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K Caase Fr Panic.
There is no geed reason why the busi
ness of the country should be affected
by the life or death of the president, yet
we fear that the concern which many
people feel at his condition is greatly
weighted by their apprehension that his
death may disastrously affect their finan
cial interests ; and the sensitiveness of
the stock market te the varying reports
of the president's condition seems te
sustain this fear. But the general busi
ness of the country has very little con
nection with the stock market; and
even though stocks should tumble gen
eral trade need net be affected. Stock
dealing has get te be little else than a
gamble, and market prices de net indi
cate real values. Almest anything may
bring disaster te an inflated balloon,
and the general view is that stocks
are in such a state that a trifle
may cause their collapse. The presi
dent's death would be turned te their
account by the bears if possible, and
perchance effectively; though unless
there is really geed ground for distrust
ing stock values the disturbance will be
but temporary; the president's death or
life can certainly have no real influence
off values. Presidents have lived and
died, been inaugurated and retired, and
the country lived en without finding a
crisis in the change of rulers. Why
such should occur new we cannot see.
A political revulsion may result, logi
cally and necessarily, but certainly net
a financial one. The country will mourn
the president's death, if he dies, but
certainly will net lese its head or threw
away its money.
The business of the nation is in no con
dition te be affected by causeless panic
however the stock market may be. We
doubt whether even stock prices are te
be lowered just yet awhile. Just as sure
ly as some stocks are tee high, se certain
ly are ethers cheap. Worthless stocks
are selling at great prices, while geed
ones are but moderately valued. With
the abundance of money there does net
seem te be immediate pricking in store
for even the financial bubbles; and in
solid merchandise there is no opportuni
ty of less, because it is valued tee near
the cost of its production te make it
possible that it should depreciate.
An Old Story.
Mr. Z. L. White, formerly a well
known Washington correspondent and
new owner of a Providence paper, is a
very intelligent and reputable witness of
hew the Republicans manufactured
their case in 187G, such a case as it was.
The evidence upon which they threw
out enough votes in Louisiana te count
in Hayes, was flimsy enough, te be sure,
but when it is seen te have been fabri
cated almost wholly, its utter insufficien-
cy te establish the most trivial case
becomes mere apparent. According te
.Mr. White, and te all veracious ac
counts of the events which trans
pired in Louisiana, a mere delib
erate system of forgery was never
engaged in by the worst villains in
crime's annals than that which was
executed for and by the visiting states
men who went Seuth in the interest of
Hayes, in the pay of Cameren and
Chandler, who never stepped in their
job until they had consummated it by
the prostitution of the Republican
members of the electoral commission,
and who were rewarded for their infamy
by the best gifts at the disposal of the
administration which was the spawn of
their fraud and the beneficiary of their
crime. The methods by which Mr.
Hayes get into a scat te which he
was never lawfully chosen have
long been painfully obvious. Time
and fresh revelation can only con
firm the invalidity of his title and deepen
the taint of his elevation te office. The
moral of it can be drawn from the dis
closures which '.have been made of the
inner character of his administration.
It was an apple of Sodom inside at least.
The posteflice and treasury scandals
were bred from the character of the men
who were rewarded for their misdeeds
and whom the administration could net
ignore in view of the services they had
rendered it. In these disclosure there is a
political retribution for that wrong-doing;
but sooner or later the whole party must
feel the weight of it, for almost the
whole party assented te, gloried in and
was accessory, after the fact at least, te
the fraud first made triumphant in the
inauguration of the Republican candi
date in 1877.
Minority Counties.
In no political calculation will it de te
ignore se-called " minority" districts.
As we have often had occasion te point
out, no class of Democrats aie better
entitled te recognition from the party at
large than these who .toil in and out of
season for the party, without hope or
prospect of reward, and with no such
incentive as stimulates political exertion
and maintains the organization where
the control of the local offices is in
the hands of the Democracy. As
we have, tee, shown by calculations,
frequently, in this county, for instance,
where the minority are completely over ever
slaughed in numbers, they keep their
vote advancing at a much higher per
centage of increase than the average of
the party throughout the state, and in
their own poll cast for Democratic state
or national candidates far mere votes
than most of the boasted majority dis
tricts. Lancaster county's vote for Han
cock was only exceeded by that of seven
ether counties in the whole state, and
three of these Philadelphia, Allegheny
and Montgomery were se-called " mi
nerity counties.'.' Indeed,, of try
497,428 votes polled for 'the last
Democratic candidate for- president in
Pennsylvania, 237,046, f considerably
"mere than half, came from " minority"
"counties. Over half the members of the
party live in counties where there is
scant chance of reaping political honors
in local fields. They bear the heat and
burden of the day with less encourage
ment, we may be allowed te say, and
veder far greater disadvantages, than
these who have sunny weather part of
the year at least. Against the minority
counties and minority states, there is no
discrimination in state and national con
ventions; and while this has been com
plained of as an unequal system of re
presentation, it is maintained, no doubt,
as a political recompense for the local
odds against which the organization is
kept up in minority districts.
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MINOR TOPICS.
Hat fever is here and with it the cub cub
temmy boom in handkerchiefs.
Dawes, with the solemnity of Peck
sniff, gets up in'the Springfield Bepubli
can and says: "I wenld leek te the
statutes less and te the statute-makers
mere !" If that view had prevailed Dawes
wenld net be where he is.
Dn. Newton, the New Jersey state in in
sneeter of milk, savs that there are no
places in New Jersey where as much im
pure milk is sold as at Ocean Grove and
Asbury Park, places that are commonly
recommended for sick children. The doc
ter believes that many children have lest
their lives there simply en account of the
impurity of the milk sold and guaranteed
te be pure.
Somebody has started a report that each
one of the president's physicians will
charge him 8100 per day, and that Dr. Ag
new will charge $1,000 for each visit and
$5,000 for each of the two surgical opera
tiens which he has performed, boside con
sultation fees, while Dr. Hamilton will
also charge $1,000 for each visit and con
sultation fees. The lightning calculators
have the bill up te $70,000 already. They
forget te add, however, that there is an
offset of $100,000 due from the doctors for
the advertising they receive
A uemauk by a prominent New Hamp
shire Democrat, " that it was a notorious
fact that one-third of the voters of New
Hampshire had become mercenary and
venal," excites little comment in that state,
because no well-informed person doubts
that it is true. The Nashua Gazetta has
been doing a little figuring, and allowing
that each vote purchased cost $10, finds
that $287,310 was spent last November in
bribery. This may be an overestimate,
but the fact remains that New Hampshire
is politically one of the most corrupt states
en the face of the earth.
A hPEECii made by a female at the
"Christian Tempcrance Union," in Pitts
burgh, en Sundad, illustrates hew a geed
cause may be prejudiced by the felly of its
advocates. Said the person iu question :
"I hardly knew what te call the inen who
sell liquor. I cannot speak of them in
term harsh enough. They saythcic aie
geed men among them. I don't believe it.
Every oue of them is a murderer. Ged
hasten the day when each Sabbath will
witness the funeral of one of them. One
of them was buried last Sunday, and one
te-day ; I hope there will be a funeral of
one every day until they are swept from
the face of the land."
A compromise en the land bill amend
ments has been substantially arrived at
between the two houses. The Lords
amendment which the government con
curred in were net very important eu.es,
but the Lords seized the opportunity te
declare that, while they protested against
the anti-landlord principle of the bill,
fiey were satisfied with the concessions
made by the Heuse of Commens. The
home rulers are gieatly incensed at the
government abandoning the clause in
serted at Mr. Parnell's suggestion for
staying proceedings of ejectment where
the laud court has been asked by the
tenant te fix a fair rent.
A Messenger correspondent is waking
up the Reformed church as te its duty if
it wants te de its work and keep its place
in the great and growing state of Penn
sylvania : ," Ministers must cease sitting
en their front steep, smoking their long
pipes, from Monday morning till Saturday
evening. They must cease making false
reports te classis, by stating that the
membership of their respective charges is
only 500 or COO members, in order te re
main within the limits when cl.issis will
divide their fields, when we knew from
personal knowledge that it is at least
twiceif net three times that size. Elders
and deacons must de mere than be legu
larly in their places en Sundays, and take
up the collections. The
people must be taught that the giving of
alms is a part of their worship. After the
deacons have taken up the collection they
should set the basket en the altar as an
offering from the people, instead of put
ting it under the bench or behind the deer
se that the people will learn te feel that
their alms mean something mere than
merely te take up the collection te pay the
coal bill. "
PERSONAL.
RisTenr and Bernhardt are studying
English, with a view te acting in our lan
guage during American tours in 1882-3.
One American tourist sees in Henry
Irving only a very ugly and very pains
taking, but weak and insufficient, actor,
with an unpleasant voice and an aitificial
and stagy delivery, and the most atiocieus
pair of legs that an eminent tragedian was
ever afflicted with.
Dr. M. U. Gerhard, son of the Rev.
W. T. Gerhard, of this city, has been ap
pointed surgeon en the steamship Indiana,
of the American line. He expects te sail
from Philadelphia for his first trip across
the ocean next Saturday morning at 7
o'clock.
Vice President Arthur spent yesterday
morning at his residence in New Yeik.and
was called upon by General Grant. The
vice president, in reply te a question, said
that " he had received no further tidings
from Washington, and did net intend
starting for the capital until sent for."
Matthew Vasser's will makes besides
ethers the following bequests: Vasser
college for scholarship, $80,000, and-for
professorship, $80,000 mere; Vasser broth
ers' home for aged men, $15,000 ; Vasser
brothers' hospital, for grennd and build
ings, $75,000 ; for furniture and fixtures
for the same $10,000.
A paragraph is " going the rounds " te
the effect that the Rev. Edward Y.
Buchanan, rector of Trinity church, Ox
ford (Philadelphia), and brother of ex.
President Buchanan, is new 88 years old
and is much interested in politics. This
is a mistake at both ends. Mr. Buchanan
is but 8ixty-ene years old and has as little I
te de with politics as is consistent with
the duties of a citizen.
A few days after the battle of Bull Run,
Hoekeh called at the White Heuse te bid
the president geed-bye. Taking him by
the hand with that friendly detaining
grasp se habitual with him, the president
said : " Well, Colonel Hoeker, what de
you think of the battle of Bull Run?"
" Mr. Lincoln, I was en the field that day,
and I am a much better general than any
you had there," was the reply. The self-
assertion and earnestness of Hoeker's
speech and manner struck Mr. Lincoln
favorably. " Don't go home yet, colonel,
we shall want you." Soen after President
Lincoln made him a general.
Once when Queen Victeria met Dickens,
Carlyle and Browning at a dinner party,
arranged at her own request, she started
as the subject of conversation the probable
future of the second French Empire a
subject en which Carlyle was greatly at
home, for in these days he was predicting,
with singular clearness of vision, hew the
whole Napoleonic drama would be ex
tinguished in flame and smoke from be
neath the stage en which it was acted.
Beth weie standing when the talk began,
and as he warmed with his subject the
Queen still remained en her feet. He de
sired gieatly te sit down ; was, in fact,
weary, and finally said te her : " If your
majesty would be seated we could carry
ou the dicussien with mero ease." Of
course, she had never realized his fatigue,
but at once the Queen of England and
probably for the first time iu her life as a
Queen took a seat at the invitation of a
subject.
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The Way It was Dene.
Z. L. White, a well-known Republican
journalist, late cei respondent of the New
Yerk Tribune, has been giving rcceutly
some lcminiscences of the period, and, in
in a letter te the Pievidence Star, he thus
tells the story of Republican methods in
sccuiing from the negrees theso affidavits
of intimidation upon which se much
stress was laid as arguments against the
returns :
" I bad a curiosity te see hew the nota
ries public succeeded in getting the affida
vits which they were preparing. The
process was something like this : A colored
man was called up te the desk, where the
chairman of the Republican committee
of the parish iu which the witness resided,
or a Republican candidate for the Legis
lature from the same locality, sat with the
notary. The former, after giving the name
of the man te be examined, would begin.
"'Yeu live en the Judge James place,
don't you ?"
"Yis, sah.'
" Then the notary would write down :
'Julius Cassar (colored), being duly
sworn, deposes and says : That he is a
resident of East Baten Rouge Parish, and
lives upon Judge James' place.'
" Republican Manager ' Yeu vote at
the ciess read store in the Pe.st Oak
Swamp, don't you ?
"Witness 'Yis, sah.'
" Notary, writing ' That he is a citizen
and a voter, and that he registered and
voted in the election held en the 7th day
of November, 1879, at the polls held in
the cress reads store, in the Pest Oak
Swamp.
" In this manner the entire story would
be told, the prompter repeating it sentence
by sentence, and the witness simply as
senting te it. When the testimony had all
been written out. it was read rapidly te
the witness, who swore te it and affixed
his mark.
" What were such affidavits as these
worth ? Well, it would have been much
mere satisfactory te me if it had been of a
different character. I don't mean te say
that I think these colored people wenld
deliberately and uublushingly lie about
events which they had witnessed. I
thins that the Republican managers feft
that the election of Hayes depended upon
his getting the electoral vote of Louisiana,
and for reasons which I have explained
in the first part of this paper, they knew
that he could net have it unless the integ integ
rityef the election in some of the parishes
was impeached and overthrown. The cel
ered people knew that they had been
brought te JNew Urleans te furnish evi
dence that would save the state te the Re
publicans, and they were determined te
de it."
STATE ITEMS.
A fter many investigations the managers
of tlie Allegheny peer farm nave dis
missed Supt. Gus. Brann, formerly of
Harrishurg..
.David Davidsen, the fire boss at the
Ellangewau colliery, near Pettsvillc, was
killed by an explosion, while making his
customary examination before the miners
went te work.
The Grand Ledgo of Knights of Pythias
or tins state met yesterday m Heading.
176 representatives were present. The
order is reported te have upwards of 30.
000 members in Pennsylvania and 90,000
m tne united states.
"Yes, sir," remarked "Rattlesnake
Pete," of Erwinua, the ether day, " this
is the time of year when rattlesnakes are
dangerous, because they are shedding
tneir skins anu cant see, and se den t
give the three alarm rattles."
Attorney General Palmer has asked for
a preliminary injunction te restrain the
Monongahela bridge company from build
ing tneir propeseu new eriagc at such a
height above low water mark as te ob
struct navigation.
The unknown young raau who died in
the Pennsylvania hospital, ten days age.
from injuries received en the railroad at
Pottstown, has been identified by his
father, Edward Talmage, of Ne. 239
Fftecnth street, Philadelphia, as his son,
who had started for Pottstown August 1st,
te see the First brigade encampment.
The coal tonnage of the Philadelphia &
Reading railroad company for the week
ending Saturday last amounted te 189,233
ions, an increase ei ue,ui tens compared
with the corresponding week last year.
Total shipments for year te date 5,183,704
tens, an increase of 718.5G5 tens compared
with corresponding period last year. Ship
ments for the week by Schuylkill canal,
10,320 tens; for the year te date, 318,776
tens.
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Neighborly Amenities.
Frederick Meyer, of Freemansburg, Pa.,
having quarreled with some of his neigh-
ueih, n is cuargea, procured a large quan
tity of Paris green and poisoned the spring
which supplies the neighborhood where
fie lives. Several persons used the water.
out no fatal results are anticipated. A
warrant is out for Mever's arrest.
Geerge Piatt, postmaster and owner of a
grist mm at Jt lattseurg, live miles west of
Bridgeport, Connecticut, was shot and
wounded yesterday morning by Geerge
Burr, a neighbor, whose ground he was
crossing te take a short cut te a dam.
Burr, after ordering Piatt off the premises,
fired three times, from a deuble-barreled
shot gun. The gun missed fire twice, but
last time a lead of buckshot took effect in
Piatt's arm. Beth men are well connected,
and wealthy, and Piatt had been in the
habit of crossing his neighbor's field, but
they quarreled recently, hence the shoot sheet
ing. A Cleveland fire caused these losses :
Rogers & Jung's furniture manufactory
$30,000 ; Gebhart's sewing machine fac
tory and stock,' $20,000; Gebhart's sewing
machine factory, $15,000.
IN DOUBT.
A VEKX CXmeiL COXDBffO.
Th Presldeat at Death's Gates.
Within the last three days the presi
dent's case has taken a most unfortu
nate turn, the gravity of which the physi
cians in attendance de net attempt te dis
guise. The healing of the wound pro
ceeds in the most satisfactory manner, but
the recuperative energy of the patient has
received a sudden check by the refusal of
the stomach te perform its legitimate
functions. The doctors claim te have
done all they could te sustain a system
already enfeebled by a severe and contin
uous strain and all but fatally prostrated
by the breakdown of the ordinary pro
cess of digestion. Se far their efforts
have been successful, but it is evident that
abnormal methods of nutrition which
might bring a patient through a serious
attack of gastric derangement may prove
entirely inadequate te the wants of a
system which has te repair the constant
and exhausting waste incident te the dis
charge from a grievous wound.
The president was reported last night te
be a little better. The improvement is go
slight, however, that his physicians can
found upon it no definite hopes of his re
cevery. If it continues at the same rate
forty-eight hours longer, one of their num
ber cautiously says, there will be grennd
for hepa. The improvement is indicated
by a rise in the temperature of the presi
dent's body from a point a little below the
normal limit te a point a little above it,
as if his system were feebly rallying its
forces once mere. This is a matter of
tenths of a degree of temperature only,
but it is added that the patient is looking
better and is in better spirits. Neverthe
less he is still very near death ; se near
that the faintest change for the better is
welcomed as a great relief.
Frem 7 o'clock last evening until mid
night there was a slight improvement and
no recurrence of nausea, and the pulse at
10 o'clock had gene down te 114, the tem
perature and respiration were about nor
mal and se continued te near midnight,
when he was arranged for the night by
the surgeon in charge. He rests well, his
frequent sleeps being tranquil and natural
and refreshing. Geed effects are visible
from the enemata, the subsidence of pulse
being regarded as evidence that the system
is absorbing the nourishment thus ad
ministered. Before retiring for the night
Dr. Bliss said thore was no trouble except
what was derived from the derangement
of the stomach, and he is new confident
that this will be controlled. This feeling
en his part is based en careful examination
of all the causes and symptoms, and he
said that Dr. Aguew fully concurred in the
belief that the improvement made by the
president removes the cause for alarm felt.
Whether the stomach has te be repaired
te the extent that will enable the presi
dent te take nourishment in the natural
way can only be ascertained by. actual
experiment and the test will likely be
made with beef peptones. Should it re
main rebellious, enemata will be contin
ued until the stomach is restored te its
neinial condition, and of the ability of the
surgeons te held up the president until the
stomach resumes its functions Dr. Bliss has
net the slightest doubt. The wound is
new causing no anxiety, is granulating
rapidly and satisfactorily, and is net af
fected by the gastric disturbance. In con
cluding his talk at midnight Dr, Bliss said
with earnestness : " The president is a
very sick man, but I am confident he will
get well."
Wait It an Omen?
An incident of peculiar interest, en ac
count of the present condition of Presi
dent Garfield, occurred at the recent re
union of the Palmer family at Stonington,
Conn. One of the set pieces of the pyre
technic display at the reunion bore the
words, " Vivat Garfield" in letters of im
mense size. When the piece was " touch
ed off" only the word " Garfield" burned
out brightly, and many persons, present
shook their heads sadly at what seemed te
be an ominous sign. But just as the last
letter in the president's name was flicker
ing out, the word " Vivat" suddenly
flashed into a brilliaut flame. The effect
en the throng present was instantaneous,
and all felt a stronger hope that the pres
ident would recover.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Meetings were held and prayers offered
for the recovery of the president iu Prince
ton, New Jersey, last night.
Twe children were killed and a third
was dangerously injured by the fall of a
gravel bank in East Newark, New Jersey.
Henry Fester, a colored farmer, five
miles north of Covington, Tenn., was
called out of his heuse at night and shot
dead. The assassin escaped.
A destructive fire took place yesterday
afternoon in Lexington, Ky. The losses
will reach $50,000, with from $25,000 te
$30,000 insurance.
C. J. Beckett's shoe foctery, at Jacquet
river, Restigeuche county, New Bruns
wick, was burned yesterday. Less, $20,
000 ; partially insured.
Richard Chad wick, aged feity years, son
of Franklin Chadwick, of Red Bank, N. J.,
was struck by the engine of a New Jersey
Seuthernitrain, near Farmingdale, aud in
stantly killed.
The fog gun, en Bird Rocks, en the
Dorainen Coast, exploded a stack of
powder at that station, destroying the shed
and instantly killing Mr. Chisson, the
cooper, and his son, an assistant.
In Plymouth, N. H., Mrs. Ilanuah Cox,
who attained her one hundred and fifth
year en June 25. and is said te be the
eldest person in New England, is slowly
sinking.
Baseball games: Providence, 7 ; Wor
cester, 2 in 13 innings. Cleveland, 8; De
troit 5. Trey, 12; Bosten, 3. Metropeli
tan, ei iNew ierK, ;; axuictic, e. UnicaM
13; Buffalo, 9.
Capt Howgate, late disbursing officer of
the signal service department, and who
has been noterius for social escapades in
Washington is under arrest for $40,000
defalcation.
Mary Meshcr, a domestic, was probably
fatally wounded at Cambridge. N. Y.. bv
the discharge of a revolver in the hands of
Charles .English, the son of her employer.
He pointed the pistol at her in fun, and it
was discharged.
Wm. Stewart is held in Wilmington en
the charge of felonious assault preferred
by Jesephine Reed, a girl of attractive ap
pearance. The testimony against Stewart
is very strong. He is a married man and
his wife resides in Chester.
A daugter, 15 years old, of Mr. B. Cow
an, of Fairfield, while attempting te cress
the track of the Canada Pacific railway,
was struck by the engine of an express
train and instantly killed. Mrs. McCor McCer
mack was killed in the same manner eh
the Grand Trunk railway near Brookville.
Reeves, (colored), attempted indecent;
violence en the person of Miss Dera Ling,
sten, in Graves county, Tenn., having
broken into the room in the night. Her
cries brought help, and he fled. The whole
country swarmed with pursuers. He was
captured and lynched.
By the caving in of a bank at the ere
bed en William Hamlin's farm, near Phil
lipsburg. N. J., Aaren Washburn was in
stantly killed, and William Curling had a
leg broken and sustained severe internal
injuries. Washburn leaves a wife and
several children.
The Athemeum, Providence, R. I., has
been robbed of Melbene's famous water
color, "The Hours," the portraits of
Cyrus Butler and Percival, the poet, and
the money in the cash drawer. Apaint-
ing iy Sir Jeshua- Reynolds was cut from
its frame, bat left' en the fleer.
J. S. Cans, aged 40, who recently failed
in New Yerk city where he was engaged
in a mercantile business, came te Phila
delphia about two weeks age and has been
stepping ever since with some friends at
Ne. 1504 Swain street, where in a fit of
melancholy he has shot himself four times
in the body and will die.
In Frankfort, Ey., Jehn Finn, a despe
rado, shot Themas Bridgeford in a saloon
at midnight en Sunday. Bridgeford died
last evening from the effects of the
wound. He was a confirmed inebriate,
but entirely harmless and inoffensive, nd
gave no provocation whatever for the
murderous act.
It is feared that Apache Indians in New
Mexico have captured the scientific e
plering party sent out by the Kansas
state university, consisting of Frank Snow,
professor of natural history ; his youthful
son; Herberts. Smith, professor of as
tronomy, late of Elizabeth, N. J., and
Lewis L. Dyche, a student.
At Carace & Fay's mining camp, twenty
eight miles from Gunnison, five men were
preparing a blast, when the glycerine pre
maturely exploded. L. Sweeney was blown
into the stream, and is supposed te be bur
ied under the rocks thrown up by the ex
explosion. Jesse Freze (colored) was in
stantly killed, and his body badly mangled.
Twe ethers were fatally mangled, and the
ether escaped unliurt.
An unsuccessful attempt was made near
Antonie, Texas, te wreck an excursion
train, having en beard 550 men, women
and children, by laying cress ties across
the track. The train was going at the
rate of thirty miles an hour, and the en
gine striking the ties, threw them from
the track in every direction. Five men
who were riding en the cowcatcher were
badly bruised.
Schaebcrlcs' comet which, at the tims
of discovery, and for some time after, was
only visible in the morning northeastern
sky, can new be seen in the evening low
down in the north northwest. The nucleus
is blight, large and very diffused ; the tail
narrow and straight, and pointing towards
Polaris. Although it will be nearest the
sun and earth about the tewntieth inst.,
it may develop unusual brilliancy after its
perihelion passage and should be atten
tively watched.
A rancho fifteen miles east cf Elrita has
been burned and one Mexican woman and
boy killed by Apaches. The report of the
destruction of a village and the massacre
of inhabitants near Rie Puerco is untrue.
Frem reliable reports, twenty Mexicans
and one soldier have been killed and one
white woman captured by the Indians
since the 10th. Ne damage by Indians
has been reported within fifteen miles of
the Atlantic & Pacific railroad. Quite a
number of ranchmen are moving together
for safety.
Imperative orders from a commissioner
of the Chinese government have been re
ceived by three Celestial students at La
fayette college te report in New Yerk to
morrow te be with one hundred and seven
teen ether Chinese students taken back te
China. All the students are charged by
the commissioner, who is prejudiced
agaiust the American customs, with
abandoning their national political views
and religion and becoming Americanized.
The young students are leth te go, but
have no alternative.
An Alleged Fossil man.
At Ashley, a Mr. McCauly has the con
tact from the Wilkcsbarre coal and iron
company for sinking a coal shaft. It is 20
feet square and is intended te have two
tracks for carriages te run in heisting up
the coal and is 6aid te be the largest open
ing of the kind in the coal regions. It is
located near the base of the mountain and
has reached a depth of 475 feet. On Sat
uiday last, when the gang, or what
is known as the second shift of
men, wero about retiring, after firing off a
ceuise of holes, Tem Cassidy, the fore
man, descended the shaft te ascertain the
result of the explosion and was astonished
tfiud an immense cavity in one of the
sides of the shaft. The explosion appear
ed te have a terrible effect and caused
mere damage than benefit en account of
an unnecessary opening in one side, but
his astonishment was still greater in
creased en clearing away some of the dirt
and refuse of rOck blown by the shots te
discover a solid mass of rock iu which
appears a clearly-defined human .shape of
giant proportions. All the limbs, mus
cles and lineaments are apparent. The
rock is about 1G feet in length, 10 in
breadth and about 8 in thickness. The
dimensions of the human frame are
giantly, measuring 12 feet in length and 4
feet across the chest. Acress the breast is
the impression of a huge shield about 4
feet in circumference, while the right hand
clutches the broken aud butt cud of a
large cutlass or sword. The rock was
taken out whole and is new in possession
of Mr. McCauly.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
SEKIOUSLY HUKT.
Huiiawwy Accident Bey luu IIlp Dislocated.
Yesterday afternoon as Win. Malenvy,
aged 15 years,accompanied by another boy,
was driving a horse and wagon belonging
te Wm. Kahl alei Arch alley, the horse
took fright and ran off. When near Orange
street, the wagon struck against a pest,
and Malency was thrown out and hurled
against a fire plug, and a brick machine
which was en the wagon was thrown
out upon him, striking him upon
the head and cutting and bruisiug
him badly. He was picked up
after some time bad elapsed, and taken
te his home en West James street, near
Charlette, where he was attended by Dr.
Davis. It was found that his thigh bone
was dislocated but the skull bone unin
jured, and that he had received a number
of cuts and contusions in ether parts of
the body. The dislocation was reduced
and the ether wounds dressed by Dr.
Davis, and te-day the patient is doing
a well as could be expected under
the circumstances. The boy who was
along with Maleney, escaped with slight
injury. The horse ran out of Arch alley
aud down Orange street for some distance,
where be was caught. He escaped with
slight damage, but the wagon was pretty
badly wrecked. The horse is said te be
somewhat addicted te running away, hay
ing been guilty of a similar offense two or
three times before.
Ueue te Reading.
Divisions Nes. G and 7, Unifern Rank
Knights of Pythias, left Lancaster this
morning for Reading. Division Ne. 7 left
in a special train at 6:20. They numbered
about 75 uniformed men, and were accom accem
nied by the City cornet band. They
made a short street parade, marched well,
and in their gay attire made a very hand
some appearance.
Division Ne. 6 left an hour later in the
regular train. They .also made a short
street parade and took the cars at the
upper depot. They were accompanied by
the Keystone band. They numbered 45
men, handsomely uniformed.
The whole number of tickets sold for the
excursion was 276, of which 160 were taken
by passengers en the special train at 6:30
and 116 by passengers en the regular train.
Committed for Court.
Elmer Rufus Housten, colored, had a
hearing before Squire Kenuedy at Inter
course yesterday, en the charge of stealing
a let of previsions &c. from the premises
of Gotleib Grelbritzer, of Leacock town
ship, and he was committed for trial at
court.
teas ATOUST COCKT. v
Wednesday 4fternoen.Dvuig the
afternoon the grand jury made returns as
fellows :
True Bill- Jehn Jehnsen alias Frank
McLaughlin,' two -charges of larceny ;
Aaren Snyder, false pretense ; Henry
Herr, larceny as bailee ; Cbas. Myers,
assault and battery ; Cenrad Sauers, lar
ceny. Ignored : Jehn W. Wright, rape. (This
was the medicine man against whom a
Mrs. Rutter, of the Seventh ward, brought
the charge of rape.)
Cem'th vs. Leander Lindemuth, assault
and battery, consisting of violently shak
ing Nathan Feierstene, a weak-minded
youth, whom Lindemuth accused of hav
ing said he had given him a black eye. It
was alleged that there bad been no intent
te de injury and the prosecutor's charac
ter for veracity was attacked. Verdict
net guilty, but defendant te pay costs.
Cem'th vs. Leenard Scheenberger, lar
ceny, charged with stealing $5 from the
drawer of D. M. Moere's Lamb hotel,
which he confessed te having taken and
hidden in a tree box, where it was found.
Leenard denied the impeachment but the
jury found him guilty and the court im
posed a fine of $5 and six and a half
months imprisonment.
Cem'th vs. David E. Buchter, fernix, et
cet. Celia Widmyer, mother of a pretty
baby, stepped at. David in search for a
father, but she get her dates a year apart
and Drs. S. T. Davis and Bewman testi
fied that wouldn't de and the jury cleared
him of the alleged paternity, and found
him guilty of fornication only.
Cem'th vs. Jehn Goodheart, fernix, et
cet. Kate Gelsinger, mother of the child,
made out the ease and the jury found him
guilty. Usual sentence.
Chas. Rogers and Henry Weed plead
guilty te the larceny of clothing and some
spoons from the house of Wm. Feree,
Georgetown, and were sentenced te three
months in jail.
Harry Herr, a very young man of ex
cellent family, from Philadelphia, who had
borrowed a gun and failed te return or pay
for it, plead guilty te larceny as bailee.
Sentenced te ten days and te pay costs and
$1 fine.
Cem. vs. Jehn Jehnsen, alias Frank Mc
Laughlin, charged with stealing the horse
of A. J. Steinman, esq., and the buggy of
Philip Hess from a festival at Bethel
church in the lower end of the county.
The facts of the larcenies were admitted
and the insanity of the defendant was
shown by medical and neighbors' testi
mony. By consent of all parties and under
the direction of the court, a verdict of
" net guilty en the ground of insanity"
was taken, and young McLaughlin was
ordered te be sent te the county hospital,
te be kept in custody there until ordered
te be released
Commonwealth vs. Cenrad Sauera, lar
ceny of some hides from the tannery of A.
Wetter & Ce.. en Poplar street, this city.
Mr. Leuis Potts, of the firm, testified that
the property was stolen, and recovered
from Hellinger's tannery, Columbia. Mr.
Hellinger testified that Sauers brought
the hides there te sell en June 2, and rep
resented that he was a lerk county
butcher.
Wednesday Morning. -In the case of
Cem. vs. Cenrad Sewers, charged with
larceny, a number of additional witnesses
were called by the commonwealth. One
of these shipped the hides, which were
stolen, te Weller & Ce., having purchased
them in Philadelphia. He placed private
marks en the hides, and at once identified
the ones found in the possession of Sewers.
Other witnesses testified that the defend
ant told them different stories in regard te
the manner in which he came into pos
session of the hides.
The defense was that these hides were
obtained by the defendants iu exchange
for a let of fish nets. Sewers is a net
maker and ene day in May he weut te
Yerk te sell a let which he had made. He
disposed of all but a dozen, and ou his
way home he met two men in the read
who had a let of hides. They said tbey
wanted some nets, and defendant made a
trade with them. He took the hides te
Columbia for the purpose of selling them ;
he told the parties that he lived in Lan
caster. The jury rendered a verdict of
guilty. Sentenced te an imprisonment of
six months aad two weeks.
Cem'th vs. Wm. Mowery, I&aiah
Shinten, Michael Fitzpatrick, Geerge W.
Grawlcy aud Michael Mack, disturbing
meeting. The evidence showed that en
the night of the 9th of April the
defendants attended a performance of the
"Hearts of Oak "in the opera house at
Columbia; Slack, who is known as
"Skinny," and Fitzpatrick first had a
quarrel with the officers in the building
because they were told te threw away
their cigars ; the party sat in the gallery
and in a short time the two mekes became
disorderly and began making loud re
marks concerning the play; they were
told te keep quiet, and finally the officers
attempted te take them from the building ;
they were taken out en the landing be
tween the down stairs and the
gallery and the crowd iucluding
the three ethers followed making
a great neise. The doorkeepers and
ethers attempted te step the crowd but it
was of no avail, and it is alleged that
Grawley, Shinten and Mowery made a
great deal of noise, by cursing and
swearing, and they attempted te assist
their two friends who wero finally lauded
in the lockup. The opera house men and
police officers claim that they were com
pelled te use weapons in self defense aud
several parties were struck. The noise
was very great and the performance was
stepped for a time. On trial.
The grand jury returned the following
bills :
True Bills : Merris Dicksen, horse steal
ing and larceny ; Henry Welsh, larceny ;
Miller Smith, robbery, larceny and feloni
ous assault aud battery ; Simen Furlow,
fornication and bastardy ; Geerge Bin
genstein, felonious entry ; Elmer llulsin
ger, robbery and felonious assault and
battery ; William Walker, larceny and
carrying concealed weapons , henry Liu
germau, assault and battery ; Charles
Wolf, felonious entry and carrying con
cealed weapons ; Charles Myers, felonious
entry ; Charles Racugle, fornication and
bastaidy ; Frederick Pfltz, malicious mis
chief ; Richard Heilich, larceny.
Ignored : Lucas Fiitz and Maggie Fritz,
assault and battery, with Henry Lessmer
for costs ; Margaret Fritz, assault and
battery, with county for costs ; Charles
Green, felonious assault and battery.
FATAL ACCIDENT.
A Brakeman has hi Neck Broken.
At a late hour last night, a brakeman
en the Pennsylvania railroad, named Vin
cent Merik, was iustantly killed in the
company's yard, at Columbia. It appears
that while waiting for his train te move,
he was resting, or perhaps sleeping, upon
the bumper of one of the cars, when sud
denly some ether cars were run against
the one en Which he was. The concussion
jolted him off, and he fell upon the track,
and two car wheels passed ever him, break
ing his neck and killing him instantly.
Deceased is about 27 years of age, unmar
ried, and his parents reside at Coatesville.
His father was notified of the accident, and
the officers of the railroad company bad
the body coffined and prepared for ship
ment te Coatesville in tne afternoon train.
Fell Inte a Sewer.
This morning Charles Schwebel. con
tractor, who is building the North Water
street sewer, made a misstep and fell into
the same at a point where there was con
siderable water, and he wenld probably
have been drowned had net some of his
workmen rescued him. He was fished out
nf ha unr and taken te his home' in a
coach. His injuries are net serious.
THE TIRE IADDHS.
rrhtxe Wke Will Take Part la tka
Toeraameat at Keadlac la Seateaakar.
The total prizes offered by the manage
ment of the Reading firemen's tournament
amount te $2,300 and are as fellows, the
schedule having been finally fixed night
before last :
Fer the hesj carriage making the bast
run, attaching and showing water, $500 te
the first and $200 te the second.
Fer the hook and ladder track making
the best run. placing ladder, etc., two
prizes, as fellows : $300 te the first and
$50 te the second.
Te the companies having the greatest
number of equipped men in line, two
prizes, as fellows : $100 te the first and
$50 te the second.
Te the company making the finest ap
pearance in line, two trumpets.
Te the company having the finest'eqoip finest'eqeip
menta in line, two sets hat and belt.
Te the best drilled company in line the
Braxmar medal.
Te the company having the finest steam
engine iu line, two service play pipes, one
with variable nozzle.
Te the company having .the finest hose
carriage in line, the La France prize.
Te the company having the finest hook
and ladder truck in line, a silk American
Mac.
Te the manufacturers of steam fire en
gines, showing the most proficient fire
service qualities, two prizes, as fellows :
$500 te the first and $250 te the second.
Te the manufacturers of hand engines
showing the most proficient fire service
qualities, $50
Each company pays $5 entrance fee if it
participates in competition for a prize.
The contests will be governed by the
Illinois state rules for all trials but steam
engines, that test te be for the committee,
governed by Centennial rules. It has been
agreed that no Reading company shall en
ter for any of the prizes, the judges being
Reading men.
The following volunteer fire companies,
up tethistime,have signified their intention
of participating in the teurnament: Wash
ington, Coushehockcn ; Weccacec, Wil
mington, Del.; Conlyhesy, of Chester;
Rescue hook and ladder, of Minersville ;
Philadelphia Volunteer Firemen's associa
tion ; Union, Lebanon ; Phceuix hose,
Mauch Chunk; Dauntless hook and ladder,
Selinsgrove ; Vigilant, Alteena ; Washing
ton hose, Lebanon ; Vigilant, Shippens
burg; Rainbow, Reading; Empire
hook and ladder, Pottstown ; Neversink,
Reading ; Pessaic of Newark. N. J. ;
Hampden, Reading ; Niagara, Pottstown;
Cumberland Valley hese, Cumberland ;
Niskey hose, Bethlehem ; Fame hook and
ladder, Lewistewn ; Krhttea hook and lad
der, Myeratewn ; Mount Vernen hook and
ladder, Harrisburg ; Franklin hose, Hyde
Park ; Humane, Norristown ; Wash
ington Independent, Sunbury ; Col
umbia hose, Hyde Park ; Colum
bia, Columbia ; Washington, Mechan
icsburu ; Washington hook and lad
der, Reading; Phoenix, Wilmington;
Keystone hook and ladder company and
salvage corps, Reading ; Empire hook and
ladder, Lancaster; Hepe, Harrisburg ; Leb
anon hook and ladder, Lebanon; Bristel
hose,Scranton; Allegheny hook and ladder,
Hollidaysburg ; Friendship, Reading ;
Liberty, Seuth Bethlehem ; Washington
hose, Dervillo ; Geed Intent, Linnburg;
Liberty, Reading ; Hepe hose and hook
and ladder, Watsontown; Niobe, Hura Hura
melstewn ; Lambertville, N. J., fir-' de
partment; Reading hose, Reading; Friend
ship, Danville; Empire hook and ladder,
Alteena ; Junier, Reading ; Geed Will,
Pottstown ; Huntingdon. Huntingdon;
Geed Will, Myerstown ; Pioneer engine
and hook and ladder, Hazlcten; Washing
ton, Coatesville; Geed Will,HelIidaysbnrg;
Perseverance, Lebanon ; Montgomery,
Norristown; Geed Will hose, Norristown;
and Geed Will hose. Minersville.
N1S1GHBOBHUUU MEWS.
Near and Acress the County Line.
Reading wants 30 extra policemen during
the firemen's tourney.
The missing young lawyer from Yerk,
D. G. Zicgler by name, is a son-in law of
Rev. M. P. Deyle, late of lit. Jey.
Alvin Meyer, aged 13, Cumru township,
Berks county, was drowned in Angelica
creek while trying te swim.
Jehn Meyer, of Jonestown, Lebanon
county, an old resident, is missing be
tween New Jersey and Philadelphia.
Russelville and Octoraro Granges will
held a picnic in Hamilton Ress' grove, en
the Octoraro, en the 27th.
Edwin Mendenhall, of Cecil county, near
Blue Ball, has 300 blue prime plum trees,
nearly all of which are bearing a full crop
this year.
The Reading' Republicans, taking tima
by the forelock, instruct for J. Heward
Jacobs for lieutenant governor. It is the
early worm that gets caught.
The pipe milt at the Reading iron works
took fire yesterday morning very early.
1,000 men are thrown out of employment
and $20,000 lest.
The Harrisburg papers are boasting of a
tobacco warehouse up there, " as large as
any in Lancaster," which new has the im
mense stock of 150 cases of tobacco in it.
There is no use letting the up-river peo
ple have fish. At Clarke's ferry hundreds
of bass die daily from the sulphur water
that runs into the river from the small
s reams coming from the mines.
Jacob Hartman, of Bethel township,
Berks county, was assisting his seu Harry
te run a heavy farm wagon out of the
barn, when he was struck a violent blew
by the tongue across the abdomen and
died.
Jehn Kleffman, aged about fifteen, in
Yerk, unhitched a herse and was taking
him te water, when the animal kicked him
en the chin, crushing the jaw liene,
knocking out the teeth aud badly splinter,
ing the bone.
Of the movement te make rules fur the
Democratic party in this state the Lebanon
Advertiser says : "This should have been
done long age, and we trust it will net be
permitted te die out new, but that it will
be thoroughly accomplished. "
The witty editor of the Carlisle Herald
Removed from the gutters of that town a
specimen of a plant grown by the borough,
petted it and set it at the office deer label
ed "the new plant, Burdeckariura, grown
by enr Bore. Dads in the gutters of the
town. "
Geerge Markey, a well-known farmer
residing in Yerk township, en Shearer's
read, about three miles from Yerk, took
a driving line, and after placing a loop
around his neck, fastened the ether end
te a rack in his barn, about five feet above
the fleer, and bending his body, with his
feet touching the fleer, deliberately ended
his life. Mr. Markey' was in geed circum
stances and owned the farm upon which
he resided. Ne cause is advanced as te
what caused tbe mental trouble which led
te the rash taking of his life. He was
about 55 years of age and leaves a bed
ridden wife and six children.
The second annual "editors' day" of
the Cumberland Valley editorial association
will take place at Williams' Greve, en Fri
dat, September 2, 1881, the last day or the
tri-state picnic of the farmers of Pennsyl
vania, ' Maryland and West Virginia. Ad
dresses will be delivered by Hen. William
T. Hamilton, 'governor of Maryland";
Charles E. Smith, esq., editor of the Phil Phil
adelehia Press, and W. U. Hensel, of the
Lancaster Ieteixigexcer. An original
Dutch poem en the " Editorial Excursion
teLuray" and kindred, matters j will be
read by Alf. II. Addatns, esq.; of the Car
lisle Herald.
Large SalaaMftt.
B. Strasser, who represents Fatraan &
Ce., tobacco packers, here, has within the
last few days made a shipment of 1,700
cases of tobacco te Philadelphia.
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