LANCASTER DAILY IKTELt JGENCER THURSDAY FEBRUARY 9 1882. Hatteastet intelligence. THURSDAY EVENING, FEB. 9, 18e2. CeBCerHliig Free Passes. We are glad te learn from the editor ial columns of our esteemed contempo rary, the Xew Era, that neither its edi ter nor publisher rides en a free pass, and U&efareJe welcome it te the ranks of these journals which, by example as well as precept, aid the enforcement of that prevision of the new constitution, which says " no railroad company shall grantfree passes or passes at a discount te any, person except officers or employees of the companies." We are even mere ignorant than the New Era can be as te whatrdurtallment may have leen lately made of favors heretofore granted te our local contemporaries in 'defiance of this constitutional prohibition. Since it be came the fundamental law of the com cem com menwealth such favors have been neither sought nor accepted by the editors and publishers of the Ixtklmgexcek. It is hardly necessary te recount the reasons, founded in sound public policy, which induced the f ranters of the new constitution te incorporate tiiis section in the body of that instrument. The abuse of the free pass system had grew n into such monstrous proportions, as was developed in the convention de bates, that only fifteen of it members voted against the clause which we have queted: it was offered, by the way, by Mr. I. ('. Knight, an experienced railroad m.in, and met with the hearty sympathy of Mr. fJewen, though lie had at that time withdrawn from membership in the con vention. In expressing the desire of the people and of their representatives en gaged in remodeling the constitution, of course the members of the convention were net juggling with language nor did they intend te let the railroad companies evade the intent and plain previsions of the article. As was suggested in the debate, it is possible for editors, legisla ters and judges te class themselves as railroad " employees " and escape the limitations of the law ; and, again, rail road companies might sell commutation tickets at a merely nominal and insig nificant price and dodge its prohibition. But these considerations were all waived as tee ilippaut te weigh against the plainly expressed intent of the law . which was most cordially approved by such members of the con vention as Messrs. K. C Knight, Curtin, JJuckalew, Alricks and Henry Carter of this county. Mr. Cm tin, speaking from extensive observa tion of foreign affairs, declared that it was " only in this country that the stockholders are taxed te pay for the official indulgence given by the control lers et their work te their favorites, te members of the Legislature and te these in official station, te judges and ethers." Mr. Heward pointed out that everybody has te be taxed te make up for the less from free passes. Mr. Knight de clared that ' if passes were done away with the public generally could travel at a lower rate, because there would net then be three traveling en a free pass and two paying fare.'' The section under discussion, he pointed out, would net affect excursion tickets, or coupon tickets, an nowhere in the debates is any attempt manifested te in terfere with the legitimate business el the railroad companies, nor even te ler bid them indulging in courtesies or c tending favors the value of which can be defined and the compensation meas ured en ordinary business principles. Mr. Buckalew hailed with pleasure " a proclamation against the exercise of a species of illegitimate influence of railroad companies, net only upon members of the Legislature, but upon thejudgesef our courts, upon the jurj men who are impaneled in our courts, and upon men of high intluence and position throughout the commonwealth who apparently are subsidized te some extent by these corporations by the issu ing of thec passes te them." It scarcely needsany elaboration te show the impropriety of public officials most of whom get mileage or allowance of traveling expenses whenever they go en public business accepting free passes, and no railroad manager will dispute that legislators are given them with the j hope of favorably iulluencing legislation for the corporations. Coroners who get. them are naturally leth te impose upon railroads the responsibility for fatalities occurring en their line, and certainly private individuals in saits with corpor ations are at a disadvantage in having their cases tried before judges who ride en favors granted by the ether party te the suit. Most of' all are they interested in subsidizing editors, se potent in iu lluencing public sentiment. On behalf of the newspaper men it may fairly be claimed that they render a legitimate business service te the rail road companies in publishing their time tables and for this they are entitled te be paid. This is true, and as the value of that service is calculable at regular ad vertising rates, the return should be as well defined. This is, we believe, the policy of the Heading railroad, and if any ether corporation by system of " exchange, commutation, ceu pen," or any ether class of tickets, pays the publishers or editors of newspapers regular rates, and gets just what it pays for, the transaction is neither in viola tion of the constitution nor of public policy. It is only when that considera tion is a pass, or passes, of varying and uncertain value, worth te one man SeO, and te another S500, that the evil pre vails which the constitutional conven tion wanted te abate. Te effectually prevent that and te secure the gen eral observance of that law which the people of Pennsylvania by ever 100, 000 majority approved, we have always urged that it is a proper subject for alarm and apprehension that some of the great transportation companies pre tend te be " above the fundamental law of this commonwealth which governs all else within its borders, and until they accept the constitution of. 1873 in geed faith they should remain objects of the ntmest" .,'r''anee ani' J'Jil'niIv hv" eth Telegraph passes, which the mo nopoly freely distributes te congressmen and ethers in official station, taxing their patren3 te pay for them, are issued with the same manifest impropriety as rail road passes. Anether class of cenr plimentaries '" from which newspapers suffer in public estimation far mere than thev profit in their business are the se-called free tickets received from man agers of public amusements. Leng age managers were notified that no such tickets sent te this office were considered as cemplimeutaries or as creating any obligation with persons using them ex cepting these which pertain te all the patrons of their shows. Fer them the Ixtellieexc ep. gives at its regular advertising rates and in its advertising columns an equivalent of business no tices, and any manager who fancies that in leaving with or sending te this office " free tickets " he secures any ether privileges is mistaken and he may pass en. Gex. Isaai J. WihTAK, one of the best citi7ens of Philadelphia, and emi nently qualified te represent the Heferm element in councils, was made the can didate of the better element in the .Sev enth ward for select, council against J Alex Skilten. the Republican Mc Manes nominee, and was pressing the riugster ver hard. Upen complaint of McManes and Skilten, it is alleged, te President Roberts that Wistar. who is superintendent of the canals controlled by the Pennsylvania railroad company, was violating a rule of the company for bidding any employee of that corpora tion from holding an political office (Jen. Wistar has been compelled te with draw. Of course, President Roberts cannot be blamed for strictly enforcing a rule, the spirit and intent of which are very geed : but sine: it is te be applied in a case where the public interest will suffer very Neverely from the application the people will expect its enforcement te be universal. Betteu late "than never General Teny wiites te Fitz Jehn Perter : "I wihe new te say that it is net thanks, but pardon, which 1 hheuld ask from yen. Fer years 1 did you wrong in thought and bemetimes wrong in speech. It was title that this was through ignorance, but I had net the light te be se ignorant. I might have learned i-emctliiug at least, of th truth, If 1 had diligently .sought it." CiiA.Mitr.KMii no town is no .slew coach. At a citizens' meeting the ether evening $33,100 was subscribed te bring the Tayler niaiiufaetiuiiig company te that place ; the tlutc vaccine f.irm- near there ship daily an average of ever $500 of bovine virus, aud three new farms have lately been established ; Majer Pomcrey's Re pository after microscepical search dis covers no objection te Reaver, but dele fully declare.-, that "the Pws, a. s a Re publican pnper, is net a .success. Iu etcry ether jespeet it is admirably conducted."' Tin: uc Gaiiicld live cent postage .stamp will be icady for issue n MarVh 1. Dark brown had been selected as the color best calculated te bring out the (inn en graving of the work. The live-cent stamp is almost entirely ued for foreign eone eene eone spendence and Third Assistant Postmaster Genera! llasen, believing that a reliable engraving of the late president .should be used for this purpose, has succeeded in piedueiug what is pronounced te be the ti nest likeness of General Garfieid aud the handsomest stamp yet issued by the post pest post eilice dcpirlisieut. Pell some mouths extensive piepara piepara tiens have been making in Philadelphia for the issue of a first class weekly illus trated and literary journal te be b.j called Our Continent, and te lie a lival UtJItr pel's Weeny. Rebeit Stewart Davis ami Dr. Brinten, with some $250,000 capital, are backing the publication of t!i.- enter prise, with Albien W. Tourgce at ilieheal of a brilliant cerpj of editorial ceutribti ters. The best literary aiiJ artistic tai ent in Europe and America are te be en- ;iuu te .u.iKt; ii .1 aujuu-ti in un us j;irts and the first uumber, which has been i-i i Mied, justifies all expectations aud gives premise ei a suceesaiui career, wae ei the features of the number is Oscar Wilde's poem. The Continent paid him a guinea a line for this " wild, weird, lleshy thing," which he calls ' Impressions :'' i. d: .lAiuu:.. Thelily'-t withered chalice UIW Areunil lis reu ei eii-iiy j?em. Ami treiii the heeeh trees en the welu The lust weed-pigeon coo uue call-. The gaudy leonine siinllewer Hangs hlaclc and barren en its stulk. Anil down the windy garden walk The dead leaves scatter hour lv hour. Pale privcl-pctaN white a milk Aie blown into a snowy muss : The roes lie upon the pra. I. Ike shred-, of crimson silk. u. i.a Miat. white mist drills across thi-slirnu l- A lid nioeii in this wintry ky Gleams like an aiij-ry lien's eyv Out of a inane et tawny clouds. The in tinted steersman at the w liivl Is but a shadow in the Bleem ; And in the throbbing engine room I.cap the Ions lobs of polished .te-l. The shattered storm lias left its trav ITpen this hujfc -ind heaving dome. Fer the thin threads of yellow loam Fleat en the waves like ravelled lace. In the same number Philadelphia's poet, Gee. II. Bekcr, net quite se aesthetic, has the following poem en " Dawn, which is probably net se high priced as Wilde's, but which may be compared with it a'l the same : I hear the clarions et the ky ; Night's misty veil is upward diaw n. And Willi iia golden lringej pl.iy The jeweled lingers et the dawa. The curling vapors, one by one, Are shot with opalescent gleams, And new the almost risen sun Darts uji a thousand crimson streams. Frem heaven te earth the f p'enler stcaK, Down gilded vanes te windowed towers. The conscious bells break out In peals. Ged ! what a wondrous wc rid is ours : Ttmllery colors slowly fade ; In sapphire di-pths they rassawav "rhe aun begins his grand parade ; Frem pole te pole 'tis perfect day. Fnrtli's children icel their mother warm : I'rem drowsy beds they wake and start. And forth, through streets and allevs swarm In myriads te the noisy mart. 0 happy toil ! O blessed fate : Te no one thought tee close ceniine 1, That, with each motion, drops a date. And shilts the pictures or the mind. 1 envy you your changing strife, Your weary hours, your evening re-t. When all the little cares of lite Arc lulled te slumber In the breast : Fer my peer soul, that still will float Near one Idea of stern device. Drifts en, like the Laplander's beat. Clese moored beside its berg of ice. Fearless and Able. ' W aynesbore Gazette. j The Lancaster Istelmgencek is one of i the best Democratic papers in the state. It is fearlessly and ably edited, and as a ' newspaper has few superiors. THE JBANNBTTB. COM. UtXUSG'S r.YKTY TKALE1). Despatch Irem Danenliewer Details of the CruUe and Drttt or the Vessel Careful Observations Made. The following despatch from Lieuteuaut Dancnhewer, dated Irkutsk, February Ith, has just been received in Paris : DcLeng's party is between stations Buleur (Balinsi) and Siitereuck (Ustol (Ustel ausk), in a narrow wilderness, eighty miles long, devoid of habitations and game. Jereme.!. Cellins volunteered te stand by the dying seaman, Hans Erickscn, and let the ethers of DeLeng's party push south. The new search builds huts and gees ever every inch of the region which is plowed by heavy drift ice every spring. "We visited Nordeuskjeld's winter quarters and found that he was safe before we entered the ice near Herald island. The general health of the crew during the twenty-one month dtift was excellent. Ne scurvy appealed. We used distilled water and bear and seal meat twice a week. Ne rum was served out. Divine service was regularly held. We took plenty of exercise. Everybody hunted. Game was scarce. We get SO bears. 250 seals and C walrus. Ne fish or whales were seen. "All possible observations were made during the drift, the result showing a northwest course. The ship was keeled ever, and heavily picsscd by the ice most of the time. The mental strain was heavy en .some paits of the ship's company. The result of the drift for the first five months was forty miles. There was a clycleidal movement of the ice. The drift during the last six mouths was very rapid. " The soundings were pretty even. There were eighteen fathoms near Wran gcll Land which was eftcu visible seventy -ty-tivc miles distant. The greatest depth found was eighty fathoms, and the aver age thirty-five. The bottom was blue mud. Shi imps aud plenty of algolegical speci mens were brought up from the bottom. The surface water had a temperature of twenty degrees above zero. " The extremes of temperature of the air were : " Greatest cold, 53 below zero, and the greatest heat, 41 above zero. The first winter the mean temperature was '53 below zero. The second winter was '59 below zero. The first summer mean tem perature was 40 degrees above zero. The heaviest gale showed a velocity of about fifty miles an hour. Such gales are net frequent. Uaremetic aud thcrinemetric fluctuations weic net gieat. There were disturbances of the needle coincident with the aureias. The winter's growth of ice was eight feet. The heaviest ice seen was twenty-three leer. Engineer Sheck's heavy tiuss saved the ship en November '51 fiem being cuishcd. 'The telephone- wires weic broken by movement of the ice. The photographic collection was lest with the euip. Lieu tenant Chipp's two thousand nureial ob servations wcre also IcM. The uatmalist's notes have beer, saved. ".leatinettc island was discovered Maj 1G in latitude 70 degrees 47 minutes nei th ; longitude 15S degiees 50 minutes east. It was small and rocky, and we did net. visit it. Henrietta island was dis covered aud visited en May 24 in latitude 77 dcgiees 8 minutes "north ; longitude 157 degrees e'2 minutes cast. It is an ex tensive islaud. Auinials were scarce and glaciers plenty. V Bennett Island. lies iu latitude 70 de giees eS minutes north; longitude 148 degrees 20 minutes east, It is very large. On it we found many birds, old horns, driftwood and coal, bat no seal or walrus. Gieat tidal action was observed. The coast was bold aud rocky. The cape en the south coast was named Cape Emma. " We drifted back during the first week of the retreat twenly-seveu miles mere than we could advance. The snow was knee deep. We had te go thirteen times ever aud ever the track, seven times with leads. " Lieutenant Chipp's beat did better than ours ( Melville's ) during the after noon of September 12, the three beats having get clear of the ice off Scminoesky Island at neon of that day. About dusk he was a thousand yards off our weather qnaiter and lowered sail as if rounding te. We lay te for twenty four hours under a tiiangular drag. "Nothing was seen of Lieut. Chipp's beat at daylight. He could net get back te the island in a northeast gale. He was unable te cairy his share of previsions. I observed a strong easterly current near the Lena delta. There were masses of drift weed between the Siberian islands. "Jack Cele's mind is net wholly alien ated, lie has net-bcen violent for twelve days, but is happy and harmless. Getting home may restore him." PERSONAL. Kcv. Jeseph B. Tcnxr.it, ei Cannons burg, Pa., has accepted the call te Leceme pastor of Little Britain Presbyterian church, this county. There was a conference last night et the Pattisex delegates te the state conven tion, there being present ."G of the 48 members who are te represent Philadel phia. Committees were appointed te leek after Mr. Pattison's interest in the state and city. Hen. J. A. Bixeuam, thcpicseut United Slates minister, will accept an appointment en the staff of the Japanese ministry of justice. The reorganization of the minis tiy has caused some trouble. Its home minister has been anonymously threatened with assassination. It is said that prominent members of the Unity church in Chicago have agreed te ask Dr. Mn.x te lesiga its pastorate, because of his recent agnostic utterances. The congregation, te prevent him from resigning, had previously given hint leave te express himself as he felt moved. Seme time age Messrs. Strawbridge & Clothier offered prizes of the aggregate value of $500 for the best silk cocoons of American production. These prizes were distributed last evening under the aus pices of the Women's silk cultuie associa tion, and the mother of the late B.VTAnD Tayi.eu wen the first prize. GtSer.GE W. Frikelkv, of Indiana, will be appointed assistant secretary of the tieasury t'e,-guccecd Mr. Upton. The po sition was first offered te Jehn C. New, of Indiana, but declined by him. Mr. Fried iey was chairman of the Republican state central committee, of Indiana, in 187G, and is a leading Republican politician of that state . Ceugre.ssniau A. H. Stephens keeps himself informed of even trivial matters at Liberty Hall, his home in Georgia. He knows from day te day hew many chick ens, ducks, pigs, etc., he has iu his yard, and takes as lively an inteiest in these home matters as lie does in national or state affairs. He recently lest a mule that had attained the great age of 37 years and he is new much concerned about another, named "Old Beck," that has become moribund. Dying or Enforced Starvation. Mr.. Isaac Vpgelsen, of Canten, Ohie, was afflicted with cancer of the stomach. Fifty-ene days age she quit eating, as everything she took sickened her and re fused te remain by her. She has had noth ing in all that time except occasional drinks of cold water. Fer the past week she has beeu very low aud yesterday she died of starvation. TRADE NOTES. IN BUSINESS OIROLKS. I'liASHS OF COMMKKCIAL LirE. Kailread News and (ftlicr Items of Interest. The Western nail association, at its reg ular monthly meeting iu Pittsburgh yes terday, affirmed the card rate of $3 40. The sixth installment of the Mexican indemnity, awarded by the late American and Mexican claims commission, will be ready for distribution en Monday next. The Tarrytown national bank of Tarry town, New Yerk, has been authorized te begin business with a capital of $100,000. Becdles, Weed & Ce., cotton dealers of New Orleans, suspended yesterday with liabilities of $75,000. They propose te re sume in a few days. The American line steamship Pennsyl vania arrived yesterday from Liverpool after a voyage of fourteen days. She had a very stormy passage. Jaeger, who disappeared from Chicago, en Monday, '-short" for a large amount,, has intimated, through counsel, that he is willing te settle at twenty-five cents en the dollar. The blast furnace nien in the Union iron and steel company's works, at Chica go, struck yesterday for an advance of 15 te 20 per cent, iu wages. The company refuse the advance. C. F. Strohl, C. B. Keller, A. J. Mat thias E. S. Matthias aud E. L. Wcstley, officers of the Union Beneficial Insurance society for unmarried persons, had a hear ing ytsterday in Reading before a magis trate en a charge of conspiring te defraud a policy holder. The decision was re served. News has been received in Concord, New Hampshire, regarding the failure of the Riley county bank, at Manhattan, Kansas, that it will probably net pay mere than ten cents en the dollar. President Elliett aud Vice President Sawyer, of the bank, who have been anested, are from New Hampshire, and have borrowed ever $100,000 from citizens el that state, all, or nearly all, of which is sunk in their finan cial transactions. William Hendersen, who was ai rested last week en suspicion of having been con cerned iu the North Eleventh street jewelry robbery, Philadelphia, and who was discharged for want et evidence, yes terday made a statement charging Police Detectives Tryon, Jacksen aud Weyl with having countenanced the weik of thieves for years past, receiving thereof 10 per cent, of the proceeds of robberies. The detectives deny positively that they wcre ever iu collusion with Hendersen or any ether thieves. lteceut Horrible Crimes. Edisen L. Fuller, convicted of murder, was taken te Bennington, Vecmeut, en Tuesday te have his case passed upon by the supreme court. That night he cut his threat with a jack knife, inflicting wounds which are likely te prove fatal. A colored man, breathless with excite raent, entered Lawrcncevillc. Illinois, en Tuesday afternoon, and reported that he had found the dead bodies of thrcu men lying face downward near the banks of the Embaras river, seven miles from the town. A pesse of citizens at once left for the spot. Dr. Tekcha CI iupcl, president of one of the Japanese provincial assemblies, has been decapitated iu his own house and his wife mortally wounded by three unknown men, who auueunccd that robbery was net their motive. It is supposed they wcre actuated by private spite or had some political object iu committing the crime. A widow lady named Taukersly, living in Cherokee county, Ga., was murdered aud robbed en Sunday, aud the house burned and her charred remains found in the debris. Parties who discovered the crime searched around, and deep under tiie embcis found a box containing $702 iu silver aud geld. Tem and Baler Meuu, nephews of the deceased, have been ar rested charged with the crime. ubltuary .Notes. Charles Fex, the eldest lawjer of Cin cinnati, died yesterday mernimr. C. O. Klelt, of Philadelphia, a traveling salesman for the Middlctewu plate com pany, of Connecticut, died suddenly el apoplexy, in Columbus, Georgia, Thurs day night. Colonel Martin Evans, ex-army pay master, and a well-known resident of Broekkyn, New Yerk, died iu that city last night, from an overdose of morphine, which he had taken te relieve pain. Free l'asses iu Iowa. In the Heuse yesterday the lepett of the state railway commission upon the resolu tion relating te free passes was read. It is a humorous and rarcastie document aud holds that the giving of passes te editors is merely an interchange of goods which each has te sell. It dccliues te impugn the motives of judges in accepting passes; personally, they would approve the aboli tion of all passes, but the abolition should be radical, prohibiting the issuance of passes evcrauy reads, even te the officers of connecting reads. Deadheads are esti mated at 10 per cent, of the travel. .Drowning of a Delaware L,.uly. Captain Wralsh, of the steamship Al bemarle, reports that when the vessel w.13 en its way te New Yerk a lady passenger of the uame of Mrs. Reach, from Milferd, Del., was lest overboard and drowned. Her body was net rccovered. The lady had been suffering from melancholia, aud it is .supposed te have been a case of sui cide. rilU OOVEKSOKSKIP. Chester County's Candidate. Chc-tei County Democrat. The naine of very many excellent men in various parts of the state have already beeu mentioned as candidates for the Democratic nomination for gevcrner of Pennsylvania. Among them are men of unquestioned integrity and who if elected would make capable aud creditable officers. Rebert E. Monaghan, whom the De mocracy of Chester county will present as their choice for this high and responsible office, while embodying the qualifications already mentioned, has in addition ethers, equally essential te a successful campaign. He is earnest, sincere and above all aggres sive. An excellent stump speaker, his voice, if nominated, would be heard in every portion of the state, net in defence of the nou-efficeholding and irresponsible minority, but in assaults upon the office holding and responsible maieritvaud their corrupt, illegal and debauching practice.-. Mr. Monaghan is moreover trce of all faetienal quarrels, never having been identified with any clique or faction, anil having en mere than ene occasion been called upon te preside ever our cenven tiens te avoid strife within our organiza tion, and would consequently be able te poll the full party vote aud if elected would be the representative net of any clique or faction, but of the Democracy of Pennsylvania. Mr. Monaghan we knew does net seek this responsible office ; he never has been and is net new a seeker after office ; his po sition at the bar and in this community would forbid such a humiliation, but the Democracy of Chester county, knowing his true worth, his ability and independence and believing him well qualified te fill the gubernatorial chair with credit te the party aud in the best interests of the com menwealth, will present and press his name en the approachiugcenvention with the same earnestness with which they have adhered te and advocated Demo cratic principles in this strong Republican county. A THIEF'S TALE. CtlAKUKS UP DETECTIVE COLLUSION. Fer Disturbing HI Prospective Marriage, " snatch-'em UUly Makes Se rious Cnargc Philadelphia Kccerd. "I was a thief, I confess, but I'm try ing te aet ' en the level new ; that's why I want te tell you something." This ex clamation came from a slightly-built, blue eyed, pleasant-faced little man, who in troduced himself at the Jiccerd efficj as William Hendersen, aud who is known all ever the United States as "Snatch-'em Bill." It. will be remembered that this man was arrested en Monday by Detec tives Weyl and Jacksen, upon suspicion of being implicated in the bold robbeey of $4,000 worthef jewelry from Liggius's jew elry store window last Saturday night, but when the prisoner was arraigned at the Central station noue of the witnesses could iu auy way connect Heudeiseu with the affair, and lie was immediately dis charged from esstedy. Just here a tinge of romauce aud senti ment ptcsents itself te make Henderseu turn en his captors and pour forth the vials a of bitter past. Hendersen has beau living in Philadelphia for ninn months or mere, and camehcrc, se he says, te fellow the paths ei honesty. He seemed beard with a lcput.ible family en Seuth Ninth street, and deported himself with such becoming grace that ene of the fair daugh ter of the landlord found herself encoded iu the meshes of the soft passion She saw, and she loved. Bright in her talk, K.s-esiiug an attractive lace, and tee inno cent te smother the sacred flame, her modest coyness drew the hardened fellow under her softening influences, and he found himself in the captivity of love. On Sunday next they were te have been mar ried, and her cup of joy was full. It was therefeie u crushing blew that brought te her the startling news that her affianced had been one of the most expert thieves in the world. She fell unconscious into a sister's arms, and new lies in hourly danger of death. Aud Hendersen, his hepjs of an honest life thus shocked aud his prospects of a geed and loving wife completely blasted, turns en these disturbers of his peace and tells a tale that stirs the depths of official rottenness if it be true. He says that en the day before the Third street brokers, Grant and Aull, wcre robbed of securities worth $12,000 he came te this city, and, standing at the northeast corner of Fifth and Chestnut streets, he siguailcd te a detective then en duty at the Centra! station te come ever te him. The detective came ever in his shirt sleeves, and the thief and. thief catcher together meandered into Pcnis tau"s saloon, and together sipped at the social cup. The detective asked him what he was doing, te which Hendersen re plied : " I am going down en the street te wok," meaning that he proposed te rob some broker's office. He did secure some small plunder that afternoon, and en the following day he robbed Grant & Aull of $12,000 worth of bends. Immediately hastening te detective headquarters he told the detective abeve referred te what he had just done, and instructed the thief eat eher te immediately call en Mr. Aull and tangle up that gentleman in his de scriptions, se that when the case was re ported at police headquarters the wrong scent would he given. The thief says that the detective did start off en this mis sion, aud met him en the same night aud announced that Mr. Aull had first gene te the Pinkcrten agency, and had also re ported t he robbery at the Central station before the detective could iutercept him. Hendersen says that en the same night, at 12 o'clock he started for New Yerk, but he was arrested iu Jersey City in the morning upeu the arrival of the train. lie was taken te a police station, and the authorities in Philadelphia were notified by telegraph te send en an officer who could iudentily the criminal. Detective Weyl was directed te go te Jersey City by the next train, aud en ar riving there he was ushered into a room where "Snatch 'em Bill" was seated. Appaiently net recognizing him, the det ective innocently inquired : " Where is jour man:'' "Here he is" said the Jer sey City officer, pointing te Hendersen. Tjicie was uethiug left for the detective te de but te bring the prisoner te Philadel phia and te lock him up. The thief was kept in the station house at Fourth and Union streets, was given a geed bath aud the privilege of the lieutenant's bath ream aud the police gymnasium, and in seventeen days he was allowed te go free. Hendersen relates ene instance occurring in March, 1879, when he paid a percent age. He says : " We knew that a young man had been sent by his employers te present a check at the Pcnn national bank, Sixth aud Vine streets, for $2,900. Wc used an old 25 cent note aud played the drop ou him, a pal of mine tapping him en the shoulder while he was counting ever his money and saying te him ; ' Yeu drop ped a note there, mister, 'at the same time pointing te the note at the young fellow's icef. Instinctively lie steeped down te pick it up, and as he did se I took five or six 3100 notes from his pile. The youngster has counted his money before hand, thanked the man who had called his attention te the note en the fleer and wcut his way. We afterward learned that when the young mau reached his em ployers he handed ever the roll ; then it was discovered that the roll was five ev six hundred dollars short, but the young mau insisted that he had received $2,000 ; that he had counted it and put it iu his pocket, and it could net be less. The upshot of it was that the young mau was aucsted and sent te prison." On the night of this rob bery Hendersen says he paid the regular rate of 10 per ceut. te Detective Weyl, with whom he had been daaling. Anether instance is told of an arrest of Hendersen in this city upon a description telegraphed from Bosten. He says that when the folks from the Hub arrived here they were ushered into a room where were gathered twenty men, all of them mere or less resembling the thief in build and leeks. The Bosten witnesses picked out a deputy siierifl" as the guilty one, and through this trick of the detectives Hen Hen dereon says he contrived te escape. Ujieulug tiie Battle. Philadelphia News, Stalwart. The New Yerk Tribune has been iu a condition it elegantly calls " mycepia," since the publication of the midnight dis piteh from its editor, and which was read by Mr. Jehn Hay te President Garfield. It waked up sufficiently yesterday te make a long defense of Mr.Blaine's Seuth Amer ican diplomacy, and te make an equally lengthy attack en President Arthur's policy. 'I he gist of both is that the piesident is weak, vacillating and uncertain. He allowed Mr. Blaine te dominate him, and then allowed Mr. Frcliughuysen te de the same. He trifles with appointments, and is se unccit.tiu iu his policy, that senators ate waiting and watching te knew what they shall de. This, then, is the chosen line of attack. Nene doubted that as seen as the Tribune regained its breath after the midnight dispatch revelation, it would assail Arthur's administration. That ic cautiously opens the hattle surprises no one. But this attack will result in little. If timidity and vacillation is the only charge that can be brought, it will require a strong effort te tene up the people te the idea that this is cause for war en the administra tion. And it is the last imaginable ground for the Tribune te occupy. If there was ever a mere timid and vacillating ad ministration than that of Hayes, wc have yet te hear of it. The raoie positive its premises, the mere certain their failure. Yet through all its turgid doings, its weak aud washy Fchemings, the Tribune followed with the docility of a well trained deg. Fer it te new assail Presi dent Arthur en the assumption that he is guilty of precisely what it defended in Hayes, is the coolest thing in modern politics. It is equal te the assumption that te call the man a thief who pablished the midnight dispatch is an answer te the perfidy contained iu the dispatch. m m Don't Hide en r'ree Va-ies. -New Era. Se far a3 the Xetc E,i is concerned neither editor nor publisher rides en a "free pass." All the facilities we enjoy in that direction areiu the nature of exchange tickets for which we pay full value iu ad vertising. The balance of indebtedness is net against us in our dealings with railroad cempauies. Fer several years the editor has had an "exchange ticket "en the Wilmington & Northern railroad, received iu exchange for advertsing their schedule in the Weekly Xew Era, which he has never used, because it se happened when he had business in Delaware it suited him better te go ever the Philadelphia, Wil mington & Baltimeie railroad, pay ing his fate. But when it may be mere convenient te use the Wil mington & Northern he will net feel that he is tiding en a "free pass." The Camden ic Atlantic pass, given for like reasons, we have used only twice in a half dozen years. If the Pennsylvania railroad has net " cut oil " the Xew Kra te the same extent that any of our local contemporaries may have suffered " in the general curtailment," the " discrimina tion " was no doubt based upon certain plain business principles by which wide awake advertisers are usually governed. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. HKIIl.M) TDK TUKOrsi:. ' 11038 " McMancit Gets Kill t Wlrttui-. l'hlluilclphia Evenlnjj Telejjraph. Toward the close of last week Gas Trustee .lames McManes, accompanied by Alexander R. Skilten, the Republican can didate from the Seventh ward for common council, called en Geerge B. Rebcits, president of the Pennsylvania railroad company, aud asked that official if he, McManes, has net always been a fi iend and supporter of th'c read and its officers. The fact being duly acknowledged by President Roberts, Mr. McManes then inquired. "Why, then, de you yeimit ene of your employees te set himself up in opposition te me iu one of the best wards I have in the city. The result of this query, it i asset ted, was that General Wistar was seut for aud informed that a rnle for the company for bade an empleye of that corporation fiem holding any political office. General Wistar, who is supeiintendent of canals controlled by the Pennsylvania railroad company, reminded his superiors that the rule was an ancient ene aud had been violated times without number, aud cited iu proof of the assertion the fact that the manager of the West Jersey read. General Scwell, is a mem- ber et the bnited b tales bcuate ; Vice President Cassatt; is supei supei ef reads iu Montgomery county ; that visor that Mr. Downing was at one time presi dent of select council while iu the employ of the company ; and that Jonathan Ayden, new a candidate for common conu cenu cil from the 26th ward, was also au em ployee of the company en the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore branch. Jehn Scott was United States senator when he was solicitor of the read at Huntingdon and that Attorney General Mac Veagh con tinued te held the pest of assistant solici tor while iu the Garfield cabinet. Neverless Gen. Wistar had te decline the nomination or leave his position. Ha declined iu a letter, saying: '-When I yielded te your wish in accepting the can didacy for the representatceu of our ward iu councils it was with the hope and belief that, although entrusted with and earning my living by the adminstratien of import ant corporate interests, I might be able te contribute in some degree te the public welfare without prejudice te theso ether interests which I am bound first te con sider. But I have been infeimcd that the company which I serve feels itself obliged te regart any participation by its paid j officials in canvass for public office as in- UUIUp.llilUII3 VtILU 113 IIUIIUJ 1U! 11,11., UIIU with its right te their entire thne and seivice." KAII.KUAD ACCIUEM'. A Alan Kuu Over by the Card. This morning about 2 o'clock a night watchman employed by the Pennsylvania railroad found a man lying along the track in Marietta. He was carried into the office of the company audit was found that he was badly injured. Beth legs weie horribly crushed aud will in ail probability have te be amputated. One arm was broken aud the mau sustained ether in juries. Dr. Craig, of Columbia, was sent for aud he attended the mau and he was brought te this city at hall-past 8 o'clock and taken te the hospital. His name is Jas. Murphy and he is a resident of Phila delphia. He was intoxicated when the accident occurred but is believed that he was attempting te beard a freight train when he fell under and the cars passed ever him. He will probably die. .V.OXCE KlECI'KIC i.iuur. Eutt KItig Street Viilliniitly llhtimsiated Last evening the dry goods stera of Watt, Shand & Ce., East King street, was illuminated by the electric light two lamps being placed in the store room and one hung outside. The power by which the electric current is generated is ob tained from the same engine that supplies Al. Resensteiu and Suultz & Bre., en North Queen street, and whi:h has given' such great satisfaction for a week or two past. East King street looked very bril liant last night, while the fine store room of Watt, Shand & Ce. was as bright as day, the high ceilings and white walls strongly reflecting back the 2,000-candle power of the electric lamps. Uut-Agaiu. Charles Carr, who was se ten ibly cut by Michael Gumpf a few weeks age, is again able te be out and was at the Intei.moex Intei.meex cer office today. His wounds are all healed up. There are at least a-half dozen large holes in his overcoat and ether clothing which were made by the knife in Gurapfs hand. Carr wants it stated that he did net fellow Gmnpf en that night for the purpose of fighting .him, but only te see what was going an and te see fair play in case there was a fight. I'eIIck C;i-.en. Jehn Hart for drunken and diseiderly conduct was seut te jail for ten days by Alderman Samson. Win. McDonald aud Charles Thompson, were arrested near the Gap this morning, by Railroad Officer Pyle, for breaking the seal of a freight car en the Pennsylvania railroad. It is net known whether they did or did net steal any of the contents of the car. Tkey were sent te jail for a hearing before Alderman McConemy. A Lawyer Sent Out. II. C. Rogers, esq., the old lawyer, who has been noticed in this city.fera long time, walking along and begging, was sent te jail for twenty days by Alderman Mc Mc Mc Coeomy this morning. He has become a nuisance in the city and a number of citi zens, whose homes he would visit, com plained or him. He is very dirty, and is se careless that he never attempts te keep his clothing or even bis person clean. SUDDEN DEATHS. "THE VOU.NG MAY lIf, THE OLD MUST." Sudden Taking On of a Yenng Lady from Umraern. Miss Frances A. Hess, a daughter of Jehn M. Hess, miller, of Drumore town ship, died suddenly this morning at the Leepard hotel, this city, where she had bearded for some mouths past. It appears that Adam Eaby, a juryman, who is stop step ping at the Leepard, heard some ene greauiug heavily about 3 o'clock this morning. He informed Mr. Martin, the proprietor of the hotel, and that gentle man discovered that the groans came from Miss ness's room. He at once sent Mrs. Shreir.cr, oue of his as sistauts, te leek after Miss Hess. She found her dyiug. Dr. Cox was summoned, but before his arrival Miss Hess died. Corener Shifter was notified and held an inquest. The jury consisted of Jehn II. High, Geerge Hunter, C. M. Strino. T. F McElligetr, D. M. Mehr aud Harry Strohm. Frem the testimony taken it appeared that Miss Hess was about 22 years of age, aud was subject te frequent attacks of epilepsy. The doctors gave it as their opinion that she died of congestion of the brain, superiuduced by apoplexy, and the jury rendered a verdict te that effect. The girl's father was noti fied of the sudden death of his daughter, and will, no doubt, reach Lancaster te day te take charge of her remains. A Sad Affliction. Rebert Girvin, of Paradise fbwnship, has lately been bereaved of no less than three children. They were all boys, aged re speetively as fellows : Rebert, aged 7 years and 5 months , Leuis, aged 15 ycais and 7 months, and James, aged 11 months. They died from that dreadful disease, diphtheria. One was buried en Feb. 2d, ene en the 3d and one en the .th. Mr. Girvin lial a pleasant family and the duties of parents wcre being faithfully performed te their children for their ma terial aud Christian welfare, but hew seen death cau de its sad work and cause grinf and trouble.. Death et Daniel Uelisliu. Daniel Hcitsku, one of the eldest and most highly esteemed citizens of Lancas ter, was found dead iu bed this morning about 8 o'clock, at his residence, Ne. '50 North Lime street. Mr. Heitshu was about 84 years of age, aud was a remark ably well-preserved man. Yesterday he was en the street attending te seme busi ness matters ; and last night he went t bed iu apparent geed health. This morn ing as he did net arise at the usual hour, his daughter Harriet went te his room about 8 o'clock and found him dead. The bed clothing was net in the slightest le grce disturbed, and it was apparent that he had simply slept his life away aud died without a struggle. Coreucr Shiner was notified aud empan eled the following named jurors te held an inquest : Isaac Mishler, T. V. McEIli McEIli gett, Chas. M. Striue, Jehn II. High, Geerge Hunter and Jacob S Smith. The jury, after viewing the body and taking testimony, rendered a verdict that de ceased had ceme te bis death from ape -plcxy. Mr. Heitshu spent nearly the whole of his long aud useful life iu Lancaster. He was by trade a hatter, and as long age as 1825, perhaps longer, ha carried en the hatting iu this city, in the building en North Queen street, new occupied by Thes. J. Houghten. Here he carried en business until about 185G, when he retired te private life, relinquishing the business te his son, Wm. A. Heitshu. During the war William entered the Union army ami served for uiue months. During his ab sence, his father carried ou the business for him, relinquishing it wheu William returned from the army. Since that time Mr. Heitshu has "lived retired, having by thrift, economy and business talent up quired a comfortable fortune. He was three times married : First te a Miss Weiser, of Yerk, who died without issue. His second wife was a Miss Weit zel, who became the mether of several children. Of these Samuel is new in bus iucss in San Fraucl.ice, California ; Jehn is a farmer lesiding near Smyrna, Del.; William is a hatter iu Bioeklyn, N. Y., and Harriet has long bseu her father's housekeeper. By his thiid wife. Miss Hetty Bieis, he had no children. He has three sisters, who reside in this city Misses Margaret aud Sybilla. and Mrs. Harriet Derwart. 3Ir. Heitshu vas at the time of his death a heavy stockholder and had btcn for many years a director in the Farmeis' national bank. He was also for a quatter of a century a trustee of the Lancaster cemetery company, and at the time of his death and for many years preceding was president of the heard. He was a prom inent member of St. Paul's Reformed chinch, having been ene of its founders and for many years an cider. I.1IWI.K END ITEMS yuurrjviile and further D.iwn. On Saturday, March 11, at 1 p. m., a general meeting of the stockholders of the Senthcrn Mutual fire insurance company will be held at James K. Alexander's Railroad hotel, Quarry ville. te take the necessary legal steps te revive trio charter which will oxpire in March. The well known Alexander properties, situated ou the Octoraro creek, in Little Britain township, are te be put up for sale at the Cooper house in Lancaster, next Monday. They are among the most de de sirable and most eligibly located estates in a section where many persons from the upper end have made profitable and satii factory land investments in late yeats. Jehn G. Dunwoody, well kuewn in the lower end of this county, but for the past ten years largely engaged in the ice busi uess in West Philadelphia, died suddenly at his rcidence en Monday morning, agci 37. 31. Dunwoody arose shortly before eight o'clock aud went te the batii room. On his return te his chamber he fell across the threshold and died instantly. He wa.-: out sleighing en Sunday afternoon and re tired about eight o'clock in apparently pei feet health. He was a very large mau, Weighing (58 pounds, and fatty geceratieu of the heart was the cause of his death. Sheeting Mutch at laradlc. A .sheeting match took place at Nick Danncr's hotel, Paradise, a couple of days age, between the Strasburg and Paradire team. The Strasburg club was composed of I. Mulikin, F. Clark, Frank Boek. M F. Hildcbrand, Capt. Smith, Chritt Roh Reh rer, Tem Axe aud Benjamin Myers, of the White Oak. Paradise team : Jacob Brna, Buck Le Fever, Dr, Smith, Jehn D. May, D. Helm. C. Casper, Belden Miller and Jim Miller. There were three beards en each side for the suppers, and the Stras lmif frs wen n te 1. Nine beards weic shot ou each side during the afternoon ; the i'aradiscrs winning oeutoi me v ; tmis ue ing ene ahead at closing. One mis hap occurred at the match. After, supper a number of young men we wrestling, and ene of them named Jacob Tayler, of Strasburg, in falling, had his leg broken between the knee and ankle. Court el Common flea. In the case of Jeseph II. Shirk vs. M. Esbcrg, S. Bachman and J. Ehrman, part ners as Esbcrg, Bachman & Ce., the jury rendered a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $209.76. A motion for a new trial was made in the case of Mehaffy vs. Herr. Court adjourned until Saturday at 10 o'clock, when the licenses will be taken up. Kii 'V, ?Ju ESS'
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