5Si?3Sti ;--;: i fV,vv'Tr $!- (--.?.. ii. Ci-'- ftvvrii-v: i??3I.!i?'5v 'VT i"-"" wM if " tTKa. Lancaster Intelligencer. FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1881. Fat Us te the Fere. The Examiner recommends the council committee, te-which has been referred the question of a paid fire department, te examine the working of the paid system in neighboring cities of Lan caster's size, before making up its re port. This is geed advice, and the money and time expended for such pur pose will be judiciously employed. Knowledge is what the committee and the citizens want; and no better way of getting it could be suggested than the observation of the experience of ether towns where about the same conditions prevail. "What we desire in our depart ment is efficiency and economy. "We must expend whatever money is needed te give our property such protection from lire as can lie afforded it ; but we want te get value for it. "We are ex pendi2, directly or indirectly, a great der.l of money new for such protection without getting it. The suppression of fires is a business ; and one that requires business-like at tention and skill. Geed apparatus is needed, always in geed order, with geed men te use it, under the intelligent direc tion of a competent chief ; and the ques tion for the committee is whether these needs will net be better supplied in a paid system. But their inquiry will net end here. They will want te see what appliances we need te make our fire sys tem properly protective. They will find that ether cities, even with volunteer fire service, are very far ahead of Lan caster in their apparatus. In Reading, for instance, the engines are en the read te a fire in less than five minutes after an alarm. At the beginning of the conlla cenlla conlla gratien, the moment that it is most easily managed, it is most important that the firemen should be en hand ; and there can be no system worthy of name where, at all hours of the day and night, some one does net stand by a telegraphic in strument,rcady te be advised the moment that a fire breaks out and able te in stantly summon the force te suppress it. There must be electrical connection be tween parts of the city aud the central station, and between that and the en gine houses, where the men and the horses are ready for duty at a moment's notice. There is an old and true adage that what i3 worth doing at all is worth doing well. Lancaster has certainly net ob served this injunction in its fire arrange ments. They were out of date long age. It is astonishing that we should have been se long content with a system in which we consider ourselves prompt when we get water en a fire within an hour after its breaking out a length of time which is generally sufficient for the building fired te comfortably burn down. "We rejoice that the city authorities have new appointed a committee te take our fire affairs into consideration, and we join our contemporary in urging them te make their examination thor ough, te the end that they may be able te enlighten the councils as te the pro gress of neighboring towns, and enable it te knew what measures may best be taken te put us in the forefront in guar anteeing safety te our property ; a posi tion which our wealth and prosperity certainly enable us te take. The Chinese Students. The Chinese government makes a sin gular movement in ordering back te China the students that are new study ing iu our American colleges. Seme years age Yung "Wing, who graduated at Yale college in 1S33, and subsequent ly married a Yankee girl in Hartferd where he new lives in elegant style per suaded his government te permit the education of ether Celestials in our col leges, just as he had been, and Yale col lege has had a geed many Chinese stu dents since, and some have been study ing at Lafayette college, in our Pennsyl vania town of Easten. But new they have all been ordered home. Yung Wing having lately been made one of the Chinese ambassadors here we believe there are two his functions as overseer of the students have devolved en another Chinaman ; and he, it is said, docs net approve of the education of his fellow citizens iu our colleges and has secured their recall. If se, he must want te go home himself, as his occupation will be gene when they go. And it may be only the homesickness of this Celestial that causes the flitting. Still, the explana tion is net satisfactory. "We fail te understand why he should be homesick for China, and chop-sticks and rice, and hari-kari, and all the ether Chinese delights that we don't appreciate ; but then they say a man may be homesick for any home, however homely. But has this particular sufferer been able te contemplate the bliss of Yung "Wing, with a nice Yankee wife, and a well-to-de father-in-law, and a cottage in the beautifully shaded town of Hart Hart eord, without longing himself for a girl and house and Yankee father-in-law? It is sad te think that lie cannot thus be tempted ; and sadder te knew that a score or mere of bright Celestial youths are taken out of the way of Yung Wing's luck sad for the Yankee girls, anyway ; we hope the Chinese emperor will kindly reconsider. Seme of us ob ject te having the Chinese come among us as cheap laborers, for thev take away our work and our cash and don't take away any wives te enjoy it with them around their tea plants ; but students who come and spend their money here and marry our girls, we rather take te ; they are eminently useful. The Chambersburg Valley Spirit and Shippensburg Clirenicle are exceptions te the party press of the state generally, in their opposition te the movement for rules for the Democratic organization of the state. The former proceeds, we be lieve, en the erroneous idea that it is proposed te make state rules te govern the local Democracy in their local affairs, which is net the idea; the latter seems te fancy that the movement leeks toward "bossism" and has no faith in it. The Chrenicl seems te forget that there can be no or ganization without rules even if they are net written. Every baseball club has its rules, and the Democracy of every district. The present apportion ment of state conventions, the constitu tion of the state committee, the tempor ary organization of the convention of and many kindred matters are already regulated by rules.the operation of which in the past has net resulted te the party's advantage. Surely there is fair reason te assuume that it might be profitably considered whether or net these rules can be wisely amended. Again, ether matters, for which there is no rule and which must be de termined by shifting precedents, are new left te the "caprice" of faction, or the power of " bossism, " te be deter mined each convention according te the interests of the majority. Surely such matters had better be settled en principle and permanently by authority. It is net intended te usurp the functions of suc ceeding conventions. That cannot be done, of course, but there are certain questions continually arising te plague the organization which ought te be determined, and which could be avoided, by a few permanent rules regulating them. The very evils of which the Chronicle complains have resulted from the lack of such rules, aud the settlement of these matters by an appeal te factional or personal interest. We de net agree with our esteemed contemporary, the Nere Era, that the paying of delinquent voters' taxes is the chief source of corruption iu our local politics. It is net the worst thing, nor nearly se bad as the " poll committee " business. But it is net necessary te determine the relative magnitude of the evils from which we suffer. They are all bad enough, and they can all be eradi cated in no better way, we believe, than that which we have indicated, and which the JVcie Era seems te approve. All par ties suffer from the wrongs, and all are tainted witli the wrong-doing. Re form can come and can only come though their agreement and the fidelity of these who agree. Ne party nor fac tion can be expected te sacrifice its in terests while another takes advantage of the situation. There never was a better time than in this off year te devise and inaugurate the operation of some reform, and it ought te be done in advance of the mayor's and governors elections of next year. Letus stamp out the pay ment of taxes, the hiring of ' poll com mittees" and all that they imply, the assessment of candidates or officeholders, and let us have an earnest, honest, non partisan committee of a hundred te de it effectually. MINOR TOPICS. One hundred and four men own 10,439, 432 acres of land in the British isles. The Duke of Sutherland controls 1,2,209,546 acres. 2,114 of Queen Victeria's subjects control ever 38,000,000 aercs. A avealtiiy manufacturer of Maryland, who died recently, set aside $100,000 te defend the previsions of .his will. The person who would contest the will against such odds would have very great faith iu the courts. A coMi'LAiNiNe friend of the negre who objects that " professionally the structure of society is against him " in the Seuth, might find the same conditions in Northern communities which give large Republican majorities. He could see it in the Lancas ter quarter sessions. R. L. Staxten, D. D., who presided ever the Ohie state temperance conven tion, made up of clergymen and laymen from every county, believes that its ticket will also be endorsed by the regular Prohi bition party of the state, with some G,000 votes, .and that the defection of regular Republicans en this issue will be se great as te make Fester's defeat certain. J. Milten Tuhneh, another colored man who has been traveling in the Seuth has had his eyes opened te the persistent and ma lignant Radical misrepresentation of the relations of the races there. He found the blacks much raore prosperous than he ex pected, and the whites far mere patriotic and liberal te his race. In Nashville twenty-five negrees are worth ever $20, 000, largely owing it te white patronage. By all means he thinks the negre should stay Seuth where his realfriends are. " CnmsTOrnEii North" harshly re viewed Tennyson's first velume iu Black- weed, and the future poet-laureate replied in a copy of verses which Mr. Jenuings cautiously qualifies as " curious." They are, us the reader can see : " Yeu did late review my lays. Crusty Clirlstepber ; Yeu did mingle blame and praise. Kusty Christopher. When I learnt from whom it came. I foryave you all the blame. Musty Christopher : I could net forglre the praise. Fusty Christopher. Tin: New Yerk Independent, with that perspicuous fairness for which it is emi nent, seems te think the educational test for suffrage: ought te be applied in the North, where the uneducated class are mostly Democrats, but in the Seuth, where they are vastly Republican, it would be just tee terrible te make reading aud writing a test for the voter. Likewise, the Independent is reconciled te the stories of life insurance frauds and murders in this state, because they are confined chiefly te "immigrants." In addition te the views which we print ed yesterday from the Pittsburgh Pest, regarding a plan of reorganization for the state Democracy, its editor recommends that "there should be a declaration against the election or delegates te the state con vention by any county prier te the issue of the call for such convention. In some counties the delegates are elected a year in advance. This is hardly live politics." And he thinks it would also be well te Have all delegates appointed by county or district conventions, and net chosen by county committees, as the custom is in some counties. The will of a Mr. Tilton, of New Hamp. shire, proved about fifteen years age, read thus : " I give and bequeath te the Bible society, the Foreign Missionary so ciety, the Heme-Mission society, and the Tract society $500 each." Fourteen years passed before the legacies were claimed. The State Bible society, the American ! LANCASTER DAILY IflTOLLIGENCEft FRIDAY, beard, the State Missionary society' and the American Tract society, of Bosten, then came forward for the money. Proof was made that the church of which Mr. Triton was a member took periodical col lections for these four societies and he was accustomed te contribute. The court said that these were probably the societies he intended te benefit and ordered the lega cies paid te them. PEKbONAU. In Londen en Wednesday a banquet was given te Hen. William M. Evarts by Mr. Puleston, M. P., at the Conserva tive club. Congressman S. S. Cox and wife have arrived in Constantinople from Reme en their way te Syria. They arc the guests of the United States consul general. Peweks. the sculptor, began work en a bust of President Garfield, at his studio in Florence, Italy, en the very day of the at tempted assassination. Dr. Hill and his wire, of the Protestant Episcopal church, who have worked fifty years in Athens for female education, have icceived a letter from the king of Greece, expressing kindly wishes and appreciation of the results obtained. In Westminster abbey the tomb of Lord Macaulay, has the inscription : " nis body rests in peace and his fame livclh for evermore. " Beside Macaulay lie Camp Camp bell and Dickens, and upon them leeks down the statue of Shakespeare Mr. Jehn Bkieiit is said te be very charitable in an unobtrusive way. The most conspicuous thing in his modest home by the family mill is the library of 1,200 volumes which was prcseutcd te him by his admireis after the passage of the corn laws. The library cost $25,000. Midiiat Pasha refuses te be banished from Turkish soil. "I prefer," he says, "te die here, in sight of the world, as a speci men of the llagraut injustice of your judg ments, than te perish in a remote corner, where my death, like that of a barren tree, would cast no gloom aud teach no lessen." A committee of journalists, composed of prominent editors, ene from each of the thirteen colonies, has been selected te take charge of the interests of the press at the Yorktown celebration. A. K. Mc Cluhi: has been chosen ehairman of the cemmittee. He will deliver an address upon the power aud development of the press from the days of Franklin te the present time. The Czak of Russia has a curious orna ment en his writing table. It is nothing less than a piece of the foul bread a mix ture of uninviting and uunutritieus refuse ou which the peasants have been trying te Jive in one portion of his dominions. He was ignorant of the distress in the dis trict until a newspaper published the facts, and new keeps the bread before him en a lector-weight, that he may see what his people have been obliged te cat without his knowledge. In preaching Djan Staniey's funeral ser mon, dwelling ou the certainty of immor tality, Dr. Vaugiian exclaimcd, with im passioned fervor : " Oh ! what a wanton waste it were if such an intellect as Arthur Stanley's were destroyed !" Thediscourse was heard with deep emotion, aud when it was through many of the audience, doubtless, said te themselves : " There stands the man te be the next Dean of Westminster." Probably he or Canen Farrar will be appointed. Hen. Andrew D. White, president of Cernell university, and late United States minister te Berlin, announces that he has secured Dr. Edward Augustus Freeman as anon-resident professor for Cernell, the Freeman who in 1862, in a moment of jubilation ever what he supposed was the break-down of the American Unieu, pub lished the first velume of a work which he entitled " A History or Federal Govern ment from the Foundation of the Achrcan League te the Disruption of the United States." The Philadelphia Telegraph wants te knew if he will give the Cernell students the second velume of his work. STATE ITEMS. Foxburg, a small village near St. Petois Peteis burg, Clarien county, was almost entirely destroyed by fire yesterday morning. While a large force of mcu were demol ishing au old brewery en Duquesne avenue, Pittsburgh, the fleer of the third story gave way, burying four men in the debris, aud killing Jehn Feency instantly. Others weic seriously but net fatally injured. The Harrisburg Patriot observes that "since the Democratic state convention is te meet at Williamsport the Republican organ at that place has kiudly taken charge of the affairs of the party. It is new act ively engaged iu electing a chairman of the uemeeratic state committee." W. II. Durham, fourteen years old, aud Sylvalia Durham, nine years old, both colored, residing en Shawmont avenue, above the"Norristown railroad, went fish ing upon the bauk of the Schuvlkill. and were both found drowned in the bottom of tne stream. During the fire at the Grant Heuso, in Greensburg, Jehn II. McColIeugh, a young attorney whose office was immediately op posite the burning building, became doep. ly excited by the spectacle and in that condition fell upon the fleer of his office and died in a few minutes. The movement started seme time since te form an association of the medical societies iu Lehigh, Bucks and Northamp ton counties, in this state, and Warren county, N. J., resulted yesterday in the accomplishment of the purpose aud the effecting of a strong organization. There is a terrible story from President, somewhere up in the oil regions, te the effect that the children of a widow while hunting eggs in a hollow leg, were fatally bitten by a rattlesnake, and that in run run mgte their relief, the mother upset a tea kettle and fatally scalded hr Mi i.:m . snrl tl4f nil 4-1.A L - ... ' -. ..v uu imra wuru euriea in ene grave. Thes. Tayler was found by Track Walker Keiley lying near the track of the Erie railroad, Bradford. He was insensi ble, but when reason returned told the old story : Met a friend at a saloon, took a walk, went te a dance, met mere friends there who acted the friendly part by beat ing him unmercifully and relieving him of ", xrw: "F ,"In a eaa condition from the effects of the beating. While two teams were raninw n nr-:- street, Norristewu, they met cemin the ether way a carriage, in which were two daughters of M. H. McVaugh, a well known merchant, who were driving a valuable horse. A collision ensued, and the ladies were thrown out, painfully cut and bruised, and their horse cut the sinews of his hind legs se badly that he will have te be killed. William S. Johnsten, aged twenty, was employed in the cracker bakery of Walter Wilsen, Ne. 214,North Frent street, Phil adelphia. HJfearted en the elevator with seven barrels or crackers te go from the third te the first fleer. After the elevator bad proceeded a short distance the wire snapped within seven feet of it Johnsten, the elevator and the crackers all landed in a heap en the first fleer, the young man se injured that he died. e THE PRESIDENT. STILL. IM A CtUTICAL STATE. Slight Improvement bat Continuing Anxiety The president is slowly improving. The balletins from the executive mansion are very conservative in tone, and the physi cians avoid any expressions calculated te induce the belief that the patient is in better form than the state of his case war rants. The work of recovery must be necessarily gradual. The preservation of the president's life depends almost solely upon the ability of the stomach te absorb the nutriment required te restore the wasted and shattered system. The physicians say they have no further apprehension of dan ger from the wound. It is healing rapidly and in a perfectly satisfactory manner. Dr. Bliss has written an open letter denying the statement published in the Chicago Evening Journal, that the inter views with him woie fictitious and that he said the public should beware of the press gang, He says the story is a cruel fabrication, devised by his enemies, for the fact is that there have been but few days since July 2 when Dr. Bliss has net had from one te three authorized inter views with the representatives of the even ing newpapers, and many of them have been taken in shorthand. Last evening Dr. Boynton, the presi dent's family physician and also a cousin, said the feeling of the attending physicians as te the outlook was very hopeful. " They think the inflammation that has taken place in the right parotid gland can be overcome. But it is no trifling mat ter. " "Is it the result of soptieasmia, doctor, iu your opinion?" "Undoubtedly that septicaemia mark you, net pyaamia. " " Docs the president experience much pain from this swelling of the parotid gland. " " He suffers considerably from it. It is a seurce of almost constant pain. " Dees he complain ?" " Never whimpers. He stands it like a Spartan." " Will the doctors allow suppuration te take its course before opening the ab scess ?" Of ceurse they will net open it until it is in proper condition te be cut. They are putting en a combination of iodeform and colledion and also using het applications. Thcse are applied very frequently when he is awake almost constantly ; when asleep we de net disturb him." " Who discovered this trouble with the gland ?" " I noticed it last night when bathing the president. I discovered a fullness near the car and reported it. By this morning it had assumed quite large proportions." " What docs the president thiuk of this unexpected trouble ?" " He mentioned it a fewmoments age that it was tee bad that this new compli cation arose. I assured him that it was net very serious, except the discomfort arising from it. I told him further that there was nothing alarming in it." " Did he show any desire for feed to day ?" " Well, net what you might term desire. Feed was net repulsive te him today, as it has been for a day or two back. He took nourishment naturally te-day. I asked him about noeu hew he would like seme milk porridge, and he replied that he thought he could take some. I spoke te Mrs. Gar fiicld in reference te it, and she immedi ately made a small quantity of it herself. When it was ready I cave it te the presi dent. He swallowed about an ounce and a half of it. A few minutes age he partook of mere, and experienced no discomfort from it. He told me that he relished it mere thau anything he had eaten since he took te his bed." "What is the president's condition to night?" " His whole condition has improved to day. The stomach is beginning te retain feed, which I consider a very geed sign." Dr. Boynton says he does net wantjte be understood as criticising the treatment of the case in any way. Indeed he does net think it could have been mere wisely handled ; but the fact is the patient was overfed. There was a laudable desire en the part of the physicians te build up the strength te meet the demands of suppura tion and healing of the wound. Conse quently the president was tee zealously plied with rich feed, and it proved mere than his stomach could well bear. He was nauseated before Saturday with heavy feed, and en that day he was given a dose of brandy that capped the climax, aud he threw up everything and a severe fit of vomiting followed. The total amount subscribed for Presi dent Garfield's family is $155,381.53. AFFECTED FOR SOME TIME. The President's Stomach Troublesome Ever Since the Sheeting. The better action of the president's stomach gives renewed hope for his ulti mate recovery. The people generally de net appreciate, hewever, the exceeding irritability of this organ in the president. It has been the worst one of the most serious features of the case from the first. When he fell wounded he vomited, and though means were taken te sustain his stomach by administering small quantities of brandy and ether restoratives, the nausea returned in a violent form in the afternoon, when his pulse was rising se rapidly that day, and fears were enter tained that he would net survive te see his wire. The doctors gave him a little champagne and pulverized ice. This he kept down with happy results ; but when about a spoonful mere was given again later in the day he rejected it, the stomach showing great irritability. Se it has been all along, and it is because the physicians have recognized the extreme sensitiveness of 'the organ that they have been particular te .comment en the condition of the stomach from day te day. Ordinarily it would net be a sub ject of congratulation that the patient was able te retain plain feed judiciously administered from one dressing of the wound te another. But it has been se in the president's ease. Te consider the re cent prostration of the stomach as a sur prise or as the result of heedless treatment is very wrong as well as unjust te the physicians. It was largely due te nausea, produced by administering ether at the second oporatien. The physicians were aware of the danger from this source, but, iu view ei certain, incus, muiuuiujj ine pre ference of the patient, they decided that an anaesthetic was necessary. The trouble from the stomach wa3 an almost unavoid able consequence, and it has continued until the present time te a degree, it may be said, that has disappointed the expec tation of the physicians. LATEST NEWS BT MAIL. Yesterday in Chester, Iowa, the ther memeter marked 104 te 106 the hottest weather ever known there. A peer oyster crop is predicted and scarce anddear. bivalves will rule the opening market. ' The P. W. & B. railroad are building a number of new iron bridges along the line of their read, that are models of mechan ism. Thes. A. Matthews, aged 52, of Phil adelphia, was attacked at 312 East One-hnndred-and-thirteenth street, New Yerk, with bleeding from the nose, from which he bled te death in five minutes. Jehn Jenkins, a wealthy farmer, residing a few miles west of Cincinnati, started te AUGUSI 19, 1881. lead a 4-year-old bull te water, when the animal became fractions and nncontrelable. Goaded te fury by his attempts te subdue it, the beast charged upon and tossed the unfortunate and helpless man into the air, and as he struck the earth, it placed his hoofs en his chest and gored him about the head and shoulders until he died. A bald-headed eagle hovering ever St. Jehn's Island, in the St. Lawrence, sudden, ly swooped down and attempted te carry off a two-year-old child of Mr. Jehn Clancy's that was playing in a field alone. Its clothes gave way with every tug of the veracious bird and were tern into ribbons. Seme men working near by came up in time te save the child from injury, but the eagle refused te go away until shot at. Themas Marvin, who last month by false representations betraved Miss Lucie Turpin, a highly-connected young lady of nicnmena, into marriage and then desert ed her at Albien, N. Y., and who also ob tained about eight hundred dollars from the First national bank of Richmond by means of a forged draft en a Chicago bank, is in custody at Lynn, Mass., await ing a requisition from the governor of Virginia, which will be forwarded. Rev. W. Bryne. president of Mount St. Mary's college, Eramettsburg, Md., re ports the financial troubles of the institu tion new definitely settled. A basis of compromise with the creditors has been reached, which, although involving serious less te them, is yet far mere beneficial than a sale of the college would be. It will leave the college buildings intact and reserve sufficient lauds for recreation grounds, farming and gardening pur poses. m fAYlNU VOTERS' TAXES. Hew the Abuae may be Stepped. New Era. There is no doubt that the practice which has grown up of paying delinquent taxes by the party organizations has had mere te de with the corruption of our local politics thau any ether single cause, andhe bribing of inipocunieus politicians unuer ine pretext ei luring tnem as poll committee meu comes next in order. The payment of taxes has been made the pre text of the outrageous assessments imposed upon the Republican caudidates. This evil is growing every year. It is offering a premium upon the delinquency of taxables who are often as able te pay as these who are assessed. We have held that payment of taxes in this way is in violation of law. If there is any act of the cititizen which is designed by our laws aud the genius of our institutions te be a strictly and ex clusively personal act it is the oxerciso of suffrage It cannot be done by proxy. AU the safeguards thrown around it are the investiture of a direct personal respon sibility. The payment of a tax is a pre liminary te this personal qualification of suffrage, and should therefore, be a per sonal act. The ability te dodge it through a political cemmittee is every year taken advantage of by an increased number of voters who don't value the great priv ilege of American citizenship as worth fifty cents or even a quarter of a dollar, though many of them invest deuble that amount in beer or whisky en election day. The growing evil can be arrested only by the joint action of both parties. Se long as one party pays the taxes of voters wiie are "in tne market" for that purpose, their opponents will feel compelled te de se in self-defense. We had hoped an act before the last Legislature making the practice unlawful would have become a law, but it did net meet with favor from the "practical" politicians, aud therefore failed te pass. The next best thing te de is for the executive head of the two parties te get together and act upon the sugges tion of our contemporary. Te devise and put in practical operation any plan check ing this fountain of growing demoraliza tion would be a long and effective step in the direction of political reform. A DUEE. TO THE DEATH. An Indian Chier and a Freraineut White Man fighting with 1'lstels. Details have been received of the duel a few days age at Pine Creek, Indian terri tory. J. T. Carpenter, a Choctaw chief, and Colonel Price, a prominent citizen, became involved in a quarrel. Parties who were present at a " gathering " say that the first they knew of the origin of the quarrel the ehief aud Cel. Price were standing a short distance from the crowd, when the chief exclaimed : " Your bleed alene can pay for this I" " My bleed is yours when you are man enough te take it," exclaitncd the colonel, stepping back and assuming a threatening attitude. " Net new," said the chief, when the crowd rushed te the scene. " A brave man does net shed bleed in the face of a mob. Meet me ou this spot te-morrow morning." " At what time ?" "aWheu the sun shines through the top of that tree" pointing te a tail oak " stand here and when the sun reaches the top when the shade falls at your feet leek around and you will see me." The two men separated and the specta ters wondered why two of the most talent ed men in the nation bad quarreled, but no one dared investigate lest he should be considered as an intruder. Ou the follow ing morning a large crowd gathered te wit nesss a contest which everyone knew would terminate fatally. The colonel arrived, stepped upon the exact spot where he had steed the previous day and looked at the sun. He looked again and then looked down. Again he looked at the sun and then surveyed the field. The chief was seen advanc ing. When within a distance of thirty feet from the colonel he stepped and drew a revolver. The colonel drew his pistol and straightened himself like a man who suddenly experiences a feeling of pride. Net a word was spoken. The two men leveled thiir weapons. They fired almost simultaneously. The chief reeled. Again they fired. The colonel fell dead. The crowd rushed forward. The chief sank te the ground. The colonel's bullet bad entered his breast. Bleed flowed from his mouth. The colonel was shot through the heart. The chief still lives, but his friends have no hope of his recovery. AGAINST RUL.K.S. And Afraid or Being Uererned tee Much. Shippensburg Chronicle. Fer Messrs. Dill, Wallace, Randall, Hensel, Barr, Barger and Whitman per sonally we entertain the highest respect, and no one mere greatly admires their abilities or recognizes their services te the Democratic cause in the past. We believe they each and all hope and will earnestly work for the success of the party. But that is net the question. Neither they nor any ether seven men. seventv men. seven thousand men, or seventy thousand, can make rules which will bind the great mass of Pennsylvania Democrats te a cer tain line of policy, or which will restore our organization te a permanent ascen dancy in this state ; nor can they resolve what three hundred thousand Democrats shall say, de, or think te gain admission te the councils of the party. Such a thing is simpiy preposterous, r.acn state conven tion makes its own rules, says who are en titled te be its members, and all such bodies are governed by parliamentary law. The truth is, the Democratic party needs no rules for its government and-reorganization, but it does need te return te the principles of its founders. We, or rather it should be said the se-called leaders, have been drifting away from the ancient moorings or landmarks of the organization until it has become nothing but a wild hunt for spoils and office. The grand old leaders of ether davs are either dead r have become sick and disgusted with the ' tarn affairs have taken. There seems te be no man able, strong and bold enough te take the helm, and held up the magna charta of the party, given te it by Themas Jeffersen as the shibboleth of our faith. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. NrUt.UUOKH.OOD NEWS New ana Acrees the County Line. The history of Chester county, edited by Hen J. Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cepe, has finally been completed and published. Rev. Cornelius Hudsen, of the Covenant 31. E. chnrcb, Reading, was married en Tuesday te Miss Hattie Brumball, of Ger Ger mantewn. The Reed family bad their annual fes tival ou the old farm above Harrisburg yesterday, aud seme sixty of them took their green corn. A young lady of Chambersburg lest a finger ring seven long years age, the riug being highly valued' as it was a birthday gift, and a gentlemau found and returned it the ether day. Mr. Elmer Williams, a son of Dr. II. R Williams, of Hogucstewn, Cumberland county, and at one time a teacher iu this part of the country, has been drowned in Niobrara river, Nebraska. The convention of the alumui of the Pennsylvania institution fur the deaf and dumb will be held in the state Senate chamber en the twenty-fourth, and con tinue in session net less than three days. By the ignition and explosion of seme spilled powder which they were gathering up, with lamps en their caps, at the lower mines at Boyertown, worked by E. & G. Breeke, three miners, Neble, Miller and a fellow-workman were terribly burned. A gentleman connected with the bail in surance company, returned te Yerk, Tues day evening from a two weeks trip in Lancaster aud Chester counties and re ports the damage done in these counties by bail se great as te cause a heavy assessment ou the policy holders. On Air. Skinner's farm, near Chambers burg, Jacob L. Snyder, while helping te thresh, hail his arm caught in the cylinder of the separator and terribly mangled, it being partially tern from the socket; the separator had te be taken apart before he could be released from his terrible situation. The corn crop is going te be a short ene this year, in Eastern Pennsylvania, en ac count of the drought. Iu the lowlands there are seme geed fields, but in the up lands the stalks are stunted, and will net yield anything like a full crop. The same prospects appears te exist in ether parts of the country. The result is that the price or corn is en the advance. in JNorristewn Alexander Hoever, a prominent manufacturer, was aroused by some one trying te enter bis house. He inquired who was there, but receiving no answer fired four shots with his revolver. The police arrived and found that a neigh bor of Hoever, coming home in a befud dled condition, had get into the wrong yard, and narrowly escaped death, ene of the balls fired just grazing bis temple. The school directors of Bart township decided some time age te erect a new school house te take the place of the Har mony school house en the Valley read. As the old building is net central, a let has been secured for the new building from the farm of the Pheenix iron com pany. The building is te be of brick, and is te be covered with slate. The contract has been given te William Stevenson, of Christiana, for the sum of $1,019. k. e" r. Knights of lythlas-at Rcidlng. Reports of the law cemmittee, fiuauce and mileage committee and of the grand chancellor were debatcd and adopted in the Grand Council of the Knights of Py thias yesterday, and the following officers were installed for the ensuing year by Judge Geerge W. Liudsay, Supreme Chan cellor of the World ; Grand Chancellor, Smith D. Cozzens, Philadelphia ; Graud Yice Chancellor, A. O. Kline, Bedford ; Grand Prelate, Austin Leng, Philadelphia; Graud Master of Arms, Jehn II. Carr, Alteena ; Grand Inner Guard, Edward V. O'Neill, of Philadelphia ; Grand Outer Guard, E. B. Emery, Spring City, Chester county ; Representatives te Supreme Ledge for four years, Geerge Hawkes, Philadelphia ; Grand Truestce, Jehn W. Becb, Philadelphia ; Grand Keeper of Records and Seal, Gcerge Hawkes, Phil adelphia ; Grand Master of Exchcquer, Julius Meuntney, Philadelphia. The Lan caster ledges and bands left for home last evening, and upon their arrival marched through the streets with flying colors, eliciting the admiration of crowds of spec tators who thronged the sidewalks. Just after the excursion train had passed Lititz, en its return, a man was seen te fall from one of the cars and roll down into the gutter. Dan. Clemmens, the leader of the city cornet band, pulled the bell repe and notified the conductor. The train was Btepped, and some of the train hands, ac companied by seme of the knights, went back in search of him. He was net found, and as none of the knights were missing, it is supposed the man who fell was a countryman who was stealing a ride and jumped off when near his home. Inquiry has been made this morning from officers of the read, in this city, and they say they have learned of no ene being hurt. Our Bantls In Reading. TimcH. The limes and Dispatch' effice was sere naded yesterday bythe City band of Lan caster, of which Daniel Clemmens, former ly of this city, is leader. Mr. Clemmens was leader of the City band of Reading for a number of years, aud is well-known te most of our citizens, He is an excellent musician, aud is acknowledged te be one of the best cernctists in the state. The Keystene baud of Lancaster also serenaded the Times office. Beth these bands arc excellent musical organizations of which our sister city of Lancaster may well feci proud. They will accept our thanks for this compliment. vxuvntas. Episcopal Diocese of Ventral Pennsylvania. Frem the journal of the 10th annual convention of the Episcopal diocese of Central Pennsylvania, in charge of Bishop Howe we gather the following summary of statistics : Clergymen including the bishop 9G, parishes and missions 126, ordinations G, of which one te the priesthood, candidates for Hely Orders 3, churches consecrated 4, families 5,214, church accommodations 27,304, baptized persons 12,098, baptisms 1,130, of which 197 were adult, confirmed C15, communicants 7,004, marriages 220, burials 611, Snuday school scholars 10, 163, Bible class scholars 648, parish schools scholars 185, churches and chapels 118, rectories 42, scuoelnouses l, cemeteries 12. Value of church property $1,115,440, offer effer offer ingspaeochial $163,405.28 diocesan $17, 100.69, extra diocesan $9,746.32, total $195,252.29. It ought te be noted that in many of the items of this summary the report is only an approximation of the truth, many parishes having emitted te make any return. Excursion te tltltz. It is proposed te run an excursion from Coatcsville and points en the Pennsylva nia railroad te Lititz, via Reading, the affair te take place some time in Septem ber. The following committee of gentle men were in Lititz yesterday te examine the grounds : J. C. Kauffman, editor of the Chester Valley Union, E. K. Davis, agent Pennsylvania railroad, ,. D. iiald win, E. T. Harley, J. L. Christy, Jeseph F. Perdue, esq., and Hayes Dickinsen, cxoar5len manager. XH AUGUST COURT. Thursday Afternoon. Wm. Walker, who was convicted of the larceny of J. S. Sny der's shoes was sentenced te six months imprisonment. . Merris Dickinsen, a young man who is respectably connected, plead guilty te steal ing a horseand harness from his nncle, Jehn Dickinsen, and a sleigh from Jehn Kessler, of Salisbury township. The prop erty was all recovered. The court sen tenced him te ene year and six months imprisonment. Elmcrllelsinger, who has been cleared en two charges this week, was released after furnishing bail te answer at court the charge of felonious assault and battery. Henry Welsh. 18 years of age, was tried for entering the house of Henry K. Kauff man, who lives four miles west of Mt. Jey, and stealing a geld ring, bottle of wine and a let of cigars. The case was a strong ene and the jury convicted the defendant without leaving their seats. The court sentenced the prisoner te 14 mouths imprisonment. Cem'th. vs. Geergo Bingeustcin, felon felen felon ieus entry. The defendant was charged with entering the heuse of Edward Stuck, of Ephrata township. The cliarge was net proved, and the jury rendered a verdict of net guilty. Cem'th. vs. Henry Singerman, feloniens assault and battery. W. E. Palmer, the prosecutor, testified that he was the jan itor of a school heuse in Leacock township. On July 30, after he had scrubbed the perch, the defendant walked en it with his muddy beets. Palmer ordered him oil, but he ie fused te go ; he took held of him, wheu defendant pulled a large knife aud threatened te kill him. The defendant denied making any threats or drawing any knife ; he was sit ting en the perch and, after being ordered off was kicked by the prosecutor. The jury rendered a verdict of net guilty. Cem'th vs. Charles Myers, assault and battery, with intent te commit a rape. Mrs. Catharine E. Francis (wife of Jehn Francis, the well known colored preacher) was the presecutrix. She testified that en the night of June 30th, defendant, who had been drinking, came te her cabin, near Neffsville, and asked her te take a drink which she did ; he went away shortly afterwards and when he returned later in the night he caught held of her and at tempted te commit an eutrage upon her. She picked up an axe te defend herself and cut Myers quite soverly. The witness admitted that she did net bring this suit until she had been prosecuted for felon ious assault and battery by Myers. The defendant testified that he was at the house en this night ; he had been drinking, aud with the permission of Mrs. Frances lay down upon the bed ; when he get up te leave the heuse the woman asked him te remain ; she went towards him with her hand behind her back, and he, thinking that she had a pistol or a knife, put his arm around her ; she then picked up a axe and cut him terribly ; be did net attempt te commit rape. The jury rendered a verdict of net guilty, with county for costs. Cem'th vs. Israel Marshall, colored, malicious mischief and assault and battery. Abraham Harris, colored, testified that ou a Sunday in January last Israel Mar shall and his brother came te his house, aud after kicking in the deer and upsetting the stove they struck him en the head with a club. The defendant deuied having upset the stove or bieken anything in the heuse ; he had heard that Harris was circulating re ports about him, and went te the house for an explanation ; his brother forced open the deer, and went in ; Harris picked up an axe, which defendant attempted te take from him, and struck him with liis fist. The jury rendered a verdict of guilty of assault a' ul battery and net guilty of malicious mischief, with costs te be equally divided between the prosecutor aud de fendant. The graud jury returned the following bills : True Bills : A. B. Potts, false pretonse (threo indictments); Henry Rodenheuser, felonious assault and battery (two indict ments); Cyrus Rutter, perjury; Wm. H. Richardson, felonious assault and battery ; Hiram Brubaker and Jacob Landis, ne glect of duty; Michael S. Greff, selling liquor en Sunday. Ignered: Enech Passmore, selling liquor te miners, with county for costs. Cyrus Simen Carey, colored, was brought before the court, by a tipstaff, for talking out loud. He was fined $1. Friday Morning. Cem. vs. Aaren Snyder, false pretense. It was charged that Snyder traded a herse te Sarah Shiro Shire man, of Ceney township, and made false representations in regard te the animal. There did net appear te be any false pre tense iu the case, and the commonwealth abandoned it. A verdict of net guilty, with county for costs, was taken. Cem. vs. V. F. Trost, felonious assaalt and battery. The prosecutor was Albert Heck, a !:iman boy, who testified that en the night of the 25th of May he was walking up North Queen street, near the Northern market house, when he was in sulted by a let of young men, and the de fendant struck ene of them in the face, cutting his lip and breaking three or four teeth. The defense was that upon this night the defendant and another boy, who was with him, were very drunk; as they passed the market heuse some boys yelled at Heck, who sti uck Trost. He thcu ran and fell down b.eaking his teeth out and cut ting his lip ; no ene struck him, nor in any ether way injured him. The jury rendcicd a verdict of net guilty, the pros ecutor te pay one-third of the costs and defendant two thirds. Cem'th vs. William Richardseu, of this city, felonious assault and battery. The complainant was Wm. P. Werth, a brother-in-law of the defendant, who is kuewn as "Toedlcr." He testified that William came te his house, en East Chestnut street, the 4th of last June. He was drunk, and was ordered te leave the premises ; he refused te go, and when Werth took held of him he drew a chisel fiem his pocket, anil with it cut at Woith, once he struck him ou the hand with the b!ade, cutting it.' " Toodler's " defense was that he went te visit his sister (Mrs. Werth) upon this day ; he was attacked by the prosecutor, who beat him with a whip and knocked him down several times ; he did net use a chisel nor did he have one ou that occa sion. The jury rendered a verdict of guilty of common assault and battery. Sentenced te pay the costs of prosecution. The following bills were reported by the crandjury. Ignored : Samuel Diveler and Audrew Zug, neg'ect of duty, with county for costs ; Martin Greff celling liquor te miners, with county for costs. Divorced. Mary E. Snyder was divorced from her husband, Lawrence Snyder, en the grounds of adultery, bad treatment and desertion. A Geed, Idea. It is said the Pennsylvania railroad corn pay is about introducing a neat arrange ment for notifying passengers as te what station they are approaching. At either end of the ears is te be placed a small case containing a piece of muslin or canvass en rollers, upon which is painted in legible letters the names of all the stations en the read. By a lever en the locomotive the engineer en leaving a station, will change the indicator se as te show the next stop step ping place. It is a neat and convenient affair. Contract Awarded. The Mauheim township school beard have contracted for Victer folding school desks for two houses, te be delivered in September, by Jehn Baer'sSens, agents for the Victer desk. Vv i-?
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