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LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCE It TUESDAY, OCTOBER .4. 1881.
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?lancastct imdUacnrer.
TUESDAY EVENING, OCT. 4, 1881.
All "iKHiie" Supplied.
Tlie AVwj iV thinks what the Democ
racy of this state "still lacks is some
KQOcHssiie en which te ' whoop her up.'
This need will prove fatal te its success
in this state." ff the editor of our es
teemed contemporary will read the
Williarnspert platform we fancy he will
find some issues pretty clearly presenter!
which are vital te the common wealth, en
which the Republican platform is either
silent or en the wrong side, and upon
which, if its declarations are sincere and
honest, the Xm Era must be in accord
with the declarations of the state .De
mocracy. The Republican platform in
a general way endorses Jleyt's adminis
tration, without any saving Hause or any
exception te its " shameless prostitution
of the pardoning jiewer" te which the
.Democratic deliverance se pointedly re
fers. On the exactions and encroach
ments of corporate power upon public
rights, en its aggressiveness in collusion
with political rings, en the spoliation of
the state treasury, en the bribery of
legislators, en the steals and wastes in
the dcpaitmcnts, and kindred evils of
ourrnisgevcrntncnt, the Democratic de
liverance has no uncertain sound. On
all thes'j topics the Republican platform
is silent, by indirection it is in
.sympathy with the Ring, and the
man appointed te administer its
campaign is a Rinsler, whose legisla
tive r:ir:';r h it h:':u the front of all of
fending. Smely these fads make an issue, upon
which the Democracy can " whoop her
up" te their own and the KnCs "heart's
delight." The Democratic candidate has
been in the Legislating and inhisservice
there has illustrated the principles of the
plallerm and the pledge mad.; for him.
lie is net. an unknown man ; his posi
tion en vital issues is net equivocal nor
enigmatical. If the AV; Km has
U'jy misgivings en this subject it can
Sitisfy itself by the course of Mr. Mapes
of the I'll, ul n in World, who was one of
its friends and a colleague of Mr. Neble
in the Heuse last winter. Or it may
inform itself nearer home.
Time and again our local nmU.inpo nmU.inpe
rary has put in issue the very principles
of the Democratic platform. it has
rebuked their omisien in the Republican
platform. It knows that IJaily is a
negative Hiar.tcter, who suits the ring
that picked him out and he will have no
peliey In enfeice against its wishes or its
intete.HLs. When was there an "issue"
mere H'Mily defined ? I low could there
be y
Rl.OI.Vi:ii,"7't tin IH:im,i:ratii:parhj
ej I'mnsilennia, ri iii nliil ej tin :;tali-i
honor iiml its inti-astx, iiliil'j':.'; ilr.il te
tin: jnxt ilppliralieii i if tin- pidlie ulOiil .; te
tle' nlhllr .i.ffirt ; In in, no ,,i, I in iiu'i rii
Widnlefpi iidilnn X, llinl I'll- pieili- inn;
ljiiijl,lhi I, null, ml ami lln j,ii,-!li i,f tin:
wliumist ration iiici-rii.il ; In tin- abolition
if nil imr.lixx ejliixx nil tin- npjanij of of
all itujii.riiniiiiiiiiii ufl'ifiiil.-'. ; lij tin- len.i-xl
prae.lii'ilbb- rati- if inti-rial m In.l.i leans,
nitliniil, ,iijii,iI fi,r the. nil in, il,ni ji if .fiuili-
r.ntis or .ijiii'iiln'ers ,' In :di-r.j,lixs riiiliiiiri
against tin iemelh Hull. ijartienS if ,i.
nopel'n x ; ti a iil.rlifiil iiin ril, i,f tin- public
intrusts miiSti.-fl tin- Irnsiens if tle:
ijfin' liHiiyiiiirlnt.ii, n '';ni";iiV.-; In hi-nl,i,ri:
tin: J nullum! iitnl lam ijeet ruiiuj all rl.;i
nutli in I In: be rili-i x if tin- rlnh: ; In u '-iier-uus
riillu'liiiii nf nil tnrrx lii.iifii.lli laid
upon ri,,-i,i,,iil,i,,,x i-lidiO ml i,r deim bnsi-
.'.: in l'i:iiii:t;liiiiiiii, nr .iil.iiti tee.eadi:
thrie obliiiatiens ; ami te iifisliiialiu,,
into, inrrn:liiiii if ami niiii.li m-nl fur Ihr
f rami.; and uinslis trlt'n-h. ha.r- fur iinr:;
jiiriiiutlitl. iiirimi.t iliiiirl mi ntx of Ihr
sluli: ijim iiinii '." Williamspeit Plat
form.
Tiikkic ate a great many Independent,
Republicans in Lancaster county, who
have protested against ring leadership
and bes-ship, ami who admire Wolfe's
pluck and believe in his honesty. Fer
their consideration the Sheiick-KaufT
man Jehnsen Itcptihlirau county com
mittee yesterday passed these resolutions
" unanimously:"
Ue.Hulee.it, That, professed Republican,
Charles S. Wolfe, h.iviug atiunuu eit hi c c
Helt' as a candidate for the elll:c of state
treasurer, we de condemn Ins course ami
regard Imn as lieiug iinfaitlilul te his for
mer proteiisiem of true It qiuhlicaiiism,
hateful te our constituents, and his candi
dacy a this o.iLcreppiug of pil.il'iil fanati
cism.
He-mil cat, That though iieiiiinally Repuli
lictti. Cli irles S. Wolfe, throughout liis
entire R'tputilicaii earner li.is neglected no
opportunity of lending aid ami succor te
the Detii icr.it s, ami his candidacy new is
but in keeping with his persistent efforts
te injure, the Republican patty.
It r.Hitlii :il, That in our judgment it is in in in
uxpodieiit for tinwsii.ip.'rs professing te be
Republic m ami opposed te this crank, te
advertise him se freely, unless their real
object is te aid him in his campaign.
Ri:mi:.vki, " Thai in the adminislra
timt if Ihr ijeeernuuul of I'ennsilcania
tlic lie publican imrtij lnu rni'eitrwjal,
jirm-lired ami xhirldid sjinlintieii if I In:
stair Irenmirti ami nti.-ntsr of Ihr jmhlir
funds, hrilnnj of U ijislal er.t, ttmlmfarnr
te Cnrjuiratiens ami ninuemHrx, an nninv
cxanrihl liiijh ralr of interest en the slate
leans, a slntunUxs prostitution of the par par
deniwj power, a sistcm of i-helesak waste
and peculation in the erdinurii ixieudi
tures of the ijnccriunent, and an harassintj
and ilitmh'i'inij exercise of municipal
franchises and abuse of local trusts."
AVilliamspert Vlatferm.
Tim Reading Kaijle and a few ether
newspapers in Ihe state, in criticising
the proposed rules for the government
of the Democratic party, base their ob eb ob
jecliens en the ground of Jeffersen's
teaching, " that a people best governed
are governed the least, or applied te a
party, :i party best governed is governed
least." Seme of our intelligent esteemed
contemporaries who make this objection
would de well te point out hew a party
is " governed" any mere by one mode of
selecting a state committee- and state
Cbairmin than another, and wherein
there is less " government" in basing an
apportionment of delegates en senators
and representatives than en representa
tives only.
' The journals of the Senate show
that, beginning with the Second Congress
and ending with the Forty-fifth, there
have lieen twelve sessions of the Senate
at the beginning of which there was no
presiding officer. On ten of the&e occa
sions a president pre tern, was elected
before senators-elect were sworn in.
Ninety-seven senators-elect have been
thus sworn in, and only three senators
elect have l.en sworn in before the elec
tion of a president pre ei." This
clearly establishes the rule and the proper
practice te fellow. It is only proposed
te take any departure therefrem in the
interest of the Republicans electing the
president pre ttiti. Why should the
Democrats de it?
Rk.-.ei.vj;u, " That ),i,ii Xebl',
thin O.H;4 'iiOiniiiiit'-.il Jer -lull- tr'nnrer On
the pint form adept id. In thii i-eri ntien,
in: pruitnt " rn.inliiliiU i ntitlel te ' I'Ou
fid'.wf of the ji'Oilc ; e,ii n-lie. if ilritt-j),
mill l.it.ji Ihr. pidilii- -menii -I'lffl-. nnke
l.neii'n Am pbu-.i ., if d.i:j,esil , InJilhi.t hoeka
1 1 nd. j,iip',x 0,' ii te inHjii-.i'Heii, find ,:-xi'i'i-.i
tin- i-eiiiiOittr':nHli from ii a; r ptti
t'lOn of tin -ijxti m'jtir i-.idi zzlcntr.nl ej in
ti ri;.;t ami etlii r sjiotinlieii.i ii;ha:ii mnrktd,
tin loin iin'l .;'ii,id.iileii. i-n.fi.t-r of tin: lU.-jinhli'-iiii
t,-iii::-i,-ij riinj ,' i:A' n'.ill nt-.itlii-.r
httl. no, tnl.i nuij i ni'ilniiit id., if tin office
Olln r Imil tin Im.-fid Jiiliifi, and. ii In, ir.il
f.'f.t it all hi", iiifliii-ii'ti lij prief.nl, 'j-,0:-f:
(Ind 'in ixlt tin- iibiit'li-rimi X.itt:m if pn.r
r.'til.'iin :lnt' yn.iplit irli'n-h fm.; le.n j,rt..
iniliil in llnerishiirij te tin xlninit of tin:
i-ttmiiieiiiiiiilHi.'''' -Williamspeit Resolu
tion. Sknayei: I.mai:, e t .Mississippi, is
net sanguine that President Arthur's ad
ministration will be a conservative one.
The accuracy of senator Lamar's per
ception in this matter can scarcely be
rjtie.stienel, though geed people of ail
parties will unite their hopes that his
course in the executive chair may dis
appoint pi' sent, anticipation.
MINOK TOPICS.
Tin. Georgia state .Senate, by a vote of
UR te RS, has passed Heuse bill te :ipro :ipre
priatc !i,0')f) te the univeisity of Oeergia
te complete the amount necessary te make
fice the tui'ien at that institution.
It is new almost beyond question that
.Mr. Conkling will go into the Xew Voik
convention with a heavy majeiity against
liim, and that his enemies will carry things
with a Iiili hand.
Oimmi--ieni:i: Rai m has about con
cluded a decision en the .subject of the
taxation 'if bank deposits, which was ar
gued before him en September 1 1, and
will probably make his decision public
te day.
IV ten ilellai.s .should le contributed te
the fund for the Michigan Kiifler.s where
one dellai lias been contributed, theie
would still net he money enough te give
thc.-ic unhappy jiceple what they need, or
te maintain tin; icjuitatien of this nation
for gi-neie.-.iiy te these who are in dis
tress. Tin: fact thai the eleetriu light i . trying
te blonde-, and favorable te hiuucttcs,
O'lht te settle tie; ipicitien of its gen
eral use in tbi. land of the free, the .Man
chester CX. II. ) I'tieii thinks, because any
thing that, divi iuiiiialcs agaiuM. color is
entraty te the eenstitutiiiial amend
ments. Dit. Tai.mai.i. advances the theory that
iiiileau is a Moiiueu emissary and that
he was employed by the Mermen authoii autheii
ties te assassinate 1'resideiit Cailield.
This theory has the met it. Of novelty, at
any rate ; hut as there is net the .smallest
particle of evidence fe .suppeit it, it, may
he icgaiiled as hardly deserving of discus
sion. Dr. Tahnage, however, has te have
something te talk about.
Oev. Reni.iii-, of Tex is, exercises a
personal supervision of the prisoners in the
statu ixsnileiiliarj. Most of them, hesayK,
are young men fiem the Xerthwesl, Ka.st
and Net th, who, having .strayed from
h inn: restiaiut.s, have fallen into bad coni ceni
puiy and get into trouble He tells them
tliat geed cetiducl, will she'lcii their terms
and, if they behave themselves, pardons
them out. ,
.SiniM January ,'.i'lH,(',Tti men, women
and ehildien have lieiu landed at Castle
Uuidcti, e,0:i;i mere than during the same
peiied in ISSO, and 'i.OOO mere than ar
rived dining the lit st half of September
of last. year. The eoimnis.sieiicr.s coutimie
te tepert tli.it, the immigrants are of a
better ':u, as a rule, than ever before,
and that tieai !y every one-brings a little
capital, the, 'result of economy practiced
in the old country.
Tin: Londen Times takes ipnl.e a philo
sophical view of the Voiktewn celebra
tion. It remarks with that impressive
gravity which is its most salient character
istic that the lai'lis'i have as much rea
seu as us te celebrate the anniversary of
Lord ('ernwallis's surrender, for the issue
of the battle of Voiktewn demonstrated
the futility of the attempt te siibjugate
American colonies in a way that, even
Oeorgethe Third could understand and
appreciate. The Philadelphia ItuUelin, en
the head of the staliMiicut is moved te the
ob.-erv.il.ieii that we and our French col
leagues celebrated the occasion with all
the uiore heartiness after this assurance
that Itritish susceptibilities will net be
wounded.
Tim last eoiitiibiitieu te Darwinism is
a book by Dr. Paul Jaeeby, who reaches
conclusions relative te the perfectibility el
human nature rather at variance with
these of Mr. Herbert Spencer. Aceeiding
te Mr. Jaeeby whenever a member of a
family human or ether attains te any
remarkable pre eminence in mental ability
such pre eminence is at the expense of
posterity, and the family by its ultimate
extinction pays the penalty of its tempor
ary eclat. Kxlraerdinary brain activity is
followed by a corresponding. degeneracy.
The future of humanity, if this view wcre
the correct one. would belong te physical
mediocrity, and a peer prospect is held out
te the exceptionally intelligent or ener
getic. Dreaming optimists are waiucd
te expect no line of Homers or Shak
spearcs, but te concede the earth te the
dull.
PEBSONAL.
The fund for 3irs. Gaukikle new
reaches $334,670.06.
President AitTHUi: will be fifty-one
years old en Wednesday.
Miss Gkisweld, the young American
prima denna, has been making a great suc
cess in "Faust," in Paris.
Rev. T. DeWitt Tai.maee is te suc
ceed Rev. Dr. Deems as editor of Frank
Leslie's Sunday magazine.
Mile. Litta, the singer, is shortly te
be married te the tenor, Mr. H. Cleve
land. Hen. CuAiiLEs S. Wolfe will address
a mass meeting in the Philadelphia Acad
emy of Music te-night.
Senater Cameren's daughter, young
Mrs. RitADLEV, has made the senator a
grandfather. Her son is new two weeks
old.
SeuMur Lamar is said te have recently
spoken without rest for three hours and a
half in Mississippi. He icmains most of
the time seated,
Willie P. Heuiucj;, a New Yerk boy,
recently proposed, through the Xew Yerk
Eunihtj Pout, that the children of America
rab.e a fund by small subscriptions te es
tablish a " Garfield Heme in the "Country
for Little Sick Children." The Century
company have offered te receive and credit
in Ht. Xtchelai all subscriptions te the
proposed fund.
The sole survivor of eleveu bundled
men is living at the Fifth Avenue hotel,
New Yerk. Gen. Daniel Tvi.ki: was a
first lieutenant of the Fiist artillery, con
sisting of 1,100 men, in 1824, when the
regiment received Lafayette at Voiktewn.
Every member of the regiment is said te
ha dead except Gen. Tyler. The latter re
signed fiem the army in 1831, and was,
until the lebellien, a leading civil engi
neer. In the war he served -with distinc
tion until the death of his wife, in 1861,
which se shocked hmi that he was in
capacitated for duty and resigned.
The Cleveland 'Ohie; Herald thus de
scribes the meeting of General Hancock
with an old and faithful coleied servant in
that city r "Soen a carriage drove up and
the general alighted. The aids informed
him that his old servant who had been
with him through the war was sitting en
the lawn and desired te see him. General
Hancock, recognizing him lung before he
i cached him, extended his hand, ami rush
ing up, grasped the hand of his old ser
vant, wrung it with every manifestation of
delight, while tears filled the eyes of both
and neither of them spoke for some time.
At last the geneial had Mr. I'rewn sit
down and made him relate everything that
the latter has done since the war."
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
ai num's circus train was wrecked at
Leng Point, Iowa, en Sunday. Twe engines
were demolished and eight eiieus heises
killed.
An unsuccessful attempt was made in
the southern disti lets of Louden en hun
day te imitate the American crusade
against liquor selling by prayer meetings
held opposite public houses.
The boiler in La Due & Phinney's ear
factory at ('arrollten, .Miss., exploded;
Jehn and James Pie, ml were killed and
damage te the extent of $7,000 was caused
by a lack of water in the boiler.
It is reported that a large deficit has
been discovered in the funds of the Paw
tucket navigation company, of Lawrence,
Massachusetts, of which General 15. F.
liutlcrand E. M. Hoyuten are the princi
pal controllers.
Counterfeit five-dollar notes en the Lei
cester national bank, of Leicester, Mass
and the First national hank, of St. Jehns-
bury, Vt., have been discovered by the
w.-eiet service division of the treasury de
partment. The tiial of iSenjamiii Cliadheiirm: and
Wallace, his son, for the murder of Wat Wat
eon in P.irkinan. Me., several month age,
terminated at Dever, Me., last night, in a
veidiet of murder in the first degree against
both.
A paily of soldiers sent te repair the
telegraph line between Forts Grant ami
Themas was attacked by Chihuahua In
dians, and two were killed. A courier
rcpeits the dead bodies of several citizens
near Cedar Springs.
The Key West beard of health lias dis
missed its president, Plunimcr, who in
August last dismissed Health Officer Les
ter for refusing te grant clean bills of
health toeut going vessels in consequence
of the occurrence of a case of yellow fever
at that pert, and has reinstated the health
officer, an autopsy having sustained the
decision of the latter.
A terrific storm swept ever the eastern
part of Knox county, Ohie, accompanied
by a high wind and rain. Every shock of
corn in a field belonging te a .Mr. Tucker
w.is carried te an adjoining farm. A house
owned by a Mrs.Mycr, a widow, was
totally destroyed. Mr. Raker's ham was
badly damaged, and several barns and
houses were mere or less injured. All the
fences weie blown away.
wen itv eni:.
i:xi-ltln;r llllllarit.t III New Yerk.
The billiard experts met in force yester
day at L'ber & Sohaeller'.s hall, New Yerk,
the opening play in the cushion carom
tournament. The regular tournament is te
begin in Tammany hall November 11. In
the series of ten games began yesterday
Alon.e Merris, jr., Randelph Reiser,
Themas J. Gallagher, William Wallace
F.dward McLaughlin, of Philadelphia, are
te play 200 points up each with the ether,
and the three players winning the most
games will take part in the tournament
proper. Merris and I Iciscr "played the ini
tial game, lieth inade several fine points
hut Merris outplayed I Iciscr two te one.
Score Merris, 200; Reiser. 1)9. The close
of the second game, between Gallagher
and .McLaughlin, became very exciting.
McLaughlin had played an up-hill game,
when at last, they steed at 1011 each. Reth
missed the one point needed several times
until all the spectators in the hall had risen
te their feet and gathered around the
table. McLaughlin finally nrade the suc
cessful shot and wen the game. He was
seized by his Philadelphia backers and
carried from the table en their shoulders.
The Senate unices.
The canvass for the various Senate
offices progresses with unabated vigor.
L. Q. Washington, a correspondent, ap
pears te lead the list for the secretaryship
en the Democratic side. Pierce- M. R.
Yeung, of Georgia, has withdrawn.
Neitl Ilrewn, of Tennessee, reading clerk
of the Heuse, is still en the active list.
Colonel Dick Wintersmith, of Kentucky,
and Colonel McCardle, of Mississippi,
fellow. The latter, an cx-Cenfedcratc, is
tlic father of the celebrated McCardle
case at Yieksburg, in which the recon
struction acts were involved. Pcnu
Nixon, financial clerk of the secretary's
ellice, and Mr. Sbalcer. of North Carolina,
principal clerk, and James G. Bennett,
ex -mayor of m Washington, cDinpIete the
list. Agaiust these huugry Democrats
Colonel Geerge Gerhain is pitted single
handed. Perhaps Gerham would gladly
retire, new that he has a better opening by
an appointment, but he considers it his
duty te his party te staud the racket.
Gerham is a slave of duty.
THE SCPBEME COURT.
They Reverse Twenty-two Cases nut el
Tnlrty-XIne The Lecal Court Uni
formly Reversed Seme Interest
Ins Cases.
The state supreme court met in Pitts
burgh yesterday with a full bench. The
justices in turn rendered opinions en cases
from ether counties, which had been ar
gued at the last sitting in the Eastern dis
trict. Of thirty-nine cases appealed te the
supreme court the ruling of the judge in
the county court was reversed in twenty
two. The judges of McKean, Snyder and
Yerk alone were uniformly sustained.
These of Cameren, Lancaster. Mifflin,
Perry, Petter, Union, Centre, Tiega and
Blair were reversed in every case in
which opinions were filed. Honors were
easy in Dauphin, Westmoreland and
Franklin. Among the cases was that of
Jehn II. Werling, convicted of murder in
the first degree, for killing Pennington, at
Ueutzdale, Clearfield county, in February.
1830. Justice Green rendered the decision
in which he affirmed the judgment of the
lower court, and ordered that the record
be remitted te the court of eyer aud ter
miner of Clearfield county for the purpose
of.executien.
Justice Truukey als.j rendered the de
cision in the famous case of the Rev.
Father Stack, of Williarnspert, agaiust
Bishop O'Hara, affirming the decision of
the court below. The judge decides that
the lower court was right in ruliug that,
te enable the plaintiff te recover, the jury
must be satisfied from the evidence that
the plaintiff was wrongfully and unlawful
ly removed from his charge. Bishop
O'Hara wrote te Father Stack as fellows :
" Your administration of the affairs c m
nected with the Church of the Annuncia
tion has been such that I feel myself com
pelled te lemeve you and leave the chuich
vacant, anil I new feibid you te exercise
any priestly functions in Williamspeit,
even te say mass. This prohibition binds
nub ;rfivi.u The plaintifl'claimcd through
out the litigation that this letter was te
be considered as an accusation and that
it was the duty of the court te insist tnat
its vague and uncertain charges should he
made definite and in such shape that they
could be answeied. Justice Trunkey does
net favor this idea, holding that inasmuch
as the bishop has the right te make re
movals under the chuich law he need net
make specific charges. He may dismiss a
priest without assigning a cause. He
further says that the plantilf was net de
prived of the cxeii-ie of his priestly func
tions and therefore net entitled te damages
from the bishop, because the prohibition
extended only te the church at Williams
poi t and he was left free te work wher
ever else he chose.
Chief JustiecShar.swoed filed a dissent
ing opinion, in which Justice Gorden con-
CIIIK.
Justice Sterrett tendered tMtcc decisions
affirming the court below in three separate
cases of Israel Fib, Jehn Allan Mayer and
E. Ettinger, convicted in the Snyder
county com t of murder in the first degree
for killing a family named Ktnt.ler, in
1 370.
ItAII.V rilUt'l) OK GRANT.
It lieiu; One .! I lie aeil be :. Crime l.ct
I tie At ml lie Alaile el It.
" I did vote for Grant at the Chicago
convention : but if that is a crime I cannot
help it, " said Geneial Silas Milten Baily,
Republican candidate for the office of state
treasuier, te a reporter of the Times at the
St. Cloud hotel, Philadelphia, last evening.
" Hut new, see heie, I want te correct just
one miner. It has been charged that I
was instructed for Blaine, but voted for
Grant. That is net se, as anybody can
tell you at home. Judge Ewing and I had
a square fight en the Klaine and Grant
question, just like the fight, I am new
having with Orange Neble (the general
seemed blissfully ignorant of the existence
of one Chas. H. Wolfe), and I was strong
Grant. I stuel: te him te the end and was
one of the ' :i!)i' ' who have been such a
nightmare te some people since.
"Hew's that '. Oh, Wolfe! He will
have a few votes, I guess," the general
continued ; "but a few votes don't
amount te a snap of my finger. I have
been up through the state considerably
and I tell you the feeling for Wolfe even
in his own neighborhood is weak. I will
net make any speeches through the state,
for I am net a speaker ; we are doing our
work new and we are net making any fuss
ever it. Our campaign will be influenced
somewhat by the action of Wolfe anil his
followers, but net te any great extent.
One thing I de knew, and that is Baily
will be elected.' Yeu can depend en that
every time and you can tell the eighty
thousand readers of the Time the mine
thing. Yes, sir," an I with a smiling shake
of a well -shaped forefinger the general
marched oil' te supper.
Tin) OiieenN Sympathy.
I.oikIeii Oii'icHpeiiilcncc.
I am. net surprised, albeit it is impossi
ble te he otherwise than touched, at the
effect, produced en the American mind by
the 2uecn'.s simple message of condolence.
She has written many such messageste
widows and orphans of peer men suffo
cated in coal pits, te these who have lest
their dear ones at sea, by awful railway
calamities, by fiieand in the battle field.
But, I doubt whethei the widowed mother
ever penned words that came mere di
rect, from hei true woman's heart than
these which found their swift way te peer
Mrs. Gai field in the depth of her unfath
omable affliction. Ne secretary of state
no Sir Arthur Helps or rfir Theodere
Martin comes between the Queen of
England and her simple Saxen pen when
such a message has te be sent. The words
she sent am her own. The ether messages
of .sympathy will, I am suiv, be adequate
ly appraised. Yeu will recognize the kind
ly nature of the Prince of Wales in
his few sentences, and find the abounding
womanly goedneas of the Princess Mary in
the message which she had her husband
write. In the name of the cabinet Mr.
Gladstone has added a stone te the Inter Inter
nateona I cairn raised te the memory of the
great and geed president. It will he en
tirely worthy of him. In the fact el the
Court's wearing mourning for the space of
a week one recognizes especially the sym
pathetic hand of the Queen. Never was
court ceremonial in England invested with
mere worthy meaning.
AiiHtrmii Optimism.
Ilerr Herbst, the leader of the Liberals
in the Austrian Chamber of Deputies, in
a recent speech te his constituents, makes
the point that "the malady from which
all Europe is suffering is militarism,"
which " is unknown in America, and
therefore the United States will seen have
no national debt and become the creditor
of Europe" Such expressions, coming
fiem many quarters, indicate the held en
the public mind of the continent
gained by the opinions te which
Yen Heist recently gave expression, that
disarmament is the proper solution
of the difficulties under which Europe la
bors. If the belligerents would but "beat
their swords te plowshares and their spear 5
into pruning hooks" a delightful state of
things would doubtless be brought about,
and the emigration te America which
Hcrr Herbst deplores would be reversed.
But who is te begin, and when'.' The Turk
Will net set the example, lest the wily
Greek or obtuse Russian should fail te
fellow. Fiance is, perhaps, well disposed
te the plan. but the Alsace Lor Ler
raine issue is as yet unsettled, aud Italy
would like te have back her provinces
of Nice and Savey. Germany must watch
France, and Austria must watch Germany.
We shall net, perhaps, in our day see the
voluntary disarmament of which such op
timists as llerr Herbst and Van Heist
fondly dream. Ner is it reasonable te
attribute all the evils of the continent te '
the artificial lead imposed upon it peoples
by state debts created under the sanctions
of modem civilization, since wars were
was
ed in Europe as frequently as new in
these distant times when all its inhabitants
were barbarets and paid no debts. The
Gaul and German and Rnss Inya alwsy3
warred.
1HK Ol'KKA SlNCEK.
II ew lie smaihei the Hearts ai .Miecepli-
tile Scheel Ctrl'.
Chicago Letter.
The 17-year-old daughter of Dr. W
of this city fell, or imagined she did, wildly
iu love with a mellow-voiced baritone in
the 3Iaplesen company. Under an assum
ed name she wrote him gushing and ro
mantic little notes, and finally sent her
photograph. The face was se lovely that it
piqued the singer's curiosity, hut it was in
vain he pleaded for an opportunity te see
it. Miss W could.enly enjoy her esca
pade as long as she maintained her iDcog iDceg iDcog
nite. Finally the baritone, noting the
name of the photographer, visited his par
lors and ascertained his correspondent's
name. Then he wrote te her under her
real address, saying he had identified her.
and she could take the choice of having
her picture and notes back and giving him
300 in cash, or he would tell a reporter of
the Pulice Gazette the story and have the
picture published. There is little likeli
hood such a threat would have been car
ried out, but the girl was se terribly
frightencd that she sent him all the money
she could scraps together, and the rest of
the sum in jewelry.
Del Puente once won't nearly wild with
ungralified curiosity through the pranks Of
a mischievous school girl, who was perpet
ually sending him love letters, in which
she declares she never missed a single
night when iic sung, and that when he left
New Yerk en his tour with Her Majesty's
company she should fellow him and be
present at every performance. Sure enough
iu every city where he sung he received a
pretty note of congratulation, with the
usual information that the writer, dressed
as usual, in black, was present. Ofceur.se
there were always a number of young and
pretty women iu this somber hue. but
which was his correspondent Del Puente
never could decide. The letters were al
ways postmarked with the name of the
city he happened te be in. and finally he
became really nervous with the idea of an
unknown woman following him in this
shadowy fashion. His curiosity was net
destined te be satisfied until long after waul
when he found that the fair unknown,
cleverly following the published route,
would send a stamped but undirected letter
te the postmaster of the city he happened
te be in, with the request that he would
ascertain the singer's name and ferwaidit.
As long as the letter was stamped this was
sure te be done, and the tenor never failed
te receive the missive.
Castle, though neither se young nor se
charming as he once was, still receives
leads of gushing epistles which Mrs. Castle
demurely twists into cigar lighters ; and
BrigneH says, " I haf teached misself ze
Inglis language with these fiddle lettres."
Kcer In ICnglaml.
Il'i-.d.l.
A British statesman who recently had
the hardihood te put forth the optimistic
statement that the beer interest is en the
decline is severely handled by one of the
journals devoted te the protection of that
bibulous industry. The print in question
draws upon its armory of facts and figures
and triumphantly presents te the heriiicd
gaze of the advocates of temperance an
array of statistics which is net calculated
te have an exhilarating effect upon the
cold water apostles. The first sta
tistical shot fired by it gees clear through
the temperance magazine. There are, it
extiltingly declares, forty thousand brew
eries iu Europe, and of all the houses in
England and Wales the formidable num
ber of one hundred and thirteen thousand,
or one iu eery forty, are devoted te the
sale of liquor iu some form or another.
This is an enormous proportion of what
are called " rum shop:; " te shops and pri
vate dwellings which de net dispense the
deadly or delicious beverage, according
as it is regarded by its enemies or
its friends. One beer house in every -forty
is a record of which every beer lever
should be proud. All the religious de
nominations put together cannot show as
many homes of worship and schools, pub
lic or private. But this is net the only
evideiice of the conquering march and
progress of beer. British spirits and beer
represented, se far as consumption went,
in the decade before the last one,
four hundred and fifty million dol
lars, while in the decade just closed these
figures have risen te the enormous sum of
seven hundred and eighty million dollars.
In the face of all this it is idle te declare
that beer is en the decline. On the con
trary, in the words of its stalwart organ,
"The biead lessen remains the same that
of marvelous progress." British beer is
evidently a pretty solid British institution.
STATE ITEM3.
Hmanuel Lazarus, of Pittslen, while in
a fit. of delirium tremens leaped from the
third-story window of his residence te the
ground and received injuries from which
he died in half an hour.
The time has never been known when
there has been such an epidemic of murder
as has been noticed this year iu Phila
delphia. Ten murderers arc in a row en the
second fleer in the corridor of the Untried
Dcparlmitnt of Meyamcnsiiig' prison.
The Northampton county Democratic
convention met at Freemansbtirg yester
day. J. J. Cepe was nominated for pro pre pro
theuotary, I J. F. Schuable for register, II.
.1. Bayer for clerk of orphan-,' court,
Stephen I). King for recorder, Sidney
Kcssler fertteasurer, Paul BachsmitU and
A. Halin for auditors, Israel Mill for peer
director and Hiram Kleinhaus and -M.
Diiien for commissioners. William Beidle
niaii, .lames Yeung, Gcerge Schuable and
Jehn Bruce arc the delegates te next year's
state convention.
The Democrats of Juniata county held
their primarary elections en Saturday un
der the new rules of the Crawford county
system. The following ticket was. nomi nemi
natct : Fer President Judge, Alfred J. Pat
terson ; for Associate Judges. Gee. Jacobs
and Themas Murphy ; for Prothenotary,
B. F. Cre.icr ; for Treasurer, Henry
Schell ; for District Attorney, Jacob Bcid
ler ; for Commissioners, David Pantncr
and David Divcn ; for Auditors, Rebert
McMeen and William McConuell. Ex
Shcrilf W. D. Wills was elected chairman
of the county committee. Geed felling
prevailed and the ticket is regarded as a
very strong one. ,
A llaiiilsiinie tilll.
Mr. D. Wills James, a wealthy New
Yerker, has presented te the authorities
of that city, for erection iu Union Square,
a beautiful fountain, which is te cost
about S 10,000. It is te be eighteen feet
from the ground te the top of the group.
Upen a square block of stone three feet
high lests a square pedestal seven feet
high and about half as wide. On this
pedestal is a group of bronze figures seven
feet high, which consists of a mother in
flowing dress carrying a naked child en
ene arm Ami holding with the ether hand
a pitcher, which a naked boy is taking
from her. Upen each side of the pedestal
is a basin, into which a stream of water
is thrown from a lien's head above, while
the surface above these heads, is decorated
with water snakes, crabs. &c. The drink
ing cups will be of solid bronze.
Three Wenirii Drowned Rptiiruliis; rrein
Church.
While Ralph Durbin, his wire, their
daughter, aged nineteen, a Miss Buck, sis
ter of Mrs. Durbin aud three children were
returning from church at Danville, Ohie,
they attempted te cress the Little Jello Jelle
way, a stream subject te high floods. Mrs.
Durbin, MissDnrbiu and Miss Buck were
drowned. Mr. Durbin get out by his own
efforts. James Shellenberger rescued the
c'.iildrer.ene of whom was nearly drewr.cd.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE LEAP.
THE TOBACCO MABKLT.
ISuyers Busy Sellers Smiling Crep Cunug
Capitally.
Tobacco buyers continue active, though
the amount purchased during the past
week is net se large as during a few pre
ceding weeks. The reason is that first
class leaf is becoming scarcer, or is held
at figures considered exorbitant. Even
medium leaf is held at figures that first
class leaf seldom briugs. The "cipherers"
differ as te the amount of '81 leaf already
purchased : some of them placing the
total at less than le.OOO cases
and ethers at mere than 20.000.
Kerbs & Spus, through their active agent,
Dan Myer, are still at the head of the list
of buyers. It is believed they have secured
2,."i00 cases or mere, of Lancaster county
leaf. Rosenbaum lias ever 1,,j00 cases.
The Tellers nearly as much. R. II. Bru
baker, Skiles & Frey, and a dozen ether
buyers are credited with double figures,
while there arc numerous ethers holding
from 100 te 303 case3. It would appear,
therefore, that the estimate of 20,000 cases
sold is lather under than ever the mark.
Since prices for geed leaf have run te SO
cents or mere, there is seme growling
among farmers who sold at 20 or less, aud
it has been said by seme of them that they
will assert their tobacco with a view of
increasing the quantity of the wrappers i e
as te make up what they think they lest
by selling tee low. Ne honest tobacco
grower will think of doing such a thing.
Every farmer will find it te his advantage
te live up strictly te his contract. If he
attempts te evade it he will net only
weaken lib own reputation among dealers,
but he will find that they will combine
against him, and instead of profiting by
his sharp practice the former will find him
self a loser. "Honesty is the best peliey"
for buyer and seller.
The new crop is all housed and is reported
te be curing better than the crop of any
preceding year, its color, condition aud
aroma being almost faultless.
There has been a geed deal of activity
in old tobacco also some 1,200 or meie
being sold en private terms last week.
The prices arc net se high as these ruling
for new tobacco.
The Sew -tliirket.
The Je'irnuVa report for last week is as
fellows :
The unprecedented activity iu our mar
ket continues. Although the sales of the
week de net reach as high a figure as these
of the previous one, no less than e,."i00
cases were lcpeitcd as having changed
hands. The unusual feature in these trans
actions is the sale of 1,000 cases New Yerk
state Big Flats. This style of tobacco 1ms
being lying dormant, while in all ether
crops the greatest activity was going en
The present desire te buy everything and
anything has at last brought out purchas
ers of this much neglected stock, and
holders, making the best of the fortunate
tide, closed one 1,000 cases at figures ic
pOrtc 1 te be in the neighborhood of VI
cents, a figure bearing but little, if any,
pielit te the sellers. Connecticut, as we
often predicted, has at last ceme in for its
sham of deserved attention. The tobacco
is looked upon very favorably new by
manufacturers and jobbers, aud the result
of the week was sales of nearly 1,000 cases,
mostly wrappers, at prices ranging between
22 te :J7 cents ; '80 Pennsylvania found
buyers te the extent of ", 000 cases. The
highest figures paid were reported te be 22 i
cents for a fine running hundred cases.
Wisconsin and Ohie of the 'SO crop re
mained quiet this week; the offerings are
very small, and the few holders de net
show any desire te sell at present market,
rates. The outlook remains excellent, and
at the hour of going te press several large
transactions are reported about te ba closed
Havana: An exceedingly heavy business
was done last week ; sales include no less
than 2,000 bales, mostly of the '80 crop.
There is very little below 00 cents being
offered in the market.
Cei-iiuur's liiiMCKl.
Mrs. Adeline Wellege, colored, wife of
Jehn Wellege, new undergoing an impris
meut for attempting te kill his wife, died
suddenly and under some mysterious cir
cumstances at her home in .Mount Jey yes
terday morning. Deputy Corener L. D.
Gallagher empaneled a jury and held an
inquest ou the body. The evidence showed
that Mrs. Wollege had been enrientc and
had attempted te produce an abortion by
the use of drugs. The jury, after hearing
the evidence, tendered a verdict that Mrs.
Wellege had come te her death by the in
judicious use of ergot. It will be liinoin liinein
beied that tiic trouble between Mrs. Wol Wel
lege and. her husband some years age, re
sulting in the sheeting and serious wound
ing of the former, was caused by mutual
accusations of conjugal infidelity. Wol Wel
Icgu plead guilty te felonious assault and
battery iu April, 1880, and was sentenced
te three years' imprisonment.
.M-:iiiii:oi:neou m:vs.
NVur ami Acrons the County I. inc.
Israel Beaversen, jr., aged fifteen, cm
pleyed en the farm of Michael Wain
haugh, in Yerk township, near Stjlcs's
Station, en the line of the P. B. R. W.,
was found hanging te the rafters in the
barn of his employer Saturday morning.
Mr. Wambaugh, who employed the boy,
had some trouble with him and threatened
te discharge him. On Friday the lad's
tmftj was up, and, it is supposed, net wish
ing te return te his parents, he determined
te end his life.
Mrs. Mary McLenagcn, formerly Miss
Pauli, youngest daughter of tbi late Rev.
William Pauli, of Reading, and wife of J.
M. McLcnagen. a prominent merchant of
Chambcrsbiiig, died very suddenly en
Thursday evening last at her residence iu
that town. She had been out riding en
Thursday afternoon, and after returning
home was seized with violent convulsions
which caused her death in a few hours.
One or Many.
The Hamburg Bremen lire insurance
company writing te their agent, II. It.
Brcncman, in this city, iu reference te in
surance, says : "Our rate in Philadelphia
for such risks would be seventy-five cents.
In Lancaster, where you have an incendiary
fire department, wc think the rate should
be at least as high as here. We must there
fore decline at less than 70 cents." This,
Mr. Breneman says, is a sample of many
letters from ether parties. This same it:
s nance was formerly placed at e0 cents.
The Prison Inspectors. .
At the afternoon session of the beard of
prison inspectors it was decided that all
the commutation, which had accrued in
the cases of the seven men who recently
attempted te get out of jail, should net be
taken off. This will compel them te serve
several months mere.
Anether Spring Heuse Kubheil.
On Saturday night the spring house of
Christian Lipp, residing near West Wil
low, was broken into by thieves who stele
two crocks of butter, several chickens and
ether kinds of feed. They spilled the milk
all ever the place and did ether slight
damage.
THAIIDKL'S MKVEXS.
The Cii;e:i!imi (her Him anil Hi. KsSute.
for the I.VTEU.IGKX1E1:.
Almest any petty fight is amusing, but
when the contest is a wordy war and one
of the cembat.uits a teman well te say,
the least, even a melancholy Jacques could
find much te provoke his laughter. Of
late a sweet little light of this nature has
been carried ou through the columns of
the Examiner and Xew Era. The editors
of these papers, and Edward McPherson
being pitted against Miss Marianna Gib Gib
eons of this county. Cause of the fight
au article en Thaddcus Stevens, which ap
peared some weeks age in the Sunuay
edition of the Philadelphia Times iu whieh
article the management of Stevens's estate
was criticized.
Exactly te see hew the combatants
stand at the piesent time whether the
three big men or the peer lone woman has
the better of the litdit, is our. object iu
writing.
The Examiner fiit let loose- the dogs
of war" by coming te the defense of Messrs.
Roberts and McPherson, the exceuters,
in an editorial iu which absolutely nothing
that Miss Gibbens said was either an
swered or disproved, but the assertion
was made that both these gentlemen were
" thoroughly upright and honest men."
Miss Gibbens never asserted the contrary,
and se decl.ued in a reply t) the Ecitini
ner's article.
It' the Exttihiiur or any one else choice
te take out of her article what she neither
said nor meant, that war, their affair net
hers.
The Xuc Era contented itself with point
ing out a slip of the pen which made Miss
Gibbens say that Mr. Stevens died in Lan
caster instead of Washington and basing
thereon an insinuation that her whole
article was full of lies.
This was characteristic of the Era. It
loves a warfare of indirection, aud possibly
is inclined te judge ethers truth telling
qualities by its own utter lack of veracity.
On the2:!d, ult., another " Daniel eaine
te judgement' in this matter, viz : Hen.
Ed ward .McPherson whoquetes an anecdote
from Miss Gibben's article, narrating the
reason for Mr. Stevens becoming a tccteta
ler, and proceeds te tell thr.t the "cashier
.of theGcttsburgb.itik," therein mentioned
was net his honored father, because his
father did net die until at least twenty
years after the time mentioned in the an
ecdote, and beau-e his ia'her was never
innehriated iu his life. .Mr. McPherson
m ikes these obvious mistakes an excuse
for heaping upon Miss Gibben's head a
mountain of abuse.
H.ivii'gthus erected a barricade from
the dead bones of his respected father,
behind which te hide his own personality
and fling mud and stones upon one that
has displea.-ed him. Mr. McPherson as
sumes in the next paragraph the loftily
didactic and lectures modern journalism
in general for admitting matter concern
ing which there is any uncertainty.
As this latter blew is hardly a fair one,
we may be permitted the example, by sug
gesting, that however much Mr. McPher
son may knew what journalism should
net be. he certainly has net shown the
positive side of the question, what jour
nalism should be as the lamentable fail
ure he made as editor in ehi.d'ef the IVffl
abundantly shows.
In conclusion, Mr. McPherson indulges
in " a tissue of glittering generalities"
concerning the management of the Stev
en's estate, iu which no attempt, is made
te directly or emphatically at swer Miss
Gibben's article.
And new Miss Gibbous strikes back. A
few days aft or the publication of the .Mc
Pherson article, Miss Gibbens replies, and
her position seems te resemble that of the
lawyer, whose client was accused efiujury
te a copper kettle : " If your honors
please," paid he, "we shall prove first,
the kettle was broken when we borrowed
it ; second, that it was whole when we re
turned it, and third, that we never had
it. " First, Miss Gibbens never heard of
the father of Mr. McPherson, till his ar
ticle appeared ; :-cce:ni, she did net knew
who was cashier of the bank when Ste
vens lived in Gettysburg; third, the anec
dote could net possibly have lrferred te
the e'der McPher.seu, and was no, se
intended.
II. id Mr. McPherson kept, quiet no ere
would have ever supected he had a lather,
but it seems he could net lie still and se
made the best reply he could. The truth
is the " wound " in this matter is that the
article in question appeared in that,
wicked, independent paper, the Times,
which still continues te lleuiish as the
truly wicked have a habit of doing de
spite the feverish wishes for its overthrew
indulged in by the "Solid for Mttlhoely "
Republicans of this county.
Leeking at the matter quietly and
laughingly, and admitting the whole con
troversy is a very small tempest in a vciy
much cracked teapot, wc yet must say
that the doughty little woman planted her
feminine lists very deftly between the eyes
of the two burly editors and the very
honorable Mci'hersen. We think her
bleed is up and she is only waiting for the
said editeis and honorable te wash the
bleed from their scratches and again tee
the mark for battle. Let them come
quickly, let a woman rreir.
JirsTici:.
OIUTIiAUS.
'I In: I'u:. eral ill -Mrs. Hteile.
The funeral of Mrs. C. Anne Steele,
wife of Samuel F. Steele, took place yes
terday from the residence of her brother,
Abraham Breck, 121 East Omnge street,
and was very largely attended. The
funeral service at the residence was con
ducted by Rev. Dr. Grecnwald, of Trin
ity church, or which she was a member.
The concluding service at Woodward Hill
cemetery was performed by Rev. C. S.
Fry.
Mrs. Stei.Ic, nee. Breck, was a native of
this city, and having lest her parents at an
eaily age, was raised by the late Henry
Keller, father of Prof. W. II. ricllijr. On
arriving at womanhood she was regarded as
one of the most beautiful and accomplished
ladies in Lancaster. She married Samuel
T. Steele, and removed with him te Ohie,
where her two children died and were hur
ried en the new historic faun of
Gen. Win. H- Harrison at North Bend.
Returning te Pennsylvania with her hus
band, she spent the greater part of hef
subsequent life in this city, Philadelphia
and Reading. She was a most amiable
woman, fulfef life, and even when far ad
vanced in age, was fend of entertaining
and associating with young people, with
w.iein she was a universal favorite. At
the tune of her death she was in her 71st
year. Her death was caused by dropsy
superinduced probably by a paralytic
stroke from which she suffered sonic years
ag . Her husband and son Henry Steele,
proprietor of the Ilarrisburg opera house,
survive her. Her only near relatives new
in this city arc her brothers Peter and
Abraham Breck and her sister Mrs. Garret
1L Everts and their families.
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