:,. -.-i. -i"3Tr?mF 3B0r-.MUJ4ML IMM L- .5-A r;&'jf-?2w-Jk'ir-rJKKItS M9' - " xja -;-' " - - - E"?.. "W -LANCASTER DAILY 1OTELUGENCER- MONDAY, AUGUST 22 1881. w (, j f-- Pi' J vm i-anrastrc intelligencer. MONDAYEVKNING, AUGUST227l8l. The President. There is nethiug encouraging nor consoling in the reports from Washing ton of the president's condition, and everything te warrant the profoundest public apprehension of a fatal termina tion of his long sufferings. It is con fessed that no period of his illness has been mere critical than the present, and that new after seven weeks his recovery is quite as doubtful as ever. Ne spasmodic bulletins of a cheerful character or en couraging tone will suddenly allay this popular impression or give the public mind a .restful idea about the nation's patient. The discovery that the physi cians have greatly erred in their appre ciation of his recent condition is dis turbing and calculated te make the people discredit all reports new reaching them. When the recent unfavorable turn occurred it was given out that the trouble was entirely with the president's stomach, that his wound had healed nicely, and no trouble need le feared from that source. Even when the glandular inflammation en his neck appeared, the assurances given con cerning the healing of the wound dissi pated fears that this outbreak might have resulted from bleed-poisoning, and with the successful administration of nutritive cnemata it was confidently as serted that the stomach would be restored, and the patient kept in such condition that the healing of his wound would progress satisfactorily. New there has been another serious re lapse and all the conditions of a very critical and dangerous state are mani fested. In explanation of it Dr. Bliss relates that the obstruction te the drain age tube, four inches from the mouth of the last incision, which had been taken as a sign of the healing of the wound te that point, was, instead of this faverabjte condition, only a hinderauce te com munication with the deeper and un healed interior of the wound, where the action of the injury was still going en, the pus forming and being carried off somewhere. With the removal from the passage of a large piece of cellular tissue that had sloughed off and closed the track of the ball te the drainage tube, the latter was inserted te the depth of twelve and a half inches and the ball is still beyond that. It is feared that while this drainage was obstructed the secre tion of the pus in the wound induced bleed-poisoning, of which the parotid affection was a symptom. Be that as it may, the president's con dition is undoubtedly very serious, and after forty days it is thus described by a Washington correspondent : "He is new se weak and helpless that he can scarcely move a limb. lie can hardly talk above a whisper and only then with an effort. His wound is still unhealed in the por tion where it should be healed. The track of the ball has been traced twelve and a-Iialf inches from tlie last incision downward and forward, which is a dis tance of fifteen and a-half inches from where the ball entered the body, and yet the location of the ball itself has net been found." It is idle, in view of this picture, te maintain that the president is net under such an inability te discharge the duties of his ellice as the constitution centem" plates when it provides that in this event his duties shall devolve upon some one else. Ner is it te the point that it is claimed, in the American of Philadelphia for instance, that " there is net the slightest evidence that Mr. Garfield is at this moment incapable of any duty which his ellice at this moment imposes en liim." If such a position were seriously maintained it would be easy te show that it is untenable, and that the very men who assume te discharge the formal ex ecutive duties are net even permitted te see their chief, nor te have any communi cation with him. But the World points out specifically that certain extradition papers for the arrest of an absconding swindler, new under detention from a Bew street commitment for a limited time, are only perfect when accompa nied by a warrant upon which is the sig nature of the president, and the prisoner may be discharged through a lapse of the time specified in the treaty for his deten tion, pending the arrival of such signa ture at the home ellice in Londen. Here arises a case the like of which may oc cur anj time, which shows that there is an interregnum in the president's office such as the law never intended should exist, and sucli assheuld net continue. A Haukisbukg correspondent writes te the Times the astonishing information that since the attempted assassination of the president the Cameren party have reconsidered their determination te let the Democrats carry the state this fall, and instead of putting up Senater Davies for defeat they will put up Gen. Bailey, one of the old guard at Chicago, for elec tion. Nevertheless the Democratic con vention will be held, as announced, in Williainspert and will put up a candi date who can defeat nobody mere easily than one who distinguished himself by his advocacy of a third term in a nation al convention. Judgk Black's second contribution te the history of national events just pre ceding the late war, is scarcely less inter esting and valuable than his first. It 'will be found en our first page te-day, and has a permanent value as the testi meny of tine who is able te bear witness te the truth. With such light thrown upon that period, time and history can be rusted te vindicate actors in it who have long suffered misrepresentation from 1Mb malignancy of later day patriots, who were as weak when danger threatened as they have been cowardly in their assassi nation of character. The "reorganized" American fire company vindicates its efficiency and the morale of the pre: cut department by a disgraceful water and fist fight en Sun day afternoon, in which the. Friendship, tee, a company that has hitherto steed well, was net altogether guiltless. It was a disgraceful affair all around, and if the present system cannot prevent or at least punish such rows it proves its own weakness and want of proper or ganization and discipline. AglB' It. The Philadelphia Times says: They are talking in Lancaster of organ izing a citizens' committee, irrespective of party, te purify the politics of that much corrupted county. Undoubtedly some thing of this sort is needed, and it has al ready been shown by experience in many places that there is nothing like a deter mined and well-intentioned committee of citizens te purify the politics of any local ity. Lancaster needs something of this kind. Se bad have become the methods of her politicians that last winter a law was passed by the Legislature which grew out of necessity of doing something te check the shameless corruption in Lancaster county politics. It was made a general law because that is the only form in which it could be passed. It seems, however, that something mere than law is necessary te restrain Lancaster wickedness. There has been this kind of talk, and there is no doubt of the necessity of some such movement here. The Intel ligencer and the Xew Era both favor it. The Examiner takes no stock in it and has no faith in it. It professes "ardent desire and enthusiasm" te reach the ends in view, but rejects the preposition for a mixed committee te effect reforms, partly because it comes from the Intelligencer and partly because its editor having been " for mere than thirty years very closely iden tified with party organization in both the county and ward," he has seen the abusive methods complained of prevail and wax mere and mere frequent ; and he is net prepared te take a "sleepy dose " which will lead te their suppres sion. The Examiner does net propose any ether method te put a step te them, and it is fair te presume it likes them. The Examiner is for reform, " but agin' its enforcement." AVe rejoice with our contemporaries ill the three completed squares of Belgian block pavements en the streets of Lan. caster. In justicete the living as well as the dead, however, they should be re minded that Mayer MacUenigle's recem mendatiens of this kind of improvement were made befoie the late Maj. Shenk was in council, and that Maj. Shenk's methods of rushing ahead with the work, regardless of the ordinances or the ap" propriatiens, is net the proper way te make even municipal " improvements." PERSONAL.. Jeu.v E. Owens, actor, once rich, has lest se heavily that he may yet have te walk home. Mr. It. B. Hayes during his visit te England will be the guest of Mr. Pnles Pnles len, member of Parliament. M-vut Axdeusen has a dove-cettago at Leng Branch, which is attracting no end of admiration and attention, and is just budding into nineteen years as usual. The will of the widow of the late cx Prcsidcnt Mill.ykd Fillmeke leaves pub lic bequests te the amount of $30,000, among which is one of $20,000 te the uni versity of Rochester. , William Goedeuiiall, sr., founder of the distillery firm of Goedorhall & Werts, probably the largest iu the world, died hi Toieuto yesterday. It is said that he was worth $10,000,000. It is telegraphed from St. Leuis te the New Yerk World that among the members of the American Pharmaceutical :issocia :issecia :issocia tien arrived in that city is "Charles A. Heintzle, of Lancaster, Pa." Such is fame for our fellow citizen and druggist Ciias. A. Heinitsii. Mekris Geksiiel and Prof. C. M.vrz, who, with their families, have been taking summer leisure for two weeks at A. D. Gygcr's Grccu Tree hotel, Rcften, declare that nobody need go further from Lancas ter thau that for health, recreation and an abundantly geed time. Fkyxk Walweutii, who shot his father in New Yerk, some years age, is new at Saratoga, whero he has achieved a geed deal of success as a tennis player. It is said that he will shortly marry a beautiful young heiress who has spent several sum mers at the springs. Hexiiy Mukat, " Count of Colerado, " at one time a millionaire and a leader of fashion in the West, and who spent $C0, 000 in one visit te Europe, slept recently en the fleer of a barber shop in Denver because the proprietor could net find it iu his heart te eject the new shattered "old man. Seme interest is felt iu fashionable circles in Paris by the announcement of the ap proaching marriage of the Duchcsse dc Richelieu with Sir Hickman Bacen, Bart. The duchess, who hears the his torical name of Richelieu, has been a widow about two years. She is the daugh ter of M. and Mine, ncine, France-Anieri-can-Gcrman stars in the financial firma ment of Paris, and it is expected she will inherit a very large fortune. Sir Hickman Bacen is the premier baronet of England, and is known in society chiefly by the re markably short term of his military career in the Guards. Rebert Browning has writteu 1C3 poems, of from 21,110 lines te four lines in length, besides his prose essay en " Shelley, the Peet Objective and Uuob Uueb Uuob jective, " etc., in 1852. It is pretty well known that Mr. Browning, iu 1871, de parted from his general rule of net pub lishing any of his pieces in periodicals, for the purpose of getting 100 for the fund for fecdiug Paris after the siege. But only close students of him kuew of his earlier breakings of his rule in 1844 and 1843, when, in order te help peer Heed in the distressing illness which ended in his death, Mr. Browning let him have a num ber of poems. Dr. J. G. Liehtner, writing te us from AlIenvtlle,Miffliii county, and enclosing his Intelligencer subscription, says : " I was in the war of 1812, iu the battle of North Point, the time the British made raid en Baltimore, I was wounded in the leg, although I am, thank Ged, a sound man and a Democrat all my days, and have carried a lancet in my pocket for 55 years. Prof. Gress says it is the art. And I have a coffee mill, sueh as you nail te the wall or any ether convenient place, which has been in operation for ever fifty years in centiuued use, and I have no doubt that it will operate well for the next 50 years. I have a clock running in my office which has been in the Lightner family, for I think as long as I can recollect and that is 80 years, and I should say 120 years at least. It was about the first clock that came into Lancaster county and is running well and I able te keep geed time as ever it did.". j 1HNOB TOPICS. The late Duke of Portland, who was well-known as a friend te the newspapers and who spent ever $6,000 a year in news paper subscription, used te subscribe for four copies of any paper that pleased him. The Scotch law makes prevision for a verdict "net proven," which means that the defendant is guilty, but the evidence was net sufficient iu law te make out the case. Even in Caledonia it has happened that after such a verdict and the acquittal of the accused, a crime like that alleged against him was committed in the neigh borhood. The New Yerk World, after a long par turition of " typographical improvements, " each ene of which made it uglier than be fore, has come forth in a new suit. Its former head, about the only surviving beauty of its dress, has given place te a homely one in imitation of the New Yerk Herald, and the ether changes are geed, bad and indifferent. Its editorial page, however, always handsome and never dull, keeps up its wonted brilliancy of aspect and of expression. At the elections for members of the Chamber of Deputies iu Spain, of 147 seats only about twenty were ebtaiucd by the various shades of the opposition. The re sults of the French clectieus as far as they are known at present are almost exclu sively Republican. Iu both sections of the Paris arrendisscmeut the struggle has been fierce, and M. Gambetta, though generally believed te have been in each elected, in each came within an ace of being beateu. Despite the president's critical condi tion, the country has semethings te be thankful for. The hail has net hurt all the tobacco, there will be a half crop of corn airyway, the deg days are getting toward the tail end, and Je. Heward's " tale of two cities" has come te an end iu the Philadelphia Times. He killed off all the characters except three, and these he left for the coming American novelist te dispatch only because theso whom he slew were se numerous that he had ex hausted all the devices of death-dealing iu getting them off his hands. A vuuiAL of the uncut watermelon in ice for two days is wise. Then cut length wise, and eat between meals. People deal unjustly with this fruit sometimes by eat. ing a hearty dinner first, ami then topping off with a melon, and then if a moral earth quake sets up in the interior, they charge it te the melon. The watermelon was in tended as rn episode an interlude a ro mance without words a nocturne iu green and red net te be mingled with bacon and greens. Its indulgence leaves a cer tain cpigastral expansion, but this is pain less and cvaucsceut. The remedy is te loosen the waistband and take another slice. With a view te affording relief te per sons who receive abusive and annoying postal cards through the mails the follow ing general instructions te postmasters will seen be issued from the posteffico de partment : When auy one is annoyed or expects te be annoyed by postal cards, scut from any particular place or from auy known person, he may direct the post master at the point named te destroy all postal cards addressed te him, or cards from auy person named, se addressed, and as far as the discharge of the duties of the effice permit sufficient examination, the postmaster should comply with the re quest. The same request may be made of the receiving postmaster. The direction te the postmaster should be in writing and should be filed for preservation. The Chicago Tribune cannot sec any sense in a big navy for this country. Ac quisition of territory in any ether part of the world is inconsistent with the mission of our government. The Americans will never need a fleet iu the British channel, or the Baltic, or the Mediterranean. They will never want te bombard Liverpool, or Cerk, or Havre, or Maiscillcs, nor te un dertake the destruction of any foreign city. Hence we want no great battering rams for use en the high seas. The first and most important naval need in this country is for defense Big guns and torpedoes arc the most necessary appliances. The chief requisite for aggressive warfare en the ocean is a fleet of independent and swift vessels te prey upon foreign com merce ships that can overtake merchant vessels and run away from the ponderous men-of-war. The time te provide the most approved ships of this description will be when they shall be actually needed. Drowned lu canals. Twe dead bodies have been taken from the canals in Lewell, Mass. One, found iu the Hamilton canal, was that of Edw. W. Hasey, aged sixty-seven years. A wound en the forehead led te the supposition that he had been murdered and thrown into the canal, but new it is believed that he cither fell iu accidentally or committed suicide. The ether body is that of a young woman, apparently about twenty years of age, and was taken from the Suffolk canal. The body was partially identified as that of Lizzie Abcrten by several persons, iuclud ine her brother, but that young lady has siuce been found alive. The stranger is slightly ever five feet in height, and were a gray sack and black bunting dress. The Small Bey. In Kingsten, N. Y., an eight-year-old son of L. M. Sheet (mark the name) hav ing seen the woman shot out of the circus cannon tried it en his younger brother, who was placed en a second story window sill against the closed blinds. The elder brother then pointed a chair at him and exploded a firecracker. The bev in the window, according te a previous command threw himself backward at the explosion, and the shutters opening, he fell te the ground, a distance of twenty feet. His injuries are very severe and may prove fatal. Peppered with Shells. Maurice Reilly, who was employed in the priming-room at the Winchester Ar Ar eory at $1.75 per day, was arranging 70, 000 primers preparatory te using the shel lac, when one of them exploded, The ex plosion was a little puff, a little flash, and the flying away of a tiny piece of metal, but that little flash caused 70,000 pieces of metal te fly, and resulted in one of the most serious accidents that has ever before occurred at the armory. There was no spot two inches square en the front of Reilly's person that did net show where the shells had penetrated, and his clothing was cut te pieces. STATE ITEMS. Bradford has a fat men's baseball club that weighs a ten- Near Sugar Greve, a little daughter of minera Aiewis, usea Kerosene in uuuuiug the kitchen fire, and left the can upon the hearth. It exploded. The girl was burned te death and the house was burned te the ground. The Philadelphia Bulletin suggests that if the statue of Washington in front of the state house is te lie scraped down every summer, se as te keep it white, it will be likely, within a few years, te leek mere like a hitching pest than like the Father of his Country. Mr. .Edward L Wolf. sr.. aged 02. a well known journalist, died in Scranton en Friday, after a lingering illness from dia betes. He was the son of cx-Gev. Geerge Wolf and figured conspicuously in the pol itics of the state in 3Ionree, Northampton and Wayne counties. The Bellefonte Watchman thinks theie was one thing the Centre county Demo cratic convention neglected te de, " and that was, te pass a rule ferbiding candi dates for county nomination te travel round for the purpose of electioneering. The thing has get te be an infernal nui sance and ought te be stepped at once." The encampment of the Third brigade begins in Wilkesbarre te-day. Twe thou sand five hundred men have reported for duty. General Sigfried will conduct the encampment. Governer Heyt and staff. Majer General Hartranft and staff ami Adjutant General Latta will be present at the inspection. In Luzerne county some years a-re Neil Gillespie left the house te attend a wedding et a mend. He was compelled te cress big swamp, and though he attended the festivities he was never afterward seen The ether day above a cave in was feuud a slab inscribed, " May the Lord have mercy en Neil Gillespie's soul, who was murdered and buried here six or seven years age." Jeseph Schloteman, an engincman en the Catawissa branch of the Reading rail road, was killed at Rupert station while engaged in making up a freight train by falling and being crushed between the bumpers. His watch had stepped at 7:40 o'clock, which indicated the hour of his death, it having been broken by the cel lisien. Deceased was about 33 years of age and resided at bt. Clair, where hn leaves a wife and two children. In the Mercer county court an import ant witness was absent en military duty at the Slatsburg encarapmeut,aud the case in which his testimeuy was needed had te be continued. Judge McDermitt instructed the district attorney te take out an at. tachment for the recreant witness and hale him before the tribunal for contempt, and his honor took occasion te add that it was " time the people were taughc that the war has been ended seventeen years and that the civil power is above the military power." LATEST NEWS BY MAIL. Irvine, Ky,, has lest all its business places in a $75,000 fire. Extensive smuggling by American fish ermen iu Trinity bay is reported. It will be investigated. Walter Helder, aged 15 year?, and Jehn O'Brien, aged 10, were drowned off Field's Point, near Providence yesterday. Their beat collided with a beat in tow. The Gaze stove works, near the feet of Harrison street, St. Leuis, burned last evening. Less, $100,000 ; insured for $30,000. A Dutch gentleman and two ladies of his family have been killed by a land slip en the read te the Tctc-Neire, Switzer land. Columbus Ilill, a colored bloetblack, was stabbed and killed in Baltimore, at Hanover street market by David Sullivan, a notorious rough. The stabbing was ap parently unprovoked and wanton. William Freize and Jehn Alway, who were digging a well in Lucau. Ont., were overcome by foul air. Freize was dead when taken ent, and Alway was uncon scious, but will probably recover. Inspired by jealousy and whisky, iu St. Leuis, Geerge W. Sears, a negre, entered a quarrel with Sallie Freeman, with whom he lived, and cut her threat with a razor, inflicting wounds from which she died in a few minutes. An oil well near Bradford caught fire and two workmen were caught in the fiames. They had sufficient presence of mind te rush te the weeds and roll ever and ever among the bushes and extinguish the fire iu their clothing, but both were terribly burned. The woman arrested in a bathing suit en the White Heuse grounds turns out te be Mrs. Mary Louisa Rcininger, of Brook lyn, aged 23, whom malaria has deranged, who left home for Rockaway and whose friends feared from her absence that she had drowned. Hugh Burten, aged 18, of New Yerk, was going up in the Eighth avenue car. When near Sixty-first a man unknown as saulted him. There was a fight in the car which they seen quitted, and when out side the unknown diew a pistol and shot Burteu fatally in the abdomen. The August estimate of the Ohie beard of agriculture, compared with 18S0 is as fellows : Wheat 72 per ceu ., or 88,000,000 bushels, against 52,500,000 bushels ; corn, 70 per cent or 74,000,000 against 105,000, -000 bushels ; eats, 107 per cent or 22,500, 000 bushels, against 22,021,000 bushels. Sirs. Daisy Oaks Dudley, wife of Mr. Francis H. Dudley and daughter of ox ex Judgo W. J. A. Fuller, of the law firm of Fuller & Abbett, New Yerk, shot and killed herself in Orange, N. J., in a fit of petulance because her husband ordered the buggy instead of the phaeton. She was given te melauchely. JohnLepnelt and Charles Winkeman. Germans, living at Manhattauville. N. Y.. quarreled when Winkeman, having grossly insulted Leppolt, was knocked down by the latter. Shortly afterwards the two men met, when Winkeman sprang at Lep polt and stabbed him four times in the head, neck and abdomen, making frightful wounds. A fire en Gravier street, New Orleans, destroyed the establishments of Pattison & Borcard, wholesale liquor dealers, and Samuel Levys, cigar dealer, and damaged the stores of William Stern, wholesale liquor dealer ; Meyer Heincman, beets and shoes, and C. H Lawrence & Ce. and T. T. White & Ce., wholesale grocers. Less, $75,000. On Leng Island the pear raisers have te prep the branches of the trees up te keep tiie limbs from breaking. Apples are being brought te market for shipment in geed quantities. It was generally con ceded that, because of the enormous yield of apples last year, the crop this year would be light. Owners of orchards are pleased te think that they were mistaken, for the apple trees premise a fair yield. The boiler of a $0,000 tug exploded while passing through the Chicago river, with such force that it was fired like a ball into the beat house at the end of Clark street bridge. The Captain, Frank Butler, was hurled into the air and fell fatally mangled but is still alive upon the deck of a bark that the tug had in tow. William McDon ald, a deck iiand, and O. Oleson are miss ing. They are supposed te have been killed and te be entangled in the wreck. In Louisville there has been great ex citement in the leaf tobacco market. The long-continued dreuth makes it evident that the crop will be short. The best Burlev tobacco sold en Satnrdav as hifrh as $158 per 100 pounds, being the highest ngure ever reached in tnat market. Previ-1 eus te this $40 has been regarded as a big price. Green River sold up te $19, and Clarksville as high as $15. The total sales for the day were 577 hogsheads. A DAXGEKOC9 BEVEKAGE. Four Beys Made Wild with Delirium tr immune sauarraa en. David Brenner, James Keet, Allen Swan and Benny Letz, boys who worked in A. Thalheimer's cigar box factory, Reading, in the absence of the foreman and the hands at dinner, entered the cellar and gut possession of a bottle of sassafras oil, wnicn is used te perfume paste in manufacturing boxes and te prevent it from souring. Three of the boys drank copiously of the oil. The remaining boy, Letz, took a small dose only. In a short time the boys were jumping about the place perfectly crazy. When the feremau arrived they were wild and uncontrollable, and two men were required te held each boy. Their eyes were starting from their sock ets, veins bulged out, faces red and in flamed and jaws firmly set. They seemed te be in the agonies of death. The phy sicians were compelled te pry open the boys' jaws te administer emetics. Fer three hours the physicians worked upon them until they were in a condition te be taken home. Letz revived sufficiently te say what had happened te them. He said they were told by one of the men that they should drink the oil te purify their bleed. He imagined himself while under its influence te be perfectly black and witii a band of black demons ; that he was in the clouds, and then again down in a deep mine. He knows no ene. The ether boys arc net strong enough te re late their experience. Twe of them are very low. What the result will be is net yet known definitely. Brenner, who drank first, also imagines himself a ne gre. In his ravings one of the boys jumped out of a window. LOSING ground. The Frasldent'n Condition Critical. The president's condition is exceedingly critical, he was again seized with nausea yesterday afternoon and vomited twice, once shortly after one o'clock and again about live. The doctors say this wa3 due te the phlegm which collected in his threat, aud this phlegm was due te the .swelling of the parotid gland. At all events, it was thought best net te tax the stomach and no nourishment was given the paticut by way of the mouth after the first vomiting attack. Dr. Bliss keeps np hope, as usual, but Dr. Boynton says the president is under the influence of sep ticaemia, or mild form of bleed-poisoning, and if there is net a favorable change to day that will be cause for alarm. Secretary Blalne fearful. The following was sent last night : Lewell, Minister, Londen : The president's sleep last night was brekeii aud unrcstful. His symptoms throughout the day have been less favor faver faver able, and his general condition is net on en on ceuraging. He is unable te retain feed in his stomach, having vomited twice during the afternoon, the last time at 5 o'clock. This evening he has been able te drink water and retain. The swelling of the parotid gland has net increased. Pulse and temperature about the same as yester day. His sleep up te this hour (11 p. m.) has been somewhat disturbed. We are all deeply anxious. rSigncdl Blaine, Secretaiy. m An Elephant Shaped Restaurant. At Seuth Atlantic City is an elephant 85 feet long, 22 feet bread, and 44 feet high. Spiral staircases arc placed In his hind legs and lead up te a bight of 22 feet, where there is a spacious restaurant in the body of the animal. The head serves as a kitchen and the trunk plays the part of a chimney. The animal is surmounted by a howdah 22 feet in length, which i3 te he used as a balcony. It cost $27,000 te build thiselephant. He will have his first re ception en Sept. 1. A Western Waterspout. A terrific waterspout burst somewhero en Grape Creek, Colerado, and whole sec tions of railway tics, with iron attached, were running in the Arkansas river, te gether with bridge, timbers, huge pine trees, cattle and horses. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. obituary. Deaths of Premising Yeung; Men. Mr. Jehn A. Alexander, who died in Oxford en Saturday, iu the 40th year of his age, was one of the best known veunff men iu the lower cud of Lancaster and Chester counties. He was the son of the late Jehn Alexander, of White Reck ferire. Little Britain, near Celcrain tewnshin. and for a time after the death of his father was engaged in farminjr the homestead place. He took a deep interest in the construction of the Peach Bettem narrow gauge railroad, and labored arduously for its success. Frem the beginniug he has been superintendent of it, and he contrib uted largely of his means, his cnenrv and his labor te make it a success. Seme years age he removed te Oxford as a better base of operations, and has since lived there, his health of late breaking down under his pressure of du ties. He was an enterprising and public-spirited citizen, an intelligent 'and progressive gentleman, widely known and universally a favorite in social circles, aud a devoted and useful member of the Pres byterian church. Formerly a student of Millersvillc, and his wife bciug a sister of Miss Isabella Slaymakcr, Ne. 420 North Duke street, this city, he was well known i u '.Lancaster ci ty and throughout the whole lower end of the county, where his death will be heard of with much sadness. Death of Mathematician. Prof. Jeseph II. Kershner died in Mcr cersbunr, Franklin ceuntv. Pa., en Satur day. He was a graduate of Franklin and Marshall college, Lancaster, and was many years professor of mathematics at the Mer ccrsburg cellege, uuder the presidency of Rev. Drs. Apple and Higbee. He was a brother of Jacob B. Kershner professor of Greek in the same college, and of Surgeon Edward Kershner, U. S. N., and was a contributor te mathematical journals of this country and Europe . Mr. Kershner was et tue class 1807 in cellege, a member of the Gejthcan literary society and of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He was a geed student and a genial gentleman. He will be remembered as the heavy batter in the old Alpha baseball club and there have been few siuce of stronger arm. Since his graduation he had been teaching mathe matics and developing the genius which he displayed while in college for that science. Unclaimed Letters. The following is the list et letters re maining unclaimed in the posteffico for the week ending August 22 : Ladies' List. Mrs. L. L C. Chase, Miss Susan Eckman, Mrs. Lizzie Felix, Miss Barbarin Gray, Miss Annie B. Hcrr, Miss Mary Klatt, Miss Mamie Leenard, Miss Grace Laucks, Susan Miller, Miss A. Mot Met Mot tee, Mrs. Annie L. Reed, Mrs. Henry Smith, Mrs. Myra Whiting, Miss Emma Weaver, Miss Amanda Whitman. Gents' List Jehn Antheny, W G. An dersen, Dennis Barnhart, Fred. Bryan W. H. Clepper (2), J. R. Denning. Jehn Fleisher, E. B. Gcigcr, William Hamcll, Jehn Hiuckty, J. C. Lcman, Jacob B. Landis, Jehn Miller. Mr. Mcssimer, Henry G. Miller, Audrcw Palmer, J. W. Pepper, J. L. Bobbins. Jehu Shntz. N. V Hun. dcrfer fc Ce., Jehn . - r - blegelnulcb, Otte Weaver, Jehn Yeung. INCENDIARY FIRE. SUNDAY AFTERNOON SENSATIONS. A Dlgraceful Water Fight Between the American and Friendship Companies. Yesterday afternoon between 2 and 3 o'clock, fire- was discovered in the large frame building en the rear of a let belong ing te Frank Shreder, corner of Sherman street and Marien alley. The building was occupied uy is. t. ekeen as a storehouse for fellees, manufactured by him at his shop, corner of Lemen street and New Helland pike. The building was evidently fired by an incendiary, and the flames had gained such headway before being discovered that all efforts te check them were unavailing, the building, with its contents, being entirely destroyed. There was an insur ance of $300 en the building in the Will iamsburg City insurance company, of which Bailsman & Burns are agents, which will cover mere than one-half the less. Mr. Skccn had two hundred sets of fellees insured for $300 in the Guardian of Londen, of which Allan A. llerr is local agent. The less will net exceed the amount of insurance. During the progress of the fire a dis graceful water fight took place between the American and Friendship companies. It is net known with certainty which company is te blame for beginning it ; and as the American occupied a position te the east of the burning building, and the Friend ship te the northwest of it, it is but charitable te suppose that each company played upon the ether un intentionally while throwing water upon and into the building. Be this as it may, the trouble very seen degenerated into a regular water fight, and each cempauy purposely played upon the ether. Chief Arneld and Assistants Hewell and Jacobs were present and used their best endeavors te step the fight. They ordered the water te be cut off from the Friendship and this was done. Before Chief Arneld could give the same order te the American, which in the meantime was playing upon the Friendship, some ene in the interest of the Friendship had again turned en the water and the stream was again directed towards the American. This exasperated some of the members of that company, and putting en a pressure of steam they drew their hese around te the same side of the house en which the Friendship steed, and by main force washed thorn away from their posi tions, chased them down Sherman street towards Chestnut, and took possession of the Friendship pipe. Stones, brickbats and ether missiles were thrown by thu rowdies of both parties and ene or two men were struck and somewhat hurt. Meantime the peaceably-disposed members of both companies, assisted by the police, did all in their power te quell the disturb ance and finally succeeded in doing se. MT. JOY NEWS Tilling from the Town aud Vicinity. D. Reet, Sen & Ce.'s plow works nar rowly escaped destruction by fire en Sat urday evening. Shavings had been nsed during the day te feed the fire under the boilers, and from the deer, a short time before quitting work en Saturday evening, sparks were seen te ledge ou the partition, clese by. Benj. Reet, the senior member of the firm, had watched them closely, but during his absence at supper aud some time after the hands had stepped work the slumbering sparks ignited the build ing aud the fiames shot out from between the beards of the second fleer. Fortu nately, just at this time Ames Rudy, an employee, entered the shop, intending te show some visitors through the works, and discovered the fire. Water was thrown en through the hose aud before doing much damage the fire was extin guished. This morning 11. C. Sheck went driving in company with his cousin, Mrs. Annie Kirk, of Philadelphia. When passing the Springville cemetery the horse was frightened by persons working in a tobac co patch close by. The animal shied, overturned the buggy, throwing the eccu pants between it and the fence. They were dragged about twenty feet. Jlr. Sheck received injuries about the risht leir and side and en his left hand. The lady is severely injured about the head and neck, and bled considerably at the nose. The herse ran te town before stepping. Harry's weddiug te Miss Frank is announced for te-morrow (Tuesday) and the accident has put him in bad shape for the event. This is ene of Mount Jey's principal in dustrial establishments. . Frem time te time the firm, iu order te meet their de mauds, have enlarged the buildings and furnished them with much new and im proved machinery. A large addition te the smithshep is being erected. A fifty-five herse power engine will be placed in it this fall and several new fire places put up. About fifty men are new employed, and arc yet unable te fill their orders. Seme time since the IxrELiGnxrKit no ted the contemplated completion of the audience room of the second fleer of the M. E. church. The work has progressed nicely aud it is new fast neariug comple tion. By the middle of next October they expect te dedicate the room te the service of Ued. This church was erected about twclve or fifteen years age, and during this time the lower room accommodated the con gregation. Rev. Rhoads took eharge of the congregation last spring. Te him mainly is due the efforts put forth which will seen result iu ene of the largest aud finest rooms of the kind in this borough. The pastor was absent from town yester day aud expects te he away next Sunday, and iu consequence the church will have no service en theso days. On Sunday afternoon a German tramp who was intoxicated broke in the windows of the gate house below town with stones, the gatekeeper and his wife were away and a little girl was in charge of the prop erty. Constable Zellcrs arretted the of fender and he was placed in the lockup last night. Stauffer & Eby arc about finishing the foundry which they commenced te build some time age. Shell's reversible hin"e will form their mam trade. The tobacco iu this neighborhood is net doing se very well. It will net be half of a geed crop. D. B. Brandt, of Raphe, has a geed patch ; one leaf that he measured is 47x23 inches. Five young men of Columbia sharneued their appetites for breakfast Sunday morn ing by riding from that place here en bicycles. They dined at the Red Lien. The colored folks of this viciuity talk of having an ex-roast in Octoraro. Bigler Detwcilcr, son of Jeseph Det- weiler, who has been sick for some time of typhoid fever, we are glad te say is new considered out of danger. The soldiers' orphan school will be opened en September 1. Mount Jey was represented at ercd camp near Elizabethtewu, the col on Sun- day. Everybody is wishing for rain. The public schools will be opened en me 'utn instant. There were several deaths last week of cholera infantum. Several of our young mcu, among them your correspondent, will take a trip up the Cumberland valley this week. Takes His Paper A ion;;. The reverend editor of the Wright&ville Sun, having accepted a call te a congrega tion in Liverpool, Perry county, will re move the office te that place and resume the publication of his paper uuder the name of the Liverpool Sun, where it will cemmeuce te shine again about the first of October. COURT. THE ARSON CASE. "Brica" l'atnter Acquitted. Saturday Afternoon. Cera'th vs. Bry son Painter, arson. Fer the defense Jacob Price testified that he saw Jehn Sales at the fire and he was intoxicated. Phil Smith also saw him that evening about six o'clock and he was then intoxicated. The defense then closed. In rebuttal the commonwealth called Kate Betz, who testified that Mrs. Rifc Rifc Rifc tonheuse (Painter's sister) told her that she could swear that her brother was net out of the house alter nine o'clock en the night of the fire. She also said that he was living in Beaver street then. Lizzie Betz testified thau Nathaniel Rit Rit Rit tenbouse told him that he, Brice and the family all went te bed at 9 o'clock en this night. The same man told Wm. Carr at one time that Brice was in the house at 8 o'clock that night. He also said that he was net in until 9 o'clock. The remainder of Saturday afternoon session of court, and a portion of the even ing session, were taken up with the speeches of the counsel and the charge of the court. Judge Patterson said the court would net rise 'until midnight, te give the jury a chance te return thei verdict if they agreed by that time. The court room was kept lighted and en the streets a large crowd of interested people awaited the verdict. It came net, yester day at 9 a. m. the court met again and the jury having agreed an hour before, re turned their verdict of " net guilty." Thejurymen en this case wcreall from the country. It is understood that at first they steed 7 for acquittal and five for con viction ; then 10 for net guilty, 1 guilty aud 1 net voting. Finally it was found that the man who " steed out " was under the impression that they had been trying an insurance case and if Painter was ac. quitted the loser would net get his insur ance. When he was properly informed he voted for acquittal aud they made it unan imous. Court of Common l'lea. This morning the regular August term of common pleas court began with Judge Livingston en the bench. There are 21 cases down en the list which arc ready for trial. Judge Livingston delivered an opiuieu in the case of Frank Quinn, for the use of the heirs of Arthur Quinn, deceased, v?. Phoebe Mehn. An action of ejectment in which the arbitrators, under an appeal by defendant, rendered an award of no cause of action. A rule was granted te plaintiff te set aside all the proceedings of the arbi trators and direct the defendant te pay costs. The rule was discharged. As there were no cases ready for trial by jury this morning, the jurors were dis charged until 2:30 this afternoon. Frederick Hildcbrand was discharged under the irselvcnt law. Harman Kech, who was convicted of breaking into the barber shop of Gee. W. Parker, in Mt. Jey, at last week's court, was sentenccd te ene year's imprison ment. The following quarter sessions cases were nel pressed at the request of the dis trict attorney, in all of them the costs having been paid : Charles Shultz, Jehu O. Wolf, Israel Rudy, Simen Brown, Isaac M. Sweigart, Christian Murphy and Jehn R. Buch, fornication and bastardy ; David Kemper, assault and battery ; Nathan Altheuse, fraud ; Charles Bubb, seduc tion, fornication and bastardy ; Gcerge J. Edwards, larceny and felonious entry. The surety of the peace cases agains Jesse Jenes and Geerge J. Edwards wcre dismissed. Divorces Applied i'er. Subpcenas in diverce have lccn filed iu the prothenotary's office by the following named persons, aud will be heard at the September term of court. Jehn L. Leaman vs. Mary E. Leanian ; A. A. Roberson vs. Emma J. Roborsen ; Milten G. Swan vs. Louisa U. Swan ; Clara Prcisler vs. Rudelph Prcislcr ; Jehn Mclntyre vs. Emma Mclntyre ; Jeseph Feller vs. Sarah N. Peller : Daniel Red"e vs Amanda Redge. FOOLS OF PESTILENCE. Where It the Beard or Ilcaltn ? Lancaster Inquirer. Right by Water street, but a few yards nei th of Audrcw street, is a cesspool se foul, se filthy, se horribly disgusting (filled with the dregs of the sewers, dead rats aud chickens) and yet in a city of civilization ! The filth lay in the het July and August sun, breeding mosquites and disease. In competent persons built ene sewer se that it enters another at right angles ; during high water the two currents striking each ether at this angle, forma sort of whirlpool, that digs a large hole in the bottom of the larger, which is an old water course, used as a sewer. This hole fills up with filth and lies in the broiling sun, pregnant with animal (wrigglers) life and disease. Dr. Henry Carpenter thinks it breeds most of the hordes of mosquites with which wa are afflicted, and much of the malaria ; two or three cases of diphtheria in his practice he thinks he can trace directly te this peel. The city was asked te rcmove it, asked by petition te councils, perhaps two years aire. but it would cost money, a hundred dollars or se, and the risk te human life wasn't discussed. We call en the city te have this place fixed. One of our teachers is new slewiy recover ing from a severe attack of typhoid fever ; her sister was buried a few weeks siuce, a victim te the same disease. Dr. Jehn L. Atlee, who attended them, believes the disease te have been caused by baVl sewage. Clese te Ne. 2 cotton mill are two large ponds filled with filthy water from the Water street sewer. The water is stag nant, aud covered te a considerable extent with a thick green scum, plainly having the word malaria written all ever it. An Ugly Tramp. Yesterday a tramp named Andreas Stal swenitzer went te the house of Henry Lea man, in Lcaceck township. The dogs be gan barking at him, when he became very angry and began beating them. Mr. Lea man ordered him te leave the premises and he refused, but picked up a club and struck Mr. Leaman. He finally drew a knife and threatened te kill him. Con stable Warfel was sent for. He took an other man and the two overtook the tramp who had left Lcaman's, at a point about a mile and a quarter from Lititz. After a great struggle they succeed in arresting him. The handcuffs wcre placed en him and he was securely tied. He was brought te this city and was committed te prison. The man acts strangely, and is thought by sorae te be insane ; he is very suily, and wants te strike everyone, lle is kept secure, and he will net have a hearing until his condition improves. A TEKKIBLE ACCIDENT. Twe Women Seriously Hurt. On Saturday evening as Mrs. Samuel Benncr, wife of a farmer who lives cast of the Big Conestoga railroad bridge, her son and his wife were driving, their herse took fright just after they had passed ever the railroad afc the first crossing cast of the Conestoga bridge. He ran furiously, and young Benncr being unable te control him. the whole party wcre thrown out, the man being severely cut and bruised, the elder Mrs. Benner had both arms and ene leg broken, and the younger Mrs. B. had her leg fractured. Atel in the Stat. Kcaillng Time ami OWnatch. The Lancaster Ixtkllio.kxeku, the very able Democratic organ of Lwaster county indeed, without exception, the ablest Democratic journal in thetisr.
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