LANCASTER DAILY INTELtfGENCElL THUKSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22: 1881.
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THURSDAY EVENING, SEPT. 22, 1881.
Tke Firemen's Parade.
Seme of our citizens complain bitterly
of the firemen who have gene in tbis
time of mourning te join the parade at
Beading. We hardly think that they
are just. It might have been better if
the managers of the Heading demonstra
tion had postponed it for a week, but as
they did net de se, our firemen were
quite right te go. There is nothing
wrong in holding the parade at tbis sea
son. It was appointed in ignorance of
the future, and after all the arrange
ments had been made for it its postpone
ment would have worked great inconve
nience. The firemen can parade while
they are grieving at the president's
death just as appropriately as they could
perform their daily avocations at home
in the same state of mind. The lively
musicofabandmaybetheughtsomewhat
incongruous amid the evidences of
mourning ; but if this is all the trouble
the drams can be muffled, or the
tunes be sobered. There is, how
ever, a great deal of nonsense in
the general sentiment Uint people
who grieve should wear lugubrious trap
pings andgfce about in a dismal way
under pflii ortseiilien. There is no
one who thinks it incumbent upon him
te forbear te laugh and te wear a solemn
visage, because of the president's death,
unless he hapiiens te be en public exhi
bition at the time. He does net think
that his smiling face demonstrates a cal
lous heart ; and it does net. When he
assumes a solemnity of ceunteuance it is
in deference te a public prejudice, which
he shares himself ; but which really
is a very silly one indeed. We approve
of the (ire laddies going te Heading and
of their having a geed time while there,
with plenty of geed and lively music and
innocent enjoyments of every kind. We
knew they won't mourn the president's
death any less sincerely than if they had
been kept at home by an unreasonable pre
judice, and had thereby suffered inconve
nience, less and mental aggravation. If
geed people would but let ether people
alone te fellow their own judgment of
the propriety of their doings, and net in
terfere in what is none of their business,
they would often show their wisdom. As
long as the firemen don't violate any
law they have a right te par.ule when
ever they want te without being abused
for it.
President Arthur's initiatory
movements are net very reassuring.
Surrounded by a few local politicians he
hastened Je have the eatli of office ad
ministered te him at two o'clock in the
morning by a city judge called up out of
his bed ; which does net seem te have
been a very dignified way of doing the
business. If he could net wait till he
get te Washington, it weuM seem at least
te have been proper te have postponed
the ceremony for a few hours until
he could have taken the oath of
office with the cabinet by his
side as its witnesses. Then, instead of
quietly running down te Leng Branch
en a regular train next meruing,he waited
until lie could go through the fuss of
having a special train fixed for him ; and
at night, when he get back te his house
in New Yerk, the common visitors were
sent away from the deer with the infor
mation that he had gene te bed, while
his intimate friends and big fellows like
Grant had ready entree. Small things
these are, perhaps, but yet indicative
straws. His associates are District At
torney Bliss, Police Commissioner
French, Johnny Davenport and that
class of political prostitutes ; and Ar
thur's virtue is net likely te be greater.
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Congress can be relied upon te make
liberal prevision for Mrs. Garfield, and it
is possible that it would he decidedly
mere grateful te her te be thus provided
for than te receive the gifts of citizens.
But there is certainly no reason why
these who incline te give te her out
of their abundance should net make te
her the offering ; nor is there any geed
reason why she should net accept it,
even though a donation by the whole
nation through Congress might be mere
agreeable te her. The reason of public
policy which forbade her te ba put under
obligation te citizens whom her husband
had the power te reward ceased te exist
with his death ; and everyone may in
dulge his generous desire te make the
stricken widow comfortable without fear
of accusation of selfish motive, and she
may accept without embarrassment.
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Gen. Grant sticks te Arthur as a
shadow, and Senater Jenes has the honor
of entertaining the two in hisWashiugten
house ; while peer old Hayes comes in
alone at the eleventh hour, appearing at
Pittsburgh yesterday en a common train
among the common passengers, inappro
priately arrayed! n a white waistcoat and
perchance deemed te a common board beard
ing house bed and table at Washington.
Grant don't boom because he is aji ex
president, evidently, but because he has
a high opinion of himself. Ne doubt it
gave him geed satisfaction te be se be
nevolent as te descend te the level of
Arthur's association ; he had his com
pensation in seclusion from ether com
mon fellows in the common herd.
Governer Cernelx. has. appointed
Monday, the funeral day, as a day of
prayer and abstention from business in
New Yerk, and we presume his example
will b3 followed in Pennsyluania and
ether states. It will be fitly done. Our
governor made such a mess of it when
he lately appointed a time of fasting and
prayer and fixed a day se close that the
ether states could net get up te his pace,
that we suppose he has been afraid te
take the initiative iu tbis line again.
But he can safely fellow the New Yerk
governor's lead.
When the Examiner says that the
editors of the Intelugeneer, or any
body else, "bossed" or undertook te
" boss " the late Democratic county con
vention, or that its refusal te nominate
Judge Livingston, or te nominate no
candidate for judge, was anything but
the free will of almost the entire con
vention, the Examiner publishes a wil
ful, baseless and malicious lie, which is
mere of a disgrace te itself than an in
sult te the Democracy of the county.
Senater Jenes tells us that Arthur
has been much disturbed by the respon
sibilities cast upon him.but has made up
his mind that he has te meet them. He
is going te have a brand new cabinet
that will be in entire harmony with his
views. Blaine is te be supplied with
rheumatism as a reason for getting out,
and te Windem it is suggested that his
work is finished ; the smaller fry will be
shot out without ceremony. Arthur,
according te Jenes, reads men through
at a glance, understands the popu
lar feeling and is net going te
make any mistakes. Ne doubt Ar
thur knows men better than Garfield,
and is a geed politician it has been his
trade and livelihood. If he wasn't that
he wouldn't be anything. And it is be
cause he knows men that we don't see
much comfort for the country the men
that are closest te him being such fear
ful travesties of a statesman's fiiends.
With Geerge Bliss and Johnny Daven
port in the kitchen cabinet the adminis
tration will be a pus cavity in the side
of the country. '
MINOR TOPICS.
A Dispatch from Berlin Bays : " The
ilew of emigrants te America continues te
be incessant. During the present year
1000,000 have emigrated.
Tun French aie used te such mean oys
ters that, epicures as they are, they can
not appreciate our royal bivalves, te swal
low one of which raw niade Thackeray
feel as if lie hail eaten a baby.
1'j.AYwmr.iiTs arc excited and angry
ever the action of Judge Dcvcn.s, of Mas
sachusetts, late attorney general, in decid
ing that the unlicensed representation of
a play get by memory from seeing its per
formance is net piratical.
Rekekt Celi.veu, in a teceut eloquent
sermon iu New Yerk, spoke with empha
sis in condemnation of the habit of carry
ing revolvers. He said : "The farmer has
a revolver in his bedroom, and the merest
boy en the slightest provocation pulls out
his pistol. Twe hundred years, have
proved that in civil life, at least, the
Quaker is right. Ne Quaker ever sheets,
aud no Quaker ever is shot. There should
be general disarmament, and we should
guard the sale of pistols as we guard the
sale of poisons. It is the brutality that
comes from the possession of weapons
that docs the harm."
The Philadelphia Telegraph points out
that " a great mistake wai made in the
manner of the trial and the execution of
the people implicated and accused of im
plication in the assassination of President
Lincoln, and the nation cannot at all
afford te have any blundering done iu the
case of President Garfield's assassin, or
that Guitcau shall be otherwise tried or in
any ether manner punished than the .strict
letter of the law provides." The same
paper has the most pronounced views
against Stalwartism and thinks that " if
the dead president left his successor any
single duty te de mere imperatively nec
essary te be done than another it was te
destroy Stalwartism. The country hopes
and expects him te de it."
Tue Oil City Derrick puts en a unique
emblem of mourning ever the calamity
that new weighs down the people of the
United States. It is a typographical design
of a shapely monument surmounted by a
cress. The monument bears an inscription
highly eulogistic of the virtues and services
of the dead president, aud quite handsome
ly set. The design is composed entirely of
rule weik, and besides being a very credit
able specimen of typographical skill pos
sesses also the merit of striking originality
in the expression of a great grief that has
surpassed the bounds of adequate utter
ance in the ordinary forms. The Der
rick's monument will be a veritable memo,
rial of an cxtrerdiuary case that has been
without precedent in the history of the
republic. It occupies three columns of the
front page of the paper.
PERSONAL.
Edwaiid IlniNTON, esq., started en feet
this morning en a visit te Honeylireok,
Chester county.
MissLr..n: B. Gar.y reached Philadel
phia yesterday en the steamship British
King and arrived home at 7J o'clock last
evening. She is looking very wall and
says she was net sick a moment during her
entire trip.
Colonel P. N. GuTinun, Pittsburgh,
has selected a delegation te press his
claims for tbe state treasurer nomination
at Williamsport. Cel. James P. Barr, J.
K. P. Duff, J. B. Guthrie aud Wm.
McClelland wilt be en the delegation.
Dr. Talmage has become the editor of
a magazine and he announces that "it will
be the vehicle of "the best undenomina
tional thought of the times." Frem this
the Philadelphia Bulletin cruelly infers
that Dr. Talmage deas net propose te
write for it himself.
The grave of " Petek Pauley " (Samuel
G. Goedrich) is in a rural graveyard near
Southbury, Conn., only a little way from
the Goedrich place. The marble .slab at
the head bears as an emblem an open
bjek with two or three dogs eaicd leaves
a very significant memorial of the pio
neer in children's literature.
J. W. Simonton is uet yet judge oftle
Dauphin-Lcbanen district. The judicial
conferees failing te make a choice at Lob Leb
anon a few days age, met again at the
Lechicl hotel, Ilarrishurg, yesteiday.
After taking twelve unsuccessful ballets
the conference adjourned te meet at liar,
risburg October 1. The Lebanon people
are still for Cyras Miller and a resident
jndge.
Senater Burnside at one time attempt
ed te carry out a certain reutine of work
and amusement after the fashion of foreign
statesmen. A friend who called upon lfim
one evening found liim writing out a
speech, with a pet of het tea beside him
for stimulant and a music box near grind
ing out lively aiis. Every morning he
took a brisk walk en Pennsylvania avenue
and in the afternoon a drive iu his deg
cart.
An esteemed Republican contemporary
has hopes for AnTnun if he will "shake"
his wicked partners : "He ewes nothing
new te any men, but everything te- the
people. Te them he ewes the noblest
purposes, his most elevated convictions,
his highest principles, his most patriotic
sense of duty. Henry, Prince of Wales,
becoming King Henry V., bad no longer
use for Faurtaff, TJardelph, Pistol and
Page. He cast them and his errors off
when the dignity and majesty of his king
ly office demanded it. President Arthur
has risen te a higher than kiugly office ;
the dignity and majesty of it demand that
he shall turn his bask upon the Stalwart
bosses and use the power that has been
given hira te destroy Stalwartism."
OCR HOME COLLEGE.
ueserved Tribute te Franklin aud Marshal:.
" Alumnus " In Reformed Church Messenger.
It will net be denied that, in temporal
matters, at least, the condition of the col
lege has greatly improved since the days
when the recitations were held in the old
academy en Lime street. Its property,
originally purchased at a low rate, has be
come very valuable, aud the campus has
grown te be the most beautiful spot iu the
vicinity of Lancaster. In consequence of
several liberal bequests the endowment
has considerably increased, and it is
affirmed, by these who knew, that net a
single dollar of the invested funds have
been lest, mat tue students sun preserve
their ancient spirit is proved by the fact
that, during this year, one of the society
halls was thoroughly repaired and refur
nished by the members of the society,
aided by the contributions which they
personally solicited from the friends of the
institution.
The college, ic should be remembered,
is a classical institution, pure and simple.
It has no scientific course, and no irregu
lar students. Though it might be possi
ble te increase the number of students by
introducing these " modern improve
ments," it is questionable whether, under
present circumstances, any geed would
really result. Ifthere were no ether ob
jections, the means are net at hand te es
tablish separate technical schools ; and
the faculty is net sufficiently numerous te
carry en special courses without seriously
maiming the present regular order. It is
better te de one thing well than te attempt
a half a dozen and te fail in them all.
Iu its adopted curriculum the college
challenges comparison with ether instu instu
tiens of a similar grade. In several in
stances, students belonging te ether relig
ious donemionations have preferred te
finish their studies in one of the old and
celebrated Eastern colleges, it was found
that they had no difficulty in taking an
equally advanced position in their course,
aud thus finishing it without an interims
sien. It is pleasant te see that these facts
are coming te he mere generally appre
ciated ; and though there are colleges in
the state which make a greater show of
graduates, it will generally be feuud, en
sifting the matter, that their numbers are
swelled by scientific students, and that
the number of graduates in the regular
classical course is no greater than our own.
We de net make these statements in a
vain-glorious spirit. There are plenty of
things te humble us. There are pressing
requirements, which must be speedily met,
if our educational interests are te receive
the highest development of which they are
susceptible. Te some of these require
ments we may take occasion te refer here
after. Our object in writing the present
article has been te show that a foundatieu
lias been laid, en which the friends of the
institution may safely build. Every dol
lar that is iu w contributed will be made
te tell for the upbuilding of the college,
as it could never have done before. Our
endowment is at best but a handful com
pared with that of several neighboring
institutions, aud every year brings new
educational demands which it is new im
possible te meet. The time has come for
the friends of the college te decide
whether it is te be ceuteut te labor iu a
comparatively limited circle, or whether,
by their efficient aid, it is te seek te ex
tend its influence te the state and the na
tion. i
STATE ITEMS.
Seme Pittsburgh firomen hanged Gui
tcau in effigy.
Jacob Hcffert, of Grccnsburg, shot him
self fatally by accident while gunuing.
Alexander Stewart, an old man of seven
ty, being sorely afflicted with measles,
committed suicide by hanging in Erie.
Edward Mowery was cut in two by the
cars en the Lake Shere track.
The beard of pardons has net met since
Juue te the great inconvenience aud delay
of suitors for the mercy of the common
wealth, and there is loud complaint ever
a further postponement until late next
month.
"The adjournment of Democratic con
ventions was net only a laurel but an olive
wreath that will net be forgotten," is what
the Republican Pittsburgh Telegraph says
of the action of the representative body of
the ether party in that city.
Out of respect te the president's mem
ory Qce. II. Adams did net perform iu
Danville last Monday evening as advertised.
Frederick Paulding declines te fill any
engagements until after the funeral, and
the Yungstewn, Ohie, manager will sue
him for a breach of contract.
Rev. Nclseu Russell several years age
raised money and built a chapel at Plains,
Luzerne cduuty, but subsequently left en
account of a factional fight and settled at
Dunmore, Lackawanna county. He lately
married aud visited friends at PI aius, who
asked him te pi each. His former enemies
prevented his getting into the chapel and
his friends rallied and tore the building
down.
At a meeting of the Garfield Vcterau
corps of Pittsburgh, a representative of
the Hancock legion appeared and announc
ed the desire of the organization te which
he is attached te act in concert with the
corps in giving expression te the grief felt
in common ever the less of the president.
The Garfield corps thereupon extended au
invitation te the Hancock legion te par
ticipate with it in any ceremonies which
might be deemed appropriate upon the oc
casion of the passage of the funeral cor
tege through that city or upon the day of
interment at Cleveland.
William B. Herner, late managing editor
of the Commercial Gazelle, one of Pitts
burgh's best known and ablest journalists
died yesterday. Mr. Herner entered the
employ of the Commercial Gazette when
but seventeen years of age, first being a
carrier, then reporter, then city editor and
finally managing editor. Overwork at
the time of the president's sheeting was
the original cause of the illness that lias
just had this fatal termination, and a
singular phase of which was the fact that
during the entire period of the president's
prostration Mr. Herner's condition varied
according te that of the illustrious patient
whose sufferings have at length ended and
whom the Pittsburgh editor se quickly
followed te the eale realms of shade.
A Tragic Death.
Daniel Dukenhill, an old citizen of
Heward township, Washington county,
tied a rope around his body and having
arranged a signal descended his well te
clean it. Feeling the "damps" he made
the agreed signal, and these en the out
side commenced drawing him up. He
shouted out te them te draw faster, and
this se excited and frightened them that
they ceased pulling en the rope when he
was half way up, and fastening it te the
curb went for help, leaving the old man
dangling head downward. When the
help arrived he was dead.
Jeseph Heranetzky, a farmer in Colfax
county, Neb., choked his wife te death
and killed her mother with a axe. He
had quarreled with his wife and her fam
ily about some money which bad been
left te him, they wishing te get held of
it.
THE PgAP PRESIDENT.
Under the Deme la Washington.
On our first page will be found some
fresh and interesting reminiscences of the
dead president. Besides these, and our
telegraphic accounts of the funeral train's
journey yesterday and the advices from
Washington and ether points of interest
wired thence te-day, there is little te add
en the event of ruling popular interest.
The train reached Washington at 4:33
p. m., and amid the most solemn pageant
ry of wee and in the sight of fifty thousand
mourning people the precession of cars,
and then the casket borne te the hearse,
and the hearse en its way te the capitol,
moved through the city and the body was
laid en the catafalque under the dome.
The capitol is a wonderful spectacle,
draped en the outside and inside with the
emblems of sorrow. A crown of crape
surmounts the railing immediately under
the Goddess of Liberty en the capitol. It
can be seen far outside of the city, before
any ether emblems of sorrow are visible.
It stands out en the ;reat white dome of
the capitol like the widow's weeds in the
midst of white at a wedding.
The White Heuse is desolate, but draped
in black throughout. Mrs. Garfield wants
te never see or enter it again ; she and her
family are stepping with Attorney General
MacVcagh.
At 5:35 the lid of the casket was epcucd
aud the face of the late president was ex
posed te view. Noiselessly President
Arthur and Secretary Blaine approached
and gazed upon the facb of the dead and
then slowly and sadly passed out of the
hall. A line was formed and one by one
these present advanced and glanced at the
emaciated and discolored face of the dead
president. The public at large were then
admitted and from then until te-morrow
evening tens of thousands will have looked
upon the dead.
The fund for the Garfield family is rap
idly running up te $300,000.
Yeung James Garfield is se far recov
ered from his illness as te be able te go
from Williams College te the funeral.
It is said that District Attorney Cork Cerk
hill has new come te the conclusion that
Guitcau cannot be convicted of murder un
der the laws of the District of Colum
bia. The assassin is reported te be "some
what restless," and te be engaged in
"writing his reflections en the sheeting
and the president's death."
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Frederick Jurcn, aged 34, committed
suicide by hanging himseir from a rafter
of his tenement because his sweetheart
fooled him.
Charles. Deter walked five miles for the
purpese of killing his wife, at Yorktown,
Indiana. Finding her with some visitors,
Whom he was tee pelite te disturb, he
committed suicide instead.
$20,000 less and the supposed burning
of a missing employee, who slept in the
shops, have ensued from the destruction
by fire of the steam weed turning and
bending mill for the manufacture of wagon
material, at Richmond, Va.
Geerge Scahr, 37 years old, of 88 Sheriff
street, JNcw leik, who is only four feet
tall, became jealous of his wife because she
was noticed by a neighbor, who was a tall,
handsome man, and took his own life with
paris green.
While senator Jenes declares that a
stalwart cabinet will be appointed the
stalwart organ at the capital has an ad
vertisement asking in the name of "Grand
Bounce " for a list of Democratic clerks in
the postal department.
The marriage of Gustavus, Crown Prince
of Sweden, with the Princess Victeria,
only daughter of the Grand Duke of
Baden, has come off. The King of
Swcderjud the Emperor of Germany cou ceu cou
dnctcdnhe bride, and the Duchess of
Saxe and Queen Sephia of Sweden, the
bridegroom. The Crown Princes of Don Den
mark and of Germany were present.
Professer Barnard, at Nashville, has
discovered a bright telescopic comet, in
seven hours lerty-six minutes right ascen
sien, and thirteen degrees twenty-eight
minutes north declination, with a motion
of three degrees northeast. Professer
Swift, of Rochester, the same morning
caught a view of the long-expected
Encke's comet, visible near Bata Auriga.
Four comets are new visible by the aid of
telescopes iu the sky.
me oeuy ei jurs. Arthur stern was
found en the prairie near Lawndale, III.,
with a bullet hole iu the left temple, tier
husband, who is a drunken vagabond, has
previously admitted murdering her, then
denied it and new admits it. He said that
he did it because his pcople wished te sep
arate tuem. iney agreed te die together,
but when he saw her dead he did net have
courage enough te kill himself.
Dr. Henry C. Cele, mayor of Kokomo,
lud., has been shot and killed by a sheriff's
pesse. Fer years Cole has been suspected
of crooked ways, and he has been shad
owed by detectives for a long time. The
sheriffs posse was watching the Spring
mills, having had an intimation that the
doctor intended that night te rob the mill.
He had an accomplice, and they had car
ried four sacks of Heur from the mill,
when lire was opened, resulting in Cele's
instant death.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
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FATAL ACCIDENT.
Jacob Fritz ISreaks Ills Neck.
Mr. Jacob Fritz, residing near Couesto Ceuesto Coueste
ga Centre, fell from au extension ladder
yesterday while picking apples, broke his
neck and died. He was about twenty
five feet from the ground. The accident
was caused by the rope which held the
two sections of the ladder slipping. De
ceased was one of Couestega's most high
ly respected citizens. He will be buried
at Mt. Zion Evangelical graveyard en Sat
urday morning at 10 o'clock. An inquest
was held this morning.
THE M1LLKR.1VILLK SCHOOL.
A Larger Attemlunce Than Ever.
Wc are informed by a reliable gentle
man, who is in an excellent position te
knew all the facts, that the prospects of
attendance at the Millcrsville Nermal
school this winter's session are better than
last ; that 26 students entering en Men
day brought the total number up te
312, many mere than were there at the
same date a year age, with an out
look for numerous additions yet.
Wc are informed upon the same author
ity that the Inteij.igexcek errs in opin
ing that the the persons forbidden the
greuuds were excluded "because they
synipauuzeu wiiu me reveiters. " it is
claimed that "that is only part of the rea
son. This action was contemplated long
before the revolt was thought of." " These
young men, " it is alleged, "have 'been
a constant anueyance for years. " They
have "abused the hospitality" of the in
stitution, it is claimed, "and used the in
strumentalities of the school te injure
aud, if possible, destroy itS "
It is also claimed by friends of the fac
ulty that the pamphlet statcMent pub
lished by the revelters "abounds iu the
most outrageous misstatements and exag.
geratiens," and that the faculty have
done nothing in the way of following the
expelled students beyond the institution
except te send the list of names te the
ether normal schools as required by the
rules governing nil the state normal
schools.
As te the preparations made for the en
forcement of the regulation cxclndiug cer
tain persons from the grounds and hall?, it
said the faculty had information that they
I intendedlast Friday night te
defy the I
prohibition or tne oeara
THE nUMKN IN BEADING.
The Firemen's Propeert insurance Cem
pany.
In the state convention of firempn in
Reading, Lancaster county has been rep
resented by Geerge H. Ettla, of Marietta,
Geerge W. Schroeder, of Columbia, D. D.
Courtney, of Ehzabethtewn. H. E. Slay-
maker, Jacob Uable, Jacob Herzeg, W.M.
Franklin, Samuel B. Cox, A. S. Edwards
and J. K. Barr, of this city.
On the matter of a firemen's insurance
company, the committee appointed Ter
that- purpose, J. K, Barr, of Lancaster,
chairman, reported a plan for organiza
tion. They submitted the necessary
blanks. The capital stock is te be $200,
000, in 4,000 shares of $50 each. The
company is te bear the title of the Volun
teer Firemen's Insurance Cempauy, $10
per share te be paid at the time' of sub
scription, $10 within 60 days after, and
the balance within six months. The
books for subscription te the stock were
opened September 20, at 2 p. m and will
be kept open during the couventien. The
first privilege te subscribe wilt be
long te the companies of the state,
then te the individual members,
aud finally te the general public.
Mr. Barr eulogized the firemen for their
bravery in getting up at the dead of the
night, and saving their neighbors' property
at the risk of their lives. In Lancaster he
said, the companies get annually $400 by
the giace of Ged and city councils for all
their work, and it is just about enough te
pay off the mortgages en their properties.
D. D. Courtney, of Ehzabethtewn, offered
a resolution that it is the sense of this
convention that the headquarters of the
Volnnteer Firemen's insurance company
be in the city of Harrisburg. On motion
of Alderman Barr, of Lancaster, the reso
lution was laid en the table, and finally it
was ordered that subscription books for
the stock of the company be opened for CO
days, the subscribers te name the directors.
It being agreed that a committee of five
be appointed who will assign the different
topics te committees for the preparation
of essays te be presented at the next
meeting, the following committee was ap
pointed : J. Lew Rake, Reading ; W. II.
Albright, Yerk ; G. AV. Schroeder, Colum
bia ; A. G. Dewalt, Allentown, and W.
E. Desilver, Hollidaysburg.
President McCool announced the fol
lowing executive committee : Charles
Sharpless, Chester ; Henry A. Derr, Ner
list own ; Samuel Owen, Shaniekin ; W.
P. Kelley, Scranton ; J. K. Barr, Lancas
ter ; William II. nern, Catasauqua ;
James A. Green, Carlisle ; M. McMahon,
Bradford ; Geerge W. Crede, jr., Blairs
ville; B. Flcischman, Reading; S. Charles
Sckiemau, Bethlehem.
The Paraile.
The Shillier cempauy, of this city,
headed by the Keystone band and mar
shaled by H. Smeych, left this morning
and reached Reading in geed time for the
parade te-day. They looked very well
and marched admirably. The Shiftier was
the third company in the first division of
the parade, the Empire the second com
pany in the eighth, the hook and ladder
division.
In the parade all apparatus aud colors
were draped in mourning in respect te the
memory of the universally lamented
and sad death or the president of
the United States, and in view of the sol
emn event the companies ami individual
firemen se deported themselves during the
parade, as te make it an impressive tribute
te the nation's sorrow. In the final re
view and closing of the parade, the bands
as they reached Penn square with muffled
drums, played dirges of music appropriate
te the occasion.
Feli into a Cellar.
Te-day's Heading Times.
Last evening about half-past ten o'clock"
a uium man, who was uenig led by a com
panion, while passing up Washington
street fell into a cellar that is new being
excavated at the site of the old Junier
engine house. The man was only slightly
bruised by the unlucky fall, but the accor
dion that he was carrying at the time was
se damaged as te be entirely useless. It is
stitcd that the unfortunate pair are from
Lancaster county, and were loud in
bewailing the less of the instrument upon
which they depended for earning a livli livli livli
hoed. i
MAN MlfeSINU.
.Reported
te nave Committed
Search ler the lledy.
Suicide
Fer some days past a young man named
Albert Swartz, 27 years of age, and resid
ing with his parents Ne. 222 Middle street,
between Lime and Rockland, has been miss
ing from his home. As he was a some
what eccentric character, and is said te
have threatened suicide en a former occa
sion, his parents becanie alarmed, and
yesterday made search for him along the
banks of the Concstega. While thus en
gaged they were met by a inau who knew
them, who told them te go home : that
their son's body had been found in the
Concstega, near the railroad bridge, and
that it would be brought home. While
returning home they met Chief of Police
Deichlcr, told him what they had heard,
and requested him te notify the coroner.
The chief did se, and about 4 o'clock in
the afternoon the coroner, the chief and
several ethers proceeded te the scene of
the alleged drowning for the purpose of pro
curing the body and holding an inquest.
When they reached the creek they were
unable te find the body or anybody that
knew anything about the alleged drown
ing. It began te dawn upon them that
they had been hoaxed, and after making a
somewhat careful examination of the
stream they returned te the city. Yeung
Swartz is still missing ; and his friends
stilt fear that he may have committed sui
cide. The report published iu the Neie Era
that Swaitz had been killed near Ranck's
mill, en the Pennsylvania railroad, was
also a hoax, no doubt imposed upon the
city editor of our esteemed contemporary.
Swartz's mother and wife called at the
IxTKr.T.iGEXCEU oflice this morning and
they are much distressed at his disappear
ance, as well as the sensational stories put
afloat concerning him which have caused
them much wernment. The veunir man
has been afflicted with dropsy for some
time, aud en the day of his disappearance
lift home in a hack te go te a doctei's en
Duke street. Instead, he drove te the
railroad, took some oysters at Sides' s res
taurant and thence all sight of him is lest.
When he went away he were light clothes
a dark shirt and light hat. He is short of
stature, with dark hair aud smooth face.
ON THK MABVH.
Te Yorktown Through Lancaster.
Light battery C, United States army,
which started from Governer's Island.
New Yerk, just a week age, en its march
te Yorktown, te attend the centennial cele
bration of the surrender of Cornwallis, ar
rived about 5 o'clock, en Monday evening,
at Red Lien, at the county line en Bristel
pike, between Montgomery and Philadel
phia counties. They cncampcd-thcre until
6 o'clock Tuesday morning, seen after
passing through Fraukferd, and coiner ever
te Nicetown lane, escorted by the
Linehau band of Frankford and a
firing party of Kearney pest, Ne.
5.1. A halt of fifteen miuutes was
made at the " Jelly Pest " tavern, in
commemoration of a similar halt made
there by Washington's forces in 1781,
whose line of march it is designed te strict
ly fellow. Yesterday they came en up
the Lancaster turnpike and ought te get
te this city some time te day. It is ex
pected that the battery will arrive in Bal
timore en Saturday and- step ever until
Monday. It carries fifteen days' rations,
but these are replenished along the route as
occasion may demand. The officers of
the battery are : Captain, Wm. Sinclair,
I commanding; first licuteuant, Wm. A.
Kabbe ; first lieutenant, Ramsey D. Potts :
assistant quartermaster and second lieu
tenants, C. B. Sattorlce and D. O. How Hew
ard. TUK COLK-GUNDAKF.lt CASK.
Cele Pronounced Out of Danger Formal
Complaints Against Gnndaker and Coun
ter Complaints Threatened Gun-
daker Admitted te llall.
Ed. H. Cele, who was shot at the City
hotel, by Emanuel II. Gundaker, was out
riding yesterday. The ride appears te
have given him a slight back-set, but Drs.
Atlee and Carpenter have united iu certi
fying that he is net in any immediate dan
ger. Guudaker's fiiends thereupon renewed
their application for Mr. Gundaker's dis
charge from prison, and at neon te-day he
was discharged en giving bail iu the sum
of $1,000 for a hearing before Alderman
Samson en Thursday, "the 29th inst.
Meantime Cole sent for Alderman Sam
son and District Attorney Davis, who
called at his rooms at Mrs. Reese's, where
l.e wade formal complaint against Gun
daker for surety of the peaoe and assault
and battery with intent te kill. Constable
Flick, of the Ninth ward, also made com
plaint against him for carrying concealed
deadly weapons. These several complaints
will be heard en Thursday next.
It is given out that criminal suits will be
entered by Mr. Gundaker against Mrs.
Gundaker and Cele, and that a civil suit
for damages will also be bcaun against
Cete.
NKIiUI!OKUOOI NKWS.
Near and Acress tue County I.luc.
Weasels prey en Reading poultry, aud
are shot within the limits of that frontier
town.
A woman found iu an orchard en the
outskirts of Reading gave birth te a child
there, and was taken te the almshouse.
In Cumru township, Berks county, Mrs.
Benjamin nasslcr, aged 70 addicted te the
pipe, dropped some sparks upon her dress
and was burne 1 te death.
Jehn Yingst while fishing in the river
near Marsh run, below New Cumberland,
caught a black bass which weighed five
pounds aud six ounces.
David Troxell, employed by the Coplay
cement company, Berks county, entered
the powder house te get some powder.
While in the act of carrying it out it ex
ploded, fearfully burning him about the
head and breast. He suffered great agony
and died during the night of liis injuries.
The Fairville factories manufacturing
cigars employ about thrce hundred hands,
mostly women and children from twelve
te thirty years of age. They can cam
from seventy-five cents te two dollars per
daj', and have work regularly throughout
the entire year. On Monday they struck
for higher wages, but were unsuccessful.
Mr. S. Frederick Van VIeck, organist of
the Moravian church, Lititz, has been
married te Miss Eliza Miller, of the same
town. The ceremonies took place at the
Moravian church, and immediately after
wards the newly married cuuple proceeded
te Gnadcnhucttcn, Ohie, en their wedding
tour, accompanied by the father of the
bridegroom, Rt. Rev. II. J. Van Vlcck.
While hunting near Indiantown Gap,
Lebanon county. Constables Ranger and
Gates discovered a counterfeiting shop and
arrested a man busily engaged in mould meuld
ing trade dollars. He gave his name as
Geerge Hummel, brother of Jesiah Hum
mel, one of the Raber murderers. Sev
eral moulds and plates and a number of
spurious trade dollars were found.
The fifteen-ball peel for drinks evil is
unbatcd in Philadelphia. Judgiug 'from
the number of saloons where boys arc
allowed te spend the better part of their
leisure time playing the seductive game
and guzzling bad beer and worse whitky,
the authorities arc net in a great hurry te
enferce the law passed at the last session
of the Legislature.
Jeseph Clinc, a flagman en the Reading
railroad, in the yards just below the pas
senger depot in Harrisburg, was engaged
in dropping cars, and at the time en top
of a box car, when, by a sudden hump of
the engine, he was thrown off, falling en
his bauds and face. His face aud head
were badly cut, his nese gashed and the
palms of both bands and knees cut almost
te the bone.
Dennis Herrity, aged about thirty-five,
employed at the Allen puddle mill, Allen
town, attempting te make a catch, acci
dentally fell ever the rollers, was caught by
his legs aud drawn into the rolls. One of
the workmen seized him about the body
and held him until assistance came, or he
would have been drawn through and
crushed te a jelly. As it was, his legs
were mashed up te his knees and his body
se frightfully eurned that he has died.
On the turnpike between Quakertown
and Bunker Hill, Bucks county, while two
tramps, a man and a woman, were passing
through a tell gate about dark, they ad
dressed some very abusive and insulting
language te Gate-keeper Kolle's wife, who
tended the gale, Ivolle being away from
home. On his return Kolle followed the
tramps and overtaking them a short His His His
tancofrem the gate, administarcd a severe
beating te the man, during which he
kicked him in the side. The kick rup
tured a bleed vessel, from which the tramp
died almost instantly.
Carter Fi- her, a young colored man of
Harrisburg, was in charge of a horse at
the Lechicl iron works which was hitched
te a block and fall used for pulling a
heavy piece of iron up a shaft te a certain
distance, which, after being loosened from
the pulley falls a distance of fifty or sixty
feet upon the iron or steel rail below,
breaking it. The steel rail had been
broken off once, aud the second attempt
was made, when a piece about six feet
long flew IiiiIt into the air. Fisher was
standing by the head of his horse, and the
piece of rail seemingly flew right ever
him. Thinking it would fall upon him he
ran, the piece following him and iu its de
scent struck him in the centre of the back
with the sharp end, breaking his back
and inflicting injuries from which he seen
died.
""" KKfilSTKV OF VOTKltS.
The Number en the Heeks.
We are indebted te county commission
er's clerk, I. N. S.Will. for the following
detailed list of the ' number of voters reg
istered in the several districts of the
county, according te the registry that
closed Sept. 8, 1881 :
Adamstown, 188 ; Bart, 302 ; Breck
nock, 393 ; Caernarvon, 3C6 ; Cocalico
East, 578 ; Cocalico West, 501 ; Colerain,
410 ; Columbia 1st ward, C32 ; Columbia
2d ward, 753 ; Columbia 3d ward, 701 ;
Conestoga, C17 ; Ceney, 457 ; Clay. 377 ;
Denegal 10th district, 400 ; Denegal Gist
district, 271 ; Denegal 53d district, 100 ;
Denegal West, 204 ; Drumore, 812 ;
Ephrata, 803; Earl, 886; Earl East,
C73 ; Earl West, 470 ; Elizabeth, 230 ;
Elizabcthtewn, 249 ; Eden, 274 ; Fulton,
402 ; Uempfield East, 23d district, 479 ;
Hcmpficld East, 38th district, 407; Hemp
field West, 33d district, 313 ; Hempfield
West, 50th district, 28G ; Hempfield West,
57th district, 199 ; Hempfield West. 58th
district. 148 ; Lampeter East, 570 ; Lam
peter West, 447 ; Lancaster, 214 ; Lea
cock, 547 ; Leacock Upper, 564 ; Little
Britain, 451 ; Martic, C75 ; Maner
30th district, 61'; Maner 31th dis
trict, 415 ; Mauer 53th district, 340 ;
Mt. Jey lower, 249 ; Mt. Jey upper, 333 ;
Mt. Jey borough, 433 ; Marietta, CG0 ;
Manheim township, 02 ; Manhcim bor
ough, 443 ; Paradise, 559 ; Penn, 529 ;
Peqnea, 338 ; Providence, 537 ; Raphe,
59th district, 181 ; Raphe, GOth district,
3G1 ; Raphe, 52d district, 222 ; Raphe,
54th district, 137 ; Salisbury, 934 ; Sads-
Strasbourg borough, 250 ; Warwick, 997 ;
Washington upper, 108 ; WasnhJiteri
lower, 79 ; Lancaster 1st wanl, 762 ; 2d
ward, G83 ; 3d ward, 637 ; 4th ward, 799 ;
5th ward, G22 ; 6th ward, S93 ; 7th ward,
29 ; 8th ward, 936 ; 9th ward. 703 ; total,
3.),073 ; total last year, 36,232 ; decrease,
1,209. '
The decrease probably indicates or ly the
inactivity of
the politicians in an "off
year,
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OUK KEGDLAU COKRESrONliENCK.
River rising. Ex-Supt. Leckard in
town. Ben. Randelph, aged 90 and of
color, died in Tew Hill yesterday. Water
main break en Walnut street between 4lh
and 5th. Butter from 35 te 40 cents.
Miss Kate Barker, of Ebensburg, in town.
Wm. Blackburn home from Tyrene and
Thes. Celeman, of Philadelphia, visiting
his son David. Tramps abundant. Many
Columbians off te the Reading firemen's
parade. Samuel Filbert and Lewis May
had big luck with bass below the dam,
Sheriff Stiine hooked 23 there en Tuesday.
Engines blew and hiss tee much in the
borough limits. Chicqnesalunga tribe of
Red Men have draped their hall windows
and interior New railroad rules in ferce
Philadelphia te-day ; first engine in is the.
first taken out by the first crew in. Proa Prea Proa
byteriaii Sunday school will held an cu
tertaiment iu the armory, including a
"broomstick drill" by the ladies Women's
missionary society of Westminster pres
bytcry iu session here te day. Laborers
wanted at geed wages at Kan Oman's and
Wolfe's quarries.
Something About the Deg Tax.
Charles Russell, colored, better known
as " Hard Times, " has acted as deg catch
er for several years. He had a hearing
before Squire Yeung en Tuesday evening
charged with obtaining possession of dogs
already tied up by the owners, all of whom
are colored, The cvidence developed the
following facts : The charter authorizes
council "te lay and collect annually, a tax
ou the owners of dogs." The 25th section
is as follews: "That all taxes assessed
by the borough council shall be collected
by their collector, or agents, as is or may
be prescribed by the laws of this common
wealth, for collecting state and county
taxes. " Instead of laying and collecting
a deg tax annually,as the charter provides,
councils passed an ordinance in 18G6, re
quiring all owners of dogs te have them
registered in July of each year, and pay
one dollar tax en each te the secretary of
council, inflicting live dollars ilne for
neglecting te de se, ene half te be paid te
the informer. The same ordinance author
ized the chief burgess, when the safety of
the inhabitants shall require it, te order -all
dogs penned up or muzzled for thirty
days, by proclamation, and te appoint deg
catchers te take up all dogs running at large
iu the streets aud alleys during that time ;
that the owners or acut of the owners
might redeem each deg by paying one
dollar and fifty cents, aud if net redeemed
iu twenty-four hours they were te be
killed. In the case of Tuesday evening the
chief burgess was called as a witness and
swore that no tax en dogs had been levied
this year ; that he had issued no procla
mation te have thcni penned up or muz
zlcd ; that he had refused te allow the
owners of dogs te redeem them at ene
dollar and fifty cents each, as provided
by the ordinance, yet he had allowed the
deg-catcher te sell several dogs at private
sab; for one dollar and fifty cents each.
"This is certainly a singular state of
facts," remarked the squire; "you are
acting in direct violation of both the
charter and ordinance."
" I am net acting under the charter aud
ei diuancc," responded the chief burgess.
" I am acting under the advice of the bor
ough solicitor."
If the chief buigcss will take a peep at
the third paragraph of Section 12 of the
charter, which requires all fines te be paid
into the borough treasury, then, perhaps,
he will prefer te work under the ordi
nances, which gives half te the informer.
This deg tax which has been collected,
but never levied, during the last five years,
and the fines imposed in direct violation of ef ef
the charter, are a disgrace te our borough,
and the sooner they are " wiped out" the
better it will be for all parties concerned.
LtJTIIUKANS IN COUNCIL.
l'riicerillngtt or the Fortieth Convention
Cititt 1'ennsylvania synod.
of
The members and delegates of the East
Penna. synod assembled last evening iu
St Jehn's Lutheran church. Dr. Baum,
president of the synod, preached the open
ing sermon from I. Pet., iv., 11. It was
a plain, practical and pungent presentation
of what the church demanded and of what
her ministry should be.
This morning after a brief devotional
exercise, the business session of
synod began. Dr. Hay, or Gettys
burg, opened with prayer. After cal
ling the rolls the lay-delegates
presented their credentials.
Dr. Uaum, of Philadelphia, then read
the president's annual report. He re
viewed the principal ecclesiastical events
of the past synedical year ; touched upon
our national calamity, passed en te the
synod's losses by death and removal, noted
the changes, vacancies, additions and all
matters demanding the prompt and care
ful attendance of the synod.
New members of synod were then re
ceived and the losses in its ranks thus
supplied. The president appointed teller
and the election of officers ler the ensuing
year followed, resulting as fellows :
President Dr. Baum, of Philadelphia.
Secretary Rev. J. A. Singmaster, et
Schuylkill Haven.
Treasurer Rev. E. Hubcr, of Philadel
phia. The reading of the rules of order drew
the synod's attention te the secretary.
Rev. Dr. Uaugher, of Gettysburg, closed
with prayer, when synod adjourned te
meet at 2 o'clock.
This synod embraces about eighty minis
ters and the same number of layman dole delo
gates, representing ever 100 churches and
about 20 stations, with communicants
numbering between 14,000 and 15,000.
There arc 123 Sunday-schools connected
with the synod with 2,000 teachers and
16,000 scholars. The contributions last
year by all the churches amounted te
$108,195.50.
This evening there will be a farewell
meeting for the departing missionaries.
Rev. A. I). Rewo and wife, of India, and
Mrs. D. A. Day, of Africa, Rev. W. M.
Baum, D. D., of Philadelphia, will be ene
of the speakers.
Drapery Stelen and Burne.l.
Seme despicable thief, utterly Ie3t te
honor, patriotism, sentiment or decency,
tore down and stele from the front of
Amer's hat store, West King street, last
night, ever 1G yards or mourning drapery
displayed in respect te the memory of the
dead president. Guitcau is a murderer,
hut in point of meanness his crime is net
te 1)2 compared with that of the wretch
who would deliberately tear down the
tokens of mourning erected by sorrowing
citizens in honor of the nation's chiat"
magistrate.
Last evenirjg about 10 e'cljjk, agmt f
wind blew one of the trailing e 1 It of : i j
mourning drapary in front of W. :
Baker's drug Bterrf, Centre Square, int i
tiie gas jet binning in front of Fulmcr s
saloon. Ne damage was done except the
burning of a yard or two of black mus
lin. About midnight the drapery at the
Sprcchcr house took fire from a similar
cause and about ten yards of it were con
sinned. These incidents, though trifling,
should be a warning te ethers who have
draped their premisisim mourning te keep
the combustible material nut of the reach
of flame.
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