LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1881. 4Laur$2tcji intelligencer. THURSDAY EVENING, AUG. 4,1881. Berates Its Own Stories. It has long been a matter of observa tion with fair-minded men that the stories of outrages in the Seuth, attrib uted te a prevailing spirit of political persecution there, recur regularly about the time of important elections and then subside. People who start in search of them at any ether season invariably fail te find them. Like the incidents of the 1 bleed-curdling tale related in the Senate by Dawes, they move from one state te another, and when retreat is made te the very end of their tether they generally turn out te be the romances of some fer tile campaign liar, or a concocted story by some fugitive from justice who wants te cover his flight by raising a cloud of lM)litical dust. Ne agency has been mere active or unscrupulous in spreading this kind of stories, in their sea son, than the mendacious New Yerk 1'ribune. There is a certain fitness of fate therefore in the fact that through this same means comes their refutation. A correspondent of that iier seniJ Seuth te study the real aspect presented by that section of the country, and who has been trying te tell a plain unvarnish ed tale, has been steadily contradicting the whole presentation of the Southern case as made for partisan effect by Re publican paiers last fall. His narrative accords with what the people and press of the Seuth have claimed for it of late years, and what the Democrats have maintained was the real slate of things there. But this correspondent has ad vanced te a direct contradict ion, of one monumental liar, whose falsehoods are exposed in this part of the letter, pub lished in the Tribune, where the original he appeared with commendation and col ored with editorial approval : " Iu Mississippi I was told by a num ber of Northern people of au account sent te the Northern press during the " Ilayes campaign," which located au atrocious political outrage at the place which I was then visiting. These persons seemed re putable, and they affirmed that nothing of the kind had ever occurred there I inquired regarding the author of the dis patch, and, learning that he was still living a few miles away, I went te see him. He laughed when I told him my errand, took a fresh chew of tobacco, and crossing his feet en the top of the table be fore him, began talking of tkeaffair in an essay, fluent indifferent style Which seem ed te indicate that he was glad te have somebody te talk with, and would as lief talk of that subject as any ether. 'Then the dispatch was net really true?' I said, ' Well,' he replied. ' It was true as te the spirit of the beuth generally at that time.' 'But why did you say that such and such things happened at a particular place ii they did net ?' ' Well, new, you knew it would net be of auy account te say, at such a time, that there was lets e' devilish feeling in the Seuth. But it rather wakes people up te tell them that something's been done at a place they've heard of.' ' But it was net true.' But he thought the use of a fable or parable was justifiable under the circumstances, because it was the only way te give point or cflectivnness te any account of the condition of the Seuth at that time. ' All writers doss pretty much the same thing,' he urged ; ' they have te.' Oh, I hope net,' I said. ' Well, new of you lived down here awhile you'd find out we have te light the devil with lire.' The North ern peeple who told me of this occurrence were geed Republicans and they wcre es pecially indignant about the fabrication borause it alarmed some of their Northern friends who had been preparing te move te that region but were new frightened from their purpose. We cannot agrcu with some of our contemporaries who denounce the shaine lessness of the Tribune in publishing this correction of its party's campaign false hoods. Tardily as it comes, the paper deserves credit for printing the refuta tion and exposure. Mr. Dawes would de well te admit as frankly en the fleer of the Senate that the canard te which he lent authority was a wicked lie. But he will net de it. He is yet tee far from grace. What has become of the reported offer of a donation of $2-50,000 from the New Yerk Chamber of Commerce te Mrs. Garfield, which afterwards turned out te be a private movement headed by Cyrus W. Field, and at last accounts was unavailingly trying with ten-cent subscriptions te get up te $150,000 ? Where is it ? Who has the money ? What is going te be done about it ? Frem the outset the Intelligencer depre cated the preposition as improper, if net insulting te the president's family, at least se long as his recovery was even in doubt. Fer this position we were much berated by some of our super-smart con temporaries. Since then such newspapers as the New Yerk Sun, Philadelphia Times, Bosten Herald and Harper''s Weekly have expressed themselves in the same vein, and at a recent picnic or some like public occasion Gov. Leng, of Mass achusetts, put himself en the record very strongly in condemnation of the plan. We have no idea that the presi dent or his wife will take this money, but it will be interesting te see what the people who get it up, and paraded it be fore the country, are going te de about it. W. II. Council, colored, editor of the Huntsvillc (Ala.) Herald, who is travel ing new in the West, writes te his paper that the negre hasn't as geed a chance in Indiana, where the peliticiansjiave been importing his vote, as in Alabama. He finds colored boys excluded from white schools by Republican trustees, jubilee singers refusedaccommedations in Sena Sena eor Legan's and Secretary of War Lin coln's state, colored boys kicked from school rooms in Ohie, the nursery of Republican office-holders, and in Repub lican cities the houses of learning shut in the faces of anxious negre boys and girls. Tuere seems te be a universal ac quiescence in the Intelligencer's opinion that Sam Josephs' most suc cessful rivalry of " Mark Twain" as an " Innocent Abroad" could have its in spiration nowhere beyond the pictur esque writers who labor daily te enliven the Times. With a vacancy en the supreme bench and anether in the Methodist episcopa cy, electioneering will net grew inactive in church or state. The Philadelphia American, whose editor did as much as anybody te create the state of affairs resulting in our junior senator's election, takes Mr. Mitchell te task for his expressed sympathy with the Mahone party in Virginia. And well it may. The spectacle of a Northern sen ator, from a state pledged te principles of financial integrity, lending his name and sympathy te such a rag, tag and bobtail as the Repudiation party in Vir ginia, is net cheerful te contemplate. The Republican party of that state is said te be captured and its convention, it is claimed, will approve Maheneism. If se, the way te a political division there, in which the state credit issue will be distinctly formulated, will be all the clearer. The Democratic ..state conven tion te-day will declare for every princi ple of state honor and political fairness, se that honest-minded Republicans can easily find their way into the Democratic party after their own convention sliall have offended them by taking up the cause of adventurers and repudiators. MINOR TOPICS. A daily paper in Hebrew is published in New Yerk, the daily Jewish Gazette, said te be the only Jewish daily in the world. Since it is reported that Garfield drinks " milk with a dash of rum iu it," Peck's Sun is certain that bis friends have taken its advice and tapped a Democratic cow. rnAX geed friend yc cultarc. Admonish ye gallant type stickairu, In absence of ye l'roelmauaire. Te thumb bis stick witli extra caie. Lest he should cause ye learned (?) wiitaiu- Te whoop things up and cuss and swear. Jacob Andeuf, the celebrated German socialist, leader and poet, is en his way te New Yerk. He commenced his career as a revolutionist iu 1848, at the age of 18. Political persecutions drives him te this country. In a letter te the British public, through the Londen Times, provoked by the failure of his mission after Pcuu's bones, our commissioner, Mr. Geerge L. Harrison, recalls te the English that at one time the statue of William Peun was established at the seat of a nobleman near High Wy cembe. When the base suffered decay the statue fell and was sold for old lead te a neighboring plumber. This neglected fig ure came under the observation -of ene of the grandsons of William Pcnn, who bought it of the plumber, re-established it net in England, but in America and it is new -an object of lively interest te many who pass along the important thor oughfare upon which the grounds of the Pennsylvania hospital popularly called Pcuu's hospital lie, in whose enclosure this interesting relic stands, and has safely steed for a century or mere. Mr. Harri son fears that if left te the cold care of his own nation the remains of Penn may yet get te the bone-yard. This is net a geed time of year for Blaine. A New Yerk paper, mere re markable for its zeil in the propagation of sensations than for its stubborn adherence te cold-blooded truth, stakes the propo prepo sition that Blaine is responsible for the president's prolonged suffering, and proves it, te its own satisfaction at least, in this logical manner : " His wound is one that would net have kept him off his feet four teen days if it bad been well treated in the beginning. It would have been well treated if Blaine had net forced Bliss into the first place at the president's couch. Bliss's diagnosis was a mistake from the first. If the consulting surgeons had net bceu called te Washington the president would new be dead. Bliss in his igno rance contributed everything in his power te the result. " Therefore, Blaine is held responsible for the president's suffering and danger. Of course the premises of this argument had te be assumed, but that is no drawback te the enlightened dissimulator of exclusive wisdom. UreN taking control of the custom house in New Yerk, Collector Robertsen made use of his language. "I shall continue the same policy that Collector Jlerritt carried out se efficiently, and shall net make any changes, for the present at least. Ne living person has any premise or assurance of any appointment te a position in the custom house from me or from anyene by my authority, and no ene will have auy sucU assurance or prom prem ise until I become entirely familiar with the needs of the service. I have studied the workings of the department under General Merritt's management, and his method of conducting the work has certain ly resulted well." New will somebody point out the par ticular section of the civil service rules by which Collector .Merritt's removal was re quired? Was all the political turmoil which has disgusted the country precipi tated te give place te a man whose avowed ambition it is te administer the duties of his office as successfully as his predecessor? If Gen. Merritt's management was se effi cient and his appointments se judicious, it strikes the average citizen that his removal was a conspicuous instance of official asin inity or political blundering. m m PERSONAL. William G. Farge, president of the American express company, is dead. Alderman Barr, of the Third ward, city, has gene te Columbia te have a geed time with Alderman Frauk. Mrs. Henry Trout left Lancaster this morning for Atlantic City, where she will step for some time. Rev. R. W. IIufferd and family, of Easten, late of this city, are visiting friends and relatives in Lancaster. Charles E Lichtv, who for some time past has been residing in Bradford, is home en a visit. Mr. James Stokes, who began life in New Yerk as a tailor, quit the ether day with an estate of $6,000,000. James Gorden Bennett offers three prizes of the value of $1,000 each te the New Yerk yacht club for a race te be sail ed after the New Bedford races. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has entirely recovered from her recent illness and new takes frequent long rides. She does net like her son's appointment te a cabinet position. " Secretary of War 1" she said when informed of the appointment, "then he'll be shot, sure." Rev. U. W. Seilhamer, pastor of the Union Bethel, this city, left Lancaster to day te attend a campmeeting of the Church of Ged, near Linnwood station, Carrell county, Md. During hie absence Rev. Jehn Tucker will officiate at the Bethel. . Everything at the Beaconsfield 6ale sold well ; even down te the " pillow cases marked with the late Earl's coronet and cipher, " and the " d'eyleys " aud " tea cloth," which were eagerly bid for. According te the auctioneers the lets fetched 100 per cent, mere than they were intrinsically worth. LATEST NEWS BY MAIL. The corn crop in Illinois is rapidly dry ing up, aud ruination is feared. Serious forest fires are raging iu the northern part of Wisconsin. Three thousand people in Denver, Cel., live in tents. Lorillard Jias wen sixteen races in Eng land. Bosten's Franklin fuud, which was in tended by him te be used for the encour agement of young mechanics, new amounts te $259,009. Leuis Duluug aud Charles Richards, young Neva Scetians, wcre drowned by the capsizing of a dory en the Grand Bauks. The annual convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence union jf America met yesterday iu Bosten. The delegates were welcomed by Mayer Prince. Rev. William G. Campbell, one of the eldest and best known Presbyterian preachers in Virginia,.died at Harrisou Harriseu burg, in that state, en Tuesday night. Aldcn J. Spooner, a well-known lawyer, of Brooklyn, and founder of the Leng Iblaud Itisterical society, died suddenly en Tuesday, aged 71 years. Jehu M. Schuppcl, aged 2e, while steal ing a ride en a freight car platform en the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore read, fell under the train, aud his head was severed from his body. The assessment of Bosten shows au in in ciease in valuation of property in that city of $23,000,000 during the last year. The tax rate has been reduced from $15.20 per $1000 te $13.90 for the coming year. Delegates were elected in Virginia, yes terday, te the Republican state convention, which will meet in Lynchburg en the 10th. It is thought, from the returns, that a ma jority will favor a straight Republican ticket en a debt-paying platform. There is a sharp competition among the brewers of St. Leuis, which premises te re sult in a reduction of prices. On Mauday the Winklemycr brewery reduced the price from $8 te $7, aud yesterday the brewers were selling at a reduced rate. A "strange disease," the symptoms of which aie net reported, has appeared among the cattle in Neva Scotia. The dis ease is confined te the vicinity of tewnV and is pronounced non-contagion?, but the mortality from it is very large. A jockey named Ferd fell in the street at Kansas City, poisoned with a liniment containing belladonna. He may net re cover, lie says he was poisoned by the owner of the herse who wen the race in tended te have been lest. Before Jehn T. Garbett, of St. Leuis, shot himself, as he had often threatened te de, he kissed his little daughter and embraced her mother and then tore him self from their restraining arms and com mitted suicide iu their prcsence. Iu Rene, Nev., Alfred Mullen aud Miss Seliua Davis, having wed bofero her legal age of 18, her parents separated them New she is old enough aud the local paper announces the ro-maniage of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Mullen. While the train was moving at the rate of about forty-live miles an hour a fool hardy passenger jumped from it te re cover his hat, which had blown freat his head near Wenonah, N. J. He narrowly escaped instant death. He was, however, severely bruised. In Dever, N. H., before Arris W. Farrar, a town merchant, ran off with bis servant girl, he decently made ever all his property te his wife, paid up the little debts he owed, and collected some that were due him. The deserted wife is deeply grieved nevertheless.! An immense turtle was towed te the deck opposite Fulton market, New Yerk en Monday, which had been caught by the crew of a "bunker" fishing steamer after a two days' struggle. The turtle is about nine feet long and weighs probably 2,000 pounds. The Detroit Pest has been sued for libel by Hugh S. Peeples, who lays his dam ages at $50,000. The alleged libel consists in an article, which, he claims, points te him as the murderer of Martha Whitta. The young woman's body was found float ing in the river two years age, bound, gagged and tied up in a bag. The Cernell university crew, who are te row a match with au Austrian crew en the Danube, en the eleveut iustant, arrived in Vieuua en Thursday last, and were heartily cheered. The selection of the actual Aus trian competitors lias net yet been made. There are two Austrian crews in hard training. A St. Leuis man, O'llara, claims te be the manufacturer of the machines sent te England in barrels of cement. He says 86 have been sent in all and that in three years England will have no navy. These engines of destruction must have been charged with gas, of which O'Hara ap pears te have a plentiful supply. Twe children, born a few weeks age in the Canten Vaud, Switzerland, were joined together in the same manner as the famous Siamcse twins. It was believed that, as infants, the ligament which joined them might, with success,, be severed, aud the operation was accordingly performed. Ne apparent pcrmaucnt injury was caused by it, and several days afterward the twins were reported te be doing well. At the election ou Monday in Glades precinct, Madisen county, Ky., Washing ton Reger was killed aud ethers were wounded. At Sharpsburg, Bath county, negrees had agcueral fight with pistols, in which Sandy Jehnsen was badly and Oscar Thompson fatally wounded. At Jcfferson Jcffersen ville, Montgomery county, Golsen Heward stabbed aud killed James Welden. Only two men were killed in Jessamine county en election day, ene a negre, killed by William Hall, the ether James Rutherford a white man, whose murderers are net known. Feul riny. The dead body of Samuel Alt, a butcher, was found in the East river, New Yerk, yesterday morning. There were bruises upon the body, and it is believed he was murdered. Ex-Marshal King, of Marien, Alabama, was assassinated at his gate early yester day morning, six bullets penetrating his body. Six colored men have beeit arrest ed en suspicion. Frank Mareille was arrested at Stan bridge Station, Quebec, yesterday, for the murdcref amau.named Orris. They went out nsning together en Tuesday, both be ing drunk at starting. Net returning, search was made for them, and Mareille was found alone in the beat, while the dead-body of Orris, with marks of violence upon it, was recovered from the river. Twe men registered at the McDonough house iu Middletown, Connecticut, en Tuesday bight, as C. S. Thompson and Charles A. Buck. Early yesterday morn ing Bunk paid his bill and left. A strong odor of gas was afterwards noticed coming from Thompson's room, and en entering it he was found dead in bed and the gas turned en. Feul play is suspected. STATS ITOfb. Jehn Kelley has died at Easten from lock-jaw. caused by having hit tees crush ed by a Lehigh train. A misplaced switch derailed a locemoti ve at Pert Merris, demolishing a water tank and damaging the engine considerably. Te its ether afflictions Pittsburgh adds a report that sick cattle are bought at the drove yards and sold in the eity markets. The grist mill of Jarvis Gorden, in Mil ford borough, was burned yesterday with a large quantity of grain, etc. Less ever $10,000. Insurance, $5,500. The Green & Ceates street railway, Philadelphia, which cost only $247,564, earns for its owners $60,000 a year, or twenty-four percent, upon the investment. The Lehigh Democratic county meeting reiterates often renewed declarations against second terms for county offices. The party ever there wants the honors te go around. Harry, alias "Pheas" Abbett, a notori ous character, has also been arrested in Philadelphia, en suspicion of being the murderer of Samuel Clugsten, at Valley Forge. Next? " I sec that life is net safe in this com munity," said a Southern gentleman visit ing Pittsburgh, as he read the account of the "latest Allegheuy murder" in the morning papers. " I'll have te go back te Texas." Mrs. Eliza Martqucl, of Easten, in at tempting te straighten a bent sewing ma chine needle with her teeth broke it, the point going down her threat. The lady is new lying at the death's deer, the broken needle having reached a vital part. Mr. Jehn W. Fornej's address before the Agricultural society of McKean county, at Pert Alleghany, Wednesday, Septem ber 7th, will be en " Providential Miracles Provided by Medem Progress in Agricul ture and the Arts of Peace." Rebert Belt fell from a Philadelphia coal bin and was seriously hurt ; Jehn A. Craw ford has died from a fall off the elevated railroad trestle; Chas. Stengclein, of Easten, fell from a Lehigh Valley excursion train and was killed. The Danville Recerd must have an aw ful combat with somebody en hand, siuce it asks " the cowardly sneak, who sold himself te Rowbetham for an undershirt, te come out and preve the slander he con cocted against the Recerd last week ?" David Clark Tarner, a son of Mr. D. W. Tarner, near Oakville, in the fifteenth mouth of his age, was drowned iu a pond near Ins father s residence. While Mrs. Tarner was preparing dinner the lad was left iu the care of young brothers and a sister. He wandered away from them aud had been missed but a short time when it was found. Peter D. Helms, of the borough coun cil of Pottsville, has been expelled for fur nishing white lead and ether material used te paint a bridge, the work having been done at the borough's expense. The vote steed 11 "aye" te 10 "no" the lat ter including Peter himself. But he did net leave until he told the council their supervisor was a whisky sign and beer barrel. Iu Pittsburgh Coup aud Barn una ceme into sharp competition with their circuses, and the newspapers have " fat takes " in the publication of their abusive cards and counter statements. Coup publishes a big picture of himself "cooping " Barnumup ; Barnum circulates stories about Coup's show disseminating smallpox, and Coup returns with a long card depicting Barnum aud his partners as an old man, '' a biga mist with several ' wivc3 ' laboring in new roatimenial toils." THE McKKESl'UKT TRAUFDY. A Marietta Man Held en Suspicion. Six boys wcre arrested in Pittsburgh yesterday ou suspicion of having been concerned iu the murder of Geerge Mc Clurc, hardware merchant of McKecspert, sixteen miles cast of that city. It is be lieved, however, that these parties ar rested robbed a store at Cenuellsville and that stolen goods, thought te be from Mc Clurc & Hendricks Sens, were from that place. Fleming, the constable who was wounded, will recover. Nearly all the able-bodied citizens of McKecspert are searching for the murderers, and the indi cations are that if they are found lynch law will settle them. The borough conn cenn cils of McKecspert have offered $1,000 reward for the capture of the murderers, aud it is probable the county authorities will add te the amount. Four young men arrested en the freight car en suspicion in Pittsburgh, but who are net believed te be the McKecspert gang, are fairly dressed, but auswer 'few questions, aud ask repeatedly why they were arrested. They give the names Jehn Malenc, Marietta, Pa , Charles Madden and Tem Hannah, Celdwatcr, Mich., and PatShanee. Malenesays he bought his revolver in New Yerk, Madden says he owns another and can prove where he get it. They say they have been traveling together but a short time and get ou the train at Pert Perry. OIIIXUAUV. Qishep E. U. Haven, of the Methedlttt Epis copal Ctatrcli. Intelligence has been received of the death of Bishop E. O. Haven,, at Portland, Oregon. Bishop Haven was born in Bos Bes Bos ten, November 1, 1820, and graduated from Wcslcyan university in 1812. He united with the New Yerk conference in 1848 ; in 1854 was elected te a professor ship in the University of Michigan, aud in 1856 was chosen editor of Zien'a Herald, in which position he earned a very fine reputation as a writer. In 1863 he was elected president of the University of Michigan under circumstances of great and peculiar embarrassment ; he, how hew how ever, seen showed himself mas ter of the situation, and it was mat ter of great regret te all the frieuds of the university, when, in 1869, he resigned his position te accept a similar ene in the Northwestern University at Evanston, where he remained three years. In 1874 he was elected chancellor of the Syracuse University. He was also secretary of the beard of education of the Methodist church. Dr. Haven has been a member of five general conferences. In that pf 1872 he was a prominent candidate for bishop, but, although polling a large num ber of votes, he was net one of the eight elected. He was elected a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church in May, 1880. Bishop Haven had a national reputation as a writer, preacher and educator. Ravages of Fire. Boyce's bagging factory in Muncie, In diana, was burned yesterday. Less, $:J0, 000. Fourteen buildings, comprising the bus iness portion of Augusta, in Kalamazoo county, Michigan, were burned yester day. A fire in Chicago, yesterday afternoon. destroyed Jeseph Laucr's planing mill and half a block of small wooden buildings, causing a less of nearly $35,000. The varnish factory of W. Tilden & Ce., in New Yerk, was damaged yesterday te the extent of $25,000 by a fire caused by an explosion in the cooling room in the rear of the main building. A fire breke out in a dance heuse in Truckec, California, en Tuesday night and was net controlled until all the stores in the town except two or three, and also many dwellings were destroyed. The less is estimated at $350,000. Early yesterday morning a fire in the section of Dead weed, Dakota, known as Fountain City, destroyed twenty-five buildings, causing a less estimated at $100,000. Many families escaped in their night clothes. ' - i. Av .TOUCHING STUKY. U L5 , ' Which Is Met Wlthent it Mural. FkUadtfpluliTlaies, Third Street Chat. About a-mentk age a rather geed-looking and thoroughly decent Irish woman, apparently about 35 years old, made her appearance en the street and was almost a daily Visitor until Tuesday of last week, since which time she has net been seen. She always appeared in a black alpaca skirt and striped waist of seme summer material and a black straw hat.a Ne one knew her name but her broker, aud he never told it, se far as is known, but it was said that she was a spinster or a widow, and held seme menial situation in one of the public charitable institutions of the city. She brought down te the street with her five hundred dollars and bought ene hundred shares of Northern Pacific common at 43. It has never been as high since, except for a few minutes ou a single day. Twe or three days after she bought it she get alarmed and was en the point of selling at a hundred dollars less, but some gentlemen who deal with the same broker and who pitied her persuad ed her net te. The next day there was a rally and she could have sold at a small profit. The same gentlemen and her broker also advised her te realize and take her money home and keep it there, but hope had taken the place of despondency and she said she would have a bigger profit and would net sell. In au hour it was down te 42 and thereabouts it hung for several days. Then the raid en the preferred was made and the common in sympathy fell off also. At first she would ceme down in the morning, leek at the opening quo tations and go away, but after it went be bo be lew 40 some days she would ceme down at 10 o'clock, take a chair by the indicator and never leave it until three, holding the tape aud scanning the tantalizing figures the wliole day through. When it touched 39 her hands trembled se that the tape shook aud rattled. Last Tuesday she came running iu with such a white, scared face, such trembling hands aud quivering lips, that these who saw her will never for get the sight Her broker took her aside and told her that te save her stock she must put up mere margin. "Ged help me," she said, " I haven't another pinny. " Her stock w:is soul. ,ISe one will euvy get that peer woman's the bear tliab money. i in Terrluie Peril. The residents of the village of Chippewa a small tewu two miles from Niagara Falls, up the Niagara river, were startled at dusk by hearing loud cries for help from the river, which was covered with an impene trable fog. It was seen learned that Jehn Lehman and his son and Jehn Greenwood, all residents of that village, who had rowed ever the American side iu the morning had attempted te return at dusk, starting from Pert Day, about a inile abeve the FalIs, but they had becu overtaken by a sudden land fog coming upon them as they were ncariugthu Canada shore. Lesing their course they wcre swiftly nearing the rapids and wcre being carried te dostruetion through the rushing waters. The town bell was rung, j Some parties fired guns. Ne 'ether efforts under the circumstances could be made te , save the unfortunate men,' and theso who had gathered en the shere from hearing their cries steed stricken with terror, knowing the fear ful death awaiting the occupants or the beat. Greenwood, seeing his dangerous position, let go his anchor. It, fortunately, took held of the rocks and he was saved. He kept shouting for help at intervals all night, and next morning was found riding safely at anchor. The Lehmans having no anchor in their beat, drifted down with the rapids, shrieking frantically for help. Almest by a miracle tbe current swept them against a pro jecting peiut, near the Burning Springs, aud they wcre saved. They, returned as quickly as possible te Chippewa, secured aid and waited until daybreak, and with great difficulty and daring rescued their comrade. KEJIAKKAULE-If TRUE. The Ktliieplan Changing Skin. A remarkable case of change of color of a negre woman lrem jet black te fair white has been 'progressing gradually in Ship peusburg for .several months past. The negre woman's uame is Kitridewt. She is married and has several negre children, and is about 40 years of age. The color of the skin was first observed te beceme white en the edges of the face, and from that time till the present the white has been gradually crowding the black off the face of the woman. The interest of the straugcr is at ence at tracted by the patch of black skin two inches square yet remaining around the mouth aud nose, while the greater portion of the surface of the face is white. The white is net of the color of the Caucasian race, but most persons, when the work of transformation is com pleted, will take the woman for a sallow complexiencd dyspeptic, and there are a great many white women who are of a darker complexion than the woman Kitri Kitri eowt. What is most wonderful about the transformation is that the dark skin docs net peel or slufi off, but simply the color of the same skin changes. The woman is apparently healthy and busily engaged in household duties. She lives in a small heuse across the Branch, and has been closely observed by the peo pee pee peo of the tewu siucc the wonderful change in color began. Frem what is left of the nogre one would suppose she was origin ally of a very dark hue. aud her hair re mains woolly aud full of kinks. A Toar-Ceiupelllug Romancer. Scrunlen Republican. The literary polish and delicate sense of humor pervading' the series of European letters contributed by Statesman Sam Jo sephs te the Philadclpliia Times leads the astute Lancaster- Iktellieenceu 'te con clude that they arc written from Crcssen, where Colonel SIcClure is enjoying the shady side of life. If the letters are bona fide there will be as great a demand for Mr. Josephs' (?) journalistic services when he returns home as there is for Geerge Al fred Tewnscnd's fictions. Sam's descrip tion of his visit te the graves of the great iu the classic shades of Westminster is about as touching as Mark Twain's fa mous pilgrimage te the crave of Adam. A Lever's Tragic Death. At Sipe Springs, Texas, a man named Vaughcn killed a man named Weed. The latter 'had bceu paying attention te the daughter of the former, and had by him been warned te desist. Weed did net heed the warning, and as he called at the heuse yesterday the young lady's father literally blew the top of his head off with the contents of a shot-gun. Vaughcn is at large, but is being pursued. The peo ple of the neighborhood are very bitter against bim for the crime, as Weed was well liked. Cerner Stene Laying. The corner stone of the monument te Governer Caswell, North Carolina's exec utive iu the Revolution, was laid yesterday in the village of Kinsten, in that state. It is estimated that ten thousand person wero present. Senater Vance and Gover Gover eor Jarvis delivered addresses. During the parade several soldiers wcre overcemo by the heat, and one of them, who drank some iced beer, died frdm its effects. The Lay a or Unsteady Uabite. Geerge Fish, a mulatto, and a white girl fifteen years old, of respectable family left Glastenbury, Conn., together en Sat day night and cannot be traced by the girl's parents. The girl has hitherto-borne a geed reputation. A Fisherman Kills His Companion and Catches Him en His Heek. At Stanbridge in Canada, two men named Mareille and Orris went out en the river te fish, when a quarrel ensued and Mareille murdered his companion by beat ing in his skull with a beat hook and then throwing the body overboard. Mareille continued fishing, and when a party of men went in search of them later in the evening, they found Mareille in the beat. He said at first that Orris had gene-home, but being further interrogated said that his line had caught en something and it might be a dead man. Sure enough, en drawing in the line there was the body of Orris, with the head and face smashed iu a ter rible manner. The coroner held an inquest and a verdict of wilful murder was return ed agaiust Mareille, who was committed for trial. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. m OUT UPTOWN. Large excursions and Mcnlet. The excursion te Pine Greve, Cumber land county, which left this city this morn ing, at 6 o'clock under the auspices of the Lancaster City cornet band, was a grand success. Net less than 950 excursionists left tnis city in a train of twelve cars, and about 150 additional excursionists were gathered in at stations between Lancaster and Harrisburg. By seme mismanage ment there were net nearly enough cats provided te seat the passengers, aud men, women and children filled the aisles of the cars and wcre even crowded upeu the plat forms as the train steamed out of the de pot. It appears that several cars kept in reserve for use as contingencies might require, were by mistake, attached te the excursion train of the Y. SI. C. A. te At lantic City which left the depot half an hour previously. The excursion of the Y. 31. C. A. te At lantic City was also largely patronized. About 425 passengers left Lancaster en the excursion train, and by the time it reached Philadelphia, at 9:20 a. m., there wero from 650 te 700 aboard. The num ber would, no doubt, beeu much larger had it net been for the band excursion, which fell en the same day, and for the harvest excursion from New Helland te Atlantic City, advertised for the 10th inst. Laud a similar excursion from Christiaua en next Saturday week. The Presbyterian mission chapel, Seuth Queen street, are holding a picnic te-day at Mauheim. They went by rail en the morning train via the Reading railroad, and numbered about 200. The Rockland Undenominational Sun day school are eicnicking te-day at 31il lersville park, te which point they wcre carried by the horse cars. They wcre under the careful charge of Mr. Leenard, the originator of the school and several lady teachers. St. Jehn's Reformed Sunday school, cor ner of Orange and 3Iulberry streets, arc having a large picnic te-day at What Glen. They went te the grounds in Houghten's emuibuscs. THE DOCTORS. Their Meeting Yesterday Preparations for the Trip Down the Hay.. The Lancaster County Medical society held their regular monthly meeting yester day, with President Deaver in the chair. The following members were present : Al bright, Atlce J. L., jr., Blackwood, Compten. Carpenter, Reland, Shirk, Steh man and Welcuans, of this city ; Brobst, Roebuck and Shenk, Lititz ; 31. L. Davis and B. F. Hcrr, Millcrsvillc ; New phcr and Ziegler, 3It. Jey ; F.3I. and II. E. Musser, Witmcr ; Brubaker, Akreu ; Craig, Columbia ; Charles, Lincoln ; Deaver, Buck ; Davis J. II., Soudersburg ; Glackeu, Greeue ; Kencagy, Strasburg ; Musser J. II., Lampeter ; Reiiucnsnydcr, Hinklctewn ; Shadier. Farmcrsville ; Livingston, Meuntville ; Alexander, Ma rietta ; Bryson, 3Iarticville ; Kcndig, Sa lunga ; Trabert, Reamstewu ; Wcntz, New Providence ; Yest, Bethcsda ; Zcll, Fairmount. Interesting cases wcre reported from all parts of the county. Reports from thophysiciausshewcu that there is net much sickness iu the county. Dr. Craig, from the cemmittee of ar rangements for the meeting of the. Penn sylvania and Maryland Union Medical associations, reported that ail the arrange ments were completed for the meeting which will be held ou Chesapeake bay, en August 25th. A special train will leave this city about 8 o'clock iu the morning, and will arrive at Pert Deposit at 10 o'clock. They will there embark iu the ploasure steamer " Chester, en which the dinner and meeting will be held, and the excursionists will have five hours en the bay. The party from this city will return se that they can leach home at 6:25 in the evening. Arrangements have also been made se that alt physicians from the part of this and from Dauphin county will meet at Columbia te take the train. Orders for excursion tickets are te be had of Dr. Craig. Nothing mere of importance was done and the society adjourned te meet en the first Wednesday of September. The Dentists. The Harris dental association is holding its monthly meeting at Ephrata te-day. Threatening, Letter. Jehn Stein, the Seuth Queen sheet mcrchaut, whose frame houses en Seuth Priuce street, have becu set ou fire two or three times, aud who recently brought suit agaiust two wemeu, charging them with stealing weed from the partly burned building, has received an anony mous letter filled with the direst threats against his person and property if he does net immediately withdraw the suits he has instituted against the afore said woman. The writer in a rambling way and in abusive and vulgar lauguagu calls Mr. Stein many bad names, and as sures him he cannot escape vengeance un less the suits are withdrawn. Mr. Stein thinks he knows, the writer of the lettcr, and will bring suit against him also. Anether Campmeeting. On Wednesday, the 24th inst. a caiup mccting of the churches of Ged iu the southern section of the county will com mence in the greve about two miles south of New Providence. It will be under the immediate charge of Rev. T. 31. Still, of Smithville and Rev. G. W. Seilhamer of this city, and will continue for eight days. A number sf ether eminent divines will be present. There will be a large board beard ing tent under the supervision of Benjamin Wiggins, and all ether usual camp con veniences will be provided. Runaway. Lewis Fnbcr, while in charge of the Singer sewing machine wagon, yesterday, had a narrow escape from serious injury, His horse took flight while en St. Jeseph street, and ran furiously along that street, and down Strawberry street, falling and breaking ene of the shafts near Schum's coal yard. Had it net been for the pluck with which BIr. Faber held en te his horse a much mero serious result mizht have happened. Hrjught Heme. Henry Rogers, who was seriously in jured about a week age while working en the Callowhill street bridge, by the fall of a niece of timber, was brought last even ing te his home Ne. 452 East Orange street, this city. He was well taken care of after the accident in the Pennsylvania hospital, and is en a fair way te entire re covery from his injuries. Committed. Jehn Drummond, for drunken and dis orderly conduct, was committed for ten days te county prison by Alderman Barr. NKIuHDOKUOOD NEWS Near and Acress ibe County Line. Henry Smith has died in Reading from sunstroke, suffered while harvesting. Vincent Reynolds, of Chester county, had a colt killed and the niare badly hurt by falling into a hydraulic ram pit. G. 3Ierris Phillips, the newly elected principal of the West Chester normal school, has officially accepted the posi tion. The coming fall fair of the Chester county agricultural society premises te be a very successful ene. Oliver Sidwell, esq., a well known citi zen of -West Chester, has suffered a slight stroke of paralysis. A Harrisburg fisherman brought te the surface alive a clever sized mussel, which held firmly between its shells, the head of a dead water snake. m In the dusk of the evening au ugly visaged gipsy woman tried te kidnap a live-year-eld daughter of H. J. Penrose en the public streets of Reading. nenry Murkill, aged 38 years, of Ilavru-de-Grace, 3Id., was struck by a train en the Philadelphia. Wilmington & Baltimere railroad at Ridley park bridge, and in stantly killed. Wm. C. Keys, of Altoeua, came te Har risburg en hi first trip as brakeman yes terday. He went te the hospital ou a stretcher, with his left feet terribly mangled. The fair and festival of the Atglcu or chestra will be held ou Thursday. Friday aud Saturday evenings August 4 5 and 6. Under Prof. Keller's direction the or chestra is improving rapidly. There is at present a great demand for the butter ami cheese manufactured at the Womclsderl" creamery. It is turning out ene hundred pounds of butter daily aud twice the quantity of cheese, rising about 4,000 pounds of milk Up in Elmira, N. ' they have a to bacco raisers' club which meets weekly, aud its president lately reported te its astonished members that he had seen hun dreds of acres growing iu L-incaster coun ty but net left te blobseiu. Lawrence Ihuch, jr., of Newmaiisvil'c, was out fish in;; with his Lebanon friends, and was bitten severely in the middle finger of his left hand by a water snake, about 2 feet long. He culled in the ser vices of Dr. Ving.it, who drew from his finger a fang fully three-fourths of an inch in length. The death of Geerge C.iffrey, a woll well woll kuewu resident of East Earl, has occurred at his residence, about a quarter of a mile from Fairviile, Deceased had been, ill but a few days, having been seized simi larly te apoplexy en S.itui day niht. He was about. 79 years of age and leaves a family of four daughters and one seu. Thieves enti-ifd Martin's mill, near the White ller-v, Salisbury, and stele about fiftcen bushels of corn. The corn was en the fourth lloer of the mill, aud was lower ed into a wagon by the mill rope. Aaren Gankley, liviug about one-quarter of a mile from the mill, had about seventeen bushels of emu stolen and Edward Linville, living in the same vicinity, had a let of chop stuff taken about the same time. At the age of 91, Dr. Wm. Jenes, colored has died in Harrisburg. He traveled as a practising phyMi:iau in Schuylkill, Leba non, Lancaster, Verk, Cumberland and Dauphin counties. He also gave his at tention te the blewiug in of anthracite furnaces, in which he was regarded as an expert and reliable. He was an old time abolitionist and a local A. 31. E. preacher. In Hie weeds around Sweet Air, 3Id., Henry E. SI. imp has three saws running continuously -md has two large engines. He is cutting, in the mill, about '500 feet of lumber a day, besides a large ameuut of spokes, fellees aud ether timber. 3Ir. Shirap also cut and peeled List spring from this land about 200 cords of black oak bark. He is new putting up a mill for the purpose of grinding this bark. Frank II. Banks, lawyer and journalist, of Chester, and altogether a fast yeun; man, has been gathered iu at Johnstown, after several mouths of wild eats sewing; the charge lining that about the beginning of June last In; collected and apprepriatcil $9,480 belonging te the estate of Mr. Wm. Garret, a former resident of Phtunixvillr, and Banks' Sunday school teacher, hut for several years past n citizen of San Fraeisce, California. The State Dental society at the late meet ing in Chautauqua agreed te meet next year in Williamspeit, aud elected the following efficers: President. Dr. A. B. Ansa it, Oil City ; Fii.-.l Vice President, Dr. Jus.su C. Green, West Cheater : Second Vice Presi dent, Dr. S. II. Guilferd, Philadelphia ; Treasurer. Dr. G. W. Klump, Williams Williams pert ; Recording Secretary, Dr. E. P. Kremcr, Lebanon ; Assistant Recording Secretary, Dr. William II. Miller, AI AI AI toena. Besides bequests te his relatives, includ ing most of hi:; property, the late Prof. Ermontieut, of Reading, directed that $20 be paid te Rev. Father IJorneni.uiii, of St. Paul's Catholic church, for conducting his funeral services, and $10 te every ether priest attending the funeral. Te Arch bishop Weed he bequeaths two 100 Read ing water bends for the saying of masses ; 500 te Archbishop Weed for the use of St. Charles Borremco theological .seminary near Philadelphia, and 500 te St. Cath arine's orphan asylum, 300 te St. Jeseph's hospital, 50 te the trustees of the Kcystone normal school, the interest te be used in purchasing three trees annu ally te be planted ou the grounds. MARIETTA SIATTJSKS. I.iieiy Times Up the Rlver. Among the finest flower gardens in Marietta, is one adjoining the Cress-Keys hotel, belonging te 3Irs. Christian Hauer. She has mere than thirty varieties of sweet scouted (lowers, and the air all around is laden with richest perfume. II. L. Sultzbach, who sued Iittlu Ida Jehnsen for slander, has brought suit agaiust her father for exposing his person in the presence of his family. James Kelly, Heur dealer, left his horse attached te ft spring wagon untied. The herse ran oil, the wheel struck a pest, throwing ;t child out that was sitting in the wagon at the time. The herse -ran about a mile with the shafts hanging te him. The child was net hurt. A colored man fell from a canal beat in te the canal, near the Henry Clay furnace. He could net swim aud floundered about iu the water like a broken legged frog iu a geese pond. The captain threw a life pre server te him. It was a rope with a herse bucket attached te it. He clung te it like a woodpecker te a dead limb, aud was seen landed ou beard. Jake Gable sold Al. Spanglcr a shanty standing en the canal bank for 25. Spang lcr has occupied the heuse siucc last 31arcb, and paid 812 en it. Gable demand ed the balance. Spanglcr told him that he would compromise by sawing the build ing in two and divide. The ground 011 which it stands belong te the borough. Dr. Alexander was visiting the sick rid ing en a bicycle. Near Snyder's beer saloon en Frent street, he fell oil. While he was regaining his feet, he was tackled by. a deg ; the deg caught him by the leg, the doctor fought the brute with stones, and three stones thrown by him went crashing in through the open deer and window of Constable Ruby's heuse, and, strange te say, though the family were sitting in the house no ene was struck. As it 7s, it will end in a law suit. Slight Wreck. Last evening a slight wreck occurred near Witmer's station, en the Pennsylva nia railroad. Several cars were thrown from the track, and Harrisburg accommo dation west was delayed 20 minutes. 4
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