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LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17 1882.
EanrasteT -utclligrncct.
FRIDAY EVENING, FEB. 17. 1882.
The Number of Representatives.
A great deal of energy is wasted in this
world ever comparatively unimportant
matters, and the Heuse of Representa
tives illustrates the fact in the agitation
it suffers in settling the exact number of
representatives it shall consist of for the
next decade. The numbers contended
for vary from the present representation
of two hundred and ninety-four te three
hundred and twenty-six ; net a very
wide range of numbers and certainly no
very gross injury would b done te any
body If anyone of the intermediate fig
ures was selected. Still there are shades
of difference and preference quite suffi
cient te disturb the representatives'
minds and te keep the question of
the ratio undecided for two years
and in two (.'engiesses. New at
last by a mighty effort a resolu
tion has been come te and '.'.'St is the
number selected. It is probably as gee
as any ether or it may be a triile better
or worse. A grr-at many congressmen
wanted te keep down the number,
arguing that the busiuesi of the Heuse
was new embarrassed by its size, lint a
score or two mere or less in three hun
dred representatives will net make much
difference either way. The Heuse does
seem te be tee large new for its orderly
conduct, ami e.) it might as well be
made a geed deal larger and
mere fully execute the idea of it-;
lepresentative character. It. is. a ques
tion whether seven hundred or a
thousand members would net be better
than three hundred, which may belaid
tD be either tee large or tee small a body
If the desks were taken out of the hall,
it would readily held three times the
number el its present membership : and
it would be safe te say thai the addi
tional jnember.s would net cause se
much noise and eonfusieii in the room
as is directly and indirectly occasioned
by furnishing each leprcaentative with a
desk. The questi-mis between the value
of a desk and the representative?, the
s;iaiv of uhe-se seals it occupies
Legislation for Railroads.
Mr. lay Gould has had a great deal of
experience in fixing up railroad matters
te Suit himself' by the use- of legislation ;
and se have th-- I'ennsylvauia railroad
people. Beth hae been out of the bu-i-ness
of late, but new reappear together
in the New Jersey field, where a bill has
jHslb.-cii pa-.ed te enable their friends
who ar.- new in control of the New Jcr
sey Central railroad te leniain there,
notwithstanding II e wen and Jewett have
obtained the majority of the .sleck. The
device, used i an old one, being simph
the conversion of bend.-; into stock.
There is certainly no objection te permit
ting stockheldei:. te pay their debts, al
though it does net leek well for a l.egis"
lature te be playing into the hands of
men hoe present advantage it is te
urge se apparently innocent a measure.
If Mr. "euld, however, never proposes
any worse legislation in his "litertst he
will net be the object el much aniniad aniniad
veiiiieii for his bad citizenship. The
people who want te control the New
Jersey Central or anj ether railroad in
the interest of th'-ir schemes might fairly
be required te purchase the whole read,
bends as well as sleck, and net simply
the majority of them. Ureal injustice is
done under the p twer .conferred upon the
majority i.f the stockholders and tie
wrongs .iinered by the mimnity !;:
longsereh e.illed for redress.
Dritixc the first year of Kitca'.s ad
ministration of the water works. ih" n n
serveirs were kepi about Is inches higher
than bafere, all wh:g many persons en
higher grounds water who had int bffiiv
had an opportunity te tiv i-. The -;ii'n
iner (f lsbe was dtxeraai !i itt'.v than
that of t!; year before, :i:d th'-r-- iv.i .
largely increased use of water J.;r irei '
sprinkling ec! th-: previous year U
skies these spsciai eceaai. inn ier an In
firasni of water cou.-aiuiptien. there ..i-i-155
new connections mad in that ) :i .
the largest uuiubi-r ever known in til;.:
time. These fads will explain why theie
had te be puuip.-l !uo,0eo in. .re gallen:
daily than in the year before. That it
should have cost the cit only .-1,-!s!i...i
mere for coal f it liigla r tribute te the
economy wf Deui-icratic adinini.-.tratien ;
but even this increase is met fou.-fe'd
by the largely increased receipts from
water rents and the reduction of water
works general" expenses.
Wj: are glad te hear that the Esami
r.ir calls it "plundering'' for any pub
lie official te take double pay fordeing
Ins regular work or te get pay for doing
what is properly the work of some ether
paid official. Whether the Examiner is
right in saying Mr. lleyer, prison solid
ter, has done this may lie called into
question, but the practice is one that
cannot be honored by however long ob
servance. l'er years this and like piae
tices have prevailed in Lancaster county
and the Ixtelliehnvek has been
exposing and denouncing them, while
the Examiner has been defending them,
or has kept silent or has ridiculed our
criticism of it as " fuss '" and " gush."
At last it is wakened te a proper appre
ciation of these abuses and begins te
call things by their right name.?. We
hope it will net falter in the geed work.
And new will it please tell us what it
calls the " extras " which have been for
years allowed the clerk of the cemmis
sieners, the county solicitor and the ex
traordinary ' extias " allowed the pre
thonetary, the late register and clerk of
quarter sessions by Commissioner-. Ceble
and Bushong ?
Tut: Republicans are indulging in
some self-congratulation ever supposed
Democratic defections and are inspiring
their party with many such wild reports.
Seme of them have been freely circu
lating the story that W. C. Pyle is sup
porting Stauffer and opposing MacGon MacGen
igle. Like most of the campaign canards
originating in a " facility for lying,"
there is net a word of truth in this story
about Mr. Pyle. He is for MacGenigle
first, last and all the time, as are the
Democrats ':' the city aimed .-.ill. out
exception.
Tliey Gnaw a File.
We can easily excuse the disinclination
of our esteemed Republican contempora
ries te meet the real issues of the present
city campaign. Neither of them has yet
ventured te explain hew it is that while
Stauffer's administration in four years,
piled 100.000 increase upon the bended
city debt, and left floating obligations
of $.",0,000, Mayer MacGenigle's admin
istration in four years paid that $:S0,000
of lleating debts, and decreased the interest-bearing
debt ever $15,000, besides
" making such valuable and costly ;
mu.it-nt improvements as the laying of
three squares and Centre square with
Deligian blocks, macadamizing of many
squares, paying street damages, erection
of a new Worthington pump, thorough
and perm -incut repairs of the eastern re
servoir, laying of new mains and many
ether improvements in the water works
department." This difference of about
$215,000 in favor of the city, effected by
Mayer MacGenigle's honest, efficient
and economical administration is te them
a stumbling block. They can neither
get around it nor ever it, nor can they
remove it. (Juite naturally then they
seek te evade the real issue, and.after the
manner of ancient hypocrites, strain at a
gnat and swallow a camel. They refuse
te concede anything of ci edit te an ad
ministration which en an average was
worth te the taxpayersitiii,0oe per year
mere than Stauffer's, but are much exer
cised and troubled at the report of the
superintendent of the water works that
h required $l,-ls!.i!i worth mere of coal
than Sunt. Ilalbach te pump by steam
i'j2,T-le.0.".T mere gallons of water into
the reservoir. This conundrum, which
affects our contemporaries se seriously,
seems te carry its answer en its face, for
obviously if 402,740,037 mere gallons of
water were pumped up, it is net trange
that Sl.-tS9.0ii mere of coal would be re
quired, especially when it is remembered
that the coal used by Ilalbach was fur
nished te the city by contract al $2.21
per ten. while that used by Kilcli cost
en an average $:t.05 a difference for
which, of course, Kitch was in no de
gree responsible, but which will go very
far te explain the increase in the total
price of coal used, and te illustrate the
'.' much rluUjili' MTriVc ill tin .LdtCr
work? ,'iulir Kitch than ITeWarlt.
The .Vu- Era seems te admit that the
reported service was cheaper, but dis
credits the report of it and intimates
that net se many gallons were pumped
into the reservoirs as ate reported for
lssn. Concerning this we need only ray
that the means employed by Kitch te
compute the amount of water pumped J
into :h- basins are exactly the.-j by
which ilalbach made his measuienients
It has been some eight month; since
Supt kitch. in his report te councils
said :
The average a.y consumption of water
during icy term was 2,903,700 gallons.
Our population is 25,8-10, making ear per
capita consumption 110 gallons. This is
exceeded by but one city in the United
States that wc have statistics of Pitts
burgh, hi New Yerk, Philadelphia, Chi
cago, Cincinnati, Bosten, St. Leuis ami a
dozen ether large cities, it is but. 05 gal
lons per capita, en an average. In 21
large feicign cities it is but 25 gallons par
capita. Providence, II. I., with four times
the populntienof Lancaster, uses bat little
meie than we de. and the small pur can
ita consumption is accounted for by the
meter system el'ehargcs.
That report was published at the time
if was made and its accuracy wa.s never
before questioned. That this amount of
water was used cannot be gainsaid. 1 1
is computed by the revolutions of the
Hirkc-nbiiu wheels and the automatic
register of Ihe Worthington engine.
The people no doubt consumed it
freely hec.uu.sr- they had an abundant
supply. The superintendent hasnocen-
trel ever their consumption of i!. I: is
! his business te keep the reservoirs full,
I and if. te de this, he had te pump ucaily
J '.) per cent, mera per day than Ilalbach,
j the people are grateful for ha ing had
I tlii.s abundant .supply at an increased
cost of only $l,4y.i.'.ts for coal, especially
j when in ether detaih of running the
i w:iter works, as is shown below, much
j larger .-a ings than this were effected.
! In undertaking te explain this increase
of water supply and consumption, the
.V. " '.'i-ii would have been measurably
aided by this item, found, tee, in Water
Superintendent Kitch's report fr 18S0 :
During the year 152 2-inch fen tiles and
1-inch ferrule have been inserted, and one
1-inch connection, being a greater number
of new rente! s in one vear than we ever
had.
And, corresponding witii this increase
cf consumers, we find that the receipts
from water rents under Kitch were Sl.-5-11.22
mere than under Ilalbach or
three times as much a-; the incieased
c-est of coal.
Our contemporaries inquire why there
was se much greater u.e of the Wor
thington engine under Kitch and re
latively less use of the water pumps.
They could have found a ready answer
in the report of Water Superintendent
Kitch for 1RS0. On page 05 of the city
reports they could have seen that during
September, October and November one
Birkenbine pump could net be operated
at all, being under necessary repairs;
and that all during the months .f June,
July, August and September the water
was very low and little power could be
obtained for the water pumps. During
hir. entire administration Water Super
intendent Kitch has run the water
pumps, whenever practicable, te their
full capacity. lie could have no possible
interest in doing any thing else.
Brr, besides an increase of water rents
te the amount of three-fold the increased
cost of coal consumed, and besides an
increased average supply of DOo.eoo gal
lens of water per day, there arc ether i
points of comparison which are greatly
te the advantage of the present adminis
tration of the water works. Notwith
standing the much higher price of coal,
Supt. Kitch pumped water by steam
power at a cost te the city of $7.74 per
million gallons, while the same service
under Ilalbach cost $8.GS; the pumping
by water power under Kitch only
cost 83.57 per million gallons, while
under Ilalbach the same service cost.
$3.70, a very material saving te the city i
under Kitch. ' The results of these econ- j
emiesare plainly seen in the expendi-
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' , V. , r ,r xuese
i under the last year of Ilalbach, exclu-'
sive of repairs te the eastern reservoir,
amounted te $G,S10.53, while the expen
ditures for water works general, under
Kitch, exclusive of permanent and unu
sual repairs te the eastern reservoir, were
enlyS4,7S7.41 a difference of $2,023.12
in favor of the Demecrartic administra
tion. These figures may explain why
the old jobbers and tinkers want te
again get their work in at the water
works.
Our Republican contemporaries may
net be able te understand these figures.
Rut the taxpayers can.
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As the A'cif Era has " lest all faith
in the multiplication table," we will net
expect it te tell us why, if a Democratic
administration can pump water by steam
at a cost te the city of only S7.74 per mil mil mil
lion'gallens, when coal is $3.00 a ten, a
Republican administration expends S8.G0
per million gallons for the same service,
when coal is only $2.24 per ten. The
double rule of three will work out the
answer in favor of Democratic economy
" by a large majority."
Ax extract that we republish from
Mayer MacGenigle's last annual mes
sagewhich has been befeie the public
for months and has never been gainsaid
puts the responsibility for an increase
of the city tax just where it belong's, upon
a profligate Republican street committee.
Should our citizens be se short-sighted as
te let such men as ran that committee
again get control of city affairs they
may expect mere floating debts anil mere
increase of tax. ,
The Examiner commends liie econo
my of pumping water into the reservoir
by water power. It is right, and Supt.
Kitch has used the water pumps when
ever practicable, and he has pumped
with them at a cost te the city of $3.57
per million gallons pumped, while the
same service under Ilalbach cost $3.70
per million gallons.
Tin: president en Wednesday evening
nave a state dinner te the diplomatic
corps. It was notable in being the first
state dinner of the administration ; the
first in the refurnished, repainted and re
papered executive mansion ; the first in
four yens te the foreign legations, for
whom, during the last three years of his
presidency, Mr. Hayes gave an annual
dinner party in placs et a dinner ; and the
most elegant in certain of its appointments
known in many years at the mansion.
As Mn. M.wGoniei.f.'s iidiiiinhtrntieH
fat jht'nl ejf' $15,000 of tin, city debt, and
therefore decreased the tai burden 40 cents
en every $100 cahiatien, and an W. D.
Staujf'er's aditiinstratien increased the debt
200,000t? therefore increased the tux
burden $1.75 en i wry $100 caluatien, there
fort v. ;.( eicncr of property in this city iche
ixinfacorefhiw taxes, and ecery tenant
in facer of line rents, should gice te Jehn T.
Mite Oeniijle hi. cote for mayor en Tuesday
nO.it.
Tin: Carlisle Volunteer, Deiu., points
out that a noticeable feature of our nom
inations for governor is the way they have
been concentrated in certain districts of
limited number and limited area. Pour
counties adjoining Centre have had the
candidate six times in the last forty-four
year."-; and .-sis counties, of which Schuyl
kill is the centre, have had the candidate
eight times within the last thirty eight
)ears. The balance of the state has had
the candidate only euca in these forty-four
years.
Tiik colored citizens of llarrisburgas
seaibled in mass meeting en Wednesday
night te discuss the ri.eent refusal of the
niayei of the city, a Republican, te give
their race representation en the police
force. Speeches were made byProfesser
W. Heward Day, Majer Simpsen and
etheis, alter which a series of resolutions
were reported and unanimously adopted.
The insolatiens recite that wheieas colored
patrolmen have been appointed by Demo
cratic mayors in Philadelyhia, Pittsburgh
and Williamspei t, the refusal te appoint
them in Hanisburg is detrimental te the
be.st interests of the party and the out eut out
gewth of a prejudice which the mayor and
the pasty cannot tee seen remove, and
that the colored people will pursue what
they deem the best course for their own
respect and protection until what they
think right and just is accorded thctu.
'I'm: Exa, turner has either been misin
formed or states what it knows is net true
when it says ' that iu Laucaster the Dem
ocrats assess the mayor's Democratic po
licemen annually $40, for the election
(corruption) fund." Ne such assessment
or any ether assessment has ever beeu
made upon the police under Maye$ Mac Mac
eonigle, nor upon any ether Democratic
officeholder or candidate for any city office,
within the past six or eight years at least.
Every Democratic officer, like every ethor
Democratic citizen, is aud has been at en
tire liberty te subscribe voluntarily just
whatever he sees fit te the Democratic
campaign fund ; and of this right te give
inore or less, or nothing at all, the police
men have availed themselves, without auy
mere uniformity in their subscriptions than
in these of ether Democrats. Whether
they have seen fit te contribute liberally
or sparingly or te net contribute at all,
they have neither beeu coaxed, threatened,
nor influenced by any consideration except
tUcir own inclination. Fer of all parties
interested in the campaign Mayer Mac Mac
eonigle has neither known nor inquired,
nor will he knew what any person who
ewes his appointment te him has con
tributed te the campaign fund. Unlike a
very great many persons elected te office
in this county he will be able te take Irs
oath of office without committing perjury,
and te discharge its duties unhampered by
pledges, premises or obligations of any
kind conflicting with the public interests.
A Heavy Oalr.
A heavy gale at Helena, Arkansas, yes
terday morning, drove waves several feet
high ever the embankment iu front of
Commercial Rew. Between 12 and 1
o'clock the fire alarm bells sounded and
the stores wcre closed, merchants and
ether--: hastening te the scene of threaten
ed disaster. The gale seen subsided and
by 2 o'clock the river was calm. At that
hour, however, two breaks occurred in the
levee at the upper end of Williamson Place,
two miles below- the city. The breaks
aggregated 300 yards in length and
the
water poured through at a rapid rate. It
was LePcd tue flood could kept out of
tLuCit? by Ci.lesin the, Midiand railroad
embankment, and a large force of men
were set at work doing se by the city
authorities.
TO-DAYS TOPICS.
THE EVENTS OP A DAY.
CRIMINAL AK1) CALAMITOUS.
The Drift of State Legislation.
The Senate of Wisconsin yesterday
passed a bill restoring capital punishment.
At a meeting of the New Jersey beard
of education in Trenten, yesterday, Ellis
F. Apgar was re-elected superintendent of
public affairs.
The New Brunswick legislature was
opened yesterday. The lieutenant gover
nor in his speech said the provincial gov
ernment intended te stait a breeding larm
for the improvement of stock.
The Mutual Union telegraph company
yesterday filed a certificate in the office of
the secretary of state, at Albauv, increas
ing its capital $10,000,000.
A " mass constitutional prohibition con
vention," is session at Minneapolis, ad
journed yesterday, after agreeiug te a
resolution urging the state of Minnesota
te adept a constitutional amendment pre
hibiting the manufacture, importation or
sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage.
The population of British Columbia, ac
cording te the last census is 49,459, of
which 4,320 are Chinese and 20,500 In
dians. Mr. Pepe, the Canadian minister
of agriculture, stated in the Dominion
Parliament yesterday that labt year "2,154
people had gene from Ontario into Man
itoba and the Northwest, 2,739 from the
United states, and 4,334 from ether coun
tries." Trade and Commerce.
The ship General Kuex sailed yesterday
from Norfolk, Virginia, with 8,580 bales
of cotton.
A telegram from Poughkeepsie, report
ing the centinuauce of the thaw and
another rain storm last night, says the ice
harvest en the Hudsen is practically
ended, with about half a crop housed.
Telegraphic connection was being estab
lished yesterday between Madisen, In
diana, and Milten, Carrel ten and Frank
fort, in Kentucky, as well as intermediate
points en the Kentucky river. The Ohie
river at Madisen is spanned by a wire
stretching from bluff te bluff four hun
dred feet above the level of the river.
Governer Cameren, of Virginia, arrived
in Norfolk yesterday afternoon and or
dered a company of militia te the mouth
of the Rappahannock river, where a con
flict is threatened between the oyster
fleets ami the citizens, who allege that the
oyster gatherers are trcspassiuirupen their
private rights.
Fire ami IfutulilleH.
Jamea Gere, 13 years of ae, was
drowned in the Oswego canal, near Syra
cuse, en Wednesday evening, while trying
te save a companion.
Jeseph Fex, aged 05 years, was killed
by a train in Trenten, New Jersey, yester
day. William Warner was killed yesterday in
Providence by a train backing in the tail tail
read yard where he was employed.
A fire in Robinson, Kansas, yestcaday
morning, destroyed twelve stores, two
hotels, the pest office, Masonic and Odd
Fellows' halls aud two dwellings. Less
70,000.
The wholesale confectionery and notion
store of Ekrman Cewe, in Louisville, was
burned yesterday morning. Less 00,009.
Seventeen cases of smallpox and five
deaths from the disease were reported in
Richmond, Virginia, last week.
Ellen Slevin died yesterday morning in
the New Yerk dispensary while under the
influence of ether, administered te her by
the surgeons previous te performing an
operation en her arm.
Philip Shafer, setter-tip of stationary
engines for the Perter manufacturing
company in Syracuse, had his left leg
caught in the main shaft iu the company's
factory yesterday morning. The limb
was wound four times around the shaft
and tern from his body, but it is thought
he will recover.
Siilcliles unit Murilerri.
Henry Strausberger, a stranger, com
mitted suicide in Heading yesterday by
sheeting himself with a pistol. Iudi
genee is supposed te have been the
cause.
Twe bodies, showing evidence of mur
der, were found iu the Rie Grande river
near Laredo, Texas en Wednesday. One
of them had a rope around the ueck.
Iu the Lenahan murder case at Sieu:-:
J City, Iowa, the coroner's jury yesterday
reuuerea a verdict tnat ticualian " came
te his death from a shot from a revolver
in the hands of Maggie Lenahan, aud
that her mother and sister Anuie aud
Herbert Birch are accessories." Maggie
Lenahan and her mother confessed the
crime, the motive being Lcnahan's re
fusal te allow ene of his daughters te
mairy Birch.
A WHEELING SCANDAL,
lien. A. W. Campbell's Seasons Fer .Suing
Ifer A Divorce.
1'itt.tbnrj; Dispatch te the Press.
Hen. A. W. Campbell, editor of the
Wheeling Intelligencer, who become prom
inent in the Chicago convention because
he would net vete for Cenkhng's resolution
te support the nominee of the convention,
has commenced proceedings at Wheeling
for a divorce from his wife. One night
last week, he had arranged te leave Wheel
ing en a train departing about 10 p. in.
He missed the train, wherenpen he re
turned te the editorial room of his paper
and worked until three o'clock
in the morning, when he started
home. It seems that Mis. Camp
bell, under the impression that her
husband had left the city, was
entertaining a gentleman who had
no business there while the head of the
household was absent. Mr. Campbell
had hardly get the deer of his dwelling
unlocked aud opened when a man rushed
past him out of the house with nothing en
but his undergarments and carrying his
clothes en his arm. Mr. Campbell chased
the man into a livery stable two blocks
away. Here he had some difficulty in
prosecuting his search, as he was opposed
by a colored hostler who was friendly te
the fugitive, but finally discovered the
man crouched down in a dark corner of a
stall ; drawing him out iute the light, Mr.
Campbell, who is a man of powerful
physique, jerked him te his feet te get a
leek at his face. On recegnizinghim, he
3aid : " Oh, its you, is it, that's all I
want te knew," and walked away.
Mr. Campbell went te a hotel and spent
the remainder of the night. The next day
he begau a suit for a divorce from his wife
en the ground of adultery. The man
whom he had seen down iu the livery
stable was Geerge K. Wheat, the leadimr
merchant of Wheeling and one of the
wealthiest men of the city. Mrs. Camp
bell is yeuu2, very beautiful and hiuhlv
educated. Mr. Campbell married her about
four years age, when she was a teacher in
the female seminary at Wheeling. She
is Campbell's second wife ; her maiden
name was was Mary Hallewell. Mr.
Wheat is married and has several grown
up children, among whom are four ac
complished daughters. The event is the
talk of Wheeling, but owing te the prom
ineuce of the parties concerned the papers
of that city have refrained from mention
ing it.
KlDRCafnlval.
The carnival fooleries iu New Orleans j
began last night with the eighth annual j
lajjceuii ui wc ivui(;uka ui jiuuiiui. l no
precession and tableaux illustrated the
Hindoe epic poem of Ramayana, by
Valmiki.
iff ACADEMY BURNED.
UYATT'S MILITARY CULLEOGAT CHES
TKK TOTALLY DtSTliUK.O.
A tire lireakd Out in the Laboratory iJc iJc
treyius the Fine ItuiliUng autl in
volving a Less et S30O.00C
Fartlally Covered by
Insurance.
The city of Chester, in Delaware county,
has suffered a great less in the destruction
by fire, last evening, of the well-known,
large and conspicuous Millitary Academy,
situated en an eminence about one mile
northeast of the depot and nsar the outer
hounds of the city. The building was
four stories in height, including a high
basement. It was very soundly built of
stone and was 2:50 feet long by 50 feet
wide. The centre front of the building
was elevated and formed an additional
story, and in this part of the structure
wherein was the laboratory, the lire oc
curred. Frem this story access is open te
the left en either side. The origin of the
fire in the laboratory is net known, as that
department was vacant at the time.
The cadets finished their afternoon
drill shortly after five o'clock, and upon
retiring te their rooms smoke was discer
ered en the upper fleer, and flames were
Sieu breaking through the ceiling from the
left, se it was evident that the lire had
been burning iu the lefc for perhaps an
hour befere is was discovered, and had in
the meantime spread through the left iu
both directions. The alarm was given,
and the tiroextiuguishers of the academy
brought into requisition, but this flames
had attained tee much headway te make
them available, and the alarm was sent
out te the fire department. It was a con
siderable lenirth of time before any of the
apparatus arrived, owing te the bad con
dition of the streets leading te the burning
building. By this time the whole upper
story of the vast building was one sheet of
tlame. and all efforts te save it were aban
'done;!, and attention turned te getting out
its contents.
The cadets weic kept under strict dis
cipline and by their aid nearly everything
was removed from the building befeie the
tire reached it. Of course, iu the hasty
removal necessary under the circum
stances, much of the furniture was con
siderably damaged. The goods were all
placed en the grounds surrounding the
academy, and the heavy rain which com
menced falling shortly after damaged
much of the finer furniture and beds be
yond repair. The fire department, when
it did get te work, had te draw its water
freat a pond one hundred and fifty yards
distant, but by its exertions the drill
house, a one-story stone building, about
two hundred and fifty feet long, situated
just north of the academy, was saved.
The cadets, 142 in number, escaped all
injury iu any way, hut. many of them
lest articles of clothing in the confusion.
They were all returned te their homes in
the evening trains. The flames in the
course of half an hour after they were
discovered enveloped the whole building
and lit up the country for miles around.
At 10 o'clock last night the bare walls of
the building, sinoke begrimed and black
ened, were all standing, and the debris,
including a large quantity of coal in the
cellar and the window frames, burning
briskly. At about the above heui the
large portico commanding the main cu cu
trauce te the building was one mass of
flames, and was allowed te burn, as no
further damage could occur from it.
The structure was known as the I'enu
sylvania military academy, and was, since
its construction, in charge of Colonel
Hyatt, by whose name the academy was
mere popularly known. The corner stone
was laid in Juue, 1807, and the whole
building was completed and occupied the
following year. It was very successful
from its .--.tart and at the time of its do-atriiet-ien
wa-s in full operation. The
building and furniture cost about $100,
000. The insurance en the building is
$00,003 ami en the apparatus, furniture
machineiy between $15,000 and $20,000.
Colonel Hyatt, states that i!ie academy
will be rebuilt at once, and in the mean
time ether quarters will be obtained in
order te continue the business of the insti
tution. -WK CALL IT I'LUXDKltlXt;.-
Tlie lCxauilner .KcMilves te be a Kefermer.
r.xuininer.
Wc give air. Beyer the full benefit of
his explanation, aud all it shows is that as
a " reformer " appointed by a beard that
laid great claims te reforming old aud ex
travagaut methods, he dropped into this
familiar rut of taking all he can get. We
dissent from the position that his $100 is
"only a general retaining fee " paid for
attending the meetings of the inspecteiF.
We believe he has no business te act au
clerk te take the inventory and charge ex
tra for it. That should be the work of the
beard and the clerk aud keeper. He has
no business te receive extra pay for draw
ing the annual report or preparing the
treasurer's account, or for filiug it. The
business of the solicitor is. te attend te all
the legal business of the prison for the
salary paid him, and the clerk's business
is te de the clerking, and net have the
solicitor de it, and pay him extra for it.
11 this is a practice that has grown iu the
prison, it should be reformed, aud Mr.
Beyer, who went in en the reform
wave, should have practiced it,
instead of which he went around grabbing
all he could get, and new justifies his yet
ting, by saying that the men he and his
,; reform " associates declared were public
plunderers received the same. But lie
does reduce the amount that went into his
pocket from $190.GS te $170.08 which is a
proper credit. But Mr. Beyer is ercdited
with having received for costs paid en ap ap
peals $14.15, which may be independent
of what lie claims te have paid te the pro pre pro
thenotary. But te show that Mr. Beyer m his strug
gle te be continued solicitor was net that
" reform" should picvail at the prison,
but that thrift should fellow, we have an
other geed sized bonanza te open through
which he grabbed $141, HI iu the way of
"commissions," for the sending out of
bills te the customers of the priseu. Mr.
Beyer scut out bills amounting te $I,4i:j
82, which should all have baen collected
by the piisun clerk. Mr. Beyer presented
bills te such well-known citizens as
Jehn R. Bitner, Milten Ileidelbangh, Dr.
Jehn L. Atlee, Levi Scnscnig. Jehn
K. Reed, Dana Graham, S. II.
Reynolds, Ilaydcn Tshudy, Themas
A. Wiley, Hcise Sz Kauffman, and te such
corporations as the Lancaster county poor peer
house aud the Childrens' home, and
charged ten per cent, and the postage- for
collection. The idea of placing the bit's
ei .sucu parties in me nanus el me "solicitor'-'
could only be for the purpose of
jiuttintr money into Mr. Beyer's pocket.
It sounds like a farce te pay Mr. Beyer
$10.:i5 te ' collect" a bill from Jehn R.
Bitner, or $10.95 from Levi Sensefiig, or
$12.15 iiem the Lancaster county poor peer
house, or $10.9:1 from the Cliildi en's hena-.
This may be called " reform, "' but v.e
call it plundering, and it is no exeusc that
ether "solicitors" did it.
Ameir; the Universities.
Seven students have been expelled from
Willisten seminary at East Hampton,
Massachusetts, for insubordination. Most
of the senior class are rebellious, but the
tiouble in the ether classes is believed te
be "substantially ever."
Parkham Adams, aged 14 years, a stu
dent of the University of Tennessee, is
dying in Knoxville from the effects of
.smekiug 49 cigarettes ami inhaling the
smoke " en a wager."
Services were held yesterday in Harvard
college en the body of Ke Kun Hua, late
professor of Chinese. There wcre present j
the faenltv nf t-lm enllne-e and a larsrc mini- I
rf 0 a -
ber of students, the eldest son of deceased
and Mr. Queng, "a mandarin from Hart Hart
eord." Pofesser Everett, Dean of the
Divinity school, conducted the services.
He read "selections from the works of
Confucius and from the New Testament,"
after which there was a chant by the
choir.
Must Oivo llali.
Judge Snell, in the police cenit at Wash
ington, yesterday, decided that Cabell,
Dicksen and Minnix, charged with con
spiring te defraud the government, must
give bends in $1,000 each te appear before
the grand jury.
PKRSONAL.
Hen. Simen Ca.mek.en has invited a
number of Philadelphi.ins te accompany
him te Flerida.
The wife of Governer I.one, nf Massa
chusetts, died yesterday in Bosten. She
had been an invalid for a long time.
The secretary of war yesterday directed
General Ri'cker te go at ence te Wash
ington and assume his duties as quarter
master general of the army.
The president yesterday nominated Wu.-bl-i:
F. Hi;nt te be United States attor
ney and Gi:oi:ej: D. Bhuf.f. United States
marshal for Maine.
The president has formally accepted the
resignation of W.ne Hunt as associate
justice of the supreme court of the United
States, aud will probably nominate his
successor next week.
Colonel A B. Mn.rsi.vM, longpiemiueut
iu connection with Indian attain: iu Colo Cole
rado, and a member of the Ute commis
sion, died suddenly of apoplexy in Wash
ington htbt night, at the age of 50 years.
Jesui'U E. Siikkkiki.d, founder of the
Sheffield scientific school, connected with
Yale college, died yesterday morning in
New Haveu. His contributions te the en
dewment of the school, which was estab
lished in 1847, have amouutedte $100,000.
Madame Patti has such a cold that she
may net be able te aing during the Cin
cinnati festival at all. The levers of music
there are disappointed sorely, but they are
net cast down, and the festival is in pro
gress. Iu leaving the depot at Chicago
the diva thrust her head out of the car
window te bid a friend geed-bye and con
tinued te leek back until the depot was
some distance behind. The draft affected
her threat. In Detroit she was imprudent
iu driving out. The story is that her
livery bill there was $55.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
TDK CITY TAX.
Hew a i:eulUcaii Street Cnnsniui-H
In-
created it.
Mayer .lucijonigle'a Annual .Mi.ii,i'j jn.
Te these who de net watch closely the
curreut of our municipal events it may
seem .strange that while- the actual debt
of the city is cut down $15,000 for the
year, the taxation for city purposes has
increased two mills, or from 70 te 00 cents
en the $100 valuation. Fer the solution
of this anomaly the reader must iccall the
operations in the street department in the
summer of 1879. It will be recollected
that at that time there was work unneces
sarily aud illegally undertaken, such as
laying Belgian blocks in Centie Square,
tearing up aud relaying crossings which
would have seived geed purpose.! for years,
ordering sewer traps which upon
tiial had te be abandoned, and ether
jobs equally unnecessary put through,
asgregating en the 1st of June, 1830,
nearly $18,000. On many of the bills
making up this ainmiur, suit lias bpen
brought and judgment recovered. The
costs, interest aud principal of these bills
new aggrcgate ever $HO.O0O. Befeie 1874
this excess iu expenditure could have been
turned into funded debt, and the interest
of the amount only added te the taxation.
But the new constitution stepped all that,
and where the aggrcgate of indebtedness
has been reached allowed under the fun
damental law, as with us, the amount in
excess of the limit must he paid by direct
taxation. This $20,000 of indebtedness,
made by the street committee of two
years age, must be thus paid ; honce the
two mills additional city taxation for this
year. It is te be hoped that this experi
ence will have net have been in vain, that
the several departments having the city's
finances te disburse will step en the hither
side of that which is illegal.
I shall endeavor from time te time, as iu
the past, te notify councils of the condi
tion of the appropriations. The attention
of councils was called by nu in special
messages ever and ever again te the con
ditieu of the appropriation for street pur
poses and te the illegality of the work
undertaken in the street department nearly
two years age, the payment for which by
taxation is se loudly complained of new,
but the effective check could net be at
tained until the court was appealed te and
an injunction giautcd. Hew much that
injunction was worth te the city may be
approximately estimated by these familiar
with the reckless extravagance which had
already fastened upeu the city nearly
$18,000 at the time the court cainc te the
rescue.
Accident en the Heading Kcllread.
On the Reading & Columbia railroad,
about four o'clock en Thursday afternoon,
two freight trains, which closely fellow
each ether, and drawn by engines "0.h-
kesh " and " Ephratn," were geiiifj north.
When the latter train ncarcd Keller's sid
ing it was cut and the lear cars left te run
en the siding themselves. At that mom
ent the ether train, drawn by " Oshkosh, "
came thundering along and, there
being a dense fog, the engineer
was unable te sen ahead and
he ran into the shifting cars. About
a dozen cars were wrecked and the en
cine " C-dikesii " was badly damaged.
The cowcatcher was broken te pieces and
the bell, whistle and smokestack tein off.
The engineer and fireman jumped from
the engine and escaped. One brakeman
received a slight injury. The passenger
train due at Lititz at 4:35 p. m. did net
arrive until 0 o'clock in the evening. The
wreck was cleared during the night.
Uel.:uruliii tlie Twenty Scrim. I.'
Under the management of W. II. Ltv.-r-goed,
teacher of the male secondary school,
a public school celebration will be given
by his school en Washington's Biithday,
in the old high school building, corner of
Chestnut aud Prince streets. Prof. Haas
and Kevinski will conduct the singing.
The exercises will consist of addresses,
recitations, singing and violin aud flute
soles by the pupils of the school. They
will begine at lh o'clock. Invitations have
been extended te directors, teachers, and
parents.
Police Cases.
This morning the mayor seat one drunk
te jail for ten days, aid discharged sev.eral
Alderman 3IcConemy sent Louisa Meltz
te jail for 30 days fjr being drunk and
disorderly.
BRAINED BY A. HANIAC.
TERRIBLE CRIME THIS MORNINGf Y
A MADWOMAN'S DREADFUL DEED
Silt lit I.I,- UKK AGED .1IOTHKR-1N-
U.
.ilr-t. Alary Mancli, of 404 Kut Orange
Street, splits Open the lleau et
Her llusband'it Mether
Particulars nf the
Shocking AT-
fair.
A terrible tragedy was enacted at Ne.
404 East Orange street, near Plum, this
morning, between 7 aud S o'clock. Mrs.
Mary Masch, killed her mother-in-law.
Mis. Elizabeth Masch by dealing her sev
eral blows upon the head with a hatchet,
crushing her skull iu several places and
causing her death within a few minutes
after the assault.
At the hour named, Miss Marien, who
lives with her sister, Mrs. Rese Dennelly,
at 400 East Orange sticct, adjeiniug the
residence of the Masch family, heard
screams and a heavy thud, as if some one-
had fallen. She told Mrs. Dennelly that
she feared something was wrong next
deer, and that she had hotter go ever and
sec what was the inatler.Thiukiug that per
haps the children were being punished and
the noise was made by them, Mrs. Den
nelly did net like te intrude, but making
an excuse te get a bucket of water went
into the yard. She found Masch's kitchen
deer and windows closed, aud the diuiug
room shutters bowed. Peeping iu through
the shutters she saw something lying en
the fleer, aud looking mere closely thought
it was old Mrs. Masch, who being palsied,
had fallen. At this instant young
Mrs. Masch came rushing te
the wiudew into which .Mrs.
Dennelly was looking, and with clenched
fists aud glaring eyes, shrieked aloud,
" I've killed her ; I've killed her !" Tt-i-rilicd,
Mrs. Dennelly replied, "Oh, Mrs.
Masch, why did you de se".'" aud the
answer she received was, " I killed her ;
I killed her, because I want te be killed."
Mrs. Dennelly fcatiug that Mrs. Masch,
who appeared te be insane, would kill her
children also, ran off and gave the alarm
te several neighbors, urging them te go te
the house and save the children. She
then .scat her own boy te Best's heilci
works where Mr. Masch was at work,
telling him te hasten home as .something
was wrong there. .Mr. Masch left his
work aud hurried home. He found Up Up
feont deer locked, hut. en knocking his
wife admitted him, saying a slit: did se,
' I've killed mother."
What the Husband and .-jeu .S;. .
A horrible spectacle met tiie husband's
gaze. His wife, wild aud disheveled, staring
at him w.th the glare of a maniac, and his
mother, covered with aud weltering iu her
own bleed, lying upon the deer in the
threes of death, the furniture of the room
in which the dreadful dead was dene
being spattered with bleed, while the in
strument of death an ordinary hatchet -lay
upon the fleer, both helve aud hatchet
being smeared with the bleed el hi-i V
mother. Upstairs his two little chil
dren were shrieking with fright, having,
apparently, ceme part way down stairs,
and, seeing the bloody scene, ran back te
their room.
Within a few minutes a very laige
crowd had gathered in aud about thvi
premises. Physicians and priests wcte
sent for, and were seen en baud, but the
victim had died before their arrival.
Mrs. Masch's body was placed upon a
sottce in the room iu which she was
killed, the children wre taken te Min.
Dennelly's for safety, aud young Mrs.
Masch was placed for a time under u'uanl
upstaiis.
The Corener Summoned.
Corener Shiller being notified el tha ..."
currence empaneled the following named
jurors aud visited the scene : Win
Roehm, Geerge Hunter, T, V. McHlligett,
Geerge Lcamau, C. A. Gast and O. 1
Stencr.
The Scene el thu Tmgedya
The house in wcich the terrible .bed
was enacted in a small twu-steiy brick,
with a front and back room en the first
fleer and a frame kitchen iu the rear. Thu
front room is plainly but neatly furnished
with a number of attractive pictuics hang
ing en the wall anion tr them a fiue
colored eugraving of thu Crucifixion. Thu
back room in which tha homicide te.k
p'acc, is furnished with ordinary dining
room and kitchen furniture, including a
caek stove, breakfast tabic, sink, settee, a
few chairs aud a rag carpet. Frem this
room stairways lead down te the eel la r
and up te the seceu.l fleer. A deer leads
out te the back kitchen, and a window .i
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iuuib uul iijj-ju luc yaiu. it naa uiiu luia
window that Mrs. Dennelly peered and
made discovery of the homicide.
After the coroner's jury hail viewed the
body of the elder Mrs. Masch, and Iter
slayer had been taken into custody, they
adjourned te await the autopsy made b
Drs. Compten and Welchaus.
The Slad Murderess.
Mrs. Masch was found by the jury iu an
up-stairs room. She is about 30 years of
age, tall, light-coraplexiencd, and rather
geed-looking. She is the mother of two
very pretty little girl., one of them about
six and the ether between two and three
years old. In about a month it is expected
a third child will be burn te her. Her
maimer this morning after the homicide,
was wild and nervous, but net violent
until an attempt was made te take her
into custody. In conversation with some
of the jurymen she repeatedly avowed the
killing, saying that she had no ill-will
te her victim, but being weary of life and
having nothing te live ter, she had killed
her methnr-in-law because she knew that
then some one would kill her, aud she
wanted te die. These statements weie
made in a rambling disconnected way,
showing very clearly that the
woman is laboring uudur itisuu
ity. When an officer approached te
remove her te jail, she resisted furiously,
defying the police and everybody else, and
declaring she would never leave the room
unless her children could accompany her
wherever she went. She was humored in
this whim, and under escort of Wm.
Roehm, ene of the coroner's jury, accem- 4
panied by her two little girls, proceeded
te the county jail without auy remarkable
demonstration When locked up, however,
her children being taken away from her,
she again became a raviu maniac, and
unless closely watched will 110 doubt de
herself bodily harm, or mere likely take her