LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER TUESDAY, JANUARY 10. 1882 tUncastei t-mcUtaencer TUESDAY EVENING, JAN. 10, 1882. The Law iu the Vase. .Nothing is plaiuerthan that the law con templates tb.2 county eliicersshall keep the public records and papers in their respec tive offices in geed order and properly in dexed. It is equally clear tliat the right and duty of examining them regularly te see if this is done, is imposed upon the judges, and that when any neglect is apparent they must have the deficiency pei formed, assessing, ;' a just and reason, able compensation "net recommending "a very liberal compensation" te be paid immediately by the county, and then te be collected by the commissioners from the officers whose netrlecl rendered the extra expense necessary. It is plain, tee, from the previsions of the law which we print en eurJirst page, in a further re view of this " big bill" business, that if the judges de the work of examining the ellices as often as their incumbents are siiK.'rseded the county will never be sub ject te such extraordinary expenses as have just been imposed upon it "by order of court," in the payment of .-?3,800 for rearranging the disarranged papers in the prothenotary's and register's ellices. Fer nearly half a century the law has been en .the stat ute books by the simple operation of which any disorder occurring in the files and records of the county offices should have been detected every three years at least, and the responsibility for it se fixed that whatever it cost the county te supply the deficiency could be collected back from the derelict official whose neglect of duty caused it. Admitting that the papers in these two ellices were in such condition that it properly cost :,fcO0 te rearrange them last year, it is plain that the- judges did net regularly, in conformity with the law's direction.. " ascertain if the records, books, indexes and bills of the respective offices be kept and left as the law contemplates ;'' and when neglect was apparent " direct the deficiency te be performed by the proper officers." The complaint of the public is that when by the long-continued neglect of elficials their offices get into this ceudi tien, and when by equally-long con tinued neglect of the judges te examine and repair the deficiency, the extraordi nary occasion for a supply of this de ficiency arose, at great expense te the county, which could net be imposed upon derelict elficials, the proper thing te have done would have been te have hail the work contracted for iu advance : and net left it te the party who did it te fix a grossly exaggerated amount of re compense, and get the court te recom mend that a " very liberal compensa tion"' be paid for it, instead of a " just and reasonable," 'a fair and equitable" compensation as the law directs. The court is properly authorized te change the mode of indexing the public records when it shall appear advisable, and no doubt the work in this direction done last year iu the register's ellice was as necessary as that done some years age in the recorder's and prothenotary's ellices, the occasion for which did net arise from any neglect of former elficers, but from improvements made in methods of indexing, and was therefore- only chargeable upon the county. lint then it. will be remembered there was competi tion for the work, the price was fixed in advance, the contractors had te give heavy bends for its correctness, en which they were liable for six years ; and, con sidering their labor and responsibility, it is a fair estimate that the county paid for the late work of rearranging-the papers four fold the cost of the new in tlcxing. Loek Out! Mr. Helman, of Indiana, en the com mittee en war claims, is reported te have moved in hiscemmHtee that all the bills before it be reported back te Congress with a negative recommendation. In ether words Mr. Helman proposes at this long period of time. after the war te erect a statute of limitations as a bar before claims for damages against the government, and te practically abolish the committee which serves as the gate through which they reads the treasury. Most persons will agree with Mr. Hol Hel man. Probably there are a number of meritorious claims still unsatisfied, but the majority arc net meritorious, and as all the injured have been thus long un compensated, they can endure their de privation for the few remaining years yet left them upon earth. It is time that war claims were cut down by the roots. Yet there are se many even less meri torious drafts threatened against -the treasury that it may be a question whether it is worth while te attempt te shut off this comparatively small leak. If Mr. Helman was en the appropriation committee he would have his hands full in his congenial work of watching the treasury. Fer there is the gravest rea son te fear that this committee has been organized te rob the government, and that in the declining hours of this Con gress its members will 1)3 busy in put ting their leeches where they will draw the most bleed. One strong reason for this apprehension is the fact that Mr. Helman, the Cerberus of the treasury, lias been taken off this committee where he was entitled by every precedent, te be placed, having been its chairman as Mr. Randall's successor when the latter was made speaker. Se Mr. Randall was entitled te be placed en this committee ;is its ex-chairman and as an ex-speaker whose wishes should have been respected iu giving him committee work. We de net knew that he desired te be put en this committee ; but we rake it for granted that he did, because it is the most im portant committee of Congress, and one with whose work !; is familiar and which is agreeable te his habit of mind. These two Democrats are known the nation ever for their devotion te econ omy in tltc national expenditures. In place of them arc found Ellis, of Leuis lana, who has a directly contrary fame, and LeFevre, of Ohie, who is net much better stuff. And there, loe, is Pennsylvania's O'Neill, whose love for carrion is of the most approved kind, There is hardly a man en the committee whose honesty ceuldget a respectable guarantee unless it be Hiscock, the chairman, who is a man of geed repute, but an easy-going soul, around whom such buzzards as Robeson, second en the committee, will sweep unchecked upon a defenseless treasury. Loek out ! An Odd Kind of Meeting. That is an odd sort of stockholders' meeting which is held in Philadelphia by the Reading railroad company. Nene of these present seemed te understand precisely what sort of a thing it was, and the presiding officer, who undertook the conduct of the beast, himself seemed te consider it a nondescript animal about which the only thing clearly defined was the fact that lie was its keeper under the order of the court that undertook its creation. It certainly was net a stock holders' meeting of the kind we are familiar with, when the owners of the property gather together te hear the ac count of the stewardship of their officers and te elect ethers for the ensuing term. Such meetings are manifestly under the control of the assembled stock holders wjie cheese their chairmen and secretaries and te whom all questions that arise are submitted for decision. In this particular meet ing the stockholders seem te have been present only te de what the gentleman in the chair, appointed te be their mas ter by the court, should permit them te de. They were permitted te name their secretaries, te listen te a report of their president, te vote their stock for officers, and te object te anything. One man wanted the report read ami the rest didu't ; the one man had his way ; be cause the court ordered the master, and the master ordered the stockholders that se it should be. Evidently that court took a geed deal en itself ; or else that master. We de net recollect that we ever heard before of a stockholders meeting being se complete ly bossed by a court. We de net think much of the style. It has entirely tee autocratic a llaver. The Reading own ers seem te have had the common right of all property holders te meet' together and de what they pleased with and about their property and their servants within the bounds of the law. If they then transgressed tin; law their action was the proper object of a court's adjudica tion, but net until then. This Reading meeting exhibited the interference of the court as a mhn:lie ml ubsardma, with gagged stockholders in a straight waist coat able te vote only when they voted aye. It will be seen that in the order of court te have the work done, for which McMcllen was paid $l.Soe. he was di rected " te complete arranging and fixing the papers in his ellice yet unar nniged iu the same manner and en the same terms as Prothenotary Harlman was ordered and directed te arrange them.'" Kx-Prolhenotaryllartman says no such order and direction were ever made te him nor any terms agreed upon. If any such " terms " were ever fixed it is manifest that they were the proper guide in the adjustment of McMellcn's pay; and, instead of the judges recom mending ' very liberal compensation " for him, they should have either rated it according te the " terms," or recom mended the commissioners te de se. 2Jkw Ha.mi'siiike, Vermont, Rhede Inland and Massachusetts all show a larger per centage of illiteracy than Pennsylvania. The county commissioners have resolv ed te net pay for any blanks used in the county offices unless authorized by law. A very correct resolve It seems that the leaks and steals under the Hayes administration were net con fined te the treasury. Thcre was a great deal of crooked work in the naval depart ment as well as the postefiice bureau. Pahties in Terente and Montreal have applied for a charter for the "Internation al Colonization Company of Canada," the object being te colonize Jews from Russia iu Uie Northwest. One of the best presiding officers the New Yerk Sun ever saw was a page in the Heuse of Representatives at Washington, who used te stand behind old Gov. Yml ningten, of New Jersey, wheu he was speaker and tell him what te de. Nothing better il'.ustra'tes the prosper ity and development of a community, than the steady incerease of its postal business. Postmaster Marshall's clear and compre hensive statement of the year's business of the Lancaster office net only reflects his cfficcucy as an official, but the increas ing trade and intelligence of our city. Tin: very slevcr World fable, :e taking ly illustrated by P. S. Church, went ever te England and were there published as Bret HarteV, and coming back here in foreign dress arc republished most inno cently by such eminent litciary authori ties as the New Yerk Tribuac and Phila delphia Press without the observation by either that they wei-3 erigiual with tlreir bright contemporary some four years age. TiioueiiTi'Li, and intelligent Germans, in New Yerk, in almost every walk of life arc deeply moved by the news irein the Fatherland. They say the haughty rescript from the Emperor, substaiil i.iliy declaring that he is "the Slate," and that personal government is te be main tained, as against ministers and people alike, is morally certain te precipitate a conflict with Parliament, but if it comes te that, the latter, they are confident, will bs backed by the people, especially in the great cities. It is w il h peculiar satisfaction that the North American recognizes and reports the general change of opinion wuich has taken place aud which is still going en in the case of Fitz Jehn Perter ; "for it was iu the columns of the North American that General Perter was defended and his innocence proclaimed at a time when he was made the scapegoat of failures net his own, and when the prejudice against him ran ti-e strong for the voice of icisen te be h-ard." Tjik Baltimore Times, a " rather fresh contemporary," which started ent te re form politics in the wicked Democratic state et Maryland, under W. B. Hazleton as editor and proprietor, became involved in trouble as the first week's salaries el employees fell due and no funds were forthcoming. This difficulty was rapidly augmeuted by the appearance ou Satur day last of quite a thieng of anxious creditors of the concern, and for forty eight hours the threatened collapse of the new establishment was the topic of the town. The situation culminated last night in Hazleton making au assignment te an agent of new owners and withdraw ing, the condition attached te the advent of the new capital being that he should go out. READING'S ELECTION. -llll'. CIlANLr.S IXFAVOli fir A liOU'ES VICTOKV. The Mceliutr. After a IVelmcJetl Session, Adjourned Until today nl le O'clock, anil 1'reuiiscs te Adjourn Agniu Until Te-morrow. Until nearly 3 o'clock yesterday the Rcadiug lailread .stockholders' meeting wrangled ever the consuming of the time in reading the lepert of the directors. Mr. Geweu would move te dispense with it, the chair holding that " a single objection must prevail, aud the reading is necessary, if a siugle stockholder says he has net seeu it before and insists upon its being read new." A young man named Yeung, who said he had once been rudely treated by Gewen insisted en it being read " te spite Mr. Geweu," aud the chair uniformly ruled that it must go en. The chair would entertain no appeal from Gewen' and held throughout that he was the ap pointee of the court and net of the meet ing. Filially Mr. Lockwood said : " Will the chair permit me te make a suggestion '.' The chair has made one decision that the president of the company may finish the reading of anything which he cheeses te prcseut as a report. New, Majer Bend emitted nearly one whele page of his read ing. I have followed his rcadiug, and fol lowed it closely. New," theiofere, I ask that he go bnck and read that page ; that is, following out the decision of the mas ter. If Majer Bend may file any reason for net reading any part of the rcpei t, then I irhall net object ; hut if he must read whatever lepert is te be filed, or tiles a reason for nut reading it, then I ask that he read the report, or file his reasons for net doing se. That is plain English." The Chairman. The chair decides the point of order te he well taken. If there is any objection te the emission of any passage iu the report the passage emitted must be read: Mr. Lockwood. Then I ask that Majer Bend return te pane 8 aud read all the figures contained en that page. (Laugh ter.) The Chairman. The chair uilcs that the piesident of the company will read' fully any emitted parts of the rcport,se far as he intended te iile it with the master as his report read. If the president means te strike it ent he is net icquired te read it. If he means te file it as his report it shall ad he read. Mr. Lockwood. On page. 3, all the lig ures but the footings. Mr. Bend proceeded te read page 8 of the report amid cries of '" Louder ! Louder:" Finally the reading of these reading of these figures aud dry statistics liCcame distasteful te everybody and Mr. Bullitt, of the Bend counsel, stated that he de sired it understood that he and these whom he represented had net had any part in the objections eilered against sus pending the reading of the report. If it could be satisfactorily arranged he would be glad te have the election proceeded with. After considerable discussion and a few sharp passages between Messrs. Gewen and Schacffer, it was unanimously agreed te proceed with the election, Re ceiver Geweu lemarking that iustead of a speech he would make his answer te the Bend statement by proxy, "of which," he .said, "I have about 1,300." The first vote cast was eifcrcd at. 2:10 p. m., aud, without objection, le votes were accepted. The fourteenth was by William II. Steyeseu for 10,090 shares. Counsel for Mr. Bend objected te the ac ceptanee of the vote unless Mr. Stevenson would first take an oath that he was the bona lido owner of the sleck. After much I argument between counsel, the judges of the election decided that they had no power te direct a stockholder, whose name appealed en the roster as the owner of the stock, and whoelleicd himself iu person te vote it, te swear te his ownership of the stock. The vote was thereupon accepted aud an objection entered by counsel for the Bend party. This settled one of the most important qucst'eus connected with the election. Voting was then continued. When 52 votes had been received, at 3:20 p. m., there was a pause, aud the judges announced that they were waitiug te re ceive any ether votes that might be oifcr eifcr cd. Thereafter thcre was no line in wailing, but the voters came up in ones and twos. At 11:30 p. m. (iO stockheders or their proxies had voted, the great ma jority of them, judging from the tickets deposited, being for Gewen. Nethiug of great interest or importance characterized the proceedings of the election alter the judges el the election decided that they would aeccpt the votes of these whom the official register shescd prinm facie te be owners of the stock voted upon. Counsel for the McCalmont-Bend paity filed a r umber of objections, which will be referred te the court in the mas ter's report and be then disposed of. of. There wcre objections by Mr. Bul litt and Judge Green te the reception of the votes of L. H. Tayler & Ce., 400 shares: Fisher fc Brether, 800 ; Barnes Brethers, 100 ; David Baumau, 500 ; Bates it Ceates, agents, 12; William Bend, 400 ; aud D. Blackburn fc Ce., 400. Mr. Gewau ob jected te the vote of Charles Parrish, 3,021 shares, as prosy for II. W. Palmer, en the ground that Mr. Parrish, he had been informed, had sold 3,700 shares of the stock sinc3 registration closed . Mr. Gewen remarked, when filing his excep tion, that he did se merely te be in p.xitiea te use the same sort of objections when the proper time arrived, that the ether side was gcttiug teady with. The last hour was oc cupied in receiving proxies offered by Re ceiver Gewen, mostly for small number of shares. Of these proxies he held about 1,300, while Mr. Bend has 300. Nene of the proxies for very large blocks, such as the MeCalment or Vandcrbilt shares, wcre voted upon, the alphabetical call net hav ing gene as far as names commencing with The total vote ca&t for Majer Bend's ticket foots up about 5,000 shares. Re ceiver Gewen's aggregate vote for the day is something less thau 30,000 shares. The meeting adjourned until 10 a. in. A statement was in circulation in Third street that Vandcrbilt was pledged te Gewen for only 23,000 shares. This report was attributed te the Bend party, but somewhat affected the share mar ket. A Steamer tes:. The scaling steamer Lien, from St. Jehn's for Trinity, Newfoundland, was totally lest near Bzccallen Island en Thursday night. It is suppo-red she struck a rock and sank before a beat could be launched. Portions of the wreck have been picked up; also the body of a woman passenger. The Lien had several passen gers en beard, besides her crew. FATAL. SMALL FOX EPIDEMIC. A bTKAMER LOST AT SKA. rail of a Uuilillng ami Death of Three l'er- &OI1B. Jehu C. Garlaud was fatally injured by a fall of earth at 3Iaysville, this state, yes terday afternoon and died last evening. Captaiu Jehn llalligau, aged 33, was drowned by falling ovt-rbeard from a barge at Bridgeport, Connecticut, en Sun day night. Twe girls and a boy, each about sixteeu years of age, were drowned by breaking through the ice at Brookfield, Massachu setts, en Sunday. The boy perished while trying te save the ethers. The jail at Greenville, Teuu., was fned by a prisoner ou Sunday night. The building was destroyed aud the court house seriously damaged. Nene of the prisoners were injured. The ice iu the St. Lawrence river was moving yesterday at Sercl, Quebec, aud the river was rising. Such an occurrence was never before known at this time of the year. Gcncial Tcriy, in his report for the de pjrtment of Dakota, says that "the buf falo are rapidly diminishing, -the Indians are raiding en the cattle, and the ranch men ate organizing for protection." In respeuse te a request lrem business men, the hotel keepers of St. Albans, Vt., who recently closed their houses lather than step selling liquor, have agreed te reopen te day. Small I'ex en the Increase. Several new cases of smallpox were re ported iu New Yerk yesterday, and some of a' virulent character were found in thickly-settled tenement-heuse districts which have been ceueealcd from the au thorities. The small-pox is rapidly increasing in Pittsburgh. Fifty-six new cases 13 of them in Allegheny City wcre reported te the beard of health yesterday. Au alarming increase of smallpox is re ported in Jersey City within the last few days. Several cases of the disease, of a malig nant type, are reported at Matamoras, Fa. Fail or a Uiilliling. At Syracuse, New Yerk, about one o'clock yesterday afternoon, the brick walls of a building recently burned fell upon Cornelias Tracy's restaurant, bury ing iu the ruins fifteen -te twenty mcu and women. The liremcu were called, aud at last acceuuts ten persons had been takeu dit alive, though seme of them were dan gereusly injured, and three dead bodies had been found. The killed were Eugene Fitzgerald, aged It) years ; Martin Fiu clan, aged 23, and Patiick Kane, aged 10, all fanners. Rev. Jehn Pinkiiam, of Casco. Maine, a pioneer in the Free Baptist denomination, died en Stuiday. . Justice Git.vv' was .sworn in yesterday aud took his scat en the supreme bench sf the United States. The president yesterday nominated "Jack" Wharten te he United States marshal for Eastern Louisiana, for a sccj end term S. S. SrKM Kit, C.vpt. Jehn R. Rurkki; and Dr. J. L. Zikulkk, of this county, will be in the Wolfe convention in Phila delphia en Thursday. Pittsburgh is te have a new theatre next year which is te be erected at a cost of $130,000. F. A. I'AKKE.Ie.-sce of Library hatl, is the projector of the new enter prise. Rev. Jehn Cotten Smith, iccter of the Protestant Episcopal church of the As cension, in New Yerk, died yesterday, aged 30 years. lie was prominent as a bread churchman, and was the author of various works en theological and social questions. Senater Edmcnu.n, of Vermont, in a ic ccnt debate iu the Senate said that his speeches arc always printed in the Con gressional Recerd as he made them, being never seen by him. It is very probable that thcre arc net twenty men iu Con gress who could maku the name state ment. " Ex-Superiulcndcu. Wiukeksiiaxi has begun work en a long-contemplated his tery of education iu Pennsylvania. Prob ably no one iu the state is better qualified than Dr. Wickcrsham te undertake a work of this kiud, aud it may be safely premised that the history will be accurate and complete iu every detail." Philadel phia Times. OSCAK WILDE'S LECTURE. Hew lie Looked and What IIe '-aid in men men Yerk l.ast Algllf . Dispatch te the Times. The triumph of the apostle of .esthetic art is complete. Chickcring hall was never packed with a mera fashionable au dience. Early this morning the tickets were all sold, and during the day they have changed hands at double and even treble prices. Of course, most people went from curiosity. The cicam el" high toned society was picecnt. Rev. Henry Ward Bccchcr occupied a front scat. Mr. Wilde was "greeted with deafening ap plausc. He were a. very wide and low cellar, a conspicuous diamond en his besom, a swallow-tailed coat, close fitting knee breeches with buckles, long black stockings and patent leather shoes with out heels. His long, thick black hair is parted in the middle aud overhangs his coat cellar. On his large hands Were pearl colored kid gloves. He read closely from his manuscript, iu a somewhat mo notonous yet very musical voice. The lecture was a graceful plea for the beautiful iu art and the refined in poetry, as expressed in the present English re naissaucc. He declared this renaissance te ba the new birth of art in the desire for a mere gracious and comely way of life. The desire for perfection is the basis for this revolution. We arc largely indebted te the poet Keats for it. Byreu was a rebel, Shelley was a dreamer, but Keats realized the reality of beauty. Nine tenths of the British public define :c jthcticism as the French for affectation aud the German for dado. The pre-Rapiiaclitism of te day had its origin in the work of a few young men, painters, poets and sculptors, who met iu 1839, in Louden te discuss art. They reused the spirit of British Philistines, who became cruelly sarcastic at their expense. The British public, with overwhelming spirit of commerce, has almost killed art and quenched poetry. This restless modern spirit of ours is net receptive enough of the spirit of true ait. The Orient has always been true te the spirit of art Mr. Wilde discussed the spirit of criticism. Its place in our cul ture is, first, for the critic te be able te held his tongue ; second, te teach the people the spirit in which they arc te ap preciate artistic work ; third, te teach rev erence for beauty. He was wildly cheered when he ex plained why the aesthetes select the lily and the suullewcr us their pet ileral em blems. These two lovely flowers are the most perfect models of design in the grandly leonine beauty of one aud the ex quisite delicacy of the ether. Mr. Wilde's allusion te the attempt te caricature jcsthctieism in the play "Patience" was received with geed-humored applause. "Yeu have heard 'Patience' for three hundred nights ; yen can listen te me for at least one." Mr. Wilde will go te Phil adelphia next 3Iunday. CONGRESS. Yesterday's Heuse Proceedings. The Heuse committee en coinage yes terday appointed Messrs. Fisher,- Stephens,' McClure and Siugleten a sub-committee, te consider and advisability of purchasing ground for the construction of a ucw mint in Philadelphia. Mr. Fisher, chairman of the sub-cenimittee, says that a suitable site can ba purchased for about $300,000 less than the present property can be sold for. In the Heuse about 073 additional bills were introduced under the call of states. Ameug them was eue by Mr. Kusseu, of Iowa, identical with the Merrill bill, te provide for a tariff commission. Seme time was speut iu committee of the whole referring the various subjects iu the presi dent's message te appropriate committees. A message was received from the presi dent stating that several weeks must elapse before bids for mail contracts eau be classified and examined, and the actual letting take place; "aud if, therefore, Congress should be of opinieu that a change in the law is necessary, it might be made immediately applicable." The mat ter was refencd te the committee en postefliccs, with power te report at any time, and the Heuse then adjourned. LOCAL jNTELLUiENCE. POSTAL BUSINESS. THK LAM'AM'KK 1'OSTOl' FICK. Receipts, Kxpendlture, Disbursement, See. James 11. Marshall, postmaster at Lan caster, furnishes the following very com plete detailed statement of the operations in the ellice for the past year. As will be seen, the ellice is net merely self-sustaining, but centribut s te Uncle Sam, ever aud above all expenses a balance of ever $19,000, te be added te the millions annu ally parcelled out ameug the star route thieves. The one and a half millions of letters, postal newspapers, &e., delivered and collected by the 'carriers, show that the Lancaster po.itetlicc is by ue means a one-horse affair, and that the letter car riers must all trot riht lively te make the distribution aud collection. r.Kciarrr. Frem sail el stamp. pe-lul caul-, &e WSlM 22 Frem box rents .Ie HO Frem Mile of waste paper ; 70 Frem dratts en peMinaster:-, 12 Si if.J'i.tui 11 KM'ENSES. Salary of postmaster $2,U0Otm Salary of clerks Tz. 3,."i)e cm Salurv of Letter Curriers 4,0 01 Kent," Llsjlit ami Fuel 1,002 I.t Contliigcntexpeiisce Si 9: 11,776 IHJ Hal ever 'i'pen.-.cs H" l''.l 16 PISnCI'SKMETS. Te .Aset. Treasurer U. i? $ll,7t'S l'i Xi-ansferreil l- money enler account 2.170 m Paid route njrenl S00 l) Paid mail messenger DO!) On l'silil mail wcijclicr ;& oe -II'J.IKJ 10 LCTlRlAHIUERa' REMIBT. Itcgisteictl letters ami package-, ilrliv-- creti f it i Mail letters Uelivcrctl )7,7S'.) Mail postal canls ilelivcreil ll,7SS Lecal letters ilclivcreil :S'J,3I7 Lecal postal eariN delivered :;7,l:if Newspaper, circulars, &c., ilclH'crcit. 410,1211 Total number pieces ilclivcreil J,2G2,2S Letters collected Postal cards collected Xef-spapers, ,tc., collected Total nnmlier pieces collected. . i:;,iie.i 7S,.w; 2!I2,73S nWIISTitV DEl'AKTMECT. ItCRistered letters and packages ler city delivery 1,1! Ilegistercd letters and packages :-cnl Iiem city i. ,nln Itegistcred letters and packages iu transit. 7,171 Total registered packages handled.. 17,W7 17,W7 r Uil 27 7l.0'J7 13 7I'J :V, 717 P. 2 1 111 172 w; 2 Si -'.lis 70 rt m 107 ::e . 2,17n en S77,2i;i; l VO.NKV OlIDEK mU'Altr.ME.M' n.i'.aucc en hand Dee. ."I. lSl (ilM Demestic order.-" i.ued Fees en same ! iSritisli orders issued I' ees en same 7 Canadian erdcra issued Fees en same l'.H Uerniau erderj issued Fees en same 12 Swiss orders issued , Fees ou saint; 1'asli transferred lrem pestnge te jM. i). Att.... iat:ie.vi. Demestic erdci.s paid $'11,101 as llritli " - O'OI Canadau ' - 120 ir. Ucrinau 1,171 l" Swiss IS! 20 French ' - licit Hcpa'd elder.- W 11 Paidbyorderet Dep't i.lJ S7 DciiesitedatPIii!adelpliia.Pa :'i u" Contingent expenses 12 5t Ca-h balance en hand 122 01 -'S77,2i 30 miscellaneous items. .Number el unclaimed letters and pos tal cards sent te dead letter efllcc.. 1,921 Number el unm-iilablc letters sent te lead letter office I"S Number "I letter.-, returned le writers. l.'.'.i Number of eiinds of newspapers and perle.licalr. u ailed, outside et Lancaster county, by publishers and news agents I !'.".;. Postage paid en same -VUF l Number of pounds of newspapers and periodicals Within the county, upon which no postage is paid iu8,472 STATEMENT OF TUB BIKFEREST DENOMINATIONS OF STAMFS, AC, EOLD. 212,470 one eenL stamps .$'2,12170 ."3,431 two cent stamps 1,063 fiS 5.';sS70 three ecu t stamps Pi.UW 37 .".4.".0 live cent stamps 272 ."iO 3,030 six cent stamps IbO 00 i.Vii ten ceutst. imps 1WJ 20 l,xrlliteeii cent stamps 153 75 413 thirty cent stamps 121 .V) 1 ninety cent stamp W 302.lWene cent pestals 3,02t) 0 180 two cent pestuls 3 -0 Newspaper and periodical stampsi... 2,01s W5 Postage due stamps 117 27 Envelopes and wrappers 3,7CC 40 S30.37J 22 A comparison with the year 1680 shows an increase in receipts of the office of 62,07(5.31. In the carrier's department 82,483 mere pieces were delivered, and 21,22-1 mere pieces collected that the previous year. In the registry department the number of packages registered has increased from 4,055 .iu 1880, te 0,010. Registered mat ter for city delivery has increased 9ij:. Registered packages passing through the oOice of which a record is kept, have in creased 1,840. In the money order department, 73 mere orders have been issued, the amount of cash received showing au increase ever 1880 of 2,431.38. The amount of orders paid shows and increase of $7,524.73. Smaslied by the Cars. Yesterday afternoon as the limited ex press west en the Pennsylvania railroad was thundering along at high speed a short distance cast of Ilarrisburg, a man named Frederick Hahn with a horse and cart attempted te cress the track in front of it. He miscalculated the distance and the sliced of the train, however, and the engine struck his cart fair 'amidships" aud smashed it te smithereens. Ilahn was knocked higher than a kite, aud alighting en his head had a very severe gash cut in his forehead, and was badly jammed to gether, but his wounds arc net considered dangerous. The herse being released, from the wrecked cart ran off at a rate of speed that put even the limited express te shame. The train was detained a short time. itallrend Accident. William Jehnsen, a fireman en a local freight between Downingtewu and Phila delphia, who resides at Gordonville, while attempting te get en his engine at Down Dewn Down ingtewn yesterday missed his held and fell. He was struck by the engine and had one leg badly injured. He was other ether wise bruised about the body, and was taken te his home in Gordonville last evening. TOBAOCO. ji OtlB GKKATv STAi'LC. lieaeral DeUTery at ike Crep leguu. During the past week a geed deal "of tobacco has bceu deliveicd at the city warehouses, and there has been a geed deal of bickeriug and dickering among buyers aud sellers. The early buyers, who believed the crop was going te beafailuie. and who bought the weed as it steed iu the fields or hung green upon the poles, and contracted te pay high prices for the same, wei'e generally cautious cueugh te bind the sellers down te very strict terms. The grower had te guarantee net merely that the tobacco should be sound, well asserted, free from white vein, and deliv ercd iu geed merchantable condition, but also that the leaves should he of certain specified length, and all leaves falling short of the specified icugth weic te fall into the next grade below. Fer example a dealer buys a crop at 25, 10 aud 3, the condition beiug that the wrappers shall measure 20 inches or ever. The farm a r feels sure that the gicat bulk of his crop will be sold for 25 cents ; but when he comes te strip it he fiads a large propor tion that measures only IS or 19 inches. What will he de about it'.' IIe knows that his 19-inch tobacco is almost as geed as the 20-iuch, and yet, if he aUs stiictiy according te his ceutract, as hu ought te de, he will only get two-fifths of the price he expected te get for a great portion of his crop. If he is honest, he will grin and bear it, aud be mere careful next time in making a bargain. Rut some times he is net honest and devises various methods te save himself at the expense of the buyer, but he don't always succeed. One of the methods used te make a hand of IS or 19-iuch leaves measure 20 inches, is te carefully slip about one half of the butt cniU an inch or two below the ether half, se that the points el these leaves will protrude an inch or se beyond the ethers. Uy measuring the protruding butts at one cud aud the protruding points at the ether, the legcrdemaiu is accomplished te the satisfaction of the farmer but net the buyer. That astute gentleman has been there himself and knows all about it. When the tobacco is delivered he at once detects aud exposes the trick and "decks" the shallow farmer enormously. Anether trick of dishonest farincis, who have sold their crops te be deliveicd in certain spccilied lengths, is te measure crrcfully aud tie up all that is longuneugh and te hide away all that is a little short. The long wrappers, a few seconds ami tillers are then delivered te the purchaser and the shorter ones are held in the name of some ether grower probably, aud sold te some ether dealer at twice as much as they would have brought had the grower faithfully fulfilled his contract. This ti iek is mere difficult te detect than the former, aud its perpetration may iu some measure account for the very I:ght average weight per acre of which dealers and farmcis alike complain. Anether dishonest practice is te tin up the hands of wrappers with two or three tiller leaves, and thus get wrapper prices for fillers. The ti iek docs net often suc ceed, however, as the buyer knows almost intuitively the quantity of tillers that ought te belong te any given crop. Ou Saturday a crop of pretty geed to bacco was delivered at one of the city ware-houses, in which there weie no tillers at all ! The dealer asked the grower where his fillets were, and he said he had none his crop was all wrappers and seconds, but being pressed, he finally acknowl edged that he had taken his tillers te tie up the rest of his crop. His dishonesty was net only exposed, but the sharp buyer made him pay dearly for his whistle, by estimating the weight of tillers at a great deal mere than it really was. Anether trick is te try and hide white vein leaf in hands of sound wrappers, but this, tee, is generally detected by the buyer, who net infrequently condemns a whole bale, and mavbe the whole crop. t because of a comparatively sm;ll quantity of white vein attempted te be hidden iu it. Rut these dishonest practices arc tin; ex ccptien, and net the rule, among Laucas tcr county farmer::, and wc mention them here te show that honesty is the best policy.ameng tobacco growers, as cell as among ether classes of people. Just hew many tricks of the trade ,ire practised by dishonest buyers wc are nut smart cueugh te liud out. Thuy are credited with being able te see white vein in almost every leaf until after they have bought and paid for it ; when, presto ! the white veiu disappears aud they arc the happy holders of the best packing iu the county ! Inferior leaf from Yerk aud Chester counties becomes lii.st class Lan caster tobacco as seen as it cresses the Susquehanna or Octoraro. Ycp, even Ohie aud Wisconsin trash arc iictantly metamorphosed into prime Pennsylvania as rapidly as they arrive. Indeed, it is firmly believed by some of the knowing ones (se they say) who have net bought any of our present crop, but who would net object te getting a little at 10 cents for wrappers, that Pennsylvania is about XIaycd out, and that within a veiy few years the great, tobacco houses of Lancas ter will' be unoccupied and go into rapid decay. Wc are pleased te believe, however, that these croakers form an insignificant por tion of the buyers, who as a class are up right, shrewd, fair-dealing busiuChs men, whose intelligent labors te advance their own fertuues have very greatly advanced the wealth of the county, and especially of the tobacco farmers. There should be no antipathies between the two classes. Each is necessary te the well-being of the ether ; and as a rule each trusts the ether. In conversation with several heavy buyers yesterday, wc were informed that they had very little trouble m settling with the farmers who have delivered their crops. Most of the crops were asserted iu ac cordance with the contracts made at the time of purchase, aud were brought iu in au excellent condition, there being much less white veiu thau was expected. With very few exceptions, wheu the farmers wcre shown wherein their tobacco was de fective or failed tocerncuptothestandaid agreed upon, they readily acceded te make the deductions asked. A few were d'ssat islicd aud had their contracts canceled. It is the almost unanimous opinion ei these who. have the best means of know ing that the '81 crop will yield a geed deal 'crs than was expected. Al though the acreage is far greater than ever before the yield per acre is light. Many farms ou which 2,000 pounds per acre have been grown iu former years did net yield 800 peumls last season some or them net 500 owing te the mi favorable weather, which dwarfed and stunted the plants. It is net likely th: re fore that the yield of the county will feet up 30,000 cases, unless the tobacco nti.-.cii elsewhere, aud packed here, is counted as Lancaster county tobacco. It is yet tee early iu the season te make anything like a fair estimate of last, year's crop of the county or state. Estimates at best arc usually fallacious. This lima last year the 1880 crop of Pennsylvania was estimated at 149,300 case.-, hue later en everyone was satisfied it would net reach 100,000, and at. the present time mere careful estimates place it at 80,000 or less, of which Lancaster county is c; ed ited with nearly one-half. Dealers say that they arc net buying any just new, and will net buy at the lig urcs asked by the farmers. Alice samcr, however, they drive out into the citntry. and come home with very muddy hoots. Seme of the bears, -..he decried the crop from the first, -ill express c '! '! fidence in being able te buy all they v-;:--at 1C(.15 cents for wrappers. l will pi j ba'uly be a cold day when thuy :;ct ft. Following arc some lets delivered with- iu the past few days with the prices re" ceived. Daniel Weidner, Warwick, te Teller Bres., 26 and 3. Jonathan Miller, War- wick, te same, 2G and 3. C. Smith. Drumore, te Kerbs fc Spiess, 25. S aud 3. K. W. Wiight, Little Rritaiu, te Skiles A; Frey. 23, 12, C and 3. Neah Kaby. Salisbury, te same, 13 round. Eues Stan tier. Earl, te Rescnbanm, 27. 12, (5 and 3. M. S. Essliuger, West Earl, te Davis. 20. 8 and 3. Peter Graybill, Warwick, te Shultz, 25. 10. S and 3. Jehu Montgomery & Ce., te Shirk, ler wrappers 30 ccuts, lower grades net stated. Geerge Amnions te same, for 20, 13, G and 3. Geerge Sctdomridge te Hendersen, for 29, 10 0 ami 3. Aaren GrelV, Providence, te Haruish, 25, 12. S aud 3. H. S. Scott, Little Rritaiu, te Gershel Rres.. 2 1. 10. and 3. J. II. Reeth & Glackeu, et Drumore, te Pentlarge, 22, 10 aud 3. Jeshua Lapp, of Earl, te Jehn Rrim mer. 27, 12, U and 3. Jacob StelUfus, Karl, te same, 27. 12, 6 and 3. The following lets have been delivered te dipt. J. O. Willeex, at his warehouse. b the parties named, all of Caernarvon township : Albert Alters, 27, 9 aud 3 ; Jeseph Weaver. 27, 9 and 3; W. J. Media, 25, S and 3 ; Jacob Grube, 25, 8 and 3 ; Peter S. Weiler. 25, S and 3 ; Hcnry Frauke, 25, 8 and 3 ; Jehn Jacobs, private terms. I5cnj. Wolf, of West licmpficld, te Hrewnstciu, 22, 10 anil 5. ei fici:ks r.i.Kirri:n. Ncu ICailreuit Ulrertur CIiiim'U. At the annual meeting of the directors of the Reading & Chesapeake railway company, held iu this city en the 9th hist., Samuel II. Price, esq., of this city, was elected secretary, aud D. It. Hal Mead, of the city of New Yerk, was elected lieasurer. The officers consist for the ensuing year : President Henry Baumgardncr. Sccriiary Samuel II. Price. TreaMiter 1). 1. Halstead. Directors Henry Raumgardiier, J. W. F. Swift, Charles J. Rhoads, David Rair, Samuel II. Pric, Rebert J. Kvans. Jehn laumganlnei. lire Company Ollli-erit The American lire company. Ne. 5, elected the following officers last night : President J. K. Rarr. a Yicu Piesic'enU C. J. White, P.. F. Kshlcuian. Tre.is.iuei H. C. Dcmuth, sr. Secretary Joel L. Hainas. Chief Eirgiucer Isaac Iviuncar. Assistant Eiiginccrc Jacob Faust, H. Ahleilcr. T. A. Decn, H. T. Yackly. Chief Hi.m Director Henry Snyder. Assistant Hese Directors Geerge Rrim mer, Win. Iegel, Adam Mcssenkep, Wm. Shay. Peicmau Jacob R. Price. Assistant Foreman Jehn Hamilton. Trustee.-. Albert Drachbar, Isaac Kin iuMi', Fied'k Hincs. Finance Committee Win. M. Dccu, Gee. Miller. Jehn Humplncville. Janitor Wm. C. McGlinu. Delegates te City Union. T. A. Decn, Joel L. Haines. J. K. Rarr, Jehn Hum phrcvillc, Gee. Miller. The Humane lire company List evcuing elected the following officers : President Walter M. Franklin. Vice Presidents Philip Wall, Peter 31c 31c Cuueiny. Sccrct.irv I. M. Wilhelm. Assistant Secretary Ad. F. Oblcndci. Treasurer Geerge Pentz. Foreman Harry Kelb. Assistant Foremen Jehn F. I'uulz, Moureo Smith. Chiel Engineer Peter Ritchey. Asbistaus, Engineers Jehn Ritchey, Fred. Kissinger, Jehn Rehrieh, Jeseph Niumcr. Firemen Jehn Kelb, Charles Rudi sill. Ho.-e Directors A. J. Clingcr, Fred. J. Lutz, Albert Nickel, Harry L. Simen, Adam Fisher, Jehn Brill, Fred. Glass brenucr, .Menree Smith. Finance Committee Lee Jacob;, Petcr Ritchcv. Jacob Brewnwarth. Trus'tccs Lee Jacobs, Philip Wall, Jacob Snay. Delegates Jehn F. Pentz, Fred. Kits iuger, Je-epli Nicmcr, Ad. F. Culender, Jehn Ritchey. Janitor and Collector Lee J.tu-jb. Afjent Geerge Pentz. i, vst MtsuTti suinv. .:e hi the llest ISver;ii-en Here. Last evening Hyde & Rehmau's Star specially company appeared at the opera house. The audience was an immense eui'.the building being packed te the doers and ie:my persons were obliged le stand during the entire evening. Tins Ht.irs of the company were Watsen i?e Ellis. These gentlemen stand iu the front, rank among Dutch comedians and their acts arc among ! -. best. Last evening they ap pealed in the chaiactei sketch of '-Dutchy in a Fix," assisted by Alice Hatchings, a very handsome young lady and a geed vocalist. At the cud of the show both appeared in the comedy of " Wrinkles." in which Mr. Ellis took au Iiishand Mr. Watsen a Dutch character, lieth weie biiiu full of fun and no better alter piece has ever been given here. Among the ether acts en the pregramme was tliti very excellent acrobatic perform- auce f the Martell Brethers and their bicjcl-j act, in which their siller joined. and which was really wonderful. Jehn Till and wife worked marionettes iu th- ir usual inimitable style, and highly i ;..a.-ed the old folks as well as the young. W. T. Bryant and Miss LV-zie Richmond appeared iu a funny musical actvaiulmade a hit, aud Clara Moere was recalled sev er ! time; iu her seriocomic songs. i'lif company is a strong one throughout, and the audience te a parson was pleased with their entertainment. Te-night they appear in Columbia and they arc deserv ing of all Uie patronage that can be be be ..tewd upon them. OUITUAUl -Dl.i! in Ccnrre County. The lieilefentc Dadtj New of Friday E.iy.- : 'Mr.-. E'.cnerc Miller, wife of .Mr. W. .Miller, who died yesterday morning at her home near Reynolds's mill, was about GO yeatsiet'age. She was born at Wrights vi!Iet Yerk county, Fa., in thj year 1822. Her mjahui name wasFilby. When only 12 years of a.'c she was adopted by a gen tl-mau named EuIc, with wnem :,he re sided until her marriage te Mr. Miller. There ::r; several children sutviving te mourn her les, among whom are two sons Jehn and Charley residing iu Pitts burgh ; a son and daughter residing at Alteena the son beiug employed ea the Pennsylvania railroad. ; a daughter living at Tyrene and another at Pennsylvania Furnace. Mi-. Geerge Murray, a sister efthsd-'-ra'-ed. lesidesat Maytown, Lan caster county, Pa. A brother whose name wc have nor learned, lives in the same county.' r Ueslgiiefl, s. E. Slaymakcr, of Kiuzcrs, who has been veretary and treasurer of the Lan caster ' 'etinty mutual insurance company . since its organization, has tendered his r resignation. The company are holding a meeting te-day for the purpose of tilling the vacancy and electing a new beard for the ensuing year. I Axle IIreK-p. j Yesterday Albert Scitz had the axle of his ceupe broken while driving along 1 West King street.
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