f58& r'Jfr: r.j &gP - - - " - ' -g q-s. - !- . " f , J. JPU.L ,.iJ n ' iigiJi ianrastcr intelligencer. 8ATDBDAT EVENING, SEPT. 3, 188L Tfce Stale CeaTeatleas. Although the present is what is usually designated as an " eif year " in the politics of Pennsylvania, there have been many recent indications that the short campaign te be inaugurated seen will be a lively one and a geed deal of political excitement be worked up in the immediate preparations for it. There are a great many counties in which very full local tickets are te be chosen, including a number of judges, and this will bring out a much larger vote than the election of a state treasurer alone could call out. The Republican state convention will meet in Harrisburg next Thursday, and the contest for nomination is between Senater Davies, of Bradford, a former Cameren man, but a legislative belter- last winter, and General Bailey, of Fayette, a staunch stalwart of that famous 300 who went down with colors flying in the Chicago conven tion. It is, therefore, a struggle for the vindication or the punishment of the men who organized and made partially suc cessful the belt against Cameren at Har risburg, and it may determine which faction shall be potential in securing the organization and controlling the choice of a candidate for governor in 1882. An An other diversion of the convention may be an attempt by Attorney General Pal mer, who will be a member of it, te get an endorsement of his official action in the legislative salary business. Mr. "Wolfe, who is said te te en the lookout for the governorship in 1882, with un usual discretion, did net accept the in vitation thus thrown out te " lock horns" with Palmer in the convention. It is net likely that pending the supreme court's determination of the appeal in this matter any state political conven tion will make the legal issue a subject of deliverance, but Palmer will at least Sie te i1. that he gets no condemnation. In the Democratic convention, te meet in Williamsport en September 2Si.li. Mr. Orange Neble, of Erie, new has the most following for- state treasurer, though a very large portion of the slate is entirely uncommitted and three fourths of the delegates will go there, as they should, unpledged and unfettered. If the committee en rules, which will meet in Philadelphia en September 14th, completes its work satisfactorily and makes an acceptable report, its consid eration by the convention may enliven the proceedings and make them of per manent value te the party. The " peace commission " also will make its report and the convention will no doubt take such action if any remains necessary as will make the work of the commis sion no mere barren ideality. Fer har mony and organization are henceforth te be the watchwords and the policy of the Pennsylvania Democracy. The Proposed Revision." The Shippcnsburg Chronicle continues, iu its opposition te the proposed revision of the rules of the Democratic party in this state, te dispute what no body maintains, te assert what nobody denies, and te evade or misrepresent the only thing about which it " exclusive ly" among the Democratic authorities of the state seems te have doubts. "When the Chronicle says that it has been pro posed te establish a permanent state sec retary " who for nine months of the year at least will have nothing te de and must be paid for his services all the year round, must be paid for bcrlij a Demo crat" it- se utterly misstates the case as te almost take itself out of the sphere of respectable discussion. Ne such proposi preposi tion has been made. The only thing.sug gested and that has been only an indi vidual suggestion, net of the committee has been that one secretary could profitably be kept at work all the year and if se he should be paid for his labor. If the Chronicle sees lit, however, te amuse itself With making men of straw and pummelling them, it can go en with the performance. When it says "Why, bless your dear, innocent, easy souls, gentlemen of the Intelligen cer, when or where was the temporary organization of any state convention effected by any ether than the slate committee V" we answer that the state committee never picks the tempo rary chairman. The convention always elects him, and often has an ugly scram ble for the place. At Pittsburgh, in 1878, it was between Speer and Scott; at Harrisburg, iu 1870, between Ziegler and Schnatterly, and at Harrisburg in 18S0 Mr. Dill was made temporary chairman net by ap pointment of the committee, but by agreement of the delegates. Besides this the Chronicle wants te knew some exist ing rules the operation of which has been complained about. We point it te the regular abandonment of the organi zation after every election, the present system of representation in state con ventions and en the state committee, and the " time-honored " plan of man aging state campaigns. The Chronicle will remember, tee, that the question about which it raises a controversy is net hew these things shall be cured, but whether there shall be even a discussion of their abuses or weaknesses. The testimony of Judge Jeseph Helt, furnished by him te the Press, and by it te the public, concerning Judge Black's attitude toward secession in ISM, is the cap-sheaf te the discussion of this im portant historical epoch, and the crown ing vindication of Judge Black. Though Mr. Helt is net .exactly an unwilling witness he has spoken with reluctance, and it is well known that his personal relations with Judge Black for many years have been these of entire estrange ment. What he says might stand alene as proof positive, net only of Judge Black's loyalty, which needed no defense, . but of his -sagacity and courage at a time when many have doubted his exer cise of these characteristic qualities of his personality. But, as confirmation of what the Press has published before, Judge Helt's testimony crowns the case. What has been made out is thus sum marized by the Press : That as a cabinet -officer under Presi dent Buchanan, Judge Black was consist ent, persistent and aggressive ia his loy alty te the Union. That Judge Black never entertained a thought of treating with the emissaries of armed rebellion. That Judge Black neither held nor ad vanced opinions opposed te the power of the national government te protect and defend itself and te preserve the Union, whether by " coercion " or any ether neces sary and lawful means. That Judge Black was in full accord with the ether Union men of Buchanan's cabinet, and, as the intimate of Buchanan, was the spokesman between that element and the president. Mere than this Judge Black's friends could net ask and no patriotic citizen need seek for his own fame. Less than this the facts would net warrant as the verdict of contemporaneous history. MINOR TOPICS. An old Indian preacher among the Choctaws, who commenced his work en the somewhat slender educational outfit which he procured in connection with nine months' schooling, writes iu the most en couraging manner of the progress his Sun day schools are making. Tin: Luticran VUiter wants a Lutheran ecumenical council held. It believes that such a body would be perhaps one of the greatest meetings ever held, and asserts that instead of" a few millions of Calvin ists or Armenians or Dissenters," it would represent fifty millions of Lutherans from all quarters of the glebe. A xkati.y bound little oetavo volume, eutitled "The Revised Edition of the New Testament," has been received by a Sau Francisce paper which says: "Al though the story seems in some places a trifle unconnected, and the incidents at times a little imprebabIe,still. en the whole it is a most readable little work." Seme of the geed people who de net despair of the conversion of the wickedest people in the world are laboring with Guiteau. As they cannot have personal access te that malefactor, they undertake te evangelize him by means of postal caids. Most of these persons are of the order usually denominated " cranks." Tine Philadelphia Times contrasting its own with the Intelligencer's course in the judgeship nominations says: "The great are always maganimeus and culti vate the most generous sense of justice." Which only proves that the Times being se much inore maganimeus is se much greater than the Intelligences Q. e. d. we presume. On a recent Sunday, when the pastor of ene of the leading Presbyterian churches of St. Leuis was absent from his pulpit, several persons expressed dissatisfaction at seeing a stranger in the pulpit, and ene lady said she would net have come if she had known that Dr. was net going te preach. An elder standing near very promptly replied : " Madam, the worship of Dr. will be resumed next Sunday." The fashionable mansions of Harris burg which face the river front and empty their private sewers down along the bank of the stream, are new offended with most sickening odors aud malarial gases, rising from the fifthy mass which lies there, fer menting thore iu the sun, because the water is tee low te run off the excremant. It is a very beautiful location for hand some neuses, ane tue sunset ana up river views from Frent street are grand, but this sewer business is a drawback. When Spotted Tail was murdered the ether day White Thunder, another chief, was appointed te succeed him. When White Thunder get into office he began his administration by sending te the agent the following request : " What I want te ask of you is that when you send the agent a list of goods te be distributed you will also send a copy of the list te mc. Through the iutarpreter I will study the list, and thou we shall all knew whether we get all the goods." He is a level headed Thunderer. Seme thrce or four years age a some what pretentious church en Fifth avenue, finding no Americau clergyman sufficiently talented te fill its vacant pulpit, sent across the water for a British preacher. He came, and might be sup. posed te have had sufficient leisure, while attending te pastoral duty in his net very large congregation, te study the history of the United States. Yet when the British preacher was speaking at a recent prayer meeting held iu behalf of the president. he remarked that President Garfield was the only Christian man who had ever oc cupied the presidential chair. The report that "Uncle Remus," the book written by Mr. Joel Chandler Harris, of Atlanta, Georgia, "has been received in England with something like enthusiasm" only shows that the literary judgment of England en American authors and writ ings has finally reached a stage of intelli gent discernment. Fer few such striking and iutercsting books, with permanent value as well as powers of entertainment, have appeared here as Uncle Rcmus's folk lore of the plantation negre, a people whom this generation is rapidly learning te forget, but which have been a factor iu our social development. A ir.iiT between Dr. Hargett and the Rev. Mr. Mackey is enlivening Youngs town, Ohie. The doctor is a middle-aged medical practitioner of geed standing, the clergyman is a young Methodist pastor, both are bachelors, and formerly thev were intimate friends. The trouble besran when Hargett sent Mackey a bill for doctoring. Mackey refused te pay, and Hargett ad vertised the debt for sale. Then Mackey preached a sermon en Hargett, violently assailing his character, and charging him with dyeing his hair, desiring a young wife, and going te Cincinnati en sprees. Hargett retaliated by pub lishing au accusation that Mackey was a hypocrite, being an infidel while preach ing Chirstianity ; that he was a visitor at sinful resorts iu disguise, and that he hab itually kissed these women in his cengre gatien who would let him. The minister denies that he is a skeptic iu any partic ular, and admits that he has visited the wicked places as charged, but only for the purpose of getting information for sermons against them. As for the kissing, he says that it has been confined te unmarried women, whom he had a perfect right te kiss, if it is mutually agreeable. LANCASTER DAILY PKBSONAI. Bill Chakdlek has found a shred of the bloody shirt te wave, bat he had te go back 6ome years te find it. He takes up the Chiselm murder. .Tat Gould has set up his twenty .two year-old son. Geerge, in the brokerage business with half a million te start the machine. It will go. Rev. Jehn C. Caldwell, D. D., of Chambersburg, has been elected president of Wilsen college, and Mrs. Caldwell has been elected lady principal. It is under steed that this will net interfere with Dr. Caldwell's discharge of his duties a3 pas tor of the Central Presbyterian church of Chambersburg. Seme of the great men will be spared us a while longer. Though Ben Hill's tongue cancer is worse, Father Rvax, the Mobile poet-priest, has improved by his summer travels, Senater Edmunds is stronger and Platt has grown mero vig vig ereus in the Adirondacks, and Tanner is robust, and deuies that he died recently. General Grant driving up te a letter box in Leng Branch the ether day modest ly stepped from his carriage aud posted some papers. While he was yet standing a negre dressed iu gorgeous livery drove up and promptly exclaimed te a small boy : "Senny, put disheah letter in dat box." The bystander appreciated the matter and reared. Lorenze Delmenico, the New Yerk res taurateur, is said te be dying of aggrava ted gout and inflammation of the stomach at Sharens Springs, New Yerk. Mr. Del Del eonico is Swiss by birth. He came te this country in 1827 and was employed in the restaurant of -his uncle, Peter Delmon Delmen ico. Since then his business has grown until his roputatieu as a caterer has be come national. Jehn W. Garrett, president of the Baltimore & Ohie railroad company, has announced his intention of presenting Bal timore with a bronze fountain te cost at least $30,000. The fountain, new being designed in Paris, will be the handsomest in the United States. It will be erected in Mount Vernen place, near Washington's monument and near Mr. Garrett's man sion. There comes from Kingsten, New Yerk, a very pretty story, which nobody is asked te believe, but which may be true for ail that. Seme three years age, Themas McDermott, a destitute Irishman, went te Kington and was given employment by a young mechanic named Martin. Mc Dermott was se grateful for this that when he died a few months age, after having inherited ever seven millions of dollars from au undo iu England, he left nearly every penny te Martin. m STATE ITEMS. R. L. Gamble, associate judge of Blair county, has been stricken with paralysis. William J. Turrcll, speaker of the Sen ate during the war, has died at his home iu Montrese, aged GS. Minnie Brown, twelve years old, was struck and instantly killed by lightning during a thunder storm at Park City. Bellefente is new consuming ever six hundred thousand gallons of water daily, which is ucarly two hundred gallons te everyraan, woman and child in town. The Times states the pending aucstien : Just at this moment there are a rreat many Republicans iu this state uncertain whether Cameren should be spelled with a big C or otherwise. The entries for snake sterv beinsr eneu. cd the liellofento Watchman takes the cake with accounts of rattlesuakcs thirty years old and, when opened, found with two trout inside them. The Pittsburgh pelice have arrested the proprietors of the two leading peel rooms in the city aud will make the case a test of the efficacy of the law for suppressing that kind of gambling. The forest fires near Banger, North ampton county, still burn in spite of the most active efforts of woodmen, farmers and quarrymen. Over 3,500 worth of timber has already been lest. Mrs. Colemeyer, an aged and demented woman, wandered from home thrce weeks age, at Hite's station, ou the West Pcnn read, and her body has been found terribly mangled at the feet of a precipice. William Hughes, of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre coal company's farm, was found in a peel of water near the Stanten mines, Wilkcsbarre. He was thrown from his horse into the water while search ing for cattle and drowned. The drought iu Montgomery ceuuty continues. At Pottstown there are two inches of water ever the mouth of the water works supply pipe, and a temporary dam has been built below te raise the water. In many townships water sells for half a dollar a hogshead Chailcs and Jehn Eckert, aged fourteen and sixteen years, sons of Jehn Eckert, of Catasauqua, while driving across the track of the Lehigh Valley railroad in Allentown were struck by a passing train. Beth had their skulls fractured, and ene is net ex pected te live. The herse was instantly killed aud the carriage demolished. According te the Bulletin 100,000 Phila delphia children resume their studies un der one of the most defective systems of education that cau be found in any large city in the country. Several thousand school teachers will resume the perform ance of a large amount of wholly unneces sary work for salaries that are smaller than theso paid in any ether large city. m m HOW THEY MKT 1)ATU. Recent Crimes and IHsastern ana Olber Striking Occurrences. A clothes pole fell en the head of Mrs. Mary Hammen, aged 70, while chopping weed, in Jersey City, and killed her. The Casey family, at Brookdale, 111., in a free social fight clubbed Michael Lawler te death. Near Donzela. III., a mob hanged a man who had whipped te death his neighbor's child. James Gallagher tried te cress the Erie railroad track at Provest street, Jersey City. Corener's in quest. David Temliu, Bridgeton, N. Y., wbile leadiug legs was crushed by the fall of ene of them and killed. Philip O'Reilly a wealthy niercbaut, of Damascus, Wayne county, Pa., aged 07 years, while crossing the Erie railroad track, tripped, fell, lest both legs and likely his life. Edward Rowley, a drunken Trenten tailor grazed his wife's neck with a pistol shot. James Teffs, of Gloucester, Mass., was shot dead by his wife : she savs in self-defense, but they don't believe her. Crew Deg, the murderer of Spotted Tail, arrived in Deadwood en Thursday night, and will be tried next week. He says he "is satisfied he cau preve the killing jus tifiable." Henry Lawsen, colored, was hanged yesterday, at Chattanooga, for a felonious assault upon a white girl. He hung thirteen miu utes in sight of 5.000 persons, te whom he had said he felt saved. Edward Kiley, aged nine, was killed, and William Murphy, aged eleven, fatally injured by a heavy tool chest falling en them from a window ledge of the Lake Erie rolling mills, Cleveland. While Harlan Williams and William Banks, colored boys, were rowing en the Bradywine in Wilmington, their beat was capsized and both were drowned. 1NTELLIGEN(ER SATURDAY, SEPTEKlBER 3. 1881. THE STRICKEN PRESIDENT. AN HISTORICAL PARALLEL. GLOWING TRIBUTE TO MB. GARFICLD. Atiaren ey vn. is. Smith, Esq., of th ruuaugjpnui mil, m (He Urangers' PlCBlC. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: "As long as he lived, he was the guid ing star of a whole brave nation, and when he died the little children cried in the streets." Such are the graphic and pathetic weids with which Motley closes his matchless history of the Rise of the Dutch Republic. With one master stroke they picture the supreme and luminous leadership of William of Orange the Washington of his earlier age and with another they sound the depths of universal grief which surged through all the state when the great chief was struck down by the desperate hand of the demoniac assas sin. Hew vividly this picture of sentiment which swayed the United States of the Netherlcuds three centuries asm rnrtrav the feeling which fills the United States of America te-day ! Fer nine long weeks we have lived under the shadow of a great and darkening calamity. During all this period the heart of the nation has been bowed with unspeakable anxiety and an guish. As we have waited and watched by the bedside of the prostrate president hope and fear have struggled within our breasts for the mastery. Yesterday we were plunged almost into the depths of despair ; te day the cloud which hangs ever us is illumined with the silver lining of renewed faith. When the neble founder of the Dutch Republic fell under the shot of Gerard, his countrymen were net merely overwhelmed with sorrow at the less of their revered chief, but struck with dis may at the deadly blew te their struggling state. When the beloved nresident of th American Republic fell under the shot of uuitcau, lifty millions of freemen quivered with grief as if threatened with personal bereavement, but with their weight of wee thcre was se fear of the fate of the nation. " I see a chasm iu the place of Frauce,' ' exclaimed Burke amid the threes of the French revolution. It is the chasm of a volcaue," thundered Mirabcau in reply from the tribune et the Assembly. There was no fear of a chasm in the place of our republic neither the clfasm of a stupen dous eruption like that which convulsed France, nor the chasm of the prostrated central pillar in a new and rising unfinished tcmple of free government, like that which opened befere tue Netherlands when Wil liam fell. Our edifice of organized free dom is complete. It rests upon the firm foundation of a hundred years of establish ed constitutional liberty. It is crowned with the imposing capstene of the supreme majesty of the law. Net even the fall of the chosen representative of the nation's will could shake the walls of this spleudid structure. Our grief was net dismav ier luu euitu, uuii eui rowing iove ier tue erave, manly, heroic chief whose gentleness and goodness had wen our devotion and whose threatened death bowed every heart with the profound sense of personal less. He was net, like William, the creator of a commonwealth; but, through his owJefty inspirations aud the march of great events, he had become the trusted leader of all the best impulses of the people and the high hope areuud which clustered all their as pirations for political regeneration. He was thus, like William, though in a differ ent mission, " the guiding star of a whole brave nation," and as he steed en the verge et death, from which, in answer te the prayers of fifty raillieus, he has, let us hope, been brought back by a gracious Providence, even before the cloud had scorned te settle en him " the little chil dren cried iu the streets." Without pursuing the parallel tee far there is much likeness in the attributes of the two great chiefs which inspired admir ation and affection. William was a sol dier with a soldier's chivalric virtues. Se was our faithful president. William was a statesman with that highest political genius which rises te the summit of creative power. General Garfield's su preme mastery of principles and intellect ual leadership have much of the same quality. William, as the historian paints him, "possessed a ready eloquence, some times impassioned, oftener argumentative, always rational," and " knew hew te reach both the mind and the heart of his hearers." Hew descrintive of the oratory of our stricken ruler ! Like the few ever-towering guide guide pests en the great highway of civ civ ilizateonlike Pitt who was Premier at 24 ; like Napeleon who forced the bridge of Ledi at 26 ; like Hamilton, who was the peerless finance minister at 32, Wil liam was at 13 the confidential counselor, and at 21 the trusted gcneral-in-chief of the wisest prince of the age, and himself afterward the founder of a state ; aud James A. Garfield was at 28 a senator, at SO a general, at 32 a leader in the Heuse, and iu his early prime president of the re public. It has sometimes been said that he had tee little force aud firmness. But here again see the answer which Motley furnishes in his picture of William : " whether originally of a timid tempera ment or net, he was certainly possessed of perfect courage at last." Hew striking a portraiture of the figure which fills the public thought te-day! What bravery and heroism have been displayed ou that racking bed of pain with the angel of death hovering ever it. What wonder that this sublime spectacle and this tender solicitude, se lenjr as they remain, ever shadow every ether theme and thought in the public mind ! In the presence of this peril and sorrow we have little heart for another discussion and we have dwelt upon this subject net merely because it se supremely engages the public attention, but because it leads te a reflection which is especially appropriate te this occasion. This is a gathering of journalists. Three years age James A. Garfield steed before a similar assemblage in his own state of Ohie, and spoke his thoughts en journalism. That address is se clear in its insight, se just in its judg ment, se full of sound observation that I cannot de better than recall it at this hour. The orator recognized the printing press as the most powerful weapon with which man has ever armed himself for the -fight against ignorance and oppression. He portrayed its trials and its triumphs. He pleaded for its- largest freedom and enforced its corresponding responsibilities. no urged tnat next te its importance as a vehicle of news the public journal should have opinions of its own and should advo cate them. He rightly declared that all free governments are party governments aud proclaimed his belief in parties, in party governments and in party press. While rejecting the false standard of in dependence, he insisted that "if inde pendent journalism meaus freedom from the deminatien of patronage, wealth, or corruption, freedom from party dictation, all geed men would applaud it." "Let the journalist, " be exclaimed. " defend the doctrines of the party which he ap proves. Let him criticize .ud condemn the party which he docs net apureve, re serving always his right te" applaud his opponents or censure his friends, as the truth may require, and he will be independent enough ler a free country. " Where shall we find a mere just and correct standard of con. scientieus journalism? Let us accept it as if it were a dying legacy, and let us make, what its great author is te the "whole, brave nation, " the guiding star of our profession ! There is another side te President Gar field's relations te the press. Net only is he a just-critic of journalism, but he has always been an attentive and omnivorous reader of newspapers. More than almost any ether of our conspicuous statesmen he has been a close student of these represen tative journals which lead. the public thought. Just as he has rooted and grounded himself in the creat underlying I principles of government, se he has master ed all the currents and all the applications of the immediate hour. Te this studious observations of the worthiest newspapers may be ascribed in large measure that quick sympathy and harmony with the best public opinion and that embodiment of the highest public purposes which have been distinguishing characteristics of his whele splendid career. When the ten dencies of the hour have been wrong, he he has been fearless in resisting them, as when almost alene of all the leaders of Ohie he boldly challenged and opposed the finacial heresies of his state. Aud when there has been a sturdy battle te fight for the loftiest principles and ideals, his sword has flashed at the very front like the waving plume of Henry of Navarre. It is this fervid glow of the highest public impulses in his own heart and mind which makes him the hope and the guiding star of the nation in all its noblest aspirations te day in its aspirations for broader pa triotism and less partisanship ; for the redemption of the public service from the dominion of the pestilential system of spoils ; for the rescue of public life from the degrading iniluence and thralldom of clamorous patronage ; for the elevation of practical as well as contemplative states manship te the real problems of govern ment ; and for the hearty uuien of the sections ou the enduring basis of justice and generosity This great battle will go en. Te these high ends let us faithfully consecrate our selves. If President Garfield lives, as we all fondly hope, he will be our beloved leader. If he shall die, which may Heaven forbid, we shall still fight ou under the spur of his name and example. We shall cherish his leadership aud kindle under his surviving influence as the fol lowers of Rebert Bruce were auimated te new energy by the appeal te his memory. Yeu remember the legend. When the Scottish chief came te die he called his devoted Douglas te his side, and bade him, when the curtain of life dropped, te cut out his heart and place it iu a golden casket aud wear it en his breast. Douglas obeyed the charge. Aud wheu he drew his sword again in the War of the Hely Crusades and grappled iu deadly conflict with the fee, aud the day was going against him and all secmen te be lest, he Jtoek the golden casket from his breast, and throw ing it like a fresh standard into the thickest of the battle he fought forward te his talisman and te triumph. If our chieftain lives we shall wage the battle under his faithful leadership, and if he falls let us, in this holy crusade of political regenera tion, threw his great heart into the centre of the struggle, aud under the inspiration of his life and his sacrilice, fight onward te victory. 1IENDRICK B. 1VKIGUT. Death of the Veteran congressman at Ills Ueine In Wilkesbarre One or Pennsylvania's Oldest 1'ub- Hc Men. Hen. Hendrick B Wright breathed his last at a little after 11 o'clock yesterday morning, at his residence en River street, in Wilkesbarre. He was a few months past seventy-thrce and died of dropsy, superinduced by liver complications. Mr. Wright had a national repu tation. He was born in Plymouth, this state, April 21), 1808. His father camo'frem the stock William Penn brought te this ceuutry, and was a farmer iu comfortable circumstances. Mr. Wright passed his youthful years en his father's farm, sharing in the labor iucident te a farmer's life. His father gave him the best educational advantages the schools in the vicinity afforded and subsequently sent him te Dickinsen college After graduating from that institution in 1829, he studied law, and having prepared him self by a rigid course of study was admit ted te the bar in 1831, aud in an exceeding -ly short time took rank as one of the ablest practitioners in the ceuutry. His eloquence in pleading befere a jury wen for him a very profitable clientage. In 1834, at the age of twenty six. he was appointed district attorney for Luzerne county by Geerge M. Dal'ias, then attor ney general aud afterward vice presi dent. Iu 1811 he was elected te the state Legislature, and re-clectcd in 1842 ; again returned initie, no was elected speaker of the Heuse. During his scrvice in the Legislature his name was associated with three measures which he introduced : First, the stay law, which he himself drafted, providing that goods attached should be appraised, and, if net bringing two-thirds of the appraiscmeut, the sale should be stayed ; second, a law abolish ing the practice of imprisoning peer debt ors ; third, a bill te de away with the sys tem of solitary confinement iu prison. The stay law was enacted at the session of 1842. Many still live who cm testify te its having becu an immense advantage te numbers who were financially embar rassed, temporarily, by the depressed con dition of the trade of the country during the years immediately preceding, and of no injury ultimately te a siiigIe creditor. The debtor imprisonment repeal law he aud Judge Elwell were together largely instru -mental in having passed. Beth were mem bers of the judiciary committee in which the measure was perfected. He failed te secure the passage of the third mentioned erticle, In May, 1844, Mr. Wright was a dele gate te the Democratic national conven tion and was elected both temporary and permanent chairman. That convention lasted a week aud nominated Polk aud Dallas. He was a delegate te the subse quent conventions which nominated Cass, Pierce, Buchanan, Douglas, Seymour and Tilden. Mr. Wright was elected te Con gress in 1832. but was defeated in 1854 by the Knew-Nothing clement. Upen the breaking out of the rebellion in 18G1 he was again called from his retirement, the nomination being tendered by both politi cal parties. He accepted, and, of course, was elected, and amid the perplexities and dangers surrounding Congress during the two eventful years following he was dis tinguished as a consistent aud untiring advocate of an undivided Union. Mr. Wright strongly opposed and voted against the creation .of the national bank ing system. In 1872 Mr. Wright was a Democratic candidate for cengressman-at-largc, and received the endorsement of the Werkingraeu's convention. He was, how hew how ever, defeated at the polls, though running ahead of his ticket. He then, for a time, withdrew from public life. About 1874 Mr. Wright began te pin bis faith te the Greenback party, aud as the Democrats of the state were then coquetting with the Greenbackers, Mr. Wright was chosen te preside ever the Democratic state conven tion at Erie, in the year of the Ohie Allen cempaign. ile was- subsequently made chairman of the state central committee of the party, and personally conducted the campaign, paying out of his own pocket a large proportion of the expenses attending it. The defeat of Allen in Ohie disheartened the Greenbackers and Democrats, bnt Mr. Wright still clung stubbornly te the ad vocates of inflation. In 1876 the Work Werk ingmen of his district called him from his retirement, and in mass convention nomi nated him for Congress. The Democracy ratified their nomination, and he was elected. In 1878 he was returned by an in creased majority. His record in Congress is familiar te the whole country. Enter ing that body again after the lapse of sev eral years as the special representative of the labor cause, chosen en account of his well known and freely expressed views en questions directly concerning the industrial classes, he sought te alle viate their let as far as legislative enactment could accomplish. His efforts in many respects were misdirected, as he supported a number of wild and foolish schemes. In 1SS0 he ran as a straigkteut Greenback caudidate for Congress, aud was defeated by the Republican candidate, Jeseph A. Scrauteu, who secured 13,455 votes. The Democratic candidate,. D W. Connelly, had 10.94S votes, while Mr. Wright had but 4,174. He was au excel lent lawyer ul held a large and lucrative practice. During his leisure moments he found time te write two books, ene the " Reminiscences of Plymouth,1' and the ether A Practical Treatise en Laber.' He was wealthy, and leaves a family of grown-up children. THE GRANGERS' PICNIC. BIG DAYS IN WlE.LIAai.S- GKOVIC. All Elaborate Dlapltiy or Farm Machinery aua a Variety et Talk. The Tri-Statc Grangers' picnic, iu Will iams' Greve, Cumbeilaiut county, six miles from Meebauiesburg. has new be come a regular, fixed annual insti tution. It is devised, managed and controlled by R. II. Themas, of the Farmers' Friend, the Grauger ergau, and a member of the late well-known Elder Themas's family, formerly of this city. The grove is a beautiful 30-acre piece of oak and hiekery timber along the Dillsburg branch railroad, with the Yellow Breeches creek en one side, a strong mill race and dam en the ether side and a big spring in the middle of it. It is most ele gantly located aud well adapted for gen eral picnic purposes and for this animal Granger gathering which has made it most famous. All week it has been the scene of great aetivity and a large gathering of farmers, mechanics aud sight-seers. Ample build ings are erected for headquarters, the dis play of machinery aud products of the soil, and tents accommodate the ledgers and visiting Grangers. Steam traction en gines, suction and force pumps, patent rollers, drills, shovels, harrows and plows, reapers and mowers of every device, threshers, separators and fans, mercantile and mechanical exhibits, and all the features of an industrial exposition, make the grounds a scene of great activity and a display of varied interests, fruit and cereal displays, tobacco, fertilizers, spoke and hub making devices, and every sort of this class of exhibits, are arranged about the weeds. There is a large speaking stand and scats for the audiences. Various side shows proclaimed their wonders and bearding tents and refreshment stands did a geed business. Ne liquor was sold and excellent order was maintained all wfcek. A little steamer ran en the dam and carried pas sengers, its enterprising builder doing enough business te pay for its cost. Every day thcre was speaking by Granger, farm ers, editors, scientists and ethers. State Grange Lecturer Caklcr. Master Rhene, of the state giiuge, U. S. Commissioner of Agriculture Loring, Prof. S. B. Heigcs and ether shining lights were present dur ing the picnic and addressed the throng. Yesterday being editors' day, the Cum berland Valley editorial association had a meeting and controlled the exercises. The attendance was net se large as en Tuesday wueu irem i.,uuu te hM,W)) pcople were crowding the grounds, but the number was very satisfactory and the comfort greater than en the day before. Governer Heyt's talk was informal aud impromptu, as he was evidently familiar with and te most of theso present. He spoke of the agriculturist in his relation te society, and the industries. He especially referred te the great importance of the manufac turing towns as centres of civilization and of their demands en the farmer. The farmers of Pennsylvania, he urged, should jiet attempt te compete with theso of the West in grain raising ; for even new net much mere than half of the grain and Heur consumed in Pennsylvania is raised in the state. More attention should be paid te the demands of the towns for small crops, dairy product, meat and the like, which could be produced with mero profit after the grain is supplied se far as possible. Governer Heyt's remarks were received with appreciation. After he ppoke Mr. Stable, of the Gettysburg Compiler, made a short aud semi-humorous address te the ladies, telling them that they wasted time ever churning butter, and that thev caused geed laud te be ruined by pasturing because they wanted te sell butter for their piu money, and that this land should be devoted te raising grain. After these speeches a party, consisting of the speakers and editors, aud a few Grangers, took a trip up the creek iu the little steamer and had a photograph taken. After the dinner iu the weeds, admir ably served, the meeting was resumed, Chas. E. Smith, esu,., addressing it ; his speech will be found in te-day's Iktuli.i Iktuli.i eknckk. AV. U. Ilcnsel addressed the editors aud farmers iu a specah which we printed yesterday and Governer Heyt closed the exercises with a few humorous remarks ou newspaper criticism of politi cians and ethers. When the speeches were ended many of the exhibitors begau te re move their goods. The Brush electric light with which the grounds were lighted duriug the week, was the object of great curiosity and much attention and inquiry from the farmers and visitors in general, of whom Lancas ter county had a fair representation all week. LATEST NEWS BY MAIL. General William M. Gregg, of Elmira, died at Tunkhauneck yesterday. The rubber works of Eugene II. Clapp, in Seuth Hauevcr, Massachusetts, were burned yesterday morning. Less, $75,000 Yesterday's bank -clearings in Chicago were the largest ever recorded there in a single day namely, $JO,500,000. Most exciting information iu the Jennie Cramer case has been made known. This is the finding of arsenic in the stomach of the unfortunate girl and iu ether organs, through the analysis by Prof. Chittenden. All the same she is likely te have eaten it for her complexion. The forest fires continue very destruc tive in Ontario. Nearly forty families iu the townships of Verena, Wilberferec, Stafferd and Bremley have lest crops, houses and their ether movable property by the fires. Navigation en the St. Law rence is embarrassed by the deuse smoke that fills the air. The drought iu Virginia continues, ap parently without prospect of an early abatement. The James river is lower than ". 1 1 1 M'Pm. ... it, lias eeeu ier msy years, anu tae corn aud tobacco crop iu many counties arc " burnt up." Farmers have great difficulty in getting water for their stock, and mills have been stepped by the drying or the streams. Marvelous geld discoveries are reported from the Central Hills, thirty miles from Deadwood. " A vein four feet wide is said te contain mere precious metal than quartz. It is said that it runs $150,000 te the ten iu the foundation.. This mine was formerly under bends te the Home Heme stake company. A tramp, convicted of an attemped out rage upon a young lady iu Canada, has beeu sentenced te 12 months, with hard labor, in the Central prison, Terente, and te receive 15 lashes from the cat-e'-ninetails twice during his imprisonment. This is the second time he has been convicted of the same offense, having before under gone a term of 18 months. Dr. Hamilton having expressed a desire te examine the Potomac flats was driven along the left banks of the river by Colonel Cook. Upen reaching a point opposite the monument Dr. Hamilton inquired with an expression of surprise and disgust, " What smells se ?" Upen being told that it was the flats he said, "I must get the president out of this. Its enough- te kill a well man in a week." Weuhl lie? l'liilaUclphiu Tiuits. It would be a very unfortunate thing for Chairman Cessna te be elected judge ; he would have te quit politics. local Intelligence. MTPP0SE1 BUKiiLAKS ARRESTED. OI.U OKFESIIKIW IN TUti SEIAIIOW. suspected or A'uinereus Kecent Depredations Last night at a late hour Constables Lentz aud Flick aud Ofliccr Adams arrest ed Jacob Buzzaul and Edw. B. Wilhclni en suspicion of burglary. It will Ihj remembered that several re cent biirgl.ii ics have been committed in and near this city, among ethers Bitzer's cigar store, corner of North Queen street and the Pennsylvania railroad, Osier's blacksmith shop, further up the railroad, and the microscepical nianufactery,Cherry street above James. Jacob Buzzard, who is a professed "re formed!' burglar, who has been charged aud convicted of larcenies and bur glaries before, gave notice te seme of our police oflieers that there was te be a burglary committed ou Steh mau's cigar manufactory, North Queen street, near Waluut,Iast night, and that he and Wilhelm were te de the ieb. The officers made arrangements te catch the burglars, it being uuderstoed that Buzzard te be let off, he leiiig only a steel pigeon and informer. The officers were promptly en hand last night, but somebody with a leaky tongue had let the eat out of the bag. aud half the neighborhood knew of the con templated burglary and expected arrest, and were en hand te witness it. Of course burglary was net committed burglars don't usually de their busiuessin presence of a mass meeting. About mid mid night,hewecr, Buzzard was en hand, and as the Stchmau burglary had proven te be a dead failure, he was arrested en suspicion of being concerned Mi the burglary of Bitzer's cigar store seme weeks age. The officers afterwards visited the bearding house of Wilhelm. East Chestnut street, and found him in bed. He was arrested aud both men were committed te jail for a hearing befere Alderman Simson. The officers say that they found the back gate leading te Stehman's store open, and that the crowbar stolen from Oster's shop a week age was found concealed iu a water trough in the rear of the building. Before Wilhelm was arrested the officers say that he threw down the privy several bits and ether tools supposed te have been stolen from the microscepical manufac tory. Buzzard is said te confess that the Qster robbery andlhe robbery of the microscop micrescop microscep ical works were simply for the purpose of getting tools te commit mero important burglaries. He says it was the intention te blew open the safe of Ne. 2 cotton mill ou the night preceding next pay day, when it was expected a large amount of money would be in the safe. Wilhelm is the man who seme years age attempted te rob Mr. M. O. Kline, trcas urcr of Ne. 2 cotton mill, by assaulting him and throwing pepper iu his eyes while he was carrying the money with which te pay off the operatives. Wilhelm was con victcd of this crime aud served sevcral years imprisonment. Huzzard is a member of the Welsh moun tain family, thrce of whom besides himself arc new iu jail for diflerent burglaries. About a year age he was released from prison after having served a term of live years for burglary. He took up his resi dence in this city, and has been here since. Beth he and Wilhelm an: geed looking young fellows, who dress well and don't leek like burglais. Beth Buzz ird and Wilhelm have been employed at Mr. Stehman's cigar factory for some time past. tiOLDKN WKDDING, Festal Celebration or Cel. tiejrer'rf Fltleth ni:ir:a-e Anniversary. Yesterday, fifty years age, was the date of the marriage of Cel. and Mrs. Geerge Geyer, who are numbered among the old eld est, best known, most prominent and most Highly respected citizens et Warwick township, this county. The golden cele bration of the happy event which has been a well-spring joy te these geed peo ple was uiadn the occasion of a brilliant festival celebration. It called together at their house one of the largest gatherings ever had in that section en such au occa sion. Over 100 persons sat down te dinner at two o'clock, and after the re freshments thcre were .speeches by Prof. Christ, of Lititz, Dr. Roebuck. P. S. Brubaker, J. Kemper, Peter S. Reist, Dr. M. Herst, O. Gibsen aud ethers. During the day, besides the congratulations of their friends the bride and groom received many handsome presents as testimonials of the high esteem in which they are held. Among these were a geld headed cane, by Jacob Kemper, A. G. Kiliiau and P. D. BrulMfccr, te Cel. Geyer, and also a geld headed cane by Mrs. Susan Laud is. Mrs. Geyer :i presented with a pair of geld spectieliis by Gee. A. Geyer, geld breast pin by Mih. Jacob Kemper, geldcnff pins by Mis. A. G. Killian, a pair of slip pers from Lizzie Grail, of Hancock county, Ohie, and quite a number of ether valuable presents. Meeting of Foer Director!). The iwer directors held their regular monthly meeting at the almshouse this nieruiiig, ail the members being present. A" number of bills were presented and ap proved. Twe applicants were admitted te the almsheusejand sevcral were placed en the out deer list. A resolution was passed which required all bills te be paid by the peer directors, hereafter, te be presented te Superinten dent Cox one week before the time of the meetings of the directors, which occur en the liist Saturday of every month. The II., I.. Se V. Kallread. At the annual meeting of the stockhold ers of the Harrisburg, Lancaster & Ports mouth railroad company, held yesterday, the follewiug ticket was elected for the en suing year : Directors Edmund Smith, Geerge B. Roberts, Wistar 3Ierris, Jehn M. Kennedy, N. Parker Shertridge, James Yeung, Lewis Elkins, A. J. Cassatt and Jehn P. Greer. Spring Heuse Kebbed. The sprim? house of Jehn II. Meek was broken open last night or early this morn ing and robbed of 23 pounds of butter, which was te have been brought te mar ket this morning. Kefere Mr. Meek went te bedjic saw four strange men in a wagon near tue house ; they said they were going fishing aud nothing was suspected. This morning the butter was gene. A Tret lu l'tespect. There will be an exhibition trot at the park next Tuesday after neon between. Purity and Lady Orange, two of the flyers of Speedwell Meck farm. Loek out for 2:20. The track will be sprinkled and also the read fiein town te the park. AiMaiilt and iSalte.-y. A let of boys and girls became engaged iu a quarrel en West Walnut -street, near the market house, last night, and Harvey Reimensnyder aud Ed. Faegfy have been held by Alderman Samson for assaulting Mary Killian and Lizzie Loucks. ; i
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