r ?" ""- LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCEU WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30 1881. Eanraster Intelligencer, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOV. 30, 1861. Arthur's Instruments. The Philadelphia 1'rcss pertinently says that " a president who tries te con cen dact the vigorous prosecution of a ring with some men new in prosecuting places, including District Attorney Cork Cerk hill, is like a carpenter working with dull tools. In earnest he may be, but in the end he will have cut fingers and a spoiled job." But it nevertheless thinks that " President Arthur is in earnest in his determination te hunt down every thief in the star route gang. His friends say this, the public believes it, Republi cans accept it." These two thoughts of the Press de net harmonize se well as they should. If Mr. Arthur is only reasonably fitted by intelligence for his high place, as the Press no doubt maintains that he is, it is quite :is obvious te hirn as te his editorial critic that dull tools are net the means by which he should seek te cut down the star route criminals ; but if this is conceded nothing remains te sustain the belief that President Arthur is ' in earnest in his determination te hunt down every thief in this. star roule ring." If his friends and the public and Republicans believe this, they must consider him a very weak and stupid man indeed te use the instruments of prosecution that have already signally proved their infelicity in the work. That is a word which seems te express the mental state of the star route prosecutors. They appear te be an unhappy set ; unhappy in their aims, their efforts and their results. If they want very much te prosecute the men they are pursuing they must be lull of regret at their ill-luck ; and if they don't want te, they must be sorry that they arc en the hunt. It is quite remarkable hew the presi dent's proclaimed purpose is defeated by the acts of his subordinates. May be it is all accidental ; but it is about time these accidents came te an end. It was hardly accidental either that the new acting attorney general found himself at variance with an assistant of the late attorney general specially employed te prosecute the star route inquiry. What ever Mr. Gibsen's proper designation there was no dispute that he was em ployed te hunt down the men Mr. Ar thur is se anxious te punish, as the Press says everybody believes. And there is no doubt that he did very geed work against them, and that his report con tained matter which should have been very desirable te an attorney general in spired by the zeal against the accused that is attributed te the president. Se that while acting Attorney General Phillips appears te have geed grounds for refusing te acknowledge Mr. Gibsen's right te the particular title he assumed, it is net apparent why he should net have in clined te overlook this unimportant matter in view of the important assist ance which Mr. Gibsen gave him in the work which is se close te the president's heart. There seems in fact te be a little tee great contrast between the president's alleged warniness and his subordinates' displayed coldness. We would like te be credulous of the honest zwil of the star route prosecution, but really our faith should be given some little founda tion ; we cannot indulge in the degree of blindness of the Press, which sees an in telligent president using dull tools for his work, without disturbance of its con fidence in his own zeal for its speedy and efficient performance. Tlie Telegraph Poles. As there are two sides te every ques tion, se there seem te be two te this one about the great telegraph masts. The superintendent of the work says they are made se large te get the wires high up out of the way of everything and every body ; anfl no doubt :t is a public advan tage te have them thus elevated. He says iron poles arc net used because they are tee low and break, and because they cannot be climbed, and net bacause of their greater cost. He denies that they are used in the cities, except for the elec tric light, and declares that much larger poles than these put in here arc used in going through Philadelphia. He says, furthermore, that underground electric cables are net successful here, though they are used in Europe ; which he at tributes te a difference in soil or climate. There is a geed deal of statement here which is at variance with the general impression. We arc net disposed te ad mit that iron pests of small diameter cannot be advantageously substituted for great wooden ones ; all the difficulties suggested in their employment would seem te be capable of ready adjustment, and before our councils give permission for the further incumbrance of the streets the matter should receive care ful examination. It appears that the resolution they adopted, authorizing the street committee te grant the privilege of erecting poles te this new corporation, is entirely invalid, since the law of 1S7G requires that the consent of cities shall be obtained by ordinance and net otherwise. Ne ordinance was passed in this case and consequently' the company has no au thority whatever te put up its poles within the city limits. Its agents seem te recognize this fact, since they have purchased the permission of property holders te put their poles inside the street line when strenuous objection was made te the use of the street. This is the proper way for the business lobe dene: The company can well afford te pay for its privileges and there is no reason why it should obtain these gra tuitously from either city or citizens. It is a commercial venture ; and in all such values received are paid for. Merk evidences of crookedness in Philadelphia arc coming te light, and it seems likely that the administration of the city government there will be found te have been honeycombed with fraud some years age. It seems that in the city solicitor's office several thousand dollars worth of municipal claims were collected and receipts given for them, though they were never released en the docket, nor can any trace of the money be found. In another instance there van be found, no trace leading into the I city treasury of SCO per year rent paid for 30 years te the city by the lessee of a let of ground belonging te it. Tweed ism in Philadelphia has been as rampant as the Republicanism of the city has been steadfast. The Grand Jury. The last grand jury deserves the com mendation which Judge Livingston be stowed upon it. Its report will be found upon our first page, and the circum stance pointed out by the court that none of its members ever served upon a grand jury before, leads te the inquiry whether tee much experience at this business may net be prejudicial te a grand juror's efficiency. The greenhorns de the best ; the experienced knew tee much. This grand inquest dispatched its business with remarkable rapidity, and gave mere than the usual time te the visitation of the public institutions. It would no doubt have been mere satisfactory te the public te be shown by what process of calculation the jury reached the conclusion that the cigar making department in the prison pay. We doubt whether all elements of profit or less have been counted, and suspect that if the calculation was made public some thing would be found missing that is necessary te its accuracy. Of course supplies should be purchased by con tract. Any ether way of buying them invites corruption and has led. te it in the past. The failure of public officials te aslc for proposals is, of itself, sugges tive of corrupt purposes. The " exces sive expenditures " at the prison " ne cessitated by the entertainment of the officials and sometimes their friends," is a subject that the county solicitor should inquire into, and also into the " multiplicity of cases" worked up by officials te beat the county, which these grand jurjunen "unhesitatingly con demn." But what is going te be done about it? Grand juries have made wise re ports and sage recommendations before and they arc still-born. Will the court haul the offenders before its bar of judg ment ? Will the county solicitor stifily stand up te his work and protect the treasury from raids ? Will the proper officers have the necessary and salutary laws that are recommended promptly passed? We wait te see. A V vriiei.iu priest in New Yerk warns his congregation against the danger of young women of that faith going outside their own church for husbands. As Pennsylvania gees se gees the speakership, say the puzzled correspon dents who cannot find out hew the Repub lican delegation from this s'ate will vote as between Kassen and Hiszeck. Probably Pennsylvania waits te hear from the ad ministration. THi: EBB AK FLOW, Tlie liilesllpsi up the silver sand. Dark night mill rosy day : It liriiifrs sea-tiv:iur(s te the land. Then bears tlicin till nway. On mighty shores from east te wwt It walls, and gropes, -mil cannot re-d. O tide, that still doth clib and Hew Through night te golden day : Wit, learning, beauty, ceine and go, Theu jv'st, thou tak'st away. lint sometime, en some pracieus slieie, Theu shalt lie still and ebli no mere. Ellen M. Hutchinson. Tin; Philadelphia Times has inferma tien " that twenty-three Republicans of Marietta, Lancaster county, who voted for Welfe at the late election, have been notified that they arc no longer wanted in the party." As the aforesaid have prob ably net heard the news it might spare them and these who read them out time and trouble if the Timxs would print the marked list. The grand jury was at a less for lan guage te express what must have been its "unhesitating condemnation" of prison inspectors who fasten together chilled iron plates with soft iron belts. Upen no ether ground can the silence of the grand jury regarding Frankford's cscape be acceuutcd for. Aud what kind of watching de prison watchmen de that a prisoner can be out his cell five hours aud net be missed ? Tin: Wilkcsbarre Recerd, stalwart, is willing te let the Wolfe Republicans come bank, since "they form se small a portion of the Republican vete in each district that no harm can result from letting them come back te the ranks and participate in the privileges of privates. They didn't hurt anybody particularly, and it is en tirely probable that they have learned a lessen that will de them geed." By tLc way did anybody hear the Wolfe Repub licans asking tebe allowed te come back te the " privileges of privates V" As the prison inspectors de net take kindly te our suggestieu that Jehn Frank ford, the jail-breaker, be selected as jailer or jail architect, would it net be well for them hi the interest of economy te petition for his immediate pardon, with the condition precedent that all horses hereafter stolen by him shall be paid for by the county ? The cost of the horses would be a mere bagatelle compared with the cost of iron-clad cells, watchmen, keepers, shotguns, powder and bird-shot Ne. 8, required under the present manage ment. Tin: Lebanon "law aud order commit tee" is se shocked that grand jurymen there have violated their solemn oaths and ignored liquor bills fully made out, that it issues a powerful address appealing te the preachers te " agree uperra partic ular hour of some particular Sabbath (or as nearly se as may be practicable) in the near future, when from your pulpits throughout the country, suitable sermons will be preached, setting forth the sanctity and binding obligation or au oath, in its legal effects for time and for eternity, upon such as violate or obey its sacred obligations'." "The Agricultural department csti mates the Pennsylvania corn crop this year at 1,347,000 bushels, and hence the state will rank 'seventeen' among the diff erent states of the Union." Examiner Editorial. Either the Examiner or the Agricultural department is corned, as by the census of 1880 seicn counties in the state eaeli gave a yield greater than the total amount named. Fer the ten years previous te and including I860, the smallest corn crop was in 1874, when the total yield was I 83,28L000bushels.andin 1880 Lancaster county alone heading the list raised 3, 293,292 bushels of corn. The crop of 1881 was rather light, te be sure, but it will be about twenty-five times as large as the Examiner puts it. PERSONAL. Cnix Gim, the Chinese missionary, nearly murdered by Cincinnati roughs, will henceforth devete his labors te Ameri can heathen. Postmaster General James and party, after a pleasant tour through Flerida, left Jacksonville en Monday evening for At lanta. Ga. As a result of the visit of the postmaster general the mail service of Flerida will be greatly imprevea. Jeke McKidben, late and long of the Girard lieuse, Philadelphia, died sudden ly in St. Jeseph, Me., yesterday, where his new mammoth hotel was opened at neon. He was aged C3 and a native of Chambcrsburg, where his father survives him. Miss Lillie D. Tvler, of Damascus, Pa., cured from a long-standing disease by a Yankee miracle worker, just a year age, has -kept the anniversary of her deliver ance bv marrying Jehn Mitchell. Miss Lillie. the day she was married waB an ideal bnde with rosy checks, the picture of health, and the truth of the "euro by prayer " is vouched for by all the young woman's relatives. Since her sudden euro Miss Tyler, new Mrs. Mitchell, has felt no illness whatever, and has enjoyed ex ceptienal geed health. Miss Nellie IIazletisc, " the bclle of St. Leuis" whose name, "much against her will," has become somewhat famous in the newspapers, has arrived in Philadel phia, and is stepping with her friend Mrs. Florence I.Duncan, the talented authoress, while she buys her trousseau te marry Freddy Paramore, who helpcd te hammer Jehn Amwcg, jr. The Press declares. "much against her will, " no doubt, that "she is a lovely demi-blonde el petite stature, with tresses of the true Titian csque hue. Her face is a pure oval and her eyes are large, sparkling and expressive. Like Grosvcner, her beauty has been a fatal gift, as it has caused her te be the object of envy and gossip ; " and the ' sparkling and expressive " Nellie indig nantly denies with equal vigor that our Uncle Sammy lildcn ever was " mashed, or that she ever was charmed with Am weg's siren voice. TneMAS F. Esimexs, a rather smart and aggressive young Englishman, has been circling around the Lehigh Valley in poli tics, law and journalism for the past de cade. He had somehow awakened the an tagonism of the Allen town bar and the Lehigh county bar committee never would let him into the profession there. He transferred himself and his activity te Easten, but the opppesition of the AHcn AHcn tewners followed him and he was denied admission te the Northampton bar en a certificate of admission te the McKcan county bar held by him, which the Lehigh county court had refused te honor. The ether day at Easten, Judge Myers, who had previously refused his application, being off the bench, Hen. William Mutch ler made the motion for his admission, Judge Reedcr granted it and Mr. Emmens was sworn as an attorney. Judge Rccdcr allowed it by the exercise of his authority as a judge without any reference te the committee and despite its former decision. That should settle it. The quarrel has net been creditable te these concerned, and a little longer exclusion of Emmens would have given him a martyrdom that he likely does net deserve. STATE ITEMS. There are new in ceurse of construction at the iron shipyards en the Delawaie, no less than fifteen iron steamers. Miss Bessie Norris, the deserted bride of Wilkcsbarre, who became insane ever her lever's perfidy, is reported te be con valescing. The grand jury of Fulton county, Ga., found true bills against the cashier, pres ident and directors of the broken Citizens' bank. The Haddington people rather than sub mit te 9 cent street car fares down into Philadelphia, have put ou a line of 8 cent passenger coaches. Gcerge DcB. Kciin, of Philadelphia, the hardware merchant, is off in North Carolina limiting ; his wife has died sud denly and he cannot be reached witii the news. Burglars blew open the iron safe of Fink & Sherb, produce aud commission merchants, at Littlcstewn, Adams county. About $400 of the firm's money and $20 belonging te Wm. Kuhus were carried away. Twe het blooded students at Pottstewu undertook te settle a quarrel by a resort te the "cede," and when the time came for an exchange of shots one of them did actually pull the trigger.the bullet grazing his opponent's neck. Since the beard of pardons refused clem ency te William Cannen, election officer briber, of Philadelphia, his wife has died, and lest his little children be parcutlcss the judge and district attorney agree in asking for a commutation of the three i emaining weeks of his sentence. An educated Hungarian refugee has died in Scranton from au overdose of lauda num. He was well educated, speke Ger man, Greek and Latin, and ir, said te have been a lawyer at home. His companion did net knew his name, and the man was unconscious up te the time of death. Geerge Furncss, a boy aged nine, was accidentally locked in a school room in Eric, and was attacked by a swarm of rats. The boy fought desperately for some time, but became exhausted and when discovered was laying senseless, with the swarm of rodents teaving at his flesh. He will live, but his fright has probably deprived him of his reason. In Natrona en Friday Rebert Welch, a young man employed in the works of the Pennsylvania salt manufacturing com pany, fell from a bridge twenty-five feet high that spans a small stream which passes through the property of the com pany. He was net discovered until Sat urday afternoon, when he was picked up from the bed of the stream where he had fallen. He will die. . The Pennsylvania railroad company wants te build a freight depot en the north sido.ei Market street, Philadelphia, and finds it desirable that the hollow at Thir teenth street should be spanned by a bridge 111 teen leet in ucignt, and tue street made of a uniform grade from Thirty-second street te the bridge ever the Schuylkill. The work would cost about $83,500, aud the company would undertake it for $38, 500, supplying the remainder from its treasury. Rebert Craven, formerly in the grocery business at 3963 Market street, Philadel phia, has died suddenly in New Yerk. He was rather eccentric in his ways, and had a habit of carrying large sums of money with him, often amounting te $7,000 or $8,000. He bad a will leaving all his property te Miss Lizzie Chase, te whom he was betrothed. She finds that et a dollar was found en him or in his store, and ehe has put detectives te work. Jehn Geerge, aged 59, Zanesville, Ohie, committed suicide by cutting his threat with a razor. He was te have been mar ried te a soldier's widow named Vernen, and hail ordered his wedding clothes which were te have been delivered en the day of his suicide, and will new be his shroud. The widow drew a pension, and hearing that if she wed she would lese it she jilted him. Hence hjs despair. ACCIDENTS ON LAliD ANI SEA. Kailread Uiaasters and Dangers of the Deep. By the collision of two cattle trains en a siding between Bristel and Schenck's station, P. R. R. ew Yerk division, sev- eral cattle were k: d, trams delayed and a brakeman had hi leg broken. The Union stec vards company, of St. Leuis, has begun ssit against the Wabash railroad compauyffer $500,000 damages for breach of a cei tract made in 18G4, by which the railroad company agreed net te discriminate agair st the plaintiff and in favor of the Natiei al stock" yards in East St. Leuis. I Twelve oil tanks?and four freight cars of a Lehigh & Susquehanua train were thrown down the bauk at Wcisspert en Monday night. Yesterday afternoon the oil cars took lire from sparks from a pass ing engine aud were destroyed with a large section of track. Trains were transferred te the Lehigh Valley read. The less is about $12,000. A strike is progressing among the yard men of the Canada Southern railroad at St. Themas, Ontario. The strikers blocked the track by shifting rails, but, after an all-night struggle with the rioters, a force of thirty policemen, assisted by ethers, cleared the track before daylight yester day. Geerge Moere, a brakeman, was badly injured by the strikers. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of the ringleaders. Marine Accidents. The steam yacht Lucerne collided with the Australian clipper Dundee, near Gravcsend, and the former sank. Seven persons were drowned. The propellers Lake Erie and Northern Queen, from Chicago for Collingwood, with cargoes or corn, collided and sank in a recent storm saved. The crews were The Calf Reck lighthouse, off the coast of Cerk, Ireland, has fcceu seriously dam aged by the recent storms, and the light will remain extinguished until further notice. During a storm ou the Australian coast the Brisbane was wrecked off Pert Dar win ; the coasting schooner Schoolboy was lest with all hands, near Jarvis bay, and the Balclutba is believed te have foun dered en the passage from Mclbourne te Sydney. The steamer St. Germain, of the Havre and New Yerk line, put iu at Halifax en the 22d inst. with 40 cabin and 400 steerage passengers. She had experienced contin uous westerly gales for ten days, followed two days afterwards by a hurricane, in which one of the steerage passengers was washed overboard. The steamer proved an excellent sea beat, and yet, after the storm, when the weather was geed, she could make only nine knots an hour. The captain can give no reason for this, and lie will have a careful survey of the vessel made after reaching New Yerk, which he expects te de by Saturday. Lesses by Fire. F. II. Marien's hat store, Rochester, New Yerk ; $40,000. R. T. Kilpatrick's foundry, St. Leuis, $20,000; insurance, $5,000. Business portion of Augusta, Ark., $200,000. Five persons seriously in jured in Rochester, New Yerk, by au ex plosion iu a fireworks factory. MAD A1JOUT IT. "Cape Ceil FiilKs" Opposed te llctiif; l'ut into rrint. A remarkable litigation is developing in Bosten. Seme months age a novel in manuscript was submitted te a pub lishing firm. They found it interesting, aud a friend of the author informally guaranteed that it should pay expenses ; hence the house accepted anil published it. The author proved te be a young lady of Connecticut, who had spent a wiutcr in teaching school en Cape Ced, and the book purported te be a narrative in auto biographic style of real life iu that some what remote region. "Cape Ced Felks" was the name bestowed en the work ; "Cedar Swamp' was the sccne of the story ; and the characters, except the teacher herself, were the various resi dents of the place the family with which she bearded, her pupils, the young men aud maidens, the old people, the school officers and the like. Critics bestowed high praise en the author's skill in depicting the peculiarities of Cape Ced life. She showed, se they declared, won derful originality and skill in delineating character and in painting peculiarities and habits as she witnessed them. Ne wendpr ; for it seen became noised abroad that the writer's exceptional skill in this respect consisted in unhesitatingly de scribing real persons, narrating actual inci dents, and even giving true names. Her volume was simply " telling tales out of school," the persons around her being called by their names without reserve and the descriptions aud incidents, many of them, being founded, thought somewhat brightened aud embellished perhaps, upon occurrences of the winter. The rumors te this effect naturally stimulated the sale, which encouraged the publishers. Quite lately, however, another aspect of the matter has been brought te their uo ue uo tice by the commencement of libel suits ou behalf of the indignant Cedar Swamp ers. At last accounts, they had given bends te release their stere from attach ments iu suits amounting te $30,000 with perhaps ten or a dezcu of the characters in the book yet te be heard from ; and they were laboriously altering their stereotype plates, preparatory te future editions, by substituting a fictitious name for every one which could- be detected. There is nothing or very little in the book iu the nature of censure or aspersion. The com plaint is that people are ridiculed. INDUSTRIAL. KXPOSlTlOJiS. The Interests of J2nt and West, North and Seuth. The Atlanta cotton show will close posi tively Dec. 31. The wool growers have resolved te ask the tariff convention te recognize them in the makeup of its committees. The American Agricultural association has appointed a large delegation te visit the Atlanta cotton exposition, leaving New Yerk next Monday evening. The delegation includes the following Pennsyl vanians : Hen. Themas J. Edge, Captain Burnett Landrcth, Edward W. Well6, Willis P. Hazard, Hen. W. S. Bissel and James C. Turner. The formal opening of the ninth cenven tien of the National Butter, Cheese and Egg association took place at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, yesterday. The attendance was large and the proceedings interesting. Governer Gear welcomed "the association te the state. Twenty-two states were represented. Telegrams were read from the beards of trade of Philadelphia, New Yerk and Chicago. The display of butter is larger than has ever been exhibited at any fair in the United States, and the col lections of dairy implements, machinery and appliances can only be computed by the aero. The Perilous rig. Out in Butler, Dr. T. M. Zimmerman, in attempting te kill a pig, exploded a pistol iu his pocket. The ball penetrated the right groin and ledged in the left knee. The wound is painful but net necessary fatal. An Erie county man who undertook te slay a pig conceived the idea of lassoing the porker and then holding the rope in his teeth while he operated en the animal with an axe. With firm-set jaw the Erie county man delivered a well-aimed blew, but the wary shoat shot off en a seu'west line and took with him net only the rope, but a large and varied assortment of upper and lower front teeth. LATEST MEWS BY MAIL. Colfax is going through the oil country with a lecture en " Our Martyred Presi dents." The steamer Zealandi a, from Australia, has arrived at San Francisce with $1,400, 000 in geld for the San Francisce mint W. II. Whitnect, business agent for Rice's opera troupe of Beeth's theatre, dropped dead in the Osbern house, at Au burn, N. Y., yesterday. E. A. Clabaugh, a gcntlemau well known among turf men, and president of the People's bank of Baltimore, died at HagerstewD, 3Id., yesterday morning. The dyiug and horribly mutilated, but still living body of Luke Martiu, a resi dent of Superior station, was found ou the Fert Wayne railroad tracks between Birmingham and Bellevue, near Pitts burgh. The death of Judge Wilbur, of Trey, whose life work covered almost a ceutury, has been followed by the death of his wife, who survived the separation but ten days. Fer upwards of seventy years the same reef sheltered them as man and wife. Gcerge Housten, twenty years of age, employed in the woolen mills at Mont gomery, New Yerk, while placing a belt, in a pulley wheel, was caught and drawn around the shaft between the space of six inches and thrown upon a carding machine several yards distant. He died the same evening. He was te be married iu a- few days. Ku8i:in Ttials. Iu St. Petersburg tweuty-twe soldiers of the regiment of Hussars of the Guard are te be tried by court martial for strangling one of their officers. A Caucasiau, Priuce Chervachidse, licutcnaut of the same regi ment, will be tried for sabring last July a shopkeeper who had accidentally entered a room which he had reserved at a res taurant. Anether prince, -aise iu the Hussars of I he Guard, who in a drunken fit last week playfully put a bullet into his servant aud nearly killed him, will probably be brought before the courts be fore long. An inquiry was begun half an hour after the acceuclunent of Hessy Helfmann. Anether of the three women Nihilists imprisoned in the fortress has been delivered of a child. Thanks te a woman Nihilist, who had been allowed te escape from Siberia purposely, ene of the most influential Nihilist leaders has just been arrested. Knewing from revelations made by some of the St. Petersburg pris oners that the woman was in relations with the Nihilist in question, the police let her get as far as Moscow, where she was feuud iu company with her accomplice. It is new decided that the approaching trial of sixty-two or mere Nihilists will be conducted by the Senate, net by court martial. A Garileld Memerial. A Philadelphia marble firm, from a de sign furnished by Mr. Edmund Smith, second vice president of the Pennsylvania railroad company, has just made and sent te Washington, as a gift of the P. R. R., a marble tablet, te be put up in the depot where Garfield was shot. The exact spot where he fell has been marked by a large gilt star set in the fleer, aud directly op ep op pesito this point the tablet will be erected. On cither side of the tablet appear the emblems of the strength of the Union, surmounted iu the ccntre by the cagle with outstretched wings, its talons grasp ing the national flag, which falls iu grace ful folds. The inscription reads : "James Abram Garfield, President of the United States, July 2, 1881." The tablet is about four feet in width, by two feet in height, carved in fine white marble. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. A IATAJ. MISTAKE. 'IbeSliet Intended for a MiiHkrut Lede in the liead of a Man. A shocking tragedy occurred at D. L. llamakcr's mill dam, ene mile northeast of Petersburg, about half-past seven o'clock last evening, which at last ac counts bids fair te result in the death of the victim, William Gnycr. The facts of the case are as fellows : Mr. Gnycr was en a gunning expedition after muskrats, and had gene te the mill dam at Hamaker's, in search of game. At thisjieint the old structure has recently been replaced by a new, one, and Gnycr had taken a position en the old dam, at the place where an opening had been made for the water te pass through, lying low and waiting for the appearance of the muskrats. Meanwhile a party of youths, Hiram Feltz, Adam Zerphey, Jacob Burk Burk heldcr and Nathan Graybill, ranging in age from 14 te 18 years, and all et whom reside in the village of Petersburg, arrived upon the scene, armed with shotguns, and having iu view the similar object of muskrat sheeting. Gnycr was net visible te the party, owing te his recumbent posture, and he likewise was ignorant of their presence. Graybill took a position at a point where the old aud new dams join, and about 75 or 80 feet from where Gnyer lay, while the ether young men stationed themselves at intervals further dewu en the line of the new dam. While they were all thus intently watching Gnycr elevated his head for an instaut, and Graybill, mistaking the object for a muskrat, fired, a heavy charge of bird shot entering G eyer's head, directly along side the left temple. A cry of pain from the wounded mau at once apprised Gray bill of his fatal error, and he at ouce gave the alarm te his companions, shouting that he had shot a mau. Tbey hurried te the sccne, and Gnyer was discovered lying insensible upon the breast of the dam with his left eye com pletely shot out, the ball hanging down upon his check. Graybill hastened te Petersburg, where Dr. A. G. Bewman was summoned, who repaired te the scene of the sheeting, and rendered necessary sur gical assistance. Gnycr was removed te his home, which is abut a mile northwest of Petersburg, and where a further exami nation indicates that a portion of the charge of shot is ledged in the brain. Dr. Bow Bew man's opinion is that the wound is a mortal one. Gnyer is a laboring man, aged between 35 and 40 years, is married and has a wife and two children. Yeung Graybill, who fired the fatal shot, is aged 18 years, and is the youngest son of Jacob Graybill, of Petersburg. Little Girls' Tableaux. The little girls of the Moravian congre gation who comprise au organization known as the " Workers' association," were te have given an exhibition of tab leaux, etc., iu the large parlor of the Rehrcr house (Kcndig's), at the corner of North Queen and Chestnut streets, last evening, but the attendance was se unex pectedly large that it was deemed imprac ticable te held it there, and in consequence a postponement was had until te-morrow evening, when the affair will take place in the upstairs room of Roberts's hall, and when an admission fee of ten cents will be charged, the proceeds te go te the church. Fell into the Klver. On his way home from Lancaster, recent ly, Mr. Andersen Channel!, of Bridgeton, Yerk county, stepped at Uffleman's hotel, McCall's Ferry, te warm. A passing train en the C. & P. D. R. R. frightened his horses se that they broke from their hitch ing pest and ran ever the rocks into the river. After swimming around in the deep water they struck for the shore and were assisted out of the water by Messrs. Warren Chandler and Milten Fry. The horses were very clean when they arrived at Bridgeton. MICROSCOPY IK T1IK SCHOOLS. An interest Ins ExulbiUeu for the PnpUs. The first complimentary seiree by the Lancaster Microscepical society te the pupils of the public schools was given last evening at the girls' high school te mem bers of the first and second classes selected from each of the two schools. The com mittee in charge of the matter consisting of Messrs. R. K. Buchrlc, J. M. Davidsen and J. P. McUaskcy, decided te admit but twenty pupils from each high school, se that the number might net be tee large for a satisfactory exhibition. The pupils who were preseut are each expected te write some account of what they saw, this beiug a conditeu of their receiving admis sien tickets, aud everybody was making notes ler such use et objects seen and in formation gathered in answer te the numerous questions asked en every liand, as the line passed around the tables occu pying the catrauce hall, where the instru ments had been placed. There were three chauges of objects en the instruments, each remaining en exhibi- ten ler some three-quarters of an hour. After each series of objects had been seen by all present they passed again into the study hail of the school, where Supt. Buchrle anneunced the next series te be exhibited, giving at the same time some description of objects of special interest. The wonderful apparatus of the pitcher plant, for catching and retaining small iu sccts, the breathing pores of the liverwort, and the rare beauty of the leaf of the wax-myrtle were revealed te the astonished eyes of the boys and girls by Mr. J. C. Burrowes ; while Mr. Davidsen enabled them te compare the human hair with the wcel and cotton fibre: and Dr. II. D. Knight, the president et the society, gave them an inside view of the " structure of the human teeth," by successively exhibiting sections of its cu amcl, dentiue and contention, artistically prepared by himself aud shown under a very high magnifying power. The next two instruments, iu charge of 3Ir. E. W. McCaskey, exhibited the corpuscles of the human bleed and the spiral fibre of the human muscle, and in the line of botany, the seed of the daisy, the pollen of the Cauada lily aud a burst anther of the crab apple. Mr. J. E. Snyder made a fine show ing of leaf and stem structure and of the fruit dots, sperages and spores of ferns. Mr. J. P. McCaskcy demonstrated te the interested young ladies why the burdock burs adhcre se firnily te their hair and clothing by showing the hooks with which it is pre vided for the dispersion of its seed, and then exhibited the marvelous structure of the mullein leaf aud the authcrs of the ash leaved maple with their abundant pollen. Last but net least, a glimpse iute miner alogy, chemistry and the polarization of light was given by Mr. Walter P. King and Rev. C. E. lleupt, the former exhibiting crystals of common salt, cane sugar aud arsenic, aud the latter acetate of copper, sulpho-carbenatc of soda and the sulphate of strychnia. Te say that all seemed much interested and greatly te enjoy the delightful exhibi tion, would be te put the matter mildly ; and the members of the society who were present were no less interested than were their guests. In this new direction our Lancaster society has feuud a very profit able field for usefulness. They have afforded te these young people an evening of the purest kind of instruction and en joyment. THE NK1V TJ5L.EGK.lPU LINKS. Trying te Avoid Difllcultics Willi Properly Helders. The Rapid telegraph company's woik weik men continued their operations en Chest nut street yesterday. They finally agreed te pay $3 a year rent te the Feltz estate, for cueugh ground te put their pole iuside the property line, subject te removal at ten days' notice. The pole then went up in the rear of the Union hotel property, and where it will net obstruct the thoroughfare. The ole that leaned ever Jehn A. Snyder's line was moved up close te E. M. Schacffer's fence. Near the Reformed church a pole was put up that is some obstruction. The next ene down the street was set in aside of the blacksmith shop, off the pavement, en private proper ty, at $1 a year rent for the ground ; and tlie site for another was rented from Jehn Baer's sons, in the rear of their printing house property. It is net te be overlooked, however, that en Christian street, above Chestnut, which is much traveled, a number of poles arc set in the middle of the sidewalks and obstruct the thoroughfare. Let them be put out of the way. Busy pcople haven't time te turn out for them. I'olice Cae. The mayor had before him this morning three customers, ene of whom, a ledger, was discharged, and the ethers, "mild drunks," were committed for five days each. Jehu Seuile, charged with assault and battery en Jehn Holleway, en last Sunday week, in West Vine street, was heard be fore Alderman McConemy yesterday, and Souile was held te answer at court. HoIIo HeIIo HoIIe wny's hand was broken in the scufllc, in which several ether men were engaged. Jacob Shirk, against whom a charge of desertien, en complaint of his wife, has for some time been pending, and who escaped arrest by leaving the town and going te Missouri with another woman, returned te Lancaster and was picked up by Officer Harman, and committed for a hearing bofero Alderman McConemy snme day next weekhc time being net yet fixed. Shirk expresses great contrition, but his wife is net yet willing te let up en him. A Heading Virago en the Kaiupage. Mrs. Amanda Cornish, living in the upper section of Reading, has been drink ing heavily for some days, but did no harm until yesterday, when she demol ished a let of furniture in her own home, after which, with a hatchet in band, she started out te butcher some of her neigh bors. The first object of attack was the rcsidcucn of William Baker. Unlocking the front deer with a key she came te a second deer and, being unable te unlock that, battered it down with the hatchet. Mrs. Baker and her infant child escaped the infuriated woman and ran te a neigh bor's house. The woman then went te the residence of Charles M. Mull and demand ed admission from Mrs. Mull, who was at the second story window. She was re fused admission and then she began split ting the deer te pieces. While engaged at this she was taken in charge by the po lice and conveyed te the county insane hospital. Tobacco Sales. Mr. Frank, of Bainbridge, sold en Tues day between 200 and 300 cases of ?80 tobacco the price paid and name of pur chaser net given. A few small lets of the '80 rrep havj been sold in this city within a day or two, but no names arc given. L. B. Kirk, of Fulton township, has sold the product of seven acres of tobacco at 30, 15, S aud 3 cents per pound. Davi3 A. Brown,of the same township, sold hiscrep at 30, 14, 8 and 3 cents. Patent Granted. Letters patent Ne. 249,741, dated Nev. 22, 1881, for an improved device for shift ing buggy tops frsm the inside of the buagy, have been issued te Levi K. Bru baker, of Lititz, this county ; obtained through the agency of Allan A. nerr & Ce., of this city. The New Yerk Sllmtrels. The show at Fulton hall last night had a 940 heuse ; the music was geed, the performers few, and the fun a little gray with age. COLUMBIA NEWS. OUIJ KEG IX Alt COKKKSl'ONuKXCi: 3Ir. J. W. Apple, of Nonistewn, in town te-day. A new set of spindles, rollers aud ether machinery have just been placed in the Shawnee rolling mill, and it is new worked te its fullest capacity. Cel. Jehn Barr has returned from his trip te New Yerk state. He had a do de lightful time. Cel. James Duffy, of Mari etta, accompanied him. The Columbia fire company will ha a grand ball in Odd Fellows hall en New Year's night. Tickets are telling Tcry fast and financially it will be a great suc cess. Leveriug's bookstore wilt close ou Sat urday. Its success iu Columbia has net been great. A gecd many handsome presents have been given away anil the receivers are satisfied. The Columbia orchestra will be present seme evening this week. The Tew Uillcrs say it is tee cold te run around the streets ; hence our lack of reports cf fights in that colored neighbor hood. Council should see that the pavement in front of Squire Yeung's lesi Jccce should be repaired. The root of r. large trce stand ing there makes a small hill in the pavo pave ment and persons net acquainted in that neighborhood are liable te stumble en it. Twe of Lancaster's fair belles arc trying te bring out a new fashion iu Columbia, that of carrying raised parasols in the evening, te shade their faces from Luna's bright face. We hepe they will give up tha undertaking, as Columbia girls are already tee old for their age. Mr. James Kephart, of New Albany, Indiana, was united in holy bends of mat rimony te Miss Mary Beeth, of Columbia, last evening, at the home of the bride, by Rev. Wm.P.Evans. The happy couple start ler a Western tour te day. The geed wishes of a large number of friends go with them. About 9 o'clock last evening au alarm of tire was sounded, causing the entire fire departmeut te turti out. Their services were net needed, however, as the alarm was false, caused by a uumbcr of young men serenading the abeve couple. Quite an excitement was raised. Mr. James Pcrrettet, founder and ma chinist, is building au addition te his al ready large works. The work done at his establishment is daily increasing, ami ou account of the many orders being icceivcd the abeve addition is made. The Excelsior elocution class met at Miss Ilauaucr's last evening, and was one of the best meetings yet held. A recess was given the members and they took advan tage of it by dancing, singing and all amusements that only a happy set can have. Next Tuesday evening the club will meet at Miss Sallie Patteu's. llleclclng tlie Street. Complaints are being made daily about the blockading of railroad crossings by freight trains, and justly tee. The law allows said crossings te be blockaded fif teen minutes, and at the expiration of that time the train must be " cut" ; separated. This is very sddetn dena unless the ene who wants te cress demands the cars te Lj "cut." Then sometimes it is done. Ti:crc is only ene way this can be fixed satisfactorily. Have a watchman at each crossing, aud when the fifteen minutes ex pire let him cut the train. It would be an utter impossibility te build bridges cither ever the track or under, as the tracks are nearly level with the river shore. Then, again, it would net de for a lady, who is compelled te wait at the crossing, te walk some distance aud ask a brake man te cut. The P. R. R. has always been very accommodating, and we feel sure that if the pcople would go te the officials and lay bofera them the difficulty It Could aud would be rectified. Majer Yeciun and W. II. Pfahler would be tha two gen tlemen te ce about it A Tramp Fight. A number of tramps had a terrilic. light at the "cut," last evening about 5 o'clock. One of them, who was badly hurt iu the melee, and who went te one of our doctors te have his wounds dressed, gave us the following account of it : Seven of them, all grown boys, had let . Pittsburgh ou Sat urday night, aud freight -d their way te Harrisburg. Ileie they .cre joined by four large men who carried en the same business. They joined them, bearded a freight, and came te Columbia, getting off at the tunnel. They then separated into squads of twos and "did " our town. At the "cut" they met, by appointment, te share what they had received. A dis pute arose about it, and seen all were en gaged in a struggle, the four men against the seven boys. Hard knocks were ex changed, but the men were forced te fly. The whole let arc hanging around town, and our policemen will de well by keeping a watchful eye en them, an they arc a hard crowd. Little Lecal. Werk en the the new R. & C. depot has net yet begun. Several new houses are being erected en Walnut street. The St. Jehn's Lutheran church is fast becoming an erection. II. C. McCauley is te go en the Examiner reportorial staff. We wish him luck. Pleasant weather. Duck sheeting still continues. Eggs are selling in Yerk county at 20 cents per dozen and butter at 28 cents pir puund. A grand ball will be given at Marietta en New Year's Eve, Columbia's invited, l'eslncrijii. McGibcny family next Wednesday night. Prof. Boyd is raising a "memory" class; politicians should join it ; has 10 in Wright3viIIe, 40 in Yerk ; lecture in M. E. church next Monday evening. B. of U. visitors fn.in Lancaster last night te Columbia ledge get hilarious at Third and Locust, Officer Dyssiuger quieted them. Detectives are "lying" for the Known colored assailants of the unknown man en Union street last week. An Old l'ifttei. Mr. J. G. Merrian, 102 East King, has added te his fine collection of curiosities and relics an old French pistol, at least ene hundred years old, and probably a great deal elder. It is a flint lock of im mense size, the bere being as large as that of a musket. It has a heavy walnut stock, te which the barrel is bound by heavy brass bauds, en one of which is cut the letter " W." but that is no positive proof that it ever belonged te the famous boy who owned " the little hatchet." Feeling With Ga. Jehn Geerncr, an employee in the brew cry of Fred. Lauer, Reading, went into a mammoth beer vat for the purpose of var nishing it, taking a lamp with bin:. Tl e vat was filled with alcoholic gas, and when Geerncr put his head through the man-hole te get a breath of air, the gas took lire, from the lamp and exploded, throwing him through the air like a rocket. His hair was nearly singed off, and his hands and body were badly burned. His injuries are net considered dangerous. Beat Estate Sale. Henry Shuberi: sold at public sale last evening, at the Leepard hotel, a two-story brick dwelling lieuse belonging teWm. W. Hen8el, bituated en the west side of North Franklin strcet, between Orange and Chestnut streets, Ne. 142, te Janus Kyle for $1,010. Railroad Acclden'. The Lancaster nrremmrvtatinn ilnr. Irern at 8:50 did net arrive until 10:30, having been detained a short distance cast of Har risburg by the breaking of the axle of the mam unving wueei ei locomotive 0U4 ty which thn train xenn bpinir lirniiflif. nn Ne one was hurt-by the accident,
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