LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER MONDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1881.
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MONDAY EVENING, OCT. 10, 1881.
The Dauphin Bench.
The conference of the representatives
of the Republican party in Dauphin and
Lebanon counties seems unable te agree
upon a candidate, the Dauphin conferees
insisting upon Simonton, and nobody but
Simonton, while the Lebanon conferees
are apparently willing te "take anybody
but Simonton. Te the onlooker the
attitude of the Dauphin part of the con
ference seems absurdly obstinate. Unless
they have some reaseu which outsiders
de net knew of te cause them te believe
that they can ram their obnoxious can
didate down the threats of the Lebanon
people, they are acting like silly geese
te refuse te make any concession te se
cure an agreement ; apparently they care
a greatdeal morefer their candidate than
they de for their party, since they reject
the geed lawyers whom Lebanon is will
ing te take from Dauphin county. The
Lebanon conferees are controlled by its
candidate Miller, who is behaving a geed
deal better than could have been expect
ed of him in endeavoring te secure an
agreement. lie offers te stand aside for
ex-Senater Mumma, Francis Jerdan,
Jehn II. "Weiss, Jehn B. MacPhersen,aIl
lawyers of Dauphin county, or ene of
any five lawyers, leaving out Simonton,
whom the Dauphin conferees cheese te
name. That is certainly as liberal a pro pre
position as could be asked for, but
nothing but Simonton will suit the
Dauphin men. ' Aid Own- mil nihil "
they seemingly say ; and probably it will
be nihil; vfjth two Republican candi
dates in the field a geed Democratic
lawyer like Grunt Weidman will be
likely te capture the judgeship. In that
event the people of the judicial district
will have reason te congratulate them
selves en the Republican division which
has secured such a result, for they will
have an able and upright judge ; and
that is a been beyond price. Simonton
is net fit te be judge, especially in the
Dauphin-district, where the temptations
te swerve from a perfect impartiality are
severe. He is a lawyer of sufficiently
fair ability, but net se sternly upright
that he can be trusted te stand unswayed
by every storm. The people of the whole
state have a peculiar interest in the oc
cupancy of the Dauphin bench by a man
who will held its ermine up from the
dirt as boldly and steadily as Judge
Pearson has always done. Xe" one has
ever charged that judge withbeingafraid
te decree the right as he saw it ; and his
successor should be of the same Reman
temper.
It is said that, owing te jealousies be
tween ex Chairman Gee. McGowan and
present Chairman Bull of the Democratic
city committee in Philadelphia, the petty
politicians of the factions there who
mainly compose the committee are in
different te the party necessities and
threaten te let the campaign go by de
fault; further, that Messrs. Randall,
Cassidy, Hagert and ether prominent
gentlemen of the party avow that, in
this case, they will take up the work and
de it irrespective of the rusty machine.
We are net surprised at the first part of
this information and we are gratified at
the latter part of it. When the McGe wans
and McMullens, Lister Smiths and
Jesfphses, the Killackys and Burkes,
are remanded te the background in Phil
adelphiaand Messrs. Randall and Cus
sidy, Barger and James, Pattison and
Worrall, and men of that character take
held of the organization in name and
effect the 80,000 Democrats in Philadel
phia will command respect and influence.
Bkieijk Governer Ileyt sails for
Yorktown in the geed ship Galatea,
commanded by that jelly seaman Geerge
Handy Smith, he will de will te lift his
ear te the breezes that blew from where
Wolfe speaks. This staunch Republican
is going up and down the state denounc
ing the governor for malfeasance in office
by participating in speculations with the
state treasury funds. The governor
must notice the charge. Before he pays
his respects te the commonwealth of
Virginia, let him give attention te the
accusations made against him in sight
and hearing of the people of his own
state.
districts is almost unparalleled. Te make
matters worse ar Australian steamship
company has just shown that it is possible
te ship beef and mutton from the anti
podes and land them in geed condition ha
the Londen markets, aud a number 'of
large vessels are uew being fitted up en the
refrigerator plan especially for this trade.
The farmer thought things had surely
reached their worst When the United States
and Canada began te pour their surplus
wheat and cattle into Liverpool and Lou Leu Lou
eon, but new that Australia, the continent
par 'excellence of bullock pastures and
shcep'-walks, has taken up the busiuess,hc
can sec nothing between him and ruin, ex
cept a radical measure of land reform.
The Aberdeenshire farmers estimate that
the fall in the price of beef represents a
less te them of 180,000 a year. Hun
dreds of farmers have already pulled up
stakes and ilecked into the manufacturing
centres only te increase the depression
there. " Come ever aud help us" te de
velop our Western lands !
Tin: Xew Yerk Tinus figures out
" probable " success for its party in Ohie
te-morrow. " Probable " will net de.
Trading Churches.
Ambition enters the hearts of clergy
men as well as of ordinary mortals, and
the Meraviantchurch is just new exhib
iting two of her preachers who have been
seduced from her small brotherhood te
the wider circle of the Episcopal church.
We de net knew that they have traded
their churches te get into bigger ones, but
we judge se because the doctrine and
government of these two denomina
tion are tee nearly alike te afford much
chance of better reason. The two depart
ing Meravians are both Philadelphians,
one. being the Rev. Heffman, who,
having a rich wife, established a Morav
ian church of his own a few years age and
new takes it ever with him in right of his
proprietorship, perhaps. He gees te the
Reformed Episcopal ian3,whe arc in truth
a much smaller denomination than the
one he left ; but then it will ha easy te
step out into the big church after awhile.
The ether ex-Moravian is this Rev. Jor Jer
dan, a young man of wealthy parents,
whose consecration anew by Bishop
Stevens, has stirred another Moravian
brether,thcRev. Rice, te words of het in
dignation that the bishop ventured tode tede
claie the consecration of his church te be
"ampler" than the Moravian. The geed
bishop had many sweet words te say of
the Meravians, whom he loves like
brothers, and who were se close te the
Episcopalians that the difference could
hardly be told. But the Rev. Rice was
of opinion that sweet words butter no
parsnips and that if the Pretestat Episco
pal bishop really thought se well of the
Moravian church he ought te have been
ready te accept the ordination of its
bishop as being quite as " ample ' as its
own, and especially since it is se much
younger a church than the Moravian ;
and the Reverend Rice thinks that its
bishop was presumptuous and insulting.
Quite likely the indignant Moravian
clergyman has reason for .his wrath. But
hew it does stir the feelings of the
devutest Christian te have his church
slighted ! The Reverend Rice wejknew
well for a game disputant who does net
love te be trodden upon and who will net
step te consider the size of his enemy
when he lets his gaffs fly. Mayhap he is
somewhat impetuous, and tee hard upon
the geed old bishop in imputing te him
lack of sincerity; but if he has exceeded
the bounds of fair criticism the bishop
will be able te take care of him, and the
people of the churches may suffer them
selves te be entertained while the feathers
fly.
Tin; searching editorial from the Tribune
en certain social sins, which we reprint,
has a timely and local interest.
Bi.ast-iii ntixe in a metropolitan cem
etery seems te be a queer business, but a
foreigner lias been kept at it for many
years in Greenwood, with what success is
graphically told in another column.
The Examiner docs net seem te have
received Field Marshall Cooper's order te
quit advertising Wolfe, and Andy Kauff
man's plaster was net wide enough te
cover the mouth of our craukless but
highly esteemed Cameren contemporary
It keeps shouting "Wolfe" at an
alarming rate of vociferation.
in
at the Xeble boom keeps moving en
is proved by the "points" wc print en
our first page te-day, indicating the drift
of the campaign. The Erie Eccning
Herald's opposition is mere than offset by
the Petroleum World's support ; aud the
single Democrat oppescr te Neble is
handicapped by his own very recent un
qualified expression of confidence in
Xeblc's ability and integrity.
So-.n;neDv has probably told the Exami
ner that the Eugene O'Xeill of Susque
hanna ceuntv who is en the DamnnrAt.ii
state committee, is net the Eugene
O'Xeill of thatstauuch Republican paper
the Pittsburgh Dismtch. Fer a week the
Examiner had been banking at them as
the same man, though they were 300
miles apart ; and yet this is about as near
the mark as tha Examiner generally gets !
Tin: next number of the Journal of the
American Agricultural Association, printed
in Xew Yeik, is new in press, and will
contain fifteen or twenty articles of inter
est and value en the subjects te which this
association is devoted. The Journal is a
qu .rterly, edited with care and published
with enterprise. Its papers arc of a varied
character, but arc all prepared with much
aeuity and study; and no intelligent
farmer should fail te get and read them.
Tfie Journal means money in the agricul
turist's pocket.
L one of his many Greatest Efferts, Mr.
Rosceis Ceukliug quoted the aphorism,
" The shallows murmur while the deeps
run dumb," aud in the same or another
speech, significant of his methods and his
policy, he borrowed from a greater orator
than himself, the figure of the cattle en a
thousand hills making less noise than a
grasshopper in a fence corner. Mr. Conk Cenk
ling is new illustrating the force of these
figures. While the Half-Brceds are lustily
crewing ever their triumph in the Xew
lerfc Convention, Mr. Cenkliag hies him
te Washington, and is closeted with the
president for a three hours interview.
Tiik Democratic senators went
straight ahead and nominated a presi
dent of the Senate, whom they elected
te-day: and after that courteously
heard a conference r-emmitlce sent from
the Republican caucus. It turned out,
however, that this committee had been
sent te the Democrats te tell them why
they should net exercise the rights and
duties of their majority, and the com
mittee affected a surprise, which, of
course, they did net feel, upon being
told that the Democrats had determined
upon the policy in the matter without
f .1 -A m. .
iteijuunuaii assistance. mis is very
much the same as if, when both Houses
of Congress meet in December, the
Democrats should ask the Republicans
te pow-wewover the election of a
, speaker of the Heu.se.
Tun Dauphin and Lebanon judicial
conferees again met at Lebanon en Sat
urday and balloted far Inte Sunday
morning without corning te any cenclu
sien. Miller slicks with a remarkable
pertinacity that indicates the " nigger in
the woodpile ' te be a very black one indeed.
Somijueoy made a striking typegraphi
cal discovery while reading the Sun re
ccntly. It was noticed accidentally that
all its p's, q's and g's in fact all the let
ters that have a fall below the line of print
in winch they stand are much curtailed.
Leeking through the pages of its file, he
found that this could net be due te old
type, and en making inquiry he discovered
that the paper has a special cast of type for
all letters that fall below the line, by which
means they save 23 lines en each column,
and that is 1G0 words about, and the paper
biing of 28 columns, 4,400 words are
saved, equal te two columns of solid
minion type. That is condensing for space
with a vengeance.
PEHisONAt..
Vici'en Huge has just giv-en 100,000
francs te the peer of Paris.
A burst of Wiiittieic, by Preston Pow
ers, has been placed in the art room of
the Bosten public library. It was pur
chased by subscription.
Mr. Belt, the English sculptor, has
sued Vanity Fair for libel for having al
leged that the busts and statues te which
hisname is attached are the work of
ether artists.
Mrs. Lincoln has signified her inden
tion of leaving Chicago for a winter's visit
te St. Catharines, Canada, where she will
put ncrseii under the caie of prominent
physicians and medical adyiscrs.
The news of the resignation of Gover Gover
eor Wiltz, of Louisiana, and the transfer
of his office te Lieut. Gov. McEucry, en
account of continued illness, has occasion
ed very general regret in that state, where
his commanding abilities, patriotism aud
courage had made for him an assured place
in the hearts of the people.
Wh.k ie Cellins, who 'has just geno te
the sea coast for a change of air, was for
three weeks confined te a darkened room
while suffering from rheumatic gout, his
eyes being affected. He is new recovering
but will net resume work during the next
six months. He has all the material en
hand for another novel.
Fiied Wolffe, who recently registered
his name among the railroad magnates of
the country, was a clerk in a Montgomery
Alabama, dry goods store, seven years
age. He is uew president of two bauks,
manager of four railroads and superin
teudent of the Erlanger Syndicate. He is
net yet thirty years of age younger thau
Victer Xcwcembe or Henry Villard, net
te speak of Gould and Vanderbilt.
There is considerable sharp criticism of
District Attorney Cekkiiill for permitting
his stenographer te soil te the newspapers
the confession of Guitcau. The confession
was written out and then hawked among
the several newspaper offices and linally
purcuased by the Xew Yerk Herald,
which alone was willing te pay the price
asked for it. It is an open question
whether Corkhill profited by the sale or
net
Senater Lamak while admitting that
Arthur is a man of "very considerable
talent and cultivation, with the most dig
nified bearing and unquestionable moral
courage," says he is a partisan of the
"purest ray serene." "He never saw
anyone preside with mere dignity ever the
Senate, or with greater fairness until some
party issue arose. Then without even the
slightest simulation or fairness, and as a
perfect matter of course, Arthur would
give all the weight of his authority te his
political side of the house."
The Chicago Inter-Ocean, a bugler of
the Grant guard, links together the names
of Liuceln, Ciiase, Saward, Grcoley, Sum
ner, Aiorten, Garfield, Hamlin, Colfax,
Edmunds, Legan, Gii.vxt, Conkling, Sher
man, familiar te all Republican wheel
horses, " as the statesmen who have ably
and manfully defended their principles in
the public places and brought victory se
often te the party of progress," while
"the names of Halstead, Reid, White,
Medill, or Curtis de net appear in the
number." The Inter Ocean fails te nete
that Chase, Seward, Greeley and Sumuer,
died at fpriaucs with their party, while
the party is new at variance with Lagan,
Grant aud Conkling, reducing pure Re
publicanism te Hamlin and Colfax, Ed
munds and Sherman.
Lee Haktmanx, the famous Russian
Xihilist, who arrived in Xew Yerk a few
HUNTING IN GREENWOOD.
HOW AI.CCH DAHAGK IS FBEJCN1'U.
mi.
Frederick Wagner, tbe TrapaSMaT the Cem
eteryCatching CblpnuuMM Meles
aud Mice A Talk with ta "Meuse
Catcner "His Werk Since
1876.
Very few people ,ftrlrrng through
Greenwood cemetery,1ftew Yerk, -have
probably ever thought f "the place as a
hunting ground. ThiiYnest enthusiastic
sportsman would seldoef; think of pursu
ing his game in a modern burial place.
Xevertheless Greenwood cemetery is a
real hunting ground. The trustees have
known this for some time. Believing that a
peaceful funeral ought net te be broken up
by the reports of guns or, the snapping of
steel traps, they employed a trapper te ex
terminate, if possible, the moles and chip
munks. Frederick Wagner, or. as he is
known in the cemetery, "The Meuse
Catcher, "has filled this position since
187C. He is a native of Bavaria, a trap
per "by trade," as he calls it, Tred has
pursued his calling all his life. That he
has been succsssful in his calling is demon
strated by the fact that up te the begin
nifig of this month he has trapped and
Kiueu -j,uuu animals in Ureenwoed ceme
tery alone.
A Tribune reporter recently visited
Greenwood and inquired for Wagner. A
short man. well tanned, with grayish
whiskers, somewhat bent with age, hold
ing in his hand a short-handled spade, an
implement he always carries, was pointed
out as the "Meuse-Catcher," or " Fritz,"
as he calls himself.
"I understand," said the reporter,
"that you are the man employed te kill
all the animals in this cemetery?"
"Yah," was the reply, with a smile
which betokened pride iu his "prefes
Meu, "i kiiis 'cm."
months age, has left this country, having f side of the cylinder. A string with
Tin; Philadelphia Press shames all the
decencies of journalism when it says Gui
tcau s uullet has given the Democrats " a
temporary advantage and they are de
termined te make the most of it. If some
ether crank should think that te secure a
Democratic administration was se emi
nently desirable as te justify in his mind
another assassination, the Democrats of
the Senate wilLhavc placed themselves in
a position te profit by his deed. In most
minds they will be held in that case te
have incited te the crime, and en their
heads will be the responsibility." The
Democrats are able aud are willing te elect
Bayard president of the Senate only be
cause two Republican senators have re
signed. But because the Democratic sena
tors exercise their right and constitutional
duties, the Press says that they offer a
premium upon assassination ! This is net
childish, it is despicably mean partisanship,
of which th! Press should be ashamed.
PiilnI FuAm i n. V l 1 ?"
"' ""' inn iu ier .Europe en
Thursday last. There has net for seme
weeks past been any threat of the extradi
tion of Mr. Hartmanu by the state de
partment at the instance of the Russian
government, but his friends have felt ap
prehensive for his safety ever since, as
they say, Mr. Blaine, through his Clerk
Hitt, publicly offered te delayer Mr. Hart
maun up te the Czar. They say that, as
the Russian government had offered
$100,000 for Hartmann's surrender, and
as a large sum was recently transmitted
here from Rvssia te secure it, there was
no ground of safety and no law of protec
tion for him in the United States, esneci
ally as the Czar's detectives were en his
trail everywhere en this continent.
Lord Aiklie's death seme days age in
Colerado is said te have been foretold at
his Scottish scat by a "warning, "the
sign of death in the family beiug the sound
eta mysterious drum which signal has
frequently been heard by rcputable wit
nesses. The late Dr. Xeriuau Maclced,
the famous editor of Geed Words, lent the
weight of his testimony te some extent te
it. Others declare that just before the
death of Lord Airlie's father in 1849 they
were stayiug at Airlie castle, in Forfar Ferfar
shire, and heard the mysterious music
long before they were aware that he was
dying in Londen. It is reported that the
ghostly drummer boy was again heard
just before the death of the late peer in
the far West. One of the servants heaid
it first iu the corridor, and the sounds
also reached the room of Lady Airlie,
whose prostration was partly caused by
this dreaded visitor.
"Well," continued the reporter, "I
want te go with you en your walk through
the grounds te find out hew you catch
these animals."
Without reply, but with a nod of his
head. " Fritz " started off at a funeral
trot, ever tombstones and graves regard
less of paths and notices te "keep off the
grass."
" Hew long have you been here ?" asked
the reporter as he slipped and stumbled
ever several graves.
" Ever since '7G. Veu I comes here the
place vas just 'chuck up' rait moles aud
mice aud -shipmuuks. Xew, der ist
hardly von mole nor von shipmunks."
He opened au iron gate and walking up
te a tombstone pointed te a hole uuder
ncath ene corner of the stone. Pulling
away a little dried grass he disclosed a
steel trap at the entrance of the hole.
" Da," said he, straightening himself
up, "that's vat I ketch 'em mit. Der
shipmunks they get uwlerneath dem
stones and they loosens der foundations.
One day a man ceme te me, sajd he,
Fritz, der vas a shipmunks in my grave.'
I gets my trap and vat you dinks I ketch
fifteen shipmuuks and von skunk."
" What ! de you have sknnks here '.'"
" Skunks ?" said Fritz, " skunks and
shipmunks and cats and dogs and foxes
and plack mice."
" And de you trap cats and dogs ?"
" Evcrydinsrs. Der's nedimrs I can't
traps. I sec the tracks of a cats I fellow
him up I'm bound te catch him."
"Fritz" then led the way te a small
let enclosed by a hedge. A great many
cats and dogs get into the cemetery ar.d
kill the rabbits which are allowed te run
at large there. They secrete themselves
behind these hedges and when opportunity
offers "jump en " the rabbits. " Fritz "
pointed te a large opening in the bedc
mane ey tue cats.
" Derc," said he, " is vere tier cats ceme.
I puts a big trap iu front of that hole, and
tie a fish's head te dat bush se dat it just
hangs ever dat hole. Der cats come,
reaches for dat fish, and shuap ! the trap
has ketched him. Deu I comes along aud
sheets him mit a pullet. Cats is very
fend of cemeteries." Just then "Fritz"
stepped by the side of a grave, with a little
tombstone te mark the spot. Putting his
feet en the grave and striking it a heavy
blew; with his spade, as though he was
afraid the eccupaut of the grave might
net hear him, "Dere," said he, " is the
grave of the first mouse-catcher in dis eeun
try."
"But hew about the black mice?" asked
the reporter, as he stumbled upon and
nearly upset a small marble statue. "Hew
many have you killed ?"
Fritz referred te a little pocket diary
and then answered, "7,182. The eder
merniii' I get 118 plack mice, 1 cats and 4
dogs befera breakfast. Seme peoples gits
soexcited 'bout mice. Der eder day a
gentleman cemblains te der superinten
dent. He writes big letter 'bout mice aud
shipmunks and skunks iu his wife's grave.
I set a trap derc. I catch von shipmunks.
Peeples vas git se excited !"
"But you haven't told me anything
about the moles. Hew de you catch tlicn
aud after they are caught what de you de
with them?"
I nts invited the reporter te his
house, a little shanty just eutside the
cemetery fence Stepping down into the
cellar he rolled out two barrels filled with
mole traps. The "mouse-catcher"
brought a trap out of doers, dug a hole in
the greuud and explained hew they were
set. Te make them, a cylindrical piece of
weed jbeut eight inches in length is care-
iuuj iiiiiiunuu uuu un one side is an
opening about two inches square, through
which a plug is inserted iu the nnnrvJtn
"And de they de much damage ?"
" Much damage ? They lives en worms,
but dey cats flowers and fine roots and
break up the flower beds.' Central Bark
is full mit 'em. and Prospect Bark tee.
And with rauskrats. Dem rnuskrats spoil
the lakes.
" Is Greenwood cemetery the -only place
where any effort is made te exterminate
these moles and chipmuuks and ether an
imals ?"
"Dis is the only blace. It's hard work
te exterminate 'em. A feller what knows
nedings about it, knows nedings about it
at all."
" And you cateh dejs here, de you ?"
" Seme days I ketch 'bout fifty dogs.
After all der beeples has gene away from
the cemetery I set my-big traps for dogs.
I ketch pig fellows sometimes pig Xew
feundland dogs. Every ence in a while 1
have te get up in der middle of der night
te kill 'em after dere caught, dey vasjoel vasjeel
ler se. Ah, see dot rappit they ist der
beauties."
" Didn't you say a little while age,"
continued the reporter, "something about
foxes ? De you have them here ?"
" Yah, but net many. I have killed
two foxes one, twe.years age, and aueder
dis year. But they only come here axis-
uentauy.
By this time " Fritz '' and the rcnerter
had walked te the ether end of the ceme
tery. The mouse-catcher seemed te knew
every nook and corner, every chipmunk's
hole and every squirrel's nest in the ceme
tery. " Beebles vender, " said he. " hew
I find my vay about here se. But it's
natural te me. I knew every rut. 'Cause
I must. Ev'ry meruin' I comes in here at
4 o'clock, leek at all der traps takes all
der dogs and cats and chipmunks out of
der traps and buries 'era. "
" Don't you ever skin them?"
"Xe. I digs a hole and buries 'cm
skius and all. One time I ketched a minx
here but only one. "
In a little book at his house the "Meuse
Catcher" keeps a completo account of all
the animals he catches. At the end of the
month he makes out a report and hands it
te the superintendent, who makes an en
try of it iu his books." Every day he gees
ever the epinetery examiitiutr traps and
setting new ones. Te-day Greenwood
cemetery is almost free of all the animals
which previous te 1870 (the year he went
te work) lived there in great numbers and
did much damage te the grounds and
shrubbery as well as te the monuments
and tombstones.
SOCIAL SINS.
THK UAXfJKK Of THK AOK,
Loek te Your
Hearthstone,
Women !
.Men and
New Yerk Tribune, Ed.
The trial of the murderers of the girl
Cramer at Xew Haven gees en, but at
tracts little attention ; Guiteau's great
crime, like Aaren's, serpent, having swal
lowed all the rest, in public estimation.
Decent people, indeed, have long age tired
of the foul uuendiug stream of murder,
divorce and adultery cases which winds its
way from year's cud te year's end through
the press. Xaturally they begin te loathe
the whole matter; both the crime and the
class with whom the crime originates.
They will read aud knew nothing about
them. Why should the current of their
useful, decorous lives be disturbed by the
misdoings of vulgar fast girls and their
brutal murderers? They will net even con
cern themselves enough about such
tragedies, te find if there is any help for
them. Yet the truth is that this mur
der of Jennie Cramer is net an isolated
case, but a fair indication of the condition
of society in the class te which it belongs.
llic tens of thousands of leud-talkmg,
flashily-drcssed'girls who crowd the streets
and cheap places of amusement in our
cities aud large towns are net a pleasant
or picturesque study for moralists or Chris
tians of refined tastes. But what is she
use of spending money in building schools
and churches and Suuday schools for the
children of the next generation ? Herc ar?
the mothers; and if they are left unchanged
buildings of a very different sort arc all
that will be needed for their children.
We are net talking new of the class of
women who have made vice a trade. As
we understand the evidence, this girl Cra
mcr did net bclenjr te them. She had the
reputation of being "a decent, respectable
STATE ITEMS.
Wolfe had a big audience of big people
in Titusville.
Four Easten women were sickened by
eating potatoes which had been boiled with
their skins en, and the supposition is that
Paris green had fallen en the potatoes.
Katie Sheafer, the young woman who
disappeared se raystcreusly from her home
at Summit station abcutsix weeks age, has
returned, oarcteoted and partially de
rauged. Geerge Hall, aged 21. of Harrisburg,
had his arm amputated yesterday, it
having been injured while Hall, who is
a freight brakeman, was coupling cars
near Spruce creek.
The Central iron works company are
builing a new rolling mill, 120 feet long
and sixty-five feet wide, in addition te
their present large mill in south Harris
burg. They expect te have it finished by
December.
Erie raised $1,107.83 for the Michigan
sufferers ; and Henry Ebersole, who died
up that way, worth $70,000, left au $8,000
farm te the Erie home for friendless chil
dren and another farm te the Ilarbercreek
M. E. church.
The Courant, tha eldest Republican
paper in Lawrence county, has heisted the
name of Wolfe with that of Baily, imply
ing tuac in has no choice between the two,
and the Neics, another Republican paper,
has come out for Welfe direct. .
" We net only licked 'cm ; we mopped
up the fleer with 'em, " was the triumph
ant beast of one of the delegates of the
bosses, telling the story of the machine
triumph ever the Independents at the
Cameren state convention.
The wife of Mr. II. B. Angle, of Welsh
Run, Franklin county, lately gave birth te
three children, two boys and a girl, aver
aging seven and three-quarter pounds iu
weight, or twenty-three and one-quarter
pounds of baby altogether. Xoue of them
get away aud all are doing well.
Ex-Judge Edwin Owen Parry, aged
sixty-four, years, died suddenly in Potts Petts Petts
ville yesterday, of heart disease. He was
a leading member of the Schuylkill county
bar since 1833, has been vestryman of the
Trinity church, and for the past forty
years represented that church iu the die
cesan conventions.
Senater Geerge Handy Smith, armed
with a buttonhole bouquet and with the
aid of the steamer Galatea, fitted out from
Philadelphia,expccts te convey 700 nation
al guardsmen, governor and staff, legisla
tors and council men, mayors aud judges
from Philadelphia te Yorktown and back
en the 18-22 hist., the trip each way te
take a day.
Tramps have again been committing
depredations in Williams township, Xor Xer Xor
thampten county, and complaints from
farmers are numerous. A new feature of
tramp life is that of having a girl te de
the begging for the gang and supply them
with feed ; and when she is refused she
swears, threatens, and makes the air blue
with her demonstrations.
Jehn B. Hamilton, an unexperienced
brakeman en the X. Y., P. & O. R. R.,
was standing en a platform, and as the
train was rounding a curve near Cerry he
was thrown from the car te the bank be
side the track. Before he was able te
help himself he rolled from the bank te
the track where both legs were horribly
crushed, his skull fractured and ether
serious injuries inflicted.
A couple of days age two dogs were en
gaged iu a fight at Frankford, when Jehu
Lewis, a boy of 0 years attempted te sep
arate them and was sevarely bitten in the
Fayette county, the wire repe breke and
he fell te the bottom-, & distance of about
three hundred feet. He died iu a few
minutes, He was thirty-four years old
and leaves a wiie aud seven children.
Jacob Heehber-r, employed at the
Hazard wire repe works. Wiikcsbarre,
was washing wire in an immense tub of
uuu .tivi aim vunei, wuen, making a
misstep, he fell forward and plunged
headlong into the tub. He was drawn
from the tub in great agony ; his death is
hourly expected.
At Caceres. en Saturday, the kings of
Spsfti and Peniiir.il were present at a"buli
light. At a banquet in the evening King
Alfonse prope-Ncd a toast te the health of
King Luis, the fiateHiity of the two coun
tries and the prosperity of Portugal. King
Luis acknowledged the honor with similar
cordiality.
Iiui.lln- the riunilvr.
The pursuing parties that captured the
Iren Mountain railroad robbers consisted
of four men. named Huddlesten. Bellevins.
Moere and D.illahede. When arrested
the robbers hail about $9,000. Huddles en
proposed te his comrades te divide the
money amemr themselves. Bellevins ob
jected, but finally agreed te its being
equally divided, the prisoners keeping the
matter secret, because each of the four
officer took au oath that he would annual
ly pay te the familcs of the robbers $100
and leave no means untried te secure their
release from prison. When the party
reached Hepe they turned ever the pris
oners te the authorities and received $1,
000 reward offered by the state. All the
captors appeared at tbe trial, wheu Bolle Belle
vins divulged the whole matter.
LOCAL IStELUGENCE.
IUi 1U1SLKS.
Fkesh cause for discontent among the
English farmers is found in lh imv
pectedly small yield of their wheat thresh
ings, aud the gloom in the agricultural ' titude.
Thousands of persons visited Lakevicw
cemetery yesterday The park in Cleve
land wherein the body of the late presi
dent lay in state, is thronged with visitors
night and day. All the railwavs rm. unc
ial trains daily te accommodate the raul- J
kiiee in one cud. ruuninir t.iirnncrl. tiiie
hole and connecting with a spring outside,
is kept iu place by this plug. A hole
equal in length te the cylinder, is dug in
what is called the "main read"of the mole's
path. The greatest skill isrequired te dis
tinguish the " main read " from any
ether skill which is only acquired by
watching the habits of the animal. The
cylinder, open at both cuds, is then in
serted into this hole, connecting as well as
pessible the two ends made by the dijrging
of the hole. Before it is used the cylinder
is lined with wet earth. Care is taken te
have the connections nicely made ; and
the trapper uses a tumbler te fill the cyl-
inuur usruuy Wltll dirt, less tin mn!n
should detect by the smell the presence of
uis luiuu iu jiuuifj ii. men me earth is
closely packed around the cylinder. A
spring connecting with two fine wires
carefully fitted into grooves at each end of
the cylinder is attached te the string con.
nectcd with the plug already mentioned.
When the mele enters he burrows along
till hitting this plug with his head, the
plug slips out, frees the string and lets the
spring " fly up," pulling with it the two
wires out of the grooves. One wire
catches the mele around the body, holding
him tightly against the top of the cylinder!
while the ether wire at the opposite end
from which the mele entered, being free,
slips out aud haugs suspended.
This trap, as "Fritz" says, "never fails
te ketch him."' He asserted that there
are new no moles in the cemetery.
"Xet in all these 500 acres?" exclaimed
the reporter.
" Xe. Dis year I ketched only six. I
ketched thorn before dey get inside der
feuce down yonder," pointing iu the direc
tion of Ceney Island ?"
"De you suppose that they came here
from Ceney Island?"
"Yah. Toe much music down thnn"
"Sec dem boxes," he continued, calling
attention te something in the br?nchesef
a tree, "dem's for gray squirrels. We
keeps any quantity of 'em here. It's a
beauty te vatch 'em. I've seen twenty
and thirty all tegeddcr, having a kind of
bicnie. Der trees is full mit 'em."
" But hew far, Fritz," said the reporter,
reverting te the moles, " de they travel in
ene night, for instance ?"
"About half a mile."
girl among her neighbors, in spite of
the fact that she wcut te variety shows
and saloons with young men, remaining
out nearly all night. The standard of
mauuers is low in Jennie Cramer's class.
There is the secret of the crime and deg
radation of its" women. '1 he mothers of
such girls, hardwerked at home, finding
their own sole pleasure in life in some peer
display and bit of finery, arc satisfied that
" the young people should have their
fling." When they send their children
te the public school, ebserve the tawdry
flounces and dirty ribbons en their ragged
clothes. This seems a trifle, but every wise
woman knows that there is no surer sign
of moral coriuptieu than filth and fiuerv.
As the girls grew elder they find places,
probably, in factories, side by side with
coarse, licentious men, or in retail shops
at wages of from three te six dollars par
week. Hew are they te pay for their
beard and the fine clothes which they
have been taught are the one desideratum
in life ? The same silly .vauity forbids
them te take service. Then come, : s iu
this girl Cramer's case, the arsenic te im
prove the complexion, the fine dress, the
imitation pearls, and the means te buy
them. The ranks of prostitution are
recruited from this weuld-be-gcntecl class,
net from domestic servants
Let any Christian reformer drop for an
hour his pet scheme for elevating the
world, whether it be the conversion- of
the Jews or the Polynesians, and fellow
any day a group of these girls home from
their work. If they are Americans they
have net sensual faces. There is none
of that hopeless predominance of the ani
mal nature in mouth aud cye which puts
the mark of the beast en the women of
the lower orders in some European races.
As a rule, their features are clear and fine,
their eyes sparkling, eager; the whole
natural physical character is nervous, deli
cate and refined. With proper training these
would be the same women as these who
conquered Xew England by their endur
ance and piety, or who are conquering the
West new iu many a rude cabin by their
unflagging energy and high-hcartedncss.
The race is the same ; the education is
diflerent. But note the vulgar insolence
of their talk ; their swagger, their inane,
giggling efforts te attract the notice of
men passing by ; tha vacuity, the incipi
ent depravity, the hopelessness of it all.
There is no sight mere tragic en earth
than that of one of these women, meant
by Ged te be a pure wife and mother,
frisking jauntily down her way te ruin.
It is net only te this class of young trirls
we would call attention, but te the habits
and manners of these who held a much
higher social rank. Our educated orders
knew little mere el the real lives of these
young people than they de of the thoughts
ami private occupations ei the lower ani
mals. Let them read, as a mere matter
of curiosity, ene of the cheap novels that
are sold by the tens of thousands among
them, or one or their ' society papers"
with their "Personals" and "handker
chief language" and all the rest of the
silly, pitiful nastiness. The young men
and wemeu who takp delight in these
things are in all probability virtuous.
But hew long will they "remain se ?
The temptation te ruin, tee, we urge
again, does net come te the native Ameri
can girl through any natural proclivity te
vice, but through her vanity, her intense
desire te be noticed, her nervous craving
for excitement. She is net born with any
ineradicable base taint of bleed ; she is
worth savmg. Hew shall ehe.be saved?
hand by one of them a "Spitz." The
wound was cauterized and nothing mere
thought of it until Saturday when he was
taken violently ill and showed signs of
hydrophobia, rcsultiug in fatal and most
agenising spasms.
That staunch Republican paper and
special object of the Examiner's admiration,
the Philadelphia Eccning Telegraph, fiercely
assails the Press for its characleristic
burst of stump rhetoric, "Let us stand to
gether in defense of the great principle of
lvpular Wile and v rce llepresentatien. but
let us also upheld and carry forward the
Republican flag." The Telegraph declares
that the Press is fighting net for the party,
but for the Besses, and the Press knows it.
It it fighting against Mib best interests of
the party, and it knows it.
Jonas Zindle was the proprietor of the
Farmers' hotel, Leck Ilavcu. Samuel
Blair, under the influence of liquor, had
been quarreling in the barroom and Zindle
walked him outside. Instantly there was
a heavy thud heard en the pavement.
Zindlc's wife ran out and found her hus
band lying iu the street. Blair was en
his hands and knees, but get up and ran
off. Mrs. Zindle called for help and it
was then found that Zindle was dead, the
right side of his face being terribly
braised.
'Kevtseil Kdltleu Don't Take" In t!i
County.
B. R. Witracr, of Millersville, has been
selling big family Bibles iu this county for
the past two years and has disposed et
ever 000 copies, te such satisfaction of his
principals that he uew carries a hand
some geld watch presented te him
by the Xatienal publishing company.
This morning he delivered te a
young man iu this neighborhood, who
is about te be married, a copy, bound iu
sealskin and profusely illustrated, of the
new version of the Scriptures, worth $20.
Mr. W. sells family Bibles, of a large size
exclusively and ln tells us he has been
very successful among the Mcnnenitcs,
old aud new, every family of whom de
sires te be supplied with a geed family
BiWe of I.H-.JC size, well bound and legiblv
piiuted. with au ample family register,
which Mr. Witmjr often fills out free of
charge iu diflerent colored inks and orna
mental script. It is common for parents te
give their children such irifts when thev
start in life, and sometimes he sells
a dozen te one person for such purposes.
Mr. Witnicr is jut closing a contract with
a gentleman n-it- ri.iiung.i for forty-live
copies, all alikr, which he proposes te
give, one each, te his grandchildren, re
placing at least a dozen copies of difler
ent editions rthHi as many of them
already have Among the Ornish
Mr. W. has uuviji- Inen able te de any
thing, as they prefer te buy Bibles, mure
particulaily fvei: than ether things, from
their own i.enpS : Mr. Witmer is a Moth Meth Moth
edist. He says the revised edition of the
Scriptures does net "take" at all in this
county ; lie rarely sells a copy of tire new
version ; the country people say the old
is geed enough ter them ; their fathers
lived and died by it. and se will they. The
Bible colporteur has some interesting ex
periences ; occasionally he meets a fierce
bulldog en r!u inside of the yard fence,
and the weineu'will net call him oil" " a
book agent," even though he is spreading
the gospel
IllSKBALL.
Cellee "O IreiiMdc 13.
On Satuulay afternoon the Ironsides
baseball ciu'ief this city received their first
defeat this season at tha hands of the
Franklin ami Marshall college nine en the
grounds of the college club. The game
was witness -d by a large crowd of specta
tors, te m.;t. of whom the result was a
surprise It was net as interesting as was
expected, a:: there was considerable loose
playing en both sides, as the score would
1 indicate. TIih battinir was verv heavv.
Hcitcr, A;iie,M and Shcibley each making
home runs. Zccher caught splendidly for
the Ironside., and Heisler's pitching was
very effective. Apple played short-slop
without an error. The college boys were
entitled te the List bat, but after seeing
mat iney Had wen they did net take it.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Patrick Kelly, a blind boy. was drowned
oft" the Washington street pier, Brooklyn.
A child born in Anamosa, Iowa, weighed
but one pound and seven ounces.
A potato famine is imminent in lows,
the dry weather having almost wholly de
stroyed the late crop throughout the state
A large two-story house and a barn be
longing te A. J. Fosdick, in East Stough Stough
ten, Mass., have burned ; less, $0,000.
There is a geed deal of excitement in
St. Paul about, the high water in the river,
and some timid persons fear a repetition
of the flood of last spring.
The bodies of the four men caughtby the
caving of the Sulphur Bank mine, Cal.,
have recovered. They were all dead from
suffocation.
Dr. Isaac Sparks, of Plainfield, III., one
of the settlers, and 85 years old, has baen
married te Mrs. Saphronia Orten, of
Attica Ind., aged 72.
In Xew Yerk Themas McKcevcr stab
bed and mortally wounded Maria Mc
Kcevcr, his wife, in a butcher shop en
West Thirty-sixth street.
Martin Vicrney, sixty-five years of age, a
well to-de stock farmer of Blauveltville,
X. Y., has been missing since Thursday.
His body was found hanging te a tree in
the weeds in the rear of his house.
The Warsaw salt well cempauy struck
a layer of salt, 1.553 feet down, and is new
boring 30 feet in the same substance. The
theory is that the salt belt extends through
western Xew Yerk.
Engineers are making geed progress
with the survey for the new bridge across
the St. Lawrence river iu connection with
the Atlautic & Xert'awestcrn railway. It
will be two miles long aud cost about two
million dollars.
In Louisville, Ky iu a quarrel between
two brothers, Budd and Henry Barrett,
ever a lean of twenty-five cents, the latter
shot the former, killing him instantly. The
two had feuglit, during which Ilcni v was
se badly cut thjit he will die.
At Yorktown workmen are busily en
gaged completing the erection of buildings
for the accommodation of visitors te the
Centennial celebration. One of the prin
cipal difficulties te be surmounted new is
that of an inadequate supply of water.
A lire occurred at Bristel, Eug., in a
large printing and stationery store, which
with the adjoining buildings, was burned
down. The damage is estimated at 00,
000. Messrs. Jeffries, te whom the store
belonged, traded very largely with Amcr
ica.
Jehn Biggctr, of Wyoming, X. Y., who
was recently released from jail for threat
ening life, was terribly mangled by an
Erie wild cat train at Warsaw station. He
was run ever by two trains before ne was
noticed. He was intoxicated te crazi
ncss.
While Charles McGragan was descend
ing the Hiudtaan shaft, near Xew Haven,
The score i . as fellows :
ffLLI.CC. IKOXSIMLS.
O. K. e. K.
I'uiHleIpIi.lh r. e Zecherc -z ::
Miller :; t .-. i Knutj:,2b :; -i
hiiuiu'.vy, - i :; :; c. Winner, -. -z
Keitt-r, e :; 'j Arneld, p I ::
Apples- :; .iiioek.cf :: e
Ilei-ler. p e 5 l!umbrh:lit. r t :: I
Mi-undvi-.il . a Wcliihnic, 1 1 r it
terrier, rf. -z :iKing.3b I I
Detrow. c-f. s IF. Witmcr.lf I I
I -z .: i r, ; 7 s :
College I :i i i i :: :; -z zi
Iriiiisiiie.t z it I it r 4 it l it i:;
(Tnipir. t ::.:iiinaii. of Hie College.
Time tit (-.cm-- I litiut-atul i. mii.ute.-.
A imc.ini; nviwvAK.
A Fjirinci .n Ilt,.is ear I.cb.ineii Kntered
i:il Kebtied.
The residence of Jehn B. Light, a farm
cr living near Lebanon, was entered hy
two unknown p.ulies at an early hour en
Saturday. They effected an entrance by
boring a hole through the window shuttcis
en the ground fleer and heisting the win
dow. Mr. Light had gene te market and
his wife, hearing the noise, thought her
hu-iband had returned, and paid no atten
tion te the matter until the burglars enter
ed her room. While one covered her with
a revolver, cautioning her te make no
alarm or he would kill her, the ether ran
sacked the room for money and ether val
uables. The men had their races partly
concealed with peckcthaiidkcrehiefs.
Frem their talk Mrs. Light could net
identify -them. In the house at the time
of the robbery was Benjamin Weidman, a
brother of Mrs. Light. JIe heard the
noise, but thought it was Mr. Light leav
iug the house. One of the burglars
opened the room deer and seeing some one
in bed remarked : " It's all right," and
quickly closed the deer again. The 10b
hers did net stay in the house long. All
they secured was about fifty dollars, Mr.
Liht having deposited his ether funds.
After they had left the alarm was
given, but no trace of the men could be
feuud.
Unclaimed Letter..
The following is the list of Iettei.s re
maining unclaimed in the pest office for the
week ending Oct. 10 :
Ladies' List: Miss Hetty Baumgard
ner, Miss Sue Baughey, Bliss Leah Baiteu,
.Mit; Adline Brown, Mrs. Annie Drum
Becucr, Miss Katie A. Clark. Mis Liz
zte II. Charles, Miss Clara Celeman. Mrs.
Sarah Cresbay, Mrs. Chilccsens, Mrs. Jen
nie M. Dillen, Miss S. E. Frew. Mrs. G.
V. He-Id, 4, Miss Gertrude Mcllci. Mis.
I'. MuManun, Mrs Jehn Philips, Miss Es
ter Riuchart, Miss Emma S. Rehcr. Mrs.
William Whitney, 3Irs. Clata Warner,
Miss Sadie L. Weber.
Gents' List: Philip Becklcy.Alonze Bru
bakcr, Gee. Dissinger, sr., Denver organ
works, llcnry Ditzter, Gee. W. Han-ace,
Jehnsen Bellinger, D. A. Howe, Seb.
Hummel. Jehn Heller, D. H. Imcs, Jacob
Kcinpf, Chas. E. Kelley, Gee. C. Keihl,
Martin Kennedy (2-for.), McLaughlin J:
Z-iek. Ileinrich Mertens, Daniel Mewivy
M. G. Murray, D. Frank Russ, Jacob E.
Ressler, Aug. Richard, Elias Robsien, X.
X. Scnsindcrfer (2), M. W. Tshudy, Rev.
Wcigler, O. S. R., Jehn Funnier.