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LANCASTER BAIM INTELLIGENCES. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1881.
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THUE8DAY EVENING, SEPT. 1, 1881.
The t'eBBtj- Convention.
The Democratic county convention
concluded its work satisfactorily and ex
peditiously yesterday. There was noth
ing in what was done, or in the way in
which it was done, that any reasonable
man can find material fault with or that
any Democrat can take valid exception
te. While frequent usage has almost
rendered it the rule for the general coun
ty convention te accept as its roll the
consolidated rolls of the district conven
tions, this has never bsen done except by
vote, and the chairman of the county
convention was bound te rule tiiat each
convention is the judge of the creden
tials of its own members, and delegates
whose seats are announced te be con
tested cannot properly participate in the
organization. The chairman appointed
a committee en contests, en which the
friends of all the rival candidates had a
fair representation. Owing mainly ,wc are
told, te a slight misunderstanding in the
committee it divided en a 7x0 basis, in
stead of adhering te its first compro
mise report. The convention, by a very
decided and ever two-thirds vote,
adopted the minority report, no doubt,
because it .was in accordance with the
way in which the disputed matters had
been settled in the district conventions,
and because it insisted upon the results
of elections which had been held at the
time appointed by the county committee.
The fact, however, that these contests
came up te plague the convention shows
the necessity for mere definite rules of
the party ; and while they are being con
sidered it would be well te determine
whether or net an improved system of
representation ought te be provided for
Democratic county conventions. Mani
festly the representation under the pres
ent system is crossly unfair. It should
be based in part, at least, uren the Deme
cratic vote. At present each district has
one vote, and the Eighth war J of this city,
with ever six hundred Democratic voters,
has no mere power than Newtown, with
twelve J the Third ward of Columbia,
with ever three hundred voters, has only
the same influence as Sporting Hill with
twenty-six ; and Salisbury, Colerain,
Drumore, Marietta, Ephrata, "Warwick
and Other districts polling from two hun
dred te three hundred and fifty votes each,
are no mere potential than districts with
from twenty-five te seventy-five voters.
These things ought net se te le.
In the selection of candidates the ac
tion of the convention was sfich as every
loyal Democrat who manfully bows te
the rule of the majority can acquiesce in
as cheerfully as Mr. Davis moved te
make Mr. Hildcbrant's nomination
unanimous. Fer the offices te which
there is no reasonable chance of the
nominees being elected, the candidates
are well-known active Democrats, qual
ified men, representing all sactieus of
the county andall elements of the party.
Fer the commissionership there was a
square stand up fight, and en the second
ballet tiie friends of Mr. Mehler and cf
Mr. irartman united against the suc
cessful candidate. Nevertheless he wen
by a handsome majority of the whole
convention. His competitors were well
known, deserving, active and pop
ular Democrats, and they have no cause
te be ashamed of the gallant support
given them by their friends yesterday.
As the nomination of Mr. Montgomery,
three years age,settled the one-term prin
ciple for Democratic' county officers,
the fact that, in the end, this year's con
test lay between Messrs. Mehler and
Ilildebraut, shows that the sentiment of
the party in this county is that the com
missionership shall alternate between
the upper and lower districts.
We make no concealment that the ac
tion of the convention en the judicial
nomination was as gratifying te the Ix
telligexcer as it was strictly in ac
cordance with the almost unanimous
sentiment of the part'. Fer reasons
which need net here be repeated a Demo
cratic county convention could net have
consistently endorsed the present admin
istration of justice in this county. In
selecting E. II. Yundt, esq., for its nomi
nee the convention chose a gentleman
whose professional and personal qualities
render him well worthy of the distinc
tion, even were the party in a position
te make his election sure. His fitness
for the bench cannot be challenged.
The Judgeship.
The Philadelphia Times is net satisfied
with the course of the Democratic party
of this county, in net indorsing the Ite
publicau candidate for president judge.
The Intelligencer and the great body
of Lancaster county Democrats are in
accord with the policy of taking and
keeping the judiciary out of partisan
politics. They could net, however, see
any such significance ill the preposition
of the Times. The majority party in this
county has shown no such disposition.
It has made place en the bench a stake
for the usual disgraceful scramble after
spoils which ensues in this county, levy
ing its tax upon the judicial nominees,
and they paying it, until this year, when
it only abstained from the levy, because
the county committee had far mere
money than -it needed. And its
candidates have always assented te
this view of their candidacy. There
are, it is admitted by Republicans them
selves, a number of Democratic lawyers
at this bar who would make better judges
than any Republican ever set up by his
party. A true movement te take the
bench out of politics would, it seems na
tural, lead te the unanimous election of
one or these. The Republicans never
propose any such thing. In Philadel
phia, where the Democrats have nearly
half the vote, they only get two judges
out of twelve ; in Allegheny, with one
third of the votes, they get none of the
five judges. In Montgomery, where twice
before there was no contest for judge,
the Republicans propose te inaugurate
one this year, and in Bedford the situa
tion is sufficiently explained by
the announcement that Jehn Cessna
is the Republican candidate for
judge. Ne one party can take the
judiciary out of politics by its own un
supported action. Nowhere does the ;
Republican party favor a non-partisan
judiciary at it3 own expense its leaders
going te the extreme measure of sup
planting by intrigiifctbe best judge it had
en the state supreme bench because of
personal pique. Where judges have
been conspicuous for eminent ability,
great fairness and absence of partisan
feeling, it has happened that minorities
endorse them ; but nobody claims these
qualities for the Republican candidate
here. If anybody did make such claim
it would be easy te demonstrate its empti
ness. The Times has contended in be
half of his " amiable errors" and his
" negative infirmities ;" a few Demo
crats were willing te nominate him in a
spirit of " commendable magnanimity"
and as " an honest admonition" for the
future. "The party as a whole preferred
te pass judgment en the past adminis
tration of justice in the local courts and
te pretest against " amiable," " infir
mities" by a nomination which does net
suggest them as judicial qualifications.
Te-day the Daily Intelligencer
enters upon its eighteenth volume, and
it would be trite, but none the less
truthful, te say that it never was mere
prosperous ; and though it is net for us
te say it, we can appeal te the judgment
of our contemporaries that the efforts
of its publishers te make it a complete
newspaper were neverbetterappreciated.
The ample vindication of its editorial
course in the past is the best encourage
ment te a continuance of the policy
which has been maintained in these col
umns. MINOR TOPICS.
The question is at least it is one of the
questions " Is Lee Hartman Hartmau ?"
If net, who is, and who is he ?
Tin: assaults upon Wendell Phillips's
Nihislism remind some of his admirers of
the assaults upon his Abolitionism.
A New Yerk judge who fastens his
tern suspenders with shoe strings gives
away $f0,000 a year in charities.
" .Summer is ended, and autumn is here.
Though .ler the present we're net very tar
in ii ;
Oysters arc back again, awfully dear,
Mill thevate back, for the month li.isun R
In It!"
The reader of manuscripts for Har
per's Monthly peruses, en an average, fif
teen ceutributinns a day, and, en an aver
age, i ejects twelve of thorn. lu a single
twelvemonth the Harpers have rejected
the manuscripts of one thousand novels.
It wili be pretty difficult for some pee
ple te bcliove the story which comes from
Michigan, that three young girls made up
a party and eloped with a young man
that by going te three different ministers
he married all of them and then they all
went en a bridal tour.
It is claimed that tee many foreign
criminals are sent te this country. The
last arrival is that of the notorious Trips
who poured coal oil ever his mistress and
burned her te death. He was paidencd in
ene of the German states and comes te
this country te spend his exile.
The pcople residing in the vicinity of
New Haven postefficc, iu the county of
Adams, Wis., are laboring uudcr a quite
unexampled embarrassment. The case is
probably without a parallel in the history
of the United States. The postmaster,
instead of beiug removed, has himself re
moved elsewhere, and there is no candi
date for the vacant place. The people are
without a postmaster, and nobody wants
te .serve his ceuutry in that capacity.
Can such things be
And overcome us like asummer cloud
Without our special wonder ?
Aud yet Discover DeKcim finds half the
Berks county postmasters te be Democrats.
Wharten Barker's Philadelphia Amer
ican new don't confound it with the
North. American gives notice that the
battle in the Republican state convention
next week " is net merely a question of
who shall be treasurer, but by whom shall
Pennsylvania be ruled Den Cameren or
the people ? In ether words, it is the old,
old light renewed the bosses against the
pcople the government against the gov
erned the will of the elected by the peo
ple, against the will of the people dis
honesty against honesty in politics or,
bricily, of wrong against right." In the
event of the nomination of Gen. Bailey
whose sole recommendation is that he was
one of the Grant-Cameron " Old Guard"
at Chicago, the Democratic convention
will give the American a chance te help in
in ths fight of the people against the
bosses iu November. On which side will
it be then ?
The latest news from the English crops
is highly unfavorable. Several rains have
done great damage te the eat crops, be
sides reducing the prospect of a geed
yield from the ether grains. As a conse
quence, the yield will fall far below the
ninety per cent, which was counted en a
few weeks age, and will ferce England te
draw heavily upon the ether grain pre
duciug countries. At the same time, in
our ceuutry, the prolonged dry weather
has injured the wheat, and will reduce
the crop below the average yield per acre
te an extent which is net made up by the
iucrcase in the acreage. We shall, there
fore, have less te sell te England, but
whether we get better prices will depend
a geed deal upon the extent of the supply
which can be procured from Eastern Eu
rope. It is reported that both Hungary
and Russia will see a better yield than
usual.
PERSONAL.
Henry James, jr., began writing stories
a dozen or mere years age, when he was a
beardless boy ; they were full of premise,
but they did net satisfy him, and are new
buried in the magazines where they ap
peared. Vice President Arthur absented himself
fr jm the meeting of the New Yerk state
cemmittee yesterday, net even taking the
trouble te send a note explaining his
loasens. He is still, therefore, the chair
man eT that body.
Mrs. Amelia B. Edwards is the wen
derful woman who has formulated a new
idea en an exceedingly trite subject. As
she is a capable and industrious author of.
many years' experience, she is entitled te
a hearing. Her plan is, that an English
author writing in England, or an American
author writing in the United States, shall
dispose of one-half the work te a publisher
of his or her own nationality, and sell the '
ether half te a foreign firm. Fer example,
Mrs. Edwards having completed a novel
making a thousand pages, she sells live
hundred pages te the Longmans, of Lon Len Lon
eon, and the ether five hundred pages te
J. B. Lippincott & Ce., of Philadelphia.
This done, the work is te be issued simul
taneously en both bides of the ocean. Mrs.
Edwards argues that the pirates in both
countries would be at libeity te reprint
the half of the book copyrighted abroad,
as half a work would be practically value
less. LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
The whole town of Sicrraville, iu Cali
fornia, was destroyed yesterday by fire.
The less is estimated at $300,000.
J. G. McElwee & Ce.'s picture-backing
factory and mill, at Big Rapids, Mich.,
was burned yesterday. Less, 23,000 ;
insurance, $G,000.
Henry Angeriue, au old aud respected
member of the Dutchess county, N. Y.,
bar, was found dead in his bed, at Pough Peugh
kcepsie, yesterday morning.
There is a great demand at Savannah
for ship carpenters, turneis and ether
mechanics te repair damegc deuc te ship
ping, wharves and warehouses.
Dr. Anst, who last fall killed his brother-in-law
without provocation, near Jasper,
Indiana, was en Tuesday taken te Jeffer Jeffer Jeffer
sonville prison for ninety-niue years.
A farewell dinner te the expelled social
ists in Berlin, in which fifty persons in
tended te participate, was prevented by
the arrest of all the guests who, however,
were released sheitly aftei wards.
Geerge Baldwin, a farm l.ibeter atT.irry atT.irry
tewn, N. Y., was murdered by two
negrees, yesterday, while protecting his
son, who had been captured by the negrees
in the act of taking apples from an or
chard. Baseball : At Buffalo Buffalo, 8 ;
Cleveland, 5. At Trey Bosten, 12 ; Trey,
C. At Providence Providence, 12 ; Wor
cester, 7. At Detroit Chicago, 10 ; De
troit, 3. At New Yerk Metropolitan, 8 ;
Albany, 3.
Jeseph Campbell aud Jeseph Neville,
aged respectively ten and eleven years,
were arraigned in Jersey City, yesterday,
for grand larceny, in having entered a
house and stolen a watch and jewelry val
ued at $160, and also robbed the money
drawer of a drug store. They were com
mitted te await the action of the grand
jury.
An attempt was made te assassinate Mr.
Jehn Deull, president of the Chamber of
Cemmerce, in Halifax, N. J. It seems
that a man named Hugghis went into Mr.
Deull's store, and, becoming abusive, was
put out. Afterwards he met Mr. Deull en
the street and presented a pistol at him,
but Mr. Deull crabbed his arm and pro pre
vented him from discharging it. Hug
gins is believed te be insane.
The weather en the southern aud west
ern shores of Newfoundland has been very
unfavorable, and it is thought large quan
tities of fish will be spoiled in the curing.
At Placentia Bay the sun has net been
seen for eighteen days, owing te contin
uous fog and rain, and busiucss is para
lyzed, owing te the difficulty of navigation.
On the banks the fisheries contiuue geed,
aud the American schooners arc obtaining
large supplies.
m aa m
STATE ITEMS.
Carbendale officials offer te clean the
death-breeding guttcis if citizens will
advance the needed money.
The anthracite region journals complain
that miners are emigrating aud fear opera
tions will have te be limited.
The Reeublican committee of Lycoming
county refused te instruct its delegates te
the state convention te vote for Da vies he
cause, as it was put, is Wolfe's man.
It is reported that the Ilarrisburg City
Grays have been selected as one of the
companies te visit the Yorktewu centen
nial. Pamell's mother and Miss Ellen A.
Ferd announce a scries of meetings iu
Scranton in aid of the Land League peliti
cal fund.
A two-year-old son of James Faust, of
AUcntewn, has made a pet of a large
blacksuakc, which he fed for weeks tin .
known te the family and was discovered by
accident.
Valentine Kammercr, a laborer of Five
Points, near Pert Carben, had a knife
blade ever and inch and a half lour re
moved from his braiu a few days since by
trepanning.
General Beaver will deliver the address
at the opening of the state fair at Pitts
burgh next Monday. Congressman Bayue,
his late competitor for the scnatership, is
proposed for presiding officer en the occa
sion. Complaint is made that the N. G. P.
boys from Danville, ou their way home
from the Wilkcsbarre encampment, be
haved outrageously at Shickshinny, as
saulting a landlord's wife, raiding the bar
and robbing the till.
While Reuben Frausue wss engaged iu
making some repairs te the machinery of
Mayer & Wiercrbach's ero miue, near
Hcllertewn, he fell into tha mine and was
instantly killed, his head and shoulders
being badly crushed, lie was forty years
of age aud leaves a wife and several chil
dren. The milk dealers of Williamspeit te the
number of thirty six met iu convention
and decided te advance the price of milk
from six te eight cents per quart. This is
done en account of the sevcie drought,
wmcu nns burned up all the vegetation.
The small streams are all going dry and
the outlook is goemy.
supports inc veusu men.
Tlie Millers llle Nermal Scheel Trouble.
Clearfield Republican.
We have received a pamphlet of 32 pages
containing a full history of the Millersville
normal school trouble, in which the ag
grieved students, seventy-one in number,
justly vindicate themselves from the mis
representations of the faculty and the
press. It is evident from the written testi
mony produced in this pamphlet that the
students had cause for pursuing the course
they did, and that the principal and fac
ulty went beyond the bounds of reason in
their attempt te suppress the trouble in
the eutstart. 1 he proceedings throughout
show, that their actions were based
upon a selfish and arbitrary idea, instead
of a liberal principle Hcnce their suc
cessive explanations seem te be character
ized by the most convicting contradictions,
rendering their side of the question weak,
and giving the " insuberdiuatcs " every
opportunity for convincing an intelligent
public of the fact that their side was de
serving at least of a hearing. The case is
one of some magnitude, involving some
uupuruiiu. principles ei eraer, ana estab
lishing a precedent heretofore unknown
in the history of the normal schools of the
state. It is apparent from the facts in the
case that students and faculty,
under the vigorous pressure of excite
ment acted very imprudently. The
students allege in their cxplana
tien of the case, that Prof. Brooks and
faculty were net satisfied with their peace
able withdrawal fiem the school, but sub
sequently expelled them for one year, and
have, in addition te thi3, been endeavor
ing te keep them from gaining admittance
te ether schools in the state, and from
getting employment as teachers in the
public schools. The " boys " produce un
deniable evi lencc te stew that they have
been pursued iu this vindictive manner by
the Millersville authorities since the trouble
in June last. Their statements alone are
'severe reflections upon the honor and dig
nity et the members ei cue faculty, and
must necessarily subject them te severe
criticism. The report is scholarly m every
particular, and is signed by all the se-called
belligerent students, seventy-one in num
ber, and certainly contains a convincing
array of facts.
FAMILT FATALITIES.
A Series of Shocking Crimes.
Francis C. Pease murdered his wife and
attempted suicide in Bosten, en Tuesday
night. They had been married two years,
and had an infant ten months old, who is
in care of Mrs. Pease's mother in Maine.
Drunkenness caused the tragedy.
Herman Hilden shot his' stepfather and
his mother, in Milwaukee, en Tuesday
night, and surrendered himself yesterday.
He went from St. Leuis te Milwaukee te
kill them, and surrendering himself, said
" his mother had acted se badly that he
could net stand and see it go ou any
longer." Eimmer, the stepfather was
shot dead, but Mrs Kimmcr is still liviug.
Thes. II. Lewery, a compositor, was
bhet aud killed by James B. Duncan in
Chicago, yesterday morning. Lewry
bearded at Duncan's house, and was al
leggcd te be tee intimate with Mrs. Dun
can. A colored man known as "Beb," was
fatally shot by C. R. Barksdale, whom he
attempted te kill near Danville, Virginia,
yesterday afternoon. "Beb" was drunk
at the time.
P. Ezell was shot dead by Fletcher Har
grave, near Pulaski, Tennessee, en Tues
day night. Ezell was in a wagon with
Dr. McKnight, who had just made a run
away marriage with Hargrave's sister,aud
the bullet was intended for MeKuight.
The latter was wounded. The horses took
fright, and the bride was seriously injured
by the runaway.
Henry Bishop was shot dead by Themas
Duffy at Fert Bascera, New Mexico, last
Friday, in a quarrel about some goods in
a store where Bishop was clerk.
THIS PROLONGED DROUTH.
Sicklies and Stifletlng from Lack of Water
Damage te Creps.
A special from Elderado, III., dated
August 28, says : " It is nine weeks since
rain has fallen here, and in consequence
the crops are nearly a failure. The dust
is almost unbearable. In some parts of
the country there is much suffering for
want of water, and a great deal of sick
ness, of a typhoid form, is prevailing.
Frem the best information wheat will net
average ever four or five bushels per acre,
corn will make from one-third te one-half
of a crop, and eats will ba almost au entire
failure. The meadows, which were net
injured by the army worms, will yield a
big crop of hay. Tobacco is a failure, the
late potatoes almost a failure, peaches au
entire failure and apples almost worthless.
The pastures are all dried up and no
ground is broken for wheat. The people
of Harrisburg are hauling water from the
creek te use. The farmers are., dis
posing of all the stock they can possibly
spare."
Around Wabash the weather still con
tinues dry, and the farmers are unable te
put in their wheat. Cern is being ruined,
aud unless rain comes seen no corn will be
gathered at all. This is the longest term
of dreuth ever known in this section.
It is new ever six weeks since thore has
been any rain te amount te anything in
the vicinity of Battle Creek, Mich. The
grass is all dried up and dead, and the
corn crop is ruined. The wheat crop has
binail heads which have prematurely ri
pened, aud the farmers are cutting it up
for fodder. The potato crop is about ruin
ed, and uulcss rain comes seen it will de
little or no geed. The farmers are having
a hard time of it this year in that vicinity.
Yesterday was the third day the mercury
has registered 105 degrees in the shade.
Dispatches from all parts of the prov
ince of Ontario respecting the weather and
crops show that au unusually protracted
dreuth exists almost everywhere and has
caused much less and great inconvenience.
TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE.
Only 27 Persons Saved Out of 827 en Beartl
a Wrecked Steamer.
A dispatch from Cape Town says the
Union mail steamer Teuten, with 200 souls
en beard including passengers and crew,
has been wrecked near Quein Point. Only
twenty-seven persons were saved in the
steamer's beats. The British corvette
Dide has proceeded te the sceno of the
wreck. The Teuten arrived at Cape Town
from England ou Monday, landed some
and embarked ether passengers, aud pro
ceeded en her voyage te Algea Bay and
ether ports. Quein Point is near near
Algea Bay- and is the scene of a previous
wreck of a Union mail steamer.
The Standard's dispatch from Cape
Town states that the wrecked steamer had
en beard 147 passengers and a crew of
eighty persons. The vessel struck en a
rock, but floated back te pert when she
sank. A majority of these en beard
perished. All of the officers were
drowned.
Lloyds' correspondent at Cape Town
says three beats were lowered, oue of
which feuudered alongside the steamer,
and the ether two have arrived at Simons -town,
containing twenty-three of the crew
and four passengers.
The Union mail steamship company
states that twelve passengers of the
steamer have been saved.
Wbat "The Times" Thinks.
Philadelphia Times, Ind.
The Democrats of Lancaster concluded
yesterday, as true partisaus, te make a
hopeless fight against Judge Livingston.
The county convention nominated for
judge one of the three Democratic mem
bers of the bar who declined te sign a call
upon Judge Livingston. Probably neither
of the ether two would have accepted the
nomination under any circumstances short
of a guaranty of election. It is pretty
hard te get sense into some political con
ventiens, and the conventions of Lancaster
are net an exception, apparently. Nothing
is te be gained that it is creditable te fight
for in this opposition te Judge Livingston,
and en election day the people of Lancas
ter will see Democratic laymen voting for
Yundt because they are mere concerned
for partisan politics than for the judiciary,
while the Democratic members of the bar
will, with three exceptions, vote for Liv
ingston because they are mere concerned
for the judiciary than for partisan poli
tics. The Yerk Democrats.
The full ticket nominated by the Yerk
Democracy at their county convention yes
terday, was as follews: Judge of the courts,
Hen. Jehn Gibsen ; prothenotary, Wm. H.
Sitlcr, of Yerk borough ; clerk of the
courts. J. Alex. Blasser, of Spring Garden
township ; recorder, E. C. Grevcmeyer, of
Yerk ; treasurer, Jehn L. Landis, of
Dever; commissioners, J. S. Bentz, of
Carrell township ; Chas. Haines, of Wind Wind
eor township ; commissioners' clerk, A. D.
Thompson, of Hopewell township ; direc
tor of the peer, Isaac Hovis. Springfield
township; auditors, William Kunklc, Man
chester borough : Wm. Douglass, Fawn
township ; coroner, Jehn D. Ahl.
The convention drew a large uumber of
people te Yerk from the country, and the
contest among the friends of the aspirants
was very animated.
Forty-Six Bodies Recovered.
Iu Savannah, Ga., sixteen mere inquests
were held en the bodies of persons drown
ed in the storm. This makes forty-six se
far. The bodies of a white man, woman
and child have been washed ashore at
Tvbee. Quite a number of hedm. nm n
plantations near the city, and the coroner I
will held inquests, '
A Veteran Journalist Dead.
Ale'xander Meseley, a veteran journalist,
died at his home in New Kent county,
Virginia, last night in the 73d year of his
age. The deceased was a native of Buck
ingham county, tie graduated at the' uni
versity of Virginia in the class of '29-'30,
and began the practice of law in his native
county, but having no taste for the legal
profession he removed te Charlottesville,
where, for several years, he edited
a States' Rights paper called the
Advocate. About 1835 he became
associated with Jehn Hampton Pleasant in
the editorial management of the Richmond
Whig, with which paper he has with but
short intervals been connected up te the
time of his last illness. He had no personal
or political aspirations. Owing te his
great interest in fish culture, he was in
duced at one time te accept the office of
state fish commissioner, a position he held
until it became a salaried office, when he
resigned. Mr. Meseley was decidedly
proficient in the classics and was a fluent
linguist. His remains will be taken te his
native county for interment.
Grief, Insanity and Death.
A family has become insane in Dubuque
county. Iowa, through grief and death.
Mary McMahon, the daughter of a farmer,
entered a convent two weeks age and be
came insane. She was sent te the asylum
at Independence for treatment. Her mother
visited her and also became insane. The
daughter died last Monday, which se af
fected the mother that she died. The re
mains of both mother and daughter were
sent home for burial. Arriving at Farley,
near which place the MeMahens live, a son
and daughter at home became insane at
the sight of their mother and sister com
ing home dead, and the father is new
stricken with grief bordering upon in
sanity. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OL'K REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE.
Following is the statement of the move
ment of cars ever the Pennsylvania railroad
for the month of August :
EASTWARD.
Leaded . .
Unleaded.
... 39.80G
. . . 1,629
Total 41,435
WESTWARD.
Leaded
Unleaded . .
.. 14,297
.. 25,515
Total 39,812
Slaking a grand total of 81,247, a decrease
ever the month of June of 3,287 cars.
The "Uncle Tem's Cabin" combination
played te a $75 house last. The perform
ance throughout was excellent ; especially
were the characters of Topsy, by Mrs. G. C.
Heward, and Marks, by C. E. Grandin,
well taken, they iu reality excelling all
ethers who ever took their parts in Col
umbia. The colored population of Tew Hill had
another skirmish yesterday afternoon and
evening. In the former pait of the day
the women had a hair-pulling and yelling
match, and in the latter Ames Randall
knocked down a white man, who deals in
ice-cream, and badly kicked him. War
rants for all parties concerned have been
issued and placed in the hands of an of
ficer. Mr. Marshall Smith, having finished his
summer vacation, has taken iiis old posi
tion at Marietta in the signal office ; Mr.
Samuel Mifflin, of Wayne statieu, was in
town this morning ; Miss Bcckie Hagman,
who has been visiting friends iu Wrignts
villc, has again returned te Cel imbia and
is stepping with Mits Lillie Wilsen ; Miss
Annie Armstrong returned from her trip
te Newton Hamilton, Pa.
A very pleasant birthday surprise party
was given te Miss Silly Glessucr last even
ing. Daucing was kept up until 2 this
morning.
Mr. Pete Melbert's advertising transpar
ency caught fire last evening from a candle
and was entirely consumed.
A small deg, supposed te be mad, be
longing te Mr. S. Campbell, was shot ou
Walnut street yesterday afternoon. New
is the time for dogs te be muzzled.
The gutter en the north side of Walnut
street should be at ence cleaned as it is
filled with filth and the stench arising
therefrem near the P. R. R. depot is sick
ening. A gicat excitement was raised at the
corner of Second and Perry streets
yesterday morning bya mother baying that
her little boy had been lust, and a hunt
was immediately instituted, aud every
place within the distance of a square
thoroughly searched, but the missing
ene could net be found. It was a
distressing sight te see the nearly
heart-broken mother ringing her hands
and meaning for her little darling. A
party was sant te inform the father, who
was working, but as they turned the cor
ner en Third street the missing boy was
discovered sitting en a step playiug with
seme of his companions, lie was taken
back te his mother who nearly fainted at
the sight of him.
The Vigilant iiie company de indeed
need a new aud lighter engine. At the
fire en Tuesday night, they were unable te
pull their heavy engine up the hill en
Cherry street, yet at the same time they
had no less thau fifteen men at the rope.
The Vigilant company is a geed one, and
some of its members are the best iu the
state, but they can de nothing with their
present engine.
Rev. Yiugling, of Harrisburg, arrived iu
town yesterday, and will take charge of
the St. Jehn's Lutheran church. He will
preach two special sermons en Sunday.
Nick Roberts' pantomime troop appears
here en next Tuesday evening.
A man while crossing Seuth Third street
this morning fell te the pavement aud re
mained insensible for nearly two henrs.
He was picked up and carried iute a house
and restoratives applied. He gave his name
as Frank Mitchell. Spring Garden, and
says he has been subject te these fainting
spells ever since he was shot in the head
in the rebellion. He is new traveling
homeward, having just walked from Har
risburg, where he had been working for
the past two months.
On complaint of Officer Dyssinger for
corner leafing and blocking the sidewalks,
Andy Hardnaird, Geerge Dyvil, Harry
Seibert, Edward Hiteshue, Charles Arm
strong were summoned last evening te ap
pear before Chief Burgess Sneatb, who
after hearing the evidence of both parties,
and warning them that the occurrence
must net again happen, discharged them.
Pennsylvania railroad engine Ne. 314
played out at Dillerville last evening, and
was sent te the shops for repair. Anether
engine was sent down in the disabled one's
place.
The New Era reports that the family of
a workman in the Shawnee rolling mill is
down with the small pox. The report is
false and without the least foundation, and
the Nan Era should be a little mere care
ful in making such announcements, as it
injures the liveness of our town which is
already dull enough. Who their inferment
is we de net knew, but before sending
such things as the above he sheujd first
find out if it be true.
Picnics.
A geed time was spent at the picnic in
Hess's weeds, at Quarryville, yesterday,
and the special train with the Lancaster
people en beard arrived here last evening
about 8 o'clock.
Pesters have been put up in this city
announcing that a large picnic will be held
in Lititz en Thursday, September 8th, at
which there will be eight brass bands, in
cluding the celebrated Ringgold band of
Reading. Excursion tickets at reduced
rates will be sold in this city. '
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
THE PROCEEDINGS OF 1ESTEBDAY.
A FELL TICKET NAMED.
Hildebrant for ComtulMleuer, nod Lightner
ler Auditor
The Afternoon seuleu.
In the Democratic county convention
yesterday afternoon, pending the report
of the committee en credentials, Mr.
James M. Walker, of Colerain, offered
the following resolution, which was uuau uuau
imeusly adopted :
' Resolved, That we deplore and execute
the base crime of the assassin who shot
down the president of the United States,
aud trust that in the providence of Ged he
may be raised again te discharge the
duties of the great office te which he was
chosen."
Mr. E. M. Stauffer, Drumore, offered
the following resolution : " Resolved,
That it is the sense of the Democratic con
vention net te nominate a candidate for
the president judgeship of the several
ceuits of Lancaster county."
The motieu was laid upon the tabic by
au almost unanimous vete.
Mr. II. L. Eckcrt moved te go into nom
ination for president judge. The motion
was lest, the committee en contested
delegates having entered the hall and pre
sented through their chairman the follow
ing majority and minority reports :
The Majority Repert.
We the undersigned members of the
committee en credentials de hereby rec
ommend that the convention admit te
seats in the convention the Friday night
delegates from Millersville, the Monday
night delegates from Rohcrstewn, and in
favor of the admission of Mr. Get fin from
Newtown in place of Mr. Weaver.
J. F. EciITERNACH,
M. B. Weidlek,
Jehn Kebmak,
Pierce Lesiiek,
Geerge S. Landis,
I. S. ARMSTRONG,
B. F. Davis.
The Minority Repert.
We the undersigned members of the
cemmittee en contested seats report as
fellows :
That the delegates elected from Millers
ville, at the meeting en Saturday
evening, te wit : F. A. Fcnster
machcr, Cyrus Smith, S. A. Leenard,
C. B. Herr, C. Mussclman, according
te the order of the county cemmittee
and also the delegation returned and certi
fied te by the county committeeman of
Newtown district, Messrs. Dcvitt, Habeckcr
Shenk, Weaver and Gerfin be admitted as
members of the convention.
And that the Saturday eveniug delegates
from Rohrerstown, Levi Scner, W. Dict
lich, Jehn K. Davis, JehuShcricb, be ad
mitted as members of convention.
Robt. B. Risk,
H. M. Black,
B. S. Patterson,
H. S. Yeung,
Wm. B. Given,
C. J. Rhodes.
Mr. II. A. Miley moved the adoption of
the majority report.
Mr. W. Hayes Gricr moved te amend by
accepting the minority report.
W. B. Given, 03q., made a speech in
favor of the minority report, which pro
posed te admit the delegates elected en
Saturday night, as that was the only time
for cbesing delegates.
B. F. Davis, esq., spoke at seme length
iu behalf of the majority report, stating
that in last year's convention delegates
were admitted from Millcrsville te the con
vention and participated in its proceedings
who had been elected en Thursday night.
He said further that as far as the Rohrers Rehrers Rohrers
tewn election en Saturday was concerned
the officers were net sworn, and there was
one mere vete in the box thau names en
the tally-sheet.
C. J. Rhoades favored the admission of
the Saturday delegates as being chosen
according te law. He said Mr. Gcrth,
committeeman of Millersville district, had
called the meeting en Friday se as te allow
the young voters a chance te go antl sec
their girls en Saturday ! As te the dis
crepancy in the Rohrerstewa vete it was
shown before the committee that there
was one vote legally cast that was inad
vertently emitted from the tally sheet.
The question was theu taken by districts
en the adoption of the minority report.
The vete resulted as fellows : Yeas, 43 ;
nays. 21.
The delegates recommended by the mi
nority of the committee were then admit
ted te seats in the convention.
Ou motion of Wm. U. Reland, esq., the
nominations for the several offices were
made in the eidcr in which they wetc
piintcd in the call of the chairman of the
county committee.
The nominations were theu made as fol fel
lows :
Fer President Judge E. II. Yundt,
city, nominated by acclamation.
Fer Prothenary E. L. Hambright,
Rohrerstown, nominated by acclamation.
Fer County Treasurer Peter McCone McCeno McCene
my, 5th ward, city, nominated by accla
mation. ' Fer Clerk of Quarter Sessions Rea
Reed, Bart, nominated by acclamation.
Fer Clerk of Orphans' Court Peter
Rcericb, 8th waul, city, nominated by ac
clamatien.
Fer Sheriff Gee. W. Brown, 1st ward,
city, nominated by acclamation.
Fer Prison Kceper Capt. Isaac Hull,
Earl, nominated by acclamation.
Fer county commissioner, Martin Hildc
brant, Mount Jey ; II. F. Hartman, East
Lampeter ; Adam Dietrich, of Maner ;
Frank Clark, of Strasburg borough : Jcrc
Mehler, of Ephrata, were nominated.
On motion of W. H. Gricr the roll of
districts was called and the lirst ballet re
sulted as fellows :
Ilildebraut had 33 votes
Mehler " 17 "
Hartman " 8 "
Dietrich " 7 "
Hlirlr " (i 4
Ne one of the candidates having re
ceived a majority of all the votes cast a
second ballet was had.
Prier te calling the roll the names of
Adam Dietrich, Frank Clark and Henry
F. Hartman were withdrawn. The seceud
ballet resulted as fellows :
Hildebrant had 41 votes, Mehler had
30 votes. Mr. Hildebrant was declared
nominated and his nomination was made
unanimous en motion of B. F. Davis,
esq.
Fer Corener Henry M. Geiter, Fourth
ward, city, nominated by acclamation.
Fer Directors of the Peer Philip Wall,
Fifth ward, city ; Abraham Sides, West
Lampeter, were nominated by by acclama
tion. Fer Prison Inspector Lemuel Wiest,
West Cocalico ; Jeseph Habaker, Mount
Jey, were nominated by acclamation.
Fer auditor, Jehn L.Lightner, Leacock ;
Jno. S. Brown, Drumore ; H. L. Town
send Sadsbury ; Gee. W. Roberts, Wash
ington ; Daniel Smith, Millersville, were
nominated.
The roll of districts was called and the
vote was announced as fellows :
Lightner had 31' votes
Brown " 12
Townsend " 4 "
Roberts 9 "
Smith " 1 "
Mr. Lightner was declared nominated
and his nomination was made unanimous.
Mr. J. G. McSparran, of Drumore, of
fered the following resolution which was
unanimously adopted :
" Resolved, That all vacancies occurring
en the county ticket be filled by the coun
ty committee."
On motion, adjourned.
The members of the county committee
present remained after the convention,
and voted that the chairman should call
the committee together for organization
before the Williamsport convention.
THE CITY DELEGATE.
Au Explanation of Certain Misrepresenta
tiens.
In the Examiner of yesterday appears
the follewing:
" In connection with the election of the
city delegat?. a story is told of Baren
Steinmetz. which places him in the front
rank as a Mulhoely. The Baren was for
Dunlap, but Ceyle had seven of the nine
wards pledged te him. Se the Baren cir
culated the story that if Ceyle was elected
he would substitute W. U. llensel as the
delegate. This the icd-het Hartman dele
gates would net stand. They are down en
llensel. for, as they allege, his duplicity
towards Hartman iu the commissioner's
light. The Baren was equal te the emer
gency, ami sceies one ant i-llensel delegate
with Grier net far off."
And in the Neir Era :
"Jehn A. Celc. esq., was a prominent
candidate from the city for delegate te the
state convention, and had seven wards of
the city pledged te him. The men who
favored Haitman for commissioner met
last night, when a report was circulated
among them that, if elected, Mr. Ceylo
would send V. U. llensel as a substitute
and that settled it. J. L. Steinmetz is
accredited with having stai ted the story,
aud Mr. Ceylo denies that any such ar
rangement had lu-en entered into ; but it
defeated him all the same."
Injustice te all parties mentioned in
these publications I feel bound te say that
I am positively assured by the delegate:;
who defeated Mr. Ceylo and elected Mr.
Dunlap, that no such causes influenced
that result as ;ue above stated ; and that
no such rcpeit led te Mr. Ceylo's defeat.
Te thoe who knew anything about our
local politics J need net say tint Mr. Stein
metz was uet " for Duulap;" nor will any
responsible person accuse him of hairing
circulated the baseless rumor which is re
ferred te. Fer no such arrangement as
Cey le's substitution of myself as a dele
gate was ever contemplated or suggested
by him or inc. In no event would cither
of us have bceit a party te it ; and if a
repot t of it was eii ciliated it was a pure
invention of ignerance or misrepresenta
tion. A large majority of the delegates
from the city, weie and are personal and
political fi iciuK of Mr. Ceylo , aud he was
only defeated as a part of the movement
for Mr. Ilaitman, with which Mr. Dunlap
was most prominently identified
I need net add that I practiced no " du
plicity" toward any cindidate for any
office. I continued and concluded as I
began, dealing with exact justice te all
and without paitiality te any.
W. U. II.
Lancaster, Pa., Sept. 1, 1881.
TYPOGRAPHICAL KKMInlSCKNCKS.
' AVhcti We tt'ere Reys" lu Lancaster.
The following matter of local interest
appears in a recent issue of James F. Dow
ney's eaper, the Mining Register Lake City,
Cel., "published in the pivotal metropolis
of San Juan, the field of the cloth of geld
and silver :"
"The Ruby Hill (Nev.) Mining News
comes te us this week with a new head
neat and suggestive aud eight pages of
excellent ininimr, political, mercantile and
general literature. An examination of the
Nees calls te mind some old asseci ites.
Out of nine or ten young men who gradu
ated in the old Independent Whig office at
Lancaster, Pa., between the years 185IJ
59, three arc publisher and editor, viz.:
W. J. Kauffinan, (Vntrsville, Pa., Union ;
the present editor and publisher of the
Mining Rtgisler : and the youngest of
the tiie. .Fames E. Andersen, of the
Ruby Hill Mining News Of the re
mainder, two have been folded away
iu their winding sheets and three we
knew are still at the 'case' At the
time of the writer's apprenticeship. Hen.
Edw. McPhcisen, present candidate for
cleikefthu U. S. Senate, controlled the
old Whig. Altet ward it hecanie the prop
erty of lien. Tliad. Stevens as the Union,
aud finally yielded, a few ycais later, te its
mere cutci pi isiug competitors. T'uis docs
a bright exchange, coming te us from
what was in these days au almost un
known laud, recall te memory the trials,
ti ibulatteus and tiiumphs of a piinter't;
apprenticeship A quarter of a century
has passed, yet these three, who may
never meet again, and are separated thou
sands of miles, read every week each
ether's thoughts and almost their daily
doings."
COU'tr Of COMMON PLEAS.
Her ire .Initie Livingston.
In the case of Isaac Sweigeit vs. Daniel
Lewery, action for damages, the plaintiff
suffered a non suit.
ltirtre Judge Patterson.
In the c.isi! of Simen P. Eby, executer
of Elizabeth K. lloepes, deceased, vs
Samuel II. lloepes, Francis Hoepcs and
Cyrus Hoepcs, executers of Wm. H.
lloepes, deceased, the defense called wit wit
te show tli.it picvietii te the death of Mr.
and Mrs. IIejes there was a settlement
between thein, and the defendant paid all
he owed the plaintiff. On trial.
ct Week's Court.
The trial list for next week'.; com t is
out. It contains but 18 casca.
GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION.
Painful Accident te Hugli Kceugh, et this
City.
Mayer MacGeuiglc has received a letter
from J. J. Fitzpatrick, contractor, dated
" Steel's Tavern, Augusta county, Va.,"
wherein Mr. Fitzpatrick states that Mr.
Huh Ivceugh met with a painful accident
at that place a few days age. Mr. Keough
was cugaged in testing a small quantity
ofjiewder, asp.uk from which ignited a
keg full of p twder standing near by, caus
ing a fearful explosion, by which 3Ir.
Kceugh was severely but net dangerously
burned about the face, ntck and arms.
hlirep Killed ny Hogs.
Some days age des entered the sheep
fold of II. G. Mai .tin, near Mountville, aud
killed twenty-two sheep aud Iambs, out
of a fleck of sixty, besides badly wound
ing several ethers. It is net known whose
docs did the bloody work, but it is believed
they belonged te farmers living in the
ncighboehood Mr. Martin and seme of
his friends have kept watch ever the fleck
for several nights in hopes of being able te
kill the dogs, but their owners seem te
have kept their dogs tied up siuce the late
slaughter.
m
Severely Iturned.
Yesterday a ten year old daughter of
Constable Flick, of the Ninth waul, was
severely burned by stepping into a bed of
het mortar, in fmnt of Bituer's new to
bacco warehouse, mi the Harrisburg turn
pike, near Water street. The skin of ene
feet and ankle is entirely burned away, and
the child is mj badly crippled that it will
be weeks, perhaps months, before she fully
recovers. The iwutar bed was covered
with sand, and the child suppOecd it te be
a solid bed of sand.
A i;ad Red.
Last evening ah nit 7 o'clock a man was
discovered dead drunk ljing across the
track of the Pennsylvania railroad at the
Cherry stieet bridge. Brimmer's livery
men and some of the railroad men re
moved the sleeper and thu3 cheated death
and the coroner.