j-ia8' V1P.K LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. 1881. . . rv fe I"-. r- K lv r , Pi r-t - iLanrastet intelligencer. TUESDAY EVENINO, SEPT. 20, 1881. The Fresiieat. And all the power of man could net save him ! It was written that he should die, and he has died. It is a pitiful end ing of the long suspense ; but it has come and must be submitted te. It is hard te see that the nation has gained by the transfer of the presidency from Garfield te Arthur ; but we are used te this ex perience. When Lincoln died, holding in his firm hands the guidance of the country and animated with the wisdom and temper te guide it judiciously, it ssemed te be a misfortune. When the Soldier Grant, instead of the Statesman Seymour, became president, misfortune again appeared. And se when the stupid Hayes defeated the wise Tilden ; and again when the unimpeached Hancock prevailed net against the greatly accused man who new dies and gives place te one held in far lower esteem. Doubtless the country will live and prosper as it has lived and prospered under all these appar ent calamities ; but the wisdom of the present dispensaten is likely te remain as hidden as that of any of its predecessors. With whatever record Mr.Garfield came into the presidency, he showed during the four months of his power that he was likely te govern with intelligence and henest1. About his ability there never has been any question, nor about his geed disposition. His weakness was in his supposed disposition te sacrifice under pressure his honest convictions of right. Xaturally an honest man, he had been se unfortunate in his associa tions and influences as te become fairly assailable for what were ceitainly net strictly just and defensible acts. With an honesty of heart and an unpre judiced judgment that forbade him te be an unfair partisan, he yet was thrust into an active support of the great fraud which seated Hayes. His administration was looked forward te with great doubt as te whether his geed or evil genius would con trel i t ; and there appeared te be geed reason te believe that he would have governed wisely and well, when he was stricken down; and in this great calamity his faults were forgotten and his virtues remembered ; se that te-day, when lie lies dead, the people of all parties think of him with love and even reverence, sorrow for his sufferings and admiration for his fortitude being a present ample covering for the faults of which we once accused him and which we would new forget. s journalists, we have referred te them even in our grief, for we can net have it thought that our sorrow of te day is a confession of wieng in the past; only that we grieve, and would be silent in the appeal that has baen taken from the earthly court. A great political change attends the inauguration of President Arthur, who has already quietly taken the oath of office ; net a change in the im mediate present but one that will surely, though gradually come. The pres ent cabinet will probably remain if its members cheese te stay ; but Mr. Blaine will net stay, for he can no longer be the power behind the throne. Mr. Ar thur is a wholly different man from Mr. Garfield. He is a professional politician of New Yerk city, and is bold, firm, de cided and unscrupulous ; or else he is universally misjudged ; which is net likely. He will be himself the president. His disposition will be te -oblige his friends. He will be a partisan presi dent in the fullest sense of the term ; he beasts himself a partisan. As Democrats we have no reason te applaud his accession. We have no cause te commend him as a geed man, or te hope that he will be a just ruler for the country. Whether he will be a geed president for his party is te be seen. He takes office under exceeding difficulties. The heart of the country is against him. It cannot, be forgotten that it was the purpose te make him president which discharged the assassin's bullet into the body of him whom the nation se deeply mourns. Ne one believes that President Arthur was a party te the crime, or that he sympathized with it. But still it was undeniably the rupture in the Republi can party and the hostile attitude of Conkling and Arthur te the administra tion which was the cause that the coun try is te-day arrayed in the blackness of deep mourning. A man of low degree, with au unhappy reputation, ascending into the presidency under this condition of public sentiment, evidently needs te guide himself most wisely and prudently te win for himself mere than public tolerance. In the calmness that attends the public grief, because of the long expectation of the death of Garfield, President Arthur will take his place without danger of the commotion that might have followed au immediately fatal result of the assassin's shot. The business and affairs of the country will move en with little disturbance. Chang ed political results will certainly fellow the change? control of the Republican party. Party ties are likely te be loosed by the stroke of this great tragedy, and in the common mourning into which all parties are plunged, and which is felt te be at least as sincere among the Deme crats as among the opponents of Garfield in the Republican party, the preju dices and hostility of the members of the' two great parties will be softened ; and the adherents of the dead president will find as kind a feeling in their hearts for the Democrats, who sincerely grieve with them ever his bier,as they will have towards any ethers in the universe of mourners. And geed citizens, who can bring unprejudiced minds te the con sideration of the national welfare, will incline te think of their country before their party, te its great benefit and glory. Perchance in such an epoch of geed feeling and wise thought lies the consolation for' our heavy sorrow and bereavement. TnE end has come. After eleven long weeks of watching and waiting, of suf fering and sorrow, the worst results that were apprehended have happened. The hopes and fears of the nation that rose and fell with the pulse beats of ils dying president have all been merged in the gloom of sorrow and the anxiety of doubts for the future. By his bedside the voice of faction has been stilled, and awaiting his fate partisan rancor has been dumb. His affliction was se piti ful, the assault upon him se dastardly, and he bore bis suffering se manfully and patiently, withal se hopefully, that the whole nation sympathized with the sorrow of his household, and the suffer ing of its stricken head. At the beginning of his prostration few ex pected any ether than the end which has come, but there have been two periods in which the public mind had been se much reassured as te lead it te a settled conviction of his likely recovery. Fer a week the indications have all pointed te this fatal termination. Nene the less does it come with startling effect, awakening a response of universal popu lar sympathy te which there has scarcely been a parallel. The long period of his suffering has only served te intensify the interest of the people in his prostration, their hope for his recovery, their fears for his fate, and their sorrow new that it has come te pass. Even in his death the president is fortunate in having had the prayers of the nation and of Christendom for his recovery; his brief administration will go into history with credit; his assassin and assassina tion will be for all time objects of human ity's execration, and himself and his family will never cease te be subjects of his country's love and sympathy. The first official act of President Ar thur should be the summoning together of the Senate. There is new no suc cessor te him and anarchy would fellow his decease. The possibility of such a result needs te be at once provided against. The Senate will elect a Demo cratic presiding officer, but that will be done whenever it assembles, and the postponement of its assembling until December will be of no advantage te the president's party. Mb, Gewex is back from Europe and tells the reporters that he is certain te be re-elected president of the Reading railroad at the next stockholders' meet ing, since his friends absolutely control a majority of the stock that will be voted, having purchased in the last sixty days sullicient stock te make this certain. Mr. Gewen wnild net say this unless he believed it te be tni3, and if he is net mistaken Mr. Bend's presidency will he as short as it has been inglorious. MINOR TOPICS. President Gakfielu expired atthuty five minutes past ten last evening. " Ged reigns and the goverumcut at Washington still lives." The city editor of an esteemed local contemporary has discovered a movement iu progress te create a temperance senti ment among the "common people" of the city. Of course it will net reach the uncommon people aieund the Examiiur office. Oun eei respondent who writes ficm College hill makes a forcible plea for only the common rights of all citizens and property within the city limits. Seme re lief for the condition of things which he depicts is a problem that the city must seen solve. It is notable that of the four presidents who have fallen at their pests three died very early in the terms in which they were chosen. Neither Harrison nor Lincoln (in his second term) had served two months and Mr. Garfield was iu the active discharge of his duties less than four months. It is idle te speculate that (iuileaii can not be hanged because his victim died iu New Jersey. On the ether hand, he has two chances of suffering death, since Xew Jersey new has a statute tiudcr which Guitcau could be convicted iu that state, and that statute was pioneunccd consti tutional in Hunter vs. Slate, 11 Vroom, 292. The Franklin county Republican com mittee in whooping up thepiiie campaign issued an address declaring that Garfield's assassination was "undoubtedly instigated in a large degree by the wickedly coarse and brutal attack made upon his character by the Democratic party during the cam paign of last year. " Seeing that a " Stal wart of Stalwarts " shot him, as lie de clared "te make Arthur president," this address was as timely as it was truthful. The Philadelphia Times calls attention te the factihat the regular session of Con gress is yet two and a half months dis tant. There is no president pre tem. of the Senate, no speaker of the Heuse, no one te perferin the executive duties iu case of the death of the new president. This is a peril te which our government should net be exposed a day longer 1 han is absolutely unavoidable, and the first dutv of President Arthur is is te call an extra session of the Senate at once. lie may deem it necessary te convene Congress, but the earliest reassembling of the Senate is a supreme necessity, te enable that body t) elect a president. The battle of Chickamauga was fought en the 19th and 20th of September, 1803, just eighteen years age. President Gar field was at that time Gen. Rosecrans chief of staff, and took an active part in the battle. At just about the hour of Garfield's death the Union troops were in a sadly demoralized condition having been repeatedly I eaten bythe ceafe Jerate legions that were hurled against them during the day and evening. On the following day, the 20th, the battle was renewed and stub bornly contested, the Union troops being finally driven from the field, and the whole country was in mourning for thousands slain, as it is te-day for the murdered pres ident. College journalism has net been en the whole a success. Even in the higher institutions of learning the attempts made in this direction have tee often been fail ures, the tendency being towards a weak attempt at a magazine or a silly sort of a low grade newspaper, and most editorial managements failing te reconcile the rights and interests of students and faculty, and at the same time supply the wants of the alumni. Among these who have struck the right path and kept iff it is The Col lege Student, of Franklin and Mar shall college, which is a novel puplica puplica tien in its line and which comes as close te the ideal college paper as any that has been brought te our notice. In neatness of typography and arrangement of its contents the Student is an exemplar for its class, but its speccial excellence lies in the freshness, the vigor and the " newsiness " of its sixteen pages of read ing matter. . The first number of its sec end volume has just been'published by an almost entirely new beard of student editors, and no higher compliment can be paid it than te say that it fairly rivals any previous number. College Student is a credit te the college and deserves well of all its friends. i PERSONAL. The dead president was just feity-uiue years and ten months old te a day. Colonel William B. Manx was yester day appointed te the third term of the prothenotaryship of the common pleas by the judges of the courts. News from the West report that Ciias. E. Gast, esq., has struck it rich in silver mining operations. His many friends iu Lancaster are glad te hear it. Surgeon General Baunes is quoted as having said, sinc3 his return te Washing ten, that the president was almost in a dying condition when he reached Leng Branch. Mr. Jehn Best and wife celebrated their silver wedding anniversary en Saturday evening by giving a banquet te the boiler works employees iu the machine shop at 5 p. m. and with an entertainment at the family residence in the evening. After Jehn T. Wait, of Connecticut, James W. Singleton, Alexander H. Stephens and Judge KelIey,the.Harrisburg Patriot discovers that our Hen. A. Heiik Smith is the Eldest congressman in the next Heuse, having been born just fifteen years after the close of the last century, it uses these names te point the fact " that the life of a public man lasts longer in France than in this country." FJKE! WATKK ! A I'lca ler the West Knd. Wc mean the West End of Lancaster city, or rathpr peihaps the Northwest End. New wc have it right. Every one knows that one of the fairest spots in and around Lancaster is the college campus. It is about the only paik the city can beast of. Although net public iu the full sense yet it is always open te visitors, and our citizens often find pleasure iu strolling through its shaded walks. Apart even from its being the location of one of our educational institutions, Lancaster should, and we bo be licvc docs, feel some pride iu having such a beautiful place within its limits. Run ning by the campus and along the western borders of the city is College avenue, which is destined te be one of the finest streets of the city. Buildings arc steadily and even rapidly growing up en the streets leading te this avenue. The time is near when private residences will be erected along the avenue itself. There is no bet ter location anywhere iu the city. The avenue is wide aud it will make a beauti ful drive. New the question we raise, is this : Is the eity performing its duty in reference te theso localities ? One of its duties is te pievide water facilities for this whole western cud. There is at present no pro tection against fire in any of the localities referred te. They are tee elevated te he reached by the water mains. Must a whole section of the city, and se eligible, remain without the necessary prevision of water, aud the valuable property there he exposed te the danger of fire ? This subject has been considered by (he city authorities; from time te time, but nothing has been done. Cannet our en gineers devise some plan by which this pressing want can be met ? Wc arc net prepared te suggest what it shall be, but certainly the city must feel the necessity of attending te this matter some day, why net de it new ? Why wait until the ave ave nue is built up before anything is done ? Se long as this want exists there is peer encouragement for erecting buildings there. We might refer in this connection also te the importance of grading College avenue. A beginning was made some years age, but what was then done left its condition rather worse than before. Some thing should be done also in paving West James street. It is built up new quite a distance out towards the college. A pub lie school building aud ether handsome buildings have been erected en this street. It also furnishes a beautiful drive aud is r ew much used in that way, and yet its CDiulitien at times is wretched. Net a square west of the railroad bridge has been paved. Wc think our plea for some improve ments iu the localities named is a geed one. It is the duty of the college te keep its beautiful grounds in proper condition, but we submit that the city lias duties also in the direction named. The college property should enjoy the same facilities aud the same protection that are provided for ether portions of the city. Studcuts and ethers residing in the direction and vicinity of the college should net be de prived of the ordinary facilities of travel exprcssage, etc., because at times a ve hicle can hardly lumber through the mud en James street. The same may be said of College avenue. As a cilizeu we favor due economy iu improving the city, but it seems te us that such a lair section of it should net be left behind all ether sections iu public im provements. We nave new briefly made our plea for the West End. In doing se, we believe we have spoken the sentiments of many ether citizens residing in that por tion of the city. We may add yet, and we de it with no reflection en our able and obliging postmaster, for it is net his fault, that there is but one daily mail delivery te the college grounds. Surely the large number of persons residing and rooming there should be accommodated with two deliveries a day. We hope what we have said may serve te direct attention te these wants and that our city fatners will en deavor te satisfy them as seen and as far as it is possible. Give us at least the or dinary protection from the danger of fire. A Citizen. At a meeting of the Union county Re publican committee yesterday, while no official action was taken respecting the candidacy of the Hen. Charles S. Wolfe, fifteen of the twenty members expressed themselves in his favor. DEAD, THE PRESIDENT'S ID. Fatal Termination of Leng Suffering. THE WEARY PATIENT IS AT REST. SIR. OAKKIKLD'S LAST MOMENTS. What of the Future Attorney General MacYeagh sent the following te Vice President Arthur at 12:23 a. m. : It becomes our painful duty te inform you of the death of President Garfield and te advise you te take the oath of office as president of the United States without delay. If it concurs with your judgment, will be very glad if you will ceme here en the earliest train te-morrow morning. William Windem, Secretary of the Treasury. W. H. Hunt, Secretaryef the Navy. Themas L. James, Postmaster General. Wayne MacVeaeii, Attorney General. S. J. KmicwoeD, Secretary of the Interior. The president died at 10:31 last night. Frem what can be ascertained hi3 death was from sheer exhaustion. Mr. Warren Yeung, assistant te Private Secretary Brown, brought the news from the cot tage at ten minutes befere eleven o'clock. The fust indication that anything serious had occurred was the appearance of a messenger at the Elberon hotel, who ob tained a carriage and drove rapidly off off He had gene te summon the members of the cabinet who left about half-hast nine p. m. Up te the last moment he showed as true, tried courage as ever was seen at the cannon's mouth. If ever man stared death resolutely and valiantly in the face it was James A. Garfield. About 10 o'clock At torney General MacVcagH sent his dis patch te Minister Lewell. At that time the president was lying quietly. Dr. Bliss had just left him and found his pulse 10G, with all the conditions premising a quiet night. The doctor asked him if he was feeling at all uncomfortable, and he an swered that he was net. After that he fell asleep. Dr. Bliss then retired te his room across the hall, leaving General Swaim and Colonel Rockwell with the president. At about fifteen minutes after 10 the president woke up and said te General Swaim, who was the nearest te him, "lam suffering," and then, after a pause, with intervals between each weid, "great pain ; I am suffer ing great pain." As he spoke he laid his hand upon his heart. Possibly he may have meant te in dicate his lungs'. Dr. Blis3 was immediately called. When he entered the room he found the presi den unconscious and substantially without pulse. His eyes were open, however. The action of his heart was almost impercepti ble. Dr. Bliss said at once that the presi dent was dying and directed that Mrs. Garfield he called into the room and that Doctors Agncw and Hamilton sent for. He remained iu a dying condition until 10:33 when he was pronounced dead. His death was scarcely expected by any mem bers of the family excepting Mrs. Garfield who had been warned te auticipate the worst. She was with him, kneeling by the bedside aud holding his hand, as, with the paleness stealing ever him and a smile upon his lips, his immortal soul winged its flight. At ten o'clock Secretary Brown's cot tage was dark and deserted. A few of the mere vigilant newspaper men sat talking quietly in the Elbereii piazza. Dr. Boyn Beyn Boyn ten was among thorn. At 10:20 a colored messenger called Dr. Boynton out in the dark and whispered te him excitedly. The doctor turned te the group of reporters. " The president is sinking rapidly," he said and disappeared in the gloom tow ard the president's cottage. In a minnte the sccne had changed. There was a hur rying about the Heuse and the word was quickly sent the length of Leng Branch that the president wa3 greatly worse. At 10:30 Captain Iugalls came across from the cottage slowly, as if nothing was wrong, and when questioned answered very quietly : ,l I was just sent for by the officer of the guard te send one of my men te the camp surgeon for mustard' for an application te the president's body." The reporters went out en the lawn te the guard lines te wait for tidings. The report that mustard had been sent for led te the report of another rigor. The re porters were nearly all out en the dark lawn, and there was a suspense. Sudden ly, with a rush the reporters came across the lawn, their beets sounding upon the hard piazza like horses stampeded. Iu an instant the little telegraph office at the Elberon was surrounded, and there was a shower of bulletins thrown upon the two paralyzed oporaters. " He is dead" was all that could be heard. Warren Yeung had brought the word. The president had died at 10:33. It was 10:30 when the word was received outside of the cottage where the dead president lay. Ne one directly from the cettage had been seen. Colonel Rockwell and Gen. Swaim, of the at tendants, were by his side. The excite ment for a few minutes was intense beyond description. Fifty newspaper men were en the hotel piazza five minutes after the report of the president's death. Their car riages surrounded the place, and the sounds of hurrying horses' feet were heard far up Oceau avenue, where the carriage lights were seen in rapid precession. The government at once was given the exclu sive use of the telegraph offiee at Elberon. Ne personal dispatches were scut. Mr. Yeung sent the first official announce ment off te Washington and te Menter. The president had been dead half an hour when, at 11:10, Windem, Hunt and James arrived from the West End. They went into the hotel office and were met by MacVcagll, who led them away te the cottage. It was then learned that the president had net died in a rigor. lie had suddenly shown signs of failing and mes sengers were sent out for all of the doctors and attendants. Every possible applica tion was used te revive him from the stu por which was apparently overtaking him. The end was plainly at hand, and presently he sank away. He was dead. The first report was net believed. When it was confirmed the messengers who hurried away in carriages and en horseback were called upon for confirmation of the dis tressing news by people aleug the way side. Mellie Garfield went into the sick room by permission te embrace her dying father. As she attempted te leave the room she fell in a dead faint across the threshold, cutting open her face and causing a great sensation among the household. Dr. A" new attended her and assisted her away. Tbe Last Scene or all. At fifteen minutes tot m o'clock General Swaim and Colonel Rockwell were in the room together. They were preparing for a quiet watcu, wnen ine president said, putting his hand te his heart : "Oh! what a pain!" General .Swaim came immediately te him and said, " Where is the pain ?" He ex claimed " Oh ! eh !" and Colonel Reck well taking bis pulse in his hand said te Swaim, " I can't find it." Swaim imme diately ran te Bliss's room and the alarm spread. Dr. Bliss came te tbe room. Mrs. Garfield, Mrs. Rockwell, Miss Mellie Garfield, Mr. C. O. Rockwell, Dr. Boyn ton and "Dan," the faithful colored ser vant, were summoned at once. Dr. Bliss came in quicker te the summons than could easily have been expected consider ing the small sleep he has had for the last three months. Hardly a minute, it seemed te the anxious waiters, elapsed before the doctor was in tbe room. His practical eye saw the immediate condition of affairs at once. The was au immediate necessity for raising the temperature. If it should tall beyond the point science had indicated there was no hope of another hour of the precious lite that for a moment lay in bis bands. 'i Bring ammonia and mustard instant ly," he said. Search was made for the two things that might, perhaps, have prolonged life a little while, but there was no mustard iu the room, and there was no ammonia there. A messenger ran across the darkened lawn te tlie Elberon hotel, perhaps a hundred and fifty yards away. He stumbled up the low perch of the hotel almost ex hausted in his breathless haste and wailed for the precious medicaments te be get. Warren Yeung, the military messenger, meantime galloped at headlong speed te camp, almost a half rnile away, for the mustard and ammonia, while theso in the rooms steed breathless. There was net a word te say. There was only one thing te de. It could net be done. Alene among many who loved him, help less iu the presence of the arch enemy even amid all his friends, and surrounded by all the appliances that modern science could conjure up. except the two simples that were needed, the great soul of the chief went forth into the darkness. It was net all iu a moment. The great heart that had fought se manfully against death se long was net stilled at once. Rallying from the exhaustion that set the seal of dissolution en his brew he awoke only te the consciousness of physical pain. " Oh, hew it hurts there !" said he again, with his hand still en'his heart. Modern science was peweriess. The man at last was dying. There were by his bedside these who had at their finger's end the utmost appliances of skill, the utmost resources of modern knowledge, yet death was there and Gcn Gcn eral Garfield was his victim. Mellie Garfield was clese beside him. Drs. Bliss and Agnew were there, se were Colonel Rockwell, Mr. C. O. Rockwell, General Swaim, Dr. Boynton, Mr. J. Stanley Brown, private secretary ; Mrs. Rockwell, Miss Lulu Rockwell, two mes sengers, Mr. II. L. Atchison, Mr. Jehn Ricard, Mr. Lancaster, Mr. Spriggs and two ether faithful attendants. " Oli, hew it hurts here !" the president said once mere ; then with an uneasy mo tion he seemed te try te turn ever, and drawing one long breath that was almost a gasp his tortured lungs refused their service. The heart was stilled and life was gene. THE NfcW PKKSIDENT. Uriuiifttlly Shocked ami Unwilling te Be lieve tlie News. General Aithur remained at his house in New Yerk city, all day yester day. About neon he received a despatch from Attorney General MacYeagh telling bow critical the condition of the president was. General Arthur was at home all the evening. The first news he had of the president's death was conveyed te him by two World reporters who called at 11:20. At first admission was refused. " Tell General Arthur the president is dead," one of them said te the servant. Ne sooner did the message reach him than General Aithur came into the hall, where the news was repeated. " I don't believe it can be tiue," was his reply. " I should have been notified if it were true." At 11:30 the first dispatch from Elberon reached General Arthur. A reporter again sought au interview. The colored seivantsaid : ' He is nlone in his library, his head is between his hands, and I don't dare speak te him." The first dispatch was followed by ethers in rapid succession. The second came at 12 o'clock, the next at 12:20. STATE ITEMS. What kind of girls have they in Wil Wil liamspert ? At a private party the ether evening iu that town " while some games were being played, tne Jiest s daughter, by some accident, kicked a young man en the leg and fractured it. A physician was summoned, aud the broken limb set, but the young man was compelled te remain ever night, and hobbled home Sunday morning en crutches." At the Democratic convention of Blair county yesterday Hen. Jehn Dean was indorsed for president judge. Recorder Themas II. Grcevy and Geeree A. Do De Do beync were elected delegates te the Will Will ianispert convention. Ne instructions, but a resolution was adopted expressing preference for Kerr, of Bedford, for treas urer. A resolution of sympathy with Garfield was adopted. A. Y. Dively was elected chairman of the county com mittee. LATEST NEWS BY MAIL. Rush B. Fairchild, a brakesman en (he Eric read, was found lying across the south rail of the Erie east-bound track at Bing Bing hamten, N.Y., cut in two across tin- abdo men. The body was forwarded te friends in Susquehanna, where the unfortunate man lived. The schnoencr Jehn Jehnsen, Captain T. B. Magcc, from Philadelphia for Bos Bes Bos eon, while lying at anchor oil Dunk creek Delaware Bay, September 10. spied a man adrift en a vessel hatch. The schoenor picked the man up and lauded him e.i Lewes beach. Aubury Winstew, a confidential agent of M. S. Ferbus, a Cincinnati perk me chant, has fled, leaving a letter, saying !.c had involved the firm iu speculation in wheat, causing a less, aud that he d-ied net face his employer. The amount the less is net stated, but it is believed e be from $15,000 te $20,000. The fire in Marieu ceunnty Oal., is spreading. It has increased rapidly and has burned ever The Throckmorton ranchc of 16,000 acres. The flames yesterday ex tended up the northern slope of Mount Tamalpais te the summit, where a force of men 13 trying te prevent the fire going down the seaward side. The town of Sancelite is threatened, If the fire extends ever Mount Tamalpais there is nothing te step it till the ocean is reached, a distance of fifteen miles of heavily timbered coun try. Thus far some CO, 000 acres have been burned ever, a large part of which was valuable timber land. A id for tbe Sufferers. Mayer MacGonigle acknowledges the following additional subscriptions in aid of the sufferers by the recent terrible fires in Michigan : Land leaguer $1.00 : Cash (C. B. L.) $1.00 ; Cash $3.00 ; C. F. Hager $10.00 : H.niirsh $3.00 ; S. B. nirsh $1.00. The mayor yesterday forwarded te the mayor of Detroit. $300 of the $317.73 thus far collected. Sale of Real Estate. Samuel Hess & Sen, auctioneers, sold at public, sale en Saturday, September 17, 1881, at Willow Street, Lancaster county, Pa., for Benjamin F. S teller a house and let te Aaren Resslcr for $1,523; at the same time a let with 33 feet front and 230 feet deep te Emanuel Steler for $189.50. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. THE TOWN IN MOURNING. LAST XIUHT'S SAD NEWS AT HOJIi:. Seme Striking Scenes en Our Streets. Mr. Rebert Clark, of the Intelligen cer, Mr. J. L. Ly te, of the Examiner, and Samuel 31. Scner, esq., were seated in the depot offiee of the Western Union tele graph company last night waiting for uews from the sick-bed at Elberon, when,about five minutes bifore clcvea, the operator, Mr. Edwaid Kress, beard Philadelphia " calling " the Lancaster office overthe wires ; and, remarking te his companions that he presumed there was a bulletin coming, picked up a blank, answered Phil adelphia's call and prepared te receive it. The two newspaper men and their legal companion peered anxiously ever the op erator's shoulder as the instrument re sumed the clicking sound, and Kress wrote, " The President is de ," when an exclamation in which horror and incrcdul ity were mingled burst from the lips of all three, and the operator was re quested te ask again there might be a mistake. " Ne use," Kress answered, "he is repeating it new," and again the mournful message of four words, " The President is dead," came sounding ever the wires with a click that found its sad echo in the hearts of the four gentlemen who Loud it. New it has swelled into a whirlwind of grief, comprising in its scope the whele civilized world, but falling with especial severity upon tbe loyal American people, who, hepintr against hope for a period of se many long, weary weeks, are thus made siclj at heart in the bitter realization of the worst fears with which theso hopes had ever been mingled. The three watchers, upon the confirma tion of the sad intelligence, hurried down street, informing every one whom they met that the cud had come aud that cud death. The rapidity with which the news spread was almost incredible. AVithiu a few minutes after the fact of the presi dent's death became known in this city, crowds of men began swarming towards the central part of the city. Where they came from was a mystery ; they seemed te rise up from the ground, aud from the garb of many of them it was plainly evident that they had been aroused from their slumbers. The Intel ligenceu bulletin beard, as it was first te make public proclamation of General Gar field's nomination at Ubicage, was lirst also te announce the message of death, the fatal result of the assassin's bullet. Within half an hour also after the recep recep tieu of the new?, tjie Intelligences building was heavily draped and the Hag lmug at half-mast, being thus fust te den the habiliments of mourning in this "hour of calamity that has overtaken the republic. By this tunc tbe court-beuse bell was telling forth the sorrowful intel ligence and was seen followed by that en the Empire truck house, Trinity Lutheran church and several ethers in various per tiens of the city. The whele city was reused by these tokens of mourning, and many " persons as they lay in bed or were startled from their .slum bers by the solemn telling at encj divined the significance of the unwonted commo tion. Groups of men steed around Centre square and the newspaper offices discussing the event in awe struck voices and a man ner that allowed no room te doubt the sincerity of the grief occasioned by the tragic and untimely taking-oil" of the chief of the land. It is safe te say that no event that has occurred in a great many years has produced such a striking effect upon our local population anil by natural inference upon that of the whele country ; and the tiuth of this assertion was most aptly illustrated in the lapid assembling of se many of the citizens of Laucastcr,ef all conditions, at an unreason able hour of the night Scores and hun dreds of them lingered about the telegraph and newspaper offices, hoping doubtless for a contradiction of the sad news that never did and never can come. The local aspect of last night's mournful event will long remain a vivid memory in the history of the community. While hundreds of people were hurrying from different parts of the city te the newspaper and telegraph offices te learn the intelligence from Elberon, the nature of which tlicy correctly apprehended from the telling of the bells, thousands of ether members of their families at home anxious ly awaited their report. As predicted in the afternoon press advices, the government had exclusive use of all the wires te and from the centre of inter est and information, aud it was impossible te learn mere than the brief tidings of the dispatch above referred te. This was con veyed by midnight te the residents of the city generally aud created general sorrow aud discussion in the homes of the peo ple far into the small hours of the morn ing. Early this niei ning the citizens of Lan caster were astir and anxious te hear the news, and the proprietors of nearly all the public buildings, offices, stores and some private dwellings were engaged in drap ing them with black stuffs, the main streets by 9 a. m. presenting a very funereal aspect, and groups of peeple in every quarter weie engaged in discus sion of the tragic incident aud prognosti cations of the future ceurse of events, national and political. The posteflicp, court-house, revenue col lectors' office, the city hall and Masonic hall, arc conspicuous for a prominent dis play of mourning emblems. The soldiers' monument en Centre square, under direc tion of G. A. It., has been draped with flags aud black goods from top te bottom, and every street shows a very general dis play of the habiliments of sorrow. Action or the Court. Court met at 9 o'clock a. m., Judges Livingston and Patterson en the bench, and most c.f the members of the bar being present. Samuel II. Reynolds arose and said : While wc feel quite sure that your honors would of your own motion take official netice of the sad news that has thrown this nation, nay the whole civilized world, into mourning, it has bscn deemed fitting that I, a member of this bar, make a formal an nouncement in open court of the death of llis Excellency James A. Gar field, President of the United States, which took place at Leng Branch at 10:33 last night, September 19. And new, in order that the cenrt and bar may be afforded an opportunity in the quiet of their respective homes te give expression te their grief, in the name of the bar, I meve that this court de new adjourn until te morrow morning at 9 o'clock. Mr. N. Ellmakcr said it was eminently proper that he as the eldest member of the bar present should second the motion just made. A great national calamity has befallen our country. A whele nation mourns the death of our beloved president. We have no geographical, no .sectional and no partisan boundaries,and all the civilized nations of the earth are in sympathy with U3. One of the world's heroes has been called from his earthly te his heavenly home. Judge Livingston said : Iu a moment like the present, when the whole nation is draped in mourning by reason of its ter rible bereavement, in the death of its be loved head, James A. Garfield, the presi dent of the United 'States of America, it seems fitting and proper that we should join in the general expression of sorrow and grief. These courts will therefore new adjourn until 9 o'clock tomorrow morn ing. " A Public Meeting. The mayor, it will be seen, has very eperly called a public meeting of our citizens at the court-house this evening, te give popular expression te their feelings at the affliction which has befallen the nation. Ne rerlermauce at ilie Open Heuse To night. Iu defcrence te the prevailing popular depression occasioned by the death of President Garfield, Manager Miller has canceled his engagement te introduce Miss Jennie Lee at the opera bouse te night, where she was underlined te appear in the play of "Je." Persons who had secure J their tickets cau have their money refunded en application at the box office. Mr. Miller has canceled all his dramatic performances for the week, from tbe same reason. Manager Misler has cancelled the en gagement for the appearance of Malm's opera company in Beccaccio" en Thurs day evening, ou account of the death of the president. CORONER'S INQUEST. INVKSTUJ.VllNO 1IEKUT. I'lC'lil.L'S DEATH. The Corener Again Snoeting Oil Ills .Meuth. The coroner's jury impanelled in the case of Henry Pickel, who was killed at Prince and AValunt streets by the ears, en Friday, met last evening in the orphans' court room. The evidence of a number of witnesses, including the euginccrand conductor of the shifter and several who saw the accident, was heard. M. Brosius aud A. F. Ilcrshcy, esqs., appeared as counsel for the deceased. The evi dence showed that upon the day of the accident, between 10 and 11 o'clock, the shifter was moving cars at a. siding near the Pennsylvania freight depot. Harry Evans, the cmiiner, was en the eu eu gine alone, the fireman having gene down in the neighborhood of tbe passenger depot te flag any approaching trains which were going west. The engineer testified that he did net see the man before he struck him ; when sorae one told him, he suddenly stepped. He was ringing the bell at the time and he had whistled when the train staitcd en the siding, some dis tance below tbe crossing. Tne accident occurred ou the side where the fireman would have sat had he been ou the engine. The fireman had been sent te flag because the regular llagman wa. doing work west of the crossing aud it is part of the fire man's duties, en such trains, te Hag. The train was running about as fast as a man could walk. A number of witnesses testified that they saw the man killed. Most of them swore that the hell of the shifter was ring ing, while one or two did net knew for certain. A reporter of thu Intelligences was present at the inquest and hu was called as a witness te testily in regard te some ra pmts concerning the maimer in which the train was run, which hu had heard ou this day. This was a harvest for the coroner, aud he took occassien te cress-examine the newspaperman at length, net however, in regard te anything that had been asked him by the jury. He wanted te knew something about reports that had been published concerning him, and seemed particularly anxious te " wash his dirty linen " (net meaning as he stated, by way of explanation, his linen pants). He asked questions which had about as much relation te the accident as te the attempted killing of Guitcau or the rcccut tires in Michigan. He made a speech just the same, and talked se loud that he almost blew the gas out He thumped his ponderous fist down upon the table until all present be came afraid, and the reporter trembled for fear that he would b killed. At last he concluded and after his bellows had been closed the whole audience breathed easier and they all wanted te knew what the subject of hi.s " few rc niaiks" had becii. The reporter asked him whether he was investigating the ac cident or the reparler's conduct en this da) hut the conundrum was left un solved, and the coroner new thinks that he has hail revenge, which is very sweet te him. The jury in the case failed te agree en a verdict and have adjourned until this even ing. Tobacco Sales- We note the following recent sile of '81 tobacco : Jacob Hcidlchauch, of Pe qnca township, te Oppenheimcr4 acres at 2.1, 9 end 5 : 0 acres te the same at 20, H and U ; Henry Bewman, of Providence township, te Sticner 20 around ; Mrs. Buch, of East Hempficld, te Isaac Kauff man 3 acres at 2 1 around ; L. I. Lindcu muth, of West Cocalico township, te I'os I'es enhaum :i acres 30, 10 and 3 : must show 20 inches for 30 cents; L. I. Lindciunuth, of West Cocalico, te E. aud G. Friend & Ce. 7 acres 30, 10 and 5; must show 21 inches for 30 cents ; M. Shenk, of Maner township, te Laaur man. 12 acres at 29, t3, 8 and 3 ; G. A. Tayler, of Maner township, te the same, 4 acres at 21, 10 and .1 ; Hiram Witmcr, of Tllaner township, te the same, 4 acres at 2G, 14, 10 and 4; Jehn Leng, of Diumore township, te D. 11. Burkhelder, 3J acres at 25 round ; J. M. Deavcr, of Drnmere township, te Jehn Sur.cr, (! acres at 25, 10 and 4 ; Mr. Aumcut, of Drumerc town ship. toJehnSener, 4 acres at 25 round ; A. Kurtz, of Salisbury township, te Sam uel Hendersen, for wrappers 28: Rnfus Cline, of Clay township, te Teller.-at 20 and 3 ; Aaren Cline, of Clay township, te Frcy, 3 acres at 22, 7 and 3 ; Themas R. Neel, of Fulton township, te Campbell, at 2G, 15, 10 and 3, 7J acres. The Ill'it-inians. 'I he appearance of Healcy's Hibernian minstrels at Fulton opera house last even ing was greeted by au audience of medium size. The entertainment comprised a eus temary minstrel lirst part in which a dozen men and two women wci e heen, all in white faces and the men in Irish garb. Bryan O'Lynn ami Tem Muriay, en the end chairs, did the funny business, and get off some jokes, which were alternately fresh and fish-like. Then came a series of panoramic views of Ireland, which wcr'e net very geed, and which could have been batter described by a school hey than they were by the fierce looking pciben who last night attempted the task. During the exhibition of the views there jvasMughig, dancing, sketch acts, etc, which were fair. Ned West in Ethiopian specialties, Jee and Annie Bur gess in a comedy sketch, Bryan O'Lynn in an Irish character act, aud Tem and Hen rietta Murray in a sketch seeming te please, the audience, while the wind-up described as the "rearing" farce of the " frish Tourists" furnished au immense amount of fun for the gallciy. Tlie Umpire' Trip te Kcadln?. The Empire hook and hdder company will held a meeting this evening te take action in regard te the proposed trip te Reading. The members of the Empire have sent several telegrams te Reading and have received answers. The officers of the parade state that the parade will net he postponed, but all tbe apparatus must be drapsd in mourning. The Empire will likely go. Time, Time, Time. The court-house clock is in a bad con dition. On the north side it is impessible for a passer-by te tell the time of day as the figures en the face arc almost invisible. On the west side the clock has been a qnaitcr of four for three or feurday.s past. Pantomime. J. II. Laine, agent of Geerge n. Adams' new pantomime company, was in town te day making arrangements for the ap pearance of the show here en September 28. f f wc fi. ,-vt.,.. -$". "-.. . Xh.fr'r xL- S"- -i fr-y
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