county " consider themselves as having been nutzed (a German-American term for fooled) by the packers, and express their determination te get ' square ' with them en the 'SI crop." and forthwith the editor sounds the alarm. In another article adorned with glaring headlines the Journal cautious its readers against a combination aeaeng certain packers te "corner the '81 crop of Penn sylvania." These are its words : A rumor was in circulation in the seed leaf market this week that a combination had been formed by several lartre and wealthy city packing linns and seme banks te corner the '80 Pennsylvania crop. Those These named as being at the head of the move ment are Bunzl & Dermitzcr, Haveracycrs & Vigclins, E. Rosenwald tfc Ure. and one or two ethers. These firms, it is said, packed but very little of the '80 Penn sylvania crop, fearing te make an exten ,sive investment iu it owing te the supposed injury te the leaf by fleas and ether tpeaus. New that this crop rapidly sells at very paying figures, notwithstanding many al leged deficiencies, and as it almost seems that manufacturers take held of Penn sylvania whether it is zeA or bad, the "outs' are said te Iks bound te be the "ins " this year, and therefore have formed a combination te pnrchase the best portion .of the '81 Pennsylvania crop as seen as it is it, without competing with each ether, and before ethers in the trade are aware of their operations. Fer this pur pose a number of agents living in the tobacco-growing sections of Pennsylvania are claimed te have already been engaged, and at the word "go" are te start out and buy up what it is thought is worth buying up, and leave the rest te the outsiders. New Tobacco Warehouse. Air. L. T. Ilensel, is about te commence the erection of a two-story brick tobacco warehouse, adjoining his present ware house in Quarryville. The new building will be ."2 by 00 feet, and have an eight feet cellar beneath it. It will lie built in the most substantial manner, aud contain all approved conveniences aud appliances. I'AST ONi: HUXDICKD-AND OXE. Uew Aunt Nniicy Sterrlt Lived and Died at Over Five Score. Yeu hear and read of a geed mauy bo gus ecutennariaus, but old aunt Nancy Sterrit, who died ou Sunday, near Safe Harber, was a genuine ene. Air. Jehn Rodaker, who has lived down ie these parts all the 51 years of his life knows she was a woman of advanced age when he was born ; and though she has only lived in Concstega township (50 years, it is certain she was born a few years after the Declaration, and had grown almost te womanhood when Wash ington died. She was a pious Alethedist and was se greatly esteemed by all of her neighbors that when she rounded out her hundred years en June :10, 1880, a great concourse of them visited her heusu and took her many presents. The glad sur prise was almost tee much ler the old woman, and she never quite recovered from the shock of the friendly invasion and has net had her wonted health since-. Her death last Sunday, at the age of 101 years and 2t days, was a notable event for miles around her home. Her husband, Authony Sterrit died 21) years age ; a colored man named Walker of this city, isher younger sistcr'shusbaud, and her own children are aged people. Aunt Nancy once used glasses, but long age get her second sight, laid them aside aud before she died her vision wassoi.cute that she could thread a needle without artificial aid. She was fend of the pipe and smoked it te the end of her days an example for Trask and " Aleta Lander." Aunt Nancy, everybody who knew her be be eoves, has gene where geed pcople go. m Hiram DfcKlrey'ii Surprise Farty. Yesterday was the thirty-fifth birth day of Comrade Hiram AIcElrey, and his friends and associates of the Grand Army and of the Brotherhood of the Union con cluded that it would be a geed thing te show their appreciation of him en this oc casion. Forty of the Geerge II. Themas pest, and about twenty members of the Brotherhood, met in the Square last even ing and with Frank Haines's drum corps, at 9 o'clock, marched tip te Air. AIcElrey's, corner of Frederick and North Queen street, and with flying colors and beating drums invaded and took possession of the house, store aud grounds. Hiram surrendered without parley. He was net lacking iu the com missary department and hospitably enter tained them at a well-spread table. Then there were complimentary speeches, warmly applauded, by A. C. Leenard 011 behalf of the veterans, by Sam'l Fritz for the Brotherhood of the Union and by Sir Knight AlcIIhenny for the Knights of the Revolution. The company dispersed . in the best of geed spirits at 11 p. in., and if he lives te be 1155 years old Air. AIcElrey will Lever forget what a birthday he had last night. The annual session of the Grand Circle, B. U. (H. F.) Pa., will Le held in Reading en Tuesday, August 9. On that occasion there will be a parade of the order and a picnic at Lauer's park. Lancaster Circle Ne 108 and Concstega 110 or thiscity will be represented and in the parade Washing ton legion. Ne. 3 K., of It. will be com manded by Capt. H. AIcElrey. . Jurers for United States Cenrt. The following are the names of the Lan caster county persons drawn for the U. S. district court, August term : Grand jury : .ieei u. .LiijMmier: ran jury: Mr . .11. Cooper, Samuel Truscott, Gee. W. Aleuaffey.
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