LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1881.
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Hancastet -fntelligencrr.
SATURDAY EVENING, AUG. 13,-1881.
Presidential Succession.
The lauguage of the constitution and
the laws supplying a successor te the
president, in case of liis disability te per
form the duties of the office, appear te
afford a wide field for discussion and dis
agreement among lawyers and ether
people of a hypercritical turn of mind ;
but the difficulty does net seem great te
these who are content te read the law in
the light of its intent te keep the presi
dency supplied with an officer able te ful
fil its functions. Since the president is
elected forfeur years itseemsobvieus that
he may net be supplanted in the exercise
of his powers during any part of his
term in which he is able te exercise
them ; but during any part in which he
is disabled the vice president takes his
place ; te relinquish it when the disability
ceases. The practical difficulty arises in
determining when the president's dis
ability begins and ceases. Xe one
is empowered te declare this unless it be
the president, the vice president, or the
courts. The president, if he is conscious
of his disability, it would seem, might
very properly call upon the vice presi
dent te temporarily take his place.
President Garfield, though certainly dis
abled, has net seen fit te divest himself
of the duties he cannot perform. The
vice president, if satisfied of the presi
dent's disability, might properly consider
it te be his duty te take upon himself
the duties which the constitution in that
case puts upon him. But evidently
there would be danger in permit
ting that officer te assume the presi
dential powers upon his own judg
ment of his right te de se. Yet it is
every man's duty te act upon his own
judgment of his duty, and if the vice
president is convinced that the presiden
tial powers have devolved upon him can
he conscientiously abstain from taking
steps te assume them V Ve de net think
he can. But what are these proper
steps ? lie may net seize the presidency
violently. His recourse, in case his
" right is disputed, would seem te be te
the judiciary ; and, though no way is
seeciallv provided for obtaining such
adjudication, general powers of the
judiciary should suffice te enable it te
determine the vice president's claim of
right te the presidency. Hut probably
before the machinery of the court could
b3 get into operation the emergency
would cease with the president's re
covered disability; as there should be
no practical vacation of the presidency,
the manifest duty of Congress seems te
le te require the supreme court te
promptly determine whether the exi
gency h:w arrived which clothes another
than the president with the presidential
powers.
The writer in the Albany Jaw Jour
nal, who insists that, when there is no
vice president, the president of the
Senate and the speaker of the Heuse
are net permitted by the constitution te
le called te the presidency, is most evi
dently a lawyer, as no ether than a law
yer would ever have thought of denying
that these officers of -the Seriate and the
Heuse are ." officers " -within the mean
ing of the constitutional direction te
Congress te declare what officers shall
act as president.
This commentator holds that the
" officer" mentioned in the constitution
must be an officer of the United States,
and lie maintains that eilicers of the Sen
ate and Heuse are net officers of the
United States. The legal mind may be
attracted by the strength of the point
here made, but te the ordinary compre
hension it is quite tee sharp te be receiv
ed with favor. Congress .can make an
officer of the United States out of any
one ; and eveu though a senator or re
presentative may net be such officer, is
net the presiding officer converted into
one, if by nothing else, by the very act
of Congress which confers upon him
succession te the presidency, as an officer
capable of receiving that succession un
der the constitution ? But independent
ly of this consideration, the ordinary ap
prehension of men will held the presi
dent of the Senate and the speaker of
the Heuse te be officers of the United
States by virtue of their offices as mem
bers of Congress. There h:is been much
discussion :is te whether congressmen
are officers of the United States or of the
state. T hey are in fact officers of both,
in the geneial opinion, however much
lawyers may he disposed te dispute the
manifest fact. They take the oath as
officers of the United States, are solely
occupied with the business of the United
States, and get from it their cempensa-
tien. They fill a United Suites office in
being representatives in the Congress of
the United States, and are therefore
as distinctly officers of the United
States as they can be made. When
Congress gets te the consideration
of the legislation needed te correct the
defects that have been made apparent in
the prescribed mode of presidential suc
cession, we lielieve, as we have before
said, that it will find it most expedient
te give the succession te the members
of the cabinet after the vice president.
They are always en hand te assume the
duties, which, moreover, the disabled
president would be disposed te confide
te them during his inability. And he
should have this privilege. There is no
propriety in putting the government
temporarily into the hands of one who
maybe inimical te the policy of the
elected president. The people have con
ferred the office upon him for four years
and its duties should be discharged dur
ing the term by himself or his chosen
deputy. The public welfare will thus
best tie consulted.
We respectfully suggeBt te Alderman
Spurrier that even " tramps'' and "dis "dis
orderlies" havesrighls in his court which
the administrators of the law are bound
te respect. It is altogether likely that
the complaints of our country friends
laid before him this morning were well
founded, and their narration of their
wrongs strictly true. Very likely, tee,
that the men arraigned before him were
guilty of these wrongs, and deserved
confinement in jail as a punishment for
their effendings, and a protection te the
farmers from their ravages. All the
same, they were entitled te a hearing
and te proof of their guilt before they
were summarily sent te jail. The fact
that they were friendless and ignorant
of their rights, which was the -reason
they were net allowed them, should
have been the reason why they
were conceded and made acquaint
ed with them. Net one of the
accused Was identified or mentioned in
any syllable of the testimony taken as
the person guilty of disorderly conduct
set forth, and any one of them taken
before the court would have te lie re
leased en a habeas corpus. It may be that
the policemen who took them could have
se identified them ; it may be that in the
alderman's breast reposed knowledge of
their general character which he con
sidered sufficient te complete the testi
mony. If se it should have been dis
closed ; aud the accused, tee, should have
been freely offered an opportunity te in
terrogate the witnesses and te make
their own statements.
Probably no hardship was worked by
the neglect te give these men their legal
rights ; but, as this hearing was con
ducted, they might as well have been
kept in jail at the pleasure of the keeper
or locked up in barns by the farmers
around New Danville instead of being
sent te "bummers' hall." It is this
irregular way of administering the law
that makes tramps of men and creates
a disregard, contempt and defiance of
the law as a device te protect the strong
anil rich and te oppress the weak and
friendless. Let things be done decently
and in order, in the higher and lower
courts.
MINOR TOPICS.
The sales of the Meedy and Sankcy
hymn books, which arc called by the name
of "Gospel Hymns," amount te9,337,0P0
copies.
It was liaid ou the retiring pastor of a
country church whose congregation had
passed a series of fulsome resolutions
about him, when the local paper printed
" inebriated zeal " instead of "unabated
zeal."
Theue should be a general feeling of
relief among all decent people at the
semi-official statement of one of the lead
ing members of the Irish convention
(lately held iu Chicago) that the conven
tion discussed only "regular revolutionary
methods of agitation.' '
Complaint was made in the Ontario
teachers' convention at Terente, ou Wed
nesday, that there isu ever-supply of
teachers in Canada (that is, of third-rate
teachers), forty and fifty applications in
some cases being made for situations with
:i salary of net mere than $300 a year.
It is a remarkable fact, which has net
been adequately explained, that the excess
in candidates for the ministry is most felt
iu the Methodist bodies. In this country,
the evil is less felt new, aud is probably
passing away under the improvement in
the times ; hut iu England all the Metho
dist bodies feel, it.
Onk of the evidences of the power of the
gospel upon heathen savages is seen in
Tapitenea, one of the Gilbert Islands,
where the people have gathered aud
burned all their weapons of war, have
passed prohibitory liquor laws and im
posed heavy fines en these guilty of Sun
day labor or desecration.
Seme mere interesting extracts from the
private correspondence of Maj. B. P.
Bicucman, new in Europe, te friends in
this city ; a forecast of some theatrical
amusements underlined for the next sea sea
seu here ; a graphic account of the reli
gieus enthusiasm aud social life of Rich
mond negrees, and ether matters of local
and general interest will he found en our
outside pages te-day.
One of the last acts of the late Dean
Stanley's public life was an expression of
sympathy with the cause of the Arme
nians. He took part as leader in the
Abbey en the day betore he contracted
the chill that finally ended his days, in a
private meeting te organize an Eugli&li
subscription in aid of their efforts for the
enlightenment of Asiatic Turkey. The
Armenian association was iuvited by him
te make its headquarters in the Jerusalem
chamber, and during his illness an ad
dress of thauks for this aid was beiug rap
idly signed.
Englishmen stoutly opposed te vac
cination and of that class there appears,
unfortunately, te be a respectable number
ought te read and ponder well statistics
just furnished by the Deptford small-pox
hospital, which receives patients from all
parts of Londen. During the six months
ending ou June 30, it received 540 cases of
small-pox, of which 32G had becu vaccin
ated and 204 Ii A net been, while of 40 it
was unknown whether they had been vac
cinated or net. Among the vacciuated
cases the deaths uumbered only only (5, or
25 per cent. ; among the unvacciuatcd
they reached a total of 127, which was 48
per cent Of the 4G doubtful cases 9 were
fatal.
A recent estimate of the Jewish popu
lation of the world puts the number at
about 6,100,000. Only 180,000 of the race
are te be found in Asia, 400,000 in Africa,
300,000 in America, and 20,000 iu Austra
lia. The great majority of the race, mere
than 5,000,000, live in Europe. Roumania
contains a far larger number of Jews iu
proportion te its population than any
ether European country, namely, 7.44 per
cent. ; while Norway contains only 34
individuals of the race. The local distri
bution of the Jewish population iu differ
ent countries is traced out with great
I pains by Dr. Andree. Thus, in some of the
government districts of Russian Poland
the Jewish inhabitants constitute from 13
Ce 18 per cent, of the population.
Although for the whole of Germany the
Jewish clement is only 1J per cent, of the
population, in the city of Berlin it has
increased te nearly 5 per cent.
A Mit. Fergusen, who belongs te Gar
field's church, writing te the Natien, ob
jects te the term " Campbellite " as de
scriptive of his denomination, and insists
that, while claiming te be nothing else hut
" Christians," they de net claim te he the
only Christians. Te prove this, he admits
that there are Christians in "the various
ether sects ;" but, as they differ, bethinks
they " must have added something which
is net essentially Christian." He gees en
te say that ether sects refused te be simply
Christian, hence Mr. Campbell undertook
the task. A religious contemporary wants
te knew where Mr. Fergusen get the right
te assume as an axiom that until Mr.
Campbell founded a church (about fifty
years age) all churches had refused te ba
simply Christian ? Aud in short, declares
it te be sheer impudence for any body of
people te assume that they are the only
people who try te be simply Christians.
PERSONAL.
General Patterson leaves his entire es
tate, estimated te be worth a million and
a-half, te hjs family.'
Mrg. Frances Hodgsen Burnett, the
novelist, is at Lene Branch, where hc is
enjoying the sea sands between paragraphs.
Labouchere, speaking of headaches
after a recent social entertainment, says
that it is well at most balls largely te di
lute the champagne with seltzer.
President VanBuren is said te have
made liis first summing up in a lawsuit at
the age of eighteeu, and te have received
the sum of halt a dollar for his services.
Rev. RenT. J. Nevin, D. D., of St.
Pauls within the Walls P. E. church iu
Reme, is visiting his parents at Caernarvon
Place aud will preach in St. James te-morrow.
,
Majer Daniel, the Democratic caudi
date for governor of Virginia, has a pale
and beardless face and a boyish expression,
rcmiuding one of Byren. He is said te be
a very chivaltic person, anl it is related
that he left school with a room-mate, who
was expelled for some violation of rule,
because, though net guilty of the same of ef
fese, he was present aud iu full sympathy
with the offender.
Rev. Drs. Jewett aud Hatfield, who were
appointed a committee of the Reck River
Illinois conference, te formulate aud prose
cute charges of hercw-agaiusb Rev. II. W.
Themas, D. D., liave performed then
work. Thccharges are brief and accuse the
doctor of denying the doctrine of atone
ment and teaching that of probation after
death. The trial will be held in Chicago
next month.
A friend of the family iu the Cleveland
Uerald says : " Many of the friends of
Mrs. Hayes arc indignant at the use that
is being made of her name by the papers
of both political parties in connection with
a remark attributed te hec in regard te
'indorsing Garfield or Guiteau.' She did
net make the remark, and first heard of it
through the free use of her name in pub
lic piints. The remark, if made, could
only be applicable te the different shades
of Republicans."
Judge Celt, who committed suicide the
ether dav, nearly lest his life by drowning
several years age. Walking en Nantasket
beach he saw a yeuug lady struggling for
life iu the waves. She had passed beyond
her depth. Judge Celt plunged into the
water aud succeeded iu sustaining the
drowning girl, but his own strength failed
him, and he was pewcrles.'; te swim to
wards the beach. Beth were tleating out
te sea, when a young Weymouth shoe
maker swam out and rescued fiist one and
then the ether.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Ex-Chief Justice Steerrs Seymour died
at his home in Litchfield, Conn., yester
day, agpd 78.
Jehn Bolten, of Terente. Canada, one
day married, was drowned en Tuesday in
endeavoring te save a deg.
In Richmond, R. I., Jeseph Smart, a
colored hey 18 years old, hanged himself,
as supposed, accidentally.
At Stamford, N. Y., Emma Dudley,
aged 17, took poison and died after a lever's
quarrel with a fellow employee at a cream
ery, whom she was te have married next
Monday.
There is a report that a horrible outrage
and murder had been perpetrated in Clin Clin
eon county, N. Y., by six men who as
saulted three young girls aud then hanged
them. Twe of the three victims arc said
te be dead, and the third's just alive.
Twe lads, aged 5 and 9, sons, respectively,
of Martin Fitzpatrick aud Jerry Ri.'ey, iii
Coventry, R. L, were missed. Search was
made all night, and next morning their
bodies were found iu a saud-pit, buried
by a caviug bank.
Temperatures were reported vesterday
by the signal office of 10G in the shade at
St. Leuis, 105 at Fert Gibsen, 103 at Caire
aud Louisville, 102 at Nashville, 101 at
Memphis and Little Reck, aud 100 at
Indianapolis.
In Birmingham, Ala., Geerge Grifliu,
colored, was hanged for the rape of Mrs.
Segars. A large crowd gathered outside
the jail, but the execution was entirely
private. His neck was net broken by the
fall and Ins contortions were fearful te
witness.
A lire is raging at the new Czech
.national meat re, i'rague, wincli was
opened during the fetes en the occasion of
the marriage of the Crown Prince Rudelph
The whole structure is a mass of flame
The reef has collapsed, aud flames have
seized upon the interior. The fire is at
tributed te the carelessness of the plumb
ers.
The -coal of the Royal mail company's
steamer JN He, wlule en lier passage from
Southampton te Barbadoes, was discover
ed te be en fire. Upen examination car
tridges were found secreted among crates
of earthenware aud the baggage which
were piled upon the coal.- The vessel had
a very uarrew escape.
Jacksonville, Fla., had a private hang
ing yesterday of Benjamin Bardeaux, cel
ered, convicted of the murder of Police
Nelsen, colored, during the mill riots. He
confessed. As the noose had net' been
arranged, the end slipped out aud he fell
te the ground. He get up with the sheriff's
assistance and again walked upon the trap.
The repe was properly adjusted and he
was launched into eternity.
STATE ITEMS.
D. G. Zeigler, the missing Yerk lawyer,
supposed te have been foully dealt with,
has turned up in Philadelphia.
The Press announces that te-morrow it
will print an interesting interview with cx cx cx
.Governer Themas, of Maryland, one of
the three surviving members of Buch
anan's cabinet, and another chapter from
Judge liiaek, following up the article of
last bunday.
James Munday, of Alteena, attended a
party two miles above town. While re
turning along the railroad track he was
run ever by a freight train .and had both
legs crushed off, from the effects of which
he died a few hours later. He was twenty
two years of age and unmarried.
Jeseph Klein, aged 21, residing at Ne.
2.121 Emerald street, last night lay in the
Presbyterian hospital, iu a dying condition
the result of a knife wound in the stom
ach indicted by Matthias Miller in a sa
loon fight resulting from an insult offered
the landlord's daughter by Miller and re
sented by Klein. .
Fer the mujder of Maurice Healy, at
Dunbar furnace, Fayette county, Piuker-
ten detectives have arrested James Kane,
Patrick Donlan, James McFarland, Jehn
Cellins and James Ragan. They were all
arrested in the mines about Dunbar, ex
cept McFarland, who is a boyish looking
fellow, the son of McFarland, the hotel
keeper of Dunbar.
J. Henry Schultz was found dead in bed
at the house of Philip Heil, P.dmer town
ship, Northampton county. Deceased,
with Professer Netz, left, their homes, in
Watertown, Wis., en August 3, and,
traveling east, reached Mr. Heil's place,
where they were te visit, last night. Mr.
Schaltz was subject te epileptic attacks.
Samuel Geuchcr and Margaret A., his
wife, both of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Sa
rah J. James of West, Chester, indicted
for having violated the sepulchre of Hat
tie Garrett, a daughter of Mrs. Annie
Majer by her first husband, Morten Gar
rett, and removing the body te another
part of the family let in Greenmount
cemetery were found guilty. Their coun
sel made a motion for a new trial.
UK. HAMMOND AKOCSEO.
A Medical Bombshell.
Ex-Surgeon-General Win. A. Hammend,
of New Yerk, has written a 'letter in which
he takes strong ground against the course
pursued by President Garfield's attending
surgeons. After entirely exculpating Drs.
Hamilton and Agnew from any connection
with the alleged malpractice, Dr. Ham Ham
eond arraigns the surgeons ou seven
counts for the mistakes which were, in his
opinion, committed within the first forty
eight hours, the principal among which
are, he maintains : Neglect te make a
thorough exploration of the' track of
the wound and te lecate the . posi pesi posi
sitien of the bullet; neglect te re re re
meve the fragments of cletbiug and of
bone winch afterwards caused such great
suffering; neglect te extract the ball
while the strength, of the patient was atv
its maximum and before the track had
been partially closed by the swelling of
the soft parts ; treating thpase from the
hrstirem the standpoint et guesswork,
instead of from actual facts gained by
thorough and intelligent exploration ;
ueglect te give exit of pus that had col
lected and te pieces of fractured ribs till
the consulting surgeons had arrived from
Philadelphia aud New Yerk, when Dr.
Agnew did what was proper ; being from
the first everweighted with a sense of re
sponsibility, ewiug te the fact that the
patient was the president of the United
States,
The doctor then -ventures the opinion
that a truckman similarly wounded and
treated at a first-class hospital by Dr. J.
R. Weed, L. A. Sayre, or any one of sev
eral surgeons named, would receive mere
energetic aud successful treatment than
has been given te the head of the nation.
He concludes as fellows : " The illustrious
sufferer, after thirty-five days, still lies ou
his back, aud each day with almost the
regularity of clockwork the fever appears,
and yet the bulletins tell us the surgeons
are satisfied ? Is it possible they de net
knew the import of this daily disturbance
of pulss and temperature.' If it is net ar
rested there can be but one termination ;
and yet I de net see hew anything they
can de new can arrest it. We can only
trust te the indomitable courage, the
robust constitution and the iron will of
the patient, and te the prayers of millions
of loyal and sympathizing hearts in all
parts of the world."
THE NATION'S PATIENT.
A Reply te Docter Agnew.
The Times, of Philadelphia, prints the
following in reference te the card of Dr.
Agnew, telegraphed from Washington :
"With the discreditable jealousies of
physicians developed in the treatment of
the president, Dr. Agnew has had no part,
unless te seethe the professional wounds
of ethers by the inconsiderate statement
that "iu no particular de the details given
(in the article) represent. my views of the
case," but journalism cannot se far
defer te professional courtesy, and the
Times repeats that the entire article
was most carefully aud in the best
faith predicated upon statements made by
Dr. Agnew ; that it was given te the pub
lic in like geed faith by a most reputable
member of his profession, that any errors,
if such they arc, defied the most careful
professional and editorial scrutiny, and
they will be most willingly, corrected if
Dr. Agnew will specify them. He ewes it
te himself, te his professional brother,
who iu the best faith gave his views for
the gratification of the public, and te a
public journal that has been guiltless of
the slightest intentional error, te specify
the particular statements which called out
a denial from him four days after the pub
lication had been read in the White Heuse.
Laudable l'ua.
X. Y. llui-aitl.
It appears, however, that this pus, benuin
et laudabile, is sufficiently depraved te
complicate an accidental puncture with all
the characteristics et a poisoned wound in
the baud of the surgeons. Dr. Bliss's acci
dent proves the quality of the discharge
from the president's wound better tbau
could many microscepical examinations.
it au extremely small portion does se
much harm te one one man what must
the whele de te another ?
GREAT FlKK IN ST. LOUIS.
An Explosion Following a Lightning Stroke.
Last evening the Atbntic flouring mill,
corner of Main and Plum streets, St. Leuis.
of which Geerge Bain, esq., president
et the National Aimers association, is
president- and manager, was struck
by lightning. An explosion seems te have
instantly followed the stroke of lightwig.
The belt had scarcely touched the buircnug
when fire issued, as if by magic, from its
every part and in half an hour the mill
and its entire contents were completely
destroyed. A number of men at work ou
different floors were blown through
the doorways and windows, receiving
serious and perhaps fatal injuries.
The fire spread immediately te the
Future City Oil Works, extending en
Plum street from Main te river front. The
works burned very fiercely. A ware
house containing resin and turpentine en
same block, was also in flames and the
Plum street depot of the Iren Mountain
railroad, en the opposite side of the street,
in great danger.
About seventy men were employed in
the mill, all of whom, it is said, are' ac
counted for. beveral of them were badly
eurneu, however, ana nave been sent te
the hospital, The less en the mill is
$140,000 ; insurance, $120,00. The Future
City Oil Works were damaged about
$45,000.
Kentucky Manners et the Read.
A Kentucky mob mistook Mr, Verdun
for a murderer whera they wished te hang,
and Mr. Verdun mistook the lynchers for
highwaymen. The consequence was a
desperate fight and pursuit. Mr. Vcrduu
stepped whipping his horse occasionally
te fire a wild shot back te the chasers,
while they perforated te top of his carriage
with bullets. He was at length overtaken
and then the mutual blunder was forgiven
with drinks all around.
An Overworked l'aper.
Philadelphia Times.
The Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin,
which seems te have undertaken the light
aud trilling task of mauaging the Demo
cratic party of this state, has no sooner
get the state convention fizel for the
beautiful little West Branch city than it
turns its attention te the organization of
the body.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OUR REGULAR CORRESFONuKNCE.
A stated meeting of Columbia town
council was held in council chamber last
evening. Present : Messers. Guiles, Fil
bert, Hershey, Smith, Wann, Pfahler and
Mussser, president. Absent : Messes.
Hardman and Kistler.
The finance committee reported the
following, which was accpted :
Receipts.
Balance per lest report. $ 4,523 23
Annual market rents 177 00
Transient market rents 74 25
store rents. .........- . uti
Licences te circuses 63 CO
Hershey, tax collector, 1378 r 00
" 1879 99 20
Beckius " 1880 109 87
1881 5,397.79
" leg tax 138 CO
Total receipts $10,821 81
.Expenditures.
Notes cliargeil since last report $3,500 00
Order " 1.332 06
Balance ou hand . $ 5,989 78
The fire committee reported having had
au interview with the committee from the
Vigilant tire company, which appeared be
fore council at last meeting, and that after
having made a full investigation of what
it wanted te make the company efficient,
they could de no less than report favorably
te the request conveyed'threugh the com
mittee. Tha committee also reported the
purchase of a hose eiler, and council
ordered a trough and trestle te be pur
chased. The read cemmitte reported the repair
of several of the streets, several ethers are
in need of repair, and took a few ether
points which are covered in the report of
the sanitary and police committee.
The property committee reported :
" During the past month we have had the
audience room of the opera house thor
oughly cleaned, the girder lightened, and
in one week mere will have all the repairs
finished that were recommended at your
last meeting." The committee then gees
en te ask for further instructions, which
were given them, and which will be found
under matters referred te the property
committee.
The sanitary and police committee re
ported having had the streets cleaned of
rubbish of all kinds, grass pulled up from
along the gutters and disinfectants put in
the gutters and sewers. The committee
thinks the town was never mere healthy
at this season of the year. Under our
rules, an ordiuance offered by Chairman
Smith, of the paving committce, was laid
ever. It prohibits, under penalty of five
dollars fine, any person from using any
baggage tracks, wheelbarrows, go carts,
milk carts, wagon or any ether appliance
used for the purpose of carrying merchan
dise or baggage.
The rates for renting the opera house
aud the matter of renewing a $5,000 fire
insurance policy iu the Yerk mutual were
left te the property committee's discre
tion ; also the letting of the contract for
the coal used by the borough and the em
ployment of policemen te keep order in
front of the opera house.
Messrs. McBride, Maulfair and Herbert
were directed te replace the dilapidated
boardwalk en Seuth Fourth street, be
tween Mill street aud the Reading & Co
lumbia railroad, with a pavement six feet
wide, within fifteen days of the notice, or
the pavement would be put down by the
borough.
The fire committee reported " progress "
en the question of repairing the Vigilant
engine. Mr. Wann said that the Vigilant
company had received an offer for their
engine.
It was decided te putchase a geed qual
ity of oil for oiling the hose of the several
fire companies, and te deduct the cost of
the same from the appropriations.
Owners of dogs paying the tax before
September 1 will have the fines remitted ;
after that the deg catchers will impound
the brutes. Fer neglect te light the
lamps en the night of August 1 the light
ers were fined $1 each. The solicitor was
instructed te have the tax duplicates of
187G and 1877 closed in accordance with
the resolution adopted May 4, 1881, before
the next meeting of council. Bills
amounting te $1,3S0.14, including the pay
roll of $260.78 and the fire companies' ap
propriatien of $337.50, were ordered te be
granted for their payment. The secretary
was instructed te write all the ordinances
in the ordinance book.
The Borough Budget.
Citizens' band out serenading last
night.
P. R. R. pay car paying off here last
evening aud te-day.
Mr. Jehn Fendrich is building a new set
of het house? ou Chestnut street.
Mr. Isaiah Sneath will preach in Rev. H.
Wheeler's pulpit te-morrow and -Rev. II.
J. Hamilton for the Baptists.
Sterline's horse fell in front of Ce. C.'s
armory last evening from excessive heat
but was revived.
While two Columbians were driving te
Mountville, the cigar of one of them burn
ed the back out of the ether's a'paca coat
and damaged the carriage.
The harness at Squire Grier's has been
identified by the owner from whom it
was stolen, and Myers has been commit
ted te court te answer for stealing it.
Miss Allice Wann, of Tippecanoe, Ind.,
is visiting her cousins, the Misses Wann.
Mr. Jee Bucher and Miss Ella Reist, of
Lancaster, were in town yesterday.
The editor of the Spy, who makes up his
paper with paste and scissors from the
Columbia correspondence of the Lancaster
dailies, undertakes te correct the statement
in this paper that Mr. Redenhauser under
took, te. arrest Tew Hill diserderlies en
view of their offenses. The statement was
correct. Mr. R. confirms it, and he was
there. The Spy man was net. and only
gets information from these who have a
motive te misrepresent the facts.
New Helland News.
Clarien.
Mrs. Jno. Mentzer, of theWest End, has
been suffering the past several days from a
terrible wound in the feet, caused by her
treading en a nail.
The Lutheran church will be closed for
the. next two Sundays (Aug. 14th and
21st), as the pastor will be absent en a
vacation at Atlantic City.
Mr. Benjamin Buckwalter, of Leacock
township, has a turkey hen that com
menced laying last spring and never
wanted te hatch until it had laid eighty
eggs.
The Lutheran Sunday-school and con
gregation will held a picnic in Diller's
(formerly Reland's) Greve, en the banks
of Mill creek, near Brubaker's mill, next
Thursday.
The harvest sermon will be preached in
the Reformed ceurch by the pastor, Rev.
D. W. Gerhard, at 10 o'clock te-morrow
morning, and in Veganville at 2 o'clock.
A3 a Mr. King, wholesale dealer in lum
ber, from Marietta, was driving iu the
western part of town, he came in contact
with a drove of steers, one of which, in
some manner, get its horns entangled in
one of the wheels, and in its struggles it
succeeded in doing considerable damage te
the vehicle.
Sale of Real Estate.
Allan A. Herr & Ce , real estate and in
surance agents, sold the let en south side
New street, between Duke and Queen
streets, belonging te Jonas and Susan
Swartley, te Frederick Hoefel for $2,800.
Het, Hetter, Hottest.
Te day was the worst yet. At 3 p. m.
in the Inteli.ieekcer office the ther
mometer recorded .102, and the reporter
said that en the street, where he had te
take it, it must have been 115.
COURT THIS MORNING.
What ts Dena la Het Weather.
This morning court met at 10 o'clock,
both judges being en the bench.
Judge Livingston delivered opinions in
the follewiug cases.:
Jehn T. Knapp vs. B. F. Stener. Rule
te strike off appeal. Rule made abso
lute. Martin H. Grabe vs. Jehn S. Weidler.
Rule for a uew trial. Rule discharged.
Geerge Mackey vs. Isaac S. Camant and
Jehn Montgomery, assignees of Michael
Montgomery. Certiorari sustained and ex
ecution set aside.
Barbara Herman's use vs. Jeseph li.
Erb. Exception te bill of costs. Excep
tions dismissed.
Frederick Wolf vs. Sarah A.Welf. Rule
for alimony. Rule discharge
Ada Brown vs. Levi K. Brewu. Rule
te strike off non suit. Rule discharged.
Hanover Junction & Susquehanna rail
road company vs. Michael II . Moere. Rule
for new trial. Rule discharge.
Ada Brown vs. Levi K. Brown, rule te
strike off non suit. Discharged.
Frederick Keller, deceased, exceptions
te auditor's report overruled and report
confirmed.
Christiana Curry, deceased. Rule te
show cause why real estate under control
of executer should net be transferred te
Jesephine Drepperd, moneys handed ever,
etc. Rule made absolute and executer
was ordered te pay the costs.
Cem'th vs. Michael H. Kauflinan.
Rule granted te show cause why the rec
ord should net be connected. The word
settled was ordered vte be stricken from
the record, and the defendant's bail was
forfeited and respited te August court.
Before Jndge rattersen.
Cem'th vs. Jehn Grau, desertion. Rule
te show cause why an order of court for
maintenance, made January 21, 18S0,
should net be revoked. Rule made abso
lute aud order revoked.
Benjamin Fritz, jr., vs. Michael Gable
and Jacob Gable. Rule te amend caption
of suit. Rule made absolute.
Lew. Shaeffervs.JacebDivclerand Henry
Naglc. Rule te show cause why costs
should net be repaid. Rule discharged
and plaintiff te pay costs of continuance.
William Burkman vs. Abraham Wen
ger. Rule te open judgment discharged.
Emanuel E. Miller vs. Patrick Carr,
with notice te Fred. Hoefel, Plea iu
abatement and rule. &c. ; pica dissolved,
demurrer sustained and judgment of re re
seondeat ouster entered.
Abraham Weidman, deceased, exceptions
te auditor's report. Repert recommitted
te the auditor for correction.
Current Business.
In the matter of the appeal of Jeremiah
Brown et al. from the award of viewers an
issue was granted in which Jeremiah
Brown et al. shall be plaintiffs aud the
Columbia & Pert Deposit railroad company
defendants.
The license of Hemy Darenkamp, who
formerly kept the saloon under Grant hall,
was transferred te Jehn Ransing. The
tavern license ofGcergo Dennis, of Man
heim, was transferred te Geerge Y.
Shreincr.
In the suit of ffehn Bare vs. Levi F.
Shirk, judgment by consent was entered
in favor of the plaintiff for $G27.23
Mrs. Lettie Lech, wife of Wm. Lecb,
presented a petitieu for the benefit of the
act of 1872, giving a married woman the
benefit of her separate earnings.
Jehn B. Pickcl, an insolvent debtor was
discharged.
A rule was granted te show cau.se why
the alias fi. fa. should be set aside and ex
ecution stayeel iu the suit of the Lycoming
insurance company vs. Levi Scuscnig.
OK. LEW1N.
The Adventurer Skips Philadelphia.
Sheriff Strine and Officer Stermfeltz,
who wcut te Philadelphia yesterday te
gobble up the absconding Dr. Lewfn, have
returned te Lancaster without their game.
Sheriff Strine ascertained that Dr. Lew in
h.id sold a week or two age te B. II.
Stuckert, Nes. 015, 617 and 019 North
Fifth street, his bay and sorrel horses, his
sleigh, coupe, harness, &c, &c, for $550
and had received the money for them A
few days age he sold te Mr. Stacker
the pair of black match horses he
purchased from Mr. Celvin. receiving for
them $350 cash. The sheriff further ascer
tained that Dr. Lewin had stepped at the
American house, Philadelphia, registered
himself under the name of Kaullc the
first name net being remembered by the
sheriff. Lewin left the American house
yesterday, and said he was going te New
Yerk, and left directions as te where he
might be found, but it is probable the
directions are bogus.
Dr. Lewin it will, be remembered drove
from this city te Philadelphia with his
pair of match horses. On reaching the
city one of the horses was found te be
badly foundered, and this may account for
his getting only $350 for the team.
Mr. Walter, who is the principal sufferer
by Dr. Lewin's flight, declines te spend
any mere money iu his prosecution or,
as he expressed it, "he will send no geed
money after had." If Lewin were arrest
ed, he might be convicted and imprisoned,
hut that would be peer satisfaction for
Mr. Walter's less of money.
Mr. Stuckert, who bought Dr. Lcwiu's
horses, carriage, &c, appears te be a man
of large means aiid geed character, aud
te have acted honorably in his transac
tions with Dr. Lewin.
Alderman Barr, who issued the warrants
for Lcwin's arrest, says that when he was
in Columbia a few days age en a visit te
Alderman Frank, he met Dr. Lewin, who
showed him through his "hospital,"
treated him te choice wines of various
brands, and insisted en his taking dinner
with him. The dinner was an excellent
one, at which all the delicacies of the sea
son were served. Among the guests at
the tabic were several ladies, supposed te
be patients under treatment, .and also Mr.
Stuckert, whom it has since been learned
was invited te Columbia fcr the purpose of
looking at and taking an inveutery of Dr.
Lewin's furniture, with a view of purchas
ing it.
Sheriff Strine states that the furniture
and ether effects of Dr. Lewin. seized in
Columbia, will be sold by public sale en
next Monday week.
It is stated that among ether victims of
Dr. Lewin's sharp practice is a man,
named Zimmer, residing in the Eighth
ward, this city, who endorsed a note for
the doctor-for $20, and that the latter
" raised" the note before getting it cashed
te $200.
Seme of enr Hebrew friends take ex
ception te the statement that Dr. Lewin
was a Russian Jew. Net long since a
prominent member of the Jewish cengre
gatien invited Dr. Lewin te a meeting
held in the synagogue. Dr. Lewin
declined te attend, saying that
he was net a Jew but a mem
ber 'of the Russian Greek .church.
Shortly after Dr. Lewin's advent here, he
told a Protestant gentleman that although
he was of Jewish parentage he cared neth
ing for the Jewish faith aud wanted te be
introduced te some prominent Protestants,
with a view of connecting himself with the
church.
Market Wagen Kebbeii.
This morning Christian Ketterman, re
siding bn the Wabank read about two
miles south of the city, tied his horse in
Seuth Queen street a short distance below
Centre Square, and went off for a few
minutes te attend te some ether business.
On his return he discovered that some ere
had robbed his wagon of a market basket,
containing a let of groceries bought by
Mr. Ketterman for his own use.
A PAT TAKE
FOR ALUKR9IEN AND OFFICERS.
Seventeen Tramp Uathcred In Sent te Jail
ur annus lenus.
Fer a long time the farmers aud ether
residents of New Danville and vicinity,
southwest of this city, have been annoyed
by the presence and depredations of
tramps, with whom that' neighborhood
seems te be 'a favorite stamping ground.
The barn are invaded, hen roosts and
orchards robbed, cows milked and spring
houses stripped, women and children in
timidated and men threatened by the beg
gars. Fer a week or two the city police
have been scouring the country there
abouts and finally gathered in and ledged
iu jail seme seventeen of them, who
were taken before Alderman Spurrier
at 9 a. m. today for a "hearing." As it
was market morning, the farmers and
countrymen who had been subpoenaed
were present iu force te testify. The men
were marched te the temple of justice en
the corner of the alley iu twos aud threes,
fastened together with handcuffs, and
they-prcseuted a metley and interesting
appearauce. Among them were seme old
offenders whose faces are familiar before
the alderman's bar and at hummers' hall.
They were young men and old, sheit men
and tall, fat men aud thin, some verv
dirty and noue very clean ; Irishmen, Ger
mans and natives, some with geed faces
and noue very villianeus. nearly all able
bodied and apparently strong enough te
work. They were ledged in the inner circle
of the alderman's office and after
some consultation among the officers and
the alderman, the latter called and exam
ined a number ef'wituesscs from the
neighborhood of the alleged depredations.
Frank Harnish, Benj. Kreider, Benj. Bech
tel, Henry Resh, J. II. Landis, Mr.
Tshudy and another witness testified that
for a long time time tramp depredations
had been common in that neighborhood ;
the bummers shook the apple trees aud
slept in the barns, get a crock somewhere
and drank thick milk out of it ; begged
meals and talked ugly when they didn't
get them ; the children were afraid of
them ; they loitered in the weeds and
built fires therein, winter and summer,
and altogether annoyed, disturbed and
terrified the icopIe down that way.
One of the accused spoke up ami asked
if he could have something te say.
The alderman told him te keep quiet,
he would have an opportunity te be heard.
But he did net get it.
After seme mere consultation the alder
man announced bis decision te be that they
were committed te jail for periods of from
20 te 40 days, and if he get them before
him again he would give them 90.
In detail he announced the commit
ments of the men as fellows : Jacob Eusel
20 days, Jehn Fisher 20, Jehn Miller 25,
Jehn Fergusen 25, Patrick McDonnell 25,
Jes. Jacksen 30, Samuel Davisen CO, Chas.
Bensen 10, Fred Dais 35. Ed. Sticf 20,
Uustav Lushncr 40,
Patrick Corcoran 40,
Rebert Brown .'SO,
James Martin 10.
James Kelly 12, Wm
Fiudley 15, Jehn
O'Brien 15.
In explanation of the different terms
the alderman said some of them had been
hefore him hcretfere and he graded
their sentences by their incorrigibility.
The men were then marched out te
jail.
The names given were as likely as net
fictitious ; pai t of them certainly were
aliases.
There were, we understand, separate
complaints, warrants and subpoenas in
each case.
The examination aud testimony, how
ever, were all in a lump.
Very much of a lump, se te speak.
There was no pretense at an identifica
tion et any of the accused. Net even an
officer testified te having arrested any ene
of the men arraigned in the alderman's of
fice. Indeed the officers could only have
testified te finding them in a tramp condi
tion, whereas they were rail leaded bv the
summary processes of "diserderlies," .and
net as tramps.
It was a funny heai ing net s. funny for
the men who were net heard.
NI-.KUlltOKUOOO NEWS.
fiear aud Acress the County Line.
A large brick tobacco warehouse is being
erected en Harry Cauffman's river let, cor
ner of Frent and Locust streets, Wrights
ville. The farmers and tobacco growers of
Cress Reads, Hopewell township. Yerk
county, held their first picnic in Shank's
weeds, Thursday, Aug. 11
Rails and cress-ties for the Baltimore &
Delta railway are beginning te arrive in
Baltimore. The Neithcru Cential is lay
ing a track near Maryland avenue bridge
te connect with the Baltimore & Delta
railway.
Henry Bolten, of Ilarrishurg. aged
about sixteen employed at Burns' brick
yard en Eleventh street, above the insane
asylum, was accidentally killed by the
caving in of a bank of loam sand, about 5
o'clock last evening.
B. S. Sch rack fc Ce., of Reading, who
had a portable saw mill stationed at Rein
held's station, have moved the same -te
Quarry ville, where thev are doing some
extensive work. Jehn McII is the super
intendent, and they employ about 15 men
around the works.
Last spring Jacob S. Wi.tlcr, of Reading,
bought 10,000 pounds of unusually line
Lancaster leaf of the crop of 1S79. This
week a New Yerk party offered him 12
cents a pound mere than he paid, which
he declined te accept, although the profit
would have aggregated $1,2110. Mr.
Wislcr sold 119,900 cigars last month.
Geerge F. Gable, of H.cllam township,
Yerk county, planted ene peck of Early
Rese potatoes iu a small garden patch,
cutting but one aud two eyes te a stalk,
from which he raised G45 peuuds, making
10 bushels and 54 pounds of potatoes, all
large and nice.
Unfounded Rumer.
Last evening a painful rumor prevailed
that Geerge Gardner, a little fellow aged
nine years, who lives with his grandfather
Gcerge Bence, bricklayer, had been
drowned in the Conestoga, into which he
had gene te bathe, Happily the rumor
proved false The boy is in the habit of
spending his time either at Mr. Bence's or
Grandmother Gardner's, and the rumor
of his drowning arose when it was dis
covered that he was at neither of these
places. It was afterwards learned that he
spent the day playing with seme ether
boys in Middle street.
i Obituary.
Our obituary column announces the
death of Mrs. Jehu M. Dennelly, of Har
risburg, aged 30 years. Mr. Dennelly for
merly resided in this city, but has been
employed for several years as telegraph
operator in the P. R. R. office. Mrs. Don Den
nelly, who was a resident of Harrishurg,
died of consumption. She will he buried
from the P. R. R. depot ou the arrival of
the 8 o'clock train en Monnay morning
next. Interment St. Mary's cemetery.
She leaves three small children.
Heath of Mrs. Nlnsley.
Mrs. Nisslcy, wife of Levi W. Nissley,
of Mount Jey township, and a very esti
mable lady, died this morning, leaving,
besides her husband, four small children
te mourn his less. She was 35 years of age
and was a daughter of Jeseph C. Geed.
Charged with Larceny.
A lad named nenry Draehbar was ar
rested yesterday afternoon and committed
in default of bail for a hearing before
Alderman McConemy, te answer for the
larceny of some valuable pigeons.
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