LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER MONDAY, AUGUST I, 1881. Eancastet intelligencer MONDAY EVENING, AUOUST 1, 1881. Preparations for Panics. The panic, se variously and persist ently predicted for us en both sides of the water, seems, at a superficial view of the .sjtuatien, hardly reconcilable with the present harmonious relations between hVbef and capital. Net in many years has there been such universal accord in all the ramifications of business, such reciprocal blending of interests among all classes, and se little attrition. This prosperity is in a measure phenomenal, in that it is mainly due te a concatena tion of natural causes in the ordering of which neither business astuteness nor stale-craft had anything te de. These conditions were, and arc, fortuitous, and in their very nature ephemeral, and in our self-gratulatien the fact should net be lest sight of that a great part of our prosperity is purchased at the expense of ethers. Our abundance would avail us little were ethers similarly favored. This argues an unhealthy state, in a general sense. Tiiat one people should fatten upon another's misfortune was never contemplated in the economy of government. It is possible that all should enjoy an abundance of nature's gifts and yet. neither panic nor stagnation ensue. It does net fellow that all nations, given equal opportunity, would attain the same plane. Native character will make it self felt. Energy and enterprise, if fos fes tered and regulated by a judicious na tional policy, will utilize the diversified products of the glebe te advantageous purpose. In the interchange of com modities intelligence and energy will ever gain the ascendency ever what we may term conservatism. Other things being equal, then, il i.i net in the letter ing prospects of ethui countries that the source of panics is te be sought. These may facilitate, but never cause a panic in this country. The history of our cjunlry teaches that panics are recur rent and usually preeceded by a period of great, activity. New, it is an anoma lous preposition, that panics are the le gitimate offspring of prosperity. It is neither logical nor reasonable. There is no generic relation between them icr .c Where, then, seek the germ from which the.se calamities fructify ? Manifestly in tiie people themselves. The Ameri can character is stirring, driving, pro gressive and essentially sanguine. It is indomitable and impatient of re straint. In a word it is ambi tious and energetic, but net re lied ivc. 11 might be judged tee mercu rial for stabillity, though net lacking in the elements of strength. Like a bow it bends te adversity, butretreacts with an elasticity that projects it te the opposite extreme. Withal ic is a composite character whose prominent trait is con tempt of consequences. A high mettled steed that works best with the bit of moderate stringency in its mouth. Easy times give rein te the speculative pro pensities. The mania percolates through every stratum of society. Utopian schemes multiply, visionary enterprises and hazardous speculations dazzle, money is squandered and onerous obli gations assumed in the delusive belief that all this feverish activity is business and that the boom has come te slay. This inflated bubble grows rosier as the tension augments, until finally it bursts, our grand projects are nil, and what should have been permanent prosperity is new a panic. The conditions are net at fault, no mere than blame attaches te the rope with which the suicide hangs himself. The inherent qualities of the people precipitate these ieriedical col lapses, and until experience teaches the value of sound business principles we may anticipate Black Fridays and Bine Mondays. The Philadelphia Press te-day enters upon the twenty-fifth year of its exist ence, and its publishers will be believed in their declaration that it never" had a mere premising birthday. The recent marked journalistic strides of the Press have been the wonder and the admira tion of its Pennsylvania contemporaries. Its publisher has net been short-sighted in his backing of the efforts te restore it te its old place, in the front rank of journalism, and the energy and ability or its editor, Mr. Smith, its man aging editor, Mr. Handy and their able staff have directed it te a position far beyond that which it occupied before. Its present manaueinent has restored te it the geniality which marked its editor ial columns when controlled by its foun der, Cel. Ferney ; but journalism in Philadelphia and everywhere is such a different thing new from the manage. men I of a newspaper even in the late- days when Colonel Ferney owned two, " both dailies," that enter prise and success ten or fifteen years age afford no standard of mea surement for te-day. One need onTyleok at the leading newspapers in Philadel phia te-day and compare them with what . they were before the 2Vwc.s'.s entrance into the ranks te sec hew much mere it means te lead new than te have led then. We are glad te knew that the enterprise of the Press has been rewarded with material success i ml ceil, there is no reasonable doubt about it. Withal, its pre-sent position proves the important lessen that in the sharpest rivalries of journalism there is room for the most generous emulation, and that any com munity will support mere geed newspa pers than peer ones. In celebrating its biijth-day the Press discovered that it fell upon the same day as that of the author of the " Star . Spangled -Banner," in which it found occasion te pronounce that lyric " our national song" and te publish some memoirs of its author, which have a local interest for Laucasterians, net se much because the writer of them resides here, as from the fact that it was a Lan casterian who first set Key's national an 4 them te music, and the still mere inter ' estings'iact that a granddaughter and , .otbeVj lineal descendants of Key are res idents of this city, in the family of our . esteemed fellow citizen Dr. Jehn S. Messersmith, medical director of the United Slates navy, whose wife's methsr v.n a daughter of the man who gave the country its national hymn. TnE mayor and chief of police, we are confident, will net remain inactive under the charges of the New Era that some of the police arc derelict in their duty, and either are negligently ignorant of offenses calling for its exercise or, knowing, dare net enforce the law fear lessly against the offenders. Ne one who has observed with what strictness and impartiality the mayor ha3 enforced police discipline will for a moment coun tenance the suggestion that he is deterred from insisting upon the performance of the policemen's duty by' any political " power behind the throne," since the moral power of a popular majority of ever 800 at the last city election is the best assurance that no police policy is se apt te be rewarded with popular favor as that for which the mayor received this hearty endorsement, viz.: That every officer must de his duty and enforce the law or he " must go." Nevertheless,as in this case of the New Era's charges, a re sponsible party makes direct charges, let them be duly investigated and the ac cused be either vindicated or punished, as their innocence or guilt may appear. Order must reign en East King street ;is well as Middle. The New Yerk Times has get se far along with its Star Reute investigations as te speak of " Key's strange apathy." MINOB TOPICS. Should women be called cranks" because they turn men's heads? The " limited " co-eperativo dress asso ciation is in charge of Mr. Wales. Dees this imply the Prints of Wales in bathing costumes ? Because Dr. Cream, of Chicago, was gathered in ler murder, ifc was erroneously reported that the authorities were skim ming the Illinois river. It was discovered after the decease of "Old Abe," the celebrated Wisconsin war eagle, that it was net that kind of bud. It should have been christened Dr. Mary Walker, Gail Hamilton or Jean of Arc. A German savant announces that a new moon for the earth is new in process of formation by the condensation of the zodiacal light which surrounds our planet, and that it may iake its place in the heavens in the course of a few years. This is a mean subterfuge te bear gas company stock. Tin: number of idiots and imbecile per sons in this country is estimated at about one in every 1,000 of the general popula tion. There are about 2,500 pupils at pre sent in the schools for idiot and feeble minded children, and class training is found very much superior te individual training. Puetty house aprons of white sattecu for pretty girls, have pockets en which arc bee hives in Turkey red stitched cm breidery, each hive in a different perspec tive. Bees form tee border, and are scattered ever the apron, while the motto, Hew dot It tiie little busvbec lium-eve eueli shining hour. Anil itlim' "honey opening liewcr ill ihe l:iy from every runs diagonally across the front. The New Yerk Sun has taken up the cause of Midhad Pasha, and devotes many columns te proving that the trial te which he with seme ether eminent and wealthy Turks, has just been subjected en the charge of having murdered the late Sultan Abdul Aziz was aceusriracy,aud the result predetermined by the present heads of the government, the sultan and the grand vizier. Its purpose was te destroy men whom they feared aud te plunder men whose wealth they desired. Peer's Railroad Manual states that Horatio Alt.en who ran the first locomo tive ever used in the United States, and Jehn Ekicssex, who competed for the prize for the first locomotive used en the Stockton fc Burlington railroad, in Eng land, are both new living in New Yerk. It is only fifty-two years since these events took place, but the period covers a greater revolution than any former epoch of ten times its length in the history of the world. Most of our modern slaug upon investi gation turns out te be classic. In Jeseph Caryl's " Exposition of Jeb," a work in twclve volumes, published in 1C59, this phrase is used : In commenting en verse 14, chapter 31, last clause : " What shall I answer ?" he says : " Surely I shall have never a word te say. I shall net be able te frame an answer myself, nor can any advocate among the sons of men draw up one for me which tcill held irate r in the day of that visitation." The increasing carrying tralu of the Mississippi is begining te have its logical effect upon eastern termini. Philadelphia shows :t decline of about fifty per cent, in its receipts of grain as compared with the same period last year. This cannot be said te be solely the result of Mtssissippian com petition, but it undoubtedly will cause, in the years immediately following, a serious falling off of eastern grain transportation. The river is the natural outlet of the West aud Seuth, and since its channel has been deepened te allow the passage of first class vessels it is being put te its legitimate uses. .Maine is enjoying a deadlock all by herself. Since Blaine was promoted te the presidency, his Maine-stay has rather dropped out of range of the public lorg nette, but they hi ve brewed a nice little tempest in a tea pet for all that. The governor and Ins council quarreled ever an appeinment mere spoils, and the ex ccutivc, with a lively recollection of Leuis XIV., adjourned his advisory beard sine die, and thinks of governing himself a little while. In any ether state this wouldn't be. mnch of a typhoon, but up there the governor cannot de anything without his council and that body caunet meet until he convenes it. Neither will yield, se the wheels of government are blocked. It is suspected the presence of the comet in the northeast exercises a malign influence. That, is much happier than "spoils. " In deprecation of tlie manners of the tee frequent landlord at the summer re newspaper correspondent says "Mine host " was once a term of meaning when tavern-keepers were net above their trade, and the guest found at the deer a plain, well-fed man, with honest eyes, who took his baggage or his hand and said, "New, come te me if anything gees wrong." In these days some bar keeper turned great roan has replaced the host, whose ambition it is te appear te de nothingandtelook haughty and intellect ual, as if a glorious ancestry kept his im pulsiveness in check. Some of these par venus run four or five hotels and spend most of their time traveling between them, instead of looking after the parsenal com fort of the bird they have caught. The word table d'hete they are new affecting means the table of the hest'taniily, at which he presides and carves, but the average host nowadays is se ashamed of his guests that he hides his family like a Mexican or Brazilian grandee from the sight of travelers. PEBbONAi. Dan Rice's second wife is a suitor for a divorce from him en the charge of de sertion. This is the way, tee, that he came te have his second wife. Frank LaFi-esche, the brother of " Bright Eyes," who is new a clerk iii the interior department, had no objection, te his sister marryiug a white man, but he thought "she ought te have get one worthy of her." Ta, ta, Tibbies. Geerge W. Tahii, a former citizen of Jeffersen county, West Va., aud foreman of the jury that convicted Jehn Brown, in consequence of which his family was greatly persecuted during the war, has died at Harrisonburg, Ya. An ' 'amusing report " has lately beeu circulated, te the effect that directly the Land bill has passed the Commens Mr. Gladstone wMI go te the upper IIouse as Earl of Oxford, aud leek after the inter ests of the bill in that august assemblage. Wii.mam Lehman Ashmeau Buruett-Ceutts.-Bartlett seems likely te lese himself among names. He has lately ad vertised several additions te his original patronymic, and new tells the world that, pursuant te the Duchess of St. Albans's will, he will henceforth use the surname Coutts. Senater David Davis intends te retire te private life at the expiration of his present senatorial term and under no con sideration will he be a candidate for re election. He intends te reside the re mainder of his days in Dloemington, 111., and devote his time te the attention of his private business. The steamer General Sherman, with Sit tixe Bull en beard, arrived yesterday at Bismarck, Dakota. Sitting Bull was given his first view of a locomotive. He said he " did net want te see any mere of the iron horse," and he refused te ride in a railroad car. After spending the day at Bismarck the Indians left in the beat for Standing Keck. In conferring upon our Ameiicau philol ogist. Prof.. Wii.mam Dwight Whitney, the membership of the Order of Merit, made vacant by the death of Carlyle, the Emperor William has paid a graceful com . pliment te American learning, as well as worthily recognized the merits of one. of the most distinguished of philologists. Jehn McLaughlin, of McLaushlin Bre.'s, Philadelphia, large' owners in the Tifncs, who recently returned from a health voyage te Europe, has died at Cape May. Mr. McLaughlin was about ."50 years of age and was highly respected by all who knew him. He was deservedly nenular in financial circles, aud had numerous friends in all walks of life. David Carrell, superintendent of the Mount Vernen cotton-duck mills, has died in Baltimore count', Md., of paralysis, with which he was attacked entbe22d inst. Mr. Carrell, who was 70 years old, was the founder of the first cotton mill at Woodbury, in Baltimore county, in 183G, and since that time has built and operated ether mills and died a millionaire. The members of her Majesty's body guard, under thejr new captain. Lord Carrington, purpose entertaining his Roy al Highness, the Prince of Wales at their "buck dinner," in return for his disting uished hospitality te them during the sea son. This dinner is an institution which took root from the fact of her Majesty sending the corps each year a fat buck from her preserves in Windser Ferest. The United States Steamer Alliance. bound for the northern regions in search of the Jeauuctte, and with Paymaster Reah Frazer of this city, en beard, ar rived at Reikairk, Iceland, ea July 9, aud the crew were kindly received by the authorities. The day after leaving St. Jehns the Alliance encountered a gale from the southeast with a heavy sea, which stove in a bow pert aud broke one of the lower booms. The gale lasted twenty four hours, after which, with the exeptien of two days fresh southwest winds, it had eight variable airs during the passage. Millionaire Mark Hepkins never kept nor had kept an account book of any kind net even a bank book, nor any ether simi lar rcceid, te show his individual dealings and operations. Everything that he had, all the money he made from all sources, was turned into the Western Development company, and from that company he drew when he wanted money te pay a tailor's bill or build a two million mansion. He left an estate of $10,000,000. 'Seme of his heirs claim that the estate was worth $27, 000,000, and that $11,000,000 should yet be distributed. Mrs. Hepkins, asexcutrix, entered bend in the sum of $5,000, 000,. and she says that only $275 in an item that was overlooked remain undistributed. Fire ana Explosion. The grist mill of Heskins Bres, at Leng view, Texas, "burst" en Saturday " with a fearful report." James Green, colored, was injured by a flying piece of stone. Instead of 14 men, 18 were injured by the explosion of Wealner Bres.' distillery iu Peoria, III., nine of whom have died and three mere will net live. A fire at Whitehall, Muskegon county, Michigan, destroyed nearly all the stores en the main street, causing a less esti mated in the aggregate of $130,000. Pratt, Read & Ce.'s piano key factory, at Deep River, Connecticut, has been destroyed by fire. Less, $150,000. Its destruction throws out of employment about 100 men. The steamers Idlewild and Osceola Belle were destroyed by fire at Memphis. Beth were te start en trips this afternoon. The Idlewild was valued at $25,000 ; the Osceola Bolle at $20,000. sort, a piquant LATEST MEWS BY MAIL,. The Kentucky state election will be held te-morrow. English and Italian residents atSfax de mand $2,000,000 damages en account of the French bombardment. O' Donevan Ressa says the uew Fenian torpedo beat cost $90,000 and would net sell for $5,000 for old iron. It is a failure. Near Wellsville, N. Y., iu a quarry twenty-six feet below the surface were found two young hickory trees, petrified. The completed census totals for the dominion shows a population of 4,350,933, against 3,070,435 in 1871, an increase of 680,493 about 19 per cent. Sir Jehn Mowbray, Bart., M.P. for Ox ford University, sails iu the Cunarder Gallia, leaving Liverpool te-day, for a tour in the United States and Canada. Four boys, from 9 te 12 years of age, attacked an old German woman named Mrs. Hannah -Davidech in New Yerk, robbed her of $150 and made their escape. Around Mendota, HI., harvest hands arc se scarce that the eats is ever-ripe and men cannot be found te cut it at from $2.50 te $3,00 per day. A block of ice melted at Connersville, Ind., was'feund te contain a frog weigh ing a quarter of a pound and in geed health. Three, employees at the White Heuse, among them Mr. Cramp, who has been the president's nurse, were prostrated by ma laria en Saturday. A heavy rain storm did much damage in Denver, Colerado, en Saturday. Cellars were Heeded and walls and buildings in ceurse of erection undermined. The Memphis, Paducah & Northern railroad and its rights and franchises have been sold te C. P. Huntington, Jehn Ecclcs and II. E. Huntington, for. $2,300, 000. . James Robb, at one time a banker in Cuba, and head of the banking system of the Cuban government, died in Cheviot, near Cincinnati, en Saturday morning, aged G8 years. At Brighten, England, which is the largest watering place en the glebe, with abeve 100,000 permaueut residents, the chief duties, of hotels are performed by women mainly, the porters work excepted. A shark se von feet long went into the ury heck near j?erc Aicuenry witli a steamer, and was net discovered until the water was nearly pumped out. It was very savage and lived for nearly an hour after the water left it. James W. Fallow, of New Yerk, a sugar grader, who went te St. Leuis in search of work and failed te get it, com mitted suicide with laudanum. He has two brothers practicing law in Piedmont N. Y., and three children iu New Yerk city. On the Old Colony railroad iu compli ance with the Massachusetts law, ever forty engineers, firemen, conductors and ethers have been dismissed because they have defective sight. Among this number is a conductor who has served for thirty two years and nevcr had an accident hap pen te his train. At Kccne, New Hampshire, a young man was badly poisoned from using his tengue in wetting stamps while applying them te about two hundred envelopes. The poison had been taken iu sufficient quantities te produce vieleut pains in the abtamen aud limbs and ether symptoms of quite an alarming nature. P. W. Crewe, of Peoria, no longer de nies, nut proclaims, Ins manufacture of the infernal machines discovered at Liver pool. He says mere of them are being made in Peoria, and that the members of the order which he represents, believing themselves net liable te prosecution, will continue their work until England shall de justice te Ireland. Gilbert Gorden, a grandson of Daniel D. Tompkins, ence governor of New Yerk, and Vice President of the United States, has been arrested iu New Yerk en a charge of larceny. He confessed te va rious ether crimes. He was ence a pay master in the army aud made money very rapidly. Drink caused his downfall. Among the sensations at Saratoga Fri day, was the claiming by two women of the remains of the late Themas Busteed of New Yerk city, who cucci suaucmy cany mursday morning while seated in a Broadway liquor shop. Each claims te be his wife. One is from Baltimore and the ether from Rochester. The 5:40 New Yerk train en the Read ing railroad struck a carriage at Ninth and Oxford streets, Philadelphia, demol ishing it, and severely injuring the driver, Reuben Rosenheim, and its occupants, Mrs. Mary Kepp, Mrs. Sal lie Zell and her son Rebert, Mrs. Samuel Wolf and Mr. Jehn Wolf. They were returning from a funeral. F. Raieuni, a blacksmith in the Hanni bal and St. Jeseph shops, get mad at his helper, a green hand, and talked pretty roughly te him The helper, a big, brawny fellow, finally lest his temper, and picking up the little, old blacksmith, threw him into the fire en the forge. Raieuni scrambled out, with a brtiishcd arm as worst injury, and the master me chanic gave him a new helper. A negre women iu Lynchburg was pre sented with goods ler a dress for her two year old Fannie, but the mother out of the goods made a dress for her two-weeks-old baby. A few days age Fanny recog nized her dress en her infant sister, and at ence struck the little thing en the head with all her might. The blew happened te fall en the baby's neck, and death re sulted instantaneously. The child was nursing at the time. STATE ITEMS. At. the Snengerfest picnic in Wi'kcsbarre en Wednesday the receipts were $3,000. Gov. Bloxam, of Flerida, is sick at the Girnrd house, Philadelphia. A cargo of locomotives was shipped te Brazil from Philadelphia Saturday. Agent Funk of the Pennsylvania railroad says he cannot meet the demand upon him for emigrant labor. Twe thousand dollars in geld and silver rewarded the authorities of Kittaning who mined in the rags of a tramp. Wm. Halleck, of Pittsburg, has sued hi.s wife for assault and battery because she knocked him down and thrashed him soundly. There has been a srrcatcr increase in the business of the Philadelphia posteffico in the last six months thau iu auy ether iu the United States. The late Representative Derrauce, of Tiega, left by his will a legacy of $1,000 te the Presbyterian church, and $500 te be invested for the Sunday school. Policeman Wm. II. Neinburg, of Phila delphia, fell dead ou Saturday, while con ducting a prisoner te the district station house. The emancipation celebration of the colored people of Eastern Ohie and West ern Pennsylvania will be held at Sharen, i a., te-morrow. The office of commissary in the Na tional guard has been abolished and the duties of that position will fall upon the quartermaster. Ellen Hall, aired eighteen mouths. Phil- adclphia, died from the effects of drinking coal oil. The child's methcrwas cleaning out a cupboard when the little one crawled te it and get held of the coal oil from a lower shelf and took a drink before it was seen. The First Brigade of Pennsylvania National Guards, Brigadier General Geerge R. Snowden commanding, began a week's encampment near Pottstown en Saturday. About 2,100 officers and men are in the camp, which is named after General Rene, who fell at the battle of Seuth Mountain. , A great .sensation has been caused among the Catholics in West Philadelphia by the alleged appearance of the Virgin Mary, first te Mary Agnes Dunn, a girl 18 years of age. who has been blind for 12 years ; then te the girl's family,and finally te a crowd of visitors. Her pastor declines te express any opinion. Kcccnt Tragedies. William Hall, colored, was stabbed te death.by James Mulligan, a farmer, near Laclede, Missouri, en Saturday 'afternoon. Mulligan says he acted iu self-defence. Gumming Marien was fatally stabbed by his brother-in-law, Michael Cloherty, in a family quarrel, in Bosten, en Satur day night. Geerge S. Fisher was shot dead by Eisha T. Suttle, in a quarrel about a girl in a beer garden, near Indianapolis, ou Saturday. The young wife of William Norten, a stonecutter, committed suicide near Alten, Illinois, en Saturday, by cutting her threat because of domestic unhappincss. The money chest of the Texas Central bridge workmen, ten miles from Dallas, Texas, was robbed last Friday night of $118. The bridge men were after the robber en Saturday with shot guns. . Frank Gilbert and Merrick Hescugrauts were hanged at,Leadvi!le, Colerado, en Friday, in presence of about 7,000 people. Resengrants asserted his innocence, and Gilbert said he acted in sclf-dcfcnce. The wife of Jehn Lane, living near Gencsee, Cook county, III., attempted suicide en Friday by cutting her threat, and then jumping into a well 35 feet deep. She was taken from the well alive, but no hope was felt of her recovery. Jehn Hayes, a lad employed in a Mon treal fluid beef factory.ewing te some mis hap, was drenched with scalding fluid. The lad ran shrieking through the build ing, and before help could reach him he expired iu great agony. Mrs. Maria Walrath died, near Jancs ville, Wisconsin, en Saturday, from the effects of a blew en the head with a shot gun, given by Frederick Blank-, a neigh bor, with whom she quarrelled. She was 43 years of age, aud leaves a husband and three children. On Saturday morning an explosion oc curred iu the elevator that lifts the malt te the sixth fleer of Geerge Ehret's brow brew cry, in New Yerk, which blew off the en tire reef of the west wing, and damaged the building and its contents te the extent of $25,000. Ne lives were lest, and no one employed iu the building was even injured. name White, a notorious mail robber and murderer, formerly of Texas, lias just been arrested in Colerado. In 1877 he was convicted of highway lebbcry of the mails in Texas, aud sentenced te imprison ment for life in the West Virginia peni tentiary. Hayes was induced te pardon him last spiing. ' Drowned. Edward Daltou, aged forty, and Wm. Quinn, aged thirty-four, while bathing in the bay at Jersey City. Kent McNutt, private secretary te Tennessee's secretary of state in Nashville. Hans Merba, an engraver of Celts armory, at Wcthcrs lield, Conn, while bathing iu the river. Nite Sabatine, an Italian employed en the Southside railroad, who walked off the tow-path of the Eric canal. Mr. II. W. Lawrence, in company with his wife, baby and a daughter about six teen years of rgc, were driving in a car riage te visit seme friends at Surrounded Hill, Ark. Reaching a small bayou the mother and daughter, the former with the infant in her arms, stepped out while Lawrence led the horses en te the ferry beat a small ilat beat. The ladies then stepped abroad aud the craft was pushed into the stream. When midway the horses became frightened and began rearing ami backing. In their struggles they crowded the mother, baby and daughter into the stream aud finally ended in backing them selves overboard into the midst "of the struggling unfortunates in the water. Lawrence, made frantic by the accident, jumped overboard and attempted te rescue his wife and childurcn, but without avail. The horses, carriage and the victims were all mixed in an inextricable mass and all went down together. Tllli Y. 31. C. A. IN LONDON. Opening or tlie Ninth Triennial Conference of AH I.unils. The ninth triennial conference of the Yeung Men's Christian association of all lands met in Exeter hall, Londen, Satur day afternoon. At 2:30 o'clock a meeting of the World's Committee, consisting of one dclegrate from each country represented in the alliance, was held. At 5:30 o'clock there was a wclcome meeting, Mr. Geerge Wil liams, the founder of the associations, presiding. Responses te addresses et wel come were made by Mr. Jehn Wanamakcr, president of the Philadelphia association ; Rev. T. Curicr, Dr. James Carey Themas, of Baltimore, and Rev. Mr. Cook, of Parie. The exercises were followed by a dinner. - Killed en the Rallrend. Near Huutsville, Ohie, by the less of a switch belt, Aug. Freeman, fireman and Leuis Theirs, engineer. Near East Green wich, Conn , Jehn ,McC'emb aud Isabella Wright, betrothed levers, while walking en tee tracK. iiiree persons at leshtige, Wis., by the explosion of a freight engine boiler. At Pomfret, Conn., Reb.;rt Pren tice, who fell asleep en the track, having been sent out te flag an express train. Ne Laughing matter. James Mahenoy, aged 25, was killed by falling from a tree aud breaking his neck at Tappan, New Yerk, Just before fall ing he jestingly remarked : " I'd laugh new if I should fall and break my neck." LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. Unclaimed Letters. Following is a list of unclaimed letters remaining in the posteffice at Lancaster for the week ending Monday, August t, 1881 : Ladies' List. Mrs. Clara Bechtel, Mrs. Elizabeth Barr, Emma Berniscr, Mrs. Hettie Carpenter, Mrs. V. P. Cox, Helen Elfner. Ida Herding, Mrs. Edward Harry, ilate ivurtz, Manilla Leng hue Mecklcy, Gallic Martin, Airs. Sarah H. Miles, Mrs. Mary Merris, Mary Perter, Cath. Rathfun, Emma Stencr, Mrs. Mary Weigle, Sarah Yeung. . Gent's List. nenry Bigler, Dr. Geerge Drcher, Jehn E Emcrick, Peter B. Es benshadc, Will Fisher, Rudelph Glasser, Fred Gath. James Handy (2), Sam'I K. Ilerr, August Hirsch, David Heuck, Mi chael Hoke, Dr. II. Keim, II. W. Lutz, J. W. Landies, Harry L. McAllister, Wm. II. McEIvane, Rebert 3IcLena?han, Prof. Thes. Macembcr, William Metzger, Dr. E. Osburn, Julius Reth, Martin Shenk, Mar ius Smith, Wm. Wesley, Jehn Zimmcr. ' obituary. In Philadelphia en Wednesday evening, Jacob Jamisen died suddenly of heart disease. He formerly lived in Chnrch Chnrch tewn. He was 65 years of Sge, and was bnried at Cburchtewn en Saturday. He leaves a wife aud one grown daughter his widow being a sister of Dr. F. G. Al bright, of this city. Surety et the Peace. Wm. Stott was before Alderman McCon McCen McCon emy, en Saturday evening, te answer a complaint of surety of the peace preferred against him by his wife. He was held for his appearance at the court of quarter ses s ions. rOULTKI. A Hiim Meeting of tbe Poultry Auoclatlen Ne Important Business Transacted Talk About the Next Fair. A stated meeting of the Lancaster Poul try association was held in the Agricul tural society's room at 10:30 this moru meru intr. The following named member." were present : n. II. Tshudy, president, Lititz ; J. B. Lichty, secretary, city ; Henry 31. Engle,-Marietta ; Wm. Scheeubcrger, city ; W. W. Griest, cHy ; F. R. Diflenderfer. city ; Geerge A. Geyer, Spring Garden ; Jehn A. Schum, city ; Charles Lippold, city ; J. M. Johnsten, city ; Martin L. Greider, Mount Jey. v. t. Alaulick, Columbia, was proposed and elected a member of the society. J. B. Lichty suggested that it was time te take some preliminary measures for the next annual exhibition of the society. He favored a late day, se that it would' net come in conflict with the exhibition of ether societies. He thought the time might be fixed se as te take in the time of the January court of quarter session, which will commence Jan 1G. Mr. Scheenbergcr moved that the ex ecutive committee be instructed te fix the date for next annnal exhibition, and that the secretary be directed te notify each member of the society te attend next meeting. The motion was agreed te. There was a short desultory debate en gapes in chickens during which F. R. Diflenderfer recommended the herse hair loop as an unfailing remedy, aud Mr. Charles Lippold recommended the ad ministration of small doses of champher. Adjourned. THK TOBACCO IUAKKKT. The New Yerk Kepert Last Week. U. S. Tobacco Journal. We have been .able te trace sales of nearly 3,000 cases of '80 Pennsylvania, and nothing else. All ether tobaccos, new and old, seem te be forgotten. This indisputable supremacy of '80 Pennsyl vania in the market will cause a run en the '81 Pennsylvania such as was never known in connection with any previous crop. The state of our market is without precedent. Havana Market active. Sales 900 bales, partly '79, partly '80, 450 bales of which were purchased by an uptown manufacturer. Prices unchanged. Among the sales reported arc 200 cases of Pennsylvania '80 from E Rosenwald & Bre. te iVichcnstcin Bre's., aud 750 cases from the same te E. Bach fc Sen. Hirsch, V ictorieus & Ce., purchased 500 eases of '80 Pennsylvania from U. Upman, of Pearl street. Sutter Bres., of Chicago, bought 700 cases of '80 Pcnifiylvania, 250 from D. Levy aud 450 from A. S. Rosen Resen baum. II. Keeuig & Ce., of Pearl street, bought ler account of Bendy & Lederer, 500 cases of 'SO Pennsylvania (Jersey Shere) from C. F. Tag fc Sen. ti mis' Kepert. Sales of seed leaf tobacco reported by J. S. Guns' s Seu fc Ce., tobacco brokers, Ne. 131 Watcrstrcet, New Yerk, for the week ending August 1, 1881 : 2,200 cases 1880 Pennsylvania, asserted ll18Ac. ; 100 cases 1879 Pennsylvania, 10(fl)4be. ; 350 cases 1880 New England. 10(a)V2c ; 300 cases 1880 Ohie, p. t. ; 100 cases sundries, 918c. Total, 3,050 cases. Yerk County's Brag. ' Christian Garver, of New Market, Fair view township, Yerk county, planted his tobacco the first of June, topped ou the 18th of July, and will be ready te cut by the 10th of August. A single plant has : number of leaves, 14; total length of leaves, 419 inches ; average length, 30 inches (almost): total width of alt the leaves, 242 inches; average width, 17 inches; two largest leaves, 30 inches eaches ; two widest, 19 and 20 inches. WASHINGTON BOROUGH. News Frem Down the Kiver. The picnic by the church of Ged Sab bath school, en Wednesday, and the school, under the efficient superintendence of Mr. E. A. Evans, deserves special com mendation. According te the pregramme the school headed by the Washington" band, left ler the weeds at half past 8 o'clock. After a march of about three quarters of an hour, the beautiful weeds was reached. A hymn was sung, and an impressive prayer offered by the pastor of the congregation, the Rev. Jehu Hunter, after which a short address was dilivcred by the superintendent. Dinner was taken at 12 o'clock. At 2 o'clock, the afternoon session was opened with singing by the school, able addresses were then delivered by Eli Roberts assistant superintendent. aud Rev. Jehn Hunter, whose address was well seasoned with spicy anecdotes judi ciously selected. On the whole the picnic was the best and most decent and orderly that, has been held for a number of years. The young indulged largely in. " Binge " and ether innocent amusements. On Wednesday evening Mr. Bern B. Siple and Miss Annie Shuman, both of this place, were joined together and made one by the holy bends of matrimony. The knot was effectually tied by the Rev. Jehn Hunter. That makes ene less te Wash ington, as the two are new one. Several Washiugtenians were along with the excursion te Gettysburg en Thursday, aud returned highly pleased with their trip. The M. E. Suuday school will held its annual picnic en Wednesday, the 10th of August. About 30 of Washington's citizens went with the excursion te Annapolis this morning. The train passed through here at e e elecic with nine cars half full. HASKIIALL.. Ironsides 34, Active G. The Ironsides and the Actives baseball clubs played a match game en the grounds of the latter en Saturday afternoon. The Ironsides wen the game by the score of 34 te C, as -fellows : utexsines. active. ,, , 15. O. H. O. uclicrc S S Urill c..... e 4 Kutz2b 4 :i Uoedharts I : Winner ss 3 4 Martin 3b 0 4 Witmerp 4 1 ICill 1, e !! Hoekcf 2 5 Kirelmer r. e llsunbrifjlit 11 4 J Mi.thler rf 0 Wpijthnicir B 1 Demmel ir. 1 e kimr 3b 3 -' Hurley, p l Maclier lb 3 I Wlslcr lb 1 :; 5 24 "c 27 , ,, I2345I57S9 Ironsides 0 5 3 S 10 5 0 .r S-V, Active e 0 0 e 0 2 3 1 e i; Slight Fire. Saturday evening one of the salesmen in J. B. Martin & Seu's di y goods store, corner of West King and Prince street, while light ing the gas iu the front window, accident ally set fire te a bed canopy hanging direct ly above the gas-burner. In a moment the window was in a blaze, a number of light combustible fabrics having taken fire. An alarm was raised but before the firemen reached the ground the flames were extinguished by the clerks in the store. A few fancy articles were burned and a few pieces of goods were somewhat damaged by water, but the entire less is very light and is covered by insurance. Jailed. Henry Liugerman was committed this morning by Alderman Barr te jail for 15 days for being drunk and disorderly. He was also held for court ta answer the charge of felonious assault and battery preferred by Wm. Panncr, of Lcacecic township, upon whom he drew a knife. A Church Festival. A festival will be held en Saturday after noon and evening, August Cth, in the grove of Rebert J. Barnes, half a mile south of tbe Unicorn, for the benefit of the Drumere Baptist church. NKItiUBOKHOOD NKWS Near and Acress the Ceur.ty Line. Geerge E. Bast, of Schuylkill Haven, has been appointed by the governor a member of the miners' hospital commis sion, te erect a hospital for injured miners at Ashland, vice Themas F. Kerns, re signed. Dewlin, the engineer whose negligence caused the death of Miss Butter, at Haver ford, has been arrested and ledged in jail. Seventeen years age, yesterday. Cham bcrsbnrg was burned by the rebels under Gen. McCausland. Fawn township, Yerk county, reports 29(H acres of tobacco growing in the field. Three derricks succumbed at the Hura Hura 'melstewn stone quarries te the weight of a tremendous stone being heisted, and with a crash, the hnge timbers came de wu snapping the pewerful guys in twain aud sending them through the air with a hiss. Strange te say that among the many em ployed ou the banks and in the quarry, only three were slightly hurt. Jehn Fritz, of Waynesboro, aged 24 years, has died from the effects of eating an ever quantity of peanuts. The barn of Henry Shane, in Hanover township, Montgomery county, wasstruck by lightning en Friday and consumed by lire. Less heavy. Insured for $1,275. One hundred and fifteen persons lest their lives iu Philadelphia during the year 1880 by drowning. " Philadelphia shows a decline thus far in the year of about fifty per cent, in its receipts of grain as compared with the same period of last year. Lightning passed through the thirteen inch brick wall of Chas. Eekert's residence at Allentewn, making a neat hole about one inch in circumference, and exploded with a loud noise in the parlor, stunning all present but doing no serious damage" Mr. G. R. Lincoln, who has tilled the position of chemist at the steel works, near Harrisburg, for quite a longtime, has accepted a position at the Bessemer steel works of Pittsburgh. Mr. Frank D. Chase supersedes Sir. Lincoln. narrisburg has had twenty-eight cases of diphtheria in ene block within one month, fourteen of which proved fatal. J. Wesley Engle, who escaped from the Norristewu insaue asylum, has beeu rap tured at Pcrkiemcnville. Mr. D. M. Grail", living at Fairlawn. aged 55 years, died of croup en Friday. Hc.eheked te death before aid could be procured. Seveutccii-year locusts have arrived at Yerk. m Charles Geary, aged about CO years, a well-known citizen of Siesheltzville, Berks county, while riding in a wagon was caught in some way by the harness or wagon, and dragged at great speed ever the rough read for the distance of a mile. His leg and arm were broken, and he was otherwise seriously injured. MARIETTA AIATTKKS. News In and Around the Boreugln B. F. Hiestaud has returned from his wctcrn tour, much improved iu health. Dr. Jehn Husten will leave iu a few for Cressen Springs. "Our Sam" from Yerk, formerly of the register's office, is visiting his mother. Sam leeks as ftesh as a water lily, and warm greetings meet him wherever he gees. Tobacco farmers near Marietta complain very much about dogs chasing rabbits through their tobacco at night, breaking oil the leaves and doing ether damage. One farmer found out whose dogs they were : Jekn Frazer had :i pair efdngt. He never kept them tied ; Somebody led tiieni poisoned meat. In a tobacco patch tliey tiled. Ida Jehnsen was arrested en Satmday by Sheriff Strino for slandering II. L. Saltzbacb. Ida is a little eolered girl about 13 years old. Her father, who is a well-to-de colored man, ha-led her for trial at court. A rattling hail storm passed ever the farms of Jacob Stencr and -Martin Liude muth, East Denegal township, near Boss Bess ier's Meeting Heuse, en Friday evening, badly damaging Mr. Stencr's tobacco crop. It tore a large Iecu.tt tree down en Mr. Lindcmuth's farm, killing seven chickens that had sought bheltcr under it. David Panics, farmer, living near -Marietta, had four boys arrested and taken before E. D. It oath esq., en a charge of trespass. It was proven that Luther Paulcs, son of David Paulcs. had invited the boys en the place te whip a bumble bee's nest. He tore a beard oil the barn, se that they could get at them. After the boys had premised te be geed and de se no mere the squire discharged them. TUJJ ALLKNTOWN tIBK.1li:N. Vindication et the Volunteer .System. The following from the chief of police, Allentown, Pa., te the prcsideut of com mon council, Lancaster, amply explains it self : Orrieu or CiitKir ok Police, i Aia.KJiTOWS, Pa.. July 23, 1S8'. Te Jehn Lrverfoetl, M. Z., l'n:iitlent Common Council, Idtncuxtrr, Pa. Dear Sin : Your letter dated July 22, 1881, addressed te his honor the mayor of this city, in reference te a paid fire depart incut, ice., has beeu received aud referred te me te reply te the several interroga tions therein mentioned. Titi.s city at present maintains a volunteer lire depart ment with a manual ferce of 49:5 men, together with 1 chief eugiucer, assistant engineers, foremen and assistant foremen et steam and hose companies and drivers, numbering all told 520 men. The appara tus in service are 4 steam engines, (J hose carriages, aud 1 hook aud ladder wagon. The number of horses owned and used by the several companies is ten. The expen ditures of the department for the year euded January 1, 1881, includiucr engi neers and drivers salaries, fuel, hose, re pairs, &c.,aggregatcd te $4,939,95. Amount appropriated $5,199. Our fire department as constituted at present, is in excellent condition and all apparatus pertaining thereto in fitie order. Tlie members of the several companies are being with each ether te maintain the most thorough ami effective organization, and1 for vieingmest prompt and expeditious iu the discharge of their arduous and dangerous duties. The men as a body constituting or -volunteer fire department, have all along evinced a great pleasure in bestowing their tim:;, attention and work iu this pursuit, aud as long as men can be found te keep up a volunteer organization faithfully and satis factorily te the public I feel convinced that a volunteer fire department can be main tained at a much less cost, aud no doubt become just as efficient, iu all respect, as a paid department. Respectfully Yours, T. Geed, Chief of Police. K. et J. In Keariiex. On the 18th of- August;, the grand ledge Knights of Pythias will meet in Reading. Uniform rank Ne.-G and Ne. 7 of this city will go te the meeting, and thare will be a crand parade of the different divisions of the uniform rank throughout the stata in that city. A l'rotipectlve BuHh Meeting. The members of the Second Baptist church (colored) of this city, Rev. W. II. Keels, pastor, will held a bush meeting at What Glen park en Monday, August 14. Why Net? Complaint is made that the coal oil lamp, opposite Ne. 530 North Duke street, between James and Frederick, has net been lighted ler sevreal evenings.-
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