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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.
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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.